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Tennessee Governor, Bill Lee visited Memphis on Thursday, and was said to discuss his plan to bring 20 more troopers to Shelby County. They say that supporters believe the extra manpower will help local law enforcement combat interstate shootings and reckless driving.

Gov. Lee said, “What is the most important thing that we can do to improve the crime situation in a city and that is to increase the number of officers in that city.” Gov. Lee was right in part, but was wrong fundamentally.

What is the most important thing that we can do to improve the crime situation in Memphis? In terms of crimes around Memphis, Tennessee, what is the most important and urgent thing is to detect, investigate, prosecute, punish, and deter those crimes WITHIN the city of Memphis and the Memphis Police Department.

Without punishing those criminals within the local governments and local police departments, it is not enough just to increase the number of officers in Memphis or in Shelby County in order to decrease or deter the local crimes here around Memphis.

Those crimes which were, are, and will be committed by some of the city government officials and by the police officers of the local police departments were, are, and will be extremely CLANDESTINE and HIDDEN.

The mechanism of those crimes is assumed to be originated from or related with corruption, bribery, and/or psychological(abnomal and detestable) motivations, which are antisocial or illegal.

The additional troopers are not the only or the first solution to the local problems of Memphis community. The governor should write a new proposed budget, which should/must include $30 million in relocation bonuses for officers who want to move to Memphis in order to detect the white-collar crimes including, but not limited to such crimes of corruption of local government officials and local police officers.

The first task of those newly appointed or dispatched police officers and investigators should be about whether Mayor Jim Strickland had ever had or received any kind of BRIBERY before or/and during his incumbency as mayor.

The governor’s budget also should dedicate at least millions of dollars to enhanced local community training for detecting crime by police, crime by city government officials, and crime by white-collar criminals.

Governor Lee! This is our message. You need to make decisions now to affect what’s happening within the city of Memphis and the Memphis Police Department including other local governments and local police departments.

The strategic goal, method, tools, means, targets, and process of Governor Lee seem to be WRONG.

Governor Lee made a STRATEGIC FAILURE in terms of evaluating and executing exquisite and delicate policies to detect, punish, and deter local crimes around Memphis, TN.

Governor Lee doesn’t know what’s going on around Memphis. He really doesn’t know.

The Editorial of MemphisTV
www.memphistv.org

Published: March 4, 2022

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This writing is both an editorial and an open letter to Jim Strickland who is Mayor of the city of Memphis.

Introductory information:

Bribery is defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty. They say that with regard to governmental operations, essentially, bribery is “Corrupt solicitation, acceptance, or transfer of value in exchange for official action.”

This is our inquiry.

Question:

Dear Mr. Strickland,

Have you ever received any kind of BRIBERY before or/and during your incumbency as mayor?

Footnotes:

1. Please, reply to this open letter within 30 days not from the date of this letter being published, but from the date of your recognizing the existence of this letter.

2. This letter is not based on the existence of facts, but is based on the question about the existence of facts.

3. Everyone is considered innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on the basis of the legal principle, the Presumption of Innocence.

4. Your answer can or should be very simple. Yes or No. It is not rocket science.

5. The email address for reply is imemphistv@gmail.com

Published: October 23, 2021

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What is the Gilded Age in the U.S. history? The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines it as the period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in the U.S. history during the 1870s that gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism.

One of the Editor’s favorite writers is Mark Twain. It is said that the period takes its name from the earliest of these, The Gilded Age (1873), written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. The term satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding.

According to the Britannica, the novel gives a vivid and accurate description of Washington, D.C., and is peopled with caricatures of many leading figures of the day, including greedy industrialists and corrupt politicians. According to Wikipedia, during that era, political corruption was rampant, as business leaders spent significant amounts of money ensuring that government did not regulate the activities of big business.

According to the Wikipedia, former President Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous victim of scoundrels and con-men, of whom he most trusted Ferdinand Ward. Grant was cheated out of all his money, although some genuine friends bought Grant’s personal assets and allowed him to keep their use.

The Wikipedia says that Ferdinand Ward, Jr. (1851–1925) was an American swindler. He was “the Best-Hated Man in the United States”. It is said that the collapse of his pyramid scheme caused the financial ruin of many people, including famous persons such as Thomas Nast and the former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, who had helped him start his banking business.

Interpreting the phenomena, they say that historian Allan Nevins deplored “The Moral Collapse in Government and Business: 1865–1873.”, arguing that at war’s end society showed confusion and unsettlement as well as a hurried aggressive growth on the other. It is said that Historian Howard Zinn argues that the U.S. government was acting exactly as Karl Marx described capitalist states: “pretending neutrality to maintain order, but serving the interests of the rich”.

The Britannica defines corruption as a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted with a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one’s private gain. Political corruption is said to occur when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain.

Bribery is defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty. They say that with regard to governmental operations, essentially, bribery is “Corrupt solicitation, acceptance, or transfer of value in exchange for official action.”

We are trying to look at Memphis from every aspect. Considering the totality of information and experience, Memphis didn’t and couldn’t graduate from the era of “The Gilded Age”. Especially business corruption, political corruption, government corruption, judicial corruption, and their related white-collar crimes are completely deplorable.

Those corruptions produce and manufacture serious social problems around Memphis. Memphis is masked by a thin gold gilding. What are the local people and you going to do about that?

We’re seeing the PROCRASTINATION OF HISTORY in Memphis.

[MemphisTV Editorial]
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Published: October 23, 2021

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1. It’s time to try to fry bigger fish around Memphis or in the U.S.

2. Who are those bigger fish? They can be corrupt lawmakers, corrupt judges, corrupt mayors or governors, corrupt politicians, corrupt government officials, corrupt police chiefs, corrupt police officers, corrupt lawyers, corrupt doctors, corrupt business leaders of big corporations, corrupt managers of business entities, corrupt accountants, corrupt insurance agents, corrupt legal professionals, corrupt medical professionals, corrupt journalists, corrupt social activists, corrupt community organizers, corrupt scholars, and so on. You name it. There are too many corruptions and too much corruption around Memphis or in the United States.

3. What is the name of the menu? When you go to fast food restaurants around Memphis, you can see such names using ‘combo’, ‘meal’, ‘feast’, and so forth. You can think about the names and we can think about them, too. One of the candidate name for the food can be ‘A Feast with Bigger Fish on a Plate in Memphis’. How about that?

4. The local community, local politics, and local media tended to focus mostly on physical crimes on the street around Memphis, but it’s time to think about Bigger FISH and try to ‘FRY them’ because they presents more danger and risk to the local community.

5. We, however, cannot fry all of them in one scoop. One by one at a time.

6. The bottom line is that we have bigger fish to fry.

Published: October 20, 2021

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What is the revolution? That word is usually used in political science or sociology and can be, figuratively or metaphorically, used in other fields or sectors. According to the definition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, revolution means a major, sudden, and hence typically violent alteration in government and in related associations and structures.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica also says that the term, revolution is used by ANALOGY in such expressions as the Industrial Revolution, where it refers to a radical and profound change in political or social context, economic relationships, technological conditions, and so on.

What was the American Revolution? It is also called United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War(1775–83). The Encyclopaedia Britannica says that it is insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia says that the American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in colonial North America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States of America, the first modern constitutional liberal democracy.

The American War of Independence was said to be the culmination of the civil and political American Revolution resulting from the American Enlightenment. They say that thirteen British-American colonies ruled by Britain proved difficult to govern and the colonists resisted the imposition of direct rule after the Boston Tea Party.

George III, the king of Great Britain lost his American colonies after the struggle against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. According to the British historian George Otto Trevelyan, the king was determined “never to acknowledge the independence of the Americans, and to punish their contumacy by the indefinite prolongation of a war which promised to be eternal.”

The Declaration of Independence which was drafted largely by Thomas Jefferson was unanimously adopted by the entire Congress on July 4, 1776 and each colony became an independent and autonomous state. The next step was said to form a union to facilitate international relations and alliances.

President George Washington took office in New York in March 1789. They say that James Madison spearheaded Congressional amendments to the Constitution as assurances to those cautious about federal power, guaranteeing many of the inalienable rights that formed a foundation for the revolution. The first ten amendments were ratified in 1791 and became known as the United States Bill of Rights.

What was the ideology behind the Revolution? What kind of beliefs system gave such impetus to the American Revolution?

The American Enlightenment was said to be a critical precursor of the American Revolution. They say that chief among the ideas of the American Enlightenment were the concepts of natural law, natural rights, consent of the governed, individualism, property rights, self-ownership, self-determination, liberalism, republicanism, and defense against CORRUPTION.

It is said that a growing number of American colonists embraced these views and fostered an intellectual environment which led to a new sense of political and social identity.

Now it’s the time to talk about the Memphian Revolution(by ANALOGY, not a violent one). Memphis is surrounded, encircled or enveloped by various kinds of corruption and crimes. If the Memphians want to live in a better local community for their quality of living, they should realize that there are things that need to be done. It is the Memphians who CAN decide the destiny of Memphis. And it is the Memphians who SHOULD try do something for their lives here in Memphis.

The historial FLAGS and TORCHES of revolution were handed down from the ancestors of the American Revolution to the current generation of the Memphian Revolution.

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Published: October 6, 2021

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