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IEBC Kicks Off Diaspora Voter Registration in Canada and UAE – Mwakilishi.com

Posted By on February 3, 2022

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has kicked off diaspora voter registration in Canada and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in the two countries.

IEBC Chairman Wafula Cahebukati says the listing exercise in the two countries will go on for 15 days beginning February 1st.

In Canada, the exercise is being done at the Kenya High Commission in Ottawa, Kenya Honorary Consulate in Toronto, and Kenya Honorary Consulate in Vancouver. In the UAE, the registration is taking place at the Kenyan Embassy in Abu Dhabi, and Kenyan Consulate in Dubai.

IEBC commenced diaspora voter registration in the United States, the United Kingdom, Qatar, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa on January 21st.

The Enhanced Continuous Voter Registration (ECVR) exercise is also ongoing across the country and is expected to end on Sunday.

On Monday, IEBC announced it has registered 548,188 new voters in the last two weeks against a target of 2,987,138 during this period. The commission also received 130,320 requests for transfer and 989 applications for change of particulars.

Only 800,462 people registered as new voters in the first phase of the exercise last year, way below the targeted 4.5 million.

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After abandoning Artsakh, Pashinyan now gives up the Armenian cause – Armenian Weekly

Posted By on February 3, 2022

The online press conference of Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, January 24, 2022

It is simply amazing that every time PM Nikol Pashinyan opens his mouth, he makes a new and bigger blunder. To be convinced of this, all one has to do is follow his speeches, press conferences, contradictory statements in the National Assembly, Facebook postings, flawed decisions and unqualified nominations. To make matters worse, he does not seem to learn from his errors. Pashinyan neither realizes nor admits his mistakes. He seems to be incorrigible.

On January 24, 2022, the Prime Minister gave another one of his so-called press conferences. No reporters were present to ask questions and challenge his misstatements. It was a poorly-orchestrated show to mislead the public. Broadcast journalist Tatev Danielyan read the questions supposedly sent by the media. When one journalist complained later that his question was presented in a garbled manner, Danielyan confessed that she had simply read the questions given to her by the Prime Ministers aides.

Among the Prime Ministers biggest blunders was his reply to a question about Armenian historical demands from Turkey. Pashinyan stated that the Republic of Armenia has never conducted a policy of the Armenian Cause. Never. I seriously doubt that he knows the meaning of the Armenian Cause. His comment is no different than what a Turkish official would have said. It is shameful that after the horrendous genocide that was committed against Armenians in 1915-1923, killing 1.5 million innocent men, women and children, and dispossessing them of their historic homeland, the Prime Minister so casually dismisses Armenians just demands and acts as if nothing had happened. This is exactly what the Turkish leaders want that Armenians forget about the past and drop their demands.

Furthermore, the Prime Minister falsely stated that Pres. Robert Kocharyan in 2005 publicly announced that Armenia does not have territorial demands or territorial expectations from Turkey. I recall reporting about Kocharyans statement back in April 2005, when a Yerevan State University student asked him about Armenias demands for land from Turkey. Kocharyan cautiously responded: This issue would have to be taken up by a future President. It is clear that at a time when Armenia had its hands full dealing with the conflict with Azerbaijan over Artsakh, it was not in Armenias best interest to open a second front with Turkey over Armenian territories. Kocharyan did not say that Armenia had no territorial demands from Turkey. He simply said that the resolution of that issue has to be taken up at a later date. It is a shame that Prime Minister Pashinyan repeated what the Turkish media had falsely reported rather than what was actually said by the previous President of Armenia.

Going from one distortion to the next, Pashinyan falsely added that Pres. Serzh Sargsyan had made a reference to Kocharyans statement. I do not recall Sargsyan making such a reference. Pashinyan continued by stating that Armenia never placed in doubt the Armenia-Turkey border. You will not find a single leader or government of the Armenian Republic who put in doubt the Armenia-Turkey border. We have not resigned from this policy. In reality, until Pashinyan, no Armenian President or government had accepted the current Armenia-Turkey border nor stated that Armenia did not have territorial demands from Turkey.

Coming to the issue of the Armenian Genocide, PM Pashinyan wrongly stated: We must register that the locomotive behind the process of the recognition of the Genocide has always been the Diaspora and Diaspora organizations. This is exactly what the Turkish government would want the Armenian leader to say. There are several things wrong with the Prime Ministers statement.

1) Pashinyan is once again splitting the Diaspora from Armenia.

2) The Armenian Genocide is not exclusively a Diaspora issue. The descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors constitute today over one-third of Armenias population. That is why every year on April 24 over one million Armenians march to the Armenian Genocide monument in Yerevan.

3) All previous Armenian governments have pursued the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. In fact, Armenias Declaration of Independence, issued on August 23, 1990, declared the following: Aware of its historic responsibility for the destiny of the Armenian people engaged in the realization of the aspirations of all Armenians and the restoration of historical justice, and The Republic of Armenia stands in support of the task of achieving international recognition of the 1915 Genocide in Ottoman Turkey and Western Armenia. Significantly, the Declaration used the words Western Armenia, which is now being abandoned by the Prime Minister. Later, Armenias Constitution included a link to the Declaration of Independence.

4) The pursuit of the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide is a pan Armenian issue which concerns both the Diaspora and Armenia. Therefore, there must be a coordinated division of labor between the Diaspora and the Armenian government. What the Diaspora is able to do is different from what the Armenian government can do and vice versa.

The Prime Minister also made many other misstatements in his over two-hour-long so-called press conference. However, an entire book has to be written, not just an article, to expose all of his misstatements.

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh $917 million of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

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Kibita Yosef, you are our brother – The Jewish Standard

Posted By on February 3, 2022

Twenty years ago, in February 2002, I was privileged to travel to Uganda as a member of a bet din a rabbinic court charged with overseeing the formal conversion of the Abayudaya community to Judaism.

Now, Kibita Yosef, one of the young men I was honored to help convert, who has made aliyah and has chosen to live his life in the homeland of the Jewish people, is facing deportation because the chief rabbinate refuses to recognize that conversion. This, despite the fact that conversions performed in the Diaspora are recognized for purposes of immigration and citizenship under Israels Law of Return, regardless of the movement affiliation of the presiding religious authorities.

Abayudaya simply means Jews in Luganda, which is a branch of Africas Bantu language group. Indeed, the Abayudaya had been leading exemplary, heroic, and self-sacrificing lives as Jews for more than 100 years, comprising five generations of many families we encountered.

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The bet din brought a Torah scroll to the Abayudaya, to enhance their already rich liturgical and congregational life. Carrying the sacred scroll through Entebbe airport was an unforgettable moment of grace, inspiration, and tikkun spiritual redemption and reparation.

The Bet Din one Israeli and three American Conservative rabbis, aided by a senior American rabbinical student, were accompanied by leading members of Kulanu, the organization that had invited our small rabbinic contingent to officiate at the conversions, arranged our trip, and had long been providing moral and material support to our Ugandan brethren

The Ugandans admirable religious priorities were evident the moment we reached the communitys central village. We were received with Hebrew song and a banner that read: The Abayudaya Community Welcomes the Sefer Torah, the Bet Din, and the Kulanu Delegation. In that order!

Our bet din interviewed and examined several hundred individuals and family groups, convening from early morning to night throughout our week-long visit.

When in good time I depart this life and am called upon to offer a personal accounting before the Heavenly Tribunal, I fully intend to submit my role in officially welcoming the Abayudaya to Klal Yisrael the eternal and worldwide Jewish People as Defense Exhibit #1.

Kibita Yosef, then an eager and devoted 15-year-old member of the Abayudaya community, was among those who completed the exacting and punctilious conversion process we administered. It is thus with the most profound dismay that I have followed his ill treatment by the chief rabbinate of Israel and the government of the Jewish state, who have refused to acknowledge Yosefs Jewish status. He now faces imminent deportation. I decry the obvious racism of the rabbinate and its governmental enablers, the scandalous violence done the Torahs oft-repeated norm demanding that we love the convert, and the patent politicization and manipulative abuse of Israels celebrated and foundational Law of Return.

Given my own role in Kibitas spiritual journey, I take a measure of personal umbrage at his maltreatment at the hands of fellow Jews and rabbinic colleagues. After all, a rabbi who oversees ones conversion is considered his rav muvhak his definitive rabbi and teacher (See Moed Katan 25B; Pitchei Teshuvah, citing Shaar Efrayim) even though our decisive interaction was fully two decades ago.

The argument the chief rabbinate offers, that the Ugandan conversions are disqualified under the Law of Return because that East African nation is devoid of an established Jewish community (comparable, for example, to that of the United States), is specious and in egregious halachic error. As the halachic status of the Abayudaya was secured 20 years ago, Uganda now indeed is blessed by an established, devoted Jewish community with its own sophisticated religious and educational system, fully involved in the wider society, proudly and openly serving in its military and local and national governmental bodies, constructively interacting with, and enjoying the well-earned admiration of, neighboring Christians and Muslims, as well as fellow Jews around the world.

It was Rav himself (aka Rabbi Abba Arikha, 175-247 CE, whose arrival in Babylonia in 219 is accounted the beginning of rabbinic Judaism in the Diaspora) who together with his leading disciple and eventual successor, Rav Huna taught that halachic documents constituting the official act of a bet din may be issued, and thereby take effect where the bet din convenes, regardless of where the rites or events being adjudicated took place:

As Rav instructed the scribes, and so, too, did Rav Huna instruct the scribes: If you are convening in Shili, write in Shili even though the events being adjudicated took place in Hini. (Shili and Hini were both towns near Sura, where Rav and Huna led that citys foundational Diaspora Yeshiva.) If you are convening in Hini, write in Hini even though the events being adjudicated took place in Shili (Yevamot 116A; see also Shulchan Aruch Hoshen Mishpat 43:20, which explicitly extends the principle to rabbinic adjudication of events and rites that occurred bmedinah acheret in a different country).

In keeping with this halachic principle, Kibita Yosef appeared and testified before our bet din, underwent hatafat dam brit (the drawing of covenantal blood: a halachic stringency, as he had been ritually circumcised long ago), and mikveh immersion in a body of fresh water. I personally witnessed all of this in Uganda.

However, in accordance with the dictum of Rav and Rav Huna as codified in the Shulchan Aruch as normative Jewish law, the bet din issued our findings, rendered our decisions, effected our maaseh bet din, and signed all relevant documents only after we returned to the United States. The fact that the events informing our painstaking decisions took place in Africa is irrelevant. Kibita Yosefs conversion took place in the United States. His conversionary bona fides are American.

The racist and cynical refusal to recognize his Jewish status as unmoored from an established Jewish community is wrong on the law and wrong on the facts. It is the sinful abuse of a committed, pious, loving Jew-by-choice if we even have the audacity to apply such language to a fifth-generation Jew.

Rejecting Kibita Yosefs Jewish status on this basis impugns the validity of every American convert to Judaism, as well as the legitimacy of their rabbinic mentors.

Rav Huna, I firmly believe, would feel a special kinship with the Abayudaya, who persist in their piety despite widespread abject poverty. Candidates for conversion appearing before our 2002 bet din routinely and sincerely, emphatically and lovingly described the centrality of Sabiti Luganda for Shabbat observance to their religious identities and family lives.

Huna also endured long years of poverty and deprivation he dug ditches to support himself and his studies. He once had to pawn his decorative belt in order to purchase wine for Shabbat Kiddush. His example presaged the Abayudaya experience. Let his teaching guide their fate.

If the state of Israels actions are to be true to its authentic religious and moral traditions if it truly values its religious kinship with the Diaspora that was in significant measure established by Rav and Rav Huna it must renounce the insidious racism and exclusivism with which it has so misused and abused Kibita Yosef. That will give us all just cause for celebration and pride.

If it continues on its present course of persecution under the guise of legal principle, so brazenly misapplied and steeped in halachic error, we will all properly share the burden of shame, and a very real, very costly, and entirely avoidable loss.

As the document I was so privileged to sign two decades ago on behalf of Kibita Yosef assures him: Achinu Atah you are our brother. May our actions gratefully reflect that joyous fact.

Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.

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United Methodist Women’s "Faith Talks" Podcast to Highlight Black Women Across the Diaspora in Honor of Black History Month -…

Posted By on February 3, 2022

NEW YORK United Methodist Women, the largest denominational organization for women, today announced a special podcast episode on Black History Month. Through its Faith Talks podcast, the organization will highlight Black women across the diaspora, detailing their struggles and victories. Hosted by author and public relations consultant Jennifer R. Farmer, the conversation will be recorded live on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Guests include Nancy Hagans, RN, and president of the New York State Nurses Association; Judith Cutchin, RN, and executive committee member of the New York State Nurses Association; Dr. Chioma Oruh, founder and principal consultant at ChiBorn Free; Ruth Jeonnel, a doula and Haitian-American immigrant; and Dr. Baranda Fermin, interim executive director and lead pastor, Life in Deep Ellum. Prior Faith Talks episodes are available here.

It is wonderful to be a part of an organization that concerns itself with faith and the triumphs and struggles of different communities, Farmer said. Understanding our communal history is essentialartt in generating awareness and empathy.. I am delighted to be in conversation with Methodist women on this topic. Well focus on Black history and the plight of Black women today.

The Faith Talks podcast is recorded live twice per month, on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays, and offers spiritual growth content to women of faith. The live recording is open to all and accessible via this link: https://riverside.fm/studio/faith-talks.

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Pashinyan, Pan-Turkism and Normalization with Turkey – Armenian Weekly

Posted By on February 3, 2022

2009 protest in downtown Toronto (Photo: AYF Toronto)

In todays Armenian reality, every situation, scenario, decision or action should be viewed in the context of normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations. In its current state, these are the dire consequences that will result for Armenia: Armenias economic collapse as the Turkish economy will stifle and swallow up Armenia, replacing its manufacturing and agriculture industries with its own; planned, sponsored and systematic relocation of Turks and Azerbaijanis into Armenia, buying properties, participating in elections and claiming villages; relinquishing Armenian rights to Hai Tahd and reparations from the Genocide, the Armenian ancestral homeland and weakening the Armenian struggle for liberation; strangling Armenia with a corridor connecting Turkey to Azerbaijan, cutting off Armenias trade route to the south and overtaking its major internal transportation routes; and much more.

This normalization initiative, also known as the Pashinyan Plan, Pan-Turkism, land for peace, protocols 2.0, or the Turkification of Armenia, has been in place for over 30 years, but more overtly and aggressively implemented after the velvet regime change in 2018 when the ultimate, handpicked, trojan horse was placed into the office of Armenias prime minister.

When viewed in this light, everything becomes clear and transparent, and the straightforward and simple Pashinyan timeline is corroborative: come to power through a populist agenda with no ideology, national plan or experience; eliminate your opposition and vilify all those who came before you (they also made this very easy); divide the country and then the nation; remove all forms of patriotism and national pride; abandon culture and heritage; normalize defeat and re-instill the victim mentality of a nation subjected to genocide; and create a path for the future under the auspices of those he serves.

Who Pashinyan actually serves is irrelevant. One day it may be the west, the following year the east, but the constant is his support for Turkey and specifically Erdogans pan-Turkism agenda to re-establish the borders of the Ottoman Empire. Unfortunately, once again the economic and political interests of superpowers and regional players have aligned to Armenias detriment to open borders and establish new pipelines and trade routes to new marketsan acceptable trade for Pashinyan, who is willing to sell Armenian interests to the highest bidder for the illusion of peace.

Armenias president no longer a barrier

President Armen Sarkissians resignation should be viewed in this context. It is well known that he was elected prior to Pashinyans ascension. He did not align himself with Pashinyan, and the My Step coalition and Civil Contract Party seized every opportunity to verbally attack him. He did not or was unable to counter Pashinyans policies, specifically regarding selective prosecution, appointments, corruption, capitulation and kowtowing to Turkey and Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, Pashinyan established a stranglehold on the current regime with absolute control of the executive branch and police, an overwhelming majority in parliament and the courts. But he did not have control over the President, without whose signature, Armenias normalization agreement with Turkey and Azerbaijan could be jeopardized.

The Pashinyan Parliament can now elect a lackey to serve his agenda to normalize Armenian-Turkish relations, Turkeys expansionist policies of pan-Turkism and Pashinyans plan, all of which are aligned. Some questions remain. Did Sarkissian resign because he did not want to be part of Pashinyans next level treason? Why didnt he stay to derail the process by refusing to sign such documents? Did he voluntarily resign or was he coerced, threatened or forced? If so, by Pashinyan, Turkey or someone else? Why is the Armenian media focusing on the Presidents potential citizenship issue as a rationale for his resignation? Is this another distraction by the orchestrators? Although his resignation appears to be voluntary, in context and in light of his and Pashinyans and Turkeys past conduct, it smells of foul play. Time will tell, but the bottom line for now is that this potential obstacle has been removed, clearing the way to realize the Pashinyan normalization/Erdogans pan-Turkism plan.

Armenian Diaspora and the ARF remain obstacles and targets

The Diaspora, comprised primarily of descendants of Genocide survivors, has a strong patriotic base with a firm belief in justice including reparations and return of Armenian lands occupied by Turkey. Pashinyan and company are not interested in pursuing this cause. They deem it to be part of the past and a nuisance in the way of their agenda. They prefer to move forward with normalization efforts at all cost and are even willing to use the Genocide as a bargaining chip.

It is in this context that Pashinyan wants to control the Diaspora or alternatively weaken it to stop us from pursuing the Armenian Cause (Hai Tahd), and to deter us from continuing to demand justice from Turkey for the Genocide and the return of the ancestral Armenian homeland in Western Armenia. Fortunately, Pashinyan, like those before him, has been unable to achieve this because the multifaceted and powerful Armenian communities in the Diaspora are based on preserving the culture and heritage the Ottoman Empire and Turkey tried to erase. They remain grounded in patriotic ideology embedded in this struggle for justiceconcepts counter to Pashinyans and Erdogans plans.

The Diaspora is an organized and fluid structure with a long and tried history with the majority of its organizations, institutions and structures established by and remaining closely aligned with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), whose ideology is firmly grounded in these same patriotic principles. Thus, the Diaspora in general, and specifically the ARF as a whole, remain obstacles to Pashinyans pro-Turkish agenda and are targets for the current regime in Armenia and their international sponsors and supporters.

They have been working to weaken the Diaspora by attacking and/or dividing its strongest componentthe ARF. This is not a new tactic, but its one that many have tried over the years dating back to the Ottoman Empire and continuously by the Republic of Turkey, throughout the Soviet era and by other superpowers. Now, ever since the velvet regime change, Pashinyan and his various sponsors and supporters have adopted the same goal with slightly varying yet more aggressive approaches to create schisms and divisions.

They first targeted the ARF leadership in their attempts to divide the ranks from the leadership and simultaneously tried to drive a wedge between ARF in Armenia and the rest of the organization to cripple the party in the homeland. However, their real target was the ARF worldwide organization, and their goal was also to create artificial divisions within its diasporan structures, specifically, those who support the ARF in the homeland and those who prioritize the Diaspora; and those who view themselves as modern and western thinkers focused on false internal democratic processes; and those who remain traditionalists grounded in revolutionary principles.

They attempted to take advantage of and exploit minor internal differences, utilizing local agendas or preferences in sowing the seeds of doubt, division and separatism. Most of their efforts were in vain, however, true to human nature and individual weaknesses; some took the bait and unknowingly became complicit in the Pashinyan plan. Unfortunately, the ongoing barrage continues and will most likely increase, as Pashinyan and his partners will even try to infect Diaspora institutions and organizations.

Meanwhile Erdogan and his sidekick Aliyev are pleasantly watching their co-conspirator(s) in Armenia and the Diaspora implement their plan to re-establish a pan-Turkic empire across Armenia, and at the expense of Armenia, Artsakh and the Armenian nation.

A unified front armed with the truth and in pursuit of justice

We have to analyze and view todays reality in the context of the pan-Turkic agenda. We have to realize that it is the same as the Pashinyan plan, supported by superpowers and regional players, each with their own interests.

Once we realize this and agree Pashinyan is the trojan horse and the main catalyst to implementing their plan, we can properly identify other actors, agendas and initiatives and understand how they serve that plan. With this knowledge, we can avoid falling victim to and inadvertently or unknowingly supporting their nefarious agenda. More importantly, we can anticipate their moves and counter their advances. Finally, as a united nation from Armenia to the Diaspora, we can present a unified front to stop them and take proactive steps to further our agenda based on our national interest and priorities, the first of which is to save the homeland and the nation.

Open your eyes. See and understand whats happening. Realize were stronger together and that we can overcome this. Join the fight for survival and the struggle for justice for the Armenian people starting with securing Armenias borders in Gegharkunik and Syunik and keeping Hai Tahd alive and part of the national agenda instead of trading it away on the negotiating table. And then together we can continue with the liberation of Artsakh and end with the establishment of a free, independent and united Armenian homeland based on the Treaty of Svres as identified in the ARF program, however long it may take.

Garo R. Madenlian joined the ARF in 1988 and has served on various local ARF bodies including gomidehs in Montebello and Orange County. He has also served a few terms on the ARF Western USA Central Committee. Garo has also been a member of several local ANCA chapters and previously served on the board of the ANCA Western Region Board. Garo is a practicing attorney and partner with the Kevorkian & Madenlian LLP in Costa Mesa, California.

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Mary Phagan Autopsy, Conducted on Monday, May … – Leo Frank

Posted By on February 3, 2022

DR. H. F. HARRIS, Sworn for the State, August, 1913.

I am a practicing Physician. I made an examination of the body of Mary Phagan on May 5th [1913].

[Skull and Head]

On removing the skull I found there was no actual break of the skull, but a little hemorrhage under the skull, corresponding to point where blow had been delivered, which shows that the blow was hard enough to have made the person unconscious. This wound on the head was not sufficient to have caused death.

[Strangulation]

I think beyond any question she came to her death from strangulation, from this cord being wound around her neck.

Photo commissioned by Christopher Powell Connolly (18631935), better known as C.P. Connolly. Photo Description: The left hand of Leo Frank clasping the base of a cigar projecting vertically from his genital region. This exact unaltered photo was used by former Montana Prosecutor C.P. Connolly, for the front cover of his 1914 & 1915 U.S. Best Seller, called, The []Truth[] About the Leo Frank Case. Connollys monograph is best described as a maudlin hagiography about Leo Frank that is entirely an inflammatory Frankite propaganda book, falsifying nearly every fact about the Frank-Phagan affair. Be sure to download this Frankite propaganda book, and fact-check it against the official legal records of this case, to learn why Southerners were so outraged by this popular agitprop book.

[Left Fist Punches the Victims Right Eye]

The bruise around the [right] eye was caused by a soft instrument, because it didnt show the degree of contusion that would have been produced by a hard instrument. The outside cuticle of the skin wasnt broken. The injury to the [right] eye and scalp were caused before death.

[Stomach]

I examined the contents of the stomach, finding 160 cubic centimeters of cabbage and biscuit, or wheaten bread. It had progressed very slightly towards digestion. It is impossible for one to say absolutely how long this cabbage had been in the stomach, but I feel confident that she was either killed or received the blow on the back of the head [From the solid iron handle of the bench lathe found in the metal room] within a half hour after she finished her meal [(According to Mrs. Coleman, 11:30 a.m. is when Mary Phagan ate her last meal)]. I have some cabbage here from two normal persons. Here was same meal taken of cabbage and wheaten bread by two men of normal stomach, and contents taken out within an hour. We found there was very little cabbage left.

[Genitals]

I made an examination of the privates of Mary Phagan. I found no spermatozoa. On the walls of the vagina there was evidences of violence of some kind. The epithelium was pulled loose, completely detached in places, blood vessels were dilated immediately beneath the surface and a great deal of hemorrhage in the surrounding tissues. The dilation of the blood vessels indicated to me that the injury had been made in the vagina some little time before death. Perhaps ten to fifteen minutes. It had occurred before death by reason of the fact that these blood vessels were dilated. Inflammation had set in and it takes an appreciable length of time for the process of inflammatory change to begin. There was evidence of violence in the neighborhood of the hymen.

[Rigor Mortis]

Rigor mortis varies so much that it is not accurate to state how long after death it sets in. It may begin in a few minutes and may be delayed for hours.

[Estimated Range for Time of Death Based on 11:30 a.m. Meal Digestion: Twelve Noon to 12:15 p.m. on Saturday April 26, 1913]

I could not state from the examination how long Mary Phagan was dying. It is my opinion that she lived from a half [noon] to three-quarters of an hour [12:15 p.m.] after she ate her [brunch] meal [at 11:30 a.m. according to Mrs. Coleman, Marys biological mother who testified she served her daughter a meal, before she left].

[Sexual Violence: Rape]

The evidence of violence in the vagina had evidently been done just before death.

[Forensics of Strangulation]

The fact that the child was strangled to death was indicated by the lividity, the blueness of the parts, the congestion of the tongue and mouth and the blueness of the hands and fingernails.

[Lungs]

The lungs had the peculiar appearance which is always produced after embalming when formaldehyde is used. I am of the opinion that the wound on the back of the head could not have been produced by this stick (referring to: Defendants Exhibit 48, Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913).

[(Exhibit 48 was a bloody stick planted on the first floor of the National Pencil Company factory, by associates of the Leo Frank legal defense team, nearly three weeks (20 days) after the crime, and discovered by Detective McWorth of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The significance of the bloody stick planted in the lobby, was that 3 weeks after the murder, other evidence like a pay envelop was put at the lobby where Conley had sat on Saturday, April 26, 1913. The stick was another failed effort to develop forensic evidence that Phagan was assaulted by Jim Conley in the lobby, when she walked down the stairs from the second floor, this planted evidence was in contradiction to all the forensic evidence suggesting Leo Frank murdered Mary Phagan in the metal room at the rear of the second floor. The stick was discovered by Detective McWorth around May 15th, 1913. Detective McWorth was relieved of his services in the Mary Phagan murder investigation after he kept on discovering planted evidence in the lobby of the National Pencil Company, three weeks after Atlanta Police had meticulously searched the building for clews.)]

[Microscope Analysis to Determine if Menstruation Could have Caused the Evidence of Violence to the Vagina]

I made a microscopic examination of the vagina and uterus. Natural menses would cause an enlargement of the uterus, but not of the vagina. In my opinion the menses could not have caused any dilation of the blood vessels and discoloration of the walls.

[Stomach and Digestion Analysis]

From my own experiments I find that the behavior of the stomach after taking a small meal of cabbage and bread is practically the same as taking some biscuit and water alone. I examined Mary Phagans stomach. It was normal in size, normal in position, and normal in every particular.

I made a microscopic examination of the contents in Mary Phagans case. It showed plainly that it had not begun to dissolve, or only to a very slight degree, and indicated that the process of digestion had not gone on to any extent at the time that this girl was rendered unconscious. I found that the starch she had eaten had undergone practically no alteration. The contents taken from the little girls stomach was examined chemically and the result showed that there were only slight traces of the first action of the digestive juices on the starch. It was plainly evident that none of the material had gone into the small intestines. As soon as food is put in the stomach the beginning of the secretion of the hydrochloric acid is found.

It is from the quantity of this acid that the stomach secretes that doctors judge the state and degree of digestion. In this case the acid had not been secreted in such an excess that any of it had become what we call free. In this case the amount of acid in this girls stomach was combined and was 32 degrees. Ordinarily in a normal stomach at the end of an hour it runs from 50 to 70 or 80. I found none of the pancreatic juices in the stomach which are usually found, about an hour after digestion starts.

CROSS EXAMINATION BY DEFENSE:

I dont remember when Mr. Dorsey first talked to me about making this autopsy. As long as the heart was beating you could have put a piece of rope around the neck of this little girl and produced the same results as I found. I took about five or six ounces altogether out of the stomach. It was all used up in making my experiments. I know of no experiments made as to the effect of gastric juices where the patient is dead. The juices of the body after death gradually evaporate. The chemical analysis of each cabbage varies, not only in the plant but from the way it is cooked. It is a very vague matter as to what influences may retard digestion. Every individual is almost a law unto himself. To a certain extent different vegetables affect different stomachs different ways, but the average normal stomach digests anything that is eaten within reason. Some authorities claim that exercise will retard digestion. I dont know that mental activity would have very much effect in retarding the digestion.

It is the generally accepted opinion that food begins to pass out of the stomach through the pyloris in about a half an hour. A great many things pass out of the stomach that are not digested. The juices of the stomach make no change in them. The stomach does not emulsify a solid. I never knew a normal man who could digest a solid. The science of digestion is rather a modern thing. I did not call in any chemist in making this examination. I said it was impossible for any one to say absolutely how long the cabbage had been in the stomach of Mary Phagan before she met her death, not within a minute or five minutes, but I say it was somewhere between one-half an hour and three-quarters. I am certain of that. Of course, if digestion had been delayed this time element wouldchange.

[Penis, Finger or Object?]

The violence to the private parts might have been produced by the finger or by other means, but I found evidence of violence. It takes a rather considerable knock to tear epithelium off to the extent that bleeding would occur. I found the epithelium completely detached in places and in other places it was not detached. A digital examination means putting the finger in. The swelling and dilation of the blood vessels could be seen only with a microscope. It is impossible to say how much they were swollen.

A scalp wound is very prone to bleed.

-End of Witness Testimony Concerning the Mary Phagan Autopsy, Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913

21st Century Forensic and Psychological Analysis, What Stands Out One Hundred Years Later in the Year 2013:

Mary Phagan was dumped on a saw dust pile at the North-West rear of the cellar. When she was found, her arms were reverently crossed upon her bosom. A blood soaked strip torn mid-sagitally from the petticoat of her dress, had been wrapped under and around her neck where a seven foot cord tied into a slipknot, was sunk 1/8 an inch deep, remained cinched around her neck. Phagans blood soaked underwear was still attached to her body, but had been ripped or cut open across the vagina up to the the right seam. The entire front of Phagans body was caked with dirt and scratches giving the appearance she had been dragged by the ankles face down. Someone had urinated on Mary Phagan. The soaked fabric covering her left breast had been cut open in an L shaped pattern flap, revealing her breast.

The service ramp door at the back of the basement had its locking mechanism pried open and gave the appearance that the perpetrator of the crime had fled this route out to the back alley. There were contrived blood smears found on this exit door as if they were some kind of finger prints, but on expert examination it turned out to be inconclusive. There was an African-American woman who had had a food cart at the end of the alley where the back of the National Pencil Company lead to the street. She saw no one come out of the building, but later produced an affidavit that Mrs. Lucille Selig Frank, Rabbi David Marx and another unknown Jew tried to pressure her into falsely claiming she saw Jim Conley come out of the back of the alley, walked to her food cart, and order lunch (Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Records, 1913, 1914). Lucille told the Negro food cart owner that if she lied it would remove the rope from her husband Leo Franks neck.

Mary Phagans Arms Reverently Crossed

But of all these details, it was the odd arrangement of Mary Phagan, concerning her arms crossed reverently over her bosom, in the way one would cross them for the deceased before the beloveds funeral. It was rather striking, because of the gruesome scene of the mauled girl and gave some kind of unusual indication or impression that whoever had dumped her perhaps felt some kind of sacred sympathy for the deceased. There was something about the crossing of the arms that under the circumstances seemed out of place. Several weeks after the murder, the police finally broke Jim Conley down, using the third degree (good cop verses bad cop) method. Conley finally admitted to dragging the body to the rear of the basement and dumping it there, but claimed he had done so at Leo Franks orders. Conley dragging Mary Phagan face down across the cellars dirt floor, made it seem as if she had been assaulted in the basement, but it became another sustaining detail in the uncovered plot to frame the Negro nightwatchman Newt Lee, along with the contrived service ramp door staged to look like the escape route because of something the police noticed about the dragging scratches on Mary Phagans face.

Dragging from the Elevator an Important Detail

Three weeks before Jim Conley confessed to dragging Phagans body facedown from the elevator shaft across the cellars hard dirt floor to the rear of the basement, the police on Sunday morning, April 27, 1913, using primitive electric flash lights (yes they had them back then) noticed very clear dragmark tracks from the cellar elevator entryway, across 140 feet of the earthen floor, to the garbage staging area (located on the North West wall of the cellar). In an eerie premonition, Phagan had been dumped were garbage was normally placed in the factory cellar, before being burned in the giant furnace-incinerator located on the right hand side in the middle-rear of the basement. The physical evidence turned out to be another gruesome detail in the plot to conceal the nature of the murder. According to Jim Conley after breaking down by skillful interrogation three weeks after the murder, the garbage furnace-incinerator was indeed intended to be the final destination for Mary Phagan, but Conley claimed he refused to cremate Phagan at the last minute without the help of Leo Frank who refused to help Conley do this final cover-up step. It was the refusal of Conley to stuff Mary Phagan into the furnace-incinerator, that caused Leo Frank to take back the $200 greenback bribe he had given to Conley for the purpose of cremating the corpse in an over-sized garbage oven that could heat the entire building. (The Leo Frank Trial Jurors would have some interesting remarks to say after the trial, about this incident and the way Dorsey elaborated it). In the fall out of Jim Conley not destroying the corpse with fire, Conley instead helped manufacture the coup de grace, to seal the fate of the nightwatchman Newt Lee and then he ghost wrote the Mary Phagan murder notes!

The Drag Marks Identified

After the police scoured every inch of the basement with their flash lights and noted the dragmarks from the elevator entryway to the cellar rear, the body of Mary Phagan was then removed in a wicker body basket, and taken to the undertakers at P.J. Bloomfields mortuary in the middle of the night for the examination, autopsy, cleaning and embalming of Mary Phagan were conducted.

The Failure of the Dragging and How the Police Figured Out Phagan Wasnt Murdered in the Basement

The medical examination of Mary Phagans body, suggested an intention of the dragging, was perhaps to put forensic evidence on her, intimating the struggle, rape and strangulation, had happened down in the basement and not the metal room (that was later determined forensically to be the place of her murder). However the contrived attempt by the unknown murderer was doomed to fail from the start, not only because of what the dragmarks suggested, but because the scratches on Phagans face provided conclusive proof she had not been killed in the basement!

None of the dragging scrapes and scratches on Mary Phagans face bled

When the human heart stops beating, the body ceases the natural healing cascade, this very important fact suggested Phagan was likely not killed in the basement, but more likely in the metal room, where Jim Conley claimed to have first found Mary Phagan in the bathroom area, because if Phagan had been killed in the basement after a struggle, the scratches all over her face and body would have bled, but they didnt.

To Bleed or Not to Bleed: That is the Question!

Thus if Phagan was alive in the basement when she was dragged from the elevator to the furnace-incinerator staging area, the scratches made on her face would have bled or showed some signs of scabbing and clotting (see: Dr. Hurt at the Leo Frank Trial, August 3, 1913).

Conleys later revelation, that the nightwatchman had been setup as the patsy, tended to affirm the theory that was developed by the police about the true initial location of where the murder occurred, namely in the metal room.

Defense Team Theory: Jim Conley Assaulted Mary Phagan on the first floor lobby of the NPCo and then threw her down the elevator shaft or scuttle hole

At the Trial of Leo Frank, the Defense suggested the theory that Jim Conley may have assaulted and then thrown an unconscious Mary Phagan, 14 feet down the elevator shaft, or through the scuttle hole at the side of the elevator or crowded back into the former location of the Clark Woodenware Company that had departed January 17, 1913 from its first floor office space that was locked off. The problem with the three defense theories, was that had Phagan at 411 tall and 107lbs, had been thrown down the 14 foot elevator shaft or scuttle hole while she was unconscious, there would have been clear identifiable forensic medical evidence of it on her body to indicate as such, and it would have been reported by the defense and prosecution examining physicians. But no physical evidence was found on Mary Phagan to suggest when she was alive, if and when her body was theoretically thrown down the elevator shaft or scuttle hole. Moreover, the dragmarks found on the basement floor, beginning at the entryway of the elevator shaft, had tended to rule-out the scuttle hole. The Clark Woodenware theory was ruled out because the door to their area had been locked by the owner of the building, and no one but him had access to that area. The National Pencil Company was a rented building. Interestingly enough, the lobby entry door to the former Clark Woodenware company was broken open 4 days after the murder, so that the Frank defense could use it as one of their three theories of how Jim Conley could have murdered Phagan.

WARNING FRAUD ALERT: The 1964, Phagan-Frank Bitemark and X-ray Hoax.

Jewish-American Leo Frank Case revisionists (Oney, Dinnerstein, Golden, Alphin, Melnick, Wilkes, and others) have been intentionally perpetuating a known fraud called the 1964 Mary Phagan Neck and Shoulder Bitemark Hoax (for short), or the 1964 Mary Phagan Neck and Shoulder Bitemark, and Leo Frank teeth X-ray Hoax (for long). Their claim of bitemarks on Mary Phagans neck and shoulder can not be substantiated by the several thousand pages of surviving official legal records concerning Leo Franks trial or appeals, nor do any period newspaper reports on the case from 1913 to 1915 mention any such bitemarks. The Leo Frank commutation hearings presided over by Governor John M. Slaton, has several thousand pages of surviving documents archived at Emory University, and nothing at all is mentioned about evidence of bitemarks on Mary Phagans shoulder, neck or anywhere else on her body. Nor do any of these reports support any evidence that Leo Franks teeth were X-rayed. If Mary Phagan had been indeed bitten, a simple cast mold of Leo Franks teeth could have been made.

States Witnesses Autopsy and Examination Reports About Mary Phagan

Numerous examinations were conducted on Mary Phagan by physicians, police, the undertaker, and other government officials, none of their reports mention teeth marks on Mary Phagans neck and left shoulder, or anywhere on her body for that matter (GA Supreme Court Case File, Brief of Evidence, 1913). None of the defense physicians mention any bitemarks on Mary Phagan during their examination on the witness stand at the Leo Frank trial. None of the physician witnesses for the defense ever mentioned Leo Frank having his teeth X-rayed or bitemarks on Mary Phagan.

The Purpose of the 1964 Mary Phagan Bitemark Hoax

The hoax manufactured in 1964 by Pierre van Paassen is often used by Leo Frank partisans for the specific purpose of deceiving the general public into thinking States Prosecution Team suppressed evidence and that Leo Frank was really an innocent Jew, wrongfully convicted for the murder of Mary Anne Phagan, because of an alleged widespread European-American conspiracy of anti-Semitism in the State of Georgia and South in general.

What is a Frankite?

A Frankite is a person who will go to the most extreme lengths to defend and rehabilitate a serial pedophile, even if it means making bald faced lies, omitting facts and falsifying official U.S. legal records.

Leo Frank Revisionists Perpetuating the 1964 Phagan-Frank Bitemark X-ray Fraud

The Mary Phagan bitemark fraud has been perpetuated by historian Leonard Dinnerstein, retired Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona; journalist-author Steve Oney; academic attorney Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law; Veteran childrens book author, Elaine Marie Alphin; activist Professor Jeffrey Paul Melnick (Black-Jewish Relations on Trial, 2000, obfuscated and incorrectly cited the hoax on page 68, & notes 141), American Studies Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts at Boston; along with many other prominent members of the Jewish community, who are perpetuating the century-long racist anti-Gentile version of the Leo Frank case, that requires intentionally misrepresenting or omitting the most salient facts, evidence and testimony presented at the Leo Frank trial. This is why these people should be labeled as Frankites.

The Origin of the 1964 Mary Phagan Bite Mark Hoax

The Leo Frank and Mary Phagan fraud was originated by the zany, narcissistic & self-absorbed Pierre van Paassen, with the 1964 publication of his book, To Number Our Days. Pierre van Paassen devotes less than 2 pages in his entire 404 page book to the Leo Frank Affair. In his grandiose memoirs, Pierre van Paassen, recollects memories back more than 40 years earlier, to 1922, when he was living and working in capital of Georgia for the Atlanta Constitution. He claims to he had direct access to the Leo Frank case files at the Fulton County courthouse and found what might be described as TOP SECRET folder of intergalactic UFO-like X-ray technology, since it was never possible to X-ray bitemarks on human flesh in 1913 or 2013. Unfortunately, no one before 1922, or afterwards, has ever found these X-ray photographs, because probably Martians, may have removed them, after they were discovered by Pierre van Paassen. If the Prosecution wanted to suppress earth shattering evidence, they certainly would not have left it within the courthouse records to be easily found.

To Number Our Days (1964), Chapter, Short Stand in Dixieland, beginning on Page 237, Line 27:

The Jewish community of Atlanta at that time seemed to live under a cloud. Several years previously one of its members, Leo Frank, had been lynched as he was being transferred from the Fulton Tower Prison in Atlanta to Milledgeville for trial on a charge of having raped and murdered a little girl in his warehouse which stood right opposite the Constitution building.

Many Jewish citizens who recalled the lynching were unanimous in assuring me that Frank was innocent of the crime. I took reading all the evidence pro and con in the record department at the courthouse. Before long I came upon an envelope containing a sheaf of papers and a number of X-ray photographs showing teeth indentures. The murdered girl had been bitten on the left shoulder and neck before being strangled. But the X-ray photos of the teeth marks on her.

To Number Our Days, Page 238

.body did not correspond with Leo Franks set of teeth of which several photos were included. If those photos had been published at the time of the murder, as they should have been, the lynching would probably not have taken place. Though, as I said, the man died several years before, it was too late, I thought, to rehabilitate his memory and perhaps restore the good name of his family.

I showed Clark Howell the evidence establishing Franks innocence and asked permission to run a series of articles dealing with the case and especially with the evidence just uncovered. Mr. Howell immediately concurred, but the most prominent Jewish lawyer in the city, Mr. Harry Alexander, whom I consulted with a view to have him present the evidence to the grand jury, demurred. He said Frank had not even been tried. Hence no new trial could be requested. Moreover, the Jewish community in its entirety still felt nervous about the incident.

If I wrote the articles old resentments might be stirred up and, who knows some of the unknown lynchers might recognize themselves as participants in my description of the lynching. It was better, Mr. Alexander thought, to leave sleeping lions alone. Some local rabbis were drawn into the discussion and they actually pleaded with Clark Howell to stop me from reviving interest in the Frank case as this was bound to have evil repercussions on the Jewish community.

That someone had blabbed out of school became quite evident when I received a printed warning saying: Lay off the Frank case if you want to keep healthy. The unsigned warning was reinforced one night, or rather, early one morning when I was driving home. A large automobile drove up alongside of me and forced me into the track of a fast-moving streetcar coming from the opposite direction. My car was demolished, but I escaped without a scratch

Source: To Number Our Days, Published in 1964 By Pierre Van Paassen. Page 237-8. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 64-13633. 404 Pages.

21st Century Questions, Leading to 21st Century Analysis

Is Pierre Van Paassen Credible?

Pierre van Paassen is far from a credible source, he claimed in his autobiography to have seen on several occasions a poltergeist black dog which would appear and disappear at will. To make things even more unbelievable, he describes witnessing this same ghost dog using invisible magical powers, that caused his own German Sheppard police-dog, to have a heart attack and die on the spot (Days of Our Years, 1939, pages 248-251). The first clue Pierre Van Paassen is not a reliable source of factual information, comes from reading his 404 page book (To Number Our Days, 1964), filled from beginning to end with egomaniac fantastic tall tales defying: the laws of physics, basic common sense, logic and reason. Pierre van Paassen claims while in Palestine, he dressed up like a minstrel character, rubbing burned cork on his face, fooling Arabs, so he could enter the famous golden domed mosque in Jerusalem, (because only Muslims are ever allowed to enter).

How Reliable is a 40+ Year Old Memory?

The second clue Pierre Van Paassen is not a reliable source of factual information, comes from the fact that when he published his book in 1964 (4 years before he died), he was recollecting memories from 1922, about 7 years after the Leo Frank affair concluded at the end of a hangmans noose, and there was a separation of about 42 years of time, between the alleged event in 1922, and the publication of the book in 1964. Any court expert or psychologist familiar with the reliability of human memory especially concerning when someone near the end of their lifespan, reports something after more than 40 years has passed can tell you the veracity is highly suspect and unreliable after decades has passed from the initial incident, especially in a politically charged case like this one.

Who was one of Leo Franks Appeals lawyers?

Leo Franks appeals lawyer was named Mr. Henry A. Alexander, not Harry Alexander, as Pierre van Paassen cited.

Does the Account Make Sense or Defy Commonsense?

Why would Henry Alexander talk with a tabloid journalist about putting together and presenting exonerating evidence for a Grand Jury concerning Leo Frank, when the May Term Fulton County Grand Jury of 21 men which included 4 Jewish members had already rendered its unanimous decision (21 to 0) on Saturday, May 24, 1913, indicting Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan. Especially after the Leo Frank case went to trial, from July 28 to August 21, 1913, resulting in an August 25, 1913, conviction, followed by two years of failed appeals.

Did Leo Frank have a Trial in Atlanta or was he Killed on the way to his Trial in Milledgeville, GA?

Henry Alexander was the lawyer who represented Leo Frank during some of his later appeals, from the years 1914 and 1915 (after Luther Rosser and Reuben Arnold bowed out in 1914), for Alexander to say Leo Frank didnt have his trial yet, when he knew it occurred already in the summer of 1913, is objectively preposterous.

When and Where was the Leo Frank Lynching?

Leo Frank was not lynched on his way to trial in 1913, or lynched in late June 1915, on his way from Atlanta to Milledgeville, GA. Leo Frank was lynched on August 17, 1915 in Marietta, GA, at the fork in the road as it was described in 1915, or the place historically known as Freys Gin, now, 1200 Roswell Road at the edge of Marietta (Thats 170 miles away from Milledgeville).

Historical and Modern Scientific Analysis:

Recap: At the Leo Frank trial, none of the numerous Physician witnesses for the States prosecution team, or Leo Frank defense team, ever mentioned bitemarks on Mary Phagans neck and shoulder. None of the thousands of pages of newspaper reports on the Leo Frank case from 1913 to 1915, ever mention any bitemarks on Mary Phagans neck and shoulder. Nowhere in the 2,500 pages of surviving Leo Frank trial, appeals documents and decisions (1913 to 1986) does it ever mention visual or photographic evidence Mary Phagan had bitemarks on her neck and shoulder. None of these documents ever mentions any X-rays, sketches, photos, molds or anything of this nature, performed on Mary Phagans skin or Leo Franks teeth.

In reality if there had been bitemarks on Mary Phagan, they would have performed a simple cast mold of the teeth from Jim Conley and Leo Frank, and we would have heard about it in the period media and legal proceedings at the trial and appeals.

The Bottom Line on the 1964 Phagan-Frank Bitemark and X-ray Hoax is that its Poppycock: No X-ray evidence. No photographic evidence of teeth or bitemarks. No visual or reliable written reports of it either. Absolutely nothing to substantiate the claim is in the official records, but nearly every Jewish-American author who has ever written about the Leo Frank Case since 1964, has cited this fraud as factual evidence that indicates Leo Frank was framed and should be exonerated even worse, that the State is culpable for the wrongful death sentence of Leo Frank. Since Jewish-Americans commit so much fraud concerning the Leo Frank case, its time for a 100 year audit and fact checking of every book written about anti-Semitism by Jewish-Americans in the last 100 years.

Could Someone Survive a Head-on Collision in 1922?

My car was demolished, but I escaped without a scratch. Pierre Van Paassen describes driving his car and being forced out of his lane into a head on collision with another fast moving car, and he got away without a scratch in 1922, when there were virtually no safety features in cars. This defies the laws of physics, general commonsense and basic reason.

Sarcasm Alert: It sounds like the Indiana Jones wannabe was more than just a tabloid journalist-author, but really a Hollywood stunt daredevil, who jumped out of his car, tucked and rolled to safety in just the nick of time, without a scratch!

Dental Forensics and X-Ray Technology 1913

The science of Odont (Latin for dental) X-ray forensics in 1913 was virtually non-existent, because X-ray technology was in its infancy at the time, and unable to detect bitemarks on skin, and X-ray technology was never used in Georgia as a forensic tool on teeth or in any murder cases until long after Leo Frank was hanged in Marietta, and buried in the Mount Carmel Cemetery in NYC. It cant be stated enough, it was not ever possible to X-ray bitemarks in 1913, and it is not possible today in 2013.

Embalmed, Autopsied, Exhumed and Autopsied Again and Again

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Huntsville schools’ diversity program created by group that says only whites can be racist – Montgomery Advertiser

Posted By on February 3, 2022

J. Pepper Bryars| Special to the Advertiser

Socrates is believed to have once said, The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Most people, including the editors of theMerriam-Webster,Oxford, andAmerican Heritagedictionaries, would generally define racism as the belief that one race is superior to another, and anything that oppresses or elevates people based on their race.

But not the organization that has provided diversity training and programs to teachers and students in the Huntsville City Schools system.

The Anti-Defamation League, a once noble organization that has since fallen into partisan decay, had acontractwith Huntsville City Schools to deliver anti-bias training to its teachers last year after having already provided its No Place for Hate program to the systems students for more than a decade, according to records.

Visitadl.org/racismand youll see the extreme way the organization defines the term: Racism: The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.

Ironically, that definition is itself a good example of racism assigning to one group of people exclusive ownership of a vile trait based solely on the color of their skin.

But if thats too complicated for your second grader to understand, the Anti-Defamation League has an elementary school version of the definition: The disrespect, harm and mistreatment of people of color based on made up ideas that white people deserve to be in charge and treated better.

Records of the Huntsville City Schools Board of Education meeting on December 17, 2020 showa contractwith the Anti-Defamation League to provide three training sessions in early 2021 from its World of Difference Institute program, as part of the systems overall cultural diversity training effort.

We do have a long-standing relationship with the Anti-Defamation League. This is the organization that sponsors our No Place for Hate activities, a system officialsaidwhen describing the organization to the board. She added that its a very important partnership that we want to maintain.

Officials later told me that the system has been using the No Place For Hate program free-of-charge for more than a decade, though it is not a curriculum.

Schools use it as a way to promote a bullying-free environment in the school, the official explained.

Diversity training is a good thing, in principle. We could all learn to treat one another better, with dignity and courtesy, regardless of how we may look or speak or where we came from or how we worship.

But how can an organization that defines racism as a characteristic exclusively held by one group of people be the right provider of that training, or programs and content of any kind coveringdiversity, cultural awareness, or anti-bias to teachers and students?

Clearly, they cannot.

The specific problem here remains quite clear to me: schools feel a need to provide diversity training to teachers and students, yet the groups who have affordable, off-the-shelf solutions tend to be very political in nature, deeply invested in identity politics, and locked into a far left view of the issue. Its reasonable to suspect that their personal political perspectives will seep into whatever training and programs they provide.

Part of the lasting solution should clearly be to avoid partnering with organizations that have overt political agendas. School systems, especially those the size of Huntsville City Schools, should create and implement their own, home-grown diversity training programs, created by the experienced educators they have in-house, and reflective of the community in which they serve.

History needs to be taught, unvarnished.

Current events should be discussed, openly.

People should learn to treat one another with the courtesy and dignity everyone deserves.

But starting from the definition that one group of Americans, today, is in the right, and the other in the wrong, is remarkably counterproductive.

And it should stop.

J. Pepper Bryars is a conservative opinion writer from Mobile who lives in Hunstville. Readers can find him atjpepper.substack.com

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Republicans to field more than 100 far-right candidates this year – The Guardian

Posted By on February 3, 2022

More than 100 far-right candidates are running for political office across the country as Republicans this year according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a non-profit that monitors hate groups.

Aside from those expressing extremist rhetoric and far-right views, the ADL has found at least a dozen of the candidates had explicit connections to white supremacists, anti-government extremists and members of the far-right Proud Boys. It includes primary challengers running to the right of some sitting Republicans.

In Arkansass third district Neil Kumar, who the ADL found has written for white supremacist publications, is challenging the incumbent congressman, Steve Womack, who broke with Republicans in voting in favor of creating the January 6 commission to investigate the Capitol attack. The openly racist views of Kumar prompted the Arkansas state Republican party to take the unusual step of declaring him a non-recommended candidate in the upcoming primary.

The wave of far-right candidates includes sitting legislators like the Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers, who has admitted to being a member of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia with 11 members currently under federal indictment for seditious conspiracy.

Other militia groups have candidates running or already in local office. The Washington Three Percent militia claims members in dozens of elected offices throughout the Pacific north-west, the Washington Post found, including a mayor, a county commissioner and at least five school board seats.

In Idaho the far-right anti-government activist Ammon Bundy who led an armed standoff against federal agents at Malheur wildlife refuge in 2014 is running for the governors office. Bundys group, the Peoples Rights network, has now increased its national membership to 33,000 members and has at least 398 activists in 39 states, according to a report by Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights.

Many far-right candidates have no direct links to violent extremist groups, but do support a range of far-right views. The ADL tracked at least 45 candidates running for office this year that have lent credence in some way to the QAnon conspiracy theory movement. Many more hold on to Donald Trumps big lie the false belief that the 2020 election was stolen.

Nationwide there are 207 current elected officials who aided former president Trump in efforts to overturn the 2020, according to data compiled by the Insurrection Index, a project of the voting rights group Public Wise. The index includes senators like Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, who voted against certifying the 2020 election and spread misinformation including suggesting that the January 6 attack was carried out by fake Trump voters.

While many candidates are seeking local or national legislative seats, some are purposely running for bureaucratic offices whose chief responsibility is to certify elections. At least 11 election denying candidates are running for attorney general in 10 states,, according to tracking by the States United Democracy Center, a non-partisan group that monitors election races nationwide.

Fringe political candidates are a part of every US election cycle, but while these 2022 candidates hold far-right views they are also part of a wave within the Republican party that is no longer fringe but increasingly represents a powerful even dominant wing in the party.

The real danger is not just the wave of extreme candidates, its their embrace, their mainstreaming by the Republican party, said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University and the co-author of How Democracies Die. The United States has always had nutty, extremist, authoritarian politicians around the fringe. What is new and really dangerous for democracy is that theyre increasingly running as Republican candidates.

Levitsky added: At first you had a flirtation and tolerance with a handful of extremists at the fringes. Were now seeing an army of extremists embraced by the former president. Theyre marching in and taking over the Republican party at the state and local level.

In Oregon, Daniel Tooze, a prominent associate of the Proud Boys who has participated in street brawls with anti-fascists in Portland, is running for Oregons state legislature in the 40th district. Tooze ran for the same seat in 2020, failing to secure the Republican nomination in the primary, but he received 40% of the Republican vote in the primary. This year Tooze is the only Republican who has filed to run again.

When mainstream parties take onboard figures who deny the legitimacy of elections, refuse to accept electoral defeat, condone or even engage in political violence, you are putting democracy at risk, said Levitsky.

Tooze declined to be interviewed for this article but stated in correspondence: Im just a regular guy.

A review of Toozes campaign website and filing statement show no mention of affiliation with the Proud Boys. Tooze campaign messaging uses the language of mainstream Republican talking points.

The Guardian has previously reported on far-right groups shifting their focus to local communities. Since the Capitol attack members of groups such as the Proud Boys have shown up to local venues including school board meetings to stand alongside mainstream conservatives, especially around issues such as Covid-19 restrictions.

This month Tooze tweeted a video of Thomas Renz, a far-right anti-vaccine influencer, speaking at a panel convened by Senator Johnson that promoted misleading information about Covid-19 and vaccines. The video of Renz went viral in alt-tech platforms but also within mainstream social media. Tooze wrote of the video: Its time to hold the government accountable for what theyve done to the people.

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Why the normalization of antisemitism is not just a crisis for Jews – wgbh.org

Posted By on February 3, 2022

For International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, I joined the Congregation Beth Israel of Merrimack Valley to discuss the book "People Love Dead Jews" by Dara Horn and explore the pervasiveness of antisemitism.

The Anti-Defamation League's latest report on antisemitism in the United States reports more than 2,000 assaults, harassment and acts of vandalism in 2020, the third highest year on the organization's record. What is happening in America right now is not just a crisis for Jews. It is a crisis for this nation as a whole; it is an assault on the very thing that makes us all Americans. We don't often see antisemitism until something awful happens.

In August 2017, at the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacists threw Nazi salutes, waved swastika flags and shouted, "The Jews will not replace us!"

Last July, Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was fighting for his life against a man who attacked him with a knife and a gun outside a Jewish school in Brighton, Massachusetts.

And just last month, a gunman held four hostages at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. It was a targeted act of terrorism, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray stated emphatically.

Antisemitism should be tied to other hate crimes racism, homophobia and Islamophobia, to name a few but understood as having a distinct history and motivations. Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds us of that history.

During the Holocaust, six million Jews were killed. False equivalence and revisionism of that fact are not only hurtful to remaining Holocaust survivors, their families and friends, but also dismissive of the human carnage and crime against humanity.

In 2017, then-President Donald Trump's public statement commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day intentionally omitted any mention of Judaism, antisemitism or the Nazis' systematic program exterminating European Jewry. While the president's generic statement on suffering might have been intended to be an all-inclusive acknowledgment of other groups killed gays, Gypsies, political dissidents and non-Aryans, to name a few by the Nazis, it did more harm than help.

At the ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1995, Elie Wiesel stated it best: "It is true that not all the victims were Jews. But all the Jews were victims." In other words, eliminating Jews was the central organizing principle for the rise of the Third Reich. The president's statement acknowledging the Holocaust and not mentioning Jews and antisemitism is similar to making a public statement acknowledging American slavery and not mentioning Blacks and racism. At worst, the statement bolsters an already existing worldwide population of Holocaust deniers and revisionist historians because it erases the unique stories of survival, bravery and resistance.

When Martin Luther King Jr. was invited to address the American Jewish Committee convention in 1958, he noted the significant similarities between Jews and African Americans, who both experienced hatred and prejudice.

"My people were brought to America in chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe," he said. "Our unity is born of our common struggle for centuries, not only to rid ourselves of bondage, but to make oppression of any people by others an impossibility."

On Jan. 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol Insurrection, history was made in Georgia. Rafael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, a Black man and a Jewish man, respectively, won their Senate seats in the Bible Belt. In the Deep South, Jews could be lynched as Black men were; it was the lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia in 1915 that made many Jews conscious of the parallels.

However, antisemitism is so pervasive as to be invisible and normalized. One reason is that too often we de-historicize Jewish people from their suffering. For example, I know of Christians who love Jesus but hate Jewish people. I tell them it's similar to some white Christians revering MLK and former President Barack Obama, but they hate Black men. I remind these same people that Jesus was crucified because he was Jewish, and Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery were killed because they were Black.

Antisemitism has also been fueled by racist Jewish tropes that won't cease until we confront them head-on. I remember when the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign stopped in New York City. He referred to Jews as "Hymies" and the Big Apple as "Hymietown." During Trump's presidential campaign, he was condemned by Jewish leaders for what appeared on his anti-Hillary Clinton poster the Star of David layered over $100 bills. Trump barked back, telling his critics the star was a sheriff's badge.

In "People Love Dead Jews," the premise is that there's too little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present.

To stop antisemitism in society, we must stop it in ourselves.

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Fact check: Sculpture is evidence of antisemitic ‘blood libel,’ not false QAnon theory – USA TODAY

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Some on social media claim a centuries-old sculpture is further evidence of a debunkedmodern-day conspiracy theory.

"Nothing has changed," reads text on anAug. 29, 2021, Facebook post, overlaid on the image of a sculpture depicting a child being stabbed by a group of men."Adrenochrome: A habbit (sic) set in stone."

Numerous duplicates of the claimexist online, one of whichreceived more than 300 likes and almost 200shares before being deleted after USA TODAY reached out for comment.

But the claim is based on false premises. The artwork shows Simon of Trent, whose death was falsely blamed on the town's Jewish population.It's an example of long-running "blood libel" against Jews. The QAnonclaim that Hollywood and political elites harvest adrenochrome from children's bloodis baseless.

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USA TODAY reached out to Facebook pages that shared theclaim for comment.

Adrenochrome is a chemical produced by the oxidation of adrenaline,according toa descriptionfrom PubChem, a database of chemical molecules maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Manyadherents to the false QAnon conspiracy theory that claims there is a satanic cabal of powerful people in government, media and Hollywood that participate in an international child sex trafficking ring say the elite harvest adrenochrome from the blood of children to take as a psychedelic or life-extendingdrug.

The baseless claim has been debunked by USA TODAY and other outlets numerous times.

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While the sculpture shown in the post doeshave a similarbackground, its premises are equally false.

The sculpture is a plaque in Italy that depicts the alleged ritual murder of Simon of Trent, or Simonino diTrento, a 2-year-old Italian boy.

After disappearing in March 1475, Simon's body was found drowned in a river, according to Harvard's Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library. The town laid blame on a group of Jewish residents, with no evidenceexcept a prediction that a Christian child would be killed during Passover, made months priorduring an inflammatory sermon decrying the town's Jewish population.

Jewish residents in Trent were accused of a ritual killing,then jailed and tortured into giving false confessions beforeultimatelybeing executed, according to the British Museum.

A century later, Simon was canonized by the Catholic Church and deemed a martyr. But Pope Paul VI annulled Simon's status as a saint in 1965, decreeing that the Jewish residents in the town had nothing to do with his death and the whole episode was a fraud, according to Harvard's records and theBritish Museum.

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The story is an example of "blood libel," false claims that Jews murder Christian children and use their blood to make matzah, according to the Anti-Defamation League.The claimsdate back to at least 1144, when the murder of an English boy namedWilliam of Norwich was blamed on Jews by a local monk.

Nazis used blood libel in their propaganda against Jewish people, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

While falseQAnonclaims thatthe elite harvest adrenochrome from children don't singularly revolve around Jewish people, prominent Jewish figures like George Soros and the Rothschild familyare often targets.

Based on our research, we rate FALSEthe claim that a historical sculpture shows adrenochrome being harvested from a child.The artwork shows a young Simon of Trent, whose death was falsely deemeda ritual killing at the hands of the town's Jewish population.It's an example of long-lasting "blood libel" against Jews. The QAnonclaim that the elite harvest adrenochrome from children's bloodis baseless.

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