gemgram wrote:
I was honestly disappointed to hear that speculation had more than a
little substance. [re: Dean Zimmerman] ...
Assertion: In the midst of the Minneapolis campaign season, the FBI
media announced they were serving a warrant on Dean Zimmerman, public
official, allowing them to search Zimmerman's office and home for
paperwork that might, might show him to have accepted a bribe. It was a
classic, staged FBI pre-election event.
If you know Zimmerman as you claim, you know that he's a man from a
small town in North Dakota who was a handyman here for 20 or 30 years
before he ran for the Park Board seat. You also know that he is not a
devious man by any stretch. The FBI "evidence" does not jibe with the
man you know.
As Colleen Rowley, former FBI attorney pointed out, also in the press,
the FBI here cannot get clearance from DC to do their real jobs. She had
a comfortable berth in the FBI, but she walked away from it and made a
big stink into the bargain. That has some bearing on both the Herron and
Zimmerman situations.
I know that the film clip plastered all over the TV of Sabri bribing
Herron was an engineered event. Herron was forced to wear a wire and to
speak a script created by the FBI. The force used was that the DOJ would
dog Herron's heels the rest of his life, put his family members on the
stand, inveigle the press to splash him all over with half truths, and
otherwise make the rest of his life a misery if he didn't cave to their
demands.They also said they would "give him a break" if he did wear the
wire. (Which never happened, he got no breaks.) In the instance of the
audio tape of Herron admitting to using marajuana, the clip the FBI gave
radio, TV, and newspapers was edited by them so that it appeared that
Herron was admitting to marajuana use at the time he was arrested.
Example:on tape, Herron had said, 'yes, I used marajuana.' I heard
falsity. If you listened carefully to that tape exerpt, you'd also have
heard that Herron's voice did not signal the end of a sentence. He said
more there, but it had been edited out. Herron actually said, 'I used
marajuana 20 years ago.' He'd told me that himself years earlier. Since
any marajuana use by Herron was not germaine to the accusations made or
the charges, why did the FBI leak that to the press? The FBI, at that
point, was making TV just like Hollywood. How much else of what they
spoon fed the media and you was also contrived and false? How much of
everything the FBI says in the media is contrived? Remember, this is a
unit of government who's hallmark is secrecy.
Conclusion: Never believe anything the FBI asserts on TV or radio or
press. They are selling their product just like Mop and Glow or
Chevrolet does. If it is put on the air within the eight months before
an election, consider first that it helps their boss at DOJ keep his job
if the president who appointed him gets re-elected.
Assertion: In half the federal DOJ cases earmarked for court, the
accused pleads guilty rather than try to defend him/herself. Why? DOJ
can drag out a trial process until the cows come home. They can put your
parents, children, friends on the stand--and will. They can slant
information and fail to present information to add myriad charges to the
primary charge they want to pursue. Most people any of us is likely to
know personally do not have the money to defend themselves in a
protracted court battle against the DOJ. It is a point of pride at DOJ
that they do not lose cases.
If you are charged with a crime under federal law, the US Attorney will
make it very clear to you just how miserable he will make the rest of
your life if you do not plead guilty. His job is to get a conviction or
a guilty plea.
Dean Zimmermann is a victim of that organized crime, we will hopefully
be understanding and forgiving of him as also being a victim.
Whose organized crime? Is it the Sabris alone? Or is it the Sabris
working in concert with DOJ? Or is it the FBI/DOJ alone? It's the
campaign season.
There has long been a struggle waged primarily by the ACLU against the
FBI's sting operations precisely because the stings are manufactured
events presented as evidence. The ACLU asserts that in so doing the FBI
oversteps its legal boundaries and creates criminals out of people when
they do not have the evidence to charge them.
I must admit that four years ago I had much the same feelings after
watching the news and finding my good friend, and the person I
believed to be the most honest Council Member, had been taken in by
that same Sabri crime organization. Brian Herron was also a great
person and I still claim the best representative the Sixth Ward has
had on the Council in the last several years until the Sabri crime
scandal.
Then maybe you should quit watching TV. If that cyclopean box can so
bewitch you that you cannot separate the wheat from the chaff, it's time
to unplug the darn thing.
I was saddened and disappointed again when I came to the computer. I
"speculated" that I might see a few apologies for some sad things
written to me both on and off list by "respected" list members.
Since you brought it up, you owe RT an huge apology. When he used his
veto, he did so to highlight a principle, knowing he could not win.
Trying to connect him to some sort of skulduggery because he exersized
his right qua mayor to assert a principle, is really low. From your
posts it's clear that you assume that anyone who would say a less than
damning word about one or all of the Sabris is somehow in league with
them and a mayor who asserts a principle against someone you so loath is
also suspect. That's a throwback to Joseph McCarthy.
WizardMarks, Central
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