The late Tammany Hall political Boss WILLLIAM MAGEAR TWEED (sometimes referred to as WILLIAM MARCY TWEED), once reportedly said, "It's them damn pictures," referring to the satirical cartoons of Thomas Nast of Harper's Weekly, based on facts reported in The New York Times, including a four-page supplement showing accounting records, published on July 29, 1871.
Our estimable St. Johns County political boss, SHERIFF DAVID SHOAR f/k/a "DAVID HOAR" must feel thattaway today about yesterday's New York Times story -- half the front page and four inside pages, chock full of inculpatory photographs, diagrams, reconstructions and forensic evidence. Lt. Columbo would be proud!
Sheriff DAVID B. SHOAR is hurtin' for certain.
Why?
It is the facts and the revealing "damn pictures" that people around the world first saw in the Sunday, November 24, 2013 New York Times, both online and one million copies in print, and with more "damn pictures" that they are already watching on the PBS website, the PBS Frontline story, "A Death in St. Augustine," which airs on hundreds of PBS stations tomorrow night, November 26.
The whole world is watching.
How do we here in St. Johns County respond to the ineluctable facts of coverups, incompetence and desuetude of law enforcement here in St. Johns County, Florida?
What is to be done?
Sheriff SHOAR's actions are contrary to the decency and dignity of a free people.
We've made so much progress here, and SHOAR's actions threaten our future. Already people on the Times' website are commetnng they don't feel safe here as tourists or new residents, because of how SHOAR handled the O'Connell case.
Thanks to recent city reforms, the Mumford & Sons' "Gentlemen of the Road" tour, and now the Sheriff's irrefrabably disgraceful conduct, we're on the world stage now.
Our 450th birthday of St. Augustine is fast approaching in 2015.
We and the O'Connell family deserves answers about Michelle O'Connell's death.
Sheriff DAVID SHOAR's actions are an embarassment and stench in the nostrils of st. Johns County, and St. Augustine. They are also legally actionable.
Also, coverups, corruption and bigotry are also bad for tourism.
Coverups, corrupt and bigotry must be extirpated.
We need transparency, honesty and compassion for victims -- not arrogant high fives, oceans of emotions and refusals of recusals (and refusals to sit for interviews). (See below).
As the ancient equitable maxim says, "Let justice be done though the heavens fall."
To be continued....
1 comment:
Lies of Constraint — Its like sex without the orgasm...
In the end this Times/Frontline story will serve to be more of an unfulfilling divisive frustration than a catalyst for any gratifying remedial action.
Why?
Your closing statement reveals why Ed...
As the ancient equitable maxim says, "Let justice be done though the heavens fall."
If the heavens were to fall they would have to take down the corrupt business community that exists and profits through the complicit corruption of the FDLE, the FBI, and city and county law enforcement that has selectively enforced and allowed their usurped authority.
David Shoar’s despicable arrogance, and the despicable unfettered arrogance of the present crop of gangsters at the helm is testimony to this dynamic.
Sheriff DAVID SHOAR's actions ARE an embarrassment and stench in the nostrils of st. Johns County, and St. Augustine. And yes they are also legally actionable. But the stench in the heavens runs far deeper.
Frontline and the Times, after being repeatedly made aware of this greater context, constrain themselves and ignore it. Why? Because they are an integral part of the heavens that owes their existence to similar equally murderous past corruption. And so they feed us lies of constraint.
“What is to be done?” you ask. The people need to rise up as one and boycott the business community and law enforcement.
I know of what I speak, here again is what Frontline and the Times refuse to acknowledge...
http://fountainofbaloney.com/fbarticles/FB%20WEB%20Site%20copy/2SADogpages/19fbi/fbipg1.html
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