We Are Likely To See The Video And Notes From The September 1, 2020 "Barr Star Chamber" Meeting, In Kenosha, WI: With Pictures!

It was closed to the press, but the Tangerine Oaf and Billy Barr, as well as numerous state and federal law enforcement officers were there -- deciding how to more fully militarize local police forces, in secret.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund sued, correctly pointing out that we don't cotton to star chambers here in the New World. It is more than a little bit why many of the early ship-loads of people landing at Plymouth Rock -- and in what would become Virginia -- left England and Europe: to end the peril of trials held by secret tribunals, in abstentia. For that, Old World serfs could be imprisoned for life, tortured into a confession by the rack -- or worse -- beheaded.

So some of them came to the new land, and firmly established a government that would be transparent: it would let her people know what decisions were being made -- about them. Especially as regards law enforcement.

Just look (at right) at how the dotard rolled heavy, into Kenosha, and then sealed off a south Kenosha public high school, with camo-clad militia units, and automatic weapons drawn, while he and his boys. . . met. That's not cricket -- and the able USDC Judge John D. Bates (sitting in DC) said so three weeks ago. Just this afternoon, he's entered a new order in DC, requiring essentially real time disclosure of the notes, minutes and recordings of all such meetings. Read it all, but here's the bit:

. . .ORDERED that, prior to releasing the Commission’s report and by not later than November 25, 2020, defendant shall release (1) any records (including transcripts) of the June 16, 2020 meeting between Attorney General William P. Barr and the Commission that are covered by 5 U.S.C. app. 2 § 10(b); and (2) the most recent draft of the Commission’s report covered by § 10(b). The parties agree that, given the Court’s conclusion that the Commission is subject to FACA, any “records, reports, transcripts, minutes, appendixes, working papers, drafts, studies, agenda, or other documents which were made available to or prepared for or by each advisory committee” should be available for public inspection. See 5 U.S.C. app. 2 § 10(b); Joint Status Report [ECF No. 55] at 5, 9. Records of the June 16 meeting and the most recent draft of the Commission’s report are easily available and clearly covered by the language of § 10(b) -- and defendants have not argued to the contrary. Thus, requiring the immediate release of these materials allows plaintiffs the opportunity to use the materials in promptly challenging the report upon publication without unduly burdening defendants. . . .

It is further ORDERED that, by not later than December 4, 2020, defendants shall (1) make an initial public release of other materials covered by § 10(b) [Ed Note: this doubtless includes the materials from the Septmeber 1, 20202 South Kenosha High School sessions]; (2) provide plaintiff an estimate of the volume of remaining materials that are subject to disclosure under FACA and a proposed schedule for releasing those materials; and (3) provide plaintiff a description of any categories of documents, including working group documents, that defendants possess but contend are not subject to disclosure under § 10(b). . . .

It is further ORDERED that, by not later than December 16, 2020, the parties shall submit a joint status report that details their progress towards completing document release, identifies any areas of disagreement regarding what documents are covered by § 10(b), and includes proposals for resolving any areas of dispute. . . .

If nothing else, the current occupant of 1600 Penn has left middle-school children a rich legacy of why it is our Constitutional rights and immunities should never be taken for granted. He literally has found almost every possible way to violate the ideas upon which are charters are based.

I guess that's the only silver lining I can find, in my playbook (well. . . that, and it led me to meet loads of great people in Kenosha just three days later, on a return trip -- touring by invitation, with Mr. Biden's team -- and then flipping Wisconsin back to blue, by registering tons of new voters who firmly believe in all the ideas that are. . . the best of what people mean when they say "America").

Onward, smiling all the same -- we only need endure about another 57 more days now. . . .

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