Key Ferguson Grand Jury Member Proved by FBI to be Lying

This Mc Culloch guy head of the Ferguson grand jury- - may be “suborning” purgery by flagurantly accepting testimony he knows to be purgered.  This ‘Witness number forty” is some lady who has been “off her meds” with major psychological issues.  I’d heard previously that “Witness number forty” was a hardened racists.  She openly refers to Negroes as “Apes”.  She is the lone testimony who supported officer Darren Wilson’s account of events.  They let her testify for two whole days.  They even called her back because they wanted more.  And yet the FBI has investigated her.  They can prove that this Mac Elroy woman lied over a hundred times in the course of her testimony.  Not only is she a racist and a mental case, she was not even THERE in Ferguson the day of the shooting.  Now they claim she was whisked to the site and then whisked away just as quickly so that there is absolutely no memory of her being there.  She is the one who said that Michael Brown “charged- - like a football player”.  Sean Hannity on his TV show has quoted this woman no less than 21 times.  She is the lone witness to support Officer Wilson’s view of events.  Why – she even kept a journal writing everything down scrupulously, and offered her journal in as “evidence”.   Far from questioning her in a confrontative manner, several grand juror members said “We believe you.  We know that you are telling the truth”.  Unless I’m mistaken- - this verges on “forming a decision of the evidence” before deliberation time, which every judge admonishes juries not to do every time a court is in recess.  The woman’s name is Mac Elroy.  I can understand why she would not be charged with purgery if she’s having mental problems.  But I think this Mc Culloch guy who heads the team should be charged with “suborning” purgery.   But once again it looks like the Justice Department will do absolutely nothing.  I’ve heard they’re ready to give this whole Ferguson thing “a pass”.  But Sean Hannity won’t.  He wants to bring charges of purgery apparently on EVERY OTHER witness whose testimony does not comport with Mac Ellroy’s and Officer Wilson.  Sean Hannity in my mind has severe emotional problems, which drive him to spread so many falsehoods on the air every night, and think that he’s doing the Lord’s work, or something.

There are two highly disturbing police stories out just today.  The one is where New York Mayor De Blazio went to visit the hospital or something or pay his respects to the two fallen officers, and the NYPD men in blue turned their backs on him in protest.  We have heard charges by Giuliani of saying “President Obama and Eric Holder are to blame for this shooting”.  But of course this Black man had a violent history and killed his girlfriend and bragged he was going to put “Wings on Pigs” the man was in fact mentally unstable.  So how are Eric Holder and the President responsible.  There are charges of “Four months of anti cop rhetoric”.  Apparently there was a metting between President Obama and Mayor De Blazio and De Blazio had an African American wife and he had a son named Danien and the President said “He looks a lot like I looked like at that age”.  The Mayor has to warn his son how to act around the police because he’s “walking while Black”.  So now are we to say that the President and the NY Mayor should be indicted for speaking the Truth- - in a private conversation yet?   Tell me where there was ever “four months of anti police rhetoric” coming from President Obama.  Now we hear that the NYPD will be going on a “War footing” when Thom Hartman points out that when conservative nut jobs threaten police- - the police don’t go on a “War footing”.   If you want to be just a little cynical you might say that Mayor De Blasio is being attacked by the NYPD because he has an African American wife or in short because he’s just another N word lover.  Now we have FOX news editing in calls for dead policemen- - in with Al Sharpton’s speech, which I listened to, where he emphatically stressed that he was not against all police.  But this caller who says ‘I don’t listen to FOX news’ called IMMEDIATELY after FOX news ran this bogus story this morning, so if nothing else, it’s guilt by association.  All the while nobody at FOX news or anywhere else, has wondered aloud how this guy ever GOT a gun to begin with since he was mentally unstable.  No one at FOX questions that or how lives could have been saved, and tightening gun regulations might be the best police protection thing going.

I told you that I had my new Cal-Optima card from last Friday.  I took that card and showed it to the office and Mary Jane and Sarah photocopied the thing to get it off to the pharmacy so that my medication will be covered for the month of December.  This is one of the big things that had been hanging over my head and it’s nice to have it taken care of.   I had two cups of coffee in the courtyard from Yadera.  I haven’t seen the dog around in a while.

You’ve heard about the “tyranny of the majority” but how about the tyranny of Uncertainty.  That’s a state when a lot of prominent people around you like relatives and things are far right.  You’d like not to be political, but what if they bring it up.  After all today is Monday December 22^nd.  It’s just three days from Christmas.  One would think at some point along the way you could take a vacation from politics.  And I must confess it’s the left, rather than the right wing that won’t let it go today.  You learn new things you somehow wish you didn’t know.  They increase the certainty that you’ve been right all along, but you’d rather not be right “all the time” because of a certain dread about the future of America that entails.  Of course they take words out of context.  For instance all of this “Hope and change” rhetoric we heard from Obama in 2008 was a lot of theatrics signifying nothing.  They say that when the President campaigned on the slogan of “fundamentally changing America” he was serious and has never given up on his Islamo-fascist socialist goals or whatever.  So when he announces something like a thawing of relations between the United States and Cuba, it’s automatically a done deal because after all the president is a dictator, and he’s just been “waiting for this moment” to “put his plan into action”.  Judy even mentioned the “Dreams from my Father” book, as if President Obama had been in constant contact with his “anti colonialist” father all this time and was somehow taking his marching orders from this “Dream”.   How do you even mention that it’s the Republicans that scored a whopping tea party victory last November?  You’re dealing with a person apparently unfamiliar with basic political facts.  You try and slough it off or change the subject, but aren’t always successful.  By the way this computer has crashed twice in the last hour and a half so we may be living on borrowed time.  But I remembered that Nazi analogy Hartman talked about and the gradualism of repressive measures.  Each one was only a “little worse than what was the case already”.   Logically as the repression worsens one would expect that uncertainty of “where this is all going” would lift like the early morning fog and you’d see the issue clearly.  But this doesn’t happen.  Suddenly it’s the mad men at FOX studios who have become the “standard” by which you measure your own credibility.  Trying to say what you actually think is a near impossability becaae they’ll let you do ANYTHING but that.  If you get to speak at all it’s only so your words can be mangled and distorted.  (Selah)

“We Need To Get Reasonable Assurances That [the Victim] Will Remain In Isolation And Incommunicado For The Remainder Of His Life”

The Senate Torture Report should be read by every American, at least the condensed 450 page version.  I look forward to obtaining a copy of it soon.  As this article says, one reason why you don't see torture victims on TV is that the CIA is not so dumb as to allow these witnesses to ever see the light of day.  So just as the Ferguson jury "gave reasonable assurance" that witness forty would never be charged with purgery, so the torturers got assurance that their foul deeds would never truly see the light of day.  Here are notes:

The interrogation team closed the [CIA] cable by stating:

“regardless of which [disposition] option we follow, however, and especially in light of the planned psychological pressure techniques to be implemented,we need to get reasonable assurances that [Abu Zubaydah] will remain in isolation and incommunicado for the remainder of his life.”

(The report makes clear that the cable was sent well before the torture commenced. They were seeking advanced “assurances” that the torture and “psychological pressures techniques” – more below – would never be revealed to anyone, so that they would not be prosecuted for war crimes.)

Another section of the Senate Torture Report notes:

One interrogator told another detainee that he would never go to court, because “we can never let the world know what I have done to you.”