National Action Network opens up investigation of Lennox Abrigo lawyer referral scandal!

After days of e-mails and correspondence in regards to a April 3rd and 4th, 2014 Rally in Danville, Va with a controversial scandal of one of its guest speakers National Civil Rights Activist Lennox Abrigo surfacing to media outlets..   The National Action Network has open up a fierce investigation of Lennox Abrigo.  It is alleged by Merle Rutledge Jr and Tarameka Thompson that Lennox Abrigo obtain funds by false pretenses in a pay for lawyer referral scam.  Lennox Abrigo would demand money on behalf of the National Action Network of $500 or more to help find people lawyers.  The National Action Network has stated that they never accept any money based off this allegation and has open up a investigation after complaints surface for people asking for their money back for a failure for Lennox Abrigo to return money as promised.  At this time, multiple police departments was informed by Merle Rutledge Jr of the scam and Tarameka Thompson has been fully in the process to get her funds back as well as others that may have been harmed by Lennox Abrigo scandal.   Lennox Abrigo is currently the Washington D.C National Action Network President and has been a civil rights activist for numerous years.  Mount Sinai Church of God in Christ of Danville, Va Pastor Linden, the church in which the Community Awareness rally is to be held, received documentation on Sunday in regards to the allegations and is taking the matter seriously.

The scandal is shocking and keep up with my blog for more details as it comes forward.  Also, Virginia Senator Donald E. Meachin has also release statements publically that he never stated that he was coming to this rally and to remove his name, image, and likeness from those that are organizing this event!  Reverend Toon of the National Action Network, stated that the National Action Network is a non profit organization and if anyone requests money other than a donation for services than this should be a red flag and to contact his organization immediately! Reverend Toon, of the National Action Network, is reported to told victims of the scandal to relay a message to Merle Rutledge to not go to the media. Merle Rutledge Jr, National Civil Rights Activist, released a statement, “This is not a allegation, there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Lennox Abrigo is a con-artist! The police are fully aware and to ask for me to back off, says a lot about your good faith towards a resolution of getting the victims back their money! What is more concerning to me, Abrigo asked the victim Nikki Thompson to put up false information to further conceal his scam and to paint me in a false light. The truth speeks for itsle and the actions of Reverend Toon will be handled with the appropriate authorities.

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If Democrats appear to want to cut Entitlement Programs thant they will lose in 2012

This will be my shortest blog and probably one of the most important ones that I have written.  The reason why, and I can guarantee it, that Democrats will lose control over both houses and probably the White House is the willingness or appearance for them to cut Entitlement Programs to appease the Republican.  Why should I, as a registered voter, vote for Democrats when they are so willing to give up the fight to Republicans.  If you have notice in the political world that in order for the country to start working and moving in the right direction with deficit reduction measures and spending cuts, than Entitlement programs are being discussed by both parties as part of the plan to cut.

The Republicans was the first to strike war with the middle and lower class, and the ederly on cutting their Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs.  The Democrats at first, was all for going to war with the Republicans on this issue, and was not going to support any cuts to entitlement programs.  Now! Democrats seem more willing to cut these programs in order to get Republican backing on other measures that seek to beat down the ones that have been beaten the most in this economic downturn.  When November 2012 comes rolling around, as well as other pivotal elections begin.  The trend is if you are Democrat than your chances at keeping office is slim to none, because of what it appears that the Democratic party is willing to give up.  It is some Democrats that refuse to put their job or representation on the line in order to protect Entitlement Programs, but it seems like not enough are coming to their aid in the process.

The appearance is the Democrats will not stand up for anything.  The Republicans say jump and they jump.  It may be time to start firing these Democrats and start putting in a new breed, just like the Tea Party put in a new breed of Republican in Washington, D.C.  Anyone that has back down from Republican opposition to say that Entitlement programs should be put on the table doesn’t deserve to keep their job.  Your oath is with the people that you are elected to represent, and not with those that threaten your constituents while you sit idly bye as it happens, hiding in a office, and refusing to take the phone calls of very angry voters. If Democrats appear to be going in that direction willing to make cuts with Republicans that is more experience at planning for Entitlement Program termination.  Republicans are readily prepared, and their strategy has already been put to paper for future passage.

Entitlement program recipients are in need of a increase and not a decrease in funding.  The funds that they recieve are not even covering the expenses that they have as it is, but it seems like the only ones getting a increase is Corporations and other businesses that have seen high levels of profits under the work with less philosophy.  This is not painted to change because of their greed to keep things the way that they are.  If you find a winning strategy than what company will be willing to change economic growth even though it does not help other sectors of the economy.  The philosophy is “I feel sorry for you, but I would never want to be you, ” states Corporations.

In conclusion, if Democrats think the appearance of being willing to allow cuts to Entitlement Program is the way to keep your job.  You may want to rethink that approach and start dismissing even the President on this possible resolution.  If the President even thinks that he will stay in office by repeating that Entitlement programs are on the table, than he is wrong and will face the consequences of his barganing in November 2012.  The best thing for Democrats to do is tell President Obama to end his campaign on trying to give Republicans cuts to Entitlement Program and end wars in foreign countries.  Stop rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq and start Rebuilding America.  It is as simple as that.

Democrats will lose if they keep the appearance that they are willing to put Entitlement Programs on the bargaining table.  Real Americans know if the government doesn’t stay helping their loved ones, than their loved ones will have to come to them at a time when they don’t have it.  How would your grand parents feel when you have to look them in the eye when they ask you for help meeting day to day expenses that you no longer have anything to give.  The expression on your loved one face will be priceless, but the anger from the ones that want to help so much, but they can’t will echo back to Washington.  Do not become guilty by association!

In 2008, When President Obama was elected?  He had every opportunity to end the Bush tax cuts, when both houses had a Democratic majority, and instead led a very unpopular campaign to fix Health Care more than fix the economy.  This decision has led to his downfall.  President Obama also had a chance to end all the political posturing by invoking the 14 amendment right after the House rejected Boehner’s bill.  President Clinton said it best, “Invoke the 14 Amendment and raise the debt ceiling and dare the U.S Supreme Court to stop him.  Instead, the media and the public had to watch a indecisive President and Congress fight it out to America detriment and lost its AAA Credit Rating when Obama could have just invoked the 14th Amendment and raise the debt ceiling on his own.  President Obama after the debt talks was over had only a Check in a game of Chess, and the Republicans had Checkmate.   Republicans are winning elections because they are decisive, and hopefully the President finally takes a page out of their book and starts being decisive as well.

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A Call to Washington, D.C – The March to bring Justice back to Washington

A Call to Washington – The March 2012 March of Epic Proportions

 

They try to tell us racism no longer exists in America.  They try to tell us that everyone should be treated equal and fairly.  They try to tell us that the road to prosperity is following their lead.  Just like John McCain said in a recent speech “We know better” and “I know better.”  You are right John McCain.  I do know better.  This isn’t just to focus on you, but to focus on the racism that is present in America and has risen sharply in any poll that can be done in America.  There are numerous problems in America, and it isn’t all Americans (especially the upper class and the rich) taking the brunt of policy and political posturing.  It is the people that work hard every day that are losing their jobs every day, and being told that not only will they not find employment anytime soon, but the employers are carrying a policy that says do not hire the unemployed.  The systematic dismantling and oppression of its own people for political gain is unacceptable.

 

I am charging Republican and Tea Party public officials with treason.  Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.  This sounds just like John Boehner and the Republican establishment.  This party has given aid and comfort to a radical group that is trying to overthrow the government, hates the government, and rather rage economic war on its own people.  This is the biggest case of treason that is going unpunished and without prosecution.  They have pushed as public policy for cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Pell Grants.

 

My question is why college students are quiet about this, or is it the fact that they do not recognize being brainwashed by political and inherited ideology that party over your own people is their religion.  I charge the Republican Party with Fraud and violating its own citizens Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. They ran on a job creating platform, and have yet to introduce or even work on any job creating bills.  However, they have worked on killing unions, calling people barbarians and tar babies, killing a woman right to choose, mandating how people bedroom behaviors should be, and maintaining that their way is the only way, even if it means the downfall of everyone.

 

Failure to raise the debt ceiling applies to us all, and not just to the few.  Acourse those with riches, or wealth feel that the problem will only address them in a very minor way, but others have to suffer with losing their households, increase costs in interest on loans and credit cards, and even losing entitlement programs because they are being drained of the funds, that are used to make payments to the people that need it the most, for those that will probably never have to even consider such options.  Michelle Bachman and many Republicans that feel that the debt ceiling should not be raised has already gotten their entitlements from the government and are guaranteed it by law plus pension, but they can also pass a law which makes that guarantee null and void, only if they are serious about being part of the solution and not the problem.

Its too many crying to this day that shouldn’t have to shed a tear.  They sacrifice their whole life making the top 2 percent of rich people in America continue to flood their back accounts with cash while bleeding the life out of its own foundation.  Ms. Bachmann, this is slavery, because even during the time of slavery in America.  Your party spends more time adding and collecting its pensions and health care, but want to take it away from others.  You have yet to pass one single piece of legislation but been getting paid almost 200,000 a year to do nothing but make statements of negative through a microphone.

“My example that I have just given is very similiar to the actions of the barbarians that look just like you.”  Do not ever call anyone a barbarian unless you ready to take the same insult back in your direction as your actions have met the definition of a barbarian thats ungrateful and spoiled.  Michelle Bachmann, you will be ok, if the debt ceiling was not raised.  It is obvious that you made that ok with getting everything out the government that help facilitate the decline in the economy.  How about you do the right thing and return those funds back to the same government in which you condemn and than clean your hands of the funds that you have not so proudly taken.  It is only now, for political gain, and also for lining up your pockets, to replace Sarah Palin as one of the top money making Republicans out there, and not be serious about being the best Presidential candidate.   You saw how much she made during a losing presidential run, so why not see how much you can gain by erradicating the other bad scent that comes from your Tea Party direction.  It is a testament of your greed and not of your will to see America become better, because you hoped the economy became worse, for the sole purpose of winning the United States of America presidency.  You would sacrifice the people that you are suppose to protect and let them get kicked out their homes and lose all their possessions that took them a lifetime to accomplish, all for the sake of having more power, more money, and more wealth.

 

The reason why the March is so important!

 

It’s time for us to make that trip back to Washington.  People from all walks of life that are facing the consequences of political party’s actions are the real heroes and not the corporations.  I’m not here for any corporation.  I’m not here for any party.  I’m here to do what is right for the people of the United States of America.  It is time for all those that claim to be the realest, the right, and the left, to have an open dialogue on how it is to be an American now.

 

Our Constitution states, “We the People  of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”  Did America forget this? Did our public officials forget this? Corporations are not people in regards to the United States Constitution, but obviously even the U.S Supreme Court has establish that now this is subject to change with their conservative stance based on political affiliation and not with justice for all being their guiding light.  We the people should stop letting the b.s in Washington, D.C slide.  Our jails are being filled with nonviolent offenders and the only reason for their incarceration is the inability to pay.

 

The employer inability and willingness, not to hire these individuals because they are unemployed, so they can have the ability to pay is unacceptable.  They want to take away our teachers ability to educate effectively, by trying to have them do more with less, while filling the accounts of private educators and institutions. No government funds should go to private institutions that does not want or both to accept the public opinion and initiatives, but want to accept the tax payer’s funds.  Republicans have even tried to take the ability away from the fire d and police department to protect its own people.  Requiring mandatory cuts and this will further corruption and disruption instead of crime fighting and protecting the people from it.

 

I’m asking America to come back to America.  I’m asking America to go to Washington, D.C.  I’m asking for all the help to bring this event together and make a noise so loud that even the White House and Congress can hear it from inside its walls.  This isn’t right and it’s time for reform now, it’s time for change now, it’s time to go back to basics in which it was cool to be independent, because we shouldn’t depend on government, but government should depend on us.  If we wait too long, to bring America back into Washington, D.C, than Donald Trump will have it right that holding the line is real policy by gambling the people for the pockets of the rich.  The Republicans and Tea Party can afford to wait it out, but can you?  This is why the budget is not balance.  They have no accountability.  They even tried to conspire to take away voting rights in order to keep the seeds of their criminal and civil violations covered up.  This is the indictment on political party, and this is being brought before the America grand jury made up of the people.

 

It’s time for a March in which the people of the United States of America bring the conversation to Washington.  I’m looking for volunteers, church groups, and political parties, unions, wrongfully convicted citizens, liberal groups, Senior Citizens, Latinos, African Americans, Caucasians, any and all races and backgrounds, any and all religious groups, Social Security recipients, Republicans, Independents, Politicians and even the Tea Party.  I want you all there to have a discussion, protect, and to assemble peacefully, all out in the open, front and center, and in Washington.  It is time for D.C to hear the American People.  I’m looking for group leaders, as well as individuals, to tell America and the World, your story.  Michelle Bachmann always says the Tea Party represents the people, and the Tea Party only represents the Tea Party.  We need to see if it is true and not just a naked assertion further devoid from the truth.

 

I’m sorry Michelle Bachmann, but your life was funded and supported by the government and you are the picture of the spoil child that just got a cookie, and still looking for a glass of milk.  I’m here to place your antics right at your feet, and ask, “When are you going to visit the America that needs the help the most?”  It seems like you have no problem with tax payer funds making frequent visits to your bank account. When will I see you in a Black, Latino, or any other ethnic or with a different background community?  Anyone feels comfortable around their friends, but it is those that are not friends that really test the measure of your resolve and sincerity.

 

It’s time for A Call to Washington, and instead of just being on the phone, it’s time to be right in their face.  The switchboards and servers shouldn’t be the only thing going down.  It is time to make your presence felt.  It’s time to make a Call to Washington, to bring America back.  I’m going to need all the help in America to get this done.  I know it’s the time now to make it happen.  Let’s make it happen.

 

It is time for all of us to understand each other and meet our new neighbors from all walks of life and backgrounds.  “It’s America moment now.”  It is time to bring charges to Washington, D.C., and prosecute it out in the open and directly in public.  It is only fair to have a trial by a jury of your own peers.  Well Washington, it’s time for that trial to happen!  It is time for justice in any shape or form, and by any means necessary!

 

This would be my closing argument for all those that continue not to pay attention to the America that is being build right around them, and working its way right on to your street and inside of your home.  When those entitlement programs get shut down.  The tendency is to look for friends, family, and neighbors to help you in trying to just live by bare means and necessities.  Who are you going to go to, when the government says you can no longer go to them?  You have worked all of your life paying your taxes, having money taken out of your check for medicare and social security, and now notice that those payments are no longer going to be coming.  You can no longer work, because you are either on disability or have a condition so debilitating that you can no longer work.  Your family, friends, and neighbors are struggling as well, and can not afford to give you anything to help you our in your situation, because they have situations of their own.   See the top 2 percent does not have this problem being faced, but the middle and lower class, will have this problem right in their front doors.  The lower and middle class needs to beware that if you are already struggling to meet ends meat to this day, than be ready for those that you thought was taken care of, to start asking you to help meet their financial crisis.  They may be your parents, sons, daughters, or immediate affiliation of due care, but you may have to let them move in.  Once again privacy is compromised.  Financially you are compromised.  You do not have the ability to take care of your loved ones as well as they would have been able to be taken care of at a proper medical facility.  This is the future and all Americans need to pay attention.  The rich can afford these services, but can you.  If you think this is a joke, than ask any Congressmen or public official, if I’m telling you a lie.  Some of them already are trying to prepare now for such a future.  They have a head start, but do you.  So its time to act now, or eventually this article may be too late for you.  Hopefully America wakes up and take a stand for those that have taken a stand over and over for you as you was growing up.  They may not be able to walk and be on the path to helping themselves, but it is time for us in America to step up in their place, so that we do our part, because to volunteer is revolution, but being forced is slavery.

 

 

Merle T. Rutledge Jr

merletrutledge@gmail.com

“A Call to Washington” Coordinator

Civil Rights Activist

Estimated Date – March 2012, but participation every day to a better America is mandatory!

“All people welcome!”

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