Posted on 10/12/2011 3:46:54 PM PDT by AtlasStalled
Last March a federal judge ruled that Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, the reputed former boss of the Patriarca crime family, must stay in jail pending trial on charges that he was shaking down jiggle joints in Providence, RI.
However, more than a dozen high profile citizens including doctors and lawyers have filed letters with U.S. District Judge William Smith asking him to reconsider his decision because they can't conceive how the alleged racketeer and extortionist could be a threat to their community as reported by Tim White for WPRI.
One letter is from filmmaker Michael Corrente whose projects include Outside Providence and Brooklyn Rules, and the movie man writes that for "most of his adult life" has known Baby Shacks as "honest, respectful and a person I could always look to for advice," and it now is "very sad and confusing for me to see Louis Manocchio to be portrayed in the manner in which he is currently portrayed."
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On Hollywood and glorifications of foreign affiliations, some quotes from the words of George Washington:
“Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?”
“Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded...The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
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