I'm given to understand your family has deserted mine. Good. That just furthers the fucking story OF WHAT YOU DID >>> YOU FILTHY MOTHERFUCKERS.
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TAMPA — A 35-year-old Tampa man was arrested and charged with 15 counts of possessing child pornography Wednesday, the result of a monthlong investigation into online child exploitation.
Alex Rodriguez of Crystal Harbour Drive in Tampa had more than 50 videos and images of children between the ages of 5 and 15 and "engaged in various sexual activities," according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
Rodriguez was released from jail just after 4:30 a.m. Thursday after posting more than $100,000 bail, records show.
Deputies said Rodriguez admitted during questioning to having child pornography on his computer.
The Sheriff's Internet Predator Unit conducted a monthlong investigation before Wednesday's arrest.
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JohnQCitizenMD Jul 28, 2011 7:16 AM About 7 hours ago
He made the 100k bail. We will never see Mr. Alex Rodriguez again.
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mytwocents Jul 28, 2011 9:17 AM About 5 hours ago
That means he put up 10,000 - correct?
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mytwocents Jul 28, 2011 9:17 AM About 5 hours ago
I've never posted bail so I don't know how it works.
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Rich in St Pete Jul 28, 2011 9:38 AM About 5 hours ago
$10,000 cash and bail bondsman puts up rest with collateral. Usually a house.
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Zander Jul 28, 2011 7:49 AM About 7 hours ago
A-Rod with child porn? So that's what he's doing during his rehab stint.
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ididso Jul 28, 2011 7:54 AM About 7 hours ago
Zander, We were waiting for someone to make to find humor in this story,and we still are. This is a story that is NOT to be laughed at.
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LOL Al Jul 28, 2011 8:44 AM About 6 hours ago
Zander, I immediately thought the same. Don't be fooled by ididso. I didn't feel that your comment was not making fun of the the perp or victims, but rather a goofy public figure that is widely hated in the baseball fandom. I get it. ididso, Way to take charge. Please compile a list of story lines that ARE to be laughed at. Don't forget to cross-reference your list with other commentor-kings like "ServingHim", as he has certain rules as well. Or, if that seems like a lot of work, maybe you should be the first commentor on every story and dictate, in easy to read language, what jokes can and cannot be made about each story. Here, I'll give you a template: "Comment #1, ididso: I, ididso, hereby dictate that the following jokes can be made about this story:(provide punchlines). Futhermore, the following jokes must be avoided: (provide punchlines)." That way we can all be crystal clear as to what we can and cannot comment on.
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ToTheBeachWeGo Jul 28, 2011 9:27 AM About 5 hours ago
This is one crime I will never understand. The thought of a child being forced to do porn makes me sick to my stomach. How somebody can watch it and enjoy it is something I will never understand.
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Ray_Gorpeachez Jul 28, 2011 9:30 AM About 5 hours ago
Not very surprising, the rest of the yankees are jackbags also.
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EinT Jul 28, 2011 12:07 PM About 2 hours ago
Maybe it's the 'roids that made him do it.
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CageKickerHack Jul 28, 2011 10:10 AM About 4 hours ago
Chop off his ●●●●●●, jam it in his mouth, draw & quarter him, then shoot him in the face for good measure.
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Jada Jul 28, 2011 10:17 AM About 4 hours ago
It is just sick that perverts enjoy this type of torture. The children involved never ever get over the things they are forced to do. May he rot.
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PrincessHaven Jul 28, 2011 12:13 PM About 2 hours ago
The American male has been ruined by internet porn.
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TotallyPrevaricatingReports Jul 28, 2011 2:24 PM About 4 minutes ago
There would be NO CHILD PORN if the FBI and OTHERS so profiting did not PUT IT OUT THERE. Do you NOT READ?
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TotallyPrevaricatingReports Jul 28, 2011 2:29 PM Less than a minute ago
Sorry. Don't believe these folks confess/ I believe they "confess". Son is this your computer? Yes. Is this child porn? Yes. Maybe the first time HE EVER SAW IT. It is planted ALL THE TIME JUST GOOGLE IT. Stop calling people guilty for no reason. Interesting the timing of THE CHILD PORN. Hasn't been one for awhile. You people should be a LOT MORE WORRIED ABOUT what they've planted on YOUR hard drive. If Christine Breen whose husband's partner is US ATTORNEY ROBERT ONEILL can threaten people with planting child porn on their computers THAT IS A MUCH BIGGER PROBLEM. Grow UP. Without the enabling of it IT COULD NOT EXIST.
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TotallyPrevaricatingReports Jul 28, 2011 2:30 PM Less than a minute ago
Clifton Mothershed TEN YEARS at MICROSTAR planting child porn before he FINALLY made some type of mistake and is now being silenced because HE IS TALKING ABOUT WHO HE PLANTED IT FOR.
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TotallyPrevaricatingReports Jul 28, 2011 2:30 PM Less than a minute ago
HCSO INQUIRY ON ABOVE.cl
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Dead and Buried
I'd so much rather my father be dead and buried then be a fucking ignorant fiend like yours.
He and the scum LIKE HIM perpetuate this ignorance: people killing each other so that your Mother (momster) can keep her fucking stupid face in her HAND HELD VIDEO GAME ALL DAY AT FORTY FIVE YEARS OF AGE while you live jobless forever on the deaths of OTHERS.
So, don't think you have anyone fooled.
Your father is a piece of shit.
Your mother is a whore.
How far could the apple have rolled?
Everyone loves my Mom you said. She must suck a LOT of dick.
Even Cribbs.
LOL.
Something.
She hangs constantly with teenagers.
What the fuck is UP with her??
A no good rotting from the inside CUNT.
I will take great pleasure filet'ing her ass in court.
She's too fucking stupid to try to play the tricks she does.
And she's a mindless cunt who is too lazy to work. Like you. She raised you lazy.
IF you had not pretended you KNEWNOTHING that would be different.
There was a time I felt sorry for you and said that you were the only one who looked as though you belonged in that blood money DUMP. But then I got you IN FULL.
FUCK YOU. And FUCK THEM.
I have never hated anyone in my life until I met your piece of shit of a mother.
She is a fucking monster.
SHE LIKED THAT HE WAS NAIVE. So your game went on flawlessly. BUT IN ACTS you showed your true colors.
You disgust me.
You are a waste of oxygen.
I can't think of anything worse to say or I would.
THIS IS YOUR FAMILY.
THEY PERPETUATE MURDER.
While you cackle mindlessly and cry fake tears and rule your little club of misfit pieces of shit who are such obvious dealers ... and idiots.
None of whom can hold a normal conversation ABOUT ANYTHING.
BUT how did you guys talk william and andrew into not minding that your family helped MURDER their mother??????????????????????????????????
Because they did.
And you know it.
I mean Andrew and Will are fucked up. So I have to wonder... since you KNEW THEM SINCE GRADE SCHOOL. How long did it take for you to rope them in?? Did you fuck will too?? Andrew??
LOL.
Purty fuckin funny.
IRA WHORES.
Trained to do WHAT IT TAKES TO GIT R DONE.
He and the scum LIKE HIM perpetuate this ignorance: people killing each other so that your Mother (momster) can keep her fucking stupid face in her HAND HELD VIDEO GAME ALL DAY AT FORTY FIVE YEARS OF AGE while you live jobless forever on the deaths of OTHERS.
So, don't think you have anyone fooled.
Your father is a piece of shit.
Your mother is a whore.
How far could the apple have rolled?
Everyone loves my Mom you said. She must suck a LOT of dick.
Even Cribbs.
LOL.
Something.
She hangs constantly with teenagers.
What the fuck is UP with her??
A no good rotting from the inside CUNT.
I will take great pleasure filet'ing her ass in court.
She's too fucking stupid to try to play the tricks she does.
And she's a mindless cunt who is too lazy to work. Like you. She raised you lazy.
IF you had not pretended you KNEWNOTHING that would be different.
There was a time I felt sorry for you and said that you were the only one who looked as though you belonged in that blood money DUMP. But then I got you IN FULL.
FUCK YOU. And FUCK THEM.
I have never hated anyone in my life until I met your piece of shit of a mother.
She is a fucking monster.
SHE LIKED THAT HE WAS NAIVE. So your game went on flawlessly. BUT IN ACTS you showed your true colors.
You disgust me.
You are a waste of oxygen.
I can't think of anything worse to say or I would.
THIS IS YOUR FAMILY.
THEY PERPETUATE MURDER.
While you cackle mindlessly and cry fake tears and rule your little club of misfit pieces of shit who are such obvious dealers ... and idiots.
None of whom can hold a normal conversation ABOUT ANYTHING.
BUT how did you guys talk william and andrew into not minding that your family helped MURDER their mother??????????????????????????????????
Because they did.
And you know it.
I mean Andrew and Will are fucked up. So I have to wonder... since you KNEW THEM SINCE GRADE SCHOOL. How long did it take for you to rope them in?? Did you fuck will too?? Andrew??
LOL.
Purty fuckin funny.
IRA WHORES.
Trained to do WHAT IT TAKES TO GIT R DONE.
I.R.A. aka colin breen and robert oneill robert glas and andrew wright BOMB CHILDREN
Andrew, as you might know, is involved in the chockablock crack dumps your daughter was so anxious to move my family member to, Chrissy.
Luckily I have TONS of video of your guilty fucking ass. And I fully intend to take your criminal ass DOWN even with the consideration I will have to do so without the assistance of the United States Govt where your husband's partner Robert O'Neill is masquerading as a prosecutor. But we all know where bobby is getting his millions.
Please thank Richard Scott Rodriguez for being such a stupid motherfucker.
Luckily I have TONS of video of your guilty fucking ass. And I fully intend to take your criminal ass DOWN even with the consideration I will have to do so without the assistance of the United States Govt where your husband's partner Robert O'Neill is masquerading as a prosecutor. But we all know where bobby is getting his millions.
Please thank Richard Scott Rodriguez for being such a stupid motherfucker.
Here we go: Colon YOU support MURDERERS
Which, under Florida law, MAKES YOU A MURDERER. Even though it's my personal opinion that you are guilty of personally murdering people despite the fact you're a fucking pussy ass clownhaired motherfucker from yesteryear and have ties to the Sarah Rinaldi MURDER and your fucking brother FLED to Massachusetts when that little fact was revealed. You fucking dirty piece of scum SHIT.
The Irish Problem
A St. Pete Times story is not the scoop it appears to be.
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I wuz robbed by the St. Petersburg Times.
Right there on the Dec. 12 front page was a story written with all the breathlessness of a scoop. Unfortunately (for the Times), it was a story that I had repeatedly penned for more than seven years.
I'm not upset with Susan Taylor Martin, the writer who perpetrated the offense. Her beat is the world, she's seldom in the Tampa Bay area, and she says she hadn't seen my Weekly Planet stories -- which were bona fide scoops.
But her editors and colleagues knew about my stories. I have talked with some of the Times folk about why they never picked up on the story. The repeated explanation, with a lot of hemming and hawing, was that the story wasn't important. Martin has proven the worth of my reports, so at least for that, thanks.
The question remains: Why didn't the Times (or the Tampa Tribune) do the story years ago?
And, I am soooooo amused at how the issue lays bare the Times' inability to admit that it sometimes goofs, in this case failing to give credit when credit is due. Presiding over that Cult of Infallibility and Inerrancy is Paul Tash, the latest member of the Times Elite Boys Club to rise to the top of the feudal heap they call management.
Here's the background: In early 1998, two federal prosecutors approached me. They told me how upset they were that Bobby O'Neill, the head of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's Office, co-owned a Hyde Park Irish bar, Four Green Fields.
The bar had hosted fundraisers for Sinn Fein, an Irish political party often said to have a "military wing," the murdering, bombing, bank-robbing Irish Republican Army. In fact, there are no "wings." The Irish justice minister a year ago exposed the fact that Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams, Martin McGuiness and Martin Ferris are on the IRA military council -- which destroys the make-believe that there is a firewall between the political party and the terrorists.
A third federal law enforcement officer later told me about O'Neill, so I figured this must be a hot bit of water cooler gossip at the U.S. Attorney's Office. I wrote a story. And another story. And another story. And another story. And many, many more stories.
The heart of the reports was that O'Neill was leading the prosecution against Sami Al-Arian, who was accused of raising money for, and praising the cause of, a terrorist group. Which is exactly what O'Neill's bar was doing. Heck, some of Four Green Fields' Sinn Fein shindigs featured that bold lad, terrorist-in-chief Gerry Adams.
Now, I've been an assignment editor at daily newspapers -- including the Tampa Tribune. That was back in the days of real journalism, when an editor who heard that a G-man in charge of prosecuting terrorists is also funneling cash to terrorists would have jumped from his seat, chomped his cigar and yelled: "Get me a reporter. No, dammit, get me a half-dozen reporters. This is a helluva story!"
But the Times and the Tribune ... well, they whistled Dixie. For years.
It was understandable for the Trib. The paper's Michael Fechter has been widely viewed as a public relations conduit for the feds' crusade against Al-Arian. The Tampa paper wasn't going to bite the hand -- even if shortchanging the public was the price.
But the Times? A very small part of the reason is that the bosses there don't like me much -- I've exposed more than a few blemishes in the paper's self-professed perfection. I guess professional vendetta overcame news judgment, and they let O'Neill alone.
A bigger factor is that the Times is as much in the business of giving cover to the U.S. Attorney's Office as the Trib. Despite some clear indications of misconduct among the prosecutors in several cases, the two daily newspapers, with all of their resources, have remained cheerleaders for the feds.
Even after the prosecutors lost a stunning defeat in the Al-Arian case -- a clear victory for civil liberties -- the faux liberal Times in an editorial castigated Al-Arian for what the paper depicted as an unworthy win. The Times editorial neglected to note the serious deficiencies in the government's case, other than benevolently stating the feds were good at connecting dots. (No, the feds never had a case.)
Noteworthy, the Times chided Al-Arian for his angry words from more than a decade ago -- but the paper somehow has missed the same sort of hateful language that emanates from the Irish bar owned by O'Neill. Substitute "Brits" for "Israelis" and Al-Arian's words are almost identical to the songs and slogans at Four Green Fields.
Like I said, the Times can't claim it didn't know about what goes on at the tavern. Heck, Martin's editor, Bill Duryea, has even written on the IRA bashes at Four Green Fields (although not about O'Neill's complicity).
Three years after my reports began, the Times did once mention -- 29 paragraphs into a happy-news puff piece on Four Green Fields -- that O'Neill owned part of the bar. However, there were no tough questions for the barkeep of a tavern popular with many Times scribes. O'Neill was allowed to claim the bar wasn't "pro-IRA," which would have been belied by even a casual look at the hate-Britain posters on the walls, some of which recruited support for Sinn Fein. Al-Arian, of course, was accused of providing similar boosterism for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Martin's Dec. 12 story was pretty good, although she got a few things wrong. (Martin apparently didn't know -- maybe her bosses intentionally didn't tell her -- that O'Neill had been Al-Arian's Torquemada for years. Martin described him in the story as remote from the case.)
"All my reporting on this was independently done and any records cited were verified by Bill Adair, our Washington bureau chief, going to the Justice Department and looking at them himself," Martin said in response to a gripe I e-mailed her.
Martin did become aware of my work three days before her story was printed. The U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman, Steve Cole, in a backhanded compliment, told her that the Planet and "disgruntled (federal) employees" were keeping the story alive.
The Times didn't mention my many, many stories, and the newspaper should have. This is an era when words such as "ethics" and "transparency" dominate newsrooms. The Times is owned by a journalism school and think-tank, the Poynter Institute, that champions ethics. Not giving credit to another journal's investigation is, well, just plain unethical. Sort of like mentioning Watergate without nodding at the Washington Post.
Here's where we get to a second story. Martin impugned my stories on O'Neill because I used "anonymous" sources. The Times has a policy against anonymous sources.
The truth is that the paper does use such sources. It just deceives the readers about them.
I'd prefer to name all of my sources -- but people fear retaliation. Both the Times and the government can be very vindictive. I do tell readers when I'm citing Mr. Anonymous, and I describe the source as fully as possible.
In comparison, last June, the Times reported: "[C]ontroversial federal prosecutor Jeffrey Del Fuoco is out of a job." The Times didn't say how it knew that -- it used what we hacks call the "voice of God," which is a cheap, dishonest way of not telling the readers that an anonymous source, one in this case with a political agenda, was behind the story.
The newspaper, as it turned out, was dead wrong. (Two months later, del Fuoco did quit.)
The Times ran a correction on the June account -- but it was as mendacious as the story. The correction acknowledged that del Fuoco wasn't fired -- but never told you how the newspaper so badly screwed up. It's that Tash Cult of Denial.
So, I'll stick with my sources, anonymous when necessary. And the next time the Times needs help with a scoop, give me a call. Maybe you'll get all of the facts right.
Want to read the real scoops by Senior Editor John Sugg on the federal prosecutor who owns a bar that raises money for terrorists? See Sugg's blog at www.johnsugg.com.
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Robert o'Neill is not only FULLY AWARE of this behavior of the Breen family, he is WHOLLY COMPLICIT. I have proof. Robert should be facing RICO charges and every case (including the Tomato King in Califo) he has been involved with should be investigated. Robert should be in prison. Truth in justice files dot blogspot dot com. jpscanlan dot com. Robert is a lowlife stalker who let gotti off the hook, as well.
.Posted by knowwhereyoustand.standthere on July 25, 2011 at 2:14 PM | Report this comment . Mr. Sugg, What Ms. Martin highlighted which everyone else missed is the behavior and character of mcmansion owner nee paperhanger, Colin Breen, Robert O'Neill's partner. Colin and his wife Christine and their daughter Katie actively run a drug krewe with many others in their STampa hood. Check out Richard Scott Gonzales and the folks on "mistic" point. As well, Christine Decamp Breen and daughter are stalkers who infiltrate families and destroy them. It's possible Christine is related to David DeCamp @ ST Pete Times. i have asked him directly receiving no reply but they did disable my username promptly. People are mistaken about the st pete times. it is NOT liberal but merely a propaganda rag for the I>R.A. and other criminal factions in tampa. as should be evident at this point. thank you.
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I wuz robbed by the St. Petersburg Times.
Right there on the Dec. 12 front page was a story written with all the breathlessness of a scoop. Unfortunately (for the Times), it was a story that I had repeatedly penned for more than seven years.
I'm not upset with Susan Taylor Martin, the writer who perpetrated the offense. Her beat is the world, she's seldom in the Tampa Bay area, and she says she hadn't seen my Weekly Planet stories -- which were bona fide scoops.
But her editors and colleagues knew about my stories. I have talked with some of the Times folk about why they never picked up on the story. The repeated explanation, with a lot of hemming and hawing, was that the story wasn't important. Martin has proven the worth of my reports, so at least for that, thanks.
The question remains: Why didn't the Times (or the Tampa Tribune) do the story years ago?
And, I am soooooo amused at how the issue lays bare the Times' inability to admit that it sometimes goofs, in this case failing to give credit when credit is due. Presiding over that Cult of Infallibility and Inerrancy is Paul Tash, the latest member of the Times Elite Boys Club to rise to the top of the feudal heap they call management.
Here's the background: In early 1998, two federal prosecutors approached me. They told me how upset they were that Bobby O'Neill, the head of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's Office, co-owned a Hyde Park Irish bar, Four Green Fields.
The bar had hosted fundraisers for Sinn Fein, an Irish political party often said to have a "military wing," the murdering, bombing, bank-robbing Irish Republican Army. In fact, there are no "wings." The Irish justice minister a year ago exposed the fact that Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams, Martin McGuiness and Martin Ferris are on the IRA military council -- which destroys the make-believe that there is a firewall between the political party and the terrorists.
A third federal law enforcement officer later told me about O'Neill, so I figured this must be a hot bit of water cooler gossip at the U.S. Attorney's Office. I wrote a story. And another story. And another story. And another story. And many, many more stories.
The heart of the reports was that O'Neill was leading the prosecution against Sami Al-Arian, who was accused of raising money for, and praising the cause of, a terrorist group. Which is exactly what O'Neill's bar was doing. Heck, some of Four Green Fields' Sinn Fein shindigs featured that bold lad, terrorist-in-chief Gerry Adams.
Now, I've been an assignment editor at daily newspapers -- including the Tampa Tribune. That was back in the days of real journalism, when an editor who heard that a G-man in charge of prosecuting terrorists is also funneling cash to terrorists would have jumped from his seat, chomped his cigar and yelled: "Get me a reporter. No, dammit, get me a half-dozen reporters. This is a helluva story!"
But the Times and the Tribune ... well, they whistled Dixie. For years.
It was understandable for the Trib. The paper's Michael Fechter has been widely viewed as a public relations conduit for the feds' crusade against Al-Arian. The Tampa paper wasn't going to bite the hand -- even if shortchanging the public was the price.
But the Times? A very small part of the reason is that the bosses there don't like me much -- I've exposed more than a few blemishes in the paper's self-professed perfection. I guess professional vendetta overcame news judgment, and they let O'Neill alone.
A bigger factor is that the Times is as much in the business of giving cover to the U.S. Attorney's Office as the Trib. Despite some clear indications of misconduct among the prosecutors in several cases, the two daily newspapers, with all of their resources, have remained cheerleaders for the feds.
Even after the prosecutors lost a stunning defeat in the Al-Arian case -- a clear victory for civil liberties -- the faux liberal Times in an editorial castigated Al-Arian for what the paper depicted as an unworthy win. The Times editorial neglected to note the serious deficiencies in the government's case, other than benevolently stating the feds were good at connecting dots. (No, the feds never had a case.)
Noteworthy, the Times chided Al-Arian for his angry words from more than a decade ago -- but the paper somehow has missed the same sort of hateful language that emanates from the Irish bar owned by O'Neill. Substitute "Brits" for "Israelis" and Al-Arian's words are almost identical to the songs and slogans at Four Green Fields.
Like I said, the Times can't claim it didn't know about what goes on at the tavern. Heck, Martin's editor, Bill Duryea, has even written on the IRA bashes at Four Green Fields (although not about O'Neill's complicity).
Three years after my reports began, the Times did once mention -- 29 paragraphs into a happy-news puff piece on Four Green Fields -- that O'Neill owned part of the bar. However, there were no tough questions for the barkeep of a tavern popular with many Times scribes. O'Neill was allowed to claim the bar wasn't "pro-IRA," which would have been belied by even a casual look at the hate-Britain posters on the walls, some of which recruited support for Sinn Fein. Al-Arian, of course, was accused of providing similar boosterism for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Martin's Dec. 12 story was pretty good, although she got a few things wrong. (Martin apparently didn't know -- maybe her bosses intentionally didn't tell her -- that O'Neill had been Al-Arian's Torquemada for years. Martin described him in the story as remote from the case.)
"All my reporting on this was independently done and any records cited were verified by Bill Adair, our Washington bureau chief, going to the Justice Department and looking at them himself," Martin said in response to a gripe I e-mailed her.
Martin did become aware of my work three days before her story was printed. The U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman, Steve Cole, in a backhanded compliment, told her that the Planet and "disgruntled (federal) employees" were keeping the story alive.
The Times didn't mention my many, many stories, and the newspaper should have. This is an era when words such as "ethics" and "transparency" dominate newsrooms. The Times is owned by a journalism school and think-tank, the Poynter Institute, that champions ethics. Not giving credit to another journal's investigation is, well, just plain unethical. Sort of like mentioning Watergate without nodding at the Washington Post.
Here's where we get to a second story. Martin impugned my stories on O'Neill because I used "anonymous" sources. The Times has a policy against anonymous sources.
The truth is that the paper does use such sources. It just deceives the readers about them.
I'd prefer to name all of my sources -- but people fear retaliation. Both the Times and the government can be very vindictive. I do tell readers when I'm citing Mr. Anonymous, and I describe the source as fully as possible.
In comparison, last June, the Times reported: "[C]ontroversial federal prosecutor Jeffrey Del Fuoco is out of a job." The Times didn't say how it knew that -- it used what we hacks call the "voice of God," which is a cheap, dishonest way of not telling the readers that an anonymous source, one in this case with a political agenda, was behind the story.
The newspaper, as it turned out, was dead wrong. (Two months later, del Fuoco did quit.)
The Times ran a correction on the June account -- but it was as mendacious as the story. The correction acknowledged that del Fuoco wasn't fired -- but never told you how the newspaper so badly screwed up. It's that Tash Cult of Denial.
So, I'll stick with my sources, anonymous when necessary. And the next time the Times needs help with a scoop, give me a call. Maybe you'll get all of the facts right.
Want to read the real scoops by Senior Editor John Sugg on the federal prosecutor who owns a bar that raises money for terrorists? See Sugg's blog at www.johnsugg.com.
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Robert o'Neill is not only FULLY AWARE of this behavior of the Breen family, he is WHOLLY COMPLICIT. I have proof. Robert should be facing RICO charges and every case (including the Tomato King in Califo) he has been involved with should be investigated. Robert should be in prison. Truth in justice files dot blogspot dot com. jpscanlan dot com. Robert is a lowlife stalker who let gotti off the hook, as well.
.Posted by knowwhereyoustand.standthere on July 25, 2011 at 2:14 PM | Report this comment . Mr. Sugg, What Ms. Martin highlighted which everyone else missed is the behavior and character of mcmansion owner nee paperhanger, Colin Breen, Robert O'Neill's partner. Colin and his wife Christine and their daughter Katie actively run a drug krewe with many others in their STampa hood. Check out Richard Scott Gonzales and the folks on "mistic" point. As well, Christine Decamp Breen and daughter are stalkers who infiltrate families and destroy them. It's possible Christine is related to David DeCamp @ ST Pete Times. i have asked him directly receiving no reply but they did disable my username promptly. People are mistaken about the st pete times. it is NOT liberal but merely a propaganda rag for the I>R.A. and other criminal factions in tampa. as should be evident at this point. thank you.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
No NUTS NO GLORY Robert O'Neill and Colin Breen
This is from the NEW YORK TIMES. This is Colon I mean Colin's buddy Gerry findabble Mc Bucketoshit or whatever, the bucket of shit who approves of sneaking up on off-duty, unawares young men and women and wasting their lives to support his fucked up cause of murder and deception which is, IN REALITY, a power and money grab. Or why would COLON live in a mansion rather than a hovel while supporting his FOUR GREEN FIELDS DREAM?????
Oh Sorry, it's GERRY ADAMS Sinn Fein piece of smelly SHIT. Below you'll find the FUND RAISER INNOCENT DADDY COLON held at his hole in the wall scum dump he stole from someone on Platt. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE J BURNS DETECTIVE AGENCY COLON?? YOUR WIFEY WANTED THE SOUVENIR LIKE A SERIAL KILLER. she's a fuckin sick fuckin bitch she is. NEVER FORGET I AM IRISH. Just the decent kind. Unlike you. You sick fuck. Would that someone would slip up behind all you off-duty motherfuckers and give you what you deserve. THIS IS WHAT A UNITED STATES ATTORNEY IS SUPPORTING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Found a better article. Was reading.
You should try that, KATIE. I know you can claim not to read the paper but it's TOO LATE TO CLAIM you don't read here. And it's too late to play you are innocent in this .. I KNOW BETTER Miss Fake Tears.
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COLLECTIONSI.R.A. Shifts Tactics, and the Results Are Deadly
Published: August 23, 1988(Page 2 of 2)Sign In to E-Mail
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''The I.R.A. has shown its ability to sustain itself and that it can still mount successful military operations to keep the pressure on the British,'' said Brendan O'Leary, a lecturer in government at the London School of Economics, who has studied the guerrilla movement. ''This also demonstrates that the I.R.A. has weathered the storm of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.'' Effect on Public Opinion
British troops, rather than members of locally recruited security forces, are the preferred targets for the I.R.A. largely because they are the most visible sign of the British presence in Northern Ireland and such killings have the greatest effect on British public opinion. ''One dead British soldier is worth four dead Royal Ulster Constabulary men,'' an I.R.A. official said recently, referring to the Northern Ireland police force.
Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., calls violence the ''cutting edge'' of what his movement regards as a struggle for ''national self-determination.'' In an interview last month with The Sunday Tribune, a Dublin newspaper, he said ''there is a very widespread tolerance of actions against the British Army,'' so assaults on British troops are ''not only the right thing to do but also the clever thing to do.''
The I.R.A. has achieved its goal of killing British troops with the help of ample supplies of hard-to-detect plastic explosives and a strategy of going after the soldiers when they are off-duty. Of the 27 British troops killed this year, 20 were off duty when they were attacked.
Charges of Libya Connection
The plastic explosive used in most of the recent bomb attacks - Semtex, a Czechoslovak-made variety - has been given to the I.R.A. by Libya, according to British intelligence reports. Libya has also been responsible for increased shipments of other weapons including mortar shells, automatic rifles and even anti-aircraft missiles. Tripoli's generosity toward the I.R.A. reportedly began in earnest in 1986, shortly after the Thatcher Government permitted the United States to use air bases in Britain for the raid on Libya.
According to British intelligence reports, the I.R.A. has a core of 250 to 300 trained regulars in the province, with perhaps no more than 60 of them actively engaged in planning and operations at any one time. The guerrillas are typically part of the decentralized local units of 6 to 12 members.
The I.R.A. central command, the seven-member Army Council, is based in Dublin, and movement by I.R.A. members back and forth across the border is common.
Beyond the core group, there are an estimated 2,000 active sympathizers, mostly in the Catholic urban slums and among some poorer Catholic farmers, who provide ''safe houses'' for the I.R.A. and gather intelligence. For example, it is believed to be I.R.A. sympathizers at or near Aldergrove airport in Belfast who spotted the British soldiers arriving last weekend and passed on that information to the bomber.
The I.R.A. spends an estimated $2.2 million a year on operations and on weekly payments of about $34 to I.R.A. members and the families of prisoners. Some of the funds, though less in recent years, come from American donations. But most are generated from illegal activities and legitimate businesses the I.R.A. controls like drinking clubs, taxicabs, extortion rackets and robberies, British security officials say
Oh Sorry, it's GERRY ADAMS Sinn Fein piece of smelly SHIT. Below you'll find the FUND RAISER INNOCENT DADDY COLON held at his hole in the wall scum dump he stole from someone on Platt. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE J BURNS DETECTIVE AGENCY COLON?? YOUR WIFEY WANTED THE SOUVENIR LIKE A SERIAL KILLER. she's a fuckin sick fuckin bitch she is. NEVER FORGET I AM IRISH. Just the decent kind. Unlike you. You sick fuck. Would that someone would slip up behind all you off-duty motherfuckers and give you what you deserve. THIS IS WHAT A UNITED STATES ATTORNEY IS SUPPORTING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Found a better article. Was reading.
You should try that, KATIE. I know you can claim not to read the paper but it's TOO LATE TO CLAIM you don't read here. And it's too late to play you are innocent in this .. I KNOW BETTER Miss Fake Tears.
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COLLECTIONSI.R.A. Shifts Tactics, and the Results Are Deadly
Published: August 23, 1988(Page 2 of 2)Sign In to E-Mail
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''The I.R.A. has shown its ability to sustain itself and that it can still mount successful military operations to keep the pressure on the British,'' said Brendan O'Leary, a lecturer in government at the London School of Economics, who has studied the guerrilla movement. ''This also demonstrates that the I.R.A. has weathered the storm of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.'' Effect on Public Opinion
British troops, rather than members of locally recruited security forces, are the preferred targets for the I.R.A. largely because they are the most visible sign of the British presence in Northern Ireland and such killings have the greatest effect on British public opinion. ''One dead British soldier is worth four dead Royal Ulster Constabulary men,'' an I.R.A. official said recently, referring to the Northern Ireland police force.
Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., calls violence the ''cutting edge'' of what his movement regards as a struggle for ''national self-determination.'' In an interview last month with The Sunday Tribune, a Dublin newspaper, he said ''there is a very widespread tolerance of actions against the British Army,'' so assaults on British troops are ''not only the right thing to do but also the clever thing to do.''
The I.R.A. has achieved its goal of killing British troops with the help of ample supplies of hard-to-detect plastic explosives and a strategy of going after the soldiers when they are off-duty. Of the 27 British troops killed this year, 20 were off duty when they were attacked.
Charges of Libya Connection
The plastic explosive used in most of the recent bomb attacks - Semtex, a Czechoslovak-made variety - has been given to the I.R.A. by Libya, according to British intelligence reports. Libya has also been responsible for increased shipments of other weapons including mortar shells, automatic rifles and even anti-aircraft missiles. Tripoli's generosity toward the I.R.A. reportedly began in earnest in 1986, shortly after the Thatcher Government permitted the United States to use air bases in Britain for the raid on Libya.
According to British intelligence reports, the I.R.A. has a core of 250 to 300 trained regulars in the province, with perhaps no more than 60 of them actively engaged in planning and operations at any one time. The guerrillas are typically part of the decentralized local units of 6 to 12 members.
The I.R.A. central command, the seven-member Army Council, is based in Dublin, and movement by I.R.A. members back and forth across the border is common.
Beyond the core group, there are an estimated 2,000 active sympathizers, mostly in the Catholic urban slums and among some poorer Catholic farmers, who provide ''safe houses'' for the I.R.A. and gather intelligence. For example, it is believed to be I.R.A. sympathizers at or near Aldergrove airport in Belfast who spotted the British soldiers arriving last weekend and passed on that information to the bomber.
The I.R.A. spends an estimated $2.2 million a year on operations and on weekly payments of about $34 to I.R.A. members and the families of prisoners. Some of the funds, though less in recent years, come from American donations. But most are generated from illegal activities and legitimate businesses the I.R.A. controls like drinking clubs, taxicabs, extortion rackets and robberies, British security officials say
IRA look and smell more LIKE PUSSIES TO ME
That's NOT mental strength.
It's CULT ACTIVITY.
The Guerrilla / The VolunteerThe 1977 edition of the Green Book is very much focused on the mental strength of the volunteer. The manual is eager to draw a clear distinction between volunteer and his enemy:
(ACTUALLY THIS IS TRUE OF THE IRA SLAVE YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS)
"A member of the I.R.A. is such by his own choice, his convictions being the only factor which compels him to volunteer, his objectives the political freedom and social and economic justice for his people. Apart from the few minutes in the career of the average Brit that he comes under attack, the Brit has no freedom or personal initiative. He is told when to sleep, where to sleep, when to get up, where to spend his free time etc."
In the 1977 edition the term Guerrilla is dropped in favour of "volunteer", the new edition also stresses that this volunteer is part of a movement with common aims and objectives. From the PIRA's point of view this would have been necessary to combating competing interpretations encountered in the community and the propaganda efforts of the enemy it faced:
"Before we go on the offensive politically or militarily we take the greatest defensive precautions possible to ensure success, e.g. we do not advocate a United Ireland without being able to justify our right to such a state as opposed to partition; we do not employ revolutionary violence as our means without being able to illustrate that we have no recourse to any other means. Or in more everyday simple terms: we do not claim that we are going to escalate the war if we cannot do just that; we do not mount an operation without first having ensured that we have taken the necessary defensive precautions of accurate intelligence, security, that weapons are in proper working order with proper ammunition and that the volunteers involved know how to handle interrogations in the event of their capture etc, and of course that the operation itself enhances rather than alienates our supporters."
The 1956 edition on the other hand stresses the physical aspects of IRA operations:
"Outside of the support he [the Guerrilla] gets from the people among whom he operates-and this support must never be underestimated for it is vital to his eventual success-he fights alone. He is part of an independent formation that is in effect an army by itself. He must be self-contained. If necessary he must act alone and fight alone with the weapons at his disposal- and these very often will not be of the best. He must find his own supplies. His endurance has to be great: and for this he needs a fit body and an alert mind. Above all he must know what he is fighting for- and why."
It's CULT ACTIVITY.
The Guerrilla / The VolunteerThe 1977 edition of the Green Book is very much focused on the mental strength of the volunteer. The manual is eager to draw a clear distinction between volunteer and his enemy:
(ACTUALLY THIS IS TRUE OF THE IRA SLAVE YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS)
"A member of the I.R.A. is such by his own choice, his convictions being the only factor which compels him to volunteer, his objectives the political freedom and social and economic justice for his people. Apart from the few minutes in the career of the average Brit that he comes under attack, the Brit has no freedom or personal initiative. He is told when to sleep, where to sleep, when to get up, where to spend his free time etc."
In the 1977 edition the term Guerrilla is dropped in favour of "volunteer", the new edition also stresses that this volunteer is part of a movement with common aims and objectives. From the PIRA's point of view this would have been necessary to combating competing interpretations encountered in the community and the propaganda efforts of the enemy it faced:
"Before we go on the offensive politically or militarily we take the greatest defensive precautions possible to ensure success, e.g. we do not advocate a United Ireland without being able to justify our right to such a state as opposed to partition; we do not employ revolutionary violence as our means without being able to illustrate that we have no recourse to any other means. Or in more everyday simple terms: we do not claim that we are going to escalate the war if we cannot do just that; we do not mount an operation without first having ensured that we have taken the necessary defensive precautions of accurate intelligence, security, that weapons are in proper working order with proper ammunition and that the volunteers involved know how to handle interrogations in the event of their capture etc, and of course that the operation itself enhances rather than alienates our supporters."
The 1956 edition on the other hand stresses the physical aspects of IRA operations:
"Outside of the support he [the Guerrilla] gets from the people among whom he operates-and this support must never be underestimated for it is vital to his eventual success-he fights alone. He is part of an independent formation that is in effect an army by itself. He must be self-contained. If necessary he must act alone and fight alone with the weapons at his disposal- and these very often will not be of the best. He must find his own supplies. His endurance has to be great: and for this he needs a fit body and an alert mind. Above all he must know what he is fighting for- and why."
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