LETTER: Why is ex-sheriff Bullock still getting a pension?

By Express-Times Letters to the Editor 
on March 08, 2014 at 12:59 AM, updated March 08, 2014 at 1:03 AM

 It is encouraging to hear that the state of New Jersey “may reconsider” whether or not to continue dispensing a pension to retired Warren County Sheriff Edward G. Bullock in light of his recent indictment on six counts of child sexual abuse, allegedly committed while on duty as sheriff. Those who vote with an eye toward fiscal issues will be very pleased, I am sure.

 In the sixth paragraph of The Express-Times article about this, however, I was astounded to find that Bullock has yet to turn himself in. The indictment was handed up 10 days ago. Last month.

Any reasonable person would presume he collected another payment on March 1. I do hope that we will not have to wait until after April 1 for an arrest warrant to be issued. That would be the worst kind of joke.

ERIK B. ANDERSON

Independence Township

Wolf Blitzer Favorited My Tweet

Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter @wolfblitzer's The Situation Room: http://t.co/frdoUn6Jth
— TheKingofFunnyFaces (@FunnyFaceKing) January 28, 2014

This is better than Howard Stern's wife favorited my tweet, but not as good as when Elijah Wood replied to me, or when Roger Ebert watched a video I made.

I still think he's a terrible person.

So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces

Professor Awoonor Has Been Killed

I can't believe this.

Ghanaians Mourn a Poet and Scholar Killed in Nairobi Mall Attack




It was a great honor for the poet and former UN Ambassador to speak to our small group of West Chester University students in 1995. He spent at least two hours talking to us about so many things about Ghana. When he signed his book for me, he asked me about my name, which means King. He noticed that my name was Scandinavian because it is spelled with a K. Most people with my name are spelled Eric, which has more of a German origin. This is so sad.

I have been seeing little things here and there about this attack in Nairobi. Unfortunately, I have limited internet access here in Wales. I hope I have paid proper tribute to him. I have always remembered him and will always remember him even more now. He was a tireless advocate for African people and for all people really. This will have shockwaves all through the African diaspora. Pay attention people.

Friday Night News Dump

Stillwater stabbing victim accused of keeping box of child pornography in basement

Published: Friday, June 22, 2012, 8:30 PM     Updated: Friday, June 22, 2012, 11:47 PM
By Seth Augenstein and Amy Ellis Nutt/The Star-Ledger 

STILLWATER — As murder victim Dennis Pegg was laid to rest at St. Joseph’s cemetery in Newton today, across town a defense lawyer for one of the accused filed an affidavit seeking to preserve Pegg’s belongings — including an alleged box of child pornography.

The request, submitted by attorney Daniel Perez, specifically cited a box containing "numerous Polaroid photographs of nude children and/or children involved in sexual acts."

Clark Fredericks, 46, has been charged with first-degree murder and two of his relatives claim he was molested by Pegg years ago when he was a Boy Scout and Pegg a troop leader. Robert Reynolds, 47, friend of Fredericks, has been charged with helping him kill Pegg and hiding evidence.

Perez’s request, according to the affidavit, was based on information provided to police after Pegg’s death by an unnamed individual (called "John Doe 1" in the legal notice), who says he, too, was molested by Pegg when he was a child.
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Sandusky Scandal Continues to Grow

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I was raped when I was 6. I didn’t tell anyone until I was 21. The reason my life fell apart after that was not because I was raped 15 years in the past. It was because either no one believed me, or they adamantly interfered with my ability to do anything about it. I was not able to claim my own power back until ten years later, but guess what? The statute of limitations on sexual assault on a child is 5 years after the victim’s eighteenth birthday.

I really don’t hate the pedophile who raped me. Sorry if that offends somebody. That’s how I honestly feel. I do have intense hatred for those who interfered with my expressed desire to get justice.

I couldn’t do it on my own. I was 21, sure, technically an adult: but I was terrified. Terrified! I had Asperger’s Syndrome. I was still being mentally abused by several people. My father had just been diagnosed with terminal Parkinson’s Disease which killed him. It was fucking chaos. If somebody, anybody else, who had any kind of authority in the institutions that I appealed to for help in those days had stood up and even just listened to me, really listened to me. The world would be a better place.

The world is the world. It is what it is. We have to accept it no matter what or we will kill ourselves. But it would be better if things changed the way Jimmy Williams in the above video and many other people this past week have been calling for.

Thank you for letting me speak.

Erik B. Anderson
The King of Funny Faces

PS - Thank you Goldie Taylor

They Still Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #7

Example #7: Cropsey

I don't know what is scarier: the images of the mental patients from inside Lakewood State School, the idea that somebody must be responsible for the disappearance of seven children between 1972 and 1987, or the way all the police and family members look like they are lying twenty years later.

Published Again - Nov. 7, 2010

Read the letter at the DailyRecord.com.

Man wants to stay and fight for New Jersey

Letters to the Editor
Daily Record - November 7, 2010

An expatriated friend of mine encouraged me to "get out of New Jersey" the other day. That phrase comes up a lot and for the umpteenth time now, it perplexes me. I was always taught the grass is greener on the other side. If I were to leave, where would I go?

I was born in Morristown. Except for a few years of college, I have lived in the Garden State my whole life. I can trace my family tree back to pre-revolutionary New Jersey. I don't know anything else.

I feel very much trapped here. Many things are beyond frustrating; but what really gets me mad is the knee-jerk reaction so many people have just to flee the state. How is it patriotic to fight for our country and not for our state? Stay. Fight. Make things better for the next generation. Abandonement is not a solution.

Martin Luther King Jr. said it best: "A man who hasn't found something he is willing to die for is not fit to live."

If staying here and suffering makes me crazy, then I'm crazy. But so was King.

Erik B. Anderson

Gas Explosion in Manchester

A close friend of mine lost her house in this.

Cheers & Jeers - Daily Record - June 12, 2010

JEER: To a litter problem in downtown Hackettstown. Some residents say that after every town event, the most recent being a Memorial Day Parade, debris stays on the streets for days.

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I didn't actually say after every town event, just after the Memorial Day and St. Patrick's Day parade.

Discuss this on HackettstownLife.com.

Old crime drawing interest in the New Year - Warren Reporter - 1/1/10

I found this in the Tillie Smith file at the Hackettstown Historical Society the other day:

click here for a better view of the article

It is the same article that was in the Warren Reporter blog on NJ.com December 6, 2010. I did the interview the day before Thanksgiving. I am glad to see that several typoes in the piece that went out on the front page (under the fold) of the weekly county paper had been corrected.

Not a bad way to start off the New Year!

Warm Regards,

Erik B. Anderson

Independence Township, New Jersey

Established 1782

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"Free James Titus" in the Warren Reporter

An image of James Titus,
who was convicted of the
1866 (sic) murder of Tillie Smith
in Hackettstown.

Independence Township man leads charge to have Hackettstown man convicted of Tillie Smith murder pardoned -- nearly 150 years later
By Warren Reporter
December 06, 2009, 4:04PM


Story Written By Todd Petty

Regardless of whether you believe in ghosts, Hackettstown residents have been aware of the presence of Tillie Smith for well over a century. Murdered in 1866 (sic), Tillie’s name still elicits an impassioned reaction from local residents – it is a part of their dialogue, a part of their folklore, and a part of their history.

However, pieces of the story may still remain unwritten — there remains a specter of doubt regarding the involvement of James Titus, the man who was found guilty and sentenced to prison for seventeen years for Tillie’s murder.

One resident in particular from Independence Township, Erik Anderson, is determined to close the case once and for all. Anderson is working to have Titus pardoned for a crime that he does not believe that Titus ever committed.

“If you look at the case and if you read the trial documents, it’s really obvious that there is a ton of reasonable doubt,” Anderson said.

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