After a Houston County sheriff's deputy was recently murdered, the sheriff and others blamed activists concerned about excessive use of police force for inspiring the murder. They specifically named Black Lives Matters.
Some reports suggest that the suspect has a history of mental health problems which is a more reality based explanation for his actions .
Over the last few days, reports have emerged that the murdered deputy, a married father, was with his lover when he was murdered. His lover is a witness.
The sheriff department's investigator started a sexual relationship with the witness during the investigation and has been suspended.
I hope this sufficiently compromises the prosecution case that they can no longer seek the death penalty.
I hope that this causes the Houston County sheriff's department to cease making false accusations against activists and focus on the very serious internal problems in their department.
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Monday, October 12, 2015
Saturday, October 10, 2015
"Forward" Columnist Adds More Facts to the Correction of Carson's Remarks on Gun Control and the Holocaust
In the Forward columnist Jay Michaelson said that Ben Carson's statement is an antisemitic canard that blames the victims of the Holocaust rather than the perpetrators.
Michaelson adds historical facts to the Anti-Defamation League's correction of Ben Carson's statement about gun control and the Holocaust.
The ADL stated the absurdity of expecting the about 200,000 German Jews in 1938, less than 1% of the population, to have been able to effectively resist the Nazi state with handguns and hunting rifles.
Michaelson adds facts about the Polish Jews.
Michaelson cites the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising where Polish Jews resisted with firearms the Holocaust. The Polish Jews killed at most 24 Nazis. The Nazis killed at least 13,000 Polish Jews, most of them unarmed civilian residents of the Warsaw Ghetto.
To the ADL and Michaelson, I will add the resistance of the Polish Jews in the Polish armed forces in 1939. Polish Jews were about 10% of the population of Poland in 1939 and served in all positions including in combat and as officers.
In 1939 about 16,000 German and Austrian invaders were killed during their unprovoked war of aggression, conquest, and genocide against Poland.
From a statistical perspective as many as 1,600 were killed by Polish Jewish members of the Polish armed forces. (Art Spiegelman depicts the 1939 killing in combat of an invading Nazi soldier by a Polish Jewish soldier in his graphic novel Maus.)
Tragically, despite their best, gallant, heroic, repeated efforts, armed Polish Jews were not able to stop the Holocaust.
Acknowledgement: My friend Jeff Spitzer-Resnick shared Jay Michaelson's column with me. That allowed me to share my amateur historian's knowledge about subjects about which I care including the WWII history of Poland, the Holocaust, and relations between Slavs and Jews in Poland.
Why Ben Carson's Rant About Gun Control and the Holocaust Is So Dangerous
by Jay Michaelson, in Opinion, Forward, October 9, 2015
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Michaelson adds historical facts to the Anti-Defamation League's correction of Ben Carson's statement about gun control and the Holocaust.
The ADL stated the absurdity of expecting the about 200,000 German Jews in 1938, less than 1% of the population, to have been able to effectively resist the Nazi state with handguns and hunting rifles.
Michaelson adds facts about the Polish Jews.
Michaelson cites the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising where Polish Jews resisted with firearms the Holocaust. The Polish Jews killed at most 24 Nazis. The Nazis killed at least 13,000 Polish Jews, most of them unarmed civilian residents of the Warsaw Ghetto.
To the ADL and Michaelson, I will add the resistance of the Polish Jews in the Polish armed forces in 1939. Polish Jews were about 10% of the population of Poland in 1939 and served in all positions including in combat and as officers.
In 1939 about 16,000 German and Austrian invaders were killed during their unprovoked war of aggression, conquest, and genocide against Poland.
From a statistical perspective as many as 1,600 were killed by Polish Jewish members of the Polish armed forces. (Art Spiegelman depicts the 1939 killing in combat of an invading Nazi soldier by a Polish Jewish soldier in his graphic novel Maus.)
Tragically, despite their best, gallant, heroic, repeated efforts, armed Polish Jews were not able to stop the Holocaust.
Acknowledgement: My friend Jeff Spitzer-Resnick shared Jay Michaelson's column with me. That allowed me to share my amateur historian's knowledge about subjects about which I care including the WWII history of Poland, the Holocaust, and relations between Slavs and Jews in Poland.
Why Ben Carson's Rant About Gun Control and the Holocaust Is So Dangerous
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Add the Holocaust to the List of What Ben Carson Knows Nothing
Headlines report Ben Carson claims the Holocaust would have been less likely if the Jews were armed.
That armed individuals could have successfully resisted the Holocaust is a propaganda lie used by American extremists to oppose gun regulations that the SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled Constitutional.
To which Jews was he referring?
The Jews of Germany? German Jews were less than 1% of the German population.
Prior to the Holocaust, the Nazis destroyed all opposition in Germany, including potentially armed opposition.
Armed resistance by less than 1% of the German population would have not stopped their massacre. The Nazis would have shot them in their residence instead of taking them to death camps;.
The Jews of Poland? They were about 10% of the Polish population.
The Polish Jews were armed as members of the Polish armed forces. They resisted the Nazis from the first day of WWII. When the Nazis captured them, instead of being treated as POWs they were executed.
The Nazis together with their Soviet allies defeated the Polish armed forces which left all Poles, including Polish Jews, mostly disarmed.
After Poland's military defeat, armed individual Polish Jews had not more the ability to stop the Holocaust than did German Jews.
Polish Jews did their best to rearm themselves and resist the Holocaust. They were able to again resume armed resistance culminated in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. As heroic as that was, the fighters knew that they had no chance of stopping the Holocaust and were instead choosing to die fighting rather than in death camps.
The only armed people who could have stopped the Holocaust were the armed forces of nations such as the United States in alliance with Czechoslovakia, Poland, Britain, and France.
The only time those armed forces could have stopped the Holocaust would have been in 1938 or 1939 before the Nazis were at the peak of their military power and the victims of the Holocaust were still within reach of military rescue.
That misuse of the Holocaust dishonors the victims and those such as my late father who served in the fight to defeat the Nazis, liberate the camps, and rescue the surviving victims.
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That armed individuals could have successfully resisted the Holocaust is a propaganda lie used by American extremists to oppose gun regulations that the SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled Constitutional.
To which Jews was he referring?
The Jews of Germany? German Jews were less than 1% of the German population.
Prior to the Holocaust, the Nazis destroyed all opposition in Germany, including potentially armed opposition.
Armed resistance by less than 1% of the German population would have not stopped their massacre. The Nazis would have shot them in their residence instead of taking them to death camps;.
The Jews of Poland? They were about 10% of the Polish population.
The Polish Jews were armed as members of the Polish armed forces. They resisted the Nazis from the first day of WWII. When the Nazis captured them, instead of being treated as POWs they were executed.
The Nazis together with their Soviet allies defeated the Polish armed forces which left all Poles, including Polish Jews, mostly disarmed.
After Poland's military defeat, armed individual Polish Jews had not more the ability to stop the Holocaust than did German Jews.
Polish Jews did their best to rearm themselves and resist the Holocaust. They were able to again resume armed resistance culminated in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. As heroic as that was, the fighters knew that they had no chance of stopping the Holocaust and were instead choosing to die fighting rather than in death camps.
The only armed people who could have stopped the Holocaust were the armed forces of nations such as the United States in alliance with Czechoslovakia, Poland, Britain, and France.
The only time those armed forces could have stopped the Holocaust would have been in 1938 or 1939 before the Nazis were at the peak of their military power and the victims of the Holocaust were still within reach of military rescue.
That misuse of the Holocaust dishonors the victims and those such as my late father who served in the fight to defeat the Nazis, liberate the camps, and rescue the surviving victims.
My readers are free to use anything from my private blog in any way without attribution.
I consider what I post as background research and talking points.I would be honored if others found something useful for their work.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Airport Level Weapons Screening at High Risk Locations
Seven years ago in 2009 a security guard at the entrance of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum gave his life stopping an armed European-American anti-semite from attempting a mass shooting.
When my wife Cheryl Robinson and I visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center we first passed through airport level weapons screening before entering.
I am not optimistic that we will soon find the political will to implement the gun regulations that the SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled to be Constitutional under the 2nd Amendment.
But we must do something now.
I very reluctantly suggest that we may need to use airport level weapons screenings at institutions assessed to be at risk for mass shootings.
My reluctance is that will result in our schools, places of worships, museums, movie theatres, and other places at risk of mass shooting having secure perimeters with fences and barbed wire with one entrance with metal detectors, x-ray for our bags, and armed guards. Our nation will start to resemble a police state.
The reality is that may be one of the few effective ways to keep us safer in our nation that is suffering from an epidemic of gun sickness.
That is what kept safe the staff and visitors at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
That will also make people aware of the price we are paying to give a a handful of people a minimum of restrictions to purchase firearms. Perhaps that price will raise consciousness so we find our political will to deal with a problem that has resulted in over 400,000 non-terrorist deaths since 9/11.
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When my wife Cheryl Robinson and I visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center we first passed through airport level weapons screening before entering.
I am not optimistic that we will soon find the political will to implement the gun regulations that the SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled to be Constitutional under the 2nd Amendment.
But we must do something now.
I very reluctantly suggest that we may need to use airport level weapons screenings at institutions assessed to be at risk for mass shootings.
My reluctance is that will result in our schools, places of worships, museums, movie theatres, and other places at risk of mass shooting having secure perimeters with fences and barbed wire with one entrance with metal detectors, x-ray for our bags, and armed guards. Our nation will start to resemble a police state.
The reality is that may be one of the few effective ways to keep us safer in our nation that is suffering from an epidemic of gun sickness.
That is what kept safe the staff and visitors at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
That will also make people aware of the price we are paying to give a a handful of people a minimum of restrictions to purchase firearms. Perhaps that price will raise consciousness so we find our political will to deal with a problem that has resulted in over 400,000 non-terrorist deaths since 9/11.
My readers are free to use anything from my private blog in any way without attribution.
I consider what I post as background research and talking points.I would be honored if others found something useful for their work.
If you wish to acknowledge me, please ask me me before doing so.
As this is for me to work on my writing and blogging skills please ignore grammar, spelling, formatting and other errors.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Firefighters Lives Matter
A few days ago a European-American firefighter in Lansing, Michigan was murdered by a European-American.
The firefighter was volunteering at a muscular dystrophy fundraiser. The murderer was irritated at the traffic delays the fundraiser caused so with his vehicle he ran down the firefighter.
That hit me hard as my nephew is a paramedic and works with fire departments on the East Coast.
But this also reminded me of the demagoguery that has falsely accused those of us concerned about the use of force by police on minorities with inciting minorities to attack the police.
Those concerned about the police use of lethal force have been advocating changes in police procedures and criminal investigations and when warranted prosecutions of officers whose use of force violated procedures and crossed the line into a crime.
Both the President and the Attorney General have been consistent in their condemnation of all attacks on police and their support for the police.
Only the most vile type of demagoguery could distort that to claim that is incitement to attack our police.
Such demagoguery distracts from reality. When we are distracted from reality we are not supporting our first responders.
Our first responders are in most danger when responding to crimes and domestic violence from suspects of all ethnicities.
Our first responders are at risk from road rage as happened in Michigan.
When a person with mental illness cites a political reason for their attack on the police, we need to remain focused on the person's mental illness.
Most of the politically motivated attacks on our first responders have been by European-Americans who are on the right wing of the political spectrum. Politically motivated attacks by ethnic minorities are rare.
Firefighter, Black, and All Lives Matter.
This is an issue for firefighters and their families, African-Americans, and all Americans. (That was inspired by Hilary Clinton's recent speech in Wisconsin.)
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The firefighter was volunteering at a muscular dystrophy fundraiser. The murderer was irritated at the traffic delays the fundraiser caused so with his vehicle he ran down the firefighter.
That hit me hard as my nephew is a paramedic and works with fire departments on the East Coast.
But this also reminded me of the demagoguery that has falsely accused those of us concerned about the use of force by police on minorities with inciting minorities to attack the police.
Those concerned about the police use of lethal force have been advocating changes in police procedures and criminal investigations and when warranted prosecutions of officers whose use of force violated procedures and crossed the line into a crime.
Both the President and the Attorney General have been consistent in their condemnation of all attacks on police and their support for the police.
Only the most vile type of demagoguery could distort that to claim that is incitement to attack our police.
Such demagoguery distracts from reality. When we are distracted from reality we are not supporting our first responders.
Our first responders are in most danger when responding to crimes and domestic violence from suspects of all ethnicities.
Our first responders are at risk from road rage as happened in Michigan.
When a person with mental illness cites a political reason for their attack on the police, we need to remain focused on the person's mental illness.
Most of the politically motivated attacks on our first responders have been by European-Americans who are on the right wing of the political spectrum. Politically motivated attacks by ethnic minorities are rare.
Firefighter, Black, and All Lives Matter.
This is an issue for firefighters and their families, African-Americans, and all Americans. (That was inspired by Hilary Clinton's recent speech in Wisconsin.)
My readers are free to use anything from my private blog in any way without attribution.
I consider what I post as background research and talking points.I would be honored if others found something useful for their work.
If you wish to acknowledge me, please ask me me before doing so.
As this is for me to work on my writing and blogging skills please ignore grammar, spelling, formatting and other errors.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Why Does the NYT Ignore Serpico's Antisemitism?
I have long admired the courage of former NYC police officer and whistleblower Frank Serpico and appreciate whenever follow up stories appear about him.
He has settled in upstate New York.
Sadly I have discovered that he now writes a blog filled with the vile antisemitism most often seen in the writing of people suffering from a serious form of mental illness.
In other writing Serpico admits to heavy alcohol and marijuana use so the paranoia and out of touch reality of his antisemitic writings could be related to that.
Serpico is running for a seat on a local board not because of any local issues but because of a long standing dispute with a neighbor over trees on their shared property line,
The NYT article reported that local Democrats have long wanted Serpico to run for something.
In this and a previous article, the NYT did not do the very easy basic research that I did to discover the very troubling blog posts. That and other issues should be reported and should have disqualified Serpico from being considered as a candidate by local Democrats.
Serpico needs to acknowledge he has very serious problems and deal with them. Encouragement to run for office and NYT puff pieces enable his denial.
I hope others who are aware of this are now contacting the NYT. I hope in the next few days to see a letter to the editor with this information or an updated report with this omission.
My readers are free to use anything from my private blog in any way without attribution.
I consider what I post as background research and talking points.I would be honored if others found something useful for their work.
If you wish to acknowledge me, please ask me me before doing so.
As this is for me to work on my writing and blogging skills please ignore grammar, spelling, formatting and other errors.
He has settled in upstate New York.
Sadly I have discovered that he now writes a blog filled with the vile antisemitism most often seen in the writing of people suffering from a serious form of mental illness.
In other writing Serpico admits to heavy alcohol and marijuana use so the paranoia and out of touch reality of his antisemitic writings could be related to that.
Serpico is running for a seat on a local board not because of any local issues but because of a long standing dispute with a neighbor over trees on their shared property line,
The NYT article reported that local Democrats have long wanted Serpico to run for something.
In this and a previous article, the NYT did not do the very easy basic research that I did to discover the very troubling blog posts. That and other issues should be reported and should have disqualified Serpico from being considered as a candidate by local Democrats.
Serpico needs to acknowledge he has very serious problems and deal with them. Encouragement to run for office and NYT puff pieces enable his denial.
I hope others who are aware of this are now contacting the NYT. I hope in the next few days to see a letter to the editor with this information or an updated report with this omission.
My readers are free to use anything from my private blog in any way without attribution.
I consider what I post as background research and talking points.I would be honored if others found something useful for their work.
If you wish to acknowledge me, please ask me me before doing so.
As this is for me to work on my writing and blogging skills please ignore grammar, spelling, formatting and other errors.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Did Christie Just Make a Campaign Killing Walker-Like Statement?
Republican presidential candidate and NJ governor Christie said jailed Kentucky clerk Kim Davis should just have been transferred to another job.
Christie statement suggests he oblivious to the fact that she's not a public employee but the elected clerk. She can't be transferred to another position.
But being an "honest straight talker" means never to having to check that your opinions are based in reality before opening your mouth.
Just as Walker's string of incredibly stupid statements has done nothing to halt his declining poll numbers and may be among the reasons his candidacy fails, I expect this will do nothing to stop the fall in Christie's already low poll numbers which are already scraping the bottom or increase donations to his campaign.
For some reason right now Trump can get away with making nonsense statements not based in reality. Christie and Walker are not Trump and cannot.
Christie statement suggests he oblivious to the fact that she's not a public employee but the elected clerk. She can't be transferred to another position.
But being an "honest straight talker" means never to having to check that your opinions are based in reality before opening your mouth.
Just as Walker's string of incredibly stupid statements has done nothing to halt his declining poll numbers and may be among the reasons his candidacy fails, I expect this will do nothing to stop the fall in Christie's already low poll numbers which are already scraping the bottom or increase donations to his campaign.
For some reason right now Trump can get away with making nonsense statements not based in reality. Christie and Walker are not Trump and cannot.
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