Congressman John Conyers, Jr – A Civil Rights Legend – Legacy Preserved

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Prelude To Detroit: Here Comes Harry Belafonte!

On the third day, Harry Belafonte is presented.

Harry is a significant figure in U.S. history, but the educational institutions like to keep people like him, omitted from publication, which is why I do what I do.

I am watching to see how the social platforms address this propaganda video.

A 2011 video of Harry Belafonte apparently falling asleep was doctored to falsely depict Joe BidenA video shared on Sunday by White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino depicting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sleeping during a local news interview is manipulated, according to Sacramento-area news anchor John Dabkovitch. The news segment, filmed in 2011, in fact featured singer Harry Belafonte, according to Dabkovitch, who co-anchored the program at the time.

This is fake. You know how I know? I was the coanchor in studio.

We were interviewing Harry Belafonte. https://t.co/gPRU9JGyI7

— John Dabkovich (@JohnDabkovich) August 31, 2020

https://t.co/EvYys2Fv0

— John Dabkovich (@JohnDabkovich) August 31, 2020

Harry & Pamela Belafonte

Meet Harry.

Jamaican-American musician, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte joined the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. He became one of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s closest confidants. Over the years he organized demonstrations, raised money and contributed his personal funds to keep movement activities going. Belafonte has advocated for a range of other humanitarian causes. In 1985, he helped to orchestrate the recording of the Grammy Award winning song "We Are The World," a multi-artist effort to raise funds for Africa. In 1987, he received an appointment to UNICEF as a goodwill ambassador. Belafonte has been involved in prostate cancer advocacy since 2006, when he was diagnosed and successfully treated for the disease Belafonte achieved fame when his 1956 breakthrough album Calypso became the first full-length album to sell over 1 million copies. He is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song," with its signature lyric "Day-O." He became the first Afrian American to win an Emmy for his 1959 TV special Tonight with Belafonte. He has starred in such groundbreaking films as "Carmen Jones" (1954), "Island in the Sun" (1957), "Buck and the Preacher"(1972), and "White Man's Burden" (1995). In 1987 he produced a Broadway play about apartheid entitled Asinamali!" Belafonte owns his own music publishing firm and a film production company.

Though born in Harlem, Harry's mother sent him to live in Jamaica, the island of her birth, when he was still a child. He returned to Harlem as a teenager at the outbreak of World War II. He found it difficult to adjust to life in states, dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Navy. After his honorable discharge, he worked as a laborer until he found his calling in the entertainment world. He started his career as an actor and studied his craft in the Dramatic Workshop of the School of Social Research. There his classmates included Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, Rod Steiger and Tony Curtis.

In 2000, Belafonte won a Grammy Award for his lifetime achievement in music. In 2002 Africare awarded Belafonte the Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award for his efforts to assist Africa. Additionally, the American Association of Retired People (AARP) named Belafonte one of nine recipients of 2006 Impact Award.

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Alma Stallworth Is Extracted From Humanity - Will Ricky Holland Attend Her Funeral Services?

Ricky Holland

I wonder if Hillary Clinton is going to show up for the services.

Probably not.

Maybe Bert Johnson will show up.

I believe he may have a previous engagement.

Perhaps, Ricky Holland will attend the funeral.

I am sure he will be there in spirit.

#maytheheavensfall

Alma Stallworth, longtime Detroit lawmaker and trailblazer, dies at 87

Alma Stallworth

LANSING — Alma G. Stallworth, a longtime state House representative from Detroit who founded the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus Foundation, died Tuesday at age 87.

A trailblazer who was the longtime chair of the House Public Utilities Committee in the days before Michigan term limits, Stallworth played a key role in creating legislation that regulates and deregulates electric and telephone companies and other utilities in Michigan.

Alma Stallworth
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Stallworth was first elected to the state House in 1970, serving first through 1974, then without interruption from 1983 through 1996. She served a final term from 2003 through 2004. She also served on the board of Detroit Public Schools after a 2005 appointment.

Stallworth's two sons, Thomas and Keith, also served in the Michigan Legislature.

Thomas F. Stallworth III said on Facebook Tuesday that her death came less than a year after the death of his father.

"Mom has joined Dad, her partner of 65 years, in the arms of the Lord after living long full lives," he said. "We have truly been blessed to have them and I will rejoice in continuing to hear their voices in all that I do."

Alma Stallworth was known for her work improving foster care in Michigan and fighting child abuse. She served as president of the metro Detroit affiliate of the National Black Child Development Institute and as a board member of the Federation of Girls Homes and the Children's Aid Society of Michigan, according to her legislative biography.

The Black Caucus Foundation works on policy issues and diversity training, among other areas, and has fellowship and internship programs for students.

In 1988, Stallworth was part of an official delegation that observed the German elections uniting east and west Berlin.

"Alma helped pave the way for Black legislators and her legacy lives on through them, including her own sons," said House Minority Leader Christine Greig, D-Farmington Hills.

"We owe her a debt of gratitude for her years of public service. I offer my deepest condolences to Alma’s many loved ones and admirers.”

Details on funeral arrangements are pending.

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Tales Of The New Crown: DOJ Asks Illegitimate Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer For Public Nursing Homes Cooties Data

Michigan *Public Private Partnership* Nursing Facilities
(Not to be confused with the cooties PPP)

Well, this is quite the kerfuffle!

It seems, Matt Schnieder, Detroit, MIED U.S. Attorney, has referred the matter to the Civil Rights Division of DOJ, which seems to cloying Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer with those silenced cries for due process, a right of civility, for those individual residents of the State, who have unfortunately lost their lives to the cooties, by invoking CRIPA.

But, herein lies the issue - what about the private nursing homes?

Yes, that is correct, Michigan has privatized just about anything in the industry of human asset management.

By specifically using the term "public", this immediately stands up to me as a federally certified facilities, meaning, CMS authorizes cost reimbursement for Medicaid and Medicare.

Just for fun, because you know I love to disprove my first impressions when it comes to stealin', I conducted a random experiment, by controlling for randomness by closing my eyes and picking one *Public Private Partnership* nursing facility, and looked up Shorepointe Nursing Center.

ID Number: 801417624        
Summary for:  WBH NCC #1, LLC              
The name of the DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:   WBH NCC #1, LLC
     
Entity type:   DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Identification Number: 801417624 Old ID Number: D1960E
   
Date of Organization in Michigan:   06/07/2007

Purpose: All Purpose Clause

Term: Perpetual
               
The name and address of the Resident Agent:
Resident Agent Name: RAJ PATEL
Street Address: 26001 JEFFERSON
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: SAINT CLAIR SHORES State: MI Zip Code: 48081
Registered Office Mailing address:
P.O. Box or Street Address: 25500 MEADOWBROOK RD STE 230
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: NOVI State: MI Zip Code: 48375

Act Formed Under:   023-1993 Michigan Limited Liability Company Act

The last time I checked, an LLC is a private, not public, I decided to see what Raj had to say about this.

Optalis nursing home chain further expanding reach ‘ahead of the curve’

A growing skilled nursing and senior living company is looking to expand its reach throughout the United States.

Optalis Healthcare, based in Novi, MI, gearing up to either build or acquire more facilities in Michigan, Ohio and Florida, Crain’s Detroit Business reported. CEO Raj Patel, however, declined to specify the number of facilities or give any details about future acquisitions, stating plans “are still under review.”

“We are very optimistic that we are in front of the bell curve with a large amount of seniors eight to 10 years away from when they really need services,” Patel told the news organization. “Age 65 is the new 55. Many seniors don’t need a lot of services until they get into their high 70s, early 80s. We are innovative and ready for the big wave.”

The 15-facility company purchased five Detroit-area, Beaumont-affiliated properties (four SNFs and one senior living facility) from Premier Health Care Management in September. Patel called the deal a “perfect fit to the Optalis growth plan in the southeast Michigan market.”

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2020/04/02/letter-frontline-responders-nursing-facilities-need-help-state/5115831002/

TRANSLATION: RAJ BOUGHT UP A BUNCH OF OLD ASCENSION PROPERTIES THEN STARTED STEALIN' BECAUSE THEY RUN THE EXACT SAME MEDICAID FRAUD SCHEMES IN CHILD WELFARE

The only question is, which Raj Patel?

https://www.macombdaily.com/news/local/medstar-buys-52-new-ambulances-takes-over-medical-transport-helicopter/article_5253ea08-dbc8-11e9-a80b-236d125ba94b.html

Here are the assumed names:

Assumed Name                                                            Creation Date Renewal Date Expiration Date
EAGLE POINTE APARTMENTS                                 3/18/2013  2/31/2018 ???
SHOREPOINTE NURSING CENTER PROPERTY 9/18/2007 10/2/2017 12/31/2022

And, here is the LLC.

ID Number: 801417628        
Summary for:  WBH NCC #2, LLC              
The name of the DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:   WBH NCC #2, LLC
       
Entity type:   DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Identification Number: 801417628 Old ID Number: D1960J
   
Date of Organization in Michigan:   06/07/2007

Purpose: All Purpose Clause

Term: Perpetual
               
The name and address of the Resident Agent:
Resident Agent Name: TIMOTHY C SPIRO
Street Address: 100 W. LONG LAKE ROAD
Apt/Suite/Other: SUITE 250
City: BLOOMFIELD HILLS State: MI Zip Code: 48304
Registered Office Mailing address:
P.O. Box or Street Address: 100 W. LONG LAKE ROAD
Apt/Suite/Other: SUITE 250
City: BLOOMFIELD HILLS State: MI Zip Code: 48304
  
Act Formed Under:   023-1993 Michigan Limited Liability Company Act

They even have a lien which means there is intellectual property and a foreign parent. 


File Number Lien Type Debtor Name                 Filing Date Lapse Date Status
2008000844-6 UCC Lien WBH NCC #2, LLC 01/02/2008 01/02/2023 Active

Were these Mooney Real Estate Holdings, LLC transactions?

Death toll rises as coronavirus sweeps through Michigan nursing homes

I am not going to broach the subject of how or why Ascension St. John was flipping properties, because I already did, but we shall soon revisit these days of yore.

See, there is no FOIA for private state contractors, so, Michigan self reports, which means they are not held to GAGAS or any external audit.

Try filing a FOIA for school records for a former foster child and see what happens.

So, if there is no FOIA in child welfare, what the hell makes you think there is FOIA in nursing home data?

The only logical action by DOJ would be to use the CRIPA prong test.

CRIPA, in part, says:

(II) residing in such facility or institution for purposes of receiving care or treatment; or 

(III) residing for any State purpose in such facility or institution (other than a residential facility providing only elementary or secondary education that is not an institution in which reside juveniles who are adjudicated delinquent, in need of supervision, neglected, placed in State custody, mentally ill or disabled, mentally retarded, or chronically ill or handicapped);  or (v) providing skilled nursing, intermediate or long-term care, or custodial or residential care.

(2) Privately owned and operated facilities shall not be deemed  "institutions" under this subchapter if-- (A) the licensing of such facility by the State constitutes the sole nexus between such facility and such State;
(B) the receipt by such facility, on behalf of persons residing in such facility, of payments under title XVI, XVIII [42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1381 et seq., 1395 et seq.], or under a State plan approved under title XIX [42 U.S.C.A. § 1396 et seq.], of the Social Security Act, constitutes the sole nexus between such facility and such State;  or
(C) the licensing of such facility by the State, and the receipt by such facility, on behalf of persons residing in such facility, of payments under title XVI, XVIII [42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1381 et seq., 1395 et seq.], or under a State plan approved under title XIX [42 U.S.C.A. § 1396 et seq.], of the Social Security Act, constitutes the sole nexus between such facility and such State; (3) The term "person" means an individual, a trust or estate, a partnership, an association, or a corporation;

So, what if the CRIPA prong test?

The CRIPA prong test is when DOJ asks for information in the course of a civil rights investigation, where, in this instance, happens to be individuals who died from the cooties in public nursing homes, and the State Governor says, "No".

That is how you automatically know they are stealin'. [see above].

Then, there is still that lingering issue about DOJ asking MIED to look into the constitutionality of Gretch's Executive Orders, where, I have addressed her illegitimacy to be granted under that indelible seal to hold office.

What a messy!

I guess Gretch has two choices: (1) produce the data; or, (2) bear her armiger, but, hey, what do I know?

#maytheheavensfall

Dept. of Justice requesting COVID-19 nursing home data from Gov. Whitmer

(FOX 2) - The Department of Justice is requesting data from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in regard to the COVID-19 order that may have resulted in deaths of elderly nursing home residents.

The data is being requested to help inform whether the Department of Justice will initiate investigations under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA).

Other governors were asked to also provide data, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. These states required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients, often without adequate testing.

The DOJ is asking for the following information from Gov. Whitmer:

• The number of public nursing home residents, employees, other staff, guests and visitors who contracted COVID-19, regardless of where it was contracted
• The number of public nursing home residents employees, other staff, guests and visitors who died of COVID-19 including those who died in a public nursing home or after being transferred to a hospital or other medical facility, hospice, home care or any other location
• All state-issued guidance, directives, advisories or executive orders regarding admission of persons to public nursing homes, including those previously superseded, as well as the dates each such document was in effect
• The number of persons who were admitted to a public nursing home from a hospital or any other facility, hospice, home care or other location after testing positive for COVID-19 during the period the guidance or orders were in effect

The information requested is due within 14 days.

You can see the letter sent to Gov. Whitmer here.

... "This is nothing more than election year politics by an administration that is more concerned with the president's re-election campaign than protecting Michigan seniors."

— Governor Gretchen Whitmer's Press Secretary Tiffany Brown
Gov. Whitmer's office released the following statement later in the day Wednesday after receiving the letter:

"Protecting the health, safety, and wellbeing of our seniors and most vulnerable residents has been a top priority throughout this crisis. The fact that this letter was sent during the middle of the Republican National Convention week to four Democratic governors should make it crystal clear that this is nothing more than election year politics by an administration that is more concerned with the president's re-election campaign than protecting Michigan seniors. We will review this letter and respond as appropriate, however, Americans would all be better served if the Trump administration stopped the partisan games and focused on delivering a real plan to defeat COVID-19."

In a town hall with FOX 2 back in July, Gov. Whitmer said she was following the best advice she had at the time when making this decision.

Whitmer said that the state was following guidance from the Center for Disease Control and prevention when COVID-19 patients were housed with non-coronavirus patients in nursing homes.

"We know that this experience has played out across the planet frankly but we’ve seen it in real-time here in the U.S., first in Seattle then of course across the U.S.," she said. "In every step of the way we've followed the CDC best guidance and our policies reflected that. All of the efforts that we've taken to keep people safe by closing down the ability for outsiders to come in, our policy with regard to...we never once required that nursing homes took COVID-19 patients. Many chose to and when they did they followed the promulgated practices from the CDC about separation and not having intermingling at all," she said.

And she did admit that following best practices ended with lives being lost to the virus.

"In the early days, following the CDC was the gold standard. That's what we were doing," Whitmer said. "Our nursing home death numbers are far too many but are better than in many other states. At the time we followed the protocols the CDC has prescribed."

In the end, Whitmer said if she had the knowledge she has now, she would do things differently but says it was CDC guidance.

"We followed the protocols that they prescribed and that's the best any state was able to do, frankly," she said. "We always have a mindest we are going to be conservative and follow the science. And sometimes that makes us a leader and in other ways, it's made us average with other states. With nursing home experiences, it's the latter."

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is evaluating whether to initiate investigations under the federal “Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act” (CRIPA), which protects the civil rights of persons in state-run nursing homes, among others.

The Civil Rights Division seeks to determine if the state orders requiring admission of COVID-19 patients to nursing homes is responsible for the deaths of nursing home residents.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, New York has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States, with 32,592 victims, many of them elderly.

New York’s death rate by population is the second highest in the country with 1,680 deaths per million people. New Jersey’s death rate by population is 1,733 deaths per million people - the highest in the nation.

In contrast, Texas’s death rate by population is 380 deaths per million people; and Texas has just over 11,000 deaths, though its population is 50 percent larger than New York and has many more recorded cases of COVID-19 - 577,537 cases in Texas versus 430,885 cases in New York.

Florida’s COVID-19 death rate is 480 deaths per million; with total deaths of 10,325 and a population slightly larger than New York.

DOJ CRIPA Request For COVID-19 Nursing Home Death Data Letter to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer 08-26-2... by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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The Tale Of Jacob Blake - Ben Crump, George Floyd & NAACP

There is so much more to this tale.

Ben Crump is not only the attorney for Jacob Blake, he is also the attorney in the George Floyd death.

Ben Crump, attorney for George Floyd's family, to represent Jacob Blake's family

I patiently await the appearance of Wendell "Swindle" Anthony.

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Jacob Blake’s father says son’s paralyzed from waist down after police shooting in Kenosha
Doctors don’t yet know whether the injury is permanent. ‘I want to put my hand on my son’s cheek and kiss him on his forehead, and then I’ll be OK,’ the father says.

Adria-Joi Watkins poses with her second cousin Jacob Blake.
In this September 2019 selfie photo taken in Evanston, Ill., Adria-Joi Watkins poses with her second cousin Jacob Blake. He is recovering from being shot multiple times by Kenosha police on Aug. 23. 

When Jacob Blake’s father talked with his son Sunday morning, the younger Blake was gearing up for a day of celebrating his son’s eighth birthday.

That evening, the father got word that his son had been shot eight times by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Eighteen minutes later, he saw the now-viral video, he said.

“What justified all those shots?” his father said. “What justified doing that in front of my grandsons? What are we doing?”

Some witnesses say Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who attended middle and high school in Evanston, was simply trying to break up a fight Sunday evening. The cellphone video of the incident shows Blake walking around and opening up his car door before appearing to be shot in the back by police.

Eight holes
His father said there are now “eight holes” in his son’s body, and he’s paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors don’t yet know if the injury is permanent.

The elder Blake made the drive from Charlotte, North Carolina, to be with his son in the hospital Tuesday.

“I want to put my hand on my son’s cheek and kiss him on his forehead, and then I’ll be OK,” his father said. “I’ll kiss him with my mask. The first thing I want to do is touch my son.”

He called the incident “attempted murder” and said “those two officers shot eight shots inside my baby’s back.”

“At first, it catches you off guard and you become over-the-top emotional,” his father said. “Then you get to the point where you go from emotional to mad. Your child is not in danger of dying, but they took him to the edge.”

Jacob Blake’s fiancee and six children are “getting showered with love,” his uncle Justin Blake said, and the family hopes to get both the children and his fiancee into therapy concerning the shooting.

He’s been living in Kenosha for about three years, his father said, and is the father of six children between ages 3 and 13. Family is “definitely” important to the younger Blake, who has seven brothers and five sisters, according to his father.

“If you were in need of something and my son had it, he would not hesitate to give it to you,” his father said. “He’s a very giving individual.”

The elder Jacob Blake keeps a book on his nightstand that his son made and dedicated to him in third grade. “He’s very sincere,” his father said.

Family’s Evanston, civil rights ties
Musician L. Stanley Davis has been friends with the Blake family since 1971. The Rev. Jacob Blake Sr., the grandfather of the Jacob Blake whom police shot in Kenosha, was the “father that I never really had,” said Davis, 68, of Woodlawn.

The minister was an activist for affordable housing in Evanston and pastored the Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1967 to 1976, said the Rev. Deborah Scott, who currently leads the church.

In 1968, the Rev. Blake helped to organize a march in support of fair housing after Martin Luther King Jr’s death, according to the Evanston History Center. Four years later, he led his church in building the Ebenezer Primm Towers, which provide affordable housing for seniors. In 2003, Jacob Blake Manor, which also provides low-income housing for seniors, was named after the minister.

The Rev. Jacob Blake at a press conference. The young Jacob Blake’s grandfather pastored Ebenezer AME Church from 1967 to 1976 and fought for fair housing in Evanston. 

Much of what Evanston’s Black community benefits from today can be traced back to the Rev. Jacob Blake, Davis said. The pastor employed Black students at Northwestern University in the church and offered up space to house the Northwestern Community Ensemble, a gospel choir Davis founded in 1971, Davis said. Seeing a lack of Black teachers at Evanston Township High School, the Rev. Jacob Blake urged the district to diversify its teaching staff.

“Forget the glass ceiling — he knocked the door down,” said Davis, 68, of Woodlawn, of the Rev. Jacob Blake. “He turned a couple tables over in Evanston.”

Justin Blake also attended ETHS and now lives in the Park Manor neighborhood. He founded Black Underground Recycling in neighboring Englewood to provide income to the Black community and run a community center.

Justin Blake said his nephew would visit and help serve food to thousands of Chicagoans on the South and West sides.

“Him being a Blake, you don’t have an option to say, ‘No, I don’t feel good today,’” his uncle said. “You go out and build the community. You have no choice but to do something positive in your community.”

Protests erupted Sunday after the shooting of the 29-year-old Blake, with cars set on fire and windows smashed out. Monday night, peaceful protesters marched through the city streets, denouncing police abuse, but the incidents again turned violent after dark. Kenosha residents were waking up Tuesday to desolate streets with burned out buildings.

Children in back of SUV
Blake’s partner, Laquisha Booker, told NBC’s Milwaukee affiliate, WTMJ-TV, that the couple’s three children were in the back seat of the SUV when police shot him. “That man just literally grabbed him by his shirt and looked the other way and was just shooting him. With the kids in the back screaming. Screaming,” Booker said.

“They start to wrestle,” said another witness at the scene, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “The officer is punching on him. Two officers come to assist. They get him down on the curb behind his vehicle. Somehow he manages to get up. They said he has a knife. All of the officers pull out their guns. ... (One of the officers) tells him, ‘Get out of the car!’ and he starts shooting.”

The witness said he never saw a knife.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Monday that he has seen no information to suggest Blake had a knife or other weapon, but that the case is still being investigated.

The police officers who shot Jacob Blake were “the flint as well as the gasoline” sparking the violence in Kenosha, his father said.

“Those police officers that shot my son like a dog in the street are responsible for everything that has happened in the city of Kenosha,” his father said. “My son is not responsible for it. My son didn’t have a weapon. He didn’t have a gun.”

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OVERSIGHT: Voting Rights & Election Administration in the U.S. Virgin Islands & Territories (Event ID=110936) - No Mention On Gerrymandering Or Human Trafficking

Michael Fauntroy

This is not about race, this is about fraud as there exists the question if these overseas territories U.S. voters are actually real people.
There have been questions raised as to the validity of existence of some of our troops.

No mention about adoption, let alone children under corporate ownership through places like Catholic Charities and their foster care, or rather more intuitively known as refugee programs, or DACA.

The delegates are advocating resegregation of bringing back the Plessy ruling of "Separate, yet equal", which overturns Brown v. Board of Education, which brings back segregation into human asset management databases of corporate parental rights in ownership of their chattel.

I seem to recall the likings of one of those Corporate Shape Shifter fraud schemes about the land of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, but, hey, what do I know?

I know there is lots of contention when it comes to D.C. Statehood.

Michael Fauntroy wrote a CRS brief on the D.C. Territory Delegates.

Treatise on resegregation
through foreign publishing
to be promulgated in our universities.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DELEGATES TO CONGRESS

Michael also wrote books.

Home Rule or House Rule?: Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia

Michael has a propaganda publishing network supporting him.

I simply do not understand why congress holds all these chuckin' & jivin' congressional hearings and call for task forces to simply avoid discussing anything remotely relevant to the issues surrounding voting rights, like gerrymandering, or, more readily understood as stealin' the children, land & vote.

How about we start talking about those land patents.

I seem to recall lots of fake ass LLCs registered in the Virgin Islands which ended up putting their sticky hands on Detroit Land Bank Authority properties, but, hey, what do I know?

I know Jeffery Epstein was a resident of the Virgin Islands.

I also know there are databases.

116th CONGRESS 1st Session

H.R. 1

To expand Americans' access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 12, 2019

Received

March 13, 2019

Read the first time

March 14, 2019

Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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AN ACT

To expand Americans' access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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C.T. Vivian Is Extracted From Humanity

C.T. Vivian was John Lewis's friend.

He was also Martin Luther King, Jr.'s friend.

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Remembering civil rights activist C.T. Vivian

C.T. Vivian 

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - A passion for life and civil rights drove C.T Vivian.

Vivian died Friday, but his legacy won't soon be forgotten.

In 1960, he came to Nashville in the middle of the downtown sit-ins where blacks were refused service at lunch counters and even met with violence.

“We stood up to it because it was evil, I don’t mean it was bad it was evil.” Vivian said.

Vivian stood at the courthouse next to then-Nashville Mayor Ben West. One Fisk student, Diane Nash, proceeded to ask Mayor West how he could support such discrimination.

He could not!

Shortly after the restaurants opened to all, Vivian pushed intensely for equal rights for the remainder of his life.

His efforts earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the countries highest civilian honor, from President Obama.

The only regret Vivian had was not starting the fight sooner.

“The only thing we did wrong was stay in the wilderness a day too long," he said.

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John Lewis Is Extracted From Humanity

John Lewis and John Conyers, Jr.

I knew John Lewis.

He threatened me if I was ever to leave my Sweetie.

It was cute, but he never showed up for the Ghetto Ass Funeral, nor did he reach out to me, nor did he ever stand up to advocate due process for my Sweetie when he knew the truth.

#maytheheavensfall

John Lewis

I am more than pleased and very grateful that the @USNavy has decided to name a ship after me. pic.twitter.com/cN1xoR10If

— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) January 6, 2016

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The Press Conference Of Rayshard Brooks

Rayshard Brooks was asleep, in his registered vehicle, in a Wendy's parking lot.

He had no weapon because he was patted down.

He could have been ordered to walk home or even call to be picked up.

Instead, the visions of George Floyd, constantly bombarded by media, left the searing imprint of what was to happen next - death.

In those few moments of fight or flight, the visions of being arrested, losing your vehicle, job, home, children and reputation, to make it to a safe haven to contact an attorney, if you can even afford one, overtakes one's thoughts for the instinct of survival.

Perhaps, he just wanted to make it home to his daughter's birthday party before he went into the system.

His daughter was waiting for him to return home for her birthday party.

The officer discharged his weapon in a crowded parking lot where stray bullets hit another vehicle.

There is no empathy in law enforcement because there is no love in law, where, if the officer did not follow through on his own law enforcement training, he would have faced disciplinary charges as all officers have body cams, and are no longer allowed to make their own judgments.

He could have just been ordered to walk home or get picked up, but there are those who justify the shooting as "resisting arrest".

The officer has been fired.

The family is asking the out of towners to stop tearing up their city.

The out of towners are the ones rioting.

The victims and survivors are asking for peace.

Everyone needs to watch the residuals of the peculiar institution because it always starts with the children.

We teach hate.

Slavery was never abolished because there is the Exception Clause.

We do not teach the history of the right of a civil society nor will media report upon this fact, because there is too much money involved and no one cares.

#maytheheavensfall

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Malcolm X - Life & Death Of Civil Rights Revisited

The history of the U.S. taught is not the U.S. history of what actually happened.

I call it bleachbitting.

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Documentary raising new questions about who killed Malcolm X

The New York DA’s office has said they “will begin a preliminary review of the matter,” in light of a new Netflix documentary which casts doubt on who killed Malcom X 55 years ago.

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An International Day Of Peace 2020 - May The Heavens Fall

I will make the world say your name, with such a delight.

#sayhisname

"The Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed is ready for the heavens to fall. I bet she has cocktails & popcorn."

Sometimes, I derive joy from the smallest things in life.

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

Happy Anniversary, Sweetie!

A Day of Peace

In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and in honor of the gentle spirit who authored John Conyers, Jr., I present this piece, again, to pray for all to recognize that we, as humans, are many in body, but may only become united under the universal care for the peaceful health of society.
this legislation,

The issues surrounding unruly town hall meetings and angry mobs were addressed over 200 years ago in the Federalist Papers, specifically #9, Hamilton and #10 Madison.

Hamilton #9: The utility of a Confederacy, as well to suppress faction and to guard the internal tranquillity of States, as to increase their external force and security, is in reality not a new idea. It has been practiced upon in different countries and ages, and has received the sanction of the most approved writers on the subject of politics.

What Hamilton basically says is that an insurgent faction disrupts consolidation and consensus of groups, better known as a republic. This idea was expounded and refined in Madison #10.

Madison identified the "inner tranquility" of the consolidation and consensus of groups as the "majority".  He further spoke of the futility of non-peaceful protests as they disregarded established legislative processes, having elected government representatives.

"Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people."

Historically, civil disobedience only works when functioning under the policy of peace. These protests are not peaceful in language or activities, an early presentation of failure of the insurgence.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise therof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.The Bill of Rights: First Amendment

The key word is "peace". Once this tenet of the First Amendment is violated, peace, the government is empowered to protect the people, pursuant to the General Welfare Clause in the U.S. Constitution. The following is an excerpt of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States, called the General Welfare Clause:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

Violence, be it verbal, emotional, physical, or economic, becomes grounds for government intervention, or rather the calling of the police to maintain the peace. When this happens you have an insurrection, pursuant to the General Welfare Clause. Under this light, health care as commerce, or rather Universal Health Care, is seen as a "provision for the common defense social disease, meaning maintainability of individual and social health, becoming interchangeable with the temporal terminology of General Welfare.

Quintessentially, Universal Health Care is one in the same with the Common Defense and General Welfare of the people of the United States of America. Here is a visual model for greater understanding:

Universal = Common

Health = Defense

Care = General Welfare

There is a lack of organization and understanding, as the insurrections constantly demonstrate a significant failure in mastering a rudimentary education of the social mobilization.

Peace.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/01/day-of-peace.html

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DOJ: Happy 150th Anniversary

Happy Anniversary!

#maytheheavensfall

150 Years of the Department of Justice

• A historical timeline created to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Department of Justice, spanning from its beginnings in 1789 to the Department's founding in 1870 to today.

Attorneys General Throughout History

• Eighty-five distinguished Americans have served as Attorney General. Learn more about these honored individuals: Attorneys General Throughout History. 

Art and Architecture of the Robert F. Kennedy Main Justice Department Building

• For the 75th anniversary of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, this book was created dedicated to the history of the Department, the building, and its artwork.

History of the Department's Motto and Seal

• Read about the history of the Department of Justice’s seal and the somewhat enigmatic Latin motto appearing on it: "Qui Pro Domina Justitia Sequitur."

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Avern Cohn Retires From MIED - Will He Bear Witness, Next?

Avi bearing arms on the MIED bench (center)

Oh, Avi has lots of tales to tell.

I mean, he has so many tales to tell, he, too, could be summoned to bear witness when the heavens fall, but, hey, what do I know?

I know I like this picture of him, better, because I drew it.

I witnessed him do the "Old School Civil Rights Legal Dog" pimp walk.

It was awesome.

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Judge Avern Cohn leaving federal bench at age 95

Detroit — After four decades behind the bench and at age 95, U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn is calling it a career.

"It is time to pass on my responsibilities to others," Cohn said in a statement released by the court Friday. "Most judicial systems have a mandatory retirement age. While I don't believe in mandatory retirement, there comes a time in the course of one's work that they retire and let their work be borne by younger persons."

Avern Cohn,
Old School Civil Rights Legal Dog

According to the federal court, nearly two dozen of his criminal cases were reassigned on a blind draw to other judges last week. The remainder of his criminal and civil dockets will be reassigned the same way in coming days.

"Judge Cohn is a valued, valuable and beloved member of our bench, a mentor and friend to me and others," U.S. District Chief Judge Denise Page Hood said in a statement. "I hold him in the highest regard."

Cohn was born in Detroit. His mother, Sadie, was a homemaker, and his dad, Irwin, eventually became the fourth name on the door at Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn.

Cohn enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1942, just in time to have his academic career waylaid by World War II. The Army sent him to engineering school, abandoned the program and redirected him to pre-med classes.

Discharged in 1946, he gave medicine six more weeks, then enrolled in law school.

Earlier in his career practicing law, Cohn represented looters for free after the 1967 uprising in Detroit. He also served as a Detroit police commissioner when that meant working to integrate the force and had his name taken in vain in an Elmore Leonard novel.

Appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, Cohn assumed senior status in October 1999. While that typically means part-time duty, nothing changed for Cohn except his title.

 As a judge, he struck down the University of Michigan's anti-hate-speech code as overbroad and presided over the case of former Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers, who drew 37 months for taking bribes.

At a courthouse celebration of his 95th birthday in July, colleagues noted his relentless curiosity and rabid reading habit, which includes six newspapers a day.

Known both for his intellect and his temper, Cohn could still be withering with attorneys earlier this year. He told The Detroit News in July, "I've cooled down. Age. But every so often, I get impatient."

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No Due Process For Civil Rights Leaders In Detroi

It will be alright.

No one cares because they did the same thing to my Sweetie.

Society has no civility for the rights of due process of "ThePoors" (always said with clinched teeth).

This is how you bleachbit history.

Lyft driver wants to clear his name after rider's 'smell this' warning post

ROMULUS, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Facebook post about a young woman's scary experience during a Lyft ride is getting a lot of attention online, but the driver at the center of it says she got it all wrong. He says his small gesture of kindness got completely blown out of proportion.

Driving for Lyft is a retirement gig for William Thomas. He's been doing it for three years.

Lyft driver says rider’s warning post on Facebook was misconstrued
A metro Detroit man is trying to clear his name as a Lyft driver after a rider shared a warning on Facebook with his photo and license plate not to accept a ride from him.

"East side, west side, north side, south side, I'm everywhere," he said. "I love it, man."

The once cross country bus driver and civil rights activist from Selma, Alabama has a motto: "When I can help one person my day is not in vain."

It's that giving spirit that spiraled into a warning on Facebook with a post that's been shared hundreds of times now.

"My face is plastered everywhere, all the way down in Florida," he said.

Friday morning he picked up a female passenger from Amazon in Romulus, Mich.

"I said how you doing because I ask that to everyone. She said, 'I'm sick.'"

William, getting over a cold himself, offered her some peppermint oil. He and his wife are big into essential oils after her brain aneurysm three years ago.

"I put it on [a tissue] and I said, 'All you got to do is [sniff] and pass it over your nose and it will help you breathe.'"

William had no idea she was taking a picture for a warning post later on, and that she was scared for her life.


Another post includes his picture and license plate.

"All three of my sisters called my crying carrying on, 'Your picture is all over Facebook.' I said for what? What did I do?"

It's spreading in neighborhood groups, too, some with more than 100,000 followers.

FOX 2 reached out to and spoke with the passenger who made the post, who told us she does not have any intention of taking the original post down. She said at that moment she was passed the tissue, she felt threatened and was genuinely scared.

The passenger also contacted Lyft to try and open an investigation but said Lyft wasn't planning on doing so. The passenger has not contacted police about what happened.

William insists he was just trying to help. He wants to clear his name and he's worried the public shaming will affect his job. Even if the passenger did take the post down, it likely wouldn't make a difference because of how much it's already spread.

"I can't believe you try to help people and they stab you in the back like this."

William also went to Woodhaven Police in Michigan to see if there was anything they could do to stop the post from spreading but unfortunately there was nothing they could do.

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JUDICIARY: Chairman Nadler Announces the Introduction of Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump

If you replace "Trump" with "Clinton" then replace 2020 with 2016, you will enjoy the articles, much better.

Washington, D.C. –Today, Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and the House Judiciary Committee introduced two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress. The articles can be found here.

"The President abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to help his re-election campaign. For members of Congress this is not a question of fact, because the facts are not seriously contested. It is rather a question of duty. The President’s oath of office appears to mean little to him. But the articles put forward today will give us a chance to show that we will defend the constitution, and that our oath means something to us," said Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Adam Schiff (D-CA).

"The facts are uncontested that the President abused his office and threatened our national security to cheat in the 2020 election—then he obstructed Congress’s exercise of its constitutional impeachment powers. It’s regrettable that the President’s own actions have brought us to this point, and I strongly support Chairman Nadler and my Judiciary Committee colleagues as we take these next solemn steps," said Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Eliot Engel (D-NY).

"We are fulfilling our constitutional duty to hold the president accountable for abusing public office and misusing public funds for his personal, political gain," said Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY).

Below are Chairman Nadler's remarks announcing the introduction of articles of impeachment:

"Over the last several months, the investigative committees of the House have been engaged in an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s efforts to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 elections—efforts that compromised our national security and threatened the integrity of our elections.  Throughout this inquiry, he has attempted to conceal the evidence from Congress and the American people.

"Our President holds the ultimate public trust.  When he betrays that trust, and puts himself before country, he endangers the Constitution, he endangers our democracy and he endangers our national security.  The Framers prescribed a clear remedy for Presidents who violate their Oath of Office.  That is the power of impeachment.

"Today, in service to our duty to the Constitution and to our country, the House Committee on the Judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charging the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, with committing high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

"The first article is for Abuse of Power.  It is an impeachable offense for the President to exercise the powers of his public office to obtain an improper personal benefit, while ignoring or injuring the national interest.

"That is exactly what President Trump did when he solicited and pressured Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 Presidential Election—thus damaging our national security, undermining the integrity of the next election, and violating his oath to the American people.  These actions, moreover, were consistent with President Trump’s previous invitations of foreign interference in our 2016 Presidential election.

"And when he was caught—when the House investigated and opened an impeachment inquiry—President Trump engaged in unprecedented, categorical, and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry.

"This gives rise to the second article of impeachment for Obstruction of Congress.  Here, too, we see a familiar pattern in President Trump’s misconduct.  A President who declares himself above accountability, above the American people, and above Congress’s power of impeachment—which is meant to protect against threats to our democratic institutions—is a President who sees himself as above the law.

"We must be clear: no one, not even the President, is above the law.

"I want to recognize the great contributions of the investigative chairs, particularly Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel, the Committee on Oversight and Reform’s former Chairman, the late Elijah Cummings, and its new Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, and Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, who helped lay the foundation for the articles we are introducing today.  I also want to thank my Judiciary Committee colleagues, who were critical in our work to hold the President accountable and in the drafting of these articles.

"Later this week, the Judiciary Committee will meet to consider these articles of impeachment, and to make a recommendation to the full House of Representatives.  We do not take this action lightly.  But we have taken an oath to defend the Constitution and—unlike President Trump—we understand that our duty, first and foremost, is to protect the Constitution and the interests of the American people.  That is why we must take this solemn step today.

"Elections are the cornerstone of democracy and are foundational to the rule of law.  But the integrity of our next election is at risk from a President who has already sought foreign interference in the 2016 and 2020 elections, and who consistently puts himself above country.  That is why we must act now."

U.S. House Judiciary Articles of Impeachment of Trump 12102019 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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JUDICIARY: Impeachment - The Original Intent Of The Second Amendment - Voting Rights - May The Heavens Fall

I have provided a musical accompaniment to enjoy the beauty of these historic impeachment hearings just to celebrate another one of those transposable prosecutorial models.

Just remember, it is always wise to have "The Elected Ones" self-defrock so that they may fall from the heavens to be summoned by the laws of the land, to bear witness in the public, for the people to vote, to terminate the parental right to bear the armoralities of the United States in failing to protect the children's trust, our most precious treasures.

Grand juries have voting rights which shall never be stripped.

The quest for the quorum has begun through due process because impeachment is not just for presidents.

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