Over Memorial day weekend Libertarians came together from across the country and around the world to nominate their president and vice presidential candidates at their annual national party convention. And for many the top of the ticket for the fall and the general election season is troubling, deeply troubling.
But lets look at it from this perspective for just a minute, shall we? My prediction is that the Johnson-Weld ticket will be Libertarian-lite in that they’ll run under the Libertarian party banner but will, instead, draw from the well of the Never Trump Never Hillary movements in a kind of “A Coalition of the Willing.” Or as Bill Clinton and Dick Morris did so infamously in the 1990’s, “Triangulation.”
In either case I like Bill Weld and have enormous respect for Gary Johnson, ever since 2011 when he first ran for the presidency. Then as now Johnson stands for some of the same things that I do, but with Charles and David Koch, through Bill Weld, pulling on Johnson like he’s a puppet and they’re the masters even I can’t stomach that!
I hate Charles and David Koch with every fiber of my being for what they have done to this great country of ours and this beautiful world in which we all live. They are evil incarnate, in my opinion, and hell itself would be a far worse place with them in it.
I call LINO – Libertarian in Name Only! And for those disgruntled and disaffected Libertarians I offer this as your Battle Cry:
Hold fast, and as Jesse Ventura says, “Stay Vigilant…”
–Rhett.
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BALTIMORE, Maryland – At this hour we have learned – per WBAL Channel 11 News, an NBC News affiliate in Baltimore – that Baltimore City Attorney Marilyn Mosby has stated publicly that a Grand Jury of Citizens has returned a formal indictment against the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. And that these six officers will be formally arraigned on or about July 2nd in criminal court.
No doubt the family of Mr. Gray are a little closer towards justice after today’s breaking news. And for that we should be thankful and grateful to the Grand Jury, the Judge, and Attorney Mosby’s office for bringing us closer towards the end of that ‘long moral arc’ of justice. Because it proves that, that the Thin Blue Lined Ceiling isn’t all that hard to crack really. All you need is a willing and determined Attorney and a Justice System that sees the individual and not the job that they have in the committal of a very serious crime.
This young man wasn’t just arrested on the 12th of April 2015 on the streets of West Baltimore, MD., he was brutalized by six uniformed patrol officers, and that brutalization resulted in his slow, agonizing and painful death – a silent death – one week later. Can you imagine?
Mr. Freddie Gray, victim of police brutality in Baltimore, MD. (picture courtesy of the Freddie Gray Family, 2015)
You are laying in a shock trauma unit bed. You cannot speak. You cannot move. You are quite literally locked away inside your body and mind, unable to convey thoughts, feelings, emotions. Can you? That was the shoes that Freddie Gray found himself in. The state where his family found him in.
Justice needs to be served folks! Police need to know that they cannot get away with murder, not any more, not in the City of Baltimore, and most certainly not anywhere in the United States of America. The Thin Blue Lined Ceiling is a cracking folks, and it can’t have come at a better time. #RIPFreddieGray
— Rhett.
P.S.
Please read, sign and then share this formal petition for Mr. Gray to the Baltimore City Inspector General’s Office and to the National Action Network Chapter for the City of Baltimore so that even more Justice and Accountability can be SERVED to that City and its Citizens. Thank you! #AllLivesMatter
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BALTIMORE, Maryland – Second only to N.Y.P.D. Commissioner William J. Bratton B.P.D. Commissioner Anthony W. Batts has killed more innocent; men, women, and children of age than small pox.
Both men, combined, could give John O. Brennan, as a National Security Adviser, and as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for the Obama Administration, a run for his money in the death by whatever category.
Yet, and still BOTH men, Bratton and Batts, REMAIN the number one and number two most sought after policemen in the country to lord over Major as well as Minor Metropolitan Police Departments throughout North America. WHY? And how come?
The answers can clearly be found in the Counter Intelligence Programs, Fraternal Orders of Police (,Policeman’s Associations), and Talking Heads festooned throughout the Main and Alternative News Media Streams.
All the above and titled lend both sword and shield, creative license, and cause celeb under the auspicious ‘Protect & Serve’-Thin Blue Line – Flag.
As the fallout continues, after what I am calling; of the arrest, charging, arraignment and bailout of the Baltimore Police Department Six or BPD6. I’m going to lay on you some FACTS stranger than fiction about the thin blue hue and cry crowd. (And here the #BPD6 are.)
The Six Baltimore Police Officers who either Contributed to or did in fact MURDER Mr. Frederick C. Gray, Jr. upon arrest on 12 April 2015, a decedent by 19 April 2015 – Shock/Trauma Unit Hospital. (photo courtesy of WBAL-TV News Channel 11, an NBC News Affiliate)
Here to is the BPD6 head of state, himself, duplicitous in the MURDER of Frederick C. Gray, Jr.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts speaking at a presser in June of last year at City Hall, Her Honor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in the background, left. (photo courtesy of standupbaltimore.com, 2014)
Contention is, is that Freddie Gray, a career criminal – himself, had a ‘record as long as your arm’. His last KNOWN offense was on 20 March 2015 – drug possession. SEE.
March 20, 2015: Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
March 13, 2015: Malicious destruction of property, second-degree assault
January 20, 2015: Fourth-degree burglary, trespassing
January 14, 2015: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute
December 31, 2014: Possession of narcotics with intent to distribute
December 14, 2014: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance
August 31, 2014: Illegal gambling, trespassing
January 25, 2014: Possession of marijuana
September 28, 2013: Distribution of narcotics, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, second-degree assault, second-degree escape
April 13, 2012: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, violation of probation
July 16, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with intent to distribute
March 28, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
March 14, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to manufacture and distribute
February 11, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance
August 29, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, violation of probation
August 28, 2007: Possession of marijuana
August 23, 2007: False statement to a peace officer, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
July 16, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance (2 counts)
And because he did, well, NOW, the narrative has changed somewhat [to],
“we did you people a favor. Our Officers took a career criminal off the streets, I mean, yeah, he, he got hurt, got roughed up in our custody and care, and everything, and yeah, that’s, that’s bad, but look it. This guy man he, he slipped on a banana peel upon entry into the paddy wagon, and arresting officers said he was in possession of a switch-blade knife and so, so they felt threatened, they feared for their lives, and the lives of the citizens of Baltimore and so hey, we, we, we took him for a ‘rough ride’ and soooo problem solved! Case closed.”
Of course I’m paraphrasing a bit, but this, I assure you, is the love in thin blue line language, coming straight from their cold, black hearts. Bottom line.
This is the hue and cry, tweaked and tempered, toned and nationalized across the fruited plain talk ladies and gentlemen, on all things Freddie Gray, and you dare not cause an uproar or question it on our City Streets.
After all these are career criminals, I mean professionals, speaking here. Multi-years in law enforcement. Career civil servants. The who’s who of law enforcement, and highly sought after ‘talking heads’ that are in the know. So don’t question. Don’t debate. Don’t ask. And for heaven’s sake, don’t tell! Shh.
And so it goes…
And the so we’re doing you a favor crowd sets on high. Rules and reigns. Death by any means necessary. Watch!
A clarified moment from the law and order community, no?
Still not convinced? Perhaps this will convince you of a FACT stranger than fiction?
Clearly the Fraternal Order of Police President has a problem with the arrest and prosecution of the thin blue line, and made vaguely clear that he wants Maryland State’s Attorney for the City of Baltimore, Marilyn Mosby, and her husband, Baltimore City Councilman Nick Mosby – the son of Roger Mosby, Civil Rights Icon, and the 6th Great Grandson of John S. Mosby, famed Civil War Cavalryman, founder of Mosby’s Raiders, nicknamed, “The Grey Ghost” for his quick and decisive action on the field of battle and for his lightning speed in advancing towards the ‘enemy’ even for the so-called ‘Confederate States of America’ – removed from the picture entirely.
Confederate States of America Cavalryman John S. Mosby, 6th Great Grandfather to Baltimore City Councilman Nicholas Mosby…
Baltimore can do better. We the People can do better!
Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts MUST GO! He must be removed from office, and the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) Division for the Baltimore Police Department MUST BE CLOSED DOWN IMMEDIATELY. (Even one MURDERED Citizen of Baltimore, under Anthony Batts, IS to damned many!)
(We MUST ban together and close COINTELPRO Police Departments down, across the country and around the world!)
We MUST ban together and REMOVE Police Commissioner Batts from his position of authority, and he to, right along side his thin blue line brothers and sister, MUST BE MADE to answer for the murder of Freddie Gray.
So to must those who would seek to kill more innocent men, women and children than small pox while wearing the uniform of the Central Organization of Police Specialists (COPS).
So to must those who would promote, Vor dire, and wax poetic on how the police did the wide, wide world a great big favor when they made sure that Freddie Grey slipped on more than just a banana peel, and because he did slip on that banana peel, his fault by the way, and police found a knife on his person that they said, “was a switch blade” and so they ‘felt threatened’ and had to take swift and decisive action. – For crap folks! Hash tag: Don’t Believe the Hype.
We must regain the moral high ground on this argument people. All lives matter. All black lives matter. And the systematic killing, stealing and destroying of our elderly, youth and disabled by the thin blue line will no longer be tolerated. Enough is enough! Stop Killing Us.
And until then, “Good night and good luck” fellow Citizens of Earth…
— Rhett.
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BALTIMORE, Maryland – As Charm City burned, yesterday and into today, We, The People of the United States of America and the Citizens of the City by the Chesapeake (Bay) were told, and have been told that 12-year-old school children organized chaos in West Baltimore, and somehow out of that, and in particular, and as of today’s latest presser from the Baltimore Police Department Spokesperson Capt Kowalchec -(sp?), that a total, a grand tee total now, of 235 people were arrested; 201 were adults (presumably, “adult,” meaning the so-called age of consent now, which is at the very least, 18 years old and older) and 34, 34 now, 3-4, were youths, and or teens and or preteens, 12 years old, at the very least, in age arrested by Baltimore’s best and finest. Okay?
But, yet, and still the narrative continues. 12 year old’s, let out, from school by “adults,” yesterday, turned loose on the streets of West Baltimore, with no way home from school BECAUSE adults shut down the city school bus system and most of the public transportation system, and essentially, and in so many words, told the kids, “find your own way home”. And Killer Kowalkchec wonders to wit why and how all this happened and how that 12 year old’s organized chaos on the streets?
With all due and proper respect Baltimore Police and Baltimore City Government is smoking crack! So to is the nickel and dime, drive-by media who panders to this rock gut, tripe, and dribble.
State, writ large, the best practices, bad actors, “thugs,” and “outside agitators,” all you like, but the FACT remains J. Edgar Hoover’s Counter Intelligence Program or COINTELPRO is alive and well on the streets of Baltimore, MD. And the FACT remains that COINTELPRO frightened these kids, and adults to an action unfitting and irresponsible of human beings. Much less representative government.
When and IF Her Honor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake wants to Govern and Run the City of Baltimore as she should, someone kindly call me BECAUSE all the pressers and chalk talks on bad actors, outside agitators and best practices matters not to me. Dead is dead and ,Freddie Gray and Others MURDERED by the Baltimore Police Department’s, the COINTELPRO division deserves all the attention and Right of Protest that the City of Baltimore, the State of Maryland and the World can handle until ‘Justice rolls down like water and Righteousness like a mighty stream’. …. #SunlightOfDisinfectant
Until then, “Good night and good luck” fellow Citizens of Earth..
— Rhett.
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BALTIMORE, Maryland – So. I’m watching yet another press conference from the Mayor of Baltimore, Her Honor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and the Baltimore Police Department.
And as Crab City or Charm City burns tonight I can’t help but say, I’m sorry, BUT a man is dead, and NOTHING, apparently, has changed!
And in fact, it never ever will because the Baltimore Police, headed by Commissioner Anthony W. Batts, the Fraternal Order of Police
Union and Association wishes to keep things the same, same old same old, status quo, F.U.B.A.R. (F’d Up Beyond All Recognition), Business as Usual, raisin in the sun, moment to moment what we say goes OR else you’ll end up just like Freddie Gray & Others – even before him – have!
Don’t like it. Leave! We run this City. The Mayor’s Office merely governs. She’s our House N-Word, as was any other Mayor that we’ve ever had. So. Shut up, Media and Concerned Citizens, and Go A Way!
The Honorable Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Democrat-Baltimore speaking before a Meeting of the City Council. (photo courtesy of WBALTV News 11, an NBC News Affiliate)
And this is how it goes. … When comes the end Madame Mayor? When will you grow a pair of breasts ma’am, cowgirl up, and do your job? When will you put off status quo? When will you put off business as usual, good ole boy network, and govern and run the City, as you should ma’am?
(Even Nero, former Emperor of Rome, and professional musician would have done something, by now, Madame Mayor. Hash tag: Just Saying …)
Because the Citizens of Baltimore voted for that. Expect that. Of you. No one else. Absolutely! There is no second chance Madame Mayor to make a good, first impression. You get this chance and this chance only. No other can or will suffice. You either do or don’t do. Say or don’t say. Bottom line. No one else but you can Madame Mayor.
You have no more time to waste ma’am. It’s time to Govern and Run the City as the Voters expect you to OR, kindly and respectfully, Exit Left.
Thank you.
And until then fellow Brothers and Sisters of Earth, “Good night and good luck..”
#RIPFreddieGray, #WeWillNotForget
— Rhett.
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BALTIMORE, Maryland – I grow tired of the term, “Outside Agitators”. Furthermore I grow tired of the COINTELPRO-FBI-Illuminati-Police-State bumping their gums about it. I especially grow exorbitantly tired of African-Americans, highly educated, perfectly cable, I know you know better, African-Americans who use it.
It is a term steeped in racism. (Originally) Spewed out, early and often, by reformed late racist George Wallace, and the long deceased Bull Connor.
On the streets of Baltimore, an American City I know better than I know my self, my fellow Americans are peacefully, and wise-fully assembling in memorial, and in a larger sense of Justice for Freddie Gray & Others killed on the streets of Crab City, U.S.A.
Yet and still you have a Mayor, and a Police Commissioner along with other officialdom and black leaders calling my fellow Americans, My Brothers and Sisters in Justice, “Outside Agitators”. Knowing. All to well. That their apparatuses are infiltrating the ranks. Deliberately and effectively starting problems, creating chaos and confusion amongst the ranks. So that people like Anthony Batts can stand up before the free world and say, “See! See! You see? We told you. We told you. Here we are, as police, allowing, the People to Assemble, peaceably, and they can’t even do that for all the outside agitators… Gotta close it all down now, Marshall Law.” Watch!
But what do I know?
Right!
— Rhett.
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BALTIMORE, Maryland – Unless you’ve been living under a rock America and the World you now know of the MURDER of Mr. Freddie Gray. A citizen of Baltimore, MD. who died, in a coma, in police custody (for one week), after having been arrested, and openly violated, by Baltimore Police on the evening of 12 April 2015.
It is troubling to me, very troubling that yet again our police go unchecked, and unbalanced in big and little towns across the fruited plain. And our so-called leaders and leadership sets idly by and does nothing.
Her Honor, Stephanie Rawlins-Blake, and Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts MUST come far more correct to the table than the ‘he slipped on a banana peel’ and ‘our police [officers] felt threatened’ defense. Such will no longer suffice.
Argument has been made, and lost, lost big time, that Mr. Gray had a record, was running from police at the time, and had a ‘legal sized knife’ – btw. What the hell is a ‘legal sized knife’? Does anybody know or care to tackle, uh hmm, explain that one to me I mean? Jesus Christ. – and police did ‘absolutely nothing to him, but pursue him and take him down in the process’, and that whatever happened thereafter was, and is Mr. Gray’s fault. He slipped on a banana peel when he got in the police van, something that we didn’t know anything about, and when he did he fell on a bench and broke his neck. Not our fault! Nothing to see here, hash tag: Keep Calm and Carry On.
(It does not matter a whit or a whim IF Freddie Gray had a record or not! Police have a first best duty to Protect & Serve the General Public. Not Protect the ‘Thin Blue Line’ and Serve the General Public a Beating while in ‘Police Custody’.)
What an absolute pile of happy horse crap! Folks. Police. Baltimore’s finest, arrested, and beat that man, Freddie Gray, to death. Period. Full stop. And I do not appreciate Mayor Rawlins-Blake or Commissioner Batts public assertions.
Mr. Freddie Gray, victim of police brutality in Baltimore, MD. (picture courtesy of the Freddie Gray Family, 2015)
The petition is going to the Office of the Inspector General for the City of Baltimore and the National Action Network Branch for the City of Baltimore. Openly. Imploring upon them to INVESTIGATE the MURDER of Freddie Gray. As of today’s posting we have thirty names out of one hundred, so just about halfway there.
I would very much appreciate all who read this posting this evening to click on the link ^^^^ above and add your name to that petition after having formally read it, and then SHARE IT OUT. Copy. Paste. Post. Text. Tweet. Email. Smoke Signal. Do whatever is necessary in order to facilitate action. Granted, as of today, the Department of Justice, per outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder has signaled that they will formally investigate this matter, and this is good, but Baltimore has an Independent Inspector General’s Office, and they to need to engage, and so to does the National Action Network, and I dare say the NAACP Chapter for the City of Baltimore.
This is part and partial folks of a National Tragedy, a Disgrace really, that MUST END. The killing of our elderly, youth, and disabled, by police, is shameful, and it MUST BE EXPOSED as such.
Thank you and until Justice is SERVED for Freddie Gray and [so many] Others Let Us Not Rest.
— Rhett.
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