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You inspire me! Thanks for your confidence and originality, for your creativity and audacity. I will be sending you pages on my latest activities soon.
Push the edges, open the doors and free the prisoned hearts!
in deepest respect,
Jodie
I was searching for an inmate from OPP. Finally called Baton Rouge Department of Safety and
Corrections. (225)342-5723. They said they were all evacuated safely, no fatalities. If you call with the date of birth, they can tell you where they are. Some
went to the maximum security new prison (brand new, hadn't opened yet). Mine is in Angola.
They say they will be putting the list on their website in about a week. I thought she said
www.dsc.louisiana.gov but that's not working.
I wanna thank Damon Dash, Tim Goebel, Ashton Kutcher and Marshall Mathers for all that they do. I am also ebullient and appreciative to all who write to me and tell me you are praying for me etc. At this moment, I need more than prayer. I need a legal defense team willing to take on CDC as well as the CCPOA. Want em taken on even if I’m dead! I am not engaging in hilarity. Many members of the green Wall (aka 723) are murderers. If I’m found dead in a cell, stabbed by an inmate etc, call in the FBI, call James Mattocks and sue: The CCPOA will be responsible for the murder. The most dangerous, deadly, thuggish, violent and vicious gang in the state of California is not blood, crips, etc., it is the California Prison guards (CCPOA) union! They are killers! Old Folsom Prison Captain Doug Pieper was found dead two years ago. It was ruled a suicide! Numerous high powered peace officers allegedly claim it was a hit! It was a high powered execution… Retaliation and reprisal. Retaliation and reprisal! I could rewrite the two R’s over and over as they are the norm in CDC. They kill, assault, annihilate, violate and remove any of the few staff willing to stand up against corruption. Talk to Steve Riggs. Call Associate Warden Max Lemon. Read the brand new book, “Blue-Eyed Blonde” (www.Cafepress.com/Manning and/or Amazon.com) or call Sacramento Bee Reporter Andy Furillo. Numerous people believe Senator Gloria Romero and Jackie Spier have been threatened into silence! I know Gloria Romero is a great woman. CDC allows inmates to be raped by other inmates as well as staff! And when or if you report being raped they will laugh at you, retaliate against you, threaten you and transfer you (more specifics on this matter are forthcoming.) Stay tuned. Due to retaliation they will soon transfer this author out of Mule Creek State Prison. At that time my staff has been instructed to post all the data on Lt. Cherry, C.O. Duclos, C.O. Acosta, C.O. Sam Bess, D. L. Baker, George Stratton, etc., stay tuned). They doctor up paperwork. They use transfers as their most powerful get back against anyone they don’t like. But staff can assault, sexually harass and even rape and get away with it. It’s time to fight back. I want to find a way to sue the CCPOA for being domestic terrors. I want to sue the CCPOA! They wanna keep me in prison for crimes I did not commit! They want to Ad-seg, transfer, deny, humiliate and censor men; well I am ready to fight back Legally! Tell em to bring it on! I say the courts and media are mightier than the sword! I need every person reading my words to help! Help! Our babies, boys and girls are being animalized, beat, assaulted, raped and killed in prisons, jails and juveniles. Legally, I need you to contact Attorney Davey Turner (Stockton, CA), Atty. Ronald Rakosky (Jeff. Paris, LA), Atty, Julia Yoo and Eugene G. Iredale (San Francisco, CA), Ted Shaw, Julian Murray, Barry Scheck, Linda LaBranche, George Kendall, Atty. Gretchen Rohr (Atlanta, GA) Stephen Hanlon (DC Holland Y. Knight, Esq.) Atty’s David Lipman and Francis Amania (Miami, FL), Gerry Spence and Atty. David Boies. Contact them, download this posting and email it to each of them. (Also snail mail me their snail mail addresses) Ask them to help! Help! Next: Email all major news outlets I.e. court TV, Celebrity Justice, Los Angeles Times, Contra Costa Times, Sacramento Bee, Seattle Post Intelligence, Miami Herald, Atlanta Constitution, Nola.com, Associated Press etc. and send them a copy of this posting. Next email Jeff@amazon.com, Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and ask for a copy of “Creating Monsters”, “From the Palace to the Prison” and “Blue-Eyed Blonde”. Next write letters to the editors of every major newspaper in America (as well as England, Switzerland and Germany) and send them a copy of this posting! Indika Lasath Kumara (Martara, Sri Lanka), Richard Krupp (CA) Wilbert Ridenu, Nathan Essary (Houston? Texas), Garrett Cunningham (Navasota? Texas) and Daniel Clay Hollifield in Richmond, VA and I need these addresses! Use people finder.com or Zabasearch.com and find these addresses for me - Please. (Sherman D. Manning, J98796, MCSP, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640). Call the office of Rod Hickman - Secretary of the CA Dept. of Corrections in Sacramento, CA over and over and inquire about my well being please. Keep calling Rod Q. Hickman. Ask when, where and why I’m being transferred. Why am I still in Ad seg. Call over and over again. Link this blog to your blog and certainly tell others about it. Post your message on this blog today. See http://ShermanManning.blogspot.com, www.Cafepress.com/Manning, etc., etc. Follow the links on our blog and please patronize our comrades. If you hear about any inmate being abused in any jail, juveniles or prison in America post a comment and tell us about it. If you know of any wrongful conviction, post a comment and tell us about it. Shout out to Innocent (231/728-7225 Atty. Douglas J. Tjapkes) in Muskegon, Michigan and all our now pals at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, U.C. Davis, Morehouse College and Yale. Seamus Farrow? Anthony Fedorov? Chris Austad? Jojdie Evans, Cindy Sheehan? Michael Moore? Call, fax, email, text, post, pod-cast… “Blue-Eyed Blonde” by Jeremy and Paul Shackelford with Sherman D. Manning.
Allegedly Maurice Sorzano was stabbed by Mr. Sedillo (V-17206) at Mule Creek State Prison. Reportedly staff covered up the stabbing and claimed it was only a fist fight. A civilian physician said, “This was a stabbing. This eye is lost forever.” Call CDC and ask about RVR – A-08-05-031. Be surprised to note that Maurice (victim – African America) is in 12 Bldg. Cell 223 at MCSP…assailant (Sedillo V-17206) is in General Population in Facility A. Sedillo is non black… A – G.P. although he sexually assaulted numerous inmates. Sherman Manning – author, never assaulted a staff member or inmate in prison? Ad-seg and they refuse to give him an override to Facility C. 91% of the overrides to Facility C go to Caucasian inmates. Sherman? Transferring out any day now and the word out is he will be viciously assaulted at the new prison… 916-323-6001 is Rod Hickman. Call him, the Governor and our senators and complain. Download this message and send it to them. Peter Andrist.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY
Sherman D. Manning President/Joseph Fellow
Dear Friends:
Bishop T. D. Jakes, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Bev Smith, Tom Joyner, Randi Rhodes, George Soros, Pastor Rick Warren, Denzel Washington, Ashton Kutcher, Matt Damon, Montel Williams… and you are being asked to join us on February 26, 2006 in a National Day of Prayer for the Innocent men and women; boys and girls in our prisons, jails and juveniles.
You don’t have to give any money, make a speech or hire a lawyer, etc. Just pray for wrongly convicted persons in prisons and persons in prisons – period. Our focus is on St. Matthew 25:34, 36, Proverbs 28:5, Acts 16:25 and Genesis 39:19-20. Joseph was in prison for a sex crime he did not commit… Jesus was wrongly convicted and crucified… How dare the church not help prisoners? Please re-read Genesis 40:23.
We call on every pastor, rabbi, priest, American and even world leaders to join us in a prayer vigil on February 26, 2006. We need pastors in pulpits all across America, youth leaders, radio hosts, etc. to pray for the Josephs in prison… If your radio or TV show censors religious speech, etc., then just ask your audience to pray silently. We are trying to get this P.S.A. to alternative newspapers, American urban radio networks, Radio One, Ebony Magazine, Upscale, Mother Jones, Air America Radio, etc., etc. But we need you to copy this letter and pass it on! We will try to send this to Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Rolando Cruz, Anthony Porter, law schools and to pastors across the globe… But we need you to pass it on. Please, please get on the World Wide Web and send copies of this to blogs, newspapers, pastors, radio stations etc, etc. around the world. Please do it today!
We hope churches, businesses and philanthropists will use February 26, 2006 also to donate money, books and assistance to prisoners and their families. From the Palace to the Prison and Blue-Eyed Blonde (which is brand new) are highly recommended books for pastors, students and prisoners. (Get it at Amazon.com and/or www.cafepress.com/manning). We encourage you to buy these books as well as “Actual Innocence” by Barry Scheck and “Fighting for America” by John Elsmore and donate them to prisoners, schools, churches and libraries before or during the prayer vigil.
We highly recommend you consider a financial donation to Innocent, 20 W. Muskegon Ave., Muskegon, Michigan, 49440-1317 (231/728-7225 … www.aboutinnocent.org). We also suggest you consider getting prisoners subscriptions to The Nation News (www.thenation.com), Prison Legal News (online or at PLN, 2400 N.W. 80th Street, #148, Seattle, Washington 98117) or Justice Denied Magazine (http:justicedenied.org)… Support Roberta Franklin and The Family Members of Inmates in Montgomery, Alabama… Most important? Spend time on February 26, 2006 praying for our prisoners. Copy (very important) this notice and pass it around, please… Pay It Forward… Peace in the struggle…
Sherman D. Manning
President of NAPS/Joseph Fellow/Bestselling Author
www.cafepress.com/manning
http://ShermanManning.blogspot.com
Fox, Prison Break fans are buying up the brand new “Blue-Eyed Blonde” in record numbers. Wanna-be like Matt Damon, Shavo Odadjian, Julia Roberts or Nicole Kidman? Read “Blue-Eyed Blonde” (www.Cafepress.com/Manning). Stars reading Blue-Eyed Blonde ie. Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, Anthony Fedorov, Peyton, Sherman and Eli Manning, Wentworth Miller, Denzel, Jamie Cullum, Eminem, Timothy Goebel, Johnny Weir, Clay Aiken and Eva Longoria can tell you “Blue-Eyed Blonde” is awesome! It is like a Richard North Patterson, James Patterson and John Grisham book combined! My pals in maroon 5, Nine Inch Nails and Scissor Sisters are all reading it. And you can’t be a fan of Fox’s Prison Break if you have not read Blue-Eyed Blonde,” stated A. Brody of Fox’s O.C…. Brad Pitt says, “With the power of the internet, what I think will happen is all of those Ashton Kutcher, Eminem and Matt Damon fans will begin to connect, chat and converse via chat rooms and blogs or fan web sites. And as they begin to discuss this new, special, unique and crazy book, it will explode. Somebody told me that reading “Blue-Eyed Blonde” was like watching Prison Break, Desperate Housewives and Boston Legal simultaneously. By the time I got to page 29 of “Blue-eyed Blonde” I was hooked! This Manning dude must be utilizing every waking moment in jail to write. He is America’s President Nelson Mandela, the young Malcolm and the new Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Sherman can write!” “Other than James Patterson, I don’t know a better writer than Sherman,” says Clay Aiken. “This man can wow you, move you and inspire you,” says T. Goebel… Wentworth Miller says, “A lot of our shows have stolen stuff from Palace to the Prison, Creating Monsters and Blue-Eyed Blonde. I don’t think Sherman is in the class of a John Grisham (personally) but there is a raw, uncut credibility and authenticity that just screams from he pages of his writing. I actually read “Blue-Eyed Blonde” in less than 24 hours. I usually take a nap in my trailer at Fox Studios when we’re filming “Prison Break”… but when I was reading “Blue-Eyed Blonde” I used every break to read it! By midnight, I was done! It is one of the most interesting books I have ever, ever read.” We would like to invite you to enjoy Blue-Eyed Blonde. If you know how to contact Michael Viscardi, Bettina Von Sieman, Peter B. Lewis, Cynthia Keenan, Gerald Tiu, Nick Grabenstein, Benjamin Pollack, Albert Shieh, Adam Solomon, Aaron Olson, Chris Schwartz, Paul Pryse, Dr. Jay and Josh Brooks or Neal Carlson. Let them know a gratis copy of the brand new book, “Blue-Eyed Blonde” awaits them. They should email Hallopeter@freesurf.ch... If you are a member of any celebrity fan club let your members know the book is out! Let your fraternity, sorority, church, band and club know the book is out! Right here, right now! Download this posting and pay it forward…Peter Andrist.
Prison Break fans get ready! We are about to launch a Prison Break blog! If you have any suggestions, please post a message. I am the 50 Cents of underground scribes. All I’m looking for are my Jimmy Iovines. I’m beginning a hunger strike. I want everybody reading to tell everybody else – about this site, this hunger strike and my goal. I am entering a hunger strike for justice for our youth! I will continue the hunger strike til the day I die or until I get the help I need. I need Kanye West, David Mays, Ralph White, David Perez, Raymond Scott, George Soros, Peter B. Lewis or Matt Damon. Whoever you are as you read these words, please, please, please times ten… Please with a capital P get on the internet, these fan sites, etc. until you find a way to get to them! I need Kanye West. Y’all can’t convince me that Kanye West does not care! I see love, hope and concern in his eyes. I need two things. A. I need one hundred thousand dollars! B. I need somebody to go to www.Cafepress.com/Manning and to order 2000 copies of “From the Palace to the Prison” and 2000 copies of the brand new “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and have them sent directly to Oprah’s Angel Network in Chicago, Illinois. I need Kanye, David Mays, Ralph White (Stockton, CA), David Perez (San Diego), George Soros, Jerry Keenan, Matt Damon or somebody to do this! I won’t eat til it’s done. Call Dick Gregory, Rick Warren, T. D. Jakes and tell them to pray for me. Lord have mercy! Where is the love? Where y’all at? I know I’m tired! I have sat here for ten years for a crime I did not commit! I have sat here like a damn fool. I have absolutely no family and friends in California. And I’m not ashamed to tell y’all I miss my Momma! I love mother and miss mother! Kanye, Master P, Mr. Mays, Mr. Soros, please help me. If I get $100 grand, I’ll get freedom. I will be able to exonerate myself fully and completely. Y’all don’t wanna send me the money, send it to Tom Mesereau or Bill Genego for me! For an appeal. I need to get out of here! I need to go home… I’m in a senseless, evil and dastardly place. Listen – Mike Bunnell? Google the name Mike Bunnell or look on the Sacramento Bee newspapers archives etc. or the Sacramento News and review and look up Mike Bunnell. He was the Chief Deputy Warden at Old Folsom Prison. He allegedly allowed a riot so his buddies (inmates) could get revenge. (These are allegations according to newspapers and court reports). Bunnell was on tape receiving telephone calls from inmates in prison. Bunnell was testified against by Captain Doug Pieper! Captain Doug Pieper turned up dead! Rumor has it that numerous CCPOA members at Pleasant Valley, Kern Valley and Salinas had Pieper killed… Bunnell was fired! A sympathetic judge threw out the tapes because they were not obtained properly. C.D.C. was forced to rehire Bunnell and one step down. He is an associate Warden here at Mule Creek. I wrote about him in “American Dream” and in Palace to Prison”.. Inmate Onteivruz (K63599) came to ad-seg charged with threatening to assault staff with 89 points. He was found guilty of threatening to assault C.O. Stevenson!! Inspite of being convicted of this serious R.V.R. Onteivruz was given an override on 12/15/05 to Level 3, B yard. I was found not guilty of the same R.V.R and pleaded for an override to C Yard. I’m being transferred… I need help. C.D.C. is racist, unfair, corrupted and rotten at the very core. It is absolutely being run by mob like, renegade and rogue cops. If I don’t get some help soon, I’ll be dead. I feel like (that great man) Mayor Ray Nagin in New Orleans. He was at ground zero! Mayor Nagin walked into the Super Dome and had women throwing their babies at him. They had no food, no water and no electricity. Yet, our president was holding press conferences telling “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” Ray Nagin went off! “They keep holding these press conferences saying the cavalry is coming. It ain’t here! They need to get off their (expletive) asses and get us some help.” I feel like that! I keep watching the machinery of evil around me. I keep watching 16, 17 and 18 year old boys come to prison and get ruined forever. I see things that are incredible, unbelievable and unfathomable. I see C.D.C. creating homosexuals, deviants and perverts. I see corrupted wardens applauding the removal of tobacco from prisons but allowing guards to smuggle it in and extort inmates. Boys (17 and 18) are raped everyday in prison. Raped by guards, physicians, captains and cell partners. Rumor has it there is an A.W. at Pleasant Valley, one at Lancaster and one at Salinas and Kern who routinely have sex with inmates… These prisons have terrorist cells inside them. And what’s more and more dangerous to the public is lack of equity and trust! When inmates know there are staff facilitating terrorism in these prisons; who should/would we tell? Mike Bunnell? George Stratton? Roseanne Campbell? The warden at Pleasant Valley, Salinas? Who? These people will set us up in a heartbeat, some of them are without morals. They literally set people up to be killed and one of the main reasons they get away with it is because you allow it! Who gives a damn? So I’m telling Rick, Jesse, Minister Louis, Montel: WE need some help in here; now! I love Jesse Jackson! Jesse can preach you crazy! Jesse can preach you into a literal stupor! Keep on preaching ! But with all due respect y’all tell Jesse I’ve been keeping hope alive for ten years! I need more than hope! Tell Congressman John Lewis he met me with the late Rev. Hosea Williams on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma - Help! Former Ambassador Andrew Young? Help! Y’all know me; help. I need a Muhammed Ali type! I’m tired of Shaquille O’Neal! I’m sick of Kobe Bryant! Both of them are sell outs! Matt Damon, Bono and Rufus Wainwright show the less fortunate more love than Shaq does. And Kobe? As close as Kobe Bryant came to going to prison… How dare Kobe not help Barry Scheck and The Innocence Projects? He needs to ask Mike Tyson! Brother Tyson went to prison for a rape I don’t believe he committed. Mike got out and developed amnesia! He did not lift a finger to deliver a soul from prison! Damn! And now karma has kicked in! He has gone through $300 million and is broke and crazy! That’s karma! Tell Kobe to be careful. There is something very dangerous about developing amnesia. Kobe Bryant is an excellent basketball player! I am a Laker fan and a Phil Jackson fan! But Kobe needs help! He’s brain dead! Shaq? Brain dead! I don’t even think of them. It’s Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Warrick Dunn, Michael Irving, Jr., Mr. S. Marbury, Peter B. Lewis and George Soros I look to. And I know what I know. If every person reading this would email the Indianapolis Colts, i.e. Tony Dungy and send Tony a copy of this blog, he would share it with my lil brother Peyton! Peyton would buy 11 copies of “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and sign ten! He’d read one and put ten on Ebay to be auctioned and donate all the profits to helping troubled teens. Why can’t you go on to Google right now and find Matt Damons’ fan club and use your wit to get this blog to him? If you will give me 30 minutes or your time, you might literally save my life. I’m not kidding! I don’t care if you help anonymously, help! Sergey Brin and Larry (owners of Google) just opened a charity with one billion dollars! Do y’all think they could give me $100 grand? Hell yes! And they would if they thought the cause was worthy! They don’t know me! But they would if you would go to www.Cafepress.com/Manning and order “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and have it sent to Sergey Brin at the GooglePlex. If you would stop now and send an email to Google “Tell Sergey he must read this full blog but I’m sending this posting”. What would happen? I love y’all but I’m sick and I’m tired! I need help. I am the Pied Piper of hip hop scribes. Http://www.Oprah.com/plugger/templates/beontheshow.jhtml?action=respond&plug1d=B2100004. Email Oprah this posting at that blog! And letters@thesource.com, www.healthehood.com, www.teamrescueone.com and www.airamericaradio.com... Can you email or text all of their sites and simply send them a copy of this blog. I need a miracle! And I need to get out of the California Prison system – period. It is like the hull of a slave ship. And it is a monster factory. And it is wicked! It is absolutely wicked! Please wake up. Why do you think the CCPOA pays to keep the media out of all California prisons? Because if you saw the rapes, racism, rage, corruption, retaliation, vindictiveness and rank, vile viciousness, family members of inmates would riot in the streets. They will kill me if you don’t help. They will kill me! “It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.” (Carl T. Rowan)… Please, please, please get this blog to Kanye West if nobody else. I know with my soul that Kanye will help me if he hears me. You (the reader) are the only voice I have. Sherman D. Manning. Hallopeter@freesurf.ch.”
Seasons Greetings to you all! I wish you a Merry, Merry Christmas and a blessed, prosperous and Happy New Year! Goggle? How many of y’all are cognizant of all the various ways Google can be employed as a tool? More in a moment…I salute Peter Andrist in Switzerland! I salute Dr. Arnold Zweig, M.D. in Atlanta. I encourage you to go back and re-read the last 4 or 5 postings by Peter and by myself. It’s urgent that you read them. And don’t miss this opportunity to visit http://Saveshastagroene.blogspot.com as well as our other blogs. You who are savvy with the www, I need you to step up now and help. Help us to save the children. How do you get Google to help? You tell me. I need you to get http://Saveshastagroene more links and more prominence on Google link it to SNAPS. America’s Most Wanted, child abuse, sexual predators, missing and murdered children. (We salute Cathey W. Steinberg, Executive Director of the Juvenile Justice Fund in Atlanta, GA. We salute (CEASE) the Center to End Adolescent Sexual Exploitation also for their service to children. Visit CEASE and the Juvenile Justice Fund on the internet and let them know you read about them on this blog.) I need you to please get on Google and find ways to link, expose and publicize Saveshastagroene.blogspot.com. Online petitions? How do you do them? How can I set up an online petition? Will one of you (or some) please show me how it is done. Post a message here or snail mail me… I am extremely encouraged b all the letters, emails and book compliments etc. We are getting (finally). It is very encouraging when celebrities, pastors, leaders and entrepreneurs begin to believe in your cause… So even those of you who’ve written, “Sherman, here is a check for five thousand dollars, please don’t use my name.” Thank you! Anthony Rapp, Attorney Jerry Davis, Fernando “Fergie” Rodriguez, Jr., Ryan Oelrich, Pat Anderson, Ross Bynum, Walter Dean Myers, Matt Damon and Kanye West? Do you know how to locate either of the above? Read closely: find the address/es) of anyone of the above people; go to www.Cafepress.com/Manning and order “Blue-Eyed Blonde” to go to them. Send them a note telling them to let you know when they get the book. If they get the book and verify receipt, I will give you $250.00 per person! You must share this offer with college students, seniors in high school etc, who could use some extra cash! Adam Pascal, Bono, Dylan Fergus, Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Lillian Murphy, Hunter Cross, Wayne Warner, 50 Cent, Damon Dash, Matt Damon… $250.00 and $500.00 for Jake Gyllenhaal, Randi Rhodes, Barack OBama, Nine Inch Nails or Trent Reznor… In kind, help from altruistic believers make this possible. I won’t engage in tautology. Get it done and we will give you the money… Pass it on! Pay it forward. Tell everybody about it…Marc Zuckerberg? Tell him to write me... Hallopeter@freesurf.ch...www.Cafepress.com/Manning, Jeff@Amazon.com, www.Buybooksontheweb.com. Sherman D. Manning, J98796, MCSP, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640… If you don’t need any money but just want to help us to reach the world etc., we will greatly appreciate your help. Plug us on any blog! Link us to any site. And do tell all journalism and law students about this blog. Sherman Manning.
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Dr. Arnold Zweig, MD, F.A.C.S. is a specialist in facial plastic surgery and an expert in performing enhancements safely and successfully. Sherman D. Manning was inspired personally by Dr. Z at his home as a teenager. “I’m not even sure if Dr. Z remembers me. But I will never, ever forget being in his home as a kid with my Uncle Melvin Jackson… Folk like Dr. Z, the late Dr. Fred Allman, Jr. and George Soros have impacted my life in ways they may never realize,” Sherman says… We have asked Dr. Arnold Zweig (along with 24 other distinguished stars, celebrities and physicians) to join our Book-A-Thon by sponsoring 100 books or more to be distributed to marginalized people. We either ship the books directly to a charity, library, church or group (address must be provided by sponsor) selected by the sponsor; or we send them to Oprah’s Angel Network in Chicago. We suggest donors consider having Cafepress deliver 100 (or more… thus far our largest sponsor paid for 500 copies of Blue-Eyed Blonde) copies of “Blue-Eyed Blonde” to your church, civic group, library, high school or college… Or we recommend the following: Southern Center for Human Rights, 83 Poplar St., Atl. GA 30303, Underground Books, 2814 35th St., Sacto, CA 95817, Books Through Bars c/o New Society Publications, 4722 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143, Innocent Project c/o Cardoza Law School, 55 5th Ave., #1701, NY, NY 10003, The Montel Williams Show, 433 W. 53rd St., NY, NY 10012… We need you to go to www.Cafepress.com/Manning and order “Blue-Eyed Blonde” for any of the above addresses (or your own) today. We know these people (i.e. Oprah’s Angel Network, Montel Williams Show) will donate Blue-Eyed Blonde to worthy, needy and desirous readers… We will profile your donation on our blogs, in our books and press kit unless you request anonymity. Go to www.ZweigCenter.com or call 404/252-9991. “I hope Dr. Z will donate a couple hundred copies of “Blue-Eyed Blonde” to Oprah’s Angel Network… Whenever I get old enough to see a wrinkle, I will go to the Zweig Center in Atlanta,” says Sherman. I hope Dr. Zweig and many others (even if you can only afford five or ten books) will help… Thanks – P. Andrist.
I am Peter Andrist (Hallopeter@freesurf.ch) and I reside in Switzerland. I am a Caucasian, lifetime Swiss resident. I lived in America for five years, then for two I have sporadically visited. In my first year, I met Sherman D. Manning. And he became the best Christian friend I’ve ever had in my entire life time. I shan’t ever forget the very first time I heard him quote the “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech. I had chill or goose bumps… I traveled to DC with Sherman to hear Rev. Jesse Jackson’s speech announcing he would not run for president in the 90s. Jesse was great but as Sherman’s Atlanta mentor (late Rev. Hosea Williams) once said, “Microphones explode in Manning’s hand. Ask Andy Young; he’ll tell you nobody can out speak or preach Sherman Manning.” Sherman is in prison in California. (Sherman D. Manning, J98796, MCSP, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640) for crimes he did not commit… I absolutely love America! In my opinion it is a fabulous country with great people. My times in Virginia, D.C., Atlanta, MD, New York, etc. were absolutely wonderful. I love America. But like any country, America’s judicial system makes mistakes. Ask Barry Scheck. I’ll be as concise and candid as I can here and now. I need $100 grand that I don’t have. I need Mr. Dewayne McKinney, Mr. George Soros, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Warren Buffett, Peter B. Lewis, etc. Somebody to please step up and help!
The first thing that must happen is you, the person reading this right now; will you please remember God does extraordinary things through ordinary people? Will you just go to AskJeeves.com, Google and/or Yahoo! Etc. (Maybe Terry Semel will help) and get the address to the above-named billionaires and text or email them this posting!! That’s it! If just 40 or 50 people would (I need you to today! Please) get email addresses on Mr. Gates at Microsoft, Mr. Buffett, Sergey at Google, Peter B. Lewis, Mr. Soros at the Open Society Institute, Kanye West, Bono, etc. (and any other billionaire you can think of) and download, text, email or fax this posting to them; I believe a miracle would happen. I can’t do it alone! I’ve been fighting for ten years for lil Sherman. I just got married but even as a newlywed, I’m still fighting. Although I’m White and not a civil rights leader, I believe King was right “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” And I don’t want Jesus telling me, “I was in prison and you visited me not” or “Inasmuch as you’ve done it unto the least of these my brethren; you’ve done it also unto me.” I’m not a religious fanatic. I don’t even attend church as often as I should, but I believe in doing unto others as I would have them to do unto me. America? Please tell me how would you feel when you saw millionaires and billionaires all around you and you knew just one hundred thousand dollars would vindicate your rights? Your mother (Dollie Manning) is 75 years old and can’t come to California to see you. And you couldn’t even call her to say we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year? I tell you it is humbling and also troubling. I’m willing to do absolutely anything, anything (legal and ethical) to get Sherman Manning out! Tom Mesereau, Scott Ross, Gerald Uelmen, Dennis Riordin, Gerry Spence, Barry Tarlow or Ephraim Margolin would have Sherman Manning home in less than 6 months! I know I’m right! I also know neither of them will even peruse his trial transcripts for less than ten grand. Give me, loan me, donate me $100 grand and I’ll get him free! Mr. Gates, Mr. Soros, Jeff Bezos, Peter B. Lewis, Jerry Keenan, Chris Gardner, Robert Johnson, Tom Joiner, Earl Graves, Kanye West, Russell Simmons, P. Diddy, Snoop, Master P., anybody, a-n-y-b-o-d-y. Please! You want me to quit my job and come to America (Mr. Gates, Mr. Bezos, Mr. Buffett, Mr. Soros??) and work for you to repay the $100 grand? What? Just tell me. You want to guarantee the money goes directly to a lawyer? Solved: you call Tom Mesereau (or Mr. Spence, Mr. Uelmen, Mr. Margolin, etc.) and you arrange for them to take his case. You send them a check! Thank you! However, you want to do it! You want us to tell the world about your gift, loan, grant or waiver? Great! We can and we will! You want to be anonymous? That’s fine! However! I just have to get him out of prison; now! It begins right now.
This is the first time I have ever made any kind of public appeal or plea such as this! It’s awkward! I need help. I need you to please, please, please (you the man or woman who stumbled upon this blog…) use every internet strategy you know to share this blog. I can’t do it all! There are not enough hours in the day for me to do it all. I appeal to you to help me. If you know how to use Tribe.net, Facebook.com, Craigslists.org, Nola.com, Myspace.com, Friendster.com, Yahoo!, Message Board, etc., etc., to mention this blog, share this posting, etc. I ask that you do it and please do it now! Go on to every chat room you know of, fan, web sites, etc., etc., post messages on podcasts, etc. to put the word out!... If you do absolutely nothing else; please Google every person I mention in this posting (or at least 3 or 4 of them) and text, fax or email them this posting. Will you at least do that much? Please? Will you, college student; you, high school senior; you, activist, entrepreneur or whoever you are??? Will you take 15 minutes to Google, find and email some of the above names? Don’t worry about duplicating. The more emails Mr. Gates (Buffett, Bezos, Myspace, Craigslists, etc) get of this posting; the better the chances are they’ll read it! And believe me it is all about access! You can’t tell me that if Mr. George Soros, or Sergey or Bill Gates knows $100 grand would get a wrongly convicted out of prison; they would not give it. I refuse to believe it. They might wish to do it anonymously (for various reasons) etc., maybe, but I don’t believe they wouldn’t help! But those people are sheltered! It’s hard to read them. So unless you have the money, I need to exonerate him. I need you to Google Frank Darabont, Denzel Washington, Danny Glover, Tom Morris, Marc Forrester, Levan Hawkins, etc., and email them this posting! If enough of them see enough copies of this (the posting you are reading) somebody will get him out. Mr. Bill Gates, Mr. Bezos, Buffett, Soros, Washington, Martha Stewart, Russell Simmons, Diddy, West etc., somebody will say, “I’m gonna get Sherman out of there and get him home to his momma.”
My friend spent another Christmas in prison. For a sex crime he didn’t do! The Honorable Mr. Mandela spent 27 years in prison. Mr. “Hurricane” spent 20 years for crimes he didn’t do. Rolando Cruz? 14 years for child molestation and he was innocent. (Read “Blue-Eyed Blonde” www.Cafepress.com/Manning). How much longer must Sherman wait? Can I give him a Christmas present for 2006? Can that present be freedom? Can I get him out? I’m not asking for a limousine or a Lear jet! I’m asking for enough money to hire a Scott Ross, Tom Mesereau, etc. and to get simple justice. I’m gonna ask you to send me (P. Andrist, Brummelmattstrasse 7, CH—5033 Buchs Switzerland) the check, send it to Sherman… However you wish… I hope many of you will go back and read my last 3 postings as well as Sherman’s. He’s going through a lot right now. I hope perhaps you’ll tell the owner of Craigslists (Craig Newmark) that there are 12 or 13 pages about him in “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and maybe you can let Myspace.com readers, owners and subscribers know they are all in “Blue-Eyed Blonde”. There are so many possibilities with the internet! I just don’t have many answers, more time or talent. I need you now to help! Jodie Evans, Ben Choen, Cindy Sheehan, Eli Pariser? Are you reading? This may be my longest posting and it is my last posting til I get the money or til somebody sends Sherman the money to get a lawyer (the right lawyer) to get him home! This is an emergency! It’s an SOS! Ever heard of bloglanta.com? That (I think) is a blog for Sherman’s home town. Will you (every person reading my words) post a message on bloglanta.com? Ask Jay Bookman, Monica Kaufman, Steve Barnes, Dr. John Leroy, Dr. Arnold Zweig, M.D., F.A.C.S., Carol Casey, Robyn Lewark, The Country Club of the South Charity Guild, Lewis Reeves, James Jones, etc. to come to this blog? Or just send them this posting! Indiancrle@aol.com, Jeff@Amazon.com, Atlantamagletters@Atlantamag.emmis.com, Detailsletters@Fairchildpub.com, brantinter@aol.com... Please send each of them and everybody else you know this posting.
If thirty or forty of you take 15 minutes of your life, you will be responsible for Sherman walking back into the arms of his mom in Atlanta and being able to say, “I’m home.” I can visualize it right now. We will realize it if you help me do this. Please, please, please, please (times ten thousand) go to Google and do what I’ve asked you to do. Right here and right now! If the angel, granter or loaner requests anonymity we will honor it! Otherwise, we’ll tell the world who wrote the check(s). Now can you help me get this to Mr. Soros, Mr. Brin, Mr. Gates, Mr. Buffett, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Kanye West and the rest? Please. I will not post a new message until we accomplish this. Post a comment if you want but of more importance, pay it forward and get on Google (AskJeeves, MSN, Yahoo!, Facebook, Myspace, LiveJournal, etc., etc., Nola.com, Craigslists, etc.) today! We need you! Every thousand, hundred and dollar will help! Every letter, thought and prayer will help. Write Sherman and let him know you are helping. Thank you so much.
Please – Please – re-read and pass it on!... After the word on I stopped to pray. I talked to God about it. Now I’d like to finish talking to you. I need you to see and feel what I feel. Did you see “Mr. Hurricane”? With Denzel Washington? Denzel stood in visiting with his lawyers over the telephone and said, “You’ve got to get me outta here. I can’t stay here much longer. Get me out!” And when they argued technicalities… “Having seen the truth, they can’t turn their backs on me. We must transcend the law and get back to justice!” Wow! The Honorable Judge A. Lee Sarokin asked his clerk in chambers, “What do ya think I should do?” The Judge told his clerk, “I’m gonna let him go.” (I know I’m a man and newly married at that but there is a tear in my eyes right now just thinking about it). … “Rubin Carter should not spend another day or hour in prison,” so stated the Judge (rent the DVD “Mr. Hurricane” or read the book “The Miraculous Journey of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter)… Back to Hurricane: “Having seen (or read) the truth (or this truthful plea) they can’t turn their backs on me. I believe with everything inside my being that if Mr. George Soros, Bill Gates, Peter B. Lewis, Kanye West, Matt Damon, Damon Dash, etc., etc., actually see this posting; they will not turn their back on Sherman! P. Diddy is busy! Damon Dash, Soros, Buffett, Swiss Filmmaker Marc Forster, etc., are busy! They see very little mail. But if they get fifty emails of this posting? They’ll read it! Marc Forster (filmmaker… he produced and directed Neverland) is my homeboy! He is Swiss! If I knew where to reach/write/email him, etc. I’d be on my way to getting Sherman h-o-m-e!
Marc (of the movie Neverland) wrote Swiss millionaires begging them to pay for his trip and college to America for film school. Marc (true story) finally got a Swiss millionaire to pay for him to go to New York Film School. A stranger believed in his dream! And every now and then strangers will believe in your dream when your own brothers (Joseph… Moses) mistreat you… Marc paid the money back! Marc is in the USA somewhere! Will you go on Craigslists, Nola.com, Myspace.com, Google or wherever and see if you can find Marc. Send Marc this posting! Please – don’t just read this. Don’t just read this! I pray that you won’t be able to sleep tonight til your respond! I’m praying for a miracle right now! I’m praying that all these pastors like T. D. Jakes, Joel Olsteen, Rick Warren, Eddie Long, Noel Jones, etc., who preach about miracles, anointings and the power of God are right! I’m praying that if there is a God (and I know He is!) he will touch you! He will inspire you to make this plea, this posting, this prayer reach all around your city, your state, the United States and the world! Let this posting be like some of those commercial spasms! I think chain letters are illegal (??) but passing on an email or posting is not! I need help! Maybe the universe, creator, God or spirit led you to this blog, this day to help. Will you? Do what you can, with what you have, in the time that you have. Do it now!! Re-read this email – do what you can with it, pass it on and that’s all. Find Tyler Perry, Richard Scrushy, Donald Watkins… Help! Log on to Blogs like Air America Radio or Reach Media (America Urban Radio Network, Radio One!) etc. and place this posting on those sites! Go to the MontelWilliamsShow.com and post “Montel, please go to Swisswishfoundation.blogspot.com and read posting by Peter Andrist.” Do what you can! That’s all! I believe – Peter Andrist – 1/1/06
If you had a Merry Christmas, say Amen! It was extremely perplexing for me and troubling! It was scary because of my family. I miss them so very much. But I’m still alive and breathing. If you’re breathing, you’re blessed! The above posting by my Swiss pal? All I’ll say is that if just half of y’all do half of what Mr. Andrist is requesting; I will get my freedom. If you are reading this posting and did not read Peter’s, please go back and read it! It is absolutely an urgent, special and anointed posting. I’ll still do the right thing and use the funds we have for search funds (stipends, etc.) for college and high school students, which I mentioned in other postings. Now I really, really need each of you to tell everybody about the prayer vigil (see posting on this blog) coming up on February 26th. V101 Dr. Don Sainte John in Sacramento? I need you all to email him and send him this posting. Dr. Paul Boyd of New Orleans? Are you reading? Are you alive? Ryan Oelrich, Alan Ritchson, Danny Pintauro, Guy Velella, Richard North Patterson, Stauros Niarchos, Hal Lipset, Tony Dungy, Arthur Golden, Chris Schwartz, Jamie Cullum, Wentworth Miller, Albert Shieh, Michael Viscardi, Kyle Love, Trevor Loflin, John Doggett, Nick Grabenstein, Wes Kovarik and Nathan Craft can be found. Please, please find them and mention they are in “Blue-Eyed Blonde”. I hope you will cross promote and share this blog. I really, really need to reach the above-named people. Help. And please, please, please read Peter Andrist’s posting above! It is the most important posting on this site. Re-read it please. Happy, Happy New Year! Keep the snail mail coming! Sherman D. Manning.
Greetings and Happy New Year. How are all of you in America, Switzerland, Japan, France and around the world? I’ve learned I may be illegally detained at this moment. Make no mistake, I am wrongly convicted. I should not be here but recently I’ve come to believe that even if it were not a wrongful conviction, the sentence is absolutely illegal. My sentence was/is double what it should have been. Pragmatically, it would behoove me to make contact with a sentencing expert. I’m speaking of Barry Tarlow, Blair Berk, Anthony Brooklier, Tom Mesereau, Susan Yu, William Genego, Ephraim Margolin, Dennis Riordin, Stuart Hanlon or Tony Serra…I believe in my heart that either of the above named California lawyers could get me out of prison. I pray for help. I pray for justice. I pray some of you will contact some of them and send them to this blog. The Government ain’t gonna voluntarily exonerate me. No politician is going to wake up and decide that Judge Robert Altman erred in sentencing. It’s not going to happen. But if Ralph White, David Perez (San Diego, CA Oilman), etc. decide to help me get Blair Berk, Barry Tarlow or Mr. Margolin; I will see my parents before they die. It’s really that cut and dried! If I don’t get outta jail soon, the people who mean the world to me will never see me again…Whoever you are, I ask you to please go back on this blog and peruse that powerful plea from Peter Andrist…Go on and read it. Now will you help us? Ten thousand dollars, five thousand dollars or even five hundred. Help…I would prefer you send a check to the lawyer(s). But since I don’t have either of them yet, I guess you’re gonna need to send it to (Sherman D. Manning, J98796, MCSP, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA, 95640) - Me or send it to Peter. I don’t believe either of the above lawyers will take the case without a minimum of a fifteen thousand dollar retainer! By all means, if you will write one of them (my preference? Any of the ones I named. If I had to narrow it to four: Blair Berk, Tom Mesereau, Ephraim Margolin or Barry Tarlow) a check for fifteen thousand dollars notify us at once and then we’ll have everyone else send the lawyer money. Otherwise, just send it to me or Peter and the minute I retain them we’ll put it on the blog…I’m not gonna beg; there are too many billionaires and millionaires in the world for me to need to beg. Download, transfer, text or email this blog posting to Mr. Soros, Martha Stewart, David Mays, Steve Madden, Richard Scrushy, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos or Ted Turner and tell them I said, please help…
The National Association for Public Safety has announced the recipients of The Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award for the month of January, 2006. Rest assured that each of the recipients did get a Pink Slip in the mail. Also, twenty national newspapers, columnists, journalists, professors as humanitarians world wide have been notified!
Drum Roll Please: Announcing Mr. Lance Corcoran! Mr. Chris Trott and Sheriff Mike Kile…We gave Lance Corcoran a Pink Slip because he represents everything which is vulgar, corrupt, profane and evil about government employees. Lance makes the tens of thousands of dedicated government workers nationwide look bad! Most government workers are good people! But Lance is the Vice President of the California Prison Thugs Union. AKA the CCPOA (CA. Correctional, Peace Officers Association!) Mr. Corcoran is a waste of government funds! People like Lance cost taxpayers millions and millions of dollars…When a prison guard i.e. rapes an inmate, smuggles drugs into prisons, foments violence, gets one inmate to stab another inmate, kills inmates and sets inmates up etc., etc. Victims sue! And when C.D.C. loses or settles out of court, this money is paid by John Q. Citizen! This is money we could use on tracking, treating and monitoring sex offenders, protecting our children and sending them to college, etc., etc. California citizens paid out $17.6 million dollars last year settling lawsuits for prison guard abuse! In 2004 citizens paid $9 million. From 2000 to date more than $60 million dollars have been paid out due to the criminal conduct of prison guards. This is paid by taxpayers. The same taxpayers who can’t ever know the disciplinary records of the officers working in our prisons. The same taxpayers who learn that the CCPOA guards the personnel files of rogue guards more closely than we shield the identity of rape victims. Lance Corcoran, allegedly and reportedly is a powerful spoke in the wheel of guard corruption in California. There is much more on Mr. Corcoran in the brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” (www.cafepress.com or www.bou.com) as well as in “From the Palace to the Prison”, “American Dream/A Search for Justice” and in “Creating Monsters”.
The next recipient of the Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award is - Drum R-o-l-l… Mr. Chris Trott. Chris Trott is a Local Chapter President of the CCPOA working in a state prison in Calapatria, CA near Imperial. His union placed a Rat Trap on the prison bulletin board in an intimidating retort to 3 prison guards having been put on paid admin. leave pending an investigation into their use of excessive force. The symbology, according to a CCPOA accompanying memo, was to “catch” the captain and warden and to challenge the supervisors. Trott claims the Rat Trap has a union “tactic” to complain about management problems at Calapatria…Todd Slosek, a CDC spokesman said this intimidation of the “ratting” captain was precisely the type of “code of silence” misconduct that CDC wants to stop, calling it “unacceptable and completely unprofessional.” A sergeant, a guard and a medic/guard were seen by Captain Serchel Leapheart subduing inmate Adron Cowains. Captain Leapheart wrote the three up for abuse. This CCPOA also ridicules corrections secretary Roderick Hickman – whom they nicknamed “spud” and called Rod a disgrace to their profession for attacking the code of silence. Yet, from the other side of their corrupted mouths, union leaders still maintain “no code of silence exists”. People like Trott are a disgrace to honest, law abiding citizens and dishonor the badges they wear. This is why they steal prisoner’s mail to the media and fight to keep prisoner abuse private. This is why no cameras are allowed in prisons. Out of sight, out of mind. But – I repeat – taxpayers pay for the actions of these rampart division like rogue guards…
Drum Roll please… Final - all new The Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award goes to (my homeboy) Sheriff Mike Kile. Mike Kile is Sheriff of Screvens County, right next to Jenkins County in Georgia. A three month investigation by the Augusta Chronicle in 2004 found 32 former Screven County prisoners and at least 2 deputies who said Kile was corrupted. Kile ordered jailed inmates to work on his campaign signs and to perform tasks at his personal home. Kile had his own version of the PIC (Prison Industrial Complex) which was his J.I.C. or Jail Industrial Complex. June 2004 while working on Sheriff Kile’s illegal work detail, prisoner Harold Cannon escaped. Cannon went to the home of Richard Weaver and hacked him nearly to death with a machete…Almost killed him because a greedy, corrupted and renegade Georgia Sheriff thinks jail inmates are his own personal property. To Corcoran in Sacramento, Trott in Imperial and Kile in Screven, GA, you’ve been Pink Slipped! Now the world knows about you and your wasting of taxpayer funds. You are a threat to public safety! You’re fleecing America!!
The National Association for Public Safety is extremely proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with Critical Resistance, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the American Red Cross, The Open Society Institute, etc., etc., along with our international sponsors in business, education and entertainment, etc., etc. We stand shoulder to shoulder with all people in the pursuit of life, liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness. We hereby announce the January 2006 recipients of the all new King/Mandela Achievement Awards. (President Mandela will see this posting!!) By popular demand, we decided to go all out this month and award ten awards. The King/Mandela Achievement Award has been awarded to the following persons… Drum Roll Please…Louder… 1. Attorney Daryl Lapp 2. Attorney George Olson 3. Attorney Marc Goldstein, 4. Attorney John Bennet… Lapp, Olson, Goldstein and Bennet are all in the Massachusetts Law Offices of Palmer & Dodge. 5. Attorney Rob Briley 6. Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth 7. Attorney Sandy D. Alemberte of the Miami Law Offices of Hunton & Williams 8. Kanye West 9. Jonny Silberman 10. Cadet Pierce. (Be sure to read the “NAPS said” posting on this site on 12/30/05 also feel free to download these awards and share them with friends, churches, colleges, alternative news, lawyers and activitists. You have my permission to reprint and/or quote…See myspace.com, Teenink.com, Facebook.com, Friendster.com, etc. If Ned Vizzini or Tim Goebel are reading this…email me). I’ll remind all my awardees to send me (snail mail) a photo of you so that we can place your photo and bio in our photo and honoree gallery.
1.(Attorney Daryl Laap) 2. (Attorney George Olson) 3. (Attorney Marc Goldstein) and 4. (Attorney John Bennet) are all lawyers at the commercial law firm of Palmer & Dodge in Massachusetts. They volunteered to represent inmate Daniel Laplante pro bono in his lawsuit. Daniel’s constitutional right of access to the courts was violated. Officials at the state prison in Cedar Junction denied him physical access to the Unit Law Library. Thousands of inmates have their rights trampled upon by prison officials because officials are cognizant of the fact that most inmate lawsuits are dismissed out of hand. And it is extremely difficult to find a lawyer willing to step up…Palmer & Dodge was asked by the U.S. District Court to help this man. And they did so victoriously, pro bono! Daryl Lapp has been a partner since 1995, George Olson is a senior litigation associate, Marc Goldstein is an associate and John Bennet is a junior litigation associate in Palmer & Dodge! I salute, applaud and congratulate them. Thank you!
Number 5…We award Rob Briley! Attorney Briley is a great man. Inmate Clark McMillan claimed he was innocent, falsely accused and wrongly convicted… After maintaining his innocence for 22 years, Clark was released after DNA evidence cleared him of raping a 16 year old in 1980. Clark was convicted after the victim identified him in a police line up… The best way to destroy a man’s credibility, ruin his name and reputation etc. is to accuse him of rape! Rape is a terrible and a horrible crime! And it is also terrible and horrible to be falsely accused and convicted of rape when you did not do it! Lord knows it is humiliating! Clark lost 22 years of his life. His criminal records are expunged and his full citizenship rights are restored. Briley represented Clark pro bono and will receive no money for his time or costs. God Bless Attorney Rob Briley of Nashville, Tennesse!
6. Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth…A Michigan federal jury returned verdicts of $75,000 in compensatory damages and $125,000 in punitive damages against a Michigan state prison guard who paid one prisoner six cigarettes to viciously pummel another. Inmate Barton Allen was beat down while sitting on a toilet at Riverside Corrections Facility in Ionia in October 2001. Fellow prisoner Deshawn Fleming admitted smashing Allen’s head – Paid for by Sergeant Dennis Baldwin. In a quintessential display of “correctional justice”, Fleming, who confessed to the assault and that he was hired by Baldwin, was administratively infracted and found guilty, while Baldwin, on the same evidence was cleared by prison officials. Prison staff then malevolently sidelined Allen’s mail from the court, to prevent him from suing prison officials. Trust me; they steal mail from prisoners all the time! When the case moved to trial phase the court appointed Larissa Hollingsworth of Grand Rapids, Michigan, a newly admitted lawyer who had never tried a case. When Larissa kicked the states butt and won, she and Allen were moved to tears by the verdict. This fledgling attorney just sat there and “tried to look like I was used to winning.” Baldwin set a new record for the cost of six cigarettes in state prison. Somebody hug and kiss Larissa! I salute and applaud her.
7. Sandy D’Alemberte! We award Mrs. D’Alemberte, a former president of Florida State University for handling the wrongful conviction of Wilton Dedge. Mr. Wilton Dedge (author’s note: Seems like Brother Joseph in Genesis and Sherman in CA were/are not the only fellas falsely accused and wrongly convicted of sex crimes. It happens everyday!) was convicted of rape in 1982 and sentenced to 30 years in the penitentiary. After the victim described her attacker to police as 6’ and 160 lbs, she picked the 5’5” and 125 lb Dedge out of a photo array. The jury disbelieved six alibi witnesses! Dedge had his wrongful conviction reversed in 1983 and was wrongly convicted again in 1984 and given a life sentence in Florida State Prison. DNA conclusively exonerated him. Sandy D’Alemberte handled his suit pro bono acting as special counsel to the Miami office of Hunton & Williams, a large law firm with offices around the world. Hunton & Williams also provided their serves to Wilton pro bono… to the tune of a $2 million dollar award! Somebody shake hands with all the partners in Hunton & Williams and hug that brilliant woman Sandy D’Alemberte. I salute them!!
8. Big Kanye West! Y’all gotta excuse the semi-French but this brother has balls! He called out the U. S. President! Whether one agrees or disagrees with Kanye’s “We all know that George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.” In this age of sold out and gutless (heartless, etc.) superstars (i.e. Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant) it’s refreshing to see a young, brilliant musician and performer willing to say what he means; and mean what he says! I salute, applaud and high five Mr. Kanye West!! Go Kanye!
9. Jonny Silberman is awarded our King/Mandela achievement award because he is a great young man with a promising future. This is a Caucasian tenth grader who is a native of South Africa. He played soccer in South Africa and now brings his zeal and talent to the Weber School in Dunwoody, GA near Atlanta. Jonny is challenged with diverse ways of thinking to contribute thoughts and ideas, to develop his intellect, values and a responsibility for the world around him. Jonny studies history, humanities, English, Bible, Hebrew and Fine Arts. The Weber School is a Jewish School named for Doris and Alex Weber. Jonny qualifies for a nomination for the $500.00 Manning Stipend. We will follow the activities and success of Jonny Silberman. I salute, congratulate, applaud and award Jonny Silberman with a King/Mandela Achievement Award.
It should be noted that critics (i.e. CCPOA, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity) of these new awards claimed I was only giving them for book sales. Reportedly, Rush stated “This prison convict forces you to buy 50 copies of his “Blue-Eyed Blonde” book and donate em to Oprah’s Angel Network and then he’ll give you the King/Mandela Award.” Well, I unashamedly hope, pray and even suggest that awardees who are adult and can afford it will go to www.cafepress.com/manning and order 50 copies or more of “Blue-Eyed Blonde and donate them to Oprah, a church, school, YMCA or public library! That’s a great thing because books change lives! But let there be no mistake: No awardees has been asked by anyone to buy “Blue-Eyed Blonde”. And buying my books is not a prerequisite for getting an award. Furthermore, kids like Jonny Silberman who is only 15 cannot be expected to buy 50 books!!
Drum Roll Please… Louder… Louder! The 10th and final awardee of our brand new King/Mandela Achievement Award for January 2006 is Cadet Pierce! Manners, pride, character, honor, scholarship, discipline and personal integrity are all words which can be associated with our tenth winner – Cadet Pierce. Pierce attends Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, GA. Riverside is one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most prestigious military academies. Kids (all male) in grades 7-12 get a premiere, first class education nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This is an award winning (add the King/Mandela Achievement Award) JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) program! Go Cadet Pierce! We honor, we salute, we applaud and award you…On behalf of every member of NAPS, every volunteer, all the college frats, sororities, pastors, the two million prisoners, those in juveniles, jails, youth centers, the family and friends of prisoners, etc. on behalf of Critical Resistance, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Campaign, Amnesty International, the Red Cross, The Innocence Project (NY), Innocent (Muskegon), Innocence International (Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter0 and especially on behalf of all wrongly convicted citizens, I, Sherman D. Manning do hereby present the King/Mandela Achievement Award to the above named individuals. If they would like more personal data (i.e. addresses and telephone numbers, etc.) about them posted on this site, I authorize them to post it! For more information on Palmer and Dodge or Daniel Laplante, see Prison Legal News (July 2005). For more on Attorney Rob Briley and Clark McMillan, see the Tennessean and the Associated Press. For more on Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth, Sandy D’Alemberte or Hunton & Williams, see the NACDL Website or Justice Denied Magazine. For more on Kanye West, turn on your radio or go the record store! For more on Jonny Silberman, visit www.weberschool.org. for more on Cadet Pierce, go to www.cadet.com. Be sure to see the posting “NAPS said” on this (or http://Swisswishfoundation.blogspot.com) site for 12/30/2005!! I am personally guaranteeing that this posting (and every posting of the King/Mandela Achievement Awards) will be sent to former President Nelson Mandela for him to see! I’ve also asked Doug out at Innocent in Muskegon to get this to Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and others. We need you to download this posting and put our winners on your blogs, web sites and bulletins. Word of mouth is powerful. I wanna ask George Soros, Peter B. Lewis, Jerry Keenan, Jeff Bezos, Bruce Springsteen, Ralph White, David Perez, Chris Gardner, Earl Graves and Montel Williams to please help us! If you read this full posting today, go to the web site of Montel Williams, AirAmerica Radio and to Oprah’s website or blogs and put this posting on those sites. I thank you and I salute every winner of this award. I wait to hear from (Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and you must (also) snail mail me your bio and photo ASAP…) all of the winners. Congratulations and keep up the great work…Sherman D. Manning.
The National Association for Public Safety is extremely proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with Critical Resistance, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the American Red Cross, The Open Society Institute, etc., etc., along with our international sponsors in business, education and entertainment, etc., etc. We stand shoulder to shoulder with all people in the pursuit of life, liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness. We hereby announce the January 2006 recipients of the all new King/Mandela Achievement Awards. (President Mandela will see this posting!!) By popular demand, we decided to go all out this month and award ten awards. The King/Mandela Achievement Award has been awarded to the following persons… Drum Roll Please…Louder… 1. Attorney Daryl Lapp 2. Attorney George Olson 3. Attorney Marc Goldstein, 4. Attorney John Bennet… Lapp, Olson, Goldstein and Bennet are all in the Massachusetts Law Offices of Palmer & Dodge. 5. Attorney Rob Briley 6. Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth 7. Attorney Sandy D. Alemberte of the Miami Law Offices of Hunton & Williams 8. Kanye West 9. Jonny Silberman 10. Cadet Pierce. (Be sure to read the “NAPS said” posting on this site on 12/30/05 also feel free to download these awards and share them with friends, churches, colleges, alternative news, lawyers and activitists. You have my permission to reprint and/or quote…See myspace.com, Teenink.com, Facebook.com, Friendster.com, etc. If Ned Vizzini or Tim Goebel are reading this…email me). I’ll remind all my awardees to send me (snail mail) a photo of you so that we can place your photo and bio in our photo and honoree gallery.
1.(Attorney Daryl Laap) 2. (Attorney George Olson) 3. (Attorney Marc Goldstein) and 4. (Attorney John Bennet) are all lawyers at the commercial law firm of Palmer & Dodge in Massachusetts. They volunteered to represent inmate Daniel Laplante pro bono in his lawsuit. Daniel’s constitutional right of access to the courts was violated. Officials at the state prison in Cedar Junction denied him physical access to the Unit Law Library. Thousands of inmates have their rights trampled upon by prison officials because officials are cognizant of the fact that most inmate lawsuits are dismissed out of hand. And it is extremely difficult to find a lawyer willing to step up…Palmer & Dodge was asked by the U.S. District Court to help this man. And they did so victoriously, pro bono! Daryl Lapp has been a partner since 1995, George Olson is a senior litigation associate, Marc Goldstein is an associate and John Bennet is a junior litigation associate in Palmer & Dodge! I salute, applaud and congratulate them. Thank you!
Number 5…We award Rob Briley! Attorney Briley is a great man. Inmate Clark McMillan claimed he was innocent, falsely accused and wrongly convicted… After maintaining his innocence for 22 years, Clark was released after DNA evidence cleared him of raping a 16 year old in 1980. Clark was convicted after the victim identified him in a police line up… The best way to destroy a man’s credibility, ruin his name and reputation etc. is to accuse him of rape! Rape is a terrible and a horrible crime! And it is also terrible and horrible to be falsely accused and convicted of rape when you did not do it! Lord knows it is humiliating! Clark lost 22 years of his life. His criminal records are expunged and his full citizenship rights are restored. Briley represented Clark pro bono and will receive no money for his time or costs. God Bless Attorney Rob Briley of Nashville, Tennesse!
6. Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth…A Michigan federal jury returned verdicts of $75,000 in compensatory damages and $125,000 in punitive damages against a Michigan state prison guard who paid one prisoner six cigarettes to viciously pummel another. Inmate Barton Allen was beat down while sitting on a toilet at Riverside Corrections Facility in Ionia in October 2001. Fellow prisoner Deshawn Fleming admitted smashing Allen’s head – Paid for by Sergeant Dennis Baldwin. In a quintessential display of “correctional justice”, Fleming, who confessed to the assault and that he was hired by Baldwin, was administratively infracted and found guilty, while Baldwin, on the same evidence was cleared by prison officials. Prison staff then malevolently sidelined Allen’s mail from the court, to prevent him from suing prison officials. Trust me; they steal mail from prisoners all the time! When the case moved to trial phase the court appointed Larissa Hollingsworth of Grand Rapids, Michigan, a newly admitted lawyer who had never tried a case. When Larissa kicked the states butt and won, she and Allen were moved to tears by the verdict. This fledgling attorney just sat there and “tried to look like I was used to winning.” Baldwin set a new record for the cost of six cigarettes in state prison. Somebody hug and kiss Larissa! I salute and applaud her.
7. Sandy D’Alemberte! We award Mrs. D’Alemberte, a former president of Florida State University for handling the wrongful conviction of Wilton Dedge. Mr. Wilton Dedge (author’s note: Seems like Brother Joseph in Genesis and Sherman in CA were/are not the only fellas falsely accused and wrongly convicted of sex crimes. It happens everyday!) was convicted of rape in 1982 and sentenced to 30 years in the penitentiary. After the victim described her attacker to police as 6’ and 160 lbs, she picked the 5’5” and 125 lb Dedge out of a photo array. The jury disbelieved six alibi witnesses! Dedge had his wrongful conviction reversed in 1983 and was wrongly convicted again in 1984 and given a life sentence in Florida State Prison. DNA conclusively exonerated him. Sandy D’Alemberte handled his suit pro bono acting as special counsel to the Miami office of Hunton & Williams, a large law firm with offices around the world. Hunton & Williams also provided their serves to Wilton pro bono… to the tune of a $2 million dollar award! Somebody shake hands with all the partners in Hunton & Williams and hug that brilliant woman Sandy D’Alemberte. I salute them!!
8. Big Kanye West! Y’all gotta excuse the semi-French but this brother has balls! He called out the U. S. President! Whether one agrees or disagrees with Kanye’s “We all know that George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.” In this age of sold out and gutless (heartless, etc.) superstars (i.e. Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant) it’s refreshing to see a young, brilliant musician and performer willing to say what he means; and mean what he says! I salute, applaud and high five Mr. Kanye West!! Go Kanye!
9. Jonny Silberman is awarded our King/Mandela achievement award because he is a great young man with a promising future. This is a Caucasian tenth grader who is a native of South Africa. He played soccer in South Africa and now brings his zeal and talent to the Weber School in Dunwoody, GA near Atlanta. Jonny is challenged with diverse ways of thinking to contribute thoughts and ideas, to develop his intellect, values and a responsibility for the world around him. Jonny studies history, humanities, English, Bible, Hebrew and Fine Arts. The Weber School is a Jewish School named for Doris and Alex Weber. Jonny qualifies for a nomination for the $500.00 Manning Stipend. We will follow the activities and success of Jonny Silberman. I salute, congratulate, applaud and award Jonny Silberman with a King/Mandela Achievement Award.
It should be noted that critics (i.e. CCPOA, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity) of these new awards claimed I was only giving them for book sales. Reportedly, Rush stated “This prison convict forces you to buy 50 copies of his “Blue-Eyed Blonde” book and donate em to Oprah’s Angel Network and then he’ll give you the King/Mandela Award.” Well, I unashamedly hope, pray and even suggest that awardees who are adult and can afford it will go to www.cafepress.com/manning and order 50 copies or more of “Blue-Eyed Blonde and donate them to Oprah, a church, school, YMCA or public library! That’s a great thing because books change lives! But let there be no mistake: No awardees has been asked by anyone to buy “Blue-Eyed Blonde”. And buying my books is not a prerequisite for getting an award. Furthermore, kids like Jonny Silberman who is only 15 cannot be expected to buy 50 books!!
Drum Roll Please… Louder… Louder! The 10th and final awardee of our brand new King/Mandela Achievement Award for January 2006 is Cadet Pierce! Manners, pride, character, honor, scholarship, discipline and personal integrity are all words which can be associated with our tenth winner – Cadet Pierce. Pierce attends Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, GA. Riverside is one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most prestigious military academies. Kids (all male) in grades 7-12 get a premiere, first class education nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This is an award winning (add the King/Mandela Achievement Award) JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) program! Go Cadet Pierce! We honor, we salute, we applaud and award you…On behalf of every member of NAPS, every volunteer, all the college frats, sororities, pastors, the two million prisoners, those in juveniles, jails, youth centers, the family and friends of prisoners, etc. on behalf of Critical Resistance, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Campaign, Amnesty International, the Red Cross, The Innocence Project (NY), Innocent (Muskegon), Innocence International (Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter0 and especially on behalf of all wrongly convicted citizens, I, Sherman D. Manning do hereby present the King/Mandela Achievement Award to the above named individuals. If they would like more personal data (i.e. addresses and telephone numbers, etc.) about them posted on this site, I authorize them to post it! For more information on Palmer and Dodge or Daniel Laplante, see Prison Legal News (July 2005). For more on Attorney Rob Briley and Clark McMillan, see the Tennessean and the Associated Press. For more on Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth, Sandy D’Alemberte or Hunton & Williams, see the NACDL Website or Justice Denied Magazine. For more on Kanye West, turn on your radio or go the record store! For more on Jonny Silberman, visit www.weberschool.org. for more on Cadet Pierce, go to www.cadet.com. Be sure to see the posting “NAPS said” on this (or http://Swisswishfoundation.blogspot.com) site for 12/30/2005!! I am personally guaranteeing that this posting (and every posting of the King/Mandela Achievement Awards) will be sent to former President Nelson Mandela for him to see! I’ve also asked Doug out at Innocent in Muskegon to get this to Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and others. We need you to download this posting and put our winners on your blogs, web sites and bulletins. Word of mouth is powerful. I wanna ask George Soros, Peter B. Lewis, Jerry Keenan, Jeff Bezos, Bruce Springsteen, Ralph White, David Perez, Chris Gardner, Earl Graves and Montel Williams to please help us! If you read this full posting today, go to the web site of Montel Williams, AirAmerica Radio and to Oprah’s website or blogs and put this posting on those sites. I thank you and I salute every winner of this award. I wait to hear from (Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and you must (also) snail mail me your bio and photo ASAP…) all of the winners. Congratulations and keep up the great work…Sherman D. Manning.
Under no circumstances shall I reveal my identity in this missive. America ought to be ashamed! How dare you read the posting here by Peter Andrist and not send a check to Sherman Manning? In America, I don’t comprehend the greed, selfishness and apathy. I’m sending $100.00 because it’s more than I can afford. But if I were Martha Stewart, Evander Holyfield, Earl Graves, Robert Johnson, some of these rich athletes etc., I’d pay for the man’s damned appeal. “What if he is guilty? What if it’s a con?” Forgive me but if I’m Oprah rich with a billion bucks, Kobe Bryant or Martha Stewart rich I’d pay a private eye five or ten thousand dollars just to look at Sherman’s case to tell me if he is wrongly convicted! Pay a polygraph expert to tell me plainly is this man innocent or is he guilty! It could be determined for less than 10 grand if Sherman is innocent! If I were Oprah (and I know she helps a lot of people – she’s just my example here), Hugh Heffner, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, etc. I would be willing to pay 10 grand to find out if Sherman is a bull shitter and criminal or if he really is innocent! If the P.I. said he’s guilty, I’d expose him! If a P.I. said “We have a not guilty man sitting in prison,” then I’d write a $100 thousand check and tell Tom Mesereau or Gerry Spence, “I want you to get Sherman Manning out of prison.” I couldn’t let him stay in prison. I guess that’s why I’ll never be rich… but if each of us little people send the guy fifty, a hundred or whatever we can; eventually justice shall roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. I think I’ll email my posting to Oprah. Think she’ll read it?
We introduce our newsletter. This is the only month we will provide the newsletter on our blog. Those clubs, groups, lawyers, schools, etc., wishing to continue receiving this, must send a note requesting it… Matthew Smith, Michael Marcum, Raphael Sperry, Tucker Brown (Shawnee High School), Chris and Don Ball (Georgetown Univ.)…let us hear from you. We will profile and feature law, journalism and social studies students, law professors, student activists and high school seniors also. Be sure to e-mail this newsletter to all of your friends and family.
Now read “The Greatest Lawyers” dedicated to Attorney Barry Scheck, Cardoza Law School and David Boies.
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N A P S
National Association for Public Safety
Newsletter – February 2006
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The Greatest Lawyers
By: Sherman D. Manning
http://ShermanManning.Blogspot.com
I was thinking about Bishop T.D. Jakes, Rick Warren, Eddie Long and Joel Olsteen the other day. I was wondering if they would be willing to help Barry Scheck do what he does. I thought about Warrick Dunn, Peyton Manning, Oprah, George Soros and Montel Williams. “How could I get them to help Barry?” I thought…I’m writing this international newsletter because I can’t force Oprah, Jakes or anyone else to help Barry Scheck. But rather than curse the darkness, I’ll Light a Candle. I’ve decided to (concisely) tell America and the world what lawyers mean to me…If you ask Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Rolando Cruz, Christopher Ochoa, Dewayne McKinney, Javier Francisco Ovando, Peter Rose or President Nelson Mandela how important a lawyer is; they will tell you. Douglas Tsapkes (President of Innocent) can also attest to the fact that a lawyer is extremely important.
Recently I honored and saluted the Hunton & Williams Law Offices, Sandy D’Alemberte, Palmer & Dodge Law Offices (Lapp, Olson, Goldstein, Bennet), Attorney Rob Briley, Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth and Gerry Spence for their legal brilliance. I also believe we should consider using one of our newsletters each month to profile great trial, civil, criminal and appellate lawyers who have gone beyond the call of duty to obtain justice for their clients… The late, great trial lawyer of the century, Johnnie L. Cochran used to say, “You may be able to guarantee that you will never commit a crime, but you can not guarantee that you will never be charged with or accused of a crime… If you or your father, sister, mother or brother are ever arrested for a crime which you did not commit; I assure you, you’ll want an advocate (lawyer) willing to vigorously, aggressively and successfully fight for your rights.” Mr. Cochran (author of “A Lawyer’s Life”) was awesome. He was one of The Greatest Lawyers.
Kobe Bryant says he was innocent. But Kobe would be in prison convicted of rape today were it not for The Greatest Lawyers. It may seem unimportant today but if one lives long enough, one will (at some point) hear it said or say, “You need a lawyer.”
Some of them are no good. Some of them dump their clients. Some of them are greedy and cold. But then, here comes the Morris Dees, Willie Garys and the Barry Tarlows.
Ask Michael Jackson about lawyers… One of the most brilliant, calculating and artistic lawyers in America is Michael’s lawyer, Tom Mesereau. I am especially moved by the fact that Tom Mesereau also does tons of pro bono work and he founded a poor people’s legal clinic at F.A.M.E. Church in Los Angles.
Leon Friedman? Ask Rubin “Hurricane” Carter who Leon is. He’ll tell you it’s one of his angels… Regardless of the fact that most media like to scandalize lawyers and berate them, I love lawyers.
In my book “Creating Monsters” I talk about how I know Tom Mesereau personally. There is also a lot about him in “From the Palace to the Prison”. I can’t get pastors or media persons to help Barry Scheck. What I can do is use my power. I can allow the 2000 plus persons who come to my blogs daily to know what I think. I think every person ought to go to the web and Google Barry Scheck (c/o Innocent Project/Cardozo Law School, 55 5th Ave. #1701, New York, NY 10003) and find out what you can do to help him. Mr. Scheck specializes in freeing wrongly convicted people from prison. And my brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” clearly explains how/why we must get wrongly convicted people out of prisons…
So (to me) lawyers like Edwin Spencer Matthews, Jr., Ray Hasu, Attorneys Leonard Schroeter, Michael Ratner, Marjorie Cohn, Jill R. Shellow-Lavine, Lorenzo Williams and Paul McMahon are crucial. They are critical… They are surgeons who operate in courtrooms for justice. I don’t care what anyone says - give me Lynn Stewart (even though she was wrongly convicted for representing an unpopular client) Ramsey Clark, John Turley, Tony Serra, Heidi Boghosian, Marty Lederman, Gita Gutierrez or Gerald Uelmen and we will do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. Men like Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Carter, Dewayne McKinney, Kevin Waters, Marcus Dixon…even former President Nelson Mandela would not be where he is (where they are) without lawyers. The Greatest Lawyers. (Editors note: tons of you received this newsletter gratis…Pay it Forward…Award and reward every person mentioned in this newsletter by googling them and e-mailing it to them. So what if they already have it. We are asking you to e-mail this newsletter to at least five people…today.) Sherman D. Manning.
About the editor: Sherman Manning (Sherman Manning, J98796, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640) is a wrongly convicted author. Sherman is an internationally acclaimed scribe, pied piper of Gen X authors, President of NAPS, entrepreneur, motivator, expert in the psychology of change, Joseph Scholar and Founder of the Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Awards. His brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” (www.cafepress.com/manning) is enjoying huge success. For more on NAPS, books, Barry Scheck, etc. go to http://ShermanManning.Blogspot.com, http://Lawfirmtv.Blogspot.com, http://Dashcash.Blogspot.com. Be sure to read the 12/30/2005 postings by Peter Andrist, NAPS and Sherman Manning. Please e-mail Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and let us know you received this newsletter…Thank you.
Special Note: If you have enjoyed this newsletter and would like to continue receiving it gratis, you must snail mail Sherman Manning and simply say “Continue sending me the newsletter.” No un-requested newsletters will be automatically mailed. If you know of any lawyer who has done anything spectacular (i.e. winning a civil, corporate or criminal trial, doing pro bono work, freeing the wrongly accused, etc.) let us know. If you know of any promising law student, journalism or computer student, let us know. This newsletter will be published twice per month. Thanks to stealth support (read “Blue-Eyed Blonde”) from physicians, lawyers and entrepreneurs this newsletter is free. All we ask for are two things: A. Let us know you want to continue receiving it. B. Share it by e-mailing it to at least 5 people today! We want every law school, frat, club, sorority, activist, bar association and civic group to receive at least one copy. So e-mail your civic groups, churches, clubs, groups, etc. a copy today.
Also, this author and NAPS would like to thank our word processor (pwprocessing@aol.com) Patricia Lee, our stealth anonymous supporters and the following: Interview Magazine, OK Magazine, Stuff Magazine, Ebony Magazine, Earl Graves, Bev Smith, Merrill Lynch (www.ML.com) SpeedoUsa, George Deeb, Adam Curry, Facebook.com, Myspace.com, Michael Lefenfeld, Caleb Sima, Chris Austad, Sean Glass (www.higherone.com), Paul Graves (Positivesdating.com), The Trevor Foundation, Quest Youth Group, Attorney Willie Gary, Gerry Spence, Southern Poverty Law Center, NACDL, CACJ, Dr. Arnold Zweig, M.D., F.A.C.S. (www.zweigcenter.com), Dr. Amy M. Simon, M.D., Susan Sarondon, Attorney Carl Douglas, Matt Damon, Dr. Pradeep Sinha, M.D. (facialaesticsurgery.com), Felix Dennis and others… If you would like to have your name added, simply go to www.cafepress.com/manning, order ten (or more) copies of “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and donate them to a high school, library, juvenile, law school, YMCA, prison or Innocence Project. E-mail Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and let us know you’ve placed your order.
Please join our International Prayer Vigil on February 26, 2006. Dr. Rubin
“Hurricane” Carter, President Nelson Mandela and many others have been notified (see prayer vigil on http://Shermanmanning.Blogspot.com for prayer vigil info). Final reminder: You will not receive this newsletter in two weeks or less, unless you send a traditional missive (snail mail…S. D. Manning, J98796, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640) to Sherman Manning today. No one will call or solicit you. Pay it Forward! Let us hear from you!
Cadet Pierce (www.cadet.com) and Jonny Silberman (The Weber School) we salute you!
N A P S
National Association for Public Safety
Newsletter - March, 2006
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American Idol Fans
By: Sherman D. Manning
http://ShermanManning.Blogspot.com
Dedicated to Joey Cheek & Jonathan Farrar
If you are over forty-five years of age, don’t read this posting! Only teens seventeen – forty-five years - should peruse this missive! I’m writing this posting for Maroon 5, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, System of a Down, Nine-Inch Nails, Eminem and Korn Fans. If you are not a seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old…through forty-five years old, please get off our line. This ain’t for you! I have a lot of stuff for forty-five and older on my blogs, but not this one. Leave!
Now that it’s you (seventeen – forty-five year olds especially you youngsters) and me; let’s get down. I gots some coins for y’all, some gossip, some questions and a few suggestions! All y’all help pray 4 Greg Hogan (accomplished cellist, president of his sophomore class at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA) and his dad. I hope Kathleen Haselton (freshman at Lehigh and a very smart girl) will see this posting and I.M. it to Greg. We pray 4 Kip Wallen (Lehigh’s student senate president) and Rachel Charlesworth…Shout out to Mike Finkel and Justin Fraga! Both are Intel experts in Sacto, CA!
Michael Greer is a thirty-four-year old law office receptionist and chairs the Seattle office of Crystal Meth Anonymous. Crystal meth is glamorized to us and pushed on our school and college campuses every day. Lots of cool people are trying crystal meth! Lots of cool people are doing crystal meth. But crystal meth ain’t cool. Dude, don’t take my suggestion. Just look at someone who is zoned out on crystal meth. Look at how tore back and fried out they are and then decide what u wanna do!
Props go out to David Barnitz (Sacto) and Dr. Garrick Hong! There is a tiny town in Arkansas called Pleasant Plains… I’m speaking of the Midland school district. Midland is seventy miles north of Little Rock and home to two schools… Because Midland would end the year with a $400,000 shortfall, Comm. T. Kenneth James planned to annex Midland to another district. Net result: Midland High School was gonna close! A Methodist Pastor (Roger Hook) called a meeting and said, “Why don’t we the people SOS (Save Our School)?” What happened thereafter is straight out of a Frank Capra movie: In the last month, people raffled off guns, quilts, trucks, cars, horses, power tools, artwork, furniture, cinnamon buns and baseball cards…
But I wanna tell y’all about Lea Ramsey’s son… Jonathan Farrar, a young N.Y. Yankees fan had saved $1,000 so he could attend a ballgame in the Bronx. Jonathan gave up the money to help save his school. Yankees owner, George Steinbrenner heard about the boy’s charity and invited him to New York for a game and a tour of Yankee Stadium. “It takes quite a man to give up his personal dream for a higher purpose,” Steinbrenner wrote to Jonathan. Ipso facto, they saved the school! Y’all √ and C if Jonathan is a Myspacer… If he is, go to his site and tell him I said much love and respect. Also tell him I have a $100.00 check with his name on it to spend any way he wants! Do tell!
Shouts to Timothy Goebel, Johnny Weir, Maxim Marinin and Eugeni Plushenko (Hello Russia!)… Sistas call him Sweet Cheeks, the nicest cheeks on ice and a lot of other stuff. I don’t know about sweetness or niceness, but I do know the fastest cheeks on ice belong to Joey Cheek! And Like Jonathan, giving to others is Cheek’s gold standard. Joey is the speed skater/geek/bookworm/nerd who just won gold in long-track speed skating 500 meters. Joey, twenty-six, announced he will donate the $25,000, which comes with the medal to a program to help the thousands of Sudanese children who have been turned into refugees by warlords. Joey is following in the footsteps of his idol, Johann Olav Koss. After Koss’ triple gold medals in the 1994 Olympics, the Norwegian donated prize money to a humanitarian organization… “The things he has done have been an absolute inspiration to me. He has lived his life in a manner that I hope to live my life,” Joey said. Joey said, “For me, the Olympics have been the greatest blessing. I always felt that if I ever did something big like this, I wanted to be prepared to give something back.”
Press Pause… Kobe Bryant? He’s one of my favorite basketball players. Kobe is an absolutely gifted player! I love watching Kobe shoot hoops. I could watch him play all day long. And Kobe seems to me to be a rootless, self-obsessed super athlete without the slightest pretense of any real connection to the community! After watching Kobe claim to be falsely accused of a sex crime and knowing that he knows what happens to thousands of falsely accused poor defendants, etc., etc., and to get off (or to be exonerated) by brilliant lawyers and not lift a finger to help others in his predicament is wrong. Kobe should have written a check to Barry Scheck and The Innocence Project in New York when he settled his case! Kobe should help Doug Tjapkes and Innocent in Muskegon, Michigan and Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter at Innocence International. Kobe and many others are spoiled, overgrown, undereducated, brain dead studs…
Joey Cheek said, “I thought I might actually have a shot at doing something great at the Olympics and if I did, I wanted to make it meaningful.” Attempting to put it all in perspective, Joey says what he does is great fun and he loves it. It’s a great job; he’s seen the entire world and met amazing friends. Then he adds, “Honestly, it’s a pretty ridiculous thing. I mean, I skate around on ice in tights, right?” Joey was skating as much for those African children as himself. “I think on some level, it is empowering to think of somebody other than yourself,” Joey said. Kobe? Are you reading? Hello, Bro? Dude… Joey’s mom, Chris said, “He’s always been willing to take a stand and speak up for what’s right. If there was kid being picked on, he would be nice to that kid.” She also said, “He was extremely geeky; if he hadn’t had skating, he wouldn’t have been a well-rounded person.” She added that she gave Joey a copy of Jonathan Livingston Seagull when he was in the sixth grade in Greensboro, NC and he still reads it before races. “It’s all about the journey, working hard and taking the risk,” she said. For ya’ll ladies, I must report that Joey has a girlfriend… George Washington University business major, Tanya Harding… No - Nancy Kerrigan is his… I’m only kidding… Eleanor Collins is his lady. Addressing his quirks, she said the only thing Cheeks wears beneath his racing skin suit is Bjorn Borg underwear, sold only in Europe. Eleanor said she got a bit tired of seeing him rotating the same two pairs. “In the last year, Joey ripped a hole in both pairs, so I got him new ones when I was over in Sweden and gave them to him for Christmas.” They’ll be good for Joey’s cheeks! Next year, Joey plans to attend Yale, Stanford, North Carolina, Georgetown or Duke University. I vote for Yale or Georgetown… I wanna wish Joey Cheek all the best that life has to offer. Joey (if you’re reading this) you moved, motivated, touched, lifted and inspired me. Joey, they call me the 50 Cent or Pied Piper of uncut scribes… I pull no punches and I don’t spend a second trying to be politically correct. I’m in a deadly situation in which I may not live long. So I must be authentic, candid and raw with my writing. With that spiel in mind, Joey, just keep on being you. If you remain kind, generous, altruistic and focused, you’ll enjoy a blessed, happy and a prosperous life. I salute you!
For the rest of y’all youngstas, I need participation. I want you to please use every internet trick you know to share this posting with others. Our main aim is to get this posting to young people. We want every high school senior, college student, nerd, geek, freak, jock, etc., etc., to see this posting. And I want you to be certain to check out the money making opportunities, contests and prizes, etc. on this site (and on http://Dashcash.blogspot.com, Saveshastagroene.blogspot.com and Swisswishfoundation.blogspot.com) and pay it forward. Also the brand new book, which is the talk of the town (y’all know this!) is “Blue-Eyed Blonde”. If you have not gotten it yet??? Wow! www.Cafepress.com/manning...
Ryan Knapick, Luke Sears (Oakland? San Diego) and Wes Kovarik?... Shout out to snowboard pioneer Jake Burton Carpenter! What up Apolo Anton Ohno? I’m still down with you, Apolo! Also snowboarder Shaun White, gold winner in the half pipe contest! Shaun was born with a heart defect that required postnatal surgery. His mom (Cathy) and dad (Roger) were short on money but long on hope. They took good care of Shaun, Kari and Jesse. Shaun became a phenomenon on a skateboard. At fifteen, he was positioned to be the next Tony Hawk, but he pursued Olympic dreams at the 2002 Winter Games… Family took out a loan on their house, slept outside in their van to save on hotels… Shaun is a multimillionaire now at only nineteen, owns three homes and still lives in one in Carlsbad, California! Hooray to Shaun! (Somebody buy “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and send it to him. I’m already sending Joey a copy. Ya’ll help!!) I like that little flying tomato! Shouts to Jay Hakkinen (Kasilof, Alaska), Anthony Fedorov and Neal Carlson. If there are any film producers perusing this posting, go to www.joeycheek.com and see Joey’s cheeks! I mean – not Joey’s cheeks but see Joey Cheek! And perhaps network with him on putting together a film about his road to the Olympics. It is a road less traveled, especially by a person of Cheeks’ compassion and strong principles. Let’s get that film made!
If you have not heard of teenink.com go check em out! Tell em I mentioned them. www.sweet16mag.com, www.americancheerleader.com, www.skippingstones.org, www.collegebound.net, etc., etc. Tell Robyn Tellefsen, Arun Narayan Toke, Sheila Noone, Allison Ruffing, etc., “You’ll never believe where I saw your name…” Have y’all read “Be More Chill” by Ned Vizzini? It’s cool. Go to Ned’s website and tell em I said, what up? Perhaps you can also log on to Nine-Inch Nails website and I.M. then this posting. And I say to all the fells in Nine-Inch Nails that A. Y’all are prominently featured in “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and B. I salute you all for what you did for the Innocence Projects! I shout out to you! Thank you!
I really hope that you young people who are on my blog will be more chill. I gotta say that there is absolutely nothing chill or cool about juvenile, jail or prison. Y’all hear me now. I’m comin with what is real. You don’t want to come here. Prisons, juveniles and jails are for losers. Period! They are for folks whom society has decided it’s not cool to hang out with. Quite frankly, if you desire to be raped, sodomized, beat and battered then by all means come on in. We’ll leave the light on for you. It’s a horrible place. It’s a vicious and malicious place. It is a sadistic place filled with failed humans… Read the 12/30/2005 positing on this site by Peter Andrist… I encourage you to live your life! It would be fabulous to find me some Lesra Martins (see the Denzel Washington DVD “Hurricane”) out there… I love smart, thinking, politically motivated students. I would welcome your support and the support of your friends, etc., but in the spirit of Joey Cheek, I wanna run this race (write this posting) for somebody other than me. I write this post in the spirit of little Mattie (Heartsongs by Mattie Stephanik) who was on Oprah… Oprah Winfrey told Mattie, “I’ll give you anything you want for Christmas. Just tell me what you want.” Mattie said, “Just pray for me for Christmas, Mrs. Winfrey.”
Okay, I confess… The Pied Piper, the 50 Cent of incarcerated scribes (at this moment) is fighting tears… I’m in prison. I’m a man… I’m crying… Mattie is in heaven now, but his legacy, his spirit, his effect and impact lives on. Hallelujah! That’s why Joey moved and inspired me. That’s what I like about Jonathan. They give and they give. And long after Joey is gone, his gift to those African kids will continue to impact lives…
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been dead for thirty-seven years now and his speeches still inspires, transform and motivate. That’s why I write! This I believe is true… It must become truth. Maybe someday, perhaps today, somebody will be moved by my writing. It’s important to me. I must be a blessing to somebody else. I cannot sit idly by and allow my own turmoil to cause me to see through a glass darkly. I must pray for guidance and inspiration. I pray for you. I pray and hope that when I reveal the wickedness inside these walls, it will resonate with somebody and cause a turnaround. I don’t want you here. James Emslander might cheat, rape, sodomize or murder you if you come here. And Mike Bunnell, Lt. Cherry and/or Mrs. Duclos may cover for him. Perhaps Lt. Cherry is sexually involved with James… I don’t know! Maybe the rumor about Emslander and Duclos being sex buddies is true? I don’t know… What I do know is when you are an activist, writer and a political prisoner… Mike Bunnell and others in C.D.C. will harass, ad-seg, transfer and harm you. They will invent reasons to transfer you. They will harass you and some of them will have you beat up, set up and killed.
The most vicious people I have ever encountered, the deadliest group of folks whom I know are in prisons. And they are here eight hours per day. I speak of the guards. I speak of administrators. There is a culture of corruption amongst prison staffs. See “From the Palace to the Prison” (www.Cafepress.com/palace2prison) and see our free newsletter “Surgeons for Justice”. Y’all gotta stay out of here. I don’t want confused, wicked and manipulative people like C.O. Duclos to get a hold of you. I don’t want duplicitous, sinister and violent people like Lt. Cherry to get a hold of you… And if they are reading this posting… I’ll remind them I am (indeed) exercising my right to free speech and artistic expression. I also remind Cherry, Bunnell, Duclos, the vicious staff at Pleasant Valley who are anxiously awaiting my arrival (I’ll be assaulted after I transfer. This transfer was/is orchestrated by Cherry/Duclos and Bunnell to cover for (allegedly) the relationships between Duclos/Emslander/Cherry and… rape. Set up… etc.) at Pleasant Valley and Kern Valley. Gerry Spence will get this posting so will Michael Ratner, David Cole, Mike Vitiello, Hunton & Williams, etc. and some of those reading will call 916-323-6001 and ask Rod Hickman, “Is Sherman Manning, J98796 alive? Where is he? Why?” So I don’t want you young people to ever come to prison. Do whatever it takes to stay on the streets. I’m absolutely serious. I know it’s tough for some of you all, but you gotta fight whatever forces are working to keep you down. If it’s ignorance, gangs, poverty or whatever, there is a way out! There is always a way out. It ain’t always easy! But it’s possible. No matter how corny it may sound, you gotta believe in you! Find a way to believe in yourself!
That crank, speed, crack and that other stuff! Listen- the best I can think to tell you is an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. I never got addicted to crack because I never tried crack. I scared myself into not trying it. I saw it fell too many powerful men and women. I saw the detriment and devastation to brains and bodies. So I never gave it a try. Some crap – like drugs, etc., you just gotta never try. And if you have already made that mistake and you’re in trouble, holler, “Help me! Help me!” You better get like that sista in St. Matthew 15:25 and holla help me. Call your brothers, mothers, pastors, teachers, counselors, hotlines or whoever you can to help you get off of drugs! If you stay on drugs, they will lead to the cemetery or the penitentiary. And quite frankly, I’m tired of seeing tears fall from the eyes of the weeping mommas because their kid is dead! Not just White kids! Black, White, medium dark and light kids are dying! Rachel Scott? Isaiah Shoals? Thirteen others at Columbine High School. Pick up the L.A. Times, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, etc. And turn to the obituary section and you’ll see that death is not a discriminator. Death visits all races, creeds, ages and communities. And every time I read about another youngster cut down by a bullet, I weep!
What the hell’s going on? Marvin Gaye talked about “What’s going on?” I’m sick of the foolishness and hypocrisy. Tupac died for what? Why did Biggie Smalls die? Who murdered these people and why? Somebody please explain the darn beefs to me. Grown men who are multi-talented; made it out of the hood and are rich!! Why do we, the rich, need to shoot one another? That’s why I’m writing to y’all youngsters… We need your help! I’m serious! We need you! It takes a village to raise a child? It also takes a village to destroy a child! And our village has destroyed thousands of our children. And we are lost in America! Y’all hear me today! Young people… My dear, dear young men and young women, please help us…
In Canada, Craig Kielburger had to step up and found Free the Children when he was only thirteen years of age. In America, I tell you, our adults are out of touch with reality, out of touch with teens and out of touch with God! We have leaders on the highest level of our government claiming they talk to God. Well perhaps, but I’m curious as to whether God talks back to them. And if He does, “My sheep know my voice and a stranger they will not follow,” Jesus said that. Do you believe God told us to go to Iraq? Do you believe God was misled into believing there were weapons of mass destruction? What about Enron, Halliburton, No Bid Contracts, Spying, etc? I want Brother George to read Genesis Chapter 22. He should read all of 22 but focus on verses 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14… Read it. Genesis 22. Now If Abraham didn’t know how to hear God, he would have killed his own son! I wonder how many brothers are we killing (with the death penalty, with our wars, with guns and knives on the streets, etc., etc.) that don’t need to be killed. Shut up and listen! Some times there is an updated memo from the C.E.O. of the universe and we the parents, we the leaders, we the politicians or we the preachers are operating on old orders. Generation Y, we need you! The Bible says a child shall lead the world. I’m calling on you. I’m not ashamed to yell “help me.” And I know that this ain’t politically correct, but I’m operating with the knowledge that half the Holy Writ was written by murderers, convicts and I know what Joseph was doing time in prison for… I am reversing the script. I call out to you to help us!
We (adults) are absolutely L-o-s-t! We are gullible, vulnerable and… we allow politicians to walk north and talk west, but still we elect them. Whatever the hell they do, we forget a day later and re-elect them. But we keep saying you are the problem. Y’all youngstas ain’t ordering any bombs in Iraq! You all are not calling the shots on the economy. The jails and prison are not run by you! We did this. And so on behalf of adults too arrogant, too egotistical and stubborn to ask you, I ask; help. Young America? Will y’all please heed this call? We need you. We need Evan Lysacek’s generation! I’m not saying the baby boomers totally failed. I’m not saying my (Gen X) generation failed totally! But if this message, this beacon call to arms, this plea I’m making is gonna be heard and seen, it will take the Google, the Friendster, the Facebook and Myspace generation to tell it. I ask you in high school, you in college, you at home, you at the cybercafé, etc. to I.M. T.M., post, email and podcast this posting in every school, in every city, in every church, in every fraternity and dorm. “Blue-Eyed Blonde” made a believer out of me! Ya’ll showed me the potency of young folks. Matt Pitzarella, Joshua Holland, Campus Progress, Mani Mostofi, Jared Malsin, Jenny Parker, YP4, PushAmerica, Andrew Garib, Quinn Wilhelmi, I need you! Help! Help us! It may not even be our time to be blessed. It might not be our season yet. I know this is improper protocol. But I’m tired of waiting on the civil rights to correct the civil wrongs. I’m not acting civilized, I know. I’m acting like that crazy Canaanite woman who came to get a blessing for her child. That woman said my daughter is severely demon possessed. I say to you my daughter needs you. I’m not coming for me young folk, but I come for my children. I come for the 5, 10, 15, 20 year olds who need you. Pardon me but help me. Have mercy! And I also come like the brotha in Matthew 17 came… He did not come for himself but he came for his son… “So I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.” Did y’all hear that (St. Matthew 17:16)?
I’m telling you students at the Weber School, students at Darlington School (in Rome, GA), Riverside Military Academy, Spelman, Clark, Yale, Harvard, etc., etc. I brought “Creating Monsters” to your disciples (to your leaders, governors, senators, mayors, etc.) but they could not cure! I showed them Lionel Tate! I explained that when you lock up twelve year old kids and punish them via sensory deprivation, when you deprive them of girls, books, camaraderie, etc., it creates little monsters! I explained the gangs, guns, drugs and violence. I told your disciples (your president… I’m serious… I told Bush in “Creating Monsters”) that locking them up and throwing away the key would not work. I asked him to look at wrongful convictions, the death penalty, C.Y.A., juvenile delinquency, high school drop outs, teen suicide and homicide, the alienation of gay youth, studs, jocks and nerds. And Bush could not cure them. “Lord have mercy” through our young people. Anthony Fedorov? Luke Sears? Luke Wood? Christopher Austad? Kyle Love? In verse 17… The last five words… that’s what I need y’all to say… “Bring him here to me!” If, If… If a young Sergey Brin, Parker Anderson, Marcus Zuckerberg, Chris Dewolfe, Tom Anderson and Dan Cohen… If Marcus Pincus or Blake Ross would say, Sherman, “Bring him (them) to me (us)!”… Jail cells and juvenile would open and wrongly convicted folks would be freed… I wish our president, congress, etc., would have the humility to ask the question the disciples asked in verse 19. “Why?” We need to collectively ask you young people why have we not reached you? See, I wanna talk to you. I am not too big and bad to ask my little brothers and sisters. I want to talk with Cakalak Thunder, Chris Schwartz (University of Northern Iowa), Paul Pryse, Josh Brooks, Danielle Nodurft and ask why couldn’t we cast out the demons. I want to talk to eighteen year old mayor Michael Sessions in Michigan.
I’m not interested in Pat Robertson. He suggests assassinations!! I don’t want to hear anymore from Mr. Limbaugh and I’m not in a Rush to hear from Sean Hannity. But to you the youth: West Kovarik, Mike Ciompi, Derrick Flowers, Clay Aiken, Tim Goebels, Johnny Weir, Joey Cheek, Ryan Dwyer, Marc Cheb Sun (Editor of Respect), Alan Ritchson, Danny Pinnauro, Peter Grammatas, I say Help me! I call Garrett, Anthony Rapp, Fernando “Fernie” Rodriguez, Jr., Pat Anderson, Ryan Oelrich, Jerry Davis, Ross Bynum, Justin Daly, Steve Cozza, you, football teams, cheerleaders, pep squads and bands and I ask you… Why could we not cast it out? How did we fail you? How come we adults didn’t see Columbine coming? Why did not the prophets, preachers, counselors, parents and elders know these two young men in Littleton, Colorado were severely demon possessed? Why did we (society) fail to prevent it? How come we fail to notice when our kids are being fondled and molested by priests? Kevin Etheridge and Keith Kingon (Alcalanes High School) I wanna know why we (adults, teachers, parents) failed to recognize something going on in Scott Dyleski? Did Scott call out to us but we didn’t hear him? Did we, in Martinez and Lafayette, do what George did in D.C.? Just as Mr. President ignored all the signs showing there were no weapons of mass destruction!!! Did we ignore Scott’s pleas for help? Inquiring minds wanna know!
Listen - there is nobody here but you (youngsters) and me. Please, please tell me where we screwed up! Tell me anonymously if you must but tell me. I wanna know how we screwed it up so freaking bad. Y’all help me! Let me be Mattie (rest in peace) for one moment. And you be Oprah! Yes – you (teens and twenty somethings) be Oprah Winfrey! And you say, “I’ll give you anything for Christmas, Sherman. What do you want for Christmas?” I don’t want an Ipod, Blackberry, C.D. or DVD. I would like (for Christmas 2006) for you to tell me why we could not cast out the demons. And in your telling me, you’ll begin to heal the nation. And we do need a healing. I’m not talking about a cosmetic or artificial healing. Not the kind made for TV but I speak of the healings which move from breast to breast and heart to heart. I love you so much… I pray that you will focus like a laser beam on succeeding against all odds. I pray you will do what it takes to succeed! I pray you will succeed where we failed, love where we hated, give where we took, stand where we sat and surpass our paralysis with pragmatic analysis. I want you to whip your generation… take this one little posting and pay it forward. Please do. I want Hugh Michael, Shaun Davis, Joey Cheek, etc., to get this posting. Pay it forward. I want computer hackers to take a day off and flood the internet with this posting. Send it to pastors, frats, politicians, state capitols, schools and universities. Ya’ll know how to do it. Go on Craigslists, Tribe.net, Myspace, Yahoo!, your place and any space and tell somebody to read this posting. Tell them we are not trying to sell them anything at all. Tell them they don’t need to write a check, etc., etc. Tell them I said to love thy neighbor as thyself. Tell them to read Joey Cheek’s story… Tell them to check out what Jonathan Farrar did. Ask them to check out what Craig did with Free the Children… I come not as James Frey came with a Thousand Little Pieces… I come with raw, uncensored, uncut, un-bought and un-bossed credibility…. I come to tell you we adults don’t have a clue. If the nation is to achieve the beloved community, it is up to you… I close with Lord, thou son of David, have mercy on me… Help me!! Sherman D. Manning…
Editors Note: Tons of you received this newsletter gratis…Pay it forward. Email this newsletter to at least ten young people today.
About the Editor: Sherman Manning (Sherman Manning, J98796, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640) is a wrongly convicted author. Sherman is an internationally acclaimed scribe, pied piper of Gen X authors, President of NAPS, entrepreneur, motivator, expert in the psychology of change, Joseph Scholar and Founder of the Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Awards. His brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” (www.cafepress.com/manning) is enjoying huge success. For more on NAPS, books, Barry Scheck, etc., go to http://ShermanManning.Blogspot.com, http://Lawfirmtv.Blogspot.com and http://Dashcash.Blogspot.com. Be sure to read the 12/30/2005 postings by Peter Andrist, NAPS and Sherman Manning. Please e-mail Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and let us know you received this newsletter…Thank you.
Special Note: Public defenders, lawyers, professors, etc. are encouraged to download this newsletter and mail a copy to their clients. Contributions from students, professors, lawyers and judges are considered for publication in this newsletter or in books, on our blogs, etc. We decided to e-mail this newsletter again. You must send a snail mail to Sherman D. Manning if you want to receive the next newsletter! Be sure to share this newsletter with your bar, student, frat and sorority associations. Be sure to post a note about this newsletter on your bulletins, blogs, vlogs and link us to your site. Pay it forward. Join our petition by going to http://LawfirmTV.Blogspot.com and signing on to say, “I’m a surgeon for justice.” Every lawyer and prisoner must read the all new “Blue-Eyed Blonde”.
Also, this author and NAPS would like to thank our stealth anonymous supporters and the following: Interview Magazine, OK Magazine, Stuff Magazine, Ebony Magazine, Earl Graves, Bev Smith, Merrill Lynch (www.ML.com) SpeedoUsa, George Deeb, Adam Curry, Facebook.com, Myspace.com, Michael Lefenfeld, Caleb Sima, Chris Austad, Sean Glass (www.higherone.com), Paul Graves (Positivesdating.com), The Trevor Foundation, Quest Youth Group, Attorney Willie Gary, Gerry Spence, Southern Poverty Law Center, NACDL, CACJ, Dr. Arnold Zweig, M.D., F.A.C.S. (www.zweigcenter.com), Dr. Amy M. Simon, M.D., Susan Sarondon, Attorney Carl Douglas, Matt Damon, Dr. Pradeep Sinha, M.D. (facialaesticsurgery.com), Felix Dennis, Attorney Dan Petrocelli, Attorney Mike Ramsey, Attorney Donald Watkins, David Mays, Raymond Scott, Dasun Allah, Randi Rhodes, Attorney John Waldron, Attorney Karl Longenbach, Elijah Wood, Michael Greer, Anthony Brooklier, Walter Dean Myers, Scott M. Pearson, Esq., Professor Stephen Gillers, Justice Magazine, Matt Dalio, Jai Breisch, Aaron Olson, Matt Miller, Hip Hop 4 Humanity, Marc Cherry, Campus Anti-war Network, Open Society Network, Gold Star Families for Peace, Jodie and Code Pink, Scott Stapponline.com, Serj Tankian, Shavo Odadjian, John Dolmayan, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, Attorney Laura Wasser, Attorney Neal Hersh, T. R. Knight, Kasey Kahne, Denny Hamlin, Jamie McMurray, Reed Sorenson, Atty. Mark Holscher, Brenner, Janus & Cook and others… If you would like to have your name added, simply go to www.cafepress.com/manning, order ten (or more) copies of “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and donate them to a high school, library, juvenile, law school, YMCA, prison or Innocence Project. E-mail Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and let us know you’ve placed your order.
NAPS would like to salute (again) Joey Cheek, Evan Lysacek, Matt Savoie, Stephane Lambiel (y’all know Sabine is Swiss!), Johnny Weir, Shaun White… We salute Michelle Kwan!! Thanks to Gap, Jet Set Sports, Nike and Roots… If you are a high school junior or senior and would like to contribute to this newsletter, let us know. If you know of a Joey Cheek type athlete in your high school or college you want us to profile, let us know. If you would like to contribute to our blogs, web designs, etc., let us know. Win, earn and get stipends, tuitions and competition now by participating in the contests inside the book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and by going on to http://Dashcash.blogspot.com... If you are a Myspacer, be sure to post a bulletin about this newsletter. This was supposed to be a posting but NAPS student volunteers insisted this be a newsletter. Ipso facto, you hold the first NAPS newsletter for March 2006. Pay it Forward!!
P.S. By Jeremy Shackelford
If you’ve read the brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” you already know who I am. I read this posting and suggested it be transformed into a newsletter. Sherman forgot to thank Peter Liguori, president of Fox Entertainment, Simon, Randy, Paula and every American Idol (idolonfox.com) fan world wide!! We thank Laremy Legel (Seattle), salute Sasha Cohen, Dan Rodricks, Ryan Knapick, Woxy.com, Matt Shiv, Geoffrey Yang (Redpoint), Kirkland & Ellis, Atty. David Callahan, Yahoo Attorney Michael Callahan, Stanford Professor David Brady, Animalattraction.com, www.sonicbids.com (Panos Panay), www.garageband.com (Ali Partoui), Pump Audio and CD Baby. We love you Paula Abdul, Trevor Loflin, Greg Doggett, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Mayor Sessions, Neal Carlson, Wil Seabrooks, Marshall Mathers, Kanye, Caleb Sima, David Hankins, David Reynolds, Ronald Frances Wright and all American Youth. Be sure to get our other powerful newsletters, i.e. The Greatest Lawyers, The American Dream, Surgeons for Justice, Your Brother Will Rise Again!!
Wanted: Tinkerers, bloggers, essayists and youth activists… See all our blogs and post notes… Visit www.Joeycheek.com! My girl (Lisa Elmstead) claims he does show his cheeks (lower bottoms) on his site?? I don’t know (smile) and don’t intend to find out! I do know Joey is a fabulous human being! Joey is an altruistic philanthropist and NAPS loves Joey! Go Joey! It’s yo birthday!!
Jeremy Shackelford
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