Happy July 4 with Hendrix

Happy Xmas (War is Over) went over well at Christmas, so let me brighten this holiday with some patriotic finger picking.

Hit it, Jimi.

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[Firefighter Magilla M. C. Schaus]

Rosa Gibson should be honored here for her advocacy and determination to improve and protect our city. She was a hero within our midst. On Independence Day we are reminded that revolutions are not made by corporations. Our community has liberty because everyday Americans like Rosa Gibson stood up and fought for the rights of the people.

Another hero who died while trying to defend our City on this day in 1997 was Buffalo Firefighter Mike Seguin.

Firefighter Seguin died in a fire in Buffalo on 4 July 1997 that was caused by the illegal use of Phantom Fireworks.

Local Buffalo media continues to enable the breaking of New York State law. In today's Buffalo News Opinion Page William A. Weimer the Vice President of Phantom Fireworks was basically allowed to have free reign to flaunt the laws of New York State. Weimer's business off of Interstate 90 and on the border between Pennsylvania and New York State is responsible for supplying the fireworks that caused multiple fires on Vermont Street in 2008 and the death of Buffalo Firefighter Mike Seguin in 1997. Yesterday fireworks peddler Leon Sapp, Jr. was arrested for the second time in two years selling Phantom Fireworks in the streets of Buffalo to children and adults.

The Buffalo News and other media question the ethics of Mayor Brown at One Sunset and the government of the State of New York? Yet today, the Buffalo News gives newspaper space on the opinion page to a corporate officer of Phantom Fireworks whose illegal products have killed a Buffalo Firefighter and caused two homes to be destroyed and six families to be relocated. Would it be ethical for the Buffalo News to provide space in the newspaper to foreign, narco traffickers who are in favor of legalization of dangerous drugs?

Why isn't the press standing up against the corporation that is using interstate borders to break the fireworks laws of New York? After one firefighter died and two homes were burnt to the ground from Phantom Fireworks then it is time for the management of the Buffalo News to examine it's ethical standards, to this specific issue.

Phantom Fireworks by Pennsylvania law cannot sell fireworks to Pennsylvania residents. This situation demonstrates a deliberate and premeditated enterprise designed to break New York State law.

Why is the Attorney General of New York State and the United States of America allowing a Pennsylvania business to operate like a foreign drug cartel and harm the people of Buffalo, New York?

On the Fourth of July there is still injustice that rises above taxes when it costs Buffalo Firefighters their lives and when two homes get burnt down within the City of Buffalo.

In addition Leon Sapp, Jr. of the Town of Tonawanda, the peddler of Phantom Fireworks should be sentenced to jail time. He is a menace to Buffalo and repeatedly ignores New York State fireworks laws. Do we have to wait for more deaths before law breakers like Leon Sapp, Jr.'s business activities result in more homes getting burnt down and innocent people getting killed by fires caused by Phantom Fireworks?

Give us the YouTube of Tom Petty's song, "I won't back down."

God bless Rosa Gibson and Firefighter Mike Seguin.

[my2cents]

If there is a direct - provable connection with the Firefighters death - Mr.Sapp - or Phantom Fireworks - They should be charged with contributing to Mr.Sequins death.

The owners of the burnt homes should sue Mr.Sapp and the Fireworks outlet he purchased them from.

Accountability is the only solution - you cant assume Government will arrise to correct this - to much money involved.

[Firefighter Magilla M. C. Schaus]

To hell with laws suits when a firefighter gets killed and four homes burn down in Buffalo for Phantom Fireworks profit making!

A sure bet if TO, Ron Reinas, Michael Jackson, or William A. Weimer's were wronged like Mike Seguin was wronged there would be an out pouring of public indignation and media lament to the high heavens.

The blood of Buffalo Firefighter Mike Seguin is on the hands of the Attorney General of the USA, New York State when they turn their backs on the flooding of WNY with illegal, Phantom Fireworks.

Dear Editor Margaret Sullivan your newspaper has blood on it's hands when you allow William A. Weimer the importer of illegal fireworks to be published on the Fourth of July in the Buffalo News.

The Buffalo News reporting about firefighter over time made it seam to be a crime. Yet your newspaper allows a Vice President of a company that floods this community with his illegal fireworks to dominate your publication on Independence Day. Firefighter Mike Seguin died from a Phantom Fireworks bottle rocket being fired at an abandoned house on the East Side of Buffalo. The child that burned down the four homes on Vermont Street were using Leon Sapp, Jr's fireworks that he purchased from Phantom Fireworks. The spread of numerous illegal inner city fireworks in Buffalo are coming from Phantom Fireworks. The 13 year old girl with her small baby brothers last night on my street lit off a powerful bottle rocket in front of my home that came from Phantom Fireworks.