(Mods please remove the other similarly named post if you wish, it posted by accident before completion - thank you.)
In our ongoing pizzagate discussion on this forum, we often notice strange tamperings going on. Fairly often lately there are posts months old suddenly showing up on the "Hot" section of the front page, with no new comments added.
In the same fashion, I noticed that this post, https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1956145 made less than a day ago and receiving the same amount of moderate traffic that a majority of posts received at that time, has completely disappeared from the "Hot" section (the default section that is brought up when landing on the site).
I mean, as of the moment of this posting, it has completely DISAPPEARED from the entire "Hot" section - pages and pages back. This has never happened before to any one of my 47 posts.
Here is the headline - The Empire Strikes Back - Model Reversal of SRA/Pizzagate Type Convictions - New DA In Texas Leads The Charge with New "Conviction Integrity Unit
Notice that our fave CIA rep AreWeSure has jumped all over the post like white on rice, plus has a buddy doing back up ad hominem on me.
I must add, the "Conviction Integrity Unit" is about as laughably Orwellian as it gets. C'mon guys, if you want to do this quietly, don't punk us with names like this and expect some eyebrows to not lift a bit skywards.
But the serious question remains - why so much effort to hide this line of inquirey and to quash it? Surely there is room for civilized discourse regarding this development?
Text of the original post in question:
-It appears that if a new DA comes in and says the crime didn't happen, it didn't happen. "The exoneration is the first for the nascent conviction integrity unit of the Travis County District Attorney’s Office under the new DA, Margaret Moore."
-Doctor that gave testimony of physical evidence of 3 year old girl's vaginal rape went to a conference and learned that what he saw wasn't what he saw - there are new styles of vagina now.
-The case has all the hallmarks of what we are investigating every day - "The Kellers had sacrificed babies; they held ceremonies in a local graveyard; they put blood in the children’s Kool-Aid; Fran cut off the arm of a gorilla in a local park; they flew the children to Mexico to be sexually assaulted by military officials." All of which was proven to be true to Austin officials, but now is no longer true, in part because the orginal report "was an ALL-CAPS, run-on-sentence fever dream full of breathless accusations..." and local citizens were accused of being in on it.
-Use the words "Satanic Panic" and the events, child's testimony and physical evidence is all laughable rubbish.
-The "victims" of the Satanic Panic will recieve millions in compensation from the state, effectively muzzling the atmosphere of law enforcement investigations into SRA and pedophilia incidents for fear of reprisal, mockery and institutionally programed failure.
The original Austin Police Department report: https://www.austinchronicle.com/media/content/759211/apdkellerreport.pdf
The article:https://theintercept.com/2017/06/20/texas-couple-exonerated-25-years-after-being-convicted-of-lurid-crimes-that-never-happened/
I'm sorry to see The Intercept purveying the message on behalf of elites that the hysterically named "Satanic Panic" is a legit social phenomenon, but SRA and pedogate abuse is questionable at the very least. I certainly hope the survivors in this case are able to fight this - perhaps we can do something to support them.>
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VieBleu ago
Interesting bit here, from another article about this DA review and release -
"After the review hearing, the new DA was convinced the Keller’s trial had not been fair and they were released just before Christmas. She had no intention of putting them back on trial but could not justify to herself to exonerate them without evidence to prove no crime ever happened. That is virtually impossible to accomplish. Between Dr. Mouw, Jordan Smith, and Keith Hampton, who is an attorney that worked without pay for more than six years, the Kellers names have been cleared and they are free to rebuild what they can of their shattered lives.
https://conservativedailypost.com/couple-cleared-of-creepy-daycare-charges-after-25-years/
I'd like to know more about this attorney that worked without pay for 6 years - how exactly does he make a living would be one. Who does he know, and how did they find him? Who else does he represent?
this may be him - Keith Hampton, legislative director of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers, also served as President of the organization in 2011. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2Y5uVpgC4LUJ:www.voiceforthedefenseonline.com/newsletters/2010/Apr10.pdf+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz
Why was it so important to Keith Hampton to whittle away at this case until he could overturn it? Is he a crusader against a "panic" from a quarter century ago? Why? Aren't there plenty of recent police brutality, shootings, immigration cases and civil rights violation cases in Texas that are more relevant to today's world? Especially since there is supposed to be nothing to all this pizzagate stuff anyway, right?
Factfinder2 ago
Here's the transcript of an interview with Mike Ware and Keith Hampton of the DA's Office talking about their backgrounds and early cases. Ware is on the board of the Innocence Project. He talks about his friend Terri Moore recruiting him from private practice to head the Conviction Integrity Unit (as you said, SO Orwellian sounding): http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/i-believe-its-a-heroic-calling/ At one point the interviewer says, "You guys have clients you can bill, right, to pay for your pro bono work?" Hampton just says "Next question" and laughs.
VieBleu ago
Here we go - from same article great find btw
http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/i-believe-its-a-heroic-calling/
"We came up with some creative ways to work this process, a private lawyer working with the Innocence Project. We do the work, the lawyer work, and they contribute the support. So when we get into a corner or something, we go to them and say, “This is where we’re at, we need some help, can we draw on some resources here?” That’s exactly what they’re doing, so we’re actually developing a model for how you do it and these will be the relationships between innocence clinics and the crazy lawyers who are going to go ahead and march into these cases."
If I am understanding this correctly - it is "The Innocence Project" that pays the lawyer bills to get these people off. Privately, so no disclosure on the payments or who they actually come from, but I'm sure they do a little fundraising and get other support which they may or may not disclose. Funds can also be hard to trace this way if used for bribes, campaign contributions to certain very friendly DAs, judges, whatever, right?
Is it possible to call yourself "pro-bono" only in the sense that the client isn't billed?
This article could be a post in itself, a couple of shady things seem to lurk... I mean "Innocence Clinics"? Now we are out of Orwell territory and on to Vonnegut. Welcome To The Monkey House indeed.
Factfinder2 ago
Well, I guess that's why Hampton laughed when the interviewer asked about his pro bono work. It's not pro bono for him. Notice he didn't explain the truth.
I found out that the Innocence Project is a national organization with state branches: https://www.innocenceproject.org/about/ They use DNA to exonerate. Most of their cases, if not all, have sexual components, although sometimes they don't list that in the conviction charge and you have to read the details of the case to see it: https://www.innocenceproject.org/all-cases/#exonerated-by-dna I'd like to see a comprehensive big-money donor's list. The Florida branch published their 2013 list, and one of the top contributors was....the U.S. Department of Justice. Yes, your tax dollars and mine.