LINO – Libertarian In Name Only

ORLANDO, Florida – Barely twenty-four hours in and already the Libertarian party of two thousand and sixteen is starting to experience dissention in the ranks.

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.

Many Libertarians say that with the assention of former Massachusetts Governor William Weld to the vice presidency that it will just give the North American Union types and Wall Street Big Money Donors a paper tiger in a Gary Johnson administration, should he win the presidency in the fall.

Because from sun-drenched Florida and the grave of the late great Economist Harry Browne, the 1996 and 2000 Libertarian party nominee for President of the United States of America, you can hear the battle cry of LINO – Libertarian In Name Only!

No doubt the Johnson-Weld ticket will tell Libertarians and you fellow voter nothing could be further from the truth. No paper tigers here, no LINO’s allowed! And so it will go, no?

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.

Seeking out those disgruntled and disavowed  Democrats and Republicans who just can’t stand the idea, much less stomach it, of another Clinton or that for matter a Donald J. Trump in The White House.

Or, maybe not? Maybe just maybe it’s what they all really want, and it’s just going to be made to look like it’s not? Just so the media, talking-heads, politicos and party bosses can have something to talk about on the nightly news.

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.

#Blog: “Operation Broken Trust And an @TheJusticeDept Service FAILURE to Inform..” By Rhett E. Column; #SayWhatNews, #AXJ, #FreePress

Social Media Screen Grab FPD Seal 2014
Official Seal for the United States Public Defender for the Eastern District of California, Sacramento California Office ..

SACRAMENTO, California — Its been 3 years. 36 months, even by new mathematical standards since the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Eastern District of California helped to defend one Christopher L. Jackson, 46, of Elk Grove, CA. for his involvement in a real estate investment fraud scheme.

But and according to federal court documents from 2011 and 2013 Chris Jackson is free? Free after having been formally sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Bringing to a close a near decade old federal investigation code-named, “Operation Broken Trust” by federal authorities.

Jackson and at least seven other people managed to defraud and divest millions of dollars from several hundred people throughout California through the use of an investment club company called Diversified Management Consultants, Inc.

DMC Building
Diversified Management Consultants (D.M.C.) located at 721 Del Paso Rd. Sacramento, CA. …

It was from this location that Jackson and his accomplices, a man named Michael Bolden, 60, the ring leader, would from 2003 to 2009 take the homes and finances of people. Today this location is for sale.

According to the Better Business Bureau of Sacramento D.M.C. is no longer in business. Gee, I wonder why?

Further I wonder how and why the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Eastern District of California, Heather Williams-Chief Defender ,Attorney Douglas J. Beevers–Assistant Federal Public Defender, and Investigator Melvin Buford, would FAIL to disclose this FACT to the victims of this horrendous crime? Say what Chris Jackson is free? You gotta be joking! This guy is supposed to be doing 30years man. Curious.

One of the victims, who I happen to personally know, Ms. Florha G. Jones, 46, of Fairfield, CA., has paid for those sins of non-disclosure twice over in four years time.

Ms. Jones was used, abused, coughed up and spit out not only by Chris Jackson and Company but by a federal, state and local law enforcement community hell-bent on her destruction.

What is surprising is that someone who is supposed to be a trusted official, a gatekeeper for law and order, an F.B.I. (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Agent would stoop to such a low.

Agent Richard M. Snodgrass who was the lead federal investigator on this case for California, credited with bringing Christopher Jackson to justice ,did in fact harass and harangue Ms. Jones to the point that in two years time she lost her job, of 25 years with Kaiser Permanente, as a Registered Nurse, her home of 3years in Elk Grove, CA., a 2005 Volkswagen  Tuareg, checking and savings accounts with Bank of America ( that she had since age 16),stocks, bonds, and other odd marketable securities. ALL, ALL NOW, seized by the federal government, seized by Agent Snodgrass to make ‘financial restitution’ to the victims of this ponzi scheme, according to him.

F.B.I. Logo, 2014 This from the gatekeeper of law. Supposedly helping us all to be separate but not equal from the plants and the animals. The naive who would dare to think that they and they alone know what is best for themselves. Such is not capable of free and independent thought processes and we need, we need the watchmen on the wall to tell us better, show us better.

And such was all because Florha’s name appeared on some documentation related to an at home based business and investment club, that with Chris Jackson’s help, she started in 2008 called, “Genesis Innovations, LL C.” as a means to recoup some of what she lost during the ‘financial crisis’ of 2007.

Jackson took that business, that she started, and used it fraudulently. Upon arrest in 2009 Jackson admitted, openly and in writing, that he used Genesis Innovations as a front for his nefarious activities to Agent Snodgrass.

Yet somehow Richard Snodgrass with the Federal Bureau of Investigation manages to hang the ‘financial restitution’ for Jackson’s crimes on my now wife Florha G. Jones. Taking everything from her and leaving her with absolutely no legal recourse. WHY? HOW? The nearest dot or questions to that can be answered/found in connection to this have to do with Florha’s former employer and in fact her then supervisor at the time, Tatyanna Bellanuevia, Critical Care Management Supervisor for Kaiser Permenete, South Sacramento, CA. Medical Center.

Agent Snodgrass is married to Bellanuevia, a mail-order Russian bride from St. Petersburg. Bellanuevia hated Florha. Snodgrass knew this, and used it to destroy Florha. Agent Snodgrass illegally obtained personal and confidential information related to Florha’s medical and employments records for Kaiser. And used that information against her to try to entrap her. Coming to her home twice in 2010 and pumping her for information about Chris Jackson, about Genesis Innovations, about D.M.C., etc. Then  when we found out that Snodgrass had viewed her medical and employment records through something called a, “Breaking the Glass” Audit by the IT Medical Records firm EPIC Corporation all of the pieces to this bizarre and disgraceful puzzle began to fall into place. 

From 2008 until 2010 Agent Snodgrass had Florha under severe, invasive and intrusive surveillance. (Such still continues today by the way.) Hoping to connect or make certain that Florha knew about Chris Jackson’s activities, whereabouts, etc. And that somehow she was the ‘ring-leader’ for this nefarious circus. When and in fact such is not the case. Never has been. Never will be. Florha is and remains a victim, one of many, in the crimes of Christopher Lawrence Jackson and others.

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Compensation for “Operation Broken Trust,” victims paid out by the federal government from 2012 to 2013

From about April of 2012 until about November of 2013 the federal government, through the United States Department of Justice, United State Treasury and the U.S. Federal Reserve System paid out numbers totaling in the billions of dollars to the victims of this crime across the country, according to reports from Attorney General Eric Holder.

Florha however,has received NOTHING. Granted we have filed all the necessary complaints, a four-year process, 48 months even by new mathematical standards, to get the justice that we seek. But and in the mean time folks like Jackson who is supposed to be serving a 30 year federal prison sentence is free, according to some PDF files from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California and this Judge …

Judge Brennan
The Honorable Edmund F. Brennan, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judge Edmund F. Brennan  set Jackson free after his Attorney Douglas J. Beevers argued he had been ‘coerced’ and was not given his ‘due process’ by Agent Snodgrass. It took him about 2years to make this argument but he made it and Judge Brennan, a George W. Bush appointee, set Jackson free, officially, on 13 August 2013, citing that he needed to go to drug and alcohol counseling and agree to regular drug testing to which the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District, Benjamin B. Wagner, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew D. Segal–who adjudicated Jackson, himself, in 2010,2012 & 2013, of California agreed. Drug and Alcohol counseling? Drug testing? Say what? I mean yeah Chris Jackson did smoke and drink a little bit but he is no addict.

Assistant United States Attorney Matthew D. Segal signed off on court papers as did Wagner agreeing that Jackson had been coerced and not given his due process by Snodgrass all the while, publicly, as late as yesterday, according to this article from the Elk Grove News online, yesterday, Jackson is not free?

It’s quite confusing. Because at one turn the last and most recent articles, on-line, for this issue REPORT that Christopher Lawrence Jackson is doing 30years in San Quinton. And yet this posting from Wikipedia has him free? SO, which is it?
Featured Image -- 2247The reason I ask is because and to be perfectly honest with you two things abound. One neither the federal defenders office nor the Department of Justice, Court System or Otherwise, has bothered to DISCLOSE the status of Mr. Jackson for the last 3years to Ms. Jones or to myself, David R. Davidson, as her husband. NOTHING!
Our work. Our labors for justice. For disclosure. Have been a credited to others instead of us. WHY? We brought the United States Federal Government Christopher Lawrence Jackson. #WeBuiltThat
WHY the lack? Answer: A Failure to Disclose. A WILLFUL FAILURE TO DISCLOSE AT THAT.
Yet, still and all we are not to complain. Not to raise an ounce of displeasure because this somehow is really how the process works. The guilty go free while the victim(s) suffer, often times perish because some career attorneys and a near-do-well investigator want to look good, look like their doing something for the “community,” representing others who cannot represent themselves. Oh the poor criminal and the even piss poor F.B.I. Agent who was just trying to impress the memory of his late great-grandfather, Ephrem Snodgrass, who founded the F.B.I. with J. Edgar Hoover. It’s just how the cookie crumbles now shut up and go away.
Is this justice? Is this justified? Last I looked FAILURE to disclose was a crime. Whether civilian or police. With a lawyer present you are supposed to disclose what you know as it relates to a legal matter. Period. Full stop.
But and to date NO ONE within or without the Department of Justice has DISCLOSED a damn thing! Yet if I was to have a cop or a representative of the law enforcement community come and knock on my door and say, “What do you know about Operation Broken Trust or Chris Jackson?” I am duty bound with an attorney present to divulge all I know, and if I don’t I go to jail. I may go to jail anyway before it’s all over with but you see, I hope, my point here.
Florha has been, we have been left in a lurch. The books have been cooked. And it started the day Richard M. Snodgrass and another fella named William E. “Bill,” Majors with the I.R.S. entered Florha’s life, and perhaps even the ball started rolling down the hill when Tatyana Bellunevia came into the vision, the site line, of Florha G. Jones?
Or and perhaps it started even further back than that when Florha’s family, on both her mother and her father’s side were instrumental in the civil rights movement. Her mother with the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA?
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The Black Panther Party Logo

Or and perhaps it can be found in her father’s family’s work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., down in Louisiana organizing and marching. Getting the African-American Community down their registered to vote? Etc.

One has to begin, at some point and time to ask themselves these two questions, “Who Am I?” and “Why Me?”

I learned these two questions or was put on the trail of these two questions by a recently made Facebook friend. Who is himself going through a similar situation. For years in fact. It was only until he started asking himself those two questions that he began to connect the dots. Some doors were opened for him, yet many doors were closed because he went from being a career journalist and educator in the Denver, CO. area to living in his car in just a short period of time. He, like my wife, was at the height of the community and now he is in its depths. What? How? Connections. Family History. Right of Deed, Passage and Claim.

You see, he is a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor IV.

J.J. Astor, I.V.
Captain John Jacob Astor, I.V. One of the richest landowners and business people in the world. .. Reportedly drowned (really murdered) on board the H.M.S. Titanic in April of 1912…

Astor was murdered in April of 1912 along with nearly 1,400 of his fellow passengers on board the Titanic. And such was not by iceberg. It was by design of some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world at the time.

Chief among them were the Rothschild and the Rockefeller families. They hated Astor. Hated his family, and everything that they stood for. The same is true for his grandchild today. They have stopped at nothing short of killing him and what is left of his family in Colorado and elsewhere throughout America.

You see he has a claim. And its a claim to a massive fortune. The powers that be know it. And have done all that they can to keep him from claiming it. Because they know that if he ever got his hands on his grandfather’s fortune the world as we know it would cease to exist. The days of the ‘rich, crusty, old white-haired citizen’ would be over. Their rule and reign would be over.

His family has been and continues to be harassed, harangued, callewaged and cajoled into death, imprisonment, and marginalization as well as ostracized to the so-called margins of the community.

This is, unfortunately, what has been done to Florha and I. Name, reputation, and standing in the community has been destroyed. All in the hopes that we will either give up and go away or are one day found, months or perhaps years later when no one gives us a word much less the time of day anymore, dead. Throats cut. Hanging in a bedroom or bathroom. Whatever the scenario. We will be and have been made to be left to the margins.

The same could well be said for anyone else who would read this blog posting through. Surely you have a similar story? An exacting set of circumstances to which you find yourself or someone who you know or love, care very much about, and wish to help them. We must ban together or, and as Benjamin Franklin said, in part, “or surely we shall all hang separately…”

I urge you to reach out to me directly through this blog posting BECAUSE I want to hear from you. What has the government done to you? What have they allowed to be done to you, that, for whatever the reason, has caused you great hurt, harm or danger? Why is it that you just can’t seem to get justice? Can’t seem to get heard? No matter how hard you try. Who you talk to or don’t talk to. You have been shunned. Excommunicated from your family, friends, loved one and community. Left to the margins. I want to hear from you. Reach out to me through this blog posting with some contact information and your story.

I don’t know much but I do know this much and that is that you are not alone. We are among friends. And one way or another justice will be served. We will have our day in court. We will be heard because, and contrary to popular opinion there is strength in numbers.

Who Am I? Why Me? Lets find out the answer to that together. Until then, “Good night and good luck fellow Citizens of Earth…”

Peace.

–Rhett (David R. Davidson)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Voting NEWS] Cal Professors Project Results Of ‘6 States’ Voting In California « CBS San Francisco

SACRAMENTO, California — My friends and colleagues at CBS News, San Francisco are reporting that the proposed ballot initiative to split the Golden State up into 6 smaller states MAY, MAY NOW, be Dead On Arrival (D.O.A.).

Backers/supporters of late report a growing lack of interest in the proposal and it may not even receive any votes?!

Cal Professors Project Results Of ‘6 States’ Voting In California « CBS San Francisco

SO, what do you think, Should California Be Divided Into Six Smaller States? Vote in our poll and we will give you the results at the end of the week.

Editorial:

On a lighter note as a Californian I do not support such a measure just like I do not support the clear cut Media Induced Voter Suppression that is clearly going on here when it comes to this proposed ballot initiative. Unlike Proposition 8 this ballot initiative is clearly worded/written and easy to understand.

Additionally the supporters/backers of this initiative went out and got the signatures necessary and lobbied the California State Legislature for many months. As well Governor Jerry Brown, who himself does not publicly or privately support the measure agrees that the effort undertook was yeoman and commendable and that it quote, “deserves a fair amount of consideration by the voters of California” end quote, close quote.

But and clearly there are those amongst us who wish and want you and I to be under informed. Under educated. Under determined, to vote for or even consider casting a vote, YES or NO, toward this measure. Perhaps, and this is just speculation on this blogger’s part here, these very same folks are in fear that maybe, just maybe there actually might be some interest in dividing the state?

At any rate, watch this space very, very closely folks.

Peace.

–Rhett.

[State By State NEWS] California Bill Would Ban ‘Extortion’ By Mugshot Websites Seeking Payment To Remove Suspect Photos « CBS San Francisco

SACRAMENTO, California — The days of mugshots.com are numbered. Soon a bill headed to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk will become law calling what such online organizations as mugshots.com does to people who have, for whatever reason, been convicted of a crime or crimes in the Golden State and their mug shot posted online. According to reports from KCBS News the California State Assembly unanimously passed a bill sponsored by California State Assembly Member Jerry Hill, Democrat-San Mateo calling nothing more than what mugshots.com and countless others do is ‘extort’ money from people who have ‘paid their debit to society’. WELCOMED NEWS, in my opinion, and about time.

California Bill Would Ban ‘Extortion’ By Mugshot Websites Seeking Payment To Remove Suspect Photos « CBS San Francisco.

Peace.

–Rhett.

Water Wasters Ratted Out In Concord « CBS San Francisco

Busted Water Sprinkler flows on just one of the streets of Concord, CA. 2014 picture Bay Area 7 News...

California has a water problem. And although the state is working hard to correct it. They can only do so much. And as the summer winds on more and more scenes, not unlike this one above, continue to pop up everywhere. State and local authorities are cracking down, BUT they are cracking down on the wrong individuals, the owners, instead of the local school-age children who kick the tops of the yard sprinklers off just to watch the water flow. Ridiculous? My sentiments exactly, so to was the focus of the highlighted article below via my friends at CBS San Francisco, Bay Area 7 News, when they interviewed a Mr. Paul Sinz.

Mr. Sinz is the owner and operator of Park N Shop a local convenience store in the Concord, CA. area.

He has, so far this summer, according to the report below, paid out over a $1,000.00 a day in fines, fees and penalties. Watch this space.

Water Wasters Ratted Out In Concord « CBS San Francisco.

Peace.

–Rhett.

Gov. Brown Signs Bills Imposing Tighter Gun Controls In California « CBS San Francisco

A statewide gun 'buy back' from 2011, CBS San Francisco

TODAY California Gov. Jerry Brown, Democrat signed two important and ‘key pieces of legislation’ ,according to CBS San Francisco, into law that will go a long way in curbing the use of guns by people who may be ‘mentally unstable’.

The first bill he announced signing Friday, AB1964, addresses single-shot handguns.

Democratic Assemblyman Roger Dickinson of Sacramento says a loophole in existing law lets people buy guns that do not meet state safety requirements if they had been temporarily turned into single-shot weapons. The buyer then could convert them back into a weapon that fires multiple bullets.

Brown also signed AB1591, which speeds up how quickly courts must notify the state Department of Justice when it is determined that a person can no longer legally own a firearm in California.

Gov. Brown Signs Bills Imposing Tighter Gun Controls In California « CBS San Francisco.

 

On a lighter note I appreciate, like anything else, gun safety and keeping guns safe and legal for avid hunters and outdoors people. I use to count myself amongst both categories, still do in many ways and respects, but I am doubly glad to know that in the State of California at least these two pieces of legislation are keeping the unchecked checked while still not infringing on your and might right to ‘keep and bare arms’. BRAVO Gov. Brown!

Peace.

–Rhett.