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Here we go again.

A comment I left today on Robert Stacy McCain's post detailing this mess, that might be deep-sixed by some of Frey's minions...
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Dustin's learned one thing from Patrick Frey; how to spin like a Maytag Mangler.
Patrick Frey is a tenacious Deputy District Attorney (DDA) who does fine work for Los Angeles County, I'm sure of it. Being a prosecutor and an officer of the Court, he realizes he doesn't have to tell the truth unless he's under oath; he realizes that he can lie and get away with it in order to 'trip up' a suspect. He's treated JeffG like a 'suspect' for two years now; testing his defenses by leading with lies and misleading statements. Frey pulled the same stunt with RSM, wondering publicaly and often about his possible 'racism', pushing and poking and playing him to get whatever responses he wanted, then more and more push-pins in his ass to get him to react. JeffG used exactly the same tactics with Frye, who is now squealing like Ned Beatty, because he can't stand the pressure of the role reversals. And, JeffG's got the bigger push-pin, obviously.

Frey finally met his match. He invented this 'Cease and Desist' letter bomb, dropped it like an M-80 in Jeff's mailbox, but this time Frey's screwed the pooch. He has to answer for it. He can't produce the 'evidence'; his 'lawyer friend' won't come forward to help him out; the harmed 'client' is nonplussed. Actually, nonexistent, except in Prosecutor Frey's fevered mind.

So, Dustin, you should be exhorting Master Frey to put up some real evidence that he's not a liar par excellence, or tell him to apologize then shut the f**k up, forever.

Frey might well be called on the carpet by Los Angeles Internal Investigations, who could view this as the straw that broke the camel's back. For the record, Frey shouldn't be fired, just transferred to a Juvenile Court across town, so's he can go back and forth, day after day, getting some well-deserved 'freeway therapy'. Listening to Tolstoy's novels on audio CD, likely.

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JeffG's post, detailing the history of this kerfuffle...

I want to take this opportunity, as I wait for the USPS to find and forward me the letter that someone paid an attorney good money to draft and then mail to an address where I don’t live — and couldn’t have lived for the past nearly 5 years (though we don’t know what address that is, or when the mail was sent, just as we don’t know when my serial cyber-harassment was supposed to have taken place, nor from what email account these “unhinged” “rants”, as they’ve been described by a DDA who claims never to have seen them or read them but who nonetheless felt comfortable classifying them, emanated) — to re-post links to the various essays of mine that started (and then re-started) this whole ugly ball rolling. Because as I was revisiting them over the past few days, I was struck by just how concerned they were with trying to engage with ideas (mostly about language), and were really anything but the “attacks on honor” the DDA and his band of howler monkeys has subsequently made them out to be.

But don’t believe me. Look for yourselves:

1) On Nobility. In which the “good man” trope is born.
2) Outlaw Speak (the follow-up).
3) Letterman’s “rape” joke (Frey waited, then later noted that I had “defended child rape” — I shit thee not! Lots of very good debate in the comment section. Note, most people disagreed with me, and I managed to argue throughout a 600 comment thread without pretending anyone issued a death threat and banning him or her.)
4. how I learned to stop worrying and love the f bomb, guest-posted on Hot Air (back before Frey’s campaign to have me booted from polite company hit its highest gear).
4) In which I don’t defend child rape, despite the claim that I do.
5) More language lessons, revisited — the post in which I detailed why the public method Frey deployed to vet Stacy McCain was linguistically flawed (and a bit unseemly).
6) Which of course, led to Frey’s series of posts about how Jeff Goldstein is violent; an intellectual fraud; not a man of substance; likes to play the race card, etc. My response was to show Frey how his OWN arguments defending his “investigation” of Stacy McCain’s (potential) racism works, and the dangers inherent to it — clearly spoofing Frey’s own posts and using the opportunity to point out the linguistic problems with such arguments.

And there are others, but you get the point. And can see the pattern.

These two themes have lingered much too long in the news; Scott Thomas Beauchamp's story is spread out over dozens of sites, but Jeff Goldstein's takes are excellent, learning, reads. Take the time and absorb them.

Vick? His dog-fighting scandal is quickly becoming a racial thing now, with ever-widening points of view based on his (lack of) a trial and his presumed innocence. We'll see, but I've a friend in Atlanta who works with Vick, and he tells me this stuff is probably, unfortunately, true. But he also tells me that if Vick is gone, it won't hurt his feelings...

I found Beauchamp's picture from...hell, I can't remember, but it's him. Follow up from Hot Air's coverage, I think. The tie-in with Vick? Beauchamp wrote in his blog that, in Iraq, he participated in running dogs over with Bradley Fighting Vehicles...probably a lie semiotic construct...

Oh, and Beau's Corner Bar? Actually, a photo I snagged, in Chattanooga, of Dude's Corner Bar, with which I took many liberties!