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Friday, March 30, 2007

Lofton examines counsel about Warren Bloom and Marcia Brown

Lofton examines counsel about
Warren Bloom and Marcia Brown

by James Sullivan sullivancoach@yahoo.com (215) 416-0862


Warren Bloom, Democrat in court; Tracey Lofton, Dir. of Youth Lawyer Program;Tracey "Downing" Lofton will examine court decisions in political court and family court to provide free support to defendants that may be victims of court abuse helping citizens to understand getting courts laws enforced is in their reach in the state of PA.

In an attempt to get amazing legal counsel or grace for a political or family matter, finding a lawyer that will explain the due process of Judge and citizen engagement in court is very hard. In fact hiring a licensed attorney in Philadelphia County, Chester County, and Media Delaware County that will school you and help you at the same time is basically impossible. One reason for this amazing grace difficulty is that very few citizens understand just whom that person is that has the responsibility to enforce the law at court. This is where Tracey Lofton, Director of a Youth Lawyer Program, and folks like her, comes in to play. “Judges make decisions. Judges do not enforce the law,” Lofton says.

“I was told that when Political Petitions Challenges Decisions are made, Protection From Abuse Orders are made, Child Custody Orders are made, or any orders made by a Judge go into effect as Final Orders on the Municipal level, they, in fact, are not Final Orders,” says Lofton. Tracey has begun examining getting involved in 2 most recent popular court cases dealing with court defendant, Warren Bloom, in Philadelphia County and court plaintiff, Marcia Brown, in Media Delaware County. Lofton explains that “all Municipal Court, Court of Common Pleas, and Family Court level orders can be appealed as high to the Supreme Court. Any defendant must be served properly to appear in court and has the right to counsel especially when the plaintiff has appeared himself/herself-having counsel to speak against the defendant for them. Although a Judge may make a decision the empowerment of enforcing the law of the court is in the hand of the citizen.

PFA's that are obtained without the law being enforced (claimants are granted PFA's in Delaware County Courts without any report or incident of a why the plaintiff has not served the defendant and the plaintiff has not appeared himself/herself) is court abuse.


Case in point: Warren Bloom Candidate for City Commissioner for the May 15th Spring Primary got one day notice given and a No Continuance factor to appear in court by the City Commissioners office and the Court of Common Pleas. Nor did Bloom have counsel. Samuel C. Stretton, counsel for Philadelphia City Commissioner Edgar Howard challenged 960 signatures, leaving Bloom just 40 shy out of the one thousand needed to get on the ballot. Judge Lillian Ransom made the decision to remove Bloom from going any further ending his '07 political candidacy now. Lofton is looking at Bloom not having any counsel or denied the opportunity to fight the case using counsel support.

“Here is a good example where the citizen doesn't view this situation as personal or filing a complaint against a Judge accusing the fair justice of bias,” says Lofton. “Judges are often put in position to make decisions where guidelines are not set in place for them to be more supportive of those who are ordered to court without representation.

"But in the Marcia Brown case and Media Delaware County Justice Maureen Fitzpatrick, alarming it can be,” Lofton said. Marcia Brown, plaintiff, a resident of Delaware County, gave no notice, provided no proof of incident and worried not about a No Continuance factor to have the defendant appear in court by the Media Delaware County Courthouse. Nor did the defendant have counsel. Brown asked for a Protection From Abuse order preventing a defendant from coming near children or property the defendant and Brown share together although Brown nor the children has had any contact with the defendant for as long as 5 years. "This leaves the children and defendant completely separated from normal family activity. Judge Fitzpatrick made the decision to remove the defendant from participation with the children ending the children's freedom to have both parents now."


Lofton is looking at the shocking revelation that several Media Delaware County Judges, Fitzpatrick and Barry C. Dozor, are leaving citizens to believe that these judges can never be wrong and that their decisions made are final. “ There could be thousands of personal stories here when people are ready to tell about false decisions made by Media justices. Appeals can be made to higher courts to remove the matter from biased judges. To my knowledge no one should have a decision made against them when they are not present,” Lofton says. Lofton, a mother of seven -is committed to the people in this City of Media, Chester and Philadelphia by providing services such as housing, counseling, mentoring, training, job placement, etc. for over twenty years.




Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Rev. Dr. Maurice M. Hughes Sr., Phila. Police Clergy Liaison


Rev. Dr. M. Hughes, Sr., a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has served as Pastor of New Bethel A.M.E. Church since December, 1995. Prior to becoming Pastor of New Bethel he served as Pastor of Bethel A.M.E. church in Ardmore, PA. He also served at Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia, St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Malvern, Pa. and Trinity A.M.E. Church in Cinnaminson, New Jersey. Pastor Hughes also served as Assistant Pastor of Emmanuel United Methodist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rev. Dr. Maurice Hughes was converted on June 12, 1957 at Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

On July 18, 1965, Dr. Hughes preached his Trial Sermon at Trinity A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania under the Reverend Dr. William P. Stevenson. He was ordained Itinerant Deacon in May 1971 and was later ordained Itinerant Elder in May 1973. From October 1990 to 1993, Dr. Hughes served as volunteer Chaplain of Mercy Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Currently, he serves as volunteer Chaplain of the Philadelphia Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Chapel of Four Chaplains, and the Philadelphia Police Clergy. Dr. Hughes received his teaching Certificate from the Philadelphia College of Bible and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from Gwynedd Mercy College, Ambler, Pennsylvania. Reverend Hughes holds a Master of Divinity Degree also.

Hughes gained the degree from the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia, a Doctorate of Ministry degree from Trinity Theological Seminary, Newburgh, IN, and an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Sims School of Religion, Monrovia, Liberia.


Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Women Rescuers-White & Lofton Honored During Women's History Month



Diane White, former Youth Counselor that took a plunge at running for Mayor of the City of Harrisburg, getting schools up and running safely everyday in Philadelphia & Harrisburg, and providing Careworker Training, Education and Career achievement on the Internet; working with inmates. White is honored during Women's History Month.

Women Rescuers-White & Lofton, Online Newspaper; Wayneburg, PA
by Van Stone vspfoudation@yahoo.com (215) 747-8746

A unique advocating and rescue the Philadelphia Public Schools marketing opportunity, the Front Page News, an Online newspaper, provided by Green Party National Committee member Diane White and Green Party Trial Judge-Philadelphia Traffic Court candidate Tracey “Baittank Downing” Lofton has begun just before Women's History Month. The women, White and Lofton, are expanding our horizons and breaking down the barriers that keep school students from maximizing their own potential and generating nonviolence in our community. White, who takes the lead for better schools in Pennsylvania is connecting communities from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, from Chester Pennsylvania to Camden, NJ., through service providers like Global Domains International and others. Harlem to Haiti and Georgia to Ghana, are reached for rescue.

"We are One," says White. “And we must collectively contribute to our self-sustainability in the local, national, international, and the so-called "global schools environment and economy," White says. “We must take advantage of Internet opportunities by pooling our resources across geographical, social, religious, political and color barriers in an instant effort to save the children during Philadelphia's state of declared emergency,” she said. The Philadelphia Schools are at emergency levels. And I believe that with more courageous women like White and Lofton we can change this.

White is a lifelong resident of Harrisburg and is a graduate of William Penn High School. She is member of the Green Party of Pennsylvania and a founding member of the GPUS National Black Caucus. She holds a Bachelors degree in Social Work, a Masters degree in Personnel Administration/Industrial Relations, and Ph.D.. White grew up in Uptown Harrisburg and now resides in South Allison Hill, Harrisburg. And just like others that don't reside in Philly but have a real love for Philly's kids and responsible parents, White is helping families now, using the online newspaper, the Front Page News.

Diane has the knowledge to help because she was a commission Personnel Officer in the US ARMY, an Affirmative Action Officer, a Certified Human Resource Professional, and a Contract Compliance Specialist II for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. Years ago, sixty miles west of Reading, in Harrisburg, the state capital, White was elected to two offices as a write-in candidate: judge of elections and inspector of elections, Harrisburg Ward 2, Precinct 2 (Dauphin County). By law, she had to choose one of the two, and she chose judge of elections. Diane officially endorsed democrat Harrisburg mayoral candidate Jason Smith afterwards. But during her run White took 17.5% of the general election vote in the 2001 Harrisburg mayoral election, running against then 20-year incumbent who was on both the Democratic and Republican tickets.

But Lofton, who rose from child welfare recipient and fatherless child to the West Philly volunteer youth anti-violence Czar by providing services such as housing, counseling, mentoring, training, job placement, etc. for over twenty years, has joined White to help.

“I'm involved to make the schools partner with we parents demonstrating that if we can do something with no money it can make a change reducing violence so that kids can make it to class,” says Lofton. White's desire to revisit children's use of the civil war museums and develop a long-range plan for the city, the control of the schools need to be put back in the hands of the taxpayers, support emphasis on lower taxes; and clean, safe streets can be found at www.frontpagenews.us. Both women are asking educators and incarcerated men, like Mr. Robert “Sugar Bear” Lark in Waynesburg, to give as little as $15 a week to help raise $200 million dollars. The dollars will go directly to Philadelphia Police Clergy first -who will cover as many as 50 schools, to inmates giving back to the community, and to schools on a behavior issue list. We need more non-disruptive class.

White and Lofton, women that are making history attracting many people to more better choices than waiting for schools to get fixed, using the online newspaper for funding for music, safety, and art, and increased funds to support the Philadelphia Police Clergy-volunteers that are a part of the Philadelphia Police Dept., encourage educational reading as a key to end disruptive students from affecting others. Online careworkers that need 4 hours of successfully completed yearly certificate training to work: HIPAA; Cultural Awareness; Fire Safety and Prevention; Disaster Preparedness; Universal Precautions; Suicide Precautions; Management of Escalation among others can do so at the Front Page News-giving a $25 donation there. That's why White, formally a youth counselor, got into the challenge to rescue the schools and workers. You can contact both White and Lofton at: www.frontpagenews.us or write Stone at PO Box 395 E. Lansdowne, PA 19050. We appreciate that readers of Scoop are inmates in Waynesburg, PA and others. Come out of incarceration prepared - help kids now and give to support Philly schools.

Watch and Listen at Front Page News


by Baittank

Philadelphia Internet Television (WP-MR TV and Radio) has come to the hottest online newspaper available to educators, kids, and parents. And Radio Volta, the audio working group of the Philadelphia IMC, has joined up with VSP Foundation Inc., owners of the Front Page News quickly among host of corporates that find the community interest field great for their own business. Movies, concerts, and affairs can now be heard and seen using pc.
Even the leaders that conduct safety, health, training and political business are catching on to the Internet as a means of growth and dollar production. Folks can listen to their favorite tunes and even watch programming that supports their own goals to business and family success while searching the web for products, downloading music or help with fitness ideas. Gerald McNeal, a Web television and computer consultant who works at improving internet education is making watching TV possible using the constructed website, the Philadelphia Internet Television project. Radio Volta is an outgrowth of the webcast team that broadcasted over the "Internet waves" an independent community-based collective of creative individuals, committed to airing challenging and nontraditional cultural, educational and news content that will raise awareness and encourage activism around pivotal social and economic justice issues. McNeal takes the purpose of TV and computers to the next level assisting the computer users to understand the power of networking a conference.
readers can click on the Philadelphia Internet Television link and get coverage about protests, schools, jobs and features about community organizations that make a major affect in the lives of ordinary citizens. Readers and listeners can check the WP-MR TV and Radio link to see when programming is running. As for Radio Volta, it provides usually, 24 hours a day, radio broadcasting, cranking out old toons and new toons. You have to check in to get live radio broadcasting shows. VSP is a partner facilitator of radio broadcasting.
McNeal promotes grassroots programming broadcasting on the worldwide web. Anyone interested in having their own pre-recorded or recorded radio or TV program broadcasted via the Front Page News for a small donation can contact Van Stone at vspfoundation@yahoo.com
for more information.

Bloom In the Spring to Appeal Judges Decision



by John Coleman

This week Warren Bloom Candidate for City Commissioner for the May 15th Spring Primary will appeal the Judgment made by Court of Common Pleas Judge the Hon. Lillian Ransom decision to have 21 of his petition sheets disqualified, voiding 960 signatures. Bloom who was not represented by counsel turned in more than 1,950 signatures 950 above the amount required.
City Commissioner Edgar Howard made the challenge on March 13th the last day to file in order to remove any potential challengers. Samuel C. Stretton counsel for Commissioner Howard challenged 960 signatures, leaving Bloom just 40 shy out of the one thousand needed to remain on the ballot. Judge Ransom agreed that Bloom's notaries were not dated properly therefore violated the circulation clause that states signatures shall not be listed beyond the prior date of the latest endorsement. Bloom chargers that he signed off on each sheet at the end of the day using the date he began the sheet with instead of the reverse and did not mean to place a date in the area reserved for the notary only. Bloom argued that even though he made an obvious error, her Honor Ransom even agreed that all of the 41 sheets submitted were consistent with the same respective sign off dates. Bloom argued that this should not be grounds to remove his name from the ballot but that he should be given the grace and allowed to make the corrections, since the integrity of the names were not the issue but a date placed on the petition incorrectly.
Bloom commented afterward that "On behalf of all the candidates challenged, he will seek to have a Federal Judge invalidate these entire proceeding due to the only one day notice given and the "No Continuance" factor by the City Commissioners office and the Court of Common Pleas. "This will also speak to the high level of corruption present throughout this current administration."

Ref: Please Contact: Warren Bloom / Police Clergy 618 Brooklyn Street Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 215-222-7595 Or cell 215-939-7462 E-mail votebloom@hotmail.com or visit Myspace.com/bloominthespring

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Queen Nefertiti helps us to Believe during Women’s History Month



by John Coleman

Believe it or what! Queen Nefertiti, 1350 B.C., can assist man to find out about everything that happened with women in the past. In order to find out about everything that happened with women in the past we need to look into history. Whatever happened yesterday may lead us to things that happened in the past. Who do you think is a real historian? Is it someone who has studied manuscripts and books? Perhaps some historian has chosen to divulge to others only certain parts of actual events of women in history. But a true historian is someone who may tell us things about what happened the other day in the life of women without changing or exaggerating records to prove it. When it comes to understanding women, what do we want?

Take for example, Queen Nefertiti. A historian herself, this queen, never did write, about things that never happened in her presence or in her past. No one will find her writings and begin to spread to others what the dead woman had said as truth, and then later discover that what she said was not truth. Nefertiti understood that there has never been a writer who was totally objective and completely free from bias. Nefertiti at times told someone to write exactly what she said. And write they would. But it would be according to the full purpose of the instructor.

Today, even historians or reporters can distort the facts to some degree about women. But believe it or not, Nefertiti had nothing to gain by destroying records she had access to. She spoke about women’s error and perfection. She was in charge and fair. Part of Nefertiti’s story telling was to make sure that physical evidence would not be interpreted or read as prehistoric. This is where art comes in. She made sure that drawings of women would not be left to guess work. No one could later say that neither she nor the women of her time belonged to a period before recorded history. In art women of Africa would appear as such. And women of other continents would appear clearly of their ethnically. She made sure that anyone could be a historian if they desired it. Nefertiti’s goal was to demonstrate that illustrators can act as historians about women by the way he or she portrayed his or her portraits. She knew that seeing is an important part of believing.

Monday, March 19, 2007

"I smell a Rat and or Edgar Howard is a Snake in the grass."



by Warren F. Bloom, Democrat Candidate for City Commissioner of Philadelphia, PA

Response From Bloom In The Spring Do the Right Thing: to charges of Unqualified to Run.

As of this Wednesday March 14th I thought Commissioner Edgar Howard and I were friends, The Commissioner along with Judge Elizabeth Jackson of Court of Common Pleas was recently invited out to my church, The Deliverance Evangelistic Church at 21st & Lehigh Ave, hosted our annual Youth Voter Registration and Education program. As a co-host I found the meeting to be very fruitful and informative. But now to have this attack of false allegations handed me by the Commissioners office, I am outraged and flattered at the same time. To think that the Commissioner feel so threaten that he has to challenge my petitions, proves to me that this office must have new leadership. Because of stench of corruption that has shrouded this office for nearly forty years. I’m demanding his immediate resignation of Commissioner Edgar Howard, who only won the office by default. I will prove beyond the shadow of doubt and stake my life on their credibility and that my 2000 petition signatures are uncorrupted and qualifies me to be and stay in this race.

Warren Bloom can be reached in Philadelphia, PA at: (215) 939-7462 for more info about this story.


Sunday, March 18, 2007

Van Stone is the next Willie Weber and Gene London TV-DJ at Front Page News



Van Stone is the next Willie Weber and Gene London TV-DJ at Front Page News

by James Sullivan sullivancoach@yahoo.com

If you are between the ages of 60 and 35 you just might recall the Willie Weber Show and the Gene London Show. Both shows had real life host that talked to kids and DJ cartoons on TV in a hour or half hour long after school hours and or Saturday morning hours program. Watching cartoons and the TV-DJ was very fun and safe for children and youth. At Front Page News, the Online newspaper that keeps readers up to date about hot community topics that most likely wont be written about in big time corporate news media and press, Cartoonist and Comic Strip creator, Van Stone, introduces access to kids popular and unknown visual arts. Parents can send their own kids to the room where ever the computer is hooked to the Internet and feel comfortable that young ones have logged on to www.frontpagenews.us. Computers are great because no matter what the weather is, computers and kids and parents can always be together. Seniors can join in the fun and learn just what makes kids love sitting at the computer. No TV? Go to TV-DJ Van Stone’s Front Page News and click on to kids popular cartoon stuff like Cartoon Network, Nick, Disney, Safety4Kids, among others. The 45 year-old Stone is a big Kid.

The Internet offers a world of opportunity for children. Your guidance and involvement are essential to help ensure that children have a safe and rewarding online experience. Your efforts to instill responsible information practices will help steer your children to age-appropriate activity at the Front Page News, and will go a long way toward ensuring that your children have enriching online experiences.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Front Page News: Tracey Lofton Green Candidate for Traffic Court Judge

Front Page News: Tracey Lofton Green Candidate for Traffic Court Judge

Congratulations Tracey. You are going to make a great traffic court judge. The people of Philadelphia are lucky to have you.

Diane F White
Harrisburg, PA

Tracey Lofton Green Candidate for Traffic Court Judge


Tracey Lofton
Green Candidate for Traffic Court Judge

Why the people’s choice? Tracey Lofton, legal guardian of Timothy Lofton and mother of seven Brittany, Bryce, Breeanna, Braylynn, Brahnier, Bronson and Brahleah born of a twenty-three year marriage, was born and raised in Westpark Projects in West Philadelphia. Tracey is the people’s choice because she has been committed to the people in this City by providing services such as housing, counseling, mentoring, training, job placement, etc. for over twenty years.

Tracey Lofton is a graduate of Dobbins Area Vocational Technical School in Philadelphia where she studied business. She went on to continue her education at a variety of higher educational Institutions including Community College of Philadelphia and studied Real Estate Law and Humanities which allowed her to acquire numerous properties in the City of Philadelphia and provide housing for those in need.

Tracey, has always been active in the community of the 3rd District 6th Ward. For over thirty years Tracey has been on the streets going door-to-door campaigning for many causes and supporting several of Philadelphia’s Political favorites. Tracey became a part of the Philadelphia Court System in 1995 where she began to work in Small Claims Court and became a certified Mediator for civil issues and Assistant Arbitrator for Criminal Cases. Tracey has spent the past ten years assisting in the courtroom on a daily basis.

Tracey’s experience with criminal procedures, her knowledge of law and her sense of justice and fairness guarantees her to be one of the best candidates for Traffic Court Judge. In addition to all the other challenges the City faces with criminal activity, Tracey places reckless, careless and drunk driving up there in the list of top tens.
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Front Page News: Tracey Lofton makes Womens History Outsmarting C. Ava Marshall's Attorney

Front Page News: Tracey Lofton makes Womens History Outsmarting C. Ava Marshall's Attorney

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Really Mormons?


Joseph Smith Born 1805 Died 1844

The concept of the 12, Jehovah is the Name

Of Almighty God, the Bible Tract Society is

what the Jehovah’s Witnesses, formally known

as International Bible Students, and

Excommunication (kicking members out of the

Religion and ordered not to speak to that one that

Is kicked out, renamed as,

the Faithful and Discreet Slave Class-144,000

elite people that go to heaven, Jehovah is used

instead of Yahweh as the Name of Almighty God,

the Bible Tract Society as head of the

religion organization and Disfellowshipping

(kicking members out of the religion and

ordered not to speak to that one that is

kicked out.

Both the Mormons and the Jehovah’s Witnesses

approved destruction of Blacks before and after

the black slaves were under Slavery.

New Public School Black-History:

Hope To Be Included,

From Slavery and Religion To Freedom

Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Really Mormons?

by James Sullivan

(story revised from Ken Burns –PBS

and Reporters Van Stone and Baittank Downing)

sullivancoach@yahoo.com

As founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, popularly known as the Mormons, Joseph Smith stands as one of the most charismatic and influential religious figures in American history.

Smith was born in 1805 in Sharon, Vermont, into a hard-pressed farm family that eventually included ten children. The Smiths moved ten times in nineteen years, but almost all of Joseph's later childhood was spent near Palmyra, New York, in the heart of what was called the "burned-over district" for its frequent and fervent Protestant revivals.

By his own description, Smith's first direct divine revelation came at age fourteen, on the Smith family farm. In a series of encounters, God revealed to him that all religions since the death of Christ's disciples had strayed from the true Church of Christ, which Smith was charged with restoring. Later visions instructed Smith to translate a history of ancient inhabitants of North America written on tablets of gold stored in a nearby hillside. The translations were published in 1830 as the Book of Mormon, which together with the Old and New Testaments and some of Smith's later revelations became the sacred scripture of Mormonism.

Theologically, Smith's new religion drew upon, yet transcended, important elements of 19th century American Protestantism and religious practices. God and Jesus Christ were hardly remote figures to Smith and his followers; they were material beings with the bodies of men who actively and directly intervened in human affairs. Human beings are themselves filled with the essence of divinity, and through proper conduct can literally become God-like. The Mormon Church, under the leadership of a divinely ordained Prophet, provides the structure by which humans progress toward this God-like status.

Smith formally founded his church shortly after the publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830. His immediate family and close friends formed much of its early leadership. Smith's driving personality and immense personal charisma were essential to Mormonism's explosive early growth. Even sworn enemies of Mormonism were left stunned by the power of his presence and the authority with which he spoke.

Within a year of the establishment of the Church, Smith moved to Kirtland Mills, Ohio, a place that he hoped would allow the "Saints," as the Mormons referred to themselves, to gather and live in the Kingdom of God on earth. Several Mormon settlements in Missouri, however, were the predominant Mormon population centers. The settlements were not merely groupings of like-minded people, but rather communities where political, social and economic functions were intimately bound up with one another.

The 1837 banking panic across the United States caused the economic collapse of the Kirtland settlement, and this, together with spreading rumors of polygamy, caused many Mormon converts to leave the church. Undaunted, Smith headed west to Missouri with his loyal followers. Within a year, virtual civil war had broken out between the Saints and their gentile neighbors, who were hostile to the Mormon religion and fearful of the Mormon communities' economic and political might. Missouri's governor ordered all Mormons to leave the state, and when their stronghold in Far West, Missouri, was surrounded, Smith, fearing an imminent massacre, surrendered.

This time the Mormons fled East, founding the city of Nauvoo on the Mississippi River near Quincy, Illinois, in 1839. By 1844, the city had grown to over 10,000 inhabitants, and international missionary efforts had lifted the church to nearly 35,000 members. But this growth again stirred suspicion and resentment among the Mormon's gentile neighbors, now exacerbated by the spread of polygamy -- still a confidential tenet of the faith -- among Mormon leaders.

When Smith announced that he was running for the Presidency of the United States in 1844, opposition to the Mormons reached a climax. Smith was imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois, and charged with inciting a riot after he attempted to destroy a newspaper that exposed the Mormon's practice of polygamy. But before he could be tried on these charges, a mob broke into his cell and brutally killed both him and his brother.

The murder of its founder left the Mormon community at a crossroads. The majority of Saints rallied around Brigham Young, who as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles claimed to be Smith's rightful successor. Under his leadership, they moved westward again to Utah. Many rejected Young's leadership, however, and some of these Mormons eventually formed the Reorganized Latter-day Saints, a sect which has always rejected polygamy and, with several hundred thousand members today, claims to be the true church.

Would the slave trade have been outlawed before 1880 if it had not been for what is known as the Haitian Revolution? Would the escaped slave Frederick Douglass, eventually assumed of his generation the most highly regarded of the Black male abolitionists, have been in the world wide publishing work before 1846 for what he felt was Gods Kingdom to Come on earth if there were no Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society?

What about the Black female conductors during the 1800's such as Harriet Tubman, who made dozens of trips into the South, carrying a gun with her and making contact with slaves who wanted to flee slavery? How many understand that Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 is the most famous school desegregation case, but lawful challenges calling for desegregation had been filed as early as 1849?

Parents and their school kids have to consider the importance of true history, even if its particularly about the Chapel, Black Americans, American Indians, Free Masons and Constitutional Law, before, during and after the civil war because as Americans, we the people are to be sovereign. And if we are to be sovereign, division in any form must be exposed and cut short so that diversity must stand. What we dont quite understand about civil rights or the amendments of the 1800's will have direct affects on our public life.

Imagine the goal of children attending public schools in Philadelphia having the choice to learn new African-American History points discovering other American beliefs, tested and supported, as to how and why our countrys founders fought so hard to advise us to believe in the liberty of conscience and to accept immigrants and religious diversity. Shall we dare dream?

The most pertinent issues of African American History such as Politics, the Black Codes, 1865-66, Laws, the Supreme Court Decisions of judicial override, racial divisions as to who was not considered a federal citizen and who was thought to be a state citizen are not being taught. Teachers and students do not consider these issues to be of value to their daily lives.

Youth need to know about exciting people of the past so that they themselves can become heroes of our future. Perhaps they should learn about Spiritual minded people like Frederick Douglas, 1845, a Black man, a devout Christian leader slave who went on to write a book about his experiences, or John Brown, 1859, a white man, a devout Christian leader of a religious minority group, who believed he was chosen by God to end slavery, or Joseph Smith, 1823, a white man, a devout Mormon Christian leader of a faith group, who believed he was appointed by Jehovah God to preach door to door about a kingdom and a faithful and discreet class of anointed followers who desired a Zion paradise on earth and in heaven.

Or Charles Taze Russell, a white man, a devout Jehovahs Witness Christian plagiarist leader, who used the thoughts of a group the latter saints,@ representing them as his own original work while creating a scandal due to his bigotry philosophy about Blacks, Jews, Indian people and all individuals who did not accept his views of his prophecy unfulfilled.

Youngsters who are trying to prepare themselves for public life, the chapel as well as what they desire to be when they grow up will continue to be confused about what role history played in setting the standard for pop culture today.


And what contribution or legacy, if any at all, will kids create now for our State based on what is true history about African Americans, White Americans, Native Americans or any other American?

Students need to find the truth to questions dealing with the >who was who in U.S. history. Straight-up, should the truth about American history be told to children by their parents that American history is Uncanny, Unbalanced or just plain Un-American? Did it really take diversity to help save African Americans or did they get it done all by themselves? Does God really bless those who help themselves as kids are told by chaplains? Or does history through the eyes of what occurred to Blacks show that going to the chapel on any given day of the week has very little to do with anyone being guided by the Power of Assistance?

Public school teachers are well equipped to instruct students about past Nations like the Black Seminoles. They were former Black runaways eventually bonding with Indian survivors of local wars. They created a new ethnic group. Black Indians, as their title, descends through their eldest fathers and mothers. Students may learn how this might apply to the United Nations today and their relationship with our own land.

As both students and parents are considering what is true American history they will discover what is true religious history as it relates to Black-History during the present and back to the past. Was there racism, cultism or over righteousness involving any religious community before, during or after the civil war? If so, how does this compare to religious tolerances today such as child sex abuse, prohibiting the free exercise of others religion?

As for faith-based groups like Catholicism, where the supreme head directs members to use scripture other than from the King James Version, the Baptist, spiritual leaders baptizing believers to a new start by immersing them in water, Methodists, a denomination that grew out of the teachings of John Wesley, the Presbyter, an elder in the early Christian church, and Jewish or Moslems, each having officers appointed by a government to further the interest of their own country based on the Torah and Koranic revelations, what was the issue with them during the civil war? Who cared and who did not? Today, students inquire whether faith-based groups were possibly portraying themselves as - teaching that faith is keeping oneself separate from the State government. Nevertheless in disguise, the church is also secretly being very alive in the States work. What a lesson, the truth right out of the history book, so that kids can become thinkers for themselves.

Or where else can students find out about the Bible Law government during the time of the early 1800's till our time? Who were the religious leaders and what were they doing to engage the importance of religious diversity then as it is important today? What religious groups, although minority, did not accept Blacks into their chapel at all based on the church supporting the Jim Crow system and the United States during the 1800's?

Tying past facts with what is happening today students can find in African American History subjects that while for over one hundred years the JWs organization Elders tell the Witnesses to regard the United Nations as a most powerful Agent of Satan the Devil@named in the Book of Revelation-teaching its extreme opposition to the UN. JW had been secretly affiliated to the UN as a non-governmental organization from 1991 to 2001. The Watchtower sat on the UNs website as one of 1,500 accredited Non-Government Organizations.


What is interesting about this is in history students are taken aback examining the Jehovahs Witnesses Christians, people and politics during the civil war. Theyll learn that understanding the ordinary democratic process being allowed to take its course, while both Frederick Douglasss and President Abraham Lincolns early views on the civil war differed. The founder of the JWs, Charles Taze Russell, had no view at all on the civil war. How could he?

At the very height of leaders discussing the issue at hand, to save the Union or freeing any slave, or to save the nation, young Russell born 1852 was only but ten years old. Their young leader, like many others never met Douglass nor Lincoln to discuss or understand the issues of that 1800 to 1900 generation.

And unlike Jesus, according to the Gospel, who was but a teen himself when discussing the issues of his generation, slavery, law, people and events leading to the last days, the prophet who never left any doubt that his title descends through his eldest brothers, Russell appeared on the scene through no descendants of holiness. However, Russell highly claimed that he and those who must be followers of him during the late 1800's until present were basically to be compared equal with the Christ.

Many have died for the cause to stop evil and slavery, both white and Black alike. Students have heard of these persons and their greatness when they walked the earth until they past away. But few have heard of Russell. Regardless of this fact, Russell and other little known folks who were involved in some form or act of another during Black History should be learned about. If teachers are willing to include this as a part of African American history, regardless of the students ethnic background, school this year will be at least interesting. What student would want to cut this class?

Even the student who doesnt seem to want to learn will find fascinating that in 1852, called by Lincoln the little woman who started the Civil War,@ Harriet Beecher Stowe, a white woman, contributed to the abolitionist movement to stop the violation of the sovereign peoples consciences and hence their religious liberty and freedom of mind - Russell was opposed to this kind of faith. Russell supported a no freedom of your own mind policy - to question anything he as Jehovahs Prophet says, meant disfellowshipping. This is how it was while publishing his Zions Watchtower magazine in 1880. Contrary to coerced faith, by publishing Uncle Toms Cabin, Stowes Cabin was a denouncement of slavery. Stowe had long heard about the magazine, Zions Watchman, in the early 1830's, it being published long before Russell was even born. Fortunately for many Blacks today, she had faith in diversity.

True history reports tell us that in the blue and red States many people, more than we realize, believed that Black Americans were human beings with feelings just like any other human. And slavery is an inhuman institution that can be easily practiced by those who desire others to follow their social or religious views. And dangerous folks demand that their view go unquestioned, untested and unsupported. To them, according to what they say is Biblical law or Constitutional law, their word is the law. And that is the end of that. Members are told to obey. Dont object. However, school students can object.

There were many cults and groups during moments in Black History. True, everyone didnt have the History Channel or Cable to find out about these types of things. But our students do have schools. The question is how many students are aware that 16 or more of our founding fathers, including George Washington himself, was a member of the Free Masons? What part did being a Free Mason play in leading to the end of slavery?

Still focusing on the 1800's to the 1900's students may not know that hateful people misused and deceived many others to believe that Blacks were meant to be slaves based on pure Bible law, as they interpreted the Word. And that Blacks were thought to be lessor than most on the face of the earth. This view was practiced as part of the many so-called one true religion on earth, where there was no room for religious diversity.


This teaching was a part of the Ku Klux Klan Empire as well as other religious faith-based empires, such as Russells International Bible Students@, Jehovahs empire on earth, as JWs were formerly called in the 1800's. Although most knew that the first Black child baptized in English America was christened William in the church of England at Jamestown as early as 1624. At that time, by English law that child became free with the baptism. Few students today know that England was hot for freedom.

JWs individual members were taught then, in the late 1800's and still today that there is no room on this earth for any other religion but theirs. Diversity is not an option. All others will be destroyed during the Great Tribulation climaxed at Armageddon. Far more interesting is that this Armageddon is the basic word for word interpretation that was part of Joseph Smith, the Mormons act of revealing back in 1823, long before the Confederate States of America formed. As for this end itself, Blacks were not to be a part of the joyous ending even if Elijah Abel, a Black man, had been converted in 1832 as a Mormon.

Thus far though, what is missing from Black History and history in general is what was 9 year-old Russell and his fellow contestants doing then when many claimed that holy covenants were being made before, during and after the Civil War. This was the war, viewed most likely by many right down to those who survived it, as their Armageddon. Again, history asked, based on written similarity, could it be that Russells 1874 Armageddon is convenient to the Joseph Smiths and his contemporary Brigham Youngs 1848 Armageddon? Students should feel free to find out if history of Blacks, slavery and the chapel repeats itself. How can people who arent contemporaries Awake to the same vision yet call the other a false act?

Today, the affects of the child sex scandal that engulfed majority religious groups has not bypassed the Jehovahs Witnesses no matter what we know about its relation to Black history. JWs and child sex abuse too is an international lewd problem amongst the churchs anointed and appointed class.

While the title Elder and the JWs can be traced as far back in Black History to the Mormons chapel or even the church of England, the title Elder has never been divinely exclusive to One divine organization as many try to claim. It is no wonder that eventually the State had to step in during the 1800's and use supreme might to expose loose conduct of leaders, claimers of prophetic inspiration, predicting future events of mass slaughter. Leaders used their own writings in addition to the biblical law as their ax to grind members. Today cult leaders pop-up again copy-catting off of others past scheme to be successful. Acts of abusing children and getting away with it in the name of the Lord persist. History will tell on them.

Some people belonging to the church show that certain things will never change. Amazingly historical records were kept of whomever did the horrible acts of child abuse right in their chapel. Methods of protecting abuse by not reporting the persons who were pedophiles was the norm. In the 1800's Clergy heads were making threats, and punishing all Blacks who even thought about testifying against whites as witnesses for the victim. This was a warning to whites or Blacks who might speak out, tell police or question the Clergys opinion that keeping confession of the child abuser is the Holy Gods instruction. The scriptural decision was directly from the One they looked to as God Almighty. Many victims died.

It was once illegal for Blacks to go to court against a white person for any reason in the 1800's. So majority religions today, including JWs, will punish both Its white and Black members if they question why its leaders refuse to allow the sovereign people of the State to examine records of child molesters who are in their mist. Child molestation confession is taught as holy confidential talk to Elders. The power to not tell is theirs, the Elders, and theirs alone. The victims and their families must suffer. Wait on Jah, they say to the victims. The Elders are the wrongdoers. As for their sex acts, Jah who will bring it out- Not the church.


Any church who operates like the church of the past in this way are very successful at covering up child sex abuse. Based on what happened during the Black History struggles of the 1800's, organized religion got recognized with the federal government for their own leadership purposes, not to teach.

In those times the religion that secretly supported a fundamental concept of American constitutional law, separation between church and State and the U.S. should remove Indians from their land, as well that Blacks should pay a fee for their freedom- could openly proceed in crime.

Today, because of history Secular courts have set themselves up to be basically defenseless against organized religion no matter what faith they call themselves. Anointed or appointed leaders of the church are aware that even the Supreme Court has no power to review church decisions nor church records.

Frightfully, this is how victims in the 1800's attempted to take the law into their own hands to stop the abuse of others rights. Yes, white, Indian or Black some even fought with their lives, if they had to, against the governmental authorities and lost. This was the case during John Browns time. Today students can understand why Brown, a white man, with fewer than fifty men, attacked the U.S. arsenal in Harpers Ferry launching an attack on Virginia slave-holders. The Supreme Court was for slavery.

Brown found that the Supreme Court stood by and did nothing to assist the Black or white abuse victims when the matter involved children and the church. Brown felt that churches supporting murder and mayhem and molestation had gotten themselves recognized with the federal government. The prophets could promote their hatred of diversity. Brown taught that the North and South federal government was unbalanced.

Nevertheless, it was Brown who was sentenced to death by hanging while the abusive chapel leaders roamed free to attend the church. Many church leaders called ministers were transferred to another church site only to be in a position to abuse again and again. Blood of white and Black freedom fighters spilled.

Not only is it a fact that Black History explores a host of majority religious groups and the JWs years of secretly bonding with the federal government to kill, more shocking is evidence found that the International Bible Society and its presidents supported the aims of most bigot military States.

History repeated if self again in the early 1900's when majority Christian groups, such as the JWs 2nd and 3rd presidents supported the aims of the Third Reich. This was by far Un-American.

There is evidence of the Watchtower JWs letter to Hitler sent on or in the following June 25, 1933, and public statements made about anti-Semitism and bigotry against Black Americans in articles of the 1934 Watchtower and in the 1934 Year Book of Jehovahs Witnesses@ during moments in Black History as an official statement of the Watch Tower Society. Yet, very young Blacks and whites stood against Hitler.

Learning detailed information about African American History and not just an overview in the public school will help students and their parents to find that sharing remorse of others sufferings is a must if we desire to end acts of hate. Today the moral urgency is to assist our neighbors. Who will learn to understand cultural and religious way of life differentiate truthfully unless teachers are using the tools of history as their guide. Students need to know that uncanny individuals are a part of American history.


When students are given the full version of history and are allowed to use their own minds to question all documentary history of Black Americans, religions and freedom their future will be a true future of diversity. Every student each year should look forward to having history as a course if the above facts in history and many more facts that are not mentioned here about history is taught during their school year.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Tracey Lofton makes Womens History Outsmarting C. Ava Marshall's Attorney

Tracey Lofton makes Womens History Outsmarting C. Ava Marshall's Attorney
by James Sullivan sullivancoach@yahoo.com (215) 416-0862



Tracy “Baittank Downing” Lofton, Pioneering a Philadelphia Youth
Lawyers Program and Winning Legal Brief against experienced Lawyer,
in Philadelphia. Lofton used her excellent black womens intuition to foil
C. Ava Marshall, Delaware County, and male experienced attorney from
swaying Philadelphia Civil Court Judges to deny due process of Trial in
Philadelphia, PA.

On March 5, 2007 Tracey “Baittank Downing” Lofton was the first Black American Women lacking an attorney license to understand court briefs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to assist a plaintiff in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County First Judicial District of Pennsylvania and winning against an experienced Philadelphia lawyer. Lofton understood clearly civil court language that is critical to any legal case.

Tracey, a Philadelphia resident, outsmarted lawyer, John J. Hatzell, Jr. Esquire, practicing in Philadelphia, and representing defendant, C. Ava Marshall, a very well know professional Home Evaluator (Investigator) and social worker level status from Delaware County area, after receiving a plaintiff's case presented to Lofton's Youth Lawyer's Program, in Philly.

Hatzell Jr. Esquire filed a Motion for Summary Judgment by defendant, Marshall, presenting it to Judge Glazer, First District of Pennsylvania based on Marshall being sued in Philadelphia as Marshall desired to have the case both thrown out and or transferred to Media Courthouse Delaware County. Since the case involved a power-childcare worker like Marshall, few expected Lofton's skills to be good enough to look over the brief let alone consult the plaintiff, absolutely free of charge, and make a dent in justice for kids.

Lofton has worked with youth and the courts on many artificial legal briefs in the state of Pennsylvania volunteers her time to help youngsters stay off the streets and away from youth gun violence. Since 1980 Lofton has done mentoring work with children that reside in impoverished communities. “Baittank Downing”, as Lofton is affectionately known in the neighborhood, helps kids after school with homework and career ideals about becoming a licensed attorney that can save the neighborhood from ruthless people that exploit working in childcare as just a business instead of really caring.

She became a Legal Administrator working for Prudential Bank as early as 1978 while still in high school at Dobbins Area Vocational Technical School, West Philadelphia. When the courts during the early '80's uncaringly took underprivileged black children away from their parents Lofton became concerned about the needs of the children. She wanted to help in some way. So she started nursing the wounded parents, so to speak, in the Philadelphia area. Soon, Baittank Downing became known as the “Lawyer of 46th and Market Street.” Lofton did such a good job that she was named Arbitrator working between Family Court, Landlord Court, Small Claims Court, and Criminal Court for City of Philadelphia courts. In 1997 she was the first black female to ever pass court tests consisting of typing and legal jargon with no preparation, or ever looking at a legal brief.

The court staffs were so impressed with Lofton that they offered her a position where she could work and get her college education without interruption. She went on to continue her education at a variety of higher educational Institutions including Community College of Philadelphia. And she studied Real Estate Law and Humanities, which allowed her to acquire numerous properties in the City of Philadelphia and provide housing and youth lawyer studies workshops for parents and their own children. Lofton, known for court issues, is running as a Green Candidate for Trial Judge, Philadelphia Traffic Court Judge. (Diane White,
www.frontpagenews.us contributed to this article).





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