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To: Mannie who wrote (191843)	9/15/2022 1:44:30 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218201

Yes but they are much more used to hardships than us. And cannot bitch back without serious consequences.

To: Mannie who wrote (191843)	9/15/2022 6:03:30 PM
From: Maurice Winn	7 Recommendations Recommended By 3bar fred woodall Hoa Hao marcher Old_Sparky and 2 more members Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218201

Of course they do. The Russians must know that if they go this route, they will be suffering the same fate. So, do you really want to go into that maelstrom of doom? At some stage, appeasement stops and that stopped years ago. USA/NATO kept on going. Relentlessly. Russia has seen it all before = many times. Barbarossa, WWI, Crimean war, 1812 Overture. So Putin finally stood before their monument, for minutes, and decided enough was enough, and more would be too much. USA chose a game of chicken, right up to the Russian borders, with sanctions and threats galore, including invading a sovereign country, Syria, and killing invited Russians there. USA was not letting up an inch. Kept on coming. Putin threw the steering wheel out the window. Now USA has to decide whether to keep playing chicken or come to a sensible, rational, reasonable, democratic solution. Or choose the Final Solution. People in retrospect decided World War I was a bad idea. WWIII will be a 95% population reduction and a lot more than that in the USA. USA says they like democracy. Let's see if they agree to independent states in eastern Ukraine making their own choices - as in Brexit, Scottish independence vote, Quebec vote, Irish vote, many votes for independence around the world with no wars needed. Various Commonwealth countries deciding whether to retain King Charles Spaniel as sovereign [or whatever he currently is]. I recommend democracy, not war. Ukraine conquering the recalcitrant easterners by murder became unacceptable. Like China conquering Taiwan by murder is unacceptable. And like Eurostan conquering England was unacceptable - resolved by a Brexit vote. Same as the Scottish vote. So, your choice = do you want democracy and voting, or the end of the world? Think carefully. Mqurice

To: Mannie who wrote (191843)	9/17/2022 12:14:03 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218201

Texas board denies posthumous pardon for George Floyd JUAN A. LOZANO September 16, 2022, 1:08 PM Scroll back up to restore default view. HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas board on Thursday declined a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-Houston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles in October 2021 had initially decided to unanimously recommend that Floyd become just the second person in Texas since 2010 to receive a posthumous pardon from the governor. But before Texas Gov. Greg Abbott could make a final decision in the case, the board in December reversed its decision, saying that “procedural errors” were found in its initial recommendation in Floyd’s case and it needed to reconsider more than a third of a group of 67 clemency applications it had sent to Abbott. “After a full and careful review of the application and other information filed with the application, a majority of the Board decided not to recommend a Full Pardon and/or Pardon for Innocence,” the board wrote in a letter it sent Thursday to Floyd’s attorney, Allison Mathis, with the Harris County Public Defender’s Office in Houston. In its letter, the board said another request for a posthumous pardon for Floyd could be submitted again in two years. The letter did not specify why the board had denied the request. The board’s decision was first made public Thursday by a reporter with The Marshall Project. Mathis and a spokesperson for the paroles board did not immediately return emails or calls seeking comment. Mathis had first submitted the pardon request in April 2021. Floyd, who was Black, grew up and was laid to rest in Houston. In June 2021, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for Floyd’s killing, which led to a national reckoning in the U.S. over race and policing. Years before his May 2020 killing, Floyd was arrested in Houston in February 2004 by former police officer Gerald Goines for selling $10 worth of crack in a police sting. Floyd later pleaded guilty to a drug charge and was sentenced to 10 months in a state jail. Goines is now facing two counts of felony murder, as well as other charges in both state and federal court, for a deadly 2019 drug raid in which Dennis Tuttle, 59, and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, 58, were killed. Prosecutors allege Goines lied to obtain the warrant to search the couple’s home by claiming that a confidential informant had bought heroin there. Goines later said there was no informant and that he had bought the drugs himself, they allege. Prosecutors have accused Goines of making up informants in other cases as well. “We supported George Floyd’s pardon because we do not have confidence in the integrity of his conviction. We support clemency because it is appropriate,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said Thursday. About 150 drug convictions tied to Goines have since been dismissed by prosecutors. Earlier this month, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered that a fifth conviction tied to Goines be overturned. Goines has maintained his innocence and his lawyer is fighting the charges. ___ Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter at twitter.com