draft - in progress
by me, Kerry Burgess, 05/31/2026 9:06 PM
Kerry W. Burgess ("me") does not endorse Google.
Kerry W. Burgess has never endorsed Google.
Kerry W. Burgess has never endorsed, does not endorse Google or any of its activities or people.
If only the USA justice-system was not a luxury for people like me.
Number of good lawyers I can afford to hire: zero.
Number of lousy lawyers I can afford to hire: zero.
Number of scumbag lawyers protecting corporate Google and its greedy billionaires: many
Why don't *you* care?
BECAUSE you have nothing they want.
Other than spying on your privacy, which is basically meaningless because *your* life is pointless
A few dollars from some of you
The Google profit model works only because they cannot compete fairly.
If they compete fairly then they need more than a few dollars from a few of you
IF THEY ARE EVER FORCED to compete fairly then they need something that everyone is watching.
To separate them from other competition.
https://time.com/3250807/google-anniversary/
From 7/14/1951 ( ) To 5/15/1984 ( officially accepted for enlistment US Navy on 05/21/1983 for the Advanced Electronics Field, as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as US Navy enlisted seafarer as scheduled for this day ) is 11994 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/4/1998 ( ) is 11994 days
From 7/14/1951 ( ) To 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA federal government 1981-1989: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) is 11994 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/4/1998 ( ) is 11994 days
From 1/18/1953 ( ) To 11/20/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: assigned to US Navy USS Taylor FFG-50 {permanent assignment 1984-1986} advancement from US Navy enlisted paygrade E-3 (undesignated) to E-4 - Fire Controlman Petty Officer Third Class (FC3) - US Navy fleet ship weapons-control ) is 11994 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/4/1998 ( ) is 11994 days
From 1/18/1953 ( ) To 11/20/1985 ( with no capability for meaningful contribution from Bill Gates to that product or any other product, past or future, the debut Microsoft Windows 1.0 ) is 11994 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/4/1998 ( ) is 11994 days
From 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) To 9/4/1998 ( ) is 3832 days
3832 = 1916 + 1916
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/31/1971 ( Kevin Wayne Burgess {also an enlisted US Navy veteran} ) is 1916 days
https://web.archive.org/web/20150116073513/https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company/
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp79b00752a000300100010-4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Panel
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100030027-0.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Panel
Robertson Panel
From Wikipedia
In addition to a range of suggestions regarding improved techniques and resources for Blue Book the Panel concluded that a public education campaign should be undertaken to, on the one hand, improve training for relevant personnel in identification of various aerial phenomena and:
"(t)he "debunking" aim would result in reduction in public interest in "flying saucers" which today evokes a strong psychological reaction. This education could be accomplished by mass media such as television, motion pictures, and popular articles. Basis of such education would be actual case histories which had been puzzling at first but later explained. As in the case of conjuring tricks, there is much less stimulation if the "secret" is known. Such a program should tend to reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda. The Panel noted that the general absence of Russian propaganda based on a subject with so many obvious possibilities for exploitation might indicate a possible Russian official policy. ... The Panel took cognizance of the existence of such groups as the "Civilian Flying Saucer Investigators" (Los Angeles) and the "Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (Wisconsin). It was believed that such organizations should be watched because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur. The apparent irresponsibility and the possible use of such groups for subversive purposes should be kept in mind."
excerpt
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/03/today-is-03052024.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:35 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Tuesday, March 05, 2024
Today is 03/05/2024
"Tic tac" and minty-flavor
Clearly, he's one of those "abrupt left-turn" morons that think someone saw E.T. on radar DEFILING! the "laws of physics". Those morons think that the government doesn't want you to learn that "hyperspace" is real so that you cannot escape from your mediocrity. You're like some retarded kids playing Star Wars and arguing which of you is that ridiculous Chewbacca character.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 05/22/2026 5:43 PM
That so-called "instant acceleration" video, as seen this late afternoon on CBS Evening News tv of "UFO" must be driving those UFO-bunkers into frenzy again.
It is DEFILING! the laws of fizzicks, they must be screaming in their puerile rants on the internet. They don't know what "laws of physics" means but they hear it on The X-Files all the time so it must be something important.
Me, I am not so naive and gullible.
Clearly, someone at the Pentagon did that just to prove to the world my past comments: there are no frames in digital-video
If you don't understand that then you definitely should not be a UFO-bunker.
by me, Kerry Burges, 06/01/2026 4:07 PM
Fairly certain one of those examples they presented on USA national television was video they captured with night-vision was of a kite on a string darting around the sky below the observer
IMDb
Gremlins (1984)
Quotes
Kate Beringer: That's when I noticed the smell.
From 1/16/1939 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: CONTEMPORARY COMMENT - Mass Marriage - from the "Harvard Crimson" ) To 1/28/1978 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Bionic Woman"::"The Martians Are Coming, the Martians Are Coming" ) is 14257 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 14257 days
From 1/16/1939 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: CONTEMPORARY COMMENT - Mass Marriage - from the "Harvard Crimson" ) To 1/28/1978 ( premiere USA TV series "Fantasy Island" ) is 14257 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 14257 days
From 7/21/1979 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan and my sister-in-law Phoebe Cates are lawfully married in the state of Vermont ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 9248 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/27/1991 ( George Bush, 41st President of USA federal government 1989-1993: Address to the Nation on the Suspension of Allied Offensive Combat Operations in the Persian Gulf ) is 9248 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my US Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 5050 days
5050 = 2525 + 2525
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/1/1972 ( from internet: the first reports on the creation of a recombinant DNA molecule were published, marking a significant milestone in the field of molecular biology. This event is considered the birth of modern molecular biology, paving the way for advancements in genetic engineering and biotechnology. ) is 2525 days
From 6/8/1984 ( premiere USA film "Gremlins" ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 7464 days
7464 = 3732 + 3732
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/1976 ( preceding his strike beyond planet Saturn to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening all life on planet Earth with death and extinction, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 3732 days
From 5/21/1983 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: "I accept him for enlistment on behalf of the US Navy" ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 7848 days
7848 = 3924 + 3924
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/31/1976 ( the so-called "Face on Mars" photograph released to the public by US NASA ) is 3924 days
From 3/6/2000 ( premiere USA film "Mission To Mars" ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 1714 days
1714 = 857 + 857
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/8/1968 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Ultimate Computer" ) is 857 days
From 2/12/1910 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: STUDY OF BRAHMS IN TO=NIGHT'S RECITAL ; The Beethoven Of Our Own Time, His Work Measures Up Consistently To Classic Ideals - No Modern Composer His Equal. ) To 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) is 28514 days
28514 = 14257 + 14257
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 14257 days
From 4/20/1998 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Editorials & Opinions ; Unearthing Ancient Skeletons In New Jersey's Closet ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 2400 days
2400 = 1200 + 1200
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) is 1200 days
From 3/6/1983 ( premiere USA TV "Baby Sister" ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 7924 days
7924 = 3962 + 3962
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/7/1976 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA federal government 1974-1977: Remarks Upon Signing the Child Day Care Bill ) is 3962 days
From 6/21/1985 ( premiere USA film "Cocoon" ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 7086 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/28/1985 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Hill Street Blues"::"G.Q." ) is 7086 days
From 3/7/2003 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Momento" ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 618 days
618 = 309 + 309
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/7/1966 ( premiere USA TV series "The Man Who Never Was" ) is 309 days
From 6/27/1994 ( the US NASA Stargazer Pegasus rocket failure ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 3793 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/22/1976 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Calculating The Amount Of Your Pension... ) is 3793 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 7/21/1969 ( disguised, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon - his 1st of his 6 Earth-Luna lunar-landings with USA Project Apollo, strictly in planning and preparation for his personal activities in this solar-system's deep-space 1975-1977 ) is 3793 days
From 9/4/1949 ( from internet source: debut American Comics Group "Spy and Counterspy" ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 20160 days
20160 = 10080 + 10080
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
From 11/1/1902 ( from Nassau Literary Magazine, Princeton University: From an Old Boat ) To 11/25/1980 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA federal government 1977-1981: Executive Order 12253 - Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System ) is 28514 days
28514 = 14257 + 14257
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 14257 days
From 11/5/1994 ( {from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my maternal biological genetic grandfather} Ronald Reagan announces that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 3662 days
3662 = 1831 + 1831
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/7/1970 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Mission: Impossible"::"Decoy" ) is 1831 days
From 4/10/1927 ( Joan Quigley ) To 5/4/2005 ( IN THE FUTURE from 11/14/2004: the incident at the police department City of Kent Washington State after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I am secretly drugged against my consent ) is 28514 days
28514 = 14257 + 14257
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/2004 ( ) is 14257 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos
Pentagon UFO videos
On November 14, 2004, fighter pilot Commander David Fravor of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group claims to have investigated radar indications of a possible target off the coast of southern California. Fravor said the operator had told him that the USS Princeton (CG-59)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley
Joan Quigley (born April 10, 1927), of San Francisco, is an astrologer best known for her astrological advice to the Reagan White House in the 1980s.
from internet
10:19 PM July 31, 2023
Quote Tweet
Mike Colangelo @MikeColangelo
https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1686216888634716161
If the full version of the ‘GoFast’ video was released and the object in the video did a perfect sharp 90 degree turn, without slowing down, would that change your opinion about the GoFast video at all?
#ufotwitter #ufos #uap #ufox #ufo
by me, Kerry Burgess, 07/31/2023
More of those guys muddying up the water with ridiculous questions.
That guy is not a pilot, as far as I know
He has zero amount of aerodynamics expertise
You are never going to know if it was a "perfect sharp" 90-degree turn
Just stupid.
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
Adama: Are you really going to press charges against Kara?
Tigh: For striking a superior officer? You're damn right I am.
Adama: Heard you started the day off pretty early.
Tigh: (walks over, picks up picture of Adama and his kids) I wasn't on duty.
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(Starbuck's quarters - Tigh walks in, Starbuck stands up)
Tigh: As you were.
Starbuck: Just trying to avoid another trip to the brig, sir.
Tigh: Lt. Thrace. Kara, what you did out there today with Lee Adama, it was a hell of a piece of flying. The Commander has always said that you were the best pilot he has ever seen. Well, today you proved it. Now, about yesterday, during the game, well, maybe I was out of line too. And I just- (Starbuck smirks) I wanted to say - sorry. Well, don't you have anything to say?
Starbuck: Permission to speak off the record, sir?
Tigh: Granted.
Starbuck: You're a bastard.
Tigh: You just don't know when to keep your mouth shut, do you? I am offering you a clean slate here.
Starbuck: I'm not interested in a clean slate with you. You're dangerous. You know why?
Tigh: This'll be good.
Starbuck: Because you're weak. Because you're a drunk.
Tigh: Are you done?
Starbuck: Yes, sir.
Tigh: You're returned to flight status. Let's see how long that lasts.
from internet
https://twitter.com/hvom2022/status/1688166438505480192
Alex Anne Dietrich @DietrichVFA41
I love you. But sometimes I don’t like your behavior
Don’t make me turn this Tic Tac around!
Can I claim #ufotwitter as a dependent on my taxes?
Quote Tweet
@TimSpursFan
Replying to @DietrichVFA41 @Rabbit_Hole_UFO and @NewsNation
Alex has the patience of a saint with all of this. I'm no body language expert, but at the beginning of the video, you can see her take a big breath in like "Ok, here we go...". Prepping for a root canal. She's like #ufotwitter 's Mom with what she does for us.
written, posted by me as my comment, Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022
Sure you're not just someone's Useful Fool in all this?
They're laughing behind your back?
You didn't seem very credible on News Nation recently
IMDb
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Quotes
Private Joker: [narrating] Graduation is only a few days away, and the recruits of Platoon 3092 are salty. They are ready to eat their own guts and ask for seconds. The drill instructors are proud to see that we are growing beyond their control. The Marine Corps does not want robots. The Marine Corps wants killers. The Marine Corps wants to build indestructible men, men without fear.
From 6/17/1987 ( ) To 5/14/1990 ( scheduled from 05/21/1983 - departing as enlisted US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2)(paygrade E-5) Kerry Wayne Burgess my Honorable Discharge from US Navy active service ) is 1062 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/29/1968 ( ) is 1062 days
From 10/1/1962 ( premiere USA TV series "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" ) To 5/15/1984 ( officially accepted for enlistment US Navy on 05/21/1983 for the Advanced Electronics Field, as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as US Navy enlisted seafarer as scheduled for this day ) is 7897 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/17/1987 ( ) is 7897 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/releaseinfo/
IMDb
Full Metal Jacket
Release info
United States June 17, 1987 (Beverly Hills, California, premiere)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Carson
Johnny Carson
From Wikipedia
John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host, comedian, and writer best known as the host of NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992).
Carson joined the United States Navy on June 8, 1943, and received V-12 Navy College Training Program officer training at Columbia University and Millsaps College. Commissioned an ensign late in the war, Carson was assigned to USS Pennsylvania in the Pacific. He arrived on the Pennsylvania on August 14, 1945, the same day Imperial Japan announced its surrender. The ship was sent to Guam after a torpedo bomber attack damaged its stern prior to Carson's arrival.
Once in drydock, Carson, assigned to damage control, was given the task of supervising the removal of the bodies of 20 servicemen and their effects. He recounted the experience in an unpublished 1967 Time interview, stating "Jesus, that was an awful experience. They'd been down there for 18 days by the time, and I want to tell you, that was a terrible job." Carson returned stateside with the Pennsylvania to Seattle and was assigned to command a troop train for returning servicemen. He finished his service in Guam, decoding encrypted messages.
Carson later said that the high point of his military career was performing a magic trick for U.S. secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal. In a conversation with Forrestal, the secretary asked Carson if he planned to stay in the Navy after the war. In response, Carson said no and told him he wanted to be a magician. Forrestal asked him to perform, and Carson responded with a card trick. Carson discovered that he could entertain and amuse someone as cranky and sophisticated as Forrestal.
While in the Navy, Carson was an amateur boxer, with most of his bouts fought on board Pennsylvania.
The Michigan Daily
The bombing of the A2 CIA office
by CHRISTOPHER ZBROZEK
October 24, 2006
Former Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter Krasny didn’t rest well the night of September 29, 1968. Asleep in his home more than two miles from downtown, Krasny awoke shortly before midnight, his sleep interrupted by the blast of an explosion on Main Street.
There was a CIA recruitment office at 450 Main in those days, although its staff liked to keep quiet. A secretary would inform visitors who walked into the inconspicuous, unnamed office that the manager was out of town. That statement was probably even true from time to time; the agent running the office, John F. Forrester, was charged with recruiting students both from our University and from that farm school over in East Lansing.
On that night in late September, someone set off four to six sticks of dynamite in front of Forrester’s office. The explosion blew a three-inch deep hole in the sidewalk, shattered windows and overturned furniture, causing thousands of dollars of damage, though no one was hurt. The bombing was interpreted as a political act; Krasny was quick to tell the press he suspected “anti-establishment militants” and said that “hippies of a college age” were the focus of the investigation.
By itself, the CIA office bombing might be a footnote, a particularly explosive illustration of the unrest in those days. Indeed, Ann Arbor experienced two more bombings within a year. Two weeks after the CIA bombing, the Institute of Science and Technology on North Campus was targeted, presumably for its role in military research. The following June, a bomb went off under a car outside North Hall in an apparent attempt to disrupt the ROTC program.
A court case that arose out of the Ann Arbor CIA bombing, however, went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which dealt the Nixon Administration a solid defeat. The case involved some of the leading figures in the White Panther Party, the radical political group centered for a time around a commune at 1520 Hill that also happened to house the band MC5.
The CIA bombing was similar to a string of bombings, mainly of police cars, then underway in Detroit. A fellow by the name of David Valler later confessed to carrying out or aiding those bombings, as well as the IST bombing in Ann Arbor. Valler, whether truthfully or not, claimed after his arrest to have repented his former dope-taking hippie revolutionary ways, and he rapidly made a name for himself as a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, denouncing the evils of drugs and youth culture and writing that the hippie “sweeps his dirt into the hallways of society. He creates chaos.”
A little more than a year after the bombing of the Ann Arbor CIA office, a federal grand jury indicted three members of the White Panther Party based on Valler’s testimony. White Panther Minister of Defense Pun Plamondon was charged with having set off the bomb, and White Panther Minister of Education Jack Forrest was charged with conspiracy to commit the bombing. The biggest name, though was White Panther Minister of Information – and MC5 manager and general counter-culture icon – John Sinclair, who was also charged with conspiracy. When the indictment was handed down, Sinclair was already in prison on his infamous 10-year sentence for possession of two joints. Plamondon, meanwhile, went underground for nearly a year after hearing the indictment on the radio, winning himself a spot on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.
From the White Panthers’ perspective, the charges were a government frame-up to silence an inconvenient challenge to the established order. Admittedly, if a statement from Valler to one of Sinclair’s attorneys now archived in the Bentley Historical Library is truthful, the defendants deserved to be found guilty as charged: Valler describes telling the grand jury how he asked Sinclair if he had anything to blow up, dropped off dynamite for Plamondon and heard Pun tell him that he’d blown up the CIA office. But to the White Panthers, the way that Valler’s approach to life shifted so drastically once the authorities got their hands on him reeked of a desire to get the government on his side, even if it meant participating in an plot to shut down the White Panther Party.
Sinclair and his co-defendants were hopeful given the circumstances. U.S. District Court Judge Damon Keith, who was hearing the case, had the reputation of being liberal. What’s more, Keith, who now sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, is black – which lead the defendants to feel he’d be more sympathetic to a bunch of would-be revolutionaries than some white Establishment lackey.
The defendants secured the help of a top-notch radical legal team through the National Lawyers Guild, and their attorneys used strategies that were innovative to say the least. The legal team wanted to know if potential jurors thought the killings at Kent State were justified and if they had ever heard of Abbie Hoffman or Eldridge Cleaver – or the John Birch Society. It also planned to ask jurors, “If you had a choice, would you prefer your child to grow up to be a CIA agent or a hippie?”
The defense filed motions seeking to have the indictment quashed on First Amendment grounds, arguing that the charges were merely meant to suppress political dissent. It also sought changes to ensure young people would be included on the jury, noting that the process for selecting the jury pool meant all potential jurors would be 25 or older. As Sinclair argued in his underground newspaper, “Older people can’t possibly judge us. They’re too engulfed by their culture of death to really understand what our lives are all about.”
Those motions didn’t get very far. As Judge Keith noted, if there was a conspiracy to commit a bombing, that would go beyond the protections of the First Amendment. While the motion to secure a more youthful jury did get a hearing, complete with poet Allen Ginsberg testifying as an expert on youth culture, it also failed.
A motion seeking to have the government turn over any electronic surveillance of the defendants, however, met with greater success, and the government was ordered to divulge any wiretaps of the defendants. In response, Attorney General Mitchell filed an affidavit acknowledging that Plamondon had been overheard on a warrantless wiretap that was part of the government’s efforts to spy on domestic dissidents. As Mitchell saw it, though, handing over the contents of the wiretap to the defense would compromise national security. In an interview in The Michigan Daily after the court case in 1972, Plamondon said the wiretap must have been of a phone call he made to the Detroit office of the Black Panther Party.
Much to Mitchell’s consternation, however, Keith ordered the government to turn over the contents of the wiretap. It refused, and the resulting lawsuit, United States vs. United States District Court, made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. There, the justices ruled 8-0 that the Nixon Administration couldn’t just ignore the Fourth Amendment whenever it felt like carrying out some domestic surveillance, no matter what it said about national security. (One hopes that the Bush Administration recalls that precedent).
Once the Nixon Administration had lost every appeal in the courts, the only way for the federal government to continue its prosecution of the White Panthers was to hand over the wiretap. That wasn’t palatable enough, so the government simply dropped the charges, and the former White Panthers – by now, the organization had been renamed the Rainbow People’s Party – went on with their lives.
From 3/13/1949 ( ) To 4/3/1998 ( premiere USA film "Lost in Space" ) is 17918 days
17918 = 8959 + 8959
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/14/1990 ( departing as enlisted {non-commissioned officer} US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2)(paygrade E-5) Kerry Wayne Burgess my Honorable Discharge from US Navy active service ) is 8959 days
From 3/13/1949 ( ) To 3/25/1988 ( premiere USA film "Biloxi Blues" ) is 14257 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/2004 ( IN THE FUTURE from 12/08/2003: the mainstream-media hoax driving UFO-bunkers and other blabbermouths into frenzy - "Tic Tac" incident with USS Nimitz and USS Princeton ) is 14257 days
From 3/13/1949 ( ) To 8/1/1973 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA federal government 1969-1974: Veto of the Emergency Medical Services Systems Bill ) is 8907 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/1990 ( premiere USA film "Pretty Woman" ) is 8907 days
From 3/13/1949 ( ) To 6/17/1987 ( premiere USA film "Full Metal Jacket" ) is 13975 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2004 ( IN THE FUTURE from 12/08/2003: as Kerry Burgess my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 13975 days
From 3/13/1949 ( ) To 5/28/1974 ( from Google Patents: Publication date for US 3813316 ; Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty became the first person to apply for a patent for a genetically engineered living organism, a strain of Pseudomonas bacteria that could consume crude oil ) is 9207 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( date of record of my US Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 3/13/1949 ( ) To 5/16/1992 ( landing of the first flight of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 15770 days
15770 = 7885 + 7885
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) is 7885 days
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Michael Hogan
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Born March 13, 1949
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
Colonel Saul Tigh, second-in-command of interstellar-warship Battlestar Galactica (and drunk on alcohol): Starbuck. That's a good call sign. Starbuck-buck-buck-buck-buck-buck-buck. (Making it sound like a chicken clucking.) Where'd you get that nickname, anyway? Was that before you were thrown in the brink for drunk and disorderly as a cadet, or after?
Starbuck (Kara Thrace, fighter-pilot): After.
Tigh: After, that's right, it was... after.
Helo: I'm in. Thanks to you, XO.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:18 PM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 06/01/2026
