Wisconsin Wrongful Conviction Case Is Beyond Absurd; Ralliers Call for Evidence Examination and Trial

Drawing: Kathe Kollwitz, (1867-1945). Kollwitz is a major
anti-fascist artist who lived in Germany, and never recovered
from the death of her young son killed in World War I.

Madison, Wisconsin — Wisconsin law enforcement's framing of Steven Avery, and the ludicrous false confession imposed upon the cognitively challenged juvenile Brendan Dassey suffering from a language disorder is the work of humans — Mark Wiegert, (now sheriff of the Calumet County Sheriff's Office), and Tom Fassbender (Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation investigator (ret)).

Both Avery and Dassey were framed, unjustly charged, unjustly prosecuted and unjustly convicted of murder in two different trials where two mutually exclusive tales of the murder were presented to the juries. [See WorkwithKZ for updated legal filings.]

God is not responsible. There was no rule of law. This injustice is the unlawful work of corrupt cops with a frightening capacity to prey on children. Read Michele LaVigne and Sally U. Miles' paper, Under the Hood: Brendan Dassey, Language Impairments, and Judicial Ignorance, and consider how Wiegert, Fassbender, and in a different capacity, one Judge David F. Hamilton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, can live with themselves.
 
Law enforcement is carried out by individuals for whom empirical rigor, rules of logic, social justice, civil liberties, human rights and intellectual honesty are seen as either barriers to overcome or academic pursuits irrelevant to their jobs.

Perverse will without the rule of law guided events leading to Avery and Dassey's conviction, and now the quest for freedom and exoneration.

The men and women of the Manitowoc County Sheriff Office, the Calumet County Sheriff Office, district attorneys, corrupt judges worked to convict innocent men, with no public dissent from cops.

The Wisconsin Dept of Justice led by Attorney General Joshua Kaul (D) has enlisted the help of corrupt prosecutors Mark Williams, Asst Attorney General and Special Prosecutor Thomas J. Fallon and Special Prosecutor Norman Gahn to keep Avery in prison, and to protect Wisconsin law enforcement.

"Despotism is a plan alone, without law and without rule, leading all its will and caprices," wrote  Montesquieu. Montesquieu's characterization of tyranny presages sex offender and prosecuting trial attorney Ken Kratz, Kratz' legal champion Joshua Kaul, Williams, Fallon and Gahn.

This weekend advocates for Dassey and Avery vowed to see Avery and Dassey exonerated. Only a fool would underestimate their determination.

From Kathleen Zellner, Avery's post-conviction attorney:

Steven's loyal supporters will never give up. We HEAR you and it gives us the strength and courage to fight on. #TruthWins #Makingamurderer #Onward pic.twitter.com/sCCoXyQKC0

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) June 16, 2019

The Avery and Dassey injustices would not occur everywhere in Wisconsin. Not in Dane County today, for example. [Note in 1994-95, some of the major elements and dynamics in police misconduct were used to arrest, charge and convict an innocent woman, Penny Brummer, in Dane County though in Ms. Brummer's case she drew the attention of law enforcement because she is an out lesbian, hence suspicious in the minds of late 20th century law enforcement. Brummer remains in prison.]

But it remains convenient, good for a career in law enforcement, to frame innocent people in many jurisdictions in Wisconsin.

Writes John Ferak in the book, Wrecking Crew, Demolishing The Case Against Steven Avery (Wild Blue Press):

Being a sheriff's deputy in a small town means something. It means clout. It makes you somebody. You are given enormous power to mess with somebody's civil rights and freedoms. Want to harass somebody? Want to make somebody's life miserable? Want to intimidate someone? Want to rough someone up? Most cops who operate on the dark side of the law know what they can get away with. (Page 75. Chapter Nine, Shady Department)

Stay tuned. Steven Avery, Brendan Dassey, attorney Kathleen Zellner and millions of supporters worldwide are not going anywhere.

See WorkwithKZ for updated legal filings.

Oppose Trump by Understanding Idiots

Kathe Kollwitz—Mother and Dead Son

Meaning in the 2016 elections

Updated - The suggestion that white, Trump-voting Americans represent some salt-of-the-earth demographic demanding public policy reforms is ludicrous. White Americans are dumb and dangerous, and generic fascism is forever busy.

Trump appealed to white America because he made racist and idiotic appeals and pointed to culprits, (not the actual culprits but those to whom Trump assigned blame)—corporate America and the corrupt political system that only Trump can resist, its jobs-destroying mission implemented by Ivy Leaguers; those ass-hats from Malaysian and Indian call centers who frustrate real Americans while taking away American jobs; Jewish politically correct academics trying to tell you what to do; vote fraudsters cancelling your vote; and an assorted cast of elites, others and aliens who in some way on some day are coming after you to finish the job; a process begun by first frustrating and then ultimately killing you with Islamic terrorist reprisals against the gentle volk of America, ripped from the decent culture Trump will reinstall to make America great again. It has to come from here, the gut, and Trump has it.

That the above Trump riffs are incoherent nonsense is not important because Trumpians do not think in far-reaching political terms; Trumpians do not respect logic or empirical investigation. They feel and emote in the expiation drama Trump directs as a red-blooded, real and strong leader who simultaneously is one of us. Trump is the ultimate troll for many Americans for whom trolling offers empowerment.

Assorted Trumpians abound. In Milwaukee County the Sheriff's skin color can be overlooked as long as one David Clarke wears a cowboy hat proving Clarke is our African-American who don't take no shit from the liberals and Jews, lib-tards and know-it-all fuckers with no conception of manhood.

Republicans have been making appeals with nonsense for decades but Trump's failings as a human being and psychopath do make Trump an urgent threat. Trump will burn it all down because he is gallant and strong, and real Americans are the only way of building it back up anyway.

In opposition to the Trumpian state that fake libertarians now love is an appeal to humanity. Decency still sells, and exposing the indecent anti-rational is critical.

Dumb America is now less-thinking than any time in decades precisely because progress in decency has been made over the last 60 years. Yet Americans remain reachable through reason and through art.

Art history friends have long explained the power of Eugene Higgins (1874-1968), Ben Shahn (1898-1967), and Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945). Consider why social realism and critical realism as art movements are vital to civilization. "Higgins was concerned about what was going on around him. He cared about helping people's lives by changing society," said Jackie Captain, a Wisconsin progressive who obtained a Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after doing work on Higgins and Ben Shahn with Jim Dennis.

People remain reachable through decency, art and reason. Trumpians are not metaphysical. Organize a little more, be creative in reaching the population, lead with your heart and never give up.

It's no coincidence Trump and the current band of Republipukes are targeting art, public education and civil rights.