Bottom Feeding Hypocrite?

Bottom Feeding Hypocrite?
By Boston Woodard

Well, well, well! Welcome to the criminal - world Henry T. Nicholas III. You are now California’s newest, biggest, richest, indicted hypocrite. I’ll bet the Republican party is real proud of you my man. I almost feel like you are one of us (prisoners) now, hut after thinking about that possibility1 I decided that most prisoners wouldn’t want to be associated with a bottom feeding hypocrite like you.

Nicholas is the Republican billionaire who was recently indicted for a pattern of criminal behavior which involved "prostitution, drug peddling, bribery and death threats" federal prosecutors say. The 48-year- old co-founder of Broadcom, a computer chip—making company, donated nearly $10 million to several California Republican candidates and causes over the past several years. Let’s not forget that he was Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s top donor.

One of the crime initiatives backed by Nicholas is the so called "Marsy’s Law" initiative. This initiative is a confusing tangle of twisted proposals to enhance already existing stringent, over-the-top laws. Billions and billions of California taxpayer’s dollars that do not exist will become part of the already astronomical debt the state can’t get out from under as it is.

Because proponents of Marcy’s Law like Assemblyman Todd Spitzer (R) Orange, hustle criminals like Henry Nicholas to finance a multimillion dollar stratagem doesn’t necessarily mean that the taxpayers of California are ready to go deeper into the abyss of economic ruin. The construct of Marcy’s Law entails spending billions of dollars the state does not have. An informed California voter understands that existing sentencing laws are more than adequate. Voting for initiatives like Marcy’s Law would be tax-wasting redundancy at it’s worst. Driving a nail into the coffin of California’s empty public coffer is just plain wrong and vindictive.

Are the friends and proponents of Republican Henry T. Nicholas III, like Todd Spitzer, who ride around on their holier-than-thou steeds proclaiming to save California, possibly indulging in salacious activities sullying their party’s image also? After all, who would believe that a seemingly intelligent billionaire would be involved with such iniquitous pursuits? How many of Nicholas’ close friends and associates knew or were involved with these serious crimes? Do these Repub’s think everyone is stupid? Give me a break!

We don’t know if politicians and close friends of Nocholas like Spitzer have ever been involved with prostitutes, drug peddling, bribery or death threats, but a Federal Grand Jury sure found enough evidence to indict his good friend and close associate Nicholas on some very serious charges.

Common sense and logic screams out when trying to distinguish one criminal from another in cases like this. In the Marijuana smoke-filled flight (according to the Sacramento Bee) in Nicholas’ private jet from Orange County (home to the constituency of Todd Spitzer) to Las Vegas, "the pilot flying the jet had to put on an oxygen mask" in order to fly the damn thing. Wouldn’t it be interesting to know who else was in that jet during Nicholas’ high flying drug party? Why do you think the other people on that drug filled jet have not been made public? Are they afraid other prominent businessmen or political figures names might be revealed? Lots of questions need answering.

The Marsy’s Law campaign will now be managed by Assemblyman Todd Spitzer who absolutely went silent when asked to comment about his close friend Nicholas’ alleged multi-criminal activities. Is Spitzer’s silence a sign of guilt? "No comment" at all! How will honest, hard-working California voters feel if it’s proven that the millions financing the over-exaggerated Marsy’s Law was the result of a death threat or drug deal by Nicholas? Death threats and bribery were part of the indictment. How many lives did Nicholas ruin while he allegedly indulged in prostitution used and peddled drugs and threatened to kill people? According to prosecutors, Nicholas tried to buy the silence of one Broadcom employee, paying $1 million to conceal his "unlawful narcotics activities." He also allegedly "used threats of physical violence and death" to hide his drug activities say prosecutors.

Who else knew about all of these criminal activities? His friends, associates, family members? How many others got high with him or dabbled in a little paid for piece of tail from an over-paid prostitute? Big shots never do these things alone. Did Henry T. Nicholas III spend so much time and money financing crime initiatives to hide his own criminal activities? After all, who would even think that a big-shot Republican would be so stupid? Well, that is why intelligent Grand Juries are convened, they know a whole lot more about billionaire Nicholas than we do.

It’s one thing to be a crime victim or a family member of a victim, but when someone is falsely claiming to be a victim’s advocate who has committed serious crimes as alleged by prosecutors against Nicholas, the real victims become victimized all over again.

Nicholas also donated $1 million to the campaign sponsored by Senator George Runner and Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, two Lancaster Republicans. The Runners said they would not refund Nicholas’ money. HHMmmmmm! Does hypocrisy run in the party’s family? Senator Runner had the balls to actually accuse the measure’s opponents of playing politics (referring to Nicholas being indicted) and according to the Sacramento Bee, "This is Just their [Democrats] newest way to undermine an initiative that they never supported," Runner spewed. Senator Runner seems to be forgetting that it was a Federal Grand Jury who indicted Nicholas, not members of an opposing party. Runner probably blurted that partisan rhetoric with a straight face. Unbelievable!

Slipping Ecstasy into the drinks of business associates, maintaining a drug warehouse. and concealing his illegal conduct with bribes and death threats are included in the indictment against Nicholas.

While free on a $3.3 million dollar bail, there is no doubt that Nicholas is probably thinking like the criminal he is, trying to figure out what sort of spin his billions can put on the strong evidence against him. After all, he is facing up to 20 years for the drug charges and up to 340 years for the stock backdating counts.

So, when you see Assemblyman "No Comment," I mean, Assemblyman Todd Spitzer flying around the state (hopefully with an oxygen-maskless pilot) in an attempt to sell the insanity of Marsy’s Law, ask the questions that need asking about his good friend Henry T. Nicholas and his own dealings with him.

Prisoners in every penitentiary in California hold fund raisers for victim’s groups. They raise hundreds of thousands of dollars state wide through food sales and donate the proceeds to local child and victim development centers and other youth orientated groups throughout the state. The only difference between convicted criminals raising funds for victims and hypocrites like Nicholas is, prisoners do not lie about who they are in the process.

Opponents of the so-called Victim’s Protection Act (Marsy’s Law) never believed that the hypocrite financier’s purchased ballot proposition was well intended. Many believe that Henry Nicholas’ purpose was driven and fueled by pure hate and vengeance to appease the pro-active victim’s groups, and to possibly mask his own involvement with criminal activities.

It’s sad that someone with the financial means as Nicholas chooses to expend large sums of money to finance over-the-top, vindictive measures like Marsy’s Law, rather than invest in meaningful crime reduction by creating opportunities which would deter criminal activity.

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Boston Woodard is a prisoner/journalist who wrote for The San Quentin News, The Soledad Star and edited The Communicator. Boston is not serving a life sentence.

Boston Woodard, 8-88207
CSP-Solano, 13-F-8-L
P.O. Box 4000
Vacaville. CA. 95696-4000

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FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO HELP STOP THE "MARSY’S LAW" INSANITY, PLEASE CONTACT THE T.I.P.S. ORGANIZATION AT:

Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety
P.O. Box 255456
Sacramento, CA. 95865-5456
www.ForPublicSafety.com

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You can read Boston’s previous articles here:

Arts in Corrections - A Glowing Hope
Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2008
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/01/18512524.php

Appealing the Impossible
Published: Sunday May 18th, 2008
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/18/18500099.php

Shake-Down
Published: Wednesday Apr 23rd, 2008
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/23/18494693.php

Zip Gun
Published: Friday Apr 11th, 2008 2:37 PM
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/11/18492221.php

The Shell Game
Published: Thursday Mar 27th, 2008
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/27/18488993.php

Medical Snafu, Ongoing Prison Problem
Published: Thursday Feb 14th, 2008
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/14/18479245.php

Parole Board Pillory
Published: Sunday Dec 16th, 2007
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/16/18467346.php

Hog-Tied (The Transferring of Sophanareth Sok)
Published: Thursday Oct 4th, 2007
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/04/18451787.php

Foreign National Prisoners, Targeted For Out-Of-State Transfers
Published: Saturday Sep 1st, 2007
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/01/18445270.php

" H 0 R R I F I E D "
Published: Sunday Aug 19th, 2007
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/19/18441509.php

"Unacceptable Material"
Published: Friday Jun 8th, 2007
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/08/18426088.php

The Parole Conundrum
Published: Monday Dec 18th, 2006
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/18/18338477.php