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Public Corruption in Chester County, PA

I believe an unlikely mix of alleged drug trafficking related politicos and alleged white nationalist related politicos united to elect the infamous “Bloc of Four” in the abysmal voter turnout election of 2005. During their four year term the drug business was good again and white nationalists used Coatesville as an example on white supremacist websites like “Stormfront”. Strong community organization and support from law enforcement, in particular Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll has begun to turn our community around. The Chester County drug trafficking that I believe centers on Coatesville continues and I believe we still have public officials in place that profit from the drug sales. But the people here are amazing and continue to work against the odds to make Coatesville a good place to live.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

TIMOTHY SNYDER gets the MUSK/TRUMP COUP TO STEAL DEMOCRACY so exactly CORRECT-AND former Coatesville PA resident & JBS CHAPTER LEADER PAT SELLERS is LINKED TO THE ATTEMPTED COUP BY MILITIA TERRORISTS OF THE CAPITAL ON JANUARY 6, 2021.

There’s only one person that is a professional writer that could write about corruption in Chester County the way I do it. I saw him at a Barns & Noble and said “You know more details about this than I do. Why don’t you write about it. He got a worried look in his eyes and said, “I have to go.”

AND:  

The Democratic Party was ZERO help in dealing with extreme & violent public corruption in the City of Coatesville PA. 


Democrats only whispered Sheriff Welsh was a dangerous extremist. 


Richard Legree who assisted drug dealers was nice!  


Dave Norcini & his brother own the junkyard that was zoned commercial/residential on Elm St. in Coatesville the Norcini’a wear Road Runner colors, a Pagan affiliate.    Dave Norcini was nice! 


Most information I got came from Republicans. 


I worked with Republican DAs. 


THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA SHUT DOWN THE QUATTRO BAR AND GRILLE. THEY FEARED A WAR (THEY USE MACHINE GUNS & BAZOOKAS) WOULD BREAK OUT BETWEEN THE LOCAL PAGANS AND THE HELL’S ANGELS WHO WANTED CONTROL OVER DRUG TRAFFICKING IN SE. PA. 


Does this have anything to do with the junkyard on Elm Street?

Biker bar fight 

Those involved are not speaking out about a biker brawl that broke out March 5 at a neighborhood bar. 

Details of the fight at Quattro Bar and Grille, 2535 S. 13th. St., are vague as gang members and bar patrons have been mum on what happened that night at 11:24 p.m., Detective Danielle Tolliver of South Detective Division said. 

Four men wearing “Road Runner” jackets were taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. One had head trauma, but all were in stable condition. A group of Pagans arrived at the hospital to visit the men, Tolliver said. 

Another man, a bar patron, was taken to Methodist Hospital in stable condition, Tolliver said. 

To report information, call South Detectives at 215-686-3013. 

http://www.southphillyreview.com/view_article.php?id=8164



I can still see the angry face of Aaron Turner.  


Chester County has had gruesome murders. Chester County DA Joe Carroll looked for pieces of Aaron mixed with dog pieces in landfills. 







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Seems like a long post. To summarize:


 Republican Party led Chester County has been a center for corrupt government for a long time. Now not only that corruption but also right wing extremist terrorism lives among Republicans in the Whitehouse, Congress & Supreme Court. 


When veterans of the Vietnam War were coming home addicted to heroin, Chester County officials were so deeply involved in drug trafficking that President Carter formed a special detail to investigate the Chester County FBI office that would report only to him.





The full text of Logic of Destruction is below:


The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

Timothy Snyder





 

This theft of democracy began with the Reagan Administration and came together with domestic terrorists AT:


The Mountain Rendezvous  an October 1992 meeting in Estes Park, Colorado of 150 to 175 adherents and leaders of the American militia movement, Patriot movement and the radical right that developed the modern strategy for right-wing terrorism in the United States.[1][2] The Rendezvous was organized by Christian Identity Pastor Pete Peters in response to the Ruby Ridge standoff two months prior.[3][4][5] Concerns included that the United States federal government was a police state engaged in systematic over taxation, wrongful imprisonment and murder of its citizens, described by the meeting as "genocide."[6][7][8][9]


The promotion of antigovernmental extremism and small-cell violence by the Rendezvous has been credited in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing committed by Timothy McVeigh less than three years after.[6][17]




In Coatesville, PA John Birch Society Chapter Leader Pat Sellers led what was a coup of the City of Coatesville City Council by the JBS with the alleged support of Coatesville billionaire Mary Alice Dorrance Malone, linked with drug dealer connected members of the Chester County Republican Committee. Richard Legree was Chair of Area 14 of the Chester County Republican Committee. 



IN THE FRENCH CONNECTION DAYS CHESTER COUNTY PA WAS NECK DEEP IN CORRUPT DRUG DEALER/POLICE CONNECTIONS.




Informant’s Death Probed 

Reading Eagle June 23, 1977



“The shroud of mystery that surrounded the life of Reading drug informant Daniel Joseph shows no signs of lifting now that he is dead. 

Joseph, also known as Danny Joe and Richard Ledwith, formerly of the Park Apartments, Eckert Avenue and Clymer Street was found dead Monday in a Richmond Va., apartment house where he was being housed by U.S. Marshals under the Federal Witness Protection Program. 

The protective measures were deemed necessary, according to Chester County Dis. Atty. William H. Lamb because of threats against Joseph’s life alleged friends of two narcotic agents he was scheduled to testify against and by friends of some of the 40 people arrested in April 1976 raids which resulted from his undercover work.

Dist. Atty. Lamb has charged that some of the threats came from unidentified members of the Reading Bureau of Police.

Police Chief Bernard J. Dobinski this morning reiterated his displeasure with the allegation and again challenged the Chester County district attorney produce evidence of the charges.

“As far as I am concerned, until he comes to me with evidence to substantiate the charges I will continue to view them as asinine,” the chief said.

Yet the suspicious death of the informer, whose elusiveness led to the prosecution of Lawrence Palmer and Gordon Roberts, two Reading based agents with the state Bureau of Drug Control for withholding his whereabouts from Chester officials, was given rise to a new round of threat allegations.

Joesph, who was given the new identity of Jay Chapman by his federal watchdogs, was found dead in his LaMancha Apartment in Richmond, a syringe lying next to his body, Dist. Atty. Lamb reported. 

According to Dist. Atty. Lamb, Joseph had been a heavy drug user for about five years but recently told him that he was off heroin for about six months and was looking for a job.

A spokesman for the Richmond medical examiner’s office said an autopsy has been completed but no cause of death has been established pending additional lab work.

“It’s too early right now to speculate on the cause,” Dist. Atty. Lamb said, but we can’t rule out the possibility of murder, especially after the threats he received.”

Dist. Atty.Lamb had intended to use the witness to testify in the trial of Palmer and Robert but that testimony was made unnecessary by the drug agents’ guilty plea to one count of obstructing justice. Palmer and Roberts were sentenced to 23-months probation. 

Dist. Atty. Lamb said his testimony was needed, however, in the trials of about 40 drug suspects arrested in the April 1976 raids and scheduled for trial in two weeks.

He said Joseph’s death “ will have a material affect on around 15 to 20 cases still pending.

“We stand a very distinct possibility of losing them…” he said

Federal officials probing the death remained mum on the details, but promised full disclosure when circumstances permit. 

According to Dist. Atty. Lamb, Joseph was not guarded around the clock by the U.S. marshals.

The last time the officials saw Joseph alive, he said, was on Thursday. 

The district attorney said he asked David Marston, U.S. attorney for the eastern Pennsylvania, to investigate the death.”




Former Chester County DA Bill Lamb’s witness Daniel Joseph fingered 2 PA State Police for selling “French Connection” heroin.


State Police who sold heroin got 23 months probation.


Daniel Joseph was the star witness in 32 arrests. Richard Legree of Coatesville PA was one of the 32 people arrested. 


Richard Legree was called the “Biggest drug pusher in Chester County” by Bill Lamb. 


Mr. Legree began serving his sentence at Graterford Prison. All of Chester County District Attorney Bill Lamb’s prosecution fell apart when Joseph was murdered while protected by federal marshals. 






At a Coatesville City Council meeting I heard Pat Sellers say “We don’t really need police.” I think that comes from Libertarian Party beliefs. Possibly the extremist Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.  


The origins of constitutional sheriff ideology lie in the two concepts of the county supremacy movement: The county – not the state or federal governments – should control all land within its borders, and the county sheriff should be the ultimate law enforcement authority in the U.S. These ideas were pioneered by Christian Identity minister William Potter Gale in the 1970s and described as “Posse Comitatus.”

MORE AT:

Southern Poverty Law SPLC

Constitutional Sheriffs

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Bunny Welsh the Chester County Sheriff is a member of the Leadership of the CSPOA (Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association).




LARRY PRATT DID A FUNDRAISER FOR PA 6TH DISTRICT CANDIDATE PATRICK HENRY SELLERS 1st RUN FOR CONGRESS.  


From the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: 


"Pratt is executive director of Gun Owners of America. 


He left the Buchanan Campaign after the media reported on his ties to the Ku Klux Klan and the white supremacist group Aryan Nation.  


Pratt has indorsed Sellers and will be the keynote speaker at a fund-raising dinner for Sellers next week.  


Sellers said the allegations against Pratt are untrue and that he sought Pratt's support because of his expertise on gun issues.”

“A pivotal figure in the rise of right-wing militia, or “Patriot,” groups, he spoke at the notorious 1992 “Gathering of Christian Men” in Estes Park, Colo., where 160 neo-Nazis, Klan members, anti-Semitic Christian Identity adherents and others arguably laid the groundwork for the militia movement that would explode in 1994. He believes that white Christians must arm themselves for self-protection in the inevitable social implosions and riots that are soon to come.”

Southern Poverty law SPLC

Larry Pratt



Timothy McVeigh had a copy of Pratt’s book “Armed People Victorious”
















Larry Pratt appears at 5:31




In I think, 2006, I stood up at a Democratic Committee Meeting in West Chester, PA to warn them that Pat Sellers and many people like him were infiltrating the Chester County Republican Committee and installing elected officials in school boards and local offices that would go on to expand and promote right wing anti-government right wing racist extremism when they would later run for higher offices.


 Now in 2025 we have a right wing anti-government extremist President, anti-government racist Supreme Court and anti-government racist Republicans in the House and Senate.




The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

Timothy Snyder


What is a country? The way its people govern themselves. America exists because its people elect those who make and execute laws. The assumption of a democracy is that individuals have dignity and rights that they realize and protect by acting together.

The people who now dominate the executive branch of the government deny all of this, and are acting, quite deliberately, to destroy the nation. For them, only a few people, the very wealthy with a certain worldview, have rights, and the first among these is to dominate.

For them, there is no such thing as an America, or Americans, or democracy, or citizens, and they act accordingly. Now that the oligarchs and their clients are inside the federal government, they are moving, illegally and unconstitutionally, to take over its institutions.

The parts of the government that work to implement laws have been maligned for decades. Americans have been told that the people who provide them with services are conspirators within a “deep state.” We have been instructed that the billionaires are the heroes.

All of this work was preparatory to the coup that is going on now. The federal government has immense capacity and control over trillions of dollars. That power was a cocreation of the American people. It belongs to them. The oligarchs around Trump are working now to take it for themselves.

Theirs is a logic of destruction. It is very hard to create a large, legitimate, functioning government. The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point. They don’t want to control the existing order. They want disorder in which their relative power will grow.

Think of the federal government as a car. You might have thought that the election was like getting the car serviced. Instead, when you come into the shop, the mechanics, who somehow don’t look like mechanics, tell you that they have taken the parts of your car that work and sold them and kept the money. And that this was the most efficient thing to do. And that you should thank them.

The gap between the oligarchs’ wealth and everyone else’s will grow. Knowing what they themselves will do and when, they will have bet against the stock market in advance of Trump’s deliberately destructive tariffs, and will be ready to tell everyone to buy the crypto they already own. But that is just tomorrow and the day after.

In general, the economic collapse they plan is more like a reverse flood from the Book of Genesis, in which the righteous will all be submerged while the very worst ride Satan’s ark. The self-chosen few will ride out the forty days and forty night. When the waters subside, they will be alone to dominate.

Trump’s tariffs (which are also likely illegal) are there to make us poor. Trump’s attacks on America’s closest friends, countries such as Canada and Denmark, are there to make enemies of countries where constitutionalism works and people are prosperous. As their country is destroyed, Americans must be denied the idea that anything else is possible.

Deportations are a spectacle to turn Americans against one another, to make us afraid, and to get us to see pain and camps as normal. They also create busy-work for law enforcement, locating the “criminals” in workplaces across the country, as the crime of the century takes place at the very center of power.

The best people in American federal law enforcement, national security, and national intelligence are being fired. The reasons given for this are DEI and trumpwashing the past. Of course, if you fire everyone who was concerned in some way with the investigations of January 6th or of Russia, that will be much or even most of the FBI. Those are bad reasons, but the reality is worse: the aim is lawlessness: to get the police and the patriots out of the way.

In the logic of destruction, there is no need to rebuild afterwards. In this chaos, the oligarchs will tell us that there is no choice but to have a strong man in charge. It can be a befuddled Trump signing ever larger pieces of paper for the cameras, or a conniving Vance who, unlike Trump, has always known the plot. Or someone else.

After we are all poor and isolated, the logic goes, we will be consoled by the thought that there is at least a human being to whom we can appeal. We will settle for a kind of anthropological minimum, wishful contact with the strong man. As in Russia, pathetic video selfies sent to the Leader will be the extent of politics.

For the men currently pillaging the federal government, the data from those video selfies is more important than the people who will make them. The new world they imagine is not just anti-American but anti-human. The people are just data, means to the end of accumulating wealth.

They see themselves as the servants of the freedom of the chosen few, but in fact they are possessed, like millennia of tyrants before them, of fantastic dreams: they will live forever, they will go to Mars. None of that will happen; they will die here on Earth, with the rest of us, their only legacy, if we let it happen, one of ruins. They are god-level brainrotted.

The attempt by the oligarchs to destroy our government is illegal, unconstitutional, and more than a little mad. The people in charge, though, are very intelligent politically, and have a plan. I describe it not because it must succeed but because it must be described so that we can make it fail. This will require clarity, and speed, and coalitions. I try to capture the mood in my little book On Tyranny. Here are a few ideas.

If you voted Republican, and you care about your country, please act rather than rationalize. Unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, your money, your country, and your future, make it known to your elected officials that you wanted something else. And get ready to protest with people with whom you otherwise disagree.

Almost everything that has happened during this attempted takeover is illegal. Lawsuits can be filed and courts can order that executive orders be halted. This is crucial work.

Much of what is happening, though, involves private individuals whose names are not even known, and who have no legal authority, wandering through government offices and issuing orders beyond even the questionable authority of executive orders. Their idea is that they will be immunized by their boldness. This must be proven wrong.

Some of this will reach the Supreme Court quickly. I am under no illusion that the majority of justices care about the rule of law. They know, however, that our belief in it makes their office something other than the undignified handmaiden of oligarchy. If they legalize the coup, they are irrelevant forever.

Individual Democrats in the Senate and House have legal and institutional tools to slow down the attempted oligarchical takeover. There should also be legislation. It might take a moment, but even Republican leaders might recognize that the Senate and House will no longer matter in a post-American oligarchy without citizens.

Trump should obviously be impeached. Either he has lost control, or he is using his power to do obviously illegal things. If Republicans have a sense of where this is going, there could be the votes for an impeachment and prosecution.

Those considering impeachment should also include Vance. He is closer to the relevant oligarchs than Trump, and more likely to be aware of the logic of destruction than he. The oligarchs have likely factored in, or perhaps even want, the impeachment and prosecution of Trump. Unlike Vance, Trump has charisma and followers, and could theoretically resist them. He won’t; but he poses a hypothetical risk to the oligarchs that Vance does not.

Democrats who serve in state office as governors have a chance to profile themselves, or more importantly to profile an America that still works. Attorneys general in states have a chance to enforce state laws, which will no doubt have been broken.

The Democratic Party has a talented new chair. Democrats will need instruments of active opposition, such as a People’s Cabinet, in which prominent Democrats take responsibility for following government departments. It would be really helpful to have someone who can report to the press and the people what is happening inside Justice, Defense, Transportation, and the Treasury, and all the others, starting this week.

Federal workers should stay in office, if they can, for as long as they can. This is not political, but existential, for them and for all of us. They will have a better chance of getting jobs afterwards if they are fired. And the logic of their firing is to make the whole government fail. The more this can be slowed down, the longer the rest of us have to get traction.

And companies? As every CEO knows, the workings of markets depend upon the government creating a fair playing field. The ongoing takeover will make life impossible for all but a few companies. Can American companies responsibly pay taxes to a US Treasury controlled by their private competitors? Tesla paid no federal tax at all in 2024. Should other companies pay taxes that, for all they know, will just enrich Tesla’s owner?

Commentators should please stop using words such as “digital” and “progress” and “efficiency” and “vision” when describing this coup attempt. The plotting oligarchs have legacy money from an earlier era of software, which they are now seeking to leverage, using destructive political techniques, to destroy human institutions. That’s it. They are offering no future beyond acting out their midlife crises on the rest of us. It is demeaning to pretend that they represent something besides a logic of destruction.

As for the rest of us: Make sure you are talking to people and doing something. The logic of “move fast and break things,” like the logic of all coups, is to gain quick dramatic successes that deter and demoralize and create the impression of inevitability. Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something you admire and join them.

What is a country? The way its people govern themselves. Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.

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On resistance see On Tyranny

For positive solutions see On Freedom

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