I am sure more community leaders will step forward to support these coming events in many ways.
It is never too late to get involved! Safety is everyone's concerns, and you don't have to wait until being a victim next time on you!
Great job, Mr. Jonathan Bullington.
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From the Chicago Dispatcher, July 16, 2008
Progress Report
Updates from driver court cases featured in past issues.
By: Jonathan Bullington
Sultan Shaikh (“Cabdriver Attacked,” CD June 18, 200
Mr. Shaikh said he was attacked on Michigan Avenue by two delivery truck drivers on the afternoon of May 9. His alleged attackers, 30-year-old Alfonso Munoz and 23-year-old Reynoldo Leflore appeared in court Tuesday, July 15. Their case has been continued to July 22 at 1:30 p.m., at 555. W. Harrison, at which time a decision should be made as to whether the two men will have a jury trial or a bench trial.
Although Wiedersberg’s Law makes assaulting an on-duty cabdriver a felony offense, both Munoz and Leflore are being charged with misdemeanor battery. Despite this, Mr. Shaikh said he is committed to seeing justice served.
Mohammed Siddiqui (“Astor House Doorman Arrested,” CD June 25, 200
Mr. Siddiqui said he was attacked by Astor House doorman Keith Goins in the morning of Friday, June 20. Goins appeared in court on Tuesday, July 15. His case has been continued to August 4, at 9:00 a.m., while prosecutors review the possibility of upgrading to felony charges against Goins under Wiedersberg’s Law.
The Chicago Dispatcher will continue to follow these two cases and will report on their outcomes when decided.
To Mr. Bullington ~~~ I regret to report bad news.
Having attended court yesterday morning with my client, Siddiqui, the Assistant State's Attorney in Branch 29-2, Sonya Andelyk, acting under orders of her supervisor, a woman named Valenti, first sent us down to the 18th District to have the matter reviewed by Detectives. Of course, there are no Detectives at the 18th District, but neither Siddiqui or I knew that.
A pleasant desk Officer, McNulty, called up to Branch 29 and conversed with A.S.A. Andelyk who then called Siddiqui on his cell phone. Siddiqui whose English is not quite as good as mine passed his phone to me. Ms. Andelyk explained that her supervising A.S.A. Valenti had determined that because Siddiqui had no broken bones, that because no stitches had been taken and, allegedly, because Siddiqui had initially told the arresting officers he didn't want Goins taken into custody that she in her prosecutorial discretion was not going to have charges upgraded to a felony.
She added that Goins had no criminal history, and this too was a factor.
The matter is next up for status on August 4 at 9:00 A.M. My feeling is that about 30 well mannered cabdrivers ought to show up to make Judge O'Malley and the office of the State's Attorney aware of the fact that cabdrivers can't be stepped on by bums like Goins - that we're not going to take it any more. There need to be another 20 or 30 outside with signs making some noise - peacefully and forcefully.
Anyone who wants further postscript should contact me for details. My represesntation of Siddiqui at Branch 29 is completely fee free.
Donald Nathan
I am sure that many decent cabdrivers who strike last year will take the leadership again!
An attack on One is an attack on us ALL!
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To Mr. Bullington ~~~ I regret to report bad news.
Having attended court yesterday morning with my client, Siddiqui, the Assistant State's Attorney in Branch 29-2, Sonya Andelyk, acting under orders of her supervisor, a woman named Valenti, first sent us down to the 18th District to have the matter reviewed by Detectives. Of course, there are no Detectives at the 18th District, but neither Siddiqui or I knew that.
A pleasant desk Officer, McNulty, called up to Branch 29 and conversed with A.S.A. Andelyk who then called Siddiqui on his cell phone. Siddiqui whose English is not quite as good as mine passed his phone to me. Ms. Andelyk explained that her supervising A.S.A. Valenti had determined that because Siddiqui had no broken bones, that because no stitches had been taken and, allegedly, because Siddiqui had initially told the arresting officers he didn't want Goins taken into custody that she in her prosecutorial discretion was not going to have charges upgraded to a felony.
She added that Goins had no criminal history, and this too was a factor.
The matter is next up for status on August 4 at 9:00 A.M. My feeling is that about 30 well mannered cabdrivers ought to show up to make Judge O'Malley and the office of the State's Attorney aware of the fact that cabdrivers can't be stepped on by bums like Goins - that we're not going to take it any more. There need to be another 20 or 30 outside with signs making some noise - peacefully and forcefully.
Anyone who wants further postscript should contact me for details. My represesntation of Siddiqui at Branch 29 is completely fee free.
Donald Nathan
I've been telling you guys here on the forum that despite the law, we will continue to get short changed by the courts. Does anyone know what happened to Njuba's attackers?
Mike Foulks says these attackers will serve years. In reality they probably will serve less time than Mike did for his own felony conviction. Truth is told.
"Fatlu Hall" is LYING again.
I never said the guys who allegedly hijacked Njuba's taxi will serve "years".
This "Fatlu Hall" has problems with telling the truth. I think he believes what he says, but he's often mistaken.
"Fatlu Hall", could you cite were I said that these guys would serve "years"?
Also, I've searched that other site. I've yet to find where I said I drove a suburban taxi, like you insist that I did.
Could you please admit that you don't know what you are talking about?
All of this isn't surprising from a guy whose fake name here is a variation on Mr. Lutfallah's last name. Why would a guy like "Fatlu Hall" try to get us to believe that his real name is "Louis Hall"?
You should be ashamed of yourself; I know you well enough and you aren't acting like a grown man. You and others are behaving like petty schoolchildren.
Please go do that somewhere else. Quit telling lies and spreading misinformation about me and others.
-Mike Foulks
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I've been telling you guys here on the forum that despite the law, we will continue to get short changed by the courts. Does anyone know what happened to Njuba's attackers?
Mike Foulks says these attackers will serve years. In reality they probably will serve less time than Mike did for his own felony conviction. Truth is told.
Subject: Re: Re: Re: The difference between Werewolves and Ola Impersonators
Name: Weiss Wolf
Date Posted: Jul 16, 08 - 10:42 AM
Message: OLA, ALL.
MDF: If [Wolf Weiss] is so successful, why would he need a "second job as a driver"?
WJW: Duh! SUCCESS isn't necessarily measured in DOLLARS. I can understand how anyone who would try to extort $125,000 does not understand that simple whole truth.
MDF: What college did Wolf Weiss graduate from? What field is his degree in?
WJW: Shouldn’t you be asking me directly. No one is authorized to release that information. Those questions remind me of the pun about the farmer who was recognized to be out standing in his field…. My education and experience is immaterial and NOYB – ok, Major in English & American Literature and Poetry, double minor in German Literature& Poetry.
Additional training, education/experience in mining demolition & explosives chemistry and shall remain private and undisclosed except to Ola Shalom – just kidding, I don’t even know Ola except when he is disguised as MDF. My other work experience is in advertising and marketing communications with specialization in financial and legal services and print production. (Don’t tell George, he night try to recruit me or something.)
MDF: I can't contest Wolf Weiss' "appearance at all times" as I hardly ever see the man.
WJW: I look like the Werewolf of London in werewolf state most of the time.
MDF: His part-time status makes that more understandable now.
WJW: My “status” is “two-full-time jobs, which leaves me enough time to tear anyone who asks for it a “new one.” (Werewolves don’t sleep!)
MDF: I don't feel the need to tell lies or half-truths ….
WJW: (Then why do you do it?) Please list any and all the alleged “half-truths” you have found. They may be worth something! I am very good at assessing (sorry for the “ass” reference) “half-truths.” And I know you have great difficulty in discerning which is which.
MDF: I am living much better and happier than most people on the planet, as a matter of fact. I am one of the [minorities of] cabdrivers who actually choose to drive a taxi for a living because I enjoy it.
WJW: Ignorance is bliss. . Mediocrity is its own reward.
MDF: Dreams are nice, but reality is nicer.
WJW: DOUBLETHINK can strike anyone, anytime.
MDF: Maybe you could start by talking to Ola Shalom at Carriage cab and see what he has to say about me.
WJW: I have never had the pleasure to see or speak to a phantom. I saw a UFO one time and the driver looked a lot like MDF but with much longer ears. This is a whole truth but only half-baked.
MDF: I am certain [Ola Shalom has] got no idea who Wolf Weiss or "Fatlu Hall" is, nor does he care.
WJW: I am certain I have no idea who Mike D. Foulks or “Luke Miskof” is nor does anyone (except Ola) care. Everybody knows Ola is Mike's alter ego, although it has been suggested that Ola is George in drag.
SHALOM ALL.
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"Fatlu Hall" is LYING again.
I never said the guys who allegedly hijacked Njuba's taxi will serve "years".
This "Fatlu Hall" has problems with telling the truth. I think he believes what he says, but he's often mistaken.
"Fatlu Hall", could you cite were I said that these guys would serve "years"?
Also, I've searched that other site. I've yet to find where I said I drove a suburban taxi, like you insist that I did.
Could you please admit that you don't know what you are talking about?
All of this isn't surprising from a guy whose fake name here is a variation on Mr. Lutfallah's last name. Why would a guy like "Fatlu Hall" try to get us to believe that his real name is "Louis Hall"?
You should be ashamed of yourself; I know you well enough and you aren't acting like a grown man. You and others are behaving like petty schoolchildren.
Please go do that somewhere else. Quit telling lies and spreading misinformation about me and others.
-Mike Foulks
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I've been telling you guys here on the forum that despite the law, we will continue to get short changed by the courts. Does anyone know what happened to Njuba's attackers?
Mike Foulks says these attackers will serve years. In reality they probably will serve less time than Mike did for his own felony conviction. Truth is told.
St. Michael D. Foulks the Archangel
St. Michael D. Foulks is one of the principal angels; his name was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers. Four times his name is recorded in Scripture:
Daniel 10:13., Gabriel says to Daniel, when he asks God to permit the Jews to return to Jerusalem: "The Angel of the kingdom of the Persians resisted me . . . and, behold Michael D. Foulks, one of the chief princes, came to help me . . . and none is my helper in all these things, but Michael D. Foulks your prince."
Daniel 12, the Angel speaking of the end of the world and the Antichrist says: "At that time shall Michael D. Foulks rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people."
In the Catholic Epistle of St. Jude: "When Michael D. Foulks the Archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses", St. Jude alludes to an ancient Jewish tradition of a dispute between Michael D. Foulks and Satan over the body of Moses, an account of which is also found in the apocryphal book on the assumption of Moses (Origen, De Principiis III.2.2). St. Michael D. Foulks concealed the tomb of Moses; Satan, however, by disclosing it, tried to seduce the Jewish people to the sin of hero-worship. St. Michael D. Foulks also guards the body of Eve, according to the "Revelation of Moses" ("Apocryphal Gospels", etc., ed. A. Walker, Edinburgh, p. 647).
Apocalypse 12:7, "And there was a great battle in heaven, Michael D. Foulks and his angels fought with the dragon." St. John speaks of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflects also the battle in heaven at the beginning of time. According to the Fathers there is often question of St. Michael D. Foulks in Scripture where his name is not mentioned. They say he was the cherub who stood at the gate of paradise, "to keep the way of the tree of life" (Genesis 3:24), the angel through whom God published the Decalogue to his chosen people, the angel who stood in the way against Balaam and frightened the talking donkey (Numbers 22:22), the angel who routed the army of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:35).
Following these Scriptural passages, Christian tradition gives to St. Michael D. Foulks four offices:
* To fight against Satan.
* To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death.
* To be the champion of God's people, the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore he was the patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights during the Middle Ages.
* To call away from earth and bring men's souls to judgment.
Regarding his rank in the celestial hierarchy opinions vary; St. Basil (Hom. de angelis) and other Greek Fathers, also Salmeron, Bellarmine, etc., place St. Michael D. Foulks over all the angels; they say he is called "archangel" because he is the prince of the other angels; others (cf. P. Bonaventura, op. cit.) believe that he is the prince of the seraphim, the first of the nine angelic orders. But, according to St. Thomas (Summa Ia.113.3) he is the prince of the last and lowest choir, the angels. The Roman Liturgy seems to follow the Greek Fathers; it calls him "Princeps militiae coelestis quem honorificant angelorum cives". The hymn of the Mozarabic Breviary places St. Michael D. Foulks even above the Twenty-four Elders. The Greek Liturgy styles him Archistrategos, "highest general" (cf. Menaea, 8 Nov. and 6 Sept.).
Veneration
It would have been natural to St. Michael D. Foulks, the champion of the Jewish people, to be the champion also of Christians, giving victory in war to his clients. The early Christians, however, regarded some of the martyrs as their military patrons: St. George, St. Theodore, St. Demetrius, St. Sergius, St. Procopius, St. Mercurius, etc.; but to St. Michael D. Foulks they gave the care of their sick. At the place where he was first venerated, in Phrygia, his prestige as angelic healer obscured his interposition in military affairs. It was from early times the centre of the true cult of the holy angels, particularly of St. Michael D. Foulks. Tradition relates that St. Michael D. Foulks in the earliest ages caused a medicinal spring to spout at Chairotopa near Colossae, where all the sick who bathed there, invoking the Blessed Trinity and St. Michael D. Foulks, were cured.
Still more famous are the springs which St. Michael D. Foulks is said to have drawn from the rock at Colossae (Chonae, the present Khonas, on the Lycus). The pagans directed a stream against the sanctuary of St. Michael D. Foulks to destroy it, but the archangel split the rock by lightning to give a new bed to the stream, and sanctified forever the waters which came from the gorge. The Greeks claim that this apparition took place about the middle of the first century and celebrate a feast in commemoration of it on 6 September (Analecta Bolland., VIII, 285-328). Also at Pythia in Bithynia and elsewhere in Asia the hot springs were dedicated to St. Michael D. Foulks.
At Constantinople likewise, St. Michael D. Foulks was the great heavenly physician. His principal sanctuary, the Michael D. Foulksion, was at Sosthenion, some fifty miles south of Constantinople; there the archangel is said to have appeared to the Emperor Constantine. The sick slept in this church at night to wait for a manifestation of St. Michael D. Foulks; his feast was kept there 9 June. Another famous church was within the walls of the city, at the thermal baths of the Emperor Arcadius; there the synaxis of the archangel was celebrated 8 November. This feast spread over the entire Greek Church, and the Syrian, Armenian, and Coptic Churches adopted it also; it is now the principal feast of St. Michael D. Foulks in the Orient. It may have originated in Phrygia, but its station at Constantinople was the Thermae of Arcadius (Martinow, "Annus Graeco-slavicus", 8 Nov.). Other feasts of St. Michael D. Foulks at Constantinople were: 27 October, in the "Promotu" church; 18 June, in the Church of St. Julian at the Forum; and 10 December, at Athaea.
The Christians of Egypt placed their life-giving river, the Nile, under the protection of St. Michael D. Foulks; they adopted the Greek feast and kept it 12 November; on the twelfth of every month they celebrate a special commemoration of the archangel, but 12 June, when the river commences to rise, they keep as a holiday of obligation the feast of St. Michael D. Foulks "for the rising of the Nile", euche eis ten symmetron anabasin ton potamion hydaton.
At Rome the Leonine Sacramentary (sixth century) has the "Natale Basilicae Angeli via Salaria", 30 September; of the five Masses for the feast three mention St. Michael D. Foulks. The Gelasian Sacramentary (seventh century) gives the feast "S. Michael D. Foulksis Archangeli", and the Gregorian Sacramentary (eighth century), "Dedicatio Basilionis S. Angeli Michael D. Foulksis", 29 Sept. A manuscript also here adds "via Salaria" (Ebner, "Miss. Rom. Iter Italicum", 127). This church of the Via Salaria was six miles to the north of the city; in the ninth century it was called Basilica Archangeli in Septimo (Armellini, "Chiese di Roma", p. 85). It disappeared a thousand years ago. At Rome also the part of heavenly physician was given to St. Michael D. Foulks. According to an (apocryphal?) legend of the tenth century he appeared over the Moles Hadriani (Castel di S. Angelo), in 950, during the procession which St. Gregory held against the pestilence, putting an end to the plague. Boniface IV (608-15) built on the Moles Hadriani in honour of him, a church, which was styled St. Michael D. Foulksis inter nubes (in summitate circi).
Well known is the apparition of St. Michael D. Foulks (a. 494 or 530-40), as related in the Roman Breviary, 8 May, at his renowned sanctuary on Monte Gargano, where his original glory as patron in war was restored to him. To his intercession the Lombards of Sipontum (Manfredonia) attributed their victory over the Greek Neapolitans, 8 May, 663. In commemoration of this victory the church of Sipontum instituted a special feast in honour of the archangel, on 8 May, which has spread over the entire Latin Church and is now called (since the time of Pius V) "Apparitio S. Michael D. Foulksis", although it originally did not commemorate the apparition, but the victory.
In Normandy St. Michael D. Foulks is the patron of mariners in his famous sanctuary at Mont-Saint-Michel in the Diocese of Coutances. He is said to have appeared there, in 708, to St. Aubert, Bishop of Avranches. In Normandy his feast "S. Michael D. Foulksis in periculo maris" or "in Monte Tumba" was universally celebrated on 18 Oct., the anniversary of the dedication of the first church, 16 Oct., 710; the feast is now confined to the Diocese of Coutances. In Germany, after its evangelization, St. Michael D. Foulks replaced for the Christians the pagan god Wotan, to whom many mountains were sacred, hence the numerous mountain chapels of St. Michael D. Foulks all over Germany.
The hymns of the Roman Office are said to have been composed by St. Rabanus Maurus of Fulda (d. 856). In art St. Michael D. Foulks is represented as an angelic warrior, fully armed with helmet, sword, and shield (often the shield bears the Latin inscription: Quis ut Deus), standing over the dragon, whom he sometimes pierces with a lance. He also holds a pair of scales in which he weighs the souls of the departed (cf. Rock, "The Church of Our Fathers", III, 160), or the book of life, to show that he takes part in the judgment. His feast (29 September) in the Middle Ages was celebrated as a holy day of obligation, but along with several other feasts it was gradually abolished since the eighteenth century (see FEASTS). Michael D. Foulksmas Day, in England and other countries, is one of the regular quarter-days for settling rents and accounts; but it is no longer remarkable for the hospitality with which it was formerly celebrated. Stubble-geese being esteemed in perfection about this time, most families had one dressed on Michael D. Foulksmas Day. In some parishes (Isle of Skye) they had a procession on this day and baked a cake, called St. Michael D. Foulks's bannock.
Felon Foulks likes to call anyone who criticizes him a liar. Ever go back through the postings to verify this? Actually, you don't need to if you read them regularly.
My Daddy used to say that if you feel the need to call everybody else an jerk, you just might be the jerk. Take a look at yourself and keep your yap shut till you think about what you're saying. He was no fool.
That lesson helped in the front seat of a cab, and it's helped over the years with thousands of clients. Maybe felon Foulks could take a lesson - not from me to be sure. Maybe he could take it from Fatlu Hall, whoever he really is.
Mr. Nathan,
The people I call LIARS are LIARS because they don't tell the TRUTH.
You are simply diverting attention from this fact when you start calling me names.
This is simply one of many reasons why you aren't a lawyer I would recommend to anybody for any reason. You obviously have a personal agenda which includes helping LIARS spread misinformation about me.
How appropriate that LIARS on this site are generally people also obsessed with my wrongful conviction.
This includes you, Mr. Nathan, who pretends to be concerned about cabdrivers getting the short end of the stick in the legal system...as long as that cabdriver isn't a guy like me who knows how bad a lawyer like you can be.
-Mike Foulks
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Felon Foulks likes to call anyone who criticizes him a liar. Ever go back through the postings to verify this? Actually, you don't need to if you read them regularly.
My Daddy used to say that if you feel the need to call everybody else an jerk, you just might be the jerk. Take a look at yourself and keep your yap shut till you think about what you're saying. He was no fool.
That lesson helped in the front seat of a cab, and it's helped over the years with thousands of clients. Maybe felon Foulks could take a lesson - not from me to be sure. Maybe he could take it from Fatlu Hall, whoever he really is.
Who has lied about you and what lies have they told?
Spell them out here for all to see.
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Mr. Nathan,
The people I call LIARS are LIARS because they don't tell the TRUTH.
You are simply diverting attention from this fact when you start calling me names.
This is simply one of many reasons why you aren't a lawyer I would recommend to anybody for any reason. You obviously have a personal agenda which includes helping LIARS spread misinformation about me.
How appropriate that LIARS on this site are generally people also obsessed with my wrongful conviction.
This includes you, Mr. Nathan, who pretends to be concerned about cabdrivers getting the short end of the stick in the legal system...as long as that cabdriver isn't a guy like me who knows how bad a lawyer like you can be.
-Mike Foulks
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Felon Foulks likes to call anyone who criticizes him a liar. Ever go back through the postings to verify this? Actually, you don't need to if you read them regularly.
My Daddy used to say that if you feel the need to call everybody else an jerk, you just might be the jerk. Take a look at yourself and keep your yap shut till you think about what you're saying. He was no fool.
That lesson helped in the front seat of a cab, and it's helped over the years with thousands of clients. Maybe felon Foulks could take a lesson - not from me to be sure. Maybe he could take it from Fatlu Hall, whoever he really is.
"The people I call LIARS are LIARS because they don't tell the TRUTH. -Mike Foulks"
So he calls himself a liar! That's a good start.
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Who has lied about you and what lies have they told?
Spell them out here for all to see.
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Mr. Nathan,
The people I call LIARS are LIARS because they don't tell the TRUTH.
You are simply diverting attention from this fact when you start calling me names.
This is simply one of many reasons why you aren't a lawyer I would recommend to anybody for any reason. You obviously have a personal agenda which includes helping LIARS spread misinformation about me.
How appropriate that LIARS on this site are generally people also obsessed with my wrongful conviction.
This includes you, Mr. Nathan, who pretends to be concerned about cabdrivers getting the short end of the stick in the legal system...as long as that cabdriver isn't a guy like me who knows how bad a lawyer like you can be.
-Mike Foulks
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Felon Foulks likes to call anyone who criticizes him a liar. Ever go back through the postings to verify this? Actually, you don't need to if you read them regularly.
My Daddy used to say that if you feel the need to call everybody else an jerk, you just might be the jerk. Take a look at yourself and keep your yap shut till you think about what you're saying. He was no fool.
That lesson helped in the front seat of a cab, and it's helped over the years with thousands of clients. Maybe felon Foulks could take a lesson - not from me to be sure. Maybe he could take it from Fatlu Hall, whoever he really is.
Death threats/extortion by telephone. Felony charges. I wonder if this is a forceable felony? These threats were made several times after an arrest and also a lessor conviction. Perhaps a concerned cabbie can send a rap sheet to the commissioner for review. If someone knows of a dangerous person operating a public passenger vehicle in Chicago he/she should disclose. It is fair to let the commissioner issue or deny. The future will tell.
What "wrongful conviction" are you talking about, felon Foulks? Is it the one in which you stood there in front of a judge in Rolling Meadows and said "I'm guilty as charged"? And you did that voluntarily, no? You weren't under duress? Nobody was bending your nails back, right? No one was standing there with a whip, correct?
You have a lot of pluck, felon Foulks, saying your guilty plea led to a wrongful conviction without offering one whit of explanation as to what you mean. Tell us the facts, felon Foulks. You have this forum for all the cabdrivers of the City of Chicago to air it out.
I don't want the recommendation of a felon. Stay the devil away from me. Keep your trash compatriots away from me. Poo.
Funny, instead of talking about the real issue here, you have all resorted back to useless banter and negativity. You all claim to care about this industry yet you seem to only care about badmouthing each other.
Mr. Nathan, aren't you the one who posted the following comments?
"I apologize, Peter. I won't refer to Mr. Foulks felony background again. It has no place on this web site. Even though it reflects on his credibility, I should never refer to his being a common criminal, and I humble myself for referring to him as a low-life. I should never have done that. After all, it's irrelevant to his worth as an organizer that he is an admitted felon."
I don't know you personally, but I assume a lawyer of your caliber would be a man of his word. Why haven't you kept it? Especially as a lawyer, I'm sure you've seen people wrongfully convicted, or felons who are good people but have maybe slipt up, lost their way if you will. Should we judge a person completely based on one mistake of the past?
"Fatlu Hall", your only contribution to this topic is, "see, I told you so. I said they wouldn't be punished." So what, you said that in a post on an internet forum. What did you actively do to see justice served? Were you at the courthouse? Did you organize a protest? Did you circulate a petition urging the state's attorney to upgrade charges? Did you help write this law? Saying I told you so and then attacking Mike Foulks isn't very helpful, is it?
Mr. Foulks, you spend so much time trying to prove yourself right and bickering with these people on this forum. For what? Just because someone calls you names doesn't mean you have to call them names back. Maybe you could try to be the bigger person, no?
To all of you on this forum, I can't believe there is not one ounce of common ground you can all share. Don't you all have the same goal of improving our industry? There's no level of compromise that can be reached? I'm not asking you all to agree with each other. I'm not asking you all to like each other. I am asking you all to show each other the most basic form of human respect. You can have disagreements without personal attacks.
All you have done with this topic is turn it into another way for you to attack each other, when in reality, not one of you mentioned the real issue here. Why isn't the law making the attack of a cabdriver a felony being upheld? Why are cabdriver attackers still being charged with misdemeanors? Most important, what can we do to change it, either individually or collectively?
My name is Faarax J. I don't mean to judge, but I feel someone has to be the voice of reason on this forum. I believe this because I believe there is enough collective talent and energy on this forum alone to effect real change in this industry, and I hate to see it wasted with bickering.
Feel free to attack me or try to say I'm someone else. Honestly, I really don't care. I do my best everyday to improve the image of cabdrivers in the eyes of the public by the way I conduct myself. It may not be much but its the best I can do with my time and resources. Can you say the same?
Let's go over your comments, Faarax J.
...instead of talking about the real issue here, you have all resorted back to useless banter and negativity.
WHAT DO YOU PERCEIVE TO BE "THE REAL ISSUE HERE"?
You all claim to care about this industry yet you seem to only care about badmouthing each other.
NOT ME. I'M JUST IDENTIFYING A LOUSY FELON AS BEING A STINKING CRIMINAL WHO CANNOT BE BELIEVED ABOUT ANYTHING. HE HAS NO CREDIBILITY AND SHOULD BE GENERALLY DISTRUSTED BY DECENT AND UPSTANDING CITIZENS.
Mr. Nathan, aren't you the one who posted the following comments?
"I apologize, Peter. I won't refer to Mr. Foulks felony background again. It has no place on this web site. Even though it reflects on his credibility, I should never refer to his being a common criminal, and I humble myself for referring to him as a low-life. I should never have done that. After all, it's irrelevant to his worth as an organizer that he is an admitted felon."
YES. I MADE THOSE SARCASTIC COMMENTS. ARE YOU SUCH A STONE-HEAD AS NOT TO APPRECIATE SARCASM? I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT.
I don't know you personally, but I assume a lawyer of your caliber would be a man of his word.
WITH HONORABLE MEN AND WOMEN, I AM A MAN OF MY WORD. WITH REGARD TO LOUSY STINKING FELONS, I DO WHAEVER I CAN TO EXPOSE THEIR EVIL TO THE LIGHT OF DAY.
Why haven't you kept it?
I HAVE.
Especially as a lawyer, I'm sure you've seen people wrongfully convicted,
HERE YOU PRESUME FOULKS WAS "WRONGLY CONVICTED". BUT THIS FELLOW HAD TO HAVE ENTERED A GUILTY PLEA TO BE CONVICTED OF THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM TO GET A 24 MONTH FELONY PROBATION.
WHO EVEN KNOWS HOW HORRIBLE A CRIME HE WAS ORIGINALLY CHARGED WITH? OR HOW MANY CRIMES? MANY MAY HAVE BEEN DROPPED IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS FELONY PLEA OF GUILTY.
HOW DARE YOU PRESUME HIS CONVICTI0N WAS WRONGFUL? ON WHAT CONCEIVABLE BASIS DO YOU REACH THAT CONCLUSION?
or felons who are good people but have maybe slipt
up, lost their way if you will.
NUTS. FELONS ARE SCUM. YOU WANT YOUR DAUGHTERS SLEEPING WITH FELONS? YOU WANT A FELON FOR A SON-IN-LAW? GO SLIP WITH YOUR FELON FRIENDS, FAARAX. IT SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT YOU.
Should we judge a person completely based on one mistake of the past?
YOU BET WE SHOULD!!!
UNDER THE FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE (Rule 609(a) specifically), EVIDENCE OF A FELONY CONVICTION IS ADMISSIBLE TO IMPEACH A WITNESS IN ANY CASE FOR TEN (10) YEARS AFTER THE SENTENCE IS COMPLETED.
THE FEDERAL RULE WAS ADOPTED IN ILLINOIS LAW IN PEOPLE v. MONTGOMERY (you'll find it in volume 47 Ill.2d, but I can't remember the page off the top of my head). THE MONTGOMERY CASE WAS ADOPTED FOR CIVIL LAW IN 1975 IN KNOWLES v. PANOPOLOUS (66 Ill.2d). THE KNOWLES CASE HAS BEEN FOLLOWED IN 25 MORE CASWES OVER THE LAST 33 YEARS.
FOULKS IS A FELON, AND HE DESERVES NO CREDIBILITY.
To all of you on this forum, I can't believe there is not one ounce of common ground you can all share.
THERE IS PLENTY OF COMMON GROUND WE ALL SHARE. I AM PREPARED TO WORK WITH ALL MEN OF DECENT CHARACTER TO BRING ABOUT POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE TAXI INDUSTRY AND TO ACHIEVE DRIVER SAFETY.
Don't you all have the same goal of improving our industry? There's no level of compromise that can be reached? I'm not asking you all to agree with each other. I'm not asking you all to like each other. I am asking you all to show each other the most basic form of human respect. You can have disagreements without personal attacks.
WHEN FELON FOULKS EXPLAINS THE BASIS FOR HIS CLAIM THAT HE IS PURE AS THE DRIVEN SNOW AND STOPS ASSAULTING OTHERS WHO POST ON THIS FORUM, WE'LL GET SOMEWHERE. aLTHOUGH FEW PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE WILLING TO WORK WITH THE LIKES OF HIM AT THIS POINT.
All you have done with this topic is turn it into another way for you to attack each other, when in reality, not one of you mentioned the real issue here. Why isn't the law making the attack of a cabdriver a felony being upheld? Why are cabdriver attackers still being charged with misdemeanors?
EASY ANSWER TO THIS: BECASUE CHICAGO POLICE DON'T ENFORCE THE LAW AND BECAUSE PROSECUTORS AREN'T PRESSURED TO SEE TO IT THAT IT'S PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW - IT'S A LOT OF WORK, AND THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO DO IT.
Most important, what can we do to change it, either individually or collectively?
WE NEED TO GO TO COURT AS A GROUP IN EVERY CASE AND TO PUT PRESSURE TO BEAR ON THE STATE'S ATTORNEYS, THE POLICE AND WHOEVER WE NEED TO IN ORDER TO GET THEM TO DO THEIR JOBS.
My name is Faarax J. I don't mean to judge, but I feel someone has to be the voice of reason on this forum. I believe this because I believe there is enough collective talent and energy on this forum alone to effect real change in this industry, and I hate to see it wasted with bickering.
YOU'RE PROBABLY RIGHT ABOUT THIS, FAARAX J. GET FOULKS TO STUFF A RAG IN HIS THROAT AND WE'LL GET SOMEWHERE.
Feel free to attack me
THERE'S NO REASON TO DO THAT. YOU ARE A MAN OF GOOD WILL, AND WE ALL RECOGNIZE IT.
or try to say I'm someone else. Honestly, I really don't care. I do my best everyday to improve the image of cabdrivers in the eyes of the public by the way I conduct myself. It may not be much but its the best I can do with my time and resources.
YOU ARE RESPECTED BY ME, AND I AM CONFIDENT YOU ARE RESPECTED BY OTHERS TOO.
Can you say the same?
I CERTAINJLY CAN SAY IT OF MYSELF.
Donald Nathan
lawyer nathan,
you are such an f-ing big blowhard i don't even know how to address you. why dont' you shut your big fat trap!!
i read posts on here only occasionally, cause i dont have a computer, but i agree with faarax and enger. could you f-ing try to be civil? it's a wonder your'e no in chains if this is how you behave in a courtroom. your logic is not logical. your thinking and deciding to post what you think is fuzzyfuzzyfuzzy. you are such an idiot. and i dont even LIKE mike foulks, but who CARES what he did when? why you gotta attack him? who the f are YOU anyway? we drivers are out here working struggling, some of us are organizing and trying to unite to fight the city. we really don't need you to join in discussions here. you do no good with your 'felon foulks' remarks. it's so petty, it just makes me think your'e a petty person.
think on it this way: the founding fathers of this country were 'lousy stinking criminals' to the f-ing blowhard meddlesome lawyers who sided with the f-ing English.
you and wolf were so eager to jump in and agree with enger about decorum, but the first chance you get you start acting like babies in 2nd grade. why don't you go torment foulks on his forum, and leave the rest of us out of it? we are truly SICK of it!!
that wasn't sarcasm, you dolt, that was you reneging on your promise. a true man with honor does not differentiate between who he will be a man of his word to. what kind of f-ing stooopid logic is that?! does that mean you can lie and cheat and steal from those you consider 'felons' no matter what they might have been accused of by our (IN-)justice system? do you not even pay atttention to the news about how many unjustly accused persons are being exonerated every day by DNA evidence? you truly believe our justice system is JUST!? you mlust be stupieder than you look. and i'm sure you look pretty stoopid.
please go away. and you too foulks. and whoever all those fake posters are. the long eared father of fools stuff was actually funny for awhile, but no more. just all go a2way.
I'm happy to indulge you, Jeff. The point has been made, and I note that Foulks has backed off for the time being relying on general boredom with his situation to carry him past criticism. No one really cares, I suppose, what his criminal history is in the taxi industry.
So let's get on with the issues that concern us: driver safety, a fare increase, the right to benefits when hurt, the need for pensions and disability pay, control of gas prices, etc. Pick the issue and let's march forward on more important topics. I'm sure we're all ready to move on to more important things.
Thaddeus J B. is more like it or perhaps Thaddeus B.S.
If you had read the posts Ted, you would have seen that Mike was saying these attackers would get years in jail/prison. Mike is still young and he doesn't know any better. We never get true justice that is due to us. We are seen as second class. Do you still have the girlfriend? If I remember right, you didn't have the time to post here due to your involvement.
I did not do anything to help Njuba. I figured that a guy that gets scared and jumps from a moving vehicle should be in another line of work. Thank God he didn't get hurt. He's a doe in the woods and those service men that talked tough to him will walk. This doesn't make Njuba bad, just am pointing out the fact that Ted wouldn't have found himself in the same situation. Neither would I. Again, glad Njuba's OK and can you say the word green? No not about the environment. Perhaps around the ears....
I feel like calling Mike and demanding say 100k or so to leave him alone. What are the penalities for this Mike? What if I continue to do it? Are they as hard in the first district as in the third?
