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    The inevitable end result of our last 56 years

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    I've read that Donald Trump is boiling mad that his coup attempt failed yesterday.

    We have three branches of government: the Legislative, the Executive and the Judiciary.

    Yesterday, Trump effectively shut down the Legislative Branch. We had all 50 Senators and 438 Members of the House all gathered in one place at the same time. For all intents and purposes, Donald Trump shut down the Legislative Branch of Government.

    It's that old military adage, I guess. It's one thing to conquer a place. It's another thing to hold it. That's what you get for using an undisciplined mob instead of disciplined shock troops.

    I wondered all day yesterday why there were no fires. I heard on one news report that a truck full of molotov cocktails had been seized. I don't know if that is true or not, but I wondered if yesterday wasn't supposed to have been our Reichstag Fire.

    Right-wing media is already blaming antifa agent provocateurs for infiltrating the Trump supporters and causing the violence.

    I hope the authorities are guarding the Supreme Court Building well.

    Steve Thomas

    The inevitable end result of our last 56 years

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    Republicans turn on Trump after Georgia loss

    “Fissures are forming as Republicans decide whether it's useful to cling to Trump — even as he tries to subvert an election — or to distance themselves.”

    By MERIDITH MCGRAW, GABBY ORR, ANDREW DESIDERIO and JAMES ARKIN

    01/06/2021 03:36 AM EST

    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/republicans-turn-on-trump-georgia-loss-455305

    “Ossoff having a good chance of toppling Perdue — Republicans were quick to blame Trump.

    Trump is the cause of this, lock, stock and barrel,” said one Republican strategist. “But when you’re relying on someone to win you a Senate race that also lost statewide eight weeks prior, you’re not in a position of strength.”

    Republicans lost the Presidency and are now poised to lose control of the Senate as well.

    “When asked why Republicans didn’t prevail on Tuesday, a senior Senate Republican aide simply said: “Donald J. Trump.”“

    Steve Thomas

    The inevitable end result of our last 56 years

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    Republicans ought to be calling for Trump's resignation or end the GOP: Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein

    By Sarah K. Burris January 03, 2021

    https://www.rawstory.com/republians-demand-trump-resign/

    “Veteran Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein responded to the shocking tapes of President Donald Trump attempting to extort the Georgia Secretary of State, saying that it is "far worse than what occurred in Watergate."

    Speaking to CNN's Fredricka Whitfield on Sunday afternoon, Bernstein said that these tapes prove that Trump isn't merely a criminal, he's also subversive.

    "At the same time this one person subverting the very basis of our democracy, and willing to act criminally in that subversion," said Bernstein. "But more importantly, what we hear on this tape -- this is the ultimate smoking gun tape. It is the tape with the evidence of what this president is willing to do toll undermine the electoral system and illegally, improperly, and immorally try to instigate a coup in which he remains the president of the United States."

    He explained that in a normal White House the new Trump tape would be enough to impeach and remove the president and draw a serious investigation from the Justice Department.

    "In any other presidency, this tape would be evidence enough to result in the impeachment of the president of the United States, his conviction in the Senate of the United States, and really an immediate call by the members of Congress, including of his own party, that he resign immediately," said Bernstein. "That's really what we ought to be hearing. 'Mr. President, resign, leave the White House, this is unconscionable, it is wrong, and we of your party will not permit it.' We won't hear it. We might form a few Republicans, but that's what's areally called from here. The heroes of the Watergate were Republicans who would not tolerate Richard Nixon's conduct."

    He went on to call the demand by Trump for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to come up with the votes for him "plus one" and illegally deliver the election "criminal."

    "We've never had a tape like this before, including the Nixon tapes," he continued. "As for heroes yes, the secretary of state of Georgia is a hero, but so are hundreds of election officials and state officials who have done their job, stuck with it, despite threats, including to their safety and health. We have a number of heroes here. Where we have not had heroes is the Senate of the United States, particularly Republican members, except for a few who have been craven, refusing to condemn this kind of out of control conduct, and the real disgrace in the House of Representatives, more than 140 probably a majority in the Republicans in the House, willing to promulgate and continue this idea, despite the evidence of upending a legal, proper election in which the evidence is clear, the results are clear? This is fantasy. It's not delusion, because they know what they're doing is is fantasy. It's not delusion, because they know what they're doing. And the question is: is some real leader of the Republican Party" going to stand up?”

    Steve Thomas

     

     

     

    Gladys Johnson

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    Posted

    14 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

    She told her mother that this guy staying at her place was being arrested for something.  The reply was that, well that explains why the FBI is searching his room. (p. 175)

    I had never heard this before, but I guess no one ever talked to Puckett before. If its true it is really something for the obvious reasons.  Oswald did not use his real name when he signed the room register. He used the name O. H. Lee. On his job application at the TSBD he gave the Paine address as where he lived, even though he rented the Beckley place the day before. So, if this is true,  how did the FBI know to go to Beckley that fast?

     

    Jim,

    I believe that Mrs. Johnson confused the plainclothed Detectives of the Dallas Police Department for the FBI.

    https://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/johnso_g.htm

    Mr. BALL. On the day of the 22d of November, were you home around 1 o'clock?
    Mrs. JOHNSON. It must have been 1:30 or 2, something like that.
    Mr. BALL. When you came home?
    Mrs. JOHNSON. Yes; after serving lunch.

    https://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/johnso_a.htm

    Mr. BELIN. All right. What happened when the officers got there? They asked if Lee Harvey Oswald lived there?
    Mr. JOHNSON. Yes.
    Mr. BELIN. How long had you been at the house when the officers arrived?
    Mr. JOHNSON. Oh, probably 30 minutes.
    Mr. BELIN. Do you remember about what time of the day they arrived?
    Mr. JOHNSON. Well, it must have been around 1:30 or 2 o'clock--the best I remember.
    Mr. BELIN. When did you get home that day from your work?
    Mr. JOHNSON. Well, it was around 1 o'clock or maybe a little bit after.
    Mr. BELIN. At the time you had gotten home, had you heard that the President had been shot?
    Mr. JOHNSON. Yes. I heard that before I went home.
    Mr. BELIN. Did you hear that the President had died before you went home?
    Mr. JOHNSON. Yes.
    Mr. BELIN. So you got home sometime after you had heard that the President had died?
    Mr. JOHNSON. Yes.

    Mr. BELIN. When did you get home that day from your work?
    Mr. JOHNSON. Well, it was around 1 o'clock or maybe a little bit after.

     

    The announcement that the President had died was made around 1:30 PM

    Oswald was arrested at approximately 1:50 PM

    He was brought into Headquarters at 2:00 PM

     

    I first posed the question on November 22, 2004 in the Education Forum JFK Assassination Seminars

    http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/2331-how-did-the-police-first-learn-of-1026-n-beckley/

    How did the police first learn that Oswald lived at 1026 N. Beckley?

     

    At 2:40 PM, W.E. Potts, B.L. Senkel and Lt. E.L. Cunningham were dispatched to 1026 N. Beckley. Potts wrote in his after-action report (Box 2, Folder# 9, Item# 32) http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box2.htm that after he finished taking some affidavits, Fritz dispatched them to the Beckely St address at 2:40 and they arrived at Beckley at 3:00PM.
    Detective B.L. Senkel also said in his after action report (Dallas Police Archives Box 3, Folder# 12, Item#1) that they arrived at 1026 N. Beckley at 3:00PM. They did not have a search warrant, and one wasn't issued until 3:55 PM by Justice of the Peace David Johnston.

    Report of Justice of the Peace, David Johnston.

    Johnston Exhibit 1

    (20H314

    https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1137#relPageId=334&tab=page

     

    What cannot be answered is why, when the police arrived at 1026 N. Beckley, they were asking for Harvey Lee Oswald.

     

    WC testimony of Earlene Roberts April 8, 1964

    http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/robertse.htm

     

    Mr. BALL. Do you remember the day the President was shot?
    Mrs. ROBERTS. Yes; I remember it---who would forget that?
    Mr. BALL. And the police officers came out there?
    Mrs. ROBERTS. Yes, sir.
    Mr. BALL. Do you remember what they said?
    Mrs. ROBERTS.     Well, it was Will Fritz' men---it was plainclothesmen and I was at the back doing something and Mr. Johnson answered the door and they identified themselves and then he called me.
    Mr. BALL. What did they say?
    Mrs. ROBERTS. Well, they asked him if there was a     Harvey Lee Oswald there.
    Mr. BALL. What did he say?
    Mrs. ROBERTS. And he says, "I don't know, I'll have to call the housekeeper," and he called me and I went and got the books and I said, "No; there's no one here by that name," and they tried to make me remember and I couldn't, and Mrs. Johnson come in in the meantime and there wasn't nobody there by that name, and Mrs. Johnson said, "Mrs. Roberts, don't you have him?" And, I said, "No; we don't, for here is my book and there is nobody there by that name." We checked it back a year.
    Mr. BALL. And you didn't have that name you didn't ever know his name was Lee Oswald?
    Mrs. ROBERTS. No---he registered as O. H. Lee and they were asking for     Harvey Lee Oswald.

     

    To the best of my knowledge, no FBI agents were at 1026 N. Beckley.

    Steve Thomas

     

    The wallet at the Tippit scene: a simpler solution?

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    Posted

    reg,

    I'm sorry, but these accounts just do not add up.

     

    When the two men pulled up, a woman in near hysterics [Helen Markham] ran up to the car and told them that 'the man who shot the officer had got in a taxi and took off.'" (Myers p. 165)

     

     

    Helen Markham never told anyone else any such thing.

     

    https://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/markham1.htm

    Mr. BALL. What did the man do?
    Mrs. MARKHAM. The man, he just walked calmly, fooling with his gun.
    Mr. BALL. Toward what direction did he walk?
    Mrs. MARKHAM. Come back towards me, turned around, and went back.
    Mr. BALL. Toward Patton?
    Mrs. MARKHAM. Yes, sir; towards Patton. He didn't run. It just didn't scare him to death. He didn't run.

    Mr. BALL. When he went towards Jefferson you say he went at sort of a trot?
    Mrs. MARKHAM. Yes, sir.
    Mr. BALL. Did he cross Patton?
    Mrs. MARKHAM. Yes, sir.

    Mr. BALL. Did you see Mr. Scoggins?
    Mrs. MARKHAM. I don't remember--
    Mr. BALL. The taxicab driver.
    Mrs. MARKHAM. Yes, I saw the taxicab driver.
    Mr. BALL. Where was the taxicab?
    Mrs. MARKHAM. Parked on Patton.
    Mr. BALL. On Patton?
    Mrs. MARKHAM. Yes, sir.
    Mr. BALL. Did you see the man later, did you see him before the shooting?
    Mrs. MARKHAM. Yes, he was sitting in his cab.
    Mr. BALL. He was. Then you saw him afterward, didn't you?
    Mrs. MARKHAM. Yes, sir.

     

    Callaway tucked the gun in his belt and turned to the cab driver.

    The taxi cab door opened and Callaway climbed out with Tippit's gun in his hand.

     

    He (Scoggins, a taxi cab driver) was driving this little stick shift checkered cab and he couldn't hardly shift gears

     

    Did Callaway stop Holmes's car, or did Hlmes stop Scoggins's cab?

    "We [Scoggins and Callaway] cruised around several blocks looking for him [the killer], and we--one of these police cars came by [mistaken reference to Holmes' and Wheless' car as a police car] and this fellow who was with me [Callaway] stopped it

     

    "On one of the side streets just east of Beckley, private security officer Ken Holmes and companion Bill Wheless caught up with the cab and forced it to a stop.

    Steve Thomas

    The inevitable end result of our last 56 years

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    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cruz-joins-gop-senate-block-that-will-challenge-bidens-victory_n_5ff0baa4c5b6e7974fd39454

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Ted Cruz on Saturday said he will be among a dozen Republican senators who will challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory when Electoral College results are tallied in Congress next week – a largely symbolic move that has little chance of preventing Biden from taking office.

    https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/expulsion/036CivilWarCases1_expulsion.htm

    Whereas a conspiracy has been formed against the peace, union, and liberties of the people and Government of the United States; and in furtherance of such conspiracy a portion of the people of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas, have attempted to withdraw those States from the Union, and are now in arms against the Government; and whereas [the senators from those states] have failed to appear in their seats in the Senate and to aid the Government in this important crisis; and it is apparent to the Senate that said Senators are engaged in said conspiracy for the destruction of the Union and Government, or, with full knowledge of such conspiracy, have failed to advise the Government of its progress or aid in its suppression: Therefore,

    Resolved, That the said Mason, Hunter, Clingman, Bragg, Chesnut, Nicholson, Sebastian, Mitchel, Hemphill, and Wigfall be, and they hereby are, each and all of them, expelled from the Senate of the United States.

    "They have taken up arms against the Government; . . . their guns are now within sound of your capital; and shall we sit here in the Senate and deliberate and doubt whether we shall turn out of this Senate the very men who are ready to explode those guns against your capital?. . . let them be ejected from the councils of the nation." Near the conclusion of the arguments, James A. McDougall (D-CA) derided the cautions of his California colleague Latham when he dryly noted that there might be no moral turpitude in their actions because, "Treason was always a gentlemanly crime. . . . However, it is none the less a crime. . . . No man has a right to a place on this floor who espouses a cause adverse to the Government."

    The angry mood prevailed, and on July 11, 1861, the Senate voted 32 to 10 to expel the ten senators.

    Source: U.S. Senate Historical Office, United States Senate Election, Expulsion and Censure Cases: 1793-1990 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1995), pp. 95-98.

    Steve Thomas


     

     

     

    The inevitable end result of our last 56 years

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    Posted

    Legal Expert Calls on Biden to 'Nominate Obama As Attorney General'

    By Darragh Roche On 1/2/2

    https://www.newsweek.com/legal-expert-biden-nominate-obama-attorney-general-1558489

     

    “[Douglas] Kmiec notes that "[a]ppointing Obama certainly would be unprecedented" as a former president has never gone on to lead a department of the federal government in this way, but Kmiec goes on to say it would be "perfect preparation for subsequent additional public service on the Supreme Court."”

    I have to say, I never saw that one coming.

    Steve Thomas

    Charles Hester

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    Posted

    2 hours ago, David Andrews said:

    Look for that Jack White thread that I mentioned back then.  There may be better info there on the lab connected to the Hesters.

    There should be quite a bit of Hesters exploration in the back threads.

    David,

    I wasn't really interested in Charles Hester so much, as Forrest Sorrels. He did more damage than just anybody else I can think of.

    Sorrels of the Howard Brennan fame. The Dallas Police Department wanted to have a squad car full of machine gun toting detectives in the motorcade, and Sorrels nixed that. He told the 112th MID that they weren't needed. He squelched Julia Mercer. In Volume VII of the WC Hearings (page 352), he told the Warren Commission that , "in addition to the truck, “… this lady said she thought she saw somebody that looked like they had a guncase. But then I didn't pursue that any further-- because then I had gotten the information that the rifle had been found in the building and shells and so forth.”

    Let that sink in a minute.

    Steve Thomas

    Charles Hester

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    Posted

    On 2/1/2014 at 8:07 AM, David Andrews said:

    Posts on Jack White's thread make connections between the Hester family and a Dallas photo lab that the Secret Service employed to develop film taken in Dealey, copies of which were lost in an arson fire. Worth revisiting.

    I wonder if this was the Eastman Kodak lab.

    Forrest Sorrels tried to leave the impression with the Warren Commission that he was present in the Dallas Police Headquarters early in the afternoon of November 22nd; testifying that he arrived “fairly close to 2:00PM.”1.. However, I do not believe this is true.

    Phillip Willis was a retired Air Force Major and amateur photographer. He and his wife Marilyn had taken their children out of school that day to go down and see the President and get some pictures. Marilyn Willis told Harold Weisburg that they remained in Dealey Plaza for about an hour after the assassination and then drove out to the Eastman Kodak plant near Love Field to get their pictures developed. She said that they arrived at the plant while Air Force 1 was taking off for the return flight to Washington. From Secret Service accounts, we know that that occurred at 2:47PM. She said that while they were waiting for their pictures to get developed, Abraham Zapruder arrived at the plant with Forrest Sorrels. Both Phillip and Marilyn Willis confirmed to Harold Weisberg that before Sorrels left, all the films had been processed, “and all viewed them”.2.

     

    1. Testimony of Forrest Sorrels. Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits, volume VII, p. 352, as cited in the History Matters Archive, http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk..._Vol7_0180b.htm

    2.. Weisberg, Harold. Whitewash II: The FBI – Secret Service Coverup. Harold Weisberg, 1966. p. 203.

    Steve Thomas

    The inevitable end result of our last 56 years

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    Posted · Edited by Steve Thomas

    Colorado GOP leader incites harassment against public health workers by publicizing their home addresses

    By Brad Reed December 30, 2020

    https://www.rawstory.com/colorado-gop/

    “The leader of the Republican Party chapter in Parker, Colorado has apologized after he declared "war" on public health officials and publicized their home addresses.

    Colorado's 9 News reports that Parker Republican leader Mark Hall earlier this week sent out a message on his Facebook page attacking public health officials for their role in enforcing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.

    "We will publish the names/addresses of these people with no law enforcement abilities," Hall wrote in his post. "If they want a war, we can give them that but it is time for a revolution."

    Hall then warned public health workers that "if you work for the state, CDPHE, Tri-County or other agencies, you are on the radar, at your homes and elsewhere" and accused them of being "anti-Americans."

    Hall's decision to dox public health officials was subsequently condemned by the Douglas County Republican Party, and Hall subsequently deleted the post and apologized.

    "In hindsight, it was poor judgement and I apologize to all," said Hall. "The Colorado GOP and Douglas County GOP share no responsibility as they were unaware of the actions."

    As 9 News reports, this is the second time Hall has tried to intimidate a political opponent this year, as he warned a grocery store employee that he was sending a group of "patriots" to meet her at her "exact location" after she mocked a local pro-police rally on Facebook.”

    Trump only wanted to get rid of the tests. This clown wants to get rid of the doctors and nurses.

    Sounds like warlord China.

    Steve Thomas

     

    The inevitable end result of our last 56 years

    in Political Discussions

    Posted

    America’s voice goes silent in Berlin as last US radio station closes

    KCRW Berlin went off air this month.

    By Nette Nöstlinger December 29, 2020

    https://www.politico.eu/article/us-radio-station-kcrw-berlin-closes/

    “In a country that had been force-fed a steady diet of Hitler’s favorite brass-band marches and Wagner for more than a decade, AFN’s American sound — from George Gershwin to Billie Holiday — was new and titillating. That was especially true in the 1950s, when rock ‘n’ roll emerged as the West’s most powerful cultural weapon.

    The old post-war AFN network was “probably the best foreign policy instrument the U.S. had ever thought of,” former U.S. Ambassador to Germany John Kornblum, who also helped start KCRW Berlin, told the station recently.”

    Steve Thomas

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