As expected, John P. Arnold ruled in a 15 page “ORDER”, that the city police do not have to release the case file reports or photos regarding Thomas James Ball’s self immolation last summer. All the people calling themselves “the state” had to do to justify their restriction of what should be public records was claim there were family members who did not wish the information released. It matters not that Ball committed suicide in a very public manner. He wanted people to see what he did and ask why, which he answered in a lengthy suicide letter. However, the state people have other interests, namely, shoving Ball’s death under the rug, in order to protect not the family, but the state people’s legitimacy.

Wouldn’t want anyone to hear the canary in the mine, now would they?