Just when I was about to respect you, Will Folks, you go and do this! And predictably, you hit two black judges with one stone. Your stone this time added a black lawyer-legislator who (apparently you forgot that) often works closely with your own pro bono lawyer, Pete Strom. The order about which you complain is sealed FOR A REASON and would not have happened without the Department of Corrections’ own request (or at least acquiescence). The cooperation given by the inmate must remain confidential to have any effect. Opening the hearing so that the Great Santini could give his blessing would have defeated the purpose and endangered the very people the inmate’s cooperation protected. Is that what you want? I told you before: the Republicans’ solution of every problem by throwing prisons at it is no better than the Democrats’ solution of every problem by throwing money at it. Capice?
Everyone seems to agree the broken SC judicial system includes the judges on the bench as well as the lawyer/legislators that help put them there, everyone except those legislators. They think it is a great system. And Benjamin seemed to have a habit of releasing violent criminals on low bond only for them to do the same again. They only think the bond is the problem…..
Continuing to Emperor FITS, or should I say “Caesar FITS” or “Kaizar FITS” since Will Folks is SLOWLY graduating from a baseball cap worn backwards and indoors to a mere bandana to evoke Caesar’s laurel?
I detour for a little education. Before the Enlightment’s thinking of the Social Contract which inspired the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, Caesar had both Executive and Judicial powers. Remeber? Saint Paul’s travel to Rome was to pro se (meaning for himself WITHOUT A LAWYER) complain to Caesar about the 40-minus-1 flogs Saul of Tarsus had received despite being a Roman citizen. Those days, Caesar was both an administrator and a judge.
Apparently, Kaisar FITS wants South Carolina’s governor (with a privy counsel of prosecutors and sheriffs) to be a latter-day Nero-and-King-Henry rolled into one.
And another detour, where were all those prosecutors and sheriffs (whom Caesar FITS wants ruling us) when the gangs exploded in the region to where they even controlled the receipts of dance parties? What powers or funds did North and South Carolina’s (or Georgia’s for that matter) lack 30 years ago for them to ignore the emerging gang proliferation and culture?
Those sheriffs and solicitors lacked no funds or powers. What they lacked was ETHICAL motivation. Why do real work if they can be lazy and blame someone else for what is left undone? Why nip a problem in the bud if they can let it fester and use it to clamor for more money with which to make patronage appointments?
Case in point: my old friend Sara Heather Savitz Weiss before we even were FORMALLY on opposite sides of Judges Childs’, Tommy Cooper’s, James’ and Clifton Newman’s courtrooms and I, thank God, ultimately prevailed WITHOUT A LAWYER. A then-child, Horace Taylor, was shot in a football game.
Heather Weiss, who pretended to SC’s Judicial Merit Selection Commission (during Heather Weiss’ failed bid for a judgeship for herself) that she always “want[s] to know the whole story,” knew that Horace Taylor, whom Weiss dubbed “bloody Horace” was being recruited for a gang and Weiss adopted Horace as “a victim of [hers],” according to a State Newspaper report, and apparently prosecuted (or not) Horace’s shooter.
What did Weiss do with her adopted victim? Place him in a witness protection program? Find some useful trade education for him? Connect him to legitimate anti-gang program? NONE OF THE ABOVE. What Weiss did “for” then-teen-aged Horace Taylor is threaten his mother, Bridgett Taylor, with eviction from her Habitat-for-Humanity house if she did not kick Horace out her house. Great idea, right? Kick the teen-ager out of his mother’s house. Where else would that homeless teen-ager go but to the arms of the very gangs which had shot him to make him join?
Not enough bad decisions? Leon Lott’s “forces” LITERALLY later smoke-bombed Bridgett Taylor’s house while looking for Horace. See Taylor v. Lott, 2017CP4003166 and 2020-000589 to be, God willing, argued 1 May 2023 before South Carolina’s Court of Appeals.
So, make no mistake about it: The Solicitors-Sheriffs Junta Kaizar FITS wants ruling us will not make us safe from gangs or from anyone else. They will add our exposure to the militarized tyranny of that Junta itself.
We need MORE, not less, judges like Judge Manning, who had the sense AND COURAGE to quietly do something that COULD effectively break the cycle of gang violence.
And again, I cannot take from Will Folks my appreciation for his (hopefully genuine) anti-hawks stance; but I need to ask him: if you oppose unnecessary U.S. involvement in overseas wars, why do you want South Carolina LITERALLY militarized against gangs when there are more effective but less flamboyant solutions?
FITS, I think I have the perfect solution for your intractable baldness-denial and your self-hatred of your melon-shaped head: wear a yarmulke; but do so with reverence to an ever-present God. That will cure both your outer and inner images. God bless.
Will Folks was angling to replace the departing Tucker Carlson at FOX News and found inciting a mob against the African-American Judge Manning a good audition for Rupert Murdock in a perverse imitation of Johan Sebastiann Bach submitting six compositions to the Margrave of Brandenburg. But wait: would FOX News want to pay another 787 million if it were to hire Will Folks and Judge Manning and/or Dr. Erin Presnell were to sue FOX News? In South Carolina, statements to the effect that one is incompetent in one’s profession and/or has a reputation for dishonesty and/or committed a crime are DEFAMATORY PER SE. And the U.S. Supreme Court might soon reconsider (and South Carolina’s supreme court is currently reconsidering) who is a public figure for defamation suit purposes. Perhaps FOX News is safer choosing ME to replace Tucker Carlson rather than Will Folks. At least I won’t use FOIAs to cowardly throw holders of the ORDER OF THE PALMETTO under the bus. Not that I am auditioning. Peace!
I get it: A ploy to get Byron Gipson removed and have Heather Savitz Weiss OR John Meadors installed as interim 5th Circuit Solicitor. After all, Heather Weiss did get appointed interim 5th Circuit Solicitor after Dan Johnson (a Leon Lott trainee, let’s not forget that) was brought down. Heather immediately hired Knox McMahon as a deputy solicitor and HE failed to get a conviction in the only jury trial he conducted in that capacity. Heather also REPORTEDLY made racist remarks during her tenure and roiled most staff in that office. But Heather Weiss and John Meadors always wanted the 5th Circuit Solicitorship and could not get through the ballot box. If I were Todd Rutherford, and I am NOT a lawyer, I would run to federal court and seek habeas for Jeroid Price. There are published opinions, by no less than Dennis Wayne Shedd when he was on the 4th Circuit, to the effect that the government cannot get the benefit of a defendant’s cooperation yet reneg on the promised sentence reduction. It really is now a death sentence for Jeroid John Price and it MIGHT, God forbid, trigger new fighting between the Crips and the Bloods; and Leon Lott will be firing off letters wanting more money to “fight” that fighting. John Williamson Kittredge KNEW he would be sending Jeroid John Price to his death because Kittredge acknowledged that in oral argument. Kittredge then will use that in his upcoming “succession” fight for chief justice. On this, I’d rather be wrong than come back with “I told you so”; but time will tell.
It’s a ploy to get Byron Gipson removed and have Heather Savitz Weiss OR John Meadors installed as interim 5th Circuit Solicitor. After all, Heather Weiss did get appointed interim 5th Circuit Solicitor after Dan Johnson (a Leon Lott trainee, let’s not forget that) was brought down. Heather immediately hired Knox McMahon as a deputy solicitor and HE failed to get a conviction in the only jury trial he conducted in that capacity. Heather also REPORTEDLY made racist remarks during her tenure and roiled most staff in that office. But Heather Weiss and John Meadors always wanted the 5th Circuit Solicitorship and could not get through the ballot box. If I were Todd Rutherford, and I am NOT a lawyer, I would run to federal court and seek habeas for Jeroid Price. There are published opinions, by no less than Dennis Wayne Shedd when he was on the 4th Circuit, to the effect that the government cannot get the benefit of a defendant’s cooperation yet reneg on the promised sentence reduction. It really is now a death sentence for Jeroid John Price and it MIGHT, God forbid, trigger new fighting between the Crips and the Bloods; and Leon Lott will be firing off letters wanting more money to “fight” that fighting. John Williamson Kittredge KNEW he would be sending Jeroid John Price to his death because Kittredge acknowledged that in oral argument. Kittredge then will use that in his upcoming “succession” fight for chief justice. On this, I’d rather be wrong than come back with “I told you so”; but time will tell.
Let me a tell you a true 1987 Arizona story with real names so you can fact-check it. Daniel Wayne Cook and John Eugene Matzke stole the money of their working-stiff roommate Carlos Cruz-Ramos then tortured and sodomized him and finally savagely killed him. When then-16-year-old dishwasher Kevin Swaney happened on Cruz-Ramos’ dead body, Cook and Matzke tortured, raped and killed Swaney, too. Both killers confessed. Matzke testified against Cook, got 20 years, and was ACTUALLY REALEASED in 2007. Cook was executed in 2012 after exhausting all appeals. Moral of the story? For any criminal prosecution system to work, informants and even co-defendant are given shorter sentences if they testify against their accomplices, however heinous the crime. C’est la vie.
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Just when I was about to respect you, Will Folks, you go and do this! And predictably, you hit two black judges with one stone. Your stone this time added a black lawyer-legislator who (apparently you forgot that) often works closely with your own pro bono lawyer, Pete Strom. The order about which you complain is sealed FOR A REASON and would not have happened without the Department of Corrections’ own request (or at least acquiescence). The cooperation given by the inmate must remain confidential to have any effect. Opening the hearing so that the Great Santini could give his blessing would have defeated the purpose and endangered the very people the inmate’s cooperation protected. Is that what you want? I told you before: the Republicans’ solution of every problem by throwing prisons at it is no better than the Democrats’ solution of every problem by throwing money at it. Capice?
Everyone seems to agree the broken SC judicial system includes the judges on the bench as well as the lawyer/legislators that help put them there, everyone except those legislators. They think it is a great system. And Benjamin seemed to have a habit of releasing violent criminals on low bond only for them to do the same again. They only think the bond is the problem…..
Continuing to Emperor FITS, or should I say “Caesar FITS” or “Kaizar FITS” since Will Folks is SLOWLY graduating from a baseball cap worn backwards and indoors to a mere bandana to evoke Caesar’s laurel?
I detour for a little education. Before the Enlightment’s thinking of the Social Contract which inspired the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, Caesar had both Executive and Judicial powers. Remeber? Saint Paul’s travel to Rome was to pro se (meaning for himself WITHOUT A LAWYER) complain to Caesar about the 40-minus-1 flogs Saul of Tarsus had received despite being a Roman citizen. Those days, Caesar was both an administrator and a judge.
Apparently, Kaisar FITS wants South Carolina’s governor (with a privy counsel of prosecutors and sheriffs) to be a latter-day Nero-and-King-Henry rolled into one.
And another detour, where were all those prosecutors and sheriffs (whom Caesar FITS wants ruling us) when the gangs exploded in the region to where they even controlled the receipts of dance parties? What powers or funds did North and South Carolina’s (or Georgia’s for that matter) lack 30 years ago for them to ignore the emerging gang proliferation and culture?
Those sheriffs and solicitors lacked no funds or powers. What they lacked was ETHICAL motivation. Why do real work if they can be lazy and blame someone else for what is left undone? Why nip a problem in the bud if they can let it fester and use it to clamor for more money with which to make patronage appointments?
Case in point: my old friend Sara Heather Savitz Weiss before we even were FORMALLY on opposite sides of Judges Childs’, Tommy Cooper’s, James’ and Clifton Newman’s courtrooms and I, thank God, ultimately prevailed WITHOUT A LAWYER. A then-child, Horace Taylor, was shot in a football game.
Heather Weiss, who pretended to SC’s Judicial Merit Selection Commission (during Heather Weiss’ failed bid for a judgeship for herself) that she always “want[s] to know the whole story,” knew that Horace Taylor, whom Weiss dubbed “bloody Horace” was being recruited for a gang and Weiss adopted Horace as “a victim of [hers],” according to a State Newspaper report, and apparently prosecuted (or not) Horace’s shooter.
What did Weiss do with her adopted victim? Place him in a witness protection program? Find some useful trade education for him? Connect him to legitimate anti-gang program? NONE OF THE ABOVE. What Weiss did “for” then-teen-aged Horace Taylor is threaten his mother, Bridgett Taylor, with eviction from her Habitat-for-Humanity house if she did not kick Horace out her house. Great idea, right? Kick the teen-ager out of his mother’s house. Where else would that homeless teen-ager go but to the arms of the very gangs which had shot him to make him join?
Not enough bad decisions? Leon Lott’s “forces” LITERALLY later smoke-bombed Bridgett Taylor’s house while looking for Horace. See Taylor v. Lott, 2017CP4003166 and 2020-000589 to be, God willing, argued 1 May 2023 before South Carolina’s Court of Appeals.
So, make no mistake about it: The Solicitors-Sheriffs Junta Kaizar FITS wants ruling us will not make us safe from gangs or from anyone else. They will add our exposure to the militarized tyranny of that Junta itself.
We need MORE, not less, judges like Judge Manning, who had the sense AND COURAGE to quietly do something that COULD effectively break the cycle of gang violence.
And again, I cannot take from Will Folks my appreciation for his (hopefully genuine) anti-hawks stance; but I need to ask him: if you oppose unnecessary U.S. involvement in overseas wars, why do you want South Carolina LITERALLY militarized against gangs when there are more effective but less flamboyant solutions?
FITS, I think I have the perfect solution for your intractable baldness-denial and your self-hatred of your melon-shaped head: wear a yarmulke; but do so with reverence to an ever-present God. That will cure both your outer and inner images. God bless.
Will Folks was angling to replace the departing Tucker Carlson at FOX News and found inciting a mob against the African-American Judge Manning a good audition for Rupert Murdock in a perverse imitation of Johan Sebastiann Bach submitting six compositions to the Margrave of Brandenburg. But wait: would FOX News want to pay another 787 million if it were to hire Will Folks and Judge Manning and/or Dr. Erin Presnell were to sue FOX News? In South Carolina, statements to the effect that one is incompetent in one’s profession and/or has a reputation for dishonesty and/or committed a crime are DEFAMATORY PER SE. And the U.S. Supreme Court might soon reconsider (and South Carolina’s supreme court is currently reconsidering) who is a public figure for defamation suit purposes. Perhaps FOX News is safer choosing ME to replace Tucker Carlson rather than Will Folks. At least I won’t use FOIAs to cowardly throw holders of the ORDER OF THE PALMETTO under the bus. Not that I am auditioning. Peace!
I get it: A ploy to get Byron Gipson removed and have Heather Savitz Weiss OR John Meadors installed as interim 5th Circuit Solicitor. After all, Heather Weiss did get appointed interim 5th Circuit Solicitor after Dan Johnson (a Leon Lott trainee, let’s not forget that) was brought down. Heather immediately hired Knox McMahon as a deputy solicitor and HE failed to get a conviction in the only jury trial he conducted in that capacity. Heather also REPORTEDLY made racist remarks during her tenure and roiled most staff in that office. But Heather Weiss and John Meadors always wanted the 5th Circuit Solicitorship and could not get through the ballot box. If I were Todd Rutherford, and I am NOT a lawyer, I would run to federal court and seek habeas for Jeroid Price. There are published opinions, by no less than Dennis Wayne Shedd when he was on the 4th Circuit, to the effect that the government cannot get the benefit of a defendant’s cooperation yet reneg on the promised sentence reduction. It really is now a death sentence for Jeroid John Price and it MIGHT, God forbid, trigger new fighting between the Crips and the Bloods; and Leon Lott will be firing off letters wanting more money to “fight” that fighting. John Williamson Kittredge KNEW he would be sending Jeroid John Price to his death because Kittredge acknowledged that in oral argument. Kittredge then will use that in his upcoming “succession” fight for chief justice. On this, I’d rather be wrong than come back with “I told you so”; but time will tell.
It’s a ploy to get Byron Gipson removed and have Heather Savitz Weiss OR John Meadors installed as interim 5th Circuit Solicitor. After all, Heather Weiss did get appointed interim 5th Circuit Solicitor after Dan Johnson (a Leon Lott trainee, let’s not forget that) was brought down. Heather immediately hired Knox McMahon as a deputy solicitor and HE failed to get a conviction in the only jury trial he conducted in that capacity. Heather also REPORTEDLY made racist remarks during her tenure and roiled most staff in that office. But Heather Weiss and John Meadors always wanted the 5th Circuit Solicitorship and could not get through the ballot box. If I were Todd Rutherford, and I am NOT a lawyer, I would run to federal court and seek habeas for Jeroid Price. There are published opinions, by no less than Dennis Wayne Shedd when he was on the 4th Circuit, to the effect that the government cannot get the benefit of a defendant’s cooperation yet reneg on the promised sentence reduction. It really is now a death sentence for Jeroid John Price and it MIGHT, God forbid, trigger new fighting between the Crips and the Bloods; and Leon Lott will be firing off letters wanting more money to “fight” that fighting. John Williamson Kittredge KNEW he would be sending Jeroid John Price to his death because Kittredge acknowledged that in oral argument. Kittredge then will use that in his upcoming “succession” fight for chief justice. On this, I’d rather be wrong than come back with “I told you so”; but time will tell.
Let me a tell you a true 1987 Arizona story with real names so you can fact-check it. Daniel Wayne Cook and John Eugene Matzke stole the money of their working-stiff roommate Carlos Cruz-Ramos then tortured and sodomized him and finally savagely killed him. When then-16-year-old dishwasher Kevin Swaney happened on Cruz-Ramos’ dead body, Cook and Matzke tortured, raped and killed Swaney, too. Both killers confessed. Matzke testified against Cook, got 20 years, and was ACTUALLY REALEASED in 2007. Cook was executed in 2012 after exhausting all appeals. Moral of the story? For any criminal prosecution system to work, informants and even co-defendant are given shorter sentences if they testify against their accomplices, however heinous the crime. C’est la vie.