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One thing that stands out about the great Texas Raid on the FLDS community near Eldorado is the undermining propaganda from authorities and the willingness of the media to repeat this and act as an arm of the State.
Read MoreThe great raid on the Sleicher County, Texas FLDS community has been an exercise in rushing to judgement and fabricating justifications. I am wondering if the alleged telephone calls that precipitated the raid were a hoaxes.
Read MoreFrom the start of the raid on the FLDS ranch in Texas, the news has been a regurgitation of the official Texas allegations. None of these network luminaries have bothered to think about the nebulous basis for the claims by the great State of Texas.
Read MoreIs this another case of police and prosecution rushing to judgement? In the end, we citizens pay for this kind of bad behavior.
Read MoreTexas authorities and Texan Baptists are removing females from a Texas community considered to be a polygamy haven. Are these two entities planning a mini Srebrenica?
Read MoreSheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco wants to turn a seventeen‑year‑old father into a sex offender. But, DeCecco ignores charging the youth’s wife with the same crime.
Read MoreI just got a recorded telephone political message. What made this one stand out was it was an injection of Republican partisanship into a nonpartisan election.
Read MoreHillary Clinton’s description of shots fired during visit to Bosnia contained similarities to Winnebago County deputies invasion of the Lawrence Papenfuss yard. In both cases, the reports of flying bullets were not true.
Read MoreHow I got my computer display to match my print colors in PhotoShop CS3.
Read MoreOn the final day of testimony in the Randall Ashauer trial, accident reconstruction expert Wisconsin Trooper Jason Schwarz demonstrated the indifference that investigators have to facts and the real world.
Read MoreAfter the murder verdict against Mark Jensen, trial judge Bruce Schroeder invented a way to make a dying declaration from a statement that is made weeks or more before a person’s death.
Read MoreAmericans have an abysmal lack of knowledge about suicide. The defense murder trial of Mark Jensen claimed his wife committed suicide. An expert witness on suicide could have made the point clearer.
Read MoreThe lead investigators in the Teresa Halbach murder placed Brendan Dassey, his brother and mother in the Fox Hills Resort the night of 27 February, 2007. They claimed it was for witness protection. The purpose was really for more interrogations. And this time the interrogations were not recorded.
Read MoreA second interrogation of Brendan Dassey on 27 February, 2006 was required because lead investigators did not verify proper equipment operation prior to the first interrogation. Also, the prosecution team did not have the basis they need to give the crime lab a second chance to find incriminating evidence.
At the end of this session, investigators had a second confession from a sixteen‑year‑old that he saw a body in a fire. But, that is not what investigators wanted and needed.
Read MoreAccording to news reports, a computer expert for the State in the Mark Jensen trial for murder, testified that a link color change on mouse over means a link has been followed. That is false.
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