It is distasteful rummaging in the hatemonger websites of the extreme right wing.

But back in 2003 to 2006 there were a lot of posts concerning Coatesville on the Stormfront.org and FreeRepublic.com websites. It was mostly related to government taking privately owned land by eminent domain. There was plenty of overt racism mixed in. And there were occasionally threats against Coatesville government officials.

Some can still be found here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/saha/index?tab=articles

There is still an occasional post on those sites concerning Coatesville. Some of the posts on those sites about Coatesville are blatantly racist and /or anti-Jewish.

If you decide to look on Stormfront.org or FreeRepublic.com, keep a barf bucket handy.

Some comment posts on the Daily Local News that are about Coatesville are suggestive of racism. The outright racist remarks are removed.

Articles about the shooting by the white supremacist terrorist at the Holocaust Museum mention that information about and posts by the terrorist shooter, James W. von Brunn was found on the Stormfront.org website and on FreeRepublic.com website. Some of the posts by and about von Brunn have been removed.

The report by the DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY in April warned that "current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s. That period culminated in the second worst terrorist bombing in US history; the Oklahoma City Bombing".

The DHS report can be found here:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5403248/DHS-Intelligence-Assessment---Rightwing-Extremism

During the 1980s to middle of the 1990s ultra right wing militia groups formed in the United States. The person who is sometimes called the "father of the militia movement" in the United States is Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America.

“In October 1992, at Estes Park, Colorado, Pratt addressed a three-day meeting of neo-Nazis and Christian Identity adherents organized by Pete Peters in the wake of the Ruby Ridge incident.”

Pratt shared the stage with Richard Butler (Aryan Nations and the Church of Jesus Christ Christian) and Louis Beam (KKK and Arian Nation).

See Armed and Dangerous (The NRA, Militias and White Supremacists are fostering a network of right wing warriors):
http://www.rickross.com/reference/militia/militia7.html

Pat Sellers, formerly of Coatesville, sought Larry Pratt’s support in his campaign for Congress in 1996. Pat Sellers was an essential part in the election of the “Bloc of Four” in 2005.
Sellers spent the better part of the Primary Election Day in 2005 with Kurt Schenk in Coatesville’s Fourth Wards.

Here is an excerpt from an article from the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal Thursday April 11, 1996:

Lancaster Intelligencer Journal
Lancaster, PA

"House hopeful charged in fight with teenager
Coatesville school board president scuffled with daughter’s boy friend…

Sellers, an electrical worker who trails his opponent in the race, has also come under fire recently for seeking the support of Larry Pratt, a former aide to presidential candidate Pat Buchannan.

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.”

Find the article here:
http://www.box.net/shared/7j62u1705d

Chester County and nearby areas in Pennsylvania and Maryland have had and now have an abundance of right wing extremist activity. It is party because the need for secrecy in extremist organizations makes face to face communication essential at times and Pennsylvania is centrally located on the Eastern Seaboard.

One example from the recent past is here:

Local police receive awards
Daily Local News
GINA ZOTTI , Staff Writer


"In addition to the anonymous trooper, whose name is not being released because of his undercover status at a Chester County state police barracks, West Goshen Detective Sgt. Gregory Stone and Coatesville Detective Martin Quinn were recognized for their investigative work that led to the guilty pleas or convictions of a number of violent local criminals.

'The local police and local prosecutors are and must be the first line of defense in defeating crime in Chester County," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas P. Hogan Jr. "Chester County residents are incredibly lucky to have such good police officers taking care of them on a day-to-day basis.'...

Hogan said the white supremacist cell was meeting on a regular basis in western Chester County -- in the Honey Brook and Parkesburg areas -- as well as over the border into Lancaster County for years before their arrests in 2002.

'The frightening thing about Hull is not just that he hates people because of their race and not just that he wants to be violent, but that he’s teaching people how to hate and how to be violent,' said Hogan. 'He’s telling people how to make bombs, where to put them and where they’ll do the most damage."


Find the article Here:
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2005/01/12/frontpage/13730113.txt

A few years ago a employee of a national campaign labeled Chester County, PA "Little Alabama"

"Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration." From- Office of Intelligence and Analysis Assessment Report

Coatesville has become a national magnet for white supremacists on the internet. Chester County has been and is now a prime area of operations for white supremacist groups and anti-government groups. The leadership of the organized groups are mostly about raising money and recruiting using racism, xenophobia and fear of government as their draw. Some of them are active in Chester County. They all have a version of the same story about a Jewish/Black conspiracy.

Some of the people that buy into this garbage may be ready to snap and become a statistic as a “Lone Wolf” domestic terrorist. If you know somebody like that call the FBI.

See these two websites for more information:

ADL Extremism in America
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/default.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America

Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.splcenter.org/

Reports of a shooting in Coatesville

There are reports of a shooting last night near 6th and Harmony. There are a large amount of people at the Courthouse in Coatesville today; with a double parked police car.

Hard at work at the first of the Coatesville Victory Gardens.

From Coatesville Victory Gardens

Matt Baker with the shovel on the left - Joe Hamrick with the shovel on the right - Dave McLimans operating the cultivator - Khadjah al Amin and Mike Zemacke discuss the finer points of gardening

From Coatesville Victory Gardens

Keith Gargus Kurses the Kultivator

From Coatesville Victory Gardens

A future gardener

From Coatesville Victory Gardens

Matt and Joe remove sod - That's Stephanie McLimans operating the wheelbarrow

GO TO COATESVILLE VICTORY GARDENS FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://coatesvillevictorygardens.blogspot.com/

The curfew is back

We drove through Coatesville last night (Saturday) shortly after 10 pm. Except for some activity at the Masonic Hall and the CYWA the streets were empty. On Saturday night in Coatesville when the weather is nice; the corners at 6th Avenue and Lincoln Highway, Pennsylvania Avenue and Lincoln Highway, Chester and Lincoln Highway and 8th Avenue and Lincoln Highway are usually teeming with people. I asked around; the word on the street is that the curfew is back.

You may walk by them at the mall, on the street or at a "Tea Party"..

Call them “The Terrorist Next Door” or “The Enemies Within”. The last one of note here in the Coatesville area was David Wayne Hull; the self declared Imperial Wizard of the Pennsylvania chapter White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He intended to blow up the Peach Bottom Power Plant. The attention to detail by Coatesville PD Detective Martin Quinn led to the infiltration of his organization by PA State Police and his arrest and conviction.

Because we have a black president, a reaction to the possibility of lifting the ban on military assault weapons and a failing economy; recruitment is way up. It only takes a few people like Timothy McVeigh to achieve a deadly effect.

Both the White Supremacist blogs; Stormfront (National) and Keystone Alliance (PA) have information about the "Tea Parties" in PA-times and places.

New York Times
April 18, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
The Enemies Within
By CHARLES M. BLOW

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/opinion/18blow.html

Local police receive awards
Daily Local News 
GINA ZOTTI , Staff Writer 


"In addition to the anonymous trooper, whose name is not being released because of his undercover status at a Chester County state police barracks, West Goshen Detective Sgt. Gregory Stone and Coatesville Detective Martin Quinn were recognized for their investigative work that led to the guilty pleas or convictions of a number of violent local criminals.

'The local police and local prosecutors are and must be the first line of defense in defeating crime in Chester County," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas P. Hogan Jr. "Chester County residents are incredibly lucky to have such good police officers taking care of them on a day-to-day basis.'...

Hogan said the white supremacist cell was meeting on a regular basis in western Chester County -- in the Honey Brook and Parkesburg areas -- as well as over the border into Lancaster County for years before their arrests in 2002.

'The frightening thing about Hull is not just that he hates people because of their race and not just that he wants to be violent, but that he’s teaching people how to hate and how to be violent,' said Hogan. 'He’s telling people how to make bombs, where to put them and where they’ll do the most damage."
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2005/01/12/frontpage/13730113.txt

See the ADL’S “LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY’S RECOURSE NETWORK” for more information:
http://www.adl.org/learn/default.htm

PRIMARY BALLOTS

The Coatesville Democratic Party is supporting the following candidates:

Coatesville City Council at Large:
JOSEPH A HAMRICK AND MATTHEW BAKER

Coatesville Ward 4
KARL MARKING

Coatesville Ward 2
INGRID W JONES

Magisterial District Judge Coatesville District Court 15-1-03:
GREGORY V HINES SR.

I am personally supporting Kenny Hopton for Constable in Coatesville Ward 4

I attached downloadable PDF copies of Voters Services Unofficial Ballot for the 2009 Primary Elections.

NOTE:
There is only one candidate on both Republican and Democratic Ballots for Magisterial District Judge in Coatesville District Court 15-1-03 – Gregory V Hines Sr.

PRIMARY BALLOT MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT JUDGE:
http://www.box.net/shared/d2neohh3xz

PRIMARY BALLOT CONSTABLE:
http://www.box.net/shared/4l2bgtg7yl

PRIMARY BALLOT COATESVILLE CITY COUNCIL:
http://www.box.net/shared/4x9hqclyzd

I was inspired by a column in today’s New York Times by CHARLES M. BLOW-

Pitchforks and Pistols; “Lately I’ve been consuming as much conservative media as possible (interspersed with shots of Pepto-Bismol) to get a better sense of the mind and mood of the right. My read: They’re apocalyptic. They feel isolated, angry, betrayed and besieged. And some of their “leaders” seem to be trying to mold them into militias.”
More at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/opinion/04blow.html

We had a fellow named Pat Sellers in our small city. He ran for PA 6th Congressional District Congress in 96 and picked up Larry Pratt as a speaker for a fundraiser. (See: Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA Thursday April 11, 1996 House hopeful charged in fight with teenager) That was after Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan dropped Pratt because of his alleged KKK connections. Pratt (Gun Owners of America) is partly known as the person who revived the modern day militias. Sellers stated that “he sought Pratt’s support because of his expertise on gun issues.”

“In 1990, Pratt wrote a book, Armed People Victorious, based on his study of "citizen defense patrols" used in Guatemala and the Philippines against Communist rebels — patrols that came to be known as death squads for their murderous brutality. Picturing these groups in rosy terms, Pratt advocated similar militias in the United States — an idea that finally caught on when he was invited for a meeting of 160 extremists, including many famous white supremacists, in 1992.

It was at that meeting, hosted in Colorado by white supremacist minister Pete Peters that the contours of the militia movement were laid out.”
From- Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report- Summer 2001 False Patriots- http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=365

There was an election here in the City of Coatesville PA in 2005. Pat Sellers was a campaign manager who helped to elect 4 Coatesville City Council members who became known as “the bloc of four”. There were alleged threats of “men with rifles in the bushes” on a local radio call in show in the lead up to the election. Coatesville Police could not determine the identity of the caller.

I believe that “bloc of four” city council that led us to a malfunctioning city government in Coatesville and contributed to the 70 plus record breaking arsons and runaway crime here.

Coatesville is in the center of Chester County Pennsylvania it is in the top ten wealthiest counties in the USA in the Main Line Philadelphia area. Princess Grace Kelly grew up nearby. We have regular Fox Hunting with hounds here. Not the place where you would expect to find extremist KKK and Arian Nation activity.

We have had more than our share of KKK and Arian Nation activity here. There were several arrests and convictions of cross burners. But there was one investigation that stood out:

About 7 years ago a City of Coatesville Police Detective Martin Quinn thought that there was something odd about a burglary. He kept the case open. It led to the conviction of three Arian Nation / KKK bomb makers. One bomb maker was David Wayne Hull; the self declared Imperial Wizard of the Pennsylvania chapter White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Hull’s intended targets for attacks included abortion clinics, police departments and the Peach Bottom Pennsylvania nuclear power plant. The other two were Joshua Sutter -- a ranking member of the Aryan Nations with national visibility -- and John Keohane -- once a member of a local Ku Klux Klan faction. They are all serving sentences of 8 to 12 years in Federal prison. Now retired Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas P. Hogan Jr. was instrumental in bringing the extremists to justice. I am sure that many people are unaware all this was occurring in pastoral Chester County Pennsylvania.

There are still several now quiet extremist “cells” alleged to be nearby Coatesville in Chester County. There are a few people like me who are aware of the threat that just a few well armed extremists can have on ordinary people. It is very discouraging to hear that there is a “call to arms” from Right Wing leaders.

Kettle of Corruption

It can be heart wrenching to be immersed in this pot of corruption in the kitchen we call Coatesville. We have been simmering in that pot a long time. It gets hot and stinky in this kitchen and sometimes I would just like to get out of it and move as far away as possible.

But most people do not know the ingredients and the actors who throw things into the pot as well as I do. Not many people know how those ingredients interact and know intuitively what it's going to taste like and smell like when it's done.

Knowing so very much about the ingredients and how they cook together comes with the responsibility to stick around. If I jump ship I could regret the rest of my life.

Maybe what really keeps me here is that I know what the pot once tasted like. I know what a very good dish Coatesville can serve up.

"Perfect Storm" for arson

In my opinion; if you are familiar with the Coatesville City Council, the top level management of Coatesville's city government, the actions of the "Coatesville Police Chief Matthews and the top level officers of the Coatesville Fire Department the seventy plus arsons in the last thirteen months or so could have been anticipated.
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
(Coatesville Fire Chief) "Johnson reported 295 in 2007, while union records show 733. When the union discovered the difference, it complained to city officials, but nothing was done, Poulson said.   'Fire-suppression services are in complete disarray,' Poulson said of Coatesville, adding, 'It's like the perfect storm for an arsonist.". Richard G. Poulson, is the attorney for the city's 13 paid part-time firefighters and four full-time firefighters.  
More at:
http://www.phillymobile.com/topic/1180-Local%20News/articles/190914053

What’s up with the Coatesville West End Fire Company?

“Coatesville firefighter hiring practices criticized”
“Firefighter union's attorney argues background checks would have revealed suspect's criminal past
Friday, March 27, 2009
By JENNIFER MILLER, Staff Writer
COATESVILLE — Just days after police arrested a city firefighter for allegedly setting houses on fire, city officials are facing criticism for Coatesville's employee hiring process.

Rick Poulson, attorney for the city's firefighter union, criticized the administration Thursday for hiring 37-year-old Robert Tracey Jr. as a paid firefighter just weeks before he was arrested in connection with two arson fires.

Poulson argues a proper background check should have kept the city from hiring Tracey, who has a criminal record. Additionally, Poulson said a background check should have kept the city from appointing Kevin Johnson to fire chief in 2006 due to his criminal record
”More at:

Coatesville firefighter hiring practices criticized

By JENNIFER MILLER, Staff Writer 

POSTED: 03/27/09, 12:01 AM EDT | UPDATED: ON 03/27/2009

When District Attorney had a meeting with the West End Fire Company officers it was at the Washington Fire Company. Why wasn’t the meeting at the West End Company? Do they have something to hide?

The word on the street is that the West End Fire Company is what the black population here in Coatesville calls “Old Coatesville”.


Coatesville Fire Chief Kevin Johnson was still on parole when he was appointed Chief by the Coatesville City Council.

CLICK HERE FOR JOHNSONS COURT DOCUMENTS:
http://www.box.net/shared/r21tbc210e

PAID HIT ALLEGED

At Joe Carroll's community meeting last night in Coatesville, Joe said that we may read in the papers that Jeremiah bush AKA Hanif Murphy has been captured in Philadelphia. Bush is wanted for the murder of Jonas"Sonny"Suber at Suber"s home on Walnut Street in Coatesville on Saturday morning at 9 am, October 21, 2006.

Joe said that the murder is allegedly a "paid hit". It is alleged that the "hit" was ordered by someone in Coatesville.

Jonas "Sonny" Suber is a relative of Coatesville City Council person Kareem Johnson.

From Jeremiah Young Bush AKA Hanif Murphy">

Below are two recordings from last nights Coatesville City Council Meeting.

Coatesville resident Keith Gargus addressed the Coatesville City Council at the Monday March 23, 2009 meeting during the “Citizen’s Comments” period.

Keith Gargus worked for a large corporation selling software to different levels of government mostly to Federal and also State and Cities.

Below is my transcription of the comments of Keith Gargus. I sometimes make mistakes in transcription so listen along:

“It was common knowledge both on the government side and the sales side that three years software was an end-run against open bids and it was also a sucker play basically, usually unethical. I am not saying that happened here but no one has disproved it or explained how they came to the determination to pick this particular software and in particular, this particular deal.

Secondly:
It isn’t free because I think there is a number, either $8,700.00 or $7,800.00 for training. So it’s not free. And that same thing training; no one talked about who is getting trained, but I suspect that the consultants are being trained. And what happens when you train a consultant, he becomes a friend, he’s the person you work with. In essence he becomes indispensible and he becomes an employee. So whether you like it or not or you had any intention you are going to have a hard time getting rid of the person in a year.

Next:
One of the really uncertain things is the fact that you are not you are not going to enter the cities finances and full system simultaneously. What that’s going to do is basically everything is going to be in this new system. If you decide you don’t like it or you decide to go back to the old system you’re not going to be able to.

There are a lot of things that you need to consider here before you go very much further. If this system is not what you want. The other thing is, that disturbed me is he (Mr. McKensie) admitted or I think, one of the city council people brought it up; that the statements looked exactly like the old system from three years ago that we abandoned. Well it likely is the same system and again I’d welcome the administration to refute what I am saying.

The last thing that I want to say is: I am very disturbed about the fact that our financial consultant is making a financial consultant’s wage, what ever that is, and no one will tell us. But I suspect that after talking to current software people it’s probably the equivalent to about three quarters of a year salary. So you have to make the determination that do you want this guy at this consultant fee indefinitely while maintaining our financial officer to stay home at $80,000 or do you want .. And I welcome someone to refute me."

CLICK HERE FOR A SOUND RECORDING:
http://www.box.net/shared/sg9h402fuq

I also attached a recording of The City of Coatesville’s Financial Consultant Donald McKensie. The City of Coatesville’s Financial Consultant is presenting February and January’s expense and quarterly budget and year to date budget. The other voice is that of Coatesville City Manager Harry G Walker. The city council members received a document to follow along. There were no questions asked.

CLICK HERE FOR A SOUND RECORDING:
http://www.box.net/shared/pozfd5qy5c

There is one simple way to eliminate the source of about one half of the drug trafficking in the United States of America.

And that is legalizing marijuana.

The correct question to ask is; are the heath problems and social problems associated with marijuana use worse than explosive growth in the health and social problems associated with gun violence, kidnapping, home invasion and beheading?

I think that drug trafficking violence is now a real probability in any neighborhood; rich or poor, city or rural, in the United States of America.

In my opinion law enforcement in the USA cannot keep ahead of the drug trafficking business. Since the United States of America is by far the largest user country on earth; legalizing marijuana would cut an entire product and revenue stream from that product from the worldwide drug trafficking industry.

The citizens of the USA are currently on the losing side of the “War on Drugs”. With less money on tap for the drug traffickers; the “battlefield” of the “War on Drugs” would be more even. And part of the tax revenue from the sale of marijuana could go to law enforcement.

There are hundreds of millions of dollars available for bribing. I would be highly suspect of any politician that opposes legalizing marijuana.

The article below centers on the drug violence from Mexico. A large amount of the marijuana sold in the USA also comes from Canada.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/23border.html?hp

In Chester County Court- challenges to the petitions of several Magistrate Judge Candidates for Coatesville District Court 15-1-03.

Those candidates were Gabe Milanese, James Clark and Linda Lavender.

It was accepted by both sides that Gabe Milanese lost on the Democratic side and he may also lose on the Republican side. Only one disputed vote will disqualify Gabe on the Republican side. Gabe's attorney, Eric Brown is the Chair of Republican Area 14.

Mr. Brown put voters on the stand as witnesses. It may not be uncommon to do so, but I felt extremely uncomfortable at seeing voters on the witness stand. The voters signed both Greg Hines and Gabe Milanese’s petitions. The voters all signed Greg Hines’ petition first. They were questioned by Eric Brown as to whose petition they were signing. They all said that they did not know whose petition it was. That went well until someone replied that they did not know whose petition they were signing and their signature was one of the first names on the petition with Greg Hines name right there at the top. They were all asked by Eric Brown which one of the petitions that they really wanted their vote to go to. Not to be on the ballot, but their vote. They all said Gabe Milanese. It seemed to me that it was almost like the voters were on trial. I don’t think that voters should be asked to do things like this except in extreme circumstances.

Democratic Attorney John S Carnes presented the challenges to the petitions and the majority of those challenges held up. Eric Brown was not sorrowful, so will see what Wednesday brings.

I thought that Democratic Attorney John Carnes presented overwhelming evidence including several court documents and Clark’s drivers license that Magistrate Judge candidate James Clark lives in Thorndale. Clark had two relatives that claimed he lived at the address in Coatesville’s Second Ward that he listed on his petition. Clark said that even though a court document from October has Thorndale as his residence and driver’s license residence as Thorndale, he lives in Coatesville.

I understood Clark to have said that his driver’s license and his court documents residence is really his business address and his real residence is in Coatesville. Hmmm.

Even at the place he said he lives in Coatesville, he was only there a few months. State Law says that candidates for Magistrate Judge need to reside at least a year at the residence on the ballot. The proceedings concerning James Clark were a little confusing to me but I believe that one of Clark’s relatives who is a Republican collected most of his signatures on both Republican and Democratic sides. Clark might not be not be on the ticket for multiple reasons.

I wondered why Andrew Lehr was sitting right in front of me in the first spectator row. I found out when Lehr conferred with Clark and a woman named as his daughter, Shaina London in the hallway. Is Clark a spoiler to Greg Hines? If so why would Lehr support Greg Milanese? Lehr left when Clarks hearing was over.

Linda Lavender is a special case. Lavender says that she does not work for Tim Hennessey but works for the Republican Caucus of the Legislature. When Lavender was asked by Judge Ott what she does at Representative Tim Hennessey’s office in Coatesville, she told Judge Ott that Hennessey’s constituents come to Tim Hennessey’s office in Coatesville with their problems and she tries to help them. She said that her paycheck says “Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania” on it. It’s my guess that since she is still working as Tim Hennessey's legislative assistant Lavender is by Commonwealth Law ineligible to run.

But that's not all: Lavender as a Republican collected most of the signatures for both parties. All the Democratic signatures she collected could be disqualified. She also did not have enough good signatures on the Democratic side, regardless of the other issues. So I think that we can assume that she didn't make the Democratic ballot. Linda disputes the State Law that Republican candidates cannot collect Democratic Signatures. Judge Ott suggested that Lavender can appeal the law if she wishes to.

On the Republican side Lavender has 96 good ones and 5 that are still disputed and will be checked at Voter Services on Monday. Linda had a little over 150 Republican and 150 Democratic signatures so reading off all the disputed signatures (well over 100) took a while.

Linda brought her about 6 foot 6 inch 300 lb. Uncle, Ronald London for support. London was wearing a black leather jacket and leather trousers

Linda said that she would ask Tim Hennessey to write a letter to Judge Ott saying that it's OK for Commonwealth employees to run for Magistrate Judge. Got to see this letter.

The results of all this could be that Democrat Greg Hines will be the only candidate on both the Democratic and Republican Ballots this spring.

We will know the almost final results by Wednesday.

Like I said before; some people will appreciate a Magistrate Judge in Coatesville who knows and follows the Law. I believe that Gregory Hines will be that Magistrate Judge.

Interesting Courtroom Political Stuff

Ingrid W Jones and Patricia Ray will be on the Democratic Ballot for Coatesville’s Second Ward City Councilperson. In Judge Pamela Ott’s Courtroom today it was determined that Falaq Lucas had 8 good signatures for Coatesville City Councilperson Second Ward. Ten or more signatures are required. There are no Republicans running in Coatesville’s Second Ward.

There are more of petitions for insufficient signatures tomorrow, Friday, March 20, 2009. The really interesting political courtroom stuff concerns the race for Magistrate Judge in Coatesville District Court 15-1-03. Those hearings are:

• At I PM Gabe Milanese - R
• At 2 PM James Clark - D
• At 3 PM Linda Lavender - R

Linda Lavender is State Rep. Tim Hennessey’s Legislative Assistant.

If all goes well, Democrat Greg Hines may be the only person on both Republican and Democratic Ballots.

I think that the Republicans might be out in full force to support their endorsed candidate; Gabe Milanese. I think that Milanese could, just barely, make it on the Republican side of the Ballot.

The only person that I am aware of that took and passed the test for Magistrate Judge is Greg Hines. He passed the first time.

Some people will appreciate a Magistrate Judge in Coatesville who knows and follows the Law. I believe that Gregory Hines will be that Magistrate Judge.

The United States of America is the top user country of illegal drugs.

Ask anyone that was involved in fighting the “War on Drugs” for a long time. They will tell you that reducing the number of drug users in the United States of America is the way to really hurt the illegal drug business. I don’t know enough to suggest how that could be done.

The United States of America is the top user country of illegal drugs. Reducing illegal drug use at the person to person level would have a real effect on the market for illegal drugs. It would reduce the violence and despair in our own country and also in the increasingly desperate situations in countries to our South. The violence there has become a war; a war not on drugs but a war between drug dealer armies and the police and armies of those countries. Thousands of people are caught in the crossfire.

SUR-13 members tried to make a connection here in Coatesville last year. I believe that the 3 SUR-13 members that were arrested by East Fallowfield Police were a part of a group in Virginia and Maryland. An older man with 1 and 3 shaved eyebrows was in a Coatesville laundromat at about that same time. An investigation lead to the break up of that SUR-13 group. I have not seen any new SUR-13 graffiti since then.

See:
Mexico Under Siege The drug war at our doorstep
Los Angeles Times coverage of Mexico Under Siege

http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war

New arson in Coatesville; 20th this year

"The Daily Local (dailylocal.com), Serving Chester County, PA

Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:11 AM EDT
COATESVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Authorities say there has been another arson in the suburban Philadelphia city of Coatesville.

The 1:30 a.m. blaze struck two homes on East Valley Road in the city, and firefighters say they were badly damaged.

John Hageman of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says the latest blaze was deliberately set.

It's the 20th arson in the city this year."

MORE AT:
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/03/14/news/police/doc49bbacfa12a55647024782.txt

LISTS OF CANDIDATES in COATESVILLE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Here are downloadable PDF’s of a list that includes Coatesville Republican and Coatesville Democratic Candidates in the Spring Primary Elections. It includes the ballot positions:
Click for Republican Candidates in Coatesville City Elections:
http://www.box.net/shared/mya5x3uu35

Click for Democratic Candidates in Coatesville City Elections:
http://www.box.net/shared/kf629a9trj

Still on edge despite arrests

The Daily Local (dailylocal.com), Serving Chester County, PA

Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:47 PM EDT
By PATRICK WALTERS, Associated Press Writer
COATESVILLE — Sgt. James Audette is patrolling the business district when a man sitting on a bench calls out the question everyone has been asking in this fire-plagued town: "Has there been any more arsons?"

"No there haven't been," Audette tells him.

More at:

http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/03/12/news/doc49b9472666801918145921.txt

And at:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=7067087

And at:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/6307637.html

And at:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/946317.html

And at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/12/national/a083544D17.DTL&type=education

And at:
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/03/12/ap6160915.html

I guess that Harry Walker, Kurt Schenk and Patsy Ray will have to add some newspapers to their “condemned list”.

Reverend Council Person Patsy Ray’s sermon in praise of Chief Matthews

“We lynched him before he got here.”

“Our police department has come a long, long way. We are going on to national acredidition You probably don’t know that you wasn’t accredidated. Because you didn’t even think of it. All you had was a bunch of cops arrestin people takin care of you.”

Was Reverend Ray (as Coatesville City Manager Harry Walker refers to her) thinking of the alleged "incident" with the sweater and East Whiteland Police at Boscov's when she spoke about Chief Matthews being there when she needed him?

As usual Council person Ray's council comment is filled up with Biblical references. What “Saturday Night” could do with this.

Listen here:
http://www.box.net/shared/d6xokofyfz