St Bryan Of Luzerne County

A couple of weeks ago the trial of Harlow Cuadra ended with a guilty verdict in the murder of Bryan Kocis. It marked an end to a horrific time where man’s most base instincts came to light.

A brutal vicious murder that brought untold grief and horror to many people. There is no way to measure the loss of Bryan to those who loved him, those who knew him and cared about him. I understand that.

During the trial, and afterward a picture was painted of Bryan Kocis that could be summed up in the words of his sister on a blog after the verdict.

“Bryan was a good, honest person in a bad, dishonest business.”

The trial is over, the murderers have been brought to justice, it is time to clear the table here.

I spent 15 years of my life in this “business”. In that 15 years I worked with and knew many honorable and decent people. In those 15 years I never encountered a more reprehensible vile person that Bryan Kocis. I have been trying for days to decide what to write, so I have gone through countless emails, court documents, and my own anecdotal knowledge and came to some conclusions that I would like to share.

Lets start at the beginning. my friend Jerry Douglas would tell you there are two types of people who make porn, those that are in it for the work, and those that are in it for the boys.

It is obvious which one of those Bryan Kocis was.

In 2001 Bryan Kocis was arrested for videotaping himself having sex with a 15 year old boy. To hear his apologists tell it was a model that lied about his age. Let’s look at that for a moment. There was no Cobra Video at the time of the incident, that came later. Does anyone remember a series of video’s with the then 38 year old Bryan Kocis and young men ever going on the market?

Lets get real here.

Bryan was using the guise of making video’s to lure in young men. Somehow he managed to plead down and walk away and start a video company. Now that we see the judges in that county pleading guilty to various crimes, and one can see the atmosphere in that county then was not a good one for justice. Somehow Bryan Kocis walked away from a molestation charge and started a company shooting young men.

Bryan Kocis was a pariah in the porn business.

He relished that position and embraced it. He brought a 17 year old Brent Corrigan to Pennsylvania for the summer by assuring his mother, on an art school related pretext. So much for an honest man in a dis-honest business. In my 15 years again I never saw anything like that. A man fresh from a molestation situation has a 17 year old boy in his home all summer long.

Now it is possible that the reason he had Brent there was for bible studies, but more than likely it was not. We have here a pattern of an older man with the money and power using it for sexual purposes. You hear over and over again about the conniving Brent using Bryan.

No, sorry the 17 year old was the abused one here. Not the 40 year old with the money, the house, the transportation and the control. This is not a situation that is either normal, or acceptable in porn. It was in a word wrong.

My next point is one that infuriates me beyond words.

The issue of Brent Corrigan using a fake ID to make video’s, Brent the evil manipulator..Horseshit. It really does not matter a lick what Brent Corrigan did here, or his motivation for doing it. One of the first things I learned in porn was the younger looking the model the more ID you needed. No reputable person would EVER shoot anyone on the basis of an emailed picture of an ID. EVER.

If I had a model that looked questionable I would require 3 pieces of ID and ask for friends and references. That was the standard. My battles with Caryn Goldberg at Freshman magazine were legendary regarding models they thought looked under 18. They might have all the ID in the world and they would not shoot them.

My distributor demanded more than one ID, as did everyone else. Those of us that shot in the 18-23 YO age group were especially careful. We always went the extra mile.

The Jeff Browning episode was a strong reminder of the perils. If Brent Corrigan came to me with an emailed picture of an ID he would not have been shot. He would have been required to provide at least 3 pieces in hand for inspection and then some. This happened because Bryan did not care about what the others in the industry considered necessary. That was the failure here. The responsibility was in the producers hands.

Next point was the unprecedented way Bryan went after a 17 yo when Brent finally had enough and fled the abusive situation he was in. Make no mistake the mixture of sex and money and control was abuse in it’s purest form. At some point Brent realized that for his own survival he needed to flee this abusive controlling prick.

He was strong enough to get away and he drove away in the car Bryan gave him. Most people are not that strong, and they die in the abuse. Psychologically they die. They give in, they learn to “Take It Like A Bitch Boy”.

When Bryan did not get his way he was relentless and evil.

No one in porn ever acted like that. He sent people across the country to humiliate and try to destroy Brent.(photo at left) He both publicly and privately went after Brent in ways that were frankly abusive and repulsive. This is where we, the porn business, really let Brent down.

We stood silently by while this bully bullied. Falcon let him down. They promised to stand by him and they caved. If Chuck Holmes were alive he would have squished Kocis like a bug. They wanted to use him then abandoned him.

Eventually Brent had to work, had to eat and with no end in sight he and Grant decided to settle. They were alone, no one stood by them. I to this day regret I did not do so. I was at the time mired in my own hell that was devouring everything around me and I did not take the time.

I justified it in my own head by saying these are bareback people let them do themselves in. I was wrong. An abused person escaped from an abuser and we stood silent. They went to settle even when the “Honest man in a dishonest business” was double dealing them with their business partner. Despicable behavior from a despicable man. This honest man who started a bareback trend on lies for profit.

Bryan was murdered. There is no justification for that.

Jeffery Dahmer, and John Geoghan were murdered. It did not make them nice people. Like a bad episode of Perry Mason the first conclusion everyone thought of was it had to be Brent and Grant.

The speculation was relentless and the same people who supported Bryan during his life continued the abuse from the grave. What Brent and Grant did next was not to run and hide from it, but rather to do what needed to be done to bring murderers to justice.

It took courage to go to meet with people who you knew were cold blooded killers and could snap your neck and kill you long before the police watching could stop them. They did it, and they helped put murderers away. Yet in some places the abuse by Bryan Kocis continues. This image (sanitized) of Bryan Kocis, is part of that abuse.

I never in my 15 years touched a model. I am not saying that does not happen but those whose primary purpose is sex with the boys are a minority. It is sexual harassment and abuse.

Bryan Kocis talked with underage boys online all the time. I know of several. They could not have been the only ones. His business was getting into their pants as much as it was shooting them in porn. He was a predator and an abuser. His death did not change that or mitigate that.

More often than not I would talk a young man out of doing porn if I thought it was not something they should do. Many of us were like that. If your goal is to bed them, you come from a different place. He was not concerned with their welfare, he was concerned with their ass.

He was not an “Honest man in a dishonest business”

There are two points I would like to make. Had Bryan Kocis done what he should have when Brent was 17 there would have been no Brent Corrigan. Plain and simple. Does anyone think the moment he found out Brent was underage, he notified everyone and pulled the video’s back?

In the porn world I was in, Brent would have never been shot.

The second point is if Bryan had said to Brent Go for it. If you think there is a better world out there good luck. One learns in life there is no percentage in holding anyone back. Brent would have progressed or not, Bryan would have prospered as well. Instead he went on a rampage of evil bile that devoured everything around it. There would have been no contractual obligation to end. Bryan would still be alive.

Enough of St. Bryan of Luzerne County.

This man was evil. His legacy of Barebacking Twinks stands as a homage to the debased mind of a predator. We as an industry should protect the youngest in it. We should have stropped Bryan by speaking out. I will forever regret that I did not. What I will not do again is stand by and allow his abuse to be carried out from the grave.

Brent Corrigan was abused and was a hero in the end. He has more courage and class in his pinky than that abuser had in his entire being, and he should be admired for standing up and helping put Joe and Harlow away, and thanked for placing his life on the line to snare the murderers.

As for those that want to continue the abuse,

Shame on You!

Kevin Clarke

Kevin Clarke is the GayVn Award winning director of The American Way,American Way 2-Lust,The Heartland,A Young Man's World,Ashton Ryans B-Boys,The Seduction of a Surfer and The American City.

Kevin Clarke spent 15 years in the Gay Porn buisness directing some of the top selling Gay Adult DVD's and he has a unique perspective on Bryan Kocis.

Photo at left Kevin Clarke,Jerry Douglas,George DuRoy

Federal Probe of Corrupt Judges includes Insurance Fraud

A constant refrain from disgraced Judges Conahan and Ciavarella has been the one that yes we made mistakes but we were not really criminals. The continuing and widening federal probe into both men shows the lie in that claim of "We are Not Crooks"

Yes you are!

Both Judges are criminals,fraudsters and con men, they have swindled and embezzled millions of dollars to enrich themselves. The costs are staggering in one of the worst and egregious cases of Judicial Criminal behavior in recent US History.

Eastern Pennsylvania Taxpayers paid thru the nose for kickbacks and perverted Justice, then there is the cost of irreparable damage to Juveniles wrongly jailed (Kids sold for Cash),citizens who expected impartial justice and were defrauded, and finally the public shame and lack of trust in what should be a pillar of any Western Civilization..

The Rule Of Law, The American belief repeatedly shattered that Justice is blind.

In this case Lady Justice had her hands in the till!




Uninsured motorist benefits award looked at amid judicial corruption probe.

source Times Leader
By Terrie Morgan-Besecker
Law & Order Reporter

WILKES-BARRE – An attorney for an insurance company that’s challenging a controversial $500,000 award of uninsured motorist benefits to a man confirmed that federal authorities have asked him to provide information on the case.

James Haggerty of Philadelphia said the U.S. Attorney’s Office asked for certain documents in the case of Forester Vanderhoff versus Harleysville Insurance after The Times Leader published a story on March 8 detailing the insurance company’s continuing efforts to overturn the monetary award.

“We were asked to provide some matters of public record,” Haggerty said.

The case is among numerous arbitration awards issued in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties that have reportedly been under investigation by authorities in an ongoing probe of alleged judicial corruption.

A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed federal authorities are now investigating uninsured motorist benefit claims filed in both counties.

The Legal Intelligencer, a Philadelphia-based law journal, reported Friday that the U.S. Attorney’s Office had issued a subpoena to Harleysville requesting a wide range of information regarding uninsured and underinsured motorist claims originating from the two counties.

The article, which quoted unnamed sources, said the subpoena sought all records identifying the plaintiff’s attorney, the arbitrators appointed and the amount of the award or settlement in all uninsured and underinsured motorist cases from Jan. 1, 2003, to present that were heard in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.

The Intelligencer said the subpoena also requested any records relating to internal or insurance industry investigations regarding uninsured motorist claims in the two counties, as well as a list of all cases in which the appointment of a neural arbitrator was filed.

Several attorneys have previously told The Times Leader that insurance companies for years have questioned whether there was impropriety in the handling of uninsured motorist cases in Luzerne County based on the disproportionately high-dollar awards being rendered by arbitration panels.

The subpoena reported by the Intelligencer is the first indication that authorities have expanded the probe to include Lackawanna County.

U.S. Attorney Martin Carlson declined comment Monday, citing his policy to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.

Uninsured motorist insurance allows a person injured by a driver who has no or little insurance to seek to recover damages from their own insurance company.

Disputes over the amount of money due are decided by a three-member arbitration panel consisting of three attorneys – one appointed by the plaintiff, one by the defense and a third, neutral arbitrator chosen by both sides. If the defense and plaintiff can’t agree on the neutral, a judge can make the appointment.

Cases in Luzerne County came under increased scrutiny in the wake of the corruption charges recently filed against former judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella, who have admitted accepting kickbacks in exchange for rulings that favored a juvenile detention center’s owner and builder.

Robert Panowicz, a Wilkes-Barre attorney who represented Erie Insurance for decades, said allegations are that some plaintiffs’ attorneys have been in collusion with one another and certain judges, resulting in the appointment of neutral arbitrators who are not truly neutral.

Panowicz said he was interviewed several years ago by a fraud investigator with the National Insurance Crime Bureau, an agency funded by insurance companies, but never heard back about the status of the investigation.

In the Vanderhoff case, Haggerty had challenged Conahan’s determination that Vanderhoff’s testimony regarding the existence of a third vehicle at a crash scene was more credible than that of the other driver and a police officer.

Vanderhoff acknowledged he rear-ended a car driven by Ryan Piontkowski at the Sans Souci Parkway and West End Road in Hanover Township on Oct. 4, 2001. Several months after the accident, he filed a report with Harleysville in which he claimed a third, “phantom” vehicle pulled in front of Piontkowski, forcing him to stop abruptly and leaving Vanderhoff insufficient time to brake.

That allowed Vanderhoff to seek to recover uninsured motorist benefits based on the argument that the “phantom” vehicle was uninsured.

The problem, Haggerty argued, is Piontkowski denied there was a third vehicle. The investigating officer, Sgt. Andrew Kratz, also testified that neither Vanderhoff nor Piontkowski mentioned the third vehicle when he was investigating the crash.

Despite that, Conahan ruled Vanderhoff had told the officer of the third vehicle. That allowed the case to then go before an arbitration panel, which awarded Vanderhoff $500,000.

In a an interview earlier this month, Haggerty said he was stunned by the fact Conahan believed Vanderhoff – the only person who had something to gain – over Piontkowski and Kratz, who were disinterested parties.

“It appeared to be at odds with the evidence and testimony presented to the court,” Haggerty said.

Haggerty appealed to the state Superior Court, which overturned Conahan based on a separate argument that Vanderhoff had not reported the phantom vehicle within the required time frame. The state Supreme Court later agreed to hear an appeal of that ruling. The high court has not yet ruled on the matter.

Harlow thows a Perry Mason clusterfuck

While we Kocissphere Bloggers ponder the age old question ...


As we watched (figuratively) a clueless defendants defense strategy implode on the stand!
Surely now Harlow Cuadra well be every defense lawyers example of why you Never Ever put a guilty,confused and just plain idiotic defendant on the Stand in his own defense.

In honor of this slack-jawed display of Foolish self-immolation before a jury of his peers, I offer Harlow Cuadras testimony on the 11th day of his trial.

With appropriate visual aids.

"...Cuadra told the Luzerne County jury that he was inside Kocis' home in Dallas Township on Jan. 24, 2007, when they heard a loud, rapid knock on the door.

"Bryan gets up and goes up to the door; the minute he turns that knob, Joseph comes in," a sobbing Cuadra told the jury. "They fight a little at the door, I'm yelling, 'Joseph, what are you doing.'


"Joseph looks at me, and knocks Bryan in the face. Bryan was wearing one of those workout suits, all black, no socks, and Joseph grabs Bryan and throws him in the couch and starts punching he hell out of him.," Cuadra said.

Cuadra said he jumped on Kerekes' back in an attempt to stop the assault.

"Joseph reaches in his pocket and pulls out a knife and slashed Bryan's throat. I yelled, "Joe, what are you doing, he said to get the (expletive) out."


Cuadra said he was scared for his life and the life of Kerekes. They fled to South Beach, Fla., where they stayed in a motel for more than a month. They returned to their Virginia Beach, Va., home the day before Easter in 2007.

Cuadra said he understood that he was a "person of interest" in the case and wanted to talk to Pennyslvania investigators.

"Joseph wouldn't let me," Cuadra said. "I can't even go to the store to buy toilet paper without him.""


meanwhile the Citizens Voice reporter is and will post when he recovers his composure.

The Citizens' Voice is reporting that Harlow Cuadra went to Bryan Kocis' Dallas Township home on Jan. 24, 2007, thinking he would shoot pornography, Cuadra testified today in his capital homicide trial.

His partner, Joseph Kerekes, dropped him off around 7 p.m. that night, Cuadra said, and then left. Cuadra was at Kocis' Midland Drive home for about 20 minutes that evening, laughing and talking with Kocis, Cuadra said, when a "rapid knock" came at the front door.

"I never thought it would be Joe," Cuadra said.

Kerekes stormed through the door and began to fight with Kocis, before pulling out a small knife and slashing Kocis' throat, Cuadra testified.

"I'm shouting at Joe 'What are you doing? What are you doing?'" Cuadra said. "He pushed me down."

Scared, Cuadra said he ran and hid in the back seat of the rental car Kerekes had driven, as Kerekes did "something" inside the house.



Cuadra has testified for about four hours today, saying he never knew or heard of a plan to kill Kocis. Cuadra could face the death penalty if found guilty of first-degree homicide in Kocis' Jan. 2007 death.

Cuadra said he wanted to tell police his story, but Kerekes was very controlling.

“People can say ‘Harlow, do this’ or ‘Harlow do that,’ but they don’t know," Cuadra said. "They’re not Harlow. They’re not with Joseph. Individual valor doesn’t matter when you’re with Joseph in a little room.”

Meanwhile Joseph D'Andrea surveys exactly what Harlow Cuadra hath wrought with his scintillating testimony this afternoon...

While he considers his next move...

The Censored Comments Thread

UPDATED:
The Fifth day of the Harlow Cuadra trial is in full swing with Grant Roy testifying on the stand.

The San Diego Wire Intercepts, The Crab Catcher and Blacks Beach recordings featured as the main evidence on today's agenda.

Friday Sean Lockhart AKA Brent Corrigan testified and I posted Below.

This post as the title above indicates is for comments and commentary about the trial to date. I will be making this "Sticky" so this post will remain at the top of the blog.

This is the place for "Censored comments" that PC or Jim will not allow.

Identified members of the Kocis Kabal Komenters are not welcome and will not be posted.!

From the Citizens Voice Monday March 2nd 2009

Jurors hear taped conversation between Cuadra, Kocis business partners

Jurors in the Harlow Cuadra capital homicide trial began listening this morning to the first of two recorded conversations Cuadra and his business partner, Joseph Kerekes, had with two other men regarding the death of Bryan Kocis.

The recording of an April 27, 2007 meeting between Cuadra, Kerekes and Grant Roy and Sean Lockhart, takes place primarily at the Crab Catcher restaurant in San Diego, Calif. The recording lasts about three hours. Jurors listened to the first 30 minutes of the tape before breaking for lunch and are expected to listen to the remaining portion when they return.

Roy, who was business partners with Lockhart, a well-known gay pornography star, took the stand this morning in the fifth day of testimony. Lockhart and Roy were cooperating with police in the investigation of the killing of Kocis at his Dallas Township home in Jan. 24, 2007.

Cuadra, 27, could face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree homicide in Kocis’ stabbing death. Kerekes, 35, Cuadra’s former partner of gay pornography and male escort businesses in Viginia Beach, Va., pleaded guilty to second-degree homicide. He is serving a life sentence.

Roy was wearing a recording device when he and Lockhart met the two Virginia Beach men. Cuadra and Kerekes came to San Diego, Roy testified, to try to cement a deal where Cuadra and Lockhart would act in pornographic films together.

In the first 30 minutes of the tape, jurors heard Roy and police testing the recording equipment. Lockhart and Roy are also heard driving to meet Kerekes and Cuadra and some idle introductory conversations when they pick up Cuadra and Kerekes at their hotel. Jurors are wearing headphones and following a transcript of testimony.

County Judge Peter Paul Olszewksi Jr. told jurors testimony will resume at 1:15 p.m. and will likely continue past 4:30 p.m. today until Roy’s testimony is finished.

10:35 a.m.

Grant Roy testified today that he made it clear during his first meeting with Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes that he wanted no one to harm Bryan Kocis.

Roy and his partner Sean Lockhart, who were involved in a highly publicized legal dispute with Kocis, met Cuadra and Kerkes at a dinner meeting in a Las Vegas restaurant in early January 2007, Roy testified this morning during Cuadra’s capital homicide trial.

Cuadra could face the death penalty if found guilty of first-degree homicide in Kocis’ Jan. 24, 2007, stabbing death. Five witnesses, including Roy, were called today by prosecution in the fifth day of testimony.

“I told them ‘If something happened to Bryan, they’re going to show up at my door the next day. If something happened to either one of us they’re going to show up at his door the next day,’” Roy said.

Cuadra, 27, and Kerkes, 35, owned an escort and gay pornography business in Virginia Beach, Va. They were meeting with Roy and Lockhart in hopes of forming a business relationship where Cuadra and Lockhart would act in films together, Roy said.

“Harlow and both Joe seemed a little eager to get this production under way,” Roy said. “I didn’t see the need to rush. At various times, I expressed to them I didn’t think it’d be a problem if we

could get out from this mediation (with Kocis).”

Roy said a settlement between Lockhart and Kocis was nearly finished.The settlement would allow Lockhart to act again under his screen name Brent Corrigan. Because the settlement was still being negotiated, Roy said, he couldn’t reveal that information to Cuadra or Kerekes. But as

the seven-course dinner progressed, he said, both men were drinking excessively and became more insistent.

“(Kerekes) said, ‘Harlow has this guy who will do anything for him,'” Roy testified. Roy said he took this statement to mean murder.

Roy’s testimony was stopped for a brief recess. When jurors return, prosecutors are expected to play a taped conversation Roy had with Cuadra and Kerekes at a nude beach near San Diego in April 2007, when Cuadra discusses Kocis’ death.

Update March 03

Jim reveals material witness Renee Martins arrest record which may go along way towards explaining why R.Martin is the only Material Witness in this criminal case issued a Material Witness Bond of $50,000 (unsecured)

Read more Renee's Rap Sheet

The student who exposed America's cash for kids scandal

In just over one month the Luzerne County,Pennsylvania Judicial Corruption Scandal has reached every corner of the globe. I have tracked literally thousands of articles written, countless editorials asking myriad questions.

How did this happen in America?
What happened to the constitutional rights of these young people abrogated by Judaical fiat.
Why was there no oversight of such blatant Judicial chicanery?
Why did the Federal Government have to intervene?
Why was Pennsylvania incapable of correcting such an Injustice?
How many more Luzerne County's wait to be uncovered in Americas increasing dysfunctional and corrupt Judiciary?

Here is the latest from the Guardian which dispatched a reporter to Wilkes Barre...

Jailed for a MySpace parody, the student who exposed America's cash for kids scandal

Slapping a friend or having tantrum led to prison.

• Ed Pilkington in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
• The Guardian, Saturday 7 March 2009

Hillary Transue was 14 when she carried out her prank. She built a hoax MySpace page in which she posed as the vice-principal of her school, poking fun at her strictness. At the bottom of the page she added a disclaimer just to make sure everyone knew it was a joke. "When you find this I hope you have a sense of humour," she wrote.

Humour is not in abundance, it seems, in Luzerne County, northern Pennsylvania. In January 2007 Transue was charged with harassment. She was called before the juvenile court in Wilkes-Barre, an old coal town about 20 miles from her home.

Less than a minute into the hearing the gavel came down. "Adjudicated delinquent!" the judge proclaimed, and sentenced her to three months in a juvenile detention centre. Hillary, who hadn't even presented her side of the story, was handcuffed and led away. But her mother, Laurene, protested to the local law centre, setting in train a process that would uncover one of the most egregious violations of children's rights in US legal history.

Last month the judge involved, Mark Ciavarella, and the presiding judge of the juvenile court, Michael Conahan, pleaded guilty to having accepted $2.6m (£1.8m) from the co-owner and builder of a private detention centre where children aged from 10 to 17 were locked up.

The cases of up to 2,000 children put into custody by Ciavarella over the past seven years - including that of Transue - are now being reviewed in a billowing scandal dubbed "kids for cash". The alleged racket has raised questions about the cosy ties between the courts and private contractors, and about the harsh treatment meted out to adolescents.

Alerted by Laurene Transue, the Juvenile Law Centre in Wilkes-Barre began to uncover scores of cases in which teenagers had been summarily sent to custody by Ciavarella, dating as far back as 1999. One child was detained for stealing a $4 jar of nutmeg, another for throwing a sandal at her mother, a third aged 14 was held for six months for slapping a friend at school.

Half of all the children who came before Ciavarella had no legal representation, despite it being a right under state law. The Juvenile Law Centre has issued a class action against the two judges and other implicated parties in which it seeks compensation for more than 80 children who it claims were victims of injustice.

The prosecution charge sheet alleges that from about June 2000 to January 2007 Ciavarella entered into an "understanding" with Conahan to concoct a scheme to enrich themselves. The two judges conspired to strip the local state detention centre of funding, diverting the money to a private company called PA Child Care which it helped to build a new facility in the area.

In January 2002, prosecutors allege, Conahan signed a "placement guarantee agreement" with the firm to send teenagers into their custody. Enough children would be detained to ensure the firm received more than $1m a year in public money. In late 2004 a long-term deal was secured with PACC worth about $58m.

In return, the prosecutors allege, the judges received at least $2.6m in kickbacks. They bought a condominium in Florida with the proceeds. PACC's then owner, Bob Powell, who has not been charged, used to moor his yacht at a nearby marina. He called the boat "Reel Justice".

For a man who has agreed to serve more than seven years in jail as part of a plea bargain, Ciavarella comes across as remarkably unflustered. He invited the Guardian into his Wilkes-Barre home where he remains free on bail pending sentencing.

Though he pleaded guilty to conflict of interest and evasion of taxes, he insists that he took the money in all innocence, assuming it to be a legitimate "finder's fee" from the private company for help in building the detention centre. He denies sending children to custody in return for kickbacks. "Cash for kids? It never happened. People have jumped to conclusions - I didn't do any of these things."

He says that he regarded his court as a place of treatment for troubled adolescents, not of punishment. "I wanted these children to avoid becoming statistics in an adult world. That's all it was, trying to help these kids straighten out their lives."

As evidence, Ciavarella claims the percentage of children he sentenced to custodial placements remained steady from 1996, when he was appointed to the court, until he stood down from it in 2008. Yet the facts suggest otherwise.

For the first two years of his term his rate of custodial sentencing was static at 4.5% of cases. In 1999 - shortly before he allegedly began the racket with Conahan, according to prosecutors - it suddenly shot up to 13.7%. By 2004 it had risen to up to 26% of all teenagers entering his court.

Ciavarella hopes that with good behaviour he may spend only six years in jail.

Hillary Transue, meanwhile, is now 17 and in high school. She spent a month in detention for the parody. For many months afterwards she was ostracised by friends and neighbours, labelled a delinquent.

"It's nice to see him on the other side of the bench," she says of Ciavarella. "I'm sure he understands now how it feels."

from the Guardian UK

American Demagogue

Rush Limbaugh Calls for Obama to Fail, Conservatives Applaud!

Yes in other words they WANT a worldwide Depression and the Collapse of the United States, Traitors and demagogues every last one.

Where is our American Tarpeian Rock?

When will American Politcos come to the realiztion this toxic man is a 21st century Joseph McCarthy? An Oxy Contin swilling, Viagra by the gross,sexual tourist who is a pompous overinflated gas bag.

Rush represents intellectual vigor in the Conservative movement?
Ane Rand and William F Buckley were Conservatives ideological and philosophical trailblazers.

Any wonder Conservative ideology is so discredited?

Rush Limbaugh Calls for Obama to Fail, Conservatives React

byJonas Oliver
Appearing as the keynote speaker on the third and final day of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh rallied conservatives with a pointed attacks on the Obama administration, not the least of which was his explanation of why he hoped Barack Obama would fail.

"Let me add a caveat here. My friends, I know what's going on. I know what's going on. We're in the aspects here of an historic presidency. I know that. But let me be honest again. I got over the historical aspects of this in November. President Obama is our president. President Obama stands for certain things. I don't care, he could be a Martian. He could be from Michigan, I don't know -- just kidding.

Doesn't matter to me what his race is. It doesn't matter. He's liberal is what matters to me. And his articulated -- his articulated plans scare me. Now, I understand we can't say we want the President to fail, Mr. Limbaugh. That's like saying -- this is the voice of the New Castrati, by the way, guys who have lost their guts. You can't say Mr. Limbaugh that you want the President to fail because that's like saying you want the country to fail. It's the opposite. I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed," Limbaugh ranted to wild applause and cheers on Sunday night.

Addressing Limbaugh's comments over the weekend, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation that Rush Limbaugh has become the voice of the Republican party.

"He is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican party. He has been up front about what he views and hasn't stepped back from that which is he hopes for failure. He said it. I compliment him for his honesty but that's their philosophy that is enunciated by Rush Limbaugh. I think that's the wrong philosophy for America."

On Monday however, RNC Chairman Michael Steele took a different tack with respect to Limbaugh's role within the GOP.

According to U.S. News & World Report, when Steele appeared on D.L. Hughley's CNN program on Saturday night the RNC chairman addressed Limbaugh's stated desire that Barack Obama fail, saying: "So let's put it into context here. Let's put it into context here. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh, his whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it's incendiary. Yes, it's ugly."

Steele's comments were echoed by House Republican Whip Eric Cantor who also sought to distance the party faithful from Limbaugh's comments, by saying"Nobody-no Republican, no Democrat-wants this president to fail, nor do they want this country to fail or the economy to fail," reports U.S. News and World Report.

DeWayne here no folks Rush Limbaugh is not an entertainer, he is an American Demagogue!