Polk County Attorney John Sarcone made international headlines last week by maliciously prosecuting newspaper journalist Andrea Sahouri for covering a BLM protest near Mearle Hay Mall. It was 100% racist, prosecuting a young female Palestinian-American - touting video of her arrest by a (with high probability white male) KCCI journalist a few feet away in dark comedic hypocrisy.
Des Moines police indiscriminately assailed her with chemical weapons for engaging in routine 1st Amendment and Iowa Const. Art. I Sec. 20 Assembly - she was prosecuted for it.
How did this happen in the United States? Outsiders must understand that Iowa has the most anti-1st Amendment laws in the nation - failure to be “Iowa nice” is a crime.
Under Iowa Code 708.7 it is a crime to write anything that is “annoying” - still on the books despite being declared unconstitutionally vague in Coates v. Cincinnati, 402 US 611 - Supreme Court 1971. Given this article annoys John Sarocone’s tender sensibilities I’m subject to 30 days in jail. The law is also unconstitutional under Knight v. IOWA DIST. COURT OF STORY CTY., 269 NW 2d 430 - Iowa: Supreme Court 1978 - Iowa Cyclone football is sacred, so when Ruth Harkin prosecuted ISU officials for violating the open meetings law the Iowa Supreme Court gave a two prong test. First they re-iterated the vagueness standard of Coates. Second they used the Iowa Const. Art. I Sec. 5 equal application clause - if police can’t apply the law uniformly then it must be unconstitutional.
Sahouri was charged with failure to disperse and interference with official acts. These laws fail both prongs of the Knight test - they are vague enough to criminalize lawful assembly and don’t give police enough precision to enforce the laws uniformly.
A few years back I made my Cock Eyed Louie Farrell FOIA - researching mob money to Iowa politicians. Governor Lovelace and a Justice on the Iowa Supreme Court were on the mob take. The mob’s alleged money launderer Marvin Pomerantz bankrolled Terry Brandstad.
The Democrat power structure - Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller came to power after being a gay rights attorney out East. In the 1980s U.S. Senator John Culver wrote a letter introducing Miller to young attorney John Sarcone - Bonnie Campbell was Culver’s clerk. Tom Miller went on hiatus in the 1990s with Campbell as Attorney General - using that time to engineer the shakedown of big tobacco. When Miller came back private attorney Brent Appel was hired to disparage the 1st Amendment in Polk County District Court. Chief Deputy AG Gordon Allen was ousted with false sexual harassment allegations and Eric Tabor took his place.
Brent Appel donated around $75,000 to Democrats - effectively buying his seat on the Iowa Supreme Court. According to his wife Staci Appel’s 2010 Iowa Senate financial disclosure none of the money is left - or she lied. Brent refuses to make public his Iowa Supreme Court finance disclosures.
Since the early 2000’s Eric Tabor helped Zumbach embezzle State assets as private attorney fees in violation of Iowa Code 13.7 which mandates approval by the Governor’s Executive Council. Iowa campaign finance records show at least $35,000 of the embezzled funds were donated to Iowa Economic Development head Blouin’s ill fated primary against Chet Culver. Ken Rambo at the ISU Daily was the sole journalist to report on the embezzlement.
How could this happen? U.S. Southern District of Iowa Chief Judge John Jarvey has been on the take for over a decade. When ISU used funds from the sale of WOI-TV to buy an off campus veterinary clinic in violation of Iowa Code 23A.2 prohibitions on the Regents, Judge Jarvey was their inside man to extort $100,000 from the veterinarians that balked at being State employees. Millions in Wells Fargo loans were used to cover up the off campus clinic losses - Tom Miller received $$$ - no bank bosses in Iowa were indicted for billions of liar loans.
Jarvey also made national headlines when Eric Tabor used sister Mary Tabor’s FEC connections to invent subcontractor disclosure rules. Kent Sorenson admitted to the crime he did commit - lying to the FBI - but Jarvey’s painting of Warren County Republicans as “duped” is farce. Not only is Iowa’s caucus a non-binding presidential straw poll, Warren GOP members razzed Kent for working with Michelle Bachman when he MC’d for Ron Paul at an Indianola pancake breakfast televised by Chinese State media. Kent didn’t influence the Warren GOP - the Warren GOP - assuming Kent was getting paid for his contracting - urged Kent to ditch Bachman for Ron Paul.
Incident to Sahouri’s acquittal Eric Tabor “retired”.
Who was the Iowa Supreme Court Justice on the mob take in the 1950s? Chief Justice Robert Larson was on the high court. Justice Jerry Larson is the father of Iowa 4th District Chief Judge Jeff Larson and “Suzy” a.k.a Iowa Chief Justice Susan Christensen. In violation of Iowa Code 68A “Suzy” misappropriated media staff funds to scrub biographical mentions of Jeff from a retention election propaganda brochure and a podcast. Kim Reynolds took blood money from the Saudis. It was arranged by Charles Larson Sr. - in the early 80s he oversaw beheadings for the Saudi Highway Patrol - then Brandstad appointed him to head Iowa’s Parole Board.
To this day Kim Reynolds, despite Iowa Constitution civilian military oversight and Iowa Code mandating kills be reported to the Polk County Medical Examiner - has reported zero of the 142nd’s reaper drone strikes for the House of Saud. It’s so bad they had to hire a staff shrink to combat PTSD from drone strikes that went sideways.
In a future article I’ll lay out how Kim Reynolds fraudulently forum shopped Jeff Larson into my 5th District divorce case - handing me over to Sarcone who tortured me with denial of medical aid until I was 50% deaf in my right ear - then politically imprisoned me for six months for reporting the torture as an inmate worker - then defrauded Iowa Medicaid at least $20,000 locking me in Broadlawns as “delusional” while Jeff Larson liquidated my homestead assets in an ex-parte hearing. Kim Reynolds is probably reading up on RICO: OSHA whistleblower retaliation, Federal mortgage fraud, U.S. Mail fraud in my pocketed February 2020 appeal the the District Court, probable jury tampering to insert Zumbach’s right hand man in the jury pool, obstruction of justice to take my trial briefcase in June 2019 - imagine if my research and business records surrounding my “annoying” speech got in front of a jury - or if I was allowed to subpoena Kim Reynold’s brother - the LenderClose CFO. Sarcone claimed my solitary text message “Hey this is awkard. Could I use you as a job reference to LenderClose?” was criminal speech - seeking a reference letter to cure my ex wife’s malicious 2018 prosecution that still scares off employers.
I’ve reached out to Reynolds’ Chief of Staff to see if she has any comment.