Hard Knocks, Book Review

Howie Carr's third book Hard Knocks, about Massachusetts crime and government is a novel. Narrated by ex-Boston cop, Jack Reilly, who now works as a Excrement Salesman he presents an alternate version with more details of the 20-year scandal of the Boston FBI, police, politicians, and crime boss of the Boston rackets. It has some hilarious lines mixed in with a multitude of Carr's cliches about Massachusetts government and corruption. He shows credible connections between the violent crime bosses and the elected officials who work with them.

But he also makes serious observations as this one from Chapter 19. "Attorneys general never have much appetite for going after political corruption. Professional courtesy, there but for the grace of God and all that. It's OK to hunt down and humiliate a nobody -- a tree warden in Spencer, say, who spends seven dollars in town funds to buy a dozen crullers from his brother-in-law's doughnut shop. It's a lot dicier to take on somebody who might be able to fight back, especially when it comes time to approve your budget for the next fiscal year. That's why most elected prosecutors are quiet skilled at leaving no stone unturned, except the one the rich guy or pol is hiding under."

That is the pattern which applies to forty years of harassment I experience. Local, state and US officials refuse to stop the criminal abuses of crime  families, and elected criminals who conduct a relentless campaign to discredit me, to humiliate me, to ridicule me, and to harass and threaten me every day. That fits with the explanation described by Roger Morris in his book about the Clintons, Partners in Power. He said the preferred characteristics of a leader is to be weak and to have relaxed rectitude. That allows the crime families and their associates in government to steal taxpayer funds without any accountability. When some citizens dare to criticize what these criminals in and out of government do they simply attack and discredit the person using psychiatry, police, and any of the associates in and out of government to destroy their lives. It is no longer necessary to murder critics. They use character assassination with no avenue open to counter it.