WHEN CHENEY WAS PRESIDENT

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DICK CHENEY NOMINATED HIMSELF FOR VP,
THEN TOOK COMMAND ON 9/11

YOUTUBE: MICHAEL MOORE
"'Fahrenheit 9/11' - My Pet Goat"
The Commander-In-Chief at the time of the worst attack on American soil in U.S. history.


DID CHENEY EVER LET GO OF POWER?

YOUTUBE: THE CORBETT REPORT
"Where was Cheney on 9/11?"
His alibi don't check out, chief.


Did Dubya Ever Retake Control?

Geezer Power of the GeezerPower blog has an interesting post about a recent study of the studies of the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It seeks to prove, like many studies of the studies, that the collapse of the Twin Towers could not have happened as officially described, in purely engineering terms. I don't know. I'm not a structural or mechanical engineer, architect, steelworker or demolitions expert. I wasn't there on 9/11, though I was there for the first bombing of the WTC. I used to live two blocks away. They caught those guys. Those guys said their buddies were coming back, to finish the job. It was known that planes could be used as bombs, and that the WTC was a target. So, nu?

They can do all the engineering studies in the world, but what it comes down to for me is "My Pet Goat."

Dubya's alibi still places him within the continental United States, and on camera, conveniently. He is, apparently, as conscious as ever, and no more incapacitated than usual. He is in constant contact with the world outside the Florida grammar school, as evidenced by a message he receives while reading the children's book aloud.

The message was about a plane hitting the World Trade Center, just a few minutes earlier, on 9-11-01. Dubya appears dumbstruck, but goes back to reading to the little kiddies as if nothing had happened. Finally, seven minutes later, mission accomplished, alibi in place, Dumbya THEN reluctantly gets up off his little chair and heads for the door, apologizing to the kids.

All that is on film, which we all saw in "Fahrenheit 911." Niggle the details but the facts are indisputable: On 9/11, The President was conscious, able-bodied, in the US, in communication with his staff in Washington DC, and aware of the attacks in NYC & Washington, DC.

What the film does not show is that, during the attacks, our air defense personnel did not contact the President. Messages went up the chain of command from Air Force and Air National Guard pilots and military and civilian air traffic controllers, all the way up to the top of the chain of command: Dick Cheney. Cheney then authorized the use of force against civilian or military aircraft, and ordered all air traffic grounded.

One problem: The Vice President of the United States is not in the military chain of command, ever, as long as the President is conscious or wake-up-able, and in contact with the military. Constitutionally, the VPOTUS has no job at all, except to wait for the POTUS to die or become incapacitated. Which Dubya had not, on 9/11.

Ask any green recruit, after he or she has been indoctrinated and drilled on his or her chain of command in boot camp or basic training: The chain of command is very important in the military. You do not break or bypass your chain of command, ever. Lots of people could die. Generals or Admirals could get pissed off at you. You could be shot. You most certainly do not bypass or short-circuit your military chain of commend in a national defense emergency, when decisions are required at the highest level.

The chain of command goes from the lowliest Private, Seaman, Airman, Coastguardsman or -woman up through his or her Non-Commissioned Officers to the Second Lieutenants and Ensigns, Lieutenants and Captains, squad, platoon, company, battalion, regiment, brigade, division, corp and army commanders, all the way up to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the Secretary of Defense. The exact route depends on the armed service involved, the force configuration and the mission at hand.

But this much is absolutely clear and unchangeable: The chain of command of the United States military goes directly upwards from the SecDef to the President. There is nobody in between Gates and Obama, or Rumsfeld and Bush. The Vice-President of the United States of America is NEVER in the chain of command, unless and until he becomes the President. That has only happened a few times in our history, fortunately. The last time was when LBJ had to be sworn in on Air Force One on the way back to DC from Dallas, Texas, with the body of JFK hardly cold yet, on the same plane. When Reagan was shot and underwent surgery under general anaesthesia, Bush's Daddy, the VP, did not take over as President. Secretary of State Alexander Haig claimed to have assumed command, but there was no official transfer of power. At no other time in the last forty-five years has the Vice President ever stepped into the President's shoes and assumed command of the armed forces, not even for a moment.

You'd think that would have been an historic moment. You'd think there would be a record of it: A photo of Cheney being sworn in, like that famous one of LBJ. Or some embarrassing squabble among those in the order of succession, as with Reagan's Secretary of State, who tried to leapfrog the VP, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore of the US Senate. Nope. No fotos. No big news stories. Never a word about Cheney assuming command without statutory authority or command authorization from the President. If Dubya did authorize Cheney to take command, where is the written order? And why was it issued, if Dubya was intact & in contact?

And never a word about the Air Force bypassing the President and seeking orders from someone not in the chain of command. There was no attack on the White House. The command center was intact and functioning in the War Room in the basement at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Still is. The plane that was supposed to hit the capitol, somewhere, was brought down heroically by its' passengers, we are told. Or maybe it was shot down by an Air Force or Air National Guard pilot who didn't get the word, loved his country, and upheld his oath to the Constitution. No word on whether that pilot got direct orders from Cheney, or whether the orders said "shoot it down," or "let it go." That might have depended upon whether Cheney was in the White House or not at the time.

Anyway, the point is, with no fanfare whatsoever, the military broke chain of command, and Dick Cheney unlawfully usurped the powers of the Commander in Chief. I have never heard anyone say a word about this one most glaring fact in all the hearings and "investigations" that government has carried out upon itself. I have never seen or heard of a full investigation carried out independently of the government, or based on facts not obtained from the government, by any individual or agency, journalists or media outlets.

No one in the media and no one in power has ever publicly asked the most obvious question in any investigation of a crime or a military attack: Where was Dubya, the man responsible for our national security, the man in charge, the chief suspect? Why was he not in the loop before, during or after the 9/11 attacks? He disappeared for a day or two after 9/11, perhaps on an alcoholic bender, wracked with guilt or fear. He certainly did not come forward like Lincoln or Wilson or Roosevelt and reassure the nation immediately, much though we needed reassuring at the time. So, how long was Cheney POTUS, anyway? Did he ever relinquish command? (EPA chief Christie Whitman says Cheney was still personally giving her orders in his own name to soft-pedal anti-pollution regulation, years after 9/11.)

And why did the Air Force ever refer to Cheney in the first place, if the President was available? Or breathing? I'd like to see the written order authorizing that. I'd especially like to see the time & date on that order. Was all this prearranged? Is that why, in the midst of an attack on US soil, our air defense command was able to violate chain of command so readily? And who in the Air Force authorized THAT?

The command-bypass certainly was not effective: The attacks were carried out succesfully, except for the one on the White House. Or was the DC attack to have been on the Capitol Building, effecting a decapitation of the US Government and necessitating a declaration of martial law? Is that what went wrong on 9/11? Or is that what went right? Were the attacks on a brand-new and largely unoccupied portion of the Pentagon and a spectacular but largely irrelevant government-owned commercial building in the Financial District of New York City all just a distraction and a set-up for the last plane's attack on the heads of government?

Imagine, if you will, what would have happened if that last plane had taken out Congress or the White House. In one fell swoop, our democratic government would have been swept away, by person or persons unknown. Martial law would have to have been declared, and extended until the "state of emergency" was over. Weeks, months, years; certainly long enough to effect major changes in domestic and foreign policy, with no niggling Congress to say otherwise. And with Dick Cheney in charge, officially or otherwise.

Did the crash or shoot-down of that United Airlines plane in Pennsylvania save us all from a Cheney dictatorship? Partially, at best. Because the Congress became a virtual rubber-stamp after 9/11, failed though the attack may have been. Cheney got his oil war, and his "Patriot" Acts. He got eight years of unopposed raping, looting and pillaging of the Middle East and the U.S. national treasury, from which we are suffering today. And he got the US military permanently installed as rentacops, guarding his good buddies' oil bidness in the Middle East, and a right-wing Israel. The military-industrial-energy complex now has a new boogeyman to justify the continuation of the national security State, and the ongoing drain on the Treasury for private profit. So, "Mission Accomplished"?

Who bypassed the President, and why? When was that authorized, and by whom? I'll never believe a word the government says about 9/11 until I see that order, and hear the explanation for it.
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THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN SHOD!

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SECRET SERVICE FAILS AGAIN. AND AGAIN. ACCIDENT? OR DESIGN?

YOUTUBE: CNN
"[Updated] Bush Shoe Incident in Iraq {CNN}"
Yeah. Now the shoe's on the OTHER foot. Hey, babe, if the shoe fits, wear it! Walk a mile in the other guys shoes, butthead.


PERHAPS THE SECRET SERVICE AGENTS WERE WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP

YOUTUBE: ABC NEWS
"Bad Sushi"
Like father, like son: Always a great exit.



Government Offers "Lone Shoeman" Theory: Where Have We Heard This Before?

Are we to believe that there was only one shoeman, aiming at our Commander-In-Chief? Isn't it OBVIOUS that there MUST have been a second shoeman? Maybe he never shoed, but he was there, all right, ready to finish off the POTUS with a final shoe to the head at point-blank range. Only the failure of the first two shoes kept him from carrying out his part in this vast conspiracy. The question is, where was the Secret Service?

Lincoln had no Secret Service. Garfield (not the cat) and McKinley didn't either. Kennedy was the first President assassinated on their watch. Jackson, Roosevelt, Truman, Ford and Reagan survived assassination attempts. Jackson was trying to abolish the first Federal bank when his Whig enemies sent crazed loser Richard Lawrence after him. He failed, and the Bank of the United States was abolished, due to the excise it tax it levied on moonshine, an intoxicant that was regarded by Jackson as essential to the smooth functioning of the slave-owning South. (No, really!) The deal that originally established the bank also moved the Capital, er, Capitol from the North, Philadelphia, to the South, Washington. The Bank, however, remained in Philly, even after it was reconstituted to deal with the financial problems caused by the War of 1812, which also made Jackson a national hero, ironically.

The Second Bank of the United States nearly collapsed due to unwise loans to speculators in real estate. Sound familiar? The Bank had become a sort of early Fannie Mae. Squabbles between political Parties over the financial crisis prevented a bail-out, and panics and depression ensued. The Second Bank would soon die. However, litigation over the Bank would result in the decision that made Federal laws trump State laws (McCullogh vs. Maryland). "States Rights" lost. It was the beginning of the Civil War. The first shoe was thrown at Jackson, and missed. But more shoes were coming.

The next President to be shod was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was famous for going barefoot even in the snow, and in the House of Representatives. He regarded shoes as weapons of mass destruction, and a potential threat to his own existence, due to a dream he had as a child wherein he was killed by a boot. His dream proved prophetic: Rabid Southerner John Wilkes Boot [!] had planned to kidnap Lincoln and hold him until he released all Confederate POW's, like John McCain. Then Lincoln decided to give African-Americans the vote, which Boot [!] realized would lead, inevitably, to a black President. He resolved to kill Lincoln. He succeeded, but failed in his aim of overthrowing the Union government. Boot [!] was shot by a Union soldier named Boston (which city was later the point of origin of two of the four 9/11 flights), and everyone connected to him was Gitmo'd. The prime suspects were tried by a military tribunal, which was protested. The Supreme Court subsequently banned military tribunals where civil courts still functioned (ex parte Milligan). This led to the use of the actual Gitmo where no such courts exist today.

The military tribunal in the Lincoln assassination found all seven defendants guilty, and sentenced three to life imprisonment, and four to hanging. One was female, Mary Surratt. She was the first woman ever executed by the Federal government. It was the beginning of modern feminism, the judicial recognition of women as equal to men in the eyes of the law (at least for hanging purposes), though it is rarely celebrated today. The conspirators also tried to kill Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Seward, who later purchased Alaska, from which Governor Sarah Palin can now see Russia, the seller. Governor Palin, who became the first woman to run surreptitiously for President, despite the transparent glass ceiling, went on to lose the election of 2008, due partly to her love of expensive footwear. (She was not hung. Yet.) We all know how powerful women's obsession with shoes is. [cf Imelda Marcos; also "Sex In The City," Manolo's, ibid.] I'm getting to the link to Bush' attempted asshoessination. Really.

Next to be shoed came James Abram Garfield, a man of Firsts. He was the first President to be subjected to a metal detector, but only after he himself was shot. He was not required to remove his shoes. His ancestor, John Billington, came over on the Mayflower, and distinguished himself by becoming the first Englishman sentenced to hang in the New World, for shooting a fellow colonist, and not whilst hunting. Garfield was the first and, so far, the only sitting member of the House of Representatives ever to be elected President. He was also an attorney for the Confederate defendants in the ex parte Milligan case that forbade military tribunals in US jurisdictions.

Garfield received stock at "insider" prices in exchange for his voting participation as a Congressman in the stock-swindle involved in the Credit Mobilier scandal, a financial meltdown in the Gilded Age of the 1870's, similar to today's financial mess, in that it involved giving private financial corporations direct access to the US Treasury, saddling the taxpayers with all of the company's obligations, but none of the profits. Even as the enterprise was failing, Congress continued to put money into it, at the behest of principals in the enterprise such as Congressman Garfield.

Garfield was the only actual ordained minister to ever preach from the White House, perhaps the inventor of Republican religious hypocricy. He was also the Ohio Republican member of the electoral commission that awarded Florida's electoral college votes and the Presidency to fellow Ohio Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, who lost the popular vote in the disputed election of 1878, making Garfield the Katherine Harris of his day. Ohio Republicans subsequently rewarded Garfield with a Senate seat involuntarily vacated by a Democrat, making him the first Senator to become President, also, shortly thereafter.

As President, Garfield fought and defeated the principle of Senatorial privilege, beginning the erosion of the power of the Legislative Branch in favor of an Imperial Presidency. Garfield authored an unique proof of the Pythagorean Theorem whilst in Congress, a rare achievement in a famously innumerate body. Pythagoras was half Phoenician (Lebanese), and studied in Egypt. Garfield was shod to death shortly thereafter, in the presence of Lincoln's son, Todd. Todd was not Gitmo'd. Both of his shoes were found still on his feet. Garfield died in Long Branch, New Jersey, home State of the Soprano's. The Soprano's are Sicilians. Sicily was once controlled by Arabs. Both people wore sandals. Sandals are a type of shoes. There may be a Mafia connection, as with JFK. (Check with Oliver Stone.) Garfield has a rest stop on the NJ Turnpike named after him. The men's room there is frequented by foot-fetishists, and State Troopers. The troopers may have let Senator Larry Craig off with a warning after an "incident" there involving his feet, which were shod. Allegedly. This is referred to as "sodomy." Sodom is a town in Israel. See the connections? Try taking some LSD.

McKinley was next. Despite his Imperial precautionary measure of annexing Hawaii, where no one even wears shoes, he was assassinated by a poorly-shod anarchist from his native Ohio. The Secret Service, though it was established under President Lincoln, did not begin trying to protect Presidents until after McKinley was assassinated. Still, they were undoubtedly nearby, as the largest of only four Federal police forces in existence at the time. Perhaps they were enjoying the newfangled confection known as dough-knots at the Buffalo Pan American Exposition, or shopping for shoes. McKinley may have been preoccupied with foreign adventures and expanding the American Empire overseas.

The White House Police, not the Secret Service, did their duty on behalf of President Truman. Several officers were shot by Puerto Rican nationalists, who were fighting to end what they saw as the unlawful occupation of Puerto Rico by the United States. They started a gun-battle outside of Blair House, the guest-house across the street from the White House, which was under renovation at the time. Private Leslie Coffelt was shot and returned fire, killing one of the assassins after being mortally wounded by them. He is the only Presidential security officer ever killed in the course of an assassination attempt upon the President. He always wore big heavy shoes, as did President Truman. They were a band of shoemen.

John F. Kennedy was the next President to be fired upon. He was killed. The Secret Service were present. Shoes were present. The connection is obvious, but we are afraid to say any more.

Gerald Ford was saved from assassination twice in one month, not by the Secret Service, but by pure dumb luck. Ford, like George W. Bush was an idiot. Both wore shoes on the days of their attempted asshoessinations. Coincidence? I think not. Manson family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromm failed to chamber a round before firing at Ford, and missed her chance at killing a President. Two weeks later, FBI stooge Sarah Jane Moore fired but missed, thanks to the quick reaction of a civilian bystander, disabled ex-Marine Oliver Sipple. The Secret Service missed both shooters. Now they realize the full effects of shoe-addiction, and its' commonality among women. All women are suspects, today. Most are shooed away, except for young interns with round heels.

Despite all the warnings, a man in shoes was allowed close enough to President Reagan to shoot at him. The bullet ricocheted off Reagan's limo and hit him in the side, entering his lung. Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr hustled Reagan into the limo. Agents Tom Delehanty and Tim McCarthy were shot while throwing themselves in front of the President. White House Press Secretary Jim Brady was grievously wounded, and suffers from his wounds to this day. Reagan went on to commit numerous crimes, and to escape with impunity. And men in shoes are still allowed to approach POTUS. Only the very, very, very Secret Service knows why.

Why?

The answer is obvious: The Secret Service cannot do their job as long as people are allowed to wear shoes. Every successful Presidential assassin has worn shoes. The Secret Service should have seen the shoe threat long ago. They must find ways to counter it. Until then, if you want to approach the President of the United States of America, you simply must remove your shoes, as at the airport these days, or in any oriental despotism. Maybe put them in a locker. Like in a bowling alley. But remember: Shoes don't kill people. People kill people. Even shoeless people can still be carrying a gun. Think about it, Secret Service. Duh. Maybe you need some training from Thom McAnn, or Nobel Prize winner Doc Martins.
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DOUBLE-BIAS ATTACK IN THE BOROUGH OF CHURCHES

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"GAY" ECUADORANS BRUTALLY BEATEN IN BROOKLYN BY ANTI-LATINO ANTI-GAY THUGS

BUSHWICK FAMILY STRICKEN AS THEY WITNESS UNPROVOKED ATTACK BY STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD



Now, What Will Those Famous Churches Do About This?

Given the role of so many religious institutions in fear-mongering, scapegoating and focusing hatred on gays, one wonders what their reaction will be to the product of their labors. What, for God's sake, would Jesus do?

I'm no Biblical scholar, but I can't honestly recall any parables, epistles, sermons or psalms about gays, positive or negative. Maybe they were among the Apocrypha stricken out by post-Christ censors in Palestine, Greece, Rome or Byzantium. Maybe they skip over them today in Sunday school and catechism. Maybe those uncomfortable silences after children inquired about Mrs. Jesus or the lady apostles said it all. I'm not going to scour the bloody New Testament just to find out.

Christian attitudes toward sex and gender, sensuality and sexuality, love and friendship, marriage and divorce, abortion and birth control, women and gays, morality and individual rights, all pretty much turned me away from churches a long time ago. I've never felt any inclination to go back.

Lately though, I have begun to wonder what is going on in those curiously shaped buildings. We hear clerical boy-rapers squealing about "the homosexual agenda," mountain-man bigamists mounting campaigns to save "traditional" marriage, televangelist con-artists wishing hurricanes on gay paraders. Is the anti-Christ already here, under the assumed name of Billy-Bob? Or, in the case of Brooklyn, Vito, Shawn or Tyrone?

Is that a sign of my own prejudice? Maybe. But nobody's going to die for it. Somebody did just die for the same prejudices instilled and inflamed quite deliberately by "men of God," and "moral leaders." If there really were a God in Heaven, these people would have to answer, first among us, for all this hate. The irony is, neither victim in this case was actually gay. Just the perception that they were was enough to inspire a brutal attack. In fact, the two "gay" victims were brothers, and simply observing the custom common in most of the world, and among women even in this country, of walking arm-in-arm down the street. So, even if you are not gay, be very careful not to let anyone think you are. They might kill you.


NY1
"Police Investigate Hate Crime, Victim Remains On Life Support"
When crossing the street, look both ways. And then look straight.

' Police are calling an attack on a pair of Brooklyn brothers over the weekend a hate crime. Investigators said 31-year-old Jose Sucuzhanay was walking home with his brother Romel early Sunday morning when one of them stopped to give the other his coat at the intersection of Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue. That's when investigators said a group of men jumped out of an SUV and beat them with a glass bottle and baseball bat while yelling anti-gay and anti-Latino slurs. Romel was not seriously hurt, but Jose was taken to the hospital where he is on life support. "My brother is in critical condition. He has to go through brain surgery. He's okay there. But right now he's not moving, he's not talking, he's in very critical condition. And we hope he will recover," said Sucuzhanay. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "There's no indication that they had any previous contact with the victims. So it clearly appears to be a hate crime based on ethnicity and perceived sexual orientation." '

NY TIMES
"Family Keeps Vigil for Beaten Brooklyn Man "
Blacks attacking Hispanics because they think they are gay. Only in America, land of hate crimes of opportunity.

' Early Sunday, less than a mile from where Mr. Sucuzhanay worked, he and his brother Romel were set upon by men the police said they believed were strangers. The brothers were walking home from a bar, arms around each other, the police said. At the corner of Bushwick Avenue and Kossuth Place, three men riding in what a witness described as a maroon or red sport utility vehicle spied the brothers and shouted anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs. One of the men hit Jose over the head with a bottle, and the driver of the car swung an aluminum baseball bat at his head, the police said. He fell to the floor as the three attackers, who were black, continued kicking and punching him, the police said. The beating ended only when Romel held up his cellphone and said he was calling the police. On Tuesday, the police released a description of one of the men, saying he is 6 feet tall and thin, and wore a black leather jacket, boots, dark jeans and a dark baseball cap during the attack. The authorities said they did not have the license number of the car. The reward for information was set at $22,000. Julia Osman, who worked with Mr. Sucuzhanay, visited him at the hospital on Monday. His face was so swollen that she could not see his eyes, and his head was wrapped in bandages. “He was kind, and cared about everyone who worked with him,” she said. '

EL DIARIO NY
"Another victim of hate"
If you're going to target someone, make it an immigrant, or an undocumented alien. They won't dare report you. Especially if you kill them. Unfortunately for the criminals, this victim was a citizen.

' Jose Sucuzhanay, a Bushwick business owner, was with his brother Romel on Sunday when he was beaten by a group of men using a bat. He was reportedly declared brain dead yesterday. Romel had come from Ecuador to visit his brother, not bury him. Witnesses heard the cowardly attackers shout anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs at the brothers, according to police. They mistook Jose and Romel cozing up in the extreme cold as a sign that they were gay. This hate and violence is anything but isolated. In 2005, the FBI documented more than 1,200 hate crimes against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) persons. But this is a vast undercount, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. On top of inaccurate data tracking, hate crimes overall are under-reported. Undocumented immigrants are the least likely of all victims to report these crimes. '

NY NEWSDAY
"Cops: Bias crime attack victim dies"
So, now it's murder.

' Police have released a sketch of one of three assailants of an Ecuadorean man left brain dead after a savage beating in Brooklyn, where attackers hurled anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs. At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, the family of Jose Sucuzhanay, 31, said they still held out hope. "He's not dead," Diego Sucuzhanay, one of his five brothers, said at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, where Jose had been listed in critical condition yesterday after surgery. "There are some decisions that need to be taken," he continued. "We are brothers and we do not have the power to make that decision." Sucuzhanay's parents are in Ecuador. But a law enforcement source said the case is being investigated as a homicide and Sucuzhanay has been declared brain dead. The Associated Press said he had been taken off life support, according to a law enforcement source. Community leaders and city politicians called for the swift arrest of the attackers. Sucuzhanay suffered severe head trauma in the 3:30 a.m. beating Sunday in Bushwick. Police Tuesday asked for the public's help in locating one suspect, described as a male about 6 feet tall and between 18 and 20 years old, wearing a dark baseball cap, a black leather jacket, dark jeans and boots. A $22,000 reward is also being offered for information leading to the arrest of the attackers. Police asked the public to call 800-577-TIPS. '

[Cross-posted at CoffeeHouseStudio by cosanostradamus.]
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