Mychal Bell left Hanging

But Help was on the Way

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August 7, 2007 - September 4th Court Date to consider Motions!!
Motions filed by Mychal Bell's Attorney Louis Scott; could result in the ending of the court battle concerning the Jena Six.

They tried to leave him hanging anyway. The entire little crew. The folks in charge of the system, both the Blacks and the Whites. Here we have the ACLU state person in Jena, Louisiana; attempting to tell the six parents how to handle the defense committee funds, put there for their children; held captive by this unjust politicised-judicial system. What the Jena 6's parents failed to realize, it is impossible to pacify the powers that be and get freedom at the same time.

Here you have organizations of white folks talking about; send us money, we're the ones who developed the grassroots effort in Jena, Louisiana. Here, you have a, so; subtily, subversive, tactic that the local NAACP branch president ALLEDGEDLY blew the state Vice President off because the Louisiana State Conference of the National Association of Colored People, didn't move fast enough. All the while a so-called civil liberties group, ostracizing a black baptist pastor for inviting the Jena Six Defense Committee folk to attend the Church service at least once, as a matter of respect.

Plus, a few weeks ago, Bill Quigley purportedly sent by Tory Pegram, through [she said] state Senator Charles D. Jones; to file motions to fire indigent defender Blane Williams, among other motions; and yet, no certificate of service was filed, meaning the opposing attorneys; the D. A. & Blane Williams weren't notified; rendering the motions of none effect. All the while, Bill Quigley the accomplished civil rights attorney, leaves the country for three weeks. And his second in command, Ms. Fernandez; whom his voicemail said was the next contact person had left the country also, leaving only an administrative assistant to handle the matters at hand.

Needless to say no satisfaction was obtained in the Bill Quigley Fiasco.

In the meantime, up pops Blane Williams and accosted the boy Mychal Bell at LaSalle Correctional Center, and told him; "You can't fire me", as if to further intimidate and threaten a young black boy locked down in a state-side repressive prison system.

And now, today, 30 July 2007, the subversion by the system is still in place. The effects of a systematic approach to dis-embow any black move owned by black folks: the ACLU's Tory Pegram along with King Downing' will attempt to further destroy any semblance of a unified black front.

The article below appeared in the News-Star & The Town Talk this morning. But by 3:26pm the articles were gone, off both sites. HMMMMMMMM.

Convicted Jena student gets beefed up appellate team
July 30, 2007

The Associated Press

MONROE — A group of Monroe defense lawyers has taken on the appeal of a black high school student convicted last month of beating a white student in Jena.

The lawyers will take up the case of Mychal Bell, one of six black high school students known as the Jena six.

Louis Scott, one of the Monroe lawyers, said Bell’s case and trial were fraught with errors.

“Almost always when you have an unfair result, somewhere down the line you had an unfair process,” Scott said.

A six-person, all-white jury found Bell, 17, guilty of second-degree aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit second-degree aggravated battery on June 28 for the Dec. 4 assault on Justin Barker.

Bell had been charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit attempted second-degree murder, but prosecutors reduced the charges.

The other five defendants are Theo Shaw, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis and an unnamed juvenile. They are still facing the more serious charges.

Scott said had Bell been charged with battery in the beginning the case never would have been transferred from the juvenile system.

“The juvenile court system was designed to handle such things as school fights and problems and differences that arise in the school system,” Scott said. “It’s based on the realization that many times immature people take immature actions or react in immature ways.”

He also said the trial should have been moved away from Jena because of pretrial publicity.

Bell is scheduled for sentencing in September. JFAL

So, all the while; the help was on the way! And it is still on the Way. More help. Dr. King kinda help, black & white TOGETHER!! And with no shenanigans.hlr

NAACP Issues Emergency National Resolution on Jena Six

In Its Detroit,Michigan national meeting the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP], promulgated an Emergency National Resolution in the case of the Jena Six Trials, of six black students in Jena, Louisiana. The Regional six State Conferences also issued a Resolution in the Jena Situation.

The National Resolution signed, by Chairman Julian Bond and Interim President Dennis Courtland Hayes, demand an immediate United States Department of Justice investigation into the high bond incarcerations, the charges and the recent suspect trial and conviction of Mychal Bell, who is scheduled for sentencing July 31, 2007.

In other developments:
Concerning Reed Walters. It has been learned that the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled against LaSalle Parish D. A. J. Reed Walters in a suit involving use of his office as a prosecutor inferrring he misused the prosecutorial discretionary authority of his office.

The Resolution from the National Office also states that it would be impossible not to take a stand against the present legal actions in LaSalle Courts, to do so would set a national precedent for such incidents to occur in other courts in the nation's cities. This recognises the Jena Six trials as a significant major occurence in th nation's history. It has also been decided that Harvard Law students will be deployed to assist attorneys with their work. The NAACP will request each defendant's attorney response to the Law Students participation in the trials and legal proceedings. Pertinent Supreme Court Case "State Of Louisiana v. Jason Helou"


The Collateral Episode

The Jena Six


Shotgun Justice


1 Clear Example

Mass Movement Against Wrongful Convictions:Initiated through-Jena Six!

Mychal Bell's father Marcus Jones leaves the LaSalle Parish Courthouse after his son's Conviction!Thursday June 28th 2007





The Jena Six can breathe a sigh of relief, The Reverend Al Sharpton and the New York city based National Action Network is coming to Jena, Louisiana. Just a few moments ago, Rev. Al, interviewing, Marcus Jones on Sharptontalk.net announced that he and his organization is coming to Louisiana. Sharpton was shocked absolutely, at what has occurred in Jena, Louisiana.

Sharpton, asked if there had been any appeals yet, and Jones said; they were seeking for an attorney now to help in the situation. Rev. Al, said as soon as the attorneys' offices open tomorrow, the attorney would be contacted. He [Sharpton] also, on the air stated, the National Action Network would help with defraying attorney costs.

Rev. Sharpton, told Mr. Jones, that he would be obtaining attorney aid, for Mychal Bell, in response to an appeal Jones made stating that his son needs an attorney.

Mr. Jones, brought out about the lack of defense by the court-appointed lawyer. He also brought out, the defense attorney had placed he and Mychal Bell's mother, Melissa Bell on the witness list, which Judge J. P. Mauffray of the 28th Judicial District enforced a gag order, baring the mother and father of Mychal Bell from the court room; they were never called as witnesses.

The Rev. Raymond Brown Chapter Chairman of the New Orleans Branch of the National Action Network, also took part in the interview, and announced a "mass gathering of national proportions" in Jena. Lafayette activist Khadijah Rashad, spoke also of how individuals were tear gassed after a rally on Friday June 29th, after the latest rally in Jena. She stated a plane flew over and gassed people after the rally. Rashad also cited about the, New Iberia incident where citizens were teargassed last autumn by law enforcement.

We should understand that those in charge of the Judicial process in Louisiana are as much responsible for this travesty as any; especially DA Reed Walters, Judge Mauffray. Blane Williams is a pawn in this injustice. Ultimately, all of these individuals are subject to the Louisiana Supreme Court's various entities. We should understand that lawyers are dis-barred by the La. Supreme Court. Judges are investigated by the La. Supreme Court's Judiciary Commission. - - Would it not be the Louisiana Attorney General's duty to deal with a prosecutor's & District Attorneys.
Bell's parents
So, the Mass Movement Against Wrongful Convictions has begun. Others in Louisiana, such as Michael Jarvis Cobb are caught up in this web of judicatory prowess against the poor and blacks specifically. Now, that national attention has focused on the Louisiana Justice System, it is time to bring to task to the full, the mechanisms that destroy us, in this judicial process. Cobb was convicted of rapes of three white women and sentenced to 349 years in February 2005. The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Baton Rouge denied Cobbs appeal June 26th 2006. The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to hear a writ earlier this year. Cobb is a prisoner in Angola State Prison. There was not a DNA match. Cobb confessed, under duress. That family has continued to secure his release. The "Jena Six" Trials, have given new life to the push against Wrongful Convictions in Louisiana and America.

For the families of persons with similar occurences of like manner, this is the time to come together. We have asked for a convening in Jena, Louisiana to deal with these issues in Louisiana. The boys of Jena are; Mychal Bell, Bryant Purvis, Carwin Jones, Theodore Shaw and the "so-called" un-named juvenile; plus another black 18 year old only charged with the shotgun incident at the Gotta Go Convenience store. Mychal Bell's sentencing is scheduled for July 31st. It's in the peoples' hands now! hlr


The Jena 6 - Six Students Facing 20 Years In Prison

A "Plea" for Justice!?:The Infamy Continues

It must be said, that Jena has become a "flashpoint" for the upheavel in American society. Eventhough a klansman has been convicted in Jackson, Ms., this MONTH, the vestiges of racism are ripe, as the nooses in the school's tree attest. These same vestiges were announced from the Supreme Court this MONTH. At this very moment the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP is marching from the Governor's mansion to the Louisiana Capitol [the Dept of Education] on BESE[Board of Elementary & Secondary Education].

It is however, ironic that as LEAP is protested in Baton Rouge, the US Supreme Court in D. C., has begun its attempt to dismantle Brown v. Board of Education. Before Brown, their had been no "law" or legal standing against seperate facilities enforced. That, coupled with Plessy v. Ferguson's undoing, by the billy clubs and klan killings from immediately before "Bloody Sunday" to Memphis 1968; the "moral depravity of overt racism was buried, but not dead." And so, the lunch counters and the retail establishments opened up; housing and voting and, 1970's consent decrees; and private schools and "white flight", and the breeding ground for a covert festering suspicious racism. A morally corrupt "stealth racism" based in the South and propagated by The American Judicial Process.

This process, nationwide emanates from 400 Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the Louisiana Supreme Court sits. The place[400 Royal] where Louis A. Martinet & a select New Orlean's group planned the Plessy rail car protest, evolving into a suit, that went to the US Supreme Court; is [Louisiana Supreme Court]practicing judicial voodoo.-hlr
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Race! I don't care whether this is about race or not, this has gone to far and the punishment is way too harsh. These are children, YES, they need to learn to treat each other better but not by sending them to jail for the next 20 years or longer. I'm white, my son is white, he was jumped by 4 white boys, they broke his jaw, plus some other injuries. The justice? Those children didn't end up in prision, they paid all the hospital bills. I just don't undertsand sending these children to jail where their lives will be forever ruined by this. My heart and prayers and with all those involved!

Posted by: Dawn on Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:12 am
thetowntalk.com comment forum on "Jena Six"


Crowd of 30 in Jena says conviction was a ‘miscarriage of justice’
By Abbey Brown
abrown@thetowntalk.com
(318) 487-6387

JENA -- The mood Friday morning on the lawn of the LaSalle Parish Courthouse was far from somber as a group of close to 30 shouted "No justice, no peace."

Less than 24 hours after the conviction of Mychal Bell, the first of the "Jena Six" to face trial, supporters of the six black students said they aren't giving up

"You have to confront injustice," said the Rev. Raymond Brown, with the National Action Network. "This was a total and complete miscarriage of justice."

Throughout the rally, speakers gestured toward the courthouse using such words as "distressing," "unethical" and "battle." This was the same courthouse where an all-white jury convicted Bell, 17, of crimes that could put him in jail until he is almost 40.
District Attorney Reed Walters initially charged Bell and the others with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit that crime in connection with a Dec. 4 attack at Jena High School on white student Justin Barker that left him unconscious. Only Bell's charges were reduced, and that happened without explanation Monday.

The attack and subsequent arrests of the teens have made headlines from Chicago to China and have been held up as the culmination of racial unrest in Jena.

"I've seen a lot of trials in my time," said Alan Bean, with the Texas-based Friends of Justice. "... And I have never seen a more distressing miscarriage of justice than what happened in LaSalle Parish yesterday."

Local supporters stressed they aren't done trying to get the charges dropped against all of the students and get Bell's conviction overturned.

"We're going to do whatever it takes from this day forward to fight... not just for these six," said Catrina Wallace, secretary of the LaSalle Parish chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "There's six more coming after this. And six more coming after that. They keep coming."

She said race doesn't matter -- black or white, "everybody knows right from wrong" and needs to stick together.

Caseptla Bailey, mother of Robert Bailey Jr., sent a plea out to national organizations and agencies such as the NAACP, U.S. and Louisiana Attorney General's offices, Gov. Kathleen Blanco and President George W. Bush to right the wrong that she said was done in allowing an all-white jury to convict Bell.

"We're not surprised, but we're highly upset about the outcome of the trial on yesterday," she said.

Included on the list of demands Bailey read during the rally were: that all of the charges be dropped against the students; that the six students receive their credits back from the school; that nothing from the incident be included in juvenile crime records; that an investigation be made into the nooses found hanging at the school in September; and that an investigation be made of Walters and alleged unethical behavior.

Herbert McCoy pleaded with those present to help raise the money to bail out his cousin, Theo Shaw, who is still jailed in lieu of $90,000 bond. He also was scheduled to face trial last week, but his case was continued without a date set.

McCoy said he and those with the Jena Six Defense Committee have raised about $49,000 in property so far for the bond.

"We want this child out of jail today," he said in his plea. "We want him out of there now."

While speaking to the gathered crowd, McCoy became emotional, raising his fist toward the courthouse.

"Reed Walters, the battle is on," he shouted. "... My brothers and sisters in Jena, you better get out of your houses. You better come out and defend your children ... because they are incarcerating them by the thousands. Jena's not the beginning, but Jena has crossed the line."

Khadijah Rashad of Lafayette described what happened to Bell on Thursday as a "modern-day lynching."

"We've got to fight force with force," Rashad said.

The Rev. Brown said the families of the Jena Six need to continue to stay strong.

"I'm afraid after the outcome of this trial that some of the defendants are planning on agreeing to a plea bargain," he said. "That would harm the struggle. They would leave themselves open to great harm with appeals and post-conviction relief."

Brown is hopeful the next case will be handled differently.

"What happened was a slap in the face to the civil rights movement," he said. "It proves that racism and jury fixing is alive and well in the Southern states, especially Louisiana."

But many in the community were quick to point out that although it was an all-white jury, there were minorities that were called to serve but weren't in court that day.

Because the database that creates the jury pool doesn't have a record of race, the number of each race called for jury duty isn't known.

"It was a fair trial," Harold Stevens said. "I think if you done the crime, you should be paying for it. I think the others involved should be punished too."

Stevens, who has lived in Jena his entire 87 years, said the incident at the high school and subsequent attention garnered is the "worst thing to happen in Jena in a long time."

"There's been a real good relationship between the blacks and whites for many, many years," he said. "I think it is still going to be that way once things get back to normal."

But that's what McCoy is afraid of. He said normal for the Jena justice system is to convict on "trumped-up charges."

"Justice is not right when you put on the wrong charges and then convict," he said. "... I believe in justice. I believe in the point of the law. I believe in accepting of the punishment. If I'm guilty, convict me and punish me, but if I'm innocent, no justice."

"No peace!" the crowd shouted.

Mass Movement needed against Wrongful Convictions

Nina Morrison, James Waller Dallas, Tx exoneree & Barry C. Scheck of Innocence Project and Jeff Blackburn

Video Jena Trial Conviction June 28, 2007

"What prisoner would want their brother, sister, cousin, nephew or neice, or friend behind bars?" And what if the person was incarcerated wrongly? What if that close relationed person were WRONGFULLY CONVICTED? Yet, untold many are in prisons across America. Wrongly. The quotes is the quesition, that is posed to prisoners, they know who belongs & who sticks out as being in the wrong place.

The Innocence Project counts 200 plus citizens have been exonerated, from a wrongly convicted sentence.

We [the Nation] need a national movement to affect the personal consciouses of Americans for the Wrongfully Convicted. A national movement to stop wrongful arrests and incarcerations. Why? It is immoral.

Therefore, we are asking the Innocence Project of New York and The Innocence Network, the Center on Wrongful Convictions and The Louisiana Capital Assistance Center to intervene in American history with your resources and contacts in academia to begin a "mass movement" in the United States Prison System and the Judicial process.

In addition, a request is being made to The Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama in Montgomery, because of the History associated with Montgomery. This is a HUMAN RIGHTS issue. It is immoral.

We ask interested parties to begin to prepare for " a mass prison contact ". The belief is, that if prisoners themselves, would on behalf of the wrongfully convicted; write the U. S. Justice Department, first; to solicit its inquiry into this situation it [DoJ] would have to act. Secondly, after this is completed in all 50 states prisons, the prison population write the United States House & Senate Judiciary Committees to implore their immediate investigation of wrongful convictions, incarcerations and arrests.

The organizations mentioned are being asked to make the initial prison contacts, to open the channels in the prison hierarchy, such that the correspondence would flow undeterred. From every prison in the United States, the prisoners themselves know who does and does not belong in the system.

National Movement Against Wrongful ConvictionsJena Trial Conviction

Louisiana:Reeling-"In the Undertow" as the Infamy Reigns

House moves to Oust Jefferson, the first black Louisiana Congressman since Reconstruction. Committee Votes Overwhelming on two seperate actions! A precedent may be set if the Congressman's removal is voted for by the full House before guilt is adjudicated.
Barack Obama in Hampton, Virginia warns of "Quiet Riots"
Emancipation Oak
As Congressman William Jefferson is indicted in Alexandria, Virginia; fate would have it that Senator Barack Obama would be speaking at Hampton University in Virgina in the shadows of the Emancipation Oak. That, he [Obama] would reference New Orleans and the Bush Administration failures is no coincidence, however. Partisanship is on the attack! In May, as Alberto Gonzales was being grilled by House & Senate Committees Republican Senator John Sensenbrenner unleashed a partisan ployed demand for the Attorney General to expedite the Jefferson indictment.hlr

updated 10 June 2007 hlr
Jefferson says he’s innocent of charges 'Did I sell my office or trade official acts for money? Absolutely not.'
Congressman fighting allegations of bribery

By GERARD SHIELDS
Advocate Washington bureau
Published: Jun 9, 2007 - Page: 1a

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Speaking to reporters Friday for the first time since his indictment on public corruption charges, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson maintained his innocence after pleading not guilty to 16 counts, including bribery, racketeering and money laundering.

“We are going to fight our hearts out to clear my name,” Jefferson said in a news conference outside the federal courthouse here.

Prosecutors accuse Jefferson of using his influence as co-chairman of the congressional Africa Investment and Trade Caucus to broker deals in various African nations, and of demanding kickbacks for himself and for family members.

The indictment, issued Monday, says Jefferson received more than $500,000 in bribes and sought millions of dollars more between 2000 and 2005.

After his formal arraignment before U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, the New Orleans Democrat made a statement before a horde of media and a bank of cameras. Standing under a statue of Lady Justice, Jefferson accused the federal government of persecuting him and his family.

The Harvard-educated attorney also hinted at his likely defense: that he was acting as a private businessman in representing American companies referred to in his 94-page indictment that were trying to do business in Africa.

In return, the companies allegedly paid money to companies led by Jefferson family members. Jefferson was also accused of demanding shares of stock from the companies. Prosecutors accused Jefferson of failing to disclose any income he received from the business deals, as required by House rules.

The tall and lanky Jefferson appeared at court and at the news conference in his trademark gray suit with a light blue shirt and red tie.

“I know what congressmen can do to help someone: passing legislation that would help a certain industry, securing earmarks and amending tax and trade bills,” Jefferson said at the news conference. “I did none of that.”

Jefferson was freed on a $100,000 personal recognizance bond. He will not have to pay any money but would forfeit the bond should he violate pre-trial requirements that include surrendering his passport to his defense attorney.

Ellis set a trial date of Jan. 16, 2008, after Jefferson’s attorney, Robert Trout, said he will need that much time to prepare for the case, in which Jefferson is accused of collaborating in 11 complex business schemes involving African telecommunications, oil drilling and waste recycling deals.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Lytle said the prosecution will need about four weeks to present its evidence, which includes eight file cabinets of documents and extensive tape recordings.

The judge said he is not likely to grant the government that much time to present its case.

Ellis gave Jefferson permission to travel between Washington and his district, but any international or other national travel must be approved in advance by the judge.

Ellis also ordered Jefferson and his attorney to work out arrangements so Jefferson will not have access to shotguns and rifles in his home. Jefferson told the judge the firearms are used for hunting.

“I’ve been hunting since I was 10-years-old,” Jefferson told Ellis.

Jefferson appeared outside the courtroom holding hands with his wife of 37 years, Andrea, and flanked by his youngest daughter, Akila.

“Did I make mistakes in judgment along the way that I deeply regret? Yes,” Jefferson said. “But did I sell my office or trade official acts for money? Absolutely not.”

Jefferson would not answer a question shouted by a reporter on what he considered mistakes.

Jefferson called the federal charges “contrived” and “misleading.” He painted himself as the victim of a government sting.

According to court records, FBI agents videotaped Jefferson picking up a $100,000 cash bribe in 2005 from an informant in a hotel parking garage. Two days later, FBI agents raided Jefferson’s Washington home and found $90,000 in marked bills in a box in his freezer. Jefferson allegedly was to give the cash to a high-ranking Nigerian official.

Having the money was not illegal, Jefferson said Friday, since he never delivered the alleged bribe.

“The $90,000 was the FBI’s money,” Jefferson said. “The FBI gave it to me as part of their plan that I would give it to the Nigerian vice president, but I did not do that.”

Jefferson family members have been implicated in the dealings. His wife headed a consulting company that allegedly received money from companies Jefferson tried to help, prosecutors said. His wife has not been charged with a crime in this case.

Jefferson spelled out the extensive education background of his wife and five daughters.

“Incredibly, we are the same family that the Department of Justice and the FBI would have you believe is a family made up of bribers, racketeers and conspirators,” Jefferson said. “This is not who we are; this is not who I am.”

Earlier in the week, the House voted to send the Jefferson matter to the House Ethics Committee for a formal review. If Jefferson is found guilty of ethics violations, he could be expelled from the chamber.

Ellis also froze $470,000 of Jefferson’s assets on Thursday.

Jefferson acknowledged he faces an uphill challenge against the federal government, which has unlimited resources to prosecute him.

“But I have no doubt that in the most important sense, we have the advantage,” Jefferson said. “The advantage of having right and truth on our side.”
JFAL

'I am absolutely innocent'
Jefferson pleads not guilty to 16 charges
Gannett News Service

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — U.S. Rep. William J. Jefferson declared his innocence Friday, pledging he and his family would "sell every stick of furniture in our home" and anything else they own to prove he did not take payoffs to broker business deals in Africa.
"I am absolutely innocent of the charges leveled against me," the Louisiana Democrat said, standing next to his wife and attorneys outside the federal courthouse. "We are going to fight my heart out to clear my name."
Inside a courtroom minutes earlier, Jefferson's lawyer entered a not guilty plea to 16 counts of racketeering, soliciting bribes, wire fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice.

Federal prosecutor Mark Lytle said the government had collected eight file cabinets worth of evidence, as well as extensive tape recordings, in more than two years of investigative work. He estimated the government would need about four weeks to present its case.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III scoffed at the notion, saying that much time would put an unnecessary burden on jurors.

"It's ludicrous. No trial should last that long," he said.

Ellis set a jury trial date for Jan. 16. He then ordered Jefferson, who has a law degree from Harvard and a master's degree in law from Georgetown, to surrender his passport and post a $100,000 bond.

Jefferson was granted unrestricted travel privileges between the Washington area and Louisiana, but he must advise the court when traveling elsewhere. Ellis said he expects most of Jefferson's travel requests will be granted.

Jefferson must also surrender the shotguns and rifles he uses for hunting and keeps in his Louisiana home.

Jefferson is charged with paying bribes to a Nigerian official as well as soliciting bribes for himself and his family. He was indicted Monday by a federal grand jury in a case that included the discovery of $90,000 in the freezer of the congressman's Washington home during FBI raids on his New Orleans and Washington homes Aug. 2, 2005.

Jefferson referred to that cash Friday outside the courthouse.

"The $90,000 was the FBI's money. The FBI gave it to me as part of its plan — part of their plan — that I would give it to the Nigerian vice president, but I did not do that," he said. "When all the facts are understood, I expect to be fully vindicated."

Jefferson said his constituents in Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District know he has served them for 17 years "honestly and professionally." That was why he easily won re-election last fall despite a "virtual indictment" in the press, he said.

"I will not be deterred from my duty to serve my constituents back home, in Orleans parish and Jefferson parish, who have faithfully elected me," he said.

But Jefferson, who did not take any questions, also said he made unspecified mistakes in judgments he now deeply regrets.

"Did I sell my office or trade official acts for money? Absolutely not. This case involved purely private business activities and not official acts by me," he said.

Jefferson spoke in detail about his wife and their five daughters, noting their education from Ivy League and other top tier schools. He spoke about the family's pursuit to public service, as well as its patriotism.

"I implore you, the press and the public, to keep an open mind until all the facts are on the table," he said.

If convicted on all counts, Jefferson faces a maximum sentence of 235 years in prison.

Jefferson is the first U.S. official to be charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

On Thursday, the House ethics committee voted to expand its investigation of Jefferson and a federal judge froze his assets.
JFAL

The Shackles in the Shadows of History: Slavery Entangled in US Roots! Washington Post Essay published May 29 2007, contains oral history quotes from Louisiana Slave Mary Reynolds.

Again:The Infamy of Injustice-In the Undertow-Jena,La.

June 28 2007 4:09p-cst
Black Teen Guilty. 6 Jurors, 6 affirmatives, 1 of the Jena "6" convicted?

A, re-New Jena Prison?
No Wonder! Senator Noble Ellington
amended HB294 byRep. Billy Chandler,
changing the name of the Central
Louisiana Juvenile Detention Authority
to the Central Louisiana Youth Authority
with LaSalle Parish being its location.
Ellington amended the bill from the Senate floor,
before final passage.Bill
The session closes, tomorrow at
6pm June 28th.

"It's up to the people of Louisiana now,
to make a difference" hlr Brown-National Action Network & Conner-NAACP


What is the real reason behind the JENA Six rush to judgment?
A state wide message is being sent.
The Louisiana Legislature in this session has renamed
the "Central Louisiana Juvenile Detention Authority"
and located it in LaSalle Parish.

Trial Continued to June 25th

"JENA SIX" Trial Begins Monday!-['Nifonged'?]

"in the face of heartfelt pleas officials refused to discuss the noose."[eyewitness account]

Jena Rally@LaSalle Courthouse

Racial Demons Rear Heads
Chicago Tribune, Sunday May 20, 2007 Article
Opening of Span Of Gulf Coast Hwy US90
The Jena Six as they have been dubbed are scheduled for trial Monday May 21, 2007 in Lasalle Parish.The ACLU, through a New York representative is spending time in Jena. The National Action Network is represented by the New Orleans Branch Chairman. A Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP vice president has been involved in the case. An adjacent parish local NAACP chapter president is engaged with the families of the defendants. All of this ongoing while the FBI is investigating the 1964 bombing of Frank Morris' business in Ferriday, La.

In Jackson, Mississippi a federal trial begins on May 29th in the 1964 Klan murders of two teens whose bodies were dumped in the Mississippi River near Tallulah, La. And just recently, the most infamously inciteous killing in 1965 of Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion, Alabama by, now retired Alabama trooper James Bonard Fowler, who infamously recounted the incident in a 2005 newspaper interview is scheduled to go to trial in the ensuing months. The which killing sparked the Selma to Montgomery March, culminating in Bloody Sunday for all the world to see, then, in 1965. All of this in the midst of the swirl of national, state and even international american realignment, should now have us all to know, that most definitely The Winds of Change are blowing again.

Now the lynchman's noose is Wrongful Convictions:the new tyranny of fear. The question remains, what shall be the method to expose this segregationist monstrosity.

I Would have you to know, however, that the roots of American "segregationist turpitude" rest in New Orleans, Louisiana at 400 Royal Street. It was there, Homer Plessy's role was galvanized in the organized challenge of segregationist rulership by a group including Louis A. Martinet. To this day, those roots of the vestiges of segregationist control are maintained in the United States of America from 400 Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Louisiana Supreme Court could put a stop to some of the wrongful convictions if it wanted to. The so-called Jena Six case could be halted before it begins to cost the state untold amounts as these indigent defendants begin what could now become the long drudgery of a protracted ACLU or NAACP-LDF or even a United Nations Human Rights inquiry.

Updated 23May2007 0607hrs

<--- Atty Shumate & T. Shaw

King Downing talking to parents --->
'Jena Six' trial continued to next month
By Abbey Brown
abrown@thetowntalk.com
(318) 487-6387

JENA -- Tears streamed down Melissa Bell's face Monday as the judge ruled in favor of LaSalle Parish District Attorney J. Reed Walters' motion to continue her son's trial more than a month.

Across the courtroom, wearing a black-and-white striped jumpsuit and handcuffed, Mychal Bell's head fell backward in frustration when he heard the ruling.

Bell is one of the six Jena High School students who have become known as the "Jena Six." He and Theodore Shaw were scheduled for jury trial Monday on charges of attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder in connection with a Dec. 4 fight at the school that sent fellow student Justin Barker to LaSalle General Hospital.

Bell and Shaw are the only two students charged in the fight who remain in jail, each in lieu of $90,000 bond.
"(Walters) said they needed more time to get the witnesses together," Melissa Bell said outside the LaSalle Parish courtroom. "If you ain't found the witnesses yet or got together what you need, what's another month going to do. What will they do next month if he still doesn't have everything -- continue it again?"

She said her biggest frustration is that her son has been sitting in jail "day in and day out" ready to go to trial while the state has continued to postpone things.

Walters told 28th Judicial District Court Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr. that many of his witnesses had made plans months ago to be out of state this week and that several other witnesses were Jena High teachers or students with finals this week.

Walters also said in court that Dr. Gbolanan Sokoya, one of Barker's emergency room physicians, can't be located.

Both Bell and Shaw's attorneys objected to the continuance.

"We are ready for trial," Bell's attorney, Blane Williams, said in court.

He said they would be willing to work around the school's finals schedule and suggested having the trial in the evening hours to avoid a conflict.

Mauffray said that suggestion and Williams' flexibility were "admirable" but said that if "the shoe were on the other foot, you'd be jumping up and down" requesting a continuance to have time to present material witnesses.

The trial was continued until June 25, with the caveat that Walters be able to produce all of his witnesses by that date, Mauffray said.

According to court documents, Walters has subpoenaed at least 34 witnesses for the trial, including Barker, a number of other students, Jena High teachers and staff and medical personnel from LaSalle General.

Robert Bailey Jr. also was scheduled for jury trial Monday, but a continuance requested last week by his attorney had been granted by the judge.

Trial dates haven't been set for Carwin Jones and Bryant Purvis. If found guilty on all charges, all of the boys could face 25 to 100 years in prison. The sixth boy's case is being handled by juvenile court, and records weren't available.

The Jena Six have garnered national attention by both media and civil rights groups.

An article in Sunday's Chicago Tribune with the headline "Racial demons rear heads" documented issues the school and city have been facing since September -- including the hanging of nooses on school grounds that some parents of the "Jena Six" said started the whole ordeal.

During a "peace rally" earlier this month, Marcus Jones, Bell's father, said "it's all about those nooses" and said the charges are racially motivated.

The three boys accused of hanging the nooses -- all white -- were given a three-day suspension and faced no criminal charges, Jones said. Fights leading up to the December fight at the school weren't handled in this manner -- with attempted murder charges, he said.

"But this fight, with black boys against a white boy, there are attempted murder charges," Jones said. "There are racial tensions, and it started with those nooses."

King Downing, national coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union's Campaign Against Racial Profiling, said the organization is committed to supporting the "Jena Six" throughout the trial process.

"We want justice for these young men and their families," he said. "We want to clear the air and know for certain if these boys were overcharged and see if there are any disparities in justice in LaSalle Parish."

Downing said he has been encouraging the families to stay positive and strong.

"There is a smell in the air," he said. "We have not completely identified it, but we are trying to make sure it isn't the smell of injustice. ... I think the world's attention on Jena is growing. And I hope anything out of order gets in order quickly."

After the continuance was granted, Theodore McCoy, Shaw's father, said he was disappointed.

"We were hoping to get this under way," he said. "I know (Theodore) is more frustrated than me. I can't imagine what he's going through. The charges are outrageous. We are just ready to put this behind us."

The truth is the Distict Attorney needs to be recused from this case for the following statement.hlr At a school assembly soon after, La Salle Parish District Attorney (DA) Reed Walters, appearing with local police officers, warned Black students against further unrest. “I can make your lives disappear with a stroke of my pen,” he threatened. Threat in article in the Indypendent


Jena is a town of 2,900, with about 350 black residents. Three white students were suspended from Jena High in September after hangman's nooses were found dangling from a tree on campus.
"Information included below was gathered through a review of local print media, as well as discussions with staff members at a local radio station that is covering the story and the parents of three of the youth involved. "

"On the morning of Friday, September 1, 2006, the students at Jena High School arrived at school to find two hangmans nooses dangling from a tree on campus. The nooses were hung in response to an exchange that had taken place the day before during a school-wide assembly. According to news reports, a Black student stood up during the assembly and asked the school principal, Mr. Scott Windham, whether he and the other Black students could get permission to sit beneath a particular tree during lunch, along with the white students who sat there on a daily basis.

Mr. Windham informed the students that they could sit wherever they wanted during lunch. Apparently, this did not sit well with some of the white students. After investigating the incident, three white students were identified as having been involved in hanging the nooses from the tree following the assembly. The students were then suspended for three days and sent to an alternative school pending their expulsion hearings. The principal, Mr. Windham, subsequently recommended that the three white students be expelled from the school. However, his recommendation was overridden by LaSalle Parish Schools Superintendent Roy Breithaupt."
No Charges were filed in the noose incident.Black Teen Guilty.

Still-The Infamy of Injustice:In the Undertow

PLESSY-FERGUSON 2007
UPDATED-7May2007-2:17CST-hlr

[Keith Weldon]Medley, also on hand for the Supreme Court gathering, said there are many ironies in the Plessy saga.

One of them, he said, is the fact that the Supreme Court building sits on land formerly occupied by an extension of Exchange Alley, where the plan that included Homer Plessy's arrest was hatched in the office of black lawyer Louis Martinet.
Know wonder present Chief Justice Pascal Calogero is firmly against moving the Supreme Court in New Orleans to Baton Rouge. The routes of american judicial injustice emanates from the 400 Royal Street headquarters of the Louisiana Supreme Court. hlr


The following opinion article appeared in the Alexandria Town Talk the weekend of April 21, 2007

Our view: La. gives judge only one choice: Don't prosecute

It's a busy spring weekend in Central Louisiana: a French film festival, a jazz festival and Jazz on the River, an outdoor market, trade days, a big garage sale, a wild night at the zoo, a festival in Magnaville and much more. Check out the Day-by-Day calendar in the Friday A.M. section. Elsewhere in the news, prosecution of criminal suspects in New Orleans was stopped for lack of adequate representation; and the Louisiana Road Home management company can be fined if it fails to move faster to meet with applicants and resolve complaints. Our views follow:


State Judge Arthur Hunter stopped the prosecution of 42 suspects in New Orleans because the city's indigent defender's office cannot adequately represent them.
Hunter set a hearing for May 7 for 45 other defendants whom he said are poor and cannot get adequate representation. Hunter's order did not dismiss the charges.

State Rep. Danny Martiny, chairman of a legislative task force on indigent defense, said he's filing a bill that would set up a statewide indigent defense board, replacing the state's 41 local boards.
"Right now, there are no unified standards, no accountability. If this bill passes, that would change," said Martiny, R-Kenner.

Last year, lawmakers doubled state funding for indigent defense statewide, from $10 million to $20 million annually. Martiny said he expects the Legislature to approve an additional $7 million for indigent defense this year.

We think: This is a step in the right direction, even if it is much too small and nowhere near aggressive enough. Uniform guidelines, more attorneys, adequate compensation for defenders, funds for detectives and DNA tests -- all have been missing forever in Louisiana, the poster child for states that deny people their legal rights. Access to qualified legal representation is codified in the documents that made this nation. Too often, poor people never get to exercise that right. In Orleans Parish alone, between $7 million and $10 million a year more is needed to provide such defense.


The company managing the Louisiana Road Home program will lose up to $100,000 a month if it fails to move faster to meet with applicants, make grants and resolve disputes. The new requirement has been added to the state's contract with ICF International Inc. of Virginia.
ICF is being paid more than $750 million by the state to administer the program -- a poorly thought-out plan to get hurricane evacuees back on their feet. The fact the contract has virtually no benchmarks to measure progress tells you this deal made by Democrat Gov. Kathleen Blanco is fraught with problems and no accountability.

We think: What's $100,000 a month to ICF? It has $19 million of our state money allocated just to reimburse its employees for their Road Home-related travel. The proposed fine is peanuts.

120-Day Wait-in-Jail Urged For Louisiana Suspects!Legislation currently on tap when session begins April 30, 2007, would affect the entire state. The state House bill is sponsored by Rep. Scalise.

Again-THE INFAMY OF INJUSTICE:In the Undertow

Judge Hunter in this 2006 photo is in the makeshift court, after the landfall of Katrina. Whether he holds court in the same area is unclear. However, in the following New Orleans Times Picayune article the systemic problem of injustice that exist in Louisiana is evident. Judge Hunter points to the Legislature. A state Senator in the 2006 regular session of the Louisiana Legislature had, authored a concurrent resolution to do a thorough aprisal of Louisiana Criminal Justice practices; with an April 1, 2007 report. Evidently, follow through with Senate Concurrent Resolution 117 has not been accomplished. That resolution detailed specifics, including statewide practices and sentencing guidelines. hlr


Orleans public defender system "a mockery,'' judge says

New Orleans Times-Picayune[30March2007}
By Gwen Filosa
Staff writer
The public defender system in Orleans Parish is a “mockery” of what a criminal justice system must provide in a civilized nation, a judge said Friday as he vowed to no longer appoint the program to represent poor defendants in court.
Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Arthur Hunter said that next month he will release 42 poor defendants who remain in custody, and suggested the public defender program should dump cases rather than continue working on them while it has only a skeleton staff, a staggering caseload and a lack of money.
Hunter, a former police officer elected to the bench in 1996, blamed lawmakers for the failure of the public defender system and pointed out that the crisis plaguing poor defendants and their court-appointed lawyers has existed for a quarter century.
“The Louisiana Legislature has allowed this legal hell to exist, fester and finally boil over,” Hunter said Friday, ruling from the bench that the poorest defendants in New Orleans are receiving the worst legal services as they face prison time. “This court must take certain measures to protect the statutory and constitutional rights of indigent defendants. Hurricane Katrina is no longer an excuse, and the state has a budget surplus.”
Hunter’s ruling isn’t final until April 18, the date he scheduled for the district attorney’s office and public defender program to present additional testimony and facts.
Steve Singer, chief of trials for the public defender program, said that $2.1 million would suffice to properly staff a post-Katrina office. That would be about one-third more than the office currently has, Singer said.
To date, the public defender program has 26 full-time attorneys working at the criminal district court, and a growing caseload that stands at about 2,524 felony cases.
Christine Lehmann, an attorney for the public defender program who filed the motion Hunter ruled upon Friday, said for decades the criminal district court has valued “speed over accuracy.”
“It shouldn’t be analogous to a shoe factory, but to a hospital,” Lehmann said after the ruling. “These are people’s lives.”
JFAL


updated: 12Jun07
Monroe News Star
Jun 8, 11:11 AM EDT


Judge: Fed prosecutors should get involved in whistle-blower case
[Federal Judge Peter Beer]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The judge who unsealed a federal whistle-blower case accusing insurance companies of overbilling the National Flood Insurance Program says the U.S. Department of Justice should get involved or explain why not.

The case was brought by former insurance adjusters who say they have evidence that insurance companies overbilled the federal flood program while underpaying claims for Hurricane Katrina wind damage.

U.S. District Judge Peter Beer filed a one-sentence motion this week: "The Court, on its own motion, respectfully requests the United States Department of Justice enter this case by July 9, 2007, or show cause on July 11, 2007, at 9:30 a.m., why they are not intervening in this civil action."

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Baton Rouge, which fielded the complaint with the Department of Justice in Washington even though it was filed in New Orleans, referred a call Friday for comment to Washington. The department has no comment, spokesman Charles Miller said.

Beer said he was surprised to learn that the U.S. attorney's office in Baton Rouge planned only to monitor the case, which now is being prosecuted for the U.S. government by a private attorney who represents the whistle-blowers.

"What about the good old general public? Who better to look after the interests of the public than the U.S. attorneys?" Beer said. "This is a case the government should be involved with. The United States should be right in there, and not just monitoring it, given as far-reaching and serious as this case is."

The whistle-blowers say that they've analyzed insurance appraisals of damage and readjusted claims at 150 properties in the New Orleans area. They say all of the flood claims were overpaid - by an average of 66 percent - while the wind claims were underpaid.

The average means the overcharges could total billions out of the $14 billion paid after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Louisiana.

Because private insurance carriers administer federal flood insurance policies and adjust both flood and wind claims, the theory is that companies may be dumping the bills for wind damage onto the taxpayer-financed flood program to save themselves money.

Insurance companies have said they stand by their claims-handling practices.

Beer's motion was copied to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales or his deputy; Jim Letten, the U.S. attorney in New Orleans; and David Dugas, the U.S. attorney in Baton Rouge.

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JFAL

THE INFAMY OF INJUSTICE: In the UnderTow

Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: "1La Justice" Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Justice in Louisiana
To: Criminal.Division@usdoj.gov
This correspondence concerns the case of Louisiana v. Michael Cobb, which was recently denied a writ by the Louisiana Supreme Court. The trial was originally held in 18th Judicial District State Court in Pointe Coupee Parish in New Roads, La., the parish seat. The crimes occurred in New Roads. It is believed that errors were apparent in the police departments investigation.

And so, it is asked of Justice to consider taking a look at the events surrounding the arrest, prosecution, trial, conviction & appeal [Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal] of this case. The conglomerating of the case by the prosecution rendered the conviction defective.

In several instances the New Roads Police Department crime scene proficiency is in quesition: in Hargroder, Berry and Lemoine. The conglomeration of these three led to undoubted juror confusion, in a trial of a few days.

The Hargroder crime scene [Aug 2001] according to testimony on page 255, lines 8 through 32 [transcript of day 2] show the crime scene un-protected for a period of time until the arrival of the State Police Crime Lab. The Crime Lab obtained prints only of the persons who were of the residence.
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The Berry rape kit as evidence in that crime [Feb 2004] was mishandled, in that the kit was not determined tested, conclusively. In cross-examination during the trial Police department is unsure of the status of the rape kit. [page 158, lines 3 thru 32, day 2]
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The Lemoine rape kit & the subsequent examination of the victim [July 2001] was again, by the New Roads Police Department mishandled. In the parish coroner’s direct examination [page 12 & page 13, lines 15 thru 32; page 14, lines 1 thru 25, day 3]
In this instance, it is stated by the coroner, NRPD sent this kit off to the state crime lab.

The prosecutor in his opening says; ‘The New Roads Police Department don’t find any leads. They don’t come up with anything, and I tell you, that New Roads Police Department made some mistakes in this case, and they’re going to have to - - and I’m going to bring it to you. They made some mistakes, and they’re going to have to face up to it.’ [page 8, lines 2 thru 7, Day 2] The prosecutor, goes on to say, ‘They end up getting some help from Paul Raymond and his guys,[Sheriff Dept] and they put this case together.

COMMENT-QUESTION: Which Case?
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The Chief of Detective for New Roads Police Department at the time of the trial in 2005 is Robert Parrett. He is such for five years at the time of the trial and was there for all cases. [page 95, lines 5 thru 21]
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In Cross examination of Parrett, by the defense; in answer to the 48 hours question Mr. Parretts answer was, ‘They – they initially came to look at the Lemoine crime scene and from there they went to the Hargroder’s residence.’ [page 254, line 26, day 2]

The defense: Q. – One minute. Why would they be coming look at the Lemoine crime scene on August the 12th? [p.254,line 29, day 2]
A. – They were asked to come in by another agency.
The defense: Q. – To come in and look at the Lemoine crime scene?
A. – Yes, sir.[p.255,line 1,day 2]

Sincere thanks. Citizen of Louisiana
The article below has caused concern among Cobb's family members. Two weeks ago a reporter for the Advocate, requested information on the rape kit and was referred to the District Attorney's Office. Michael Cobb was sentence to two life sentences, plus 129 years in Feb. 2005. He was arrested Feb. 2004.

New Roads police station burns
No one injured in fire
By MARK F. BONNER
Advocate staff writer
Published: Mar 11, 2007
Story updated: 10:20 p.m.
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Advocate staff photo by MICHAEL SEAMANS


NEW ROADS — Police Chief Kevin McDonald said he got the word shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday from an assistant.
“Chief, you’re not going to believe this. The police station is on fire!”
McDonald ran to the Main Street building. “When I saw the flames for myself, I was in shock. Then I ran in to the building to salvage what I could.”
No one was injured in the blaze. The four officers on duty Sunday had been on patrol at the time the fire broke out, McDonald said.
For awhile, it looked like all inside the building was lost. By about 10 p.m., firefighters informed McDonald that the evidence room, which is water- and fire-proof, was in immaculate condition.
Also in good condition was the clerical side of the building, housing incident reports. Nevertheless, the 26 people who worked in the building will be relocated, some to the department’s offices on New Roads Street and others to Police Station 2 on Parent Street, McDonald and Mayor Tommy Nelson said.
Firefighters “got in through the front part of the building and were able to secure my secretary’s computer and files,” McDonald said.
Also, copies of criminal reports are routinely sent to the District Attorney’s Office, he said.
Three buildings away, at Satterfield’s Restaurant, waiter Andrew Chustz had been taking an order when his clients informed him of the fire.
Chustz, 16 and a junior at False River Academy, said he and some co-workers ran to the scene.
“We heard some (munitions) rounds going off,” he said. “You could hear stuff popping in there. It was pretty intense.”
Nelson said the 2,000 square foot brick-and-mortar building was a very old structure. McDonald said that historians who stopped by at the scene Sunday told him “the building is probably over a hundred years old.”
Neither McDonald nor Nelson said they knew the cause of the blaze. The police chief said the state Fire Marshal’s Office will be called in to investigate.

Storm Still Raging on Gulf Coast

Blanco backs using some developments
Governor wants housing replaced eventually
By CAIN BURDEAU:Associated Press writer Published: Feb 23, 2007


NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Taking a middle-road position, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said the federal government should rehabilitate as many of its New Orleans housing developments for the poor as it can for immediate occupancy, while proceeding with long-term plans to demolish and replace some of the developments.
“There is definitely a crisis in bringing back housing affordable and otherwise,” Blanco told a U.S. House subcommittee meeting to discuss housing problems almost 18 months after Hurricane Katrina struck.
The subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, chaired by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., heard differing views on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s plan to demolish about 7,300 apartments that make up four sprawling public housing complexes.
Many residents and a growing consortium of preservationists and activists argue that the aging but solidly built brick buildings can be fixed and turned into islands of recovery for the city, housing thousands of families that are still displaced.
On the other side, a large segment of the populace and many officials on the state and city level are wary about rehabilitating the post-World War II complexes, arguing that they had become social engineering projects gone awry. They support the HUD plan to replace the complexes with “mixed-income” neighborhoods styled after historic New Orleans architecture, such as shotgun homes.
Crime and other social ills were a problem at the complexes, though social activists say they became so plagued in large part because social services were stripped when black occupants replaced white occupants.
Rep. Randy Neugebauer of Texas, one of two Republicans at the hearing, questioned whether public housing residents are eager to return. He cited examples of available housing stock remaining empty and HUD’s estimate that only 60 percent of former residents have shown an interest in returning.
But his comments drew loud condemnation from a crowd comprising many black residents.
Blanco, who testified but did not answer questions, also was jeered by the crowd while she addressed problems with the Road Home program, the state-program set up to hand out federal grant money for homeowners who want to repair, rebuild or relocate after their homes were damaged or destroyed by Katrina or Hurricane Rita.
Today, the subcommittee will turn its attention to Mississippi. There are plans to hear testimony in Gulfport, Miss., from panels of federal, state and local officials along with several advocates for preserving affordable housing on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
John Jopling, senior attorney for the Mississippi Center for Justice in Biloxi, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, said Katrina priced many low-income residents out of the rental market and destroyed much of the region’s already-scarce stock of federally subsidized public housing.
“Not enough was done before the storm,” he said. “Certainly not enough is being done now.”
Jopling said he is urging federal housing officials to replace every unit of storm-damaged public housing without displacing any residents. GSSC

At some point it has to be realized that what is happening on the Gulf Coast is social engineering at its worst. To compound matters its an election season and the lives of the citizens are being politicized. The worst thing about America's democracy is the politicos using the peoples plight as a means to an end. Whether Republican or Democrat the misuse is criminal. hlr

Whose Justice Is It Anyway?

It's not our personal sense of justice we're looking for when we talk about Justice. Too many people take justice for granted. If you know a certain act of government or an act of those that govern has ended in injustice, then for sure that is when we want Justice most of all. I don't think we all want justice all the time, because if we had it all the time; WHAT! I think there would be a lot of long faces and tears shedding, because we didn't know vengeance from whose it is, would be so strong.

Let's be honest, it's vengeance we want.

Really when we ask for justice, we're asking for mercy. We even know the mechanics of how the injustice was done. A lawyer has the hardest time navigating the deep, dark, muddied waters of post-conviction relief in a wrongful conviction case.

Amnesty International issued a terse statement about the case of Gary Tyler, now termed a political prisoner after three decades! I repeat, Is This America. What about all the other cases?


So now, a federal court has awarded a man $14,000,000.00; payable by the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office. Now, this is what I call Louisiana Justice. The DA is a black man, today. The DA then was a white man. So, the broken Orleans Parish Criminal Justice System has the debt to pay as some sort of symbolic gesture of the federal court's displeasure. This, that's going on in Louisiana, has been going on forever. Justice is what justice does.

An Exceptional Season:Issue Advocacy

"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: . . . for all these things must come to pass, . . ."

"For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:"

Working under the radar is how the shift in Congress was accomplished. A minor shift numerically, but a major shift strategically. While the populous is lulled away in its situation lifestyles, the rich and powerful have altered the methods by which our lives are inextricably intertwined. Be prepared for the politicos and their advertisements at every means possible. But as always we the gullible will fall hook, line and sinker for the , impossible. They will play us like a fiddle. The best thing to do, is to listen intently for the honesty. All the issues rolled together in one season are on the table. And the season is now!

War, Race, Gender, Religion, Rich, Poor, Power and politics in one season. As it is written, "To everything there is a season . . ."

New Moves for Living

It is upon Us. The evidential connexity of the all involved society. A grey lady in Atlanta. A young almost married in N.Y. City. The profusion of racially charged slurring in L. A. And so, the chasm widens and the melting pot thickens. Who really knows what is to be in the comeing days. It is not the time to close the door upon the desperate. This is indeed a time to take a deeper look into who we are and what we are doing.

Why would anyone go full blast on any situation? Whether its an aged woman in Atlanta, for her own reasonings, from years of undeniably desperate times to be forced to not allow the "law" or any one it might have been bust in un-announced or yet unknown, or even unlikely to be recognized; because of the years that have now flickered down to a flame of incessant fear. Most older women I know keep their pistols at the ready. And what, young male at a strip club wouldn't prefer to move on as quickly as possible, especially if you're not sure of who is who and what is really going down.

But why the profusion of pistol panic? Shoot and ask quesitions later. Beat down and deal with it later. So, low key was it played concerning the young boot camp teen, beat to death in Florida, earlier this year.

There are indeed new moves for living in America for some. The global violence has infested the soul of every man, every woman and every child.

The incidents we know about, are the tip of the iceberg. hlr

Bridges to Justice

"By me kings reign, and princes decree justice."Proverbs 8:15

I find that there are bridges to justice in our world. Within the boundaries of society, there are specific entities that should be considered bridges to justice. It is our duty in destiny to preserve such entities. The existence of such are ordained of God.

If any of the "man-made" societal structures seek to bridge the chasm of societal injustice, we as humanity should embrace it. The church, in itself, is not a "man-made" device. The constant changing of the church is, however, an outcome of man's involvement. Cultural enrichment should not cause the demise of bridges to justice.

Freedom:ENTRENCHED IN POVERTY

The freedom we so greatly enjoy is entrenched in poverty.

The society we so desperately adhere to functions on the premises of poverty. Someone must be available to the elitist class, to meet there demands. Nigerian Oil. South African Gold. North America Vegetables.

World Class New Orleans Cuisine.

Along with the deprivations, comes the "underclassnessing" of your psuedo-pristine surroundings. Neuvo-urbanization in a gumbo cultured euroafricanized melting pot is most likely to morph into systematic deployment of marshall law and gunship diplomacy on U. S. citizens. Containment of the truly discontented.

Arrival at this new state of being is going down in historical pages of lives lived on the brink of expulsion from the population make-up. As the larger global configurations explode in our faces daily, we in our own markets fail to see the affects on us as a whole.

To Hate and Love at the same nuance is despicable.

The what they do so well, we love; as we hate the fact that it is: done so well, by them and not us. So, in a virtual inevitable-ness we wait until the "whole house comes tumbling down". And then we pounce on the fragments and control their movement until they're completely worn down and resigned to their own plight. Utterly denied!

Freedom:ENTRENCHED IN POVERTY!

Guerrilla Governance in a Democratic Republic!

Governance in America is supposed to be by the people, for the people. But what we are experiencing, now; particularly in the deep south is guerrilla governance. Do what we say or we will snap you neck.

Come against the system, and we'll break you neck.

You know it is such, when everyone goes along with it, and pretends it is not happenning. All for the sake of sovereign governance. Every area of governance is being influenced by this strong-armed rule of governing.

The Cold Hard - Truth!

BBOP Review & Curbside Views.

The Cold Hard Truth!
Society as we knew it is no longer the same. No one seems to understand why Islamic people are uprising about their religion's Prophet being portrayed in cartoons in Europe. It is a cold hard way to learn, the depths of belief of a group of people.

There belief system is based on the writings of this one man. And so everything that there belief system is based upon is taken for granted.

The american belief system was really based on the belief of a system of justice. No one should ever believe, that any one at any time thought slavery was a just cause. The testing that America is going through now, exporting such a system, that allows person not guilty of a crime to stay in prison for years. To be wrongfully arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned. And in Louisiana the fact is prevalent.

The duality of justice along racial and cultural lines are dividing the nation.

Extremists abound. Everywhere and every place everything is gone extreme. It is beginning to be the norm. France just experienced long lasting riots, and now this. But as the people of the world prepare for the onslaught of Revelation's enactment, no one is prepared. One thing is true, there is nothing we can do to stop what is about to occur. We are believing God for every area of injustice to be alleviated. I am convinced though, that this is the only just process.

The people who are held captive in the American Justice System in Louisiana will have to wait on God's justice. The cultural spiral is too far gone now. The world will be convinced of who is truly in control. We are move-ing into another dispensation. This door of grace, we so surely enjoy is at its end. Once the door is closed, some shall stand, knocking as if to enter; not realizing that the door of grace is forever closed.

And so, the dispensation of the times change and many will not know. When it is realized, finally that what has been easily accomplished, is no longer accomplished at all. Your time to do what Nineveh done is come and gone.

Mocha Chocolata! Curbside Views-The Big Snitch

BBOP Review. Curbside Views & the big snitch of 2006!

Mocha Chocolata in the Big Easy seemed too sleazy for the new crowd, crouched to take over the demise of a now defunct culture, desimated by slack politicos hellbent on self-satisfaction and the subsequent judgement of a caesaric social decline in spring rites gone wild.

While the largest fear verbalized, by an nocuos induce code noir revitalization gathering on the Celebration of King in the wings of "kingcake" inebriated masses, longing to disrobe in public stances made legal by outlawed classism, fueled by continued racism yet forty years young, maybe Jim Garrison could unravel this conspiracy.

It is ever so easy to dismiss the thought of a predominantly black New Orleans, when such a concientious effort was accomplished in the mass dispersal of Refugees beyond the Dome. If the jostling around about fault is consistently carried forward much longer, then we will need another "deepthroat" and another Woodward & Bernstein. Instead though, it would be : The Floodgate! When the floodgates finally opened, everyone wished they were left closed.

However, its okay and alright in America to have a Gentilly reclaimation of a city, by a "newly manufactured majority" and spin-off a buyout plan to complete the travesty at the same time. Remember, the floodgates are open. The same folks that sang and prayed them open are the same folk it is going to take to sang and pray them closed.

So, sweet city of somber solace, seek to soothe your unsatisfied soul; as the souls of the sidewalk sepulchres scream bloody murder. You, who ritually deliver young souls into temptation, where will you disquise as you try to slide to a slow dirge, mimicking the pain that so many have lived with and do now sing and play and dance with. Yeah, it is true what that song say, "everybody want to sing my blues, nobody want to live my blues."

So, the Big Snitch of 2006. It ain't alright to want a chocolate city. The thing I remember about chocolate is, not the hershey bar: but the milk, the chocolate milk. You had to mix the two together. The big snitch is, America doesnot mind a chocolate city, as long as it is steered the milky white way. And since we're snitching. This only reiterates the theory of the Black Belt of Poverty.

Since Black New Orleans and Poor New Orleans was held in this "depth of poverty" for the lucrative value of a readily available working class; and now an opportunity exists to capitalize further on another at the expense of the others, forced upon deprivations of the most recent last forty years of payback for even desiring to be free, let lone equal. How Declaration of Independence American Can New Orleans Ruling Class Be.

Curbside View. Stop the Lies. It was PayBack! The Choppers were "shot at?" so leave 'em there, let 'em sweat and swelter a while. Even Region VI in Denton said the State was running things from Baton Rouge that entire eventful week. And so it was, and so it is. Once again the state declared state of emergency has been extended to February 22, 2006.

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And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts thereof shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, it is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Zechariah 13: 8,9

Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their hearts may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for slaughter. Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set. I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the Lord have said it. Ezekiel 21:14-17

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Now!!&Forever!! Dysfunctional Society?

This dysfunctional society has its destructive mechanisms in place, presently in the Katrina aftermath. Congressman Richard Baker's buyout plan is out of kilter because it leaves, developers with the notion of a New New Orleans. The entire social engineering aspects of America, leaves more to be desired.

Always and all the time, the very people affected by any outcome are left out of the model. Fix NOLA, but leave "New Orleans' People" out.

America, better get use to it, those indigenous masses wandering around in that water for those many days, are now another breed of cat. They were forced out of "Louisiana" in a mass "deportation" on that eventful "Friday in September", when the evacuation of the less-fortunate began. The first bus, leaving from Armstrong Airport was stopped in Baton Rouge.

However, now; A contract is dissolved when performance becomes impossible. When the entire performance owed by one party has become impossible because of a fortuitous event, the contract is dissolved.

Further, an obligor who had been put in default when a fortuitous event made his performance impossible is not liable for his failure to perform if the fortuitous event would have likewise destroyed the object of the performance in the hands of the obligee had performance been timely rendered.

The injustice being put upon Louisiana now is an opportunistic land grab, when in fact the business sector; banks and mortgage companies must take a lick financially just as the people of the storm have.

So, the government is going to have to bail everybody out, the mortgage companies, the people, the businesses and the state. It is a moral and a constitutional obligation. It is no less than what would be done in some devastated far off land. One year later, their still living in tents in Banda Aceh. Four months later their still living in tents on the Gulf Coast. Some are still in trailers in Florida from two storm seasons ago.

The difference is, this is America. The difference is every one living in New Orleans expected the Levees to hold. After all, this is America! The people that stayed in New Orleans, expected the pumps to work in a City, that is in a State, that is in a Nation; formed as a more perfect union for the general welfare of its citizens.

Now!!&Forever!!

The effects of injustice has intrusively obstructed our views of the presently dysfunctional society, so much so, that we now assume there is nothing wrong with a constant vigil of our every move; in this constant state of privy invasiveness.

As all of this recent injustices continues to intrude on our privacy, we are forgetting about the past injustices recently perpertrated upon the masses. As in the Gulf Coast fiasco. The thunder is rolling and tolling its death knoll on the last great exasperations of this society. It is just to implausible for this techno-urbanized-sociopathic unreasonable ruling class to see the light of day.

Anytime, everyone is scrutinized to the point that the majority is afraid to speak out on any situation; for fear of governmental retribution. From sea to shining sea. The minority is steadily pushed to the outer realms of outllandish behavioralistic actions beyond reason. Unexplicable actions, by individuals who are otherwise not capable of such, but find themselves screaming and hollering about an absolutely impossible situation. Thirty-two hundred people still missing. Unfound masses of lesser classes, led astray by multi-million dollar rip-offs.

Blak Belt of Poverty destructive mechanisms designed to destroy William Bennetts unaborted impoverished, all the while Baker's buyout plan sells us further down the River. When the entire performance owed by one party has become impossible because of a fortuitous event, the contract is dissolved. Surely Mr. Baker and the "others" in the "legislature" know this.

Illegal incarcerations. Wrongful arrests and prosecutions. Wrongful convictions and prosecutorial misconduct. The bribers in D. C. still stealing from the Natives, while Dixiecrats say "our people will know the next time, to evacuate; when we say evacuate" A cute way of saying our poor, our impoverished huddled masses. While some is calling the plantation the plantation; the real plantation is running full steam ahead.