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Say what historians will about this shameful aspect of our history, at least Massachusetts didn't honor John Hathorne after he participated in the mass hysteria that sent 19 alleged witches to the gallows here in 1692. Years later, Hathorne, a judge who acted more as prosecutor according to the transcripts of the witchcraft trials, came to be seen for what he was — a disgrace to the concept of justice and a sad excuse for a human being. At least that's how he's portrayed in his great-grandson Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel "The House of the Seven Gables." We less superstitious...

Did Martha Coakley misuse tax exempt resources to advance her candidacy?The Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Breakfast Committee appears to be a nonprofit educational organization whose purpose is to commemorate the birth of Martin Luther King. This organization invited Martha Coakley to talk about Dr. King, but she instead abused the event to promote her candidacy for U.S. Senate. Coakley's betrayal of this organization's trust, her possible misuse of tax exempt resources for electioneering, and her role in the Amirault scandal all underscore her total lack of fitness for any position of public trust or responsibility. (Martha, did Martin Luther...

The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment. The story of the Amiraults of Massachusetts, and of the prosecution that had turned the lives of this thriving American family to dust, was well known to the world by the year 2001. It was well known, especially, to District Attorney Martha Coakley, who had by then arrived to take a final, conspicuous, role in a case so notorious as to assure that the Amiraults' name would be known around the globe. The Amiraults were a busy, confident trio, grateful in the...

"African-American" Barack Obama has no problem with Scottsboro Boys-style injustice We reported previously how Senate candidate Martha Coakley worked to keep an innocent man in prison to advance her political career. Coakley played a central role in the infamous Amirault scandal, in which innocent people were railroaded to prison on evidence that Martha Coakley and Scott Harshbarger knew or should have known was so flimsy as to defy common sense credibility. The Amirault trial, in fact, bore numerous similarities to Massachusetts' infamous witch trials, in which witnesses were coaxed or even compelled to say that they had seen the defendants...

Obama supports former prosecutor who kept innocent man in prison to advance her political career Barack Obama demonstrated his true level of character, ethnics, and integrity when he announced his decision to campaign for Martha Coakley: Massachusetts' counterpart of Mike Nifong. Nifong, Coakley, Scott Harshbarger and Janet Reno all built or advanced their careers by prosecuting people (Durham lacrosse players, the Amiraults, and Grant Snowden) whom they knew or should have known were innocent, although Nifong was the only one who was actually found guilty of misconduct. Even in Nifong's case, which involved his concealment of exculpatory evidence, the only...

Democrat Martha Coakley helped keep an innocent man in prison to advance her political career We encourage our readers to circulate this material as widely as possible in Massachusetts before the upcoming election.Barack Obama's ongoing ability to shut down Senate filibusters depends on the upcoming election in Massachusetts, in which incumbent Martha Coakley (D) faces Scott Brown (R). Martha Coakley's prominent role in the Amirault scandal, in which innocent people were railroaded to prison on the basis of fabricated evidence and even solicitation of perjury, makes her totally unfit to hold any position of public trust or responsibility. Everybody who...

<p>No questions, they told me about phony sex-abuse charges. I asked anyway.</p> <p>My first encounter with the power of the sacrosanct accusation--the one no one was supposed to question--came when I was a television commentator at WWOR in New Jersey. I looked up at a row of monitors in the studio, all of them filled with pictures of a young woman just convicted on hundreds of counts of sexual abuse of the most grotesque kind--a lifetime's work, if they were all to be believed--and I began to wonder. A wonder born, not of particular concern, but of curiosity.</p>