Sometimes when you are looking into the rabbit hole you notice the most odd connections and associations; Every once in a while they are a little funny… Too.
Baby boomers grew up with and know Ben Vereen ; American Actor, dancer, and singer who carved out quite a resume for himself. Vereen was born in 1946 in Miami Florida and trained on stage. Vereen is credited with numerous broadway shows, television programs and films.
Most notable film roles include song-and-dance men in Funny Lady and All that Jazz. He appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode, “ Papa’s Got a Brand New Excuse”, in which he played Will Smith’s biological father. He starred in the television series “Tenspeed and Brown” but is best know for his role as “Chicken George” Moore in Roots.
Ben Vereen was nominated for a Tony Award for Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972 and won a Tony for his appearance in Pippin in 1973. Recently Vereen coached singing sensation ” Usher” as an entertainer and actor.
What does Ben Vereen have to do with the Trayvon Martin case? ……
Perhaps this update is best contrasted against the concept of “Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon“. The associations highlighted explain how Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s dad, was put into contact with Benjamin Crump, the proverbial head of the “scheme team”, and along the way the cast of characters is quite interesting.
As well as one seeking political office in Miami-Dade.
Natalie Jackson, Benjamin Crump, Daryl Parks
Mr. Trayvon Martin was not the only person creating a well, shall we say, “colorful“, on-line and in-real-life social style. Indeed, the new age social media platform(s), in all their unintended varieties, provide an odd connectivity to even the most embarrassingly public of profiles. Especially when running for political office 😉
Here is an odd story of association that stems from within this Reuters article:
[…] [Bill] Lee, the police chief, would contend under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law that police could not arrest Zimmerman without evidence to contradict his story. [Tracy]Martin turned to Patricia Jones, his sister-in-law.
An attorney herself, she knew whom to call: Benjamin Crump, the state’s best-known civil rights attorney, based in Tallahassee. Crump and law partner Daryl Parks had previously gained renown representing the family of a black teenager who died in a boot-camp-style youth detention center in 2006, winning the boy’s family $7.2 million in damages from the state of Florida and Bay County.
[…] During a break in the hearing, Crump noticed messages from Tyrone Williams, another attorney he knows, and Jones. They urgently asked for his help. Soon Jones put him in touch with Tracy Martin. (article)
We know Daryl Parks, well sorta, and we know Benjamin Crump quite well. But who would Tyrone Williams be, and what about Patricia Jones, how did/do they connect?
The background here is well, apparently a little “colorful“, humorous a bit, and perhaps “salty” in the, well, social scene and trail.
Tyrone W. Williams shows up as on a list of endorsements for Daryl Parks bid to become President-Elect of the National Bar Association.
The Parks Endorsement List includes names such as:
- His law partner Benjamin Crump, naturally expected.
- State Senator Chris Smith (Broward/Palm Beach) who we outlined is the protegé’ from Broward NAACP President and Trayvon funeral director Richard Kurtz.
- Greg Francis, Past President Paul C. Perkins Bar Association (Orlando) who is also the decision maker lawyer behind the Pigford Lawsuit Settlement, also the guy who hired Ryan Julison for Pigford PR, and most importantly Francis is a Partner with John Morgan, in the firm Morgan and Morgan. John Morgan is a massive Obama campaign donor, and supporter.
- There are a whole bunch of more lawerly people on the endorsement list…….
….. And a guy named Roderick D. Vereen, whose name rang familiar from prior association research. More on that in juuuuuuuust a moment.
The guy who reached out to Benjamin Crump was Tyrone Williams. Tyrone W Williams is an attorney and was, perhaps still is, the General Counsel for the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) in Miami-Dade, and is highlighted in this article discussing internal conflict between the PBA and Miami State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle:
YAHOO – The increasingly sour conflict between Police Benevolent Association President John Rivera and State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle is spilling into court just months before her fall reelection bid.
His 6,500-member Dade County PBA has sued Rundle, demanding she hand over records that back up claims she made about prosecuting and convicting hundreds of public employees — including crooked cops.
Rundle reported in the February SAO Review that the state attorney’s office prosecuted 294 police officers, corrections officers and public officials during the previous six years, leading to 140 criminal convictions in the past two years.
Rivera, a county police sergeant, said he and his colleagues were so shocked by the statistics that they filed a public records request under Florida law with Rundle’s office to confirm the numbers. When her office did not respond to their March 29 request, the association sued in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on Wednesday to force the turnover of the records.
[…] Rivera talked with PBA general counsel Tyrone Williams, a former state prosecutor, about suing Rundle’s office because they both thought she was inflating her crime-fighting statistics on public corruption for political gain at the expense of law enforcement officers.
“You give people the impression that all these guys are dirty and all these guys are bad,” Williams said. Williams said he filed the suit because he wants to get a better handle on the number of reported prosecutions and convictions of police officers. He first grew frustrated with Rundle’s office after he received a response May 8 to his initial public records request.
“A document detailing this statistic does not exist,” Alvera Pritchard, an administrative records custodian, wrote to Williams. “The data was gathered manually for the article [by Rundle], through a compilation of several sources. The result represents an aggregate total of different figures.”
Williams followed up his records request with several more.
“They are in good faith,” he said. “There is no intent on our part to embarrass her.” (article)
So Tyrone Williams, the guy who called Benjamin Crump to represent Tracy Martin was, and maybe is, the legal counsel for the Miami-Dade PBA. Now, Tyrone Williams and Roderick D Vereen are pretty good pals it appears, and they have been for quite a while. They are quite social together in the Miami-Dade Social scene as outlined in this 2005 article:
Black professionals meet at District – Upwardly mobile young blacks are carving out a niche for themselves in Miami-Dade’s business world.
[…] This indoor-outdoor restaurant/bar was full of life, and it was the happening place for the evening. This is where all the upwardly mobile young professionals have chosen to go every other Wednesday night. I could see why. These young black folks were listening to Brazilian music, drinking the latest drinks, passing out business cards and getting to know one another.
For more than a minute, I saw Miami’s future. It was bright, smart, articulate and educated. The folks in attendance ranged from successful young attorneys like Rod Vereen, Tyrone Williams and Regine Monestine to nonprofit executives like Lisa Joseph of the Overtown Youth Center. (more)
Rod Vereen (left) Rufus Curry (Center) Tyrone Williams (Right)
Tyrone Williams’s great pal Rod Vereen ran for congress in 2010 and lost to Fredrica Wilson.
But he’s not done running for public office. He has re-entered the political scene this year with a campaign for Miami-Dade State Attorney.
And who do you think he’s facing off against?
Yep, remember that Miami-Dade Attorney General that Tyrone Williams was suing as counsel for the PBA? BINGO!
Katherine Fernandez Rundle
Katherine Fernandez Rundle Miami-Dade Attorney General and Florida Governor Rick Scott host a roundtable in Miami
Katherine Ferandez Rundle has been in office since 1993 when she replaced Janet Reno as Miami-Dade Attorney General and she has won all her elections since 1996, including an unopposed election in 2008.
So apparently Rod Vereen is facing quite a challenge to unseat a popular Attorney General and take office. But he has some high-profile friends to support him , including a recent visit from Jesse Jackson on the anniversary of the Los Angeles Rodney King Riots April 29th, which Vereen highlights on his Facebook Campaign page.
MIAMI HERALD – The Rev. Jesse Jackson preached Sunday afternoon in Miami-Dade County about the importance of teaching young people the importance of voting, the continued battle against racism and the controversial shooting of Trayvon Martin.
Inside the 93rd Street Community Baptist Church in West Little River, to about 200 people in the pews, the civil rights leader opened his remarks with, “Long live the spirit of Trayvon Martin.”
It was a bit late in the afternoon for a Sunday service, but that didn’t stop the congregants from singing and praising the Lord.
Most came dressed in their Sunday best. It wasn’t hot, but fans were passed out to them, bearing bright red words that declared, “Be a responsible voter!”
Jackson, 70, spoke of key points in black history. He pointed out that Sunday was the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots — days of violence that followed the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers involved in the beating of Rodney King.
King was black. The police officers and the jury that acquitted them were not.
Now, Jackson pointed out, the country grapples with another question: What happened in the shooting death of Trayvon? The Miami Gardens 17-year-old was fatally shot Feb. 26 in Sanford, near Orlando, by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer. Trayvon was unarmed. (read more)
So the circle, yet again, completes around politics.
Benjamin Crump was contacted by Tyrone Williams a Miami Lawyer who endorses Daryl Parks and is best friends with Rod Vereen who is running for Attorney General in Miami against the defendant of Williams former lawsuit filed on behalf of the PBA. Whew, GOT IT…. I think.
Rod Vereen (left) Rufus Curry (Center) Tyrone Williams (Right)
But Mr. Williams and Mr. Vereen might want to clean up a few embarrassing loose internet threads from their exploits as, well, *ahem* to be discrete, quite social, before the Team of Mrs. Rundle showcase their:
2011 “Tricked Or Treated…… A Sexy Halloween Party”
A night of fun, sensuality and alter egos. COSTUME ONLY!!!! A Public Event · By Tyrone W. Williams and Roderick D. Vereen
The other person Tracy Martin reached out to was Patricia A Jones who Tracy describes as his sister-in-law according to this Reuters article:
Patricia A Jones, age 47, aka Patricia A Taylor, aka Patricia A Vereen:
Patricia A Vereen married to Harris V Vereen Jr. on January 4th 1989.
July 29th, 2000 – Sun Sentinel: Police Identify Suspects Shot By Officer – The two men wounded Thursday by a Miami-Dade police officer were driving a car owned by the mother of a teenager they had just robbed outside a Walgreens in Carol City.
They were among four crime suspects, none of them armed, who were shot by police in the county in three unrelated incidents Wednesday and Thursday.
A day after the Carol City shootings, police identified the suspects and the officer, 10-year veteran Terrence White, 31, who has been temporarily placed on administrative leave.
“This is our normal procedure, as much for the officer’s sake as for an investigation,” said Miami-Dade Detective Nelda Fonticella. “It’s a pretty traumatic event for the officer who fires a weapon.”
It was not immediately known if White had ever been involved in any other shootings, but his personnel file shows several reprimands, counseling, and a couple days suspension for such departmental infractions as falsely reporting in sick and not answering his pager.
The robbery suspects shot by White were identified as Harris V. Vereen, 34, of 3961 NW 191st St., and Rudolph Silas, of 18410 NW 43rd Court. Fonticella gave Silas’ age as 34, but Jackson Memorial Hospital spokeswoman Lorraine Nelson said his chart lists him as 25.
By late Friday, police still would not say which of the men was driving the car. Nor would homicide investigators say how many shots White fired or how many hit the men. Silas was listed as critical in the hospital’s trauma intensive care unit Friday after several hours of surgery the day before. Vereen, who was recovering in a regular hospital room, was in good condition after initially being listed as critical and then serious.
According to Fonticella, Vereen and Silas had left the Walgreens parking lot at 18300 NW 37th Ave. and were stuck in traffic after grabbing a 16-year-old’s purse and keys to her mother’s 1994 Acura Integra shortly after 9 a.m.
White, who was also waiting in the traffic line, got out of his squad car and walked up to the men after several frantically waving bystanders pointed to them, Fonticella said.
As the officer, who was on routine patrol in the area, approached the car from behind, the driver threw it in reverse and tried to run down the officer, Fonticella said.
White fired several shots, jumped back in his car, and gave chase as the suspects turned the corner and sped west on 183rd Street after first ramming a black Hyundai to clear an escape path.
The wounded suspects cut across an Amoco station at 47th Avenue and were going north when they crashed into a wall at 184th Street, police said. One was captured at that spot, the other at 187th Street and 42nd Place, where he collapsed after a foot chase. (article)
The Patricia Jones described by Tracy Martin as his sister-in-law was married to Harris Vereen, the brother of Rod Vereen who is the best friend of Tyrone Williams.
She is also a friend of Tracy Martin and connected through the various civic groups they participate in. Tracy Martin as District Grandmaster for the International Free and Modern Masons, and Patricia Jones as Chairman of Trustees for the order of Eastern Star.
Although I am unsure how that makes Patricia Jones the “sister-in-law” of Tracy Martin, one thing is certain: Patricia Jones reached out her ex-brother-in law, Roderick “Rod” Vereen to contact his friend Tyrone Williams the former state prosecutor and PBA counsel.
It was on her behalf that Tyrone Williams reached out to his friend, Benjamin Crump from Parks and Crump esq. Patricia Jones was married to Rod Vereen’s brother. The brother, Harris Vereen, who was arrested and shot by the police in the 2000 article above.
Rod Vereen now 50 is running for Miami-Dade District Attorney, and Harris Vereen now 47, brothers, are listed as living with their mother, Florence Vereen, 74, at the same address on North 191st, Opa Locka (Miami Gardens) Florida.
So knowing the brother-in-law tie to Rod Vereen, it is not surprising that Patricia Jones is highly supportive of Roderick Vereen’s run for office, as she indicates on the Facebook page of Seminole Masonic Lodge #291 which is intently supporting their brother.
Patricia Jones highlights this article:
MiamiHerald – For the first time in eight years, longtime Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle has an election opponent.
This time it’s Miami criminal defense attorney Roderick Vereen, who on Monday filed to run for the seat of the county’s top prosecutor.
Like Fernández Rundle, Vereen is a Democrat. If no independent or Republican candidates file by Friday’s qualifying deadline, the two would square off for the seat outright during the Aug. 14 primary.
“I want to be a professional prosecutor who will make fighting crime my number one priority,’’ Vereen said Monday night trough a spokesman. “That’s why I’m running. That is what is lacking. I want to be a prosecutor, not a politician.” (more)
Apparently Katherine Rundle would have been the Prosecuting District Attorney against Patricia Jones’s husband, Harris, at the time of his arrest. Harris’s brother, Roderick, is now seeking the position held by the prosecutor of his brother.
*man, someone could write a book….
Also, by association, the Seminole Chapter of the Organization of Eastern Star #10, where Sister Patricia Jones is Chairman of Trustees, is aligned with Seminole Masonic Lodge #291 where Rod Vereen is a Brother.
And that is how they all tie together.
Brother Tracy Martin called Sister Patricia Jones, she in turn called her ex-brother-in-law, Roderick Vereen. Rod Vereen contacted his pal Tyrone Williams, and together Williams and Jones were put in touch with Benjamin Crump as the article outlines.
During Rod Vereen’s failed 2010 congressional race we discover the following Salon.Com article – Ben Vereen the actor, and Roderick Vereen, are cousins.
Born 17 years later (than Ben) , Roderick carved out quite a resume for himself as a lawyer advocating on behalf of various minorities and underprivileged.
Defense attorneys Albert Levin, attorney for defendant Patrick Abraham, left, Nathan Clark, attorney for defendant Rotschild Augustine, center, and Roderick Vereen, attorney for defendant Stanley Phanor prepare to leave federal court in Miami (Picture from AP)
Rod Vereen went up against the Bush Administration in his defense of Stanley Grant Phanor “Brother Sunni”, during the “Liberty City 7” terrorist trials.
[Wiki] The charges centered around the group’s belief that they were being offered money by someone in Yemen to help their mission in Liberty City provided they supported the Al Qeada jihad. The FBI agents represented themselves as representatives of al-Qaeda (but who were actually undercover FBI agents), and persuaded Batiste to provide plans for a stated intention to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago, the FBI field office in Miami, and other targets.
Around March 16, 2006, along with Patrick Abraham, Stanley Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Burson Augustin, Lyglenson Lemorin, and Rotschild Augustine, Batiste met with the “Al Qaeda representative,” swore an oath of loyalty to Al Qaeda and discussed plans to bomb the FBI building in five cities.
Tried three times with two attempts ending in mistrials. Eventually the cases resulted in 5 guilty verdicts, including Vereen’s client Stanley Phanor convicted of two counts of providing material support for terrorism.
After Losing the 2010 congressional race to Frederica Wilson, Rod Vereen outlined a part of his ideology in a speech given to a local church where he delivered the keynote address:
[…] Although I am a democrat, I changed party affiliation to that of a non-party affiliation, referred to as an independent, when it was time to qualify. In the beginning, there were 13 of us vying for the Congressional seat. At that time, I was not satisfied with either political party, Democrat or Republican.
I am not one of those voters that vote party line simply for the sake of the party. Reverend Al Sharpton once said that we (referring to African Americans) are about the party that is about us.
Historically, Blacks used to be mainly Republicans until the Republican Party stopped being about Blacks. We must also be mindful the Ku Klux Klan started in the Democratic Party. Born as a pro-slavery political party under Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic Party maintained a pro-slavery-anti black American stance through the 19th century. After the Civil War, the Democratic Party gave birth and nurtured the first Ku Klux Klan and supported Jim Crow laws and customs. And while history is history, over the years, the Democratic Party, including Thomas Jefferson, changed its and his position on slavery and the treatment of the “Negro.” Ergo, the shift by Blacks to the Democratic Party.
So here’s the 64,000 dollar question. Does social action work? And if it does, what kind of social action do we need today? For starters, yes, social action works but only if it is organized social action. Attorney H.T Smith proved that when he organized a boycott in Miami because the City of Miami Beach snubbed Nelson Mandela. When the City realized that it was going to lose millions of dollars it met the demands of the folks in charge of the boycott and as a result the Royal Palm Hotel, the first black-owned hotel on South Beach, owned by Don Peebles, became a reality. So, we have proof that it works.
The social action needed today is what is termed “Instrumental action” (also known as value relation, goal instrumental ones): actions which are planned and taken after evaluating the goal in relation to other goals, and after thorough consideration of various means (and consequences) to achieve it. The boycott was organized with a goal in mind. Cause the city to lose money and your demand will be met. There’s no better time to make demands then when hard times exist. We are in an economic recession. Miami-Dade County relies on tourism in a major way, yet we don’t use the economic recession to our benefit. Blacks are still spending more than any other race of people on the average, yet the services our community get is far less than that of our counterparts. Recently there was an issue regarding the lack of street lights in certain areas of Liberty City. Yet, there was no social action. (more)
More Here – and – Here – and Twitter Here – and Smooth Operator Here –
Hat tip to a Treeper who wishes to be anonymous, but did much of the investigative research help in connecting all of these dots and searching the trail.
You know who you are….
Like MichaelNotMike pointed out a couple of days ago these self-important, mirror-gazing, always-get-my-way legal geniuses really don’t have a clue about social media and the innertubes, and that whole sticky wicket of retrievable data.
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And meanwhile back in court. They railroad every poor black guy who can’t pay his traffic ticket. A trial is unheard of. A ticket is over 200 bucks nowdays. The South Florida jails are full of poor blacks who can’t pay the fines much less get insurance to get to a job. What a mess. Let’s Party.
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That’s ugly business. That sounds like the jails of Madagascar where individuals (including women and children) going about daily marketing business can be jailed at the whim of an officer…without trial. And they are left there until someone’s in the mood to release them.
What blacks in authority do to “their own people” in this country is apparently not that much different than the kind of destruction rained down on the African continent by the thugs who took office/power/resources/money/influence after colonialism evaporated in the 1970’s. Self-haters. There is something so twisted in all of this.
At the same time, gotta be careful about generalizations, because we also know of the Lloyd Marcuses, the Walter E. Williamses and the Clarence Thomases; but the minute I say that, I realize their lives actually confirm the point, because they are hated by other blacks for not toeing the line.
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Gee, why does my heart not bleed for these people? All they need is there welfare card, and they are out. $200 bucks would still leave them enough money to buy more drugs, on the taxpayer’s dime.
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Well they usually plead broke.
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They sure did delete Saint Skittles’ various personae rather quickly, though!
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Those Prince Hall freemasons must be the most stupid people on planet earth. An all black fraternity, they just *think* they are part of the Grand Lodge. They’re wrong of course. They are patently unwelcome into any of the old school, well established (and very racially exclusive) Lodges of Freemasonry. Let ’em try and gain entry! Just try. Double-dog dare. Oh, and who was instrumental in starting freemasory here in the good ‘ole USA? T’was this feller by the name of – get this – Albert Pike. One of the original founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Prince Hall members include Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charles Rangel. And now Tracy Martin. My. Oh. My.
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It is the International Free and Accepted “Modern” Masons, Inc. Isn’t that kinda like the “New” Black Panthers?
There are so many, black member only, groups that it makes your head spin. I wonder what would happen if there was an organization called something like “NWCP” or perhaps the “Congressional White Caucus.” There is an organization for black only police chiefs, don’t remember the name. How about if there was an organization set up only for white police chiefs?
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Just to add to my comment, aren’t the blacks segregating themselves and at the same time screaming that segregation still exists in too many places? Education is one of the areas that those like Sharpton and Jackson are still claiming participates in segregation.
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Segregation appears to be okie-dokie when it comes from blacks themselves. For example….UCLA regularly has black-only graduation ceremonies on all their campuses.
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HUH???????
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When DD graduated from UCSB, they also held separate Black and Hispanic graduations.
For example…. http://asp.ucr.edu/events/Pages/blackgraduation.aspx
and… http://ccc.ucdavis.edu/programs/bgrad/bgrad.html
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UC Irvine just added an Indian one too…. http://www.commencement.uci.edu/
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I must be getting really old and stupid, ’cause I don’t unnerstand this at all. We all want to be treated the same as the crackers, but we don’t want to hang out with ’em. WTF. 👿
FEMA FEMA FEMA blizzard
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You got it Tex. When the DD had to hang around one extra summer to finish a make up class, she had to relocate to a new dorm room…one shared by 3 other Latinas. True story…picture on the inside of the front door read: “You’re either with us, or against us.” It was a long summer…..
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So what happened to this big melting pot of diversity? The minorities scream bloody murder when they feel they are not appreciated/included in some things, but then ban any non-minority from their sacred organizations/ceremonies/activities? No wonder most of them have brown eyes, they are drowning in their own bullsheet.
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It’s only evil when whites do it – when anyone else does, it’s perfectly normal and acceptable, if it exists AT ALL!
After all, only whites can be “racist” – so a bunch who call themselves “The Race” and opely teach / advocate for the supremacy OF their race cannot be racist, because they’re not white.
Does that make sense?
Only to a Leftard…..
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We had freemasons in the USA long before the Civil War. Washington and Franklin were freemasons, for instance.
ADD:
“In 1733, Henry Price, the Provincial Grand Master over all of North America for the London Grand Lodge, granted a charter to a group of Boston Freemasons. This lodge was later named St. John’s Lodge and was the first duly constituted lodge in America.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Freemasonry
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1) Tracy Martyr is *NOT* a Prince Hall Mason.
2) The “racial” thing is officially over, and I’ve seen old hard-heads be expelled for expressing racist beliefs. That said, PH Masons have a long proud history of their own and no desire to blend it away – bottom line is that your claim is inaccurate.
3) Masonry existed in (what would become) the US for 200+ years before Albert Pike was even born. He WAS instrumental in the rejuvenation of the “Scottish Rite” appendant-body – but that’s not the same thing. As to the Klan – that’s a vicious lie that continues to be repeated by the malignant and the ignorant. I’m going to assume you’re the latter…
Show me a legitimate history with any evidence that Pike was involved with the Klan, or be man enough to apologize for slandering a good man and millions more by association.
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It was in 1905 that the Neale Publishing Company, New York and Washington, published Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment, written and edited by Walter L. Fleming, incorporating earlier published material by J.C. Lester and D.L. Wilson. Historian Walter Fleming’s introduction to this 1905 book explains that he has been given “information in regard to Ku Klux Klan, by many former members of the order, and by their friends and relatives.” Dr. Fleming states that “General Albert Pike, who stood high in the Masonic order, was the chief judicial officer of the Klan.” On a page of illustrations of important founders of the KKK, Dr. Fleming places General Pike’s portrait in the center, makes it larger than the six others on the page, and repeats this information as a caption: “General Albert Pike, chief judicial officer”. Dr. Fleming attaches as an appendix to his book, a KKK “prescript” or secret constitution which had then recently been discovered. This document sets forth the regulations of the Klan’s “judiciary”‘ department, over which Albert Pike ruled. This is the internal disciplinary or counterintelligence department. It also corresponds to Pike and the Klan’s influence over the regular court system and the legal profession in the post-civil War southern states.
Start there.
Slandering whom, exactly?
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Professor, Albert Pike did not start Freemasonry in AMerica, even a non’mason should know that. There are different forms of Masonry professor, and the system of Albert Pike is only one of many. George Washington, and many other signers did not practice the system that was around, but is now associated with Albert Pike.
3 words, 1 paragraph 4 sentences.
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Did Washington precede Pike? Well of course, but then again, so did Napolean and Jean Lafite. Freemasonry went underground and was practically non-existent after the murder of Captain Morgan in 1829. Enter Mr Pike.
Here’s my point: Blacks are not welcome in white lodges. Period. Why on earth would any black person want to be part of such a racist organization?
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Are you sure it isn’t the International Order of the Friendly Sons of the racoons? All that’s missing is Ralph Cramden and Ed Norton.
By Laws Follow:
Official club greeting (Bylaws, sec. 2)
The handshake involved touching elbows (first right then left), followed by a “Woooooo” sounding cry as they wiggled the raccoon tail on their lodge hat. They ended by chorusing: “Brothers under the pelt.”
Club songs
Alma Mater
From the hallowed streets of Greenpernt,
To the shores of Sheepshead Bay,
From the Verrazano Narrows,
To Canarsie across the way…
We have come together, one and all,
In fellowship to commune,
And to glorify the Grand Exalted
Brotherhood of Raccoons. [Howl]
Marching song
In the West and in the East
There’s a mighty little beast
For courage there is no other.
When the chips are all at stake
We are proud to call him brother.
So with our noble tails entwined
And a spirit strong of mind
We’ll have hearts that cannot melt.
In the forest, in the trees
On the land or seven seas
We’re brothers under the pelt.
Raccoons, the noble Raccoons
Membership requirements (Bylaws, sec. 2)
– US citizen for the last six months
– have a public school diploma (or law degree)
– pay a $1.50 initiation fee.
Raccoon of the Year privileges
– Opening the first clam at the annual clambake
– Steering the boat on the annual ride up the Hudson River to Raccoon point.
– Free burial with spouse at Raccoon National Cemetery in Bismark, North Dakota.
– Opportunity to run for Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler.
– Throwing the first bag of water out of the hotel window at the Raccoon convention.
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Hey, Treepers! This has possibilities. I wonder if we should establish The International Order Of The Exalted Treehouse or something.
You might not know about this, Wertie Jones, but there’s a legend in these parts about a certain Puddy Tat and a raccoon that went by the name o’ Ricky. It’s always been difficult (and touchy) to get the details…but there is a legend, as I say.
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Now stop it Sharon!!!!
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Ralph Cramden for Grand Poohbah!
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I’ve always wondered what the story was about Ricky. I’ve seen a couple of references, but talk about it get shut down pretty fast. Must be good. 😉
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And I’ve never understood what the backstory was about SD and PEZ.
Do some of the Treepers just like PEZ around the campfire? Or is there a secret International Order of PEZ dispenser collectors in the Treehouse with a secret handshake? If so, it’s pretty secret, since I haven’t been able to snag an invitation!
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Mysteries. Everywhere. Like the partisans in the forests of Europe, each participant has only the smallest piece of the puzzle. Which is why we will never be able to meet for a Wolverine Banquet. Just can’t. That’s all there’s to it. Can’t be done.
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I’ll bet he don’t have THAT one.
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I always feel dirty after I read one of these. The whole situation seems very incestual.
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Makes you want to take a shower, doesn’t it?
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Yes. With Lava soap:)
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Well at least the patricia Jones angle is solved.
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I’m going to have to go and try to re-digest with the added info…..it’s almost impossible for normal Americans to fathom all the instinctive preplanning and genetic (in a political sense) conditioning these people have. So when an opportunity turns up (or they make an opportunity to turn up) boy howdee..they are ready to rumble.
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What was being held in the one picture caught my attention. I ended up doing a search on it and was led to this site. 1weekgig.com/reviews.htm There I noticed that there was a reference to the Florida A&M marching band as well as a review by Florida A&M band director Julian White, both of which have been in the news lately. With the retirement of Julian White being announced today.
http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/in-wake-of-hazing-1435428.html
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http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/05/george-zimmerman-did-he-shoot-trayvon-martin-in-self-defense–75855.html
Media starting to turn in Zimmerman’s favor.
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Agreed…. It’ll never reach the next phase….. It’ll be dropped.
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You may get to finish it. The recording in this piece says that the feds re interviewed witnesses and “new and separate charges may be filed”? Who Scott Thuman and why is he here from DC?
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/05/george-zimmerman-did-he-shoot-trayvon-martin-in-self-defense–75855.html
this is the previous link from above
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Interesting that the report mentions TM circling the vehicle. ‘Taafe shows us what he says eye witnesses told him happened that night in the Twin Lakes neighborhood…”He’s parked here, the vehicles in this direction and he watches Trayvon come down here, stares at him out his window and according to George he circles around the car here and he heads back off in this direction here”…’
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They have a very weak case with what is publicly known, and we have every reason to believe the only evidence that has not been released to the public is exculpatory evidence. (initial witness statements definitely, and possibly although not likely, TM’s toxicology report)
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Mark Nejame on new Zimmerman family photo: “He really has significant multiracial, multicultural roots”
http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/10/mark-nejame-on-new-zimmerman-family-photo-he-really-has-significant-multiracial-multicultural-roots
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I predict the other side will ignore this. Many people do not have the ability to admit, let alone even comprehend, they were wrong.
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oh wow…. this is Mark Nejame doing the 180 degree…. did you catch what he said… because Mark Nejame has just come out and said he has concluded that there is no racial motive.
The Corey case against Zimmerman should be toast…. and very burnt toast!!
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Well we know the team scheme is not going to like the local residents telling the truth of what happened…..
With millions of dollars at stake and a rabid pitchforked lynch mob looking for retribution….I expect there will be real witness intimidation.
I’m hoping the original witness statements were taped. I believe I read somewhere they were signed depositions, which is also good. I’ve already seen multiple witnesses who refuse to show their face on camera. I wonder which side they are fearful of….that was a rhetorical question.
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I don’t believe Patricia jones is really Tracy Martin’s sister in law. I can’t find the connection anywhere. Maybe I’m wrong though.
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I think he means “sister” as in the OES connection.
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The Patricia Jones fb page that “likes” the article referencing Rod Vereen and is a Tracy Martin fb friend, both covered in your post, is also Tracy’s brother, Stephen’s, fb friend.
http://www.facebook.com/stephen.martin.9634
She also pops up on Kevin’s fb as a friend. Kevin posted a tribute to TM signed, “uncle Kevin.”
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000363999647
A people search for Stephen O. lists a “Martin, Patricia” amongst relatives/associates:
Martin, Christen E
Martin, Deloris W
Martin, Kevin Lacarte
Martin, Miriam A
Martin, Benjamin C
Martin, M
Martin, Patricia
Martin, Benjamin
Kevin Lecarte r/a:
Martin, Stephen O
Martin, Cora Mae
Martin, Christen E
Martin, Deloris W
Martin, Tracy B
Martin, Angela
Martin, Jacqueline D
Martin, Benjamin
Tracy B. r/a:
Martin, Cora Mae
Martin, Kevin Lacarte
Martin, Georgia D
Martin, Sandy K
Martin, D V
Martin, Jacqueline D
Christen E(bony) Martin … sister?
http://www.facebook.com/Ebony.Martin.McClain
Parents?
People Who Inspire Ebony
Benjamin & Deloris Martin
http://www.facebook.com/Ebony.Martin.McClain#!/pages/Benjamin-Deloris-Martin/212076808818408
Benjamin & Deloris Martin
Public Figure
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All of this is giving me a headache.
I am glad to see that Team Skittles is being exposed by and are in serious retreat.
As this ripples through the public sphere, more people are beginning to “see” through the overt machinations and manipulations of this incident.
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Found this website. http://sandrarose.com/2012/03/did-trayvon-martin-call-911-before-he-was-shot/
This is the first I read about this, and I didn’t see any mention of it in the updates. Is this just a whole lot of bunk, or is there something to this? Sounds like it was just an error in reporting, but the fact that it was completely scrubbed from the internet seems odd.
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that is because he did not call 911. If you look at the alleged records the 911 call was 3 days after Trayvon Martin died. Was he a ghost when he made the call?
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Stale news from March 28. If it were true, it is just more construction of the false narrative.
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SD you need to check out that CNN story with Mark Nejame…. I think that this might be big….
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It definitely indicates that the media has turned the corner – yet the comments there are FULL of idiots talking about “he even told the dispatcher he was only following TM because ‘he’s up to no good – he looks black’…”
Even after NBc admitted the edit and fired three people for it, there are still MILLIONS of morons who believe the lie it told!
Mark my words – there WILL be riots, and people WILL die!
I hope I’m wrong – but I hope if I’m NOT that at least it will be THE STUPID ONES!
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Goggled Patricia A Jones Eastern Star. She or someone with her name seems to be very active in different states.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patricia-jones/a/390/58bhttp://www.linkedin.com/pub/patricia-jones/a/390/58b
Food Service Director Eastern Star Church Indianapolis Indiana.
http://www.faqs.org/tax-exempt/CA/Order-Of-The-Eastern-Star-Of-Calif-Prince-Hall-Rite-Of-Adoption.html
This one is a branch in California
http://www.savannahtribune.com/news/2009-07-22/Social_%28and%29_Community_News/Savannah_District_1_Order_of_Eatern_Stars_Tiajuana.html
This MAY be a photo of her. There is another Patricia Jones in the Eastern Star that lives in Valdosta Ga. She died the year after this photo was taken. She though was a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy. I also think the caption is wrong. She is on the left not the right. The crown winner is not Patricia, and she is not mentioned anywhere I could see in the article.
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Indiana/Indianapolis/the-eastern-star-missionary-baptist-church-inc/53300730.aspx
The corporate wiki “diagram of people involved in the Indianapolis Eastern Star Church she is listed as working for.
And she is part of the Florida Eastern Star. She is an officer in 3 totally different locations.
I can’ say if that is normal for people in the Eastern Star etc. Though I don’t think it is normal from personal knowledge of relatives (white).
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Mr. Martyr’s “masonic lodge” is illegitimate – considered “clandestine” by pretty much everyone involved in mainstream Freemasonry. Bottom line: it’s a shady bunch.
Typically, “PHA” (Prince Hall Affiliated – a “historically black” masonic organization) are fully recognized and legitimate though there are exceptions to that too – I’ll see what I can learn…
What’s odd is (1) ANY bonds of friendship between those in a legitimate and another involved in a clandestine Masonic organization. Just doesn’t happen, usually…
More disturbing to me is the open endorsement of a political candidate by a Masonic group. In short, Masonry is designed to foster “Friendship, Morality and Brotherly Love” among its members. It is for this reason that a few things are PROHIBITED from any :
1) Women.
2) Sectarian religion
3) Politics.
I’m sure that if one were to make a list of “things most likely to cause men to get in fights” those three would head the list – hence their prohibition.
I know in all Masonic jurisdictions of which I am familiar, the endorsement of a candidate or party would earn the Lodge and its Officers a reprimand, at a minimum!
Lastly, I cringed when I read the quote from the “candidate”:
“…yet the services our community get is far less than that of our counterparts…”
HORRY cLAP!
Seriously – this is a demonstration of this man’s grasp of the mechanics of his native language?
This man graduated Law School, passed a Bar Exam and is qualified to be a State’s Attorney?!
“…yet the services our community get is…” — SERIOUSLY?!
God help us…
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Maybe unrelated, but found this when I googled Vereen and Sharpton.
https://twitter.com/#!/vereencorp
John Vereen @Vereencorp
I think Al Sharpton is the wrong Guy foe the Trevon deal. Same thing with Jesse Jackson. Just don’t think they represent the right strategy
9:18 PM – 27 Mar 12 via Twitter for Android
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….the right “strategy”….. ?? HUH??
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Out of the blue, “Trevon deal” and “strategy” … odd choice of words for a food tweeter. Then he goes on to dis the Rev$.
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I have a question. Is the reporter Weiner related to the Briebart Weiner?
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I wonder how far into the black Mason hole Tracy Martin went. This far?
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By the way I am now officially pissed off at the O’Mara George Zimmerman Legal Case Facebook page as they removed my comment in response to their post on the gun range target meant to represent Trayvon Martin. They wrote;
“We have had numerous media requests asking us to respond to reports that an unidentified person has produced a gun range target meant to represent Trayvon Martin. We feel we must go on record as stating that we unequivocally find this appalling and disgusting in every regard. It is an insult to the Martin family, it inflames the already heated social tension surrounding the George Zimmerman case, and it represents an irresponsible approach to gun ownership. It is this type of hatred that will make it more difficult to try this case.”
My response to them on Facebook was “While you’re in the mood for condemnation you might want to extend it to folks like this” then I left a link for the video I posted above.
They removed that comment and another persons comment in response to mine.
I replied with “Am I to take the removal of my comment to mean O’Mara is willing to condemn the supposed flaming of hatred coming from whites but will not do so in the overt and obvious flaming of hatred coming from blacks? My comment was apt and relevant to this, even more so as Tracy Martin is also a Mason which begs the question if he raised Trayvon in the same manner. So be it.”
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I know that Obama was trying to turn us into Zimbabwe, but I’m pretty sure even Zimbabwe doesn’t allow this kind of race hate speech.
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May 11, 2012 at 9:49 pm
This is part of the last ditch efforts of the Obama Democrats and their criminal press and their (lL)Legal Ambulance chasers. They will stoop to any subterfuge, fabricate any slander and murder by proxy, physically and ethically. Zimmermans response should be how can I get my life back and 2 billion dollars that the liberal press owes me for bringing horrendous, egregious defamation of character that may be terminal for him. Shame on the (In)Justice Department for their renegade political hits. To all people I say we have to hold responsible those who use this to foment race war. War it is. War it shall be. unless responsible citizens stop the madness. Is this the country we leave our progeny?
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