CRUSADE FOR JUSTICE

Judge Joseph Condon Knows Cops Were Wrongfully Accused, Bianchi And Owens Should Be Jailed Instead

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Found Here: Marengo Gazette

Corruption is undermining justice which is denying the basic human right to a fair trial of the innocent.

I would like to congratulate Volstad and Pilati for their victory against a corrupted judicial system.
It is nice to see that even Judge Joseph Condon could not ignore the fact that Louis Bianchi and Nichole Owens tampered with crucial evidence in the case. There is nothing more incriminating than having two audios of the call to 911 and having them being different. Let’s not forget that William Kroncke handed over the remix. Also, he was probably responsible for the missing video tape that was taken from a gas station across the way that might have captured the whole thing. What video tape!? You will have to ask Nichole Owens about this one.

The way I see it, 90 days in jail and 2 years probation is much better than 5 years in prison. There lies the victory. Who knows, they might only serve half of that.

Tags: Judge Joseph Condon, Louis Bianchi, Nichole Owens, William Kroncke, Volstad, Pilati, McHEnry County, Fox Lake, Fox Lake Bar, Justice, Judicial System, McHenry County Illinois, McHenry County States Attorney, States Attorney, Lou Bianchi

The Northwest Herald Is An Unethical Newpaper, Louis Bianchi Is No Good For McHenry County, Vote For Dan Regna

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:07:00 +0000

Linked from here Marengo Gazette

Louis Bianchi is nothing but a snake. He has been a terrible State's Attorney. The Northwest Herald has portrays Louis Bianchi as some kind of "Hero" for convicting high profile cases. How many of those case had the evidence been tampered with? Hey Bianchi? Like the cops from the Fox Lake bar beating. It must of been nice to of had a tempered recording. The Northwest Herald never mentioned that. Why? How about illegal wire taps? Boy did Bianchi waste a good sum of our tax dollars on unnecessary and illegal wire taps.... and got nothing!
The list goes on and on. Bianchi will find some other way to buy his candy and eat on our tax dollars.
Lets not forget that he seems to hate Army Reservists. You have to admit, he treats his people very poorly.
Louis Bianchi is bad for McHenry County. He has to resort to law breaking measures in order to get his convictions. Truly innocent people in McHenry County will never get a fair trial while Bianchi is in office. If you look at his cases, more criminals go free while innocent people go to prison.
One thing about the Northwest Herald, they will never print the truth. The county government has this paper wrapped around their finger. I bet they were some how forced or bribed into endorsing Bianchi.... which is unethical for a printed newspaper to do.

Tags: Northwest Herald, McHenry County Illinois, News, Louis Bianchi, Bianchi, Dan Regna, Regna, McHenry County States Attorney, Newspaper, McHenry County

Vote for Dan Regna, McHenry County States Attorney, Over Throw The Tyrant Lou Bianchi!

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:07:00 +0000

Linked from here Marengo Gazette

Vote for Dan Regna, McHenry County States Attorney

DAN REGNA

“Mr. Bianchi’s administration has been a failure. The state’s attorney’s office is in chaos, defeat and ruin.”

Lou Bianchi

* Anne Brophy: "She took a three-month humanitarian trip to Peru in 2006 as part of her military service. When she came back he punished her by demoting her to juvenile court attorney."
* Phil Reiman: "Did the same to him when he went I leave."
* Stole taxpayers money.
* He put more innocent people behind bars than actual criminals.
* Wasted taxpayers and the money of the innocent on cases that he knew that should have never gone to trial.
* $17,000 of this taxpayer money was used for personal meals, gift certificates, candy and snacks.
* Since taking office in 2004, Bianchi’s office has received expense reimbursements for more than $24,000 and used petty cash to pay for more than $32,000 in additional expenses. He is a crook.
* Bianchi and his team often violate the rule but Bianchi and defense attorneys have denied wrongdoing and described the complaints as examples of maneuvering.

Tags: Dan Regna, Louis Bianchi, McHenry County Illinois, McHenry County, McHenry County States Attorney, Lou, Bianchi, Regna

McHenry Judge Condon Is Corrupted By Nichole Owens And Lou Bianchi, William Kroncke Had 911 Tape Was Altered

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:39:00 +0000

Illinois State Police William Kroncke corrupted the trail will tampered 911 tape.

The two former officers who were acting in self-defense during the February 2005 altercation outside KC's Cabin are found guilty of all charges after saving the life of Jessica Thelen. Defense lawyers agreed that the former officers jumped Hallett, but only to save the life of a woman they say he had taken hostage at knifepoint.
Ryan Hallett told the jury that he went to the bar already intoxicated and with the intent to go to the bar and start trouble with one of these offiers becauce of a friend. Ryan Hallett got what he deserved after taking a woman hostage. He could of killed her.
Not only that, these men did not get a fair trail due to Judge J Condon. There was a 911 tape that William Kroncke from the Il State Police had an altered copy made which was given as evidence. Judge Condon knew, and did nothing. Judge Condon should be arrested along with with William Kroncke and Nicole Owens. These people have broken the law and should loose their jobs. Judge Condon has proven that no one in McHenry County can have a fair trail, especially under him. How many other innocent people in McHenry County were found guilty by Judge Condon in which he had knowledge of "tampered evidence" and did nothing?
The Attorney General needs to look into this corruption.

Tags: Louis Bianchi, Nichole Owens, McHenry Prosecutor, McHenry County State's Attorney, Judge Condon, Police, Bad Cops, Police Abuse, Injustice, State Police, Illinois State Police, Illinois Bad Cops, McHenry County Judges, William Kroncke, McHenry County Judge, Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Illinois Attorney General, Illinois, Police Brutality, William Kroncke Il State Police, Nichole Owens, Nichole P Owens, McHenry County Nichole Owens, Joseph Condon, Ryan Hallett

Marengo Police Chief Les Kottke, Going Senile Or Just Plain Idiot? Allows Courtney Miller Back On The Job After A Drunk Driving Arrest

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:33:00 +0000

Is Marengo Police Chief Les Kottke mind being clouded by old age? Marengo has one of the worst police departments in Northern Illinois. City Hall is no better. Marengo will sure be know as the breeding hole for bad cops and politicians.

Marengo cop back to work
By EMILY PREVITI

MARENGO -- Despite pending drunken driving charges, a police officer is back to work in Marengo, which some local police chiefs say they would not allow.
Courtney Miller appeared Tuesday in Winnebago County court on charges related to a February arrest in connection with driving under the influence of alcohol.
Miller, of Loves Park, was on paid leave from the Marengo Police Department after her arrest Feb. 6 in Rockford by Illinois State Police. She’s been back for a few weeks, Marengo Police Deputy Chief Joseph Hallman said.
Chief Les Kottke was unavailable for comment, and Carlos Arevalo, city attorney, declined to detail the decision to allow Miller to return.

“There was an investigation, the union was involved, and that culminated in the arrangement,” Arevalo said.

Winnebago County Judge Richard Lucas ruled in April that the suspension of Miller’s driving license was unfounded.
Arevalo said that finding left city officials to believe that the case won’t merit a conviction.

“It will play itself, and the case is going to go away, as simple as that,” he said.

Miller, 32, has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol, driving under the influence of alcohol with blood-alcohol content of more than 0.08 percent, and speeding 15 mph to 20 mph faster than the posted limit.
Law enforcement driving under the influence of alcohol has been, in the recent past, an issue for agencies throughout the county.
In Marengo, Arevalo explained, the police department considers each discipline case individually.
Jim Pasco, director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, said the organization hadn’t issued recommendations specific to DUI arrests and deemed all discipline “negotiable.”
While other local departments agreed that cases vary, some, including the McHenry County sheriff’s department and those in Fox River Grove and Algonquin, said they would not put an officer on duty before the criminal case had concluded.

In Crystal Lake and West Dundee, disciplinary action would probably, but not always, be taken after a case’s conclusion.
Algonquin Police Chief Russell Laine said for officers whose Breathalyzer tests register above a certain level, the department would seek unpaid leave and dismissal.
Harvard Chief of Police Dan Kazy-Gary said in his department, a DUI charge wouldn’t always prompt paid leave until the conclusion of a court case.

What’s next
Miller is expected to appear again in court July 20, when her attorney plans to argue that her arrest lacked probable cause.
The maximum penalties for a DUI conviction include losing one’s driver’s license for at least a year and up to $2,500, as well as land her behind bars for up to a year.
Arevalo wouldn’t say whether that would change her job status in Marengo.
Some area departments adhere more rigidly than others to court verdicts in deciding whether to keep an officer on staff.

In Algonquin, a DUI conviction would lead to termination, but acquittals could, too, Laine said.
McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren said he adhered to a similar principle.

“Chances are, they’re going to lose their job, which I guess is more than the average citizen pays,” he said. “Maybe we’re held to a higher standard. If you don’t like that, then don’t get in the business.”

Pasco pointed out that standard also can be unfair.

“Too often, there’s a presumption that police officers check their civil rights at the station door, and that’s just not true,” Pasco said.

Troy Wise had been a McHenry County assistant state’s attorney for about six months when he was fired Feb. 15, a day after his car collided with a utility pole and he was charged with DUI.
And Donald Anderson was working as a sheriff’s deputy on probationary terms when he crashed a squad car into a tree in January. Crystal Lake police responded to the scene and delayed filing DUI charges against Anderson until several days afterward after the Northwest Herald had filed a Freedom of Information request for related reports.

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Tags: Courtney Miller, Louis Bianchi, Nichole Owens, McHenry Prosecutor, McHenry County State's Attorney, Judge Condon, Marengo IL, Marengo, City of Marengo, Marengo Police, Police, Bad Cops, Police Abuse, Injustice, State Police, Illinois State Police, Illinois Bad Cops, McHenry County Judges, William Kroncke, Scott Crawford, Kelly Given, Don Lockhart, Donald Lockhart, Mayor of Marengo, McHenry County Judge, Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Illinois Attorney General, Illinois, Police Brutality

Bogus Disorderly Conduct Charges Dropped Against Teen Who Wrote Essay - Police Chief Ron Delelio And States' Attorney Louis Bianchi Are Both Morons

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:48:00 +0000

(CBS) WOODSTOCK, Ill. The disorderly conduct case against a high school student who wrote a disturbing essay has been dismissed.

Prosecutors said they dropped the charges partly because the teacher at Cary-Grove High School in McHenry County didn't want the case to continue.

As CBS 2's North Suburban Bureau Chief Katie McCall reports, Cary-Grove senior Allen Lee will now be able enlist with the U.S. Marine Corps in 5 months.

Just a month ago, his dream of becoming a marine was nearly shattered when he was charged with disorderly conduct for alleged threats he made in a school essay.

On Wednesday, the McHenry County State's Attorney’s office dropped the charges.

The essay included discussions of mass murder and sex with the dead, and warned a teacher not to be surprised if she inspired the first shooting at the high school.

Lee's teacher, Nora Capron, was alarmed by Lee's essay and called her department chair, who then spoke with Cary-Grove Principal Susan Popp.

Popp called police and signed the disorderly conduct complaint shortly afterward, prosecutors said, and Lee was arrested on April 24. The arrest jeopardized the straight-A student's dream to join the Marines and forced him out of school for a period of time. He has been back at school since May 4.

On Wednesday, the McHenry County state's attorney's office dropped the charges, saying Lee did not pose a threat to himself or others. He may now pursue his planned career in the Marine Corps.

Lee's lawyers said all along it was the assignment and not the student's words that were to blame.

Attorney Dane Loizzo said, “A little bit more care should be placed in the types of assignments that we are giving these children.”

In the assignment, students were told not to censor themselves. Lee addressed his teacher in his essay, saying not to be surprised if she inspired a school shooting.

“It would seem to me that the teacher would then put in there do not write anything that refers to sex drugs alcohol or violence,” attorney Tom Loizzo said.

McHenry County State’s Attorney said he decided to drop the charges, but still believes the school did the right thing. “Freedom of speech is not absolute,” he said.

Bianchi said had they not brought charges and a tragedy took place at the school, this would have been a very different story.

“It was always about safety his safety the teacher's safety the school's safety,” Bianchi said. "The arrest and charges were clearly warranted by the Cary Police Department. … The police were obligated in the circumstances to do whatever legally possible they could to ensure the safety of Mr. Lee the students and the school."

Lee has been back here at Cary Grove since May 4th and will graduate this Saturday with his class.

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Allen Lee's Essay

Blood sex and Booze. Drugs Drugs Drugs are fun. Stab, Stab, Stab, S...t...a...b..., poke. “So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P90s and started shooting everyone..., then had sex with the dead bodies. Will, not really, but it would be funny if I did.” Umm, yeah, what to wright about...... I’m leaving to join the Marines and I really don’t give a F*** about my academics, so why does the only class that’s complete Bull S***, happen to be the only required class...enough said. The model citizen would stay around to vote in new board member to change the 4 years of English policy, but no one really stays around to vote for that kind of local crap, so whoever gets there name on the Ballet with a pretty face gets to do what the F*** ever they want with local ordinance. A person is smart, but people are dumb selfish animals. We can’t make rules for ourselves so we vote others to do it for us, but we can’t even do that right, I meen seriously, Bush for President? And our other option was John Kerry who claimed to partake in Vietnam Special Forces missions that haven’t been declassified....F***ing Bull S***. So Power Flower Super Mario. Pudge, hook, rot, dismember “Fresh Meat.” Most new/young teachers are laid back, and cooperative with students as feedback and input into the curriculum and atmosphere. My current English teacher is a control freak intent on setting a gap between herself and her students like a 63 year old white male fortune 500 company CEO, and a illegal immigrant. If CG was a private catholic school I could understand, but wtf is her problem. And baking brownies and rice crispies does not make up for it, way to try and justify yourself as a good teacher while underhandidly looking for complements on your cooking. No quarrel on you qualifications as a writer, but as a teacher, don’t be surprised on inspiring the first cg shooting.

Tags: Louise Bianchi, Allen Lee, Ron Delelio, Cary Il, Cary High School, McHenry County, McHenry County States Attorney, Cary Grove

Louis Bianchi Vindicates Marengo Police Department, Mayor Don Lockhart Should Be Satisfied

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:08:00 +0000

Source: Marengo Gazette Online

“This plea is a vindication of the Illinois State Police and the Marengo Police Department,” Bianchi said. “Everything they did was appropriate and legal.”

Tags: Marengo Illinois, Marengo Il Police, City of Marengo, Louis Bianchi, Nichole Owens, McHnery County, McHenry County States Attorney, Marengo Gazette, Marengo Illinois Police, Scott Crawford, Kelly Given, Round Lake Hts, Round Lake, Round Lake Police, Round Lake Hts Police

State's Attorney Louis Bianchi Admit's Wrong By Offering Sweet Deal To Guaghan Brothers, Gaughan Brothers Record Will Be Expunged Of All Charges, Civil Lawsuit Against Marengo Illinois Will Be Likely

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:54:00 +0000

After nearly three years McHenry County Prosecutors throw in the towel. Nichole Owens, the prosecutor who was going after the Gaughan brothers for aggravated battery of a police officer, criminal damage to government property, criminal trespass and filing a false police report, contacted the Gaughans' attorney last week and told them she did not wish to proceed with the case, and will drop all charges if the Gaughan brothers plead to a minor charge. The deal was if both brothers pleaded guilty to attempted disorderly conduct, which is a misdemeanor, that they fabricated the abuse allegations. Basically, there records will be expunged and the Gaughans were sentenced to one year of conditional discharge.

Of course Louis Bianchi said they had a very strong case. Louis Bianchi said. “It was so strong, it persuaded them to plead guilty.” It persuaded them to plead guilty? It must have been one of those moments. In a way that statements implies that the prosecutors are guilty of malicious prosecution. Think about it, this was a deal that no one would turn down. I did not see this one coming. I believe this was a way for the prosecutor to avoid being sued by the Gaughans, since they pled guilty. This also now makes the prosecutors look good in the media and for the up coming 2008 election for Louis Bianchi since the case was brought to a conclusion. I guess it was better to make the City of Marengo look bad then to look bad at election time.

This deal has paved the way for a strong civil lawsuit against the City of Marengo. Even though the brother plead guilty to this odd charge, it will make it hard for the City of Marengo to make their own defense since the brothers record will be wiped clean.

Congrats to the Gaughans’!!!

Tags: Marengo Illinois, Louis Bianchi, Nichole Owens, Marengo Police, City of Marengo, Police Abuse, State Police, McHenry County Illinois, McHenry County, McHnery County Prosecutor, States Attorney, McHenry County States Attorney, Scott Crawford, Kelly Given, Don Lockhart, Mayor Don Lockhart, Marengo Mayor

Identity Theft and Fraud

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:59:00 +0000

"But he that filches from me my good name/Robs me of that which not enriches him/And makes me poor indeed." - Shakespeare, Othello, act iii. Sc. 3.

The short answer is that identity theft is a crime. Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. These Web pages are intended to explain why you need to take precautions to protect yourself from identity theft.

Unlike your fingerprints, which are unique to you and cannot be given to someone else for their use, your personal data especially your Social Security number, your bank account or credit card number, your telephone calling card number, and other valuable identifying data can be used, if they fall into the wrong hands, to personally profit at your expense. In the United States and Canada, for example, many people have reported that unauthorized persons have taken funds out of their bank or financial accounts, or, in the worst cases, taken over their identities altogether, running up vast debts and committing crimes while using the victims's names. In many cases, a victim's losses may include not only out-of-pocket financial losses, but substantial additional financial costs associated with trying to restore his reputation in the community and correcting erroneous information for which the criminal is responsible.

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Attorney General Lisa Madigan ignores residents with blow off letters, Another Marengo resident tells how bad police are in their town, What is wrong with the City of Marengo Illinois

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:47:00 +0000

Attorney General Lisa Madigan has ignored our cries for help when it comes to injustices in McHenry County. Many people have sent letters to her asking for some sort of help just to receive a blow off letter of ignorance. How could someone talk to the McHenry County State’s Attorney if they are the ones who are part of the problem? Here is a letter that was sent to the Northwest Herald by a Marengo resident:

Best to avoid Marengo

To the Editor:
Anyone planning on moving to Marengo – don’t.
When walking home, the police can press charges for whatever crime was reported that night.
Recently, a small-business owner was charged with a crime, simply because he was in the neighborhood where the crime occurred.
By the way, Marengo police don’t have to obey traffic laws.
And if a person gives specific information about who, what, when, and where a crime occurred, unless it’s on their route that night, nothing will happen.
Don’t bother reporting anything against an officer, either.
In conclusion, Marengo police are a joke at best, and don’t care about anything, especially the law.
Everyone should avoid Marengo.
Police brutality and misconduct lawsuits already have been filed, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Thomas Tripp
Marengo

URL: NORTHWEST HERALD

Lou Bianchi And Nichole Owens Continue To Maliciously Prosecute Brothers, Lou Bianchi Is Out For Vengeance Gaughan's Will Not Get Fair Trial

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:30:00 +0000

McHenry County Justice:

Today, there was a clear example of how corrupt the State’s Attorney’s Office in our county is.
What happened?

The charges against Jerry Sweat, a man who shot a teenager who was in his yard three times, were dropped by the State’s Attorney’s Office.

Why were they dropped?

Simple. The State’s Attorney’s office excuse is that the two boys, Patrick Gaughan and Robert Hartwig, took the 5^th and refused to testify against Sweat. But why did they do so?? CAN they testify against Sweat?
No, they can’t. They have indictments against them currently. Patrick Gaughan’s trial was postponed each time that he went to court with a continuance from the judge. Jerry Sweat’s trial, on the other hand, was moved AHEAD of Gaughan’s. Even though the offense of shooting someone 3 times is far more serious then a teenage prank. What the result of this is, is that the Sweat’s trial for a serious crime was allowed to proceed within months of his arrest, while Gaughan’s trial is still postponed and he doesn’t even have a trial date yet.
Why was this done?

Well, the State’s Attorney’s Office had two choices on what to do with this one. They could prosecute a dangerous, deranged shooter, or they could prosecute a Gaughan as revenge. If they prosecuted the shooter, Sweat, they’d have to have Patrick’s trial proceed first, this way allowing him to testify against Sweat instead of the other way around. Of course, in this case, they might not have had Sweat to testify against Patrick Gaughan because he might well take the 5^th and stay silent. They chose to take revenge.
In fact? They never planned on prosecuting Sweat in the first place.

No one from the State’s Attorney’s Office talked to either of the boys after the incident to find out what they witnessed.

The bullets which were removed from Patrick Gaughan’s body following the incident were not even taken by the State’s Attorney’s Office as evidence. They were not interested.

And, of course, Sweat’s trial was scheduled immediately, to run before Gaughan’s trial.

How much trouble was taken to charge Patrick Gaughan, who did not shoot or try to kill anyone, who at the very worst played a childish prank?:

There was an enormous amount of work done to obtain evidence against Gaughan. This included phone taps in an attempt to obtain evidence, dropping the charges against Hartwig in order to try to incriminate Patrick, etc.

None of the above evidence was given to the Gaughans for their defense at this point, despite repeated orders from the judge to have the prosecution produce it. It still was not produced. In any other county, this would have resulted in a charges being dropped.

Now, lets think for a second. What is worse? Trying to play a prank, going into someone’s yard, even if someone went into a car, which Patrick did not do, what is worse? That? Or seeing a person in your yard and shooting them 3 times, wounding them, and potentially injuring them for life?? Even if, as people keep saying, Jerry is “not guilty”, would it not make more sense to bring this before a jury? Let THEM decide. But, no, this never happened. The charges were simply dropped. At least bringing it before a jury would send a message to other potential shooters that “if you shoot someone you will be prosecuted”. Instead, what message does this send? That it’s ok to shoot, that its allowed by the county, that if I or you shoot someone we see crossing our yard, they won’t even prosecute me! That’s the message this sends.

Does the State’s Attorney’s Office care what message is sent to other potential people in our county who might want to take a gun and shoot someone in their yard? No, of course not. They only care about prosecuting a Gaughan for the sake of revenge against the family in an ongoing vendetta.

What about Jerry Sweat? A fine upstanding individual, who was “frightened” in the middle of the night? An “honest” individual who would not make up a story about someone being in his car after being arrested?? The State’s Attorney’s Office was right in dropping the charges against this honest, moral individual who was simply “frightened”. Right? Why let a jury decide? The State Attorney in our county makes much better decisions.
Let’s look at what kind of a person Jerry Sweat really is:

In July 1997, Jerry Sweat plead guilty to possession and masturbating in front of a group of 7 year old girls at Glacial Park Conservation Area. The court documents state that “he recklessly exposed his sex organs in a lewd manner with the intent to arouse his sexual desires.” Jerry was sentenced to 30 hours of community service which he did not do. He had to pay an additional $300, $10 for each hour not served.
What was he doing in Glacial Park? Well, there was a camp of 7 year olds there with two camp counselors. Jerry got off with a real light sentence for these charges. Anywhere but McHenry County, he would have had jail time.

This upstanding citizen had a history of disorderly conduct, of being sued by people, and of drug possession. He is clearly unstable. What did he have to lose by telling a few lies? Nothing. To gain? A lot. His freedom. Second offenses are not looked at lightly and he would have had some well deserved prison time, which he apparently missed the first time.

Also, think about this one: how stable is this individual? Look, he masturbated in front of children. 7 year old GIRLS. He tracked down this group of children in order to masturbate in front of them, seeing Glacial Park is a relatively isolated location, from those who have been there. And very far from Marengo as well. He possessed drugs, and had charges for that. He was sued for not paying his bills. You want this person free, without even having a jury look at the evidence, after shooting someone he saw in his yard, a person who did not touch him and wasn’t near him, three times?? You feel safe with him in your town? He won’t do this again? The whole point of our justice system is to protect us against people who might hurt us. Who is more likely to hurt you, Patrick Gaughan or Jerry Sweat?

The whole matter is utterly disgusting. Patrick is being prosecuted and Sweat got away with what he did, simply because Patrick is a Gaughan. Had he been anyone else, Sweat would never have gotten off.

Remember the case, last year, of the guy who shot a dog? This guy lost his job and was sentenced to two years probation. For what? For shooting a dog on his property who tried to attack him!! The dog actually did something to the shooter, who then shot him! How much money did the State’s Attorney’s Office spend defending the dog? Well… lets see... they did an autopsy to see which path the bullets traveled in the dogs body. They saved the bullets for evidence. They did none of this in the Sweat case. The State’s Attorney’s office did not even so much as take the bullets as evidence that were taken out of Patrick Gaughan or even talk to the victims. A DOG got a lot more time and a huge amount of money spent to convict his shooter than a human being.

THAT is McHenry County Justice. Lets hope its not you next time at the wrong end of it.

Let’s ask this: would it be ok to shoot someone who masturbated in front of your 7 year old child? Think of that before giving this a rest.

Tags: Jerry Sweat, Nichole Owens, Lou Bianchi, McHenry County State's Attorney, Marengo Il, City of Marengo, Marengo Teen, Mchenry Prosecutor

Marengo Teen Will Not Have A Fair Trial, Shooter Jerry Sweat Has Charges Dropped, Nichole Owens Lou Bianchi Continue To Maliciously Prosecute Brothers, Judge Condon

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:47:00 +0000

From the Marengo Gazette:

Marengo resident Jerry Sweat, the person who shot Marengo teenager Patrick Gaughan, has had the charges dropped against him. However, Jerry Sweat could still be charged at a later date which could be filed at a later date. Either way, Jerry is not in the clear. Dropping these charges is not a surprise. They would rather try to convict and jail a teen who has mistakenly tried to tee-pee a wrong residence then put a potential murderer behind bars. So let’s see…. 30 years in prison for Jerry Sweat or 3-5 years for Patrick Gaughan for potential breaking and entering and obstruction. Well, since it’s a Gaughan let’s screw him. The McHenry County State’s Attorneys Office has a vendetta with the Gaughan family since 2004 and it is no secret.

Here is something that is very interesting.

A Harvard man shot and killed his neighbor’s dog claiming self defense. The McHenry County State’s Attorney spent countless taxpayers’ money on forensic investigation. They studied the travel of the bullets, angles, distance, and etc. They convicted him with felony animal cruelty, which carried a potential maximum three-year prison sentence. He was ordered to two years of probation, pay a $2,000 fine and perform 50 hours of community service. Look at the extent the prosecutor went through to convict this person for shooting a dog. Why didn’t the prosecutor go though this much when it came to a person shooting another person? Why? The only thing that had been done was some questions asked by the Sheriffs Department when Patrick was lying in a hospital bed. They never even collected the bullets that came out of Patrick. WHAT!!! The McHenry County State’s Attorneys Office never bothered to contact the family. Again, why?

It’s because it is the Gaughans. The City of Marengo with their McHenry County connections have collaborated with each other and set out to tear this family apart over police abuse charges filed against Scott Crawford. I just cannot believe how people can be blinded by this corruption. Scott Crawford should have been fired and charges brought up against him. But thanks to the help of the McHenry County State’s Attorneys Office, found a way for him to still be a creditable witness against the Gaughans by resigning his position. I know that’s why Nichole and Lou were at the hearing. To make sure their witness was secured. The McHenry County State’s Attorneys probably did not figure that Kelly Given would do something so stupid. Kelly Given should have had charges brought up again her for stealing sealed juvenile records. But again, with the help from the prosecutors and the City of Marengo, no charges were filed. They had to secure that witness as well so she resigned. They knew that if anyone of them had charges against them they would not be a creditable witness. That is why they have temporally dropped the charges against Jerry Sweat.

You cannot imagine how much tax payer dollars went to maliciously prosecute this family. The Crawford issue will be going for a third year. I believe it all comes down to the prosecutor does not have squat against these boys. Their strategy is to financially destroy this family until they can claim victory.
This family will not EVER get a fair trial.

I cannot wait to see what the papers will print tomorrow.
Where is the Justice in this county?

Tags: Jerry Sweat, Nichole Owens, Lou Bianchi, McHenry County State's Attorney, Marengo Il, City of Marengo, Marengo Teen, Mchenry Prosecutor

Basic Surveillance Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:40:00 +0000

Basic Surveillance Tips:

A: Types of Surveillance
There are two types of surveillance.
1) Tailing, also known as shadowing (on foot, or by private and public transportation)
2) Fixed surveillance - also known as "The stakeout."

B: Do Your Homework First
1) Before doing any surveillance, get information about the person habits and social place.
2) Know the neighborhood you'll be working in. Plan possible routes the person might take.
3) Have an alternative plan you can put into action should things suddenly go wrong.
If you have done your homework, you may be able to re-establish the tail even if you lose it.

C: Your Presence is Everything
1) If sitting in a car, it maybe best to sit on the passenger's side and not the drivers side. It is less suspicious.
2) A female is nowhere near as obtrusive as a male. If you plan to do a stake out, it might be to your interest to a female present.
3) You can sit in the back seat and slump down.

D: Appearance
1) You may have to rent or borrowing a car. Especially if the person you are watching knows you. Also keep in mind you will need to blend in depending on the area worked.
2) Change your appearance. You should always have a change of cloths on hand. This is very important. You will need to blend in. Also some wigs or any other hair wear is recommended.

E: Cover Story
Always have a good cover story in case you are made.

Working with Court Indexes

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:09:00 +0000

Working with Court Indexes:

The court house records are a good way to anonymously find information on anyone. You can find divorce records, lawsuit records, criminal records, and even records of such things as custody battles and anything else that has gone through the court system. It is quick and easy to use. You just walk into a courthouse of choice and look records up in a computer without anyone knowing that you did so. Leaves no record of your own actions.

Taken From: You Can Find Anybody
By: Joseph. C. Culligan

Each court keeps indexes of all civil and criminal cases brought before it. In some courts, the indexes for the most recent years may be searchable at a computer terminal. In others, you may have to look through bound com- i puter printout volumes. In still others, the indexes may be on microfiche, in an automatic rotating card file, or even (for older local records) entered in ledger books. Criminal court cases are listed by defendant; bankruptcy cases, by petitioner (either debtor or creditor); probate actions, by the i decedent's name. Civil suits are listed alphabetically by either plaintiff j or defendant, although some courts have both a plaintiff/defendant and a defendant/plaintiff index (or else one index that merges both in a single alphabetical listing in which each case appears at least twice—this is called "party index"). In general, the plaintiff/defendant or defendant/plaintiff] index will list only the first-listed plaintiff and first-listed defendant in multiparty cases.
Some computerized indexes and some microfiche indexes generated from I the printouts of computerized indexes will list all parties (if a system com-l bines index and docket information in a single database it almost certainly! will be all-party searchable). Computerized systems are not available ml every trial court, however, and where they do exist the coverage usually doesn't extend back very many years. If you want the names of those 10 other plaintiffs in the 1981 product liability suit Barnett et al. v. Ace Toys, you will have to go to the docket sheet or the case file.
To find all the local civil suits involving your subject in a nonelectronic index requires considerable ingenuity if there is no cross index and/or if indexing is restricted to the first-listed parties. Yet this type of search - not only for active cases but also for closed or dormant cases from past decades —is often of vital importance in investigative journalism. This is especially true in tracking a corrupt politician or an organized crime figure; the conspiracies in which such people are involved often go way back, and today's trickery may be understandable only in the light of courtroom revelations from a decade or more ago.
The following are some methods you might find useful in getting around the limitations of your local court indexing systems. These methods (which should be used in tandem with LEXIS searches and other techniques described in section 9.3) are intended for the most difficult type of search - to find cases involving your subject in an index in which the cases are listed alphabetically by first-named plaintiff only, with no cross indexing by defendants.

Look up all cases in which the state or city is the plaintiff. Depending on local practice, these may be listed under "People of___ ," "State of___ ," or "City of___ ," or possibly under the official designation of the state or city attorney (e.g., "Anystate Attorney General," "Anystate Department of Law"). Under the most commonly used of these government plaintiff headings, you may find hundreds of defendants listed in alphabetical order.

Flip through the plaintiff indexes, looking for examples of plaintiffs who file massive numbers of cases. In the metropolitan and/or state district court indexes of any large city, hundreds of defendants may be listed alphabetically opposite the name of the city hospital corporation and other public and private entities that deal with consumer debt problems on a large scale.

Go to the judgment books (see section 8.4). If a private or governmental plaintiff has obtained a judgment against your subject in the local courts, the case file number will be listed alongside subject's name.

Whenever you find subject listed as one of several plaintiffs or defendants, check the names of the other parties separately in the index to find other cases that might include subject as a party.

Whenever you find a case involving subject, look on the docket sheet and in the case file for references to other lawsuits. Especially look for countersuits or cross suits. Examine the transcript, if any, of subject's deposition or court testimony to see if he or she was asked about previous litigation. Also, check directly with the other parties (or their attorneys); they may be aware of cases you would otherwise miss.

Look in newspaper and business periodical databases and clippings files for reports of any lawsuits involving subject.

Check for "bad blood" suits. If you learn from the plaintiff index that your subject is suing Mr. X, check to see if Mr. X has independently sued your subject about another matter.

Use the federal court party index to find possible leads to state court cases indexed only by plaintiff. A person who is suing your subject in federal court might have sued him or her on a related or entirely separate matter in state court.

Follow clues that emerge from other aspects of your investigation. For instance, check in the plaintiff index under the names of subject's ex-spouses or ex-lovers, former business partners (especially in businesses that went bankrupt), political rivals, and others. They may be suing subject or current associates of subject. Any time you find an antagonist or associate of subject listed as a first-named plaintiff or first-named defendant, check the docket sheet or the case file to see if subject is one of the unindexed parties. (All this should apply to any businesses linked to subject as well as to individuals.)

Check the bankruptcy court index to see if subject or his or her business has ever been involved in a bankruptcy proceeding, either as debtor or creditor. Debtors in bankruptcy cases must file with the court a list of all outstanding judgments against them and all pending litigation in which they are involved in any jurisdiction.

Note that when you are searching court indexes that are not online (e.g., microform, CD-ROM, or bound computer printout volumes), you should always search any supplements produced since the last cumulation.

The Moratorium Campaign

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:45:00 +0000

The Moratorium Campaign:

Here is an another interesting site that is of interest to those seeking justice. It is called “The Moratorium Campaign”. Its website is http://www.moratorium.org/index.lasso

It concerns the death penalty and the way it is practiced in the USA. One can send petitions or try to change votes on issues by taking action through this site.

One of the issues presented this week on it is that of Attorney General John Ashcroft, who is a proponent of the death penalty. His recent actions have been to step up the use of the dealth penalty, seeking recommendations for it even in states where it is not legal and that do not have the death penalty. The other issue is that the federal government use of the death penalty shows a clear racial bias and that Ashcroft’s record in administering the death penalty leaves a lot to be desired.

“According to the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, a group helping lawyers defend capital cases, of the 28 cases Ashcroft overrode, 26 are people of color – African American, Hispanic, Native American, or Asian. The Justice Department claims that Ashcroft is unaware of the defendant’s race or ethnicity when reviewing prosecutors’ recommendations and he is only reviewing the laws involved. But the statistics show that the same kind of racial bias at the state level is found at the national level as well.

Add to the race issues the idea of geographic disparity. Twelve of the 28 overrides were cases from the New York / Connecticut area. This sort of concentration is not new to the federal system. Indeed, a study in 2000 showed a sizeable portion of the cases (42%) occurring in just 5 of the 94 federal districts.

With twelve states and the District of Columbia having no death penalty laws, the issue of federal jurisdiction is also noteworthy. Previously, federal prosecutors have been more likely to pursue the death penalty in states that practice capital punishment rather than in those states that do not. Last year, a death sentence was handed down in Michigan, which has not had a death penalty in 150 years. Officials are now seeking death sentences in Massachusetts, Vermont and Washington, D.C. and have contemplated seeking death sentences in Rhode Island, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. None of these jurisdictions has the death penalty.

A senior Justice Department official explained Ashcroft’s policy: “Someone who commits a federal death penalty crime should be treated the same no matter where they commit the crime. States do not have the option of opting out of the federal death penalty law any more than they had the option of opting out of civil rights laws in the 1960s.” (Washington Post) This is a clear contradiction to the current administration’s commitment to state and local control over policy decisions, and reflects the irony of comparing a system that blatantly targets people of color with the civil rights movement.

Ashcroft?s actions have sparked criticism from Congress. In a letter to Ashcroft, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy questions the rationale behind this death penalty approach while Wisconsin Senator Russell Feingold expresses concerns over the fairness of the decision-making process for determining death eligible cases. In his letter, Feingold indicates that the Attorney General appears to be ?intent on making the federal system replicative of states that aggressively pursue the death penalty ? states like Texas.?

While Ashcroft?s actions are beginning to attract more attention, the federal government proceeded with the execution of federal inmate Louis Jones on March 12, 2003. This was the first federal execution in almost two years.” From the Moratorium Site.

An Interesting Magazine For Those Seeking Justice

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:44:00 +0000

An Interesting Magazine For Those Seeking Justice:

http://www.justicedenied.org/

Here is an interesting magazine for those who have been wrongly convicted of something that they did not do. It features people who were convicted of murders and robberies when they were as much as 170 miles or more away from the crime scene at the time. A woman who was convicted of aiding her son’s suicide, which was later overturned by the Supreme Court, and others of that nature. A very interesting magazine, that anyone facing or having faced a wrongful conviction should read. Some of the articles featured talk about the other side of wrongful convictions, that people who actually did the crimes are getting off free. Then there are political articles and causes to read about. 33 issues of this magazine are available online.

Checking Out Subjects Thesis or Dissertation

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:31:00 +0000

Checking Out Subjects Thesis or Dissertation:

Taken From: You Can Find Anybody
By: Joseph. C. Culligan

All universities will have in their library stacks the master's theses and doctoral dissertations of graduate students who obtained degrees at that school. (Note: Not all master's degree programs require a thesis.) Some college libraries, especially those of the colleges that require a thesis from every senior, will also keep copies of senior honors papers and senior theses.

Many theses and dissertations have an acknowledgments page in which the author thanks his or her adviser, the members of the dissertation committee (and other professors), friends, parents, spouse and children, the department secretary, and so on. Often 20 or more names will be mentioned. The acknowledgments are especially valuable in finding out the names of ex-spouses and ex-lovers. Also look for any mention of grants or scholarships received by subject.

If you cannot visit subject's college library, you can still easily find out details about his or her dissertation. Look in American Doctoral Dissertations and the Comprehensive Dissertation Index at your local research library. These indexes will indicate if subject indeed has the doctorate he or she claims to have. You can then consult Dissertation Abstracts International and Masters Abstracts International, which contain abstracts (usually written by the authors themselves) of dissertations (dating from 1938) and theses (dating from 1962).

Via DIALOG or CompuServe, you can access Dissertation Abstracts Online, which provides an index to the subject, title, and author of almost every dissertation accepted at a U.S. university since 1861 and master's theses since 1962. It also provides dissertation abstracts (from 1980) and theses abstracts (from 1988). Many research libraries will have this database on CD-ROM.

If you need the entire dissertation, you can order the microform or a photocopy from University Microfilms International (UMI) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. If a particular dissertation or thesis is unavailable from UMI, you can get it via interlibrary loan from the library of the university that awarded the degree.

Local Weeklies

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:13:00 +0000

Don't throw out those driveway papers!

Taken From: You Can Find Anybody
By: Joseph. C. Culligan

Local Weeklies

In every metropolitan area, you will find flourishing weeklies, both of the free-distribution variety and of the paid subscription/newsstand type, aimed either at the entire city or at a particular city neighborhood or suburban community. You will also find weeklies specializing in ethnic or alternate-lifestyle news.

A few weeklies will have excellent clippings files organized like those of the dailies. Most weeklies lack this, but they may keep files on ongoing local political conflicts or the paper's most important investigative pieces through the years. In addition, the editor may remember an article on your subject and be willing to dig out the back issue in which it appeared.

Never underestimate the weeklies, including the smallest. Major investigative pieces by large dailies frequently are based upon spadework performed by the weeklies, and the latter may treat a story in much greater detail (and with much less pulling of punches) than any large daily would.

The Alternative Press Index and Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals cover feisty metropolitan weekly newspapers such as New York City's Village Voice, as well as defunct or still-existing counterculture newspapers that, in their heyday, uncovered vast quantities of scandalous (and still relevant) material about people in high places. (Most of the counterculture papers have been put on microform by UMI; a few of those not covered in the two indexes mentioned above may be found in The Left Index.) If you are investigating a crooked politician, landlord, or businessperson, the alternative press is often the best place to start. Note that its investigative function is also performed to a lesser extent in some localities by city magazines, such as Boston, and state magazines, such as Texas Monthly. You can find profiles of hundreds of such periodicals in Regional Interest Magazines of the United States.

DIVORCE RECORDS

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:09:00 +0000

Divorce records can be obtained from the courthouse, electronically. They are a part of civil court records. They are useful because one can obtain information on a person that would not be obtainable elsewhere.

Taken From: You Can Find Anybody
By: Joseph. C. Culligan

DIVORCE RECORDS

A review of a complete divorce file will yield information that is unattainable anywhere else. The file will contain the names and ages of the children of the subject. If time has passed and the children are of age, they may be of assistance in locating the subject. You may, of course, use all the regular means of locating one or all of the children.
The divorce file will contain a list of vehicles owned by the couple and will include the vehicle identification number (VIN) in many instances. See which vehicle your subject took possession of. Even if this case is years old, the VIN will never change on a vehicle, so you may want to order a body history on the vehicle. If your subject does not own the vehicle anymore, you will be able to see all the documentation that will include the name of the person who purchased it. You will then contact that individual and they may be able to provide information about your subject.
Many times the divorce file will specify what boats or vessels the couple owned. You will want to follow the course outlined in the above paragraph.
The divorce file will contain a listing of property owned. You will learn what real estate your subject retained. If your subject keeps even a small undeveloped piece of land, this will be of help. The mailing address for the tax bill will be public record and may lead you to your subject.

Caller ID

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:13:00 +0000

Caller ID:

I think we all might know about this.
If you decide to call around to find person who doesn't want to be found, that person may find out from somebody and become curious or even angry. That person may just call your number just to hear what your voice sounds like and then hang up without saying anything. The person may call pretending to be someone else and try to get information from you. That person may even call anonymously with threats, obscenities, or heavy breathing. With Caller ID, it will tell you the number from which the call was made. If you call back immediately and ask to talk to that person, that person may break down and talk to you. If you reverse the number in the crisscross directory, you may find that it's a residential number listed under a name you've never heard of, like if the person is under an assumed identity, or perhaps staying with a friend, a business number, or a pay phone in which may tell you what city the person is in.

If the Caller ID has been blocked or you do not have Caller ID, another method that can be used is automatically call back last number. Most states phone providers should have this option at a small fee. In order to find out who called, you will have to wait to receive your phone bill to see the number that the service was applied to.

To block Caller ID in IL:

Before placing your call, pick up the telephone and wait for the dial tone.
Push *67. (Dial 1167 on a rotary phone.)
A series of tones, followed by a dial tone, lets you know that your blocking is activated.
Dial the desired telephone number.

Automatic Callback in IL:

To activate Automatic Callback on a pay-per-use basis, just press *69 (1169 from rotary phones) and your call rings through to the last number that called you. To cancel, press *89 (1189 from rotary phones).

Cops And DUI’s:

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:02:00 +0000

Cops And DUI’s:

Looks like the Marengo Police Department received some more bad publicity this week. Marengo Officer Courtney Miller was charged with a DUI, making her the third McHenry County law enforcement officer charged this month. She was driving in Rockford at 3am when stopped and apprehended. Marengo Chief, Les Kotke, of course, put her on PAID administrative leave instead of firing her. Of course, she was simply apprehended, not convicted yet. But it would be interesting to see what will happen if she is convicted. Will Marengo get rid of her?? Or will she be forced to resign and given a good reference like the other two Marengo cops, Crawford and Given?? Or will she simply take some sort of deal with the prosecutor and simply beat the DUI one way or another. In that case, we have a police officer who will now drive around while potentially being drunk on and off the job, have access to a gun on and off the job while being potentially drunk in the future. We have a real danger to society. The scary thing is it is happening again and again in McHenry County. Police officers and drinking just does not mix, on or off the job, because of their access to weapons. One also might wonder just what kinds of police officers are being hired in McHenry County. Those who are likely to drink?? Those who are unstable emotionally?? What kinds of incidents can this potentially lead to in the future?

Read the story: Another officer faces DUI

Pedestrian Rally Against Trucks....What About Bad Cops?

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:38:00 +0000

This is an article that was written during the summer, when there was a protest held on Main Street in Marengo, IL to protest the truck traffic on the street. I think it is important to read because, while the truck traffic was annoying and at times dangerous, no injustices were involved. It shows the attitude of people in a small town toward their fellow citizens and issues in their community and is a lesson to all.

This article has been reposted with permission from: Marengo Gazette Online, Marengo Gaztte Blog

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Pedestrian Rally Against Trucks....What About Bad Cops?

Concerned citizens and Marengo Pedestrians will be holding a Rally in the Downtown Business section of Marengo on Friday July 28 at 10 AM in support of pedestrian rights. There will be marches, speeches and refreshments.
This is the email I received earlier this week. Now, what seems to be wrong with a rally? Sounds like fun, right? Speeches, marches, even something to eat. A whole event. Sounds like something that the citizens of Marengo might want to attend and take part in.
Well, there's a problem.
What are rallies, demonstrations, speeches, and marches generally conducted for? Well, they are all a form of activism whose purpose is to bring about changes and to get the current government's attention that people are not pleased with what is going on. This certainly seems to be the intention of this demonstration. The downtown store owners want the situation of truck traffic on Rt.23 looked into, they want better pedestrian laws, and more signs. In return, the downtown owners will benefit by increased traffic and profits.
Does anyone except me see anything wrong with this picture?
Look at the traditional reasons rallies and demonstrations are usually held. Civil Rights Demonstrations, for instance. Compare Martin Luther King Jr's speech to a speech about….pedestrian rights!! Does this not demean the whole idea of protests and demonstrations? Here Martin Luther King Jr. risked his life and liberty to demonstrate and give speeches, as have those who participated with him. And then we have Marengo store owners risking nothing at all to have a demonstration in order to get more profits for themselves. And to also increase business on the day of the demonstration itself too, of course. There were other rallies throughout history, of course. Vietnam War protests, Iraq War protests, and Immigration Marches and rallies. Again, compare the seriousness of the issues involved to that of pedestrian rights. These people were out there protesting for a reason with great risk for themselves. They wanted to bring about important changes for themselves and others. Their acts were selfless, whereas the acts of these protestors in Marengo clearly are meant to benefit themselves. And will not piss anyone off too much, as I'm sure everyone in and outside town either agrees with them or is neutral.
Finally, my biggest issue with this rally is that some of the owners of these downtown businesses were asked to contribute money to help the Gaughans in their legal battle and to start a fundraiser. They have not agreed to it and were shocked at the audacity of the suggestion. They also are not willing to go out there and protest the Marengo Police falsely imprisoning and beating people in the police station. Clearly, that is not an important issue to them. But, when it comes to profits and something that will benefit them, they are out there ready to rally, march, and give speeches!
What would a speech about pedestrian rights be about anyway? Will it get people inspired? I doubt it. In fact, let's face it, Rt. 23 is a truck route. Some of the trucks and tractor trailers pay over $10,000 just to buy their plates for their trucks. Do they not have the right to use the route? What about their rights? The whole issue is ridiculous.

Serial Directories and Catalogs

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:48:00 +0000

Serial Directories and Catalogs:

In backgrounding a prominent Midwest businessperson, you may decide to search the daily newspapers in his or her state as well as local and national business and trade publications. But how do you find out which publications are online and from which vendors? And what if you want to search smaller dailies (and weeklies) in subject's locality that are not online? Or pre-online issues of the major local daily? Or the backfiles of the latter's now defunct rival? The following directories and catalogs are available in most research libraries:

• Fulltext Sources Online. This directory, updated every six months, lists over 4,500 journals, newspapers, newsletters, and newswires available online. It includes vendors, coverage dates, database codes, lag times (between date of publication and date available online), title changes, and whether the coverage is selective or complete.

• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media (formerly Ayer Directory of Publications). This three-volume set (with an interedition supplement) enables you to identify quickly by city and state/province about 43,000 newspapers and periodicals in the United States and Canada. It includes every type of publication except newsletters, house organs, publications issued less than four times a year, and publications issued by primary and secondary schools or houses of worship. Defunct publications are removed from the main body of entries and listed as "ceased" in the master name and keyword index. (For further listings in a given city, see the local yellow pages.)

• Standard Periodical Directory. This includes annotated entries on 75,000 periodicals in the United States and Canada, divided into 250 major subjects and featuring a title index and cross-index.

• Newsletters in Print. This includes over 12,000 newsletters arranged under 33 subject headings.

• Newspapers in Microform. This cumulative Library of Congress reference set (with annuals between cumulations) includes religious, collegiate, labor, and other special interest papers, as well as general news dailies and weeklies. It also covers defunct and merged papers. Under the current title of a paper will be listed its previous names and the names of papers that merged with it or split from it, with the dates of each change; for example, if you look under the Anytown Courier-Herald you will find that it is the successor to the Anytown Courier and the Mist County Herald, which merged in 1949. Newspapers in Microform tells which libraries, archives, or microform companies in the United States or overseas have copies of the given newspaper; it also indicates partial or badly broken runs.

• The Union List of Serials and New Serial Titles. These multivolume sets, available in major research libraries, include many obscure and long-ceased serials that are not listed anywhere else. They will tell you which libraries in your region have a particular serial.

• University Microfilms International's Serials in Microform. This is a biennial catalog that lists over 18,000 periodicals and 7,000 newspapers (with years available and price). The major public or university libraries of the locality in which a given publication is or was published will probably have the microform backfiles, and you should be able to obtain the issues you need through interlibrary loan.

Copied from: Get the Facts on Anyone
By: Dennis King

The Reverse Trace

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:20:00 +0000

The Reverse Trace:

When the police or the FBI want to find one of these paper trippers badly enough, they first identify through database searches everyone who appeared for the first time in certain key public records systems for instance, the motor vehicles bureau records of the state where subject is rumored to be hiding within a certain time frame following subject's disappearance. Next, they narrow this list to include only those who, according to their driver's licenses and other available data, share certain physical characteristics of subject (e.g., race, height, approximate age).

You don't have to be a police officer to use this method. If you believe the person you are looking for moved to a certain city two years ago and is now living there under false ID, examine that city's roster of water connects and other utility connect records if they are available, and compile a list of names of all persons who had utilities turned on during the weeks following that persons disappearance from their previous address. Then crosscheck those names against the local crisscross directory and/or back-issue white pages to identify those who were prior telephone subscribers at other addresses in the same locality and those who are new-to-the-directory subscribers. Prentice Hall Online's People Tracker may also be useful for this purpose. Next, obtain abstracts of the driver's licenses of all those who were listed both as new water connects and new-to-the-directory telephone connects and cross off those whose physical characteristics don't fit. If you now go to visit or conduct surveillance on the homes of the remaining people on your list, you may find that one of them as living under their new identity. Of course, a highly intelligent paper tripper would have prepared their disappearance carefully, either by purchasing or renting a new home and getting the utilities turned on months in advance, or else by waiting a couple of months after their disappearance before getting any new utilities under any name whatsoever. In addition, they would have avoided getting a telephone listing in the white pages, precisely in order to keep out of local and national crisscross directories.

A Message From Those Wrongfully Sentenced to Death Row

noreply@blogger.com (Crusade For Justice) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:34:00 +0000

A Message From Those Wrongfully Sentenced to Death Row:

It is scary to see how many innocent people have been sentenced to Death Row and then found to be not guilty. I wonder what the justification for putting people to death is, if there are so many instances of the system being wrong and failing? Here is a plea from people who have been falsely sentenced to death row, and then later released, to look into the case of one man, who not only is on death row, perhaps after being falsely accused, but also who is not allowed to express his views or write about them.

“THERE ARE INNOCENT men and women on death row in this country. We know, for we were numbered among them. Many of us endured for years in the narrow and isolated confines of a barren cell designed to murder our spirits, as the State struggled to win final legal sanction to steal our lives.

SUCH IS THE CASE with Mumia Abu-Jamal, an award-winning journalist, an outspoken opponent of racism and police brutality, a militant champion of justice for Black people, a man who for decades has been the voice of the dispossessed and the disenfranchised -- and an innocent man on death row in Pennsylvania.

WE KNOW MUMIA'S STRUGGLE, because no one knows better than we of the lengths to which the criminal "justice" system will go to in its relentless quest to take a life. Many of us are intimately familiar with the daily degradation of Mumia's seventeen years on death row: locked in his cell for 23 hours each day, forbidden to embrace or even see his family members, prohibited from being filmed or audio taped by reporters, slapped into punitive detention for writing and publishing his views, refused the right to confidentially communicate with his attorneys. We were sustained in our struggle for justice, as Mumia is, by the tireless support of our families, friends, and people of principle who organized to liberate us from the machine that tried to slay us. And above all else we were sustained, as Mumia is, by the only real certainty we were allowed on death row - the knowledge that we were innocent.

THE STATE sought to poison us, electrocute us or hang us with the machine-like indifference it reserves for people it has determined to be worthless and therefore disposable -- in this country, overwhelmingly poor people and people of color. If our murders could be used to enhance a political career or a partisan policy debate, then so much the better. But the State seeks to murder Mumia with a ruthless and relentless fervor that has publicly defied any pretext of fairness or decency. Let us be clear: the State's campaign to murder Mumia is designed above all else to silence a Black man who dares to speak truth to power. As Mumia himself has said, the State does not just seek his death, it seeks his silence.

IT IS FOR THESE REASONS that we call on all people of conscience to speak out, to organize against this travesty of justice, and to demand Mumia's freedom. To allow Pennsylvania to murder Mumia is to allow the State to succeed in slaughtering another innocent and in silencing a voice for the voiceless. We know that the State will not concede its wrongdoing without a struggle. We know that the authorities who have sought to murder this man will not submit to justice unless we, the people, organize to fight the State's abuse of power. Join us. Stand with Mumia Abu-Jamal, our brother and our friend, and demand that the State of Pennsylvania set him free.

Kirk Bloodworth
(Maryland, Convicted 1984, Released 1993)

Joseph Burrows
(Illinois, Convicted 1989, Released 1994)

Perry Cobb
(Illinois, Convicted 1979, Released 1987)

Muneer Deeb
(Texas, Convicted 1985, Released 1993)

Gary Gauger
(Illinois, Convicted 1993, Released 1996)

Verneal Jimerson
(Illinois, Convicted 1985, Released 1996)

Troy Lee Jones
(California, Convicted 1982, Released 1996)

David Keaton
(Florida, Convicted 1971, Released 1973)

Ronald Kline
(New Mexico, Convicted 1974, Released 1976)

Carl Lawson
(Illinois, Convicted 1990, Released 1996)

Wilbert Lee
(Florida, Convicted 1963, Released 1975)

Bradley P. Scott
(Florida, Convicted 1988, Released 1991)

Delbert Tibbs
(Florida, Convicted 1974, Released 1977)

Darby (Williams) Tillis
(Illinois, Convicted 1979, Released 1987)

Dennis Williams
(Illinois, Convicted 1979, Released 1996)”

http://www.cuadp.org/message.html