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Florida policymakers ramp up their assault on the environment

Susan Chandler — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:45:39 +0000

House Bill 999 and its Senate counterpart, SB 1684, are the latest assaults on Florida’s environment by those who hold the most power and responsibility to protect it | Gainesville.com

First the Legislature gutted growth management, then it weakened our water management districts. Now it seeks to roll back protections on wetlands, allow for more pumping of our aquifer, make it harder for local governments to hold developers accountable, make it easier to pollute our waters and award 30-year, no-bid leases to Big Sugar for land critical to restoration of the Everglades.

via House Bill 999 and its Senate counterpart, SB 1684, are the latest assaults on Florida's environment by those who hold the most power and responsibility to protect it | Gainesville.com.

VA Whistleblower Ignites Firestorm Over Vets’ Illnesses | The American Conservative

Susan Chandler — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:52:42 +0000

… Dr. Steven S. Coughlin’s charges that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials hid, manipulated, and even lied about research pertaining to Gulf War Illness (GWI) and health problems plaguing Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are still causing fallout a month after his stunning testimony before a key House subcommittee …

Veterans and their advocates, as well as many in the scientific community, have long believed that the VA avoids responsibility for veterans’ care by downplaying or outright ignoring evidence linking wartime experiences—such as exposure to Agent Orange, chemical weapons, or toxic pollution—to veterans’ chronic medical issues back home.

via VA Whistleblower Ignites Firestorm Over Vets’ Illnesses | The American Conservative.

Veterans must be able to access medical care within their own communities, from providers of their choice … they should be automatically enrolled in Medicare upon honorable discharge, with standard deductibles waived.

Ray McEachern: Zeigler’s Supreme Court Reply Suggests Circuit Judge Should Recuse

Susan Chandler — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:07:01 +0000

On May 10th, I wrote that exonerations indicated that hundreds of judges and justices need to prosecuted nationwide … that a couple of token arrests for misconduct won’t fix anything. What Ray McEachern describes below – Reginald Whitehead’s failure to recuse himself to avoid the appearance of bias – is a historically systemic, not singular, behavior in Florida’s 9th judicial circuit … the very first judge William “Tommy” Zeigler encountered should have recused himself, too.

Tommy came into conflict with Maurice Paul when each served as a character witness for opposing parties. With Tommy’s assistance, minority business owner Andrew James prevailed and was able to keep his bar. This did not sit well with Paul, or any other Central Florida racist.

Not only did Paul fail to recuse himself from Tommy’s case, he set aside the jury’s recommendation for a life sentence, and imposed a death sentence … just as he had bragged he would – pretrial – within the earshot of Ray McEachern’s brother, Leigh.

Tommy’s oft-told story must be told so very often that every Florida judge and justice involved begins to fear for his or her personal freedoms, i.e.; Judge Belvin Perry, who was content with Whitehead’s potential bias against Tommy, who chaired the sham Florida Innocence Commission, who presided over the Casey Anthony circus, who – as a former prosecutor for the 9th – knew that his circuit used discredited dog handler John Preston and should have kept their hands off of Gary Bennett’s 18th judicial circuit case (which Jeff Ashton sewed to Tommy’s via falsely accusing both men of homosexuality).

Wayward prosecutors would have a hell of a time pulling off frame-ups and cover-ups without the assistance of wayward judges and justices.

And Florida’s wayward judges and justices are sleeping like babies, knowing that Governor Scott is laboring to destroy evidence in many clouded capital cases the only way that’s lawful … post-execution. Three executions are currently scheduled.

A portrayal of Paul’s involvement with Tommy can be found here – http://freetommyz.com/the_trial

What Florida judges pretend to deliver in upstanding behaviors can be found here – http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/ethics/index.shtml

From: ”Ray McEachern” <rmceachern001@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: May 12, 2013 2:03:22 PM EDT
To:
Subject: Zeigler’s Supreme Court Reply Suggests Circuit Judge Should Recuse

In December 2012, Judge Reginald Whitehead of Orlando denied a petition of a man on Florida’s death row for 37 years for an evidentiary hearing based on evidence the state had lied at trial about the existence of a material witness. That denial is now on appeal before the Florida Supreme Court. In their May 6, 2013, reply to the state’s opposition to his request to have the petition remanded to the circuit court, Zeigler’s pro bono defense team argues that settled law requires the court to assume that the facts presented in the petition for the evidentiary hearing must be accepted until the hearing judge can determine their veracity at the hearing. In a footnote at the bottom of page 16 of the reply, Zeigler says this: ”If the circuit court’s ruling on “falsity” is read as a predetermination of the issue without having heard the evidence, then the currently assigned judge should consider whether he should continue to hear the issue on remand.”

For reasons that have never been explained, Circuit Judge Reginald Whitehead took over the case in 2004 after Judge Grincewicz had granted a demand for DNA testing in 2001. The results of the testing proved that blood on Zeigler’s shirt did not come from Zeigler’s father-in-law, one of four people found dead in the Zeigler furniture store in Winter Garden along with Zeigler himself, who was shot through the stomach but survived. DNA established that the blood came from another man, Charlie Mays, also among the dead, whom Zeigler claimed was one of a band of robbers who attacked him in his darkened store on Christmas Eve, 1975. Mays’ pants legs were also soaked with blood – from Zeigler’s father-in-law, Perry Edwards, which would have seemed to have proved that Mays was in the store when Edwards was killed. The state had claimed that Mays had been lured into the store as much as an hour after Zeigler had killed Edwards to blame Mays for the murders.

A reporter for the Orlando Sentinel pointed out in 2009 that Judge Whitehead was married to a person who was then an Assistant State Attorney working under the prosecutor who had opposed DNA testing for Zeigler over many years. Judge Whitehead’s wife went into private practice after the issue was raised, but the issue of whether an undisclosed marital bond presents ethical concerns in a high profile case such as Zeigler has never been determined.

The link below is to the defense reply that contains the above quote. The same web site contains many of the relevant petitions and state responses as well as the closing arguments at the trial in 1976. Linked here is also a letter from Chief Judge Belvin Perry denying a request to have Judge Whitehead reassisgned in 2010.

http://www.freetommyz.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/2013_May_6_Foster_Reply.13182255.pdf

Sensationalized IRS Smokescreen, No. 2

Susan Chandler — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:35:57 +0000

Obama Dismisses New Benghazi Furor But Condemns I.R.S. – NYTimes.com

Mr. Obama’s comments about the I.R.S. left the agency and its leadership alone in answering charges that its employees had put added demands on Tea Party and other conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status from 2010 to 2012, even though none appeared to have been denied the classification.

via Obama Dismisses New Benghazi Furor But Condemns I.R.S. – NYTimes.com.

There you have it, ” … none appeared to have been denied the classification.”

So what is all the noise about, really, if the IRS didn’t deny any exemptions?

Here’s the deal.

Not too long ago, the IRS admitted it had been lax (gasp!) in voiding the exemptions of groups that hadn’t kept their exemption paperwork current, and thousands of organizations nationwide lost their exemptions in the “scandal” of the IRS admitting their neglect. Boy Scout troops, Veterans organizations, etc., were affected … not a big fish in sight. The mainstream media was all over the story, it was Sensationalized IRS Smokescreen, No. 1.

Behind the smokescreens, the herd of elephants in the IRS Oversight Board room remains the unrighteously tax exempt; the subject of my many challenges to the IRS … including the exemption status of every last Bar association.

The mainstream media – alas – has only fleeting and disjointed objections to separate but equal justice (over which the Bar’s exemptions must be retroactively voided), just as it had no major and cohesive objections to separate but equal facilities … until pressured by protests.

Despite their obligation to maintain the public trust, the mainstream media is protective of the elite, and disparaging of the masses that provide their incomes: They will continue to participate in Sensationalized IRS Smokescreens until pressured by protests, just as they will continue to pretend – until pressured by protests – that the majority of U.S. Supreme Court Justices are acting within the Constitution in reaffirming separate but equal justice in Connick v Thompson, in declaring legal fictions (corporations) to be people, in giving Monsanto control of our food supply, in allowing death warrants to be carried out in convictions clouded by prosecutorial misconduct, in imposing ridiculous unfairness on the likes of Lilly Ledbetter, and other ugliness. They will also continue to pretend that the Senate rules don’t need revising so as to end minority control of the majority.

The herd of elephants is still in the IRS Oversight Board room, but I suspect it will take very little in the way of protest to put it out to pasture … likely just a handful of people forwarding my previous posted emails to the IRSOB with “I agree” in the subject line, because having clear objections to a federal agency’s behaviors on the public record can offset all manner of media sensationalism.

Here’s what you’ll be agreeing with: Bar associations are not legitimately exempt; instead of equally protecting the public and their members through diligently addressing misconduct, they are harboring criminals. The IRS appears to be a willing participant in the Bar’s harboring of criminals, they were unwilling to prosecute three years of income tax frauds upon me, which protected the reputation of former prosecutor/current Judge John Dean Moxley, a prominent figure in the false convictions of Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge, William Dillon and many others.

Until Moxley is investigated and prosecuted, his harm will be continual – evidenced by his brazen interference in Gary Bennett’s case – and Moxley is but one of thousands of prosecutors nationwide who deserve to be prosecuted and incarcerated. Bennett’s frame-up is nearly identical to that of Ramos, Dedge and Dillon, with a key difference being the dog handler that testified against all of them being thoroughly discredited MORE THAN A YEAR BEFORE Bennett’s trial, within Moxley’s knowledge.

As to there being thousands of malicious prosecutors who need to be investigated and prosecuted, the blasé recipient of Moxley’s brazen interference was Jeff Ashton, who was with the prosecutors office when Linroy Bottoson was executed in 2002. As the same discredited dog handler had been used against Bottoson as Bennett, Ashton knew that accepting transfer of Bennett’s case was improper. Ashton upped the ante on malice, falsely accusing Bennett of homosexuality as he had death row innocent William “Tommy” Zeigler many years earlier.

The general public has no idea how many innocents they’re paying to be kept safe from while felons remain free, courtesy of the Bar’s penchant for protecting self-sullied reputations ahead of protecting public safety. It’s likely tens of thousands … discredited dog handlers alone participated in over 3,000 criminal investigations.

If Moxley’s behaviors when I was before him are consistent, he doesn’t read motions and doesn’t care when women are demonstrably in danger. I survived Moxley’s unwillingness to work for his wages, but Alissa Blanton didn’t; her stalker took her life, then his own. The media covered for Moxley, allowing him to directly contradict his statements just months earlier, in which he blamed Yolanda Garvin-Williams for her own homicide for not following through on securing a protection order.

So, a little bit of boldness, please, to force the IRS to get down to actual business instead of devising yet another Sensationalized Smokescreen. Use the search window, find one of my emails to the IRSOB about the Bar and forward it to them with “I agree” in the subject line. Patriotism isn’t waving flags; patriotism is an ongoing participatory process. Horrid prosecutors become judges, district attorneys, attorney generals, legislators, governors, etc., and seldom – if ever – pick up a conscience along the way. The IRS took down Capone, it’s time for them to take down the Bar. Thanks.

PA judge prosecuted; hundreds more need to be.

Susan Chandler — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:04:57 +0000

Sentencing Law and Policy: Corrupt state supreme court judge and sister facing state sentencing in PA

<p>Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin and her sister and former court aide Janine Orie will be sentenced today by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Lester Nauhaus …

The sisters were found guilty of theft of services, conspiracy and misapplication of government funds. Janine Orie was also convicted of tampering with evidence and solicitation.

via Sentencing Law and Policy: Corrupt state supreme court judge and sister facing state sentencing in PA.

Token arrests, so far … a prosecutor here, a judge there, not at all in keeping with the enormous amount of corruption revealed by exonerations, corruption that the legal profession keeps trying to pin on law enforcement, despite it being the responsibility of well-funded prosecutor’s offices to confirm police agency’s underfunded work prior to filing charges – not the reverse.

Were I the leader of a national innocence organization, I’d show gratitude for receipt of big bucks from taxpayers (courtesy of the Justice Department) through the creation of a database of every single judge and justice that denied even one request for DNA testing of evidence. And since PCA’s have been thoroughly abused, I’d work to make them go away, removing the temptation to speciously affirm a lower court’s opinion without comment.

Just saying.

Here comes the sun … and I say, it’s all right. And then some.

Susan Chandler — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:28:33 +0000

Patent Filing Claims Solar Energy “Breakthrough”

Washington, DC — In a U.S. patent application, a little-known Maryland inventor claims a stunning solar energy breakthrough that promises to end the planet’s reliance on fossil fuels at a fraction of the current cost – a transformation that also could blunt global warming.

via Patent Filing Claims Solar Energy "Breakthrough".

I hope to soon blog only about all things green for residential interiors and exteriors, and increasingly sense I’ll have the opportunity yet this year. It’ll mean that conviction corruption has been kicked to the curb. About time.

HB 655 & Timely Justice Bill are on Scott’s desk, HB 867 is not.

Susan Chandler — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:10:41 +0000

MomsRising.org | Governor Scott: Veto the bad bill!

Please protect Florida moms and families by vetoing HB 655. No parent should have to choose between sending a child to school sick and protecting their livelihood. Floridians should be able to earn sick leave, and they should be able to organize for sick leave in their communities.

via MomsRising.org | Governor Scott: Veto the bad bill!.

Please use the link above to take action to make sure that municipal and/or county governments can legislate an obligation for local employers to provide employee sick days.

Please know that Governor Scott is likely not to respond at all, except with a propagandized robo-response. If he does respond, it will be entirely off point, per the correspondence below, initiated by his office.

From: Susan Chandler
Date: May 8, 2013 2:39:10 PM EDT
To: Governor Rick Scott
Cc: Sunburst , ASKDOJ
Subject: Re: Thank you for contacting Governor Rick Scott – HB 867

Dear Ms. Stuckey,

I am aware that HB 867 did not make it to Governor Scott’s desk. It’s not news.

I am awaiting a response from the governor on what he intends to do with the never-will-be-timely Timely Justice Act, which did make it to his desk.

I am awaiting a response from the governor on what he intends to do with trample-local-government-bill, HB 655, which also made it to his desk.

Certainly, if the governor appreciated my views on anything at all, he would appreciate my views on the outrageous state of Florida’s criminal justice system, which keeps innocents incarcerated and those that framed them in state employ.

I am awaiting the governor’s responses to my correspondence on that very subject, and am particularly anxious to know whether he is ready to release William “Tommy” Zeigler and Gary Stanley Bennett on recognizance, pending retrial or clemency, and to hold Bar associations accountable for Jeff Ashton, John Dean Moxley and other state employed attorneys yet-to-be-disciplined misconduct.

Disrupting my day to inform me that the governor did not have to make a decision on a particular bill is ridiculous. Please do not do it again.

Sincerely,

Susan Chandler

On May 8, 13, at 9:41 AM, Governor Rick Scott wrote:

Thank you for contacting Governor Rick Scott regarding House Bill 867. The Governor appreciates your views and asked that I respond on his behalf.

Governor Scott and his staff carefully follow each proposed bill as it moves through the Florida Legislature. House Bill 867, relating to Parent Empowerment in Education, was not adopted by the Legislature during the 2013 regular session.

You have the opportunity to influence legislation by contacting your local legislative delegation. You can find contact information for your legislators and track bills as they proceed through the legislative process at http://www.leg.state.fl.us.

Again, thank you for taking the time to share your views with Governor Scott. Information about the Governor’s administration and initiatives can be obtained online at http://www.flgov.com.

Sincerely,

Sarah Stuckey
Office of Citizen Services
Executive Office of the Governor

Please do not respond to this email. The best way to contact the Governor’s Office by email is through the contact form on the Governor’s web site athttp://www.flgov.com/contact-gov-scott/email-the-governor/

@ItsWorkingFL

If you helped save Willie Manning, thank you.

Susan Chandler — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:03:12 +0000

Last-minute stay in Mississippi execution; Texas executes inmate

The Mississippi state Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to Willie Jerome Manning, 44, after federal authorities said they had overstated the strength of hair and gun evidence in his trial for the killing of two college students.

via Last-minute stay in Mississippi execution; Texas executes inmate – Yahoo! News.

The FBI’s Comparative Bullet Lead Analysis, in use for decades, is now considered junk science.

So is the FBI’s hair and fiber analysis, also in use for decades … not only by the FBI, but by law enforcement officers nationwide that the FBI provided training to.

When forensic science advances and discredits previous testimony, the reaction must be swift and sure, not grudging and obfuscated.

There are thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands, of incarcerated individuals who deserve to have their evidence reviewed … without delay and without objection.

It is up to we, the people, to hold them, our public servants, accountable.

A token arrest of one (1) Texas prosecutor for misconduct with Bar cooperation must be recognized for exactly what it is … a desperate attempt by Bar associations to appear legitimate while they continue to harbor criminals.

The U.S Supreme Court’s separate but equal justice isn’t working any better than their separate but equal facilities did – both have ruined and ended innocent lives while protecting the very worst elements of our society.

The U.S. Supreme Court had the recent opportunity to upset separate but equal justice in Connick v Thompson, and the majority voted to retain prosecutorial immunities for misconduct, knowing full well the harm already done, and the harm that will continue to be done.

Endlessly amending the constitution to address the Justice’s escalating elitism is simply preposterous … the Justices must be impeached.

In their Citizens United decision, the majority of Justices declared business entities to be people, despite the legal definition of those entities describing them as “legal fictions.”

The majority of Justices obviously belong where up is down and wrong is right, which is an apt description of corporate America, including the mainstream media that takes little interest when a small Texas town is half blown to bits through malfeasance.

Until the Justices are impeached, please stand up for actual justice whenever and however you can, like so many did for Willie Manning.

UN Finds “Little Appreciation” for Human Rights Among US Businesses

Susan Chandler — Sun, 05 May 2013 21:47:24 +0000

“It’s a sad thought that our politicians are so crooked that we have to ask the United Nations for help, but no one else will listen.”

via UN Finds "Little Appreciation" for Human Rights Among US Businesses.

Gov. Scott Signs Death Warrant for Florida Inmate William Van Poyck

Susan Chandler — Sat, 04 May 2013 18:28:46 +0000

Reblogged from Punishable by Death:

As a much-criticized bill to speed up Florida's executions sits on the governor's desk awaiting his signature, Rick Scott has signed another death warrant, in a move that is perhaps indicative of his decision on the measure.

Scott has signed a death warrant for 58-year-old William Van Poyck, who was convicted in the death of corrections officer Fred Griffis in 1987.