Kane jury has a verdict....

[step.eng69]

Side Bar: evidentially northeast PA makes good fodder for tv program Law & Order....
shame on us.
Ripped from the Headlines: Greed, Corruption, and Hate Crimes in Northeastern Pennsylvania
By Walter Brasch
The Public Record
Dec 21st, 2009


Luis Ramirez

Dick Wolf, who created “Law & Order” and its two successful spin-offs, “Law & Order: SVU” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” should probably consider establishing a branch office in Pennsylvania.

It seems that whenever any of the New York City cops take a road trip to find a fugitive or track down a witness, they go to Pennsylvania. Apparently, New Jersey is only a buffer zone.

Part of the reason why Pennsylvania routinely figures into the hour-long dramas may be because Wolf, a New Yorker, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Another possibility, although much more remote, may be because his first of three wives was named Susan Scranton.

Nevertheless, Pennsylvania has been the site of sufficient plots the past couple of years as the three TV series have increased their levels of social consciousness.

 

[step.eng69]

Again, there are more crooked judges out of jail than are in jail. So, you tell me, is the law working? Is it deterring judicial corruption?

Ned2, if I remember correctly and maybe one of our siblings will pipe in to extrapolate, In April 2008, the Juvenile Law Center petitioned the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seeking relief for alleged violation of the youths' civil rights. The application of relief was later denied, then reconsidered in January 2009 when charges of corruption against the judges surfaced.

This incident was presented before on the board, in that one of the fellow members of the Supreme Courts' son's was a partner in the Pittsburgh area building & management of the facilities that the juveniles were sent.

 

[step.eng69]

Martha Stewart...

Im not a lover of Martha Stewart but she got hosed for what was a $250,000 trade? It's totally laughable that no one from the recent housing collapse and rampant wall street fraud went to jail....but Martha Stewart gets completely f'd.

George Carlin about Martha Stewart
"Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her fanny off to jail."

 

[jjsocrates]

If you were paying attention, you would realize that there is more than 1 politician has gone to jail. For example, there were 2 judges from Kane's part of the state who were charged in the cash for kids scandal.

My God - you read my metaphor literally. Well done.

Ok, fine. I will amend my metaphor to put any number greater than 1 and less than 100 so that every single damn anecdote will fit my scenario.

My point - which I didn't need to explicitly spell out because I ASSUMED most people were smart enough to get - is that things like this are SELECTIVELY enforced. So SOME politicians go to jail for this, while OTHER politicians get away with the exact same crime.

I thought that was perfectly clear in my post - it was implied. But perhaps it was foolish of me to assume that everybody here is bright enough to figure it out.

In other words - bad troll.

 

[JoeDidntKnow]

I have been thinking about this aspect of the political corruption in PA. We have not examined the influence of political donors on either the rooting out of corruption or the continuence of corruption in the state. I have a feeling that various business interests and political donors are exerting influence on maintaining the status quo. Not challenging the false narrative, not uncovering the corrupt politicians, not addressing the current governance fiasco at PSU, etc., etc. Actions are taken and actions are not taken in part because doing so would negatively impact political donors.

Absolutely and that will always be the case in the current system we have in place now. There really is no getting around it

 

[JoeDidntKnow]

I think it ends up going to trial with the state knowing it has very little chance. The state loses and tries to save face by saying that without the Baldwin testimony they were greatly handicapped and behind the 8 ball from the onset. They never admit fault and continue to pursue the narrative that C/S/S were always guilty.

The media never accepts the verdict and the general population has already decided the three good guys and Joe were guilty in 2011. I think that's where it ends up from the public perception perspective.