John Dowd, Trump's lawyer, is not a “wartime consigliere.” Mueller must charge Trump with treason. Obstruction of Justice won't work.

A U.S. president who does the biding of a hostile foreign power as president of the United States is guilty of treason.

"The tweet could signal the president took part in the obstruction of justice. If Trump did fire Flynn for lying to the FBI, that would mean the president knew Flynn had committed a serious crime when, according to the Comey, the president asked Comey the next day to halt an FBI investigation into Flynn. 

Dowd, the lawyer who said he had written the tweet, told Axios on Monday: “The president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the constitution’s article II] and has every right to express his view of any case.” 

Any suggestion the Trump tweet had admitted obstruction of justice, whoever wrote it, would he said be “an ignorant and arrogant assertion”...

In his original attempt to contain the fallout from the Saturday tweet, Dowd told Reuters “the mistake was I should have put the lying to the FBI in a separate line referencing his plea. Instead, I put it together and it made all you guys go crazy. A tweet is a shorthand.” 

Dowd said the first time the president knew for a fact Flynn lied to the FBI was when he was charged. It was the first and last time he would craft a tweet for the president, he said. 

“I’ll take responsibility,” he said. “I’m sorry I misled people.” Talking to NBC, he added: “I’m out of the tweeting business. I did not mean to break news.” 

The suggestion that Dowd wrote the tweet was met with incredulity by Democrats and legal experts. Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor, wrote: “Anyone who buys Trump’s lawyer’s alibi for his corruptly treacherous client is a complete fool.” 

Richard Painter, chief ethics lawyer in the White House of George W Bush, said: “A lawyer who writes a tweet like that incriminating a client should be disbarred. He can tell Mueller he wrote it.” 

To some critics, Dowd’s denial that the president can obstruct justice carried echoes of Richard Nixon’s assertion, to David Frost in 1977, that “when the president does it, that means it is not illegal”. Others pointed out that the articles of impeachment against Nixon opened with the charge that he “obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice”.

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Mueller must charge Trump with treason. Obstruction brought down Nixon but Republican control of House and Senate means obstruction of justice isn't enough to bring down Trump.

Robert Mueller could expose not just the Trump family money laundering for Putin oligarchs business but a large segment of the Republican Party and their donors as traitors. Flynn is just a mouse in the biggest political scandal in human history.  

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"As the president decides what next to do, Bannon is looking to take matters into his own hand—all in an attempt, he believes, to spare Trump from having to fire the man investigating his campaign and family’s finances. 

Multiple sources close to Bannon told The Daily Beast on Monday that he is “advocating a much more aggressive legal approach short of firing Mueller,” as one source put it, and has been mulling options that would effectively curtail the special counsel’s investigation into 2016 Russian election-meddling and alleged Trump campaign connections to it." 

Steve Bannon Tells Trump To Bring In New Lawyers as He Looks For Ways to Kneecap Mueller 

Trump’s former top dog increasingly feels like he has to take matters into his own hands.

The Trump family is deeply in debt to Russian oligarchs. Putin owns Trump. TREASON

Forget about Hillary’s silly emails.

Trump’s repeated bankruptcies left him with Russian oligarchs as the only people that would finance the Trump family. 

Working for the Russians while president of the United States is treason. 

Who wouldn’t like seeing billionaires bullet ridden bodies? A country on the cusp of extreme political violence.

Ok the title is click bait, but everywhere you look you find that our country is on the cusp of extreme political violence. 

Most journalists will think this stuff is nuts. But most journalist know next to absolutely nothing about the extreme right and home grown terrorism in the United States. 

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Apparently Republicans want to kick the middle class in the face

If Republicans successfully pass their tax scam the only way to overturn it is a Democratic Congress, Senate & Whitehouse.

With the exception of Bernie Sanders & Justice Democrats the only thing Democrats have going for them is Donald Trump. 

ONE SCENARIO:

With Flynn’s perp walk & guilty plea in exchange for fingering Trump. Trump & Family Trump could be gone before Christmas. So far the entire DNC election strategy is based on the unpopularity of Donald Trump. 

With Donald Trump out of the picture the GOP tax scam & plan to eliminate Social Security, Medicare, 40 hour workweek & weekends, child labor laws and all other vestiges of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal could be permanent. 

With no political recourse possible. The “pitchforks” will come out. 

Modern day “pitchforks” are assault rifles & sniper rifles. 

The modern day equivalent of French royalty are not Republican elected officials, they are the billionaires that finance them. Everyone knows this including the Trump supporters that own 10 or more assault rifles. Tea Parties could turn on their billionaire creators with live ammunition. 

Stephen Paddock showed us how easily large numbers of people can be killed with standard off the shelf assault rifles, slightly legally modified assault rifles and standard sniper rifles. 

SECOND  SCENARIO:

Tax scam passage or not Donald Trump is very likely to be removed or to resign, maybe very soon. 

Removing Donny Trump could send the GOP base into turmoil. Most of the Republican base would probably not vote at all.  

But the violent militia groups & white nationalist fringe of the Republican base could respond by digging up the assault rifles & ammo buried on their property and using them to kill whatever strikes their fancy. 

My dining room bookcases were plastered with clippings of drug dealers, Coatesville officials, JBS racists, CSPOA docs, CCRC officials & court docs, topped by this hat I can’t wear in public. I know about the mind freeze of overwhelming evidence

"But three months feels like three decades in Trump years, and I mostly forgot about these reports until I read Luke Harding’s new book, “Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.” One uncanny aspect of the investigations into Trump’s Russia connections is that instead of too little evidence there’s too much. It’s impossible to keep it straight without the kind of chaotic wall charts that Carrie Mathison of “Homeland” assembled during her manic episodes. Incidents that would be major scandals in a normal administration — like the mere fact of Trump’s connection to Sater — become minor subplots in this one.

That’s why “Collusion” is so essential, and why I wish everyone who is skeptical that Russia has leverage over Trump would read it. This country — at least the parts not wholly under the sway of right-wing propaganda — needs to come to terms with substantial evidence that the president is in thrall to a foreign power."

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Odds Are, Russia Owns Trump 

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Are some Coatesville City Council members putting off the budget until 2018 so they can lay off police to balance the budget?

Some Coatesville City Council members are calling saying they can’t make it to budget meetings at the last minute. No quorum, no meeting.

The budget meetings can continue in January of 2018 when a new city council comes in. 

Marie Lawson, Carmen Green & Linda Lavender Norris are calling at the last minute saying they aren’t showing up. Are they waiting for newly elected Coatesville City Council member Deborah Bookman and a four member quorum that will lay off police to avoid raising taxes?

I don’t know if some people in Coatesville are getting advice from Harvey Legree. Harvey might know how the drug business works, but his Uncle Richard knew how the drug business works and how the politics of Chester County, PA works. 

I don’t think a Coatesville City Council can again pull off reducing the Coatesville PD to a point where the drug business is good again in Coatesville. I think the politics has changed. 

Monday, October 23, 2017

Harvey Legree did Duron Peoples don’t snitch DVD. He did Deborah Bookman’s Coatesville City Council campaign video:

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Det. Gordon: “rumors” of Legree replacing Cheif Bellizzie. Rumors I started. Will “Girl Gang” replace Cheif Laufer?

Why Senator Roy Moore? Grover Norquist’s “Way Back Machine” overshot McKinley’s Golden Robber Barron days. Republicans landed in Andrew Jackson Days.

“for hog stealing, death by hanging... for the rape of an eleven-year-old girl, one shilling fine.” Republicans are turning back the clock to the wealthy property owners control of government, the proliferation of guns, honor killings and the misogyny of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 

‘Grover Norquist is a creature of the 19th century, the golden age of the 'Robber Barons'.  His ideal presidential administration was William McKinley's, devoted to the prosperity of the Robber Barons, and in turn, complete subservience of the lower and middle classes to the wealthy ruling class. 

‘Yes, the McKinley era, absent the protectionism,’ he agrees, is the goal. "You're looking at the history of the country for the first 120 years, up until Teddy Roosevelt, when the socialists took over. The income tax, the death tax, regulation, all that." -- Grover Norquist

Grover Norquist’s “Way Back Machine” overshot McKinley’s America and landed in Andrew Jackson’s America. 

Republicans aren’t turning back the clock to the Robber Baron days of McKinley’s 1890s, they’re turning back the clock to the days of Andrew Jackson’s Southern gentlemen days.

Republicans are turning back the clock to the wealthy property owners control of government, the proliferation of guns, honor killings and the misogyny of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 


“At the heart of the street culture is an emphasis on respect, toughness, retribution, and ultimately, violence. Anderson suggested that the street culture emphasizes maintaining the respect of others, toughness, and exacting retribution when someone disrespects you through the use of violence.” This code is eerily similar to Hackett Fischer’s description of Andrew Jackson, the president who was taught to go outside the rule of law and settle things hisself:"

“Backcountry courts tended to punish property crimes with the utmost severity, but to be very lenient with crimes of personal violence. In Cumberland County, Virginia, during the eighteenth century, a court administered the following punishments: for hog stealing, death by hanging; for scolding, five shilling fine; for the rape of an eleven-year-old girl, one shilling fine. This structure of values continued for many generations in the backcountry. Historian Edward Ayers finds that in the southern upcountry during the nineteenth century, county courts “treated property offenders much more harshly than those accused of violence.”  

Life was cheap; property was expensive....  

A “benevolent Christian mask hides the barbaric violent behavior of the “Southern Gentleman”. 

“That the culture of honor appears to be such a robust predictor of school violence supports the hypothesis that school violence might be partially a product of long-term or recent experiences of social marginalization, humiliation, rejection, or bullying (Leary et al., 2003; Newman et al., 2005),   all of which represent honor threats with special significance to  people (particularly males) living in culture-of-honor states. 

It’s also at the heart of what Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson sees in the code of the streets:  

“At the heart of the street culture is an emphasis on respect, toughness, retribution, and ultimately, violence. Anderson suggested that the street culture emphasizes maintaining the respect of others, toughness, and exacting retribution when someone disrespects you through the use of violence.” This code is eerily similar to Hackett Fischer’s description of Andrew Jackson, the president who was taught to go outside the rule of law and settle things hisself: 

The classical example of this attitude towards violence was Andrew Jackson. A friend who knew him well for forty years said “no man knew better than Andrew Jackson when to get into a passion and when not.” James Parton commented that Jackson’s anger was “a Scotch-Irish anger. It was fierce, but never had any ill effect upon his purposes; on the contrary, he made it serve him, sometimes, by seeming to be much more angry than he was; a way with others of his race. 

But Jackson was brilliant and self-controlled; not all his contemporaries were: “Jackson’s strategy of controlled anger worked because most rage was genuine in this culture. Violence often consisted of blind, unthinking acts of savagery by men and women who were unable to control their own feelings.” Alcohol abuse was frequent, and children started drinking early. “In poorer families,” Wyatt-Brown writes, “a dram of whiskey was the early antebellum schoolboy’s fare for breakfast. Brantley York, a North Carolinian yeoman’s son, seldom left for school, he recalled, without first having a stiff glass.” 

Randolph Roth takes issue with the culture of honor thesis in his longitudinal study American Homicide: 

He has determined that four factors correlate with the homicide rate: faith that government is stable and capable of enforcing just laws; trust in the integrity of legitimately elected officials; solidarity among social groups based on race, religion, or political affiliation; and confidence that the social hierarchy allows for respect to be earned without recourse to violence. When and where people hold these sentiments, the homicide rate is low; when and where they don’t, it’s high. 

But they are not necessarily contradictory. The mistrust of legal and governmental means of recourse, that no man should “sue anybody for slander, assault, and battery,” is similar to what Robert Sampson, in his study of Chicago neighborhood violence, calls “legal cynicism”: 

A distinction between the tolerance of deviance and cynicism about the applicability of law. One can be highly intolerant of crime, but live in a disadvantaged context bereft of legal sanctions and perceived justice. In fact, we suggest that this is exactly the sort of context found in many  ghetto-poverty areas of our large cities where lower­-income minorities are disproportionately concentrated. Crime there is usually high, but that does not imply, nor is there consistent evidence, that African American residents are tolerant of crime.

Crime was also not tolerated in the rural south of the 19th century; violence as a response to crime, or to pre-empt crime, was. This belief continued well into the 20th century, as the fear of vigilante justice, due to the overwhelmingly large black population, created both vigilante justice in the form of the Klan, which evolved into de facto vigilante justice from law enforcement itself, further undermining faith in just laws and a stable government: “After the Civil War, [slave patrols] seamlessly morphed into the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Shirts and other extra-legal organizations with the same purpose: to keep the black population cowed and under control. Fear of the black population is also why Southern society long accepted brutality in law enforcement to a greater degree than other parts of the country did.”

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Roy Moore to Koch Brothers, The GOP is regressing to backcountry values. “Hog stealing, death by hanging. “Rape of 11 year old, one shilling fine.”

It's less about Alabama politics and more about the dual and morally opposite faces of "Southern Gentlemen". It's about the deviant sex of Southern Gentlemen. 

Coatesville’ Brandywine Creek Trail is an anomaly, a park in a 1/2 Black community that industry regards as a dumping ground. "A civil rights 'emergency"'

"Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, recently said: 'Civil rights have to include, fundamentally, the right to breathe your air, plant tomatoes in your soil. Civil rights is the right to drink your water. 

'If your children don’t have access to clean air and water, all the ideals we preach in this country are a lie. Environmental justice must be at the center of our activism in our fight to make real the promise of America.”

The land adjoining Coatesville's Riverwalk, a former steel company site that’s called the “Flats” is still zoned “Heavy Industrial”. The City of Coatesville has a Residential Commercial Zoning Overlay of the "Flats" 

The "Flats" is owned by the City of Coatesville's Redevelopment Authority. The City of Coatesville does not own the "Flats."

Coatesville is almost unknown to nationwide retail & commercial developers. It is well known internationally as a town for heavy polluting industries. 

"Bullard said instead of Nimby politics, there was what he called Pibby (Place in blacks’ back yard)."

The only thing keeping a steam to trash, gas power plant or fracking chemical plant out of Coatesville is the Coatesville Redevelopment Authority. If the RDA is dissolved heavy industry will make the City of Coatesville an offer they have no legal ability to refuse.  

Arthur Morton an associate broker with Ambassador Realty of Coatesville gave a brief presentation about a business venture called Blue Sky International or BlueSky International (I haven’t found it on the web yet) seeking the need for about 8 to 10 acres to develop what’s called a proppant plant. 

Proppants are part of the toxic mix of chemicals pumped into the ground to frack natural gas out of stone. 

The proppants are created from slag that would come from the steel mill.  

Coatesville, PA October 2010:

John Pawlowski, 

...But I think Coatesville deserves something better on the flats than an environment that I just heard described there. I can’t believe, I think even the fact it’s called ‘Blue Skies’ makes me suspicious of what it might be or end up being. 

I led the march against the crazy idea of putting in a gas fired electrical plant down there. I cannot believe anybody would seriously consider putting anything down there (like that). Coatesville is not that hard up for a couple of jobs. I don’t think so. And I can’t speak totally against it because I don’t know that much about it. I don’t what to be presumptuous; I’m only commenting on what I think I heard. That area down there has become prime area now that always wasn’t. 

But now people want to come in and kind of kill a dream. That’s what it is. When the RDA bought that property it was with the idea of putting in something good down there, something nice. 

G.O. Carlson could have stayed there and had this stuff right in their building they wouldn’t have to tear them down. What’s the point?”

Mr. Morton,  

"I brought to the city several weeks ago, perhaps three or four weeks, a business venture by a company called Blue Sky International seeking the need for about ten acres to develop what’s called proppant plant. Proppants are metallic balls that are created from slag material. And all this obviously comes together because of the steel mill and the slag that is ultimately produced from making steel. It’s then reprocessed by Stine, which is, I guess the old Brown Company… 

Essentially, the company that the office represents is a company called Blue Sky International. Material has been given to Rob Barry and Ted Reed. A business plan and executive summary also the request for information has been received by your office." 

Mr. Barry, “Right, and all those documents, reports have been recorded accepted and we have received." 

Mr. Morton, “Additional reports by the company, labiality.”  

Mr. Morton, “The initial meeting that I had was with Mr. Gary Smith from the Chester County Economic Development Council bringing the project to his attention for its violability for financing. I think we see a vital positive response. Our investors in this project are financially very capable…. 

But what we have is a thirty million dollar plant to be erected that will produce about a thousand tons of proppants a year. Which is essentially the amount of slag produced from the mill; or a thousand tons a day, I should say… 

The concept is; ArcelorMittal makes the steel, there is slag produced, Stine… takes that slag reprocesses it. They take out all the remaining metals and what have you and then sell it back to the steel mill. The remaining is to a large degree used…for roads et cetera. That material…we would make the units called proppants which are used in the oil and gas industries to force down into the well to open up the fissures that allow low producing wells release their gas and oil actually making Marcellus Shale a lot --- We have a relationship with Halliburton… 

We use 100 percent of the slag material that comes into the facility; it’s not a noisy facility. It’s clean; we have scrubber and everything, its waste water going in and scrubbers, recycling systems all in play. The company in the long run will probably be a one hundred million dollar producer plus. It will employ directly somewhere around eighty people, twenty four-seven…. 

As a result of coming to the City and speaking with Rob and Ted we identified the flats the north side of the flats, although it did stress the velodrome’s position et cetera… That’s where we are today… So we’ve got one hundred thousand dollars for the corner of Lincoln and Church and a million dollars for the eight acres or less on the north side of the flats. We think we have the financial wherewithal to meet the requirements for the Economic Development Council…. 

The principals are meeting with Stine on Monday…. A letter of interest has already been submitted to negotiate a contract to sell to Blue Sky all the slag they need to do this project."

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Mr. Morton, “It’s got to go somewhere.”It just happens that they want a fracking chemical plant in a black neighborhood.

"Black, Latino and disadvantaged people have long been disproportionately afflicted by toxins from industrial plants, cars, hazardous housing conditions and other sources. 

But political leaders, academics and activists spoke of a growing urgency around the struggle for environmental justice as the Trump administration peels away rules designed to protect clean air and water. 

'What we are seeing is the institutionalization of discrimination again, the thing we’ve fought for 40 years,' said Robert Bullard, an academic widely considered the father of the environmental justice movement. 

'There are people in fence line communities who are now very worried. If the federal government doesn’t monitor and regulate, and gives the states a green light to do what they want, we are going to get more pollution, more people will get sick. There will be more deaths.' 

Activists and some in Congress now view the blight of pollution as a vast, largely overlooked civil rights issue that places an unbearable burden on people of color and low-income communities. 

Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, recently said: “Civil rights have to include, fundamentally, the right to breathe your air, plant tomatoes in your soil. Civil rights is the right to drink your water. 

'If your children don’t have access to clean air and water, all the ideals we preach in this country are a lie. Environmental justice must be at the center of our activism in our fight to make real the promise of America.” 

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

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