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.
“What can I add that has not already been said?” Kelly told CNN, referring to Trump, “A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.'” That’s only the beginning of his record on Veterans. It somehow goes down from here”
I knew a man who wasin the Wehrmacht. He was an artillery man who fought on the Eastern Front. He had one good eye. The other succumbed to the knife of a Russian soldier. Freddy Wolf said Hitler did some bad things, but he gave people jobs.
Hitler gave people jobs. Trump is putting people out of work.
AND THE TRUMP PUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF WORK PART WILL DRAMATICALLY RAMP UP SOON:
To sum it up:
Hitler was popular mostly because he put people back to work. He did send most people who challenged him to death camps but he kept the death camps mostly hidden.
Trump’s popularity is already dropping. If Trump puts people out of work while dramatically raising prices, begins a second Great Depression while HIGHLY PUBLICIZING sending brown people to concentration death camps without due process of law AND PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT MEANS HE CAN SEND ANYONE TO A CONCENTRATION DEATH CAMP, CAN TRUMP PULL OFF HIS DICTATORSHIP?
“WEST CHESTER — An error by officials inside Chester County government has resulted in the now vacant office of county prothonotary being left off the ballot in the May primary election, leaving the county’s political parties without candidates who would go before the voters until November.
The mistake was discovered Wednesday and reported by commissioners’ Chairman Josh Maxwell to the media that day, as well as by the commissioners and their staff to the county’s two main political party leaders.
One of the county’s so-called “row offices,” the prothonotary is in charge of overseeing the filings for civil and family court cases. It has been vacant since October, when Debbie Bookman, who had held the office since 2020, resigned after it was discovered that she used a county credit card for personal expenses.
It had been thought that the office would appear on the 2027 ballot, four years after Bookman was re-elected in 2023. Indeed, it should have been certified for inclusion this year.
“The board learned yesterday that the election should not happen at the next prothonotary election, but instead this year,” said Maxwell in an email. “I informed both parties at the same time later that afternoon, and they were given what they needed to submit their candidates for the General Election ballot.
“Our (Voter Services) staff is tremendous, and they’ve dealt with constant pressure and attacks over the last five years,” he added. “I’m proud of their work. Mistakes happen, and when they do, we fix them as quickly as possible.”
The glitch caused some consternation from the head of the Republican Committee of Chester County, Dr. Raffi Terzian, who termed it a “glaring error.”
“During a conference call yesterday with county officials, including Commissioner Maxwell, we were informed that the office of Prothonotary should have been included on the ballot for this election cycle,” he said Thursday. “The county acknowledged that a significant error was made by county officials and the county solicitor who provided erroneous guidance regarding the disposition of the office of prothonotary.
“As a result, the position will now appear on the ballot in the upcoming Municipal Election in November, not on the Primary ballot. They advised that candidates will be nominated according to the nomination process established by each political party.
“They did not provide any information as to how this glaring error occurred or when they first learned about it or why they waited until yesterday to inform party representatives,” Terzian said.
“When we make a mistake, we admit it,” said Maxwell in response. “An error was made. The buck stops with the board, and as chairman, I take responsibility.”
WEST CHESTER — The Chester County chief financial watchdog confirmed on Tuesday that her office had some months ago referred the matter involving potential misuse of a county credit card by the former county prothonotary to the District Attorney’s Office.
Controller Margaret Reif said in an email that she had sent word of her office’s investigation to the D.A. in late August after she had uncovered potential wrongdoing by Debbie Bookman, who was in her second term as the elected official responsible for civil court case documents and filings.
“As required by county code, our office is obligated to report any potential instances of fraud to the District Attorney’s office,” Reif wrote. “In compliance with this requirement, we reported the personal use of county credit cards to the District Attorney’s office on August 28th.
“I am unable to comment on the amount under investigation, but all unauthorized expenditures were fully repaid,” she added. She has declined to comment on the specifics of what the investigation by her office had found in an examination of the office’s finances.
It is doubtful, however, that the D.A.’s Office will handle the case. When Bookman announced her resignation from the post in October, District Attorney Chris de Barrena-Sarobe said that he would ask that any investigation or prosecution be transferred to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office because he considered Bookman a personal friend.
At the time, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office said it could not confirm any communication about the matter.
“During the interview, Peoples also indicated, as he had during his testimony at his trial, that he had been angry with Suber for associating with drug dealers in the city whom he had told Peoples had “burned him” before he went to prison in the late 1990s. It was a subject he discussed in an infamous “Stop Snitching” DVD, which was filmed by a Coatesville friend, Harvey Legree, at King’s Chinese Buffet in Caln in 2004.”
When Kash Patel was confirmed as the Director of the FBI, we knew there would be abuses of power. Steve Schmidt reacts to the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan and explains how Patel has made the FBI into "America's Gestapo.”
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“That arrest marked at least the third time in recent months that federal immigration agents have come to the courthouse with arrest warrants. In March and early April, two people were arrested by ICE officials in the hallways of the courthouse.
Records show that Dugan had 25 cases on the morning of April 18. Flores-Ruiz's case was set for 8:30 a.m. He does not appear to have any other state or federal criminal offenses or charges.
According to his criminal complaint, Flores-Ruiz is charged with three counts of misdemeanor battery. The charges include modifiers for domestic violence that could subject him to additional punishment if he is convicted.
The case stemmed from a fight on March 12 between two roommates at a home on the 3900 block of West Vliet Street. No one answered the door when the Journal Sentinel visited his residence April 23.
The criminal complaint said a fight occurred after Flores-Ruiz was accused of playing music too loudly in the home. The complaint alleges Flores-Ruiz punched another person 30 times, then struck a woman who tried to break up the melee.
Each of the three Class A misdemeanors has a maximum penalty of nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine.
Dugan was elected to Branch 31 of the Circuit Court in 2016 by knocking off an appointee of Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Her judicial term expires in 2028.
Attorney Gimbel calls Dugan arrest 'outrageous'
Franklyn Gimbel, a prominent Milwaukee defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, called Dugan’s arrest “outrageous.”
“First and foremost, I know -- as a former federal prosecutor and as a defense lawyer for decades – that a person who is a judge, who has a residence who has no problem being found, should not be arrested, if you will, like some common criminal,” Gimbel said. “And I'm shocked and surprised that the US Attorney's office or the FBI would not have invited her to show up and accept process if they're going to charge her with a crime.”
He said that typically someone who is “not on the run,” and facing this type of crime would be called and invited to come in to have their fingerprints taken or to schedule a court appearance.
He said law enforcement showing up to arrest her, “very, very outrageous, in my opinion and not professional.”
Mary Spicuzza of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.
This is a breaking story and was updated with new information. More updates are coming.”
Remembering the Nazis’ First Victims of Mass Murder
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Robert Wagemann was just four years old when his mother overheard Nazi doctors discussing plans to kill him because of his shattered hip. German officials falsely claimed that Helene Melanie Lebel died from a mental health episode, but she was actually gassed because of her disability.
During World War II, some medical professionals murdered patients who threatened the Nazis’ ideal of a “pure” German race. Life was cut short for an estimated 250,000 people under this program. Join us to learn about the victims—and the perpetrators, who instead of protecting their patients, ended the lives of those with mental and physical disabilities.
Guest
Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice, Senior Historian, United States Holocuast Memorial Museum
Host
Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Autism experts and autistic people are pushing back on Robert F Kennedy’s “terrible” approach to autism as the health secretary plans more expansive monitoring of autistic people’s health records and proposes cuts to disability services.
A huge study on autism proposed by Kennedy will draw upon private medical records from federal and commercial databases, and a new health registry will track autistic Americans, CBS News reported on Monday
A draft of proposed cuts to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), leaked on Wednesday, would also eliminate support for people with disabilities in the US, including education, research and services.
“It’s going to have an enormous chilling effect,” said Daniel Geschwind, professor and director of the UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment.
Researchers were “poised to make big advances in autism”, yet these cuts and harmful approaches will make those advances “stop in their tracks”, he said.
The moves come after Kennedy claimed incorrectly, in his first press conference as health secretary last week, that autistic people do not contribute to society or lead fulfilled lives and that autism “destroys” families.
Rose Marie Kennedy was born at her parents' home in Brookline, Massachusetts on September 13, 1918. She was the third child and first daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald. She was named after her mother[2] and was commonly called Rosemary or Rosie. During her birth, the doctor was not immediately available because of an outbreak of the Spanish influenza epidemic and the nurse ordered Rose Kennedy to keep her legs closed, forcing the baby's head to stay in the birth canal for two hours. The action resulted in a harmful loss of oxygen.[3] As Rosemary began to grow, her parents noticed she was not reaching the basic developmental steps a human normally reaches at a certain month or year. At two years old, she had a hard time sitting up, crawling, and learning to walk.[4]
Accounts of Kennedy's life indicated that she had an intellectual disability,[5][3] although some have raised questions about the Kennedys' accounts of the nature and scope of her disability.[6] A biographer wrote that Rose Kennedy did not confide in her friends and that she pretended her daughter was developing typically, with relatives other than the immediate family knowing nothing of Rosemary's disability.[7][8] Despite the help of tutors, Rosemary had trouble learning to read and write. At age 11, she was sent to a Pennsylvania boarding school for people with intellectual disabilities.[3]
At age 16, Kennedy was sent to the Sacred Heart Convent in Elmhurst, Providence, Rhode Island, where she was educated separately from the other students. Two nuns and a special teacher, Miss Newton, worked with her all day in a separate classroom. The Kennedys gave the school a new tennis court for their efforts. Her reading, writing, spelling, and counting skills were reported to be at a fourth-grade level (ages 9–10). During this period, her mother arranged for her older brother John to accompany her to a tea dance. Thanks to him, she appeared "not different at all" during the dance.[9]
Rosemary read few books, such as Winnie-the-Pooh.[10] Diaries written by her in the late 1930s, and published in the 1980s, reveal a young woman whose life was filled with outings to the opera, tea dances, dress fittings, and other social interests.[11] Kennedy accompanied her family to the coronation of Pope Pius XII in Rome in 1939. She also visited the White House.[6] Kennedy's parents told Woman's Day that she was "studying to be a kindergarten teacher," and Parents was told that while she had "an interest in social welfare work, she is said to harbor a secret longing to go on the stage." When The Boston Globe requested an interview with Rosemary, her father's assistant prepared a response which Rosemary copied out laboriously:
I have always had serious tastes and understand life is not given us just for enjoyment. For some time past, I have been studying the well known psychological method of Dr. Maria Montessori and I got my degree in teaching last year.[12]
In 1938, Kennedy was presented as a debutante to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace during her father's service as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom.[13] Kennedy practiced the complicated royal curtsy for hours. At the event, she tripped and nearly fell. Rose Kennedy never discussed the incident and treated the debut as a triumph. The crowd made no sign, and the King and the Queen smiled as if nothing had happened.[14]
Lobotomy
According to Kennedy's sister Eunice, when Rosemary returned to the United States from the United Kingdom in 1940, she became "increasingly irritable and difficult" at the age of 22.[8] Kennedy would often experience convulsions[15] and fly into violent rages, during which she would hit and injure others.[3] After being expelled from a summer camp in western Massachusetts and staying only a few months at a Philadelphia boarding school, Kennedy was sent to a convent school in Washington, D.C.[3] Kennedy began sneaking out of the convent school at night.[16] The nuns at the convent thought that Rosemary might be involved with sexual partners and that she could contract a sexually transmitted disease[6] or become pregnant.[17] Her occasionally erratic behavior frustrated her parents; her father was especially worried that Kennedy's behavior would shame and embarrass the family and damage his and his children's political careers.[3][better source needed]
When Kennedy was 23 years old, doctors told her father that a lobotomy would help calm her mood swings and stop her occasional violent outbursts.[18][19] Joe Sr. decided that Rosemary should have a lobotomy; however, he did not inform his wife of this decision until after the procedure was completed.[20][21] The procedure took place in November 1941.[5][22] In Ronald Kessler's 1996 biography of Joe Sr., Sins of the Father, James W. Watts, who carried out the procedure with Walter Freeman (both of George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences), described the procedure to Kessler as follows:
After Rosemary was mildly sedated, "We went through the top of the head," Dr. Watts recalled. "I think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch." The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. "We put an instrument inside", he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman asked Rosemary, for example, to recite the Lord's Prayer or sing "God Bless America" or count backwards;... "We tried to estimate thus, how far to further cut, based on how Rosemary responded." When she became incoherent, they ceased cutting.[23]
Watts told Kessler that in his opinion, Kennedy did not have "mental retardation" but rather a form of depression. A review of all of the papers written by the two doctors confirmed Watts' declaration. All of the patients the two doctors lobotomized were diagnosed as having some form of mental disorder.[24]Bertram S. Brown, director of the National Institute of Mental Health who was previously an aide to President Kennedy, told Kessler that Joe Kennedy referred to his daughter Rosemary as mentally retarded rather than mentally ill in order to protect John's reputation for a presidential run and that the family's "lack of support for mental illness is part of a lifelong family denial of what was really so".[25] It was quickly apparent that the procedure had caused immense harm. Kennedy's mental capacity diminished to that of a two-year-old child. She could not walk or speak intelligibly and was incontinent.[26]
Aftermath
After the lobotomy, Kennedy was immediately institutionalized. She initially lived for several years at Craig House, a private psychiatric hospital 90 minutes north of New York City.[27] In 1949, she was relocated to Jefferson, Wisconsin, where she lived for the rest of her life on the grounds of the St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children (formerly known as "St. Coletta Institute for Backward Youth").[28] Archbishop Richard Cushing of Boston had told her father about St. Coletta's, an institution for more than 300 people with disabilities, and her father traveled to and built a private house for her about a mile outside St. Coletta's main campus near Alverno House, which was designed for adults who needed lifelong care.[29] The nuns called the house "the Kennedy cottage".[30] Two Catholic nuns, Sister Margaret Ann and Sister Leona, provided her care along with a student and a woman who worked on ceramics with Kennedy three nights a week.[31] Kennedy had a car that could be used to take her for rides and a dog which she could take on walks.[30]
In response to her condition, Kennedy's parents separated her from her family. Her mother did not visit her for 20 years[20] and her father did not visit his daughter at the institution at all.[32] In Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter, author Kate Clifford Larson stated that Kennedy's lobotomy was hidden from the family for 20 years; none of her siblings knew of her whereabouts.[33] While her older brother John was campaigning for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 1958, the Kennedy family explained away her absence by claiming she was reclusive. The family did not publicly explain her absence until 1961, after John had been elected president. The Kennedys did not reveal that she was institutionalized because of a failed lobotomy, but instead said that she was deemed "mentally retarded".[20][34] In 1961, after Joe Sr. had a stroke that left him unable to speak and walk, Rosemary's siblings were made aware of her location.[33]
Joseph Kennedy Sr., JFK's father and the patriarch of "America's Royal Family," left behind a complicated legacy, including anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathies.
