Has Our Movie Industry Become a Vast Incestuous Wasteland?

Los Angeles, CA—It used to be that Hollywood would make terrific movies every year. Great stories delivered by great actors were plentiful and ticket prices were somewhat cheap. These days we are lucky to really enjoy more than a few films per year. There is however no shortage of total trash being offered in the cinema today and the ticket prices are higher than ever.

I know that in the heyday the movie studios called the shots and decided what film projects would be made. Agents referred actors and crews and the studios made the choices. That went upside down when the agents and agencies gained control over the studios.

Today, each agency develops and protects their projects only within their core group. The agencies by their nature are incredibly incestuous and that stifles creativity. The agencies have run out of ideas and just make films for the sake of making films.

You can’t maintain excellence without locating and developing new talent with fresh ideas. The agencies are too busy protecting their relatives, lovers and selves from competing outsiders. I’m not suggesting that this is not a natural result of human behavior but it has gotten in the way of making quality films.

The agents have given themselves the last word on green lighting projects and their judgment is clouded by their close relationships with their talent. I’m convinced it is also a case of murdering investor’s profits.

An amazing thing has taken place over the last several years and that is filmmakers with cheap cameras are everywhere. Some of them are quite talented and their talents should carry more weight than their performance on casting couches. There are legions of gifted but unrepresented actors, writers and producers. The unrepresented filmmakers are barred by the agencies from breaking into the business. Lawyers call that anti-trust and the practices are illegal however the agencies always seem to get away with this conduct.

I only know one thing and that the annual Academy Awards Show is hemorrhaging viewers and that’s because the quality of the entries is at an all time low.

Hollywood needs to write a new chapter on film production and open the doors to some new ideas. They need to win back their audience. The Academy Awards should once again generate millions of world-wide enthusiastic viewers.

African-Americans and their Culture of Genocide

The Socialists and Communists in our society courted Africa-Americans promising them a free ride beginning in the early 1960’s. The Socialist leaning politicians gave this race a false concept that their future generations were owed a living for past transgressions of slave owners and such. A culture of abject failure and heartbreak was born.

African-Americans were taught that they need to keep an identity and culture separate from that of the White majority. Unfortunately that culture was bankrupt and this effort has constructed a defective racially based program for the ignorant, needy and lawless. It is a culture of failure, despair and doom.

African-Americans were encouraged to avoid meeting goals of success as a way to avoid conformity. They were supported in the pathetic and misguided adaptation of the English language into what they have called Ebonics. A counter-culture of trash talking, ignorant, idle and unemployable savages is what has emerged.

Public schools soon became day care warehouses for single mothers who have made childbearing a growth industry. The more children they have the more taxpayer funded entitlements they are handed. The schools are controlled by the Leftist run, teachers unions that contribute little to inspire Africa-American children to live the American Dream. Instead they are programmed for total failure.

Today’s African-Americans pride themselves as having rejected anything legitimate that would bring them wealth or success. African-American success goals are in the area of sports, Black Entertainment and organized crime.

I can’t imagine what single mothers are thinking when naming their children. These mothers curse their children With culture influenced names that guarantee their future employment applications won’t get a second look.

Racial polarization is more pronounced than ever in our lifetimes. What has happened is nearly an entire race present in America has been deliberately infected with a deadly disease that will eventually eliminate them from the planet. That is nothing less than genocide.

Ghetto Violence Invasion of Chicago Tourist Attractions Continues Unchecked

Chicago, IL—Just feet away from my old home (Marina City) a cowardly young African-American assailant fired a gun into the back of a man’s head. The victim was walking with friends to do some shopping in the area. This was on the State Street Bridge over the Chicago River. The gunman escaped Southbound.

Police believe they recovered a shell casing from the fired round and a backpack belonging to the gunman.

The unidentified victim is listed as critical condition in Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The shooting so far seems to be another random act of violence perpetrated against White victims by African-American terrorists.

The law-abiding people of Chicago need to re-learn understand that they have an absolute birthright to enjoy the protection of our Second Amendment.

Understand you have more than a right but a duty to defend yourself, family, friends and neighbors. You have little choice but to take serious steps to end this violent trend. Get yourself a large caliber modern handgun and the training to use it for self-defense purposes. When confronted by either a small mob or any armed assailant, simply begin firing at them until the threat has ended. Warnings directed at you attacker/s to cease and desist are not required and may give your assailant the opportunity to kill you. Chicago's local gun laws are nothing more than weak and unconstitutional waste of paper.

Simply leave the scene for your own safety so you’re not further victimized by unseen accomplices. Contact a lawyer, not the police and tell nobody but your lawyer what happened. Watch the video below for my best advice.

Chicago Lawyer Joel Brodsky Wins a Rare Gun Rights Victory in Chicago.

Chicago, IL—When federally licensed firearm collector, David Lawson attempted to simply register four SKS carbines, the Chicago Police Department refused the applications. Lawson through his attorney Joel Brodsky (pictured right) sought a hearing with the Department of Administrative hearings.

A hearing was held before Chicago Administrative Law Judge Pat Riley. The police department’s witness stated their objections claiming the carbines were prohibited by Chicago’s newest gun ordinance. The department refused to even examine the carbines before they declined registration.

The department alleged that the carbines had characteristics that rendered the guns as banned by the ordinance. The judge ruled otherwise and ordered the department to register them.

Here is a copy of the ruling:
Order of Administrative Hearing Officer on Remand 8-5-2011[1]

Fullerton, CA Police Facing a Firestorm Following Suspect’s Death

Fullerton, CA---The Fullerton Police Department is comprised of 153 sworn officers that patrol this Los Angeles suburban community.

A mentally ill homeless man, Kelly Thomas, 37 was investigated by patrol officers for a vehicle burglary. A deadly melee erupted during an attempted arrest. Little has been made public about the incident other than the slightly built suspect was tasered more than once, screamed for help and died. Six officers were involved in the melee and two of them reportedly suffered broken bones.

Immediately, members of the public, news media and at least two members of the City Council rushed to judgment assuming a murder was committed by officers acting under color of law.

The entire event was reportedly captured on city surveillance video that has yet to see daylight. We can only guess what the video shows.

On its face, the incident appears to be an act of manslaughter or worse by the officers. Thanks to modern surveillance camera technology, medical forensics and obligatory interviews the matter can be fully and fairly investigated. The gossipmongers and the police haters need to step aside.

The FBI is conducting a probe to see if Thomas’ civil rights were violated. The department and prosecutors are in the process of making a comprehensive review of this death. Speaking of death, the Medical examiner’s report was not yet released so we don’t know what caused Thomas’ death.

This is a case where the public, Thomas’ family and the officers deserve no less than a full and impartial investigation. If there was a crime committed by the officers I’d fully support appropriate prosecution.

This investigation can’t be about judging the officers by the emotional behavior of those out to lynch the involved cops. It’s grossly unfair for anyone to scream cover-up during the ongoing investigation.

Let’s let the case unfold and deal with real evidence rather than hate.

It appears that Kelly Thomas was victimized long before he died by his own family, the government and medical providers. They all failed to intervene and help this troubled fellow. No matter what, this was a tragic and troubling event.

I also fault the pathetic public records laws of the State of California for causing unnecessary suspicion through a vile form of secret government.

Blogging and Citizen Journalism is Making Giant Gains in America

Los Angeles, CA—The so-called, main stream media had a uniform approach and lock on news and commentary for decades in America. The 1980s brought Talk Radio and new life into broadcasting and for once, different opinions.

Soon the Liberals excessively whined about the Conservative talkers and renamed Talk radio, Hate Radio. Liberals were never fond of our First Amendment except to get their own self-serving message out.

The Liberals tried to launch their own talk shows and to a one, they all failed. Americans were waking up and discovering other views! Americans began to debate things like never before. Additionally the political divide in America became more pronounced and noticeable.

I personally thank talk radio for exposing the folly and failure of Gun Control laws. Americans finally learned that gun bans, registration and restrictions only had an impact on the law-abiding. As a direct result, concealed weapon carry for ordinary law-abiding citizens is permissible in all but two locations, Illinois and Washington, DC. Pending litigation shows promise to establish the right of self-defense empowerment everywhere.

The Internet is celebrating its 20th birthday. The Internet gave anyone that embraced the technology the power to publish text, photos, audio and video!

Internet bloggers were born and were making a difference. The best example is when The Swift Boat veterans audited John Kerry’s claims of his Viet Nam service. Kerry’s campaign was derailed. That was during the period that Dan Rather was exposed by bloggers as having smeared George W. Bush with forged documents in a 60 Minutes hit piece designed to throw the presidential election. Rather slithered away from CBS News in well-deserved disgrace.

Citizen journalists usually lack the training and don’t understand just how they can gather news material. Too often they rewrite existing news stories and call them their own.

Citizen journalists are finally learning how to locate and interview newsmakers and how to find and use public records. They are also learning how and where the established reporters and producers get those press releases. Citizen journalists are becoming more empowered as they have learned how to aggressively confront newsmakers to expose the when, where, how and why to the world.

Some bloggers have captured and published great photographs and a few are learning how to shoot, edit and embed video into their blogs. Frankly the population of America is becoming more illiterate every day and can’t read well enough to get much out of text. Video is more important by far, especially with viewing screens absolutely everywhere including pockets and purses.

One benefit is that some bloggers have been able to quit their day jobs because of their business skills to utilize advertising for much needed revenue. That in turn enables expanded resources and better content for the bloggers.

The most fun part of all is that the Internet’s new Citizen Journalists have been taking viewers and readers away from the main stream news organizations along with their advertisers!

Disgraceful Media Disinformation Campaign Must Be Exposed.

Milwaukee, WI—The despicable and violent racial attacks committed against innocent White patrons of the Wisconsin State Fair were and are indeed newsworthy. These violent assaults must be reported on by anyone claiming to hold the public’s trust as a media organization.

The duty of a news reporter is to provide the public with the when, where, how and why of newsworthy events they publish or broadcast. Filtering or covering up newsworthy information is unforgivable and always against the public’s interest. The sad truth is that’s exactly what numerous broadcasters and news organizations have done.

The truth was on Thursday evening large mobs of cowardly African-American thugs began targeting White fair patrons for racially motivated vicious beatings. Police were able to make scores of arrests and many of the White victims required hospital care.

Some media organizations left deliberately covered up the racial aspects of these criminal assaults, the races involved and went so far as to characterize these race motivated attacks as “fights”. Are these reporters really that inept or are they trying to change the facts to suit a political agenda. The answer is obvious. These reporters intentionally mislead people with a fairytale of fair goers engaged in some form of mutual combat.

The media in America has become little more than a Leftist propaganda machine misinforming and misdirecting Americans at every opportunity. Josef Goebbels would be proud of this Socialist method of informing the public.

Master Spy Boris Badenov has been Sighted in L.A.

Los Angeles, CA—I don’t quite know what this is all about but at busy intersections Russian master spy, Boris Badenov has been making special appearances like in this picture below. Someone is putting his cutouts up on the wires which is anything but easy to do.

Is this a promotion of some kind? Perhaps it’s a clandestine message for left over Communist Cold War spies that it’s time for them to retire and play golf. After all we now have a genuine Communist traitor in our Whitehouse!

Acting is Addictive, Fun and for Some Profitable

Santa Monica, CA—There are loads of multi-millionaires living here that are the foot soldiers of the entertainment industry. There are also thousands that can’t seem to make it. Hearing loss derailed my own first attempt to penetrate the industry but that now may have been rectified through better audio technology. Consider me back in the mix.

Everything begins with understanding the business and pulling off the biggest con job of your life. You must learn to become someone who exists only as words on a page. You’re not mimicking other actors that have developed the character but reinventing yourself into the role. This is a learned behavior that requires training. Most of the training is really about taking the stage and making it your own.

Auditions give good and confident actors incredible control. You control that scene and you can own that part along with a fat payday.

To be ready for that audition actors take their scenes and script sides to their acting coaches. They recruit other actors to play the opposite rolls. They rehearse, block and bring their scenes to the coach’s stage. This is when the magic happens.

Right now long time working actor, Graham Beckel is enrolling students for his class. Come by and audit his class to see what this gifted teacher is all about.

I know at least two Chicago cops with Screen Actor's Guild cards cards that might consider spending their furloughs in L.A. for this training. Actors playing cops make a lot more than real ones.

Meet Graham right here:

African-American Mobs of Thugs Terrorize and Beat Whites at State Fair

Milwaukee, WI—The Dairy state has always been more than generous with African- Americans since they came here in droves from their Southern birthplace to collect famously extravagant welfare benefits some 50 years ago.

African-Americans that migrated here went from being oppressed to being nurtured, tolerated and placed in the mainstream economically even if they did not seek employment. Today they still overwhelm the welfare rolls, jails and prisons. It’s not about skin color but the savage culture they’ve embraced. A huge segment of the African-American population thrives on hate, violence, thievery and drug abuse.

African-Americans have become a threat to the physical safety of White citizens in nearly every large city in America where they have a significant presence in the population. The latest flash mob attacks are racially motivated. The targets of the African-Americans are middle-class white people they overwhelm, beat, sexually molest and rob.

Yesterday the Wisconsin State Fair opened with scores of vicious and cowardly attacks on innocent White people by African-American mobs of thugs that rampaged through the midway and outside the grounds.

These events are contagious and malignant. White people need to take special precautions sine the media and government has failed to let them know about the danger in their zeal for political correctness. Ignoring the attacks invites more of the same.

The only cure for these violent African-Americans is a violent defensive response. Thugs can only cured by disabling injuries and death. White people must avoid African-Americans in large cities and they must take strong defensive measures when attacked. Failure to fight violence with violence will only further embolden the cowards further.

You must always remember the police are controlled by politicians that suck up to the African-American votes. The big city politicians don’t want it to been seen that they won’t tolerate Black misbehavior.

American cities are showing the same signs as South-African nations after the apartheid ended. Soon the land confiscations, beatings, arsons, murders, rapes and robberies drove the White survivors into exile.

Mexican Crime With American Guns, No Longer Newsworthy?

Washington, DC—Not long ago there was a story a week at the minimum where some politician would whine about American gun rights being the cause of Mexico’s violent crime. They would cite data showing firearms manufactured by American companies being used in mexican crime.

Most firearms in possession of the Mexican police and military establishment are American made. The pictures of the weapons seized in Mexico reveal that most are select-fire weapons that were imported legally through proper government channels. The weapons were stolen within Mexico. Still the stories were consistently published.

Then the Gunwalker and, Fast and Furious scandals broke that showed the Obama Administration deliberately putting thousands of guns in the hands of Mexican Criminals for the drug cartels and the notorious MS-13 Murder Gang of Honduras.

The Obama Administration claimed this was some law-enforcement sting effort aimed at preventing such crime. That tale is beyond lame and an insult to any rational person. The fact is the Obama Administration knowingly and intentionally aided, abetted and facilitated murders both in Mexico and the United States.

The Obama Administration had created a gun violence crisis to use for pure political propaganda purposes. This was nothing less than an effort to manipulate American and international opinion favoring gun bans.

Now those stories are no longer newsworthy because they are now an embarrassment to the media lapdog’s beloved Obama. The deadly Obama Administrations propaganda efforts backfired and resulted in the deaths of two know federal agents and countless other innocent victims.

We need to get this matter in the hands of a Special Prosecutor so that every person who broke laws is brought to justice.

Is A Tax revolt Overdue in America?

Americans have seen their 401K’s and pension plans decimated. We all knew that the Roosevelt created Social Security Ponzi scheme would fail. The death of Social Security was accelerated by the inclusion of millions of young substance abuses that have found SSI to be a lifetime free ride.

The government has grown much faster than even the population padded by the refusal of our officials to enforce our immigration laws. These same officials and politicians have knowingly and intentionally imported crime, poverty and drugs to destroy the American way of life.

The government officials have endlessly polluted and padded the voting rolls to favor Socialist candidates. Taxpayers are hopelessly outnumbered at the polls by professional entitlement users and abusers.

I have heard so many people say it’s time to shed blood fighting for liberty once again. They are serious and the massive sale of firearms and ammunition during the last several years bolsters that idea. People know their freedom is in serious danger as their elected representatives continuously lie to them during their political campaigns.

The have created a Drug War that has only been effective in destroying the lives of innocent people killed wounded or falsely arrested in botched drug raids.

The halls of or Congress are filled with tyrants, Socialists and White Collar Thieves. There is a Communist traitor in our Whitehouse making policy with an unelected and un-vetted cabinet with obvious designs on forming a dictatorship.

Americans can wage war that would be catastrophic and destroy families in the process as war always does. Americans can also simply defund the enemy and that will eliminate their tyranny.

Unlike the voters taxpayers have enormous power. Imagine if every business refused to send in quarterly payment to the IRS. The IRS could do nothing to stop a tax revolt. They would try for a while but without funding IRS workers would be out looking for honest work.

We are embroiled in three wars most Americans don’t support. The endless and impossible task of sorting good Muslims from the bad is a waste of good money, time and our brave children’s blood.

Let me make it clear, I’m only floating a question here. Is there a better way to rein in our rogue government than with the specter of another awful Civil War?

Must it always be freedom through ballots or bullets?

The Lost Sounds of Chicago Police

Chicago, IL—There are two sounds unique to Chicago police officers that are lost forever.

First is the old “Traffic Ace” whistle made by Sports, Inc that was located on North Broadway and Catalpa Avenues. The red one in the picture above is very rare. There were a lot of white ones but like mine most were black. There is no pea in an official Chicago police whistle.

That whistle became a musical instrument for the talented cops that could somehow master the thing. Cops could even recognize who was using the whistle by the tone and skill.

If there are any old geezers out there that still have the whistle and can play it I want to record that event for this blog.

The next lost sound was introduced under the O.W. Wilson administration. Wilson changed the patrol vehicles from black and white with red overhead lights to blue and white with blue overhead lights. The sirens were made to be significantly different than the fire department was using along with most of the world. A new mechanical siren was used but the difference was it had a baffle that made a really great sound.

If there was a 10-1 happening you knew help was on the way with those sirens. I suspect that that siren saved lives in that violent and armed offenders often fled as soon as that sound hit the air.

The new electronic sirens just don't seem to stir the excitement like the old mechanical one with the baffel.

Again I want to record that sound for this blog. Better yet I’d buy one of those sirens if I could find one somewhere.

Chicago Traffic management Aids Walk the Plank!

Chicago, IL—There was a time when trained and armed police officers directed traffic in Chicago’s busy loop. They did a lot more than direct traffic. They also knew their city and could answer any tourist’s questions intelligently. They were a genuine high visibility crime deterrent.

The white hat wearing Loop Traffic cops even turned blowing the official Chicago police plastic traffic whistle manufactured by Sports, Inc a concert quality musical event. That great sound has probably been lost forever. I still have my issued whistle but could never master it like those old pros.

Consider the Chicago Traffic management Aids. They don’t have to demonstrate literacy or basic intelligence. They have little training, no firearms and thankfully no police powers making them no obstacle for today’s violent flashmob robbers. The fact is that rather than keep traffic moving they more often obstruct it as they demonstrate their flair of abusing the limited authority they have.

The traffic management aid serves no purpose useful whatsoever. Mayor Rham Emmanuel has apparently seen the light and taxpayers will no longer be saddled with their costly and unnecessary existence.

Perhaps these people can find work removing the horribly expensive concrete plant boxes constructed on miles of Chicago’s streets that have endangered drivers, obstructed the orderly flow of traffic and more importantly our emergency vehicles that need all the room that gen get.

Jobs programs are fine as long as they address work that the taxpayers actually need.

Washington’s Marxist Spending Orgy Goes Unchecked!

Washington, DC—With 535 overpaid opportunists controlling our tax money the American experiment is about to crumble. The American taxpayer has lost control over his government well beyond the point of enslavement.

Communists, socialists and a vast voting block of hyper-breeding, entitlement addicted parasites have stolen our freedom and destroyed the American way of life.

This destruction of a once great nation where everyman had a birthright to the American dream has evaporated.

Politicians campaign on a pledge that they will protect the taxpayers and once elected take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. That changes instantly as they sell out and pander to Wall Street bankers and anyone feathering their beds. These political whores enter the halls of congress as middle class Americans and become multi-millionaires overnight.

Even some of the so called “Tea Party” politicians have already fallen under the spell of cold hard cash leaving their principals in the dirt. The majority in Congress are doing what they do best, extorting from the population.

Carrying the Party title of Republican has only become a vehicle used to confound and fool naïve voters.

The business of the government budget is a simple one that’s been complicated into a criminal conspiracy to bilk and defraud the working class population. Taking on endless debt to pay for things we don’t want or need to the detriment of the deserving is what has happened.

Our politicians have chosen to comprise away their self-respect to make deals with the devil so they may enjoy wealth most Americans will never dream about.

We have reached the point where American taxpayers need to simply say no and refuse to feed the monster. They can’t spend what we don’t send them. They can’t make war on taxpayers with an unfunded and hungry Army. The monster must be starved into submission or we can have a Civil War.

Truth and Treason—Can this Happen Here?

Hamburg, Germany—Young Helmuth Hubener was a typical Christian German lad but for being in the Mormon Faith. He joined the boy scouts and that progressed to the Hitler Youth in 1942.

Hubener obtained a radio and learned the shocking truth of what Adolph Hitler was doing to Germany by listening to BBC German language broadcasts. Getting caught listening to the forbidden broadcasts was a serious criminal offense.

The lad felt it was his duty to get the information out and did so with the help of two young pals and a typewriter. He got caught and at age 17 was brought before the notorious Nazi Judge, Roland Friesler at the People’s Court in Berlin (Today the modern Sony Center sits on the site of that terrible place) for a show trial.

Hubener’s fate was quickly sealed with a death sentence. He was brought to the execution chamber of Berlin’s Plotenzee Prison and beheaded by the guillotine for resisting the tyranny of the National Socialist Regime.

Young Hubener became one of thousands of good Germans that were arrested, tortured and murdered for revealing the closely guarded secrets of the Nazi atrocities.

It’s an undeniable fact that any government even ours could degenerate into a murder machine that the Nazis and Communists operated. We must zealously protect the Bill of Rights or live and die in a monstrous police state.

2012 will bring the premier of a film based upon the book by Susan Campbell Bartoletti called The Boy Who Dared. Haley Joe Osment (Sixth Sense) landed the starring role and if the trailer is any indication of how the film will play it’s bound to be a winner.

Watch the trailer below and after that is a video I shot this past March at the actual execution chamber where Hubener and thousands of other good German men and women was murdered by the Nazis.

Germany, Terrorism and Soft Targets

Berlin, Germany—Summer time in Berlin is always the right time to visit this city. Berlin has a blend or rich history, a modern skyline and no shortage of places to enjoy life. Berlin is truly an exciting city.

Berlin is also a soft terrorist target. Germany has never fully recovered from the stain of the Nazi period and any strengthening of their police resources raises eyebrows everywhere. Government is not nor ever been the answer to terrorism anywhere. Government is never up to that task anyway.

The Sony Center is probably the most vulnerable soft target in this metropolis. The place is loaded with law-abiding, unarmed people waiting to be victimized. The police would arrive too late and be unable to respond to a major crisis here.

What is a better solution to deal with terrorism here and for that matter anywhere? The answer lies within the ranks of those law-abiding potential victims enjoying their visit.

Government must demand that citizenship responsibilities include a commitment for the defense of our cities and way of life. Law abiding citizens must be trained, armed and understand their duty to defend self, family, neighbors and country.

If only 15 percent of the visitors to the Sony Center’s law abiding visitors were trained and armed anyone attempting to attack would most likely fail with minimum innocent casualties. The citizens would have a fighting chance to survive and no traditional government force could out-perform the citizens already on the scene.

We don’t need police states with shock troops to control hard corps criminals and terrorists, just ordinary citizens with a strong commitment to public safety and a sense of duty.

Citizens must begin to rely on each other for necessary protection. The terrorists will always be able to outsmart government. Terrorists have always counted on governments to make sure their potential victims are unarmed and defenseless.

The Chicago Police Board Scam Has to End

Chicago, IL—The Chicago Police Board has more functions than punishing cops over allegations of misconduct. The reality is the board itself is a mystery operating in the shadows of City Hall. The Board has had a strong odor of major corruption for decades. It operates in total defiance of the principals of open government.

The board members are appointed and get paid handsomely whether they work or not. They only answer secretly, to their appointing authority. The board hearings are not publicly accessible, nor are the videos or transcripts of the proceedings.

The board is almost never present during discipline hearings and the Master of Ceremonies is a politically connected lawyer who is the appointed hearing officer. The hearing officer makes a recommendation and the board simply acts as a rubber stamp. The board members are supposed to view the video of the hearings at their convenience but there is absolutely no reliable evidence that they do that.

The board must come out of the shadows, be present at the hearings and act as the trier of facts.

Police Board decisions are too often reversed later in the courts because of denials of due process and the reality that they made conclusions that were against the manifest weight of the evidence. Millions of dollars in back pay must be unnecessarily awarded to exonerated cops for work never provided. That’s because the board consistently manages to violate the civil rights of the officers whose careers were on the Police Board’s carpet.

By the same token the politically connected officers with very troubling conduct histories get special protection from the board they don’t deserve.

The Chicago Police Board is a scam that exists only to give the appearance of a functioning organization to met out fair discipline and wherever else they have the authority over.

The board needs to be replaced with a new commission that operates transparently. The men and women of the Chicago Police Department deserve nothing less than a real commission staffed with dedicated members operating in the sunshine.

There is an Extraordinary Acting Coach in Santa Monica, CA

Santa Monica, CA--Graham Beckel has been acting professionally for 40 years. He played a corrupt LAPD sergeant in Hollywood Confidential, an admiral in Pearl Harbor and hundreds of other roles. Beckel is a consummate pro, who’s always in demand for those special parts.

Savvy actors seeking to hone their skills all need a place to work their scenes and become primetime perfect. Beckel has created a great lab for actors and works with them from very young beginners to mature veterans.

Beckel’s goal is to help actors be all that they can be and he’s a really gifted teacher that will make that happen. Those fortunate enough to live near Santa Monica can visit the Santa Monica Playhouse on Tuesday nights, enroll in Beckel’s classes and experience the magic.

The details of Graham Beckel's acting class can be found at: http://www.grahambeckel.com/

Between the student’s scenes Holly Gleason performs live music and last night Graham who was also blessed with a great voice sang a duet with Holly. I shot that number called L.A. Dawn which was written by Beckel with my video camera and placed it here for your enjoyment.

The Drew Peterson Prosecution May have Finally Ended

Joliet, IL—Retired Bolingbrook police sergeant, Drew Peterson has been held in jail on a $20 Million bail bond for more than two years. He was charged with killing his third wife Kathleen Savio. She was found dead inside the bathtub of her locked home. Peterson and Savio were embroiled in an ongoing divorce at the time of her death.

Savio had hired a locksmith to change the locks and Peterson did not have a key. There was no forced entry found at this home at the time of her death,

Depending on whom you may want to believe, Savio died from an accidental fall or was murdered by an intruder. There is no physical evidence that ties Peterson to the death of Savio. Savio’s family members stand to profit if Peterson is ever convicted of killing Savio. That damaging hearsay evidence was blocked by the Illinois Court of Appeals yesterday from admission in the pending criminal case against Peterson.

There is a serious lack of evidence now and trying Peterson now would result in an acquittal. It would be a waste of time and tax money to prosecute this case. The real damage of trying Peterson is that should they ever find any compelling and admissible evidence they would be unable to re-arrest or try Peterson again.

Peterson fourth wife Stacy Peterson suddenly vanished after telling a friend she wanted to disappear in a plan to escape her unhappy marriage. In that case there is no evidence of any kind that would shed light on where she might be or her condition.

The true crime aficionados have set the gossip machine in overdrive with theories about these unsolved mysteries. Their prevailing opinion is that Peterson is a double murderer that deserves maximum punishment. Thankfully these people cannot dictate away our Bill of Rights.

I’ve said before that I’m not clairvoyant and tell you for sure that Drew Peterson did not kill anyone. Nor can any known witness tell us what really happened to either of Peterson’s wives.

The only reasonable thing to do is release Peterson until there is some genuine evidence of his having killed someone. There is no statute of limitations on murder.

Peterson with have anything but an ideal life once he is freed until this mystery is solved clearing him. I don't see that happening during his lifetime.

This may however place some Hollywood film producers into a litigation quagmire if they continue on with their project that appears to be labeling Peterson as a murderer. Profiting on Peterson’s name and likeness will suddenly become very risky at this particular juncture.

Here is the Court’s Opinion:

Peterson Appeal Opinion