JERRY WOLKOFF BLOG-IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY SON STEVEN NATHANIEL WOLKOFF, MY FATHER SAMUEL WOLKOFF, AND ALL THE OTHER VICTIMS OF INJUSTICE, EVIL IN THIS WORLD.THEY DIMINISH YOUR RIGHTS,THEN THEY DIMINISH YOUR EXISTENCE, THEN THEY LIE ABOUT IT, SAY YOU NEVER EXISTED, AND THE PROBLEM IS PEOPLE FORGET THE SUFFERING THAT LASTS FOREVER, NEVER KNOWING THE TRUTH BY WHOSE HANDS, OR HOW YOU WERE KILLED.
Why are so many people pissed off with politicians today? A circus of hypocrisy, staged acting scripts concerning an impasse over the national debt, right now is a big part of our anger.
Regular folks feel that politicians continue to ignore the needs of the American people, while each politician professing in self proclaimed media sound bites, ad nauseum, that they are acting on behalf of what the "American people want"
When politicians are so obsessed with their own personal political future, focused on scoring points about who will be blamed or liked by their actions, that makes it impossible for anything remotely resulting in being in the best interest of what the American people want and need.
While the circus of dysfunctional absurd is taking place in Washington about the debt crisis and potential default of the United States Treasury unfolds, we witness the true cruelty and disregard of all politicians to the American people. Politicians show their true colors, their real self serving agendas and their puppet status of being full of shit, partisan, and playing chicken with our lives and our future.
We all need the economy to recover from its continued recession if we are to economically survive. Business people to do what they need to do - for their businesses, their customers, their employees and the economy based on the risk factor of not losing money, and making profits.
Because of the economic uncertainties created by Washington, the economic situation has become worse.
Instead of the politicians mantra that "we are doing this to cut spending and help Americans have a better life", the effect is that more and more businesses are not spending money on buying supplies, hiring employees, or even succeeding in getting much needed loans from the Banks.
Businesses are more and more afraid to take risks in this crazy economic situation caused by Washington and in fact when they hire at all, they don't hire permanent workers, instead they hire temps.
The truth, ugly that it is, shows that the game of politics in Washington once again puts the American public at risk because they're fighting with one another about partisan "points" of protecting their public perceived images.
Who cares about politicians images, well the corrupt, hypocritical politicians all do, while we all see them for the greedy, selfish neanderthals they really are. Yet they continue to act like we the people are not aware of how moronic and destructive they are acting.
Uncertainty about the direction of the economy has put Business expansion plans on hold, and will continue to do so after this political fiasco is "over".
It doesn't end with an agreement on the debt crisis, no matter what is the final outcome. Bankers already afraid to make loans have no idea what's going to happen in the future of these hateful politics, so they will loan less money to people and businesses.
Businesses are and will continue to follow defensive strategies such as hiring freezes, delays in buying new equipment or building up their cash reserves. They will do what is best for them to make money, not what is best for us.
The American people see what is happening to them and their neighbors as we experience how hard it is for most of us to pay the bills. The real question to me is what if anything are the American people going to do about it?
The same American people who have failed up until now to grasp the permanent damage being done to them, and have done very little to stop it. Many have succumbed to becoming sheep of the propaganda fed to them, others are now totally apathetic by giving up.
We as Americans, find it increasingly difficult to survive financially, and yet Washington sees part of the debt solution in cutting our benefits, destroying our system of entitlement programs, removing our mortgage tax reductions, while not raising the taxes of the very rich.
Politicians couch this in lies of " we will not raise taxes on the American people because the American people don't want higher taxes", when what they really mean is they will not tax the affluent, Corporations, close tax law business loopholes, and instead serve those who are their masters, but they will screw us, the people at a time that we need and deserve to be protected from any further erosion of our financial base.
At a time in our history when the economy is functioning so poorly, with a real actual unemployment rate of almost 20 per cent, 28.3 million people (using official U.S. Dept. of Labor statistics), not the "official" reported distorted 9.2 per cent, 14.2 million figures used by the government (See my prior Blog Post, "THE OLD SHELL GAME-MODERN STYLE)
No matter what the end result is in Washington, we the American people are guaranteed to be the ones who will have more pain and suffering placed on our backs, not the rich, and not the Corporations, hedge funds, and others that use their continued tax loop holes to pay zero or tiny taxes, let alone pay their fair share.
There will be no pain or suffering by Corporate America, Financial Institutions, and not a tiny bit of any pain, self sacrifice from the phony politicians, who all live together in a different privileged world, than the real harsh world inhabited by the rest of us.
"They" will do anything necessary for it to stay that way and will continue to ignore us. That is their idea of the "American Way" of equality for all.
American slave labor to keep the costs of our wars low with a cozy "business" relationship between the United States Defense Department and the private Corporations of the military-industrial complex. Can't be true , can it?
Pay zero labor costs and undercut regular folks who need these jobs and have the skills, or can learn these skills, but have been laid off by the poor economic conditions. Can't be.
Greedy profit making private Corporations making even larger profits on the backs of the unemployed in America, no way, that would be so cruel, right?
So let's understand this clearer.
According to statistics from the U.S. Labor Department as of June 2011, we have a huge unemployment problem, with a reported 14.1 million people out of work which is 9.2 % of our work force. Every month the headlines include these latest unemployment figures.
Unfortunately, the headlines and what actually is happening are often not the same.
To understand what’s going on you have to know that the Labor Department refers to this 9.2 per cent unemployed as “nonfarm" payroll employment. Notice that the news talks about nonfarm payroll employment. In other words, it does not include the self-employed or farmers. How big a deal is this?
Farmers about 2 percent of the population, according to the Agriculture Department. That’s equal to roughly 3.8 million workers.
In total we have 14.2 million people (10.4 million plus 3.8 million) who are not considered when unemployment numbers are tallied.
People Not In The Labor Force are another excluded category. In June, 2011, "2.7 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force" according to the government. These individuals who were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. In other words, you have to be actively looking for a job to be counted as unemployed.
Lastly, we come to those who are not counted because they are discouraged workers. The government says that “among the marginally attached, there were 982,000 discouraged workers in June". Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.7 million persons marginally attached to the labor force in June had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities
There’s another measure which does not fit within the government standards, the under-employed. Who are these folks? In general terms the underemployed are people with jobs, but not the jobs they want and not the jobs which fully reflect their skills, experience and training.
People are often under-employed, especially when the unemployment rate rises because workers are logically concerned that if they leave their present employer they will be unable to get a replacement job with equal or better pay and benefits. The result is that they stick where they now work rather than look for a better situation.
The bottom line: Official unemployment figures are distortions, lies, manipulation of statistics.
The actual number of unemployed folks in America using all the above official numbers supplied by the U.S Labor department is 28.3 million people (14.1 million reported officially as unemployed plus an additional 14.2 million people who are conveniently never considered unemployed by the U.S Labor Department Statistic), even though these people are out of work and have no jobs.
So the real number of unemployed people as of June, 2011 is 28.3 million which translates into about an 19-20 per cent unemployment rate, NOT the reported 9.2 per cent rate of 14.2 million people.
This is significantly (an understatement but I am trying to be optimistic) a much larger critical problem then the American people are being told, and it is reported in this distorted manner every single month by the U.S. labor department to make things look better than they really are.
It has always been statistically done this way and is not a function of the current administration doing anything different than past administrations, all were hiding the truth.
When we look around and are told that the economy is getting better, yet we see so many of the people we know with no jobs, families losing their homes to foreclosures, credit card consumer debt at it's highest ever, retirement, regular savings at its lowest ever, it makes sense to believe in the accuracy off these government supplied statistics that I have shown above, and not the "official" ones, released by them as the "unempoyment figures" . This is a semantic, cruel game of fake three-card shuffle, smoke, mirrors, propaganda, to fool the public.
So I was just wondering. Since the GOP and the right wing are determined to not raise taxes on the rich, continue to play "chicken" with the budget ceiling/default crisis, and insist on major cuts in programs for the people, could they perhaps not be insane, and in fact be working for greed on the part of the private defense industry, Corporate America as shareholders, lobbyists, future high paid employees of these companies, and current high paid political puppets, being pulled on a string by their masters?
The last I heard slavery was outlawed in America many years ago, and unemployed Americans who are not in jail will not work for zero wages, because we have to pay for things like taxes, cost of keeping prisoners in jails who then provide free labor to profit making Corporations, not to mention government corruption, waste, food , education, and the basic necessities of life. Of course it would be OK if we were going to become a Socialized country, but only Socialized bail out handouts of our taxes for big business, seems to be allowed.
The next time you hear someone say that we need to kick Obama out and put in more fiscally conservative 'leaders", maybe , just maybe you should think what they really mean, how will it affect you, your kids futures. Sounds, smells, and looks to me like economic slavery, for ALL Americans.
Just asking, because at the end of the day, regardless of what happens to the debt crisis, the American people will always be the ones who lose.
Marietta, Georgia (CNN) -- A Georgia woman who was convicted on misdemeanor charges in the death of her son who darted out into traffic will not spend time in jail, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The case of Raquel Nelson had attracted national notice from parents, the NAACP and even transportation advocates who said the Marietta woman was being unfairly pursued for just trying to cross the street as any other pedestrian would do.
Dozens of the suburban Atlanta woman's supporters crowded the courtroom Tuesday and applauded as Judge Kathryn Tanksley sentenced her to 12 months of probation and 40 hours of community service.
She also said Nelson could seek a new trial.
"I'm walking out of here," Nelson told reporters after her sentencing. "I don't think you could be more satisfied."
Defense attorney David Savoy said his client is weighing her options, but would mostly likely seek a new trial.
Nelson and her three children had just gotten off the bus at a stop across from their apartment building in April 2010 when her 4-year-old son, A.J., broke away from her and ran into the street.
A car struck the boy, causing fatal injuries. Nelson and one of her two daughters also suffered minor injuries.
Five weeks after the accident, investigators came to Nelson's home, said her aunt, Loretta Williams. Nelson was charged with three misdemeanors: second-degree vehicular homicide, failing to cross at a crosswalk and reckless conduct, according to court records.
A jury convicted her this month. Although prosecutors did not recommend jail time, each count carried a potential sentence of one year in jail -- for a total of 36 months.
The man driving the car, Jerry Guy, fled the scene after the accident but later admitted being involved, according to CNN affiliate WXIA-TV. He was sentenced to five years in prison but served only six months. He is serving the remainder of the sentence on probation.
During the hearing, Savoy asked for mercy, saying his client had suffered enough."Don't think for one moment that this mother of three doesn't blame herself for what happened," he said.
But, he said, the white stripes of a crosswalk are not "impenetrable walls of steel" that could have prevented a driver from striking someone crossing the street. Such accidents happen every day, he said.
Assistant Solicitor General Jessica Moss said her office would accept whatever sentence the court suggested. "These cases are inherently difficult because they are unintentional," she said during the hearing.
Nelson told NBC's "Today" on Monday that the jury that convicted her likely couldn't relate to her because she is a single mother and they don't regularly use public transportation or need to walk on busy streets.
The case became a cause for radio talk show hosts, the NAACP and even transportation advocates, who said Nelson is being punished because she chose to cross the road at the bus stop across from her apartment instead of traveling to the nearest crosswalk, three-tenths of a mile away.
"Your office's decision to prosecute Raquel Nelson for the death of her four-year-old son on a vehicular homicide charge is disgusting and inhumane," wrote one poster to the Facebook page of the Cobb County Solicitor General's Office, which handled the case.
More than 135,000 people signed an online petition calling for leniency.
The NAACP had called the case against Nelson a "grave miscarriage of justice when the mother who is still grieving is forced to fight harder for her freedom than the man who killed her son."
The case also attracted attention from transportation advocates, who said Nelson was treated unfairly because transportation planners fail to take into account the needs of pedestrians when designing roads."Because she did as her fellow bus riders, who crossed at the same time and same place, and because she did what pedestrians will do every time -- take the shortest reasonable path -- she is guilty of vehicular homicide," Transportation for America communications director David Goldberg wrote on the advocacy organization's blog.
Excuse me but is there no end, no fucking end to the depths of cruelty, corruption and dysfunction of our legal system when it comes to VICTIMS RIGHTS? Apparently not, because this moronic "System" keeps on chugging along, efficiently handing out "justice served" to the innocent human beings who are victims, while unable to provide "justice served' to the guilty who commit horrific, acts of harming, killing people.
The jury, well what can we expect from stupid, ignorant, sheep who are unable to think for themselves. The closest the average American gets to feeling compassion and using what tiny part of their brain remains, is in watching Reality TV and feeling bad for the dancer or singer who only made second place and got "cheated' out of winning. Then these idiots feel compassion and their tiny, mutated synapses flap around for a few minutes of mindless thought about what is unfair.
Good job Prosecutors, you stupid fucking arrogant" protectors of Justice", "YOU" must be so proud of yourself in doing your jobs so ass backwards, morons that you are, may you burn in hell!!!
"You" deliberately FUCKED UP my son Stevens killing, by manipulating the legal system to not give Justice for him as a victim, and "YOU" deliberately FUCKED UP my Father's murder case by manipulating the legal system to not give him justice as a victim, to protect your friends in the government. "YOU" do that so well over and over again in the everyday other cases of letting other evil animals get away with their unspeakable crimes and ignoring the life time of suffering by victims and their families.
"YOU" do it best when you let parents and others who have ruthlessly killed their own innocent small children, shit, they seem to almost always get tapped lightly on the wrists and go free.
So throw the "book" at this grieving mom, "JUSTICE SERVED" is your motto, give her the full 36 months in prison while you let the driver who killed her son go free, after serving only 6 months of his five year sentence. Protect us from the "criminal" mother while the jerk who killed her son is out there ready to kill another child.
"YOU" are on the job with the finest demonstration of the arrogance of of the LAW, by saving all of us from this woman and dispensing justice for JAY WALKING to this grieving mother whose 4 year old child was killed by a hit and run driver who was drinking and high on pain killers.
Great job ass holes, you must feel so proud of your maggot selves.
"On April 10, 2010, Raquel Nelson lost her 4-year-old son. Nelson was crossing a busy Marietta, Georgia, street with her son and his two siblings when they were struck by a hit-and-run driver. Police were able to track down the driver, Jerry Guy, who later admitted he had been drinking and had taken painkillers the night of the accident. He was also mostly blind in one eye. Guy had already been convicted of two prior hit-and-runs. He pleaded guilty, served six months of his five-year sentence, and was released last October.
If it ended there, this story would merely be tragic. But it gets worse. Last week Nelson herself was convicted on three charges related to her son's death: reckless conduct, improperly crossing a roadway and second-degree homicide by vehicle. Each is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 12 months in prison.
Nelson could spend up to six times as many months in jail as the man who struck her son and then fled the scene.
Nelson's crime:JAYWALKING .
Nelson had taken her children with her to shop for groceries and supplies for her upcoming birthday party. The working mother and college student regularly took public transportation, but she and her kids missed their intended bus that night, putting them an hour behind schedule. The bus they caught pulled up to their stop after nightfall, and Nelson stepped off, clutching her kids' hands through the shopping bags wrapped around her wrists. Nelson's apartment complex sits across the street from the bus stop, but the nearest crosswalk is three-tenths of a mile away.
So Nelson did what everyone who uses that bus stop does, and what the other disembarking passengers all did that night: She crossed one side of the divided highway to the median, where she waited for a break in the traffic.
Several people then crossed the street before Nelson thought it was safe. She waited with her kids. But when others started to move towards the road, Nelson's son must taken it as a cue it was time to go. She felt his grip on her hand loosen and he darted out into the road. She followed. Guy's car struck Nelson, her son and her daughter, and the boy died.
Over the next month, as Guy was processed by Georgia's criminal justice system, Nelson buried and grieved for her son. But on May 14, the Atlanta Journal-Constitutionran a long story under the headline, "Jaywalkers take deadly risks." The article mentioned Nelson and her son, pointing out that she hadn't been charged with any crime. Three days later, the Georgia Solicitor General's office charged Nelson with the three misdemeanors.
Nelson was convicted last week, and she'll be sentenced on July 26. Nelson, a black woman, was convicted by an all-white jury. She relies on public transportation; she is a pedestrian in a car-oriented Atlanta suburb.
During jury questioning, none of the jurors who would eventually convict Nelson raised their hands when asked if they relied on public transportation. Just one juror admitted to ever having ridden a public bus, though in response to a subsequent question, a few said they'd taken a bus to Braves games.
Nelson was not judged by a jury of her peers; she was convicted by a jury that had no understanding of the circumstances that compelled her to cross the street where she did.
According to the Daily Mail, other tenants in Nelson's apartment complex had complained to the city about their difficulties getting home from the bus stop. The Transportation in America blog shows a photo of the stretch of highway where Nelson crossed as evidence city planners are guilty of "poor planning and dangerous designs."
No one forced Raquel Nelson to jaywalk the night of her son's death. The suggestion here isn't that the city owes Nelson anything for the consequences of her actions.
But there is something to be said for designing cities with an eye toward how people actually behave, not how urban planners wish they would.
Putting a bus stop in the middle of a busy highway, three-tenths of a mile away from the nearest crosswalk -- while zoning for apartments and businesses on the other side of the same street -- is poor planning.
But it's really the decision to prosecute Nelson that's outrageous. That the state can prosecute someone doesn't mean that it should. And it seems that a little empathy would be in order here.
Prosecutors have a great deal of discretion over when to bring charges, and over what charges they bring. If those in the office of Solicitor General Barry Morgan are charging Nelson to punish her for her jaywalking, they're misguided -- it's hard to conceive of a more potent punishment than the loss of a child.
If their aim was to make an example of a devastated mother to prevent others from jaywalking, they're delusional.
But this isn't even the first time they've done it.According to the Journal-Constitution, in 2010, Morgan's office charged another woman whose child was struck and killed while the two were jaywalking. A recent Pro Publica/Frontline investigation found prosecutors seem especially prone to find criminality -- then over-charge once they do -- in instances of child death, even when the evidence suggests the death was an accident.
Earlier this month, I wrote a column criticizing the so-called Caylee's Law, the bill sweeping state legislatures across the country in response to the Casey Anthony verdict. I mentioned a number of scenarios in which innocent parents or caretakers might be prosecuted under the law. The response from the law's supporters was that a prosecutor would never charge a grieving parent under those circumstances. This case shows that such prosecutions can and do certainly happen.
There are nearly always strong incentives for prosecutors to over-charge defendants. Prosecutors receive praise, and are reelected and promoted based on their ability to win convictions. They're rarely punished or held accountable for over-charging, or committing misconduct en route to a conviction. They're also rarely praised or credited when they decline to bring charges in the interest of justice.
There are a couple of solutions here. Lawmakers should anticipate ways laws might be abused or misapplied -- even in scenarios that seem unlikely -- and craft laws in ways that minimize the chance that they'll be abused. The justice system should not rely on the goodwill of prosecutors.
Another solution: We need to start holding prosecutors accountable for bringing unjust charges like those brought against Nelson -- even if they may technically be legally permissible.
In nearly all jurisdictions, "prosecutor" is a political position. That means voters can realign the incentives. If Cobb County residents want to make it clear that the prosecution of Raquel Nelson is an abuse of power and a waste of resources, they could let Solicitor General Barry Morgan know, both now and next Election Day." END OF STORY By Radley Balko
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But then again, the same ignorant people who are on these Jury's of so called "peers" are the same ones who vote in these defenders of our safety, protectors of our human legal rights. Don't expect anything to change for the better, as America sinks even deeper into a sewer of unfeeling, cruel, and fatal spiral of death to its existing conscience of insanity.
PLEASE CLICK ON THE WORD PETITION BELOW TO Cobb County GA: Release Grieving Mother of Hit-and-Run & Install a Crosswalk
The Coroner supposedly has broad legal powers to do just about anything to a dead body. The body allegedly no longer belongs to the person, or his/her surviving loved ones, the Coroner owns it. But the Coroner does not own the body's soul or have the right to desecrate that persons humanity.
In our multiple legal cases, we are standing up for Justice to be given to Steven. Not only for the sake of holding those responsible for killing him, but also for Steven's dignity, the sacredness of a human body, and that there are certain inalienable moral,legal rights, legal obligations to protect the dignity of the human body in it's final disposition. We also want to prevent this unimaginable horrifying pain from happening to future families.
Importantly, the Coroner over 1 year after his Office, and his own forensic pathologist determined beyond a doubt in the Official Coroners Final written Report that Steven was killed by injuries not consistent with the collision, they then released Steven's brain to a private Pathologist hired by San Mateo County and their private ambulance subcontractor AMR. In doing so, he knowingly violated State Laws and Professional ethics, when he allowed her to newly dissect Steven's brain, physically remove his brain, along with other parts of his remains, to her office, away from the sworn, sealed protection supposed to be provided by the Coroner's office.
All this was done in response to the defendants attempting to mount a legal defense that Steven would have died anyway from brain damage caused by the collision (not true and she couldn't even medically prove it after all of this).
This information accidentally slipped out at the deposition of the SMC County Corners own Pathologist who did the original autopsy. There certainly was no medical need to have a consultation done a year later, or a sudden need for medical, scientific research to be done, as he had determined the cause of death a year before. We knew nothing about any of this, our consent was never asked, and it was a cruel, inhuman, disrespectful desecration done to Steven's body.
More importantly Steven has received no justice for their stealing his life and killing him. Incompetent para-medics, defective medical machines, a DUI impaired driver (an illegal undocumented alien) who never even had a drivers license in his life, another additional driver who made a series of dangerously illegal motor vehicle violations, including making a left turn from the highway left speed lane while he was at a full stop, a defective, inherently flawed road design, a known highway death trap, on and on, one mistake after another, no-one takes responsibility, no one is held accountable, no one says they are sorry. It is a game to them.
Killing an innocent human being, an American citizen, my son Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff, in San Mateo County California, is seemingly no big deal and not 1 person has come forward with the truth since they all got lawyered up. They all know the truth but seem to now prefer to cover their asses.
They try to erase Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff's life as if he never existed. What if this was your innocent child, could you rest knowing that the truth is being hidden by others.? Would you not expect the honesty and dignity from me, my neighbors, if your child was killed traveling through my community? We would tell the truth here and understand that every human life is precious. Apparently NOT so in San Mateo!
Many of you used to communicate with me openly, in a caring way, and helped me in a courageous manner to gather evidence. What happened since then to you and your neighbors, you are now silent?
I KNOW that some of you are good people who could provide information leading to Justice for Steven's negligent death. You check into the blog because your conscience is guilty. How do you live with yourself knowing that your personal selfish fears of telling the truth, have provided not a whiff of justice for my son Steven's life being stolen from him at the age of 30? You can still choose to come forward, even do it anonymously, and give the true information to make things right, think about it, your guilt will only get worse if you don't, it will otherwise haunt you forever. This is your choice to make, but I guarantee you, unless you tell what you know, you are doomed to a lifetime of guilt.Is it possible that there is not at least one brave human being in San Mateo County involved in all of this, who will come forward and recognize that a human life is precious?
As for the legal system, it is a disgraceful, dysfunctional mess. "Democracy Freedom, Respect of basic human rights, Justice served", bullshit. The Law is used to hide behind, victims have no voice, the Government entities claim immunity from everything they are guilty of, or have hordes of lawyers to stall the legal proceedings. They even get away with delays by pleading budgetary poverty as a reason to not mount a defense. Can you imagine a regular citizen being allowed to do that? This is a sick farce, a circus, but there is no other civilized option in San Mateo county.
This is why I will not stop fighting until it's all over, and I WILL do the best I can. WILL YOU?
With the Democratic President of so called reform and change, Barack Obama ready to sell out the American people and destroy our Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and take away these programs that decades of Presidents, including Conservative Republicans such as Dwight Eisenhower fought hard to preserve, I believe we are on the precipice of losing America.
I have even read today that Obama is willing to give up the mortgage taxes deduction that the average American can still use as one of our last ways to reduce the already unfair taxes we pay.
Yet no new taxes on the rich, no attention to Corporations such as General Electric who pay no taxes, Hedge Funds and others manipulate loopholes, that no one is willing to change. Obama with his obsession for bi-partisan cooperation has no clue that "they' are out to destroy him and the American people.
I don't see any leadership from him or the balls to stand up for his principles at any time, as President. The debt ceiling clock is ticking closer to the default of America's treasury debt and no-one has blinked on either side.
Unless Obama has an ingenious, magical strategy that he is hiding until the last moment, he will remembered as an abysmal failure and a coward for not fighting for we the people. Obama got elected to show his balls, not his chicken ass.
Instead the right wing maggot puppet politicians who are bought and paid for by the rich, and Corporate America will be handed the power, by this inept, incompetent Democratic Party and its leader.
The United States is at the critical crossroads of self destruction by the ultra right, maniacs, morons and imbeciles politicians. The words have actually been stated by many of these wacko politicians, that it will be OK if the United States defaults. Not a problem they say, it will be a good thing for us, and teach us a lesson to be frugal with our money.
In the immortal words of Mad Magazines genius Einstein in residence Alfred E. Neuman (not to be confused with "Newman" from the Seinfield TV show), "WHAT ME WORRY" is the motto of these morons.
I am NOT a liberal, NOT a Democrat, Not a Republican, NOT an independent party member. I am just a good ole boy from Brooklyn who believes in fighting for the underdog, and we the people of this Country.
So where am I going with all of this?
It occurred to me the other week that we have a lot of so called "Representatives of the People" that are strangely silent, mute, dumbed down, missing in action during these times, that will potentially be catastrophic and destroy what little is left of the integrity, pride, freedom of our former great Country.
Most of all, I thought about where is Senator Al Franken during this critical moment in history? For the poster boy and winner of the worst non performance of this silence, I nominate the funny, ex comedian from Saturday night Live, Al Franken, also at one time the voice of spunky sanity, on the now defunct Air America radio progressive radio station.
You remember good old Al from Saturday Night Live. The guy who won the Senate seat from Minnesota on a gutsy platform of progressive reform of changing the corrupt cowardly politics of this country. He said he was a man of the people. I liked him, no bull shit, plus he tore apart the ego of Joe Lieberman last year by refusing to yield the Senate floor to Joe. A definite no no in Senate Country Club protocol.
I liked that ballsy part of Al, he was rightfully pissed at Joe for his whoring on the part of the health insurance industry in diluting the proposed Health Plan reforms to allow medical care for all Americans.
Where is Al now, find him for us please. Not much of a physical presence anywhere, just boring speeches, not even a teeny, tiny use of his skills, and his stated political beliefs have not been heard on any meaningful level.
Hey Al we need you, c'mon show your face and your courage to expose the hypocrites. Senator Bernie Sanders is doing your job and needs your help, your funnier, smarter, and have the media skills from your former life on television.
I can think of 299 ways that he can "John Stewart/Stephen Colbert" this entire circus of Obama, Boehner, and the other puppets. Franken is not a puppet, but he is also not stepping up to fight with his unique skills to this potential disaster. If not now, when?
There is too much at stake here. We don't need scripted words from him- we need the truth to be exposed.
Franken is a genius of getting attention and he has NOT done anything of substance at this critical time. Bernie Sanders who is at least honest and doing his best needs Franken's help. The American people need Franken's help-
Senator Al Franken riding up to the White House, Congress on a white horse, dressed in an American flag, go ahead call Boehner a BONER, Obama a NOBAMA, do your SNL stuff like you used to do, except now its for real.
I have a lot more ideas Al, so where are you, your speeches just don't cut it. How about dressing up as Alfred E. Neuman and paint some freckles on your face.
You can tangle with the GOP and Tea Party using Neuman's comical character as your theme. That will bring the media coverage to you. Hey you even have the same first name, both of you are Al's.
Ya know, unless Franken is dead, or dying, there just is no acceptable excuse to me for his non existence. So where are you Al? Someone else wanna email him?
Serious Bernie Sanders makes Franken look like a wuss pussy loser.
He ignores my cousin Andrea's emails and my emails. It isn't funny anymore Al, What me worry just doesn't fit your style. Come out, come out wherever you are.
Can anyone find Waldo AKA Al Franken? Give Al a wake up call at http://alfranken.com/Franken, if you do, tell him his country needs him, NOW!
Otherwise I will vote my mind next year, and write in Alfred E. Neuman as the best qualified to lead our Country. He will run on a platform of "WHAT ME WORRY" because he at least honestly believes in it for real.
You can even call me Al, I have plenty more ideas, if you can't think of any.
Brooklyn, NY - The Brooklyn man accused of murdering and dismembering 8 year old boy Leiby Kletzky of Borough Park this summer was back in court this morning.
Levi Aron appeared in Brooklyn Criminal Court via web conference from Riker’s Island. His lawyers and prosecutors were also in attendance for pre-trial motions and to reschedule a new court date.Aron allegedly killed 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky after kidnapping him on his way home from school.NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-48th District) says he cannot wait for justice to be served, even though the family may never feel at peace.Aron is due back in court May 25.
In keeping to my promise to honor the memory of murdered 8 year old Leiby Kletzky, I will continue to post on my Blog, all stories related to this tragedy until the case is closed.
In Keeping to my promise to honor the memory of murdered 8 year old Leiby Kletzky, I will continue to post on my Blog, all stories related to this tragedy until the case is closed.
In Keeping to my promise to honor the memory of murdered 8 year old Leiby Kletzky, I will continue to post on my Blog, all stories related to this tragedy until the case is closed.
This transcript has been editedto remove parts of an extremely graphic nature. It has not been edited for clarity. These are the suspect's words as written on a legal pad by detectives during questioning, according to law enforcement sources.
"My name is Levi Aron... On Monday evening around 5:30 I went to my dentist, Dr. Sorcher, to make a payment for visit for exam routine. A boy approached me on where the Judaica book store was. He was still there when went out from the dentist’s office. He asked me for a ride to the Judaica book store. While on the way he changed his mind and wasn’t sure where he wanted to go.
So I asked if he wanted to go for the ride -- wedding in Monsey -- since I didn’t think I was going to stay for the whole thing since my back was hurting. He said ok.
Due to traffic, I got back around 11:30 p.m. … so I brought him to my house thinking I’d bring him to his house the next day. He watched TV then fell asleep in the front room. I went to the middle room to sleep. That next morning, he was still sleeping when I was ready to leave.
So I woke him and told him I’ll bring him to his house… when I saw the flyers I panicked and was afraid. When I got home he was still there so I made him a tuna sandwich....
I was still in a panic...and afraid to bring him home. That is when approximately I went for a towel to smother him in the side room.
He fought back a little bit until eventually he stopped breathing.
Afterwards -- I panicked because I didn’t know what to do with the body.… carried parts to the back room placing parts between the freezer and the refrigerator …
… went to clean up a little then took a second shower. I panicked and .. Then putting the parts in a suitcase. Then carrying suitcase to the car …placing in backseat on floor behind passenger side.
… drove around approximately around 20 minutes before placing it in the dumpster on 20th street just before 4th Avenue.Then went home to clean and organize.
I understand this may be wrong and I’m sorry for the hurt that I have caused".
POOR LEIBY KLETZKY WAS DRUGGED BEFORE MURDERED- UPDATED JULY 20- The animal had enough presence of mind to systematically drug this innocent 8 year old child. Yet his lawyers now maintain that the animal is insane, hears voices, and cannot be held responsible for his actions. BULLSHIT!!!He knew what he was doing and went about murdering this little child by following a planned process of events, including drugging this poor child before strangling him. The corrupt Legal process in our Country does not provide rights for victims, not even 8 yr. old children who are tortured, murdered, and dismembered. NYPD has just discovered many other clothes of children in this animals house. They are now re-digging up his back and front yard for bodies, evidence. The "voices" the animal hears can be manipulated by his slimy lawyers for an insanity plea to have him sent to a psychiatric institution, and not prison. Who will speak up for the child, who will stop the insanity of law that lets murders of all kinds go free, or escape punishment. We will see! BURIAL OF LEIBY KLETZKYFATHER SPEAKING AT FUNERALCEREMONY
WHY DOES MY HEART FEEL SO BAD
10,000 MOURNERS GATHER FOR FUNERAL
LIFE IS CHEAP!
More insensitive hyped media fodder for the TV talking heads who couldn't care less about human life. But to some of us it produces the thoughts that whose child of any age is safe in the jungle of sub human animals we now inhabit? This is happening almost every day now to some one else's family. The refrain of that's horrible and the secret thoughts of " at least it's not my child" and then people go on with their regular lives, quickly forgetting until the next killing happens, later today, tomorrow, or another day, doesn't work any longer.
We have reached the doomed stage as a society where the above refrain won't protect you or your family any longer. You can believe it will, but so did all these other victims families who never thought it would happen to them. This is the same as the killing of my son Steven, the murder of my father Samuel, all by others who never have shown a single shred of a feeling, not a hint of conscience, living their lives as if they have no accountability, no soul, no responsibility for stealing a human life by horrific acts, also killing the families of these victims who will never heal, never be whole again.
This is the world of the " civilized modern" 21st Century, a place where we are in reality, no better off than hundreds of years ago when there were no laws to follow and survival of the fittest ruled the human chain of life. Today this human survival of the fittest has retrogressed backwards to the scum of the earth, murderers, killers, indifferent "regular" "people who cover up their negligence in killing innocent human beings such as my son Steven, and all others who make up the rules of life, as they reproduce in epidemic proportions as an insane society at all levels.
I promise to honor the memory of murdered 8 year old Leiby Kletzky. I will continue to post on my Blog, all stories related to this tragedy until the case is closed.
Those who do the killing, along with the dysfunctional , inept legal system, shoddy law enforcement, corrupt immoral governments, politicians only interested in their own personal gain, Corporations of greed, disgusting media using these horrors to glorify themselves at the expense of tragedy, and on and on, yes, they all contribute to this chain of what our society has become, a CESSPOOL, toxic and fatal.
Our World is such a sick place of EVIL! An 8 year old boy now, every day a new horrific insanity of those who prey on others, especially animals who kill little children. Another innocent child who did nothing wrong, just walking only 7 short blocks to his home from Camp, in the middle of a beautiful sunny summer afternoon day.
Beyond believable but now all too common. What has our world come to, at this point and WHY????
Just an 8 year old kid, Leiby Kletsky and he knew what was happening to him, such unimaginable terror, pain for him.
The animal started to strangle him with a towel. Leiby tried to fight back, imagine that tiny 8 year old child resisting, fighting back against this large animal.
Think of what this child's mind felt, the terror, fear, and his last breaths on this earth.
This was his first time walking home. His parents had carefully instructed him on the directions many times the day before.
In spite of those directions, he still became confused in all the excitement of his first day walking home from camp, with his backpack neatly held over the shoulder, thinking happy thoughts of his day at camp, of his upcoming 9th birthday next week, and then he suddenly realized that he was lost.
This innocent, trusting child asked a "person" on the street to help him find his way home, and believes when told, that he will be driven home by car to his loving parents.
A crowded street with neighborhood people all around him. Of all the people on that street, why is it that this predator is the one that is picked to help this lost 8 year old?
Why is it that a second more or less he could have picked a human being, or didn't go into a store for help? Fate, random matrices, it is meant to be, some god willed this to be, NO, these are just excuses to make people feel better, an attempt to understand what is truly unfathomable.
Yes you should cry, "this is some one else's" child is the way people DON'T deal with the horror. NO ONES child of any age is safe in the jungle we now inhabit. These killings are happening every day, and it has become "normal" to read about it. How can this be normal???
Whether it's my Steven, my father, the Caley Anthony toddler killed, another College student murdered, or anyone, it is now accepted as normal??? How can that be?
This is about the ugliness of reality, the cheapness placed on a human life by the entire society that sighs, and then thinks " at least its not my kid" and believes that it is "just one of those things".
A doomed, sick, selfish society with no justice to be served, no moral compass to follow, that even fails to try helping the living children in need, let alone the innocent victims of all ages who are dead.
There will be no birthday gifts next week for little Leiby Kletsky, only a cold, dark grave, where victims go away forever.
'Little Leiby put up a fight but had no chance - his feet were tied up': Police reveal brutal details of eight-year-old Hasidic boy's final moments - and say killer hasn't yet revealed the whole truth
Hasidic child abducted on his way home from camp 'put up a fight' while tied down and suffocated, police say
Levi Aron confessed he 'panicked' and killed the child after search became so high profile - but police doubt his story
Ordered to undergo psychological tests after his lawyer said he 'hears voices'
Boy's family say 'We're not into revenge'
Aron said to have shown 'no remorse' while 'giggling' in custody
Leiby was lost on first solo walk home and stopped Aron to ask for directions
Aron arraigned in court today after police found child's butchered remains in a fridge and a dumpster
Thousands mourn at emotional funeral service in Brooklyn
By Paul Bentley and Fiona Roberts-Daily Mail.U.KThe innocent Hasidic child brutally murdered by a stranger he asked for directions bravely fought as he was tied down and suffocated by his captor, it has emerged. Eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky was abducted by 35-year-old Levi Aron while walking home alone for the first time from a day camp in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon, sparking a city-wide police search.After losing his way on the seven-block walk home, the child asked the older man to help him - a most cruel chance encounter which led to him being kidnapped, suffocated and dismembered with a kitchen knife.But in his final moments the brave child fought for his life, police have revealed, scratching Aron while tied down with a rope and smothered with a bath towel.
Arraigned: Levi Aron appears in court today charged with killing eight-year-old Leiby
Head bowed: Levi Aron is led into a police car today after confessing to the brutal murder
How could he? Levi Aron, right, is being held after police found eight-year-old Leiby's dismembered body
As thousands took to the streets of Brooklyn to mourn the death of the young child, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Aron had cuts on his arms and wrists - evidence Leiby had tried to fight him off.'There are marks on his body,' Kelly said, adding that it was 'reasonable to say' this indicated a struggle.It was a fight the child could never have won, however, as marks on Leiby's ankles indicated he had been restrained with rope.Aron has denied sexually molesting the child but has offered no other understandable motive for the murder, according to police.He was last night under psychological evaluation and suicide watch in prison. 'In this business, you see a lot of violence. Here, it defies all logic. That's what is so disturbing about this case,' Mr Kelly said. 'It's heartbreaking.'Aron, who once worked as a butcher, told police in graphic detail how he suffocated Leiby with a bath towel in a panic before cutting up his remains.'I understand it may be wrong, and I am sorry for the hurt I have caused,' he wrote in a hand-written statement.At the Kletzky household, his family were looking for answers.'Why?' asked Shmuel Eckstein, a close family friend, as the boy's parents and five sisters sat and prayed. 'We don't have that ... What we know is that through Leiby's death, God is sending us a huge signal - that we're doing something terribly wrong. And we're looking for what it is.'He added that the family was not looking for retribution. 'We're not into revenge,' he said.
In court: Levi Aron appeared in court today following the horrific murder of little Leiby
Handcuffed: Aron is said to have cuts on his arms from when Leiby tried to fight him off
He is said to have remained detached throughout police interviews, showing 'no remorse' and at times even giggling when speaking to investigators, Mr Kelly said.Today in court for arraignment, Aron was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after his lawyer told a judge he might be mentally ill.'He has indicated to me that he hears voices and has had some hallucinations,' attorney Pierre Bazile said.Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said he plans to charge Aron with felony murder and was also investigating whether he might have had any improper contact with children in the past.As he was led out from the courthouse holding pens, other inmates screamed obscenities at Aron.Authorities doubt much of Aron's explanation for his actions. He claimed he offered to give Leiby a lift to a book store in his car but ended up taking the boy to a wedding in upstate Monsey as a treat.
Outpouring of grief: Almost 8,000 mourners gather in the streets of Borough Park, Brooklyn, to pay their last respects as the hearse carrying the body of Leiby Kletzy leaves his funeral service
Inconsolable: Men from Leiby's community weep while listening to the funeral service
Devastated: The Hasidic community has come together in grief after the barbaric murder of one of its members
He said they got back late 'so I brought him to my house, thinking I'd bring him to his house the next day'. After realising the extent to which the search had gained momentum the next day he then 'panicked', made Leiby a tuna sandwich and smothered him with a bath towel, he said.'He fought back a little,' he wrote. 'Afterwards, I panicked because I didn't know what to do with the body.'Police, however, believe the boy was killed on Monday, rather than Tuesday.Officers have reviewed videotape from the wedding reception in Monsey and interviewed guests, but there is no suggestion Leiby was taken there, Kelly said.They are now digging up his yard in an attempt to find more evidence he may have tried to conceal.Police said Aron had shaved in an effort to 'clean up' and alter his appearance after murdering Leiby.
Solemn: The casket of Leiby Kletzy is carried to his funeral service, just hours after police found his dismembered remains
Devastated community: Leiby Kletzky's body is carried high above thousands of black-clad mourners who gathered in Brooklyn last night for his funeral. His dismembered body was found just hours before
Sombre: Crowds in traditional Hasidic dress gather as police-escorted vans arrive for the service
The 35-year-old's only previous criminal conviction was for public urination last year. His former wife took out an order of protection against him in 2007, during their divorce, but withdrew it later.Cops are now also looking into a report that he allegedly tried to force another child into his car last year. That boy's mother, however, said she thought Aron was just being 'friendly' by offering the lift.Aron's lawyer, Pierre Bazile, said, simply: 'Our condolences go out to the family of the victim. We'll let the judicial system take its course.'10,000 mourners lined the streets of Brooklyn last night for Leiby's highly emotional funeral.The huge crowds parted in silence as his casket was carried aloft to the service, just hours after his dismembered body was found in a fridge and a dumpster.Shocked and grieving members of the close-knit Hasidic community spilled out into the neighbouring streets as they listened to a moving address from Leiby's father, Nachman.
Mark of respect: A mourner reaches out to touch the casket carrying the body of Leiby Kletzky
Final journey: Mourners carry Leiby's casket into the courtyard where his funeral service was held
Leiby's funeral was due to start at 8.30pm yesterday, but it was delayed until 9pm as thousands of mourners, dressed in traditional Hasidic black clothes, streamed in to pay their last respects.As the narrow courtyard outside a temple school filled to capacity, mourners spilled out into the surrounding streets, with men and women separated according to Hasidic custom.They gathered behind police barricades as NYPD officers and members of local security patrol group, the Shomrim, kept order.As Leiby's grieving family arrived, an officer said: 'We need to separate like the Red Sea so the family can get through'.His sisters and mothers arrived first, then men carried Leiby's casket high above the crowd.The casket, covered in a black shawl, rested on a podium during the half-hour service, which was conducted in Hebrew and Yiddish.Three rabbis spoke, thanking God for a 'beautiful child' with a 'beautiful soul'.Then his father delivered an emotional address to the gathered crowds. Gripping the podium for support, he thanked God for the nine years he had spent with his only son, the New York Daily News reports. He said: 'God gives and God takes. Thank you God, for giving you to us for nine years. We have to thank you for what You gave us.
Community torn apart: Mourners in traditional Hasidic dress pour into the streets of Borough Park for Leiby Kletzky's funeral
Moving address: Mourners grip he gates to the courtyard as they gather to listen to the funeral service for Leiby Kletzky, who was brutally murdered after he asked a stranger for directions
Grief: Members of Leiby's family break down as they arrive for the funeral servicem'Pray for your sisters and the rest of your family, including the entire Jewish nation, which is now part of our family.'
Others who spoke at the funeral repeatedly broke down in tears. The women in Leiby's family sat at the front, with their heads covered and pain marked on their faces.One mourner, Leah Rosenberg, told the New York Times: 'We feel like we lost one of our own. He was everybody’s child.'According to Hasidic custom, Leiby's funeral was held just hours after his body was found by police, a day and a half after he went missing.Police found half of Leiby's body - including his severed feet - in a refrigerator at Aron's home which they raided in Kensington, not far from where the boy was last seen.When police raided Aron's apartment and asked where Leiby was, he nodded to the refrigerator. Officers saw blood on the handle and three carving knives inside. Some of the boy's remains were in the freezer.Officers were then led by Aron to the rest of the body parts, which had been hidden in a suitcase in a dumpster in Greenwood Heights.Authorities said Leiby was abducted on his first day walking home by himself.
Lost: Leiby seen in CCTV footage moments before he was abducted on his way home.
When the dad, reviewed the earlier video footage, "He had tears in his eyes," said Moishe Lefkovitz, the manager of the locksmith shop at 44th Street and 15th Avenue where the surveillance footage was taken. "He kept shaking his head, saying, 'Where are you going? Where are you going? What are you doing?' "
Gruesome end: Leiby's remains were found in a fridge and in this suitcase in a dumpster
Mr Kelly added: 'This was an horrendous crime. We extend our deepest condolences with the Kletzky family.'The boy was abducted by 35-year-old Levi Aron while walking home alone for the first time from the Brooklyn-based Boyan Day Camp on 44th Street on Monday afternoon, sparking a city-wide police search.After losing his way on the seven-block walk home, the child asked the older man to help him - a most cruel chance encounter which led to him being kidnapped, suffocated and dismembered with a kitchen knife.When police tracked him down, Aron confessed to the brutal murder, saying he killed the child 'in a panic' after the search for the boy became high-profile.
Charged: Levi Aron, right, who was confessed to the murder of eight-year-old Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky, is led into the 67th Precinct by police
He said he had originally intended to take the boy home the following day after taking him on a trip to a wedding upstate - a story police say they do not believe.Police said Leiby stopped Aron to ask for directions after getting lost the first time he was allowed to walk home alone from summer camp.35 minutes later Leiby was in a 1990 brown Honda Accord with Levi Aron, who subsequently brought the boy to his apartment, killed him there and then dismembered his body,' Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.'He had asked his parents’ permission to walk home alone and the parents were waiting outside'.'Leiby appeared to be lost. He encountered Aron and asked him for directions. It was just happenstance, and a terrible fate for this young boy.'Police Commissioner Kelly said Aron had confessed to the murder, telling investigators he panicked and killed the boy once the search for the boy became so high-profile.NYPD PRESS CONFERENCEAron, who works as a clerk in Kensington, was seized by police after he was spotted with the child on CCTV.Footage showed Aron enter a dentist's office while the boy waited for him on the street, before he re-emerged and led Leiby to his car.Detectives eventually managed to source the man's address after retrieving patient records from the practice, but by the time they raided his home, Leiby had been killed.
Removed: Police officers tow away the dumpster, which is thought here to still contain Half of the eight-year-old's remains.
Aron is divorced and has no children, although he did look after his former wife's children from her previous marriage.His ex-wife spoke today of her complete disbelief at what Aron is said to have done to the child.'I am in shock. I am not believing this,' Debbie Kivel, 34, told The Post. 'He loved children. He loved kids. My kids are now 13 and 10, but when we were married they were younger – and he loved them.'The former couple met online, married in 2006 but split up a year later because of a 'clash of character,' she said, adding, of their relationship: 'It was more like brother sister.'Her father, Michael Kivel, was more damning about his former son-in-law.
Gruesome find: The home where part of Leiby's body is said to have been found is owned by Aron's parents, who live below him
Forensics: Police thoroughly search the home of Levi Aron after they found the boy's butchered remains inside a bloody fridge-freezer
In the fridge: Officers found Leiby's severed feet at Aron's apartment - in a building owned by his parents, who live on the first floor
Evidence: Police tow the car Aron is believed to have used to abduct LeibySam Lowy, one of Aron’s co-workers said: 'He’s not social. You didn’t get a chance to get into his social life. He did what he did and then went home. He was creepy person,' he said. 'I gather he went to the Hebrew School, but wasn’t smart enough and dropped out.' Aron worked as a stock clerk so spent most of his time in the back of the store, with little interaction with customers.
In custody: Aron is being held by police after they raided his home this morning
'As far as the shop goes, we’re just shell shocked,' Lowy told the Wall Street Journal. 'If there was anyway to stop this…But you know, we are [an] equal opportunity employer. He wanted a job, we gave the guy work. But we serve the community. This is awful.'Another of his co-worker said: 'I can't believe this. He was a strange guy but he was here yesterday and he was fine after killing this little boy.'The suspect's Facebook page revealed he is a practiser of Kabbalah who enjoys playing computer games such as Farmville.In a cruel irony, he had also joined a group titled 'IS YOUR FAMILY SAFE? Find out who really lives in your area!' - dedicated to exposing local rapists and child molesters.Community Rabbi Bernard Freilich told WNBC Leiby's parents are totally 'devastated' after having been informed that his body had been recovered. Assemblyman Dov Hikind today confirmed the body which had been found was that of the missing child.'I've never seen a community feel more depression than they are at the moment,' he told NY1. 'Whoever did this is sick beyond belief.'Hikind said the suspected killer is Jewish.'It’s just a horror for every parent,' he added, speaking to CBS. 'It’s just a tragedy today for everyone in New York.
NYPD officers outside the home of eight-year-old Leibby Kletzky yesterday
Loss: The orthodox Jewish community has been devastated by Leiby's abduction and death
Shocked: Members of the orthodox Jewish community gather around to look at a picture of the murder suspect, Levi Aron,"That this is possible, an innocent nine-year-old is walking the streets, and that there are human beings out there - at least we call them that - who would do this. There’s no reason for it, it’s just beyond horror."Jacob Daskel, a coordinator with a local Borough Park Jewish patrol, said he is familiar with the suspect.'He's a loner. He lives with his parents'Jacob Daskel, Borough Park Jewish patrol coordinator, on Aron he told the Daily News.Leiby's parents began sitting shiva - the Jewish practice of mourning - today after having the devastating news confirmed by police.They're distraught,' community member Simcha Bernath said. Leiby's father, Nachman Kletzky, was comforted at his home yesterday by four rabbis while his wife rested for the first time since their son went missing, he added.Hundreds of volunteers had joined the hunt for the boy. As well as offering help, people - some complete strangers to the family - also stumped up $100,000 as a reward for information leading to the boy's whereabouts.Leiby, the second youngest of five children, was last seen wearing a blue shirt with green and white stripes, blue pants and black trainers.
Search: Police issued this poster throughout the area in an effort to find the missing child.Heartbroken friends and members of the Hasidic community offered the family their condolences to his parents.
Carrie Powell said: 'My deepest sympathies to the family of Leiby. An innocent taken, a son loved and now gone. I pray for strength for you during the hardest time in your lives. Bless your family. Bless Leiby for the years he was here on earth, a good boy, a good son.'A woman named Cynthia added: 'Do not remember how he was taken, but how he lived his beautiful innocent life. We are all so very shocked and saddened. Our prayers for Leiby's family and all who love him and will miss him.'
