This is the problem when one is driven not by intellectual curiosity, but by a pronounced obsessive bitterness, when bloggers’ content is based upon fruits from scavenge and bias, as opposed to actual investigation which requires more skill, demonstrated by 24thState, in a post which requires full reading. This lack of attention to facts was exhibited last week in a hastily-written piece – too hasty to bother confirming the identity of the intended target – on Crooks and Liars. The cogs in the machine each provided cover , a crack in any flank, according to their rulebook, is invalidation of their own. But as for the matter of Gladney and Redington:

They’re wrong, as usual, but then the Soros and SEIU funded Media Matters has never been interested in the truth.  I speak to this because starting that night, August 6th, I’ve been collecting the information on the Gladney case, from public statements to health records to statements from public officials, and just last week, I delivered much of that information to the prosecutor overseeing the case.

Aside from all of this, I’m glad to see, for the first time, real interest in one of the most under-reported hate crimes in America in the past several years. I’m glad that liberals have mustered up enough interest to ask the questions they couldn’t be bothered to ask last fall when they were too busy trying to cover up the crime against a black man. Perhaps they will also ask why it took Redington so long to talk to witnesses, or about this:

The hospital records were not the complete medical records.  Gladney went to his personal doctor, the one paid by coverage through his wife’s insurance (despite a report and non-correction you might have read in the St Louis Post Dispatch).  Pat Redington’s office had no way of knowing this because prior to them bringing charges, they wouldn’t meet with or speak to Kenneth Gladney, or any of the witnesses in the police report.  Thus prior to the charges being brought, Redington’s office couldn’t check the full medical records.  They didn’t know of the existence of the full medical record.

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These medical records were important, because Redington’s failure to press timely charges was excused by the complexity of the case.  And yet, the information the counselor’s office had was no different the day they pressed charges, then it was on August 12th.  In other words, Redington’s claim of dozens of witnesses and multiple arrests was intended to be an excuse.  The truth is there was no, and I repeat this strongly, NO, investigation from the counselor’s office.

Those on the left stated an aversion to name-calling when they decried when conservatives declared certain of the administration’s politics to be socialist, tossing around words like “liar” and “racist” seem to be excepted from their double-standard, even when those against whom they rail have the advantage of possessing information on the story and not just SEIU rhetoric.

I wrote in December of last year:

St. Louis County Prosecutors watered-down the charges in the Kenneth Gladney case from a misdemeanor to an ordinance violation without so much as even calling St. John’s Hospital, where Gladney received treatment for his injuries, and checking Gladney’s hospital record or speaking with care providers on site.

The truth stands. Continuing:

It has been discovered that no one from Patricia Redington’s office ever accessed Gladney’s medical records for use in determining the charges filed in the case.

The truth stands. Redington received a fragment copy of Gladney’s medical records with the police report. I didn’t realize that it was customary for some to expect that charges in cases be assessed without having all of the information; I also don’t expect some crackpot bloggers, like MMFA, to understand how the difficulty of reporting things during an ongoing criminal investigation. Again:

Thus prior to the charges being brought, Redington’s office couldn’t check the full medical records.  They didn’t know of the existence of the full medical record.

From 24thState, who also has signed documentation from the hospital:

For Media Matters or any other blogger to complain about the ethics of citizen journalists is ridiculous.  We know what we know about the Gladney case because I and a few others wouldn’t let it go.

Here are questions I would like to see liberal bloggers address:

The prosecuting attorney assigned to the case doesn’t get a file until after charges are pressed.  And yet, if there was going to be no further investigation, why then were charges filed based on information that was 15 weeks old?  Redington has never had to answer for that.

It’s in your court, Soros-circus.

Why was SEIU paying the criminal and legal expenses for Elston McCowan and Perry Molens despite stating that they sent no staff to the event? Waiting for your answer, Soros-circus.

Or:

The prosecuting attorney assigned to the case doesn’t get a file until after charges are pressed.  And yet, if there was going to be no further investigation, why then were charges filed based on information that was 15 weeks old?  Redington has never had to answer for that.

I’ll let the peanut gallery take a crack at that. Please keep in mind that I’ve only posted excerpts of 24thState’s article, a blogger who knows more about this case than anyone on the web. Full reading of the original is required.

Those in pursuit of denying justice to Kenneth Gladney and Kelly Owens are welcome to ask questions as those striving to bring these victims justice encourage it, however, those finally asking questions may be most unhappy with the answers, or lack thereof, they receive. Forgive me if I seem suspicious of their sudden concern, providing that these same people deny that an attack took place at all:

(Here’s a shot-by-shot examination of the Gladney attack.)

It’s easier to throw out false, uneducated charges about a case with which your unfamiliar while others actually do the work of reporting the story. This little habit defines so much of liberalism, nay, socialism, does it not? So are liberal bloggers finally admitting that the Gladney beating took place? After the recorded evidence, the charges against several members of SEIU, finally? Incompetence, indeed, Boehlert.

24thState’s post

More on Redington and Gladney

Redington was quick to file charges back in 2000, when a staffer for Democrat Richard Gephardt stalked serious contender Republican Bill Federer on a parade route. The staffer, James Larrew, tried to shove his camera into Federer’s face until Federer was forced to push the camera away. The staffer freaked, flagged down a cop and claimed that he had been assaulted. Larrew then called Gephardt’s office and spoke to Joyce Aboussie, Gephardt’s top political adviser, who then contacted Redington’s office. Two days later Redington filed assault charges against Federer, on Columbus Day, a national holiday; after which Redington, Aboussie, and Larrew conducted a media blitz, all arranged for by Gephardt’s office.

From an account of the incident:

Note that Redington is a Democrat-appointee with close ties to Gephardt’s closest adviser, Aboussie.

Does party affiliation and who you know play a part in how fast your charges are filed or whether or not justice is served? This doesn’t help matters any. Redington has proven that she’s willing to work quickly when politically convenient.

How long will Kenneth Gladney and Kelly Owens have to wait for justice?

Please note that at the time of this posting an email query and interview request (acknowledged by Bob McCullough’s office) received by Patricia Redington has gone unanswered. If you would like to ask Patricia Redington how long it will take to process charges of two assaults caught on video, one of which a police officer was listed as a witness, you can contact her office here:

Article cross-posted at The Dana Show. Full details of the incident below.

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Henry Hill: You know, we always called each other good fellas. Like you said to, uh, somebody, :You’re gonna like this guy. He’s all right. He’s a good fella. He’s one of us.: You understand? We were good fellas. Wiseguys. See, it’s the highest honor they can give you. It means you belong to a family and crew. It means that nobody can f#@% around with you. It also means you could f#@%  around with anybody just as long as they aren’t also a member. It’s like a license to steal. It’s a license to do ANYTHING. As far as Jimmy was concerned with Tommy being made, it was like we were all being made.

Many in America have been surprised by the magnitude of the Tea Party uprising, but perhaps none more so than Barack Obama.  As people are inclined to do when threatened or under pressure, the President fell back on what he learned cutting his teeth in Chicago politics; brute force.

Recall the summer of 2009.  Traditional values-loving Americans, all over the country were so shocked by the bailouts, cap and trade and other big government expansion programs that they took to the streets in numbers never seen before.  Liberals were shocked that the political right had figured out the playbook of the political left.  As the Congressional Summer recess got underway, leftist politicians found their town hall meetings packed to the rafters with angry people asking tough questions.  As the bloggers streamed the footage and America got a nearly daily dose of another Democrat politician getting hammered, it became clear that the left was unprepared.

Protesters were disparaged as “tea baggers” and Astroturf, but name-calling is not what they do in Chicago.  It might be over the top to say the President himself ordered the hit, but what about his people?  What he said of the conservative protestors is “If they are going to hit us, we will hit them back twice as hard “.  Within two days, a black man distributing patriotic flags and buttons, found himself struggling under a tremendous beating from as many as four separate assailants.  The Service Employees International Union members got the President’s message.  The SEIU members sporting their purple people beater shirts picked their first victim.  Perhaps most disturbing, the attack began with a black union member coming unglued on a black man who did not share his leftist political beliefs all the while calling him a “nigger”.   Is this a hate crime?

It has been three months now, so what happened to the thugs?  Nothing.  Local Prosecutors appear to have taken a pass.  The St. Louis County Prosecutor is Bob McCullough.  The police report details a gang-style assault, resisting arrest, the arrest of a journalist for the major daily, the Post-Dispatch and the Prosecutor is claiming something between ignorance and lack of jurisdiction in the case.  So who has jurisdiction for such crimes?

In St. Louis County, an area holding the curious distinction of 92 separate municipalities within the boundaries, municipal prosecutors handle the traffic tickets, ordinance violations, and other minor offenses.  If the crime is committed in the County, but outside of any municipal boundaries, then police will usually hand the job to the County Counselor to be sure justice is done rather than hand it off to the County Prosecutor.  It appears that Prosecutor McCullough believes County Counselor Patricia Reddington should be handling the case.  One can wonder whether the police tried to give it to McCullough or if they took it directly to Reddington.  In any case, those who gang assaulted Ken Gladney walk the streets.  Why?

When the SEIU members went to the town hall meeting hosted by Democrat Congressman Russ Carnahan, did they have a fight on their minds?  Were they spurred on by The President’s words or the HCAN national Field Advisor Margarida Jorge’s talking points?  Did the favorite White House guest, Andy Stern promise the POTUS that the situation would be dealt with, as a way to curry favor with the King?  We may never know if there was a specific instruction given, but we do know that four adults from the same gang decided simultaneously to mingle with the protestors and then single one out for a beating.  We also know that the union has hired for them, Paul D’Agrosa one of the top criminal defense lawyers in St. Louis.  Finally, we know that County Counselor Patricia Reddington, who serves at the pleasure of Democrat County Executive Charlie Dooley (previously a union member) is not moving the case.

This is even more interesting because Counselor Reddington distinguished herself in another assault trial.  At that trial, a Republican Congressional Candidate was accused of assaulting a “campaign staffer” for Democrat Dick Gephardt, who was actually stalking the opposing candidate in a parade while drawing his paycheck from the U.S. Treasury.  As the young patsy James Larrew got too close to his prey, he and the candidate made contact, and the “cameraman” went down.  Democrat Counselor Reddington charged the Republican candidate with assault and went after him.  After the week long trial the jury acquitted the candidate.

Of course the message was sent and Reddington delivered it.  No, the message is not that you don’t mess with Dick Gephardt; it is that Counselor Reddington has no tolerance for street brutality.  No tolerance unless the assailant is a made man. And today, that means a member of SEIU.