Coast Guard administrative law judges are closing ranks. The small cadre of judges responded to a request of the embattled trial judge to advise him on his handling of a case he selected as the platform for a 34-page defense of his actions. Judge Parlen L. McKenna not only asked colleagues to help him draft his legal memo, but also asked them to read and comment on a blogger's posting.
The blogger, "Bore-head007," responded to the joint apology plus reparations by Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco on May 17 to Yacubian, the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction and nine other victims of bad law enforcement and judicial treatment with a posting that began: "Hey, I've got dirty cops, dirty judges, dirty witnesses, pounding the snot out of their victims. Why can't I get your attention?" "I've got the most evil story going on the vine, running almost two years now, and I update it continuously with the latest on an almost daily basis, and I can't seem to get your attention," the blogger added. "It involves jackbooted thugs, corrupted judges, strong armed federal lawyers from a federal agency that employs a handful of creeps that burned up almost $50 million bucks in under five years, buying toys, cars, taking federal expert witnesses to exotic places around the world…" Bore-head007's postings are on Newsvine, a community-powered, collaborative news website. Founded in 2006 by veterans of Disney, ESPN and other media organizations — and now owned by MSNBC.com — Newsvine draws content from its users and syndicated content from mainstream sources, including the Gloucester Daily Times.
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