We will end this week's discussion on US COURT public policy looking at the difference between COMMON LAW and CANON LAW and how these play in my case of NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG illegal surveillance video and PORN -----how these structures exist but no one steps forward to acknowledge and seek justice for victims of SEXUAL ASSAULTS AND NON-CONTACT RAPE.

Here is the case of FAMILIES VS JEWISH CHILD SEX OFFENDER.



Krawatsky et al v. Avrunin et al
Plaintiff: Steven Krawatsky and Shira Krawatsky

Defendant: Rachel Avrunin, Joel Avrunin, Sharon Avrunin-Becker, Scott Becker and Chaim Levin Case



Number: 1:2018cv00297 Filed: January 30, 2018



Court: US District Court for the District of Maryland Office: Baltimore Office County: Baltimore County Presiding Judge: Ellen L. Hollander Nature of Suit: Assault, Libel, and Slander Cause of Action: 28:1332 Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff




I did hear in FEEDBACK on THE NETWORK some people seeing my case as CRIMINAL ----and seeing my case as being camouflaged under the guise of OUT-PATIENT MENTAL HEALTH -----

WE ARE ILLEGALLY SURVEILLING AND MAKING PORN OF HER BECAUSE SHE ASKED FOR HELP WHILE DEALING WITH CLINICAL DEPRESSION.

We want to use the article posted yesterday tied to RABBI SEXUAL PREDATOR in this case the victims being JEWISH FAMILIES AND CHILDREN.  This is why we say-----the 'US' AND 'THEM' is very dynamic and these attacks are happening to everyone.

My case against NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG have HOSTING SERVER NOSY NEIGHBORS saying----SHE HAS NO EVIDENCE and the group speak and chatter of members say the same thing as we see below------that I am not a victim but a SEX WORKER PERFORMING WITH CONSENT-----and that no one should speak to me because I am the BAD person----not NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG.

These families of child victims were 'US' ----being accepted in that JEWISH COMMUNITY.

Three victims with plenty of evidence collected by trained social workers could have ended with a COURT RULING OF GUILTY FOR SEX CRIMES if the community and lead RABBI stood by the families.




“It is one thing to wrap our mind around the fact that our son was sexually abused,” she said. “It’s another to realize that our community — our friends and neighbors, the people who davened next to us in shul and had playdates at our house — chose to turn a blind eye, or worse, betray us.”


SEX CRIMES often are attached to structures with some wealth for DEFENSE.  Below we see how the DEFENSE LAWYER went straight for the CHILD PROTECTIVE services and its positive indication of EVIDENCE OF ASSAULT----and forced a downward designation weakening the victim's abilities in court.  Please watch how these DEFENSE LAWYERS work to undermine existing EVIDENCE. 


“I’m fighting for my son’s childhood. You only get one. I want my son to have his.”

Rabbi Krawatsky appealed both determinations, a move that is not unusual, according to Barnes. In both instances, the cases were settled prior to an appellate ruling. In the end, CPS, in what amounts to a plea bargain, downgraded its determination from “indicated” to “unsubstantiated,” which means that there is not a preponderance of evidence that abuse took place'.

EARMARKS OF PROTECTING PERPETRATOR.

When I became aware of ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE and HITTING of me in January it was made clear via BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT and institutions which should have been my ADVOCATE-----that PROTECTING THE PERPETRATORS would be the stance as we see below for these 3 families and their children.





“This case has ‘all the earmarks typical of an investigation constructed to protect the perpetrator.'”



'According to Marci Hamilton, CEO and academic director of CHILD USA, a think tank dedicated to preventing child abuse, this case has “all the earmarks typical of an investigation constructed to protect the perpetrator.”


In may case I have not been able to get ANY action from justice agencies which should be investigating and charging NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG.  Instead, I am told EVERYONE IS DOING IT.

These JEWISH FAMILIES did at least get the Baltimore County police to INVESTIGATE but below we see again----the investigation was deliberately VAGUE----with tools known to not stand up in court----as we see with the tool of POLYGRAPH being the major part of INVESTIGATION------not evidence valid in a criminal case reaching court.  When police investigations are simply a POLYGRAPH with conclusions the SEXUAL PREDATOR didn't do it-----then we see that same---PROTECTING THE PERPETRATOR.

PLEASE PUSH FOR REAL POLICE INVESTIGATIONS AND KEEP JOURNALS ON FAILURES TO DO SO.


'Experts say the polygraph exam is unreliable, and polygraphs are not admissible as evidence in court. The manual of the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, an arm of the National District Attorneys’ Association, writes about the polygraph: “These investigative tools should never be the controlling factor in a decision about whether to proceed with a case.”'


The US MILITARY COURT CASE we used earlier MCKINNEY and ABU GHRAIB TORTURE ----each came with convictions but tied to less serious charges.  The courts and judge was protecting the SEXUAL PREDATOR by keeping court precedence in conviction away from those SEX CRIMES.

The victims of MCKINNEY are still working on this justice as too the families of RABBI SEXUAL PREDATOR.  Do not listen to FEEDBACK which says -----

THERE WILL BE NO EVIDENCE OR TRIAL OR ABILITY TO CONVICT NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG-----



'“There is a common and grave misunderstanding out there that failure to prosecute exonerates the perpetrator. It does not.”


It just means more evidence is needed,” she said. When the accused is a religious figure and beloved community member, gaining enough evidence to prosecute becomes increasingly difficult, she continued'.


We see below HIGH-PRICED lawyer for SEX OFFENDER DEFENDANT---wonder how that was AFFORDED when families victimized no doubt could not afford a FANCY LAWYER.  We see lots and lots of MEDIA surrounding this SEXUAL ASSAULT case in JEWISH media because a national ORTHODOX organization ---OU ------seems to be supporting those VICTIMS AND CHILDREN.

There seemed enough evidence to convict----as with MCKINNEY ---as with ABU GHRAIB-----and as with my case of NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG.



“A high-priced attorney can browbeat CPS to downgrade that ‘indicated’ to ‘unsubstantiated.’ That’s not rare.”



'Results of the OU’s internal investigation prompted the OU to “immediately disassociate from this person [Rabbi Krawatsky] and not be involved with him in any way, shape or form.”'

A criminal case won in court takes the charges ending in conviction and then look to CIVIL DAMAGES.  We do not go to CIVIL DAMAGES until we get those CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS.  These families having failed to get those criminal convictions are now taking that CIVIL STEP -----and these CIVIL CASES are directed at PUBLIC AGENCIES tasked with protecting and investigating----as POLICE DEPARTMENT----as city/states attorneys.



'The three families whose boys were allegedly abused now plan to sue Rabbi Krawatsky and any organization that “had knowledge that Rabbi K was being inappropriate with children and failed to intervene,” said Jon Little, the attorney who will be representing the families'.





'For the parents of the alleged victims, the last two years have been a nightmare. The father of Rabbi Krawatsky’s third alleged victim said the community’s inaction is what pains him most deeply.

I use the term BLACK MARKET PORN MULE PARASITES in describing my NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG SEXUAL PREDATORS ---below we see a family member calling the PREDATOR-------A WEED, A SICK PERSON. 

INDEED.

We want to make sure in my case of NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG---when FEEDBACK on THE NETWORK seems filled with people who protect these SEXUAL PREDATORS ------there are lots of people who see these SEXUAL PREDATORS as WEEDS----or PARASITES.

“It’s not the abuser — he’s a weed, a sick person who needs treatment. The real problem is the willingness of the whole community — including its leaders — to shelter him.”'

As with my case-----the victims' families ended up being PUSHED OUT of BALTIMORE as BAD PEOPLE-----while at first the SEXUAL PREDATOR RABBI kept his job working with CHILDREN----we see below he was soon DISMISSED from his job.  We can imagine that this dismissed RABBI may end up reassigned to a new location maybe doing the same thing---working with CHILDREN.

Again, the RABBI probably is TRIBE OF JUDAH----meaning from a rich family while the victims may have been simply ordinary upper-middle/affluent families.  These RELIGIOUS structures which place heavy emphasis on a RELIGIOUS as EMPLOYMENT-FINDER-----is what creates this GROUP SPEAK AND CHATTER to protect these NETWORKS.  The chief RABBI which protected the sexual predator is NOT RELIGIOUS.


'As for the Avrunins, who have been the most vocal about their son’s alleged abuse, they say that over the last two years they have been slandered, defamed and accused by members of the Baltimore Orthodox community of spreading “lashon harah,” malicious gossip, about an innocent man. The situation eventually caused the family to leave their Baltimore home of nine years; they now live in another state'.


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Below we see what often happens in cases of SEXUAL CRIMES -------the PREDATOR becomes the LITIGANT and sues the victims for SLANDER which in my case NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG have threatened this very thing against ME.  These counter-lawsuits in court cases where evidence clearly should have convicted are generally for SHOW-----

So, now we are all supposed to feel sorry for the SEXUAL PREDATOR whose PRIVACY was disturbed and he is feeling he is a victim of  IDENTITY THEFT----which of course is exactly what happened to these THREE CHILD VICTIMS of this SEXUAL PREDATOR PARASITE.


In the case of the SEXUAL PREDATOR RABBI-------the CHILD PROTECTION and families both saw that RABBI as GROOMING these children for FURTHER sexual abuse.




Chutzpeh!! Shmuel Krawatsky Sues his alleged victims

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On Tuesday, Rabbi Shmuel Krawatsky filed the suit in Maryland federal court against the parents of his accusers and Chaim Levin, a sexual abuse activist and blogger, for defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

We bring religion into a discussion of US COURT public policy and add a dash of MILITARY COURT because that is what DARK AGES civil structures looked like.  Colonial MARYLAND with its LORDS wanted to be free from CATHOLIC BISHOPS who would normally have lots of powers in colonial entities.  BISHOP in DARK AGES were the courts and judges in Catholic Church as too with MUSLIM and SHARIA LAW as with JEWISH and TORAH LAW.


'it would be permissible to take Israeli women as captives and use them for sexual gratification in order to humiliate them'.



US COURTS are imported from OLD WORLD AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT I AM MAN ----and often tied to PROTESTANT REVOLUTION.  The LORDS of MARYLAND while CATHOLIC were quick to install US COURT civil law structures rather than allow DARK AGES Catholic control.

EVEN WITH A VERY CATHOLIC LORDS OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND IN COLONIAL ERA TOOK THE US COURT STRUCTURE OVER A DARK AGES BISHOPS' POWER.

NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG LOVE TO SAY TO ME AS A VICTIM OF ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE AND VIDEO PORN-----I AM RUINED----I NEED TO STAY INSIDE THE HOUSE AND BE SILENT.  I HEAR FEEDBACK SAYING---SHE NEEDS TO BE STONED.

These are DARK AGES RELIGIOUS stances from SHARIA LAW/ courtesy of my MOORISH NOSY NEIGHBORS-----TORAH LAW from those JEWISH NOSY NEIGHBORS as well as CALVINIST/ANGLICAN/CATHOLIC NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG.

In other words-----there is nothing religious happening in my case with NOSY NEIGHBORS----it is all FREEMASONRY/GREEK-----NOT RELIGIOUS.

Even in colonial MARYLAND-------SEXUAL beliefs did not paint women as ruined because of slight sexual experiences.


WE ARE HITTING HER BECAUSE SHE HAD PRE-MARITAL RELATIONS SAY NOSY NEIGHBORS----

Oh, really?  I am sure I am being HIT for black market illegal sex trade PORN.


'premarital sex between partners who had declared their intention to marry, while not exactly embraced by society, was also not stigmatized'.

Even modern day MUSLIM SHARIA LAW does not treat women with this level of DISRESPECT AND DISDAIN.  My MOORISH NOSY NEIGHBORS are living in DARK AGES which is probably why they are calling me a SLAVE---SEX SLAVE.

'Nowadays there are many principles that are enshrined in Western law to protect the rights of women'.

Below we see why FEEDBACK on THE NETWORK in Baltimore MARYLAND is telling me I SHOULD BE BEATEN.

So, what I hear on THE NETWORK which allows a NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG illegal surveillance and black market PORN to use in doing its black market activities-----is not modern ISLAM---it is DARK AGES FREEMASONRY.



A Woman Under Sharia: 8 Reasons Why Islamic Law Endangers Women



An essential, scholarly comparison of the rights of women under Sharia and in the West.



BY Immanuel Al-Manteeqi · @Al_Manteeqi | September 6, 2016


Women in the West are viewed as being equal to men from both an ontological and juridical perspective. Now, that is not to say that women have never been unjustly discriminated against in the West. On the contrary, it is a sad truth of history that throughout the centuries women in Western societies were often discriminated against.

Indeed, suffrage was only granted to American women in 1920, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which states that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” But for at least the past few decades in the West, the predominant idea is that men and women are equal, and that women are entitled to the same basic rights that men enjoy.



Nowadays there are many principles that are enshrined in Western law to protect the rights of women. For example, in the West, the testimony of a woman is universally held—including in courts—to have the same value as the testimony of a man. Domestic violence against wives in the West is strictly prohibited, though unfortunately it is still practiced by some husbands. Furthermore, divorce is just as easy for a wife as it is for a husband to file for.



In addition, there is no discrimination against women when it comes to inheritance. Women are not disenfranchised of their fair share of inheritance just because they happen to be women. In the West women can also, for the most part, dress in any way that they desire without great social repercussions—and certainly not any legal repercussions.



The practice of polygamy is strictly prohibited in Western countries. The codification of monogamy into law goes at least as far back as Greco-Roman times. As a matter of fact, polygamy is seen in the West not only as an immoral practice but also as a practice that disenfranchises women. Moreover, Western countries take a strict stance on sexual exploitation and prohibit men from marrying or having sexual relations with pre-pubescent girls. And it goes without saying that Western countries strictly prohibit their soldiers from taking female sex slaves in times of war.



In sum, Western countries today treat women overall as equal to men, and there is no question that Western women enjoy individual freedoms. Western countries are the best places for women to live, where they can ascend to the highest seats of power in the land (think of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UK Prime Minister Theresa May, and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) through democratic processes, and where this is no theoretical obstacle to female leaders.



1. Under Sharia, Wives Can Be Beaten.



Whereas under Western laws women and men are equal, under Sharia women are not equal to men, but are considered inferior. Women are the object of many disparaging remarks in the earliest Islamic source texts, which form the basis for Sharia. For example, according to Q 4:34, husbands are allowed to beat their wives if they “fear disobedience” (which implies that actual disobedience need not occur for the beating to be justified):



Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. If they then obey you, look not for any way against them; God is All-high, All-great.



That wife-beating is permissible given (imagined or real) behavioral misconduct on the part of the wife is also found in Muḥammad’s so-called “Farewell Address” or “Last Sermon,” which has been preserved in Ibn Isḥāq’s Sīra, the oldest and most reliable biography of Muḥammad that we possess.[1]



2. Under Sharia, Females Enjoy Fewer Rights than Males.


According to Q 2:282, the testimony of a woman is worth only half that of a man’s:



And bring to witness two witnesses from among your men. And if there are not two men [available], then a man and two women from those whom you accept as witnesses – so that if one of the women errs, then the other can remind her.


According to Q 4:11 and Q 4:176, a woman may inherit only half as much as her male brother does. Furthermore, as Professor Samīr Khalīl Samīr, a native Arabic speaker with two doctorates and the former adviser to Pope Benedict XVI on Islam and the Middle East, explains,  under Sharia “in a [religiously] mixed marriage [where the wife is non-Muslim], the wife legally loses the right to her husband’s inheritance if she does not convert to Islam.”[2]



3. Under Sharia, Marriage and Sexual Intercourse with Pre-Pubescent Girls is Permissible.



According to Q 65:4, sexual relations with females who have not yet had their menstrual cycle (i.e., pre-pubescent girls) are permissible. The verse is found in the sixty-fifth chapter of al-Talāq (Divorce), which begins by stating that “when you divorce women, divorce them when they have reached (the end of) their waiting period (ʿidda); a waiting period or ʿidda is a certain amount of time that a Muslim man is supposed to wait before marrying a divorced woman, so as to make sure that she is not pregnant from her previous husband.”[3] It is in this context that we are to read Q 65:4, which states the following:



(As for) those of your women who have no hope of (further) menstruation: if you are in doubt, their waiting period is three months, and (also for) those who have not (yet) menstruated” [emphasis added].



Sayyid Qutb, the late prominent theoretician of the Muslim Brotherhood, explains in his renowned commentary on the Qur’ān (In the Shadow of the Qur’ān) that [Q 65:4] is referring to “women who are past the menopause and those who do not as yet have a menstrual cycle because they have not attained puberty or because of a malfunction in their system” [emphasis added].[4]



Thus, in the context of this Qur’ānic chapter on divorce, it seems that this verse is stating that Muslim men (or husbands) are to wait three months before divorcing pre-pubescent girls (for the reason of making sure that young and apparently borderline post-pubescent girls are not pregnant; cf. Q 2:228). This is not just some interpretation that modern Islamists like Sayyid Qutb came up with; rather, such an interpretation of Q 65:4 is mentioned at least as far back as al-Tabarī (839 – 923), one of our oldest and most important sources of early Islam.



Furthermore, the Andalusian Malikī jurisprudent and philosopher, Ibn Rushd (1126 – 1198), known to the West as “Averroes,” confirms the permissibility of having sexual relations with pre-pubescent girls in his legal handbook, Bidāyat al-Mujtahid wa Nihāyat al-Muqtaṣid (literally, “the beginning for him who interprets the sources independently and the end for him who wishes to limit himself”). In this work, and under the section entitled “the Waiting Period for Wives,” he states the following: “the divorced woman whose marriage stands consummated may or may not be one who menstruates. If she does not menstruate, she may be a minor or beyond the age of menstruation.[5]”



It should be noted here that  one of the most renowned Muslim figures of all times  is unequivocally implying that marriage and sexual relations with pre-pubescent girls in Islam are licit.



4. Under Sharia, Wives do not Share the Same Divorce Rights as Their Husbands.



Under Sharia, a husband can divorce his wife  simply by stating, “you are divorced” three times in the presence of two adult mentally sound males, without even having to justify his decision, and he will retain custody of any children. In this connection, Professor Samir  states that “the most absurd thing is that if the husband later repents of his decision [of divorce] and wants to ‘recover’ his wife [for the third time], she must first marry another man who in his turn will repudiate her (Q 2:229-30).”[6] By contrast, no such power is given to the wife.



5. Under Sharia, Female Rulers are Frowned Upon.


Sharia frowns upon female rulers. This originates from a ḥadīth  in Sahih al-Bukhari, the most trusted Muslim aḥadīth , where Muhammad, upon hearing the news that the people of  Persia had made the daughter of Khosrau their Queen, states: “Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler.”[7] Indeed, this is one of the reasons that is often cited for why women cannot be caliphs.[8] Although this is what Sharia teaches in theory, the practicalities of life give rise to some exceptions. In the Muslim world you did occasionally have female rulers like Shajarat al-Durr (d. 1257) who ruled Egypt in Medieval times. In more recent times, Benazir Bhutto won the elections in Pakistan and became Prime Minister of that country for two non-consecutive terms (1988-90, and 1993-96). So did Shikha Hasina, who won elections three times and is currently the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.



6. Under Sharia, Wives Should be Subservient to their Husbands.


Under Sharia, a husband has absolute authority over his wife. As Professor Samir remarks: “A man can forbid his wife to go out from the home, even to go to the mosque, since in a ḥadīth Muḥammad tells a woman that her prayer has no value if it is done without her husband’s permission.”[9] This is confirmed by The Reliance of the Traveler, an authoritative fourteenth-century Shafiʿī legal manual written by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misrī (1302 – 1367). The manual states that “a woman may not leave the city without her husband or a member of her unmarriageable kin….accompanying her, unless the journey is obligatory, like the hajj. It is unlawful for her to travel otherwise, and unlawful for her husband to allow her.”[10]



Furthermore, under Sharia, polygyny is allowed, for Q 4:3 explicitly permits Muslim men to marry “what seems good to you of the women: two, or three, or four.”[11] Because of this verse, till this day in many Muslim countries it is permissible for a man to marry more than one wife.


Regardless of whether this custom was deemed to be socially acceptable by the seventh-century standards of Arabia, today only the very rare wife would find it permissible for her husband to marry another woman, let alone two or three more, even if she keeps her status as first wife.



7. Under Sharia, Women are Deemed Lacking in Faith and Intelligence.


As students of Islam know very well, Sharia does not just draw from Qur’ānic verses for its oppressive view of women. For it also draws on the aḥadīth (the so-called sayings of Muḥammad). In one such  hadīth from Sahīh Al-Bukhārī, the most authoritative Sunni collection of ahādīth, Muḥammad states that the majority of the dwellers of hellfire are women, that women curse frequently and are ungrateful to their husbands, and, famously, that women are “deficient in intelligence and religion.” The full hadīth is as follows:



Once Allah’s Messenger [i.e., Muḥammad] went out to the Muṣalla [place of prayer] (to offer the prayer) of `Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, “O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women).” They asked, “Why is it so, O Allah’s Messenger?” He replied, “You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.” The women asked, “O Allah’s Messenger! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?” He said, “Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?” They replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?” The women replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her religion [emphases added].”



Fundamentalist Muslims the world over insist on accepting this ḥadīth, which is virtually universally accepted as authentic or ṣahīh by even moderate Muslim scholars (who generally view just about everything in the collection of al-Bukahrī as authentic). Such aḥadīth have been a source of great injustice to women living in majority-Muslim countries.



8. Under Sharia, Raping Female Captives is Permissible.


What is particularly egregious in Sharia is that warriors are permitted to capture the women of “infidels” and use them for their sexual gratification. According to Q 4:3, Q 4:24, Q 23:5-6, Q 70:22-30, having female slaves, “those whom your right hand possess” (ما ملكت ايمانكم, transliterated as ma malikat aymānikum), is permissible.



Furthermore, interpreting ma malikat aymānikum as “female slaves” is not something that, pace Western-Muslim apologists, is only advanced by so-called Islamophobes. Our earliest tafsīr (Qur’ānic exegesis), the tafsīr of Muqātil Ibn Sulaymān, states that ma malikat aymānikum means walā’id (ولائد), which denotes female slaves.[12] This view has been held by many mufasirīn (exegetes) since medieval times, and A.J. Droge’s recent 2013 scholarly translation of the Qur’ān, which is, in my opinion, the best English translation around, explains the phrase “those whom your right hand possess” as straightforwardly referring to female slaves.



Having female slaves, Droge explains, is permissible even when the (Muslim) male is married. Indeed, the Qur’ān contrasts female slaves with married women a few times, clearly demonstrating female slaves were not considered to be wives.  There can be no doubt that in using the term ma malikat aymānikum, the Qur’ān is here referring to females who have been captured during war for the sexual gratification of their male captors. Indeed, reading Ibn Iṣhāq’s Sīrat Rasūl Allāh, we can discern that Muhammad himself took female concubines and permitted his warriors to do likewise as well.



Ibn Iṣhāq tells us that after Muhammad had 600 to 900 adult Jewish men of the tribe of Banu Qurayẓa beheaded and thrown into trenches for alleged treason, he “divided the property, wives, and children of b. Qurayẓa among the Muslims.” Ibn Iṣhāq further relates that “the apostle sent Saʿd b. Zayd al-Anṣār brother of ‘Abdu’l-Ashhal with some of the captive women of B. Qurayẓa to Najd and he sold them for horses and weapons [emphasis added]."



Hence, according to Ibn Isḥāq, Muhammad enslaved women and sanctioned their being sold off (not much different from what ISIS militants are doing today with Yazidi women, no doubt modeling themselves after the Muhammad of the early Islamic sources). Furthermore, Ibn Iṣhāq tells us that “the apostle had chosen one of [the women of the tribe of B. Qurayẓa] for himself.”[15] In other words, Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, was himself  taking female captives for his own sexual gratification.



We also read in the Sīra about what is ostensibly Muḥammad’s aggressive attack against the Jews of Khaybar (a Jewish-settled oasis about ninety-five miles north of Medina).[16] Ibn Iṣhāq reports on the authority of one ʿAbdullah b. Abū Najīḥ that on the day of the conquest of Khaybar, Muḥammad prohibited his fighters from having “carnal intercourse with pregnant women who were captured.”[17] The implicature of this prohibition is that carnal intercourse with non-pregnant women who were captured was permissible.
Furthermore, we read in Ibn Iṣhāq that “the women of Khaybar were distributed among the Muslims.”[18] That is, according to our earliest and best source on Muḥammad’s life, Muhammad  sanctioned the sexual use of female slaves, or “those who you right hand possess,” to use Qur’ānic terminology.




In addition, when one reads the relatively early Islamic sources, one gleans that in the battle of Khaybar, Muḥammad himself had sexual intercourse with a captured woman, Ṣafiyyah bint Huyyay (Safiyyah, daughter of Huyyay), whose father Muḥammad had ordered killed, either the same night that he had her husband killed at Khaybar, or shortly thereafter on the way to Wādī al-Qurā (a “valley” which is located close to Khaybar).[19]




From Sahih al-Bukhari we learn that Suffiya, the “chief mistress of the tribes of Qurayza and An-Nadir” was originally considered by the Muslim victors as a slave woman or jārīya (جَارِيَةً), but that Muhammad manumitted her and subsequently “married” her (al-Ṭabarī tells us that this occurred after she accepted Islam).[20]




Ibn Isḥāq relates that when Muhammad first engaged in sexual relations with Ṣafiyyah (when he “married” her) in his tent (the same day or just a few days after killing her male folks), one Abū Ayyūb, Khālid b. Zayn,
passed the night girt with his sword, guarding the apostle [i.e., Muhammad] and going around the tent until the morning the apostle saw him there and asked him what he meant by his action. He replied, “I was afraid for you with this woman for you have killed her father, her husband, and her people, and till recently she was in unbelief, so I was afraid on your account.”[21]




The above excerpt makes it abundantly clear that the guard wanted to guard Muhammad because he perceived him to be forcefully having sex with someone who must have harbored deep resentment and hatred for him because of his slaughter of her kin, particularly her father and her husband.



Indeed, ʾAḥmad Ibn Yaḥyā al-Baladhūri (d. circa 892), one of earliest writers of Islamic history (particularly of the early Arab-Islamic conquests), relates that Ṣafiyya said the following:


Of all men the Prophet was the one I hated the most, for he had killed my husband, father and brother. But he kept saying “your father excited the Arabs to unite against me and he did this and that,” until the hatred [for Muhammad] was gone from me.[22]



So, if our earliest sources on Islam are to be trusted, Muhammad, after he conquered the oasis of Khaybar, claimed Ṣafiyya bint Huyyay as his sexual captive.[23] Indeed, if the earliest sources on Islam are to be trusted, then one must accept the commonsensical conclusion that Muhammad raped Ṣafiyya, and allowed his followers to similarly rape women who were captured during battle.




Typically Westernized Muslims, if they are even aware of the existence of such stories in the earliest and most reliable biography of Muhammad, will dismiss them as ahistorical, and as having nothing whatsoever to do with pure and unadulterated Islam. However, there is no non-ad hoc reason to believe that these unpleasant events are not historical, whilst at the same time affirming that records more consonant with Western sensibilities are.



Furthermore, bracketing the question of historicity, there is much less reason to believe that contemporary actions that are consonant with what is recounted in these stories are “unislamic”—for these stories come from sources that form the very heart and soul of Islam.[26] Certainly Islamists are not going to buy the idea that such stories are unislamic or ahistorical just because they are contrary to Western sensibilities.



The fact is that ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria, who are notorious for raping Yazidī women who they capture (sometimes shortly after killing their families and neighbors), are clearly acting within the interpretive parameters of traditional Islam and following the example of the Muhammad of the earliest Islamic sources.



In his legal handbook, Bidāyat al-Mujtahid wa Nihāyat al-Muqtaṣid,[27]the Malikī jurisprudent and philosopher Ibn Rushd confirms the permissibility of enslaving women after battle. In the section “Identification of the harm permitted to be inflicted upon the enemy,” Ibn Rushd states in no equivocal terms that Muhammad “enslaved women.”[28] Ostensibly the implication is that enslaving women after battle is justified, following the example of Muhammad.



There is no question that taking female captives in warfare is a practice that is sanctioned in the earliest Islamic sources; this practice or tradition is not just an innovation of groups like ISIS. And this is not just something that only so-called Islamophobic Westerners point out.



Indeed, Dr. Suʿad Ṣālih, former Dean of the Women’s College of Islamic and Arabic Studies at al-Azhar University in Egypt (the seat of Sunni learning), very explicitly and nonchalantly states that taking female slaves (milk al-yamīn) is Islamically permissible in a war against Muslim enemies. She gives an example involving Israelis, stating that were Israel to fall, it would be permissible to take Israeli women as captives and use them for sexual gratification in order to humiliate them.



The irony that Dr. Suʿad Ṣālih, herself a woman, is sanctioning the sexual enslavement of female war captives, is completely lost on the former Azharī dean. But the irony is lost presumably because the former dean is utterly convinced that using female captives for sexual gratification is not something that is inhumane—after all, from her perspective, the flawless religion of Islam and the ideal for all mankind, Muhammad, sanction the practice.



Conclusion and a Possible Pathway for Reform.



Other examples of Islam’s inferior view of women can be cited. However, the above accounts are sufficient to conclude that under Sharia, “men are superior to women” (Q 2:228) and that “Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they [men] spend their wealth to maintain them [women]” (Q 34:4). Sharia then enjoins upon its adherents a profoundly un-egalitarian ethic, whereby women are deemed inferior to men.[30]



People who are endeared to the egalitarian-Western principles, particularly those who are Europeans, must fight the proliferation of Sharia ideas in their homeland. But in order to fight a fascistic and misogynistic ideology like Islamism, it is necessary for adherents of egalitarian-Western principles to first understand the motivations of Islamists.




And, make no mistake, the reasons that Islamists advance for just about everything they do, including their oppression of women, are based almost exclusively on their religious ideology. None of the sources cited above are exclusively political or social in nature—they are religious Islamic sources.




As was made explicit in the fifteenth issue of ISIS’s Dabiq magazine, ISIS members and their Islamist cohorts are not nihilists who just have an innate and brute desire to oppress non-Muslims. Their actions are “cold and calculated,” and they are acting out on what they believe, and what appear to be, relatively plausible interpretations of the Islamic source texts. Until this is exposed, challenged, and confronted by non-Muslim societies and reformist Muslims as well, there can be no victory against ISIS’ oppressive ideology.



Now, the job of Western leaders and those in the intelligence community is to educate themselves about the underlying religious motivations of Islamists (and not censor talk about Islam in willful blindness). Muslim reformers, on the other hand, are tasked with the more difficult job of reforming Islam,and rejecting interpretations or Islamic source texts that are at odds with contemporary Western and egalitarian values.



Muslim reformers need to focus on cultivating a peaceful and tolerant Islam, one that bestows a much higher place to women than traditional Islam, and one which is not a prisoner to the above- interpretations or source texts.




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Yesterday we shared an article telling us that a graduate of CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY------GITTINS ----represented both ABU GHRAIB and MCKINNEY in SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE----ATROCITIES in MILITARY COURT.   Sexual assault in military is not being successfully prosecuted because of these ties to OLD WORLD KINGS------CANON LAW.  These are not US COURT structures.

We may have been better protected in colonial MARYLAND under a US COURT structure then today in a GLOBAL PRIVATIZED MILITARY COURT-----controlled by OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA.

This is why we cannot get convictions for military cases involving SEXUAL ASSAULTS especially with ranking officers.

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY is FREEMASONRY----NOT RELIGIOUS.

My case of NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG and this saturated illegal surveillance and PORN is allowed to operate as a OPEN SECRET because it is FREEMASONRY and not RELIGIOUS.


We only see this COURT structure in COLONIAL ENTITIES. We only see sexual assaults allowed to exist as a RAPE AND PILLAGE structure in civil unrest civil war pre-Christian NERO/CATO/SENECA ----



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Here in Baltimore and MARYLAND what was a colonial COURT structure built by a LORD BALTIMORE-----taking a US COURT civil structure and not a DARK AGES CATHOLIC structure is morphing into a DARK AGES COLONIAL structure because we are losing our US SOVEREIGNTY.  LORD BALTIMORE saw a new colonial MARYLAND as a sovereign entity separate from OLD WORLD even as they saw themselves as a PALATINATE COLONY. 

KNIGHTS OF MALTA are a JESUIT military structure NOT RELIGIOUS.  Was LORD BALTIMORE as JESUIT? 


This is difference today in Baltimore and MARYLAND------and it is why NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG can act with impunity with OPEN SECRET illegal surveillance and video PORN for black market MONEY.

THIS IS FREEMASONRY---NOT RELIGIOUS AND WE NEED TO GET BACK TO OUR RELIGIOUS ROOTS WHICH HAVE MEN WHO RESPECT AND PROTECT WOMEN.




Most of the people on this list who are current are CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA---neo-liberals and neo-cons.

Hmmmm, HITLER'S CHIEF OF POLICE---HIMMLER.

We want to return to a US COURT structure built here in Maryland by LORD BALTIMORE




Famous American members of the Knights of Malta



February 2, 2014 James Arendt



Symbol of the Knights of Malta


The Knights of Malta is the lay branch of the Jesuit Order!



“The Knights of Malta is a world organization with its threads weaving through business, banking, politics, the CIA, other intelligence organizations, P2, religion, education, law, military, think tanks, foundations, the United States Information Agency, the United Nations, and numerous other organizations. The world head of the Knights of Malta is elected for a life term, with the approval of the Pope. The Knights of Malta have their own Constitution and are sworn to work toward the establishment of a New World Order with the Pope at its head. Knights of Malta members are also powerful members of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) and the Trilateral Commission.” – Quoted from “Behold a Pale Horse” by William Cooper



I got the list of Knights of Malta members from http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/kmlst1.htm. I limited the first section to only show Americans and only those who are not members of the Roman Catholic clergy. I got the identity of the less famous ones from Wikipedia. I figured everybody should know the more famous names and so I didn’t include a description for them.



Some of these people are known as Jews (Alan Greenspan) or as members of a Protestant church (the Bush family)! Most people would not associate them with a Roman Catholic organization.

• George W. Anderson – Admiral in the United States Navy
• James Jesus Angelton – Chief of the CIA’s Counterintelligence Staff from 1954 to 1975
• Samuel Alito – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
• Joe M. Allbaugh – President George W. Bush’s Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Michael Bloomberg – 108th Mayor of New York City
• John Robert Bolton – 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Charles Joseph Bonaparte – 37th United States Secretary of the Navy and father of the FBI.
• Pat Buchanan – Senior advisor to American Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan
• William F. Buckley, Jr. – American conservative author[2] and commentator.
• George H.W Bush
• George W. Bush
• Jeb Bush
• Precott Bush, Jr.
• Frank Capra – American film director
• Frank Charles Carlucci III – 16th United States Secretary of Defense
• William Casey – 13th Director of Central Intelligence
• Michael Chertoff – 2nd Secretary of Homeland Security
• Noam Chomsky – MIT professor
• Bill Clinton
• (Senator) John Danforth – 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• John J. DeGioia – President of Georgetown University
• Cartha DeLoach – Deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Allen Dulles – 5th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Edwin J. Feulner – President of the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation
• Raymond Flynn – 52nd Mayor of Boston
• Rudy Giuliani – 107th Mayor of New York City
• Alan Greenspan – 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Alexander Haig – Army General, 7th Supreme Allied Commander Europe
• William Randolph Hearst – American newspaper publisher
• Richard Holbrooke – United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• J. Edgar Hoover – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Lee Iococca – Former Chrysler Chairman
• William J. Donovan – Father of the CIA
• Joseph Kennedy – 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• (Senator) Ted Kennedy
• Henry A. Kissinger
• Henry Luce – A magazine magnate, was called “the most influential private citizen in the America of his day”
• Robert James “Jim” Nicholson – 5th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
• Oliver North – National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair
• Francis (Frank) V. Ortiz – United States Ambassador to Argentina
• Thomas ‘Tip’ O’Neill – 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• George Pataki – 53rd Governor of New York
• Peter G. Peterson – Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations
• John Francis Queeny – Founded the Monsanto Company (GMO, poisoning the world)
• John J. Raskob – Financial executive and businessman for DuPont and General Motors, and the builder of the Empire State Building
• (President) Ronald W. Reagan
• Nelson Rockefeller
• David Rockefeller
• Francis Rooney – United States Ambassador to the Holy See
• Rick Santorum – Senate’s third-ranking Republican from 2001 until 2007
• Antonin Scalia – Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Joseph Edward Schmitz (Blackwater) – Defense Department Inspector General
• Frank Shakespeare – United States Ambassador to Portugal, United States Ambassador to the Holy See,
• Clay Shaw – Head of the International Trade Mart; charged for being part of a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
• Frank Sinatra
• Frederick W. Smith – Founder of FedEx
• Myron Taylor – American industrialist, and later a diplomatic figure involved in many of the most important geopolitical events during and after World War II.
• George Tenet – 18th Director of Central Intelligence
• Ted Turner – founder of TBS and CNN
• Thomas Von Essen – Fire department Commissioner of the City of New York. He quit 4 months after 911.
• Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr – 102nd Mayor of New York City
• Vernon A. Walters – 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Gen. William Westmoreland – Commander of U.S. military operations in the Vietnam War
• Gen. Charles A. Willoughby – General Douglas MacArthur’s Chief of Intelligence during most of World War II and the Korean War.
• Robert Zoellick – 11th President of the World Bank Group
• Gen. Anthony Zinni – Nickname “The Godfather” Special envoy for the United States to Israel and the Palestinian Authority

Famous non-American Knights of Malta

• Amschel Mayer von Rothschild
• Kurt Waldheim – 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Silvio Berlusconi – 50th Prime Minister of Italy
• Tony Blair
• King Juan Carlos of Spain
• Heinrich Himmler – Hitler’s Chief of German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior
• Nelson Mandela
• Rupert Murdoch
• Juan Perón – 29th & 40th President of Argentina

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Colonial MARYLAND founded by LORD BALTIMORE tied to OLD WORLD CATHOLIC CHURCH deliberately installed a COMMON LAW US PUBLIC COURT structure----not CANON LAW.

When THE NETWORK makes fun of me because I have not lived in Maryland or Baltimore but only have ANCESTORS ---LANDED COLONIAL FAMILIES----not knowing Maryland history----

I TAKE EXCEPTION TO THIS.

My political action organization CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT MARYLAND for a dozen years has used the same TERMINOLOGY when discussing PUBLIC POLICY to include RELIGIOUS public policy.  I know the difference between COMMON LAW and CANON LAW.

CANON LAW would not recognize me as a CITIZEN----COMMON LAW recognizes me as a CITIZEN---FREE WOMAN.

If CANON LAW has taken our US MILITARY COURTS----then these women having cases of SEXUAL ASSAULTS AND RAPES not getting justice would be because these are not US SOVEREIGN FEDERAL COURTS.

This is why rulings in today's US MILITARY COURTS do not necessarily create precedence in our US FEDERAL PUBLIC COURT system still based in COMMON LAW----NOT CANON LAW.


'The key point is thus the following

Common law is a system of judicial supremacy; canon law is a system of legislative supremacy'


Maryland was founded on COMMON LAW-----not CANON LAW.

The Lost Coin

Sunday, May 12, 2013


Cannon Law vs Common Law


Sometimes layers trained in Common Law do not gasp the differences between Common Law and Cannon Law.



The main difference between the two systems is well explained by Edward Peters in his essay "Least Amateurs Argue about Cannon Law: a reply to Patric Gordon brief agains Bp Thomas Daily"



I have encountered this attitude among common lawyers [ "cannon law is riddled with exceptions"] before but, being trained in the common law system myself, I think I understand what leads some of them so wrongly to his conclusion. Canonical legislation does not read like common law legislation for some very important reasons and common lawyers who would venture into canonical waters need to understand this before setting out. It is certainly not my intention to defend the felicity of every expression used in the Code of Canon Law but, if one aspect of the difference between canon law and common law needs {128} to be clearly understood, it is this: Common law is a system of judicial supremacy; canon law is a system of legislative supremacy.Grasp that, and one has the essence of the thing. [Emphasis in the original]



The key point is thus the following

Common law is a system of judicial supremacy; canon law is a system of legislative supremacy


This answers the following question: who has the authority to interpret what is the meaning of a given law? 

In the Common Law this power of interpreting the meaning of the written law resides in the courts. As a consequence a) the legislator, when writing the law, tries to put as much details as possible, to prevent and interpretation contrary to its goals; and b) the lawyers, when preparing for a case, would consult a vast literature of pervious court ruling in that matter. 

In the Cannon Law the power of interpreting the meaning of the written law resides with the legislative power.


This is stated as follows in the 1983 CIC 16 § 1 “The legislator authentically interprets laws as does the one to whom the same legislator has entrusted the power of authentically interpreting.” And the proof that the courts have not the power to generically interpret the law is also states in the 1983 CIC 16 § 3 as follows: “An interpretation [of law] in the form of a judicial sentence or of an administrative act in a particular matter, however, does not have the force of law and only binds the persons whom and affects the matters for which it was given.” As a consequence of the supremacy of the legislator in interpreting matters of law, the cannon law articles tend to be shorter than the common law as they don't seek to deal extensively with all imaginable cases, and the few cases that may not be clear can be left to be decided by the ordinary Bishop or other authority. Another consequence of the supremacy of the legislative power is that cannon lawyers, when dealing with a disputable issue of which they want to assess the outcome,  they turn on to cannon law commentaries, and more recently also to the study of development of the cannons. For cannon lawyers therefore Cannon Law commentaries and the study of its development play a similar role than the books of court rulings plays for a common law lawyer. 


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Today's US 99% WE THE PEOPLE may become confused.  Our US LEGISLATIVE BRANCH is WE THE PEOPLE.  Wouldn't we want LEGISLATIVE SUPREMACY over JUDICIAL SUPREMACY?

Well, yes if today's legislative branch worked for 99% WE THE PEOPLE and not GLOBAL 1% OLD WORLD KINGS.

CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA as global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS neo-liberals and neo-cons KILLED our US court PRECEDENCE based on COMMON LAW tied to several centuries of judges ruling for AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT I AM MAN -----rights as citizens.

This is why we shout all the time WE ARE LOSING ALL OUR REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE I AM MAN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT-------COMMON LAW CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PRECEDENCE.

Below we see the term LEGISLATIVE SUPREMACY.  Many people think that means our US ELECTED OFFICIALS.  This is FAKE NEWS.

CANON LAWS are written by OLD WORLD KINGS CATHOLIC CHURCH and its legislative council.  YOU KNOW, all those BISHOPS which LORD BALTIMORE wanted to keep under wrap by installing COMMON LAW COURTS not CANON LAW COURTS in colonial MARYLAND.


The key point is thus the following

Common law is a system of judicial supremacy; canon law is a system of  legislative supremacy

If today MOVING FORWARD US CITIES as FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES are allowing DARK AGES OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA to install their COURT AND LEGAL system then why not have SHARIAH LAW which is the MUSLIM version of CANON LAW and also have HALAKHA LAW as the JEWISH VERSION----and HINDI LAW---------all of which will replace our US COURT COMMON LAW structure on which our US COURTS AND PRECEDENCE AND US CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS are based.

'Religious law refers to ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions. Examples include Christian canon law, Islamic sharia, Jewish halakha, and Hindu law'.

This is why I hear in FEEDBACK on THE NETWORK NOSY NEIGHBORS using terms that are CANON LAW, SHARIA LAW, HALAKHA LAW------all telling me---a US CITIZEN I have no rights I am a slave and I can be SEXUALLY ASSAULTED by anyone

You must go back to 1500s to when CANON LAW was supreme as COMMON LAW was installed during revolutions bringing WE THE PEOPLE AS CITIZENS----COMMON LAW.

My case against NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG as for other victims can WIN-----we need to look at COURT JURISDICTION

Canon Law Definition

- duhaime.orgwww.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/C/Canonlaw.aspx

Canon Law Definition: Related Terms:

Ecclesiastical Law , Theocracy , Civil Code , Common Law , Roman Law Has little or no legal effect today except in full or partial theocracies. In Christian societies and the state of the Vatican, rulings of popes or cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church.


Canon Law is the set of laws that govern the Catholic Church internally.



Canon Law and its Intersection with Civil Law Throughout Canadian History


The paper, "Canon Law and its Intersection with Civil Law Throughout Canadian History" authored by Rev. Francis Morrisey briefly traces the history of Roman Catholic canon law in New France and Canada from the 16th century to the present. It was delivered at the first Decretum Symposium of the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute in Ottawa in October 2018.

Rev. Francis Morrissey
January 7, 2019
Topics: Religion, Law




Introduction



It is a privilege for me to be here at the first Decretum Symposium, exploring the intersection of civil and canon law. In the time allotted it will not be possible to enter into details regarding the past. Nevertheless, I hope that what we’ll be able to cover here will be both helpful and interesting.



We begin by looking at the background, the context in which canon law came to be applicable in Canada, under the French regime. Then, we will look at a couple of points that affected Church-state relations in Canada after the conquest. We will then jump ahead to contemporary times, and try to see how some of these principles have been applied by the courts in Canada.




I. The Background



The canon law of the Catholic Church does not evolve in a vacuum. Rather, it develops within particular cultural and political contexts, which are continually evolving. The same could be said of its application in varying situations.



The current juridical position of the Catholic Church in Canada is illustrative of this evolution. As political circumstances changed, so too did the way in which the Church in this country could function and apply its applicable canonical norms.


What I intend to do here could, in fact, be done for almost any country where there have been different government regimes. In some instances, in order to provide for fruitful and productive dialogue, concordats have been entered into between governments and the Catholic Church. Such, however, has not been the case in Canada, where no such agreement was ever in place. Therefore, the juridical status of the Church, as far as the government of Canada is concerned, does not derive from any international treaty, but rather from a series of legislative acts that, through the course of time, have developed a modus vivendi that enables the Church to carry out its mission, and that, at the same time, respects certain legislative prerogatives of the government of Canada. 



As law and as circumstances evolve, it is possible that the current juridical situation which the Catholic Church enjoys in Canada will change or be somewhat modified. But, for the present, there is excellent coexistence between Church and state in Canada. Potential difficulties do not concern the Catholic Church as such, but rather the interpretations given by the Canadian courts to the “freedom of religion” as guaranteed in the Canadian Constitution.



A. Church-State Relationships in France at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century


When Jacques Cartier arrived in Canada in 1534, he brought with him a form of government that existed in France, and that could be identified in today’s terms as a “union of Church and state.”



The first two centuries began in peace and relative harmony between Church and state in Canada. Under the French government, when Canada was known as “New France” (along with the eastern colony of Acadia), there was union between the two and very reasonable cooperation.



Indeed, the beginning of the sixteenth century was marked, as far as Church-state relations in France are concerned, by the Concordat of Bologna in 1516 between Pope Leo X and King Francis I of France. We note in this important document the emergence of new principles that were to exert a profound influence on the question of relationships between Church and state in France: limitation of papal prerogatives and the exaltation of royal power.



Close union existed between the Church and the state at this time. The Catholic Church enjoyed the position of being an established church in France at the time of the concordat. Diplomatic relations existed between the papal states and the court of France; the state recognized the pope as head of the Church, and the mutual relationships of pope and king were determined by treaty and concordat. The monarch, as head of state, considered himself to be the secular arm of the Church and saw to the observance of religious laws. Indeed, the Church laws of the time were considered part of the laws of the kingdom. However, at times the state seemed to meddle in the internal life of the Church by legislating in matters of ecclesiastical discipline.



As protector of the Church, the king convoked local councils and synods, and their decisions became effective upon registration by Parliament.



The clergy was one of the three estates, part of the estates general, where legislation was passed on matters of ecclesiastical discipline applying to France.


Although the pope was accepted as the leader of Christianity, his freedom of operation had been restricted to a certain extent: he could now act only through his legates accredited to the country by letters of appointment registered with the Parliament. In fact, sectors of jurisdiction were carefully laid out in the concordat.



Another point agreed upon in the concordat of 1516 that was to be of great importance, not only to France, but also to the infant colony in New France, was the right given the king to appoint to benefices, subject to the approval of the pope, who would grant canonical institution. We will find, in the course of Canadian history, that this will be a recurrent theme with important overtones for the status of the Catholic Church, especially concerning the appointment of bishops. The right of appointment of pastors does not seem to have been used by the king, although the state established a series of regulations for the appointment of clerics to major benefices.


We can rightly say, then, that at the beginning of the sixteenth century in France, there existed a very close union between Church and state. The Church with its organization and legislation was an integral part of the kingdom; the state protected the Church and gave public and obligatory effect to its decisions and laws once they had been registered by the Parliament. There also existed, however, what could be considered as disadvantages: the state could easily intervene in religious matters, and in fact did so. Royal assent was a necessary prerequisite for any decision to be binding in France before the courts.



Louis XIV established the Sovereign Council of Quebec (April 1663), marking the beginning of a new form of government for the land. The first ecclesiastic in the country (i.e., the bishop eventually) was automatically a senior member of the council. This council had judiciary power; all legislative authority, however, remained in the hands of the king of France.



The Church thus enjoyed in Canada the status it enjoyed in France and the canon law that was registered with Parliament (in France) was operative in the land.



B. The British Regime


When Britain conquered New France, the situation changed radically, not only legally, but also emotionally. Although the Catholic Church was still proscribed in England, and the Penal Laws were in effect there, in 1713 Britain granted freedom of religion to the Acadians. But in 1755, just four years before the conquest of Quebec, it deported many of them for failure to take the prescribed Oath of Allegiance and other related oaths. Fear of the same policy was strongly felt in Quebec during the interim period, and this led to a lasting distrust toward the British conquerors.



When, on September 18, 1759, de Ramezay, the French governor, surrendered the city of Quebec and the area under the government of Quebec to the British commanders Saunders and Townshend, he inserted in the document of capitulation two articles concerning the status of the Catholic Church in Canada.



One of these, article 6, asked as follows:



That the exercise of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion shall be maintained; and that safeguards shall be granted to the houses of the clergy, and to the monasteries, particularly to his Lordship the Bishop of Quebec, who, animated with zeal for religion, and charity for the people of his diocese, desires to reside in it constantly, to exercise freely and with that decency which his character and the sacred offices of the Roman religion require, his episcopal authority in the town of Quebec, whenever he shall think proper, until the possession of Canada shall be decided by a treaty between their most Christian and Britannic Majesties.



The fact that this article was inserted in the capitulation agreement shows the importance of the Catholic Church in the life of the people. While de Ramezay was possibly hoping to be able to maintain the Catholic Church as the established Church of Canada, the British commanders could




not possibly grant his desire as it was formulated. Their reply was carefully and unambiguously worded: “The free exercise of the Roman religion is granted, likewise safeguards to all religious persons, as well as to the Bishop, who shall be at liberty to come and exercise, freely and with decency, the functions of his office, whenever he shall think proper, until the possession of Canada shall have been decided between their Britannic and most Christian Majesties."1



The agreement settled three points: free exercise of religion, protection of religious persons, and freedom of the bishop to exercise his functions.



The agreement concerned only that part of North America under the jurisdiction of de Ramezay. It was not until the following year that all the remaining French possessions were surrendered to the British by the Capitulation of Montreal.



The Act of Capitulation of Montreal by the Marquis de Vaudreuil, September 8, 1760, even though it too was of interim character, is most important for the subject of Church-state relationships in Canada. It is much more detailed than the preceding one, showing that the governor realized the tremendous difficulties he would now have to face to maintain the Catholic religion.



The principal articles of the act concerning religion can be summed up under the following headings: people are free to practice the “Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion”; people have the right of meeting in churches; worshippers have the right to receive the sacraments publicly; the diocesan clergy have the right to retain and exercise their functions; religious communities of women could retain all their functions; communities of men retained their possessions but not their rights; the Indians will keep their missionaries; the bishop will no longer be chosen by the king of France. It must indeed have been most difficult and painful for the French leaders to see their Church reduced to a position of mere tolerance after so many years of freedom and protection.



The Act of Capitulation contains some fifty-five articles, nine of which are related to the question of the Catholic religion. Article 27 reads as follows: 



The free exercise of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Religion, shall subsist entire, in such manner that all the states and the people of the Towns and country places and distant posts, shall continue to assemble in the churches, and to frequent the sacraments as heretofore, without being molested in any manner, directly or indirectly. These people shall be obliged, by the English Government, to pay their Priests the tithes, and all the taxes they were used to pay under the Government of his most Christian Majesty.



Amherst’s reply was, “Granted, as to the free exercise of their religion, the obligation of paying the tithes to the Priests will depend on the King’s pleasure.” Amherst did not want to grant the right of obliging the people by law to continue to pay tithes. Under British rule, there was no question for the time being of making the state responsible for the well-being of religion (keeping in mind that the Catholic Church was proscribed in England at the time and the Church of England was the established church). His reply did not change the ecclesiastical law of contributing to the support of the pastor, but the protection of the priests’ right was no longer guaranteed by civil authority, and delinquents could not be prosecuted for default of payment. The enforcement of the payment of tithes through a court action was restored in the Quebec Act of 1774.



Article 4 concerns the freedom of religion. After having stated that “His Most Christian Majesty cedes and guarantees to his said Britannick Majesty, in full right, Canada and all its dependencies,” it is further accepted that 
His Britannick Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholick religion to the inhabitants of Canada: he will, in consequence, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion according to the rites of the Romish church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.




The interpretation of this last clause was to lead to many controversies, as can be imagined: To what extent did the laws of Great Britain permit the exercise of the Catholic faith? Another question was: How far did these laws of Great Britain apply in Canada? It can also be noted that the text referred only to the exercise of worship, and not to any establishment or recognition of the Church as such.



The treaty stipulated that a period of eighteen months would be fixed in which the inhabitants of Canada could sell their estates and return to France if they so desired. Thus it wasn’t until August 10, 1764, that the civil government of Canada came into effect, ending the military regime.



The “most effectual orders” were indeed issued on December 7, 1763, to General Murray, the first governor, and are repeated in the instructions to subsequent governors general.2



The first article of the Instructions stated that all the subjects were to take the Oath of Allegiance and make and subscribe the Declaration of Abjuration, commonly called the “Test.” It does not seem, though, that this order was applied directly. Nor was the following one, which called for all “professing the Religion of the Romish Church” to “deliver in upon Oath an exact Account of all Arms and Ammunition, of every sort in their actual possession.”



Murray was also instructed to transmit an exact account of the nature and constitution of the religious communities, as well as of their revenues and holdings. 
He was ordered “not to admit any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the See of Rome, or any other Foreign
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction whatsoever in the Province.” 




The thinking behind the treaty or the factors that influenced its composition could be summed up under the following headings: “First, there was a desire to assimilate the new subjects to the life of the fold into which they had been introduced”; then, a sincere feeling of revulsion against the Catholic faith; third, a long-inherited suspicion against the papal court; also, the fear that France might use the Church to facilitate the future recovery of Quebec; “a curious worship of the legal dogma of the King’s supremacy, and an extraordinary sensitiveness towards any formal detraction therefrom”; and, finally, a wish to show a friendly indulgence to the people of Canada.3



The Quebec Act of June 22, 1774, became effective on May 1, 1775. In addition to provisions for civil government and for a civil code, it granted the following:



the “Religion of the Church of Rome” may be freely exercised; the clergy may receive “the accustomed dues and rights” from Catholics; provisions shall be made for the support of the Protestant clergy; no Catholic shall be obliged to take the Oaths of Supremacy and Adjuration;



in their stead, another oath was substituted; and religious orders do not have the right to hold possessions.



In spite of its limitations, the act was certainly very lenient and went far to appease minds. But, as to the status of the Catholic Church itself at the time, we can look at a decision of the Privy Council in 1921 (Despatie v. Tremblay): 



The religious position in the Province of Quebec in 1774, was therefore that every individual had the right to profess and practise the Catholic religion without let or hindrance. But it must be borne in mind that this is a privilege granted to the individual. There is no legislative compulsion of any kind whatever. He may change his religion at will. If he remains in the Roman Catholic community he may, so far as the law is concerned, choose to be orthodox or not, subject to the inherent power of any voluntary community, such as the Roman Catholic Church, to decide the conditions on which he may remain a member of that community since that power has been limited in some way by the past acts of the community itself. 



In other words, each member of the Roman Catholic community in Quebec possessed the same privileges as any other citizen so far as religious freedom is concerned, save that he was not subject to any of the disabilities which then and, for a long time after, attached to Protestant dissenters. The Legislature did not put over him as a citizen any ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The decisions of the ecclesiastical courts that existed in the Roman Church bound him solely as a matter of conscience. The Legislature gave to their decrees no civil effect nor bound any of its subjects to obey them.



Indeed, the Act in Article 17 expressly reserved to His Majesty the power to set up Courts of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the province and to appoint judges thereof, although that power seems never to have been acted upon. But what has just been said must not be misunderstood. The law did not interfere in any way with the jurisdiction of any ecclesiastical courts of the Roman Catholic religion over the members of the communion so far as questions of conscience were concerned. But it gave to them no civil operation. Whether the persons affected chose to recognize those decrees or not was a matter of individual choice which might, or might not, affect their continuance as members of that religious communion. But that was a matter which concerned them alone.



We cannot understand the present thinking in Canada, especially in Quebec, without keeping these historical facts in mind.



Under the new set up as a British territory, the Catholic Church was not recognized as existing in Canada. With time, the government agreed to establish certain corporations for dioceses, parishes, religious institutes, associations, and so forth. But there never was a concordat under the British regime, or later. So, in practice even today the Catholic Church is an unrecognized reality as such, although the corporations through which it carries out its mission are duly recognized. Canon law, as such, has no formal recognition in Canada. Indeed, there is now complete separation between Church and state in Canada.

Today, global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA are indeed using this CHINESE WAR STRATEGY ----in raping and pillaging our sovereign US ---and they do see ALL US CITIZENS as barbarians----they see the AMERICAN CULTURE as one needing to be destroyed-----revisionist history and myth-making replacing our 300 years of BEST IN WORLD HISTORY CIVIL SOCIETY.

'free·men.
a person who is free; a person who enjoys personal, civil, or political liberty. a person who enjoys or is entitled to citizenship, franchise, or other special privilege: a freeman of a city'.

We are discussing US COURT public policy throwing in RELIGIOUS policy as well since our religions are supposedly the source of SOCIAL JUSTICE.

We chose this one military court case to show what considerations need to occur as we move a LAWSUIT against SEXUAL ASSAULT forward in CIVILIAN COURTS.  This ranking military leader MCKINNEY convicted a few decades ago is typical ------he is not the exception; these cases come from black, white, and brown military staff.

As we said yesterday----the military court in WASH DC district is most conservative because it is tied to PENTAGON-------taking a sexual crime to court needs a court jurisdiction with less military attachment.



'COPING WITH INVASIONS:
CHINESE UNSETTLED

FIRST:

'bridle and halter'



SECOND:

Use barbarians to attack barbarians


THIRD:

Use barbarians to control barbarians


FOURTH:

Turn barbarians into CHINESE



FIFTH:

Reconciliation and intimacy:  marriage alliance

Recognized Chinese strategies for border management'

In MCKINNEY'S court case the conviction filled with sexual crime accusations convicted on OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.  In the ABU GHRAIB sexual torture military convictions-----GRANER was convicted for CONSPIRACY---ASSAULT-----COMMITTING INDECENT ACTS.

Indecent acts can be as simple as SEXUAL HARASSMENT by a NOSY NEIGHBOR or by staff in an institution.  Easy to convict so often included in cases of SEXUAL ASSAULTS AND HARASSMENT.


'Army reservist Lynndie England, 22, had faced 19 charges of abuse and indecent acts which could have put her behind bars for 38 years.

Graner is charged with conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty, maltreatment of detainees, assaulting detainees, indecent acts, adultery and obstruction of justice'.





Updated:
Aug 21, 2018
Original:
Jun 14, 2017

Obstruction of Justice


History.com Editors
Obstruction of justice is a criminal charge that is used to bring down politicians and other public officials—elected or appointed—who have knowingly attempted to disrupt criminal proceedings or otherwise interfere with the workings of the criminal justice system. Obstruction statutes were put in place to punish politicians and other powerful public officials who lie or attempt to “cheat the system,” and to prevent those transgressions from occurring. And, for the most part, they work, too.


What Is Obstruction of Justice?


Simply put, obstruction of justice is defined as the offense of interfering with the administration or process of law in a criminal or civil matter; withholding key information or information; giving false testimony; or harming or intimidating a juror, witness, law enforcement officer or other official.


The charge may also be brought against a person found to have altered and/or destroyed physical evidence, even if he or she was under no legal obligation to produce the evidence. Finally, a person charged with obstruction of justice may also be involved in attempts to hinder the identification, arrest, conviction or sentencing of a criminal.


Very often, a charge of obstruction is paired with other, more serious offenses such as bribery, murder or the use of physical force against witnesses, law enforcement officers or court officials, as these acts are often part of the process of obstruction.


Typically, those guilty of obstruction perform these criminal acts with the intent of influencing, delaying or preventing a criminal investigation (involving themselves or a close associate) or of influencing, delaying or preventing court testimony or the presentation of evidence in a legal proceeding.



Essentially, obstruction of justice laws exist at the federal, state and local levels to protect the integrity of legal proceedings and those individuals who participate in them.


Who Obstructs Justice?


Anyone who interferes with a criminal investigation, or a criminal or civil trial, can be charged with obstruction of justice. However, its use as a criminal charge made against public officials—judges, prosecutors, attorneys general and elected officials—is arguably more well known.



In fact, the phrase will often be used in connection with charges of corruption against elected officials—particularly mayors and city council members at the local level, governors and state legislators at the state level, and the president and members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives at the federal level—whether these cases are under investigation or have been taken to trial.



Notably, public officials may face obstruction of justice charges if they are found to have lied to investigators in a criminal inquiry, even in cases in which they were not suspects.

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It was clear MCKINNEY as is true of NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG use FEAR AND INTIMIDATION------they use power over victims.  In MCKINNEY'S case he used MILITARY RANK----in case of NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG they use the difficulty of proving cameras and microphones are illegal capturing images and voice inside of victim's living space.  They are SO CONFIDENT the evidence needed to prove the crimes of black market illegal streaming video PORN will not be found.  We can bet there is a LOT of threats and intimidation keeping anyone tied to a NOSY NEIGHBOR AND THE GANG network from coming forward with these PROOFS/EVIDENCE.

(6)Threatening or placing that other person in fear.--


The term “threatening or placing that other person in fear” means a communication or action that is of sufficient consequence to cause a reasonable fear that non-compliance will result in the victim or another person being subjected to the wrongful action contemplated by the communication or action.

This is what MCKINNEY was counting on as he used RANK to threaten and make fearful anyone who could provide EVIDENCE of his SEXUAL CRIMES.

This article shows the US COURT vs MILITARY COURT where MCKINNEY sought to reverse that ONE CONVICTION trying to consider using CIVIL COURT vs MILITARY COURT.  MILITARY COURT decides there would be no difference and upheld conviction.

This court was the WASH DC MILITARY COURT-----and the civil court was US COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG FOR SEVERAL MONTHS OF LETTING ME KNOW I WAS BEING ILLEGALLY SURVEILLED AND MADE PORN-----OPENLY USED 'THREATENING OR PLACING THAT PERSON IN FEAR'


McKINNEY v. WHITE
Reset A A Font size: Print United States Court of Appeals,District of Columbia Circuit.


Gene C. McKINNEY, Appellant, v. Thomas A. WHITE, Secretary of the Army, and W. B. Huffman, Major General, The Judge Advocate General, Appellees.


No. 01-5172.Decided: June 07, 2002
Before:  SENTELLE, ROGERS and GARLAND, Circuit Judges. Charles W. Gittins argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant. Thomas M. Ray, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   With him on the brief were Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., U.S. Attorney and R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant U.S. Attorney.Gene C. McKinney, now retired, was a Sergeant Major of the Army who was court martialed in 1998 and found guilty of obstructing justice in violation of Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (“UCMJ”), 10 U.S.C. § 934.   After unsuccessful attempts to have his conviction set aside under the UCMJ, he sought review in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), 5 U.S.C. §§ 701-706, of the Judge Advocate General's denial of his request to set aside the court martial finding and sentence.   The district court dismissed the complaint on the ground that the Judge Advocate General is not an “ agency” for purposes of the APA.   We hold that the statutory scheme created by Congress for review of courts martial precludes review of the Judge Advocate General's decision under the APA.   Accordingly, we affirm the dismissal of the complaint.
I.
The relevant facts are undisputed.   Pursuant to UCMJ Article 32, 10 U.S.C. § 832, an Army investigation of allegations of sexual harassment and assault by six female military personnel resulted in McKinney's being court martialed.   He was charged in 18 counts with violations of military law arising out of alleged sexual harassment and in a separate count with obstruction of justice in violation of UCMJ Article 134, 10 U.S.C. § 934.   In March 1998, a jury acquitted him of the 18 sexual harassment counts and convicted him of the obstruction count.   He was sentenced to a reprimand and a reduction in grade from Army Sergeant Major to Army Master Sergeant.
McKinney sought a post-trial evidentiary hearing pursuant to UCMJ Article 39(a), 10 U.S.C. § 839(b), to inquire into allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in not disclosing and destroying evidence and attempting to influence witnesses.   The Military Trial Judge denied the motion on the papers.   The Judge also denied McKinney's renewed Article 39(a) request, to which he had attached the affidavit of his counsel recounting a discussion with a prosecution witness.



  McKinney then filed a petition for mandamus in the United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals in a further effort to obtain a post-trial evidentiary hearing;  the court denied the petition.   His writ of appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces was also denied, without prejudice to his right of review under UCMJ Article 69, 10 U.S.C. § 869.  McKinney v. United States, 51 M.J. 270 (C.A.A.F.1998).
Pursuant to UCMJ Article 69, 10 U.S.C. § 869(a), the Commander for the Military District of Washington affirmed the findings and sentence and forwarded the record of the trial to the Judge Advocate General for review.   Following an investigation of McKinney's allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that included interviews of several prosecution witnesses, including the witness referred to in McKinney's Article 39(a) affidavit, the Judge Advocate General stated summarily:  “The finding and sentence are supported in law and the sentence is appropriate.   No modification of the finding or sentence is warranted.”   The Judge Advocate General did not refer the case to a Court of Criminal Appeals for review as to matters of law.  Id. § 869(d) & (e).
Having failed to obtain relief from the military justice system, McKinney filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.   He alleged that the decision of the Judge Advocate General was arbitrary and capricious and not based on substantial evidence within the meaning of the APA, 5 U.S.C. § 706, because the Judge Advocate General failed to provide an adequate explanation for rejecting McKinney's claims of prosecutorial misconduct.   The Secretary of the Army and the other defendants (“the Secretary”) moved to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6).   The district court granted the motion to dismiss, ruling that the Judge Advocate General is not an “agency” for purposes of the APA.
II.
McKinney contends that the district court erred in ruling that the Judge Advocate General's decision is not subject to review under the APA.   He maintains that because decisions by the Judge Advocate General under UCMJ Article 69 are reached independently and constitute final binding decisions affecting the rights of individuals, the Judge Advocate General is an “authority” within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. § 701(b)(1) whose decisions are subject to judicial review under the APA as final agency action.   He relies on the broad definition of the word “agency” in the APA, 5 U.S.C. § 701(b) (1), and the presumption favoring review of final agency decisions that is overcome only by clear and convincing evidence that Congress intended to restrict access to the courts.   See Abbott Labs. v. Gardner, 387 U.S. 136, 141, 87 S.Ct. 1507, 1511-12, 18 L.Ed.2d 681 (1967).
Although the district court addressed McKinney's complaint in terms of whether the Judge Advocate General was an “agency” subject to APA review, we conclude that a threshold jurisdictional issue must be addressed.   The APA provides for the non-reviewability of “courts martial and military commissions,” 5 U.S.C. § 701(b)(1)(F), but does not expressly preclude review of Judge Advocate General decisions reviewing courts martial pursuant to UCMJ Article 69, 10 U.S.C. § 869.   Congress' establishment, pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, of a separate judicial system for courts martial review is, however, convincing evidence that Congress could not have intended Judge Advocate General review of courts martial to fall within APA review of agency decisions.
In Schlesinger v. Councilman, 420 U.S. 738, 746, 95 S.Ct. 1300, 1307, 43 L.Ed.2d 591 (1975), the Supreme Court stated that it “repeatedly has recognized that of necessity ‘(m)ilitary law ․ is a jurisprudence which exists separate and apart from the law that governs in our federal judicial establishment.’ ”   420 U.S. at 746, 95 S.Ct. at 1307 (quoting Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137, 140, 73 S.Ct. 1045, 1047-48, 97 L.Ed. 1508 (1953)).   The Court also reiterated in Schlesinger both the general rule that “the acts of a court martial, within the scope of its jurisdiction and duty, cannot be controlled or reviewed in the civil courts, by writ of prohibition or otherwise,” 420 U.S. at 746, 95 S.Ct. at 1307 (citations omitted), and the limited exception for collateral attack seeking a declaration that a judgment is void, having no res judicata effect, “because of lack of jurisdiction or some other equally fundamental defect.”  Id. at 747, 95 S.Ct. at 1307.   Observing that “[t]he military is ‘a specialized society separate from civilian society’ with ‘laws and traditions of its own (developed) during its long history,’ ” id. at 757, 95 S.Ct. at 1313 (quoting Parker v. Levy, 417 U.S. 733, 743, 94 S.Ct. 2547, 2555, 41 L.Ed.2d 439 (1974)), the Court noted that “Congress attempted to balance ․ military necessities against the equally significant interest of ensuring fairness to servicemen charged with military offenses.”  Id.  The Court further observed that:
implicit in the congressional scheme embodied in the [UCMJ] is the view that the military court system generally is adequate to and responsibly will perform its assigned task.   We think this congressional judgment must be respected and that it must be assumed that the military court system will vindicate servicemen's constitutional rights.
Id. at 758, 94 S.Ct. at 2562-63.
As the proceedings in McKinney's case illustrate, Congress has established a complete and distinct procedure for members of the military who are charged with law violations under the UCMJ.   While direct parallels are imprecise, the proceedings in his case suggest a process that begins with a review that serves a function comparable to that of the grand jury for Article III courts.   This was followed by a jury trial, imposition of a sentence, and post-trial motions proceedings.   Then, in a procedure unique to the military, the finding and sentence were subject to the approval of the Commander of the Military District.  10 U.S.C. § 860.   Upon such approval, the trial record was forwarded, in light of the length of McKinney's sentence, to the Judge Advocate General for review instead of a Court of Criminal Appeals.  Id. §§ 866(b)(1), 869(a).   UCMJ Article 69 provides that a soldier who is convicted during a general court martial and sentenced to less than one year of confinement is entitled to an automatic review of the record of the trial by the Judge Advocate General, unless the soldier affirmatively waives review.   Id. § 869.  “If any part of the findings or sentence is found to be unsupported in law or if reassessment of the sentence is appropriate, the Judge Advocate General may modify or set aside the findings or sentence or both.”   Id. § 869(a).   Upon referral by the Judge Advocate General, further review of questions of law is available by a Court of Criminal Appeals pursuant to UCMJ Article 69, 10 U.S.C. § 869.   UCMJ Article 76 provides that:
[t]he appellate review of records of trial provided by [Chapter 47, UCMJ] ․ are final and conclusive․  [and] are binding upon all departments, courts, agencies, and officers of the United States, subject only to action upon a petition for a new trial as provided in section 837 of this title (article 73) and to action by the Secretary concerned as provided in section 847 of this title (article 74) [Remission and suspension], and the authority of the President.
Id. § 876.
The proceedings under the UCMJ demonstrate that the designated reviewing authorities have “heard [McKinney] out on every significant allegation which [he] now urge[s].”  Burns, 346 U.S. at 144, 73 S.Ct. at 1050.   The Military Trial Judge reviewed McKinney's allegations of prosecutorial misconduct on two occasions and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces denied his writ of appeal.   The Judge Advocate General reviewed the court martial finding and sentence and also conducted his own investigation into the allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.

  McKinney makes no claim that the procedures established by Congress in the UCMJ were inadequate to the task, much less “fundamentally defect[ive].”  Schlesinger, 420 U.S. at 747, 95 S.Ct. at 1307-08.
This court has long acknowledged that it lacks jurisdiction of a direct appeal of a court martial.

  Although McKinney does not seek review of a decision of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, he, like the petitioners in Shaw v. United States, 209 F.2d 811, 813 (D.C.Cir.1954), seeks review of a decision by the military authority that Congress has designated to review his direct appeal and his collateral attack on his general court martial conviction.   The fact that he did not receive a more severe sentence, whereby his appeal would have gone to a Court of Criminal Appeals, is a distinction without difference with regard to the jurisdiction of this court.   As in Shaw, then, “we are clear” that Congress has not granted jurisdiction to this court to review direct appeals from the highest military official of a general court martial.   209 F.2d at 812-13.
Furthermore, Congress has expressly provided that “courts martial” are not subject to review under the APA.  5 U.S.C. § 701(b)(1)(F).  While McKinney contends that this prohibition does not extend to the final decision of the Judge Advocate General, the logic of his position is illusive.   Congress has provided a separate justice system in the UCMJ for military personnel and it has expressly determined that “courts martial” are not to be subject to APA review.


  Hence, it is difficult to understand the reasoning that Congress would have utilized in making the final UCMJ review of “courts martial” subject to review by Article III courts under the APA.   To adopt that position would not only be contrary to the long-established understanding that “[m]ilitary law, like state law, is a jurisprudence which exists separate and apart from the law which governs in our federal judicial establishment,” Burns, 346 U.S. at 140, 73 S.Ct. at 1047, “[i]t is well settled that ‘by habeas corpus the civil courts exercise no supervisory or correcting power over the proceedings of a court martial’ ” and that “[t]he correction of any errors it may have committed is for the military authorities which are alone authorized to review its decision.”  Hiatt v. Brown, 339 U.S. 103, 111, 70 S.Ct. 495, 499, 94 L.Ed. 691 (1950) (citations omitted).   In Shaw, this court rejected the view that the Court of Military Appeals (now the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces), was anything other than “a court in every significant respect, rather than an administrative agency.”  209 F.2d at 813.   Although the Judge Advocate General has independent fact-finding authority under UCMJ Article 69, unlike a Court of Criminal Appeals under UCMJ Article 66 or an Article III appellate court, McKinney points to nothing that would indicate that Congress viewed the UCMJ Article 69 procedures for review of courts martial involving sentences of less than one year to be so inferior as to warrant review by Article III courts under the APA.

  Although review by the Judge Advocate General is in the nature of a collateral proceeding akin to coram nobis, Curci v. United States, 577 F.2d 815, 818 (2d Cir.1978) (citing inter alia S.Rep. No. 1601, 90th Cong., 2d Sess. (1968), reprinted in 1968 U.S.C.C.A.N 4501, 4515), for the military justice system where “Congress has taken great care both to define the rights of those subject to military law [ ] [and to] provide a complete system of review within the military system to secure those rights,” Burns, 346 U.S. at 140, 73 S.Ct. at 1048, the Judge Advocate General's decision is properly viewed as what Congress concluded should be the final decision under military law in McKinney's court martial.   So understood, Congress' preclusion of APA review of “courts martial” reaches the Judge Advocate General's decision in McKinney's case.
Although McKinney contends only that the Judge Advocate General's summary statement of his decision is inadequate to reveal the basis of his reasoning, and arguably is not seeking review of the underlying court martial finding that he obstructed justice in violation of UCMJ Article 134, by assuming jurisdiction in his case the court would be unable to deny review in later cases where it would be required to review courts martial findings.   As framed, moreover, McKinney's allegations of prosecutorial misconduct would effectively require this court to determine whether the alleged misconduct so affected his court martial that he was denied a fair trial.   Cf. United States v. Bagley, 473 U.S. 667, 678-79, 105 S.Ct. 3375, 3381-82, 87 L.Ed.2d 481 (1985);  Greer v. Miller, 483 U.S. 756, 765, 107 S.Ct. 3102, 3108-09, 97 L.Ed.2d 618 (1987).   Yet this is the type of question that Congress has determined is to be conducted by the Judge Advocate General when a court martial sentence imposes less than one year's confinement.   See Schlesinger, 420 U.S. at 746-47, 95 S.Ct. at 1307-08.   Moreover, as the Second Circuit has suggested, the Judge Advocate General's decision to use a short form of response in claims seeking discretionary review is not unexpected where there are a large number of claims.   See Curci, 577 F.2d at 818.   McKinney's attempt to invoke the APA amounts, then, to an attempt to end run a military justice system wherein Congress has afforded him the direct review procedures it deemed appropriate.
Accordingly, we hold that this court has no jurisdiction under the APA to review the decision of the Judge Advocate General denying McKinney's request to set aside the court martial finding and sentence, and we affirm the dismissal of the complaint.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROGERS.

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When looking for lawyers for either CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS----or like me ---private NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG lawsuits look to those DEFENSES having won against SEX CRIMES to understand how to build an OFFENSE against what these defense lawyer bring forward.

NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG have spent these several years of HITTING ME AND MAKING ME PORN creating videos and dubbing making me appear to be a BAD PERSON when in fact I am a very good person.  Lot's of people will come forward and say----NO ONE LIKES HER------but, character analysis goes beyond GROUP SPEAK AND CHATTER.  Presenting RIGGED IDENTITY THEFT evidence of character WILL FAIL.

HOSTING SERVER NOSY NEIGHBORS may intimidate people to give character assessment that are not REAL ----but, swearing under oath makes people think twice.

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY provided a lawyer who likes to defend people guilty of SEXUAL CRIMES.




Charles Gittins 
Charles Gittins


Born1956 (age 62–63)


Service/branch

United States Marine Corps


Years of service1976-1995


Other work


Lawyer who specializes in military cases



Charles Gittins is an American lawyer, who was worked for a number of noteworthy defendants in military courts martial.


Gittins attended the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1979. He then joined the Marine Corps where he served as a Radar Intercept Officer.



Gittins graduated first in his class from The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law in 1987 and was in the Judge Advocate Corps for six years, before entering civilian life. The first civilian firm Gittins worked for was Williams & Connolly.[1] While there he defended Robert E. Stumpf, Commander of the Blue Angels, and one of the principals in the Tailhook scandal. He spent three and a half years there before founding his own firm.

'Specialist Charles Graner Military Police reservist involved in the Abu Ghraib scandal'.



"He was honored by the service with an invitation to go to law school at the expensive of the Government. He graduated first in his class at Catholic University."

Being aware of LAWYERS tied to working DEFENSE for SEXUAL CRIMES and cases won and lost is a must.  The military trials of both MCKINNEY and ABU GHRAIB GRANER were handled by GITTINS who was NOT SUCCESSFUL with GRANER ----but was with MCKINNEY.


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This structure of NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG is very tied to the use of military style equipment for surveillance and recruits THE GANG from any number of resources BUT  we can imagine that the GLOBAL SEX TRADE tied to global military corporations may have those NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG sources.

Below we see 11 FORMER MEMBERS of this MARYLAND MILITARY POLICE UNIT were charged and found guilty.  When my case of SATURATED NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG with OPEN SECRET illegal surveillance video and PORN hits THE PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE NETWORK supposedly controlled by HOMELAND SECURITY----we see where MARYLAND AND BALTIMORE has a history of SEXUAL VIOLENCE.

We shared an article that stated as much with our BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT which has been sited by US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT for ignoring SEXUAL CRIMES.



'Much of the defense testimony during sentencing focused on her behavior while in Hillah, Iraq, where the Maryland-based 372nd Military Police Company was stationed for several months before moving to Abu Ghraib'.

'The 372nd Military Police Company is a law enforcement unit within the U.S. Army Reserve. The unit is based out of Cresaptown, Maryland. Eleven former members of this unit were charged and found guilty in the Abu Ghraib scandal'.


Without giving a NAME------we find that one of these ABU GHRAIB staff was hired by BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT working as community policing.  We want our VETS to be employed but COMMON SENSE tells us that military tied to such VIOLENT assignments should not be recruited for our public policing.


WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO IN BALTIMORE REGARDING THIS ABSOLUTE SATURATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND CRIMES.


POLITICAL REVENGE PORN by NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG-----the people HIT are only ENEMIES.


Protecting BAD APPLES tends to occur in all industry FRATERNITIES----our doctors are famous for that.

372ND MILITARY POLICE COMPANY (UNITED STATES ARMY)

Posted on November 20, 2017 by idraintheswamp


Source: Newspapers Library


http://newspaperslibrary.org/articles/eng/372nd_Military_Police_Company_(United_States_Army)


372nd MP Company Coming Home To Western Md.
April 30, 2011 at 1:24 pm



CRESAPTOWN, Md. (AP) — The Army says the 372nd Military Police Company is on its way home to western Maryland from a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan.


The reservists are expected to arrive around 3 p.m. Saturday at the U.S. Army Reserve Center south of Cumberland near Cresaptown.


Company commander Capt. Frederick Wasser Jr. says the unit suffered no fatalities and did an excellent job.
He says several members were awarded bronze stars and Army commendation medals for meritorious and distinguished service.



Eight received the Army combat action badge.
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Bringing RELIGIOUS public policy into this discussion of US COURTS and SEXUAL CRIMES is appropriate because our religions have central in any CREED to protect the virtue of women, children, and families. 

We are watching as RELIGIOUS people are sold as becoming POLITICIANS-----when RELIGIOUS people would not be associated with today's MASS CRIMINALITY AND CORRUPTION---all that LYING, CHEATING, AND STEALING---NO MORALS OR ETHICS.

Where we NEED religious people and leaders is US COURTS ------social justice happens in COURTS.  The fact that the US cannot seem to set criminal COURT PRECEDENCE for SEXUAL ASSAULTS both physical and non-contact means our RELIGIOUS people and leaders are not ENFORCING GOD'S NATURAL LAWS.



How prevalent was sex between slaveowners and slaves in ...www.quora.com/How-prevalent-was-sex-between...It was very nearly universal. Most slave owners had no one and nothing to prevent them using their slaves-male and female- for sexual purposes, and would not have believed any one who told them it was wrong.


What I hear on THE NETWORK thinking it is mostly NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG is this effort to create IDENTITY THEFT against me as THE VICTIM framing a FALLEN WOMAN picture by a group of people WHO ARE CRIMINALS AND BLACK MARKET SEX TRADE PORN MULES.


'free·men.
a person who is free; a person who enjoys personal, civil, or political liberty. a person who enjoys or is entitled to citizenship, franchise, or other special privilege: a freeman of a city'.


The DEFENSE LAWYERS for SEX CRIMES always create this MYTH-MAKING and I know I have some LAWYER NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG.

Looking at colonial MARYLAND and its religions----we discussed how ANGLICAN AND CATHOLIC as well as ANABAPTIST et al were active in the framework leading to MARYLAND as a SOVEREIGN STATE in a SOVEREIGN nation of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

We emphasize again-----MOVING FORWARD FINAL SOLUTION bringing US to colonial status will not look like that colonialism 400 years ago.  There will be no MIDDLE CLASS ---there will only be global 1% and the 2% with the rest being SLAVES/SERVILE with FREEMAN/WOMEN seen as people to be USED.



Palatinates were not, however, confined to the Old World:



In America, besides Maryland, there were Avalon,
Georgia, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.



People and Life of Colonial Maryland:



HE early settlers of Maryland were divided as follows:
the upper and middle classes,
composed of planters, farmers, and merchants,
the poor whites and freedmen, and the servile class.




So, here in Baltimore NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG are openly allowed to PRETEND the victim of these illegal surveillance and PORN crimes are SLAVES---SEX SLAVES to bring back these COLONIAL MARYLAND religious stances.

This article does a good job in giving a picture of COLONIAL AMERICA and its SEX views.  Remember,  400 years ago the people sent to America were largely indentured or enslaved and the voyage so arduous kept the number of women low and SURVIVAL trumping FAMILY MAKING so, women made SEXUAL PERFORMERS was more likely then needed TODAY.


Doing the Nasty in Colonial America
June 30, 2007, 3:56 pm

So many people are coming to this one on Google that I thought I’d add some citations in case they are moved to go read more about this subject.


Lots of historians write about sex. Richard Godbeer’s Sexual Revolution in Early America
is as good as any place to start (and better than most). He also has written a number of shorter articles on non-procreative sex that you can find in the William and Mary Quarterly.

Merrill Smith’s Sex and Sexuality in Early America — a collection of articles, good for a short sampling — is also good, though it doesn’t aim to be a narrative history but rather a bunch of case studies. I also think highly of the work of Sharon Block, whose book


Rape and Sexual Power in Early America is really terrific.


Block and Kathleen Brown edited an entire volume of William and Mary Quarterly in January 2003 and the authors of those articles are now coming out with great and relevant books. You might also want to look for anything by Martha Hodes, Jennifer Spears, or Kirsten Fischer — excellent authors with excellent books and articles that concern themselves with how sexual and racial hierarchy is built up together in imperial settings like colonial America and the early US South. Finally, I’d be amiss if I let you get away without a mention of Clare Lyons book about sex in colonial Philadelpia, titled


Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1780-1830.


The premarital pregnancy stuff I talk about is condensed from a classic in the field by Daniel Scott Smith and Michael Hindus, “Premarital Pregnancy in America, 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation,” _Journal of Interdisciplinary History_ 5 (1974-5). The general text in the field that covers a lot of ground, but in my mind is interpretively sort of out of date, is John d’Emilio and Estelle Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. Likewise, while I like Stephanie Coontz, _The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families 1600-1900, it was written twenty years ago and some of what she wrote then has been modified by the findings of the more recent works listed above. Hope this helps.




This one is for Nick, who appears to be incapable of asking easy questions. (That is, of course, a good thing. Any other historian who wants to jump in on this, feel free…I haven’t even touched on the whole trans-Atlantic dimension of this…)



Nick writes:
“I have a very curious nature, and I have a nagging history question today, a question about women in the revolutionary era. Why were there way more prostitutes in colonial America than today? From everything I’ve read, they were ubiquitous back then (like in some towns, the vast majority of women). Are we actually way more puritanical now than we were then?”




First, prostitutes were never the vast majority of women in colonial America. Women is a pretty big category, encompassing married, widowed, single women — black, white, Indian women — rich and poor and middling women. If we restrict ourselves to white women (just temporarily), the vast majority of white women followed the standard marriage and kids route, then as now. Most black women did not own themselves and thus could not sell themselves. And Indian women’s use of sexual exchange was really different in its meaning (depending on who and when you’re talking about) than Anglo prostitution. Also, the total colonial population was a tiny fraction of today’s mainland US population, so as a matter of numbers, it would be very unlikely that there are more prostitutes then than now. So, with that misconception cleared up, let’s talk about sex in colonial America…




Yes, strange as it may seem, American society is much more sexually uptight than it was in the 18th century, the pornification of everything notwithstanding. Colonial Americans were a sexually open bunch — they cracked dirty jokes, they played sexual pranks, they sang outrageously ribald songs, they drew scandalous cartoons, and they masturbated in the churchyard when they thought the sermon was boring. They spied on each other through the cracks in the cabin walls, they had sex in haylofts, and they told everybody they knew when they got laid. There was no expectation of privacy.



Even the Puritans, who are usually thought of as the world’s greatest prudes, believed that sex was a positive good within marriage and that sexual satisfaction was pleasing in the eyes of God.


So this was a lusty bunch of folks, well-lubricated with alcohol, cider, and small beer…
There. There’s one straightforward answer. Now, about prostitution…




The motives for regulating sexual behavior were different from colony to colony, so it’s hard to speak generally about sexual policing. Some colonies spent a lot of energy policing interracial sex — trying to keep the line bright between owners and the owned. Other colonies were far more concerned about offenses to social order and supporting the patriarchal household head’s right to control the bodies and labor of his dependents. All colonies and localities cared about sexual relationships in which live birth resulted, as they wanted fathers to acknowledge paternity and support the infant/mother pair until the child was old enough to be weaned and be bound out (OR marry, if possible) — the motive there is to avoid putting a mother/child on the pauper rolls, which was a public charge. Ownership of one’s body and the right to sell one’s labor (including sexual labor) is a property issue that is connected with a lot of other things, including race, the law of coverture, and the changing nature of scientific inquiry. So it’s a really complicated thing to try to break out one small piece of the non-marital sex puzzle when maybe it would be easier to understand if we approached it more holistically. Stick with me and you’ll learn something, though we’re not going to take the HOV lane.




Generally speaking, colonial Americans divided sexual acts into procreative and nonprocreative activity. They were always more down on nonprocreative sex.



Beastiality was always out — there was still an imprecise understanding of reproduction and a fear of the creation of “abominable” half-human monsters, as well as the violation of someone else’s chattel (a cow, horse, sheep, or dog that didn’t belong to the penetrator).



Repeated acts of sodomy that became public knowledge, violated other social boundaries (like when an elite man buggered an unwilling servant boy and the boy’s parents got into the act), or betokened an ongoing “unnatural” partnership (two men living together and not motivating themselves to find wives) would be punished, but not nearly as frequently or as harshly as you might think. Tribadic activity or female “sporting” is rarely mentioned in colonial court records and was always given the stinkeye when it came to public notice. Public masturbation — especially in the churchlot, the courthouse steps, or other places where it was meant to give offense to the dignity of the activities that occurred in that location — was out. Transgendered performance — especially men wearing women’s clothing, but even to a lesser extent women passing for men — violated social order by pretending to be something that you weren’t. (But there are those that argue that you’d have been in similar trouble for counterfeiting a cross-class appearance…)




So, let’s think about procreative (heterosexual, penetrative, penis in or near vagina) sex. Sex between married people, of course, was presumed good and sexual capacity was considered vital to being legally married. If a man contracted marriage but could not achieve or maintain an erection, for example, that was cause for a separation in Massachusetts Bay Colony. And if a woman was barren, that was not necessarily “her fault” — it could indicate that her husband was a bad lover, as it was commonly believed that women needed to climax to “catch” a baby.




Premarital sex, though…that’s a can of worms. There’s a lot of different ideas about women and premarital sex in colonial America, depending on where one was geographically, one’s social class and race, what’s one’s relationship was to one’s partner, etc. According to one early study of sexuality in New England, it was not all that uncommon for couples to be expecting babies when they married — premarital sex between partners who had declared their intention to marry, while not exactly embraced by society, was also not stigmatized.




That’s what happened when bundling got a little hot and heavy. In southern colonies, however, free white girls’ sexual “purity” was a badge of white male honor in a slaveholding society, with sexual activity heavily stigmatized and associated with the lower sort and/or indentured servitude. (The enduring association is found, for example, in the word “slut” — which is another word for a dirty kitchen menial.) Sexual access to enslaved women was presumed a part of a master’s ownership of their bodies. The strong presumption of coercion makes a consideration of sex between white indentured serving women or enslaved black women and their masters something different than prostitution.



So, why does it seem like there’s so many whores in colonial America? I’ve got some ideas.



1) Social conditions. Endemic warfare in the 18th c created displaced refugees (mostly women and kids) who contributed to urban overcrowding (people are living 9-12 persons per room). The economy tanked in mid-century and the gap between rich and poor got much wider, especially in coastal cities. These port towns had a lot of women without any regular source of income (as their husbands might be sailors in the China trade, gone for two years at a time). And there weren’t a whole lot of jobs for women outside of services related to one’s domestic skills — laundry, keeping boarders, baking bread, making beer, sewing buttons, upholstering or tending bar or maybe offering a dame’s school. So, lacking other means of keeping themselves alive and generating extra income, women might find what we’d now call a sugar daddy to help pay the bills. Or a woman might honestly not know if her husband was alive or coming back — self-divorce being common — and “take up” with another man. Or she might sell a bit on the side, to make rent, without any intention of pursuing sex as a trade. None of these things would have been considered particularly whorish at the time. Our standards have changed and we’d be inclined to categorize all of these behaviors as prostitution.



2. Young women could be accused of bawdry (gossip and slander being major sports in colonial America) without a shred of evidence and slurs against sexual chastity were common — as they both shamed the girl and they shamed the father, who was not exercising appropriate patriarchal control over his daughter’s body. Many girls were called whores (by other women, mostly) or accused of being “poxy” or “crusted” (yeah…euuuuuuuuww….the affidavits on these things are graphic), but the charges mostly were groundless.





3. According to a landmark study by Sharon Block, elite men often could manipulate the appearance of willingness (or at least resigned consent) that transformed what we would now consider rape into something less than a prosecutable offense. In a society where sex-talk was frequent and rape carried a capital punishment, male jurors were reluctant to kill a man for fucking unless there was some sort of exceptional inappropriateness (like targeting and gravely injuring a very young girl). So many of our records imply, on their face, that women were selling sex when — if you look closer at the social contexts within which these events happen — the sex was forcibly taken and then some money offered as a belated extra-legal reparation (which then might have been taken by the woman who was making the best of a bad situation).



4. Much of our information about sex comes through court records. So historians write about what they can find in primary documents. The emphasis on legally transgressive sex reflects source bias rather than some sort of numerical predominance of sex-for-hire.

This week we will discuss US COURT public policy using my lawsuits with NOSY NEIGHBOR AND THE GANG as a method of looking at how our strongest in world history THIRD BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT----JUDICIARY has been dismantled and corrupted as MOVING FORWARD intends there to be no legal or justice structure in US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES because colonial entities are ruled from a GLOBAL TRIBUNAL COURT----not a SOVEREIGN COURT.

We will take a a look at a few court cases tied to MILITARY and SEXUAL ASSAULT -----then looking at how military justice compares with CIVIL COURT justice.

First, let's remember to where CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA are taking the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-----sacking and looting, raping and pillaging-----bringing sovereign US to colonial status ruled by global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

Below we see terms used in this process of civil unrest civil war------this being old Chinese military terms which with coincidence look just like continuous wars these several decades by global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA---TRIBE OF JUDAH.

What I hear constantly from NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG----is that I am HOG TIED-----BRIDLED AND HALTERED inside my living space---as well as in public space.


COPING WITH INVASIONS:
CHINESE UNSETTLED

FIRST:

'bridle and halter'


This process of continuous wars overseas to build FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES now being brought to US to do the same------takes CIVIL UNREST CIVIL WAR-------global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS see all US citizens black, white, and brown citizens as BARBARIANS.  The global 1% see all new immigrants to US as BARBARIANS.  The only people getting a break---FOR NOW----are those 5% freemason/Greek players being used to create this sacking and looting process.

When we say the 5% freemason/Greek players are being paid to be FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT CIVIL UNREST CIVIL WAR PLAYERS------we are saying this small percentage of US citizens black, white, and brown are indeed being paid to bring their population group into this unrest/war stance.  GET THEM ANGRY.

What do I hear in FEEDBACK all the time------GET HER ANGRY---MAKE HER MAD-----

What does having a BLACK NOSY NEIGHBOR illegally surveilling and making PORN of me ----following me around city using public surveillance to SHAME AND HUMILIATE ME look like to other people?  GROUP SPEAK AND CHATTER are told to say-----THEY SEE ME-----they are told to say I LIKE HER-----and these people don't even know me.  They are just repeating what FEEDBACK tells them.

To people nearby hearing this makes it seem lots of people are actually involved in ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE OF ME-------when in fact very few actually even KNOW me.

At the same time there will be a WHITE NOSY NEIGHBOR illegally surveilling a BROWN immigrant/citizen doing the same to them that is done to me.

ALL OF THIS NOSY NEIGHBOR AND THE GANG as we say often have duel goals.  It makes those 5% freemason/Greek players black, white, and brown feel EMPOWERED and a MEMBER OF A SECRET SOCIETY-----but, as well it is designed to ignite that CIVIL UNREST CIVIL WAR between all population groups.

GLOBAL 1% OLD WORLD KINGS see what is happening to me in BALTIMORE as USING BARBARIANS TO ATTACK BARBARIANS.



SECOND:

Use barbarians to attack barbarians


What is this STANFORD TOTAL PRISON MODEL which is total surveillance in PUBLIC AND PERSONAL living space------we call it DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE---but, it is simple a goal to USE BARBARIANS TO CONTROL BARBARIANS.  This is the PRISONER/GUARD structure of authoritarian, militaristic, takeover of sovereign civil societies----AS IS MOVING FORWARD IN US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.

NOSY NEIGHBORS are barbarians----I am a barbarian-----and the goal of making population groups angry at one another------is creating the need for martial structures.

THIRD:

Use barbarians to control barbarians


I am being told here in Baltimore I have no rights-----I am not a citizen---------and I am made to feel I must GROUP SPEAK AND CHATTER----to be melded into what is ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE being built by OLD WORLD KINGS.  Rather than being ALL-AMERICAN-----I am being forced to be ONE WORLD 3000 BC HINDI-BRAHMIN.

While US citizens are what we call the NATIVE AMERICANS from last colonial period of AMERICA-----so too are the 99% of new immigrants arriving to be that SLAVE LABOR colonies always have.  The pathway to making immigrants into ONE WORLD teaches these immigrants how NOT TO BE ALL-AMERICAN.


FOURTH:

Turn barbarians into CHINESE


What will happen if we keep allowing CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA to MOVE FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE will be a total erasure of AMERICAN HISTORY---we discuss REVISIONIST HISTORY being done today all the time.  MARRIAGE ALLIANCE is not only about BARBARIAN population groups intermarrying to GET ALONG----it speaks to all these GLOBAL CORPORATE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS------the alliances between GLOBAL 1% OLD WORLD KINGS and those super-duper multi-national corporations----

RECONCILIATION AND INTIMACY---MARRIAGE ALLIANCE----

Today, after these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA our national leaders working for OLD WORLD KINGS are closer to those ASIAN GLOBAL 1% OLD WORLD KINGS----closer to those ARABIC GLOBAL 1% OLD WORLD KINGS----then they are to 99% US WE THE PEOPLE-----black, white, and brown citizens.

All these global OLD WORLD KINGS think we are all BARBARIANS----especially those dastardly US 99% WE THE PEOPLE with all those BILL OF RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS.





free·men.a person who is free; a person who enjoys personal, civil, or political liberty. a person who enjoys or is entitled to citizenship, franchise, or other special privilege: a freeman of a city.


There are many voices on THE NETWORK describing who I AM-------I AM A US CITIZEN but in Maryland as these other PALATINATE US STATES------I am called a FREEMAN (WOMAN)-----I am called a FREEWILLER--------I am called a SLAVE all tied to this colonial structure and this is why I am being HIT------with no one on THE NETWORK stopping these illegal surveillance and PORN structures.

I AM A FREE WOMAN---I AM A CITIZEN IN MARYLAND ---AND MY FAMILY WAS ROYAL/LANDED IN COLONIAL MARYLAND.

According to PALATINATE laws----I am very much part of Baltimore ----having a VOICE-----having my FREEDOM ----and having a right to POLITICAL ACTIVISM.



FIFTH:

Reconciliation and intimacy:  marriage alliance

Recognized Chinese strategies for border management



Introduction
(i)
Definition of a Palatinate:


ACCORDING to the Century Dictionary, a palatinate is the
dominion of a count palatine.



In England, an earl or count palatine had royal jurisdiction in his province;


all tenants-in-chief held of him; he had his own courts,
took proceeds of jurisdiction, and appointed his own
sheriff.


The bishop had admiralty rights in his province:


patrolling the coast was entrusted to him.



He also had the privilege of staying procedure, and could
suspend the execution of the law. The king checked
and limited the bishop's supremacy both in the regular
course of the law and in the exercise of the royal
prerogative.


The fact that the bishop's office was elective, and
therefore depended to a great extent on the king,
further limited his authority.

Palatinates were not, however, confined to the Old World:


In America, besides Maryland, there were Avalon,
Georgia, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.


People and Life of Colonial Maryland:


HE early settlers of Maryland were divided as follows:


the upper and middle classes,

composed of planters, farmers, and merchants,


the poor whites and freedmen, and the servile class.


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PALATINATE governance is colonial and indeed some of our original 13 colonies were PALATINATE as MARYLAND.  When one kills our US SOVEREIGNTY, STATE SOVEREIGNTY, LOCAL SOVEREIGNTY------one goes back to PALATINATE governance.

The difference MOVING FORWARD is that global banking 1% are KILLING THE MIDDLE-CLASS----leaving only an UPPER CLASS and that UPPER CLASS will be only the GLOBAL 1% OLD WORLD KINGS.

What becomes confused when discussing terms like FREE WILLER--------the term politically means PERSON WHO IS CITIZEN.  Looking at the term from a RELIGIOUS stance ---one is taken back to PROTESTANT REVOLUTION and creation of those religions separate from KINGS and POPES.

My family is tied to being ANGLICAN-----being METHODIST EPISCOPAL------and would be considered FREE WILLERS-----under these religious definitions.


QUAKERS, MENNONITES, CALVINISTS et al FELL INTO THESE CATEGORIES.

This drove the AMERICAN REVOLUTION being freed from a KING-----and MARYLAND and other PALATINATES fell under US FEDERAL SOVEREIGNTY having to shed that designation of PALATINATE.

As I look for what this term on THE NETWORK means-------SHE IS 'THEM' NOT 'US'-----this is to where I  am looking next.  So, I appear even under a colonial MARYLAND PALATINATE-----a CITIZEN-----a FREE-WOMAN-----and fall under ROYAL LANDOWNER.

NONE OF THESE WOULD HAVE ME BEING -----HIT-----ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE AND VIDEO PORN BEING CALLED A SLAVE------BEING USED.



Free Will Baptist



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Benjamin Randall (1749–1808) was the founder of the Free Will Baptist movement in New England the late 18th Century.Free Will Baptist is a denomination and group of people that believe in free grace, free salvation and free will. The movement can be traced back to the 1600s with the development of General Baptism in England. Its formal establishment is widely linked to the English theologian, Thomas Helwys who led the Baptist movement to believe in general atonement. He was an advocate of religious liberty at a time when to hold to such views could be dangerous and punishable by death. He died in prison as a consequence of the religious persecution of Protestant dissenters under King James I.




In 1702 Paul Palmer would go on to establish the movement in North Carolina and in 1727 formed the Free Will Baptist Church of Chowan. Many Calvinists became Free Will Baptists in the 19th century. With the establishment of Free Will Baptists in the South, Benjamin Randall developed the movement in the Northeastern United States, specifically Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.



One of the most defining characteristics of the movement is the notion of self-governance of local churches. The notion of free will was a systematic rejection of the Puritan movement, due to its overall religious beliefs and lack of social mobility.

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Anabaptist


Protestantism
Written By:



Alternative Title: Rebaptizer



Anabaptist, (from Greek ana, “again”) member of a fringe, or radical, movement of the Protestant Reformation and spiritual ancestor of modern Baptists, Mennonites, and Quakers. The movement’s most distinctive tenet was adult baptism. In its first generation, converts submitted to a second baptism, which was a crime punishable by death under the legal codes of the time. Members rejected the label Anabaptist, or Rebaptizer, for they repudiated their own baptism as infants as a blasphemous formality. They considered the public confession of sin and faith, sealed by adult baptism, to be the only proper baptism. Following the Swiss Reformer Huldrych Zwingli, they held that infants are not punishable for sin until they become aware of good and evil and can exercise their own free will, repent, and accept baptism.





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MARYLAND was founded by a CATHOLIC LORD CALVERT and Catholicism after the MEDIEVAL DARK AGES tended towards FREE WILL-------so, they would be categorized as FREE-WILLERS. 


Below we see where Catholic discussions of FREE WILL extend from FREEMEN to FREEWOMEN.

So, in Maryland whether under US FEDERAL SOVEREIGNTY or whether one takes us back to COLONIAL MARYLAND-----I am a FREE WOMAN----I have FREE WILL----I am a CITIZEN.

WHO IS THIS 'US' AND 'THEM' WHEN THE NETWORK AND NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG SAY-----SHE IS NOT ONE OF US?


WHETHER RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL -----I AM PROTECTED FROM ACTIONS LIKE ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE AND VIDEO PORN BY NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG.

I am dealing with an ILLEGAL BLACK MARKET CRIMINAL SEX TRADE PORN CARTEL-----and I seem not to be able to be protected and receive justice from those on THE NETWORK.

THE NETWORK is supposed to be HOMELAND SECURITY-------AKA---military and it is supposed to be local POLITICAL/INSTITUTIONAL LEADERS.



January 14, 2010

Free Will, Conscience and Moral Choice: What Catholics believe


By Archbishop George H. Niederauer *




In a recent interview with Eleanor Clift in Newsweek magazine (Dec. 21, 2009), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about her disagreements with the United States Catholic bishops concerning Church teaching. Speaker Pelosi replied, in part: “I practically mourn this difference of opinion because I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent with what I profess, and that we are all endowed with a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. And that women should have the opportunity to exercise their free will.”

Embodied in that statement are some fundamental misconceptions about Catholic teaching on human freedom. These misconceptions are widespread both within the Catholic community and beyond. For this reason I believe it is important for me as Archbishop of San Francisco to make clear what the Catholic Church teaches about free will, conscience, and moral choice.



Catholic teaching on free will recognizes that God has given men and women the capacity to choose good or evil in their lives. The bishops at the Second Vatican Council declared that the human person, endowed with freedom, is “an outstanding manifestation of the divine image.” (Gaudium et Spes, No. 17) As the parable of the Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevsky’s novel, The Brothers Karamazov, makes so beautifully clear, God did not want humanity to be mere automatons, but to have the dignity of freedom, even recognizing that with that freedom comes the cost of many evil choices.

However, human freedom does not legitimate bad moral choices, nor does it justify a stance that all moral choices are good if they are free: “The exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do everything.” (The Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1740) Christian belief in human freedom recognizes that we are called but not compelled by God to choose constantly the values of the Gospel—faith, hope, love, mercy, justice, forgiveness, integrity and compassion.

It is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching to conclude that our freedom of will justifies choices that are radically contrary to the Gospel—racism, infidelity, abortion, theft. Freedom of will is the capacity to act with moral responsibility; it is not the ability to determine arbitrarily what constitutes moral right.

What, then, is to guide the children of God in the use of their freedom? Again, the bishops at the Council provide the answer—conscience: “Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment . . . . For man has in his heart a law inscribed by God . . . . His conscience is man’s most secret core and his sanctuary. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths.” (GS, No. 16) Conscience, then, is the judgment of reason whereby the human person, guided by God’s grace, recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act. In all we say and do, we are obliged to follow faithfully what we know to be just and right.

How do we form and guide our consciences? While the Church teaches that each of us is called to judge and direct his or her own actions, it also teaches that, like any good judge, each conscience masters the law and listens to expert testimony about the law. This process is called the education and formation of conscience.



Catholics believe that “the education of conscience is a lifelong task.” (CCC, No. 1784) Where do we go for this education of our consciences? Our living tradition teaches us that “In the formation of conscience the Word of God is the light for our path; we must assimilate it in faith and prayer and put it into practice. We must also examine our conscience before the Lord’s Cross. We are assisted by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, aided by the witness or advice of others and guided by the authoritative teaching of the Church.” (CCC, No. 1785)

Our Catholic beliefs about free will, conscience and moral choice are rooted in the Good News of Jesus Christ’s teaching and his redemptive life, death and resurrection: “For freedom Christ has set us free” (Gal. 5:1); “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2Cor. 3:17); we glory “in the liberty of the children of God.” (Rom. 8:17). Common caricatures of Christian morality portray believers as living in fear of punishment or concerned only with an eternal reward. Long ago, however, St. Basil the Great, a fourth-century bishop and theologian, taught that the Christian, in living a moral life according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, “does not stand before God as a slave in servile fear, nor a mercenary looking for wages, but obeys for the sake of the good itself and out of love for God as his child.” (CCC, No. 1828)

As participants in the life of the civil community, we Catholic citizens try to follow our consciences, guided, as described above, by reason and the grace of God. While we deeply respect the freedom of our fellow citizens, we nevertheless are profoundly convinced that free will cannot be cited as justification for society to allow moral choices that strike at the most fundamental rights of others. Such a choice is abortion, which constitutes the taking of innocent human life, and cannot be justified by any Catholic notion of freedom. Because of these convictions we commit ourselves to a continuing witness to, and dialogue about, the Gospel values that underlie our understanding of freedom, conscience, and moral choice.


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Even in colonial PALATINATE MARYLAND the court system was built and recognized OLD WORLD COMMON LAW as its foundation.  A citizen as FREE MAN and woman was entitled to access to justice.



'As the Maryland judicial structure evolved into separate courts, the jurisdiction of each became more defined. The county courts handled three types of cases—-criminal, civil, and equity.

'Criminal
proceedings involved actions committed or omitted in violation of the law. Civil actions dealt with the recovery of private rights or compensation for their infraction, such as nonpayment of debts or damages caused to persons or property. Equity cases involved matters requiring an equitable solution, such as estate settlements, title to land, and divorce'.


Now, I will bring this discussion back to US COURT public policy bringing in NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG running around town on public surveillance telling everyone I am a SLAVE----I have been seen naked by every man in the city and need to STAY INSIDE MY HOUSE.   My case involves SEXUAL ASSAULT AND NON-CONTRACT RAPE by illegal surveillance and video PORN ------and yet, openly on THE NETWORK I am told anyone can HIT ME.  I believe those on THE NETWORK saying this are members of THIS GANG----HOSTING SERVER NOSY NEIGHBORS et al.

NOT EVERYONE ON THE NETWORK LIKES WHAT THESE BLACK MARKET SEX TRADE VIDEO PORN NETWORKS ARE DOING.

We are looking at MILITARY COURTS and this trial below is an example of how a STATE OF MARYLAND thinks about SEXUAL ASSAULT inside a military setting.



'Around the same time a sex scandal at an Army training base in Aberdeen, Maryland, in which twelve officers were accused of assaulting female trainees, sparked public concern about assault in the military'.

There are tons of reasons that MARYLAND is primed for justice from SEXUAL ASSAULT. Whether religious---whether military code of HONOR AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO RULE OF LAW-----

20 Years Ago, an Army Veteran Reported a Sexual Assault.

She’s Still Waiting for Justice.


Congress continues to debate changes to the military justice system after decades of scandals, investigatory panels and trials have failed to stem the sexual assault epidemic. 


By Zoë Carpenter


February 24, 2014

When Brenda Hoster publicly accused the sergeant major of the Army of sexually assaulting her, it nearly destroyed her life. She thought it would be worth it.



“I felt like what I did was the right thing, the ethical thing, not just for me but for all military men and women,” Hoster, a retired sergeant major and public affairs specialist, said in one of two phone conversations. Her complaints against the Army’s top enlisted soldier were part of a wave of sex scandals that rocked the military in the 1990s. Today, Congress is still debating how to best reform the military justice system.



“Nothing’s changed. Why is that?” asked Hoster. “I feel like my journey was for nothing.”



It’s been nearly two decades since Hoster spoke out against Sergeant Major Gene McKinney, who was her boss. She’d stayed quiet for months after the alleged assault, which she said occurred in a Honolulu hotel room in 1996. Hoster said her superiors at the Pentagon told her to resolve her issues with McKinney (who was later acquitted) on her own, and later refused her requests to transfer. Feeling powerless and alone, Hoster chose to end her twenty-two-year career. “There was very little confidence back then about being a whistleblower,” she said. “It was fight or flight, and I flew.”


Around the same time a sex scandal at an Army training base in Aberdeen, Maryland, in which twelve officers were accused of assaulting female trainees, sparked public concern about assault in the military.

Aberdeen came on the heels of the 1991 Navy Tailhook scandal, in which more than 100 officers were accused of assault or harassment. In response to the Aberdeen incident, the Army commissioned a panel to investigate its sexual harassment policies.



One of the appointees was McKinney. “I said, ‘Oh, hell no,’” remembered Hoster. In February of 1997 she decided to go public and filed a formal complaint with the Army. Five other women came forward to accuse McKinney for separate incidents. “It was about the ethics of it—nobody would do anything to help me, and now this guy was going to be on this panel investigating sexual harassment. To me, it was like nobody cared. I cared, and I spoke. And I paid dearly for it,” said Hoster.



After decades of scandals, investigatory panels and trials, the military still has not stemmed the sexual assault epidemic. Nor has it found a way to assure service members like Hoster that they will be heard and protected if they report crimes against them. Only two in ten service members who suffered “unwanted sexual contact” in 2012 reported the incidents. As the system is set up now they must do so through their commanding officer, who then decides whether the accusations warrant a trial by court martial.


“I think nothing’s changed because of the way that these things are brought to justice—or not to justice. I think a lot of it has to do with antiquated, non-functioning military justice system,” Hoster said.



Congress reached a similar conclusion last year after a series of hearings, and passed a number of reforms to the military justice system along with the annual defense spending bill. The new legislation bars commanders from overturning jury convictions, criminalizes retaliation against people who report sexual assault, mandates dishonorable discharge for anyone convicted of sex crimes, and removes the statute of limitations for such cases.



But Congress has not yet voted on the most significant and controversial reform proposed—Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Military Justice Improvement Act, which would put military lawyers, rather than commanding officers, in charge of sexual assault prosecutions. Victims’ advocates, veterans and some active duty officers argue that forcing victims to report to commanders exposes them to conflicts of interest and retaliation, and disadvantages accused and accuser alike by putting legal decisions in the hands of officers without legal training. Fifty-four senators—including nine Republicans—support Gillibrand’s bill, which the chamber will take up some time in March. The military’s top brass and two key Democrats on the Armed Services Committee, chairman Carl Levin and Claire McCaskill, oppose the measure, saying it would undermine commanders’ ability to enforce order and discipline in the ranks.



“From my experience, victims—and I hate that word, but can’t think of anything else—the victims don’t have someone they can trust to go to,” Hoster said. “How the hell would they have confidence in the chain of command right now? How could anyone have confidence, with all this stuff happening for years?”



In 1997, after what Hoster described as a “nasty” trial, McKinney was acquitted of all but one count of obstructing justice. Hoster struggled to keep her life together in El Paso, Texas, where she lived “like a recluse.” She had devoted her life to the Army: it gave her a ticket out of small-town Pennsylvania, and she loved the culture of discipline. Without it, she drifted. It took about ten years for the alienation and defensiveness to fade. Now she works for the Veterans Administration in San Antonio, which she considers an extension of her service in the Army. She describes her life largely in positive terms, but acknowledged that occasionally something rekindles her memory of the assault and its drawn-out aftermath.



‘I am a lot better after all these years, but when I start talking about it…” Hoster began to cry, softly. “It never goes away. You just need to learn how to deal with it better. It will always feel bad.”


What makes Hoster angry now is not what she says happened to her; it’s that speaking out didn’t make more of a difference for others in the military. In her work Hoster frequently encounters other veterans struggling with military sexual trauma. “It just disgusts me that it’s still happening,” Hoster said.


Gillibrand’s bill is likely to draw a filibuster, and both sides are contending for a handful of undecided votes. Opponents say the reforms that passed in December are sufficient correctives, and they should be given time to work before imposing deeper change.



Hoster is tired of the military asking for more time. “I fell on my sword for something back then,” she said when asked why the debate still mattered to her. “I’m not gonna turn my back on it.”
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Below we see the same conditions as with MCKINNEY trial----and the result the same.  The sexual predator was forced to retire but no court precedence tied to protecting victims of SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE.

Here in Baltimore the mindset with NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG is this:  this illegal surveillance and video PORN structure is considered part of SACKING AND LOOTING----RAPING AND PILLAGING which is seen in continuous wars overseas.  The mindset is tied to WAR AND PILLAGING from PRE-CHRISTIAN NERO/CATO/SENECA times.


'Jobo was forced to retire and demoted one rank, to lieutenant colonel. Because the military keeps most disciplinary actions secret, the case was hidden from public view.

There would be no trial, no publicity and no public record — the same for thousands of other sexual assault investigations each year in the armed forces'.

This is why our US MILITARY will not take a court stance on these SEXUAL CRIMES cases.



How does that play out when MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD is installing a global private military corporation structure with the intent of US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES being COLONIAL AND DARK AGES?


NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG feel they can SEXUALLY ASSAULT AND NON-CONTACT RAPE continuously because of this military mentality in Baltimore. This is why we have SATURATED NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG with huge PORN NETWORKS in each community.


Investigations


How the military handles sexual assault cases behind closed doors
By Craig Whitlock
September 30, 2017

As part of a sexual harassment and assault case, Air Force investigators recovered hundreds of text messages that Col. Ronald S. Jobo, left, sent to a female subordinate in 2015. (Photo by Mickey Welsh /The Advertiser; texts obtained by The Washington Post)



For the U.S. Air Force, the case of alleged sexual harassment and assault by a senior officer was exactly the type of misconduct Pentagon leaders had promised Congress and the public they would no longer tolerate.


The victim at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Alabama reported in September 2015 that her married boss, a colonel, had repeatedly said he wanted to have sex with her, tracked her movements and sent her recordings of him masturbating in the shower, documents show. She said that she told him to back off but that he would not stop: Twice, she alleges, he trapped her in the office, grabbed her arms and forcibly tried to kiss her.



Air Force investigators quickly confirmed much of her account, aided by hundreds of messages that the officer had texted the woman and by his admission that he had sent the masturbation recordings, the documents show.


In their report, the investigators compiled extensive evidence that the colonel, Ronald S. Jobo, had committed abusive sexual contact against the woman, a civilian in her 30s. Under military law, the charge would have automatically resulted in a court-martial, a proceeding open to the public. The crime carried a sentence of up to seven years in prison and a requirement to register as a sex offender.



The decision on what to do next rested with a three-star general 600 miles away at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. In the military-justice system, commanders — not uniformed prosecutors — have the power to dictate how and whether criminal cases should be pursued.




In March 2016, Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson, the senior officer in Jobo’s chain of command, decided against charging Jobo with abusive sexual contact, or any crime at all. Instead, Thompson imposed what the military calls non­judicial punishment, or discipline for minor ­offenses.



Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson, the senior officer in Jobo’s chain of command, decided against charging the colonel with abusive sexual contact, or any crime at all. (U.S. Air Force)Jobo was forced to retire and demoted one rank, to lieutenant colonel. Because the military keeps most disciplinary actions secret, the case was hidden from public view.



There would be no trial, no publicity and no public record — the same for thousands of other sexual assault investigations each year in the armed forces.
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MCKINNEY was not an exception-----but, he went into this trial to face very serious and numerous accusations of SEXUAL ASSAULTS AND RAPE assured he would not be held accountable---and he was.  This article doesn't say---but, MCKINNEY was demoted but did end up leaving the military no doubt from pressures.  His case ended with a CONVICTION on one account----of course that was not the SEXUAL crime.  The importance in any LAWSUIT tied to SEXUAL CRIMES is to create a BROAD SET OF CHARGES---do not focus only on being a victim of SEX TRADE PORN MULES.

ABU GHRAIB brought the convictions it did because of global SENSATIONALISM.  MCKINNEY was a US public military member---ABU GHRAIB staff private global security corporation.  

BALTIMORE is steeped in global military corporations-----before we even started with DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE ----we have to take a LAWSUIT against this black market criminal sex trade cartel to a COURT not so heavily tied to a militaristic state.

I tie religious public policy with this military-style criminal activity because THE NETWORK is filled with people tied to both.  

When I think WHO IS 'US' AND WHO IS 'THEM' ------is this a military fraternity/sorority -----Hmmmmm, I don't think this SODOM AND GOMORRAH was happening in CALVERT'S COLONIAL GOVERNMENT.

Here is where my being called a SLAVE is very important------our colonial slaves of course where not PROTECTED ---and indeed faced grave crimes against humanity.  

In Maryland today I can be called a SLAVE-----I can be USED with no access to justice---------BECAUSE...............I am still thinking about it.

Top Army Sergeant Was Secretly Taped In Sex Investigation
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• June 28, 1997

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The Army secretly recorded its top enlisted soldier while investigating him for sexual misconduct, and at a hearing today played a tape of a telephone conversation in which he tried to tell one of his four female accusers what she should say to investigators.
In the conversation, Sgt. Maj. Gene C. McKinney, the Sergeant Major of the Army, told the 26-year-old staff sergeant to describe their relationship as strictly professional and their conversations as advice about her career development.



In a later telephone conversation, the woman testified today, the sergeant major instructed her to tell people that Army investigators had forced her to say things against her will. She said that at other times he intimated he could hurt her career if she told anyone that he had sexually harassed her.



What Sergeant Major McKinney did not know was that the woman was already cooperating with investigators, who had installed a recording device on her telephone shortly after another woman, his one-time aide, accused him of sexually mistreating her last February and the Army began investigating.

Testifying under oath today, the female sergeant, whose identity is being withheld at the request of the Army, portrayed Sergeant Major McKinney as someone who intimidated her by repeatedly reminding her of his lofty rank and pressuring her to have sex -- from their first meeting during a convention at the Washington Sheraton Hotel in October 1994 to an encounter on a bicycle path along the Potomac River in August 1996.



The woman said she had been terrorized with threatening calls and actions since she came forward to accuse the sergeant major. She has been placed in the Army's witness protection program.



Army lawyers played the tape of the phone call, which Sergeant Major McKinney had initiated, in an austere makeshift hearing room here on the military base at Fort McNair as part of a hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to try him by court-martial. The witness today is the second of the sergeant major's accusers to testify.

''I'm just all confused,'' she said in the tape of the phone call he made to her apartment last February.
''All you have to do is tell them we talked a lot,'' the sergeant major replied. ''You called the office and we talked about career development stuff. That's all they need to know.''

''Well, O.K.,'' the woman said.
''That's it. Period. We just talked about career development.''



At another point in the conversation, he said that she should tell investigators that there had been ''no inappropriateness at all, just that we talked.'' He also told her to say that the only time they had ever seen each other was one day when she unexpectedly encountered him raking leaves in his yard on Fort Myer, Va., where they both lived, and that he had introduced her to his wife.



And he branded Brenda L. Hoster, the retired sergeant major who had once been his personal aide and had publicly accused him of sexually assaulting her, as someone ''who outright hates my guts'' and who ''couldn't live up to the standards'' of the Army. The conversation did not include any sexual overtone.



It is not unusual for the military to monitor and record telephone conversations of people it is investigating when there is a possiblity that a crime may be committed through telephone conversations.


There are 10 preliminary charges against the sergeant major involving the sergeant who testified today: maltreatment of a subordinate, solicitation to commit adultery, making threats, indecent assault and obstruction of justice -- each on two occasions.
He has denied her charges as well as those of his other three accusers.



In recent months, the female sergeant said today, she had received threatening phone calls telling her to keep quiet and not to trust Army investigators, she said.



She testified that ''someone carved, 'Bitch, die,''' on her apartment door. She said that her apartment was broken into, her papers relating to the case were stolen from her kitchen table and the head of one of her stuffed animals was ripped off.



A six-and-a-half year Army veteran, she has since been detached from the Old Guard, a prestigious ceremonial infantry unit at Fort Myer.


She also testified that the sergeant major had urged her to lie about the way Army investigators treated her.
''He said anything I said, I could say the CID was making me say it, that they forced me to say things,'' she said of the Army's investigative command. ''I said I couldn't do it.''



Sergeant Major McKinney appeared relaxed throughout the hearing today, leaning back in his chair, joking with his defense team, munching on cookies and drinking a ginger ale. He never looked at his wife, Wilhemina, who stared vacantly at her husband's accuser, and frowned from time to time.



The sergeant, who testified for more than two hours despite suffering from laryngitis, said that the sergeant major had asked her for sex on their first meeting at an Army convention when he made an obsence remark, told her she had a ''nice little body'' and invited her repeatedly to his hotel room.
''I'm a man, you're what I need,'' she quoted him as saying. ''Men, women, we have needs. We can take care of them.''


She said that he offered her a job helping with his travel arrangements, the same type of job he is said to have offered the 26-year-old sergeant who testified against him earlier this week. The sergeant said she did not want to upset him because ''he said he made things happen, good and bad,'' and ''I didn't want anything bad to happen to me.''



After that, she said, he called her repeatedly, often asking her to meet him. She added that she had repeatedly refused. If she was not home, he said that ''Jeff'' or ''Mr. Smith'' had called and asked her to call him back, she testified. She added that the only times she ever called him were to return his calls.


On one occasion, she said, she accompanied him to his office at the Pentagon, where he hugged her ''real tight,'' telling her that she had aroused him sexually and that she would ''have to fix the problem.''
''You know I can have you if I really want you,'' she quoted him as saying.



''I wasn't interested in having sex with him and he couldn't understand why,'' she said today. ''He said I was abnormal.''
He became more needy, she said, after his 18-year-old son, Zuberi, was killed in an automobile accident, at one point last July demanding that she meet him near the Lincoln Memorial, where she said he grabbed her and kissed her.



The last incident occurred on a Saturday morning in August, she said, when she went on a regular bicycle ride along the Potomac River and he appeared and rode alongside her. After urging her to give him the chance to satisfy her sexually, she testified, he began talking about his son again and started to cry.


He ''asked if I was going to comfort him in his time of need,'' she said. ''I said 'No.' ''

The TRASH policy surrounding RECYCLES these several years is completely controlled by this fact----CHINA et al said NO to dumping so global banking 1% had to make it legal to DUMP IN US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.

This is why they created FAKE GREEN laws around RECYCLING----pretending INCINERATION is GREEN because of TECHNOLOGY PATENTED for money which does NOTHING for the environment. It just gives a reason to allow all those TOXIC methods of disposal used overseas to be used here in US.

This is the problem----too much consumption---too many products.

What has global banking 5% freemason/greek player/pols done to address this?

THEY HAVE MADE PATENTING PRODUCTS SUPER-DUPER RAGING WILD.

THEY HAVE MADE 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION REQUIRED---ERGO, TONS AND TONS OF WASTE.

China is refusing most U.S. recyclables. That may mean higher trash bills in the Coachella Valley


Kaylee Beam, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 5:11 a.m. PT Aug. 11, 2019


Last year, Palm Springs residents recycled 38% of their waste. But soon, that number may be going down (and your garbage bill may be going up).



China and other foreign markets have started severely limiting the recyclables they will accept, making recycling a more expensive process for countries dependent on foreign markets. There's a growing chance that even properly recycled items will end up in the landfill.



For now, rising recycling costs are being borne by companies like Burrtec, which handles recycling collection and processing for all of Riverside County except Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs.



The company relies on domestic markets across the U.S. to keep recyclables out of the landfill, and is researching developing markets for plastic bags and other materials. However, said Valerie Ward, director of community affairs at Burrtec: "Eventually this cost is going to have to trickle down to residents. It's already happening everywhere else."


To avoid this, Burrtec and the city of Palm Springs are working to improve recycling at the local level. They plan to teach residents proper recycling methods and an adaptive mindset to help them keep pace with a fluctuating market.



Foreign limits: Green Fence, National Sword


For California, the recycling story started in 1989 with the Integrated Waste Management Act, the state's first major recycling bill. Under this mandate, all California cities and counties had to divert 50% of solid waste from landfills through recycling and composting by 2000.



Aside from Desert Hot Springs, which only achieved 29% diversion by 2000, all cities in Coachella Valley met the standard. Palm Desert reached the highest rate by then, at 62%.


To offset the costs of material collection and processing, waste businesses started selling recyclables to China and other foreign countries. These nations would then process the materials into new products for global sale and distribution. California came to rely on foreign recycling markets to meet state and national recycling mandates.

In 2016, however, China enacted its Green Fence policy, placing restrictions on imports of contaminated plastics, fibers, and paper. Eighteen months later, the country implemented National Sword, which set a 0.5% contamination threshold and added mixed paper and some plastics to its list of banned materials. Other countries, such as India and Thailand, have started to follow suit.



Instead of accepting contaminated foreign materials that are difficult to recycle, these countries want to clean up their local environments by supporting domestic recycling.

“For the better part of the last 25 years, China or the foreign markets have accepted our material without question,” said Chris Cunningham, Recycling Manager at Palm Springs Disposal Services (PSDS). “But they don’t want the trash anymore. There’s way too much contamination.”



Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs), the general name for facilitieswhere mixed recyclables are taken for sorting, are making changes to address this. Traditionally, the process has been simple: Recyclables are placed on conveyor belts, obvious contaminants are picked out by onsite workers, and an automated sorter categorizes the rest.

Now, to meet China's extremely low contamination threshold, that alone is insufficient. Machine operators have started slowing the conveyor belt to one-fourth its normal speed, running the materials through the sorter repeatedly, or spending millions to equip their facilities with optical sorters that can automatically identify high-density plastics. Another trick some MRFs have developed is stockpiling certain items and selling them once they are in high demand.



There are three MRFs that process Coachella Valley materials: SANCO in Escondido, West Valley in Riverside, and Agua Mansa in Fontana. SANCO and West Valley recently upgraded their facilities to include optical sorters and screening systems, and Agua Mansa is relying on a slowed processing line while it waits for scheduled upgrades later this year.



Upgrading technology and slowing the conveyor belt, however, has costs that are difficult to cover amid declining sales. In 2014, the average value of 1 ton of assorted recyclables was $36.63, but last year, it fell to $1.91. Simultaneously, tipping fees — money paid to a processing facility for accepting a certain amount of waste — have increased to an average of $68.25 per ton from zero in 2014. (No tipping fee means that recyclables were highly valued in 2014, so facilities could cover the processing without charging for it.)


The tipping fee levied by the Edom Hill Transfer Station, where PSDS recyclables are sent, increased from $35 to $81.70 per ton —  a 133% increase — on July 1. Burrtec indicated a similar tipping fee at the other stations they operate.


Palm Springs works to adapt, educate 


The Office of Sustainability in Palm Springs is working to translate the changes in foreign markets to its policies and programs.


Their goals include developing better organizational understanding of where Palm Springs’ waste goes and being mindful of the changing market. Because materials that are acceptable right now may not be acceptable in a few months and vice versa, cities have to consider the future when implementing changes locally.


“We have to be operating in a dynamic environment,” said Patrick Tallarico, manager at the Palm Springs Office of Sustainability. “We have to be creating things that are going to be adaptable.”

REMEMBER----OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY IS GLOBAL CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY---NOT OUR US 99% WE THE PEOPLE SUSTAINABILITY.



As an example, Tallarico discussed efforts to select new waste containers for downtown Palm Springs. After finding that very little waste in downtown is recyclable aside from bottles and cans, the city is leaning toward a recycling bin that accommodates only those materials.



However, if the city were to limit Palm Springs vendors to the use of high-density plastics (#1-2) in their single-use food and drinkware, the signage around the bins could be changed to encourage the recycling of those materials in addition to bottles and cans.



Palm Springs also works in conjunction with the local sustainability commission, a volunteer advisory body selected by the city council. The 11 members conduct research, help with outreach, and provide recommendations to the city. They also have a subcommittee that focuses on recycling.


“It’s a unique blessing that we have here,” Tallarico said, referring to the number of retirees in Palm Springs. “We’ve got all of these people that have passion and the time to really follow through.”



The city and commission share an approach when it comes to messaging: Keep it simple and re-educate at the source.


Because of the disconnect between what packages say and what is actually recyclable, they are planning to work with local merchants to appropriately label materials. Additionally, they are determining recycling guidelines that they can give locals in spite of market volatility, and conducting research on how residents are recycling and using bins in public spaces.



Both Tallarico and Cunningham cited the Agua Caliente casino in Rancho Mirage as a proactive recycler of organic waste.



In June 2018, the resort started using Organic Refuse Conversion Alternative (ORCA) technology to turn solid food waste into water. Each machine can process more than 1 ton of food waste a day, and produces sludgy liquid that is sent to the nearest water treatment plant. This process both diverts waste from the landfill and saves the resort money on material collection.


Moving forward, the city and commission will work closely with businesses — particularly restaurants — as they develop an ordinance to limit certain plastics in foodware.



Burrtec, meanwhile, is educating residents through brochures and stickers placed on customer bins. These stickers, with explanations in both Spanish and English, have images of recyclables and notes on what not to recycle. Burrtec also attaches “oops” tags to bins with contaminants, which include check boxes so that residents know what they wrongly recycled. Once the contaminant is removed, the bins are collected normally.



The "Recycle This!" sticker that Burrtec places on bins in the areas they service. (Photo: Valerie Ward, Burrtec)



California's biggest recycler shuts down

There are hardly any domestic recycling markets left in California, but according to experts, people haven't grasped the urgency of the issue.



On Aug. 5, rePlanet, the biggest operator of recycling redemption centers in the state, closed its remaining 284 facilities and laid off 750 employees. The company cited increasing costs and decreasing values of recyclables as reasons for the shutdown, and with centers all over Coachella Valley, residents are now limited in their options for redeeming recyclables.


Over 40% of redemption centers in the state have closed down in the past four years for similar reasons.
From Tallarico’s perspective, California is two years away from seeing major developments in domestic markets. He also explained that Palm Springs will likely cut low-density plastics (#3-7) from the list of acceptable recyclable items as early as next year, which poses a problem as the state doubles down on recycling requirements.



Cunningham attributes some of the difficulty to regulatory barriers. “It’s very difficult to build anything here. ... It costs millions in the permit process. I’ve heard it’s death by a thousand paper cuts.”



Currently, there are only a few companies in the Coachella Valley that are processing recyclables into new products. Coachella Valley Compost, centered in Coachella, processes organic waste, and Thousand Palms' SA Recycling handles scrap metal.



New incentives for U.S. recycling markets


In December, state Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) introduced two bills collectively known as the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act. Passed in May, they mandate that 75% of single-use packaging currently being produced in California be reduced or recycled by 2030, and that all single-use products be made recyclable or compostable by 2030.




Though problematic given foreign restrictions, the bills also instruct CalRecycle, a department within the California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that oversees state waste and recycling programs, to create incentives and policies that encourage the development of domestic recycling markets.


Additionally, in a July 18 press release, over 40 members of Congress requested that the Department of Commerce and U.S. EPA report on their efforts to address the recycling crisis and confirm the existence of a national plan. Both groups must address the crisis under the 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.



Currently, the U.S. EPA has a Sustainable Materials Management program, which brings key players in product lifecycles together to discuss sustainable production.

AGAIN----THIS IS THE GLOBAL CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY AND NOT OUR REAL US 99% WE THE PEOPLE SUSTAINABILITY---



"Recycling is in a state of crisis right now, but it's certainly not dead." Cunningham said. "It's just that we're working through it. It's (about) developing the right markets and producing material that's actually worth something."
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This article tells the problem. In 1988----in HOUSTON-----what was to become a global WASTE MANAGEMENT CORPORATION was created pretending it was interested in RECYCLING. Here we hear that in late 1980s our local recycling efforts were weak---when in fact US CITIES and towns were well on the way to building LOCAL RECYCLING CENTERS---PUBLIC meaning the use of recycled waste and money generated went back to COMMUNITIES and local government coffers.

THIS WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL approach to RECYCLING. Fast forward and in 2010 almost all US 99% of citizens understand that the WASTE MANAGEMENT CORPORATION was simply DUMPING that recycling and getting money in return for the trash and for public services.

'Not all recyclers are thanking Steiner for saying that the business is in “crisis,” in part because the executive’s warnings have sometimes turned apocalyptic. Steiner has threatened in the pages of The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere that, if no solutions are found, the end of recycling could be nigh'.

Above we see STEINER----as CEO telling us what is a FAKE reason as to why MOVING FORWARD does not include RECYCLING-----

THERE IS NO INTENT TO PROTECT OUR US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES FROM ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION-----GLOBAL 1% WILL DO TO US WHAT THEY DID OVERSEAS.

The goal now is to make TRASH PICKUP as PROFITABLE AS POSSIBLE.

“I wouldn’t say that we shot ourselves in the foot, because it created more recycling,” he said. “But we need to think about how to create more recycling at a higher profitability.”

The American recycling business is a mess: Can Big Waste fix it?

By 
Claire GrodenSeptember 3, 2015

In 1987, a tugboat named Mobro 4000 set out from New York Harbor with more than 6 million pounds of decaying waste collected from across New York City. The trash-bearing vessel was bound for a landfill in North Carolina, where it was refused. It then wandered as far as Mexico and Belize, looking for a place to unload.



Newspapers followed the tugboat’s 5,000-mile voyage, sounding alarm bells over a national garbage crisis. Johnny Carson led The Tonight Show by suggesting the Mobro make a beeline for Iran, and a New York Times editorial called it a “floating Paul Revere,” warning Americans of the threat of their trash.



After months of rejection, the barge eventually returned with its trash to New York, where it was festooned with an enormous banner, drawn up by Greenpeace activists, that read, “Next Time Try Recycling.” Suddenly, America had to pay attention to its garbage problem.


In 1988, Houston-based Waste Management, the nation’s leading garbage hauler, launched its first large-scale curbside-recycling program under the direction of a man named Bill Moore, the company’s first recycling director. At the time, only about 10% of the country’s trash was recycled. But throughout the 1990s and 2000s, recycling programs mushroomed across the country: by 2015, the recycling rate had more than tripled, and Waste Management had become the largest residential recycler on the continent. The runner-up, Republic Services, recycled almost 5 million tons in 2014; Waste Management (WM) recycled more than 15 million tons.



Today, the company’s biggest challenge has little to do with the competition--it’s the business of recycling itself that’s the problem.

Profits across the recycling industry have been in free fall, due to technical challenges, changes in both manufacturing and consumer behavior, and waning demand for recycled materials. Since 2011, Waste Management’s earnings from recycling have declined by $200 million. During some quarters, it has lost money on the business. By the end of the year, it will have shuttered 10% of its recycling facilities, with another 10% under consideration for closure. Other recycling companies have closed shop completely.


“This is a crisis for the future of recycling,” David Steiner, the CEO of Waste Management, says. “Momentum has been up, up, up for the last 20 years, and now, it’s stalling. It’s down, down, down.”



The U.S. recycling rate began to stall at around 34% of all waste in 2010. And while most recycling experts agree that the business needs to evolve, few have addressed the problem with as much urgency as Waste Management.


A ‘perfect storm’



America’s trash is a commodity, just like oil or wheat. Once a company like Waste Management processes and sorts the items that get thrown in the blue bins, the bales are sold to manufacturers, often in China. But for the past few years, the value of these bales has fallen dramatically— between 2013 and 2014, the price of recycled corrugated cardboard dropped by almost 24%.



The markets are cyclical, and recycling has seen many ups and downs before, says Bill Moore, who is now the president of recycling consulting firm Moore & Associates. But the current doldrums have been especially long and taxing, in part due to low oil prices. Since plastic is made from petroleum, rock-bottom oil prices mean that it’s cheaper for producers to simply make new plastic than use recycled material. The problem is compounded by the softening economy in China. As its exports dwindle, so does its once-ravenous appetite for the recycled material used to produce them. Steiner says he still doesn’t see a bottom to the price decline.



But the industry’s problems go deeper than that. American habits are working against recyclers: Between 2000 and 2013, the amount of paper and paperboard Americans have sent to facilities has dropped 22%. Meanwhile, the volume of plastics—which are less lucrative because their diversity and lightness make them harder to sort—has increased by 27%. And plastic is becoming even more lightweight as companies introduce packaging that uses less material, resulting in containers that take up the same amount of space but offer less resale value to recyclers. These changing material ratios—what the industry calls an “evolving ton”—have led to higher processing costs for recyclers, as they have to push much larger volumes of waste through their facilities to yield each one-ton bale of raw material.


PLEASE DO NOT BELIEVE FAKE DATA PRODUCED BY THE SAME CORPORATIONS CREATING FAKE NEWS ON THESE PUBLIC POLICIES.

The evolving ton also includes more items than ever that simply aren’t recyclable, like dirty diapers, animal carcasses, syringes, and plastic bags. Waste Management says that contamination of its recycling stream has doubled in the past decade. Now, an average of one in six items dumped in blue bins is not recyclable, gumming up processing facilities and jacking up costs. Some recycling facilities have to shut down once an hour so that workers can cut layers of plastic bags off the machinery. That’s because of what Sharon Kneiss, the CEO of the National Waste and Recycling Association, calls “aspirational recycling”—a habit of throwing non-recyclable materials into bins because they might or should be recyclable. But Kneiss’ term may be a little too generous: the rise of contamination in the recycling stream can also be attributed to pure laziness. In one National Waste and Recycling Association survey, nearly one in ten Americans admitted to throwing their waste in recycling bins when trash cans were full.



The recycling system’s quality problem is often linked to single-stream recycling—a sorting method that Waste Management pioneered in 2001. With single-stream recycling, customers simply chuck all of their recyclables into one bin, as opposed to sorting the glass, paper, and metal separately. Since the bins are so large and the process so thoughtless, the method has increased the recycling rate by an average of 30%. “Single-stream is not the system that leads to the highest quality of recyclables,” Container Recycling Institute President Susan Collins says. “There are consequences if you mix them together: you can’t unscramble an egg.”



Even recyclable materials can be ruined by the process and become useless “residuals,” such as plastics contaminated by broken glass. According to one study, no-sort recycling yielded four times more residuals than dual-sort. But because of its convenience and up-front cost-savings, it has become America’s sorting method of choice. Steiner conceded that it was “probably fair” to say Waste Management created some of its own problems by leading the single-stream recycling trend. The company then backtracked: “I wouldn’t say that we shot ourselves in the foot, because it created more recycling,” he said. “But we need to think about how to create more recycling at a higher profitability.”


Waste Management and recycling experts agree that all of these factors—the commodity price downturn, the evolving ton, and rising contamination—has led to what Kneiss refers to as a “perfect storm.” But when you ask what to do about it, that consensus quickly devolves into finger-pointing—at recycling companies like Waste Management for failing to innovate, at the American public for their lazy recycling habits, at producers for creating plastic packaging that is increasingly difficult to recycle, and even at the federal government for not passing strong legislation that encourages better practices.



Sounding the alarms


Recycling is not free—that’s something everyone can agree on—and Waste Management has been pursuing solutions city-by-city to make recycling sustainable and protect itself from losses. In some cities, like San Antonio, Texas, Waste Management simply closed its plants; in other cities, the company is auditing waste streams and strictly enforcing years-old contract agreements with cities that commit to not going above a certain percentage of contamination. The company has also renegotiated contracts to allow Waste Management to use recycling revenues to cover the cost of processing before splitting the remaining earnings with cities. Meanwhile, Steiner is focusing on educating people to recycle properly—a crusade that will not only revive stalling recycling rates in the country, but shore up the company’s profits.



Not all recyclers are thanking Steiner for saying that the business is in “crisis,” in part because the executive’s warnings have sometimes turned apocalyptic. Steiner has threatened in the pages of The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere that, if no solutions are found, the end of recycling could be nigh.



“Yes, there are some issues with the recycling system, but they are not issues that cannot be managed and improved,” the Associated Recyclers of Wisconsin wrote in a press release.  FAKE GREEN NGO “Let’s not fall into the trap of using words like ‘crisis’ to describe the current state of cyclical market conditions.”



Minneapolis-based recycling non-profit Eureka Recycling FAKE GREEN NGO issued a blistering note criticizing Waste Management for trying to “play victim to single stream recycling” after spearheading the method’s adoption. Many of the environmentalists who responded angrily to Steiner beseech readers to, as the Minneapolis non-profit wrote, “think about ‘profits’ a little more broadly” to include the job creation and environmental benefits that recycling brings.



But Steiner says he doesn’t foresee a day in which Waste Management is out of the recycling business altogether. Rather, he says he has been vocal on the recycling downturn because he wants to see systemwide changes in the industry that can revive stalling recycling rates and protect recyclers from the whims of the commodity markets. “We need to figure out as a country, do we want a global solution to this, or do we do one-off solutions?”



Steiner rattled off ideas like national legislation requiring a certain amount of recycled content to be used in packaging of new products, or removing glass from the recycling stream because it often breaks during collection and mucks up the rest of the load. There’s also “extended producer responsibility,” already popular in Europe, which shifts some of the costs of recycling into the prices of products themselves. None of these fixes can come from Big Waste alone: they require a surge in public concern to lift the unsexy issue of garbage onto politicians’ agendas.



“It takes a crisis to get action sometimes in politics,” Steiner says. And while he can’t provide news teams with a feast of wandering trash barges to broadcast across the nation’s screens, the CEO has made himself the industry’s leading voice by ringing the alarm bells. Moore says that he gives the man credit for “taking a macro educational role”—one that might convince everyone involved that the business of recycling is due for a paradigm shift.
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TRASH PUBLIC POLICY is the least GLAMOROUS of government agencies and people may think ----there are far more important issues to tackle. As we shout that MOVING FORWARD has a goal of taking what is a WESTERN NATION QUALITY OF LIFE WAGE/SALARY and take it third world slave labor---the way to get there is to make everything so expensive as regards PUBLIC SERVICES that all WAGES become FEES, TAXES, SAFETY.

These policies will determine if one can live in certain COMMUNITIES----can you afford TRASH FEES----can you afford BULK TRASH hauling fees-----can you afford to buy all those products they will require as part of a FAKE RECYCLING structure?

A car today can be DONATED when old----charities will not be taking cars very soon-----so, can you pay to dump a ONE TON VEHICLE as bulk trash when they charge by the pound?

TODAY'S CHARITIES AND THIS IDEA OF RECYCLING WHETHER CLOTHES/FURNITURE/EQUIPMENT WILL DISAPPEAR MOVING FORWARD.

The GLOBAL WASTE MANAGEMENT CORPORATION wants every person to PAY THEM THOSE BULK FEES and then they will turn around and donate or sell those recycled items.



'5 Charities for Donating Your Old Electronics - Mashable
mashable.com/2010/04/29/donating-electronics

If you're no longer using a device, donate it as soon as you can. The value of consumer electronics declines at a fast pace. A computer that's three years old, for instance, can be refurbished and used by students; a computer that's six years old will most likely be recycled for parts. Clear the hard drive'.

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"With Causes" is a leading non-profit, non-denominational faith-based charitable organization. We have a team of volunteers ready to help you donate boat to charity and offer 100% free towing. We will also supply you with all of the necessary legal paperwork so you can claim your tax deductible charitable boat donation and receive your free ...'

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'Guide To Donating Your Car : Charity Navigator
www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content...

The biggest winner in the car donation process is usually the donor and not the charity recipient. But if you take your time, ignore the quick and easy television appeals, and find a reputable, high-performing charity that will make the most of your donation, then you can maximize the amount that actually gets to charity and minimizes your risk of an IRS audit'.

STEINER of WASTE MANAGEMENT wants more ways for global corporations to make profit from recycling and this will be how they do it.

So, is TRUMP changing these charitable tax write-offs or is STEINER of WASTE MANAGEMENT wanting more profits forcing these TRASH TAX POLICIES? You know-----STEINER.


TRUMP is simply doing what STEINER as a global corporation tells him.


Charitable giving to take a hit from the tax law


December 28, 2017 / 8:34 AM / AP



WASHINGTON - In this season of giving, charity seems to be getting an extra jolt because next year the popular tax deduction for donations will lose a lot of its punch.


Traditionally generous Americans may have less incentive to give to charitable causes next year because of the newly minted tax law. The changes that will make it less advantageous for many people to donate to charity in 2018 may be sparking a year-end stream of fattened contributions in anticipation, charity executives and experts say.


Starting next year, the millions of relatively small donations that moderate-income people give to mainstream charities could be sharply reduced, they say. That means charity could become less of a middle-class enterprise and a more exclusive domain of the wealthy, who tend to give to arts and cultural institutions, research facilities and universities. The wealthier taxpayers' use of the charitable deduction is less likely to be affected by the new law.

The sweeping Republican tax overhaul, delivered by the GOP-dominated Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump, doesn't eliminate or even reduce the deduction for donations to charitable, religious and other nonprofit organizations. Charitable giving should be encouraged with a tax incentive, congressional Republicans crafting the plan said early on, and the cherished deduction -- though costing some $41.5 billion a year in lost federal revenue -- wasn't struck even as other longstanding deductions fell or were scaled back.



But it might as well have been, charity experts and advocates say.

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How does STEINER and GLOBAL WASTE MANAGEMENT----or VEOLA/SUEZ WASTE MANAGEMENT maximize profits from RECYCLING process?  It makes it impossible for our 99% WE THE PEOPLE to donate ----instead forcing people to pay by POUND for waste removal especially those BULK items------those waste corporations getting what was our PUBLIC WORKS TRASH COLLECTION agencies----

and then they will sell that old couch----that old bike----those old clothes.

HOW MUCH DOES A OLD TWO TON BOAT COST TO SEND TO BULK TRASH----MORE DISPOSABLE INCOME THEN ANY 99% OF WE THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE MOVING FORWARD.


Mr STEINER of WASTE MANAGEMENT is very happy with TRUMP for pushing his policies.  Believe it or not---TAX policy is tied to TRASH.

New tax law will change charitable contribution write-offs

Posted 5:18 pm, December 26, 2017, by

Nick Thompson


This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.

ST. LOUIS - After President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, you may want to think about giving to your favorite charity before the end of this year.



The new law means it may be harder for you to get a tax write-off for charitable contributions.


In St. Louis, MERS Goodwill received more than 1.5 million donations this year, a 6 percent increase over last year.


"Whether it's an individual with autism, a person with domestic violence, a person who just needs a second chance or someone with other barriers to employment, those are all reasons I believe we're supported so well by the St. Louis community," said MERS Goodwill President and CEO David Kutchback.


Those donations helped provide opportunities for 50,000 people this year.


"That's what really keeps our stores open and gives us a chance to give a hand up instead of handout," Kutchback said.


Goodwill can give donors a form to show to Uncle Sam if they itemize your deductions.

However, the new tax law nearly doubles the standard deduction from $6,350 to $12,000 for singles next year. It increases from $12,700 to $24,000 for married couples. Charity experts say 82 percent of charitable giving comes from those who itemize.



According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, charities are expecting a $20 billion drop in donations next year as a result of the law.


"We're just in hopes that people really do give to just be able to do the right thing," Kutchback said. "The tax deduction is a bit of an incentive, but I believe they'll continue to support our mission."


As you welcome new gifts and consider throwing out the old this holiday season, Kutchback is hopeful the community will consider that mission.


"If you haven't used or recycled something in a year, it's really time to recycle that and give someone else a chance," Kutchback said.



Taxpayers have until December 31 to make donations to count toward deductions for the 2017 tax year.
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We want to remind folks------this recycle structure was built by our local public works waste management. It worked fine----people were invested in this process because it actually helped members of communities.

THIS WAS A GREEN ENVIRONMENTAL structure for TRASH and it was all FREE----no PLASTIC PRODUCTS at each stage of disposal NEEDED.

PLANET AID-----is a GLOBAL CORPORATION taking CLOTHES from communities and sending them overseas and getting MONEY---PROFITING from it. It is competing with our local GOODWILL/CHURCH groups that want old clothes for our US 99% needing them.

TECHNOLOGY RECYCLE corporations take what used to be refurbished and given to someone in our community a computer ---now that old computer is shipped overseas where it is used for parts.

GLOBAL WASTE MANAGEMENT in HOUSTON did to our REAL LEFT social progressive GREEN ENVIRONMENTAL policies what WHOLEFOODS from HOUSTON did to our REAL GREEN ORGANIC FOODS ----they are killing them and replacing with what are absolutely HORRIBLE PUBLIC POLICY in TRASH and FOOD.

Crowd turns out to hear about future of trash pickup and recycling in The Villages


By
Meta Minton
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June 20, 2019


A big crowd turned out Thursday morning to hear about the future of trash pickup and recycling in The Villages.


Those attending the North Sumter County Utility Dependent District meeting at Laurel Manor Recreation Center were given a comprehensive presentation by John Wood, global practice director at Jacobs, the waste hauler in The Villages.


NSCUDD is the water, wastewater and reclaimed water service provider to properties in The Villages that are south of County Road 466 and north of County Road 466A. Additionally, NSCUDD is the provider of the solid waste sanitation services for Marion and Sumter County, and the Fruitland Park portion of The Villages.



The presentation focused primarily on Community Development Districts 1 through 11.



There are 100 tons of garbage per collection day (twice a week) collected in The Villages. There is another 125 tons per collection day of yard waste in The Villages. There are 55 tons of recyclables per collection day.


The rate of recycling in Florida is 54 percent, which is higher than the national average of 34.7 percent. The rate of recycling in The Villages is 37.1 percent, which is higher than the national average.



“Yours is a very healthy recycling rate,” Wood told the audience.
However, the items being put out for recycling are likely to change, Wood said. That is because China began to severely limit the amount of recyclables it accepts from the United States.



“There is nowhere for it to go,” Wood said.
Some communities have elected to put recyclables into landfills and incinerators.
“Simply because there is no market for them,” he said.
Wood, a resident of Lancaster County, Pa., noted his community has stopped accepting newspaper in its recycling bins.



“This is common. This is happening across the U.S.,” he said.
Wood said recyclables collected in The Villages are sent to a Materials Recovery Facility (commonly referred to as a MRF) where items are sorted and processed. He described the process as “very expensive and labor intensive.”



He said technology can speed up the process at MRFs, with robots sorting at a much faster pace than humans. But with aging MRF facilities, it’s tough to get ahead of the game.


“Recycling is more expensive than disposal,” he said.


Trash from The Villages is taken to a landfill in Georgia. NSCUDD pays a tipping fee of $28.35 per ton at that facility in the Peach State, but that agreement will expire “soon.”



That caught the attention of Village of Largo resident Bernhard Guenther, who was involved in early recycling efforts in New Jersey.


“We are taking solid waste up to Georgia. There will come a time when they say, “No más,” he said.


The amount most Villagers pay for trash pickup is $17.90 per household monthly, for an annual cost of $214.80. He called it “pretty competitive.”



In contrast, residents of Austin, Texas pay $400 per year and in San Francisco they are paying up to $1,000 per year per household for trash pickup. Those cities have stringent collection policies.


Wood said The Villages will need to identify a path forward and then begin to set a budget.



District Manager Richard Baier called the presentation a “first step” in developing a long-range plan working with NSCUDD and Sumter County.


“The Villages needs to do something. What we are doing now is not sustainable,” he said.


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We made light of the dilemma of our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE made to spend worrying moments figuring out the simple things like-----

IS THIS PLASTIC FORK RECYCLABLE? IS THIS PAPER PLATE TO DIRTY TO RECYCLE? DOES USED NAPKINS GO TO COMPOST?


We are thinking about all these small things wanting to do the right thing---when global banking 1% have absolutely no ties to DOING THE RIGHT THING-----

We were thinking when using a PLASTIC BAG VS PAPER BAG VS REUSABLE BAG------what actually works in waste reduction. If I use a reusable bag for groceries I don't have a home trash bag to use----I usually ask for PAPER BAGS because that is what I use for home waste. I sometimes use grocery plastic bags for home trash.

If I use reusable grocery bag ---I end up having to BUY HEFTY TRASH BAGS for my home waste. This does not work as GREEN.

I asked myself----if we cannot recycle these plastic grocery bags then why are we taking them back to a store to recycle.

The answer is the WORST OF GREEN policies-----those grocery bags taken back to recycle are being used for that GREEN BUILDING FAKE policy putting plastics into WOOD for our homes. It creates the most toxic trash ------microplastics inside the woods inside our homes.



'Recycle Carefully: Plastic Grocery Bags

Plastic grocery bags should never be put in your curbside recycling bin. They get tangled up in the equipment at recycling facilities and can actually shut down the entire plant. But don’t throw them in the regular garbage just yet! Recycle your grocery bags by taking them to a store drop-off location. Grocery stores and other retailers collect bags in large bins usually located at the front of the store. From there, the bags are sent to be recycled into plastic lumber for decking or park benches'.


'Don’t Recycle: Plastic Utensils

Disposable utensils are made of plastic and plastic is recyclable—so throw them in the recycling bin, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, plastic utensils are not recyclable. Plastic utensils are often made with #6 plastic which is not a cost-effective plastic to recycle, so many recycling centers do not accept them. The other problem is the shape of the utensils; sharp plastic forks and knives can jam recycling machinery'.

6 Surprising Things You Can Recycle…and 5 You Can’t


Erica Young



The list of items that can go in your recycling bin has grown! Read on to find out exactly what can (and what can't) be recycled.

Recycle: Aluminum


FoilIt’s easy to forget that aluminum foil is recyclable. But aluminum can be recycled almost infinitely; the metal is simply re-melted and transformed into new aluminum materials. Go ahead—use aluminum foil for all kinds of things around the house!


Before disposing in the recycling bin, be sure to clean any food particles off your aluminum foil or disposable aluminum cookware.


Recycle: Aluminum Cans


Don’t throw your soda cans in the garbage because they are 100% recyclable. In fact, once a can is put in the recycling container, the turnaround time is only 60 days until it’s on the shelf again as a different aluminum can. (Psst! In addition to recycling, check out these other tips for living a waste-free life.)



Recycle: Cereal Boxes



Because cereal boxes are made of paperboard, they are recyclable. Before tossing a box in the recycle bin, remove the inner cereal bag and dump out any stray cereal that got caught in the bottom of the box. Recycled paperboard should be clean and free of any food waste.


Recycle: Cell Phones


It’s true! Cell phones are made of copper, plastic and other valuable metals—which can be extracted and recycled. Just remember that cell phones cannot be recycled through your curbside pick-up. Return the phone to your service provider, donate it to a charity or find a service that offers electronic recycling in your area.

Recycle Carefully: Plastic Grocery Bags


Plastic grocery bags should never be put in your curbside recycling bin. They get tangled up in the equipment at recycling facilities and can actually shut down the entire plant. But don’t throw them in the regular garbage just yet! Recycle your grocery bags by taking them to a store drop-off location. Grocery stores and other retailers collect bags in large bins usually located at the front of the store. From there, the bags are sent to be recycled into plastic lumber for decking or park benches.

Recycle Carefully: Books


If you’re looking to get rid of a pile of books, your best bet might be a charity or secondhand bookstore. While most recycle centers accept paperback books, hardback books are a little more complicated. Hard covers are often made with cloth, leather or plastic and bound together with glue or string—making them non-recyclable.

Don’t Recycle: Pizza Boxes


Pizza boxes are made from corrugated cardboard, which is recyclable—but the problem is the grease. Once the box gets soaked with pizza grease and cheese, it cannot be recycled because it contaminates the recycling process when the cardboard is turned into pulp. So the next time you order a large thin crust with extra pepperoni, you’ll have to chuck the box in your regular trash.

Don’t Recycle: Wrapping Paper


The next time you reach for a new roll of wrapping paper, think about this—approximately 4.6 million pounds of wrapping paper is produced in the U.S. each year, and about 2.3 million pounds ends up in landfills. That shiny, glittery wrapping paper is laminated with plastic, foil or other non-paper materials; making it non-recyclable. The exceptions are 100% paper wrapping paper and pre-recycled wrapping paper.


Don’t Recycle: Styrofoam



That cushy white material often used to make take-out containers is actually expanded polystyrene (EPS), but is commonly referred to as styrofoam. EPS is not recyclable or biodegradable and can sit in landfills for centuries. Some cities are even considering banning the material all together.

Don’t Recycle: Plastic Utensils


Disposable utensils are made of plastic and plastic is recyclable—so throw them in the recycling bin, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, plastic utensils are not recyclable. Plastic utensils are often made with #6 plastic which is not a cost-effective plastic to recycle, so many recycling centers do not accept them. The other problem is the shape of the utensils; sharp plastic forks and knives can jam recycling machinery.


Did you know you need to keep the cap on when recycling plastic bottles? Here’s why.

Don’t Recycle: Pet Food Bags


If you buy bags of food for Mr. Whiskers or Rover, you can’t recycle the packaging. The pet food bags are made of paper, but are usually reinforced with a plastic lining. Keep this in mind: If you can’t tear the bag with your hands, it’s probably not recyclable. Next, check out the items you didn’t know you could compost.

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So, if global banking 1% are collecting plastic grocery bags and putting them right back in our communities as MICROPLASTICS which are toxic and will kill public health---why are they passing THESE LAWS -----no plastic bags?  It is in our park benches---it is in our wood sidings inside our homes---------it is in our children's playground.  Hmmmmm.

Providing BAGS whether paper or plastic COSTS MONEY for corporations ---it is a LOSS not a GAIN.  Global banking 1% do not want corporations to have to provide BAGS period.  

THIS IS A COST OF BUSINESS POLICY----NOT A GREEN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY.

Sep 20, 2018, 01:20pm


Here's A List Of Every City In The US To Ban Plastic Bags, Will Your City Be Next?


Trevor Nace Senior Contributor
Science

There is a popular and growing movement to ban or heavily tax single-use plastic bags across the United States and globally. Here, we've collected the 349 known cities, counties, and states to have, in some way, banned or taxed plastic bag use.


Reuse This Bag estimates that a plastic bag has a 12-minute lifespan from when it's initially filled with groceries at the grocery store to when it is discarded. Compare this with estimates that those same plastic bags take anywhere from 10 to 1,000 years to decompose depending on what environmental conditions the bag is disposed of in. Quickly, the picture becomes clear that for a few minutes of use, plastic bags weigh heavily on long-term environmental impact.



These bags eventually make their way to landfills and into our oceans, adding to the 8 million metric tons of plastic entering the ocean every year. This impact every scale of marine ecosystems, from bottom feeders and microorganisms to whales.




Currently, only Hawaii and California have statewide plastic bag bans, with several other cities having either mandatory recycling programs, taxes on plastic bag use, etc.

When you zoom out on a global scale, we find dozens of countries that have banned single-use plastic bags. While many countries around the world have taken the steps to ban plastic bags country-wide, the United States has taken a piecemeal approach.


When looking through the list of cities that have partially or wholly banned plastic bags, it's important to note this is an active area of legislation. Local governments across the United States have plans to vote on a ban in the coming years. If you'd like to use a great interactive map of each state, visit Bag The Ban.

What you'll notice is that there are quite a few states that are missing from the list above. Since plastic bag bans have been pushed by local governments, they may not be a top priority for certain regions. However, one thing is clear, the list will continue to grow.


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We hear from our PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE which is trying to install CHINESE SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE system here in Baltimore-------

SHE'S USING PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS FOR HOME TRASH----PUTTING IT IN TRASH CAN.

HE'S USING HEFTY BAGS ---THAT MAKES IT EASIER FOR TRASH COLLECTION.

The point here is this----I use a plastic grocery bag because I don't create much trash. I don't need a larger HEFTY BRAND plastic bag. I am thinking-----these smaller grocery bags are LESS PLASTIC----THE PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE is thinking------WHAT SAVES WORKER TIME IN TRASH COLLECTION---ergo, what maximizes corporate profit.


This is how micro-managed the process of simply tossing out our trash has become. Both HEFTY and small grocery bags are not recyclable plastics.


What difference does it make if the system is going to make it TOXIC either way?

Below we see this article was written by a FAKE GREEN ENVIRONMENTAL media outlet-----it is not GREEN----it is GLOBAL WASTE CORPORATION media----FAKE NEWS.



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What Kind of Plastic Bags Can I Recycle?

By Recyclebank | April 15, 2015


You can recycle plastic grocery bags by taking them back to the store, but those aren’t the only plastic bags you can recycle.


Dear Recyclebank,I’ve checked back from time to time on your site about what to do with plastic bags — bread bags, frozen veggie bags, Ziploc bags, etc. Grocery stores will take clean plastic grocery bags back for reprocessing, but so far I don’t know about the other bags. It’s hard to avoid accumulating these bags since so much comes pre-packaged in them. Any ideas?
-Sue L., Orchard Park, NY


Dear Sue,


Plastic bag recycling (also known as plastic film recycling) can get tricky if you don't know what kind of plastic the bag is made of. Those plastic bag recycling drop-off boxes at grocery stores accept polyethylene film, which includes high-density polyethylene (also known as HDPE or #2 plastic) and low-density polyethylene (also known as #4 plastic or LDPE). Most bags that are marked as #2 HDPE or #4 LDPE can be placed in the drop-off box, along with your regular plastic grocery bags. However, a lot of perfectly acceptable bags aren’t marked with what kind of plastic they are — bread bags and Ziploc bags, for example.


You can actually put bread bags and Ziploc bags with your plastic grocery bags when you take them back to the grocery store for recycling. Just make sure they are dry and clean, completely free of food residue. But it’s true, frozen veggie bags are not accepted. That’s because the plastic in these bags typically contain additives or layers of other materials to protect the food. The additives or layers are contaminants in the plastic film recycling process and can ruin a whole batch of recycled material, so make sure to keep them out of the drop-off box.


Unfortunately, there aren’t really any other options for recycling frozen food bags. It is indeed hard to avoid them, but avoiding them is currently the best way to reduce unrecyclable plastic waste. It negates the convenience of prepared frozen foods, but you could freeze fresh vegetables, fruits, and meals in food storage bags. Food storage bags, after they are washed and dried, can be recycled.


And remember, we are talking about recycling plastic bags by dropping them off at receptacles found in grocery stores and other retail locations. Plastic bags should never go in your home recycling bin. It’s extremely rare for curbside pick-up recycling programs to accept plastic bags in the recycling bin, so play it safe and take them to a drop-off location. Use Plasticfilmrecycling.org’s drop-off locator to find one near you.

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Global banking 5% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA have these few decades created a policy structure which has our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE looking SO LOCALLY---AT MINUTE POLICY----that we totally miss the GORILLA IN THE ROOM public policy. If we are STRESSING OURSELVES to figure out what kind of plastic bag to buy or use-------when global banking is MOVING FORWARD policies which fill our entire life cycle with the most TOXIC PLASTIC materials


How are we doing anything GREEN/ENVIRONMENTAL-----for our communities---our public health?

We still try to use paper grocery bags ----but grocery stores no longer sell kitchen trash size paper bags---they only sell giant leaf paper bags.


I use a garbage bag to put my recyclables in my recycling bin. Does the bag get recycled?



Not only does the bag not get recycled,  It is also possible that the recyclables in the bag do not get recycled. If recyclables are put in garbage bags in recycling bins or toters, the recyclables may be perceived as garbage and be landfilled rather than recycled. In addition, putting your recyclables in plastic bags, requires extra man power at a recycling center as the garbage bag requires the workers at the transfer station to open the bags and then separate the recyclables. This increases both the cost of our recycling system and also the possibility that the recyclables will be treated as garbage. Many kinds of plastic bags are recyclable, but not in the bins or toters that are in our local villages’ homes, business districts, or schools. Plastic bags may be recycled at local grocery stores all year round. Please make an effort to reduce your use of plastic bags as much as possible by using reusable grocery and shopping bags but and when you do recycle plastic bags, make sure to do so at your local market where they are properly recycled.


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Below we see the public policy goal of TRASH PICKUP AND REMOVAL------INCINERATION TO SYNGAS----AKA HYPER-METHANE production.

Global banking 1% who spend lots of time keeping our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE busy pretending to remove CO2----and placing CO2 as the main resource for CLIMATE CHANGE------is super-sizing the amounts of METHANE in the air-------and METHANE is 1000 times more dangerous for CLIMATE CHANGE than CO2.

This is a special kind of treatment of trash-----it's not the same MASS INCINERATION uses for several decades overseas creating hugh environmental toxicity and public health crises!

OH, REALLY?????????????



'This trash, however, is destined for a special kind of treatment—one that could redefine how we think about trash'.


'The resulting chemical reaction vaporizes 75 to 85 percent of the waste, transforming it into a blend of gases known as syngas (so called because they can be used to create synthetic natural gas). The syngas is piped out of the system and segregated'.



'Syngas - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngas



Syngas, or synthesis gas, is a fuel gas mixture consisting primarily of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and very often some carbon dioxide. The name comes from its use as intermediates in creating synthetic natural gas (SNG) and for producing ammonia or methanol. Syngas is usually a product of gasification and the main application is electricity generation'.



REMEMBER WHEN ELECTRICITY GENERATION WAS SIMPLY OUR FRESH WATER LAKES, RIVERS, AND WATERFALLS ALL OF WHICH WAS THE BEST IN KEEPING OUR ENVIRONMENT AS GREEN AS POSSIBLE IN PRODUCING ENERGY.


There is nothing more TOXIC then this TRASH-BURNING process----NOTHING.



'How Bad of a Greenhouse Gas Is Methane?

- Scientific Americanwww.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-of-a...



While CO2 persists in the atmosphere for centuries, or even millennia, methane warms the planet on steroids for a decade or two before decaying to CO2. In those short decades, methane warms the planet by 86 times as much as CO2, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change'.



Synthetic natural gas


Figure 1. A coal gasifier used in the production of synthesis gas that is then used to make synthetic natural gas.


Synthetic natural gas is a type of gas created from coal that serves as a substitute for natural gas and is suitable for transmission in natural gas pipelines. This natural gas substitute must have a minimum of 95% methane in it. An intermediate step in the process of creating synthetic natural gas is the production of synthesis gas, also known as syngas.



Natural gas is a major component of the world's energy supply, as it is used widely in residential, commercial, and industrial applications. However, the supply is limited and thus synthetic natural gas is desireable where there is an absence or shortage of natural gas in a region. This type of natural gas is desireable as it has combustion characteristics similar to natural gas, and because of this minimal changes need to be made to use synthetic natural gas.



Production


Synthetic natural gas is created through a thermo-chemical conversion. The first step in this conversion is the gasification of the solid carbon source, whether it be coal or biomass (which would create Bio-SNG), with steam or oxygen.[4] Here the coal is burned with a limited supply of oxygen or air and the main product is carbon dioxide:[5]



2C+O2→2COTo reduce the amount of nitrogen in this gas, modern gas plants use pure oxygen for combustion. If steam is added to this pure oxygen then a water gas reaction occurs instead of the traditional combustion:




C+H2O⇌CO+H2


These processes drive off some of the volatile material, and the product is known as a producer gas. Generally, this occurs in a gasifier which feeds coal into a high pressure, high temperature vessel and distributes steam or oxygen evenly while removing ash to gasify the coal.[5] This producer gas is a mixture containing H2, CO, CO2, H2O, and CH4 along with other hydrocarbons and some impurities. The exact composition of this gas depends on the type of reactor used, operating conditions, and other processes during the gasification process.[4] This gas also contains impurities such as oils, tars, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia which must be removed - although ammonia levels are lower if the water gas reaction takes place.



To purify this gas, it must undergo gas cleaning and gas conditioning. During gas cleaning, impurities such as ammonia and sulfur are removed from the producer gas whereas in gas conditioning is the process by which parts of the producer gas are converted so that the final composition of the gas is suitable for its use.[4] What is left after this cleaning and conditioning is useful synthesis gas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) plus some methane, and carbon dioxide.



To finish making the synthetic natural gas, the syngas must undergo water gas shift reactions and methanation. The water gas shift reaction combines carbon monoxide with steam to create carbon dioxide and hydrogen in the following reaction:



CO+H2O⇌CO2+H2


This reaction requires a metal catalyst to occur. Since the end "goal" of this gas is to obtain methane (the main component of natural gas) some of the carbon monoxide is retained, so the reaction does not go through to completion. At this point, the carbon dioxide is separated out using a type of scrubbing and only the final methanation step remains. During methanation, carbon monoxide reacts with the hydrogen that was created with the help of a nickel catalyst to create methane and steam in the following reaction:



CO+3H2→CH+4H2O


At this point, the synthetic natural gas is complete after half of the original carbon in the coal has turned into methane. The rest of the carbon is turned into carbon dioxide.



Bio-SNGBio-SNG is produced similarly to regular synthetic natural gas, but is instead made through the gasification of biomass. Biomass such as forestry residues or energy crops are used. To make Bio-SNG, biomass is initially dried and goes through initial gasification. After this, it undergoes gas conditioning, SNG synthesis, and finally gas upgrading.