AN INNOCENT DIES ALONE, A JUDGE EXCORIATES AN INCOMPETENT HARRINGTON, AND THE TUCKERS WADDLE AWAY FROM A TRIAL
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY APRIL 18, 2022) — Happy Patriots Day, when all public workers get a French $$ kiss from Mary Jane and Kapanski. The bedraggled Kapanskis, meanwhile, have to toil at their jobs to support the scam. Only in Massachusetts, literally.
THE PLANET is trying to get through the recent dismissal by Judge John Agostini of manslaughter charges against Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Tucker, all 900 pounds of them. In his scathing, 17-page rebuke of the D.A.’s office, the judge ruled that D.A. Andrea Harrington and A.D.A. Stephanie Illberg-Lamm botched the case. Team Harrington, Agostini ruled, presented a “hopeless” case circumstantial to the point of irrelevance and far below “the standard the Court expects from the Commonwealth.”
Stop the Presses! When defense attorneys face Wrong Way, they know their clients will enjoy two presumptions: innocence and prosecutorial incompetence. That’s not THE PLANET saying it, but what we have heard from local defense attorneys.
Another humiliation for Harrington, another embarrassment for “We The People,” and another steaming pile from our “trusted” public officials, this time with fatal consequences for a blameless, helpless child of God.
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By the pound, the Tuckers got off cheaply. Harrington charged them with manslaughter after one of their many foster children, 10-month-old Kristoff Zenopoulous, was found Feb. 18, 2020 dead in his crib, face covered in vomit. The medical examiner ruled the baby died unattended owing to complications from strep throat and pneumonia. A grand jury indicted the Tuckers on March 23, 2021.
The Tuckers were not found not guilty. They weren’t found “not anything” because they never faced trial, a crucible that could have indeed returned guilty or not-guilty verdicts. Instead, they waddled away, evidently free to adopt more kids. THE PLANET prays that whichever children end up in Tuckerland enjoy a better fate than Baby Kristoff, who landed in the Tuckers’ clutches after being born (4-17-19) with meth and coke in his system. Thanks, mom. After developing an allergy at the home of his first foster parents, DSS sentenced the baby to the Tuckerland (“Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter”).
Fat shaming? Nah. Just calling them as we see them. A helpless infant died needlessly while in the “care” of foster parents who, having ignored a followup doctor’s appointment, watched the child worsen.
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“[Tucker] became a self-initiated Wiccan, which involved casting spells, deifying nature, and embracing a loose moral structure defined by the Wiccan code that ‘if it harm none, do as you will.’ This continued into college.” — Quote from a profile published on the Marians of the Immaculate Conception website several years ago. See full story below.
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Great combination, quite the snapshot of “vibrant, dynamic, DIE” Pittsfield.
- A drug addict mom gives birth.
- Overwhelmed DSS cabbage-heads remove the child, eventually assigning him to
- Maladroit foster parents, porkers whose appearance alone indicates a grossly unhealthy lifestyle.
- After the baby dies under suspect conditions, We The People find as our lawyer a D.A. that doesn’t know a legal brief from a boob job.
God help the child.
Every adult in his sad life betrayed him, and a hurting public saw their only hope at possible justice blown by an airhead D.A. with the gravitas of a helium-filled balloon. We except Judge Agostini, a strong arbiter who ruled on the facts as presented by the D.A.
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Judge Agostini said Harrington gave the grand jury extraneous information not relevant to the case, presenting the Tuckers as “despicably negligent, irresponsible, uncaring.”
THE PLANET says if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck …
Guilty or not guilty? We shall never know.
After the judge’s ruling, Tuckers’ defense attorney Jill Sheldon said she wanted an apology from Harrington. THE PLANET agrees with Sheldon: Harrington owes an apology — not to the Tuckers but to Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski, that is, We The People.
There is nothing we can say to bring the innocent child back. We can only hope Baby Kristoff has gone to a better place. Even the oblivion of the grave would represent heaven compared to the hell a long, gray line of stupid adults inflicted upon him.
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[EDITOR’S NOTE/FULL DISCLOSURE: For the three+ years we did PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION (PVTV) at PCTV, Tucker served as our technical director. He knew his business, as most nerd techies do. His competence made it all the more obvious, at least to me and some of the crew, that subterfuge was at play when ours was the only show in PCTV’s lineup that would regularly experience all sorts of technical issues, most of them when we were on live. As was our want, we incorporated these gaffes into the show using improv and humor: mics not working, audio monitors on the blink, and a host of other little bugs. During our time working with Tucker, we found him to be unreliable and duplicitous. He was a boaster who could talk a good game but couldn’t or wouldn’t deliver at crunch time. When needed on the set, he would be absent, usually holed up in his office. In his office, he had a troubling display of action figures and articles more suitable to a 10 year old than a grown man. It emitted a disturbing vibe. When charges were brought against him in the case of Baby Kristoff, were were not surprised. All that being said, let me be clear that we did not have and still do not have anything personal against Tucker. Our impression of his professional ethic was “deficient.” As a person, we met him and would still meet him with openness and courtesy. We would at the same time not hide our feelings about him based on our first-hand observations and considering the serious charges — manslaughter — that were brought against him. He’s the one who has to live with himself. We, like everyone, have that same responsibility, and it’s one that we both love and embrace.]
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ADD 1: Here ‘s the full article from which we took the lift-out quote contained in THE PLANET‘s column:
The Long Road Home
Likely his CCD teacher had no ill intent. The man probably didn’t know any better. But shortly after Matthew Tucker received his First Holy Communion, nothing seemed a bigger drag upon his good spirits than the God worshipped by the Catholic Church.
He was taught this:
• Nothing a sinful human could do could ever make him/her worthy in the eyes of God;
• there was nothing about you that deserved God’s love; and
• if you were lucky enough to make it to Heaven — which you probably wouldn’t because of your sins — it would only be because of God’s mercy and supreme greatness, and not because you fought to love Him with all your being.
“This teacher was very frank about how unworthy we were of God’s love,” says Matthew, “and he’s talking to second graders! It had enough of an impact on me that I started to question my faith. God put conditions on love? The emphasis was on how flawed we are rather than on how loved we are.”
Eventually, when Matthew was given the choice to attend Mass or sleep in on Sunday mornings, he opted for snoozeville.
In a manner of speaking, he snoozed for another 20 years, Rip Van Winkle style, waking up, through the grace of God, to a Church he hardly recognized. The Divine Mercy revelations of St. Faustina had spread throughout the world by then, radically reverting our understanding of God back to the Gospel truth that His greatest attribute is mercy.
“And I had a lot of catching up to do” says Matthew, 30, a television production technician from North Adams, Mass.
He now finds himself deeply in love with the Church. He’s a lector at his local parish. He shares his faith with an online Catholic community. He produces evangelization videos. He dusted off and donned his brown scapular. He regularly prays the Rosary and reads scripture. He’s considering pursuing the diaconate.
However, Matthew reckons his faith would never have achieved such fullness if not for the zigzag line of inquiry that had precariously underlain his faith journey from childhood till now. Indeed, in between being the young second grader in the starched white shirt and being the father of two who dutifully, happily ensures his children receive proper spiritual formation, Matthew “experimented.”
In high school, he became a self-initiated Wiccan, which involved casting spells, deifying nature, and embracing a loose moral structure defined by the Wiccan code that “if it harm none, do as you will.” This continued into college.
But eventually something wasn’t right. But what?
He hard-charged into science, which he always loved, but he fell in with a tough crowd. They not only believed that the study of the physical world could explain everything, but they also held in contempt those who believed in God.
“For them, not only was God not there,” says Matthew, “but to believe [in God] is childish, a fairy tale that people tell themselves so they can sleep at night and not worry about dying.”
Matthew attempted to deny God’s existence. He wasn’t successful in these efforts.
“I compare it to trying to pretend someone you love isn’t in the same room as you, even when you can hear them talking to you,” he says. “You can pretend all you want, but it doesn’t make it true. There were too many things I couldn’t explain and that point back to say ‘God is there.’ I guess I always knew that there was something higher, that God was there.”
He endeavored to find Him. He drifted through a few Protestant denominations. He spent a short stint giving Quakerism a try — and Pantheism, too.
He knew something wasn’t quite right with all of them. “They certainly had parts of the truth,” he says.
Meanwhile, he had married a Catholic woman. They had agreed to baptize their children Catholic, spurred on by the encouragement of her family. Then, something extraordinary happened. When it came time to baptize their children about two years ago, something clicked. It was that door he had closed as a boy, the door to the Catholic faith. Through God’s grace, the latch clicked open.
“It was like coming home, like walking in the door and looking around and thinking, ‘This is where I’m supposed to be,'” he says.
“I spoke with family and friends who are Catholics. They explained that I hadn’t been taught what I was supposed to have been taught about God,” he says. As a child, he says, the story of salvation was explained “more as story of the fear of hell than of the love of God.”
But as Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, MIC, points out, the good news revealed through Jesus Christ “is that God’s love for each person knows no bounds, and no sin or infidelity — no matter how horrible — will separate us from God and His love when we turn to Him in confidence, and seek his mercy.”
Matthew would soon come to realize that the Church itself is the dispenser of mercy, the Eucharist is the Presence of Mercy, and the Sacrament of Reconciliation is the tribunal of mercy.
He went to confession and afterwards felt the weight of the world lifting off his shoulders.
But all those years of searching were not in vain, he insists. “I needed to find out what I didn’t need in order to find out what I needed. … I could not have known if [Catholicism] is right or true if I hadn’t run off.”
He adds, “Isn’t it wonderful that no matter how far you wander, when you come back Jesus is waiting? Right now I just feel like, ‘Where did we leave off?'”
Listen to Matthew in his own words:
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“There are only two ways to have a peaceful conscience: Never do anything wrong or learn self-forgiveness” — Elizabeth Gilbert.
LOVE TO ALL.
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I’m sorry but the foster parenting program and DFC and many parents are pretty screwed up and have been for far to long. Way too many children are used and abused. Real change needs to be made from top to bottom on when,where and how these children are placed
Agreed, J2S.
How could the Tuckers be so fucking careless. Idiots!
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
All of your writings about Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington are unfavorable to her. I cannot argue the facts that you and your supporting blog posters write about her public record. Andrea Harrington has had a problematic tenure as Berkshire County District Attorney from 2019 through April 17th, 2022; (3 years, 3 months, and 17 days so far). What happened with the Tucker’s foster care case whereby a baby died in their care is indeed a tragic set of circumstances and events. D.A. Andrea Harrington should have done a better job preparing and prosecuting the alleged manslaughter criminal case against the foster parents. The entire Social Services system failed the deceased baby.
In closing, I wish you would write and blog about all of the other state and local public officials throughout Berkshire County similar to your always unfavorable coverage of D.A. Andrea Harrington. The corrupt career politicians from Williamstown to Sheffield are at times far worse than D.A. Andrea Harrington, but they usually get a free pass when they do DISSERVICES to the people and taxpayers also known as the proverbial Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family.
Best wishes,
Jon Melle
The DA is the most important job in the county and Harrington is currently the worst at said job of anyone in the county. Why are you so incapable of getting that through your head? “ But what about blah blah blah.” What is wrong with you, man?
If Dan was writing favorable articles about JM’s gal “DA”he wouldn’t say a peep about writing anything else.The problem is there’s nothing favorable to write about the DA. He just wants to change the subject to something Dan has covered many times of our leaders being corrupt. “Old news “.
JON
You have to realize, I’m one guy. That’s it. I don’t have an entire newsroom. I have sources in a lot of places, and through them I found out where some of the skeletons are buried. Moreover, I have a busy book writing career that demands constant attention (a labor of love, incidentally). I can’t do everything. I can’t address every issue. I can’t look into every example of possible malfeasance. I have to pick em based on a lot of different factors. Generally, though, as for the local scene, my beat of the county seat, the city I have always loved and still do. My critiques are meant in an Rx way: Diagnoses of the city’s ills and suggested prescriptions to address not the symptoms but the root causes. Best wishes to you. Hope you and your family had a good Easter.
O.K. I enjoy reading your blog, especially when you write about Pittsfield politics, which is our beloved native hometown. I graduated from PHS the same year of 1993 that Andrea Harrington graduated from THS. I have followed and blogged about her campaign for Berkshire-based State Senator in 2016, which she lost to Chrome Dome Adam Hinds, who went onto marry a wealthy woman who lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. I followed her campaign in 2018 for Berkshire County District Attorney, which she won. I understand that she comes from a working-class Pittsfield family, she is progressive in her politics, and she believes in a progressive approach to the law. I understand the criticisms I receive when I write “What About-isms” by making the point that she is no worse than the other career politicians in the beautiful Berkshires. I acknowledge that you, blogger Dan Valenti, point out the facts of her public record as D.A., which is an important elected position that holds the lives of people and the safety of the communities as a sacred obligation. I hope that Andrea Harrington is upholding her oath of office, treating people with both fairness and safety, and doing her job to legally protect the communities she serves.
Like the Tuckers or not Squeaky never had the evidence to bring this case and I hope her attempt to withhold evidence gets just disbarred.
Explain the withheld evidence please.
GOB
You may be right, but that’s not how I took Judge D’Agostino’s ruling. He said the D.A. introduced needless and extraneous “evidence.” I wasn’t privy to what the grand jury heard from the D.A. Reading between the lines of everything written about the case, and considering how the judge wrote his decision, my guess is that there was enough evidence, at least to warrant a trial. That’s the only way We The People could or would ever know, in the legal sense, if the Tuckers were not guilty or guilty. This entirely leaves out the moral aspects of their behavior. Each of us have our one views on that. Mine is that they at the very least were morally deficient and because of their passive, lax attitude, which included blowing off a medical appointment for the baby, that infant died. Also, let me be clear. I had nor do I have anything personally against Matt Tucker (I’ve never met his wife). The first time I met him was on the set of my TV show. I approached him as I do everyone: Willing to go more than halfway, granting the benefit of the doubt, and being easy to work with. Over time, I did not receive the same from Tucker. My judgments of his character as they were revealed to my by his behaviors, and my interpretations of that behavior, left me with an extremely uneasy vibe. My senses about this sort of thing are rarely in error. In a way I feel sorry for him. Again just a sense, but there seems to be a hole inside of him that he’s trying to fill — with food, with Coscon, with his G.I,. Joes, with who know what else. He seems “lost.” I could be wrong about all of it, though I don’t think so. One thing I am NOT wrong about is that the Tuckers were entrusted with Baby Kristoff’s care, and in their care, and within their responsibilities, that baby died. Every sign indicates that had they taken a more adult, a more caring, a more proactive stance when the baby was so obviously sick, the lad would be alive today and probably healthy and flourishing.
The Tuckers missed the Baby’s follow-up medical appointment. No other fact needs to be discovered.
Baby died…. DIED ALONE IN SOME ONE ELSE’S CRIB
WITH VOMIT ON HIS FACE
WHAT VOMIT – YOU FUCKING LIARS
wasn’t mom’s spaghetti
HE COULDN’T EVEN TAKE WATER
BABY BOY tiny fingers & toes…
He said, can you hear me, I need care… but no one did ….. awwwww holy hell
Please post the entire ruling, its very different than your “read” maybe people should be afforded access to it. Since you’ve read it you must have it.
My take is very very different having read it.
The judge says the case wasn’t based on fact, that there were DCF and medical failures all along, that the Tucker’s were not at fault at all, only a medical professional would have recognized the symptoms, that the DA unduly tried to influence the grand jury and medical professionals using Facebook posts and not facts.
That medical professionals, including the coroner placed no blame on the Tuckers and the DA hid those facts.
You’ve gone quite round the way to go after Matt. He believes in tree gods, you believe in a fake god in the sky. Both are equally delusional and have nothing to do with the case. You’re scrawny and weak, he’s fat, neither matters.
JOHN
You don’t know what I believe. I’ll leave it at that. Having read the judge’s ruling, you say you draw different conclusions. Not surprising. That happens with most texts. To be expected.
What you believe is evident in your posts. So I’m asking again for you to post the entire ruling, so that others can see what the judge wrote, unadulterated and unfiltered.
You don’t know what I believe, referencing your mention of a sky God. Simple as that. Yes, you know what I believe with respect to the Tucker case because I made it clear in my column. My piece was fact-based, opinion-driven. I offered an interpretation, that’s all. Regarding Judge D’Agostini’s ruling, I read between the lines. He excoriated the prosecution more than declaring the way a jury could on the innocence of guilt of the foster parents. Focus on the essential fact: Judge D’Agostini threw the case out based on prosecutorial mismanagement. His action has little to do with a legal verdict on the Tuckers’ culpability in the baby’s death. The Tuckers will never go to trial if things remain as they are. Hence, We The People will never get to see if a fair-minded jury would find them guilty or not. With a case as sad and tragic as this one, that, in my judgment, is justice being denied. Only if a fair trial by a fair-minded jury, with both defense and prosecution competently managed, will be ever know the legalities of the case. The moral aspects of the case are left to each of us and in an unrelenting, unyielding, haunting way with Cassandra and Matt Tucker. All we know is that little Kristoff died in what appeared to be a highly preventable set of circumstances. Morally, it will be the Tuckers’ main challenge to square what they did with the tragic outcome.
You don’t know what you are talking about and I can now tell you haven’t read the actual ruling at all.
He said what the next steps were in the ruling, if the DA wanted to bring the case again.
If you had read the actual ruling you would know that.
He dismissed the case because the prosecutions presentation was so flawed, so biased, so prejudicial, that any trial based on it would be flawed. The judge did his job in protecting the law from the criminally corrupt DA. That was his job in this, he did his job. The DA or the next DA can resubmit the case.
Why don’t you post the ruling so we can see it for ourselves. To me it looks like he DA has lost credibility with the judges. Everything is going to be harder for her so she and her staff better make sure they know everything about the case they are try, dot every i and cross every t.
SHRIL
I second the call. John Q. obviously has the ruling. THE PLANET doesn’t. Yet he/she chides me for not posting it. I have invited John to share it with us. So far, no dice.
But is there any REAL oversight? Oversight with claws? Are the people with any power to deal with an inept DA the same ones who want her to stay in that position? Do we really want to see behind that scary curtain?
Dan, would you agree, Tucker is “angry & inept’?
BABY
Can’t say. He seems angry, and seemed to me that way in my TV days. Inept? As a tech guy, no. He knew his stuff. In handling adult responsibilities? Again, I can’t say. The answer seems to be yes.
The proper charge was, and still is Endangering The Welfare of a Child. Parents could still be arrested today for this.
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI
V/TitleI/Chapter265/Section13L#:~:text=Whoever%20wantonly%20or%20recklessly%20engages,of%20correction%20for%20not%20more
Arrest the nitwits in the Mercer building for endangering the welfare of chindren.
That’s a good one right there!
The proper charge was, and is, endangering the welfare of a child. Charges can still be brought.
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter265/Section13L#:~:text=Whoever%20wantonly%20or%20recklessly%20engages,of%20correction%20for%20not%20more
Do other Berkshire Judges go by other names as well ? D’Agostinio. I thought it was Agostini.
WHO
Thanks. We have corrected this foo-fighting error. It was a significant one, repeated, that got through the desk unchecked! Good job!
God gave his only son Jesus to die on the cross for sins committed and sins that will be committed promising everlasting life.Sin is real and part of our lives.If you believe why God sent his son then it is job one to forgive yourself or the crucifixion does not have meaning.The Catholic church all to often talked about the penalty of sin and not enough of self forgiveness.The golden rule treat others like you would want them to treat you.Forgive other as you would want others to forgive you.You must see God in everyone and you will be judged by how you treat them or you need to see them as God.There but for the grace of God go I.People begging at street corners is a great example of the difficulty presented in judging them as humble begging or business begging for wages…..The judgement is you have no way of knowing so it comes down to you helping those that present to you themselves as God and beg.Do yo help or no you judge what you cant possibly know…..An easier choice is can you judge Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump taking 2 billion dollar from a murderous Saudi Prince…..some judgements are so easy and if you dont find it easy to judge this situation then what good is discernment.
Trump Derangement Syndrome
TDS still believes in the Russian hoax, no voting irregularities during the 2020 Presidential election and 1/6. TDS watches and regurgitates CNN, MSNBC and all the other propaganda sites. It is sad but he embodies most voters in Berkshire County, out of touch with reality and told how to vote and how things are, a total waste of a brain
Agreed. It is quite sad. Cannot wait to see him and all the other local liberals react once the twitter sale is complete.
The video by all extremes is Bewildering.
A dehydrated baby will succumb about as fast as anything else. I say try the case in another jurisdiction.
Babies just don’t die. And Baby Kristoff didn’t die from natural causes. He suffered to death because he was failed by everyone involved in his short sad painful life. I’ve read that if baby Kristoff had received the medical attention he needed his chances of surviving were very good. But the deck was stacked against this precious little boy. Baby Kristoff didn’t deserve the junkie mother who gave birth to him. Baby Kristoff didn’t deserve his unnamed father who didn’t protect him. Baby Kristoff didn’t deserve the death sentence he received from the Josef Mengele DCF Angels of Death and their certified negligent 900-pound disciples of the church of gluttony. Baby Kristoff didn’t die by accident, DCF’s cloven hoof prints are all over Baby Kristoff’s sad little corpse. RIP Baby Kristoff, no one can hurt you anymore. Except for the court who added insult to your egregious death when it denied you justice for having suffered to death because of the sins of others.
This judge should never have the right to navigate a final judgement without trial no matter who was -is culpable, on any inquiry. The baby deserves justice,no one else. He is ruling is insidious.
KAY
I understand what you’re saying. I read Judge Agostini’s ruling as pent-up frustration with D.A. Harrington. Agostini is a smart, able, respected jurist with a love of the law, and I’m seeing a professional deeply troubled by what passes for a prosecutor in Berkshire County. I’m not claiming perfection in this judgment but it is my read of the situation. Also, for you and everyone, let me address the earlier misspellings of the judge’s name. We corrected it the first time only to find another misspelled rendition. This puzzling gremlin was traced back to a glitch in our platform’s predictive text. Two earlier spellings from other stories were used a predictive for the judge’s name. We have (we think) corrected the problem. Typewriter ribbon wore out. Computer platforms sometimes behave in glitchy manner.
Look. We ALL know this Judges is a Friend Of Paul. Ok.
In Eastern Massachusetts/Southern New Hampshire, we are trying to solve the case of a missing little girl named Harmony Montgomery, who has/had a drug addicted biological mother, as well as a violent criminal drug dealer father who is being held on criminal charges in the Valley Street Jail in Manchester, NH, as well as a stepmother who is also being held on criminal charges in Valley Street Jail. When I go on my VA walking groups around Manchester, I see pictures of Harmony Montgomery taped on light posts. Both Massachusetts and New Hampshire’s Social Services Agencies failed this missing young girl. I hope that there will be answers to the case of Harmony Montgomery.
This isn’t about the judge or Paul, this is only about the corrupt sitting DA Andrea Harrington.
She can bring the case again, or maybe the next DA will, or won’t because they know the law.
Andrea Harrington took this case to trial personally because it looked good, not because there was a case. Thankfully the judge knew how to do his job. He protected the people from a lawless and corrupt DA’s office.
There’s a reason Bell wouldn’t touch this case with a ten foot pole. She knew there wasn’t a chance with the evidence available.
It was a hatchet job just like Dan’s but about the guy bring a fat Wiccan who was angry at work and who might of sabotaged his little TV show.
The public at large should be terrified that a sitting DA would conceal evidence and use such poorly created arguments to try and indict.
She is a danger to the legal system because when she doesn’t know the law, she fabricates evidence or conceals evidence that is exculpatory.
That sounds like an admission of facts.
How much you wanna bet that my “little show” got under your skin — and you’re right; it WAS little — JQ? We agree on Harrington. We disagree on the evidence. Karen Bell didn’t want to touch this case, according to our sources, because she knew that Andrea would turn it into what it became: Another inept and doomed effort. It’s not the evidence that Bell wanted to steer clear of, it appears, but Harrington herself, who decided to take the case with an ADA. As we get closer to November, word has it that Karen will at some point (if she hasn’t already) be sending our her curriculum vitae. If that’s true, it would indicate she doesn’t have much faith that her boss will win re-election. As for Tucker, as you denying he’s “fat?” That’s relevant in the case of the dead baby in this sense: The body types of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Tucker would indicate a lack of self-care and self-love for their bodies, which the New Testament calls “Temples of the Holy Spirit” (before you go all anti-Catholic on me, know that this notion of the connection between the body and the spirit — body and soul, if you will — is a much older Eastern tradition). If the Tuckers had that much lack of respect for the care of their own physical well-being, how much less than for a foster child, an infant at that? I’m getting my answer to this question by the hard, cold, horrific fact that this innocent, helpless baby — seriously ill — was left alone, mistreated, to suffer and die in effect abandoned. With regard to Wicca, it’s not me that said it. Look to Tucker himself for the source of that revelation. Finally, back to the evidence. You say the evidence wasn’t there. You reached a conclusion based on something you can’t possibly know, and that not what Judge Agostini said. I say the evidence “likely” IS there, but We The People, the D.A.’s boss, never got the chance to find out, that is, to test the evidence in a fair trial. That’s all I’m saying. The Tuckers waddled away without a finding. If I’m Matt Tucker, and I thank Jeffrey Hunter that I’m not and that I am me, I would want my day in court if I actually believe that I am “not guilty” for the death of a baby. I would want to clear my name, legally. Morally? Just glad I don’t have that one on my conscience.
Your show didn’t get under my skin because I didn’t know it existed until you started talking about it in relation to this case today.
You didn’t read the ruling at all, because the judge outlined the evidence presented, and that all of it was prejudicial and circumstantial.
If that’s the evidence the DA presented, that’s the evidence to date. If they had a stronger case or more evidence they would have presented that to the grand jury.
And your wrong about Bell, Harrington asked her about the case and she said “the charges don’t come close to the evidence you have”, that’s almost verbatim.
You and Andrea seem to be of the same cloth, you focus on the circumstantial when you try and prove your points, you ignore the testimony of experts (doctors who gave care to the child) as cited in the grand jury report, and the judges findings. I notice you haven’t posted the judges ruling, because you haven’t got it, haven’t read it, and don’t know what it actually says.
Three doctors that saw the baby said the child wasn’t neglected and that the foster parents followed their instructions, based on prescription refills, evidence Harrington tried to hide. That the child who had “failed to thrive” was gaining was and was doing much better under the new foster parents care.
The coroner said that there was fluid in the lungs and strep, but was not sufficiently advanced to have been noticeable by anyone other than a medical professional. That the presentation of the child did not correlate with death from strep or pneumonia.
When you actually get a copy of the findings and see the attached evidence let’s hope you are adult enough to admit you are wrong.
Thank you, JQ.Okay, you didn’t know about my show, so you win the bet! That said, how did you know it was “little.” I’m assuming because it was on PCTV, where audiences prbably number in single digits except for council meetings and debates. If I’m wrong about Bell, then my source, closer to the DA than you might imagine, is wrong. I don’t know that but I’ll accept that, if it’s true. Let me ask you about her resume. You seem to have inside info: Can you confirm or deny from what you know that she has been busy looking to jump ship in case it goes down? I didn’t post Judge Agostini’s ruling, correct. Also correct that I haven’t read every word of it. My opinion of the evidence is based on excerpts, by the emphatic nature of the judge with respect to the prosecution’s ineptness, and by talking with courthouse types. You may say all you want about doctors and the medical evidence. You also probably know that “best evidence” in a case like this is the actual corpse. A cadaver is always “best evidence” when there has been a suspicious death thought to have been preventable. The body of Baby Kristoff gives enough evidence for me: dead in his crib, unattended, with strep and pneumonia serious enough to cause death. What could be more revealing than that. I am also troubled by the doctor’s appointment that the Tuckers, for whatever reason, decided to blow off. As a causative factor, an underlying one, that stands out for me. When I get the Judge’s ruling (I like that word better than “findings” because we didn’t have a finding on the most important issue of all: Were the Tuckers legally culpable in the baby’s death), I shall read in its entirety and, of course, if I find myself to be wrong, I shall admit it. I appreciate you pushback. It is reasonable and intelligent. I hope I have provided the same in this exchange. Also, let me conclude by asking you if you have a copy of Judge Agostini’s 17 pages? If so, I shall gladly accept at danvalenti@verizon.net. I am also willing to meet you for coffee to discuss in person.
Why would you bother worrying about Bell? She’s a first assistant DA yet has only tried one case which she lost. She was a whiner in the Hampden DA’s office. They gladly traded her for several highly competent attorneys with a half a century of experience trying and winning cases. Who cares?
Even she had the common sense to ditch this case when offered.
I tried sending it but it was bounced due to size limitations. I’m sure you can download it from the system or request the original pdf from the DA.
It’s fascinating to watch you attack these people personally, you attack their religion, their weight, his work ethic, you manufacture conspiracy theories about how he undercut or sabotaged your program. You “read between the lines” of a ruling you have not even read.
You and Andrea are cut from the same cloth on this case, all circumstantial evidence and “evidence” that has nothing to do with the case at all.
This isn’t close to journalism, this is an attack piece because of your personal bias. It’s not even a well developed attack price because you’ve gotten so much of it wrong.
Your fascination with fat people makes me think you were either fat as a kid or picked on by a fat bully. It’s completely over the top and disproportionate to what’s actually going on.
Instead of focusing on their weight focus on the fact the DA tried to strong arm a case in by hopelessly polluting the legal process. That by her actions we may never see a fair trial because she corrupted the process. I trust the judge, who has seen more evidence in this case then we ever have or ever will. Due process is important.
The medical examiner gave notes and testimony that was completely ignored by the DA and was in fact buried. She randomly cherry picked half sentences to make her case, that actually subverted what the coroner said. The public should be outraged and horrified.
These are criminal actions by a DA, and you, not having read the ruling attack the people based on looks and some 20 old axe you continue to grind.
JOHN
Nice magician’s trick of distracting the audience over “here” while you do the legerdomain “there.” I know how it’s done having done magic in my youth. Now I do magic with words. Nice excuse for not sending the judge’s ruling. Why not print out a hard copy, for which THE PLANET will reimburse you and hand it over when we meet over coffee — or are you not up to my invitation to meet each other face to face. You can look me in the eye and tell me anything you want … without the binky blanket of an anonymous text. That would garner much more respect for you, actually.
You read this as a personal attack. That is your right. The writer’s duty ends with the completion of the work and it publication. I can tell you, however, that your interpretation is a misreading. Not personal at all. Never had been, never will be with me. You say I have so much of it wrong without providing specifics. That may be closer to an “attack piece” than you realize. I accept it, however, as the cost of witnessing for the truth of controversial stories.
As for fat people, I say the story’s relevant because it indicates an unhealthy lifestyle, a clear sign that such a person should never be left alone with children. Fat parents = fat kid’s almost always. When a person stuffs his/her craw with fast food, junk food, Cheetos, diet soda (a liquid oxymoron in this case) or their equivalents, you can bet the chillin will be fed the same. I can assume you. I was neither fat and never have been, and I certainly wasn’t bullied by a fat person. First of all, they couldn’t catch me. Second, I’d kick their ass, having learned and well-enough refined the manly art of self defense, which I later took up in my 20s by boxing.
We agree with this, which you say of the D.A.: “That by her actions we may never see a fair trial because she corrupted the process.” We also agree with Judge Agostini. We further agree with Andrea Harrington in bringing the charges. You can’t seem to grasp that these three elements are not mutually exclusive but fit together like puzzle pieces. Moreover, we agree that “due process is important.” Judge Agostini said the evidence “was not particularly strong.” That is far from saying there was NO credible evidence. Again, the most vital point here is that because of the manner of the presentation of evidence (and only the evidence itself), We The People were robbed of a fair trial determining as best it could if there was or wasn’t culpability on the parts of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Tucker in the sad, horrific, tortuous death of a helpless and abandoned infant. I don’t know about you, but I would sure like to see that take place. If there is adjudication, fine. It would produce a finding of “not guilty,” which, as you know, is far different from a declaration of innocence. Ask O.J. about that one.
I grind no axes. The bludgeons I yield remain perpetually sharp and not in need of the sanding wheel. Fortunately, I wield them only on the deserving. Possibly that is what bothers you the most about this matter? Unlike you, I cannot claim to know what goes on in your mind and soul. Unlike you, I cannot judge what goes on in your body. Perhaps that is why you won’t meet with me. My pointing out the obvious — the obesity here that, agreed, is not central to the Tucker case but, disagreed, is nonetheless relevant — has it hit a nerve with YOU? Have it touched upon YOUR weight problem? I don’t know.
Let me lay down this final possibility. How about the two of us meeting in public, at a well-publicized debate stage, to hash this out before witnesses. I will promise to go easy on you. We could charge admission with all proceeds split 50-50 to our choices of charities. Let me know, perhaps in person, over coffee, while I read Judge Agostini’s ruling.
How about the winner of the debate gets to be the new DA? It is cheaper than an election and no matter who wins we are all better off.
Not ok. And not true.
The judge allowed a motion to dismiss these indictments based upon the biased, insufficient information presented to the grand jury who issued the indictment.
This dismissal is not an adjudication on the merits of the case.
A competent, factual, adequate re presentation of the case to a new grand jury can start the matter over. If it exists.
Never underestimate rabid baby killers. I’m not surprised the criminal charges against those 900 pounds of negligent DCF certified gluttony just went away as if baby Kristoff never even existed. DCF always finds DCF disciples like the Tucker’s, and others just as bad as them, to be the perfect foster parents. Certainly, baby Kristoff’s precious life didn’t matter to those DCF Angels of Death. They snatched baby Kristoff from a bad situation and placed him in a deadly situation. Baby Kristoff survived his junkie mother poisoning him in the womb, but he never had a chance once DCF got their claws on him. DCF should have been indicted along with their perfect DCF 900-pound certified foster parents. DCF is a Den of Goons and Ghouls who prey on innocent children.
I personally wish someone would dox DCF workers in the area. You’ll never meet a bigger group of know it all assholes who think their shit doesn’t smell
It seems that the only ones who get to take off Patriots Day are government workers and the schools so how is that considered a Massachusetts holiday? These people just want to lunch and shop all day and they couldn’t do that if everybody had the day off. So much for everyone being equal. It just shows the tight relationship between the government and the schools.
Unfortunately we all seem to be living in a country where mental illness rules. If a person supposedly suffers from mental illness they are now able to do what ever crime they want and we are suppose to accept the fact that “they didn’t mean to do it, they have mental disease”, no matter how long their criminal rap sheet is. In watching Matthew Tucker’s video it certainly shows his elevator does not go to the top floor. By allowing children to be put in his care shows just another incidence of totally screwed up governmental agencies DCF, and now the DA’s office and the judicial system.
Wonder how long poor little Kristoff laid choking on his own vomit. For God sakes, my dog vomits and I jump to help the dog and clean it up, even in the middle of the night. So the Tuckers needed permission from DCF to get emergency help for this sick baby? This whole situation is wrong. Wonder how many children have already been placed with the Tuckers since this ruling?
As far as the judicial system. This is not the first time, and sure it won’t be the last that judges have complained about the current DA’s office lack of expertise. If the judges are seeing this issue over and over again, then they should group together and demand that all cases be removed from the Berkshire District and moved to Hampshire or Hampden counties. This whole case is criminally pathetic and totally inexcusable. At least Kristoff can no longer be hurt and have to suffer at the hands of irrational pathetic supposed adults!
THE PLANET agrees 100%. People aren’t responsible for their behavior today. They want “freedom” but don’t want the responsibility that comes with it. The “Liberal” from the past honored both. Today’s “Liberal” wants not freedom but license: Do whatever I want but don’t hold me accountable for the consequences. Citing “mental illness” to excuse an informed choice is as ridiculous as dismissing charges against, say, a rioting, looting black man on the assumption he was disadvantaged earlier in life or prosecuting a white guy for burning hay bales because he is white. I remember when DUI used to be called DWI. Drunk driving went from Driving While Intoxicated to Driving Under the Influence. Subtle but significant. The first say you bear responsibility. The second says the criminal was “under the influence” of a foreign substance, implying a rationalization.
Get with it Dan. It’s not drug addict, or even substance abuser, it’s substance use disorder. It’s not homeless, it’s experiencing houselessness. It’s not “I’m obese”, it’s “I have obesity”. The wing nuts are even giving business like cards to the obese now so they can give them to medical personnel saying “don’t weigh me unless medically necessary”. We can’t even tell the truth anymore. Most of the dating sites did away with weight years ago. We are, as a country, one of the most overweight on Earth. Pardon me while I have another Twinkie.
The World Health Organization reports that 13% of the world’s population is morbidly obese. Nearly 2 billion are dangerously overweight. In the U.S., there is 40% obesity. More than 75% of America’s population is in some category of “overweight.” Yes, and we are afraid to call it for what it is: FAT. Many euphemism for the grossly fat: “Big boned … on a generous scale … plus-size … buxon … curvy …” Then there’s the push to make it a “disease,” when, except in glandular disorders, is meant to excuse unhealthy eaters who have no self-control but would rather stuff their craws with junk. Not a disease. A choice.
Fat people even hate themselves, Dan, you’re not wrong.
The anecdotal evidence is overwhelming.
Everybody needs to wake up now. Everbody deserves justice. Even someone who you don’t like because he did a shitty job or is weird or offends you by being fat. Everybody.
Sorry Dan, you are missing the big picture here. The DA introduced irrelevant and defamatory statements to the grand jury. Now you are doing the same thing bringing up things about the defendants that are not relevant. This story is not just about the ineptitude of the DA. It shows very clearly that Harrington is not just inept but dangerous. She has accused people of criminal wrongdoing in order to satisfy her political agenda to show voters that she is protecting children when she is not. She didn’t have a case. A real prosecutor would understand that it would have been wrong to go after them. They would have taken a leadership stance and explained to the public exactly why. Harrington isn’t a real prosecutor. She knows it and doesn’t care. Her heart is not in the right place as some would say. It is squarely in a very dangerous place by being willing to go after people because it looks for good for Andrea. The best thing you could say about Andrea Harrington is that she is so inept as an attorney that she didn’t realize what she did was so bad until the judge pointed it out to her. She doesn’t know her own business well enough to do it correctly. Would you want a surgeon, a plumber or even a tailor to be doing work for you who is that incompetent? How can anyone possibly vote for Harrington again given she has shown she will go after people without a case?
D a or judges misques or dictatorship style rulings should never intervene in the search for truth or justice. There Has to be a preamble. Someone might say a d a could do this as to not prosecute. Does This d a or judge want to go after d c f. Fuck no. You know it all’s on the Planet need to read the Constitution. When a child has no rights then rip the damn thing up.
Name one bureau not defunct ~
I believe a caregiver must be qualified to recognize the signs of imminent death, or wtf good are you. That caregivers should have a working knowledge of health and nutrition and they should demonstrate good self-care habits, not weigh 300 lbs thats too much by any measure, unless youre a bovine. Must be mature as apposed to ‘arrested development’ pre-teen, I would not have them as a 1 hour, 1 second – babysitter, discernment f* weirdo’s, I’ve seen plenty, I know it…. just from what I discern given what is given. They are paid caregivers and they delegated their duty to a non-caregiver (someone else put Baby to bed). A lotta good the baby cam was – wtf? Nobody in the role of taking care of other people’s children should be confused about their own beliefs. A caregiver needs to be solid. Mentally sound & not confused. Especially when it comes to beliefs in medical care. No foster home shall have the ‘religious exemption’ of not responding to pneumonia and strep throat. Say it any way you want, a baby would be discernably in need of medical attention even to other CHILDREN. They had the baby, he died unnecessarily. DCF really thought the Tuckers were a good alternative for children in need…… discernment being an operative word here. How about interviews with all the Tucker’s Foster Children.
No. They should have Common Sense.
300 lbs bovine with arrested development? You basically described half of DCF workers
just throw in alcoholic, drug abusers that aren’t parents, yet dictate how to parent and you’ve got the entire job description.
EVERY DCF WORKER I KNOW IS A RAGING ALCOHOLIC WITH THEIR LIFE IN SHAMBLES.
that’s usually why you go into social work, the dregs of society are all you hover over
Political agenda for the DA? Yes. Didn’t have enough evidence? You can’t know that. The case never went to trial.
In a 17-page ruling Monday, Superior Court Judge John Agostini called the evidence against Matthew Tucker and Cassandra Barlow-Tucker “circumstantial and not particularly strong,” and found the office of Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington failed to present to the grand jury sufficient evidence to support the indictments.
Agostini said prosecutors downplayed statements favorable to the Tuckers and attacked the couple’s character, leaving grand jurors with a “hopelessly slanted” view of the Tuckers.
We can, we can know that. You put a case into the grand jury and it is not there. The proof that Harrington did not have enough evidence was that she felt compelled to beef up the case with irrelevant evidence. This is so much worse than when Harrington went after the judge. She went after you and me without cause, Dan. You do get that,right?
So this case seems to have certain parallels to the Baran case does it not? Fake evidence, withholding evidence, politically driven, malfeasance? Checked all boxes.
Jared Trump and Ivanka Trump are given 2 billion dollar by the Saudi Arabian Prince a trillionare looking for American influence.Putin has Don and the Prince has Jared and America was sold to the highest bidder
And TSC has TDS trying to influence Americans Biden is building back better.
Hunter,Hunter,Hunter,Hunter,Hunter and
Hillary, Hillary, Hillary ,Hillary…Boom
Yes ! Thanks for bringing up the problems you never mention .
Many Financial and Ruling Elites are billionaires, but they all say that they are only multimillionaires. The Real White House is on Wall Street and the Real Capitol Hill is on K Street. The 2008 – 2009 bailouts went to the Elites on Wall Street and even to foreign banks in Europe and Asia. In 2021, K Street lobbyist firms reported record earnings. Please understand the Swamp is full of wealthy Elites who are all worth much more money than they say. It is called CORRUPTION for the Almighty Dollar and Power!
Cumo. Boom.
Boom
China China boom boom will there be enough room?
Josef Mengele DCF Angel of Death Kim Simon certainly knows how to pick ’em. I’m not surprised that cloven hoof Kim Simon would give a glowing endorsement of 900 pounds of negligent gluttony, going so far as to describe all 900 pounds of that gluttony as among the most “conscientious, engaging and forthcoming” foster parents she’d worked with. I believe, if those are not the exact same words, they’re close to the words Simon used to describe another of her/DCF’s favorite chosen caregivers. DCFs winners of custody of another innocent child. No doubt cloven hoof Simons’ glowing endorsement helped to secure custody for another of Simons’ favorite family. That family favorite of Kim Simon included a felony convicted rapist family member charged with multiple counts of Offence Code 265/22A/A – RAPE OF A CHILD WITH FORCE. MULTIPLE COUNTS OF RAPE OF A CHILD WITH FORCE which involved forcible oral and anal sex on the child. That child was left stained in the stench of her rapists’ cologne and semen and was “scared for her life.” These things happen to children when they are snatched up by DCF. To the best of my knowledge the child’s physical body remains alive, but DCFs Josef Mengele Angels Of Death were successful in killing off the child’s beautiful psyche.
So many mothers having babies they cannot or have no desire to take care of. Probably most of them will live lives of neglect and misery and wind up wandering the earth looking for love that will never come.
And yet, now the big push from certain political quasi religious leaders is to abolish abortion. So how many thousands more of these pathetic, hopeless souls will emerge from the womb into a world of wonder and horror? Who will pretend to care about them and their tortured lives as they wander amoung us being miserable themselves and adding to the misery of others?
Abortion has been pushed to the extremes with full term babies being murdered and the far left saying we need more people in this country due to an aging population while at the same time, they do nothing but promote abortions.
Why not go back to the bad seed laws?
Giant Easter rabbit stops Biden from talking before he says something embarrassing. Who is in the bunny costume? Is it his wife Jill finding creative ways to distract her husband from speaking? Jill is also caught on camera getting Joe to read a children’s book to quiet him down. Joe does and reads some very simple lines from the book. This is so sad and dangerous for our country.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10729139/Easter-bunny-interrupts-Biden-takes-selfies-kids-starts-discussing-Afghanistan.html
Thank god we are not in Ukraine where cities are being flattened and children are being thrown into wells by psychopath Russian invaders. But we do have an old president who is showing signs of aging like about 50 million others in America and that is apparently the worse thing going on in Pats life. Lucky girl.
If we didn’t have this president in early dementia, we wouldn’t be watching the horror in Ukraine right now. Russia and China will take advantage of any weakness they see, and with the frightening lineup of Biden, Harris, and Pelosi in charge of this country, all they see is weakness.
And remember Pat, while China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, continue to build on their military power, the US is focused on “climate change” and “ghost guns.”
Out of curiosity are “ghost guns” the new catch phrase for black on black violence?
Pat you probably never heard of him but Republican senator Chuck Grassley is 88 years old and the head of the Judiciary committee as well as being on several others. He is as bonkers as an old man can get but the republicans love the guy. But I guess republicans don’t get dementia or if they do it makes them smarter.
Biden, Harris, and Pelosi project weakness and that’s why we are seeing the horror in Ukraine right now.
PAT
As obvious as it may seem, I have not given much thought to this dismal lineup and how it must look to other countries, particularly those who see us a rivals. Biden, obviously slowing down to the point of dangerousness; Harris, a laughing lightweight who has no business in ANY public office (yeah, she’s that bad); and octogenarian Pelosi, herself slipping badly. Any sense of national pride (a dubious concept in itself) has no chance. Is it any wonder why America is floundering. And consider the Dems, being controlled by extreme Leftist Loons such as AOC and the Squat, needed only 16 months to destroy the national fabric.
What is looney is blaming the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Biden. Only a complet idiot believes that. Let me repeat that…complete idiot.
Four years under Trump, no wars. A little more than a year into Xiden’s term, Russia invades Ukraine.
Ok Fizz, we’ll please you. Let’s blame it on Santa Claus. Good enough for you?
And if you remember during the last years of Sotero’s term, Russian migs were buzzing our US Naval warships.
Putin knew Sotero (who’s basically still running or ruining the country) and Xiden are weak militarily. He took advantage of that.
So if Biden is projecting weakness, and we all know Putin hates America, why isn’t Russian attacking America?????
Duhhh????
Why is Ukraine always asking for money and military supplies Fizz? Why not food and/or medical supplies?
Seems kinds fishy.
Why is Trump always begging for money? Better yet, why do his parishioners keep sending it to him?/
We have nukes just as Russia does which somewhat evens the playing field. Ukraine’s nukes were taken from them by Clinton years ago with Russia cheering on that decision since Russia now has little fear of Ukraine.
Biden ended the 20 year war in Afghanistan. Trump said he was going to do it but after golfing 300 times he must have forgotten about it.
Still left Americans behind and it was a stupid strategic move. With us in Afghanistan we could see firsthand what was going on
Biden’s energy policies made Moscow rich. War is expensive.
Trump got most of his millions from Moscow. Want me to show you?
Yes
Trump didn’t start wars
Go ahead and post your fake news site
Look in the mirror!
FIZZ
Thanks for this. I feel you, as the BLM people say. I also say that, while I continue to pour over as many different reports from as many different media sources as possible, it’s near impossible to assign blame. The immediate cause for the attack on Ukraine is Putin’s offensive. No doubt. But what are the underlying causes? What effect did NATO’s expansion east have on the traditional paranoia and suspicion of all Russian leaders since Nicholas II: Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Stalin, Molotov, Brezhnev, Chernenko, Yeltsin, Kuchma, Lebed, Putin? Notice I left out Gorbachev, Russia’s greatest leader since Peter the Great? How have U.S. presidents since Bush II exacerbated Russia’s deep-seated suspicions? These are the questions.
Freedom Dan,a new democratic President and the fact that the USSR fell apart.The weakness of Authoritarian government. Voting Dan and a corrupt government in the Ukraine that got voted out.Putin does not want to let votes matter.Russia is where you are headed if you dont like democracy where all votes are encouraged.We did the same to Trump and removed corruption….Patriots in America respects the constitution and those that don’t will be investigated and punished…..Putin and Trump are 1 and the same.
Putin runs pipelines thru Ukraine to the Black sea in order to get his oil and gas to tankers and into the ocean. He has had to pay Ukraine for the rights to go over their land and he feels they have been charging too much. Also, Ukraine has enormous gas deposits that he wants. Russia’s economy is nothing without oil and gas. He also covets the seaport access that the Black sea provides from the Ukrainian southern border.Putin does not like people who say no to him as we can see.
That is one of the strange anomalies in the war, why didn’t Ukraine blow the pipeline to pieces? There are many other strange tactics that are happening but that was one of the biggies
The younger squad should be of sound mind, but we know they’re not. They are brainwashed by the far left lunacy. What’s needed is some people in their 50’s and 60’s to lead our country who have been deprogrammed from the far left agenda and have lots of common sense. President Trump is the exception to the rule because even in his 70’s he is extremely sharp.
THE PLANET agrees on every point.
We are the most right wing conservative country in the west.Pat ,you are for Authoritarian government…you have zero clue.How much do you pay per year for healcare and that will give you your answer.
Since Obamacare my insurance has doubled and gives me half the benefits, how about you? The only person running an Authoritarian government is Mr Executive Order Illegitimate Joe with the San Fran Ho
I should be getting all thumbs up on here as I have a mental disorder. Just sayin….Police Advisory committee meets at five on pctv. Won’t watch zoom so will have to read planet tommorrow to see what was shaking there. You can guarantee a proposal for the umpteenth time will be thrown out there for increased training with mental disorder calls? My first proposal is to get body cameras in place for starters.
Sounds like you and ever liberal loon when Trump was mean tweeting. Let’s not be hypocrites here
One year from now all the Trump puppets will be acting like they don’t know who Trump is or was. They will be ashamed to admit they used to get up in the morning just to hear his magic words. The republican party is slowly but surely kicking his fat ass to the curb. He is oversized baggage and will not fit into the overhead compartment. He’s gotta go back to the swamp he crawled out of.
buh bye now donald…buh bye
File this one under Nothing is TOO Bizarre when DSS/DCF Nazis are involved. This one has got it all, allegations of molestation and rape of multiple foster/adopted children, fraud, prescription drug abuse, and DEATH of a boy in DSSs custody pogrom. I know, just when you thought there was NOTHING ON NORTH, there is the case of a foster boy run down and killed in a crosswalk by the son of the foster boy’s DSS chosen foster parents. And the PPD, DSSs partners in crime, not surprisingly, ruled this convenient DEATH on NORTH of a foster boy, accidental. The foster boy was scheduled to testify in a trial within just days of being run down and killed by the adult son of his DSS chosen foster parents. Coincidentally, or not, someone with the same name as the driver of the van that ran down and killed the foster boy in the middle of a summer day, in a crosswalk on North, eventually, YEARS later, was convicted of multiple counts involving the molestation/rape of other children. Truth is Stranger than fiction!
Travesty of Justice?
Who the hellwas the cop that shot Miggy? No one knows?
How do you suppose the DA explains this to all her “mapoli” friends? The Berkshire Eagle hates me, the judge hates me, waaaah!
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/massachusetts-playbook/2022/04/18/a-marathon-not-a-sprint-00025766
Judge faults Berkshire DA’s handling of case involving foster child’s death and dismisses charges against Adams couple,” by Amanda Burke, Berkshire Eagle: “A judge has dismissed the manslaughter case brought against two local foster parents in connection with the death of an infant in their care. In a 17-page ruling Monday, Superior Court Judge John Agostini called the evidence against Matthew Tucker and Cassandra Barlow-Tucker ‘circumstantial and not particularly strong,’ and found the office of Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington failed to present to the grand jury sufficient evidence to support the indictments.”
The new Tyler street apartments are 1450/mo for 1br. Discover Tyler street is having one hell of a time deleting comments their public post about them. Meanwhile some bum who rents in the area is trying to justify the price saying “a dump on dewey is 1200” and “it will increase the value of my neighborhood”. What earthy benefit does your landlord’s property values going up, assist you?
DCF was right to take his kids.
Your trying to hard. How about something relevant like tonight’s Police Advisory committee meeting tonight. Let’s watch Dennis spin a tale on how the Clinton street episode,knife wielded, which precluded the Miguel Estrella death was supposed to be the reason for a committee? And why there was zero trainging evidentially after the shooting of the alleged Clinton Ave knife wielder. There is one thing in common though,no body cameras in either episode.
Is Morning Star getting some free cement work out front along with the sidewalk redo??
Whatever the city does keep Caselka,great workers and company always take my garbage on time and set down cans perfectly. No need for nonsense by white and Kufflinks,pay the extra and layoff a couple school administrators to pay any losses.
Caselka! Way better than b f i
Dennis and Friends. Well,just one question? Why wasn’t the victim taken into custody after he cut his face? And a recommendation. Can we get certified dispatchers instead of cheerleaders and barely audible narration as well as silent narration chats?
Cant understand anyone at this zoom meeting,the moderator had a dog barking. Dump this board until they can convene live remote. What a joke.
Maybe it is either Tyer or Harrington barking in the background.
It’s not only unlistenable but unwatchable as well.
In all seriousness, this whole meeting was a pathetic waste of time. Has to be the most useless committee in the City besides the City Council.
Makes ya wanna talk to yourself,agree.
No don’t say that 1400? A Month? Really? Aside…. POLICE ADVISORY 5 O’CLOCK channel1303. Let’s see if its mad as hell or fluff like meeting. Dennis? Do you have any balls?
Dan. I cannot stand this zoom and ‘ not live’ in studio or city hall pctv productions. Send this ass clown stooge back to the studio at pctv also,if he wants to do a show. This video zoom and remote just doesn’t give credibility to the viewer. Please Mr. Serre,before you’re totally disbanded from funding.
I enjoy it when Dennis tells stories about cowboys in the old west.