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WCVB Interviews Local Anti-Cop, Pro-Cop Killer Cheesehog Tara Brooks, Who Says She’s Scared For Her Life By A State Trooper She’s Been Stalking And Harassing For Years

WCVB Interviews Local Anti-Cop, Pro-Cop Killer Cheesehog Tara Brooks, Who Says She’s Scared For Her Life By A State Trooper She’s Been Stalking And Harassing For Years

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The following is probably the best example you will ever see about how the mainstream media cannot be trusted. Check out this story from WCVBand make sure to watch this video:

Tara Brooks was stunned as she watched video of her 2014 traffic stop for the first time. She was behind the wheel of her car with her 16-year-old daughter on board when Massachusetts State Trooper Nick Holden pulled her over. It is just one of the troubling traffic stops captured by Holden’s dashboard camera in more than 100 unauthorized videos obtained by 5 Investigates. Brooks said she had an uneasy feeling about the trooper the moment he walked up to her car.

“I was scared for my safety,” Brooks said. “Something was telling me there was something off with this police officer. His demeanor was too aggressive and he had a gun. I didn’t want to get out of my car.”

She was scared of the state trooper because he had a gun. A cop with a gun. You have to be kidding me. The fact that WCVB kept listening to this moron after that basically destroys any sliver of credibility they’ve ever had. 

In the video, Holden orders Brooks to “roll all of the windows up, step out and come talk to me.” Brooks tells the trooper she does not “feel comfortable getting out of the car.” Holden says, “Okay, turn the car off and hand me the keys. I’m towing it. It’s revoked for insurance cancellation.” Moments later, the trooper tells her to “go sit on the push bumper of my cruiser.” Brooks starts to ask a question, but Holden cuts her off. “Go sit on the push bumper of my cruiser!” he yells.

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Brooks said anytime she tried to ask a question, Holden lost control. In the video, Holden scolds her. “I don’t like your attitude from the get-go and it’s not getting any better. So just check yourself and cooperate before you end up in jail.”

“His behavior was deplorable,” Brooks said. “He didn’t give me a chance to explain. I was unaware that I didn’t have car insurance.”

She was unaware that she didn’t have car insurance???!!! Yea, that sounds believable. Because lots of people who don’t have car insurance are unaware of the fact that they’re not paying thousands of dollars a year to drive a car. 

After Brooks filed a complaint with State police, an internal affairs investigator did not find any issues with Holden’s conduct and questioned her credibility. But the investigation into the remaining videos found that there were discrepancies between a police report Holden filed and his recording of the traffic stop. The investigator concluded that Holden violated department policies and state law by failing to tell some drivers they were being recorded, and by not turning over videos that could be used in criminal cases.

“I had this instinct in me that I didn’t trust this officer during the stop,” Brooks said. “Hearing the rest and seeing all of the other interactions he’s had with other motorists, my instinct was correct on him.”

I had this instinct in me that I didn’t trust this officer.” In other words, Tara Brooks hates cops and doesn’t trust any of them. And as you will see in this blog, she is certifiably insane. 

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So Trooper Nicholas Holden has been in the news lately. He’s facing a two year unpaid suspension from the Massachusetts State Police, despite a stellar reputation in the community. He’s in trouble because he started recording traffic stops in order to protect himself. Protect himself from who? That would be Tara Brooks, the cheesehog who WCVB chose to interview for this story.

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What WCVB failed to realize is that they just sat down with a textbook lunatic. A woman who has been hauled off the looney-bin for months at a time, more times than we can count. And she documents it all on her Facebook page, “Monique Tarrah.” She also HATES the police, and has been stalking Trooper Holden for several years now. When Officer Ron Tarentino was murdered by Jorge Zambrano last May, this is what she posted on her Facebook page:

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Yup, she stood up for the cop killer. She said that his rights to privacy were violated because he was pulled over in an unregistered car and then proceeded to shoot Tarentino multiple times. She said that his rights to privacy were violated because he later shot a state trooper who was trying to apprehend him as he hid out in a house in Rochdale. This is the person WCVB sat down with and wrote a story based on her opinion of a highly respected state trooper.

A couple days after Tarentino was killed, Tara Brooks posted about how it was too bad that Trooper Holden that was killed instead:

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Yup. WCVB interviewed a woman who complained about a cop who she has been publicly wishing death upon for several years now. Sounds legit.

If you wanna see how truly deranged this cop-hating gravy dumpster is, let’s look at some other stuff she’s posted. This is what she posted right before she stopped posting for 2 months because she got hauled off to her latest stint in the looney bin:

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Here she is ranting about being a coke head…..or something:

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She constantly posts stuff from Cop Block and Filming Cops:

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She refers to the police as a “gang”

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WCVC also failed to point out that Tara Brooks has been harassing AND videotaping Trooper Holden for several years now. She uploads her videos to her Bambuser channelWe’ve been following her madness for a few years now, and she’s taken down some of the best ones. For instance, one time she was at Quinsig Community College in a parking lot. She saw a QCC cop from about 300 yards away. Because of this she got out of her car, laid down on the pavement face first, and put her hands behind her head as she yelled, “Don’t fucking kill me!! They’re trying to fucking kill me.”

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Obviously she was off her meds when she made that video, and when she goes back on her meds she takes the REALLY crazy ones down. But she still has all the videos up involving her interactions with Trooper Holden. And if she takes them down, it’s cool because we’ve uploaded them all to Youtube and we will replace them if you can’t views these ones.

Here is a video she posted of herself pulling up to a traffic stop where Trooper Holden has pulled over her daughter. Obviously her daughter knows her mother is crazy, and when she realized who the Statie was that pulled her over, she immediately called up Mom to watch the fireworks happen. Despite the fact that it’s snowing and dangerous conditions, Tara Brooks demands that she be able to walk over to the state trooper and interfere with him while he was conducting a routine traffic stop. She refuses to stay in her car because, “I feel safe doing it,” before finally going back to her vehicle and talking to herself like the mentally disturbed individual that she is:

After the stop is over, Trooper Holden goes over to her vehicle and asks if she has any questions. She tells him that she’s there because he pulled over his daughter. He tells her to have a good night. Then she rants and rants about him (to herself), calling him “Nicholas Dickless Holden.” Finally her daughter jumps into the car and they start laughing about Trooper Holden. Of course the girl calls her mother “Tara Brooks” because if your mother was a mentally unstable gutterslug, you probably wouldn’t show her any respect either. As they leave Tara gives Trooper Holden the middle finger and explains to her daughter that it’s her first amendment right to do so. After that she flips out and calls him a dickhead because she thought he was pulling over someone else. Finally she gets upset with her daughter for not recording the stop, which only resulted in a warning for the driver the girl was with:

But wait, I’m confused. She told WCVB that she was frightened of Trooper Holden because he carries a gun. But yet here she is purposely going out of her way to find him in a snow storm in order to confront him face to face. Yup, her story checks out.

Here’s her encounter in the Brookfield State Police barracks, where she attempts to file a complaint against Trooper Holden. The cop at the desk is cordial and respectful with her, but she refuses to give him her name, because….fuck the police. Oh yea, and she gets mad at him for not printing out the ONLINE form, because she claims she doesn’t have a computer. The same chick who updates her Facebook status a million times a day with links form Cop Block.

Finally when the State Police come to her house to investigate her complaint against Trooper Holden, she is confrontational with them and refuses to stop taping them. At the end she tells them to look into the fact that Trooper Holden is secretly recording all traffic stops, which he had already publicly admitted as a witness in a previous trial:

In the Facebook post she made about that last video, she refers to the police investigators as “gang bangers”

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And of course she urged everyone to flood the police with frivolous complaints about her delusional videos:

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She also filmed an encounter with an African-American Worcester cop named Ward, which has since been deleted. Basically she was in the Shaw’s parking lot, wouldn’t move her car from a handicapped spot, and started harassing the cop who asked her to move several times.

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Tara Brooks also hates Turtleboy Sports. With a passion. Shocking, I know. But the fact that Thicky Minaj’s like this don’t like our blog, tells you we’re doing something right. She really didn’t like it last year when we wrote a blog about a trashbag Worcester mother (more than likely a friend of her’s) who blamed the Worcester Police for chasing after her criminal 16 year old son, resulting in the cop being hit by a car, and her son saying, “That’s what he gets for chasing me.”

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This was the woman she was that we criticized:

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Tara Brooks blamed the cop, who nearly died, couldn’t walk for months and will have concussion problems the rest of his life, because the cop “played roulette” by running after a suspect with warrants out for his arrest.

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Sometimes she randomly picks blogs that she hates and goes off on one of her rants:

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Don’t even remember writing this blog, and don’t remember what it was about. But apparently it really upset her. Because that’s what crazy people do. They flip out over minor things that don’t matter.

Here’s a video of her reading a Turtleboy blog on Facebook Live, with a local African-American man named William McNeil, who appears to humor her. The blog she was reading was our take on Korryn Gaines, the INSANE woman who was killed in Baltimore as she held a shotgun to her five year old’s head. You can read it here. All we did was point out the fact that the world is a better place without a trashbag like Korryn Gaines. Notice in the video around the 6:10 mark she reads it out loud to McNeil and tells him it’s racist. He point blank tells her, “that’s not racist.” And then she tells him it is. Because as a white woman her opinion matters more than his:

Just like many butthurts out there, she thinks she knows who this lone “Turtleboy” is, and rants about him all the time:

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Here she is writing some sort of nonsensical rant addressed to Turtleboy, involving something about “Mr. O’Leary,” and Trooper “Dickless Nicholas Holden.” Notice her exact words are, “I have every intention and strong sense of motivation to ruin his life.”

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“I have every intention and strong sense of motivation to ruin his life.”

And WCVB not only listened to this woman – they publicly aired a completely biased anti-cop propaganda video on their news, featuring her as the only witness. Even the comments underneath that post from her friends had everyone confused:

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This woman has also sat outside the homes of people she believes to be “Turtleboy,” taken pictures of their family and home, and posted it on her Facebook page. Because she’s a psycho. She also used to go through Trooper Holden’s page and share pictures of him for not particular reason:

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In the least surprising news ever, Tara has been evicted from multiple homes

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And she has had heavy DCF involvement in her life, and has lost custody of her kids, which is probably why they call her Tara Brooks instead of Mom. But according to her it’s the corrupt judge’s fault because his son formed a cult and smuggles drugs:

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She’s well known amongst her friends as “dirtbag who tries to incite conflict with the police by following them while filming.”

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She’ll pretty much share any story that makes it look like private citizens such as herself are under attack by the state. Like that time she shared a hoax blog that was a parody of the Lexington and Concord battles, because she thought it happened in 2016:

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Yup. The cops killed 72 people in Lexington. She actually believed that just happened. This is the person WCVB sat down with and used as a credible source.

Oh, and she’s also an anti-vaxxer:

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And a registered nurse:

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Because this is the kind of nurse you want taking care of you when you are in need. Someone who gets her medical advice from Snoop Dog on an anti-vaxxer video.

Oh, and she thinks pretty much everyone is Turtleboy or “Aidan Kearney” on Facebook. Even people with female names like Robin Caron:

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And here’s some more rantings if you wanna kill some time, but I think you get the point:

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Once again, this is the cheesehog who WCVB is taking the word of, over the word of a veteran state trooper.

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The bottom line is that what’s happening to Trooper Holden makes me wanna puke. Yes, what he did was technically not allowed. At worst he should get a slap on the wrist. But two years unpaid? What kind of bullshit is that? And who’s the victim here? He videotaped these encounters because this NUTJOB who was stalking him, had it out for him and he wanted to protect himself. Not one, I repeat, not ONE defendant was found guilty as a result of him not turning over tapes. This is just anti-police, black lives matter hysteria, and how it’s manifested itself on a local level. The state police need to do the right thing and immediately exonerate their officer. Because if the MSP higher ups are willing to sell out one of their own to side with this waste of space, cop-hating, psychopath, then I’ve completely lost my faith in them as well. I know the rank and file isn’t happy about this, because we’ve talked to many of them about it. But the public pressure puts the higher ups in a position where they feel like they need to throw these idiots a bone. They don’t have to though. Do the right thing MSP.

 

 

 

 

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38 Comment(s)
  • Goose
    October 27, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    As much as I want to believe Trooper Holden’s side of the story, I think there’s more to this suspension.

    I do NOT believe a single word that comes out of that tax-dollar vacuuming awful Jaba the Hutt impersonator, though. She’s also clearly mentally ill, and why she was given ANY credibility is beyond me.

    Just wanted to make it clear that I am NOT defending her in any way, shape, or form.

    That said, I just find it hard to believe that the MSP would throw one of their own under the bus like this. They typically look out for their people. And if they don’t- the union does.

    There HAS to be more to this. TWO YEARS without pay?! For making sure this psycho-hippo’s actions were documented?!

    IDK, perhaps a Trooper can enlighten me/us about this. And perhaps I’m just wrong, and should be more supportive of Trooper Holden.

  • Tyrone Biggum/Tara Brooks
    August 15, 2017 at 5:07 am

    Is this the five o’clock free crack giveaway? WHERE’S THAT BASEBALL???!!!

  • itsjustme
    ITSJUSTME
    April 2, 2017 at 7:09 am

    I think you can officially stop the voting now. Just award her everything, and add a few more, like ‘I can’t believe someone procreated with that’ award, ‘how is she not in a mental hospital’ award, ‘some college gave her a degree’ award, ‘even her children are embarrassed ‘ award, ‘worst stalker ever’ award. Just to name a few,

  • Polar Opposite
    March 4, 2017 at 11:42 am

    Wow, this woman is clearly schizophrenic and needs treatment. Unfortunately we don’t have good, lasting treatment for schizophrenia, the meds constantly need adjusting (at least in the 2 cases of people I’ve personally known) and of course they do not believe they are I’ll so they often resist treatment. That’s a whole complicated mental health policy discussion I guess but what I’m getting at is how incredibly irresponsible it is for a news outlet to put this woman on as a “credible” source when she is so very clearly mentally ill. And honestly, are there a few “bad cops” in the US who shouldn’t be in law enforcement? Sure, but it’s none of the ones this mentally unstable woman is harassing, and her antics are furthering the divide between cops and citizens and detracting belief from any legitimate claims.

  • Hughbo Mont
    March 4, 2017 at 5:46 am

    cuckoo for cocoa puffs, she is

  • J. Craig
    March 3, 2017 at 10:44 pm

    Another slacker looking for money.

  • True Reality Speaks
    True Reality Speaks
    March 3, 2017 at 8:22 pm

    Correction – she’s not a registered nurse (RN). She’s a licensed practical nurse (LPN), which is one step above a certified nursing assistant (CNA). CNAs are like the GEDs of health care – they are basically orderlies that have to pay the state a fee for the privilege of being “certified”. They get these “certificates” from the for-profit scam schools that collect all the state and federal subsidies given to the welfare moms that need to take classes or lose their freebies.

    BTW – This woman is a text book useful idiot. She has all the liberal traits – ignorant, entitled, bloated ego, hateful, delusional. With more than a dash of certifiable narcissistic, sociopathic behavior. Is Fauxcahontas hiring?

  • RBG's Beard
    March 3, 2017 at 6:28 pm

    She single? Asking for a friend…

  • BobnMic
    March 3, 2017 at 6:21 pm

    The real reason she hates cops is because back in the day I told her I could fix a few tickets for her, then did a pump and dump and didn’t do anything about them. In my defense though, look at her…..that is one prime piece of ass. Even better looking than my wife….allegedly.

  • Cougar hunter
    March 3, 2017 at 5:36 pm

    I’d do it but then again I once fucked a wood pile because my friend said there was a wet beaver in it.

  • Local Yokel
    March 3, 2017 at 5:19 pm

    Where’s Zephyr? We found one of the dimes the black dudes stole from us. Or, my case-in-point. Dude is checked ooooouuuutttttt listening to her bitch.

  • Rumples
    March 3, 2017 at 5:09 pm

    Obvs, she’s nuts. But, honestly you gotta think there’s more going on for the Staties to slap a fellow trooper so hard.

  • ZephyrCat
    March 3, 2017 at 5:07 pm

    Wood!

    • Local Yokel
      March 3, 2017 at 5:20 pm

      Oh there you are, so this is one of the dimes the black man is stealing? How high is she in your book?

  • wtatnuckgangsta
    March 3, 2017 at 5:06 pm

    This shit. Poke somebody and make their life miserable for years, play victim and THEN get your way? Fuck all that. I’ve had a stalker too. He poked and poked for about a decade and I was more annoyed than anything and eventually just learned to ignore him. Then he starts showing up near my house and sending me messages that he’s nearby!? He wanted to move in with me despite me not even knowing him directly. I finally go for a restraining order and he pulls the victim card making it sound like I’m the danger and he fears for his life because I’m so aggressively attacking him with the law and he’s a victim of an addiction “disease”. I don’t get my RO. He’s back to poking from afar these days but I just sit back and collect anything he does and have cameras in my car and around my house. The victim shit needs to stop. They’re great at bullshitting insane stories and it makes for great ratings I guess.

    • brian albrecht (the real one)
      March 3, 2017 at 5:16 pm

      Yo BITCH, why you outin me like that? I ain’t stalkin you! You the one that axed to look at my dick and shit! What the FUCK!!!

      • wtatnuckgangsta
        March 3, 2017 at 6:57 pm

        You’re so spot-on, it’s cringey. That’s about the intelligence level of victims. Keep your peepee in when you cross my security system, ya ratchet ho.

        • Martin
          March 4, 2017 at 1:33 am

          WCVB CH 5 is the absolute worst of the Boston media. By far the worst. Ch. 3 when they had Gerry Gibbs was far superior. Watch anything BUT Ch. 5.

    • True Reality Speaks
      True Reality Speaks
      March 3, 2017 at 8:09 pm

      Hope you’ve got your LTC and some training. Sounds like you might need it.

  • JoeMomma
    March 3, 2017 at 4:45 pm

    The funniest part was her bitching about the use of tax dollars…..lol, like she pays taxes!

  • Tara Brooks
    March 3, 2017 at 4:38 pm

    I have given you NO permission to use my information. Please take this article down or I WILL GO TO THE POLICE!

    • bigdaddy
      bigdaddy
      March 3, 2017 at 4:46 pm

      I thought you were afraid of them ?

    • Tara Brooks
      March 3, 2017 at 4:53 pm

      OMG, I see Bennie’s advertises with you. I love Bennie’s! Well, as you can see by my pictures I kind of love all food but get out!! If you use my image do you think I could get some 20% off coupons from Bennie’s? OMG! Now I’m hungry enough to eat my left tit. That’s crazy!

    • BobnMic
      March 3, 2017 at 4:55 pm

      Tara welcome to my blog! I would be happy to chat with you in private about your concerns. I am also a retired cop so I can help yo on that end too. Maybe you could give me your number and we can meet up. PS I think you are SO hot and I want to fuck every fold on your body! I’ll be waiting! <3 Smooches

      • Tara Brooks
        March 3, 2017 at 5:12 pm

        I remember you Bob. You used to have the tiniest dick on the force! And that’s no small feat considering all the tiny todgers in your department! I remember I always used to ask the boys if they had some asian blood in them since their weewee’s were so ….. wee. Anyway, c’mon down to Bennie’s tonite. My folds are sexy as ever, or so I’ve been told. Heeheehee.

        • BobnMic
          March 3, 2017 at 5:26 pm

          Remember it’s not the size of the boat it’s the motion in the ocean baby! I will just slap that fat and ride the waves in! Smooches

      • BobnMic
        March 3, 2017 at 5:17 pm

        You are an imposter sir! Pay no attention to him Tara.

        I will pay for you to get a piercing on your back fat because it’s the size of big titties and that’s HOT!

        • Tara Brooks
          March 3, 2017 at 5:21 pm

          MmmHmm, that’s right baby! I got titties all ’round my body. You’re gonna say “Smother me in that blubber!” before the night is over.

          • Turd Burglestein
            March 3, 2017 at 6:29 pm

            She’s got back titties that you can motorboat while you’re hitting that whiskerbiscuit doggy style.

    • Turd Burglestein
      March 3, 2017 at 6:25 pm

      Contact Desk Girl ASAP! She can help you out with getting this post taken down. She’s on facebook…real easy to find and quick to respond to these kinds of inquiries.

      Good luck.

    • Mr Butthurt
      March 3, 2017 at 10:04 pm

      Bahahahahahaha

      Another internet law suit in the making.

  • Talisman
    March 3, 2017 at 4:26 pm

    Nice. Another oversized bladder of vagitosis that needs to be disposed of. Too bad her and the goth chick can’t find a nice John Wayne Gacy type to give em a free ride in his clown car.

  • Paul Larson
    March 3, 2017 at 4:20 pm

    The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the Empire of the Great Ming – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming, described by some as “one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history,”[2] was the last imperial dynasty in China ruled by ethnic Han Chinese. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the Shun dynasty, soon replaced by the Manchu-led Qing dynasty), regimes loyal to the Ming throne – collectively called the Southern Ming – survived until 1683.

    The Hongwu Emperor (ruled 1368–98) attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty:[3] the empire’s standing army exceeded one million troops and the navy’s dockyards in Nanjing were the largest in the world.[4] He also took great care breaking the power of the court eunuchs[5] and unrelated magnates, enfeoffing his many sons throughout China and attempting to guide these princes through the Huang Ming Zu Xun, a set of published dynastic instructions. This failed spectacularly when his teenage successor, the Jianwen Emperor, attempted to curtail his uncles’ power, prompting the Jingnan Campaign, an uprising that placed the Prince of Yan upon the throne as the Yongle Emperor in 1402. The Yongle Emperor established Yan as a secondary capital and renamed it Beijing, constructed the Forbidden City, and restored the Grand Canal and the primacy of the imperial examinations in official appointments. He rewarded his eunuch supporters and employed them as a counterweight against the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats. One, Zheng He, led seven enormous voyages of exploration into the Indian Ocean as far as Arabia and the eastern coasts of Africa.

    Paul Larson

    • Paul Larson
      March 3, 2017 at 4:23 pm

      I didn’t write that.

      Paul Larson

      • Turd Burglestein
        March 3, 2017 at 4:43 pm

        So if you didn’t write that, you must have plagiarized it.

  • brian albrecht (the real one)
    March 3, 2017 at 4:07 pm

    I like dick, I like dick…ooh yeah…..I love cock, suck that cock….uh huh…….I want manmeat, I want that manmeat….LETS GGGGGOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

  • Turd Burglestein
    March 3, 2017 at 3:56 pm

    Great article……………….Firsties!

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