BALTIMORE, Maryland Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - The pure unfiltered criminal evil of a person who now says she wants to be President of These United States - How did this nation ever get to a point this far down the scale, a point so low that you cannot even see Presidents like Washington, FDR, Kennedy or Reagan from here? - is there in black and white for all to see in the report of the Special House Benghazi Committee, released to the public yesterday. Even as the Mainstream Ultra Left Media Fabricates reports that downplay the evil set forth in that report, there is nothing anyone can do to hide the conniving and downright sinister actions of both Hillary and Barack Obama. There is the outline of the infamous phone call on the night of the attack between Hillary and Obama, the call that fleshed out their plan to blame a video by a California man rather than what they both knew was already obvious: that the attack on the Benghazi Annex was planned in advance by elements of the Al Qaeda Terror Group. As both concocted the evil "video" story they already knew that they had blown numerous chances to plan for the likelyhood of the attack and to have beefed up defenses ready for it. Such a noble move - getting the facility ready to repel an attack - would have endangered the re-election of Obama in 2012 and the election of Clinton this year. At least, that is what they worried about. What they didn't worry about was the lives and well-being of the Americans who would be left to repel the vicious attack with inferior weaponry and inferior numbers of defenders.
If you have the nerve and the patriotic backbone to read this report, you might want to remind yourself that what passes today for the Democratic Party but which is, in fact, little more than a collection of ultra left Anti-Americans, surrounded by bootlickers and others without the wits, the will or the courage to fight back against the gathering clouds of debauchery. This hint: avoid taking deep breaths, because the stench could kill you. Elect Hillary? How did it ever get to this awful point in American History? She lied, and Democrats on the Watergate Committee had to fire her. She lied and cheeted and collected tens of thousands on cattle futures in Arkansas, even though she knew nothing about any of it. Women whom her husband preyed on came forward describing his unfettered debauchery, and this poor excuse for a femminist did everything she could to shut them up and threaten their well-being. One woman was raped by her husband, and she did all she could to shut her up. On and on it went. Benghazi was one of the latest and most debauched. Four died and when their bodies, in coffins, were gathered on an airport tarmac, she went to grieving family members and lied about who was responsible and what she would do to right the wrong. How does a person who does this even declare for the Presidency? How does anyone who knows of this episode - wipe the rest away if you want, and just concentrate on that vignette: a woman going from one grieving family member to another and looking each in the eye and telling a disgusting bald-faced stinking lie about what killed their loved one. And she wants to be President and has such debauched morals that she thinks she has a right to do this? Really? In the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key asks whether the USA is still the land of the free and home of the brave?
We will find out in November.
I did not like the way Trey Gowdy presented his findings yesterday. Like so many other Republicans, he apparently is still of the belief that the mainstream media is capable of telling the truth and playing the role envisioned in the Constitution. But they are not. Time and again they have shown they are little more than shills for the Anti-American Ultra Left. This includes their reports on the Committee Report, which trumpets the lie that it basically exonerates Hillary. It does not, but Gowdy should have said this in no uncertain terms. It was the one chance he had of galvanizing the public about the substance of the report. Instead, Gowdy kept urging reporters and members of the public to read the report and draw their own conclusions. The media will not. They had their stories and headlines about exoneration written and ready to go. Gowdy had to know this.
The report itself is a helpful source of information if you really want to know details of the evil perpetrated by Hillary Clinton. It describes a far left shill far more concerned about the political fall out of doing the right thing. It points out that she quickly came to the conclusion that telling the public honestly about what happened to Ambassador Stevens would badly damage her chances of becoming President in this year's election. So she lied and lied, and with the media's help, still thinks she will get away with it.
Sadly, patherically, it could happen. There are a mind-boggling number of Americans who are willing to give this woman a pass on any evil act, including this one. They are willing to give her a pass and then, incredibly, still voting for her. It is the same thing as voting for Benedict Arnold. Actually, Arnold's evil pales in comparison to the evil of Hillary's actions.
The far left Democratic Members of the Gowdy Committee say Hillary had no direct knowledge that her ambassador wanted beefed up security at the Benghazi Annex, but even that is a direct lie, and Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings should be ashamed of himself for telling it. Hillary was the recipient of an official memorandum one month before the attack by Islamic Terrorists, and the memorandum vividly described the dire situation in Benghazi. Hillary ignored the memo and saw to it that no security upgrades of any kind were made, a move or lack of movement that played a direct role in the death of four Americans at the hands of Islamic Radicals. Even if you believe the minority report's argument that all of the scores of emails and other messages from Stevens about the need to beef up security at the Benghazi Annex never reached Hillary, there is no argument that she did not receive this urgent memo. Hillary Clinton knew the situation in Benghazi and chose to do nothing at all. It was so bad that the folk on the ground in Benghazi, before the attack, were told that having soldiers with machine guns was not pleasing to the eyes. On the night of the prolonged, drawn-out attack, Clinton did everything she could to prevent a military response to the attack. As several elected officials said Tuesday, the world will never know whether USA military assets could have made it to Benghazi in time to make a difference on the night of the attack, because no effort was made to send any. There is the sordid tale of troops in Spain actually changing uniforms multiple times over a four-hour period, and then never leaving for Benghzi at all. The one military unit that did respond went on its own, and included ono of the four Americans killed that evening.
Hilary Clinton needs to be put in jail for a long time, not only for what she did not do before the night of the attack and what she did not do on the night of the attack, but also for her bald-faced lies told to the American Public on the night of the attack. Her conduct is reprehensible. This report, in and of itself, is all the evidence any real American would need to remove her from the Democratic ticket and replace her with somebody who had no part in this sordid and disgusting affair. She is corrupt and a bald-faced liar, but then again, we knew that before yesterday.
The question now is whether we are still decent enough people to do what must be done.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Poland, Wales, Iceland Battle Into Final 8 in Euro 2016; Wales Team Believes It Is One of Destiny; Chile Wins Copa Title After USA Falls in Semi-Final
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - No fewer than three decided underdogs have marched, battled, scratched and scrambled their way into the Final Eight of an increasingly wonderful Euro 2016 Tournament. Upset-minded Wales, Absolutely Determined Poland, and Stunning Iceland scored major victories in their first games of the final stage of this mythical European Championship, setting the stage for a breathtaking quarterfinal round. Meanwhile, Chile has beaten back Argentina on penalty kicks to win the "Copa América Centenario" Tournament, contested in These United States in recent weeks, with the title match played at the Meadowlands on Sunday in front of some 82,000 fans. Team USA performed admirably in the tournament, coming through the Group Stage and winning its Quarterfinal Match over a good Eduador team, 2-1. That put the USA in the tournament semi-final against Argentina on June 21 in Houston. The magic ended there, with the South American side beating the USA, 4-0.
In France, the Knockout Phase, or Finals, began over the weekend. In the first match at St. Etienne, the Swiss and Poland battled for 90 minutes and through extra time and overtime, only to end up tied, 1-1. The New York Times reported that Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his second goal of the tournament to give Poland the lead in the 39th minute with a low shot past Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer. But, according to the AP and the New York Times, a bicycle kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 82nd minute sent the match into extra time. In the penalty kick phase, the New York Times said that Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to score the shootout winner. But Krychowiak only got his moment in the limelight after Shaqiri missed his penalty kick for Switzerland. It was the only missed penalty kick of the ten taken in that final part of the match. Poland will now take on erratic Portugal in the quarter-finals. Portugal defeated Croatia, 1-0, to advance to Thursday's game. Other quarterfinal games pit Germany against Italy and France against Iceland. Germany routed Slovakia, 3-0, while Italy beat back Spain, 2-0. France, the host of the tournament, defeated Ireland, 2-1, while Iceland stunned England, 2-1, after falling behind the heavily favored English, 1-0, on a penalty shot by Wayne Rooney. Iceland struck back only minutes after Rooney's score. Defender Ragnar Sigurdsson tied the game in the fifth minute after Rooney had put England ahead in the fourth minute. And about twelve minutes after Sigurdsson scored, Iceland scored again. It was the last score of the game - a Sigurdsson tackle late in the second half helped prevent England was drawing even - as Iceland played the way England used to and put their hearts and minds into playing technically perfect soccer at the highest level. For England, it was errors everywhere. Joe Hart, the English keeper, could have saved both goals he allowed, and he will have nightmares about the second goal. Hart put a strong hand on the shot as he dove to the post to his right. But instead of defelecting the shot wide, he deflected it into the back of the net. There are over 539 million people living in England. Just 330,000 live on the Icelandic Isle. Amazing.
So, in summary, the final eight will be Poland v. Portugal, Wales v. Belgium, Italy v. Germany and France v. Iceland.
Wales, which has its own national soccer team even though it is part of the United Kingdom, claims an underdog role even though a player deemed one of the world's very best plays for the Welsh Side. Gareth Bale, who plays professionally for Real Madrid, in Spain, is a prolific scorer and spectacular all-around performer with one of the nastiest shots to be seen anywhere. When Wales lost to England in the Group Stage of this Euro 2016 - do you think that game was played with some passion? - Bale gave Wales a 1-0 lead at the half on a long free kick that seemed to change directions before eluding the English Keeper and settling into the net. The Welsh have made the Finals nonetheless, and in its first game it turned back another underdog side, the team from Northern Ireland. The final score was 1-0, with the match's only score coming when Northern Ireland's Gareth McAuley inadvertently poked a nasty Bale cross into the Irish net. A UEFA reporter at the match said that McAuley was forced to risk the result because Bale's cross was coming onto the foot of Wales'.Hal Ronson-Kanu, who was charging the net like his life depended on it. They take soccer very seriously here..
The Wales Squad believes in its heart that it is one of destiny. They have been playing soccer in this relatively obscure corner of the British Isles as long as the game itself has been played; the Welsh Football Association was organized in 1876, about the same time that baseball was getting organized on the other side of the Atlantic pond And Wales has played independent of the English National Team for almost as long. Yet, because they are so small, they have only had enough quality players at the same time to put together one other team that made a serious run at an important international tournament title. That was in 1958, when Wales made it to the quarter-finals of the World Cup, played that year in Sweden. In that legendary quarter-final match, against eventual World Cup Champion Brazil, the Welsh side fell, 1-0, on a goal by a young Pelé. For the uninformed, Pele is regarded as the greatest soccer player ever. The Wales side that year had a player, John Charles, who is mentioned in the same breath as Pelé, at least in the Welsh countryside. As it was, even Wikipedia says that Wales gave Brazil the best game it was to get in the 1958 World Cup. And John Charles couldn't play because of an injury. Even today, the "what if" moniker is applied to that match.
Now, Wales is back in the quarter-finals of a major tournament. The wait for such an opportunity to come to Wales has been 58 years. On Thursday night, Wales will take the pitch at Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille Métropole against powerful Belgium. Ironically, it will be the third meeting between the two sides in the tournament. On November 18, 2014 the two sides battled to a scoreless draw in Brussels. Then, on June 12, 2015 in Cardiff, Wales, the Welsh got a goal from Bale to win, 1-0. It virtually assured that Wales would play in the finals in France, this summer.
Euro 2016: Just 8 Remain in Title Hunt; Poland Downs Switzerland on Penalty Kicks;
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Monday, June 27, 2016 - Upset-minded Wales and Poland have marched into the Final Eight of the Euro 2016 Championship Tournament, being contested over the last month throughout France. Meanwhile, Chile has beaten back Argentina on penalty kicks to win the "Copa América Centenario" Tournament, contested in These United States in recent weeks, with the title match played at the Meadowlands on Sunday in front of some 82,000 fans. Team USA performed admirably in the tournament, coming through the Group Stage and winning its Quarterfinal Match over a good Eduador team, 2-1. That put the USA in the tournament semi-final against Argentina on June 21 in Houston. The magic ended there, with the South American side beating the USA, 4-0.
In France, the Knockout Phase, or Finals, began over the weekend. In the first match at St. Etienne, the Swiss and Poland battled for 90 minutes and through extra time and overtime, only to end up tied, 1-1. The New York Times reported that Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his second goal of the tournament to give Poland the lead in the 39th minute with a low shot past Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer. But, according to the AP and the New York Times, a bicycle kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 82nd minute sent the match into extra time. In the penalty kick phase, the New York Times said that Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to score the shootout winner. But Krychowiak only got his moment in the limelight after Shaqiri missed his penalty kick for Switzerland. It was the only missed penalty kick of the ten taken in that final part of the match. Poland will now take on erratic Portugal in the quarter-finals.
Wales, which has its own national soccer team even though it is part of the United Kingdom, claims an underdog role even though a player deemed one of the world's very best plays for the Welsh Side. Gareth Bale, who plays professionally for Barcelona, in Spain, is a prolific scorer with one of the nastiest shots to be seen anywhere. When Wales lost to England in the Group Stage - do you think that game was played with some passion? - Bale gave Wales a 1-0 lead at the half on a long free kick that seemed to change directions before settling into the net. The Welsh made the Finals nonetheless, and in its first game it turned back another underdog side, the team from Northern Ireland. The final score was 1-0, with the match's only score coming when Northern Ireland's Gareth McAuley inadvertently poked a nasty Bale cross into the Irish net. A UEFA reporter at the match said that McAuley was forced to risk the result because Bale's cross was coming onto the foot of Wales'.
In France, the Knockout Phase, or Finals, began over the weekend. In the first match at St. Etienne, the Swiss and Poland battled for 90 minutes and through extra time and overtime, only to end up tied, 1-1. The New York Times reported that Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his second goal of the tournament to give Poland the lead in the 39th minute with a low shot past Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer. But, according to the AP and the New York Times, a bicycle kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 82nd minute sent the match into extra time. In the penalty kick phase, the New York Times said that Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to score the shootout winner. But Krychowiak only got his moment in the limelight after Shaqiri missed his penalty kick for Switzerland. It was the only missed penalty kick of the ten taken in that final part of the match. Poland will now take on erratic Portugal in the quarter-finals.
Wales, which has its own national soccer team even though it is part of the United Kingdom, claims an underdog role even though a player deemed one of the world's very best plays for the Welsh Side. Gareth Bale, who plays professionally for Barcelona, in Spain, is a prolific scorer with one of the nastiest shots to be seen anywhere. When Wales lost to England in the Group Stage - do you think that game was played with some passion? - Bale gave Wales a 1-0 lead at the half on a long free kick that seemed to change directions before settling into the net. The Welsh made the Finals nonetheless, and in its first game it turned back another underdog side, the team from Northern Ireland. The final score was 1-0, with the match's only score coming when Northern Ireland's Gareth McAuley inadvertently poked a nasty Bale cross into the Irish net. A UEFA reporter at the match said that McAuley was forced to risk the result because Bale's cross was coming onto the foot of Wales'.
Monday, June 27, 2016
Euro 2016: Poland and Wales Play Into Quarterfinals; Wales Defeats Northern Ireland as Bale Stars; Poland Beats Back Switzerland on Penalty Kicks; Germany Crushes Slovakia, to Play Winner of Italy and Spain; Chile Beats Argentina in Copa Final
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Monday, June 27, 2016 - Two upset-minded sides - Wales and Poland - have marched into the Final Eight of the Euro 2016 Championship Tournament, being contested over the last month throughout France. In the first match of the final part of the tournament, Poland beat back Switzerland by winning the Penalty Kick Stage, 5-4. The teams had battled ferociously throughout regulation and overtime, but "regular play" ended with the two teams tied, 1-1. Meanwhile, Chile has beaten back Argentina on penalty kicks to win the "Copa América Centenario" Tournament, contested in These United States in recent weeks, with the title match played at the Meadowlands on Sunday in front of some 82,000 fans. Team USA performed admirably in the tournament, coming through the Group Stage and winning its Quarterfinal Match over a good Ecuador team, 2-1. That put the USA in the tournament semi-final against Argentina on June 21 in Houston. The magic ended there, with the South American side beating the USA, 4-0.
In France, the Knockout Phase, or Finals, began over the weekend with the 16 qualifying teams taking part in the now-single elimination last stage. In the first match at St. Etienne, the Swiss and Poland battled for 90 minutes and through extra time and overtime, only to end up tied, 1-1. The New York Times reported that Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his second goal of the tournament to give Poland the lead in the 39th minute with a low shot past Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer. But, according to the AP and the New York Times, a bicycle kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 82nd minute sent the match into extra time. In the penalty kick phase, the New York Times said that Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to score the shootout winner. But Krychowiak only got his moment in the limelight after Shaqiri missed his penalty kick for Switzerland. It was the only missed penalty kick of the ten taken in that final part of the match. Poland will now take on erratic Portugal in the quarter-finals.
Wales, which has its own national soccer team even though it is part of the United Kingdom, claims an underdog role even though a player deemed one of the world's very best plays for the Welsh Side. Gareth Bale, who plays professionally for Real Madrid, in Spain, is a prolific scorer with one of the nastiest shots to be seen anywhere. When Wales lost to England in the Group Stage - do you think that game was played with some passion? - Bale gave Wales a 1-0 lead at the half on a long free kick that seemed to change directions before settling into the net. The Welsh made the Finals nonetheless, and in its first game it turned back another underdog side, the team from Northern Ireland. The final score was 1-0, with the match's only score coming when Northern Ireland's Gareth McAuley inadvertently poked a nasty Bale cross into the Irish net. A UEFA reporter at the match said that McAuley was forced to risk the result because Bale's cross was coming onto the foot of Wales' Hal Robson-Kanu, who was charging the net.
Also in France, Germany crushed Slovakia, 3-0; Portugal defeated Croatia, 1-0; Homestanding France defeated Ireland, 2-1; and Belgium rocked Hungary, 4-0. Today there are two matches to determine the final two qualifiers for the Round of Eight. As I post this, Italy and Spain are scoreless in the 27th minute. Later, England will collide with Iceland.
Some of the match-ups for the Round of Eight are already known. The first quarterfinal match will be played Thursday when Poland takes on Portugal in Marseilles. On Friday, Wales tangles with Belgium at Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille Métropole. On Saturday, Germany will take on the winner of the match today between Italy and Spain. That game will be played in Bordeaux. And, naturally, on Sunday the home team, France, will take on the winner of today's game between England and Iceland. That spectacle will be played at St. Denis. The semi-finals are set for July 6 in Lyon and July 7 in Marseilles. The championship will take place on Sunday, July 10 in St. Denis.
As an aside, Burnley fans already know that Claret Striker Sam Vokes is one of two starting strikers for Wales. When Belgium edged Wales in the Group Stage of this tournament, Vokes was still recovering from the serious knee injury which kept him out of action for nearly one year. His return to health and the acquisition of Andre Gray has given Burnley high hopes that its season in the Premier League that is coming up will be far different than the last appearance two seasons back, when the Claret played terrific defense but just could not score. Now, Vokes is fully recovered and Green is coming off a stunning campaign in which he led the Championship in scoring.
In France, the Knockout Phase, or Finals, began over the weekend with the 16 qualifying teams taking part in the now-single elimination last stage. In the first match at St. Etienne, the Swiss and Poland battled for 90 minutes and through extra time and overtime, only to end up tied, 1-1. The New York Times reported that Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his second goal of the tournament to give Poland the lead in the 39th minute with a low shot past Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer. But, according to the AP and the New York Times, a bicycle kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 82nd minute sent the match into extra time. In the penalty kick phase, the New York Times said that Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to score the shootout winner. But Krychowiak only got his moment in the limelight after Shaqiri missed his penalty kick for Switzerland. It was the only missed penalty kick of the ten taken in that final part of the match. Poland will now take on erratic Portugal in the quarter-finals.
Wales, which has its own national soccer team even though it is part of the United Kingdom, claims an underdog role even though a player deemed one of the world's very best plays for the Welsh Side. Gareth Bale, who plays professionally for Real Madrid, in Spain, is a prolific scorer with one of the nastiest shots to be seen anywhere. When Wales lost to England in the Group Stage - do you think that game was played with some passion? - Bale gave Wales a 1-0 lead at the half on a long free kick that seemed to change directions before settling into the net. The Welsh made the Finals nonetheless, and in its first game it turned back another underdog side, the team from Northern Ireland. The final score was 1-0, with the match's only score coming when Northern Ireland's Gareth McAuley inadvertently poked a nasty Bale cross into the Irish net. A UEFA reporter at the match said that McAuley was forced to risk the result because Bale's cross was coming onto the foot of Wales' Hal Robson-Kanu, who was charging the net.
Also in France, Germany crushed Slovakia, 3-0; Portugal defeated Croatia, 1-0; Homestanding France defeated Ireland, 2-1; and Belgium rocked Hungary, 4-0. Today there are two matches to determine the final two qualifiers for the Round of Eight. As I post this, Italy and Spain are scoreless in the 27th minute. Later, England will collide with Iceland.
Some of the match-ups for the Round of Eight are already known. The first quarterfinal match will be played Thursday when Poland takes on Portugal in Marseilles. On Friday, Wales tangles with Belgium at Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille Métropole. On Saturday, Germany will take on the winner of the match today between Italy and Spain. That game will be played in Bordeaux. And, naturally, on Sunday the home team, France, will take on the winner of today's game between England and Iceland. That spectacle will be played at St. Denis. The semi-finals are set for July 6 in Lyon and July 7 in Marseilles. The championship will take place on Sunday, July 10 in St. Denis.
As an aside, Burnley fans already know that Claret Striker Sam Vokes is one of two starting strikers for Wales. When Belgium edged Wales in the Group Stage of this tournament, Vokes was still recovering from the serious knee injury which kept him out of action for nearly one year. His return to health and the acquisition of Andre Gray has given Burnley high hopes that its season in the Premier League that is coming up will be far different than the last appearance two seasons back, when the Claret played terrific defense but just could not score. Now, Vokes is fully recovered and Green is coming off a stunning campaign in which he led the Championship in scoring.
Saturday, June 25, 2016
In United Kingdom Vote to Leave EU, English Reject Obama's Advice to Do Just the Opposite; Orioles Continue to Lead AL East
BALTIMORE, Maryland Saturday, June 25, 2016 - A political commentator suggested today that the decision by English voters to withdraw their their nation from the European Union was a watershed event in world history. It will be seen in years to come as the beginning of a trend by "the people" to take back their governments. By taking them back, he suggested, he meant taking decision making away from government bureaucrats and putting back with the people, where it should have been all along. He pointed out that Barack Obama had gone to the United Kingdom and pleaded with the people to avoid doing exactly what they ended up doing. Although some mainstream commentators want you to believe that this vote is grounded in arcane European issues having nothing to do with what is going on in America, exactly the opposite is actually true. In the United States right now a groundswell of the people want immigration slowed down or even stopped until the government finds a way of vetting refugees in some depth. Even as Barack Obama rushes Middle Eastern Refugees into the United States - apparently because he believes they will form a staple of democratic ultra left voters for years to come - most of the people are shocked that he would risk mayhem and terrorism just for political reasons. Others point out that everything is about ultra left politics in Obama's mindset. The more people learn about ultra far left political machinations, the more they tend to vote against ultra left politicians.
If any of this actually pans out, Hilary might lose even if she somehow avoids indictment.
Sports: Look at the MLB standings this Saturday morning and you will notice that only one American League team has a better record than the Orioles. It is stunning when you consider the very shaky nature of the Birds' starting rotation. Chris Tillman should pitch in the All Star Game, and I believe Kevin Gauman has a chance to emerge in the second half (As this is posted, he is pitching a shutout into the 7th inning against the Rays, and might actually get his first win.) Gausman gets very poor run support for whatever reason. Tillman gets great support. Almost everybody on the Orioles staff gets great support. That is why they have a 1.5 game lead in the American League East. They went 2-2 during Manny Machado's four game suspension. The Orioles lead Tampa, 3-0, in the daytime portion of their day-night doubleheader in Baltimore. Tillman will start the nightcap. In his first game back from the suspension, last night, Machado surprised no one when he homered. He has a huge lead in the voting for starting third baseman on the All Star team.
If any of this actually pans out, Hilary might lose even if she somehow avoids indictment.
Sports: Look at the MLB standings this Saturday morning and you will notice that only one American League team has a better record than the Orioles. It is stunning when you consider the very shaky nature of the Birds' starting rotation. Chris Tillman should pitch in the All Star Game, and I believe Kevin Gauman has a chance to emerge in the second half (As this is posted, he is pitching a shutout into the 7th inning against the Rays, and might actually get his first win.) Gausman gets very poor run support for whatever reason. Tillman gets great support. Almost everybody on the Orioles staff gets great support. That is why they have a 1.5 game lead in the American League East. They went 2-2 during Manny Machado's four game suspension. The Orioles lead Tampa, 3-0, in the daytime portion of their day-night doubleheader in Baltimore. Tillman will start the nightcap. In his first game back from the suspension, last night, Machado surprised no one when he homered. He has a huge lead in the voting for starting third baseman on the All Star team.
Friday, June 24, 2016
A 5-Year-Old is Sexually Assaulted and Brutalized by Three Children of Obama's Refugees; Mainstream Media Hides the News.
BALTIMORE, Maryland June 24, 2016 - In Twin Falls, Idaho, a 5-year-old girl with "special needs," was playing outside of her parents' apartment house. Playing. Just playing. A five-year-old child with profound medical needs. As this article is reported, I have no idea whether the child was white, black, Latin, Asian, Muslim or Christian.
Suddenly, and without any sort of provocation of any kind, the small child was grotesquely sexually assaulted by three other children: one was 13 but the other two, it appears, weren't much older than the victim. These three assailants were Muslim Immigrants. They forced the little girl into a laundry room, where they pinned her to a wall, urinated in her mouth, then sexually assaulted her and committed other unspeakable atrocities on her and against her. Remember, the victim is five, and with profound medical problems. The entire incident - or most of it - was videoed by one of the assailants and the video is in the possession of local police. The victim was eventually taken to a local hospital, which was able to confirm the sexual assault. At some point during the assault an 89-year-old woman happened upon it. In short order the parents of the victim arrived at the scene.
After the incident, scores of mainstream media outlets ran stories, not about the incident itself, but to the effect that the entire incident was contrived by conservatives. Instead of steady factual reporting about the horrific attack, the news media ran stories that everything was made up by conservative folk.
The story was not contrived by anyone. What happened in Twin Falls, Idaho is cold hard reality.
While true accounts of the event are absent from the mainstream media, there are factual accounts out there on the internet. These accounts are in blogs like the one you are reading, and on conservative media sites. The incident is being talked about by millions upon millions of American Citizens who listen to talk radio. Other minor media outlets have accounts that are in graphic detail. There is no way to report such a horrific attack except in such detail. Otherwise, people would not believe such an incident would be possible in These United States.
Three Muslim children commit an unspeakable crime against the most innocent of victims. Other assaults by Muslim immigrants are also being scrubbed, routinely, from mainstream media outlets by the people who operate them. It is hard for me to accept, in fact, it is impossible for me to accept, that Muslim folk would believe this type of event was acceptable. But most of them don't know about it. Were this or any other criminal act perpetrated by Christians of any number or age, it would be splashed all over everything. How sick has the media become to allow a situation such as this to exist. I was taught in journalism school that reporting the truth in all of its raw and awful 'splendor' is the highest calling of a journalist. If reporters everywhere commit to this principal, we were taught that the overall truth would inevitably emerge. In the years since I graduated, have we learned that this premise is no longer true? We have not. What nobleness, what glory, what satisfaction is there for mass reporting of untruth? What joy is there in keeping truth buried and promoting untruth? If society as a whole knew about Twin Falls and knew about Germany on New Year's Eve, the criminals perpetrating these evils would be confronted, certainly and with authority. The fight against evil like this would be joined. Now, these acts are done with relative impunity. How sick is that? What have we done to ourselves to allow such a situation? What is wrong with Obama that he allows such events without bringing the bully pulpit to bear against them? Were I in power (God Forbid) and certain Christians were going about doing evil acts to Muslims or Jews or whomever, I would act with certain quick authority and would make clear that neither society nor Christianity would tolerate such debauchery. For the sake of a very uncertain gain of political power, I would not permit such madness into my country. I would do what had to be done to ensure that the people who came in did not include terrorists or criminals or, for that matter, people who did not care to assimilate into the American culture. Or is American culture so backward that no one wants to live here anymore? Doesn't the number of people storming the borders convince Obama that this is not true?
I really really hate to write about stuff like this. I hate drawing the differences that exist between the citizens of this country out into the open, where I heap scorn on one group and praise on others. But what occurred in Twin Falls should not have happened. Obama knows that. He should demand action to prevent its happening again. Instead, he literally perpetrates a repeat.
When terrorism strikes again and again, stand up to it. Act against it. Do not try to hide it under the guise of some other perceived evil. Somethings demand action or, at least, enlightened discussion. Orlando and Berkeley and Tennessee and Fort Hood are linked together by one thing: Islamic Terrorism. To say otherwise is an attempt to change the subject and it is evil to do so at such a critical juncture in the life of our nation. A perceived benefit to the ultra left political party is never ever more important than protecting all of the people, especially when so many of them elected you to protect them.
So there are these questions: How evil are the parents of the three assailants that their three children think what they did to an innocent five-year-old girl is an acceptable thing to do? How did the three assailants even get the idea to attack a young girl, urinate in her mouth, sexually assault her, and commit other unspeakable acts against her?
A real government would demand such answers and would do everything imaginable to keep this evil from being repeated. A government that refuses to seek these answers is not worthy of its existence. Americans need to act swiftly to change it. Anyone unwilling to demand such answers should not come to power. But I bet Obama and Hillary won't even speak to the evil unless the public demands it, and the public today won't demand it because most of them will never know about it. Obama and Hillary know about it, of that you can be sure. Their only instructions to subordinates will be to keep the incident quiet and promote the idea that the whole thing was made up by the right. Just look what the two of them did after the Benghazi attack. I'm a liberal, and I know that is what ultra leftists of the kind we're stuck with will do when they know their ideas for ending the America most of us treasure with our very lives really isn't working. The enemy of America has slithered into the inner rooms of power. It is doing unspeakable things to those places that tens of thousands of the best and brightest gave their lives to build and protect. It is Obama and it is Hilary.
It used to be that America's enemies, knowing they had failed to bring America down, would boast aloud that America would be defeated some day soon by a conqueror who would bring us down without ever firing a shot. Now the conqueror who will perpetrate that defeat is here in our midst and is in the final stage of inflicting that defeat. By the end of January the destruction will be all but complete. And, thanks to the mainstream media, we can't even locate the shooter. God knows what kinds of things Obama will do in these final months. I hope somewhere there are leaders - either Democrat or Republican - who have the courage to prevent this evil. It might even be someone who, up to now, hasn't seemed the kind of person who possesses that kind of moral clarity.
If you live in these United States and it doesn't bother every core part of your being that your "president" is rushing, as fast as he possibly can, to get as many foreign people from the Middle East and North Africa into the United States as he possibly can during his last months in power, even though he knows that most of them will never assimilate into this nation, and he also knows, for sure, that an unknown number of them may very well do irreparable harm to this country.
Each day I wonder just how evil Obama really and truly is. It used to really really bother me that I perceived him to be more evil with each passing day. I thought there was something wrong with me because it was hard for me to accept that my president was this kind of person. Was my president really this kind of person? Does he really think that the American people are evil and have wrongly stolen things from other people and other nations? Does he not see in our founding documents that the people he governs have the most noble of aims and praiseworthy of intentions? Is he blind to the good the millions of Americans have done in these last 240 years?
Finally, I came to understand and, reluctantly, accept that Obama really is against the core beliefs and the actual foundation of the country he was elected to govern. Even though he stood before millions of American Citizens and vowed, with his hand of the Holy Bible, that he would "preserve and protect" this nation, "uphold" its laws and its precepts, Obama never intended to do any of it. Apparently, right from the git-go, Obama intended to tear into all things American and do everything he could, right from his first day in office, to tear down the American nation, emaciate its power, hamstring its ability to react to calamity, and destroy its ability to confront and defeat America's powerful enemies. He was, from his initial moments as head of These United States, the consummate wolf in sheep's clothing. He was, with every step he took, with every breath he drew, searching frantically for ways to cripple the people he governs. Obamacare was the first step. It ruined the best, most noble medical system that had ever existed on earth, one that provided essential medical treatment to every single person who sought it out, no matter their ability to pay. In its place was placed an old, clumsy, witless jumble of disastrous laws and useless, if not harmful regulations that sucked money and energy from everybody and everything it came in contact with. Obama's "signature" legislative proposal provided no semblance of quality medical care to any American, provided no semblance of long term policy success, no semblance of the kind of shining house on the hill that the medical system it replaced showed every single day that it existed in this American Nation. Obamacare was literally like replacing Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays with a crotchety old man who had sat on the bench of the Little League Team his parents forced him to try out for.
Americans caught on to Obama's real intentions in leaps and bounds over these past 7 and one-half years. Within two years the USA withdrew its blanket legislative authority from Obama when it gave the majority in the House of Representatives back to the GOP. But two years after that Obama won re-election, an event that continues to baffle many historians who watch this nation for hopeful signs and trends. Did Obama somehow steal that election four years ago? We know he tried, with his plans to repress tea party groups seeking to organize. We know he tried with his "Acorn" organizations. We know that he paved the way for outside money sources - the George Soros's of the world - to spend their millions on ultra-left causes. But the answer to the re-election question might lie in the deep-seated belief of many Americans that wrongs had been committed against black Americans, and the people who were wronged should not have their first go at real political power cut short before it/he gets a chance to really govern. That is a folly, but forgivable folly. Almost all Americans would be only too happy to vote for a Black American, a Latin American, an Asian American or any other American so long as he or she was the best candidate. It is the "best candidate" moniker that matters, not the ethnic nameplate that precedes it. Nevertheless, Obama did get four more years. They have been nightmarish. Two years after he was again elected, America took away Democratic control of all of the Congress. But the GOP has been abysmal also.
Today, in the final months of Obama's stay in power, he seems almost unafraid of being "found out" as someone who hates America. Its as if he is laughing at us and saying, "what took you so long to find me out?"
Obama really does want to destroy the United States; his idea of allowing as many folk who think like he does into the country is only the latest manifestation of that. Remember when he had his flunkies round up a bunch of women and children, then had media types video him with these people while he told viewers that this is what the refugees he is inviting in look like? They aren't evil, he said, straight-faced, they are innocent women and children. He knew he was playing bald-faced liar once again. He didn't care how obvious that it was. He was getting out in 2017 and history would know the secret of his long term intentions right from the first day he was just a citizen again. He "fooled" us for 8 years but the charade is over.
Tens of thousands of people are streaming into the United States in these final days of the Obama regime. Among them are unvetted terrorists, whether a dozen or a hundred or a thousand or several thousand. Among them, also, are the type that spread evil in Twin Falls, Idaho. And all the while, the media and the ultra left are laughing and saying, 'so what?' What difference does it make now that you know?
The only thing Obama says is to the tens of thousands who are now crossing the American borders. That message is, "hurry up."
Suddenly, and without any sort of provocation of any kind, the small child was grotesquely sexually assaulted by three other children: one was 13 but the other two, it appears, weren't much older than the victim. These three assailants were Muslim Immigrants. They forced the little girl into a laundry room, where they pinned her to a wall, urinated in her mouth, then sexually assaulted her and committed other unspeakable atrocities on her and against her. Remember, the victim is five, and with profound medical problems. The entire incident - or most of it - was videoed by one of the assailants and the video is in the possession of local police. The victim was eventually taken to a local hospital, which was able to confirm the sexual assault. At some point during the assault an 89-year-old woman happened upon it. In short order the parents of the victim arrived at the scene.
After the incident, scores of mainstream media outlets ran stories, not about the incident itself, but to the effect that the entire incident was contrived by conservatives. Instead of steady factual reporting about the horrific attack, the news media ran stories that everything was made up by conservative folk.
The story was not contrived by anyone. What happened in Twin Falls, Idaho is cold hard reality.
While true accounts of the event are absent from the mainstream media, there are factual accounts out there on the internet. These accounts are in blogs like the one you are reading, and on conservative media sites. The incident is being talked about by millions upon millions of American Citizens who listen to talk radio. Other minor media outlets have accounts that are in graphic detail. There is no way to report such a horrific attack except in such detail. Otherwise, people would not believe such an incident would be possible in These United States.
Three Muslim children commit an unspeakable crime against the most innocent of victims. Other assaults by Muslim immigrants are also being scrubbed, routinely, from mainstream media outlets by the people who operate them. It is hard for me to accept, in fact, it is impossible for me to accept, that Muslim folk would believe this type of event was acceptable. But most of them don't know about it. Were this or any other criminal act perpetrated by Christians of any number or age, it would be splashed all over everything. How sick has the media become to allow a situation such as this to exist. I was taught in journalism school that reporting the truth in all of its raw and awful 'splendor' is the highest calling of a journalist. If reporters everywhere commit to this principal, we were taught that the overall truth would inevitably emerge. In the years since I graduated, have we learned that this premise is no longer true? We have not. What nobleness, what glory, what satisfaction is there for mass reporting of untruth? What joy is there in keeping truth buried and promoting untruth? If society as a whole knew about Twin Falls and knew about Germany on New Year's Eve, the criminals perpetrating these evils would be confronted, certainly and with authority. The fight against evil like this would be joined. Now, these acts are done with relative impunity. How sick is that? What have we done to ourselves to allow such a situation? What is wrong with Obama that he allows such events without bringing the bully pulpit to bear against them? Were I in power (God Forbid) and certain Christians were going about doing evil acts to Muslims or Jews or whomever, I would act with certain quick authority and would make clear that neither society nor Christianity would tolerate such debauchery. For the sake of a very uncertain gain of political power, I would not permit such madness into my country. I would do what had to be done to ensure that the people who came in did not include terrorists or criminals or, for that matter, people who did not care to assimilate into the American culture. Or is American culture so backward that no one wants to live here anymore? Doesn't the number of people storming the borders convince Obama that this is not true?
I really really hate to write about stuff like this. I hate drawing the differences that exist between the citizens of this country out into the open, where I heap scorn on one group and praise on others. But what occurred in Twin Falls should not have happened. Obama knows that. He should demand action to prevent its happening again. Instead, he literally perpetrates a repeat.
When terrorism strikes again and again, stand up to it. Act against it. Do not try to hide it under the guise of some other perceived evil. Somethings demand action or, at least, enlightened discussion. Orlando and Berkeley and Tennessee and Fort Hood are linked together by one thing: Islamic Terrorism. To say otherwise is an attempt to change the subject and it is evil to do so at such a critical juncture in the life of our nation. A perceived benefit to the ultra left political party is never ever more important than protecting all of the people, especially when so many of them elected you to protect them.
So there are these questions: How evil are the parents of the three assailants that their three children think what they did to an innocent five-year-old girl is an acceptable thing to do? How did the three assailants even get the idea to attack a young girl, urinate in her mouth, sexually assault her, and commit other unspeakable acts against her?
A real government would demand such answers and would do everything imaginable to keep this evil from being repeated. A government that refuses to seek these answers is not worthy of its existence. Americans need to act swiftly to change it. Anyone unwilling to demand such answers should not come to power. But I bet Obama and Hillary won't even speak to the evil unless the public demands it, and the public today won't demand it because most of them will never know about it. Obama and Hillary know about it, of that you can be sure. Their only instructions to subordinates will be to keep the incident quiet and promote the idea that the whole thing was made up by the right. Just look what the two of them did after the Benghazi attack. I'm a liberal, and I know that is what ultra leftists of the kind we're stuck with will do when they know their ideas for ending the America most of us treasure with our very lives really isn't working. The enemy of America has slithered into the inner rooms of power. It is doing unspeakable things to those places that tens of thousands of the best and brightest gave their lives to build and protect. It is Obama and it is Hilary.
It used to be that America's enemies, knowing they had failed to bring America down, would boast aloud that America would be defeated some day soon by a conqueror who would bring us down without ever firing a shot. Now the conqueror who will perpetrate that defeat is here in our midst and is in the final stage of inflicting that defeat. By the end of January the destruction will be all but complete. And, thanks to the mainstream media, we can't even locate the shooter. God knows what kinds of things Obama will do in these final months. I hope somewhere there are leaders - either Democrat or Republican - who have the courage to prevent this evil. It might even be someone who, up to now, hasn't seemed the kind of person who possesses that kind of moral clarity.
If you live in these United States and it doesn't bother every core part of your being that your "president" is rushing, as fast as he possibly can, to get as many foreign people from the Middle East and North Africa into the United States as he possibly can during his last months in power, even though he knows that most of them will never assimilate into this nation, and he also knows, for sure, that an unknown number of them may very well do irreparable harm to this country.
Each day I wonder just how evil Obama really and truly is. It used to really really bother me that I perceived him to be more evil with each passing day. I thought there was something wrong with me because it was hard for me to accept that my president was this kind of person. Was my president really this kind of person? Does he really think that the American people are evil and have wrongly stolen things from other people and other nations? Does he not see in our founding documents that the people he governs have the most noble of aims and praiseworthy of intentions? Is he blind to the good the millions of Americans have done in these last 240 years?
Finally, I came to understand and, reluctantly, accept that Obama really is against the core beliefs and the actual foundation of the country he was elected to govern. Even though he stood before millions of American Citizens and vowed, with his hand of the Holy Bible, that he would "preserve and protect" this nation, "uphold" its laws and its precepts, Obama never intended to do any of it. Apparently, right from the git-go, Obama intended to tear into all things American and do everything he could, right from his first day in office, to tear down the American nation, emaciate its power, hamstring its ability to react to calamity, and destroy its ability to confront and defeat America's powerful enemies. He was, from his initial moments as head of These United States, the consummate wolf in sheep's clothing. He was, with every step he took, with every breath he drew, searching frantically for ways to cripple the people he governs. Obamacare was the first step. It ruined the best, most noble medical system that had ever existed on earth, one that provided essential medical treatment to every single person who sought it out, no matter their ability to pay. In its place was placed an old, clumsy, witless jumble of disastrous laws and useless, if not harmful regulations that sucked money and energy from everybody and everything it came in contact with. Obama's "signature" legislative proposal provided no semblance of quality medical care to any American, provided no semblance of long term policy success, no semblance of the kind of shining house on the hill that the medical system it replaced showed every single day that it existed in this American Nation. Obamacare was literally like replacing Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays with a crotchety old man who had sat on the bench of the Little League Team his parents forced him to try out for.
Americans caught on to Obama's real intentions in leaps and bounds over these past 7 and one-half years. Within two years the USA withdrew its blanket legislative authority from Obama when it gave the majority in the House of Representatives back to the GOP. But two years after that Obama won re-election, an event that continues to baffle many historians who watch this nation for hopeful signs and trends. Did Obama somehow steal that election four years ago? We know he tried, with his plans to repress tea party groups seeking to organize. We know he tried with his "Acorn" organizations. We know that he paved the way for outside money sources - the George Soros's of the world - to spend their millions on ultra-left causes. But the answer to the re-election question might lie in the deep-seated belief of many Americans that wrongs had been committed against black Americans, and the people who were wronged should not have their first go at real political power cut short before it/he gets a chance to really govern. That is a folly, but forgivable folly. Almost all Americans would be only too happy to vote for a Black American, a Latin American, an Asian American or any other American so long as he or she was the best candidate. It is the "best candidate" moniker that matters, not the ethnic nameplate that precedes it. Nevertheless, Obama did get four more years. They have been nightmarish. Two years after he was again elected, America took away Democratic control of all of the Congress. But the GOP has been abysmal also.
Today, in the final months of Obama's stay in power, he seems almost unafraid of being "found out" as someone who hates America. Its as if he is laughing at us and saying, "what took you so long to find me out?"
Obama really does want to destroy the United States; his idea of allowing as many folk who think like he does into the country is only the latest manifestation of that. Remember when he had his flunkies round up a bunch of women and children, then had media types video him with these people while he told viewers that this is what the refugees he is inviting in look like? They aren't evil, he said, straight-faced, they are innocent women and children. He knew he was playing bald-faced liar once again. He didn't care how obvious that it was. He was getting out in 2017 and history would know the secret of his long term intentions right from the first day he was just a citizen again. He "fooled" us for 8 years but the charade is over.
Tens of thousands of people are streaming into the United States in these final days of the Obama regime. Among them are unvetted terrorists, whether a dozen or a hundred or a thousand or several thousand. Among them, also, are the type that spread evil in Twin Falls, Idaho. And all the while, the media and the ultra left are laughing and saying, 'so what?' What difference does it make now that you know?
The only thing Obama says is to the tens of thousands who are now crossing the American borders. That message is, "hurry up."
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Update: Police Officer Acquitted On All Charges in Baltimore Death of Freddie Gray; City and State Were Prepared for Unrest, But Few Protests Were Without Violence
BALTIMORE, Maryland - Thursday, June 23, 2016 - A Baltimore City Police Officer considered the primary defendant among the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, has been acquitted of all charges, including "depraved heart murder," by a Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge. Officer Cesar Goodson was acquitted by Judge Barry Williams, the same judge who also acquitted the only other police officer whose case has come to a final decision. A third officer, who chose a jury trial, saw his case end in a hung jury, and is scheduled to be retried. The jury in that case was said to be split, 11-1, in favor of acquittal.
Freddie Gray was a reputed drug dealer who was ensconced on an infamous street corner when a group of officers, some on bicycles, arrived on the scene. Upon making eye contact with one of the bicycle officers, Gray fled but was apprehended and, when a search turned up a large knife, was arrested. He claimed injury at various times in the immediate aftermath of his arrest, but other evidence produced in the trials indicated that Gray was not seriously injured until sometime after all but one of a series of stops that the police van transporting him was required to make. When the van arrived at its final stop, however, Gray was unresponsive and was found to have broken his neck. He died one week later in Maryland's Shock Trauma Unit in Baltimore. The cause of his injury remains unresolved, although there was some evidence that Gray intentionally sought to in- jure himself. Riots broke out after Gray's death and the Baltimore State's Attorney, Marian Mosbey, announced charges against all six police officers who responded to the scene of the arrest. The second degree murder charge against Officer Goodson was by far the most serious.
In making his announcement of acquittal Thursday morning, Judge Williams said that the State had never proved the premise of the charges against Officer Goodson: a so-called "rough ride" by the driver of the police van to punish the arrested person(s). No person testified that Goodson drove in such a way so as to injure Mr. Gray.
Every arrested officer except Goodson has brought suit against Mosbey and others in federal court, claiming that the State's Attorney defamed the officers without just cause. All of those civil suits are pending.
Testimony and closing arguments in the Goodson case ended on Tuesday, but Judge Williams announced that he would reveal his verdict Thursday morning. There was speculation immediately that the Judge had decided to acquit and wanted to give Government Officials time to get their police and other government response units ready in case violence erupted. By mid-afternoon on Thursday there had been protests but no violence. Many Baltimore citizens were outright relieved that no violence ensued.
This writer had voiced criticism of Judge Williams' decision to keep the venue of the trial in Baltimore instead of moving it to another Maryland jurisdiction. Defendants had argued for the change in venue because of the riots sparked by the death of Freddie Gray. Baltimore was in a state of siege for many days and the National Guard was deployed after widespread rioting and looting and property destruction. A string of arson fires also took place and many drug stores were looted and robbed of their supplies of narcotic drugs. The Defendants argued that potential jurors would be intimidated by the riots into believing that unless they found the defendants guilty, further violence would ensue. As it turned out, Judge Williams, and not this writer, was correct.
Freddie Gray was a reputed drug dealer who was ensconced on an infamous street corner when a group of officers, some on bicycles, arrived on the scene. Upon making eye contact with one of the bicycle officers, Gray fled but was apprehended and, when a search turned up a large knife, was arrested. He claimed injury at various times in the immediate aftermath of his arrest, but other evidence produced in the trials indicated that Gray was not seriously injured until sometime after all but one of a series of stops that the police van transporting him was required to make. When the van arrived at its final stop, however, Gray was unresponsive and was found to have broken his neck. He died one week later in Maryland's Shock Trauma Unit in Baltimore. The cause of his injury remains unresolved, although there was some evidence that Gray intentionally sought to in- jure himself. Riots broke out after Gray's death and the Baltimore State's Attorney, Marian Mosbey, announced charges against all six police officers who responded to the scene of the arrest. The second degree murder charge against Officer Goodson was by far the most serious.
In making his announcement of acquittal Thursday morning, Judge Williams said that the State had never proved the premise of the charges against Officer Goodson: a so-called "rough ride" by the driver of the police van to punish the arrested person(s). No person testified that Goodson drove in such a way so as to injure Mr. Gray.
Every arrested officer except Goodson has brought suit against Mosbey and others in federal court, claiming that the State's Attorney defamed the officers without just cause. All of those civil suits are pending.
Testimony and closing arguments in the Goodson case ended on Tuesday, but Judge Williams announced that he would reveal his verdict Thursday morning. There was speculation immediately that the Judge had decided to acquit and wanted to give Government Officials time to get their police and other government response units ready in case violence erupted. By mid-afternoon on Thursday there had been protests but no violence. Many Baltimore citizens were outright relieved that no violence ensued.
This writer had voiced criticism of Judge Williams' decision to keep the venue of the trial in Baltimore instead of moving it to another Maryland jurisdiction. Defendants had argued for the change in venue because of the riots sparked by the death of Freddie Gray. Baltimore was in a state of siege for many days and the National Guard was deployed after widespread rioting and looting and property destruction. A string of arson fires also took place and many drug stores were looted and robbed of their supplies of narcotic drugs. The Defendants argued that potential jurors would be intimidated by the riots into believing that unless they found the defendants guilty, further violence would ensue. As it turned out, Judge Williams, and not this writer, was correct.
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