This post is going to be hard for'SandBox Nanny'. Her followers will likely feel similar.
If you have followed us for the past two years, then you know how loyal all of us are to our everyday heroes in law enforcement and related fields.
You also know, or have guessed and put 2+2 together, that 'Nanny' has good reason to do the opposite and just cause to turn her back rather than support.
Instead, she has often posted her belief that there is never, ever a reason that is worthy of suing any law enforcement agency or officer. She does not personally believe in it. She also has oft posted her personal support for law enforcement and military service.
All that loyalty and daily strokes for service men and women, who rarely hear a 'thank you', does not mean that when they are deserving of criticism that it should not be given.
Thank you goes out today.
Not to our law enforcement. But to 'Anonymous'.
Our local and regional law enforcement is not deserving of thanks in this bust.
In fact, they are not deserving of thanks for any bust or any insight they have gleaned from commentary or other 'anonymous' media that has resulted in a bust or help to an investigation.
Why?
Because all those cops and agencies have the majority of the citizens they swore to serve and protect still out here living in the shadows and afraid to speak up.
Folks who are the cause and effect reality of there 'not being a cop in sight' who has the outward courage to stand up to the 'social gang-banging' and 'bullying' done to them if they do speak and show themselves. And to 'SandBox Nanny', that is a failure of duty that is not deserving of praise or enabling.
Chad Abraham:
"The investigation that led to one of Aspen’s largest narcotic busts in recent memory began when a local father wrote an anonymous letter to police saying the defendant in the case sold drugs to his teenage daughter....
.....“I am an anonymous concerned father who is writing to warn you of a drug dealer living in Aspen,” the letter says. “After a thorough investigation I have found out the following about the drug dealer.”
The letter writer then names Simmons, and provides his Park Circle address and his phone number. The writer even lists the substance that Simmons allegedly used to “cut” the drugs to make them more profitable.
Simmons was connected to another drug defendant, Max Puder, 18, of Aspen, through Puder’s cell phone, the warrant says. Puder was arrested for allegedly selling ecstasy Dec. 16 outside the Belly Up, and the charges against him will be...." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
Showing posts with label character assassination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character assassination. Show all posts
February 7, 2012
January 29, 2012
SandBox Comments: Glenwood Springs Post Independent "All the news that's unfit to print"
Kathleen Parker:
"WASHINGTON — A Friday New York Times story that essentially indicted and convicted a 22-year-old star football player on an alleged sexual assault charge by an anonymous accuser should have begun as follows:
“We know absolutely nothing about this rumor except what six people told us anonymously about this guy who they say sexually assaulted this girl. We don't know who she is or what she said, or really anything, but here's HIS name and what ‘they' say about him.”
Instead, with throat-clearing authority, the story begins with the young man's name — Patrick J. Witt, Yale University's former quarterback — and his announcement last fall that he was withdrawing his Rhodes scholarship application so that he could play against Harvard. The game was scheduled the same day as the scholarship interview.
Next we are told that he actually had withdrawn his application for the scholarship after the Rhodes Trust had learned “through unofficial channels that a fellow student had accused Witt of sexual assault.” And there goes the gavel. Case closed.
But in fact, no one seems to know much of anything, and no one in an official capacity is talking. The only people advancing this devastating and sordid tale are “a half-dozen [anonymous] people with knowledge of all or part of the story.” All or part? Which part? As in, “Heard any good gossip lately?...” (Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
"WASHINGTON — A Friday New York Times story that essentially indicted and convicted a 22-year-old star football player on an alleged sexual assault charge by an anonymous accuser should have begun as follows:
“We know absolutely nothing about this rumor except what six people told us anonymously about this guy who they say sexually assaulted this girl. We don't know who she is or what she said, or really anything, but here's HIS name and what ‘they' say about him.”
Instead, with throat-clearing authority, the story begins with the young man's name — Patrick J. Witt, Yale University's former quarterback — and his announcement last fall that he was withdrawing his Rhodes scholarship application so that he could play against Harvard. The game was scheduled the same day as the scholarship interview.
Next we are told that he actually had withdrawn his application for the scholarship after the Rhodes Trust had learned “through unofficial channels that a fellow student had accused Witt of sexual assault.” And there goes the gavel. Case closed.
But in fact, no one seems to know much of anything, and no one in an official capacity is talking. The only people advancing this devastating and sordid tale are “a half-dozen [anonymous] people with knowledge of all or part of the story.” All or part? Which part? As in, “Heard any good gossip lately?...” (Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
September 15, 2011
SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "County rejects Marks’ bid for volunteer post"
In a stunning reveal of where the core divisiveness in Aspen lies; Commissioner Rachel Richards, Commissioner Jack Hatfield and Commissioner Michael Owsley drop the masks and show true personalities.
With vicious precision, this trio of commissioners assassinate the character of Marilyn Marks as she attempts to volunteer for a public board.
A very special appreciation goes to Commissioner Robb Ittner and Commissioner George Newman for representing the people rather than a personal, hate filled agenda.
Special thanks also goes to Marilyn Marks for her pro-active stance in holding the City of Aspen and the County of Pitkin accountable and up to transparency (albeit the only means to get those duties out of local government is forced means).
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"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
With vicious precision, this trio of commissioners assassinate the character of Marilyn Marks as she attempts to volunteer for a public board.
A very special appreciation goes to Commissioner Robb Ittner and Commissioner George Newman for representing the people rather than a personal, hate filled agenda.
Special thanks also goes to Marilyn Marks for her pro-active stance in holding the City of Aspen and the County of Pitkin accountable and up to transparency (albeit the only means to get those duties out of local government is forced means).
(Learn more? Click title or comment to start discussion)
"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
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