He is fine-tuning the martial law requirements that will be in force for the holidays:
"Baker administration calls for changes to allow more defendants to be held without bail; Its bill before the Legislature would make it easier for judges to deem defendants dangerous" by Andrea Estes Globe Staff, September 10, 2020
More defendants held without bail sounds totalitarian to me.
The Baker administration on Thursday asked lawmakers to make it easier for prosecutors to jail people charged with violent crimes before trial, citing the recent case of an accused rapist who allegedly committed another sexual assault after a nonprofit group bailed him out.
The state’s public safety and security secretary, Thomas A. Turco III, urged the Legislature to allow prosecutors to ask that a defendant be held indefinitely — until his or her case is over — rather than for the current limit of 180 days for Superior Court and 120 days in District Court.
The administration’s bill would also allow prosecutors to ask that a defendant be declared “dangerous” and held without bail at any time after being charged.
It's opening up a whole can of worms that can go sideways into COVID, doesn't it?
The governor designates you dangerous, in you go. If it were Trump, there would be howling from the Globe. Our beloved tyrant in this $hit fiefdom, they don't bat an eye.
Look, there is reason to hold people based on violent or crazed actions until trial, but this is going beyond that and I'm going to reserve some commentary for later.
Turco also asked lawmakers to allow defendants to be held without bail in a wider array of criminal cases than current law allows. He said “quintessentially dangerous crimes" such as child rape and assault and battery on a child should be added to the list of charges for which a defendant can be held without bail.
Why weren't they already, and the state is the biggest protector of elite pedophiles (whose looking at you, Joe, as YouTube censors it) and sex rings along with the pre$$. This is just another level to use against the public to steal the children from you.
People around here really need to wake up, but they won't. I see it everyday. When he orders a complete lockdown, I don't much resistance. I've tried to send along information to counter this madness, but outside of one, maybe two people, it doesn't take. They revert back to belief and trust in evil forces that are planning their demise. It's a stressful thing to deal with, knowing I'm only one of a few around here who probably really know what is going on, and you can't pile the whole thing on their shoulders, either. It's enough that they know, but we are too few, oh, Lord, we are so very few.
In his letter to lawmakers, Turco cited the case of Shawn McClinton, a twice-convicted rapist who was being held on charges of committing a third rape until the Massachusetts Bail Fund, a nonprofit group, paid his $15,000 bail. Within three weeks, he was rearrested on a fourth rape charge.
Well, "nonprofits provide new ways for corporations and individuals to influence"policies, and it's clear now the release all the criminals policy was meant to be the end of this beautiful country we had a year ago. Our enemies are jabbing us into communi$m with their lead defender being the Bo$ton Globe which says the organization's worthy racial justice mission is worth it because they are on the right side of the law — and justice.
Tell it to the victims.
Under Baker’s proposed legislation, prosecutors would have been able to ask that McClinton be held without bail at any time after his arrest. He is currently being held without bail for 60 days and then on $500,000 cash bail.
“Taking away someone’s freedom while they await a charge is a serious matter, which is why I understand the need for careful deliberation,” wrote Turco, noting that the Legislature’s Joint Committee on the Judiciary has been considering overhauling the bail system for two years, “but after nearly two years' worth of such deliberation, and following these recent developments, I ask that the committee report out the Governor’s bill favorably as soon as possible.”
That puke doesn't care about our freedom after what they have done vis a vis protests, churches, weddings, bars, and all the rest. The destroyer cometh, and he be named Baker.
Prosecutors expressed support for the administration’s proposal, but criminal defense lawyers and advocacy groups opposed it.
Randy Gioia, deputy chief counsel for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, whose lawyers represent indigent defendants, called the bill “a giant step backward in criminal justice reform.”
“If this bill becomes law more people will be locked up for longer periods of time before trial. There is no data that supports why we need to do this,” but after the Bail Fund bailed out several defendants facing serious charges like rape and attempted murder, some prosecutors, including Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins, said they would seek to have defendants declared dangerous and held without bail more often.
She was on the complete opposite side during her $oro$-funded campaign for office and during her initial phase of office, and now she has done a 180?
The governor has proposed this legislation without success twice before, but Turco wrote to the judiciary committee’s chairs, Senator James Eldridge and Representative Claire Cronin, that “today the Commonwealth is faced with even more challenges that call for enacting this legislation.”
WTF?
He has literally been "ruling" by decree, and now they want a rubber stamp from the cowardly legi$looture?
This state is so fucked up that if the legislature gets involved it will mean mandatory vaccinations for all and total quarantine. They are no savior, never have been. They have been the root of the problems for as long as I can remember, the Golden Dome on Beacon Hill that stinks of $hit.
Bail funds, he said, have exploited a loophole that requires a prosecutor to seek a dangerousness hearing at a defendant’s first court appearance. If the prosecutor doesn’t do so, the law does not allow a later request for a hearing, and, once bail is set, anyone can offer to pay for the defendant’s release — no matter what the charges are or the defendant’s criminal history.
Massachusetts Bail Fund organizers say that all cash bail should be eliminated because it hurts poor people and doesn’t reduce crime.
“You have a rare opportunity to close this loophole and protect the public from violent people," Turco wrote. "Serious crimes, from murder to rape and kidnapping, crimes you could help prevent, continue to occur month after month.”
Ah, the classic BAIT and SWITCH to tighter tyranny, and my fellow citizens are either fast asleep or in support of this nonsense if the the comments are to be believed.
Will they feel that way when their children are kidnapped, 'er, quarantined because of COVID at school?
Eldridge said the judiciary committee will take “a close look” at the bill, especially now that the Legislature has extended the session through the end of the year, but, he added, “I would want to emphasize that, from everything I look at, the crime rates including the most violent crimes has decreased in Massachusetts."
Eldridge also pointed out that prosecutors already have the power to have a defendant declared dangerous, but they haven’t exercised it much, including in the McClinton case. “I think it’s relevant,” he said....
Yeah, this whole thing is another unneeded power grab while the mythical COVID rages!
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The governor had a busy day having to bow low to another of a sacred myths:
"Massachusetts communities plan 9/11 observances" by Adam Sennott Globe Correspondent, September 11, 2020
Governor Charlie Baker and other state officials on Friday are planning to honor victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks who died at the World Trade Center in New York City, at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and in a field in rural Pennsylvania.
The Massachusetts 9/11 Fund said a mix of pre-recorded and in-person events the event will be live-streamed, starting at 8:30 a.m. Friday, on its website.
Baker will be present at the State House to lower the flag to half staff, “with the remainder of the program pre-recorded and live streamed,” Faith Arter, chairwoman of the board of the 9/11 Fund said in an e-mail Thursday evening.
The program calls for a solemn observance.
Karin Charles, chair of the organization’s family advisory committee, will offer welcoming remarks followed by a flag ceremony and a moment of silence.
The names of the 206 victims from Massachusetts will be read by Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito, Attorney General Maura Healey, and Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the fund said.
Polito will also present this year’s Madeline “Amy” Sweeney Award for Civilian Bravery, followed by a Massachusetts 9/11 family montage.
Elsewhere, at the Charlestown Navy Yard, the crew of the USS Constitution is scheduled to commemorate the terrorist attacks aboard the ship. The ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. and will be broadcast live for the public on the ship’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ussconstitutionofficial.
At 5 p.m., the Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial Ceremony will be held virtually and live streamed at mafirememorial.org/.
The American Red Cross will also hold its annual 9/11 Day of Service blood drive at the Big Night Entertainment Group, Studio B and Music Hall, at 110 Causeway St. from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Red Cross said in a press release.
Then the COVID creep and conflation began:
All donors must make an appointment in order to give blood, pass an additional health screening, and wear a face covering at all times, the Red Cross said.
I would rather bleed to death then.
The City of Newton will also live-stream its 9/11 remembrance at 6 p.m. on Friday, Ellen Ishkanian, director of community communications, said in an e-mail.
“It will be a small gathering this year to adhere to COVID-19 guidelines and will be broadcast on Vimeo,” Ishkanian said.
Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller said in a statement that the COVID-19 pandemic amplifies the horror of 9/11.
“The angst that surrounds us from today’s deadly pandemic somehow amplifies the horror of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, for me,” Fuller said. “COVID-19 will not let more than fifty people be together in person for this year’s 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony.”
“It will be streamed live with only a small number of us in person honoring the Newtonians killed in the attack 19 years ago as well as the more than 400 firefighters and law enforcement officers lost,” Fuller said.
She makes me want to puke, and looks totally out of touch with what is going on.
In Cambridge, the police and fire departments will honor the memory of all first responders killed on Sept. 11, including 343 New York City firefighters. Those who have died since the attacks, as a result of cancer and other illnesses developed as a result of their response on Sept. 11, will also be remembered, the city said.
Yeah, minimize the deaths from digging through that toxic spew that smoldered for weeks(?).
That's one reason I have not used the color-coded style in this section is because the pre$$ coverage of that now historical even is so shallow with never a question asked about so many things, most of all the violation of the immutable laws of physics in the way those three WTC towers dropped into their own footprint in a pyroclastic fury -- but I digress.
The immediate problem is the airliner of tyranny fast approaching.
A moment of silence will be held at 8:46 a.m., the time when the first American Airlines plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center. A second moment of silence will be held at 9:03 a.m., when the second American Airlines plane struck the south tower. Both planes took off from Logan Airport in Boston.
9/11 was supposed to be the legacy of this blog, but after 14 years I have strayed so far.
As for what we saw that day, I think some logical deductions can be made. It's the who behind it more than the how, which is tantalizing to most people -- even in the OJ case.
The Town of Brookline will hold a remembrance ceremony starting at 9:30 a.m. at Fire Station 5 on Babcock Street, according to a statement issued by Bernard Greene, chair of the Select Board. The names of eight people from Brookline who died in the attacks, including New York City firefighter Manuel Del Valle Jr., will be read aloud. Friends and family of those who died have been invited to speak.
Del Valle’s brother, Brookline firefighter Peter Moyer, will speak. Del Valle graduated from Brookline High School in 1988 and a bench in his memory was dedicated outside Station 5 in Coolidge Corner in 2011, according to the statement. “Del Valle died while racing into one of the World Trade Center towers to save people,” the statement said.....
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The AP says in a year of restrictions, the virus has changed Sept. 11, too, and since it's "our" six-month coronaversary, let’s talk about something else over a beer.
The Globe used the occasion to fly straight into the President, a very concerning thing since one of their columnists is urging critics of the president who want retired general John Kelly and other retired generals to go full metal jacket on Trump as he says it is the JOB of the GENERAL (you know what the film Full Metal Jacket is known for, right?)!
"EDITORIAL: A day with lessons for protecting American lives; On the anniversary of 9/11, in the midst of a pandemic, it’s time to assess what we can learn from these twin horrors" by The Editorial Board September 11, 2020
Conflate apples and oranges right away, never mind the differing death tolls.
Yes, 9/11 a visceral horror that really can't be duplicated and who would want to?
COVID way better and air travel has already been destroyed.
This was the day a nation promised never to forget, and so even in the midst of a pandemic, the memorials to those nearly 3,000 lives lost 19 years ago will go on — changed, adapted for these perilous times, but still a time to remember.
In New York City, at what for years after Sept. 11 was still called Ground Zero, families will no longer be the ones to read aloud the names of the loved ones lost on that day. The ceremony will be socially distanced; a recorded reading of the names will assure its brevity.
It will be a day of wreath-laying and solemn remembrance as it always is, but if the deaths of some 3,000 human beings on American soil can continue to tug at our consciences, how then to acknowledge, mark, remember the more recent deaths on these shores that today approach 200,000?
What's six percent of that since the deaths specifically from COVID, whatever it is if it even exists, have been widely overinflated?
I shouldn't be surprised. The pre$$ has been lying long before 9/11, in fact, it has been a conveyor for lies almost since its founding.
Where is their memorial? And, as this editorial page asked Thursday, where is the special commission that will eventually assign blame for all of the failures of leadership and political will that brought us to this day?
Yeah, state crimes and murder must be enshrined in memorials where we all must bow low to the official cowslip that couldn't possibly have happened.
The roots of these very different tragedies share more than our political leaders would ever want to acknowledge. In both cases, opportunities to protect Americans were wasted.
As the 9/11 Commission Report, issued in 2004, put it, “The 9/11 attacks were a shock, but they should not have come as a surprise.”
Going back to the 1993 truck bombing at the World Trade Center, this nation remained in denial of its vulnerabilities. “During the spring and summer of 2001, US intelligence agencies received a stream of warnings” the report said, or as Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet put it, “The system was blinking red.”
In 1993, the FBI gave an Egyptian informant live explosives and told him go ahead anyway and as for 2001, Mueller and Company helped cover up the Al-CIA-Duh tracks of the alleged hijackers who had their identities stolen and were being trailed by Israeli intelligence.
The term “stovepiping” became part of the American phrase book — a way to describe how each of the nation’s intelligence-gathering agencies went its own way, rarely sharing information.
The pre$$ got stovepipe on Iraq, and conveniently omits that from memory. Almost makes you feel sad for the miserable, mass-murder enabling bastards. Almost.
Among the reforms to come out of that report was the creation of an all-seeing Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to whom 16 intelligence agencies now report. Of course, the post is now held by former Republican congressman John Ratcliffe, a man so lacking in intelligence experience he felt compelled to inflate his resume in his quest for the job.
The global pandemic that is now the nation’s newest and most formidable enemy didn’t bring down buildings, but it has cost lives, produced untold suffering, and devastated the US economy in ways terrorists could not have dreamed possible.
Yup, and it was brought to you by local, state, and federal officials -- a big lie for your own good and protection while destroying life and facilitating ma$$ive wealth transfers upward.
As it did before 9/11, the government took its eye off the ball. The Trump administration reduced funding for global public health security, dissolved a pandemic task force in 2018, and scaled back the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s overseas public health work.
Still, intelligence officials — along with public health officials — did manage to send up early warning signs, but they had little impact. There is some evidence that US intelligence gathering out of Wuhan, China, found the first signs of what would become the pandemic as early as last November.
Of course, the parallels break down when the warnings reached the Oval Office. There is simply no president who has ever been as cavalier about his responsibilities, and indifferent to the lives of the American people, as Donald Trump. The president was briefed about the virus, and even told journalist Bob Woodward in February that it was “deadly stuff,” but chose to actively mislead the American people instead of organizing a response.
Nice rewrite of history as they completely omit Trump shutting down the border and air travel (Globe was calling him a racist alarmist back then) and the faulty models predicted 2 million dead (the Globe is calling 1/10th of that a massive failure).
Hey, it's their opinion but it is of the most disingenuous slop one would ever read.
Yes, the devastation caused by COVID-19 is certainly a “shock,” but it too “should not have come as a surprise.”
Not when the president of the United States repeatedly lies to the American people, insisting that a virus will “just go away” — and life will return to normal — maybe by Easter. Remember that? Or maybe by September and kids will be back in school. Or maybe by Election Day, when surely there will be a vaccine, no?
Oh, now they found there memory, the same people who lied us into Iraq and helped pushed kids out the schools (thank God. Keep them out of evil clutches)!
They have some gall as they project their failures onto the President of the United States!
When the president waits until there is a full-blown crisis in much needed medical supplies to invoke the Defense Production Act, he has failed to protect the public.
When he bends trusted public health institutions to his will to promote phony “cures” or ineffective treatments, he is endangering the people of this country, and when he fails to promote common-sense protections like wearing masks, he fails in the most basic role of a leader.
Reading this slop makes one sick.
When one day this nation is on the other side of this pandemic, there needs to be a way to memorialize those who lost their lives in a tragedy made worse by failures of leadership, but there is one more lesson from the 9/11 Commission Report that should not be lost on a nation now sorely divided among the mask-wearers versus non-mask-wearers, believers versus deniers.
“We call on the American people,” the commission wrote in 2004, “to remember how we all felt on 9/11, to remember not only the unspeakable horror but how we came together as a nation — one nation.”
To help advance your evil agenda based on fucking lies?
No thanks.
In remembering those lost on that day, and in remembering those lost in these past painful months, it would be a fitting tribute that we at least reach toward that seemingly elusive goal.
Like a Great Re$et, huh, Globe?
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These were on the front page you can no longer see:
The lead feature was about a former governor, and Massachusetts should be working to impeach Charlie Baker.
Their lead was reform at the BPD with a double shot before the flip of the fold.
Looks like the teaching profession will soon be dead.
Maybe someone could put the governor under house arrest, 'eh?
"Judge declines to lift eviction ban, but warns Baker on extending it past Oct. 17; Mark Wolf questions why the moratorium should be allowed to stay in place indefinitely" by Tim Logan Globe Staff, September 10, 2020
A federal judge Thursday sounded skeptical of Massachusetts' toughest-in-the-nation ban on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, but stopped short of lifting it entirely.
In a virtual hearing at federal court in Boston, US District Judge Mark Wolf turned down a request by landlords to immediately halt Massachusetts' broad moratorium on evictions, but, he said, Governor Charlie Baker would have “a lot to think about,” if he moves to continue the moratorium beyond its current expiration date of Oct. 17. Wolf pointed to reduced COVID-19 case rates in Massachusetts and Baker’s own push to reopen schools. He asked why the moratorium, which the Legislature passed on an emergency basis as the virus raged here in April, should continue indefinitely.
“This moratorium was said to be temporary,” Wolf said. “What is constitutionally permissible for a limited period of time may become unpermissible at some point.”
When can we be free again?
For now, though, he’s allowing it to remain in place while lawyers for landlords and the state lay out their arguments in the case, which could take months to litigate.
No immediate relief.
Housing advocates in Massachusetts say the ban has likely prevented thousands of evictions statewide as the pandemic-induced economic crisis has dragged on. Landlords say it gives them no way to collect rent, even from tenants who haven’t lost a job, and could push smaller property owners into foreclosure or selling their buildings.
Both sides note the state ban ― like a federal eviction moratorium announced last week by the federal Centers for Disease Control ― does nothing to guarantee back rent, meaning months of unpaid rent will come due when it ends. A $100 billion rental relief package is stalled in Congress.
Also on Thursday, real estate website ApartmentList said it estimates that 31 percent of renters nationwide owed unpaid back rent at the start of September, a number many housing experts expect will grow now that expanded unemployment benefits have ended for most people.
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You will soon sit home just as they did in the days of the Soviet Union, and that is all you will do.
There will no longer be landlords of private property. The new model will be state-provided slave hovels while oligarchs control the money and means and have a grand old time.
