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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (985)1/11/2013 5:59:20 PM
From: joseffy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 16547
 
David Gregory is off the hook for showing a high-capacity gun magazine on “Meet the Press” and will not be prosecuted, D.C.’s attorney general announced on Friday.

D.C. attorney general Irvin Nathan
on Friday said he would decline to prosecute in the case involving the Sunday show host and any NBC staffers. In a letter to NBC’s attorney Lee Levine, Nathan wrote that after reviewing the matter, his office “has determined to exercise its prosecutorial discretion to decline to bring criminal charges against Mr. Gregory, who has no criminal record, or any other NBC employee based on the events associated” with the broadcast.

Read more: politico.com



To: d[-_-]b who wrote (985)1/11/2013 6:08:40 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
 
David Gregory says, "It's good to be a member the elite."




To: d[-_-]b who wrote (985)1/11/2013 6:13:03 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
 
David Gregory’s privileged firearms fandango

D.C. attorney general should prosecute NBC host



By Emily Miller The Washington Times Thursday, January 10, 2013

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    David Gregory holding a 30-round magazine at NBC’s Washington bureau (NBC/Meet the ... more >


  • NBC’s David Gregory has gotten away for nearly a month with violating Washington’s firearms law on national television. The Metropolitan Police Department concluded its official investigation into the “Meet the Press” host’s display of a prohibited 30-round rifle magazine on the live program, passing the buck to the District's Office of the by Text-Enhance">Attorney General (OAG).

    In an by Text-Enhance">email to The Washington Times on Wednesday, Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier’s spokesman, Gwendolyn Crump, said the matter “has been presented to the OAG for a determination of the prosecutorial merit of the case.” While Mr. Gregory got away without being arrested, 105 other people were booked by police last year on charges that included possession of “high-capacity” feeding devices.

    OAG spokesman Ted Gest told us the decision on whether to prosecute Mr. Gregory would come “possibly this week.” Firearms by Text-Enhance">lawyer Richard Gardiner was not suprised by Chief Lanier’s referral of the case without arrest.

    “This is not unusual for high-profile cases. The police investigate the facts and give the results to the prosecutor to decide whether to bring charges,” he explained. “It’s also routine in cases like this where the crime was not committed in police officers’ presence.” If the OAG decides to proceed, a by Text-Enhance">warrant for Mr. Gregory’s arrest will be sought.

    Ms. Crump would not say whether the Sunday-show host was interviewed or a search warrant issued, as might be done in more ordinary circumstances.

    Asked whether it was normal for the police not to interview a suspect as part of an investigation, Mr. Gardiner said it depends. “The police usually only interview people who are not sophisticated and wealthy, because the police figure they don’t have counsel and so don’t know that they can say, ‘no,’” he explained.

    Mr. Gardiner defended James Brinkley in court after the Secret Service arrested and jailed the Army veteran in September on charges that he brought “high-capacity” magazines and an unregistered gun into the District. The OAG stubbornly refused to drop the charges, despite overwhelming evidence that Mr. Brinkley followed all the laws of the District in transporting these legally owned items through the city.

    Mr. Brinkley refused to accept a plea by Text-Enhance">bargain that would have meant a guilty plea to a lesser charge and decided instead to take his chances before a judge. Mr. Brinkley described D.C. Assistant by Text-Enhance">Attorney General Rachel Bohlen as “coming at me like I’d shot somebody” in the courtroom. Nevertheless, Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Carroll Wingo acquitted Mr. Brinkley on all the firearms charges.

    Mr. Gregory’s case is also similar to that of former Army Spc. Adam Meckler, who was arrested in 2011 for the nonthreatening crime of unknowingly bringing unregistered ammunition — without a gun — into the city. Spc. Meckler regrets accepting a deal from the attorney general that required him to plead guilty, pay a fine and be put on the District’s Gun Offenders’ Registry.

    Right now, the White House is mulling over the use of executive orders to impose gun control, and the Senate is looking to enact national restrictions on certain types of rifles and rifle magazines. Lawmakers need to realize there are real-life consequences to enacting these onerous restrictions.

    If such laws are going to stay on the books, then Mr. Gregory should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, just as Mr. Brinkley and Spc. Meckler were. Mr. Gregory’s misdeed is hardly the crime of the century, but as long as the District prosecutes offenders, nobody should get a pass, not even famous and wealthy television stars.

    Read more: washingtontimes.com
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    To: d[-_-]b who wrote (985)1/11/2013 6:55:14 PM
    From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
     
    Two Americas.

    Two sets of Law.






    To: d[-_-]b who wrote (985)1/11/2013 6:57:00 PM
    From: joseffy2 Recommendations  Respond to of 16547
     
    Every person who has been prosecuted/persecuted under this law should immediately file suit.

    There couldn't be any clearer violation of equal protection.



    To: d[-_-]b who wrote (985)1/11/2013 7:00:13 PM
    From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
     
    DC Attorney General with David Gregory's wife






    To: d[-_-]b who wrote (985)1/14/2013 6:39:04 PM
    From: joseffy4 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 16547
     
    DON'T YOU DARE ever use these RACIST words:

    unemployment

    photo ID

    Chicago

    EBT Card

    Solyndra

    Benghazi

    Constitution

    Choom Gang

    Birth Certificate

    Golf

    Food Stamp

    Vacation



    To: d[-_-]b who wrote (985)1/15/2013 11:52:35 AM
    From: joseffy2 Recommendations  Respond to of 16547
     
    Al Gore is No Run of the Mill Hypocrite

    January 14, 2013 i by Bernard Goldberg
    bernardgoldberg.com

    Now that we’re done chuckling over Al Gore’s breathtaking hypocrisy regarding the by Text-Enhance">sale of his Current TV to Al Jazeera — a news outfit owned by Qatar, a country that gets its money from the same oil that Al Gore tells us will destroy the planet – and now that we’ve stopped rolling our eyes over the fact that Gore publicly says the rich need to pay higher taxes then tries to avoid paying higher capital gains taxes by closing the deal by midnight December 31, let’s move on to the really ugly stuff.

    You may recall that Gore wouldn’t even sit down with Glenn Beck who wanted to buy Current TV because Gore’s values were way out of whack with Beck’s. Gore and his business partner Joel Hyatt, a Democratic fundraiser, wanted to sell to an organization that shared their journalistic values.

    So they sold to Al Jazeera. Okay, so what should we make of these inconvenient truths that we learned about in a Wall Street Journal column by Gordon Crovitz:

    In 2008, Al Jazeera threw an on-air party for a Palestinian terrorist who had just been released from an Israeli prison. In 1979 he kidnapped an Israeli family and killed their 4-year old daughter by smashing her head on some rocks. They even gave him a cake.

    In 2009, the host of Al Jazeera’s most popular Arabic language show says, on the air, that he wants Allah to count the numbers of every Jew … and kill them “down to the very last one.”

    Are these the journalistic values that Al Gore holds so sacred?

    Of course, Gore and Hyatt – and their supporters – will say there’s a difference between Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English. And they’re right. But what is the difference? Does Al Jazeera save the vile bigotry for its Arab audiences because it knows that kind of venom will be received well in the Arab world? Do they tone it down when they report in English because they know that cake parties for people who kill little girls and praise for people who want to kill every last Jew on the planet wouldn’t by Text-Enhance">play so well in the more civilized world?

    Can you imagine if George W. Bush, in by Text-Enhance">retirement, sold some business to people who said they wanted to kill every last Muslim.

    Or if Mitt Romney sold a business to someone who threw a party for the man who killed a 4-year old girl by smashing her head on a rock – because he hates Jews.

    The so-called mainstream media that hyperventilated when Romney said he had “binders full of women” would rightly be outraged if Romney or Bush did anything even remotely as reprehensible as what Gore did.
    They wouldn’t let the story go away.

    But with Al Gore they couldn’t muster even a little outrage. B
    y and large all they did was cover the business tory — Al Gore sells to Al Jazeera. The Wall Street Journal did more and so did CNN and Fox. But that’s about it.

    The so-called mainstream media’s sin used to involve bias. These days it involves out and out corruption.



    To: d[-_-]b who wrote (985)1/20/2013 6:32:27 PM
    From: joseffy2 Recommendations  Respond to of 16547
     
    Bloody jihad: Obama fiddles, Americans burn

    Exclusive: Pamela Geller blasts Obama for lack of leadership in 'act of war'

    by
    Pamela Geller
    wnd.com


    The Algerian hostage crisis came to a bloody end Saturday when Special Forces stormed the BP gas complex after the jihadists executed their non-Muslim POWs. At least 81 people have been killed, including two Americans. They were holding more than 600, but they released all the Muslims, saying “they did not want to hurt Muslims. Some locals were forced to recite parts of the Koran to prove they were Muslims.”

    The jihadists called their non-Muslim hostages “kuffar,” an ugly word meaning unbelievers. One Muslim hostage said: “Us Algerians were rounded up separately and were treated with kindness. We were told that because we were Muslim we would not be killed, and it was only the Christians they were after. The Algerian hostages were then allowed to leave. … I saw many Brits killed. One Westerner trying to give first aid was blown up by the terrorists.” At least five of the jihadis were employees of the BP plant – which means they were thought to be “moderates.”

    Yet despite the American loss of life, the president has not spoken of it or taken any leadership action on this act of war. The American media are following his lead.

    Every major world leader whose people were kidnapped and/or killed was addressing his parliament, media and the people of their countries: This act of war was a major news story everywhere except in America. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron canceled a trip to address the House of Commons, where he called the jihadist attack on the BP gas field “brutal and savage” (there’s that word again), and said the assault on the complex was “large, well-coordinated and heavily armed.”

    Coordinated by whom? Al-Qaida jihadists.

    Obama said recently: “We achieved our central goal, or have come very close to achieving our central goal, which is to de-capacitate al-Qaida, to dismantle them, to make sure that they can’t attack us again.” Yet while claiming that al-Qaida is being “de-capacitated,” he is supplying them.

    The Algerian jihadis had weapons from Libya – that means we supplied them. Obama has consistently supported jihadists in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Burma, et al. Just as this led to the murder of Americans in Libya, so it has now in Algeria. The attackers who stormed our consulate (or whatever that building really was) in Benghazi were part of al-Qaida. While he tells us al-Qaida is vanquished, their attacks become more lethal, widespread and brazen.

    The jihadis in Algeria were a multinational group – emphasizing yet again that this is an ideological war, not a geographical one. A hostage said: “Of the terrorists, one was an Egyptian, another was Libyan and one was Syrian. Most of them were Algerian, but some of them had white skin and I think they were Canadian. Two were speaking fluent English.”

    The Obama administration was neither advised nor consulted on the raid on the al-Qaida jihadists ahead of time: further proof of our diminished hegemony and the lack of respect Obama has engendered for America across the world.

    Al-Qaida in Algeria was demanding a “trade” for the lives of non-Muslims. They wanted the blind sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, and Aafia Siddiqui, Lady al-Qaida. The release of effective jihadists is an objective of the global jihad: Muslim agitation and violence for the blind sheikh is widespread. On Sept. 11, 2012, Muslims stormed our embassy in Cairo and raised the flag of jihad over our embassy for the same reason. (Obama’s response was to apologize for hurting Muslim feelings.)

    The blind sheikh masterminded the bombing of the twin towers in 1993, hoping to slaughter tens of thousands of Americans. There are whispers that Obama is negotiating with the Muslim Brotherhood to “transfer” (i.e., release) the blind sheikh to Egypt (like Scotland’s release of the Lockerbie bomber to Libya, where he was summarily released). If Obama dares defile the memory of those lost in that bombing and betrays this country to the Muslim Brotherhood, hundreds of thousands will march to Washington. You. have. my. word.

    Al-Qaida also demanded the release of lady al-Qaida, Aafia Siddiqui, the U.S.-educated Pakistani chemical weapon scientist who got 86 years in prison for firing at American soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan after she was found with plans for a “mass casualty attack” in the United States, along with a list of New York landmarks. Hamas-CAIR and other “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood groups have been agitating for her release here in America.

    Leading American Muslim clerics have also raised money for Aafia Siddiqui. It is an Islamic pattern that “moderate” Muslim groups like CAIR share the same objectives of murdering jihadists.

    Siddiqui named Farha Ahmed as her legal counsel in October 2010. Ahmed was then running for Republican office in Texas. Despite the fact that she was able to compel craven, quisling government officials like the local district attorney to write glowing letters to their constituents endorsing her stealth jihadist candidacy, and the fact that her terror alliances were scrubbed from the Web, she was defeated, thanks to pro-freedom activists in Texas.

    Farha Ahmed led the anti-Geller protests outside my October 2011 Sugar Land, Texas, tea-party event. She held a sign saying, “Republicans against bigotry.” Now, with Ahmed serving as this jihad terrorist’s legal counsel, the lines are drawn in blood – as they are increasingly across the world.

    In pushing his gun restrictions, Obama falsely claimed: “If there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there is even one life that can be saved, then we’ve got an obligation to try.” Where was his obligation in Libya when our boys begged for help, or in Algeria when our people were kidnapped and killed, or at Fort Hood, where the White House is withholding evidence in the prosecution of Nidal Hasan?

    If our fellow citizens are not safe abroad, and America’s enemies act with impunity with no fear of retribution, how safe are we in the homeland?

    Read more at wnd.com



    To: d[-_-]b who wrote (985)2/23/2013 11:41:57 AM
    From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
     
    CUOMO MACHINE GOES AFTER STATE WORKER -- FOR TALKING...

    Top Cuomo Aide Delivers Public Rebuke of State Worker Who Talked to the Press

    [LEFTWINGERS DEMAND ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION]

    By THOMAS KAPLAN February 21, 2013 NY TIMES
    nytimes.com

    Mike Fayette broke the rules. An engineer at the New York State Transportation Department, he gave an interview to a reporter from The Adirondack Daily Enterprise.


    In the interview, Mr. Fayette praised Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the transportation workers who had labored to repair roads and bridges washed out by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. No matter. His supervisors said he had not been authorized to speak to the press, and they moved to fire him; he retired instead and left in February.

    The story might have ended there — strange but small — but for the Cuomo administration’s reaction to an article about it that appeared on Wednesday in The Daily Enterprise.

    On Thursday, livid that an engineer in the Adirondacks was being portrayed as a victim of Mr. Cuomo’s penchant for control, a top aide to the governor, Howard B. Glaser, took to the airwaves. He read aloud Mr. Fayette’s disciplinary history, describing him as a troubled employee who had previously been penalized for having an improper relationship with a subordinate, misusing his work e-mail to send sexually explicit messages and using his state-assigned vehicle for personal errands.

    “It is not the policy of this administration to terminate people solely for improper contact with the press,” said Mr. Glaser, the director of state operations, adding, “If that were the issue here, the only issue, there would not have been a termination.”

    Mr. Fayette, who had worked for the state for 29 years, was stunned. “It’s absolutely outrageous,” he said Thursday. “The governor needs to say, ‘Hey, look, guys, you’re embarrassing me, you’re embarrassing the state, you’re going after this guy like he’s freaking killed somebody.’

    Mr. Fayette said he believed that Mr. Glaser had broken the law by disclosing his record.

    “If anything, someone should be investigating that clown,” Mr. Fayette said. “You can’t do that. That is so over the line it’s not funny.”

    He added, “He’s just daring me to hire an attorney and sue him.”

    Mr. Glaser said all of the information he disclosed on WGDJ-AM, in Albany, had come from a document that was a public record.

    “Some in the press were breathless to fit this incident into a favored narrative about Cuomo administration control of information,” Mr. Glaser wrote in an e-mail. “But the facts turn out to be inconvenient to that tired story line. If reporters had taken the time to get the whole story, a much different picture would have emerged of a quirky but basically routine personnel matter.”

    The case began in August, when a reporter at the newspaper, writing a series of articles on the first anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene, asked to speak to Transportation Department workers.

    A spokeswoman for the department did not respond, according to the newspaper, so the reporter called Mr. Fayette, who was the agency’s resident engineer in Essex County.

    Mr. Fayette, 55, who grew up on a farm near the Canadian border, had worked for the department since college graduation. He agreed to an interview, saying he feared the newspaper would otherwise accuse the department of “blowing off” its request. The resulting article, which was published on Aug. 30 with the headline “ D.O.T. Engineer on Irene: ‘We Were Up for It,’ ” suggested that the department had worked valiantly after the storm.

    Six days later, Mr. Fayette received a letter ordering him to attend a “disciplinary interrogation” in Albany, which he said he later found out was a result of the interview he had granted. He was soon told that the state would seek to fire him; after lining up witnesses, including local elected officials, to vouch for him at a hearing, he decided to retire instead.

    Cuomo administration officials said no one in the governor’s office had known about Mr. Fayette’s case until it was reported in the paper.

    As for the Transportation Department, whose silence in response to an inquiry from a reporter set off the chain of events? Its communications office did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.