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Trump's Lawyers Refuse to Say "He's Innocent." or "He Didn't Do It." - Instead, They are Going for LOOPHOLES... "He Can't get a Fair Trial in Manhattan." and "Statute of Limitations Has Run Out."

 That's because they KNOW Trump is Guilty... 

Trump lawyers blast DA Alvin Bragg's case, but legal experts say they'll regret it. Here's why...


Trump Attorneys Tell Him to Prepare to Lose.
His team is telling him to "win it on appeal," arguing
without evidence that the former Republican president
can't get a fair trial in Manhattan...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-
features/trump-attorneys-prepare-lose-alvin-bragg-
1234701967/

Yes, New York’s five-year statute
of limitations for felonies can be
extended in some cases.

Trump Arrested Protest NYC


On FaceBorg: GB Said...
Last week, Trump promised his followers on his own 
social media site that, if he was arrested, "death and 
destruction" would follow but, unlike the January 6th 
insurrection at the US Capitol that he incited, when he 
showed up on Tuesday for his arraignment on 34 felony 
charges related to his hush money payments to adult 
film star Stormy Daniels in New York City, his 
supporters were outnumbered by counter-protestors 
(Even the Kluxxers and the no-Nazis didn't show up!) 
and they were both outnumbered by reporters coverin' 
it!
If this was the "spark" that Trumpers, Republicans 
and Faux News all thought was supposed to ignite 
a "new Civil War" in this country, Tuesday was a dud!

The Heroin from "The French Connection" was Stolen by the Police and Sold on the Streets of New York City... Classic War on Drugs FAIL... The Movie Failed to Tell the Entire Story...

 December 1972 — The police department discloses that around 200 pounds (91 kg) of heroin, much of it seized in the French Connection busts a decade earlier, has been stolen from evidence lockers over a period of several months and replaced with cornstarch by someone who signed in under false names and nonexistent badge numbers. Several detectives were suspected of complicity in the thefts; in 2009 Brooklyn mobster Anthony Casso, serving 455 years in federal prison, intimated that he knew who had stolen the drugs.[34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/nyregion/22french.html

The French Connection Movie Poster


The well-organized gang was responsible for distributing close to a million dollars worth of heroin up and down the East Coast of the United States during the early 1970s, which in turn led to a major New York Police Department (NYPD) corruption scheme. The scope and depth of this scheme are still not known, but officials suspect it involved corrupt NYPD officers who allowed Papa, Alessi, and Loria access to the NYPD property/evidence storage room, where hundreds of kilograms of heroin lay seized from the now-infamous French Connection bust, and from which the men would help themselves and replace missing heroin with flour and cornstarch to avoid detection.[11][12]


The substitution was discovered only when officers noticed insects eating all the bags of "heroin". By that point an estimated street value of approximately $70 million worth of heroin had already been taken. The racket was brought to light and arrests were made. Certain plotters received jail sentences, including Papa, who was later murdered in federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Connection


https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/06/books/papa-s-game-by-gregory-wallance-309-pp-new-york-rawson-wade-publishers-1-4.95.html

I remember that We used to Ride Bicycles all over town when I was Growing up in Los Gatos.

 I remember Barry Hill and I raced down from the Novitiate... too fast and I Hit a short brick wall, flipped over the handlebars and Landed in a Bush on my Back with my toes still in the toe clips... Bent that front wheel and we had to buy a replacement at the Flea Market...  I also Rode to the Rosicrucian Museum... That's a long ride... Once Joe Franck and I tried to Ride to Big Sur but I quit before I got to Summit Road... He and his other Friends Made it... Amazing... My whole family rode on Freeway #280 on the Day before it opened... Smooth White Concrete for miles... thousands of other bikers... Bikes were a way to have freedom of motion at ZERO Cost. No Need to ask my parents to drive me anywhere because I could Just Ride... and tell them where I was Going... and sometimes I even arrived at the Declared Destination!


Years Later My First Wife and I Rode from New York City to Washington DC. It Took about 2 Months... We Traveled LESS than 50 miles a day. MANY Days we didn't travel at all... It was a Vacation and often we stayed by the pool at the Campgrounds... In Rural New Jersey and Maryland many farmers have private campgrounds to make some easy money... We Went from One to the Next and the Farmers would call ahead, make reservations with friends of theirs. Once they came looking for us because we had gotten lost and didn't arrive on time... Thanks! I remember that it was downhill for 60 miles to the Delaware River... We Rode as fast as the Cars that were passing us... Maybe 50 MPH... and then... 60 miles uphill... 

I posted this on my Facebook Group... "Things I Remember Growing up in Los Gatos" and my Neighbor Victor Koman posted something... That reminded me of Driving my Dad around during his last year of life... We went Down Highway #9 towards Saratoga and Turned Left at The Library... Drove to the TOP of the Mountain and Visited a Subdivision Dad Built... Apollo Heights... On Orbit Road... There was Still an Empty Lot for Sale all these years later... You could Look Down on the Paul Masson Winery... see Moffett Field and Los Gatos... That subdivision was one of his greatest accomplishments... It was all just bare land when he started and the only way a Customer could visit their lot was by riding a Burro... He arranged for a road to be paved, electricity, water sewers... etc... I'm really glad we went... We had planned to Go to Vasona Park that Day but when the Park Ranger asked us to PAY ADMISSION... I refused...

The BIG U - a Seawall around Manhattan to keep rising water out. Climate Change causes increasing danger... The Ocean is Rising, coastal cities plan for flooding...

The Plan is to build a giant wall to keep the Ocean from flooding Manhattan... No action is planned for New Jersey, Queens The Bronx or Brooklyn...

Big U Seawall to protect NYC

In collaboration with New York City, The BIG U proposal was developed to protect Lower Manhattan from floodwater, storms, and other impacts of a changing climate. The BIG U calls for a  protective system around the low-lying topography of Manhattan beginning at West 57th Street, going down to The Battery, and then back up to East 42nd Street.
http://www.rebuildbydesign.org/our-work/all-proposals/winning-projects/big-u



Manhattan plans to build a massive $1 billion wall and park to guard against the next inevitable superstorm...
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-flooding-manhattan-coastal-barriers-2018-4

Detail of The Wall around Manhattan NYC

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My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
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During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


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