tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26665421545018674172024-03-18T21:43:33.681-07:00NAACP & VERNON BALMER JR.VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-4798080869108505452016-09-10T19:14:00.001-07:002016-09-10T19:14:05.125-07:00NEED YOUR HELP IN THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="258" height="338" title="Click Here to donate!" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="movie" value="//funds.gofundme.com/Widgetflex.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="flashvars" value="page=24q98n5g&template=3" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed allowScriptAccess="always" src="//funds.gofundme.com/Widgetflex.swf" quality="high" flashVars="page=24q98n5g&template=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="258" height="338"></embed></object>VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-27352982082227409822013-09-09T18:02:00.002-07:002013-09-09T18:04:01.712-07:00SYSNOPSIS<div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">{I now look at web sites for all the organizations I sought help at - the</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">Governor and Lieutenant Governor, all representative's and senator's</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">offices, Legal Aid Society, Hawaii Dept. of Labor and the DOL -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">national, EEOC - Hawaii, district, and national offices, NAACP Hawaii, ,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">ACLU of Hawaii, Hawaii - Department of Health, HIOSH and OSHA ( regional</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">and national ), the Hawaii Office of Information Practices, the</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">ombudsman's office and Volunteer Legal Services of Hawaii.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">The Real Property and Financial Services Section includes a lawyer I was</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">assisted by, one Andre Wooten, who at the time told me nothing of his</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">involvement with this organization.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">He was suggested to me by church members and NAACP officer, Alfonso</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">Braggs. I pull up the staff or the particular board of directors of</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">these organizations and there are last names that are the same and have</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">some relationship, mostly with real estate, and more than a few with</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">ties to California.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">For the most part, the agencies that pretend to help, most notably the</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">NAACP and ACLU, only collect information and then say they can do</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">nothing; I wonder what happens to the information in a state that treats</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">confidential information as a commodity. Incidentally my former</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">employer's representation is one of the largest contributors to Legal</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">Aid Society.} </span></span></div>
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VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-23140264603783047272012-02-25T14:01:00.000-08:002012-02-25T14:01:23.357-08:00MAYBE IF THEY HAD WRITTEN ON MECar defaced by racial slur near school raises alarm Hawaii News ...<br />
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10 hours ago – A racial slur spray-painted on the side of a Hummer parked next to the entrance of Red Hill Elementary School has alarmed school parents and ...VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-76779852120088336022009-10-27T18:25:00.000-07:002009-10-27T19:07:59.143-07:00A CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE CIVIL RIGHTS, OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, AND HARASS<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">[The Real Property and Financial Services Section includes a lawyer I was assisted by, one Andre Wooten, who at the time told me nothing of his involvement with this organization.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">He was suggested to me by church members and NAACP officer, Alfonso Braggs. I pull up the staff or the particular board of directors of these organizations and there are last names that are the same and have some relationship, mostly with real estate, and more than a few with ties to </span><state><place><span style="color: #cc0000;">California</span></place></state><span style="color: #cc0000;">.]</span><br />
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VERNON BALMER, JR.<br />
GENERAL DELIVERY<br />
HONOLULU, HAWAII 96820<br />
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<strong>Chronology:</strong><br />
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April 14, 2009: On my IRS transcripts, there is a 1099 in my name for 2007. I never applied for social security, never received a check from social security, or cashed a check from social security. The SSA tells me there is no record of a 1099 in my name.<br />
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Apr 3, 2009: Another email account of mine does not let me sign-in, even though I have the correct information and can recall that information through the site.<br />
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July 16, 2009: My tax transcripts are stolen at the State Library. These included a set that was sent to me unsealed. There are discrepancies in my name, address, wages reported, and withholding.<br />
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March 19, 2009: Emails I had in my AOL account have vanished. The emails were between Ms. Mason and me when President Obama was Senator of Illinois. Who would want them gone?<br />
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Seems anyone can come to the Hawaii State Library at anytime and do anything they want with, on, and at the public computers.<br />
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Aug 18, 2008: I go to the police station to get a copy of the report made to Officer Porter. The statement is still not with the rest of the paper work. My statement contained more detailed information about what was inside, including my passport and birth certificate, and numerous correspondences with government agencies.<br />
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July 27, 2008: I return to the police station to make another report and statement, this time, with Officer Porter.<br />
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July 21, 2008: I returned to the police station downtown to complete the report with Ms. Aksionczyk, at 5:40 in the morning on Monday and was told by the officer on duty at the receiving area that she would be in at 6:00. I waited until 6:00 and inquired with a different officer, and was told that she would not be at the receiving area until 10:30 - 2:30. I tried again during these hours, without success. <br />
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This has been 5 days now and no report has been generated and I can not get a number to reference concerning the case. I need to no how to get the report filed and a number to reference with further correspondence.<br />
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July 19, 2008: I made a report to an officer by the name of Lisa Aksionczyk, on Saturday of this month, about a stolen backpack I left on the route E bus. Ms. Aksionczyk suggested at the time, that I inquire at the lost and found department of The Bus. I thought this was a good idea, so that a Good Samaritan would not have the unpleasant experience of someone thinking they were a thief.<br />
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I went to the nearest stop I knew the bus would stop at, on its return trip. I saw the driver, recognized as the one I rode with and waited for him to stop. I asked if it was turned in. I was told no by the driver. I asked the driver's name. He told me Raymon<br />
I asked where the bus terminated and Raymond told me Waipahu. I subsequently found the bus terminates in Ewa.<br />
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<strong>RAYMOND LIED.</strong><br />
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The only time I could check with The Bus lost and found would be the following Monday, it is not open on weekends. I did call The Bus, on Saturday, with an emergency report because there was important ID in the backpack.<br />
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I was told by the representative that no backpack was turned in. On Monday I went to the transit center to inquire in person, and was disappointed to be shown backpacks that were not mine.<br />
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January 2008: Unlike the DCCA of Hawaii, who I supplied documentation to, the Department of Health and Human Services "Region 10", without documentation, finds that Dr. Au did violate the privacy act by charging me too much for copies of my records. But, Region 10 tells me they cannot precede on the 6 other allegations<br />
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1. Along with saying I did not see as well with the new glasses, I said that the prescription that I was given was weaker than the one I had the previous 7, count them, seven years. Neither your office, nor the DCCA responded to this charge.<br />
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2. The reason I asked Dr. Au to change the prescription was because the NEW one, I repeat, was weaker in one eye. This was the only alternative Dr. Au gave me other than accepting the weaker prescription.<br />
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3. The "Vision Certificate" Dr. Au provides had no license number where it should have been and she did not sign it where it should have been signed.<br />
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4. Dr Au refused to give me photocopies of my records and did not give me a reason, per her offices policy, when I asked for them in her office.<br />
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5. Dr Au charged me 2.00 dollars per page, totaling 20.00 dollars, which I believe is exorbitant.<br />
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6. There are conflicting numbers on my records that I would like explained. This, no one has addressed. And I doubt that my records were reviewed by an impartial optometrist, as any reasonable person would assume to be a part on what your office calls an investigation.<br />
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7. I was trespassed from Dr. Au's office for no other reason than asking for copies of my files, and in her response to the DCCA she says I was escorted out of her offices by mall security, which is a lie by an optometrist that practices deceit.<br />
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Nov 2007: My complaint about Central Pacific Bank is not sent to the FDIC regional offices in California. Instead it is sent to Kansas City. Missouri. The response I get from FDIC says my concerns are contractual, although I point out two misrepresentations by the bank's compliance counsel, Judith A. Villarreal.<br />
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Ms. Villarreal says I did not contact Mr. Clint Arnoldus, Mr. Dennis K. Isono. I have Certified Receipts and electronic verification from USPS that says I did.<br />
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Coincidentally, there are officials at the Kansas City offices with the name Villarreal: Jesse O. Villarreal Jr., Lisa M. Villarreal and Victor Villarreal.<br />
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It is my opinion, that a person trained as a lawyer would verify facts before submitting them in official documentation. Therefore, I can only assume that Ms. Villarreal had a serious lapse in judgment, or she was lied to by those she spoke with.<br />
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Aug. 25, 2007: My Yahoo account is compromised, at the Hawaii State Library. I can not sign in. The verification information I enter for the retrieval system, is not accepted.<br />
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March 2007: My complaint to the Dept. Of Ed is refused on the grounds that they do not fund any programs or activities at the Hawaii State Public Library System, and therefore, do not have jurisdiction.<br />
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If the situation is threatening enough to cause a change in levels moment to moment, it stands to my reason, it would remain at a certain level until there is a sufficient enough change or stabilization to bring it to a lesser level. But that's just me.<br />
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Oct. 17, 2006: I submit a complaint to the Police Commission relaying concerns about the treatment I experienced at the security checkpoint at HPD District 1 the previous day. An investigator tells me it is the policeman’s job to "interpret the law".<br />
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Returning to the station to locate a article I left, I am told by Officer Kahele, in the presence of one Officer Hung, and another, that it is mandatory that I produce ID, and that I remove everything from my pockets, and take off my belt before passing through the metal detector.<br />
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I point out this information is not on the signs, and officer Kahele says there will be no furthering of my purpose if I do not comply. After complying, I am told by officer Kahele that I must sit down, or she will not take my report. Previous to this occasion, when at the HPD headquarters, I was never asked to remove everything from my pockets and, or to remove my belt, or that I had to produce ID to enter. Officer Lau, the sergeant for this post, tells me the same.<br />
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I am told by a detective that it is not mandatory to produce ID, "We don't care who you are. Anyone has the right to come in here". Sergeant Lau, who I am told is the officer in charge of the post, says depending on the threat level, procedures may change day to day. <br />
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He says one may be required to remove everything from ones pockets etc., or be required to submit to different procedures. I inform him that on the same day, when I was there previously, I was not required to do so. He informs me that the security level may change from moment to moment.<br />
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Oct. 16, 2006: I submit a complaint to HPD Internal Affairs relaying concerns about not being asked to identify the driver of the vehicle that hit me on the 8th of Sept., and the fact that the person who stood as Chris Pa at the arraignment was not the driver of the car.<br />
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Oct. 6, 2006: I go to the arraignment of A Mr. Chris Pa. I am surprised to see that this Mr. Pa is not the driver I saw, while laying on the hood of the car and peering through the windshield, and definitely not the man I looked in the face and spoke to through an opened window.<br />
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This may be due to the fact that I was not asked to identify the person located, arrested, or cited, on the night of the incident or at any subsequent time, until I see him at the arraignment. I am directed by the presiding judge to inform the prosecutors office, which I do.<br />
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Oct. 2, 2006: I am told at traffic court there is no court date set, but have found online there is one on Oct. 6, in room 4B, and I am not included as the victim. I still get correspondence from the insurer's agents telling me of medical coverage available, although I told the driver, the responding officer, and previously the insurer's agent, I am OK.<br />
Sept.21, 2006: I go to City Hall to get a voters registration card and am told it will cost .50 cents.<br />
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I am surprised to get a "Certificate", ala Lens Crafters, and ask is this it? I am told yes by the clerk. Today, on "The Bus" I see a man who says he works at the polls, who tells me there is still a little yellow card that comes in the mail and is surprised to see the "Certificate".<br />
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Sept. 8, 2006: I am hit by a car bearing license plate JST 203, that was stopped at a crosswalk. The driver is looking at me when he accelerates. The driver doesn't wait for police to arrive. They find him at his home. The police report reads Crime Code 550, which I am told means, a collision with damage of more than 3000 dollars. I am told the responding police officer decides if there will be an investigation. <br />
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<strong>More Honolulu HOKUM.</strong><br />
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This is the place where, those who would complain about wrongdoing are persecuted, harassed, smeared and railroaded. Where the perpetrators are bribed to keep quiet, or go along with the cover-up, promoted, and transferred.<br />
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Sept. 7, 2006: A security guard, Solomon Savea, badge number - 90187, at the Hawaii State Library, calls me a "ni - - er" twice" in the library foyer, in a loud voice.<br />
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Aug. 10, 2006: I have been told by Sen. Barack Obama's office, where I sent this same correspondence, that someone from Sen. Akaka's office would contact me, because Sen. Obama's office forwarded the correspondence to them. I have yet to hear from Sen. Akaka's office. <br />
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July 2006, I have written to the Clint Arnoldus Denis Isono and Susan Tachino asking them to explain, and have received no response.<br />
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<strong>Letter Sent To Senator Obama</strong><br />
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From: <a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a><br />
To: Obama_Casework@obama.senate.gov<br />
Sent: Wed, Jun 6 4:46 PM<br />
Subject: Ms. MasonThank you for the assistance you have given. Please, do not contact Senator Akaka’s office again, on my behalf. Unless there is some necessary secrecy to an investigation he is doing, all I have received from his offices is a letter in response to my inquiring about funds for the Hawaii State Library. My concerns extend much further than this. Hopefully, the light being shed on activities in the Justice Department will lend itself to some justice for me. Otherwise, it will be nothing but justice delayed and denied.<br />
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July 23, 2006: An Optometrist, Kim Agena at a Lens Crafters gives me a prescription that is weaker than the one I had for the previous 7 years.<br />
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Doctor Au, a co-owner corrects this, but when I ask for photocopies of my records the doctor refuses and gives me a hand written “Vision Certificate" instead, that is not signed and does not contain a license number where applicable. I have made a formal request in writing. They have told me it will be at a cost of 20 dollars for 10 pages, which seems exorbitant and requested that I not seek services at any Optometrists in Lens Crafters.<br />
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The doctor, Au, is the co - owner along with Dr. Lau, of all the Optometrist offices in Lens Crafters, in Honolulu. In other words, I cannot get an eye exam at Lens Crafters. Is it considered rude or threatening, to ask for one's records?<br />
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<strong>The advice I get here is nothing but a pack of lies.</strong><br />
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The local ACLU has written me 3 differing and separate excuses why they cannot or will not get involved, but never the conflict I found below.<br />
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April 2006: I have had two librarians and a circulation clerk tell me there is no report possible for stolen books. They must be lost. This would have caused fees to be incurred by me. I had to take the police report to the State Librarian's Office to settle the matter and have the fines removed from my account. This all could have been done at the State Library.<br />
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Jan. 2006: I have had two bank accounts effected. One because a deposit I made to cover my use of overdraft protection was not credited; they rescinded the "overdraft" and CLOSED my account.<br />
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The bank says it had to be held in the account for a day, to be credited. Nowhere in the terms and conditions is this stated. The depletion of the other account, I have been given no reason for.<br />
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Recently, I have made another complaint, in addition to the previous five, to the USPS - OIG, about mail I am to receive or have sent. I sent a certified letter to Richard E. Fairfax, Directorate of Enforcement Programs - OSHA, in Washington D .C., on the 2nd of December.<br />
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The certification number is 7005 2570 000 0 6898 2586. I look at the track and confirm feature at USPS.COM and there is no record of it having been delivered yet.<br />
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My case was dismissed May 24, 2006. How often does this occur? A case is dismissed with two days difference between the dismissal date and the job termination date, (May 26, 2004) of the individual filing suit. I will never understand how the three judges that made decisions in this case could not see that it is too complex for anyone who would consider themselves a pro se litigant, which I do not.<br />
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This has been an uphill battle against an opponent whose underwriters include a Fortune 500 company, FNF. <br />
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<strong>Emails sent to lawyers:</strong><br />
<a href="mailto:john.goemans@gmail.com">john.goemans@gmail.com</a> wrote :<br />
Dear Vernon---- Your letter is alarming. I have over time,recieved calls<br />
from persons very distressed by the Hawaii you know.In fact I've been out of Hawaii for many months one reason being the hostile and dysfunctional nature of things.I've even been jailed on a charge it took the Judge when I finally got before one 2 minutes to throw out.That all being said have no ability to be of help to you other than to give you encouragement from this<br />
distance.<br />
Sincerely John Goemans<br />
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-----Original Message-----<br />
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From: Eric Grant grant@eric-grant.com<br />
To: <a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a><br />
Sent: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:06:41 -0500<br />
Subject: RE: Still attempting to contact Mr. Goemans <br />
Mr. Balmer, Mr. Goemans' address is john.goemans@gmail.com<br />
Cordially,<br />
EricGrant<br />
Attorney at Law<br />
8001 Folsom Boulevard, Suite 100<br />
Sacramento, California 95826<br />
Telephone: (916) 388-0833<br />
Facsimile: (916) 691-3261<br />
<a href="http://www.eric-grant.com/">http://www.eric-grant.com/</a><br />
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From: yinsay@aol.com [mailto: yinsay@aol.com ]<br />
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:47 PM<br />
To: grant@eric -grant.com<br />
Subject: Still attempting to contact Mr. Goemans. If he has one, and you know Mr. Goeman's e-mail address kindly forward this to it, please.<br />
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<strong>My Information:</strong><br />
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I have resided here in Honolulu, Hawaii for almost 4 years now. I had intended to stay here when I made the decision to come, and was happy to have found employment relatively soon. I found a job working with a temporary agency for 4 months. I was hired by the client as a regular employee, Sept. 2002. On my first day of regular hire, I was shocked to hear, "you know why they hired him, don't you", from one of my co-workers. But, needing to work for a living and being in a strange place, I thought it best to ignore this, after all, I was hired.<br />
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At the beginning of my time with the client, Title Guaranty, I was told by the on site supervisor, that if I was to take a particular bus and call her first, "there would be more work". The day after this I handed her my time card, ready to seek another assignment, when she acted as though she didn't know why I would be doing this.<br />
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When I explained, she countered with some nebulous words and said I could work as long as the company needed me.<br />
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Subsequently, the same supervisor would tell me that I had to give her a key or the combination to the lock on my locker, "in case of an emergency". I thought this to be a strange request, as I could not imagine an emergency in my locker that would require her or anyone else to open it without me. I didn't respond to her request, and not hearing anything further, I gathered that it was not company policy at all.<br />
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Having a co-worker refer to me as "boy" and another ask me 3 times - after giving an answer twice - "why do black people use the N word?", did not make me feel very gregarious among them. I was also told by a co-worker, "all Hawaii is a gang brah", and by another, "it's all connected". The supervisor, speaking about a former supervisor said, "we made him quit because he thought he was smarter than us, cause he was from the east coast".<br />
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We were housed in a basement of what is now a former Costco building, with an air-conditioner as the only ventilation.<br />
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When I noticed mold growing in a hole, in the wall beneath the air-conditioner, adjacent to the room where I sometimes, but mostly my co-workers would eat lunch, I asked them about it and was told that management was made aware of it and did nothing. I decided to inform management myself, considering the untruths I had previously heard from some. I was thanked by the assistant to the woman in accounting, who handled the repairs for the building.<br />
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I did not think it was a major undertaking by a very successful company to fix this problem, and was surprised at the length of time it was taking to address the situation, so I informed OSHA, Aug. 2003. This is when things started to go further south. Coincidentally, the day after going to the OSHA offices, the next day at work, my supervisor stated to a co-worker, "Vernon went to OSHA." This information was not given to her, or any co-worker, by me.<br />
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When I went to OSHA, the employee did not give me any type of reference number, or write one in the space provided on the complaint form, nor did she inform me at that time that mold is not OSHA'S jurisdiction, which is what I was told when I went to check on the status of the complaint. Neither, did the employee inform me of laws governing discrimination.<br />
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I was also told - it not being OSHA'S jurisdiction - the complaint was referred to the Department of Health. It was like pulling teeth to get an answer, as to what office at the DOH it was referred to. Needless to say I could not inquire about the possible disposition of the complaint, not knowing where to inquire.<br />
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I made a complaint to the EEOC, Jan. 2004, and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Apr. 2004, both of which were dismissed without any investigation. Each agency sat back and waited for the submission of the company's response, giving them numerous extensions. Incidentally, I was contacted by the director of the EEOC, asking me if I wanted to proceed, after I was shown a copy of the company's response, which I don't believe is proper.<br />
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I now see in the EEOC's and the HCRC's own publications, matters such as mine that were investigated and even adjudicated. During the HCRC's lack of investigation, I only heard from them at the intake and when I received their letter of dismissal.<br />
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I now find the investigator did business with my former employer. I furnished the EEOC and the HCRC with names of co-workers who said they would speak for me. They were not interviewed. I was informed by an investigator at the EEOC that no one visited the site.<br />
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There was a similar situation here with UPS, where an employee was fired for doing less egregious acts than his co-workers, which I believe is the case here. I saw co-workers break company equipment, cuss freely, ask for sexual favors, and bring children and friends to the work site.<br />
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Throughout this experience I have been told by these agencies' staff and lawyers, literally or in effect, "there is no smoking gun here". This is only due to there being no investigation. In the least, there is a pattern that should compel any thinking person to ask questions.<br />
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Subsequent to this, my work was sabotaged on more than one occasion, and reports to management only resulted in them twisting the situation in attempts to placate me and set me up for these spurious accusations by my co-workers.<br />
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Each complaint of mine was a matter of my erroneous "interpretation", as stated by management (Myron Koizumi) while my co-workers complaints were accepted as valid descriptions of my "misconduct".<br />
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As a result of the accusations, I was suspended, without pay, pending an investigation for, I kid you not, a co-worker accusing me of harassing her by clapping my hands and signing "Pink Cadillac", and another saying, I was teasing her when I asked her to say my name and that of the manager, to see if I could distinguish the two.<br />
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I was terminated in May 2004, two weeks after the dismissal of the EEOC complaint that was not investigated, and a day after informing management that I overheard a co-worker saying to the one that accused me of harassing her by singing, "we're going to show him the power of pu - - y.<br />
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I was denied unemployment insurance, June 2004, with a fact-finding interview done over the telephone that was not reviewed or signed by me, as it should have been before it was made part of the official record and used at my future appeal.<br />
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The subsequent appeal Aug. 2004 was biased, prejudiced, and contained perjured statements by the witnesses for my former employer. I am now told that the recording of the hearing does not exist because it was transcribed.<br />
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I have initiated a suit in federal court, Jan. 2005 that I can not pursue, due to the lack of time and funds necessary for an undertaking such as this, and the skill I do not have in these matters.<br />
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I have all but given up searching for representation, believing word has gotten to many legal ears on the island and no one wants to go against the state that has all but coddled and cuddled business here.<br />
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I have contacted the ACLU, and given them much information, but they seem more interested in writing briefs for exotic entertainers, arrested for doing lap dances. First they tell me they cannot help unless the matter involves a government agency, then they tell me they can if a decision is against me, then they tell me they do not have the manpower and time. Each of the criteria, I met at the time I contacted them.<br />
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Coincidentally, I find a lawyer, Roger Fonseca, at the firm representing my former employer, is the national representative for the Hawaii chapter of the ACLU. Their staff also has a few names that are the same as those associated with Hawaii real estate. They cannot help, but they can accept my information.<br />
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I have tried to interest many, many lawyers and firms by email, letters and personal visits, to no avail. I have had a lawyer in San Francisco who participated in a well known case here, try to find someone without success.<br />
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<strong>This situation has been surrounded by complicity, cronyism, and bias.</strong><br />
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I have written to the DOJ, only to have my information shuffled from one agency to another, including the Department of the Interior, and finally coming full circle to the Hawaii Department of Labor. I do not think this was coincidence. At the HCRC, there is a commission member with the same name as the owners of my former employer's business, one Coral Wong Pietsch.<br />
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Mrs. Pietsch is a general in the U.S. Army Reserve, and an attorney, a very powerful position with ties to D.C., I'm sure. It has long been my suspicion that this may have played a roll in the lack of effort on the part of officials that has attended this matter. Each party's history I research has some relation to another, be it professional, academic, and even familial.<br />
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I now look at web sites for all the organizations I sought help at - the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, all representative's and senator's offices, Legal Aid Society, Hawaii Dept. of Labor and the DOL - national, EEOC - Hawaii, district, and national offices, NAACP Hawaii, , ACLU of Hawaii, Hawaii - Department of Health, HIOSH and OSHA ( regional and national ), the Hawaii Office of Information Practices, and Volunteer Legal Services of Hawaii, where a lawyer was recommended that has a long standing relationship with my former employer, and another that is also a licensed realtor and has a business in California.<br />
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At the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, and Hawaii Ethics Commission, I find the persons responding to my letter, did business with my former employers and my letter explaining the situation and their reply stating they could do nothing, are the only correspondence I had during their "investigations" or dismissals.<br />
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I have sought assistance at the Hawaii State Bar Association, where the lawyers who are members of the Real Property and Financial Services Section, are also affiliated with these other organizations, or directly associated with my former employer, or the firm that represents them - Torkildson, Katz, Fonseca, Heatherington, and Moore.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">[The Real Property and Financial Services Section includes a lawyer I was assisted by, one Andre Wooten, who at the time told me nothing of his involvement with this organization.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">He was suggested to me by church members and NAACP officer, Alfonso Braggs. I pull up the staff or the particular board of directors of these organizations and there are last names that are the same and have some relationship, mostly with real estate, and more than a few with ties to California.]</span><br />
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Two names in particular are quite suspicious. Kouchi, is at Volunteer Legal Services. It was also the last name of the HR assistant at Title Guaranty . Pang, is the name of a front desk worker at the YMCA, whom I complained about signing for my mail. It is also that of an Appeals Officer at Department of Labor - Security Appeals Referees Office. Hirayama is the name of the appeal referee and also that of the owner of the restaurant at the YMCA.<br />
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I mention the YMCA because in 2002, I had complained about what I believed to be prostitution, facilitated by staff there. And when I informed the supervisor at Title Guaranty, her response was to leave well enough alone, after I informed her that I had, in my opinion, angered some people there.<br />
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My subsequent report to the police department was investigated by. the police calling the YMCA and asking them if my suspicions were true. I think you can see what position this left me in. In my lay opinion, this was a sloppy and dangerous way to initiate and conclude an investigation.<br />
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<strong>There are too many relationships here to be mere coincidence, and are questionable, at least.</strong><br />
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My information was passed by one Elaine Chao - Department Of Labor, in D.C. to Tin Shing Chao Department of Labor here in Hawaii, who used an erroneous date to nullify my complaint. This was after a layover at the Department of the Interior - of all places - and in California with Ms. Alison Pauly at the regional offices, whose CASPA investigation stated that I should have made this a written complaint, when Hawaii law states it does not matter, whether written or verbal. Could she be related to the Paulys who have donated to the University of Hawaii, and have owned land here?<br />
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The complex in Hawaii that houses the Department of Labor is also where the HIOSH offices and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission offices are located. This name, Pang, pops up in various places dealing with state government and real estate. I now know these agencies to be straw dogs that do everything but contend with the status quo.<br />
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For the most part, the agencies that pretend to help, most notably the NAACP and ACLU, only collect information and then say they can do nothing; I wonder what happens to the information in a state that treats confidential information as a commodity. Incidentally my former employer's representation is one of the largest contributors to Legal Aid Society.<br />
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Concerning Volunteer Legal Services of Hawaii, I have recently discovered that one of two lawyers they<br />
referred is an attorney at the law firm representing my former employer, and the other is a realtor in Honolulu, and also licensed to practice in California. And another is the member of a firm with old ties to the Pietsch family. Who were these lawyers going to "help"?<br />
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I have applied for many positions since my termination, and have only worked sporadically in spite of my efforts. I have registered with many staffing agencies - Olympia, Hawaii Staffing, Snelling, and Hawaii Temp, CTA Staffing which is now Bishop & Company, Manpower, Kelly, and POI. I have not worked a complete week and have not been contacted at all by some. I registered at Altres in 2004, and was not called in a year’s time before I returned. There, I was terminated for, “not being pro active".<br />
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There is no confidentiality law here, and I believe this also has worked against me. It - confidentiality - has been frequently cited by my former employer's agents and state officials, only to protect their self and facilitate their deceptive practices. <br />
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I mostly use the public library to use the Internet, i.e. write letters and do research. Needless to say, this is not the most secure environment to do this type of activity. And I have had problems at this library with the computers and the staff.<br />
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At the library, I have seen the text change when I am typing, without commands initiated by me. The printer is connected to the computer at the librarians' desk. On one occasion, I was told by a security guard that a librarian had complained about me harassing her because I asked for her name to report her behavior.<br />
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After contacting the librarian's office, there is no record or remembrance of this aspect of the report. This tactic of "bait and switch" has been used on more than one occasion, by different entities.<br />
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After not being online for 3 days I saw where someone had requested an Army Knowledge Online account in my name, or I should say, my screen name. I saw an attorney - John L. Knorek from the firm representing my former employer enter the philosophy department and ask for a librarian, Kathy, by name.<br />
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Yee is the name of the head librarian at the State Library and the name of a former employee of the United States Attorney's Office and HCRC, did training for the Department of Justice, and worked for the Massachusetts Attorney General. I sent most of this same information to Sen. Ted Kennedy's offices in Massachusetts and was told during a telephone conversation with the office that, being on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Kennedy could not get involved in judicial matters.<br />
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Since this is the only avenue I have been given, I have asked the district offices of the DOL to investigate by CASPA, Sept. 2005, and have asked for an investigation for discrimination due to the whistle blower aspect of the matter.<br />
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I believe this will be my only chance at a modicum of justice. But I will always believe that more realistically this situation can be defined by, 18 USC 241, 242 and 245.<br />
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Hawaii, I now entertain, is a state where the dollar is God, and workers are only a necessary evil to facilitate that gain.<br />
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The Director of Labor and Industrial Relations, Nelson Befitel, has unashamedly professed his desire, and that of the state to relieve the department of any obligation to penalize businesses for infractions and, I can see where the natural sequence would be to alleviate any scrutiny that would expose abuse of power by the states employees.<br />
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It is no wonder; I have experienced what I have. All too often, in the news here, the term "outsider" is given to any entity that would look at what is practiced here. But there is a GOD that sees all and will affect justice for the oppressed.<br />
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<strong>Letter sent to Mr. Fairfax</strong><br />
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November 7, 2005<br />
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Richard E. Fairfax, Director<br />
Directorate of Enforcement Programs (DEP)<br />
U.S. Department of Labor<br />
200 Constitution Avenue N.W.<br />
Washington, D.C. 20210<br />
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Dear Sir,<br />
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For the past two years at every step in this long railroad, from my initial complaint filed at the EEOC, and subsequent to that, the HCRC; the United States Commission on Civil Rights; the Department of Justice; and finally through no effort of my own, having it wind up at the Regional OSHA offices in San Francisco, I have steadily maintained that I submitted a written complaint at the state HIOSH offices, here in Honolulu.<br />
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I was told that much of what I sent to the DOJ had been sent to the San Francisco OSHA offices .. Evidently this written HIOSH complaint was not among the papers.<br />
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Imagine my surprise when I got this letter from Mr. Traenkner, informing me that I should not have made this a verbal complaint. I retrieved the copy of the written complaint, made for me while at the HIOSH offices, just to convince myself that those in power are the ones mistaken, and now I believe with my whole being, they are in actuality, deceitful and dishonest, practiced at covering up embarrassing incidents, and downright criminal.<br />
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I am making a request to you for a review by your national offices, where hopefully someone unbiased, with integrity, will do the right thing. There was a Ms. Hirai in San Francisco that said she could see the discrimination in this matter. Too bad it was not she that conducted the investigation.<br />
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I only hope it is coincidence that there is a Hirai, here in Honolulu, that is a lawyer and involved in the real estate business, and a lawyer formerly in the firm representing my former employer.<br />
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Throughout this situation there have been relationships, I have noticed in my opposition, which include professional, academic and familial. It has long been my suspicion that those ensconced in the cronyism here in Hawaii have at each step facilitated the lack of effort in this matter. I am now sure of what I have long suspected. This cover-up goes much further than what happens here in Hawaii.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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Vernon Balmer Jr.<br />
yinsay@aol.com<br />
Honolulu, HawaiiVERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-56949179666454671542009-10-23T17:38:00.005-07:002009-10-23T17:38:58.092-07:00BY HIS STRIPES, ARE WE PAVED ?<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6CWlU8DLGQT8t215RP7LA4e4sT_5ouzLyv8YFF7_GTt-p0hvz8sChxloDwCGCuHx1B3M4M49HTgaq8O4RGiuclYravKSHRk-3MFQY31opaPQwFCERNFIoZG43J6WwqDX6Uvh92hvYvOI/s1600-h/Church_pic1.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="MIN-HEIGHT: 77px; FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6CWlU8DLGQT8t215RP7LA4e4sT_5ouzLyv8YFF7_GTt-p0hvz8sChxloDwCGCuHx1B3M4M49HTgaq8O4RGiuclYravKSHRk-3MFQY31opaPQwFCERNFIoZG43J6WwqDX6Uvh92hvYvOI/s320/Church_pic1.jpg" border="0"></a><strong>FOUND OUT THE CHURCH IS ON STATE LAND. COULD IT BE????</strong></p> <p><strong><br>I think I know what the lady preacher meant now, when she said, "Thats what we need...a few more Josephs. <br><br>Still selling the brothers. <br><br>BEWARE, THE PINK LUNGS AND PINK LIVERS AND BLACK HEARTS.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p> <center><a href="http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/yourtheory/" target="_blank">Your Theory</a><br><a href="http://www.ringsurf.com/" target="_blank">Powered By Ringsurf</a></center> <p></p> <p></p></p> VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-2300098233049983372009-10-23T17:38:00.003-07:002009-10-23T17:38:41.829-07:00A CHAIR IS STILL A CHAIR<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: arial"> <p> </p></div> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: arial"> <p><br></p></div> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: arial"> <p> <img alt="" src="http://baptistsites.net/tmbc/TRINITY_XMASPastor_Cook_(2)M.jpg" width="200" border="0"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></font><a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.veshi.com/blog/images/2008_09_23_small.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.veshi.com/blog/2008/09/wacky_waving_inflatable_arm_fl.html&usg=__3oGKxCvHuEA2AyYlFgWTOYc5fWM=&h=504&w=800&sz=300&hl=en&start=7&um=1&tbnid=DqBDHhwDZQw1sM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3DArm%2BFlailing%2BTube%2BMan%26hl%3Den%26um%3D1" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px solid" height="90" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:DqBDHhwDZQw1sM:http://www.veshi.com/blog/images/2008_09_23_small.jpg" width="143"></a></p> </div> <div> <p><br></p></div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <p>Vernon Balmer Jr.</p></div> VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-8113838109215649992009-10-23T17:38:00.001-07:002009-10-24T14:32:41.254-07:00A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME<strong>Trinity Missionary Baptist Member - Makes a trip to the YMCA to tell me that the Rev. Dwight E. Cook is a good reverend. This was when the church was deciding on his installment, or shortly after. Made me feel too, too special. I wonder how many other personal campaign visits she made.</strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuyDNrr1GMebtfZvH39y8nLJf3pwQeDknDKj_0yAPmBFtKo7ZHWbq5xI-0U74blX_WKgS1XuCRg_7jEBWCw1oZX2uuFRKqc0QTph8YFRXV-g9Q67F_1P8e10r6yY3Khtr0YSX5Ot7mSJy/s1600-h/3150423.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuyDNrr1GMebtfZvH39y8nLJf3pwQeDknDKj_0yAPmBFtKo7ZHWbq5xI-0U74blX_WKgS1XuCRg_7jEBWCw1oZX2uuFRKqc0QTph8YFRXV-g9Q67F_1P8e10r6yY3Khtr0YSX5Ot7mSJy/s320/3150423.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; min-height: 220px; text-align: center; width: 146px;" /></a><br />
<strong>Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties: Jennifer Gerald</strong> Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties ... Aloha Aina Outstanding Newcomer Award Winner 2007; Outstanding New Agent and Top ... <strong>As a Former Captain in the US Army</strong>, I decided to hang up my boots and make Hawaii my home. ... City Affairs Committe and Housing Hawaii and the owner of Gerald Institute for ...<br />
<a href="http://www.cbpacific.com/jenniferg" target="_blank">www.cbpacific.com/jenniferg</a> - 52k - Cached - Similar pages -VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-27748665585159936522009-09-23T15:45:00.000-07:002009-09-24T14:33:28.233-07:00ILK<br> <div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><br> <div> <div> <div></div> <div><a href="http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/obama-hawaii.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 298px" alt="" src="http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/obama-hawaii.jpg" border="0"></a><br> <div> </div></div> <div><br><br><br> <div></div></div></div></div> <dd> </dd></div><br> <br /><br />I just saw the NAACP "legal eagle" that helped me with my complaint. (Copied it from the web and transposed my information). Oh, by the way. He's not the one in charge of "legal redress". He's Ricardo.<br /><br />Says he's working on his case. At the time of mine he said he had one against the U.S. Army. <br /><br />Don't need his kinda help anymore. Seems chummy with Baroza.<br /><br />Possibly another bootstraper. I Don't think anything goes on here, without staff's knowledge or assistance.VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-65210126177076152332009-06-12T16:15:00.001-07:002009-07-01T17:33:43.078-07:00BAD DREAMS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj119wBPcVFrclhakQkEKgM0LV2_9XVoXSCtAdTZOvLRui-pPVVAA-vFUzljEpaVOaY-kAo6U2A9hndUmmfUvJMiXk-Tc8UiQHWzaWo8NsPW6GMh8zEhGGNMFidcrZKzG99nZbV7dGS6Ap0/s1600-h/du.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj119wBPcVFrclhakQkEKgM0LV2_9XVoXSCtAdTZOvLRui-pPVVAA-vFUzljEpaVOaY-kAo6U2A9hndUmmfUvJMiXk-Tc8UiQHWzaWo8NsPW6GMh8zEhGGNMFidcrZKzG99nZbV7dGS6Ap0/s320/du.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109857099152581730" /></a><br />THE ALOHA CON<br /><br /><br />Du Bois's nightmare of an "interracial free for all", has become reality here in Hawaii. <br /><br /><strong>DuBoise - When I came out of college into the world of work, I realized that it was quite possible that my plan of training a talented tenth might put in control and power a group of selfish, self indulgent, well - to - do men, whose basic interest in solving the Negro Problem was personal; personal freedom and unhampered enjoyment and use of the world, without any real care, or certainly no arousing care, as to what became of the mass of American Negroes, or of the mass of any people.<br /><br />My Talented Tenth, I could see, might result in a sort of interracial free - for - all, with the devil taking the hindmost and the foremost taking anything they could lay hands on.</strong><br /><br /><CENTER><A href="http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/yourtheory/">Your Theory</A><BR><A href="http://www.ringsurf.com">Powered By Ringsurf</A></CENTER>VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-8598340071821894112009-06-09T12:49:00.000-07:002009-06-09T12:58:48.047-07:00I FOUND THEM ALL - THE RIGHT $1 sCIVIL RIGHTS.... <em><strong>HARDER</strong></em> TO FIND<br /><br />April 14, 2009 <br /><br />NBA NEWS BRIEF <br />National Bar Association, 1225 11th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20001<br /><br /> <br /><br />HAWAI'I FRIENDS OF CIVIL RIGHTS HONORS AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS <br /><br /><br />(The African American Lawyers Association (AALA) was one of 4 recipients of the Second Annual Dr. Martin Luther King's, Jr. Friends Awards presented by the Hawai'i Friends of Civil Rights at the Pacific Club on January 25, 2009. <br /><br />AALA founding members <strong>Andre S. Wooten</strong>,<strong> Daphne Barbee-Wooten</strong>, <strong>Sandra Simms</strong> and <strong>Rustam Barbee</strong> were on hand to receive the honors. The award was in recognition of the organizations ongoing efforts to promote justice and equality in our legal system and combat negative stereotypes about African Americans and other marginalized groups since its chartering in 1986. AALA's annual high school essay contests and its members' active and visible involvement in the Hawaii legal community were cited. Certificates of recognition were given by United States Congressman <strong>Neil Abercrombie</strong>, Senator <strong>Clayton Hee</strong> on behalf of the Senate, Representative <strong>Jon Riki Nakamatsu</strong> on behalf of the House, and by Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hanneman. Other AALA founding members include <strong>William Harrison</strong>, <strong>Jerry Wilson</strong>, and the late Judy Weightman. <br /><br />In his acceptance remarks, Rustam Barbee spoke of his father's mentoring of him and his sister's commitment to the quest for civil rights. Lloyd Barbee, was a Wisconsin civil rights attorney and lawmaker who consistently insisted that his is driver's license designate his race as "human". The state of Wisconsin was not amused and consistently returned his license with the race marked as "colored", and later, "Negro".<br /><br />Current officers are President Shana Peete, Vice President Khalid Mutjabaa, Sandra Simms is secretary and Russ Barbee is treasurer. <br /><br />Other HFCR honorees included Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng, UH head basketball Coach Bob Nash, and longtime community activist and founder of the Community Alliance on Prisons, Kat Brady. Dr. Soetoro-Ng's presentation capped a week of extraordinary history-making as she arrived at the event directly from Washington D.C. and the inaugural celebrations that made Hawaii born Barack Obama, the first black President of the United States of America. <br /><br />Faye Kennedy and Dr. Amy Agbayani are the co-chairs and organizers for the Hawai'i Friends of CivilVERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-83252407307625141332009-05-27T14:41:00.000-07:002009-05-27T15:01:14.924-07:00IS THERE A NEW WARNER ACT - BUBBLE, BUBBLE<strong><br />Federal authorities said they would announce today a huge sweep of Latino gang members allegedly responsible for violence against law enforcement and racially motivated attacks against blacks.<br /><br />The announcement followed the arrests of dozens of suspected gang members during raids early this morning. A news release from the U.S. attorney's office called it the "largest gang takedown in United States history."<br /><br />U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O'Brien, along with officials from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is scheduled to speak at a news conference at 11 a.m. at the Lakewood sheriff's station. <br /><br />-Scott Glover</strong><br /><br /><br />Poor would be hard hit by proposed California budget cuts<br />By Eric Bailey and Patrick Mcgreevy<br />The governor suggests dismantling welfare programs for families and ending CalGrants for college students.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><strong>Now this shows you how truly ignorant being in a gang is. If both the Latino and Black gangs got an education, they'd learn they're probably related to each other. Out of the original 44 Pobladores "Founders" ... HALF were either Black or of mixed race!</strong>VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-24517127253901029782009-03-30T13:26:00.000-07:002009-03-30T13:28:32.957-07:00ONLY IN NEW YORK<strong>-----Original Message-----<br />From: yinsay@aol.com<br />To: rddsc@msn.net<br />Sent: Sun, 14 May 2006 4:47 pm<br />Subject: Vernon Balmer - Member of Trinity<br /><br /><br /> <br /> Former New York NAACP OFFICER<br /> Dear Reverend Doctor Cook,<br /> <br />During these few years I have had many people advise and even direct me, I believe, to my detriment and for their own selfish motives. I now know in this situation there are many rewards to be gained for those who want to help or hurt, some who are even close to me. I just read Micah. As always scripture is most revealing and instructive. Below is a gist of the details of my situation. I am thinking in your former capacities in your profession and your vocation as pastor, you may be able to offer some assistance or advice that will help me. </strong>VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-6606271546772396452009-01-20T18:27:00.000-08:002009-02-12T18:20:08.294-08:00SOS - RECYCLED OFFICERS xoxo<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgKiMunlzetNWpSVBHydR5TDWNkIJEJelt6iY47A_XGtiRlVqDXFR4D_Orj1gzqJiQA0emyN7S3ZSPNzY0cV-3JJxw17ZYoaRltlOih9686sDOVEHyTkcC2yN0ucf5RF5Q312mLSi0-sWB/s1600-h/ng.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 93px; height: 128px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgKiMunlzetNWpSVBHydR5TDWNkIJEJelt6iY47A_XGtiRlVqDXFR4D_Orj1gzqJiQA0emyN7S3ZSPNzY0cV-3JJxw17ZYoaRltlOih9686sDOVEHyTkcC2yN0ucf5RF5Q312mLSi0-sWB/s320/ng.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293572762590014322" /></a><br />To Kiss The Hind Quaters Well, is to Know On What Side The Bread Is <strong>Butt</strong> ered<br /><br /><strong>If you get to be part of administration at one organization, they'll pass you around like dice. This insures that those in Hawaii who know how to play the game will always find a cushy seat somewhere in Hawaii.</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Newswatch<br />For Monday, January 19, 2009<br />By Star-Bulletin Staff and News Services</strong> <br /><br /><br /><strong>Civil-rights group hands out awards</strong><br /><br />The Hawaii Friends of Civil Rights is honoring Maya Soetoro-Ng, half sister of President-elect Barack Obama, and three others for their commitment to civil rights and the legacy=2 0of Martin Luther King Jr. <br /><br />Soetoro-Ng, a schoolteacher, will be recognized Sunday for her efforts to promote multiculturalism and racial inclusion during Obama's campaign. Also being honored are:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjhpR-E2LqoUjqocGXEp6sLDUWwVsImTIqJsGtDun_xMW4Ebc0nA2P8TJRcYpFGMuRK3XRzQuiGfNNkjtuJrctLS_gZ87UM9aARUx6rTfWGQGP1BDgclw2UlALaJwg_PPO4C-rT4Q8rBz5/s1600-h/btr.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 104px; height: 95px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjhpR-E2LqoUjqocGXEp6sLDUWwVsImTIqJsGtDun_xMW4Ebc0nA2P8TJRcYpFGMuRK3XRzQuiGfNNkjtuJrctLS_gZ87UM9aARUx6rTfWGQGP1BDgclw2UlALaJwg_PPO4C-rT4Q8rBz5/s320/btr.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293572690343669410" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />» Bob Nash, head basketball coach at the University of Hawaii, for his consistent support of racial, ethnic and gender diversity.<br /><br />» Kat Brady, chairwoman of the Honolulu County Committee on the Status of Women and coordinator of the Community Alliance on Prisons.<br /><br />» The African American Lawyers Association, which advocates for justice and combats negative stereotypes of minorities.<br /><br />The awards event in downtown Honolulu is sold out, and no more reservations are being taken, according to<strong> Faye Kennedy, co-chairwoman of the Friends of Civil Rights</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><CENTER><A href="http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/yourtheory/">Your Theory</A><BR><A href="http://www.ringsurf.com">Powered By Ringsurf</A></CENTER>VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-73614916366281300372008-12-08T12:38:00.000-08:002009-01-20T18:24:46.778-08:00HAWAII SHMOOZ KINGS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGhKTiJd0mJYrW7Y-gVXFWuBZUTtPFD6k4MwAjcpuCWxyrBLECZ4_78MZolX1pXEraAadkErcyofwFUeG0QuwkORL9R1EnAg0azP7iVI7vhZInrnPXS3pMoPjsX5had0Ufi-SXZCQ2p2A/s1600-h/IMG_0102_f.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGhKTiJd0mJYrW7Y-gVXFWuBZUTtPFD6k4MwAjcpuCWxyrBLECZ4_78MZolX1pXEraAadkErcyofwFUeG0QuwkORL9R1EnAg0azP7iVI7vhZInrnPXS3pMoPjsX5had0Ufi-SXZCQ2p2A/s320/IMG_0102_f.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278257262949986530" /></a><br /><br />Pledged At-Large Obama Faye Kennedy(NAACP,HCRC) Honolulu, HIVERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-90408420401137088912008-10-20T14:56:00.000-07:002008-10-21T19:46:28.586-07:00THERE'S NO STOPPING THEM NOW<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmMj7FJb2qEzKjm1VUy-Uv356nuUGnskT0j10gYy9M72k8ppKV2L-mBAUPNXZjXrODYcL0CbWz_Cp-QF7rz0FuwDi5Kdh0-gZzTkIazu7xa-TH3gi0lemmohNCL5-Hwv2jQwG7zCxGhhj/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmMj7FJb2qEzKjm1VUy-Uv356nuUGnskT0j10gYy9M72k8ppKV2L-mBAUPNXZjXrODYcL0CbWz_Cp-QF7rz0FuwDi5Kdh0-gZzTkIazu7xa-TH3gi0lemmohNCL5-Hwv2jQwG7zCxGhhj/s320/images.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259362275910046866" /></a><br /><br />THE NAACP IN HAWAII CONTINUES IT'S LONG TRADITION OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiitnRFrURfWIAoJgCYfTMj9OY81WWBSldvXteDtt_Sz1umccmPNC9EpSdYwGOt8iXc-HaBsqe_3wyRQ9nbfkdXnWLWL4AgVJHURJp94eL9i3R4OWEP3xJb9WmV7pQOAjwcy9UHzG6-a_Bz/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiitnRFrURfWIAoJgCYfTMj9OY81WWBSldvXteDtt_Sz1umccmPNC9EpSdYwGOt8iXc-HaBsqe_3wyRQ9nbfkdXnWLWL4AgVJHURJp94eL9i3R4OWEP3xJb9WmV7pQOAjwcy9UHzG6-a_Bz/s320/images.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259803999829355122" /></a><br /><br /><br />RA RA<br /><br /><br />NAACP to lead Waikiki march against HTA exec - Business News ...Sep 26, 2008 ... The Hawaii Chapter of the NAACP along with several other civil rights ... In August, the HTA board elected not to fire Johnson for the ...<br />www.starbulletin.com/business/businessnews/20080926_NAACP_to_lead_Waikiki_march_against_HTA_exec.html - 93k - Cached - Similar pagesVERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-29284040023803746162008-08-14T18:49:00.000-07:002008-08-14T19:42:28.886-07:00WERE THEY BITCHIN TOO ???<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfmkqKIy86E464aDg2C4zVdRzDo42rW039fnM3Pg7IPOfNBfvTXn5QNuvj1dwG_guHUH50BpiGOLRy5-vFF4djcvxUNxR07QXuI90cSVTH7eg39nyek7LD7aUabh8DemILeVVga47o0yS1/s1600-h/fws.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfmkqKIy86E464aDg2C4zVdRzDo42rW039fnM3Pg7IPOfNBfvTXn5QNuvj1dwG_guHUH50BpiGOLRy5-vFF4djcvxUNxR07QXuI90cSVTH7eg39nyek7LD7aUabh8DemILeVVga47o0yS1/s320/fws.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234562304233220690" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Holocaust Compensation and Restitution By Country<br /> <br />Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia <br />Czech Republic Denmark Estonia France <br />Germany Greece Hungary Israel Italy <br />Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia<br />Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Russia<br />Serbia-Montenegro Slovakia Sweden Ukraine <br />UK <br /> <br /><strong>International Venues </strong><br /> <br /><strong>Belgian announces $170 million in compensation for Holocaust ...</strong><br /><br /><br /><strong>,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisPcXpR-ZSiFZzbcL2tR7MEriNsjVvvCuBHJzb9HZsdyZLHB936th4PTyceupfYJDZhV6Jl_-T-yG5eo_D6cxZkv7nN-_F81c1QleOjMIMF6dT5yklYknAEzTeUBpDx4YVUJBfNSU_Yd0r/s1600-h/j.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisPcXpR-ZSiFZzbcL2tR7MEriNsjVvvCuBHJzb9HZsdyZLHB936th4PTyceupfYJDZhV6Jl_-T-yG5eo_D6cxZkv7nN-_F81c1QleOjMIMF6dT5yklYknAEzTeUBpDx4YVUJBfNSU_Yd0r/s320/j.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234562633963953522" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Compensation for Japanese <strong>Canadian </strong>Internees - Sidebar - MSN EncartaOTTAWA — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will announce a $200-million compensation <br /><br />The bill on redress was finally signed into law by Ronald Reagan on August 10, 1988 and named the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. The Civil Liberties Act acknowledged the federal government’s wrongdoings against Japanese Americans during World War II through a formal apology. In addition, the act also appropriated over a billion dollars in compensation to be paid to each surviving internee ($20,000 per individual),<br /><br /><br />,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig8Pn4FKbik92umsqif3SJo4HwC0c3CPmXLyQY1WAs6WDm-LGLegTpx96gqym1tEVRoHwE-ZyrdYKRbcvtcu3O5tiHnGW3jgDRC_D0NPBFeGZ8399mZoaCpwZTz-g_eqsFMhlUCsGJqJ8q/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig8Pn4FKbik92umsqif3SJo4HwC0c3CPmXLyQY1WAs6WDm-LGLegTpx96gqym1tEVRoHwE-ZyrdYKRbcvtcu3O5tiHnGW3jgDRC_D0NPBFeGZ8399mZoaCpwZTz-g_eqsFMhlUCsGJqJ8q/s320/images.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234565284696250258" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Native Americans seek restitution. (Misplaced Trust). from Other Side, ... the U.S. government is $137.2 billion overdue on trust fund payments to them.<br /><br />$100 billion owed to native americans.. (generations, Democrats ...<br /><br />Indian suit seeks $58 billion (Forbes) « Native Headline NewsIndian suit seeks $58 billion (Forbes). Posted on March 24, 2008 by rj. 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BALDOR</strong></strong>VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-5342382316982826742007-11-15T13:47:00.000-08:002008-12-11T18:54:18.238-08:00HE SHOULD HAVE JOINED THE ARMY<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMH6r3IbbkDMHMw6vJH7wf26NbV3Bs88E14WZ7VFvXScx43Q3flEnatUadvpov7TrkTgxzGpkNLSaWquGmYSOMhRo6kEo6KomY_PI7JsKNPjVDYIOiQaWW2i4SWzq_lMPjWVeDXY_b8iHd/s1600-h/dead.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMH6r3IbbkDMHMw6vJH7wf26NbV3Bs88E14WZ7VFvXScx43Q3flEnatUadvpov7TrkTgxzGpkNLSaWquGmYSOMhRo6kEo6KomY_PI7JsKNPjVDYIOiQaWW2i4SWzq_lMPjWVeDXY_b8iHd/s320/dead.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133187580788186866" /></a><br /><br /><br />Homicide in childhood:<br />a <strong>public health problem </strong>in need of attention.<br /><br />Psicologia & Sociedade - Homicide as a <strong>public health problem</strong> in ...<br /><br />HOMICIDE AS <strong>A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM </strong>IN THE CITY OF CAMPO GRANDE ...<br /><br />LOW INCOME LEVELS AND INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME AFRICAN ...<br />The homicide rate for nonwhites has averaged 24.6 deaths per 100000 ... to be a <strong>health problem </strong>of major proportions in Virginia and elsewhere," he said. ...<br />www.virginia.edu/topnews/textonlyarchive/February_1995/puryear.txt - 7k - Cached - Similar pages<br /><br /><br /><br />THE WARNER ACT<br />Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a <strong>natural disaster,</strong> <strong>epidemic, or other serious public health emergency</strong>, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-4379517792408099182007-11-15T12:55:00.000-08:002013-02-25T16:23:29.933-08:00NOT THE FIRST TIME, IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyFFVkkbToO68RwmIhfRLdBF7aEjTjITbku2kvJclaVZCFYznSRoVKfRi2e8nGzUul2wrwIbtSHCPrR2uaM6biDaKFsnjEHdKdsU4pNlxkNpp_RBzAwqi5Ea-YZlK9KZ0CuTcn3wcaGgS/s1600-h/050927_katrina_rumors_hmed12p.hmedium"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259372338445412738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyFFVkkbToO68RwmIhfRLdBF7aEjTjITbku2kvJclaVZCFYznSRoVKfRi2e8nGzUul2wrwIbtSHCPrR2uaM6biDaKFsnjEHdKdsU4pNlxkNpp_RBzAwqi5Ea-YZlK9KZ0CuTcn3wcaGgS/s320/050927_katrina_rumors_hmed12p.hmedium" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br />
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<strong><br />In a stealth maneuver,</strong> President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), <strong>will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law </strong>(1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions. <br />
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allows the President to declare a <strong>"public emergency" </strong>and station troops <strong>anywhere in America </strong>and <strong>take control </strong>of state-based National Guard units <strong>without the consent of the governor or local authorities,</strong> in order to <strong>""suppress public disorder.""</strong><br />
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enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America.<br />
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Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."<br />
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Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, <strong>"in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."</strong><br />
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<strong>Rex 84 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, is a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to detain large numbers of American ...<br />en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84 - 29k - Cached - Similar pages<br /><br />Rex 84: FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in AmericaThe plan is called REX 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984. Through Rex-84 an undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation throughout ...<br />www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3010 - 48k - Cached - Similar pages<br /><br />FEMA And REX 84REX 84 was so highly guarded that special metal security doors were placed on the fifth floor of the FEMA building in Washington, D.C. Even long-standing ...<br />uweb.txstate.edu/~lf14/conspire/rex84.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages<br /><br />Video results for rex 84<br />Oliver North Questioned - Rex 84 Exposed ...<br />2 min 3 sec<br />www.youtube.com <br /><br /><br />Congress is kept away from Rex 84 FEMA camp ...<br />1 min 40 sec<br />www.youtube.com </strong><br />
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<strong>Most Americans had never even heard of this obscure government agency before syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported in October 1984 that FEMA had prepared bizarre "standby legislation" that would, in the event of a national crisis, "suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, effectively eliminate private property, abolish free enterprise, and generally clamp Americans in a totalitarian vise." In any self-respecting banana republic, such a document might be called a blueprint for a coup d'état. FEMA called it "national security" planning.</strong><br />
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<strong>Alas, FEMA's ambitious plans were truncated shortly after the Rex-84 games, when Attorney General William French Smith complained about the agency's attempted power grab. In a letter addressed to North's boss (and fellow Iran-Contra player), Robert McFarlane, Smith warned that FEMA was trying to anoint itself "emergency czar." And, as Smith demurred, FEMA's generous definition of crisis encompassed "'routine' domestic law emergencies." Smith's objections apparently killed the draft executive order.</strong><br />
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<strong>The men from Blackwater USA arrived in New Orleans right after Katrina hit. The company known for its private security work guarding senior US diplomats in ...<br />www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/scahill - 43k - Cached - Similar pages<br /><br />Alan Maass: "A Mercenary Army"Maass: YOU WERE probably the first journalist to discover that Blackwater was on the scene in New Orleans, in the days right after Hurricane Katrina struck. ...<br />www.counterpunch.org/maass06022006.html - 100k - Cached - Similar pages</strong><br />
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<strong>Featured Article - WSJ.comBut we have not heard from enough Rwandans or Bosnians. ... gathered in compounds (large church complexes, schools and even stadiums) where they had assumed ...<br />www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006052 - 19k - Cached - Similar pages</strong><br />
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<strong>Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Louisiana Superdome - Wikipedia ...Approximately 9000 residents and 550 National Guardsmen rode out the night in the Superdome as Katrina came ashore. Maj. Gen. ...<br />en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_Hurricane_Katrina_on_the_Louisiana_Superdome - 41k - Cached - Similar pages<br /><br /><br />The soldiers, some back from Iraq, have orders to shoot to kill looters and gunmen. There are now 30,000 national guard troops and 3,000 regular soldiers on the US Gulf coast.<br /><br />Kathleen Blanco, the governor of Louisiana, said: "They have M-16s, and they're locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill ... they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will."</strong><br />
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<span><strong>1979 </strong>A report from the Surgeon General of the United States: <i>Healthy peo-ple: The Surgeon General’s report on health promotion and disease prevention </i>identifies violence as one of the 15 priority areas for the nation. The report states that violence can be prevented and should not be ignored in the effort to improve the nation’s health. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span><strong>1981 </strong>CDC epidemiologists begin one of the first collaborative efforts with law enforcement to investigate a series of child murders in Georgia. <strong>1983 </strong>CDC establishes the Violence Epidemiology Branch to focus its public health efforts in violence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666542154501867417.post-54663798493728634952007-11-05T13:03:00.001-08:002008-12-11T18:54:20.547-08:00NAACP IN HAWAII - YAKITY, YAK<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6a9QnXXfxYIU99KrD-Yzpp70JJkQGlulmY7M2lhMq_hW41KV1LCNdKX_1gpe7qPUUTmpiTqUuNqj2HdVwqdyX2Zwz79nRjqWUd42bZk4fDNwJEwsi5v5eUXCOlFZgmzwYFPNANB3AC7L-/s1600-h/premonition-of-civil-war.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6a9QnXXfxYIU99KrD-Yzpp70JJkQGlulmY7M2lhMq_hW41KV1LCNdKX_1gpe7qPUUTmpiTqUuNqj2HdVwqdyX2Zwz79nRjqWUd42bZk4fDNwJEwsi5v5eUXCOlFZgmzwYFPNANB3AC7L-/s320/premonition-of-civil-war.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129488935465554418" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ak3bIYuqO-H-mpiQC4MnyVmuUX-6fzAEmy-c0kjCE32FibUDSSkZJ3W3GRSI1SYZqrBQsWB7feZwT6JCkD4srzHc-tZCPCSN3UeNQImVAXbA-PfUHxmpWt9DJbx2fqKgT4wCAdvDU6be/s1600-h/CAYJ4X6J.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ak3bIYuqO-H-mpiQC4MnyVmuUX-6fzAEmy-c0kjCE32FibUDSSkZJ3W3GRSI1SYZqrBQsWB7feZwT6JCkD4srzHc-tZCPCSN3UeNQImVAXbA-PfUHxmpWt9DJbx2fqKgT4wCAdvDU6be/s320/CAYJ4X6J.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129488308400329186" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOUXaYxosvj20ntuF2LgATIC9larX6Jewfg9yECalv4IUGJqHtzuJ1jWX0sdmP5ReYhDtb1KvhTFSvaxVmFBNvn8DPXt7Yq5SfS83X1ExA8iexqVpMN2KeGzjLSlRd9_gUpW6tI2VNb93M/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOUXaYxosvj20ntuF2LgATIC9larX6Jewfg9yECalv4IUGJqHtzuJ1jWX0sdmP5ReYhDtb1KvhTFSvaxVmFBNvn8DPXt7Yq5SfS83X1ExA8iexqVpMN2KeGzjLSlRd9_gUpW6tI2VNb93M/s320/images.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129483906058850770" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6icrIJ8nHMs-ExucOcX9PiS-ccmAcwlWZfyzzGRzt_cknLdYpFo1rK6zWdqlIoJmRTFZTij54047pqJ_DRMtpB_TN9OIAlgpvnc3tUY39f53x0H7xjMluyMwqVx3ejb0CbIb-VJC6i5_G/s1600-h/NEWS_cc.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6icrIJ8nHMs-ExucOcX9PiS-ccmAcwlWZfyzzGRzt_cknLdYpFo1rK6zWdqlIoJmRTFZTij54047pqJ_DRMtpB_TN9OIAlgpvnc3tUY39f53x0H7xjMluyMwqVx3ejb0CbIb-VJC6i5_G/s320/NEWS_cc.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129465068332290498" /></a><br /> <br /><strong> Posted on: Saturday, November 3, 2007 <br />Hawaii NAACP sets forum on Chapman racial slurs</strong><br /><br /><strong>Linda Lingle - Let's Talk About Discrimination In Hawaii</strong><br /><br />This indulgence over local fopahs and incidents,<br />that granted, require some address, is what leaves leadership<br />impotent, when it comes to the truly destructive elements and <br />machinations by entities that will effect black people in ways<br />that have final, long lasting, and residual effects.<br /><br /><strong>"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""</strong><br /><br /><strong>Indian Leaders Offer to Settle Largest Class Action Lawsuit Against Federal Government in U.S. History</strong><br /><br /><br /><strong>Indian tribes expel members</strong><br />Story Highlights<br />Tribal leadership examines blood ties more closely<br /><br />Questions frequently surround gambling revenue distribution<br /><br />Those who are kicked out have few avenues for appeal <br /><strong>PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) </strong><br /><br /><strong><br />Cherokee Nation Ousts Blacks</strong><br /><br /><br />What makes the <strong>Seminoles </strong>unique is that this tribe, unlike any other, has existed for nearly three centuries as a mixture of Indians and blacks, runaway slaves who joined the Indians as warriors in <strong>Florida.</strong><br /><br />(CBS) Indian tribes across the country are reaping <strong>windfall profits </strong>these days, usually from gambling operations. But some, like the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, are getting rich from from belated government payouts for lands taken hundreds of years ago. <br /><br /><strong>"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""</strong><br /><br /><br /><strong>Cocaine sentence disparity just adds pain </strong><br /><br /><strong>OVER 20 YEARS OF THE "UNJUST" FEDERAL CRACK COCAINE LAW!!!The federal crack cocaine sentencing policy has devastated many African American families and communities, sending mothers and fathers away to prison to ...<br />journals.aol.com/.../entries/2007/09/28/over-20-years-of-the-unjust-federal-crack-cocaine-law/1366 - 52k - Cached - Similar pages </strong><br /><br /><br /><strong><br />The disparity</strong> became a racial concern because <strong>crack cocaine was considered a "black" drug in that most users and sellers were African-American,</strong> while powder cocaine was thought to be used mainly by whites. An unlikely coalition of lawyers, activists and even members of the U.S. Sentencing Commission - an independent agency within the federal judiciary - has urged Congress to reform the laws, <strong>citing the toll of long prison terms on African-American families in drug-infested neighborhoods.</strong><br /><br /><strong>Experts say the crack/powder laws grew out of the belief by many officials in the 1980s that a wave of violent crimes committed by out-of-control crack addicts (usually depicted in the media as black males) needed to be addressed with the toughest methods possible. </strong><br /><br /><strong>"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""</strong><br /><br /><strong>Gangs are a Minority ProblemStereotype 1. Gangs are a Black and Hispanic Problem ... Most gang members today are Black or Hispanic, not white. It certainly hasn't always been that way. ...<br />gangresearch.net/GangResearch/Seminars/stereotypes/BlHisp.html - 5k - Cached - Similar pages </strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), <strong>will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial l</strong>aw (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions. <br /><br />Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, <strong>allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."</strong><br /><br /><br />President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks <strong>to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."</strong><br /><br /><strong>Section 1076</strong> of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may <strong>employ the armed forces</strong>, including the National Guard in Federal service, to <strong>restore public order </strong>and <strong>enforce the laws</strong> of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other <strong>serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition </strong>in any State or possession of the United States, <strong>the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent </strong>that the <strong>constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order</strong>, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, <strong>domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."</strong><br /><br />For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; <strong>conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - </strong>protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.<br /><br /><strong>"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""</strong><br /><br /><br />FILM<br />What's Race Got to Do With It?<br />A new PBS documentary series explores the complicated and controversial connection between social inequality and health.<br /><br /><br />By Raina Kelley | Newsweek Web Exclusive<br />Apr 11, 2008 <br /> <br />From the Editors (2) Can Racism Make You Sick? <br />Class, Race and Cancer Care <br />See All <br /><br />In "Unnatural Causes," the filmmakers raise other disturbing conundrums. For example, the United States spends more than twice the average of other industrialized countries on health care and yet does worse than 28 other countries in life expectancy and 29 other countries in infant mortality. Why are children living in poverty about seven times as likely to be in poor or fair health than children living in high-income households? And why has HIV infection doubled in the African-American population but remained stable among whites? According to the film, the answers are at least in part related to economic conditions, "a continuous health gradient tied to wealth. At each step down the socioeconomic ladder—from the rich to the middle class to the poor—people tend to be sicker and die sooner," the narrator says.<br /><br /><strong>But that's not the whole story. African-Americans, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders at all income levels fare worse than their white counterparts</strong><br /><br /><strong>AND THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT DUANE " DOG " CHAPMAN</strong>VERNON BALMER JR.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10510264896821070272noreply@blogger.com2