Mass and Cass Crime

For John, BLUF:  When the local news starts reporting on crime in areas where the homeless congregate it is a sign that action needs to be taken.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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‘I’m unnerved by it’:  Attorney calls for change after he says he was attacked while driving through Boston

From WHDH (7 News), by Reporter Nick Emmons, 9 December 2021.

Here is the lede plus three:

BOSTON (WHDH) - A local attorney says he feared for his life after he was attacked while driving in Boston.

After meeting with a client at the South Bay jail, Hassan Williams said he beeped at a man for blocking traffic near an intersection in the area of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard — an area plagued by homelessness and drug use.

That is when he said another man came forward and began swinging a broken piece of a wheelchair at his car.  The discarded footpad shattered Williams’ windshield and passenger side window and ended up on the floorboard among scattered shards of glass.  Another person allegedly threw some food at the car as well.

“I have food and bodily fluids all over my car because I couldn’t get out of the car, because I have a mob sitting outside the car.  I couldn’t stay in the car because I have a guy smashing my car,” he explained.  “I’m like, what the heck am I gonna do?”

The first lesson to be learned is that one should avoid locations where the homeless congregate.

The second lesson to be learned is that if in an area where homeless congregate one should not call attention to oneself, nor should one irritate the homeless milling around.

That said, this is about policing in cities.  There need to be minimum standards of behavior, enforced.  There needs to be mental health help for those who need it.  Open drug markets need to be suppressed.  Safe spaces to walk zre needed.  This is local government.  Stte Government can help, but it is about local government setting and enforcing stndards.  And it is about local residents getting out and voting.  Nothing gets the attention of politicians like a strong voter turnout

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

For John, BLUF:  This is a repeat post, after the first one, which was based on a Press Release, but not from Boston.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Votes are counted but still no resolution in Republican state committeewoman race

Here is the sub-headline:

Lyons demands resignation of city election board

From The Boston Herald, by Reporters Marie Szaniszlo and Erin Tiernan, 29 March 2021.♠

Here is the lede plus three:

GOP Chairman Jim Lyons blasted city of Boston election officials, calling for their resignation after the sudden appearance of more than 120 ballots in a year-old, disputed race for a seat on the Republican State Committee.

“They didn’t count lawfully cast ballots. The system is absolutely broken, and this is the evidence.  Every single member of that commission should resign immediately.  Election integrity in the city of Boston is a failure,” Lyons said.

The Boston Board of Election Commissioners on Saturday conducted a recount of the race for the committee seat for the Second Suffolk District.

In the process, they found a four-fold increase in write-in ballots and came up with a result at odds with the party’s appointment to the seat.

The Media and the Democrats can dismiss this as nothing, but it is actually footprints in the almost invisible dust of voter fraud.  And if not outright fraud, then neglect to the extent it subverts the voting process.

Mass GOP Chairman Jim Lyons is right to raise this issue.  A little of the light of day on this and perhaps we will get a better performance next time, with less hassle.

And, a year late.  At least the recount was finally executed, a year later, a year late.  This is very disrespectful.

But, it is Massachusetts and probably no one cares, since it is about Republicans.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  I have been trying to add the time from the dateline, but this was "7:54 p.m." on the 29th, which hasn't yet come to pass.  Strange and not yet understandable.

Vote Counting Error in Boston

For John, BLUF:  It is things like this that raise questions in the minds of voters.  This incident is not "misleading, false and bizarre", to borrow from the Associated Press.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Statement from Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons on Second Suffolk District State Committeewoman recount

From Mass GOP, 27 March 2021 (Communications Director Evan Lips).

Here is the Press Release:

Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons issued the following statement today after a recount of last March's election for Second Suffolk Republican State Committeewoman saw totals that dwarfed the count confirmed by the Boston Election Department more than a year ago:

"What does it say about the Boston Election Department that a year after certifying just 40 write-in votes spread across three candidates, today they somehow managed to 'find' 167 votes? This is an indication that the Boston Board of Election Commissioners is either completely incompetent, in the pocket of the Democrat Party machine, or both. Everyone on that commission should have to resign immediately. The recount proves that Boston Election Division actively disenfranchised Republican voters a year ago, and they should have to answer for that.

"Based on this information we can also safely assume this same Democrat electioneering machine successfully worked to knock another Republican write-in candidate, Rayla Campbell, off of the November ballot to ensure that incumbent Democrat U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley wouldn't even have to campaign last fall.

If the Boston Election Division can successfully disenfranchise Republican voters in the March 2020 primary, you have to believe they did the same to voters who wrote in Rayla's (Campbell) name last September."

"They didn't count lawfully cast ballots. The system is absolutely broken, and this is the evidence. Every single member of that commission should resign immediately. Election integrity in the city of Boston is a failure."

Background:

On March 3, 2020, there was no declared winner among the three Boston Republicans competing as write-in candidates for the vacant Second Suffolk State Committeewoman seat, as no candidate satisfied Boston's 50-vote threshold for certification.

After a year's worth of litigation, the Boston Board of Election Commissioners announced on Tuesday that a recount would be conducted Saturday, March 27.

The Boston Election Department's confirmed March 3, 2020 totals saw 25 votes for write-in candidate Nicaela Brady Chinnaswamy, nine votes for write-in candidate Rachel Virginia Kemp, and six votes for write-in candidate Eleanor C. Greene.

Saturday's recount saw Boston election officials certify 65 votes for Chinnaswamy, 52 votes for Kemp, and 50 votes for Greene, for a total of 167 votes, more than four times as many than previously certified following the March 3, 2020, election.

Following the Sept. 1, 2020, U.S. House Republican primary, The Boston Election Division certified 568 write-in votes for Rayla Campbell, who needed at least 2,000 votes spread out across seven municipalities, to have her name certified for the November general election ballot versus incumbent U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley.

Campbell finished with 1,202 certified write-in votes, distributed across seven cities and towns.

The recount rate established Saturday, if applied to Campbell's Sept. 1 totals, would have Campbell potentially receive over 2,000 votes in Boston alone, more than enough to qualify for the November ballot.

Comment from 2020 7th Congressional District Republican candidate Rayla Campbell:

"This is an example of one-party Democrat control that violates my rights, and disenfranchises Black Republican conservative voters in the city of Boston. After learning about the dramatic change during Saturday's recount, how can any Republican voters think otherwise?"

Communications Director Evan Lips can be reached at (617) 523-5005 ext. 245, (press@massgop.com).

The conclusion to be drawn is that not every local town or city election operation is up to snuff.  The will of the People is not being reflected, at least if those Citizens are Republican.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

And What Did He Do About It?

For John, BLUF:  It is beginning to appear that Special Counsel Robert Mueller, appealing to the same higher morality that former FBI Director James Comey appeals to, has the ethics of an Andrew Weissmann.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Howie Carr:  Come clean on FBI frame-up, Bob Mueller

Do you think the Special Counsel spaces holds a sign that reads:

Winning is Everything.
Ethics is for Losers.

From The Boston Herald and the computer of Howie Carr, Thursday, 12 April 2018.

Here is the lede plus six:

What did Bob Mueller know about the FBI’s framing of four innocent men for a murder they didn’t commit, and when did he know it?

This is an important question for the “special counsel,” and for two days I’ve been emailing his press office, asking for answers about his tenure in the U.S. attorney’s office here, specifically, his time as acting US attorney in 1986-87.

No response.  Zip, zero, nada.

This is a major FBI scandal, perhaps the most outrageous one in American history.  The FBI railroaded four men to prison for a murder the G-men knew they did not commit, and then made sure they remained in prison for upwards of 30 years.

They (or their estates, because two of them died in prison) were eventually awarded a total of $102 million in 2007 by a federal judge for false imprisonment.

The four men were Henry Tameleo, Peter Limone, Louis Greco and Joseph Salvati.  They were convicted of murdering a small-time hoodlum named Teddy Deegan in a Chelsea alley in March 1965.  An FBI informant named Joe Barboza committed perjury in a state trial in 1968, to settle some old scores and protect one of his old friends, another serial killer who was the brother of another serial-killing FBI informant.

The FBI knew Barboza was lying. On March 19, 1965, one of the crooked G-men in the office, who later died in a prison hospital while under indictment for a 1981 gangland hit in Tulsa, wrote a memo to J. Edgar Hoover pointing out the names of the actual murderers of Deegan.

And then there is this take.  Newsmax, back on Sunday, 8 April of this year had this headline:  "Alan Dershowitz Rips Special Counsel Mueller as 'a Partisan and Zealot'".  And the same frame up of four innocent men comes up in the article.  The reporter is Mr Eric Mack.

Ripping FBI special counsel Robert Mueller as a political "zealot," Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz reminded staunch Mueller supporters about the former FBI director's role in protecting "notorious mass murderer" Whitey Bulger as an FBI informant.

"I think Mueller is a zealot," Dershowitz told "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM-N.Y. ". . .  I don't think he cares whether he hurts Democrats or Republicans, but he's a partisan and zealot.

"He's the guy who kept four innocent people in prison for many years in order to protect the cover of Whitey Bulger as an FBI informer.  Those of us in Boston don't have such a high regard for Mueller because we remember this story.  The government had to pay out tens of millions of dollars because Whitey Bulger, a notorious mass murderer, became a government informer against the mafia ...

Yes, my membership in the ACLU has lapsed, because they are doing nothing for us.  They even rolled over for the raid on President Trump's personal lawyer, Mr Cohen.  Not even a whimper.♠

Hat tip to the The Howie Carr Show.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Blind rage against another person can be an ugly thing.  Worse is a self-righteous belief that one is saving the world from pure evil.

Is Democracy Over?

For John, BLUF:  Local Lowell guy gets fired for participating in a free speech rally.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Rally organizer sues Marty Walsh for $100M

Here is the sub-headline:

Claims mayor comments ‘reckless’

This is The Boston Herald, Dan Atkinson and Laurel Sweet reporting, 25 October 2017.

Right off the bat, I want to say this is outrageous.  This isn't worth much more then $20 million in actual damages.  And I will tell Brandon that the next time I see him.

Here is the lede plus one:

An organizer of a recent Free Speech Rally in Boston has filed a $100 million lawsuit against Mayor Martin J. Walsh after he says Walsh purposefully defamed the group as neo-Nazis, which led to him being hounded by internet activists and losing his job.

Lowell resident Brandon Navom filed a civil suit in Berkshire County Superior Court Monday that claimed Walsh made “knowing lies or reckless false statements” about the organizers behind the August rally, which drew a few dozen speakers and more than 20,000 counterprotesters to the Common.  He’s seeking $50 million in actual damages, $50 million in punitive damages and a declaration that Walsh’s statements were “false and defamatory.”

And, Brandon loses his job but Football Player Colin Kaepernick, and his friends, keep their high paying jobs.  And that is outrageous.

The nation is doomed, and democracy across the globe is doomed if we don't stop shutting down free speech.  You may not like what a person has to say, but you should either walk away or respectfully listen.  How would it be if I claimed Marty Walsh was a full blown Stalinist?  It would be wrong, because we know that Joseph Staff murdered more people than live in all of Suffolk County, several times over.  Remember, the tallest building in Moscow has always been the Lubyanka Prison, for from there you can see all the way to Siberia.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

The Globe Leans Left

For John, BLUF:  It appears The Boston Globle is part of the Ctrl Left.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Some of the best [Antifa] signs from today’s Boston Common rallies

Regards  —  Cliff