Saturday, December 08, 2007

THE BOOK OF THE MATTHEWS: ASSEMBLYMAN MATTHEW TITONE AND ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY MATTHEW JACKSON.PROTECTING A TWO-BIT TERRORIST: GEOFFREY BLANK

UP FRONT News December 1, 2007
Published by Tom Weiss
Editorial Advisor: Willard Whittingham

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THE BOOK OF THE MATTHEWS: NEITHER OF THEM A SAINT. ASSEMBLYMAN MATTHEW TITONE AND ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY MATTHEW JACKSON. PROTECTING A TWO-BIT TERRORIST: GEOFFREY BLANK

A few weeks after my February 27, 2005 announcement that I was a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate against Republicrat Hillary Clinton, the No Police State Coalition, a free speech group known for its speakouts in Union Square in Manhattan, endorsed my candidacy. That endorsement took place at an NPSC meeting at the since closed 61 Cafeteria on the southeast corner of 13th Street and 5th Avenue in Greenwich Village. Although the group had no officers, on this particular occasion the meeting was chaired by NPSC activist Joe Carranza (sp?) of Queens.

As soon as the vote was done, an NPSC activist named Geoffrey Blank arose from his seat, pushed out his chest Benito Mussolini-style, called me a “wing nut” and declared the vote null and void. The group, many of whose participants had become accustomed to Blank’s habitual abuse of the rights of others, tried to ignore him. I simply replied, “Bet- ter a left wing nut than a right wing nut” and, with a few others, left.

At one of the Union Square speakouts a few days after the endorsement vote Blank came over to me and told me that if I attempted to speak (via the NPSC bullhorn) he would “bash” me in the head. And then Blank returned to his usual activity, which was to try to impress increasingly skeptical observers by preaching the virtues of “free speech.” He also managed to continue to disguise the fact of his neo-fascism by ritualistically de- nouncing George W. Bush. Every once in awhile he would, for a few moments, surrender the bullhorn to one of his sycophantic flunkies such as a Joe Stalin-emulating character named Joel Meyers. Meyers, who makes Al Gore look like a good speaker by compari- son, would lecture eye-rolling observers on the virtues of Communism and of Geoffrey Blank. At a later date the Blank-obsequeous Meyers (whose mustache is Stalin-evoking) nauseated a group at a meeting at the Unitarian Community Church of New York by suggesting that convicted 9/11-connected terrorist Zachariah Moussaoui was a political prisoner and should be released. Meyers, like his immediate boss Blank, is a regular apol-ogist for the murderous regimes in China, North Korea, Iran and (until the demise of Saddam Hussein) Iraq.

At the NPSC meetings at the 61 Cafeteria, Blank continued to harass me. One time, he moved a bowl of soup I was having and placed it at a distant table. I returned the favor by obtaining my soup and pouring it on his lap to the apparent delight of a momentarily stunned group. Blank repeatedly could be seen talking to the 61 Cafeteria evening mana- ger, a surly guy named Wan Yun, urging him to throw me out of the restaurant. Wan Yun precipitated several incidents with me, once by attempting to charge me for a cup of water and once by over trying to overcharge me for a hot chocolate.

On the very rainy night of April 7, 2005 I got to the 61 Cafeteria late. No NPSC people were there. Since it was pouring, I decided to get some food from the salad bar. When I got to the register Wan Yun, after taking my money, told me that I couldn’t eat in the restaurant. Since it was raining heavily I refused. At that point he became abusive and somewhat threatening. I don’t back down easily, although I was not looking for a fight with the linebacker-physiqued Wan Yun, who bore a disturbing resemblance to “Oddjob” the Asian intimidator in the James Bond film “Goldfinger, who decapitated people with his his razor-brimmed hat which doubled as a flying guillotine.

When I had the audacity of responding to his verbal abuse by knocking a few of the overpriced packaged food offerings off the counter, he became psychotic. He came after me, tackled me and then for several minutes, hit me over the head with a full glass soda bottle. Quite apparently realizing that, even in the absence of capital punishment, murder carries heavy penalties, after several minutes he stopped.

It was some time later as I waited for a train at the Union Square station to take me to a hospital, but not in great physical pain, that a police officer, looking somewhat shocked, said to me, “What happened to you?” He was reacting to the considerable amount of blood on my back. I told him what had happened. He immediately took me to the police office in the subway station. A short time later I was on my way by ambulance to the Bellevue Hospital Center emergency room.

I had over three hours of surgery, most of it on and in my left ear. Because of the possibility of internal injury, a CT scan was taken. The surgeon advised me to keep my followup outpatient appointment, scheduled for the following week. I was also referred to the Social Work Department, which runs the New York State Crime Victims Bureau Pro- gram there. A few days after the surgery I went to the Social Work Department to take care of the CVB matter. While I was there I had a chance to talk at some length with the Social Work Director, Patricia Blau. Ms. Blau and I have been professionally acquainted for years because, in the 1970’s I was employed as a social worker at the NYC Health & Hospitals Corporation’s Queens Hospital Center. Indeed, I became quite famous for not only my union activism and patient advocacy but also for having blown the whistle on a huge Koch Administration coverup of budget cutcaused patient deaths at Queens Hospital Center, not to speak of systemic (and often racist) abuse of psychiatric patients there. I got defamed, fired and thrown in jail for my efforts. But, since I am not easily intimidated, I proved my point as the New York State Health Department “substantiated” my claims and I wound up on the TV news and on March 1, 1978 on the front page of the Queens Edition of Newsday, which might be New York’s most honest daily newspaper.

When I showed up at the designated place at Bellevue for my clinic appointment, the clerk said, “What are you doing here? You are in the wrong clinic.” It soon emerged that I had been referred to an oral surgery clinic rather than an ear care clinic. From that point on, Bellevue staff created what the media usually refer to as a bureaucratic nightmare. To make a long story short, a series of staffers and an inept administrator named Tomas Colon were no help. It became necessary for me to request the assistance of the hospital’s Executive Director at the time, Carlos Perez. I went to his office on the mezzanine floor. As I was there speaking with Mr. Perez’ receptionist, who offered to help and was looking through my clinic papers, two people burst into the room. The male, a dark-skinned slightly built man with a badge identifying himself as Mr. Infante, approached me in distinctly menacing fashion. In a profanity-laced tirade, he ordered me to leave immediately. As I left the building, accompanied by Infante and several NYC Health & Hospitals Corporation police, he said, “If you ever come back here again, you will be arrested.” As a result, until very recently, in violation of presumably a bunch of City, State and federal laws, I was denied care at Bellevue. The prolonged, repeated and continuing episodes of near total deafness in my left ear began several days after the surgery.

A couple of weeks later I contacted the office of the HHC President Alan Aviles. Mr. Aviles, whose excessive salary is footed by the taxpayer, apparently thinks the computer in is office and his e-mail address are his private property. And so it became necessary for me to hand-deliver my letter to him at his 125 Worth Street office. He never responded.

It took some prodding from me with the NYPD’s 6th precinct before Wan Yun was arrested. After some time I was contacted by Matthew Jackson, an Assistant District Attorney working for New York County DA Robert Morgenthau. At my meeting with Mr. Jackson, I described the assault in detail. He advised me that, in light of the serious- ness of the injury, in all likelihood Wan Yun would be prosecuted for a felony. Jackson said that I would be the chief witness for the prosecution. He had me sign release forms authorizing him to obtain medical information from Bellevue.

When I told him that I had information connecting a political extremist named Geoffrey Blank to the attack on me, Jackson said, verbatim, “I don’t need that.” When I asked him how he could not need information the content of which he did not know, he ended the interview. The coverup began.

From that point on Matthew Jackson became almost inaccessible to me. I refused his demand that all communications be by telephone. (When you are covering up, you want everything off the written record and reduced to “he said, he said” type accounts.) I went over his head to his immediate superior William Mahoney, who advised Jackson to set up of meeting for me with the two of them.

I consulted with my attorney, the very experienced Jacob J. Goodman (who recently passed away). Citing instances in which I had been harassed in government offices by elected officials such as NYC Public Advocate Betsy (“CIA”) Gotbaum and State Senator Diane (“Cataldo”) Savino, as well as threats against me generated by U.S. Senator Clinton, Mr. Goodman advised me not to go to any meeting with a government official without a prior written guarantee of non-harassment and non-arrest. Jackson refused to provide the guarantee. And so there was no meeting.

One law enforcement official however who has been of major assistance to me in this matter has been Sgt. Al Fiore, of the NYPD’s Intelligence Division. In fact Sgt. Fiore is in the right place because he is intelligent. Sgt. Fiore is the officer who the rather paranoid Gotbaum once called to arrest me when I was at her office for my scheduled ap-pointment with her Chief of Staff Scott Coccaro to discuss staff abuse of homeless people in drop-in centers and shelters. It took him about 15 minutes to realize that Gotbaum’s claims about some kind of “threat” made against the arrogant Linda Gibbs, Mayor Bloomberg’s at the time Commissioner of the Department of Homeless Services, were absurd. Gotbaum’s paranoia about me has to do with the fact that, via a family member of mine, I’ve been personally acquainted with her since 1979. Gotbaum has CIA and adultery-related skeletons in her closer. She is so nervous about me that my appearances at public events she is at induced her in a televised campaign debate in August, 2005 to refer to me as a “stalker.” My response to that is to cite a great country song by Dwight Yoakum called “I Ain’t That Lonely Yet.” Gotbaum wants to be mayor. She may be a Democrat but her politics, etc. are Giuliani’s.

Sgt. Fiore, who has long since cleared me security-wise, helped to arrange a meeting for me with Bloomberg aide Katie Hart on a number of matters, including the apparent politically motivated mishandling of the Wan Yun prosecution by Morgenthau’s office. And since she was busy passing the buck on everything, Sgt. Fiore said that he would look into the Wan Yun matter further.

A few weeks later Sgt. Fiore told me that the Wan Yun case had been “sealed and closed.” I have since learned that Wan Yun apparently (for now) may have gotten off easy as per a ruling by NYS Supreme Court Judge Ellen Gesmer. I have also learned that Matthew Jackson never requested the medical information from Bellevue.

I talked discussed this matter with, aside from Mr. Goodman, the reknowned civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, with whom I am acquainted. Mr. Siegel urged me to press superiors at Morgenthau’s office for information. My calls and e-mails to high-level executives there such as James Kindler and Daniel Castleman went unanswered as did my calls and e-mails to top level Bloomberg people like Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott.

Because of the interrelated matters involving abuses against me by the NYC Health & Hospitals Corporation, as well as past abuse against me by certain staff at the Project Hospitality Drop-in Center in Staten Island, Mr. Goodman urged me to contact my elected officials for help.

Since I had some years ago almost been physically assaulted in the office of my State Senator Diane Savino at a scheduled appointment with her apparently possibly recurrently psychotic Chief of Staff Robert Cataldo, I was not going to approach her. My effort with City Councilman Michael McMahon was rejected in an arrogant e-mail I got from him in which he cited the fact that I had written an article in UP FRONT News critical of his pal City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. I most certainly did criticize Quinn, since she is collaborating with her boss Hillary Clinton on, among other very bad things, the cover-up of the ongoing Genocide in Tibet and the related matter of my suggested City Council resolution calling for the removal of the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing. Quinn is also pro-real estate developer and I am a tenants rights activist. I will oppose her anticipated candidacy for mayor. And her arrogant veto of the wishes of thousands of Brooklynites to have a few blocks of Gates Avenue re-named for black nationalist Sonny Carson makes her even less acceptable to me.

Matthew Titone became my State Assemblyman in a special election following the death of John Lavelle. Titone was hand-picked for the nomination by the Clinton-loyal Democratic Party machine duo of Quinn and McMahon.

Shortly after Titone’s election (at the urging of Staten Island gay rights and peace activist Marjorie Ramos, who was hopeful of seeing a gay person represent Staten Islanders, I had voted for him, a vote I would now like to have back) I contacted Assemblyman Titone.

The New York State legislature has been labeled “the worst in the country.” Considering how Matthew Titone conducts his business as an assemblyman, it is easy to see why.
For weeks Mr. Titone and his hack of a Chief of Staff Keith Pascandarola (who completely screwed up on an urgent Social Security-related matter some years before when he worked for Lavelle when I was homeless and, because of a robbery, was without funds) did not respond to calls or e-mails.

Titone’s initial response, after weeks of non-response, only came after, at my request and with the assistance of my advisor political science professor Steven Gradman, Jessica Loeser, then an aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, reluctantly and timidly intervened. Her reluctance and timidity were presumably related to the fact that her husband is Stu Loeser, Bloomberg’s press secretary. It’s called a “power marriage.” Matthew Titone, however, continued to refuse to meet with me.

I then had a long meeting with Titone’s colleague, the apparently somewhat less security-anxious and perhaps more politically independent Assemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer. She offered to contact “Matt” and urge him to meet with me.

After several more weeks he let it be known that he was ready to meet - but only at the 120th precinct. Titone refused to provide me with a no-arrest guarantee and ignored Sgt. Fiore’s e-mail to him clearing me security-wise.

Following all this closely has been Rev. Demetrius Carolina, Pastor of the First Central Baptist Church of which I am a member. (I am a Jewish born person baptized some years ago by Rev. Dr, Timothy P. Mitchell of the largely African-American Ebenezer Mission- ary Baptist Church in Flushing, Queens. Jews, as far as I am aware, originally speaking, come from Africa) Rev. Carolina, whose congregation is also mostly African-American, readily agreed to host the meeting at his church and so communicated to Mr. Titone. No response.

It was at the end of a Jena 6 demonstration led by Rev. Carolina that Titone whispered to me that he was read to meet with me at the church. He also asked me to remove my UP FRONT News article critical of him from the internet. That request, to say the least, was premature.

On October 11, with Rev. Carolina, Mr. Gradman, and Sgt. Fiore present, we met. We spent some time talking about a NYS Department of Motor Vehicles foulup that has left me without a driver’s license since the last millennium. When we got to the heavy stuff, involving the abuse of my human rights by Wan Yun, Geoffrey Blank, the NYC Health & Hospitals Corporation and Robert Morgenthau, Titone had to leave. Before he left he said something about “statutes of limitation.” He assured me he will help and, since he had to leave, I noted that at least one more meeting will be necessary.

After more delays, we scheduled a meeting at the church on November 27 at 12:00 noon at which Pascandarola was to represent the assemblyman. As I learned when I arrived at the church shortly before noon, a half hour earlier Pascandarola called the church to say he was ill. As Sgt. Fiore, who with another office from the NYPD’s Intelligence Division had driven from Brooklyn, stood by, I called Titone’s office. The staffer there, Dorothy Crimmins, also a Lavelle holdover, confirmed Pascandarola’s earlier call to the church and said that he had been ill for several days. I have received no e-mails from Titone since and, as far as I am aware, neither has Rev. Carolina. There really should be a statute of limitations on politicians like Matthew Titone.

Geoffrey Blank, already convicted of several relatively minor crimes, is a political extremist with ties to the overlapping worlds of fascism and terrorism. Blank continues to remain silent about his ties to the racist Lenora Fulani who is in fact directly linked to the mega-fascist and convicted felon Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. For more on the LaRouche/Fulani tie, visit the website of the respected investigative reporter Dennis King at http://www.dennisking.org/. When, a couple of years ago, Blank’s obsequeous younger brother Jason Blank was asked by a No Police State Coalition activist about the LaRouche link, he replied, “I’d rather not answer that question.” It is always useful to know that it was Fulani who, in her former capacity as the dictator of the Independence Party, helped elect and re-elect Michael Bloomberg.

Geoffrey Blank is also financially and politically linked to another group leftishly calling itself the Freedom Socialist Party, which is under international investigation for ties to terrorism in Iraq. Its spokesperson, a Blank pal named Stephen Durham, is on record (NY Post December 26, 2005) as condoning the hostage beheadings perpetrated by the late Musab al-Zarqawi.
According to the dictionary, a terrorist is a person who uses violence and intimidation for political ends. Geoffrey Blank is a terrorist.

And Matthew Titone and Matthew Jackson are protecting him.
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WHITE POLICE ABDUCT BLACK TEEN IN STATEN ISLAND.JUST A FEW MORE "BAD APPLES" IN THE BIG APPLE ORCHARD?

UP FRONT News December 6, 2007
Published by Tom Weiss
Editorial Advisor: Willard Whittingham
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WHITE POLICE ABDUCT BLACK TEEN IN STATEN ISLAND. JUST A FEW MORE "BAD APPLES" IN THE BIG APPLE ORCHARD?

The description of what happened to 14 year old Rayshawn Moreno of Staten Island on Halloween night evokes images of KKK type incidents in rural Mississippi in the 1958.

Two police officers from the 120th precinct, Thomas Elliassen and Richard Danese, reportedly witnessed Rayshawn throwing eggs in Mariners Harbor. According to an account in The Staten Island Advance, the cops, instead of lecturing him or perhaps even arresting him, instead handcuffed him and placed him in their vehicle. They then drove to a remote and isolated location outside the boundaries of the precinct. According to the news account, verified for me by Edward C. Josey, the President of the Staten Island Branch of the NAACP, the cops drove along South Avenue, towards Tottenville, which is located at the pretty much lily-white southern end of the Island. They drove past Lois Lane (presumably no relation to Superman's girlfriend) and then turned right on Edward Curry Avenue. They then crossed over the West Shore Expressway and turned right onto Chelsea Road and then, after a short distance, turned left onto River Road, which in that area is unlit. With Rayshawn still handcuffed in the back seat, they stopped in front of a Con Edison substation near the West Shore Rail line, an area surrounded by cattailed-filled wetlands.

There, according to the unrebutted report, Elliassen and Danese ordered Rayshawn out of the car. They removed the handcuffs, ordered the teenager to lie on the ground and poked him with their boots.

At that point, the officers received a radio call directing them to another location. They jumped in their car and drove away, leaving Rayshawn alone in the dark.

Rayshawn proceeded to run along the railroad tracks for more than a mile, pausing only to remove his white shirt and sneakers when he saw headlights. The quick-thinking Rayshawn, afraid that those headlights might be from the cops' vehicle, realized he would be easier to spot in a white shirt.

In his gym shorts and socks he arrived at the Burlington Coat Factory Mall where, with the assistance of a security guard, he called his home. Later in the evening, according to The Advance, Rayshawn led investigators to the spot on the railroad tracks where he recovered his clothes.

Elliassen and Danese, who according to Mr. Josey live together in the Great Kills area of Staten Island, have been charged with the misdemeanors of unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child.

Rayshawn is being represented by attorney Jason H. Leventhal, Jr. It is his view, one that is shared by apparently many others, that what happened to this early adolescent was a kidnapping.

Following a recent protest in front of the Supreme Court Building on Richmond Road, a short distance from the St. George terminal of the ferry, Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan decided to postpone the initial Criminal Court appearance of the two officers while he considers upgrading the charges.

At a recent community meeting led by Staten Island civil rights leader Rev. Demetrius Carolina of the First Central Baptist Church in Stapleton (my home community and my church), I asked attorney Leventhal about whether the police may have also violated federal civil rights laws. He said that he has been in contact with the U.S. Justice Department but could give no more specifics.

There is little question, in the wake of the Diallo and Bell, et. al. shootings and other cases involving what can be diplomatically characterized as police excess, that the reality is that the New York Police Department, which has plenty of competent and honest officers, also has plenty of cops who are violence-prone racists who abuse the authority given them by their badges and uniform. Indeed, the usual explanation for the behavior of cops like the notorious Francis X. Livoti, who choked a man to death after a football hit the officer's car, or Justin Volpe who broomstick-sodomized Abner Louima, is that it is "just a few bad apples." I think it is orchardsful of "bad apples."

There is little question that whatever pre-employment screening is done by the NYPD has been insufficient because too many sadists, racists and camouflaged psychopaths become cops. As far as I am concerned, the New York State Legislature and the New York City Council need to pass laws that mandate vigorous pre-employment psychological testing to weed out the sickos before they get in. Indeed I once discussed that briefly with State Senator Bill Perkins (D.-Manhattan), an African-American legislator from Harlem very sensitive to the issue. While he indicated that some screening is done, he said that my idea is a good one.

Political realities what they are in New York City, with a mayor who created a mini-Guantanamo during the Republican National Convention in 2004 and who works hand in hand with "liberal"-spouting but civil rights-hostile City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who runs the Council with an iron hand, the chances of such legislation passing are dubious.

Police work is among the most stressful jobs there is. Cops must make life and death decisions. Psychologically impaired people do not belong on the police force.
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CYNTHIA McKINNEY RUNS FOR PRESIDENT WHAT WILL SHE DO ABOUT THE LaROUCHE/FULANI PARASITES IN THE GREEN PARTY? GERALD ("CAN'T) KANN EXPOSED AGAIN.

UP FRONT News November 29, 2007
Published by Tom Weiss
Editorial Advisor: Willard Whittingham
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Among the more interesting aspects of former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney's talk yesterday as the featured speaker at the Dr. Donald H. Smith Distinguished Lecture at Baruch Colllege was the fact that she did not mention her presidential aspirations in her very passionate and well received speech. Indeed, it fell to another speaker to note that Ms. McKinney plans to seek the Green Party nomination for president.

In any case, as I suggested directly to Ms. McKinney during my face-to-face conversation with her at the reception before her talk, she would do well to thoroughly check out the heavily Lyndon LaRouche, Jr./Lenora Fulani-infiltrated Greens.

I sort of re-introduced myself to Ms. McKinney by telling her that we had met twice in the past. On the first occasion some years ago she was standing next to the Dalai Lama of Tibet at St. John's Cathedral where they were honored, along with the President of Costa Rica and some other people, for their human rights work. The second occasion of our meeting was at Symphony Space where Ms. Mc Kinney was co-chairing a public hearing focusing on evidence that 9/11 was an inside job.

Ms. McKinney readily gave me several minutes of her time. After letting her know my views about the continuing Chinese Communist Genocide in Occupied Tibet and the U.S. media and political coverup (including Hillary Clinton and John Edwards) of that Genocide, and learning of her support for a Free Tibet, I talked to her about the Greens.

With respect to her reported presidential aspirations, she acknowledged communication with, among others, Lenora Fulani and Greens such as Paul ("Zool") Zulkowitz and Howie ("The Hawk") Hawkins. Quite clearly, until speaking with me, she was unaware that the racist Fulani is an ideological surrogate for the megalomaniacal Hitler follower and convict- ed felon Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. All Ms. McKinney needs to do to get further information about this pseudo-left neo-fascist collaboration is to visit, aside from the UP FRONT News blog at http://www.tomsupfrontnews.blogspot.com/, the website of investigative reporter Dennis King at http://www.dennisking.org/.

Ms. McKinney, an African-American Democrat from Atlanta, also listened with interest as I described the Green Party, at least in New York, as an essentially lily-white group. Indeed, it should probably be called The White Party. The Green Party's effort to run a no-non- sense black activist for president reminds me the the 2000 Republican convention when the white male dominated GOP put a bunch of black and latino faces on the dais.

I also told Ms. McKinney that Greens such as Paul Zulkowitz are in fact politically violent criminals. She was clearly surprised to learn that Zulkowitz was responsible for a near riot on September 19, 2005 in Union Square in Manhattan when he lied to everyone, apparently including Cindy Sheehan, in claiming that he had the required NYPD sound device permit for her speech at his misbegotten so-called "Camp Casey." She was even more surprised to learn that, following my UP FRONT News criticism of Zulkowitz and his spurious NYPD-provoking pal the deposed Union Square demagogue Geoffrey Blank, Zulkowitz, citing my criticism, announced his impending suicide, a maneuver that got him involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility in Long Island. It was news to her that, following Zulkowitz' apparently premature release, he told a friend that he was planning to shoot me with his Magnum 357.

Ms. McKinney was most interested in my views regarding the racial complexion of the Greens and, since she told me that some Greens would be present for her talk, she en- couraged me to ask her about that during the Q&A. She quite gladly accepted a package of UP FRONT News articles and some mainstream media accounts of my Democratic write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate against Republicrat Hillary Clinton.

Ms. McKinney, who, according to introducer Prof. Bobbie Pollard, lost her Congressional seat because a large number of Republicans were able to vote in the Democratic primary in Georgia and voted for Ms. McKinney's machine Democratic opponent, blasted the existing political leadership for the Iraq War and the increasing impoverishment of America. She pointed to the widening income gap between rich and poor. She told the audience that as a member of the House Armed services Committee she had learned that over $2 trillion has been lost by the Department of Defense in "untraceable transactions." She reiterated her view that high level U.S. government officials had prior knowledge of what was to happen on 9/11/01 and that a completely new and independent investigation is needed.

While she did not mention any of the Democratic candidates, her political distaste for Hillary Clinton is evident.

As far as her own presidential aspirations are concerned, after her candidacy was mentioned by another speaker, Ms. McKinney said that she plans to seek the nomination of the Green Party.

Especially since Ms. McKinney had encouraged me to ask her Green views during the Q&A, I made it a point to get to the microphone expeditiously. I asked for her views on the Tibetan situation noting that, as many blacks and whites are unaware, Tibet is a "black" nation that is the victim of a racist Genocide by the light-complexioned Chinese. I also noted that, regardless of the progressive rhetoric characterizing the Green Party platform, that Party, at least in New York, has been deeply infiltrated by violent LaRouche/Fulani-oriented crypto-fascists and that the Greens are essentially white. Quite nervous during the entire evening was Greenie Gerald Kann, a major LaRouchite/Fulaniite and one of several to be involved in witnessed political violence against me, as I pointed out directly but diplomatically to Ms. McKinney.

Ms. McKinney stated clearly her unhappiness over the human rights situation in Tibet and her support for the Tibetan right to "self-determination." Regarding the Greens, she said that she supports the Green Party platform but acknowledged that the Party has much work to do regarding its racial make-up. Although, during our earlier direct conversation she had expressed concern about LaRouche infiltration of the Greens and assured me that she would look into this closely, as well as read my articles, etc., she did not comment publicly on the LaRouche matter.

One of the questioners during the Q&A was Gerald Kann. Some history is relevant here. On April 29 or 30, 2004 Kann was directly involved in a Fulani/ Zulkowitz-ordered physical assault on me perpetrated by Fulani fascist Kann pal George Tatevosyan to prevent my attending a Ralph Nader news conference to which the then presidential candidate had invited me. That assault was witnessed by No Police State Coalitions list-serve co-manager Roman Shusterman and NPSC activist Richie Degen. (Mr. Degen at my invitation by the way attended Ms. McKinney's talk and during the Q&A expressed his support for her. I am certain, however, that Mr. Degen's support will be more meaningful if he overcomes his continuing resistance against registering to vote.) Gerald ("Can't) Kann has been thoroughly exposed in UP FRONT News and has been twice soundly trounced as a candidate for the New York City Council from Astoria/LIC Queens. He is so bad that in the 2005 City Council race I endorsed the rather conservative Democrat Peter Vallone, Jr. and circulated copies of my endorsement in Astoria/LIC among many other neighborhoods. That may explain why, whereas in 2001 Kann had sucked in about 20% of the voters, in 2005 as I recall his totals were 8%.

Kann asked Ms. McKinney if she would support efforts within the Green Party to assure fairness for all presidential candidates at the Party's 2008 convention in Chicago. (I stifled the urge to suggest than Kann's inquiry about fairness and democratic procedures was analagous to Adolf Hitler's asking a rabbi for assurances that democracy prevails in the synagogue.) Ms. McKinney replied that it is the Green Party's job, not hers, to make certain that there is fairness as the convention.

One way that the Greens can take meaningful steps in that direction is by ousting crypto- fascists such as Zulkowitz and Kann, deposing the autocratic New York Green Party boss from Syracuse Hawkins, and severing all ties with Fulani and thereby LaRouche.

As I told several people in the audience, by that time made aware of just who Gerald Kann is, if Cynthia McKinney really wants to be president of the United States, regardless of her very real merits as a progressive human rights activist (and at this point the only announced candidate openly supporting self-determination for Tibet), ready to take on the warmakers, the corporations and their purchased politicians (e.g. Cheney/Bush/Clinton), if she has people like Kann/Zulkowitz/Fulani, et. al. in her campaign, politically speaking, she becomes "toast."
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