Stanley L. Cohen

 radical sapphoq says: I dedicate this post to Stanley L. Cohen. He is due in court this week and expects to be sentenced to eighteen months in prison under a plea deal. He has a vast amount of legal bills. Please consider contributing to his defense fund. Stanley has been there for Anonymous, Occupy, and many other people who are part of various movements for change.

     https://istanleycohen.org/index.php/defend

     https://defendstanleycohen.myevent.com/3/donate.htm
      


     Stanley can be found on-line at:
    https://istanleycohen.org/ 
and also at:
    https://twitter.com/StanleyCohenLaw




     Stanley L. Cohen has a long history of defending unpopular defendants. Yes, he has defended accused terrorists in court. Yes, he is currently not able to enter either Israel or Egypt due to his defense work. Yes, he is scheduled to go to prison under a plea deal involving some taxes.

     Stanley has also defended the rights of squatters in New York City, folks who are categorized by the public as hacktivist members of the collective known as Anonymous, and people who have become embroiled in the legal system for exercising their freedom of speech.  

     
     Stanley has been called a terror lawyer, a rip-off, an LOL lawyer, greedy bastard, and other things like that.

        

     Stanley has also been called an internet folk hero, a peoples' lawyer, iconoclast, radical, zealous advocate, political activist. I call him my brother. My e-book Up The Rebels - which I hope will be out soon - is dedicated to Stanley L. Cohen [and Edward J. Snowden]. 

                           #UpTheRebels!


References:

    https://rally.org/covers/3tjDvEYOdLC

https://www.change.org/p/honorable-norman-a-mordue-justice-for-stanley-cohen

https://freestanleycohen.com/

https://freestanleycohen.xs2.net/

https://freeanons.org/freeanons-supports-stanley-cohen/



 https://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2014/10/19/attorney-stanley-l-cohen-guilty-of-doing

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEQdmmHtZfzQiRj7OsGL7ig/feed
       https://mohsenabdelmoumen.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/urgent-justice-for-stanley-cohen/

    https://60spunk.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/stanley-cohen/

https://www.nationofchange.org/2014/10/07/ordeal-stanley-l-cohen-justice-farce/
and:
https://www.rense.com/general96/atty.html
reprinted this one:
 https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/justice_as_farce_20141005

     https://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/13/scorn-icy-stares-are-part-job-for-lawyers-who-represent-despised-terrorism/

     https://thevillager.com/2014/05/01/stanley-cohen-speaks-out-about-taxcharges-as-supporters-rally-to-his-defense/

    https://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/2/20/5419474/broken-stride-when-runner-ashley-poissant-was-killed-by-an-alleged

     https://revolution-news.com/uptherebels/

    https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/urgent-appeal-defense-attorney-stanley-cohen

    https://www.anonymousvideo.eu/stanley-cohen-defense-fund.html



    https://www.ndtv.com/topic/stanley-cohen

    https://wn.com/stanley_cohen

    https://www.vice.com/read/talking-to-stanley-cohen-terror-lawyer-and-internet-folk-hero

    https://wearelegionthedocumentary.com/videos/attorney-stanley-cohen-talks-over-the-paypal-14-case/

 https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_go_to_lawyer_of_northern_virginiastan

  https://pressroom.blogs.pace.edu/2003/01/16/activist-stanley-l-cohen-to-speak-on-attorney-ethics-at-pace-law-school/




     https://israelbehindthenews.com/profile-of-stanley-cohen-the-jewish-lawyer-for-the-hamas/3769/

https://observer.com/2001/10/kunstler-protege-stanley-cohen-brings-american-rights-to-hamas/





        https://legalinsurrection.com/2014/10/convicted-tax-cheat-stanley-cohen-re-pledges-allegiance-to-hamas/

     https://legalinsurrection.com/2014/04/hamas-attorney-stanley-cohen-pleads-guilty-to-tax-offenses/




    https://www.josephacamp.com/2014/04/stanley-cohen-convicted-felon.html

https://www.ripoffreport.com/r/scammed-by-attorney-stanley-l-cohen/new-york-new-york-10013/scammed-by-attorney-stanley-l-cohen-stanley-cohen-law-office-stanley-l-cohen-law-offic-557005

     https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Joseph_Camp



https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=627

    https://forward.com/articles/195134/how-stanley-cohen-went-from-orthodox-to-defending/?p=all

    https://bedfordandbowery.com/2014/01/stanley-cohen-defends-himself-one-month-bin-ladens-son-in-law-the-next/

https://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/terrorist-lawyer-stanley-cohen-busted-for-millions-in-tax-evasion/

    https://allergic2bull.blogspot.com/2013/05/stanley-cohen-reveals-waaaay-too-much.html

    https://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/landlord-to-embattled-attorney-stanley-cohen-pay-up-or-get-out/

    https://jewishdefenseorganization.net/stanley.htm

Police Brutality in Ferguson

     I don't live in Missouri. I'm not there protesting or observing the protest. I am at home, sitting at the computer desk. For the second night in a row, I am watching the live feeds from Ferguson.

     Any mistakes in this account are my own. Here is what I have gathered has been happening in and around Ferguson, Missouri:

On August 9, eighteen year old [?] Michael Brown and a friend were thought to have stolen 48 dollars worth of cigars or cigarellos from a Ferguson convenience store. Several blocks later, an officer in a car stopped the two young men who were on foot. 

Michael did not have a weapon. He possibly was grabbed by the throat by the police officer who was in the car. Michael left and ran off. [I would have ran off too if an officer was wanting to choke me]. The officer maybe gave chase or ordered him to stop or something. Michael did so. The officer thought Michael was acting aggressively even though Michael was unarmed. Michael may have put his hands up. The officer shot him dead six times, including two shots to his head. Michael was dead.

I don't know what happened to his friend.

Ferguson erupted into protests. Included was and is the chant, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot."

The traditional news media typically is portraying the events in Ferguson as being a racial thing-- black versus white.

While it may be true that the police officer is white and Michael was black, bunches of people of all colors are out protesting this police brutality.

Eric Holder said some stuff and has visited or is planning a visit to Ferguson and promises a fair investigation and stuff.

Barack Obama a.k.a. Obummer was going to visit Ferguson but perhaps now is chickening now. Or, he probably ain't coming.

The National Lawyers Guild is in Ferguson. Amnesty was escorted out.

Sunday night, police reported shots fired. The National Guard arrived with heavy duty stuff. On the feeds last night, I saw police in riot gear with riot shields and tasers and stun guns and shooting tear gas and sound cannons. I also saw on the feeds last night a huge black vehicle (a swat tank?).

Cops began to demand that people keep moving and stay off the streets last night on the live feeds.

Then cops reported two shots fired and demanded that the press relocate to a pen near the command post but the road leading to it was blocked. This effectively caused a media blackout. Info from then on came from the cops or from people who were still reporting to the journalists

Some journalists were arrested but later released. 

A bunch of people were arrested. Most of them were arrested for refusing to move.

Reports earlier today[?] that a second black man near Ferguson but not in Ferguson itself was shot by the cops. He stole two drinks from a convenience store and some pastries. The excuse: He was acting erratically.

Things tonight on the feeds are very noisy. Cops are demanding that people stay on the sidewalk, keep moving, and not cross the street.

A grand jury is convening re: the police officer who shot Michael Brown. They do not have to convene in Missouri. I suspect no charges will be brought.

radical sapphoq says: No one deserves to die for stealing small things from a store. The cop couldn't taser Michael Brown or even fire a shot into his kneecap instead of using lethal force???
I am considering taking the professional observer course from the NLG.
To the people of and around Ferguson, Sail Strong. To the family of Michael Brown, I wish you healing and peace.

Three live feeds:

http://www.livestream.com/activistworldnewsnow

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9649227/events/3301474 [must create free account]



Two twitter accounts:

https://twitter.com/AnonOpsPro

https://twitter.com/InsideAnon



Some of the many articles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/us/shooting-accounts-differ-as-holder-schedules-visit.html?_r=0

http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/08/19/more-mayhem-in-ferguson/14272717/

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/two-shot-31-arrested-in-another-round-of-violence-/ng5MQ/

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/19/politics/missouri-teen-shooting-obama/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/19/341574604/fresh-clashes-in-ferguson-mo-as-national-guard-arrives

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/tense-tally-in-ferguson-includes-fires-shootings-and-arrests/article_32463afe-f868-564a-9533-9d8ae0b8df14.html

http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/a-message-to-the-people-of-ferguson/article_ea8b7358-67a3-5187-af8c-169567f27a0d.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/world/europe/russia-iran-and-egypt-heckle-us-about-tactics-in-ferguson.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/ferguson-chants-heard-st-louis-cops-shoot-suspect/story?id=25041218

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/19/police-officer-shooting-st-louis-dead-knife

http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/08/19/78-arrests-ferguson-overnight/14290361/

http://time.com/3144985/ferguson-michael-brown-darren-wilson-us-attorney/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/19/missouri-governor-jay-nixon-shows-us-how-not-to-govern.html

Brendan Eich and the Petition of Shame

     I have been actively involved in Queer Nation. I am a bisexual, currently in a monogamous opposite gender relationship hopefully until death do us part. I believe that the government should get out of the marriage business. If two people are married by a clergy-- marriage. If two people are partnered by a justice of the peace-- domestic partnership, with all of the rights and responsibilities of marriage. [No religious body ought to be forced to perform a marriage ceremony that it is opposed to].

     I don't have enough words to adequately describe my disgust at you people who signed the petition which "asked" Brendan Eich to resign from his C.E.O. position because he dared to give a thousand bucks to Proposition 8. We do not all agree on every political issue. Big whop. We do not have to. In a work-site, we really can work at something without agreeing on stuff. My outside politics or political activity should not interfere with my relationship with my co-workers or my ability to perform my job duties. Brendan Eich donating money to whatever cause he wants to ought to have been a non-issue. Oh, but I forgot. Corporations are now people. Obviously, you signers of the petition of shame picked up on the faux-fended butt-hurt feelings of Mozilla. How freaking brilliant. Not.

     The oppressed have truly become the oppressors. I am ashamed of my community. I am ashamed that I share the description of "human being" with everyone who signed that petition-- regardless of their sexual orientation. This is the goose-step of political correctness forcing people into boxes and those boxes have to be the same. Screw political correctness. Screw your petition. You FAIL.

     This is a small potato blog in a social media-sphere of giants. I don't imagine that Brendan Eich, Andrew Sullivan, or Steven Colbert will ever read any part of this blog. I want you to know that I stand with Brendan Eich. And I don't give a damn if he is "for or against" gay marriage or any other pet project of the politically correct folks who are not in favor of freedom of speech for all who agree with them.

radical sapphoq says: here are a few links if you want them:

http://brendaneich.com/

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/

Cyber-Bullying Versus Being Fauxfended

"1. Bullying is not okay. Period.

 2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to 

     physically or verbally assault people.

 3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to 

      bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up.”


                                                                                                                                                        ~ Jim C. Hines


Jim C. Hines is on twitter as @jimchines.

His most excellent blog can be found 

at http://www.jimchines.com/blog/

An excellent article on cyber-harassment written by him:

http://www.jimchines.com/2014/01/online-harassment/


Other articles of note:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/01/10/lets-just-call-it-talking/

         
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/let-s-be-real-online-

harassment-isn-t-virtual-for-women


http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-
arent-welcome-internet-72170/



Experiencing abusive behavior from others online?
Received threats due to stuff posted online?
Or, want to be part of the solution instead of the problem?

http://www.haltabuse.org/



Being fauxfended on the other hand is not the same thing at all. If you tell me that I am a big meanie poopy head because I happen to not agree with you, I can shrug that off easily enough.
If you accuse me of being stupid or racist or an anti-feminist or full of false ego or something, I can blow those comments off also.

A good solid definition can be found in The Urban Dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fauxfended

Here are some articles and things that talk about people who were fauxfended:

http://thegraph.com/2012/09/personalities-vs-facts/

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/01/04/HuffPo-No-Apology-For-Pearl-Harbor-Insult-Is-Perfect-Response

http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2013/01/08/class-act-katherine-webb-says-musburger-not-creepy-for-gushing-about-her-on-natl-tv/

http://kmgarcia2000.blogspot.com/2012/09/blaming-victims.html



What no one should blow off are threats such as "I'm going to rape you, kill you, or otherwise ef you up." That sort of thing ought to require the attention of the nearest law enforcement agency. [And hopefully, the nearest law enforcement agency will be better informed than the one here is and more equipped to skillfully handle a complaint of cyber-bullying than the one 'round here is].

radical sapphoq says: Some people use cyber-bullying as a convenient argument for using one's wallet name on the internet. I've seen people on Fakeboo, FedBoo, SpaceCase [using one of my fake socks because I will not help the government to collect info or meta-data on me], I mean that website-- you know the one I mean-- using their "real names" and making vicious comments about other people. 
People are people whether using their legal names on the internet or not.

Those who are in the public eye tend to use their names online. The rest of us don't. Some of the rest of us have had problems with people stalking us [either online or in 'real' life F2F] or threatening us. Some of us may be hiding from a past domestic violence situation or other troublesome history and thus we cannot safely enjoy the internet using our wallet info. Some of us prefer that our bosses and our elderly relatives not be able to find us on the internet. Some of us value our privacy and refuse to give out our real names and locations. Some of us have more than one of the above listed reasons for a decision to use socks or pseudonyms online. Some of us may have solid reasons that I have not listed here.

I am against laws that require us to use our wallet information online and against laws that would assign each of us some sort of internet 'number' that a government can use to trace back to us. Period. The dark net has its uses. Hopefully, an alter-net will become a reality for those of us who refuse to succumb to the line of thinking that starts with the dreaded words "It's for your own good that we are...".

               ~ LESS GOVERNMENT MORE FUN ~

Twitter Rolls Over Beethoven Mini Surf Up

Well, well.  Larry the Twitter bird was forced to tweet the I.P. addys of Guido Fawkes, @p0isAn0n, @OccupyBoston and all of the folks who #BostonPD during a short week in December.  One wonders how many folks retweeted anything identified as #BostonPD.  Kudos to the ACLU for speaking out though.

On top of that, a twit who stated that he wanted to have S&M sex with a woman named Michele [why oh why?] will have his identity turned over to a grand jury.  If he had merely stated his intense infatuation with her and that he wanted to marry her, would his 140 word claim to fame had been adjudged a possible threat?

Lamar Smith's "Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act" is up, just biding its' wait time until the House of Rep can get to it.  And yes, it is just another way for the Government et. al. to spy on Joe Average or Not-So-Average Citizen.  Much as demanding the e-mails of the #BostonPD hash tag users who were either actively participating or retweeting a conversation under the guise of looking for possible criminals, this Act is just another witch hunt without any specific suspects being targeted.

In the interest of convenience to mili police departments everywhere and perhaps also to giant advertising corporations, Facebook's timeline will be mandatory by this time next week.  No opting out of that one.  Six days remain to purge anything that you don't want included on your timeline.  I sneer at Facebook.

Two Louisiana State University students weigh in on Anonymous-- one pro and one con-- for their school e-pub Isureveille.  Both students can be followed on Twitter of course. [ @TDR_dscheu and @TDR_ccrockett ]. 
     I don't think Anonymous deserves the National Security Agency designation of "terrorist organization."  Furthermore, the fact that a script kiddie can help bring down a website via a tool that he or she can download from the internet (without knowing a bit of code) is total FAIL on the parts of the folks who are in charge of making sure their company websites are not prone to attacks.  The problem is security vs. privacy.  Even large brand name companies have been found to be lacking in following common sense ideas.  Paypal's usage of plain text to store their customers' passwords springs easily to mind.  And I am supposed to trust that my ISP, Google +, and other sites are good at keeping my wallet info secure?  Uh, no.  That is ridiculous.   
     Comparing the hacking of websites to burning down a building is a bit of a stretch.  I find that to be a piss poor analogy.  Not too many revolutions are accomplished without bloodshed and destruction.  Many people have died for freedom.  And many more will.  I am willing to die for freedom.  Freedom is under attack these days.  The freedom that is under attack is much bigger than the sharing of information being circumscribed.  We need information in order to create change.  The status quo is against the free flow of information because the status quo wants to remain the status quo.  Business as usual is not okay.  Legislating morality: shoving the morality of corporations such as the Roman Catholic Church down the throats of their secular employees is not okay.  Corporate "personhood" should never trump an individual's conscience.  We the people need to know what the higher ups are doing.  Business as usual allows government figures to wiretap offices for their own purposes.  Business as usual does not want us to know about it.
     Over protests by business as usual, the Pentagon papers were published in book form designed for consumption by the general public.  Wikileaks gives anyone with access to a computer the ability to read what some governments and agencies would rather us not see.  Anonymous is a meme that points out the flaws in a system that very often divides people up on the bases of who they are and who they know and how much of the local currency they have been able to amass.

Against this backdrop of fouled tweets and bad legislation hiding under the coats of "oh but we must save the children" and the sharing of the poisoned NSA sacrificial well water, there arises songs for freedom as beautiful as those composed by Beethoven and his pet starling.  My own atheist non-soul was immediately won over by The Church of Reality website.  How refreshing it was for me to find this bastion of wisdom in the midst of other internet clutter!  The bird of freedom flown by the Church of Reality does not bear the first name of Larry.

This morning I also found the EFF's https add-on for Firefox and a list from 2007 of hosting sites that will stand by freedom of speech.  Although the list is old, I do plan to go through it with the idea toward finding a place to mirror my blogs and to move my blogs should that ever become necessary.

radical sapphoq says: radical sapphoq already said it today.  Scroll up.

Today is March 2, 2012.  Don't forget to participate in Black March:

Don't buy any books, cds, movies during the month of March.  Send a clear message to Big Hollywood that we resist any attempts to control where we go and what we do here on the Internet. 

Kudos to my s.o. who has decided to join the boycott in spite of not knowing what I am talking about most of the time.  Love ya, sweetie.

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2012/02/29/tweeter-cant-stay-anonymous-judge-rules/?gta=commentlistpos#commentlistpos

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220302twitter_surrenders_data_in_hack_probe/

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224668/Advocacy_group_takes_aim_at_anti_porn_bill_requiring_ISP_data_retention?taxonomyId=144

http://www.lsureveille.com/news/facebook-timeline-to-become-mandatory-1.2693873

http://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/head-to-head-civil-disobedience-is-not-an-act-of-terrorism-1.2709146

http://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/head-to-head-anonymous-is-evil-and-threatens-freedom-1.2709190

http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/welcome_home/

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

http://whdb.com/2007/free-speech-hosting-11-web-hosts-that-wont-dump-you-at-the-first-sign-of-controversy/

Brandon Wegner and the School Newspaper

Brandon Wegner wrote an opinion piece for his public school's newspaper which was against same gender couples adopting children.  He was asked to write it and he did.  Brandon Wegner is a Christian.  He used scripture to explain his viewpoint.  If references to scripture were not wanted, that should have been made clear when he was initially asked to write the piece.  A member of the faculty serves as advisor to the school newspaper.  The faculty member could have forbidden the piece to be published, or at the very least consulted with his or her supervisor if there was any question.



A same gender couple with a child who attends the school called the principal to complain.  They were given an apology.  The apology referenced the words "bullying" and "disrespect."


Superintendent Carlson then confronted Brandon Wegner directly.  The superintendent threatened to expel him.


These are some of the facts of the case as reported by Fox News-- and only by Fox News.


radical sapphoq says:
Brandon Wegner was asked to write an argument against same gendered couples adopting kids.  He did so.  That I or anyone else agrees or disagrees with his stance is not the issue.


His opinion was published in the school newspaper.  There is no mention of the faculty advisor trying to censor or otherwise change the words that Brandon Wegner wrote.


A same gendered couple whose child attends the school was offended.  That is the risk that one takes when freedom of speech is allowed to take place, albeit even the limited freedom of speech that is permitted to high school students in the interest of maintaining order in a public school setting.  An apology was issued.  I don't know the reasoning behind the decision to give the couple an apology.  
The apology referenced "bullying" and "disrespect."  I read nothing in Brandon Wegner's article that hinted at either.  Brandon Wegner did not write "All same gendered couples should be shot/ forced to live in gay ghettos/ denied all freedoms..." or anything like that.  He also did not write "Same gendered couples are ignorant and stupid/ smell badly/ suck..." or anything like that.


The Superintendent was wrong in his actions in my opinion.  There is no indication in the report that Brandon Wegner had been asked to keep his beliefs out of his writing.  There is also no evidence of Brandon Wegner making a ruckus or otherwise acting in a way that indicated that he hated the child of the same gendered couple or intending to do anything like firebomb the child's parents' car or litter his school's football field with Chick Tracts referencing homosexuality as against the beliefs of Christians who take the Bible literally.  If Brandon Wegner had threatened violence or acted in a violent manner, then suspension or expulsion would have been warranted.  


All reports I found on the internet listed their source as being Fox News.  This sort of thing should have been reported by many other news teams who could have sent out their own reporters to cover the story.


This story is about one student who wrote an opinion that he was asked to write.  The school newspaper published the opinion.  Sorry, but I don't see how Brandon Wegner could be judged as being wrong for doing as he was asked to do.


I don't know what the beliefs of the principal, faculty advisor, or superintendent are in respect to same gender partners adopting a child and I don't care.  What happened to Brandon Wegner was wrong.  The superintendent, based on the reports that I read, had no reason to threaten Brandon Wegner with suspension.



Disclosure:  I have been involved with g.l.b.t.i.q. issues for a number of years. 



http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/atty-says-school-threatened-punished-boy-who-opposed-gay-adoption.html
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/assets/pdf/U0183892114.PDF