The primary purpose of this blog-site is to deal with local issues as reflected through local bloggers perspectives. However, this issue, Subterfuge and Pretext, touches upon a couple of local happenings.
1) Gundersen’s wife takes the stand, says she lied to investigators
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The wife of former Blue Lake Police Chief David Gundersen testified Wednesday in her husband’s spousal rape trial that Gundersen never had sex with her against her will and that she lied to investigators. [Full Story]
2) Feds launch massive pot sting (with video)
“Motorcades of government SUVs poured through Humboldt County communities Tuesday as hundreds of federal and state agents began their search for commercial marijuana growing operations in a multi-day investigation the FBI has dubbed ‘Operation Southern Sweep.’”
3) DA opposes motions to dismiss Douglas-Zanotti charges
Thadeus Greenson/The Times-Standard
Article Launched: 08/01/2008 01:31:08 AM PDT
“District Attorney Paul Gallegos argued evidence was properly presented to a grand jury in his response to defense motions seeking the dismissal of the involuntary manslaughter case against former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas and Lt. Tony Zanotti, stemming from the 2006 police shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore.”
4) The Way of the World: Ron Suskind on How the Bush Admin Deliberately Faked an Iraq-al-Qaeda Connection and Undermined Diplomacy, Democracy in Pakistan and Iran
5) The Way of the World: Ron Suskind on How the Bush Admin Deliberately Faked an Iraq-al-Qaeda Connection and Undermined Diplomacy, Democracy in Pakistan and Iran
6) Hamas blames ”Israeli collaborators” for launching rockets
Posted: 12-08-2008 , 13:56 GMT
Mahmoud-al-ZaharThe Hamas rulers of Gaza Strip on Tuesday lashed out at gunners who fire rockets at Israel from the Palestinian territory in violation of a seven-week-old calm, calling them Israeli collaborators. “About the rocket-firing, I think those who are responsible are those who collaborate with Israel because there is a consensus by all Palestinian groups to respect the truce,” said Dr. Mahmud Zahar, a senior leader of the Hamas movement.
On Monday, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in an empty field outside the southern Israeli city of Sderot, causing no casualty or damage.
According to AFP, Zahar told a Gaza radio station that the party which fired the rocket was “linked to Israel as they provide a pretext to exercise pressure on the Palestinian people.
As these stories develop we plan to add them here.
–Joe
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