I've had false criminal charges made against me, denied a trial by jury, and had the trial record altered by a Maine Judge who's character, property, and poor choices killed his best friends, and the Bangor Daily won't publish my letters to the editor, or report the evidence of this multi-layer Public Corruption, but the man who won't print my letters leads with "Doing their jobs without fear of government interference is a goal journalists in Tanzania hope soon to attain," - What about Right Here in Maine!

And yes, I wrote for two Maine newspapers, and sat alongside BDN reporters, covered many similar events, and they're aware of the Government Interference / retribution for the stories I covered, and was The Ones I was Researching. Today the Penobscot County DA, County Clerk Margaret Gardner, and Superior Court Justice Hjelms, are denying this news reporter a fair trial, and the basic civil right of counsel in direct violation of their own Court Rules, specifically Maine Bar Rules 3.4-(a)2, plus Maine Rules of Criminal Procedure 44b, and 22b&c. Even the fallen from grace District Court Judge Kevin Stitham got in on the act by altering the jury trial request form also in violation of the above rules. Government Interference via Civil Rights violations against the press has tainted the reputation of the Maine Courts including the Maine Supreme Court for all familiar with the mishandling of this case made to keep me from writing the news and digging for the truth.

"The journalism education program involving the Tanzanians and UMaine is funded by a grant through the U.S. Agency for International Development, a federal program that provides humanitarian assistance worldwide.'

Our hard earned Tax dollars at work......I have to wonder if one of those Tanzanian journalists decided to do an investigative piece on ACORN or maybe William Ayers,Tony Redzco, or the Marxist/Racist teachings of Reverand Jeriamiah Wright and Black Liberation Theology and their ties to our President Barack Houssein Obama..........or maybe a story about the almost 20 Czars Obama has appointed to his administration and why no one in our government or the press says a word.............

Labyslipper - Rush, Glenn, Bill and Sean would be proud of you. Making things as you go along shows your real character.

American journalists teaching journalism to foreigners!? What a joke! Maybe we should send our journalists to Tanzania to learn their craft properly.

Here are some rules for journalism in Maine and the USA for you Tanzanians:

1. Obama does no wrong. Ever.

2. BDN stands for "Baldacci Daily News".

3. When in doubt, make it up.

4. If a Republican is in a scandal, use the R word in the headline.

5. If a Democrat is in a scandal, bury their party affiliation in the last paragraph.

Simple!

Now that they have been indoctrinated by the BDN, Obama is guaranteed good press in Tanzania.

There has never been such a thing as a free press, just how much money it takes to publish has been diminished. One can come on the BDN website now for example and publish whatever inane ideas one has. One can even do it behind a cloak of pseudonym. I have had issues with what the BDN publishes at times, and I appreciate being able to publicly disagree with them on their dime. Boogyman, even if the BDN has told them nothing but good things about our President, to say that that would guarantee him good press from them in Tanzania shows a total lack of respect for their ability to logically work out their own opinion. JoeCentral, apparently the BDN will publish your accusations here. One of the issues with publishing letters to the editor, as you should be aware from your time working in the newspaper business, is that they need to be fairly short and should be coherent. Start a blog.

Sure--teach them how to be better journlists so one day your jobs will be outsourced to them.