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Friday, October 19, 2018

Caravana Migrante Take Two....


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Yesterday I finished the blog around 6:30pm, came back at about 11:30pm to add some more links and as I was editing, the entire blog just vanished. So, we'll try to pick up the pieces and BTW, it has been the Mexican News sources who have been covering the Caravana Migrante  for weeks, finally the US MSM jumped in very late in the evening...and with no explanations of why this is happening, so let's do a little refresher course:

Bolsonaro's Twin Brother




Good basic summary of historical events. Of course the US government will not address these issues, instead, today Trump called the migrantes "criminals". 

The Conversation
How US Policy in Honduras set the Stage For Today's Mass Migration
By, Joseph Nevins

~~~~~


Yesterday, La Jornada's Elio Henriquez reports a growing distrust of the migrantes towards the Mexican authorities, who at this point had flooded the area like gangbusters with two airplane loads of between 200-300 Federal Police to support the Immigration authorities.  And it should be mentioned that two of the leaders of the migrantes had already been arrested with reports coming in that at least one of these leaders was beaten along with the migrantes around him by the Mexican Federal Police.

10/18/18: 6:57pm

From La Jornada
Authoridades Ofrecen a Migrantes Entrada Legal a Mexico
Por, Elio Henriquez

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Authorities offer migrants legal entry to Mexico

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San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chis. 

 The ambassador of Mexico in Guatemala, Luis Manuel Lopez Moreno said that "Mexico is respectful of the rights of migrants and mobility," so "we are offering under the Migration Law, a documented entry, with a passport and visa , and if not, an entry with the request for refuge and humanitarian aid.
 
In a collective interview, he said that from this Thursday "people can go to the international bridge", located on the border between Mexico and Guatemala, to be served.
Before the interview, the diplomat went to the park of Tecún Umán to provide this same information to the approximately 500 Honduran migrants who remain in that place waiting to make a decision and the arrival of more compatriots.
 
After hearing it, the Hondurans rejected the offer because they believe it could be a measure to "sign" them and deport them.
An activist who did not give his name said that "what the government wants is to have their data, their names, to pass that information to the United States so that, if any one arrives at the northern border, they will be signed" .
 
Lopez Moreno said that "it will be treated case by case, with or without immigration documentation. We would make the effort to attend to the largest number of people per day, but I can not give a precision of how many. "
 
- At the outset, the government had said that it would not allow the passage, except to those that presented the migratory documentation - a reporter told him.
-That has never been said by the government of Mexico.
- The commissioner of the Federal Police (Manelich Castilla Craviotto) said it.
- We talk about cases in which they do not want to follow the law's regulations, but they are opening the possibility that it is in accordance with the law that the procedures for entry into Mexico can be done on a regular basis.
 
Lopez Moreno said that in the case of people who request refuge, they may be in the immigration station when they are given the attention to continue the process. They would be as long as necessary.
"If they put up with us and give us the times, of course" Mexico has the capacity to give shelter to the caravan's members, he said.
 
-The governor, Manuel Velasco Coello said that there is free transit in Chiapas.
-Very simple: First you must go to the immigration authority to enter the country; will be served by Migration.

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At about 9:00pm yesterday David Brooks summed up the day, including Trump's outrageous outbursts:

From La Jornada
Trump Exige a Mexico Detender La Caravana Migrante
Por, David Brooks 

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Trump requires Mexico to stop the migrant caravan

New York. For the commander-in-chief of the United States, a caravan of families and their children are a threat to national security that warrants a military response and the closing of borders.
President Donald Trump demanded today that Mexico stop the caravan of approximately 4 thousand people from Honduras and Guatemala to Mexico in order to reach the United States, and threatened that if that does not happen it will send military troops to the border to close the line with Mexico.
 
In a series of tweets this morning, Trump accused the Central American countries and the Democrats, by continuing to use the issue of the caravan for electoral purposes. "I am watching the assault led by the Democratic Party (because they want Open Frontiers and the existing weak laws) on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, whose leaders are doing little to stop this great flow of people, INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS, of enter Mexico into the United States. "
 
In response, he threatened: "In addition to suspending all payments to these countries that seem to have almost no control over their populations, I must, in the strongest terms, request Mexico to stop this attack - and if it is unable to do so I will call the military from the US and I WILL CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER! "
 
It concluded in a third tweet: "the assault on our country in our southern border, including the criminal elements and the drugs that are dumped there, is much more important to me, as president, than the trade or the USMCA. I hope Mexico will stop this onslaught on its northern border. It's all the fault of the democrats for weak laws! "
 
But tonight, Trump thanked Mexico in a tweet: "Thank you Mexico, we look forward to working with you!" He wrote referring to a video shared by Karla Zabs, a Twitter user who commented: "Two planes filled with anti-riot equipment landed near the border between Mexico and Guatemala this morning.
Meanwhile, Trump is sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Mexico this Friday to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray and the next Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard, where the theme of the caravan will be "prominent", according to high State Department officials.
 
The issue of the increase in the flow of immigrant families on the border, including the caravan, apparently provoked an intense shouting exchange this afternoon inside the White House between Chief of Staff John Kelly and National Security Advisor John Bolton. According to government sources, Bolton favors a tougher line and criticized Internal Security Secretary Kirsjten Nielsen (who was Kelly's second when he headed that secretariat), and Trump supposedly sided with Bolton, generating more speculation about the future of Kelly.
 
The issue has obsessed Trump who has said he is contemplating separating children from their parents again.
 
For its part, the government of Mexico today requested the intervention of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to support the attention of refugee applications in the southern border of Mexico.
 
Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray addressed the issue in his meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres this afternoon and in comments to reporters before the UN shortly after, stressed that the objective of this aid is to ensure "transparency" and promote a "humanitarian" solution with the help of the international community.
 
Asked about Trump's statements and threats, Videgaray minimized them, noting that "we must understand the political moment in which the United States finds itself and put President Trump's statements in this context," indicating that there will be intermediate elections in this country in three. weeks "I do not think we should give them more weight ... Mexico already has a lot of experience in understanding statements of this kind on the part of President Trump and we do not negotiate ... diplomacy ... through twitter. What interests us is that those who approach our border have the treatment that they should have under Mexican law and international law and above all, humane treatment. That's why we are here at the UN. "
 
He said that on Friday they will receive Pompeo and assured that "the relationship with the United States is much greater than an isolated event like this caravan". He stressed that the caravan "is very important for those who come in the caravan who are literally risking their entire lives for a better future" but that the bilateral relationship is "an unparalleled dimension" in the world "and therefore a single fact how can this not be the center or axis that determines what the future of the relationship is?
 
But Trump's anti-immigrant message has made the issue among the most important for Republican voters according to polls, and in the last weeks before the midterm elections on November 6 - when Republican control of both houses of Congress is at stake - Immigrants as a threat is part of the campaign propaganda of Republican candidates throughout the country. CNN estimated that candidates and party committees have spent more than $ 150 million on television spots related to migration (more than five times the total of the 2014 midterm elections)."

~~~~~

Which leads us to today's events, the storming of the gates by the migrantes - who were obviously spooked when the word got out that one of their leaders and some of their compadres had already been beaten up by the Mexican Federal Police in addition to enduring the burdens of tortured lives in their homeland.  Most recent reports at the moment are that order has been restored.  But not forgetting the past and present instances of the mano duro we need to really keep our eyes on this situation. 

Here then are pictures, reports and videos from today :

From Proceso:

Historical video for their progeny: 

 La Osadia Hondurena 



Migrantes Hondurenos Rompen Cerca Fronteriza, la PF Los Contrene, y Les Alistan "Visa Humanitaria" (Video)
Por, Isain Mandujano - 10/19/18 


~~~~~

From Aristegui Noticias:

All Reports & videos

 ~~~~~

Proceso


~~~~~ 

La Jornada 


~~~~~

Feel free to add updates & reports; I'm a basket case; my knee is killing me and Mike gave me this horrible weird deep from the jungle cold probably from ancient bacteria released by stripping the rain forests and I haven't had a cold in at least ten years. Meanwhile, the bible:

From The Intercept:

The War On Immigrants

All eyes are on Saudi Arabia, hoping for some good interviews regarding the present Caravana Migrante:

Democracy Now ! 

Democracy Now|Immigration 

Democracy Now|Honduras


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Caravana Migrante Take Two....


Yesterday's blog which vanished into thin air, pasted from the sidebar:


Post settings

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#Immigrantes, Caravana Migrantes

Schedule

10/18/18, 6:23 PM
Pacific Daylight Time

Options


 
Yesterday I finished the blog around 6:30pm, came back at about 11:30pm to add some more links and as I was editing, the entire blog just vanished. So, we'll try to pick up the pieces and BTW, it has been the Mexican News sources who have been covering the Caravana Migrante  for weeks, finally the US MSM jumped in very late in the evening...and with no explanations of why this is happening, so let's do a little refresher course:

Bolsonaro's Twin Brother




Good basic summary of historical events. Of course the US government will not address these issues, instead, today Trump called the migrantes "criminals". 

The Conversation
How US Policy in Honduras set the Stage For Today's Mass Migration
By, Joseph Nevins

~~~~~


Yesterday, La Jornada's Elio Henriquez reports a growing distrust of the migrantes towards the Mexican authorities, who at this point had flooded the area like gangbusters with two airplane loads of between 200-300 Federal Police to support the Immigration authorities.  And it should be mentioned that two of the leaders of the migrantes had already been arrested with reports coming in that at least one of these leaders was beaten along with the migrantes around him by the Mexican Federal Police.

10/18/18: 6:57pm

From La Jornada
Authoridades Ofrecen a Migrantes Entrada Legal a Mexico
Por, Elio Henriquez

Pasted for you:

Authorities offer migrants legal entry to Mexico

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San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chis. 

 The ambassador of Mexico in Guatemala, Luis Manuel Lopez Moreno said that "Mexico is respectful of the rights of migrants and mobility," so "we are offering under the Migration Law, a documented entry, with a passport and visa , and if not, an entry with the request for refuge and humanitarian aid.
 
In a collective interview, he said that from this Thursday "people can go to the international bridge", located on the border between Mexico and Guatemala, to be served.
Before the interview, the diplomat went to the park of Tecún Umán to provide this same information to the approximately 500 Honduran migrants who remain in that place waiting to make a decision and the arrival of more compatriots.
 
After hearing it, the Hondurans rejected the offer because they believe it could be a measure to "sign" them and deport them.
An activist who did not give his name said that "what the government wants is to have their data, their names, to pass that information to the United States so that, if any one arrives at the northern border, they will be signed" .
 
Lopez Moreno said that "it will be treated case by case, with or without immigration documentation. We would make the effort to attend to the largest number of people per day, but I can not give a precision of how many. "
 
- At the outset, the government had said that it would not allow the passage, except to those that presented the migratory documentation - a reporter told him.
-That has never been said by the government of Mexico.
- The commissioner of the Federal Police (Manelich Castilla Craviotto) said it.
- We talk about cases in which they do not want to follow the law's regulations, but they are opening the possibility that it is in accordance with the law that the procedures for entry into Mexico can be done on a regular basis.
 
Lopez Moreno said that in the case of people who request refuge, they may be in the immigration station when they are given the attention to continue the process. They would be as long as necessary.
"If they put up with us and give us the times, of course" Mexico has the capacity to give shelter to the caravan's members, he said.
 
-The governor, Manuel Velasco Coello said that there is free transit in Chiapas.
-Very simple: First you must go to the immigration authority to enter the country; will be served by Migration.

~~~~~ 

At about 9:00pm yesterday David Brooks summed up the day, including Trump's outrageous outbursts:

From La Jornada
Trump Exige a Mexico Detender La Caravana Migrante
Por, David Brooks 

Pasted for you:

Trump requires Mexico to stop the migrant caravan

New York. For the commander-in-chief of the United States, a caravan of families and their children are a threat to national security that warrants a military response and the closing of borders.
President Donald Trump demanded today that Mexico stop the caravan of approximately 4 thousand people from Honduras and Guatemala to Mexico in order to reach the United States, and threatened that if that does not happen it will send military troops to the border to close the line with Mexico.
 
In a series of tweets this morning, Trump accused the Central American countries and the Democrats, by continuing to use the issue of the caravan for electoral purposes. "I am watching the assault led by the Democratic Party (because they want Open Frontiers and the existing weak laws) on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, whose leaders are doing little to stop this great flow of people, INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS, of enter Mexico into the United States. "
 
In response, he threatened: "In addition to suspending all payments to these countries that seem to have almost no control over their populations, I must, in the strongest terms, request Mexico to stop this attack - and if it is unable to do so I will call the military from the US and I WILL CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER! "
 
It concluded in a third tweet: "the assault on our country in our southern border, including the criminal elements and the drugs that are dumped there, is much more important to me, as president, than the trade or the USMCA. I hope Mexico will stop this onslaught on its northern border. It's all the fault of the democrats for weak laws! "
 
But tonight, Trump thanked Mexico in a tweet: "Thank you Mexico, we look forward to working with you!" He wrote referring to a video shared by Karla Zabs, a Twitter user who commented: "Two planes filled with anti-riot equipment landed near the border between Mexico and Guatemala this morning.
Meanwhile, Trump is sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Mexico this Friday to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray and the next Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard, where the theme of the caravan will be "prominent", according to high State Department officials.
 
The issue of the increase in the flow of immigrant families on the border, including the caravan, apparently provoked an intense shouting exchange this afternoon inside the White House between Chief of Staff John Kelly and National Security Advisor John Bolton. According to government sources, Bolton favors a tougher line and criticized Internal Security Secretary Kirsjten Nielsen (who was Kelly's second when he headed that secretariat), and Trump supposedly sided with Bolton, generating more speculation about the future of Kelly.
 
The issue has obsessed Trump who has said he is contemplating separating children from their parents again.
 
For its part, the government of Mexico today requested the intervention of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to support the attention of refugee applications in the southern border of Mexico.
 
Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray addressed the issue in his meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres this afternoon and in comments to reporters before the UN shortly after, stressed that the objective of this aid is to ensure "transparency" and promote a "humanitarian" solution with the help of the international community.
 
Asked about Trump's statements and threats, Videgaray minimized them, noting that "we must understand the political moment in which the United States finds itself and put President Trump's statements in this context," indicating that there will be intermediate elections in this country in three. weeks "I do not think we should give them more weight ... Mexico already has a lot of experience in understanding statements of this kind on the part of President Trump and we do not negotiate ... diplomacy ... through twitter. What interests us is that those who approach our border have the treatment that they should have under Mexican law and international law and above all, humane treatment. That's why we are here at the UN. "
 
He said that on Friday they will receive Pompeo and assured that "the relationship with the United States is much greater than an isolated event like this caravan". He stressed that the caravan "is very important for those who come in the caravan who are literally risking their entire lives for a better future" but that the bilateral relationship is "an unparalleled dimension" in the world "and therefore a single fact how can this not be the center or axis that determines what the future of the relationship is?
 
But Trump's anti-immigrant message has made the issue among the most important for Republican voters according to polls, and in the last weeks before the midterm elections on November 6 - when Republican control of both houses of Congress is at stake - Immigrants as a threat is part of the campaign propaganda of Republican candidates throughout the country. CNN estimated that candidates and party committees have spent more than $ 150 million on television spots related to migration (more than five times the total of the 2014 midterm elections)."

~~~~~

Which leads us to today's events, the storming of the gates by the migrantes - who were obviously spooked when the word got out that one of their leaders and some of their compadres had already been beaten up by the Mexican Federal Police in addition to enduring the burdens of tortured lives in their homeland.  Most recent reports at the moment are that order has been restored.  But not forgetting the past and present instances of the mano duro we need to really keep our eyes on this situation. 

Here then are pictures, reports and videos from today :

From Proceso:

Historical video for their progeny: 

 La Osadia Hondurena 

Migrantes Hondurenos Rompen Cerca Fronteriza, la PF Los Contrene, y Les Alistan "Visa Humanitaria" (Video)
Por, Isain Mandujano - 10/19/18 
~~~~~

 From Aristegui Noticias:

 All Reports & videos

 ~~~~~

Proceso


~~~~~ 

La Jornada 


~~~~~

Feel free to add updates & reports; I'm a basket case; my knee is killing me and Mike gave me this horrible weird deep from the jungle cold probably from ancient bacteria released by stripping the rain forests and I haven't had a cold in at least ten years. Meanwhile, the bible:

 From The Intercept:

 The War On Immigrants

All eyes are on Saudi Arabia, hoping for some good interviews regarding the present Caravana Migrante:

Democracy Now ! 

Democracy Now|Immigration 

Democracy Now|Honduras


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Monday, October 15, 2018

"I Can't Even Remember What It Was I Came Here To Get Away From" - Dr. Mireles vs. Andre Vichek -- From Truth Out: The Total Failure of Trumps Drug War Policies - From Zeta: September Total Executions in Tijuana =215 - Zeta Reports October Execution Totals for Tijuana @ 99, YTD Total For TIJ = 1,978 - Developing Report on Padre Icmar Arturo Orta Found Murdered In Rosarito Beach

Another hanging body Blvd. 2000 courtesy Zeta



In his essay, "Can President -Elect Lopez Obrador Pull Mexico Out Of Its Slumber",  Andres Vichete says of Tijuana:


"In Tijuana I witness absolute misery, I visit multinational maquiladoras that pay only an equivalent of $55 USD per week to their workers, I manage to enter gangland, and I see how the US is building a depressing wall between two countries.


I spend hours listening to stories of Sra. Leticia, who lives just one meter away from the wall.

 “They are cutting across our land, and it harms many creatures who live here. It also prevents water from circulating freely.”
 “All this used to be Mexico. North Americans had stolen several states from us. Now they are building this wall. I visited their country on several occasions. And let me tell you: despite all our problems, I like where I am, at this side!”


Then, late at night, I listen to a man who knows his country from north to south, from east to west. We are sitting in a small café; sirens are howling nearby, another murder has just taken place. He faces me squarely and speaks slowly:


“Mexico has its back against the wall. This situation cannot continue. This is our last chance – Andrés Manuel López Obrador. We will rally behind him, we will help him. If he delivers what he promises, great; then Mexico will change and prosper. If not, I am afraid that our people will have no other choice but to take up arms.”
*

*****

In our neighborhood, we have not heard about the local Mexican people taking up arms, nor have we heard this from Mexican nationals we know throughout Baja California.  You might be saying under your breath - 'Well, they certainly aren't going to tell, you're a gringa." But we have heard from Mexicans and gringos alike who want desperately to leave.  We have heard and read that the Zapatistas and the EZLN have been anti-AMLO and anti-organized crime and the narcos from the very beginning, indeed are armed and aim to stay that way.  Even Padre Solalinde could not win them over.

 As I was reading Vitchek's piece and  his description of Tijuana, I thought - he is right, it is in a miserable state.  But then I thought back to last August and the Inez Garcia Ramos interview of Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles when he was in town; I'm going to paste this for you, it is important:


Dr. Jose Mireles in Tijuana courtesy Zeta


 Zeta
Mireles Dejo Las Armas, Ahora Buscan "Despertar Conciencias"
Por, Ines Garcia Ramos - 08/27/2018


Mireles left the weapons, now seeks to "awaken consciences"

After spending almost three years in prison, José Manuel Mireles rules out re-leading an armed movement. Now, the 59-year-old doctor travels the country collecting money to free 258 self-defense groups who are still imprisoned; meets with organized groups of civil society and criticizes the ruling class. Question: "Or do you conceive that a poor nation has billionaire rulers?"

José Manuel Mireles Valverde has changed short sleeve shirts and jeans for a dark suit and tie, but retains his traditional black hat. He is about to enter a gala dinner in Tijuana, where dozens of people await him.
\ 
As he has done in other cities, that night he will offer a talk, he will dedicate copies of his book to the assistants, with whom he will live some hours. The money raised will finance the legal defense of 258 self-defense groups that remain incarcerated in Mexico.
 
That's what Dr. Mireles is doing now. After spending two years and eleven months in prison, accused of carrying guns along with 69 members of his self-defense group, he ruled out re-heading an armed movement.
 
"I continue to build trenches and not just in Michoacán, but throughout the nation. No longer nothing more armed, it is not needed, now my trenches are with university students, academics, workers' organizations, peasants, "he said in an interview with ZETA .
The 59-year-old doctor regained his freedom on May 12, 2017, the day after a long legal fight, he was granted the benefit of bail, but during the time he was in prison he suffered three pre-infarctions and a heart attack. .
 
"The day I left the captivity, I professionally considered that I had fifteen days to live. I was wrong for three days, on May 24 I was already in Cardiology in Mexico, with a sudden attack, "he recalls.

"The solution is never for peoples to arm themselves," says the doctor

More than a year, Mireles is recovered. Having been acquitted of the crimes that led to his imprisonment, his case was closed, but nine of the men who were detained with him in a federal operation carried out in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, are still being held.
Although some of them had already obtained their freedom under bail, they were returned to prison when accused of stealing wire from a fence or because of errors in their homes, the doctor said.
 

Here is the interview of Dr. Mireles with ZETA: 

- In Mexico, is a self-defense more pursued than a narco?
 
"Sure, I saw them inside the federal prison. 90 percent of the inmates are not criminals, they are victims, those who must be imprisoned are their employers, those who ordered them to commit a crime, but those are not prisoners because they are the ones who eat breakfast with the authorities and that is why they never touch the jail"
However, for the former leader of the self-defense groups, a narco is not the same as a criminal. The distinction, from his reasoning, is that "a drug dealer is a provider of foreign currency, there are communities that have schools, drainage, electric light thanks to what you call narco "
 
- So, how do you call them?
 
"Since man left caverns and forests, the world was divided into two social classes, the civilized and the barbarians. The civilized learned to till the land to put the seed, to ensure their food through work. The barbarians were hidden in the mountains, the ravines or behind the walls, waiting for the harvest to be ready to be stolen. Now they are not civilized or barbarians, they are productive people and organized crime. Do you know some organized crime wretch who works? They have never worked in their bitch, they are watching, how much they earn and the day they are going to harvest they kill for their fortnight, even if it is one thousand pesos.
 
"I am not a narco, nor do I agree with the illegal practices of the people who are dedicated to that, but unfortunately, thanks to that, there are entire towns that can eat."
 
- Does the country's economic model have to change so that the narco stops fulfilling these functions?
 
"Simply and simply that the authority should carry out its work, that it detains all the children of the bitch who only dedicate themselves to stealing and killing for money. Among the best institutions established in the nation to provide security to the people, there is organized crime and crime. "
 
- What is the role you play now?
 
"Awaken consciences, nothing more. Yes today, everyone, from all social levels, academics, academics, workers, farmers, day laborers, farmers, entrepreneurs, if we start by awakening consciences, first inside our homes, then in our work places, in our schools, in our neighborhoods, streets, neighbors, compadres, relatives, friends, a time will come when we do not have to sell our soul to the devil, if we want to live well or live in a nation in peace. "
 
- Enrique Peña Nieto is months away from the Presidency, what is the balance left?
 
"More than 138 thousand murders in his period, more than 134 thousand disappeared. More than 40 thousand displaced families and still the very wretched, 90 days left to leave, and still takes out a loan of 10 billion dollars, for what ?, is not leaving a stable or solid health system. How is it possible for a magistrate to earn 600,000 pesos a month while a worker can take a house of 600,000 pesos to pay for it in twenty years? Or do you conceive that a poor nation has billionaire rulers? No, all that has to change. For that we voted 32 million Mexicans. "
 
- Do you think then that Andrés Manuel López Obrador can change that panorama?
 
"Not only he, we Mexicans are the ones who seek that change. We already achieved our first victory in the election, the gentleman does not have any magic wand to solve the problems of the nation, but he has the Mexicans that we want the change. I believed in him and I still believe in him. The change comes and goes hard. It is going to shake all the strata of society that were accustomed to rob the nation without working one day or giving anything in return to the country. "
 
- I already mentioned the more than 130 thousand homicides and disappearances, but do you think it is possible in terms of the relatives, of the victims, to give them justice? Can it be healed?
 
"Of course. If each citizen, in the activity that we have to develop, we do what belongs to us. That the magistrates, ministers and judges do their constitutional work, the public ministries, that the municipal police do and do not associate with organized crime to fuck the citizen, that everyone does their work and things do change. If constitutionally and based on Mexican jurisprudence, no Mexican citizen should be prosecuted or prosecuted when being detained far from his place of origin, but close to his family and friends to facilitate social reintegration. I asked the judge why they sent the Michoacanos to Sonora or why they send the Yaquis from Sonora to Yucatan, who are the main violators of the Law and of justice in this country? Those forced to enforce and enforce it, that is what has to change. Others can do the job as the police to take care of your neighborhood and your neighborhood, others can do the work of the best judges in Mexico. They have already demonstrated that their corruption is not only physical, it is intellectual, it is moral ".
 

- When did you realize that this transition was necessary? No longer to be armed or in the villages, but to leave ...
 
"Never, never the solution is that the civilians arm themselves to defend themselves, that's what the institutions are for, but since they never did it, we had to do it. I am fully aware that what we did was not right, but it was the only thing we could do if we wanted to stay alive. I do not care about property or productivity, but life. We have self-defenses in 23 states of the Republic, they do not necessarily have to arm themselves, they have to defend themselves, but if necessary, they have to do what is necessary. When justice is contravened by law, justice must prevail even if it comes out of the hands of the same people. "
 
VIOLENCE, AN INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM
 
Through Fundación Mireles, the former leader of the self-defense groups has visited states such as Oaxaca, Zacatecas and Querétaro, as well as Mexico City to give lectures on the self-defense groups.
So he came to Baja California, where in addition to holding private meetings with activists and businessmen in Tecate, Rosarito and Tijuana, he presented his book "Somos Autodefensas: El Despertar de un Pueblo Dormido", in which Mireles narrates the struggle he started in Michoacán in 2013
 
Since then, the surgeon became a symbol of civil resistance to the power of organized crime and in the shadow of the government. Not only in the events that people lead approaches to ask for a photograph, during the interview a woman recognizes him and shouts at him to greet him at a distance.
 
Others even take selfies with the doctor in the background, no matter if he is busy in an interview, in the middle of a conversation or signing a book.
 
After three days in Tijuana and hours before his flight leaves, Mireles still has time to attend this interview and talk with those who approach him, either to share his admiration, present projects and even to contribute money for his foundation. This is the case in almost every city that visits.
During the interview, Mireles talks about a town of six thousand inhabitants in Morelos to explain why the public assumes the tasks of public safety. "He was reviled, destroyed, exploited by thirty guys who are not even Mexican, extorting, kidnapping and executing people until they hung one of the extortionists on the flagpole. They had warned that 'delinquent we stop will be lynched' and they did not believe it. If there is no one to defend them and the people decide that this is their only solution, they will do it and nobody will stop them. That is why the institutions must fulfill their obligation. "
 
- In the states that you have visited, what is the common denominator that triggers insecurity, violence?
 
"Across the nation, it's an institutional problem. What was our war cry in Michoacán, after assassinations, kidnappings, dismemberments, rapes to our women: (we ask) efficient public security, a fair administration of justice that does not exist in the whole nation. Today there are 27 PRI bandit governors who looted the citizens, who gave the children the key water in the chemotherapy to cheat all the money and said that the chemists had cost them dearly. Don Gerardo, from Nayarit, who was put in jail for six years for stealing four cans of tuna to feed his children and the same day he entered prison; the one who stole 8 billion pesos from the Bank of Mexico and deposited a bond of 7 million dollars so that he would not be put in jail ... Is justice just for the fucked up? "

****

 

 

Speaking of arms here at just two seizures this month although it is unspecified which cartel group these belonged to:

 1.  10/12/18: El Rosario:

Frontera

Ejercito Decomisa Arsenal En El Rosario 

Por, Cesar Cordova


2.  10/15/18:  Puertecitos-San Felipe

El Vigia:

Decomisan Armas y Drogas En Puertecitos

Por, Luis Miguel Ramirez

*****

 

  Meanwhile, Janine Jackson covers another Trump failure with her interview of Hannah Hetzer:

From Truthout - with audio: - 10/13/18

"The Total Failure of Trumps Drug War Policies"

By, Janine Jackson, FAIR

*****

 

September Tijuana killings:

 I think I left off at 160 + people executed in Tijuana last month, add 55 more. Zeta reports the September total was 215  dead:

Zeta

Cierra Septiembre Con 215 Ejecutados En Tijuana 

 

*****

 

October Violence in Tijuana:

 

October used to be one of the most beautiful months in Baja California; now it is just dangerous.  No more camping, no one is on the beaches (especially here - they are contaminated) and you are constantly reminded you are living in a war zone.  There have been burned bodies, decapitated bodies, bodies stuffed dismembered into suitcases, bodies left on the highways and streets, another body hanging from a bridge on Blvd. 2000, authorities attacked , a Catholic Priest murdered.  These are the numbers just from Tijuana - I'll come back with the information  on the uptick in executions in Ensenada, and more in Rosarito Beach and the searches continue here in TIJ and Ensenada for the missing people whose numbers are not included as far as I know in these totals:

 

At 8:10am this morning Frontera reported there has been 88 people executed in Tijuana bringing the YTD total of people executed just in TIJ to 1,967:

 

From Frontera:

Falece En Hospital Tras Baleada

Por, Angel F. Gonzalez y Gustavo Suarez

*****

 

Then at 12:28pm today, Zeta reports there have been 99 people executed just in TIJ; if you take the difference between 88 and 99 and add it to the YTD TIJ total which Frontera gave us, that would make the YTD total just for TIJ  1,978 people dead.

 

From Zeta

Se Registran Ocho Asesinatos En Tijuana

 

*****

 

 The focus is on Padre Icmar Arturo Ortu, the parish priest from Tijuana whose body was found inside a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds in Rosarito Beach reported late yesterday.  (there were also 2 more executed in RB besides the Padre) This is a developing story:

 

From Frontera

Asesinan a Sacerdote de Tijuana

Por, Juan Carlos Ortiz

*****


 

Latest Policiaca News here:

Frontera Policiaca

 

 Zeta Tijuana 

 

***** 


 

As you can see, it's been bleak. It seems to be a strange loop, a paradox.


"Shadows are falling and I been here all day It's too hot to sleep and time is running away Feel like my soul has turned into steel I've still got the scars that the sun didn't let me heal There's not even room enough to be anywhere It's not dark yet, but it's getting there 

 

Well my sense of humanity is going down the drain Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind She put down in writin' what was in her mind I just don't see why I should even care It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

 

 Well I been to London and I been to gay Paree I followed the river and I got to the sea I've been down to the bottom of a whirlpool of lies I ain't lookin' for nothin' in anyone's eyes Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

 

 I was born here and I'll die here, against my will I know it looks like I'm movin' but I'm standin' still Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer It's not dark yet, but it's getting there" ~ Bob Dylan

 

***** 

 

 
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"I Can't Even Remember What It Was I Came Here To Get Away From" - Dr. Mireles vs. Andre Vichek -- From Truth Out: The Total Failure of Trumps Drug War Policies - From Zeta: September Total Executions in Tijuana =215 - Zeta Reports October Execution Totals for Tijuana @ 99, YTD Total For TIJ = 1,978 - Developing Report on Padre Icmar Arturo Orta Found Murdered In Rosarito Beach

Another hanging body Blvd. 2000 courtesy Zeta



In his essay, "Can President -Elect Lopez Obrador Pull Mexico Out Of Its Slumber",  Andres Vichete says of Tijuana:


"In Tijuana I witness absolute misery, I visit multinational maquiladoras that pay only an equivalent of $55 USD per week to their workers, I manage to enter gangland, and I see how the US is building a depressing wall between two countries.


I spend hours listening to stories of Sra. Leticia, who lives just one meter away from the wall.

 “They are cutting across our land, and it harms many creatures who live here. It also prevents water from circulating freely.”
 “All this used to be Mexico. North Americans had stolen several states from us. Now they are building this wall. I visited their country on several occasions. And let me tell you: despite all our problems, I like where I am, at this side!”


Then, late at night, I listen to a man who knows his country from north to south, from east to west. We are sitting in a small café; sirens are howling nearby, another murder has just taken place. He faces me squarely and speaks slowly:


“Mexico has its back against the wall. This situation cannot continue. This is our last chance – Andrés Manuel López Obrador. We will rally behind him, we will help him. If he delivers what he promises, great; then Mexico will change and prosper. If not, I am afraid that our people will have no other choice but to take up arms.”
*

*****

In our neighborhood, we have not heard about the local Mexican people taking up arms, nor have we heard this from Mexican nationals we know throughout Baja California.  You might be saying under your breath - 'Well, they certainly aren't going to tell, you're a gringa." But we have heard from Mexicans and gringos alike who want desperately to leave.  We have heard and read that the Zapatistas and the EZLN have been anti-AMLO and anti-organized crime and the narcos from the very beginning, indeed are armed and aim to stay that way.  Even Padre Solalinde could not win them over.

 As I was reading Vitchek's piece and  his description of Tijuana, I thought - he is right, it is in a miserable state.  But then I thought back to last August and the Inez Garcia Ramos interview of Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles when he was in town; I'm going to paste this for you, it is important:


Dr. Jose Mireles in Tijuana courtesy Zeta


 Zeta
Mireles Dejo Las Armas, Ahora Buscan "Despertar Conciencias"
Por, Ines Garcia Ramos - 08/27/2018


Mireles left the weapons, now seeks to "awaken consciences"

After spending almost three years in prison, José Manuel Mireles rules out re-leading an armed movement. Now, the 59-year-old doctor travels the country collecting money to free 258 self-defense groups who are still imprisoned; meets with organized groups of civil society and criticizes the ruling class. Question: "Or do you conceive that a poor nation has billionaire rulers?"

José Manuel Mireles Valverde has changed short sleeve shirts and jeans for a dark suit and tie, but retains his traditional black hat. He is about to enter a gala dinner in Tijuana, where dozens of people await him.
\ 
As he has done in other cities, that night he will offer a talk, he will dedicate copies of his book to the assistants, with whom he will live some hours. The money raised will finance the legal defense of 258 self-defense groups that remain incarcerated in Mexico.
 
That's what Dr. Mireles is doing now. After spending two years and eleven months in prison, accused of carrying guns along with 69 members of his self-defense group, he ruled out re-heading an armed movement.
 
"I continue to build trenches and not just in Michoacán, but throughout the nation. No longer nothing more armed, it is not needed, now my trenches are with university students, academics, workers' organizations, peasants, "he said in an interview with ZETA .
The 59-year-old doctor regained his freedom on May 12, 2017, the day after a long legal fight, he was granted the benefit of bail, but during the time he was in prison he suffered three pre-infarctions and a heart attack. .
 
"The day I left the captivity, I professionally considered that I had fifteen days to live. I was wrong for three days, on May 24 I was already in Cardiology in Mexico, with a sudden attack, "he recalls.

"The solution is never for peoples to arm themselves," says the doctor

More than a year, Mireles is recovered. Having been acquitted of the crimes that led to his imprisonment, his case was closed, but nine of the men who were detained with him in a federal operation carried out in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, are still being held.
Although some of them had already obtained their freedom under bail, they were returned to prison when accused of stealing wire from a fence or because of errors in their homes, the doctor said.
 

Here is the interview of Dr. Mireles with ZETA: 

- In Mexico, is a self-defense more pursued than a narco?
 
"Sure, I saw them inside the federal prison. 90 percent of the inmates are not criminals, they are victims, those who must be imprisoned are their employers, those who ordered them to commit a crime, but those are not prisoners because they are the ones who eat breakfast with the authorities and that is why they never touch the jail"
However, for the former leader of the self-defense groups, a narco is not the same as a criminal. The distinction, from his reasoning, is that "a drug dealer is a provider of foreign currency, there are communities that have schools, drainage, electric light thanks to what you call narco "
 
- So, how do you call them?
 
"Since man left caverns and forests, the world was divided into two social classes, the civilized and the barbarians. The civilized learned to till the land to put the seed, to ensure their food through work. The barbarians were hidden in the mountains, the ravines or behind the walls, waiting for the harvest to be ready to be stolen. Now they are not civilized or barbarians, they are productive people and organized crime. Do you know some organized crime wretch who works? They have never worked in their bitch, they are watching, how much they earn and the day they are going to harvest they kill for their fortnight, even if it is one thousand pesos.
 
"I am not a narco, nor do I agree with the illegal practices of the people who are dedicated to that, but unfortunately, thanks to that, there are entire towns that can eat."
 
- Does the country's economic model have to change so that the narco stops fulfilling these functions?
 
"Simply and simply that the authority should carry out its work, that it detains all the children of the bitch who only dedicate themselves to stealing and killing for money. Among the best institutions established in the nation to provide security to the people, there is organized crime and crime. "
 
- What is the role you play now?
 
"Awaken consciences, nothing more. Yes today, everyone, from all social levels, academics, academics, workers, farmers, day laborers, farmers, entrepreneurs, if we start by awakening consciences, first inside our homes, then in our work places, in our schools, in our neighborhoods, streets, neighbors, compadres, relatives, friends, a time will come when we do not have to sell our soul to the devil, if we want to live well or live in a nation in peace. "
 
- Enrique Peña Nieto is months away from the Presidency, what is the balance left?
 
"More than 138 thousand murders in his period, more than 134 thousand disappeared. More than 40 thousand displaced families and still the very wretched, 90 days left to leave, and still takes out a loan of 10 billion dollars, for what ?, is not leaving a stable or solid health system. How is it possible for a magistrate to earn 600,000 pesos a month while a worker can take a house of 600,000 pesos to pay for it in twenty years? Or do you conceive that a poor nation has billionaire rulers? No, all that has to change. For that we voted 32 million Mexicans. "
 
- Do you think then that Andrés Manuel López Obrador can change that panorama?
 
"Not only he, we Mexicans are the ones who seek that change. We already achieved our first victory in the election, the gentleman does not have any magic wand to solve the problems of the nation, but he has the Mexicans that we want the change. I believed in him and I still believe in him. The change comes and goes hard. It is going to shake all the strata of society that were accustomed to rob the nation without working one day or giving anything in return to the country. "
 
- I already mentioned the more than 130 thousand homicides and disappearances, but do you think it is possible in terms of the relatives, of the victims, to give them justice? Can it be healed?
 
"Of course. If each citizen, in the activity that we have to develop, we do what belongs to us. That the magistrates, ministers and judges do their constitutional work, the public ministries, that the municipal police do and do not associate with organized crime to fuck the citizen, that everyone does their work and things do change. If constitutionally and based on Mexican jurisprudence, no Mexican citizen should be prosecuted or prosecuted when being detained far from his place of origin, but close to his family and friends to facilitate social reintegration. I asked the judge why they sent the Michoacanos to Sonora or why they send the Yaquis from Sonora to Yucatan, who are the main violators of the Law and of justice in this country? Those forced to enforce and enforce it, that is what has to change. Others can do the job as the police to take care of your neighborhood and your neighborhood, others can do the work of the best judges in Mexico. They have already demonstrated that their corruption is not only physical, it is intellectual, it is moral ".
 

- When did you realize that this transition was necessary? No longer to be armed or in the villages, but to leave ...
 
"Never, never the solution is that the civilians arm themselves to defend themselves, that's what the institutions are for, but since they never did it, we had to do it. I am fully aware that what we did was not right, but it was the only thing we could do if we wanted to stay alive. I do not care about property or productivity, but life. We have self-defenses in 23 states of the Republic, they do not necessarily have to arm themselves, they have to defend themselves, but if necessary, they have to do what is necessary. When justice is contravened by law, justice must prevail even if it comes out of the hands of the same people. "
 
VIOLENCE, AN INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM
 
Through Fundación Mireles, the former leader of the self-defense groups has visited states such as Oaxaca, Zacatecas and Querétaro, as well as Mexico City to give lectures on the self-defense groups.
So he came to Baja California, where in addition to holding private meetings with activists and businessmen in Tecate, Rosarito and Tijuana, he presented his book "Somos Autodefensas: El Despertar de un Pueblo Dormido", in which Mireles narrates the struggle he started in Michoacán in 2013
 
Since then, the surgeon became a symbol of civil resistance to the power of organized crime and in the shadow of the government. Not only in the events that people lead approaches to ask for a photograph, during the interview a woman recognizes him and shouts at him to greet him at a distance.
 
Others even take selfies with the doctor in the background, no matter if he is busy in an interview, in the middle of a conversation or signing a book.
 
After three days in Tijuana and hours before his flight leaves, Mireles still has time to attend this interview and talk with those who approach him, either to share his admiration, present projects and even to contribute money for his foundation. This is the case in almost every city that visits.
During the interview, Mireles talks about a town of six thousand inhabitants in Morelos to explain why the public assumes the tasks of public safety. "He was reviled, destroyed, exploited by thirty guys who are not even Mexican, extorting, kidnapping and executing people until they hung one of the extortionists on the flagpole. They had warned that 'delinquent we stop will be lynched' and they did not believe it. If there is no one to defend them and the people decide that this is their only solution, they will do it and nobody will stop them. That is why the institutions must fulfill their obligation. "
 
- In the states that you have visited, what is the common denominator that triggers insecurity, violence?
 
"Across the nation, it's an institutional problem. What was our war cry in Michoacán, after assassinations, kidnappings, dismemberments, rapes to our women: (we ask) efficient public security, a fair administration of justice that does not exist in the whole nation. Today there are 27 PRI bandit governors who looted the citizens, who gave the children the key water in the chemotherapy to cheat all the money and said that the chemists had cost them dearly. Don Gerardo, from Nayarit, who was put in jail for six years for stealing four cans of tuna to feed his children and the same day he entered prison; the one who stole 8 billion pesos from the Bank of Mexico and deposited a bond of 7 million dollars so that he would not be put in jail ... Is justice just for the fucked up? "

****

 

 

Speaking of arms here at just two seizures this month although it is unspecified which cartel group these belonged to:

 1.  10/12/18: El Rosario:

Frontera

Ejercito Decomisa Arsenal En El Rosario 

Por, Cesar Cordova


2.  10/15/18:  Puertecitos-San Felipe

El Vigia:

Decomisan Armas y Drogas En Puertecitos

Por, Luis Miguel Ramirez

*****

 

  Meanwhile, Janine Jackson covers another Trump failure with her interview of Hannah Hetzer:

From Truthout - with audio: - 10/13/18

"The Total Failure of Trumps Drug War Policies"

By, Janine Jackson, FAIR

*****

 

September Tijuana killings:

 I think I left off at 160 + people executed in Tijuana last month, add 55 more. Zeta reports the September total was 215  dead:

Zeta

Cierra Septiembre Con 215 Ejecutados En Tijuana 

 

*****

 

October Violence in Tijuana:

 

October used to be one of the most beautiful months in Baja California; now it is just dangerous.  No more camping, no one is on the beaches (especially here - they are contaminated) and you are constantly reminded you are living in a war zone.  There have been burned bodies, decapitated bodies, bodies stuffed dismembered into suitcases, bodies left on the highways and streets, another body hanging from a bridge on Blvd. 2000, authorities attacked , a Catholic Priest murdered.  These are the numbers just from Tijuana - I'll come back with the information  on the uptick in executions in Ensenada, and more in Rosarito Beach and the searches continue here in TIJ and Ensenada for the missing people whose numbers are not included as far as I know in these totals:

 

At 8:10am this morning Frontera reported there has been 88 people executed in Tijuana bringing the YTD total of people executed just in TIJ to 1,967:

 

From Frontera:

Falece En Hospital Tras Baleada

Por, Angel F. Gonzalez y Gustavo Suarez

*****

 

Then at 12:28pm today, Zeta reports there have been 99 people executed just in TIJ; if you take the difference between 88 and 99 and add it to the YTD TIJ total which Frontera gave us, that would make the YTD total just for TIJ  1,978 people dead.

 

From Zeta

Se Registran Ocho Asesinatos En Tijuana

 

*****

 

 The focus is on Padre Icmar Arturo Ortu, the parish priest from Tijuana whose body was found inside a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds in Rosarito Beach reported late yesterday.  (there were also 2 more executed in RB besides the Padre) This is a developing story:

 

From Frontera

Asesinan a Sacerdote de Tijuana

Por, Juan Carlos Ortiz

*****


 

Latest Policiaca News here:

Frontera Policiaca

 

 Zeta Tijuana 

 

***** 


 

As you can see, it's been bleak. It seems to be a strange loop, a paradox.


"Shadows are falling and I been here all day It's too hot to sleep and time is running away Feel like my soul has turned into steel I've still got the scars that the sun didn't let me heal There's not even room enough to be anywhere It's not dark yet, but it's getting there 

 

Well my sense of humanity is going down the drain Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind She put down in writin' what was in her mind I just don't see why I should even care It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

 

 Well I been to London and I been to gay Paree I followed the river and I got to the sea I've been down to the bottom of a whirlpool of lies I ain't lookin' for nothin' in anyone's eyes Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

 

 I was born here and I'll die here, against my will I know it looks like I'm movin' but I'm standin' still Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer It's not dark yet, but it's getting there" ~ Bob Dylan

 

***** 

 

 
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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Woke Up This Mornin Had Those Kavanaugh Blues

And they just love Brett Kavanaugh



Like the rest of you, we have been glued to the Kavanaugh nightmare [not a tragedy because in tragedy the protagonist is a heroic character whose downfall is caused by moral weakness or human flaw - Kavanaugh was always morally weak and psychologically maladjusted ] for the past two weeks with no  Mexican coverage of the the biggest perversion of justice to envelope the United States; a case of lies and corruption and a clear example of the complete failure of the United States to stand  as a beacon of light in the world for anything moral.

 How could anyone miss this story ? And, how can any American ever point to Mexico after this and say, "Look how corrupt their Justice System is" ?  They cannot.


A slight twist in the saga and we will have to wait for the experts to weigh in before we get our hopes up - just another white wash ? And, why did he wait so long ?

From Raw Story:
 Chief Justice John Roberts Orders New Investigation Into Brett Kavanaugh


From The Washinton Post:

Roberts refers judicial misconduct complaints against Kavanaugh to federal appeals court in Colorado


By Ann E. Marimow and
Tom Hamburger
"Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday referred more than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints filed recently against Brett M. Kavanaugh to a federal appeals court in Colorado.
The 15 complaints, related to statements Kavanaugh made during his Senate confirmation hearings, were initially filed with the federal appeals court in Washington, where Kavanaugh served for the last 12 years before his confirmation Saturday to the Supreme Court.

The allegations center on whether Kavanaugh was dishonest and lacked judicial temperament during his Senate testimony, according to people familiar with the matter.

Last month, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit asked Roberts to refer the complaints to another appeals court for review after determining that they should not be handled by judges who served with Kavanaugh on the D.C. appellate court.

In a letter Wednesday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Roberts said he selected the court in Colorado to “accept the transfer and to exercise the powers of a judicial council with respect to the identified complaints and any pending or new complaints relating to the same subject matter.”
[D.C. Circuit sent complaints about Kavanaugh’s testimony to Chief Justice Roberts]
The Denver-based appeals court is led by Chief Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich, the former solicitor general of Colorado who was nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush. The 10th Circuit handled another recent judicial misconduct case from Washington involving the former chief judge of the District Court.

It is unclear what will come of the review by the 10th Circuit. The judiciary’s rules on misconduct do not apply to Supreme Court justices, and the 10th Circuit could decide to dismiss the complaints as moot now that Kavanaugh has joined the high court.

“There is nothing that a judicial council could do at this point,” said Arthur D. Hellman, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh and expert on the operation of federal courts.
He said it was unprecedented for a new justice to face such a situation. Hellman predicted that the 10th Circuit will likely close the case “because it is no longer within their jurisdiction,” now that Kavanaugh has been elevated to the Supreme Court.

The letter from Roberts does not mention Kavanaugh by name. On Saturday, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson of the D.C. Circuit, who originally requested the transfer, said in a statement that the court had received complaints about Kavanaugh since the start of his confirmation hearings.

“The complaints do not pertain to any conduct in which Judge Kavanaugh engaged as a judge. The complaints seek investigations only of the public statements he has made as a nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States,” said Henderson, a Bush nominee.
Complaints made against judges are usually handled by the chief judge. Henderson took over from Chief Judge Merrick Garland, who recused himself from the matter.

When complaints were filed in late September and early October, Henderson dismissed some but concluded that others were substantive enough to refer to another judicial panel for investigation.
Roberts received the first transfer request on Sept. 20, followed by four additional requests on Sept. 26, Sept. 28, Oct. 3 and Oct. 5, according to his letter. He did not immediately move to refer the filings to another appeals court.

People familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity say the allegations had already been widely discussed in the Senate and in the public realm. Roberts did not see an urgent need for them to be resolved by the judicial branch while he continued to review the incoming complaints, they said.

The complaints landed with Roberts because of his role as chief justice of the United States, not because Kavanaugh is now a member of the Supreme Court.
Such complaints are usually confidential unless the judicial council investigating issues a public report about its findings.

The existence of misconduct complaints and the procedure can be disclosed, according to the rules, “when necessary or appropriate to maintain public confidence in the judiciary’s ability to redress misconduct or disability.”

The public nature of a case last year involving former 9th Circuit judge Alex Kozinski, who was accused of sexual misconduct, was unusual. The chief judge of the 9th Circuit asked Roberts to transfer the case for review after The Washington Post reported allegations against Kozinski.
Roberts referred the case to the appeals court in New York City. The judicial council of that court publicly announced it was closing its investigation because Kozinski had retired, saying that because he “can no longer perform any judicial duties, he does not fall within the scope of persons who can be investigated.”  

*****

Meanwhile, Jacob Sugarman's report:

From Truth dig:

Historian Howard Zinn Warned Us About The Supreme Court 


***** 

Best past and present coverage - don't miss all of the reports, they will blow you away:

From The Intercept: 

Supreme Privilege - The Intercept 


From Democracy Now !: 

 Brett Kavanaugh

*****

The USA news for us at least drowned out for a time the terrible violence in Baja California, I'll return with those updates, opinions on the USMCA and more horror stories on Trump's zero tolerance immigration.  Zeta reports that CESPT is in chaos, we have had water but the pressure is lower than it has ever been. I had my knee x-rayed, I have terrific Doctors but a horrible HMO and Provider (let me give you a clue...it is not Kaiser the meat factory) - even with a referral to an Orthopedic Specialist/Surgeon I have to wait six more weeks for an appointment, so we had to cancel a getaway trip because I can barely walk.  Still taking the turmeric.

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