I'm going to pick up where we left off yesterday, and with respect to the people who blindly believe what they read from the Ohio Supreme Court about my suspension I direct you to yesterday's diary comment from me, "crook my ass."
Suffice it to say that I've got 42 VHS tapes that contraindicate 80% of what the Ohio Supreme Court wrote in suspending me, created before the advent of Final Cut Pro and broadband. Those judges never thought what they did and said would see the light of day, believe me. But it will.
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Let's move on to Bill Moss, shall we? Mr. Moss, (RIP) was a legendary figure in Ohio, the longest tenure of anyone on Columbus Public School Board and owner of CapSoul records back in the Day.
I encourage you to read more about this man at these three posts, none of which have anything to do with my blawg:
One (wickpedia).
Two (Columbus Done waiting forum)
Three (suing Bush, Cheney and Blackwell).
Four (Board Member Loretta Heard, RIP).
Time out for a mid-day edit to torment my haters, as I journey back to New Hampshire, where we see Timmons claim she didn't know anything about my license suspension, period, even though it was CLEARLY discussed in emails that I sent to her and that Boston President Lenny Alkins sent to her: 52
21 Q. So Miss Timmons, did you at any
22 point become aware that one of my mentors by
23 the name of Lou Jacobs had stated that
24 racism, ignorance and reactionary politics
25 played a role in my suspension in Ohio?
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2 MS. PROULX: Are you referring to
3 one of the exhibits right now? Can you just
4 --
5 MR. KING: Not yet.
6 MS. PROULX: Okay.
7 THE WITNESS: No.
Okay, back to some color quotes about Heard and Moss:
First on Loretta Heard:
...she has been an outstanding and uncompromised voice in the community for fair and equitable education policy. Heard often stood side by side with Bill Moss in questioning the school board majority that seemed to be taking their marching orders directly from the Chamber of Commerce. Loretta Heard is one of the few remaining independent elected officials in Franklin County and we will miss her.
Now on to Mr. Moss:
Moss returned to elective politics in 1985, returning to the Columbus Ohio Board of Education. For a brief period in 1988, Moss was slated to be the Vice Presidential running mate of Senator Eugene McCarthy in Ohio. Moss was defeated for reelection in 1989. He returned to the Board in 1991, wrote a book entitled, School Desegregation: Enough is Enough, and started a business selling African imports.
In 1994 Moss lost a hotly contested primary for the Ohio House of Representatives to Charleta Tavares, 57-43%. The following year, 1995, Moss was the Democratic nominee for Mayor of Columbus, Ohio. He was to go down to defeat in that election to incumbent Mayor Greg Lashutka, 69-32%.
In 1997, Moss was returned to the Board in a special election, and was reelected in 1999. In 2003, Moss was defeated in his final political run, trying for reelection to the Columbus Board of Education.
Regarding his lawsuit against Bushco and Blackwell, against whom I long-ago voiced concern when I covered Cincinnati City Hall as editor of the statewide black-owned newspaper, Call-Post:
Secretary Blackwell, who is Ohio's chief elections officer, served also a co-chair of the Bush/Chaney Re-Election Committee for Ohio. "Because this man, Blackwell, is slavishly pursuing the Republican Party nomination for governor in '06, he brazenly and blatently violated all conflicts of interests by concurrently serving in both capacities," Moss says.
Okay. So what do these people have to do with me -- since it's all about me, right?
Both of them adored me. Really. See, you have to understand the hateful, bigoted and lying machine that Columbus Ohio was -- and is -- before you can begin to believe that the Ohio Supreme Court and the Columbus Bar Association and a number of Judges really did issue material lies about me to get me suspended.
But that is indeed what happened, and Mr. Moss and Ms. Heard were well aware of it. They also were aware that School Board President Mary Jo Kilroy, Esq. -- my former occasional drinking buddy was one certified hater, cutting people off the podium when she didn't like what was being said, etc. etc. Mary Jo, who is now a commissioner, was ironically a friend of my girlfriend's who in turn was ironically a well-respected Social Studies teacher who invited Civil Rights attorney James McNamara and me to her classroom on several occasions as motivational speakers. Meanwhile Attorney Kilroy was busy cutting off my 3 minutes to address the board at public participation when I came to complain about Wes Hurt's little boy who got his nose broken at school and nobody called the damn police because they were covering it up. Seriously. That's the part in "Live Revolution" at KingCast where I got the call to come in, rushed down in my tennis togs and said "we're trying to get some answers from the Board...."
Hell, for that matter I was invited by the more progressive elements at Columbus Public on Martin Luther King Day 1997 as a role model. Yep. Picture only, no blawg for those of you who say I'm blawg-pimping.
Hogwash, you say?
Not really. We've got VHS tapes of me with Mr. Moss and Loretta heard in Bill's studio -- where I was a frequent flier, you bet. The tapes are from now 60-year-old Ohio State University Black studies major and Historian James Whitaker, whom you can hear in a short MP3 interview with me from earlier this year. "It was an honor to work with you to do our part to try to keep the legal system in order," opines Mr. Whitaker.
Moss, Heard and Whitaker all knew my clients and I were getting screwed by the Courts, so Moss and Heard testified whenever they could (got them on tape several times supporting me at the Board meetings and in Court in addition to studio footage) and Whitaker took to the camera in guerilla-warfare documentarian style -- even though he never knew that one day final cut pro and broadband would enter the scene.
Criminal? Hardly. Well I did have a probation officer in High School, kinda cutting too much class to play tennis, but I think I made up for that:
I see that I've got to take baby steps with some Kossacks. A Supreme Court record like that seemed to diffuse all the attention away from the fact that:
1. Kos has to address the issue of tag abuse, be it in my case or others;
2. New Hampshire is again violating my Due Process Rights and not producing a Deposition Transcript that has two white men of privilege enjoying a chuckle about me getting my ass reamed in prison, and one of them unwittingly acknowledging that American Tower Corporation fed him a pack of lies regarding my employment there.
Which brings me to my next point: Even if I were an habitual sex predator preying on busloads of blind nuns holding babies in Columbus 10 years ago, it's got nothing to do with enjoying a good victory over Bush toady Peter Kirsanow with my father (which Kossacks should enjoy, right?), or issues number 1 and 2, supra. And BTW as far as my other victories for workers, it's not unlicensed practice of law if Attorney Phillips or Crnilovic sits in with me at the hearing. Don't you think we researched that with the insurance carrier? Duh.
In fact, the only willful lawbreaking I can recall was violating Texas Property Code 91.005 for American Tower, making money for people like the NAACP's CEO Bruce Gordon when he was President of Verizon Retail Markets, as noted here (one blawg citation).
I note:
Then I broke the law again -- repeatedly -- working at American Tower Corporation and it got me a $6,000.00 pay raise and employee of the week, and got Yannis Macheras, Esq. promoted to VP. Check out Texas Property Code 91.005. I atone for that today by admitting my sins, conducted in pursuit of all things material and seeking affirmation of my personhood in a corporate vessel of slavery.
Here's just one reason you should care:
Columbus Public Schools are just one example of what is happening all over the Country, as government agencies who are supposed to be held accountable for their actions and open to the public fail to do so and be so. But as we see in my diary from two days ago, that ain't the case anymore, and they are even setting moments for public participation and ungodly hours of the day -- in Columbus I think they changed it to 3pm. This led one of protester Jerry Doyle's subsequent lawyers (who ultimately were not as successful keeping him out of jail as I was, as you can see at KingCast.net to write on the occasion of Jerry's subsequent arrest:
Jerry Doyle, who was arrested at the [School Board] meeting, has the right idea. Parents and citizens concerned with democracy should use any means necessary to protect their rights and restore accountability to the Columbus School Board, which apparently is only allowed now in suburbia.
At any rate, I'm willing to take the baby steps if you're willing to work with me here and look a little bit deeper.
That way everybody wins.
KingCast.net: Cameras in the courtroom since 1996 for 21st Century Civil Rights.