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By this Petition, Vogt seeks issuance of three writs of mandamus directed to Judge James L. Robart directing him to: (i) correct the docket in the District Court to accurately reflect the proceedings below, (ii) acknowledge Vogt’s discharge of his obligations under the Misprision statutes, and (iii) in so much as the “public interest so requires”, summon a grand jury to hear Vogt’s forensic evidence which demonstrates that the Certificates of Live Birth (“COLBs”) proffered by Barack Hussein Obama, II (“Obama”) to prove his eligibility to be President are indisputably forgeries.


First, whether Judge Robart has violated his inherent duty to control his docket to preserve its integrity by permitting the Clerk to misrepresent the proceedings below and thereafter, though advised of the misrepresentation by Vogt, failing to correct the misrepresentation thereby undermining the Congressional purpose resident in 18 U.S.C. §2071(b) – “Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally”.

Second, whether Vogt is entitled to an acknowledgment from Judge Robart that Vogt has discharged his obligations arising from 18 U.S.C. §4 – Misprision of Felony and/or 18 U.S.C. §2382 – Misprision of Treason.

Last, whether Judge Robart must, due to his abdication of the judicial function imposed upon him by Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 6(a), be ordered to summon a grand jury given that the forgery of Obama’s COLBs is an issue “of great public importance”.


On October, 18, 2013, Vogt presented to the Clerk for filing as a Miscellaneous matter a document captioned “In Re: Douglas Vogt" and titled: "Notice of Commission of (i) a Felony Cognizable by a Court of the United States as required by 18 USC §4 -- Misprision of Felony and (ii) Treason against the United States as required by 18 USC § 2382 - Misprision of Treason and Motion to Seal Document” (“Notice of Commission” attached hereto as Exhibit “A”). Attached to the Notice of Commission was Vogt's publicly-available, 95-page affidavit in which he demonstrated forensically the existence of twenty (20) separate points of forgery in Obama’s COLBs. In addition to the 95 page affidavit, Vogt also filed under seal a 75-page affidavit in which he identified the person who forged Obama’s COLBs and traced those forgeries to Obama. The matter was docketed as Case No.: C13-1880 and assigned to Judge Robart.

In the Notice of Commission, Vogt sought three actions from a federal district court judge: First, an acknowledgment that Vogt had discharged his obligations under the Misprision statutes. Second, that given the obvious “public interest” in preserving the integrity of the Office of the President from a pretender, the district court summon a grand jury to consider the public and sealed affidavits of Vogt. Last, that Vogt’s sealed affidavit continue to be sealed from public view to prevent the spoilation of evidence that doubtlessly would occur if that affidavit were made public. However, the Clerk did not accurately record the Notice of Commission on the docket. Instead, the Clerk renamed the Notice of Commission as “COMPLAINT against defendant(s)”. Additionally, though Vogt had not sought to sue anyone, the Clerk listed on the Docket as defendants all those referenced in the Notice of Commission. See: Docket attached hereto as Exhibit “B”.

On November 5, 2013, Judge Robart issued his “Order to Show Cause Regarding Subject Matter Jurisdiction”. That Order required Vogt to “show cause within 20 days of the date of this order why his complaint should not be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.” Notably, Judge Robart commenced the Order by misstating: “Before the court is Plaintiff Douglas Vogt’s complaint in which he alleges that the certificates of live birth from the State of Hawaii that President Barack Obama has publicly released are forgeries.” (Emphasis added). See: Exhibit “C” attached hereto.

In response, on November 12, 2013, Vogt filed his “Response to Order to Show Cause” in which he explicitly stated: “Vogt sought not to: (i) file a complaint, (ii) invoke the jurisdiction of the Court under Article III to resolve a “case” or “controversy”, nor (iii) seek any relief against Barack Hussein Obama, II. . . . Moreover, while Vogt did not caption his Notice of Commission Vogt v. Obama, the Clerk – and now this Court – has done so. This misrepresentation of the record calls into question whether there has been a violation of 18 U.S.C. §2071(b) – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally.” Finally, Vogt again prayed that Judge Robart: “formally recognize that Vogt has discharged his duty under the Misprision statutes” and “due to the ‘public interest’ in the allegations contained in Vogt’s public affidavit and presently-sealed affidavit, superintend those affidavits to the Grand Jury for their consideration.”

On November 14, 2013, Judge Robart entered his “Order Dismissing Complaint for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction”. A copy of the Order is attached hereto as Exhibit “D”. Judge Robart commenced his order by claiming: “Before the court is Plaintiff Douglas Vogt’s complaint in which he alleges that the certificates of live birth from the State of Hawaii that President Barack Obama has publicly released are forgeries.” (Emphasis added).


PETITION CONTINUED BELOW OR HERE: http://www.scribd.com/doc/187132805

BACKGROUND REPORTS: http://www.birtherreport.com/search?q=Doug+Vogt






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(Nov. 21, 2013) — On Wednesday, a hearing for CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) was held at the Tennessee Appeals Court in Knoxville, TN during which Fitzpatrick’s attorney, Van Irion, informed the three-judge panel that Fitzpatrick had removed papers from the Monroe County courthouse on December 7, 2011 after witnessing Judge Amy Reedy hand-picking jury members for the coming year.

Van Irion is a constitutional and business law attorney practicing in Knoxville

Irion said that the state’s law on the “necessity defense” could thereby be invoked by Fitzpatrick, who had also witnessed Reedy presiding over a murder trial in 2011 in which a defendant was convicted without forensic evidence.

The trial court had prevented Irion from arguing his client’s case last December, and Irion told the judges on Wednesday that the jury deliberated for “less than five minutes” before reaching a verdict.

If juries are compromised in any way, it would appear to be a violation of the Sixth Amendment to the Bill of Rights.

Judge Walter C. Kurtz, who presided over last year’s hearing and deemed Fitzpatrick a “self-appointed vigilante,” denied Fitzpatrick a new trial. Kurtz was made aware that the charging documents used to arrest Fitzpatrick were signed by an unauthorized person who was later arrested himself.

Fitzpatrick was jailed five times over an approximate two-year period by officials in Monroe County who Fitzpatrick has identified as “criminals.” In late 2009, he discovered corruption within the Monroe County grand jury, after which he spoke with local police, members of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), the FBI, and attempted to present the evidence to a federal grand jury unsuccessfully. No law enforcement agency would take action on Fitzpatrick’s reports.

In August 2012, The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that allegations of undue influence on the grand jury, financial mismanagement and other misconduct had arisen against Tenth Judicial District District Attorney General R. Steven Bebb and Assistant District Attorney General Paul D. Rush. In July, Rush was cited for ethics violations by the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility (BOPR).

The Post & Email filed an ethics complaint against Rush after he attempted to impugn its character in January 2012. During a probable cause hearing for Fitzpatrick, Rush called The Post & Email’s reportage of the type of personal information collected and manipulated by the Monroe County criminal court judges “reprehensible.” The BOPR dismissed the complaint by stating that “prosecutors were granted wide latitude” when presenting argument in court.

Rush also called Fitzpatrick “criminally insane” for exposing the deep corruption within the Tenth Judicial District.

No one from Tennessee’s Tenth Judicial District has ever contacted The Post & Email to say that our reports of corruption are not accurate.

In early April, the Tennessee Attorney General’s office announced that its probe had found poor management in some areas of Bebb’s office which did not rise to the level of crimes. However, members of the Tennessee General Assembly were not satisfied with the AG’s findings and have since taken action to remove Bebb from his post.

Tennessee is the only state in the nation where the attorney general is appointed by the state Supreme Court rather than by the governor or, most commonly, elected by the people. Cooper’s eight-year term ends next year.

The Fifth Amendment to the Bill of Rights states that “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury…” The Legal Information Institute describes the grand jury as “a holdover from hundreds of years ago, originating during Britain’s early history. Deeply-rooted in the Anglo-American tradition, the grand jury originally served to protect the accused from overly-zealous prosecutions by the English monarchy.”

Prior to his arrest for taking the documents from the courthouse on December 7, 2011 after observing the tainted selection process conducted by Judge Amy Reedy, Fitzpatrick had gathered extensive documentary evidence published by The Post & Email of jury-rigging and grand jury foremen serving for years, and sometimes decades, in violation of state statute.

Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) 22-2-301 states, in relevant part:

22-2-301. Automated selection of names for jury list.

(a) The jury coordinator in each county shall select names of prospective jurors to serve in the courts of that county by random automated means, without opportunity for the intervention of any human agency to select a particular name and in a manner that causes no prejudice to any person. The names, which shall constitute the jury list, shall be compiled from licensed driver records or lists, tax records or other available and reliable sources that are so tabulated and arranged that names can be selected by automated means. The jury coordinator may utilize a single source or any combination of sources. The jury coordinator is prohibited from using the permanent voter registration records as a source to compile the jury list.

TCA 22-2-304 mandates the way in which grand jurors and trial jurors shall be ultimately chosen:

22-2-304. Automated selection of names for jury pool.

(a) In any county in this state where the names of prospective jurors are obtained by automated means pursuant to § 22-2-301, the selection of names of prospective jurors to be summoned shall likewise be made by automated means in such a manner as to assure proportionate distribution of names selected without opportunity for the intervention of any human agency to select a particular name and in a manner that causes no prejudice to any person. It is the duty of the presiding judge of the judicial district to notify the jury coordinator of the number of names to be selected from the jury list, and these names shall constitute the jury pool.

TCA 22-2-314 states that jurors may not serve consecutive terms anywhere in the state of Tennessee.

Others have come forward to describe outcomes which could not have been arrived at had the jury not been unduly influenced by a prosecutor or other outside force given the evidence. Fitzpatrick has heard jurors say that they had served during a previous term, which also violates state law.

Some states have abandoned the use of a grand jury, while grand juries in many other states are now under the full direction of a local prosecutor.

Crimes have also been alleged on the part of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department involving a coerced confession for which the charge against the defendant was thrown out after reaching an appeals court.

Laws passed in 1984 ordered the county criminal courts to reorganize into districts but were ignored. Fitzpatrick has cited Judge Carroll Lee Ross and Reedy for failure to abide by those laws as well as having populated the grand and trial juries with individuals of their choosing.

At the end of August, Ross announced his retirement for August 2014. A case he adjudicated against George Raudenbush in 2011 is reportedly under review by the attorney general. In a letter received by The Post & Email on Tuesday, Raudenbush wrote:

My conviction is in the process of being reversed. Judge Carroll Ross who presided over my trial and sentencing has announced his resignation, the District Attorney Steven Bebb over my case, is currently under investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Senate Judicial Committee for prosecutorial misconduct, malfeasance and civil rights violations [sic].

Raudenbush added that as a result, “my release could be any day.” He has spent two years in state prison after being convicted of eight traffic violations, while the grand jury indictments against him numbered only seven. Raudenbush was also denied defense counsel by Ross in violation of the Article I, Sections 8 and 9 of the Tennessee constitution.

On May 24, 2012, Fitzpatrick went into Ross’s office and asked if he possessed any business cards, to which Ross responded by angrily telling his assistant, Denise Barnes, to “call 911.” Barnes is also the court reporter for the Monroe County criminal court, which by the 1984 laws should not exist.

Fitzpatrick has described Monroe County judges as “domestic enemies,” “running their own government,” and “protecting a criminal enterprise.”

During Wednesday’s hearing, Irion told the judges that Fitzpatrick had seen a crime and removed the evidence from the courthouse to provide it to the FBI, an agent from which had previously told Fitzpatrick that they needed auditory or documentary evidence that crimes were being committed by the judges to prove Fitzpatrick’s allegations. When one of the judges asked if Fitzpatrick had turned over the documents to the FBI, Irion explained that Fitzpatrick had intended to do so but “was arrested” before he could take that action.

On the evening of December 7, 2011, a SWAT team, Monroe County Sheriff’s Department deputies, FBI and TBI agents descended upon Fitzpatrick’s home, seizing his computer equipment and taking him to jail. During a preliminary hearing months later, Rush reported that the TBI had been seeking “emails” between Fitzpatrick and this writer about the documents which did not exist.

As Irion stated in court, Fitzpatrick had mailed the evidence to this writer, who after receiving them, promptly contacted her local FBI by phone and in writing. Two months later, two agents from the New Haven, CT FBI office came to collect the documents in a cordial exchange which included discussion of corruption in eastern Tennessee, the responsibility of all eligible Americans to vote, and concluded by one of the agents asking, “Do you know a good place to have lunch around here?”

The Post & Email has been in touch with that agent since that time.

Referring to his appeals hearing on Wednesday in an email sent to members of the Tennessee General Assembly and members of the media, Fitzpatrick wrote:

Mrs. Sharon Rondeau, managing editor and owner of The Post & Email online newspaper, breaks this report as an exclusive.

It was Mrs. Rondeau who is referred to in the audio recordings as the “reporter.” It was Mrs. Rondeau who turned over the hard copy physical evidence to the FBI in Connecticut.

The attorney for Tennessee state, Counselor Kyle Alexander Hixson, did not refute, he did not rebut Counselor Van Irion’s affirmative report and notice to appellate Judge D. Kelly Thomas regarding Judge Amy F. Armstrong Reedy’s hand selecting members of the Monroe County grand jury.

By extension, Counselor Irion’s unchallenged report is made to the entire Tennessee state judiciary and, again, publicly to the FBI, and again, publicly to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and again, publicly to all.

Counselor Van Irion’s contact info: http://www.irionlaw.com

Sharon Rondeau’s contact information:

Website: http://www.thepostemail.com

Business Phone: 203.987.7948

Email: editor@thepostemail.com

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Somehow I have to wonder if Tripp will qualify for HIS Permanent Fund Dividend next year?

He may well not becasue I think he has been out of Alaska for quite some time now and I have no idea when, or if, he is coming back.

Funny how Sarah calls Levi a "deadbeat dad" while actively helping her daughter keep his only son away from him for months at a time.

I guess in the world of Palin something is only wrong if it is done to them.

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Courtesy of the YouTube page:

Immigration-rights protesters interrupted President Obama's speech Monday demanding he use executive powers to immediately halt all deportations, but he rebuked them, telling them he doesn't have that power. "You have a power to stop deportation," one man, standing directly behind Mr. Obama, shouted near the end of the president's immigration speech in San Francisco, who then began to lead chants of "Stop deportation!"

"Actually, I don't, and that's why we are here," Mr. Obama replied.

When security moved to escort the protester out of the room, Mr. Obama told them to hold off.

"These guys don't need to go. let me finish. No, no, he can stay there," he said.

He went on to say if he thought he had unilateral powers to halt deportations, he would. But he said that would actually break the law.

"If in fact I could solve all these problems without passing the laws in Congress then I would do so. But we're also a nation of laws, that's part of our tradition," he said.

"The easy way out is to yell and pretend I can try and do something by violating our laws. what I'm proposing is the harder path," Mr. Obama said. "It requires us lobbying and getting it done."

I was incredibly impressed with how he engaged this young man instead of simply allowing the Secret Service to strong arm him out of the building. He did not have to engage, but he did.

I am sometimes really irritated by people who seem to think that the President can solve every problem with a snap of his fingers or an Executive Order. He can't.

He needs to have a Congress and Senate that are willing to work with him, and right now the Republicans will not touch a single thing that he wants to get done.

And let me just add that I sometimes think of myself as pretty cool, but I would have had a VERY hard time keeping my cool while that jackass was yelling like that and refusing to let the President respond.

Now just imagine how President Romney would have handled that. Frightening isn't it?

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This is an excerpt from the speech that John F. Kennedy had prepared to deliver in Dallas, the breeding ground for the Tea Party of today, but was struck down by an assassin's bullet before he could speak its words out loud:

In a world of complex and continuing problems, in a world full of frustrations and irritations, America's leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason -- or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem.

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternative, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility. Those voices are inevitable.

But today other voices are heard in the land -- voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality, wholly unsuited to the sixties, doctrines which apparently assume that words will suffice without weapons, that vituperation is as good as victory and that peace is a sign of weakness. At a time when the national debt is steadily being reduced in terms of its burden on our economy, they see that debt as the single greatest threat to our security. At a time when we are steadily reducing the number of Federal employees serving every thousand citizens, they fear those supposed hordes of civil servants far more than the actual hordes of opposing armies.

We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will "talk sense to the American people." But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.

Clearly that is a speech which could be delivered today, and its meaning would not be lost. In fact today a speech like that may be needed more than ever.

That speech could be talking about Rush Lumbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and just about ANY of those who fear monger over at Fox News or on Right Wing radio.

It could also be addressing the Teabaggers who enter politics simply to sabotage from within.

In fact Tom Brokaw remembered the reaction from the conservatives of the time to the news of JFK's death, and related it on MSNBC on Friday:

Recounting his experiences from that day, he said that the reaction to JFK’s assassination, “mostly in conservative states,” was encapsulated by his interaction with one man who expressed satisfaction over the president’s killing.

“This was unusual but it was not unheard of,” Brokaw told the MSNBC hosts, prefacing a conservative’s reaction to JFK’s killing. “As I came running out of the announce booth, the chief engineer, with whom I didn’t get along very well – he’s a really curmudgeonly guy, old, kind of a gnarly guy – said ‘What happened?’”

“‘Kennedy was shot,’” Brokaw recalled telling the engineer. “He said, ‘About time somebody shot that SOB’”

“That was heard in other places, mostly in conservative states,” Brokaw concluded. “That was reflecting his real feeling for him and they had to peel me away from him.”

Are there any among us who do not believe that the reaction to news of President Obama's assassination would not be virtually identical among the Right Wing of today?

We need to remember as we document and discuss the sabotage and obstructionism practiced by the conservatives of today, that if they feel backed into a corner there is no telling to what lengths they will go to survive.

(H/T to Rolling Stone.)

Update: Well right on cue here come the Teabaggers to help me make my point.

Courtesy of Raw Story:

An apparent threat made against President Barack Obama’s life posted on Facebook has caught the attention of the Secret Service.

Agents declined to comment on the post, which has been removed but was preserved in screen captures by Social News Daily, made Tuesday by Everest Wilhelmen, leader of the Christian American Patriots Militia.

“We now have authority to shoot Obama, i.e., to kill him,” Wilhelmsen posted on his Facebook page. “His willful violations and alienation of our Constitution, constant disregard for our peaceful protests and corruption of all the three branches of government, (i.e., rogue and illegitimate government), reveal the dictator that he is. Obama and his co-conspirators disrespect our Constitution (constitutional rule of law) and abuse the American people.”

The post was made the same day as a gathering of right-wing cranks, conspiracy theorists and gun advocates met at a park across from the White House demanding that Obama voluntarily leave office.

When the Right Wing cannot get their way through elections, or political maneuverings, then their only fallback is to start the killing.

And this is why we want stronger gun control laws in this country. As far as I am concerned nobody who posts something like this should be able to even touch a weapon for the rest of their life. And that goes for the little one between their legs as well, no sense in letting these idiots procreate.

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"Look saying I'm a fake Alaskan, is like saying my glasses and hair are fake. Who'd believe ya?"

So this little tidbit showed up in our weekly political gossip column the Alaska Ear yesterday:

Earwigs who don't care for Our Sarah are taking heart from the fact she didn't apply for a Permanent Fund dividend this year, presumably because she was out of the state longer than is allowed. They seem to think this means she can't run for the U.S. Senate in Alaska.

Sorry. Not so.

Ear checked with Elections Goddess Gail Fenumiai, who said federal rules require only that one be 30 years old and an "inhabitant" of the state. Which is why that wacko from Brooklyn who was in Zaz Hollander's ADN story Friday can probably show up here and run in the primary.

Just what we need. Are there no shelters for the weird in Brooklyn?

Anyhow, while serious lobes were thinking politics, Ear was noticing that Todd, Trig and Piper did apply. So apparently, they don't spend as much time Outside as Mom.

Now of course the article focused on the question of whether Palin could run for the Senate or not, but I know there is no way that she would run for political office again, so that part did not interest me.

What did interest me was the revelation that Palin had not filed for her PFD this year.

As you know I already documented the fact that she did not do so last year either. So I did a check over at the Alaska Department of Revenue, and sure enough Palin's name was not on there.

Bristol was on there. As were Todd's mom Faye, his sister Diana, Track's daughter Kyla Grace, Piper, Todd, Track, and Trig.

But no Sarah.

The other name that was missing was Willow, who I assume was gone to "hair school" in Arizona for much of the year, but who still should have qualified since attending school out of state does not a disqualify you for the PFD. Here are the guidelines for such an absence:

1. receiving secondary or postsecondary education on a full-time basis;
2. receiving vocational, professional, or other specific education on a full-time basis for which, as determined by the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education, a comparable program is not reasonably available in the state;

So perhaps Willow did not qualify for some other reason, or somebody in her family did not prepare the appropriate paperwork.

However what is not in dispute is that Sarah Palin, for the second year running, is no longer a resident of Alaska.

And that is something we Alaskans need to advertise far and wide.

Sarah Palin is no longer Alaska's problem, she now belongs to the world. (And more specifically Arizona. Ha, ha, ha Arizona!)

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Courtesy of the LA Times:

Despite the disastrous rollout of the federal government's healthcare website, enrollment is surging in many states as tens of thousands of consumers sign up for insurance plans made available by President Obama's health law.

A number of states that use their own systems, including California, are on track to hit enrollment targets for 2014 because of a sharp increase in November, according to state officials.

"What we are seeing is incredible momentum," said Peter Lee, director of Covered California, the nation's largest state insurance marketplace, which accounted for a third of all enrollments nationally in October. California — which enrolled about 31,000 people in health plans last month — nearly doubled that in the first two weeks of this month.

Several other states, including Connecticut and Kentucky, are outpacing their enrollment estimates, even as states that depend on the federal website lag far behind. In Minnesota, enrollment in the second half of October ran at triple the rate of the first half, officials said. Washington state is also on track to easily exceed its October enrollment figure, officials said.

You know whenever I see statistics like this I cannot help but think of all of the millions of Americans who could have been helped to get health care if only those Republican governors had allowed the expansion of Medicaid in their states and had set up state exchanges of their own.

I just hope that the people in their states are paying attention, and are prepared to punish them come election day.

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Courtesy of the Arizona resident's Facebook page:

Back home in Alaska after a great few weeks on our “Good Tidings and Great Joy” book tour! Had to jump on Todd's SkiDoo with Trig to eliminate jet lag. Thanks so much to all who came out to visit, share recipes, and give us the chance to say an early Merry Christmas!

Back home? Does this picture look like Arizona to anybody else?

Look I believe that coincidences DO happen, unlike a certain poorly bewigged lunatic I could mention, but come on!

I put up this post proving that Sarah Palin has not received a PFD two years running yesterday morning, and then eight and a half hours later Palin is saying that she is suddenly back in Alaska?

And with pictures to "prove it." Pictures which just so happen to feature the little boy that we accused her of abandoning as well. Seriously?

You know if I were a conspiracy theorist I might think that somebody was watching this blog, and felt the need to put the kibosh on speculation that she was not a resident of Alaska while she was out selling a book that was all about her life in Alaska.

You know, IF I were a conspiracy theorist.

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Courtesy of CNN:

A grand jury investigating the 2012 rape of a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio, has indicted four school employees, including the school superintendent, who faces felony charges, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Monday.

Steubenville City Schools Superintendent Michael McVey faces three felony counts: one charge of tampering with evidence and two counts of obstructing justice. He also is charged with making a false statement and obstructing official business, both misdemeanors, DeWine said.

Also indicted was elementary school principal Lynnett Gorman and wrestling coach Seth Fluharty, both of whom are charged with misdemeanor failure to report child abuse. Volunteer assistant Steubenville football coach Matt Bellardine was charged with four misdemeanors: allowing underage drinking, obstructing official business, making a false statement and contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a child.

This brings to six the number of people the grand jury has indicted after two students were convicted of rape, DeWine said. A school technology director and his daughter were indicted in October.

In March, Steubenville High School football players Ma'lik Richmond and Trenton Mays were convicted of the rape, which authorities said took place at a party in August 2012. Photos and videos of the incident made their way onto social media and attracted national attention, rocking the small eastern Ohio community.

Richmond was sentenced to a minimum of one year in a juvenile correctional facility. Mays got two years.

A grand jury then began investigating whether others should be charged. In October, it indicted William Rhinaman, 53, the director of technology for Steubenville City Schools, on charges of tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, obstructing official business and perjury.

His daughter, Hannah Rhinaman, 20, of Mingo Junction, Ohio, was also indicted that month on two counts of receiving stolen property and one count of grand theft, according to a news release from DeWine's office.

This is very good news, in a case that demonstrated just how far a town will go to protect their athletes. Even at the expense of a 16 year old girl's reputation and personal safety.

These school employees were supposed to protect this child, and instead did everything they could to protect her attackers and to prevent justice from being carried out.

For those who are not up to speed on the Steubenville rape case just click here.

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I caught this for the first time the other day after it popped up on one of the sites I visit frequently.

I had never seen this movies entitled "God on Trial" but I found this portion to be incredibly riveting.

Here is how IMBD describes the film:

Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether G-d has went against the holy covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.

You know you almost HAVE to believe that conversations like this took place in concentration camps all over the place during World War 2. In fact I believe that they are happening with increasing frequency in the years since that terrible war, and not only among the Jewish population.

I am interested in your feedback, because as an Atheist all I could think was that the questions posed simply had no reasonable nor logical answers, and either pointed to the non-existence of God or to the existence of a terrible God who relishes the act of human genocide and revels in our suffering.

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