On NC Attorney General, Roy Cooper's "Enough Is Enough!": YOU BETCHA!!!

I have been following the disturbing saga (courtesy of the Raleigh N&O) of the unraveling of the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) for the last week.  The story has gone national.  Heads are not done rolling.  And (of course), I've left some scathing comments on the N&O's boards. 

I'm not alone in the scathing commentary.

After five years in the blogosphere pleading my case to truth-seeking, progressive, fight-for-justice types like John Robinson, Edward Cone and Roch Smith, Junior . . . being told all the while that my case for perjury, contempt and fraud against "non-profit" Randolph Hospital executives is "irrelevant" to the sorry state of justice in North Carolina . . . it's very nice to see that I'm not alone . . . and that people who do not wear deep-blue blinders (and don't have to act like horses-asses to prove they are better/smarter/whatever than everybody else . . . particularly if those "elses" have a more conservative or "red-state" viewpoint) are sympathetic.

They know, boys and girls, that's what is wrong with the North Carolina legal system is not just about a bad lab at the SBI. 

Now some on the N&O boards have said that Roy is a "lawyer and law-enforcement hater".  But in my own view from the cheap seats in the back of the Courtroom that Garland Yates has denied me access to, I've seen NO EVIDENCE of that.  Roy has sucked right up to the local cabals . . . offering no oversight at all (he cannot get involved unless he's asked by the very people he should be investigating) . . . and has really not wanted it.  Cooper actually had a golden opportunity after the Nifong debacle (when he grabbed the microphone and proclaimed the Duke boys "innocent") to really be progressive and initiate "reforms" of the N.C. justice system . . . particularly as it pertained to oversight and accountability of District Attorneys. 

But he didn't.  Roy Cooper dropped the ball and totally let it roll away.  He's barely worthy to sit the bench at Carolina.

Fast forward a few years later (actually not-so-fast for some of us), when problems at the SBI could not be hidden anymore (mostly because News & Observer has suddenly discovered that locally-based investigative journalism which champions the "little people" might just be the ticket to their own economic survival) he hired a consultant to tell him what he already knew.

Now it's just about damage control.

Today's story prompted this comment from yours truly.

"I'm going to continue to fight crime, protect consumers and do the job the people of North Carolina have asked me to do," (Roy) said.

And that's just a total steaming load of horse-hockey. Roy Cooper has been running for something else ever since he took office. We The Ordinary People of North Carolina are sick and tired of the pay-to-play garbage . . . of the AG very selectively fighting crime and preening to the cameras . . . and of "right-people-with-friends-in-high-places" (like the Governor and Secretary of Commerce's office) being able to lie and cheat and steal under the full cover and protection of the N.C. legal system with Governor-wannabe Roy looking the other way (even after the fiasco that was Nifong).

We've not just asked. We've BEGGED.

It's not just about the SBI, and it would be so nice if the N&O (apparently just in this to kill executions) would wake up and catch up on its investigative reporting. Because they're about 15 years behind.

I am not a "consumer". I am an ordinary no-name citizen who one-night-in-the-middle-of-the-night-long-ago put medical ethics and a child's life first. I am the mangled victim of a series of INYOURFACE white-collar crimes - committed by over-paid, over-rated "public servants" and dirty lawyers who KNEW that in North Carolina, they could do these things and get away with it and no one would care.

And I've got big news for Roy: I WAS NOT PROTECTED OR SERVED on his watch.

"Enough is enough?"

YOU BETCHA!