In the morning, I published a blog about a "financial arrangement" in Delaware County, New York, where conviction fines finance the police, the legal aide, and now the prosecutors.
I also stated in the blog that the "masterminds" of the "deal of the century" are two judicial candidates, Porter Kirkwood (Delaware County Attorney) and Richard Northrup (Delaware County District Attorney) and listed instances of shady behavior of Richard Northrup before this "financial arrangement".
In the afternoon, my friend in Delaware County was already threatened with being "locked up" if she "does not stop blogging with" me.
It means that:
1) my blogs are read;
2) my blogs work in exposing misconduct of people;
3) those who intimidate my friends are really stupid people since they do not even know what blogging is when they demand that my friends stop blogging "with me".
I am blogging alone, individually and separately from my friends.
Yet, I will be publishing names of people who attempted to intimidate my friends or to pass intimidating statements from others.
One of such "referral source" is attorney Carol Malz of Oneonta, NY, who arranged a meeting with my friend, under an obviously fake pretext, to convey to her that she and I must stop blogging, "or else" there will be serious consequences for my friend in court, and that all troubles of my friend and her daughter (!) in litigation are because they associate with me.
By the way, the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of association from intrusion from the government, so it is obvious that the court system MAY NOT, constitutionally, take my friend's association with me (as the critic of judicial misconduct) against her in the court's rulings.
According to my friend, Carol Malz tried to subtly and not so subtly drop hints that my friend should really drop her civil lawsuit against police officer Derek Bowie (who assaulted her with a vehicle), and then the Delaware County District Attorney (who employs Derek Bowie's uncle, and therefore, prosecutes not Derek Bowie for assault and attempted murder, but my friend, Derek Bowie's victim, for a made-up crime) will "go easy" on her. And, if she does not drop that lawsuit, she will be locked up.
Today the tune of intimidation was repeated - stop blogging (apparently "in association with" THAT Tatiana Neroni) - or you will be locked up.
Says a lot about integrity of judicial system, doesn't it, that simply being a friend of a critic of judicial misconduct puts a bull's eye on you and makes you a target of retaliation by the entire judicial system.
Once again, I do not blog "in association" with people. I blog on my own.
Intimidating my friends will not stop my blogging, as I believe my blogs protect them, not jeopardize them.
I believe that my friend Barbara O'Sullivan is safer when I blog about her.
What endangers her is the silence.
What helps judicial misconduct, police misconduct and prosecutorial misconduct is the silence, silence of people who, for financial or other reasons, are afraid to raise their voices against injustice that they clearly observe in front of them.
That's their choice.
And blogging is mine.
And I will not stop.
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