Who is Cornell McCleary working for?

What the Dispatch’s Bruce Cadwallader failed to report in his August 29 article is important in order to understand Cornell McCleary’s relationship with law enforcement and why he may have volunteered to investigate the Miller case. McCleary openly admitted on his August 31 WTVN talk show that he is a long time trainer of law enforcement officers. He bills himself as Commander Cornell H. McCleary of the PRO-Private Police Training Academy. McCleary founded the Civilian Criminal Activities Task Force (CCATF), “a formal citizen information and resource networking organization,” in 1989.

Just the (unchecked & unsourced) facts, ma’am

On Aug. 6, Duante Miller, 20, was shot to death by two police officers as he ran from them through a housing project in Columbus Ohio. How has the mainstream media covered it?

Victim Gave Police Reason To Shoot Him,” the Columbus Dispatch boldly proclaimed in a page one Metro section headline Friday, August 29. Reporter Bruce adwallader’s lead reads as follows: “Duante Miller is to blame for his death, a private investigator working with Miller’s family said yesterday.” Cadwallader played up investigator Cornell McCleary’s conclusions in the third paragraph, a single sentence: “Miller was a ‘menace to society and clearly destined for jail or the graveyard,’ McCleary said in his report.”

Cadwallader’s 4th paragraph is key to understanding the Dispatch’s coverage of the Miller affair. It reads in its entirety: “‘The facts suggest that Miller chose to outrun the police but ended up running out of time. His decision to run cost him his life,’ wrote McCleary, who runs PRO-Private Police Agency, a private investigative firm that is not associated with the police division. He is also a local radio talk show host.”

The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride

Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride September 20-October 4th, 2003 - will arrive in Columbus, Ohio Sept. 29-30by Rick Wilhelm, Democratic Socialists of Central Ohio What it is, and what the goals that are hoped to be achieved:

In 1961, the Freedom Rides were organized by activists to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus termi nals. Riding from Washington, D.C. to Montgomery, Alabama, the rides met violent opposition in the Deep South, garnering extensive media attention and eventually forcing federal intervention from the Kennedy administration.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) first started Freedom Rides in 1947. CORE concentrated on busing segregation in that campaign and mainly in the border southern states. What they conceived was called the Journey of Reconciliation, which is considered a precursor to the Freedom Rides and the civil rights movement of the 60’s.

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Dear Mr. Wasserman:

 I enjoy reading your articles very much.  I hope you will cover the subject of potential election fraud next year through the use of touch screen voting machines(AKA black box voting) and internet voting, including military internet voting.

  To me, touch screen machines and internet voting are the front and back of the same problem.  Both are controlled by the far right and both are, at present, nonauditable.  Black box voting often overshadows internet voting, but the latter may have the potential for even greater manipulation.

  I think the vast majority of people know nothing about this subject and neither did I until five or six weeks ago.  And I think there would be plenty of outrage if more people knew.  I feel this is a serious issue that needs to be brought into wider public view before the Iowa caucuses.

  FreespeechTV(Dish 9415) is planning to broadcast a lengthy segment on this subject this weekend(Sept. 27, repeated Sept. 28) on INN.  The producers are Lenny Charles and Valerie at (212)905-2837.

                   Sincerely, Gordon Kobayashi

A question almost unthinkable

It’s the second anniversary of 9-11 and we still don’t have answers Did President George W. Bush and his governing consortium know of the impending attack on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon and intentionally allow to occur?

This question seems almost unthinkable, yet so obviously in need of an answer that it may as well be written across the sky. The report of the House and Senate intelligence committees does not address the question, which now belongs to the National Commission on Terror Attacks Upon the United States, chaired by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, to report by May 2004.

At 8:20 a.m. on September 11, 2001, millions of Americans were watching morning television shows, as is their custom. At that moment the Federal Aviation Administration controllers at Boston had seen and heard enough to realize that American Airlines Flight 11 had been hijacked. Receiving no reply to their radio messages, their official procedure is to give notice to the National

Summary of PEER’s proposed charter amendment to change Columbus City Council

Council Members

1. Eleven (11) members: Seven (7) elected from districts and four (4) elected at-large.

2. Term of office for all members would be four (4) years; Incumbents in office when charter is amended would complete their then-current term of office.

3. Staggered Terms, Biennial Elections: Two (2) at-large members and odd-numbered districts would run in one election; Two (2) at-large members and even-numbered districts run in next election. Elections held every two years.

4. Appointees to Council would stand for election in next regular municipal election not for the unexpired term of an incumbent under the existing law but for the new term of office.

Districts

1. Districts configured to be compact, contiguous territory with approximately equal total populations based on last federal census.

2. Each district to be comprised of whole electoral wards unless it is necessary to split a ward to equalize district populations. Wards may be divided, using only whole precincts whenever possible, only between two (2) contiguous districts.

One small step for Powell — one miniscule tiptoe for Low Power Radio

Low Power FM radio activists make a plea for stations in our cities — Will the Chairman tune in?

The Prometheus Radio Project, an organization that advocates for Low Power Radio Stations, welcomed tidings of a new ‘localism initiative’ from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). But despite small concessions Chairmain Powell made to Low Power Radio on Wednesday, Prometheus intends to pursue the lawsuit it filed last week with the Media Access Project against the FCC’s new ownership rules.

FCC Chairman Michael Powell launched his new “Localism in Broadcasting” initiative on August 20th, in response to a huge public push to protect diversity of voices by limiting the power of major media corporations. This public outcry came in response to the June 2nd vote at his FCC, a vote that moves to allow the nation’s biggest media corporations to own more outlets in America’s towns and cities. At a press conference in Washington, Powell promised to convene a panel to study issues of localism in our communities this fall — after the consolidated media rules established this summer go into effect.

Ohio’s last great forest under attack

Located in the rolling hills of rural Belmont County, Dysart Woods is the largest remnant of the ancient forests that once covered 95% of Ohio. To walk through Dysart woods is truly a moving experience, one is immediately awe struck by the imposing beauty of 400-500 year old towering oak trees gentling swaying in the breeze. The majestic forests of Dysart woods were once a part of the Dysart family farm, but in 1966 the 455-acre farm was bought by the Ohio University to use as a land laboratory. It was widely believed that Dysart woods would be protected from logging and mining forever when Ohio University purchased the land, but that all changed in 1988 when the Ohio Valley Coal Company approached Ohio University about mining under Dysart Woods. How could they do that you ask? Well, it seems that before the Dysart family sold the land to Ohio University they sold the mineral rights under the land to Ohio Valley Coal. Here begins the saga of Dysart Woods.

The United “highway robbery” Way

The United Way recently announced that all future contributions made to the ”Donor Option” category will be assessed a whooping 50% “carrying fee” in addition to their usual 12.5% assessment for “administrative” costs. This ill planned decision virtually kills donor option giving in Central Ohio.

In essence, this means that a $100 donation given to United Way’s “Donor Option” plan melts away to a $37.50 gift after United Way’s highway robbery.

After failing to meet their 2002 goals, a desperate United Way Board has decided to play hardball with alternative charity groups like Community Shares of Mid Ohio (CoSMO), which has over 28 member organizations including The Columbus Free Press.

CoSMO will continue the struggle to resist the United Way’s monopoly on workplace giving. This fall CoSMO has access to 10 public sector workplaces and is in over a dozen private sector campaigns. CoSMO has continued to grow steadily ever year. Its expanding success as well as other federated charities has threatened the chokehold United Way has on local companies.

Free Press Editor Bob Fitrakis files petitions for Columbus School Board

Bob Fitrakis joined fellow activist, radio talk show host and incumbent Columbus Board of Education member Bill Moss in filing petitions with the Franklin County Board of Elections for the fall School Board race. If accepted, Fitrakis and Moss plan to restore integrity, to ensure accountability and to stand up for the children. Fitrakis is endorsed by the Central Ohio Green Party.

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