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Enter The KRAKEN – at TPC

01 Tuesday Dec 2020

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2020, 42 USC 1983, crimes, Dominion, election, fraud, Georgia, Kraken, lawsuit, Smartmatic, Sydney Powell, War

Enter The Kraken

Now, as seen at The Piedmont Chronicles:

If a mythological analogy must be drawn from Syndey Powell’s election lawsuit in Georgia (and Michigan), then it is not the Kraken. It is a thunderbolt from Olympus. It’s not a bombshell. It’s not a hydrogen bomb. It’s a gamma-ray burst, potentially capable of searing the political planet out of its current existence.

This Complaint, which initiated Pearson, et al v. Kemp, et al (Nov. 2020) in the Northern District of Georgia, might be the most devastating legal pleading I have ever seen. The CIA deep state AP, in repeating the false call of a Biden win, has – along with the controlled or demoralized “conservative” establishment – repeatedly and haughtily declared that all claims of election rigging were baseless. Did they want evidence? Well, here it is. 

The filing, backed by copious evidentiary exhibits, many of which I’ve read and which a reader can easily find, is more than a civil petition. It is more than a criminal indictment. If half of the supported and real allegations are true, then it is a potential call for measured military reprisal.

Addressing the first dismissive remark from the enemy that the filing was hasty and riddled with spelling and grammatical problems: shut the hell up, retards. Such issues, routine and easily corrected, were a good sign of authenticity. Law firms have litigation templates, one suited for each type of action filed in each court. The fact that “District” was misspelled in a header indicates that the entire document was a custom job, drafted specifically for its purpose – a Lamborghini, not a Buick. Besides, it’s the substance that matters.

A second idiotic response was that the first filing when made public, lacked supporting documentation. The fact that all exhibits were repeatedly referenced indicated that they were on file with the Court. Again, be silent, morons.

A short review of the substance:

The plaintiffs are all Georgia Republican Electors. The first plaintiff is C.J. Pearson, an 18-year-old black conservative wunderkind from Augusta. He alleges that he was disenfranchised and is due relief under 42 USC § 1983. Thus, in keeping with the rhetoric the left has taught us the past few years: Joe Biden, or agents working on his behalf, conspired and acted to rob an African-American teenage student and child, from a formerly-segregated southern city, of his vote, in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act (and other laws, state and federal, to include the Fourteenth Amendment). Your author disavows and condemns this racism and white supremacy, and I call on Biden and the CIA deep state AP to do the same. And, yes, “agents working on his behalf” may include officials from both parts of the uni-party along with independent, foreign malfeasors. This is beyond rich.

Not long ago, I warned the Freedom Prepper audience, and through or with them the GOP of Georgia, to never dismiss the opposition out of hand, specifically Stacey Abrams. In hilarious fashion, she is a hero of the pleading, demonstrating intelligence and foresight superior to Brian Kemp. She’s possibly more honest to boot.

For instance, Abrams knew and is on the record advising (Kemp) that Dominion’s software was beyond unreliable and that Georgia was unwise in adopting it. The election officials in other states also knew as much (ie, Texas). Overall, the reservations about DVS go well beyond suspicion. Various people either associated with designing the system or who have studied it conclude that it was essentially designed not for vote recording, but for vote manipulation – it was built to be “hacked.” How easy is it to access an (off-line) machine? “…7 minutes alone with it and a screwdriver” easy. How much time did they have in Fulton County after the fake water leak?

And, how long has the wider-world been aware of the digital dangers? Well, since at least July 2006, the State Department was concerned about and closely monitoring the Smartmatic situation in Venezuela. And, yes, that’s the same Venezuela that the AP claims has no relationship with the program. 

There may have been monitoring of the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office and associated voter rolls and computer systems during the 2016 election. This made little sense at the time and maybe it is unrelated, but the suggestion was that a rogue DHS agent hacked in for some reason. Might someone have been probing in advance, searching for a weakness in both systemic capacity and human competence? Both were obviously found in abundance as the 2020 matter was riddled, before and during the actual election, with illegality upon stupidity upon perceived and demonstrable nefariousness.

Be the answer to that last question as it may, it appears that many eyes were ready and observing this election, call them what they call themselves, “white hat” intelligence. I suspect that much of the massive trove of evidence was assembled before November 3, 2020. At the least, multiple parties were recording data transmissions and linked networks in real-time, Nov. 3-4, and then rapidly compiled a report on the same. This operation may well have been the culmination of John Durham’s work. Much of the exhibited information appears to have come from either military or civilian intel operations.* As such, it was classified information. How did Powell come by it? My theory is that it was delivered to her by a knowing, aware Trump after the election. The President may, by his lawful authority, declassify any material for any reason and to any person he chooses. My theory is that he gave it to her and then “fired” her from his legal team. Thus, as a free agent of justice, she operated without fear of any false alleged connections with the White House and without being subject to any encumbering roadblocks. Again, kindly note that she is representing the Georgia GOP Electors, not Team Trump.

*Yes, your author is aware of various developing rumors of a literal battle between different factions of the US government in this matter and the ramifications for a civil war scenario, in progress or pending.

And, dear Lord, does she have the substantiation the AP says doesn’t exist. The fraud in Georgia alone was massive, spanning electronic and paper ballots (real and fake) in multiple counties. She has eye-witness testimony. There are video recordings. This is so real that Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson might even see it. A judge certainly will.

Browsing through, one of the things that jumped out at me and a few other readers, was Paragraph Fourteen, Page Seven:

14.

As explained and demonstrated in the accompanying redacted declaration of a former electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence with experience gathering SAM missile system electronic intelligence, the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China and Iran in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent US general election in 2020. This Declaration further includes a copy of the patent records for Dominion Systems in which Eric Coomer is listed as the first of the inventors of Dominion Voting Systems. (See Attached hereto as Exh. 8, copy of redacted witness affidavit, 17 pages, November 23, 2020).

What? Here’s the Exhibit, as filed. This is unusual as to its inclusion in a civil case and as to its level of sophisticated analysis. As an aside, a witness affidavit confirms that Eric Coomer recently reassured Antifa (the ideology) of Denver that because of reasons, Trump could not win: “We fixed it.” By way of the NSA, CIA, MI6, Army Intel, and/or other investigators, the fix was in for Dominion before or during their interference. The scope reaches at least Venezuela, Serbia, Iran, and China, in addition to multiple domestic parties. Overconfident, as are many criminals, the masterminds behind this fraud failed to cover their tracks or to fully understand how the internet and electronic communication works. Everything – EVERYTHING – was intercepted, deciphered, and recorded, including the relatively easy to follow chain of development and operation. See, here, one graphic example of many:

*One knowing rudimentary URL manipulation may use this linked-exhibit as a starting point for reading the rest.

For reasons I’ll explain in a moment, the international meddling angle is potentially devastating to all the meddlers, even those within the US.

The relief sought, in emergency measure and permanently, is also important. First of all, Pearson, et al seek to have the Georgia results de-certified. As an alternative, they seek to have the reams of illegal votes cast out, to reset the clock to the lawful close of the election, when Trump won. Under the secondary relief, Person and the other GOP Electors (and, ideally those in other affected states as well) would proceed to re-elect Trump, and the AP, et al would necessarily have to re-do their proclamations (and, perhaps, change their underwear). There is a possible middle ground, a movement of the election to the General Assembly similar to what is unfolding in Pennsylvania. However, the primary requested relief is the most interesting. This case and/or others could easily see the Supreme Court. If granted and fulfilled, the primary injunction(s) would leave states without Collegiate representation, thus paving the way for kicking the entire election to Congress. There, Mo Brooks and others are already prepared to drop first day resolutions to initiate a Block Vote (not by individual representatives) in both the House and the Senate, which would necessarily result in Trump’s re-election. 

There are still many, murky “ifs” in this debacle, however, for those who would see Western Civilization defended, there is great cause for hope. Your author expects few in the mainstream, the “right” or the left, to understand these lawful processes. What they mean – either way – is confirmation of one of the approximate winning margins I assigned Trump back in October. Congratulations, Mr. President. Now, or after January 21st, bring the storm!

One semi-grounded fear across the country is that, in the event of a lawful election, Eric Coomer’s ideological friends on the ultra-violent left will let loose with violence far surpassing what they dealt out over the summer. That may happen, though, as indicated by patterns manifesting in the evidence in this case, someone may be expecting them and may be ready for them. In this unfolding incident, it may be the counter-punch that packs the most power.

That brings me back to the evidence of intermingled foreign influence in the fraud. Back in September of 2018, Trump quietly issued an Executive Order that, at the time, made little sense to outside observers. It provides for an expedited national security investigation of alleged foreign election interference along with crushing penalties against any persons involved in such a scheme, whether they are here or abroad, regardless of who they are. For whatever reason, Dominion, in Pennsylvania, has suddenly clammed up, citing its involvement in “litigation.” What could they possibly mean? For his part, Trump appears to mean business, recently sweeping clean his Defense Advisory Board of certain potentially-conflicted parties. What could that mean?

Just as we have a legal election procedure, we also have long-standing precedents for dealing with foreign or domestic assaults. The policy of the DOD and the government is that cyber-warfare is still warfare and may be responded to as such. Via the court-sanctioned wisdom of previous Congresses, the Executive has near-total and summary ability to counter any hostilities. Trump would be very well to reread his own EO, the Insurrection Act, several Authorizations of Defense and Use of Force, and various policies from the Obama, Bush (II), and Lincoln Administrations. He has tools at his disposal. Will he use them? Perhaps it is finally time to get Kraken.

Developing…

Enter The KRAKEN

30 Monday Nov 2020

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns

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2020, 42 USC 1983, crimes, Dominion, election, fraud, Georgia, Kraken, lawsuit, Smartmatic, Sydney Powell, War

Enter The Kraken

If a mythological analogy must be drawn from Syndey Powell’s election lawsuit in Georgia (and Michigan), then it is not the Kraken. It is a thunderbolt from Olympus. It’s not a bombshell. It’s not a hydrogen bomb. It’s a gamma-ray burst, potentially capable of searing the political planet out of its current existence.

This Complaint, which initiated Pearson, et al v. Kemp, et al (Nov. 2020) in the Northern District of Georgia, might be the most devastating legal pleading I have ever seen. The CIA deep state AP, in repeating the false call of a Biden win, has – along with the controlled or demoralized “conservative” establishment – repeatedly and haughtily declared that all claims of election rigging were baseless. Did they want evidence? Well, here it is. 

The filing, backed by copious evidentiary exhibits, many of which I’ve read and which a reader can easily find, is more than a civil petition. It is more than a criminal indictment. If half of the supported and real allegations are true, then it is a potential call for measured military reprisal.

Addressing the first dismissive remark from the enemy that the filing was hasty and riddled with spelling and grammatical problems: shut the hell up, retards. Such issues, routine and easily corrected, were a good sign of authenticity. Law firms have litigation templates, one suited for each type of action filed in each court. The fact that “District” was misspelled in a header indicates that the entire document was a custom job, drafted specifically for its purpose – a Lamborghini, not a Buick. Besides, it’s the substance that matters.

A second idiotic response was that the first filing when made public, lacked supporting documentation. The fact that all exhibits were repeatedly referenced indicated that they were on file with the Court. Again, be silent, morons.

A short review of the substance:

The plaintiffs are all Georgia Republican Electors. The first plaintiff is C.J. Pearson, an 18-year-old black conservative wunderkind from Augusta. He alleges that he was disenfranchised and is due relief under 42 USC § 1983. Thus, in keeping with the rhetoric the left has taught us the past few years: Joe Biden, or agents working on his behalf, conspired and acted to rob an African-American teenage student and child, from a formerly-segregated southern city, of his vote, in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act (and other laws, state and federal, to include the Fourteenth Amendment). Your author disavows and condemns this racism and white supremacy, and I call on Biden and the CIA deep state AP to do the same. And, yes, “agents working on his behalf” may include officials from both parts of the uni-party along with independent, foreign malfeasors. This is beyond rich.

Not long ago, I warned the Freedom Prepper audience, and through or with them the GOP of Georgia, to never dismiss the opposition out of hand, specifically Stacey Abrams. In hilarious fashion, she is a hero of the pleading, demonstrating intelligence and foresight superior to Brian Kemp. She’s possibly more honest to boot.

For instance, Abrams knew and is on the record advising (Kemp) that Dominion’s software was beyond unreliable and that Georgia was unwise in adopting it. The election officials in other states also knew as much (ie, Texas). Overall, the reservations about DVS go well beyond suspicion. Various people either associated with designing the system or who have studied it conclude that it was essentially designed not for vote recording, but for vote manipulation – it was built to be “hacked.” How easy is it to access an (off-line) machine? “…7 minutes alone with it and a screwdriver” easy. How much time did they have in Fulton County after the fake water leak?

And, how long has the wider-world been aware of the digital dangers? Well, since at least July 2006, the State Department was concerned about and closely monitoring the Smartmatic situation in Venezuela. And, yes, that’s the same Venezuela that the AP claims has no relationship with the program. 

There may have been monitoring of the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office and associated voter rolls and computer systems during the 2016 election. This made little sense at the time and maybe it is unrelated, but the suggestion was that a rogue DHS agent hacked in for some reason. Might someone have been probing in advance, searching for a weakness in both systemic capacity and human competence? Both were obviously found in abundance as the 2020 matter was riddled, before and during the actual election, with illegality upon stupidity upon perceived and demonstrable nefariousness.

Be the answer to that last question as it may, it appears that many eyes were ready and observing this election, call them what they call themselves, “white hat” intelligence. I suspect that much of the massive trove of evidence was assembled before November 3, 2020. At the least, multiple parties were recording data transmissions and linked networks in real-time, Nov. 3-4, and then rapidly compiled a report on the same. This operation may well have been the culmination of John Durham’s work. Much of the exhibited information appears to have come from either military or civilian intel operations.* As such, it was classified information. How did Powell come by it? My theory is that it was delivered to her by a knowing, aware Trump after the election. The President may, by his lawful authority, declassify any material for any reason and to any person he chooses. My theory is that he gave it to her and then “fired” her from his legal team. Thus, as a free agent of justice, she operated without fear of any false alleged connections with the White House and without being subject to any encumbering roadblocks. Again, kindly note that she is representing the Georgia GOP Electors, not Team Trump.

*Yes, your author is aware of various developing rumors of a literal battle between different factions of the US government in this matter and the ramifications for a civil war scenario, in progress or pending.

And, dear Lord, does she have the substantiation the AP says doesn’t exist. The fraud in Georgia alone was massive, spanning electronic and paper ballots (real and fake) in multiple counties. She has eye-witness testimony. There are video recordings. This is so real that Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson might even see it. A judge certainly will.

Browsing through, one of the things that jumped out at me and a few other readers, was Paragraph Fourteen, Page Seven:

14.

As explained and demonstrated in the accompanying redacted declaration of a former electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence with experience gathering SAM missile system electronic intelligence, the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China and Iran in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent US general election in 2020. This Declaration further includes a copy of the patent records for Dominion Systems in which Eric Coomer is listed as the first of the inventors of Dominion Voting Systems. (See Attached hereto as Exh. 8, copy of redacted witness affidavit, 17 pages, November 23, 2020).

What? Here’s the Exhibit, as filed. This is unusual as to its inclusion in a civil case and as to its level of sophisticated analysis. As an aside, a witness affidavit confirms that Eric Coomer recently reassured Antifa (the ideology) of Denver that because of reasons, Trump could not win: “We fixed it.” By way of the NSA, CIA, MI6, Army Intel, and/or other investigators, the fix was in for Dominion before or during their interference. The scope reaches at least Venezuela, Serbia, Iran, and China, in addition to multiple domestic parties. Overconfident, as are many criminals, the masterminds behind this fraud failed to cover their tracks or to fully understand how the internet and electronic communication works. Everything – EVERYTHING – was intercepted, deciphered, and recorded, including the relatively easy to follow chain of development and operation. See, here, one graphic example of many:

*One knowing rudimentary URL manipulation may use this linked-exhibit as a starting point for reading the rest.

For reasons I’ll explain in a moment, the international meddling angle is potentially devastating to all the meddlers, even those within the US.

The relief sought, in emergency measure and permanently, is also important. First of all, Pearson, et al seek to have the Georgia results de-certified. As an alternative, they seek to have the reams of illegal votes cast out, to reset the clock to the lawful close of the election, when Trump won. Under the secondary relief, Person and the other GOP Electors (and, ideally those in other affected states as well) would proceed to re-elect Trump, and the AP, et al would necessarily have to re-do their proclamations (and, perhaps, change their underwear). There is a possible middle ground, a movement of the election to the General Assembly similar to what is unfolding in Pennsylvania. However, the primary requested relief is the most interesting. This case and/or others could easily see the Supreme Court. If granted and fulfilled, the primary injunction(s) would leave states without Collegiate representation, thus paving the way for kicking the entire election to Congress. There, Mo Brooks and others are already prepared to drop first day resolutions to initiate a Block Vote (not by individual representatives) in both the House and the Senate, which would necessarily result in Trump’s re-election. 

There are still many, murky “ifs” in this debacle, however, for those who would see Western Civilization defended, there is great cause for hope. Your author expects few in the mainstream, the “right” or the left, to understand these lawful processes. What they mean – either way – is confirmation of one of the approximate winning margins I assigned Trump back in October. Congratulations, Mr. President. Now, or after January 21st, bring the storm!

One semi-grounded fear across the country is that, in the event of a lawful election, Eric Coomer’s ideological friends on the ultra-violent left will let loose with violence far surpassing what they dealt out over the summer. That may happen, though, as indicated by patterns manifesting in the evidence in this case, someone may be expecting them and may be ready for them. In this unfolding incident, it may be the counter-punch that packs the most power.

That brings me back to the evidence of intermingled foreign influence in the fraud. Back in September of 2018, Trump quietly issued an Executive Order that, at the time, made little sense to outside observers. It provides for an expedited national security investigation of alleged foreign election interference along with crushing penalties against any persons involved in such a scheme, whether they are here or abroad, regardless of who they are. For whatever reason, Dominion, in Pennsylvania, has suddenly clammed up, citing its involvement in “litigation.” What could they possibly mean? For his part, Trump appears to mean business, recently sweeping clean his Defense Advisory Board of certain potentially-conflicted parties. What could that mean?

Just as we have a legal election procedure, we also have long-standing precedents for dealing with foreign or domestic assaults. The policy of the DOD and the government is that cyber-warfare is still warfare and may be responded to as such. Via the court-sanctioned wisdom of previous Congresses, the Executive has near-total and summary ability to counter any hostilities. Trump would be very well to reread his own EO, the Insurrection Act, several Authorizations of Defense and Use of Force, and various policies from the Obama, Bush (II), and Lincoln Administrations. He has tools at his disposal. Will he use them? Perhaps it is finally time to get Kraken.

Developing…

The Kraken Released

26 Thursday Nov 2020

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2020, election, Georgia, Kraken, lawsuit

She promised something big, and she delivered.

THE GEORGIA ELECTION LAWSUIT

It’s 100+ pages, a little sloppy (rushed, obviously though authentic), and lacks the attachment of exhibits. Those latter items are, as referenced and cited, on file with the court, and may soon be available to the public. Whether their combined evidence is enough for Rush, Tucker et al is another matter.

UPDATE:

…

12.

Defendants Kemp and Raffensperger rushed through the purchase of
Dominion voting machines and software in 2019 for the 2020 Presidential
Election4. A certificate from the Secretary of State was awarded to Dominion Voting Systems but is undated. (See attached hereto Exh. 5, copy
Certification for Dominion Voting Systems from Secretary of State).
Similarly a test report is signed by Michael Walker as Project Manager but is
also undated. (See Exh. 6, Test Report for Dominion Voting Systems,
Democracy Suite 5-4-A)

13.

Defendants Kemp and Raffensperger disregarded all the concerns that
caused Dominion software to be rejected by the Texas Board of Elections in
2018, namely that it was vulnerable to undetected and non-auditable
manipulation. …

14.

As explained and demonstrated in the accompanying redacted
declaration of a former electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military
Intelligence with experience gathering SAM missile system electronic
intelligence, the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf
of China and Iran in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the
most recent US general election in 2020. This Declaration further includes a
copy of the patent records for Dominion Systems in which Eric Coomer is
listed as the first of the inventors of Dominion Voting Systems. (See
Attached hereto as Exh. 8, copy of redacted witness affidavit, 17 pages,
November 23, 2020).

No evidence whatsoever…

UPDATE: I’m reading through this now and will have to discuss on FP news, probably Monday. This could be the most damning legal pleading I’ve ever seen. To say it’s brilliantly put together is an understatement. And, if some of this stuff is true, then it’s not just a civil matter and not just a criminal matter either.

Settling Up With The Sand Man

24 Friday Jul 2020

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defamation, fake news, lawsuit, Nick Sandman

Young hero Nick Sandman is on a roll, reaching another settlement with the fake news of Amerika.

Sandmann declared the victory in a tweet on his 18th birthday. It’s unclear how much the newspaper settled for.

“On 2/19/19, I filed $250M defamation lawsuit against Washington Post. Today, I turned 18 & WaPo settled my lawsuit,” he wrote.

“Thanks to @ToddMcMurtry & @LLinWood for their advocacy. Thanks to my family & millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me. I still have more to do,” he continued.

It’s the teen’s second win in a whopping $800 million defamation battle against a number of news outlets including the Washington Post, CNN, ABC, CBS, The Guardian, The Hill and NBC.

Go get ’em, kid! And happy birthday.

WaPo’s harassment of Nick and the other Catholic kids was yet another of the never-ending hoaxes that comprise the false reality of Amerika. Maybe he can use a few dollars of the settlement to mail Nathan Phillips some soap?

Big Social Spying on Children

09 Thursday May 2019

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes

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Amazon, children, lawsuit, social media, spying

It’s hardly a surprise. Neither is the utter inaction from “your” elected officials. Nor is the insouciance of the American Sheeple. But, spy they do.

A coalition of 19 consumer and privacy groups plans to file a complaint Thursday alleging that Amazon’s Echo Dot Kids Edition is illegally collecting voice recordings and other identifying information on users under 13 and that the system’s parental controls are flawed.

The complaint says that the Echo Dot Kids Edition – a colorful, youth-oriented version of Amazon’s popular “smart speaker” systems that allow users to ask questions, play music or control thermostats with voice commands – violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, known as COPPA. The 1998 law sharply limits what data companies can collect without permission from parents.

The 98-page complaint is the latest in a series by consumer and privacy groups urging the Federal Trade Commission to intensify its enforcement of how leading technology companies treat children and their personal data. The Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University Law Center served as counsel to the groups on the complaint.

“It is incredibly important not only that Amazon fix these problems but that the FTC enforce COPPA,” said Josh Golin, executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, an advocacy group based in Boston and the lead complainant. “What we need is a COPPA cop on the beat.”

Mea COPPA. Waiting for that government beat cop is going to be a long wait. Take matters into your own hands; get your kids off the social dragnets.

Civil Suits Against Uncivil Colleges

15 Friday Mar 2019

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civil litigation, college, discrimination, fraud, lawsuit

Two have been filed so far.

One, by students, is a class action aimed at the entry of unqualified applicants at the expense of those with true merit. This sounds kind of like the Asians v. Harvard case.

Another, by a parent (maybe with class potential) seeks $500 Billion (that’s a “B”) in unspecified damages for fraud.

A $500 billion civil lawsuit filed by a parent on Wednesday in San Francisco accused 45 defendants of defrauding and inflicting emotional distress on everyone whose “rights to a fair chance at entrance to college” were stolen through their alleged conspiracy.

In the largest known college admissions scandal in U.S. history, federal prosecutors on Tuesday said a California company made about $25 million by charging parents to secure spots for their children in elite schools, including Georgetown, Stanford and Yale, by cheating the admissions process.

Jennifer Kay Toy, a former teacher in Oakland, California, said she believed her son Joshua was not admitted to some colleges, despite his 4.2 grade point average, because wealthy parents thought it was “ok to lie, cheat, steal and bribe their children’s way into a good college.”

Some special people, the government, and most professional academics have seen lying, stealing, and bribing as okay for a long time.

Light. Them. Up.

On the FIU Bridge Collapse

16 Friday Mar 2018

Posted by perrinlovett in News and Notes

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bridge collapse, Florida, government, gun control, law, lawsuit

A horrible tragedy. At least six now are dead with many more injured. The police expect additional fatalities are possible.

Recovery workers expect to find more bodies as debris is removed, Miami-Dade police Director Juan Perez said Friday. Of the six people who died, five bodies still were under the bridge wreckage Friday morning, Zabaleta said.

At least nine people were taken to hospitals, authorities said, after the bridge failure that one witness said “sounded like the world was ending.”

The structure’s 950-ton main span had just been installed Saturday using an accelerated construction process meant in part to reduce the time that street traffic was halted. The bridge had been designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane.

…

The bridge was scheduled to open to foot traffic and cyclists in 2019, and was designed boost safety on busy 8th Street, where an 18-year-old FIU student was fatally struck by a vehicle in August.

“It is exactly the opposite of what we had intended, and we want to express our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of those who have been affected,” Rosenberg, the university’s president, said in a video.

“The bridge was about collaboration, about neighborliness, about doing the right thing,” he said. “But today, we’re sad. And all we can do is promise a very thorough investigation, to getting to the bottom of this and mourn those who we have lost.”

A few thoughts:

My guess is the thing was way too heavy. 950 tons!? That’s about 5 tons per foot. If it wasn’t that, then I suspect it was something with the new, speedy construction methods. Could be both. The investigation will reveal the cause sooner or later.

Much was made of the architect who designed the structure. It was, putting it one way, not your father’s engineering. Another guess of mine is that there was too much emphasis on aesthetics – which, combined with incredible (likely unnecessary) mass, just didn’t hold up to mean old Mr. Gravity. Too heavy.

And “too heavy” may explain the desire to have such a super-sized structure in the first place. Pedestrian bridges are good, great even. And it sounds like one is really needed at that location. Yet, this may be another example of government overkill.

It’s kind of like the school shootings. An extremely small number of kids are killed in schools each year by bullets. More are killed by bees, swimming pools, and electricity arching between the Earth and the sky. But those aren’t easily projected upon law-abiding citizens and the NRA.

The “solutions” to the few gun deaths are always more of the same dictatorial, anti-freedom measures that help feed the shootings in the first place. More prison-like schools. More laws. More cops (to hide under stairwells). More spying. More snitching. More fear. More panic. More hysteria. More gun control. Less freedom. It was something about trading essential liberty for temporary security… And it’s always overreaction.

So it my be with this bridge. One person killed crossing a street is one too many. I had a beautiful young friend who was hit and killed by a bus while crossing the street in Athens, many years ago now. Again, the bridges may be a reasonable response. But the physical objects themselves should also be reasonable. Might a simple, yet sturdy, steel tube bridge have sufficed? Could not all of this been accomplished without the pomp, grandstanding, SJWism, and risky construction practices? Still getting my mind around something the size of a small ship hanging overhead.

The investigation will proceed. We’ll know one day.

There will be lawsuits. Maybe criminal prosecutions. And, at least with the civil suits, there will discovery problems. Big ones.

Companies involved in the bridge’s construction are scurrying to delete tweets and other marks of all the former pomp and celebration.

After the collapse of Florida International University’s newly-completed pedestrian bridge killed several and injured others on Thursday, two construction companies involved immediately deleted tweets celebrating the “spectacular” structure.

Reporters captured screenshots of the posts before they came down, showing a congratulatory shoutout from BDI Test to Barnhart Crane, a group with whom it said it worked on the project. Wednesday night, less than 24 hours before disaster struck, Barnhart tweeted a PR Newswire story showcasing the bridge’s supports.

What else is being deleted? And who is pressing the delete key?

This isn’t just a bad PR move. It’s also known as destruction of evidence. Any party who knows, or should know, that legal action is in process or is likely to commence, is duty bound to preserve any and all evidence. This includes digital or electronic information – to include social media posts. This is black letter law, under the civil practice act and the rules of civil procedure. It’s in the federal system and the Florida code. Some lawyer is probably having a fit right now.

Proof of willful destruction, deletion, of such information has ramifications, some of them drastic. Such actions can shift presumptions and even force admissions of fact. That can force settlements, as will likely be the case here.

Anyway, it’s just a terrible event. No “blame the National Bridge Association” or “only the police or military need high-capacity bridges” comments today. Worn, eh?

As a final aside, I’ve always hated walking or driving under large overhead structures. Maybe my fear hasn’t been so misplaced.

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