LATEST UPDATE - AUGUST 25, 2011-LEIBY KLETZKY MURDER-JUDGE CHEWS OUT LAWYERS FOR LEVI ARON

Accused killer Levi Aron, with attorneys Jennifer McCann and Pierre Bazile, in court earlier this month (AP)

The attorneys for Levi Aron, the man who confessed to killing and dismembering 8-year-old Hasidic boy Leiby Kletzky, have already defended themselves from criticisms once—but it seems they had to do it again yesterday, as a Brooklyn judge laced into the two for how they've handled the case so far.  

"What I am questioning is whether counsel has enough experience for a trial of this type of case," said Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Neil Firetog.


Justice Firetog called the hearing to reprimand attorneys Pierre Bazile and Jennifer McCann for a series of goofs and gaffes during the pre-trial for Aron. According to the Times, he scolded them for complaining about the release of public documents, for discussing the case on their Facebook pages, and for not providing the Department of Correction an approved list of visitors for their client. 

He also questioned them over why they didn't stop Aron from giving an interview to the Daily News while in Rikers: "You're claiming your client's incompetent, and you're relying on him to make decisions?"


McCann defended using Facebook, saying she was responding to a group that was harassing her: “It was the quickest, easiest way to resolve my issues so the phone lines aren’t clogged up. I have a business to run, Your Honor.” The judge also wagged his finger at Bazile for misspelling “canon,” as it relates to ethics: “Two N’s means a cannon that shoots at something.”


Separate from their court apperance, McCann and Bazile gave formal notice that they would introduce psychiatric evidence at the trial, a filing necessary to pursue an insanity defense. Aron was previously found mentally competent to stand trial, despite a psychiatric evaluation which found that he has a personality disorder.

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WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN GOIN ON

Since my previous Blog post you know that I have cut my television connection to the outside world. Yesterday I was thankfully spared the endless noise of the world media hype of the "humongous earthquake" that hit the East Coast of the United States.


Truth is, I never even felt the 5.8 magnitude earthquake and only found out when the UPS driver told me about it while dropping off a package.


Strange, as I can usually sense when a pin drops, yet I never had an inkling of the earth moving. Can't say I was oblivious in deep thought and missed the sensation, but it just didn't register on my Jerry Richter scale.


In the immortal words of the Rock and Roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis there was a "WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN GOIN ON"
 

In fact, earthquakes, as are many other destructive acts of nature, should never to be fucked with, and always to be taken seriously, so I momentarily wondered about standing under the door jamb (with it's 1/8th piece of embedded metal) to protect myself against aftershocks, or getting out of the house with my swim trunks on, in preparation for any upcoming Tsunami.


Considering the recent horribly devastating earthquakes around the world in Japan, New Zealand, China, Indonesia, this was a rather tiny movement of the earth, that didn't really stir me one way or another. Yet it had instantly become such a big mass hysteria medial event to so many Americans.


I have been consistently pointing out on this Blog that the general consensus of what passes for modern humanity is, that most people think in terms of "I and Me" in other words, "if its not happening to me, it is not happening".


This earthquake had happened here, many experienced a rolling feeling, and this was real to them, not some thing "make believe' in a foreign land, that that they could distance themselves from by the ever successful use of denial.


The beasts within people were beginning to emerge. Survival of the fittest strategies were hatched in the minds of those who are prepared for these kinds of sudden, unexpected challenges.


In the chaos, I imagined people secretly planning their individual survival plans as they went into their, "you’ll see society begin to unravel, the apocalypse is here.”

I thought about the visions of panic in the streets in the major cities on the East Coast, egged on by the usual suspect media reports of possible catastrophic scenarios, similar to the reports before a 4 inch snow storm, that will cause hordes of the public to descend on their local supermarket to pick bare every carton of milk, loaf of bread, bottled water, and anything not nailed down.


There must have been near chaos in the streets. People  were even texting on their smart phones and reported, pale-faced and trembling, a mere four out of five bars of service, or worse, no cell service at all.


I am sure it is true that god has had a protective hedge around America. But give him/her a break, blame your shitty cell phone problems on AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T Mobile, not god.


I did go on the Internet, the vestal of accurate reporting of the truth, where I learned the true causes of today's earthquake were many, but my favorite ones were that:


"The epicenter in Mineral Springs, Virginia is not a coincidence rather part of the plot harkening to the name Louis and The US Plot to since WW1 take down The Monarchy and install Puppet Democracies using MK ULTRA Mind Control. At its highest echelons the entire Government is operated using hypnotic mind control. I know as I am former CIA and a hypnotic MK ULTRA Operative seeking asylum from The US Government for utilizing me against my Free Will,” a man informed us, within moments, with many more capital letters.


Another true cause of the Earthquake was described by a person who stated that it was a warning from guess who, yep god.


You know god, that supposedly angry, mean, vicious, vindictive god, "because Americans are letting foreign Americans push god out of our country. There is a great push in America to advance Islam and the devil has his schemes, the earthquake is the lord warning us to repent and stop evicting him from the U.S.A ."


Soon the politicians will chime in with their all knowing intelligence of an amoeba. “This is doubly bad,” Rick Perry will say. “First, because it was caused by government, and second because it was caused by science.” 

Others will warn it is because of the "menace" of Gay Citizens of the United States, or the acceptance of legal marriage between Gay people in certain States. 


I’m sure this will come up also with the Tea Party. “Get government out of the business of shaking our homes!”, they will mutter. “That ought to be left to the states and god.”


President Obama, not to be left out, will say “If Republicans in Congress were willing to put their nation before their vacation, they might have stopped this. I, too, have a plan, but I cannot show it to you until I get off of Martha's Vineyard, on Cape Cod.”


Naturally, the government from Washington D.C  to every major city had almost shut down yesterday and everyone was evacuating as fast as they can. It is the only thing to do when the shit hits the fan in America.

Clearly there is a whole lot of weird shit taking place in the world from climate change that "doesn't exist", to political revolutions in parts of the world never imaginable, and our very own USA government teetering on default of its financial credit. I mean this is all some serious, strange shit going on, and now the biggest earthquake on the East Coast in a hundred years.


This is not supposed to happen here in the good ole U.S.A. I thought that was why we sacrificed Anthony Weiner and his other infidel colleagues with their text crazed sinful skin body flicks, sent to "admirers". 

Next we’re going to have locusts descending across the Plains, and the Oceans will part in the middle. Anything is possible in these trying times.


Like most things that start as a vague screw up near Washington, It rumbled through the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and even Maine. 

Some even felt it in Detroit, but it might have been something they ate, plus all the residents of California now are poking fun at the wimps of the East Coast being afraid of what is an almost everyday occurrence in their great State.


Of course this is the same State of California that will soon be falling into the Pacific Ocean either from a gigantic earthquake, or just from the sheer weight of the debt their State owes to the world.


The federal government was wondering about whether the buildings will be safe for nonessential personnel to return, today. 

My vote is for them to stay home, I don't think it is safe for the government to be operational during "normal" times, let alone during a time of stress on the earths surface, any  more after shocks might just send them over the edge of their desks. 

If that should happen, then FEMA will take over and destroy what is left by ultimately having the current President proclaim to the Director of FEMA, as former President George W. Bush's infamous classic delusional comment in 2005, to FEMA chief Michael D. Brown, while the latter was so incompetent in a complete and total screw-up of the federal response to the city of New Orleans in response to the massive aftermath of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina  : "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

I DID IT MY WAY, COLD TURKEY

The other day I cancelled my Television subscription service, cold turkey, just did it.


I actually had decided over 3 years ago to cancel my television service, but somehow I never did get around to do it. I had continued to invent some excuse or another, and avoided making it happen.


TV had become as ancient and useless to me as the ad below exhorting consumers of 50 years ago to buy a black and white television.

Now that I have no television service it is OK, really isn’t that bad, it’s a kind of trash purge. No more TV garbage, no more channel surfing over 500 channels and finding nothing to watch. And then I’d get my monthly bill and curse that I was paying so much money for this "privilege".

Finally the other day while watching some streaming live news on my laptop, it finally hit me, I could stay in touch with the parts of the media and 2 other series shows that I do watch, by using my computer for this purpose. 

There are even inexpensive gadgets that allow the computer signal to be wirelessly transmitted to your TV, if you want to still have a big screen experience.


It had come to a point where I barely ever even turned my television on. It just made sense to me, I got rid of it. My pocket and brain are grateful.


Most of my tiny list of programs are on the Internet – Hulu, Netflix, the network online websites. I’m covered for the very few things that I still want to watch. So, here’s to the joys of no TV and no more monthly bill.


I have now cut the chains to television and join the cyber world of streaming media as my sole media interface. 

The Wolkoff family, each of us, honestly, stubbornly, proudly following a personal credo in everything we do, as being uniquely ours:

                             
                  I DID IT MY WAY

As I write this, talking about a seemingly benign act on my part, it  has brought me back to thoughts about my son Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff, who was one of the original pioneers of developing the rich streaming media process to transmit video/audio content to millions of computer users, all watching at the same time various content on the Internet, without the servers crashing from overload.


They often called Steven "Mr. Flash", named after his role in further developing the Flash Player corporate version of the streaming software that is an integral part of how media actually ends up being seen, heard as content that is alive on your computer screen.


I remember Steven talking about the technical challenges of many of the different team projects he supervised, what he was doing, his solutions, ideas, and the enormous potential he said it would mean for a revolutionary new way to view media.


I sort of understood some of what he was saying but technically he was light years beyond my ability to follow the sheer magnitude of what he and and others were working on.


Steven knew and saw some of his dreams come true, this was one of them. Unfortunately, he also never got to see so much of what was his legacy, his future life, and the every day pleasures of being alive, that the rest of us take for granted.


You can read more about Steven at the link:
 
STEVEN NATHANIEL WOLKOFF MEMORIAL PAGE


I write this Blog in loving memory, dedicated to my son Steven, and others such as him who are the victims of such evil, injustice, and the acts of those who do not care about the value of a human life.


As a professional Social Worker I have seen so much tragedy throughout my long career, and witnessed unspeakable pain, suffering, of the human condition by tiny baby's, toddlers, little children, adolescents,  young adults, adults, Senior citizens.


It is something that I never got used to witnessing as both a professional and a human being. It often is the driving force behind what I choose to write about on this blog.


So I dedicate in particular, today's Blog post, to my son Steven, I am so very proud of what you accomplished in your short time on this earth, you taught me so many things.

I miss you Steven, and I love you very much.