If the anemic California GOP doesn’t have this bit of audio already cued into their possible ads against Jerry Brown’s almost certain run for CA governor again, they need to be tarred and feathered. At least certainly replaced.
Allegedly, Attorney General Moonbeam promised to investigate ACORN after investigative tapes produced by O’Keefe and Giles surfaced on San Bernardino, Los Angeles and San Diego; but he also opened an investigation into O’Keefe and Giles at the same time. ACORN spokesman David Lagstein subsequently bragged the fix was in and Brown’s office had told him “the fault WILL be found with the people that did the video — not ACORN.”
More than 20,000 internal ACORN documents were unceremoniously carted out of ACORN offices and into a dumpster. The documents included all manner of sensitive information including Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and credit card statments. Yet, Jerry Brown’s rambling interview goes everywhere but to ACORN’s malfeasance in dumping these documents. Indeed, at 2:20 Jerry Brown makes this jaw dropping statement
You are supposed to have a little privacy in your garbarge can. As a matter of fact there was a case that I … um …. that I handles when I was a very young lawyer back in the sixties where the police went and looked in somebody’s garbarge can and they found some marijuana cigarettes and, ultimately, the US Supreme Court threw it out because they said you have an expectation of privacy in your garbage can.
This man is California’s Attorney General yet he either doesn’t remember that the ruling in California v. Greenwood is the exact opposite of what he states, or he’s lying in order to create a sympathetic climate in which to go after the whistleblowers on ACORN’s criminal activities.
Either way, this man whose election as AG was legally questionable and has the documents from his prior stint as California governor locked way for fifty years is clearly demonstrating he is more interested in partisan politics than in doing what is right.
Comment by guinsPen on 11/28 @ 10:26 am #
they need to be tarred and feathered.
At least certainly replaced.And run out of town on a rail.
Comment by ccoffer on 11/28 @ 10:42 am #
Leftists are the scum of the earth.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 11/28 @ 10:55 am #
Incompetent.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/28 @ 10:58 am #
Well, I guess he can kiss Governor Moonbeam Redux goodbye…
Comment by No one you know on 11/28 @ 12:22 pm #
Former mayor of Oakland white washing ACORN and going after the people that exposed them? The hell you say……….
Comment by Republican on Acid on 11/28 @ 12:42 pm #
Califonia Uber Alles
Comment by geoffb on 11/28 @ 12:47 pm #
It’s not that he doesn’t remember or that he is lying either. Memory, as with history is plastic for the Left. It will always change so as to enable the Utopian future that is the one fixed, unchangeable, truth in their universe. Thus no lies, and his memory is working perfectly at it’s main job, shifting all of reality into the service of the “Cause”.
Comment by SDN on 11/28 @ 12:48 pm #
SSDD: it’s not a floppy drive format. And boy did I just date myself.
Comment by geoffb on 11/28 @ 1:04 pm #
“And boy did I just date myself.”If you don’t mention paper tape then you’re not too dated.
Comment by sdferr on 11/28 @ 1:22 pm #
I’ve got IBM punchcard boxes in the garage.
Comment by geoffb on 11/28 @ 1:24 pm #
80s or 96s?
Comment by sdferr on 11/28 @ 1:26 pm #
Damned if I know geoffb, they’re my Dad’s. Circa 1963, if that helps any.
Comment by geoffb on 11/28 @ 1:38 pm #
80s then, 96s came in the 70s. Early 70s all my local college offered in computer was COBOL and FORTRAN both using IBM 80 column cards and batch mode for your computer interaction, Bleeah I thought.
Then discovered that the tech center had a Dec PDP something, running BASIC on teletype machines with paper tape for data storage. No one in charge of keeping people out, running 24/7, so I had a toy to play with. Fun but not job inducing since I wasn’t near any big tech centers like Silicon Valley. Still neat and was it ever addictive.
Comment by SDN on 11/28 @ 1:48 pm #
#9: Paper tape was what I wrote my first program on in high school at a local university “advanced students” deal.
Comment by sdferr on 11/28 @ 1:57 pm #
I’ve been looking for an image of the things online but haven’t found one yet, oddly enough. Dad used to bring home a stack of three or four of the boxes filled with programs he needed to debug, and of course reams of paper. Many’s the night he’d take over the dining room table to pour over code trying to figure out what the heck was wrong. In ‘61 he took me downtown to a basement computing center IBM dedicated to the Mercury project. Whirring cabinets of magnetic tape and boxes of lights, it was all a mystery to me (I was eight) and truth to tell, still is.
Comment by geoffb on 11/28 @ 2:13 pm #
80 column card though most I saw were not blue just plain.
Comment by SBP on 11/28 @ 2:16 pm #
Q. How was Thomas J. Watson buried?
A. Face down, nine edge first.
(if you get this joke you are officially an Old Bastard)
Comment by sdferr on 11/28 @ 2:17 pm #
Image of a box, I should have said. Nice steel box, hinged lid, leather handle at the narrow end, labeling slip underneath the handle.
Comment by sdferr on 11/28 @ 2:18 pm #
What the room looked like.
Comment by geoffb on 11/28 @ 2:26 pm #
Perhaps this?
Comment by sdferr on 11/28 @ 2:28 pm #
Nope. Much more like an ammunition box (nearly the same color, even), though only a little less rugged.
Comment by geoffb on 11/28 @ 2:32 pm #
I can picture in my head what you are describing but I have only seen the cards in cardboard boxes. But then a college student’s data wasn’t vital except to them.
Comment by sdferr on 11/28 @ 2:32 pm #
Ach, my memory got the better of me there, geoffb, apologies. The damned things are as grey as the day is long. Don’t know what got me thinking they were green.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/28 @ 4:28 pm #
The way these port-side pols are running interference for this outfit, you’d think that Bertha Lewis knows where more than a few bodies are buried. This might get very interesting before all’s said and done.
Comment by SDN on 11/28 @ 6:05 pm #
Back to the topic of the post: what can one actually do about stuff like this. I suppose one could file criminal cases or lawsuits against the AG on the grounds they aren’t performing the duties of the office, or not providing equal justice under the law. A follow on to that is to simply commit the exact same offenses and dare them to prosecute; if they do, then the “not providing equal justice” argument would seem obvious.
Of course, the other thing that happens in situations like that is an increase in vigilantism. Maybe that’s the idea.
Comment by geoffb on 11/28 @ 9:12 pm #
OT: This should get a look. From a link in comments at Belmont Club.
“The Markit Group: A Black-Box Company that Devastated Markets”
Comment by Rusty on 11/29 @ 7:51 am #
14.Comment by SDN on 11/28 @ 1:48 pm #
#9: Paper tape was what I wrote my first program on in high school at a local university “advanced students” deal.
It was THE way to program machine tools. I remember at one time I had 3 Friedan Flexowriters. Ah. good times.
Comment by LTC John on 11/29 @ 7:12 pm #
Why should the AG of the most populous state in the union be expected to know the current (post-1988) state of the law, SCT precedent and all that jazz….sheesh.