California Peace & Freedom Party State Chair Kevin D. Akin recently sent out an email about me which has been circulating all over creation. The left column has his email content and the right column is my refutation of his accusations, distortions, delusions, and outright hallucinations and fantasies. But before you get to that, here are some of the comments that have come in from inquiring minds, marveling about Akin’s intellectual prowess:
Comment by Laszlo:
He forgot to mention that you are a Vampire.
I may be slow, but here are some questions I didn’t really get from the accusations:
1 – Who was the target audience ?
2 – What makes him think that the audience is perceptive?
3 – Why the “high-school” style when he had all the uncensored opportunity to express himself (how about based on checked facts, etc…)?
Comment by Sean:
Jan, keep up the good work. One thing’s for sure, when someone throws those kind of smears, they are protesting too much and usually hiding something themselves. I’m not fooled.
Regards, Sean
Comment by Paul:
Jan, we low (love) you. “I’m going to california with an akin in my heart” If I make it there in time to become chair of the pfp california will you watch and chuckle about it afterwards over a beer or 3?
Comment by Robert:
One way to look at all the ‘gossip’ is, THAT if they are talking about you, they are leaving some other poor fool alone.
It appears that this world is not bad enough! For whatever trouble making reasons, people don’t have better things to do than go around, putting people down, making fun of others and sticking their noses where they have no concern. I for one, network with anyone who treats me like they want to be treated. But too, as I’ve stated in the past, IF people are talking about you, they’re leaving some other poor fool alone! (you can quote this if you want). Now – I’m off my soap box…
Jan – if I had a quarter for every time someone said crap about me, I’d be able to purchase me a brand new truck! lol
Comment by Sharon:
“Hmm. I’ve known you, and worked with you professionally for 20 years. How come I never knew all of these terrible things about you? Oh, yeah…because none of his outrageous claims are true. I love how–according to Kevin Akin–you “failed” in CALI and then started another PI group. I know first-hand, and for an absolute fact, that not a single thing about that claim is true. He doesn’t get ANYTHING right in his diatribe. What an enormous pile of vitriolic crap.”
Comment by Janet:
Jan,
Wild stuff. Seems meager to say “hang in there” when you’ve been through all this before, but most of us know you for who and what you are.
Take care, Janet
AKIN’S CONTENTIONS JAN TUCKER’S RESPONSE
| He [Jan Tucker] is a long-time enemy of our party. | I am an enemy of the party leadership who are a bunch of control freaks who have turned the party State Central Committee into a cult. |
| He is a sneaky, lying, backstabbing creep. Don’t have anything to do with him, he will look for a way to use it against you personally and against the party. Really. | I don’t backstab anybody, nor do I bring a knife to a gunfight. I’d just as soon blow somebody away face to face. Whether or not I’m a sneaky, lying, creep is a matter of opinion and depends upon what role I’m in. Professionally, when I’m working undercover…..well, yeah, those are necessary survival traits. For example, recently I’ve been working in undercover capacities against the Jerusalem Network of the Israeli Mafia. I had a de facto death threat a few months ago from a convicted Racketeer as a result. What do you expect: I’ve been a private investigator since 1979. |
| Tucker is probably insane in some way, but covers it fairly well. Here is some of his history, that may help illuminate why I say this stuff. | Feel free to ask my shrink. Send me a written request and if you have a legitimate reason to know my mental condition, I’ll give her a waiver of privilege to discuss whether or not I’m crazy with you. Incidentally, my shrink is Arab-American, which is kind of relevant as to whether Kevin Akin’s accusations about my agreeing with the JDL’s racist bullshit is accurate or not. Keep in mind, the LA Times quoted me as saying in July 1996 that “I don’t give a shit how many people think I’m a nut. I’m a nut in high demand.” Kind of like Roseanne Barr’s Macadamia nuts. |
| Tucker first introduced himself to me about 30+ years ago. He called me because I was the Riverside County Chair, and he was working in Riverside County for a few months. | Kevin’s memory is faulty. We met well before 1979 when I was working undercover in Banning. The reason I called him was because I was Southern California Chairperson of PFP at the time. |
| The job? Working in a factory to learn who among the other workers was using marijuana, so they could be fired. He bragged about this to me! | Total distortion. First, it was an injection molding factory where people had to handle 60 lb. Metal plates with asbestos gloves because they were about 600 degrees Fahrenheit. I’ve got news for Kevin. As a former Steelworker himself he ought to know that whether somebody is high on grass or under the influence of alcohol or whatever in a factory it’s a serious safety issue, not just for the person under the influence but for their fellow workers, so frankly I have no apologies for busting people that are endangering the health and safety of working people. Aside from that the main thing I accomplished was getting the plant manager fired for sex discrimination in violation of 42 USC 2000e, Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act. |
| Not too long after that, he showed up as a spokesman for the so-called Jewish Defense League (run by his pal Irv Rubin). The JDL was a fascist, racist organization, dedicated to driving out Jewish progressives and whipping up racism against Blacks, Arabs, etc. etc. Tucker was their public spokesman, often quoted in the papers. He also did detective work for them. (This was during the time when Arab-American professor Alex Odeh was murdered in Orange County. The JDL has always been considered the likely culprit.) | “Not too long after that…” Try about three years later. I was not spokesman; I was spokesperson because I insisted on not using sexist language. To assume this role (and I was never a member) the JDL had to agree to disagree with me about the Middle East, because unlike Kevin I am an unabashed supporter of secularism, have had two Arab immigrant room-mates, an Arab American girlfriend, and as I pointed out, my shrink is Arab American. I also have many Muslim clients and personal friends and have unequivocally supported legalization of the Mujahedeen e Khalq which is borne out by my blogs on the issue going back years.The JDL had agreed to say nothing about the Middle East that would embarrass me and I agreed not to say anything that embarrassed them. When they violated that agreement we had a complete falling out which resulted in my suing Irv Rubin and the JDL’s having slashed my tires and shot out the window of my car (they were aiming for me and missed).By the way, I do have inside information about the murder of Alex Odeh from my law enforcement contacts which I can’t explain publicly. If I could turn in JDL folks for that I wouldn’t even hesitate because there’s a $1,000,000 reward aside from the fact that I respected the work that Alex Odeh did. The problem is, the JDL is NOT considered the real suspect anymore in that bombing. All Kevin knows is what he read in the newspapers long, long ago and it never occurs to him to do due diligence to check his facts. |
| In one amazing case, in which the Court of Appeal rendered an opinion that made it clear that they thought Tucker was a foolish incompetent or a perjurer, or quite possibly both, his “detective work” identified a man in California named Finkelstein (a common Jewish name) as another man named Finkelstein in New York who had been feuding with Irv Rubin. The JDL harassed the L.A. Finkelstein, and when he complained, they ended up in court. Tucker purported to produce proof that the Finkelsteins were both the same guy, but the court found that they didn’t even know each other, and rejected Tucker’s “evidence.” (This ruling, with juicy details, can be found on the web somewhere.) | This is a real doozy. It wasn’t the Court of Appeals, it was the State Supreme Court. I executed a declaration which wasn’t sufficient as a matter of law to uphold the position that the attorney prosecuting a civil case was advancing. That attorney had in fact wanted me to fudge the facts to support his position and I refused, which is why the attorney lost the case. The name in question was not “Finkelstein.” The name in question was another common Jewish name but with a very uncommon spelling. There were in fact only two people who’d ever lived in Los Angeles with the first and last name in question and one of them had used a U.S. Postal Service P.O. Box, which was the kind of thing one would have expected of the individual in question. I had advised the attorney to subpoena the information from the Postal Service and he was too lazy to do so, which is another reason he lost the case.The JDL had not harassed the L.A. “Finkelstein” as Kevin asserts. What their attorney did was to rely upon my declaration to assert jurisdiction in civil court to sue the real culprit for slander who was in New York but who had at one point lived and operated an organization in Los Angeles. It was merely a matter of jurisdiction as to whether the Plaintiff—which was not the JDL-had to sue him in Los Angeles or New York. Eventually they sued him in New York and won on the merits. Incidentally, the guy who was being sued had shot at Irv Rubin along with a New York process server and a New York licensed private investigator when they went to serve him with legal papers and he was eventually convicted of shooting an innocent bystander (he was acquitted of everything else because Irv Rubin was being blackmailed by the Defendant in that case with exposure to his wife of having visited Mexican whorehouses on a regular basis, so he conveniently lost his memory on the witness stand). |
| The crucial thing here is not that Tucker is an incompetent or a liar, but that he worked for a racist, fascist organization right up to the time it collapsed with Rubin’s suicide in jail. (Then he posted material on his website, all fabricated, claiming that he had always considered Irv Rubin a fool, and been against the JDL all along. He lied.) | As explained above, total bullshit. Incidentally, while I did have a relationship with the JDL, I convinced them at one point to protect a Palestinian Muslim immigrant business-person from Israeli-American harassment in the Fairfax district in Los Angeles. My agreement with the JDL was to go after Nazis and KKK types, for which I have no apology whatsoever. |
| Tucker was a registered member of the PFP for about 20 years before 1998. In 1998, he ran a campaign against the PFP leadership that included running puppet candidates against some of our regular statewide candidates, and he got some money from some millionaires to campaign. | Within PFP I ran at one time or another for State Assembly, Lieutenant Governor, Governor (lost the primary), and President (came in second out of four candidates, notably beating the leadership candidate by a couple of points for which they never forgave me) and twice each for State Senator, Congress, and State Treasurer. In 1998, I set and hold to this day the highest vote ever achieved by any PFP candidate in the primary election and was the party’s top vote-getter. The fact is that the leadership refused to support me which is why I didn’t get the 2% of the vote necessary for the party to stay on the ballot. The leadership cut off its nose to spite its face. I ran a slate in the primary which was 50% female, 50% Latino, 50% NOW members, every candidate was a union member or former union member, and all but one of our candidates were bikers. The leadership was embarrassed by our feminist, working class diversity. |
| His candidates put statements in the June 1998 voter pamphlet attacking the party leadership (with lies, not truth), and some of his candidates (including himself) got the party nomination (this was during a brief period when anyone could vote in any party’s primary, and he recruited Democrats and Republicans to vote in our primary for his candidates). His candidates then did really bad campaign jobs, put strange statements in the ballot pamphlet, and none of our candidates got the required 2% of the vote. We were off the ballot. | An example of my attacks on the party leadership: the party organizational principles are closer to those of the Marx Brothers than to Karl Marx.I stand my assertions then as I do now. |
| A few days after the November 1998 election, Tucker announced that the PFP was finished, and he was leading the masses into the Green Party. (The masses did not appear to number more than four or five.) He then ran for office in the Green Party, and took his campaign of manipulation, slander and disruption into the Greens. By four years later, no one in the Greens would touch him with a ten-foot pole. | Contact me and I’ll give you a list of current and former Green Party members who you can interview as to what my role was and how they view my integrity. |
| In the first few days of 2003, after a big registration campaign (to which Tucker gave neither any work nor a single dollar), we re-qualified for the ballot. Jan Tucker rejoined the PFP (under state law, we can’t kick a voter out of our party), and declared that he was ready to lead us. He attempted to run for Governor in the 2003 special election. He couldn’t get the signatures. Since then, he has tried to run for several offices, but he has not managed to get the needed signatures. But he has been busy. | I never declared that I was “ready to lead” the party. I don’t associate with the party’s leadership. It’s impossible to bring sane people to party meetings because they will just be turned off. The last time I brought people to a party State Central Committee meeting, they later thought it was weirder than Alice in Wonderland. The last time I tried to run, I wound up in the hospital with serious health issues and thus wound up about 20 signatures short. Big deal. I’ve got better things to do because I actually have a life, unlike these people who are obsessed with hanging on to titles in PFP as though anybody gives a shit about them. |
| Using several aliases, he has carried on a busy campaign against the party. (He is not self-aware enough to notice certain tricks of phrasing that he always uses, which make it clear who really wrote the material.) He sends e-mails and posts statements after newspaper articles, containing outrageous slanders against party candidates and officers. He posts material on his website that contains absurd slanders, sometimes with just a trace of truth mixed in (Joe did live in Temecula in 1973, Fred did get divorced in 1994, though for a different reason than Jan claims, etc.). | |
| Tucker used to call himself a Satanist, and still uses some of that jargon. He has posted several statements claiming to have killed party officials and candidates, and a federal judge, by casting spells or putting curses on them. (After pretending to turn against Irv Rubin after Rubin’s death, he made the same claim about Rubin’s death.) This guy is a sick puppy. | I agree. I’m a sick puppy. I have a twisted sense of humor. At least I have a sense of humor. Clowns like Kevin take themselves too seriously. |
| In various forums and campaigns in the past, Tucker has claimed to be a woman, gay, Greek, Jewish, Armenian, Black, etc. etc. | I have never claimed to be a woman. As pointed out by the LA Times in 1996, Newspaper editors have occasionally changed “Mr.” to “Ms.” in stories thinking I am female.I have never claimed to be Gay but I don’t confirm or deny to reporters what my sexual orientation is because I consider it unethical to do so. It is the equivalent of a Christian in Europe denying being Jewish when filling out a Nazi identification form during German occupation.I don’t know what the fuck Kevin is talking about my supposedly claiming to be Greek. That’s out of left field. I am Jewish; I attended Kinderschul and Mittelschul and was in an Orthodox Yeshiva (Rabbinical School) until I voted in the student council for a strike to achieve co-ed classes and an 8 hour day.A 1996 LA Times article made very clear that I am not Armenian. I was the only non-Armenian founding Vice President of the Armenian American Action Committee (ARAMAC) later absorbed into the Armenian Assembly.I have never claimed to be black. I have served as a branch officer or committee member of three NAACP branches and served as special assistant to the Southern California Legal Redress Chair of the NAACP, my former significant other (now deceased), Attorney Valerie Monroe. |
| In fact, he appears to have been raised by parents who, despite having Jewish ancestors, did not participate in any way in any Jewish activities. | Amongst other things, my father was an officer of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, an alleged Communist Front which was suppressed by the government. Kevin probably converted to Judaism after that time which is probably why he isn’t familiar with it. |
| He knows nothing of any religion, including the ones he sometimes claims to be in. | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin. |
| He thinks he know a lot of law, but apparently does not understand it very well. | If anybody is interested in, I’ll give you a list of attorneys, ranging from private attorneys to a Deputy District Attorney, who will vouch for my creds. |
| He gets photographed a lot sucking up to Democratic Party officials, and these photos sometimes go on his website. | The fact is, that mainstream Democrats seek out my endorsement knowing full well that I am not now nor have I ever been a Democrat. I am Co-President of the San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles Chapter of the National Organization for Women. A professional poll conducted by then-Assembly Member Cindy Montanez found that of all the organizations that make endorsements in the San Fernando Valley, SFV/NELA NOW’s endorsement was trusted by more voters than any other because of the integrity of our process and our reputation for strict non-partisanship. |
| When he couldn’t get anywhere in the legitimate organizations for private detectives, he and a few others founded a less professional organization designed to glorify Jan Tucker, and he lost control of that one after while. | I spent seven terms as Chair of the Board of the California Association of Licensed Investigators. It is the largest organization of private investigators in the world. Nobody prior to me ever spent more than three terms as Chair or President. I resigned in a dispute with the immediate past President. The current President has asked me to return to the Board and to the Legislative Committee. The outgoing President made an unsolicited public apology to me for his conduct at his outgoing “Presidents Banquet” which I refused to attend. I have better things to do with my time in spite of repeated requests from many board members to return to active service in CALI, because I was appointed State Director of the California League of Latin American Citizens. |
| Every party has some evil nut jobs in it. The Democrats and Republicans even elect some of theirs to office. Tucker is our handicap. | I am evil. I am a nut job. I am a handicap to the PFP leadership cult’s acts and omissions which retard the growth and success of PFP. I am not a handicap to the growth and success of PFP as a collective body of its members. |
| Watch out for him. If you have a friendly conversation with him, he will later twist it and claim that you said all sorts of things you never said. One of his specialties is the misquote, in which he twists thing just enough to make you look like a jerk, but retains some of the content of what you said. | Based on all the foregoing, Kevin has no credibility, not to mention that this is a guy who is so gullible that he supported the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and swallowed the Soviet explanation for why, hook, line and sinker. I don’t have to twist anything to discredit him or the PFP leadership cult. |
| He has been using his “Barbara” persona to get a lot of talk, tweets and e-mails from Roseanne. | I’ll make this deal with Kevin. I will take a polygraph (lie detector) test to demonstrate that I’ve never used the aka “Barbara,” if he’ll agree to resign as State Chair of PFP if I pass and have nothing further to do with the party leadership. If I flunk, I’ll pay for the test; if I pass, he’ll pay. For a detailed discussion of the aliases I’ve been accused of using, see: http://janbtucker.com/blog/2011/12/26/debunking-mythology/ |
| He will use them against her when he can. He is a real evil SOB, and despite his amazing incompetence he does damage. -Kevin | I agree that I’m evil, but I don’t use the term SOB because I don’t use the “B” word, because it’s sexist. Sorry to be stuck in the era of 70′s feminism. Why don’t I deny being “evil?” As Macchiavelli wrote in The Prince, it’s best to be both loved and feared; but if you have to choose, choose to be feared. Obviously, Kevin is afraid of me which tends to reduce his being a nuisance to me publicly. For further detail about Kevin’s nonsense, just use “Akin” as a search term in this blog (http://www.janbtucker.com/blog) and see what comes up. |
Comment by Sean:
Jan, keep up the good work. One thing’s for sure, when someone throws those kind of smears, they are protesting too much and usually hiding something themselves. I’m not fooled.
Regards, Sean
Comment by Paul:
Jan, we low (love) you. “I’m going to california with an akin in my heart” If I make it there in time to become chair of the pfp california will you watch and chuckle about it afterwards over a beer or 3?
Comment by Robert:
One way to look at all the ‘gossip’ is, THAT if they are talking about you, they are leaving some other poor fool alone.
It appears that this world is not bad enough! For whatever trouble making reasons, people don’t have better things to do than go around, putting people down, making fun of others and sticking their noses where they have no concern. I for one, network with anyone who treats me like they want to be treated. But too, as I’ve stated in the past, IF people are talking about you, they’re leaving some other poor fool alone! (you can quote this if you want). Now - I’m off my soap box…
Jan - if I had a quarter for every time someone said crap about me, I’d be able to purchase me a brand new truck! lol
Comment by Sharon:
“Hmm. I’ve known you, and worked with you professionally for 20 years. How come I never knew all of these terrible things about you? Oh, yeah…because none of his outrageous claims are true. I love how-according to Kevin Akin-you “failed” in CALI and then started another PI group. I know first-hand, and for an absolute fact, that not a single thing about that claim is true. He doesn’t get ANYTHING right in his diatribe. What an enormous pile of vitriolic crap.”
Comment by Janet:
Jan,
Wild stuff. Seems meager to say “hang in there” when you’ve been through all this before, but most of us know you for who and what you are.
Take care, Janet
He forgot to mention that you are a vampire
I may be slow, but here are some questions I didn’t really get from the accusations:
1 - Who was the target audience ?
2 - What makes him think that the audience is perceptive?
3 - Why the “high-school” style when he had all the uncensored opportunity to express himself (how about based on checked facts, etc…)?