On August 8, 2022, the F.B.I. searched former President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago private club and residence. The search stemmed from efforts by the National Archives and Records Administration to recover classified government documents which remained in Trump’s possession and…
Category: Corruption
2022
Category: Corruption | Hate Crime
Hate and the crimes it produces do incredible damage to the social fabric—what author and “values education” expert Nigel Cohen calls our shared values of “respect, kindness, compassion, trust and joy” that make society safe humane. For example, a community…
2022
Category: Corruption | Death Penalty | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The continuing march by the State of Texas to execute George Edward McFarland adds to the often-repeated phrase associated with death penalty cases, “only in Texas.”
Texas has probably executed at least ten innocent people (far more than any other…
2021
Category: Corruption | Police Misconduct | Uncategorized
Two icons of the 1960s used the term “by any means necessary”: the French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Black Muslim activist Malcolm X.
Sartre first used the term in his 1963 play “Dirty Hands,” and Malcolm X used…
2021
Corruption is in the DNA of the American political system. The English pilgrims and other Europeans, who saw America as a “land of opportunity,” brought their corrupt governance to this country. Long before the American Revolution occurred, “Royal governors and…
2021
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption | Government
Julian Assange is a complex character whose work at WikiLeaks has attracted enemies from divergent political parties, movements, and elected officials worldwide. Regardless, the relentless persecution of Mr. Assange and the threat it forbodes for freedom of the press and…
2021
Category: Corruption | Domestic Terrorism | Hate Crime
On March 17, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a report warning that “domestic violent extremism groups” pose an “elevated threat” to the national security of this country.
Of particular growing concern: white supremacist organizations fueled…
2021
Category: Corruption | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In service to his client, President Donald J. Trump, New York-based attorney Rudy Giuliani has openly boasted about the lengths he would go to support his client. Mr. Giuliani has admitted lying for the President, working with Russian intelligence operatives …
2021
Category: Corruption | Criminal Law
The January 6, 2021, violent assault on the nation’s Capitol Building—a day that will forever be etched in shame in American history, was created, supported, instigated, and led by Trump Republicans, including the racist President himself.
These Republicans, like Sens.…
2020
The past four years, particularly the November 3rd presidential election and its ensuing debris, have made one fact clear and convincing: America is now two nations—Whites and Non-Whites, Red and Blue, Us and Them, and These People and Them People.…