Eddie G. Griffin (BASG)

• TASER International Crimes Against Humanity

  Manipulating the Truth about Tasers
  
  THIS IS A PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
  
  To insure Public Safety against tyranny by the exercise of excessive state powers to use force, we call into question the use of TASERs as a means of compliance control by law enforcement, in the United States. [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:21pm EST
  

• Back-to-Back-to-Back Taser Deaths Kicks Off Crusade

  INFORMATION RELEASE
  TO: Media Networks
  Event: TASER WAR CRUSADE
  Release Date: December 4, 2009
  
  
  Back-to-Back-to-Back Taser Deaths Kicks Off Crusade
  By Eddie G. Griffin (BASG)
  
  Since the maker of the 50,000-volt electronic stun gun control device (ECD), TASER International, issued a new directive and warnings in an [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:18pm EST
  

• TASER WARS: Another Chapter

  TASER International Zaps Non-lethal Claim with Video
  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Thursday, November 12, 2009
  
  Who knows what Taser International chairman and co-founder Tom Smith was trying to prove when he zapped reporter Noah Shachtman with an X3 taser. What in the world was WIRE.com thinking when they [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:50am EST
  

• From Tasers to Homicide: The Dividing Line on Torture

  
  U.S. Department of Justice
  Community Relations Service
  Harwood Center
  1999 Bryan Street, Ste. 2050
  Dallas, TX 75201
  Tele. 214-655-8190
  Fax: 214-655-8184
  
  Attn.: Synthia Demons,
  Senior Conciliation Specialist, SW Region
  synthia.demons@usdoj.gov
  
  RE: From Tasers to Homicide: The Dividing Line on Torture
  
  
  
  Dear [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:03pm EST
  

• Mantel of Peace upon President’s Shoulders

  By Eddie Griffin (BASG)
  
  Thursday, November 05, 2009
  
  Today has been declared the day to Blog Blast for Peace. For us, it is a day to meditate the meaning of Peace within the context of a complex world at war.
  
  President Barack Obama is between [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:08am EST
  

• March Against Tasers Targets City

  STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  FROM: Eddie G. Griffin 817-721-7439
  
  March Against Tasers Targets City
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas – On Saturday, November 7, people will march from downtown City Hall to the uptown County Courthouse, starting at noon, to highlight the increasing number of deaths related to tasing. The [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:26pm EST
  

• Larger than Life Limbaugh: REJECTED

  Thursday, October 15, 2009
  
  Bite the bullet, Rush. It’s not personal, it’s only business. Where you seek to plow and profit is a ground cursed to you. You will profit, but only at the expense of the league, the players, and the integrity of the game. As your revenues [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 9:53am EDT
  

• Nobel Peace Prize Committee Honors President Barack Obama

  What it means
  
  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Tuesday, October 13, 2009
  
  President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The key word here is not Barack Obama, but “Peace”, something people seems to have a lost a sense of, here, recently.
  
  Rush Limbaugh called the [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 11:14am EDT
  

• I Just Saw the Doctor:

  Sobbering words from Michael Burgess, M.D.
  
  I just came from seeing the doctor. I’m fine. But the doc is kinda sick, at least by my diagnosis. That would be my congressman, Dr. Michael C. Burgess, U.S. Representative for the 26th District.
  
  One on one, we talked at [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
  

• We are a Hopeless Society

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Thursday, October 01, 2009
  
  I know it is not a nice thing to say, but our society is Hopeless. To that end, I am glad that I have not put much hope in the people that make up this society. That many people are hopeless [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 9:51am EDT
  

• GOOD MORNING: Good News

  Wednesday, September 23, 2009
  
  GOOD MORNING:
  What’s so good about this morning? I have good news. The doctors say that my 9-year old grandson, Little Ed, is cancer free. After 13 weeks of radiation treatments, he will not require surgery for cancer in the colon and lower intestine. The [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 9:35am EDT
  

• The Texas Tea Party Deluge

  Dear Bill O’Reilly,
  
  I am writing to clear my conscious of any ill will I may have had against the Tea Party rally in Fort Worth on Saturday. I admit that I was dismayed to learn of the Glenn Beck inspired rally, when I wrote: “It is a [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 9:40am EDT
  

• Towards Closure and Resolution in Taser Death of Michael Jacobs Jr

  
  By Eddie Griffin (BASG)
  
  Saturday, August 29, 2009
  
  CLOSURE
  
  We now have closure in the Fort Worth Police Department’s taser death case of a 24-year old man, who had been diagnosed with mental illnesses. We have closure insofar as the Tarrant County [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 2:06pm EDT
  

• World Renowned Medical Examiner Ruled Taser Death: Homicide

  UPDATE: The Michael Jacobs Case
  
  Friday, August 28, 2009
  
  The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports reads: “Fort Worth Taser Death Ruled Homicide”.
  
  FORT WORTH — The Tarrant County medical examiner ruled Thursday that the death of a mentally ill man in April who was shocked twice by [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 12:44pm EDT
  

• President Obama will not sign a Health Care Reform Bill, unless…

  AS OF THIS WRITING, there are several versions of HR 3200 and no agreement within Congress as to which bill to use for a mark up.
  
  President Obama will not sign a Health Care Reform Bill, unless...
  
  The Bill accomplishes three goals:
  
  1. To lower the [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
  

• The Security You Get from health insurance reform

  Health Insurance Consumer ProtectionsView more documents from White House. [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 1:39pm EDT
  

• Burgess Meeting with President on Affordable Health Choices

  U. S. Representative Michael C. Burgess
  WASHINGTON, DC OFFICE
  1224 Longworth House Office Building
  Washington, DC 20515
  P: (202) 225-7772
  F: (202) 225-2919
  
  RE: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act & Meeting with the President
  
  Dear Congressman Michael C. Burgess:
  
  I recently read of your acceptance [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 4:31pm EDT
  

• CITIZEN’S ALERT: Speak- Don’t Shout

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Friday, August 07, 2009
  
  I am as interested as anyone in the Healthcare Reform bill, but I cannot get any answers because too many people are shouting. Let us hear the issue. Then let us speak our minds.
  
  
  
  We want to be [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 11:21am EDT
  

• We Agree & Disagree on Health Reform

  U. S. Representative Michael C. Burgess
  WASHINGTON, DC OFFICE
  1224 Longworth House Office Building
  Washington, DC 20515
  P: (202) 225-7772
  F: (202) 225-2919
  
  RE: Health Reform Bill
  
  
  My Dear Congressman:
  
  You stated: “I voted no on this legislation, but I will admit that there are [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 1:59pm EDT
  

• FCC Complaint filed against Rush Limbaugh

  Filed: By Eddie Griffin, BASG
  
  Mr. Limbaugh is generating racial hatred by mischaracterizing the President of the United States as a "black militant" and Judge Sotomayor as a "racist". This language is aimed at creating hostilities among the races for the purpose of political gain. He gives aid [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
  

• A Peacemaker in this Gates-Crowley Affair

  I am a peacemaker in this Gates-Crowley Affair, with President Barack Obama caught in the middle. Let me say that, in terms of public opinion, I would rate it a 50-50 situation. There was a basis and rationale for every action and reaction taken by each party. There were justifications [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2009, 3:02pm EDT
  

• ALERT: In Defense of Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr.:

  Did a rogue cop intentionally provoke the professor in order to entice him into an arrest? Can rogue cops be behind the negative image of some police departments? Are they why some people charge racism and discrimination?
  
  Thursday, July 23, 2009
  
  Now that President [...]
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  Posted: July 23, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
  

• Drugs and Gun Violence: Two Peas in the Same Pod

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Monday, July 20, 2009
  
  During the revolution, it was our business to know all the ins and outs of the drug trade. We were an intelligence unit known as The Collective, an underground revolutionary think tank that some people comely identify as “The Black Panthers”. [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2009, 1:17pm EDT
  

• Why They Will Never Legalize Drugs in U.S.

  
  
  With the tragic death of musical superstar Michael Jackson and the swirling rumors about drug usages, I am drawn to the writings of Ryan Grim, senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post. Ryan recently appeared on CNN promoting his new book, “This Is Your Country on Drugs”, and [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 3:24pm EDT
  

• Changing the Balance of Power

  To: The Next Generation of Leadership
  From: Eddie Griffin (BASG)
  
  Tuesday, July 07, 2009
  
  
  Consider the Balance of Powers and the imbalances. This was a lesson taught to a prison warden, because people with police authority on the front line sometimes get besides themselves.
  
  I remember [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2009, 1:08pm EDT
  

• Man in the Mirror: The Alien

  By Eddie G. Griffin
  
  Monday, June 29, 2009
  
  
  When I cut off all my hair, including my black militant beard and mustache, I was trying to show solidarity and empathy with my grandson who has just started his treatments for colon cancer. Indeed, I was so torn [...]
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  Posted: June 29, 2009, 9:58am EDT
  

• From Zen State to Deliverance

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Friday, June 26, 2009
  
  It is unfortunate that men in prison are not allowed to make a greater contribution to the sciences, because I witnessed some of the stunning acts of brilliance while incarcerated between the years 1972 to 1984.
  
  You see, men in [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2009, 11:47am EDT
  

• The Organized Crime World and the 13-Year Old Hit Man

  When I picked up the paper this and read the headlines, “Cartels promise riches, lure teens into life of murder”, it utterly broke my heart. Here was the story of a 13-year old who became a hit man for a Mexican drug cartel. Normally, he would be in middle [...]
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  Posted: June 25, 2009, 1:51pm EDT
  

• From Paper Panther:

  The First Leg of Rediscovery
  
  Wednesday, June 24, 2009
  
  There was a time when men in prison turned their captivity into centers of learning and prisons into universities. It was the same period of time when they invented the phrase: All the Black Panthers are either dead, in [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2009, 11:50am EDT
  

• Black Bourgeoisie?

  I found it interesting that Shawn P. Williams writes in “Why” Part Two: Why I celebrate Juneteenth:
  
  In my adult years as I began to rub elbows with the black bourgeoisies, many of them scoffed at the June 19th holiday. “Why would you celebrate slaves in Texas spending [...]
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  Posted: June 23, 2009, 1:34pm EDT
  

• What I Never Learned in School about Juneteenth

  Today is Juneteenth, the day upon which the last Negro slaves were set free. I use the term “negro” because I am the last generation of the people called Negroes. It was the identity imprinted upon my birth certificate, but I thank God that I will die as an African-American.
  [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2009, 4:22pm EDT
  

• Why the slaves in Texas were not set free until Juneteenth

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Wednesday, June 17, 2009
  
  Texas is full of tall tales, folklore, myths, and lies, and the story is Juneteenth is one of all of the above.
  
  Why were the slaves in Texas the last to be set free? What really prevented them until June [...]
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  Posted: June 17, 2009, 3:58pm EDT
  

• Holy and Unholy War

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Thursday, June 11, 2009
  
  The Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting on yesterday is a reminder that are people out there who wants to destroy and kill us. If it is not a racial bigot on the rampage, it is al-Qaeda’s terrorist plans and attacks. They have [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2009, 11:29am EDT
  

• Criminal Intent or Reasonable Doubt: The Brandon McClelland Case

  On Monday night, September 15, 2008, Brandon McClelland was walking along FM-2648 in Powderly, just north of Paris, Texas, when he was struck and killed and his body dragged 70 yards down the highway. When his body was found around 5 am, the family was told that he was possibly [...]
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  Posted: June 09, 2009, 2:13pm EDT
  

• Drop-Dead Year

  2009 was dubbed "Drop-Dead Year" for Polytechnic High School
  
  “It’s a moving target,” a frustrated Braudaway said. These were the words of the principal of Polytechnic High School.
  
  SOLDIER, how do you hit a moving target?
  
  
  
  A MOVING TARGET
  In 1998, [...]
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  Posted: June 01, 2009, 3:49pm EDT
  

• Last Nerve: Why Blacks Dislike Cops

  By Eddie G. Griffin (BASG)
  
  Since no one else has the guts to ask the question, let me tread lightly then upon this holy ground of race relations. When the police can get on black people’s last nerve is exactly the way I want to frame the dilemma in [...]
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  Posted: May 29, 2009, 9:38am EDT
  

• A TASER FIGHT IN FORT WORTH

  Medical Examiner Dr. Nizam Peerwani admits TASER International Intimidating
  
  … a young gunshot victim was pronounced dead at John Peter Smith hospital, and his body was picked up and brought to the morgue. “I got a call a little later from my investigator saying that the man was breathing [...]
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  Posted: May 28, 2009, 12:51pm EDT
  

• The Great Escape from Supermax

  Let me set the record straight. There has been at least one successful escape from our supermax prison. I was there when it happened... Eddie Griffin
  
  Wednesday, May 27, 2009
  
  President Barack Obama was wrong, factually and historically, when he proclaimed nobody has ever escaped from one of [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2009, 12:50pm EDT
  

• Troy Davis and the Ghost of Timothy Cole

  There is no greater wrong that cannot be righted than to execute an innocent man. It is an irreversible act that cannot be undone. And, there is no greater torture than to let an innocent man rot in prison for the rest of his life.
  
  By Eddie Griffin
  
  [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 4:42pm EDT
  

• Market Flooded with Counterfeit TASER International Stock

  Congratulations to everyone who worked on the Campaign against Tasers and Taser International, Inc. Your publicity of the many unwarranted taser death caused several financial giants to “short sell” the stock, whereby they made a profit when the stock fell. But something else happened. READ:
  
  Taser International, Inc. sued [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2009, 1:57pm EDT
  

• Cause of Death by Psychobabble

  AM I NOT HUMAN
  A Human Rights Campaign
  
  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Do not be hoodwinked and bamboozled by “Psychobabble”.
  
  What is “Psychobabble”?
  
  When we studied why so many young black men were being put on medication during the 1970s, we recognized a new specialization in [...]
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  Posted: May 14, 2009, 2:49pm EDT
  

• Action Alert: Help Urge Passage of HB 2267 - Kenneth Foster Bill

  HB 2267 would require separate trials for co-defendants in capital trials in which the death penalty is sought and would prohibit the state from seeking the death penalty for people who do not kill anyone but are convicted under the Law of Parties. It is fundamentally unfair to sentence someone [...]
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  Posted: May 11, 2009, 2:10pm EDT
  

• Taser Torture & Death Cases in Fort Worth, Texas, USA

  Submitted by Eddie Griffin, BASG
  
  OHCHR-UNOG
  Committee against Torture
  8-14 Avenue de la Paix
  1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
  Telephone Number (41-22) 917-9000
  Fax Number (41-22) 917-9006
  E-mail to urgent-action@ohchr.org
  
  RE: Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  
  Adopted [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2009, 3:27pm EDT
  

• Shutting Down Fort Worth School System: Right Decision

  By Eddie G. Griffin, Child’s Rights Advocate
  
  Friday, May 01, 2009
  
  When we received word that Dr. Melody Johnson was shutting down the entire Fort Worth Independent School District because of the international Swine Flu pandemic alarm, I was amazed. It was a bold and decisive act, the [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 9:50am EDT
  

• Taser International Public Statement Warns Investors

  STATEMENT RELEASED BY TASER International, Inc.
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 27, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TASER International, Inc. (Nasdaq:TASR), a leading provider of technology solutions and the market leader in electronic control devices (ECDs), today announced that agents assigned to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Office [...]
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  Posted: April 27, 2009, 10:38am EDT
  

• RESOLUTION FOR MICHAEL PATRICK JACOBS JR.

  Delivered to the Family on this 25th Day, April, 2009
  On Behalf of the Blogging Community Worldwide
  Presented by Eddie Griffin (BASG), AfroSpear and Afrosphere Action Coalition
  
  Romans 16:16 Salute one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. I bring you our humble greetings and [...]
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  Posted: April 25, 2009, 5:07pm EDT
  

• The Gravest Injustice

  On this Memorial Blogging For Justice Day
  
  By Eddie Griffin (BASG)
  
  Friday, April 24, 2009
  
  Michael Jacobs was only 24 years old when he died. He was an African-American, trouble with mental illness, ascribed to medication for treatment. Nevertheless, he was a beloved son of the Jacobs [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2009, 9:17am EDT
  

• STATEMENT to FORT WORTH POLICE CHIEF Jeffrey Halstead

  From Eddie Griffin (BASG)
  Blogging For Justice Day, April 19, 2009, AfroSpear
  
  With all due respects to the Office of Chief of Police, it is imperative that I express the deep concerns of the African-American community about the tasering death of Michael Jacobs, age 24.
  
  We have always [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2009, 10:44am EDT
  

• Michael Jacobs Tasered to Death in Fort Worth - Part 1

  The unfortunate and tragic death of a mentally ill black man who was tasered to death by Fort Worth police officers raises more QUESTIONS ON POLICIES in deployment of these weapons.
  
  REPORT: Michael Jacobs, age 24, is dead after he was Tasered by a police officer. It happened Saturday [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2009, 1:50pm EDT
  

• Tea Toddler Perry Evokes Secession Controversy

  I could care less if Texas breaks from the Union and go to hell in a hand-basket. But I do care about those who hide under hoods and behind disguises, making insinuations, innuendos, and deceit. I believe that every man and woman in America has the right to speak his [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2009, 10:42am EDT
  

• The Red Tea Party

  Leading this stage of the revolt, in my own backyard in Fort Worth, Texas, will be Governor Rick Perry
  
  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Wednesday, April 15, 2009
  
  The Reds are coming. The Reds are coming. But these ain’t red injuns. These are Red coats, disguised as Indians, engaged [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 9:11am EDT
  

• HAT TIP to Shawn Williams for his interview with CNN Soledad O’Brien

  Every now and then, an AfroSpear colleague jumps out with a winner. HAT TIP to Shawn Williams for his interview with CNN Soledad O’Brien.
  
  Few people know Soledad and the deep passion she has for African-Americans who have endure centuries of tribulation. Now in the waning years of racism, [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2009, 3:39pm EDT
  

• Draft Blog-Circulated Petition Against Traffic Stop Police Brutality

  To the Civil Rights Division of the US Justice Department:
  We respectfully request that the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice review events surrounding the epidemic of police brutality against Black drivers and passengers attraffic stops, to identify and prosecute cases in which the civil rights [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2009, 12:58am EDT
  

• Scott Sisters’ Wrongful Conviction: Double-Life for an $11 Robbery

  AM I NOT HUMAN?
  
  Thanks to the grassroots people at ThugLifeArmy for republishing the letter of Jamie Scott below. She and her sister Gladys were sentenced to double-life in prison for a 50-cent robbery in Mississippi, a case full of Southern intrigue.
  
  O Mississippi, do you think [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2009, 12:41pm EDT
  

• ASK & IT SHALL BE GIVEN… SEEK

  We have been asking about the $4 million in Stimulus funds to be used for Summer Youth Jobs Programs. (See article below)
  
  We have been seeking. Now look what we have found at:
  
  [www.workforcesolutions.net]
  
  Summer Youth Job Information
  click here: [sites.google.com]
  
  Youth Centers:
  [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2009, 4:20pm EDT
  

• An Eye on the Recovery Stimulus Plan

  Stimulus: Tarrant County to get $4 million for 700 jobs for low-income youths
  
  Tuesday, March 24, 2009
  
  While the nation is suffering, economically, AIG executives have come to symbolize greed in tuxedoes, the very reason why we must have transparency and vigilance in the disbursement and management of [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2009, 12:17pm EDT
  

• End Mass Incarceration of Our Youth

  TYC has been blasted by lawmakers for spending almost $99,000 per year to incarcerate each juvenile offender, a 40 percent increase in two years when the number of offenders the agency housed dropped by half.
  
  ***
  
  The agency last biennium received about $550 million in state [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2009, 1:05pm EDT
  

• Unemployment Taxing Texas Businesses

  RE: “Turning down federal unemployment money might tax Texas businesses anyway” By DAN WALLACH
  
  Lonnie Arrington is president of Fabric on International in Beaumont, a company that makes pressure vessels for use in the petrochemical industry.
  
  Arrington said he employs about 120 people and the annual payroll [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 4:48pm EDT
  

• Texas Governor: Wrong, Mathematically and Factually

  The rationale behind Texas Governor Rick Perry's refusal to accept $555 million in federal unemployment aid is bassackward.
  
  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Monday, March 16, 2009
  
  
  Texas Governor Rick Perry refuses $555 million in federal stimulus funds to alleviate the impact of massive unemployment in the state.' [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 8:58am EDT
  

• Hit the Ground Running? Not Quite, Wendy Davis

  Finding My Way Around the Capitol
  
  Okay, so you all know that I'm a freshman, right?
  
  Dang, this Capitol is BIG! I must admit that several times I have turned left when I should have turned right; I have gone up when I should have' [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 12:13pm EDT
  

• Press Secretary Robert Gibbs puts Education into Proper Perpective

  HAT TIP to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs for putting U.S. Education into Proper Perpective:
  
  
  “Well, I think part of the house that's on fire is the dealing with the education problem,” he said. “Let's posit this. Let's get our banking system fixed. Let's get credit flowing again. But [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2009, 4:07pm EDT
  

• Signs of Hope & Change: USS Fort Worth

  
  
  Saturday, March 07, 2009
  
  Dear Kay Granger:
  
  I know time will not permit our speaking at length, so first let me say: “Congratulations” on all you have accomplished in Congress on behalf of the people of Fort Worth. The Trinity River Vision, which you championed through [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2009, 1:41pm EDT
  

• CoC Petition Demands Republican Governors Distribute Obama's Increased Unemployment Benefits

  Dear Readers:

  Please sign the Color of Change Petition demanding that Republican governors accept the increased unemployment benefits that President Obama is offering.

  The country is in real trouble right now, with unemployment spiraling out of control. President Obama's stimulus plan provides money to expand unemployment assistance. But' [...]

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  Posted: March 06, 2009, 9:27am EST
  

• ALERT! Black Business Community

  Will Minority Business participate in the Great Economic Recovery Plan?
  
  From: Faye Anderson
  Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:30 PM
  
  Subject: Minority Business Participation in the Economic Recovery Plan
  
  Dear Colleagues:
  
  As you know, there is growing concern among African Americans about whether implementation of President [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 2:43pm EST
  

• Domestic Terrorism in Paris, Texas

  ALERT to the U.S. Department of Justice
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Paris, Texas is back in the news. Racial animosity in this small town is like the leopard that cannot change its spots. However, I will call it racism no more. Whenever black workers cannot [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  

• Judges Sent Juveniles to Prison Receive $2.6 million in Head Count Kickbacks

  I have known for some time that certain judges were getting kickbacks for every head they sent to prison. I just didn’t have the proof, until now.
  
  The juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor belt: Youngsters were brought before judges without a lawyer, given hearings that [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 4:22pm EST
  

• The Prison Industrial Complex by GEO

  (Before)
  
  (After)
  
  PECOS, Texas -- As officials in a remote West Texas county have sought to keep their local prison full and financially viable, it has become the scene of mounting inmate unrest, including two riots in the last six weeks. [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 12:51pm EST
  

• By Executive Order: Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

  By Executive Order 13199: Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
  
  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to strengthen the ability of faith-based and other neighborhood organizations to deliver services effectively in partnership with Federal, [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  

• Rush Limbaugh and John Cornyn: Bedfellows by Proxy

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Thursday, February 05, 2009
  
  With a fresh six-year term under his wing, Texas Senator John Cornyn is doing everything within his power to oppose newly elected President Barack Obama at every turn possible. Rush Limbaugh said it straight: He hopes the new president fails.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 11:41am EST
  

• Master of None

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Tuesday, February 03, 2009
  
  I always tell my students: To whom much is given, much is required.
  
  But what have I been given, my student might ask?
  
  I think I have been blessed with much, almost more than I can handle. Sometimes it [...]
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  Posted: February 03, 2009, 9:16am EST
  

• Letter from Lilly Ledbetter

  Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in to Law
  
  
  
  Dear Eddie,
  
  For almost twenty years I was paid less than my male co-workers. My case went all the way to the Supreme Court — I was shot down.
  
  But today, President Obama [...]
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  Posted: February 02, 2009, 1:51pm EST
  

• The Spiritual Gladiator

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Friday, January 23, 2009
  
  I cut my teeth as a penitentiary gladiator, not by choice, but by being thrust into hand-to-hand combat to survive. I bear witness that there is a God somewhere, and that He watched over me and delivered me from hell. So, [...]
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  Posted: January 23, 2009, 9:50am EST
  

• SPECIAL INAUGURATION DAY EDITION

  Jan 21, 2009
  Volume 2 - No. 3
  Darwin Campbell, Executive Publisher
  LoneStarPowerPages, A Weekly Publication
  
  
  In this edition: PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION 2009 - Barack Obama
  
  Inauguration Day Stories - President Obama Inspires America
  
  President Barack Obama Inauguration Speech
  
  Inauguration Day Photo [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 9:32am EST
  

• The President of the United States:

  I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
  
  With these words, Barack H. Obama will go down in history [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2009, 12:44pm EST
  

• Judge Orders Release of Young Guantanamo Prisoner

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Thursday, January 15, 2009
  
  The Star-Telegram reported: Mohammed el Gharani, should be released from the U.S. prison in Cuba “forthwith”, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said in a ruling from the bench.
  
  WASHINGTON (CNN) reports that the Chadian nationality was the youngest [...]
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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 4:13pm EST
  

• Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

  RE: BART Police Officer arrested for murder of Oscar Grant
  
  BART Board of Directors
  P.O. Box 12688
  Oakland , CA 94604-2688
  (510) 464-6095
  BoardofDirectors@bart.gov
  
  c/o Kenneth A. Duron
  District Secretary
  San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
  300 Lakeside Drive, 23rd Floor, [...]
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  Posted: January 14, 2009, 1:57pm EST
  

• FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Demand Immediate Arrest of Suspect in Oscar Grant Shooting

  National Civil Rights Group Demands Immediate Arrest of Suspect in Oscar Grant Shooting
  
  Tuesday, January 13, 2009
  
  U.S. and California Departments of Justice Urged to Wrest Investigation from District Attorney
  
  Oakland, CA-
  ColorOfChange.org called on California Attorney General Jerry Brown today to take over the investigation [...]
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  Posted: January 13, 2009, 3:54pm EST
  

• Texas Youth Commission Sex Scandal UPDATE

  TO MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE
  
  Texas Youth Commission Sex Scandal UPDATE - from Eddie Griffin
  
  Review the article below, it is the update and shortcomings of the TYC sexual assaults case. The investigation now reveals that innocent boys were double-bunked with known youth sex offenders in certain [...]
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  Posted: January 12, 2009, 10:03am EST
  

• A Candle Lit for OSCAR GRANT

  HAT TIP to Richard, the brother who walked into the midst of the riot with only a candle
  
  This is his story:
  
  .....A Narrative With More Heart And Truth, And Less Racist Sensationalism.....
  Wednesday, Jan 7th. Oscar Grant Protest/Riots, Downtown Oakland
  
  
  The news about [...]
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  Posted: January 10, 2009, 5:14pm EST
  

• When I was a Star Witness:

  Against the U.S. Government
  
  A True Story by Eddie Griffin
  
  I was a star witness in the Abel case cited below. In November 1984, almost immediately upon my release from prison, I was flown to Alton, Illinois to give testimony in the case.
  
  The People’s Law [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2009, 1:43pm EST
  

• Release Bay Area Rioters!

  BART Board of Directors
  P.O. Box 12688
  Oakland , CA 94604-2688
  (510) 464-6095
  BoardofDirectors@bart.gov
  
  c/o Kenneth A. Duron
  District Secretary
  San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
  300 Lakeside Drive, 23rd Floor, Oakland, California 94612
  510.464.6080, fax: 510.464.6011
  “Kduron” Kduron@bart.gov
  
  To Directors: Carole Ward Allen, [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2009, 10:57am EST
  

• I'm Wishing On A Star

  
  
  I was only wishing that I would ever leave prison alive. But I remember the first night, out of the hole, like no other night before, wishing upon a the first star that I had seen in six years. I lay in the grass on my back in [...]
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  Posted: January 07, 2009, 2:44pm EST
  

• A Dance for Eternity

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  It is with utter amazement that here it is 2009 and I am still in the land of the living. I often tell my children that if I want excitement and entertainment, I just close my eyes and reminisce. Hollywood cannot dream or make a movie [...]
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  Posted: January 06, 2009, 9:29am EST
  

• HAPPY NEW YEARS from Eddie Griffin

  As sun sets on another year, I wish to extend my blessings to all my friends and heroes.
  
  To my friends at the People’s Law Office in Chicago, I send my utter heartfelt thanks for coming to the rescue of a group of prisoners, known at the Marion [...]
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  Posted: December 31, 2008, 11:41am EST
  

• The Fathom of Wealth – Part 1

  In the beginning, Bernard L. Madoff created wealth out of the sky. Like magic, he commanded the securities market, “Let there be wealth.” And, out of nowhere, came wealth by the billions. But the wealth was not real. So, out of nowhere, the earth opened its mouth and consumed the [...]
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  Posted: December 23, 2008, 4:13pm EST
  

• The Fifty-Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme

  The assets of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities are now frozen. The Wall Street tycoon, himself, once touted as “the best of the best”, was arrested by federal agents and charged with orchestrating a $50-billion Ponzi scheme.
  
  Mr. Madoff was arrested at his Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2008, 3:55pm EST
  

• About the $700 Billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Funds?

  The First Report of the Congressional Oversight Panel for Economic Stabilization December 10, 2008
  
  Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) will release two public reports:
  
  On Jan. 10, it will release a report that examines the administration of the TARP program, including the impact thereof on the economy to date. [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2008, 3:20pm EST
  

• Put Kids First Campaign

  Endorsed by Eddie G. Griffin, International Child Rights advocate
  
  On Feb. 4, 2009, adults and youth from throughout the state will be asking elected officials to
  
  Put Kids First in their decision making for Texas.
  
  Please send:
  Student Letters to Leaders
  by January 30, 2009
  
  [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2008, 10:44am EST
  

• HELLO from Death Row

  Testimony of the Outlaw Eddie Griffin
  
  TO Mike Ward & Jerry Madden:
  
  Thursday, December 04, 2008
  
  Hello. Let me speak to the Warden. This is Eddie Griffin calling from Death Row.
  
  WHAT?! That doesn’t even sound right, a man using a cell phone calling from death [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2008, 12:57pm EST
  

• If the Trumpet gives an Uncertain Sound:

  Who Shall Prepare Himself for Battle?
  A Lesson By Eddie Griffin
  
  Tuesday, December 02, 2008
  
  At 2 minutes 2 seconds into the YouTube video speech on World AIDS Day, President-elect Barack Obama reaches into his memory of scripture from the Bible and pulls out this jewel from [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2008, 12:14pm EST
  

• AIDS and the At-Risk Male Prison Population

  
  
  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Monday, December 01, 2008
  WORLD AIDS Day 2008
  
  The United Nations has designated today as World AIDS Day to spread international awareness to the global deadly pandemic of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
  
  AIDS is now a pandemic of epic [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2008, 1:28pm EST
  

• Mr. President: Please Ratify UN Human Rights

  President of the United States of America
  Barack H. Obama
  1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
  Washington, D.C.
  
  
  Dear Mr. President:
  
  God bless you. God bless America. Once again, America is gleaming in new hope and ideals. Once again, we can shine a light like that city set on the [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2008, 1:38pm EST
  

• Musing over Mortality

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Friday, November 21, 2008
  
  Today would have been the day I marked the remembrance of the late John F. Kennedy, the only president I ever saw in the flesh, exactly 45 years ago. But instead, I mark this day with the remembrance of Aunt Birdie [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2008, 1:15pm EST
  

• Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales indicted in Willacy County, Texas

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Thursday, November 20, 2008
  
  Since the story broke about the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the former prosecutor Juan Angel Guerra, who first brought the indictment, was a no-show on court day, provoking Judge Manuel Banales to declare, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2008, 12:32pm EST
  

• President Barack H. Obama: My Son

  
  By Eddie G. Griffin
  
  Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  
  I have children and then I have children. Some of my children are adopted. As a servant of the Lord, sometimes a man has to adopt children who are not his own. And, so I have [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2008, 10:30am EST
  

• Racism Dead – Bigotry Abides

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Monday, November 17, 2008
  
  Well over half of America put their confidence in the leadership of an African-American by electing Barack Obama to be President of the United States. Over half of America believes that race is not a prerequisite to lead the most powerful [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2008, 1:31pm EST
  

• A Working National & State Agenda

  National Agenda
  (1) A plan to revive the economy,
  (2) To fix our health care,
  (3) Education,
  (4) Social Security systems,
  (5) To define a clear path to energy independence,
  (6) To end the war in Iraq responsibly and finish our mission in Afghanistan, [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2008, 4:10pm EST
  

• Rapidly Changing Economic Conditions or Plundering the U. S. Treasury

  By Eddie Griffin
  
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
  
  Current economic activity is so fluid and rapid and so vast that skiddish market conditions change, every hour on the hour, and every minute in between.
  
  Yesterday, there were calls drill here and drill there. But that’s when oil was [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2008, 11:14am EST
  

• Apply for a Job with the Obama-Biden Administration Online

  This website is designed to provide prospective applicants with information to help them apply for positions in the Obama-Biden Administration. President-Elect Obama will make appointments throughout the federal government. Some positions will require Senate confirmation while others will not. Some appointments will be made during the transition process and [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2008, 11:46am EST
  

• Cabinet Recommendations

  From: Eddie Griffin
  Friday, November 07, 2008
  
  We can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens us.
  
  It is now time to wake up and multitask in solving our national and international problems. Beware, there are wolves licking their chops, just waiting to get into this administration. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2008, 12:53pm EST