TRUMP PUT HIS MOUTH IN MOTION BEFORE HE PUT HIS BRAIN IN GEAR

The Donald was clearly wrong when he broad brushed Mexican immigrants as criminals

In his rambling announcement that he was running for president, Donald Trump brought up the subject of illegal immigration and said:

“Mexico isn’t sending its best. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Trump cannot be faulted for bringing up illegal immigration, but he was clearly wrong in the way he went about it. By broad brushing Mexican immigrants as criminals, The Donald let his mouth overload his ass.

Some of my friends have been jumping all over my ass for criticizing Trump’s remarks about Mexican immigrants. They defend Trump by saying he spoke the truth when he broad brushed Mexican illegals as criminals because it is a crime to be in this country illegally … hence they’re criminals.

Personally I like Donald Trump, but he really blew it when he put his mouth in motion before he put his brain in gear. The majority of Mexicans are coming here to find work, not to commit crimes. To defend The Donald by saying he spoke the truth because all illegal aliens have committed the crime of crossing the border illegally is really a stretch.

When Trump said, “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” he clearly did not have in mind that Mexicans were criminals for entering the U.S. illegally. What he meant was that once here, they were committing additional crimes, including rape. And possibly he may have been thinking about Salvadoran MS-13 gang members, who have been sneaking into the U.S. by way of Mexico, but I doubt it.

Trump said, “And some, I assume, are good people.” How magnanimous of The Donald. The majority of illegal aliens are good people. They left Mexico out of desperation, fleeing abject poverty to earn a decent living, something they were unable to do in their homeland. Many of the illegals send much of their earnings to their family members in Mexico.

Should we stop the illegal border crossings? Most certainly! Should we deport the illegal aliens? Yes, but we simply cannot deport 20 million Latinos. However, we can and should deport those illegals who are burgling, robbing, raping and murdering people. But don’t deport those that are mowing our yards, cleaning our homes, fixing our roofs, filling in the pot holes in our streets, picking our crops, etc., etc. Are they taking jobs away from our citizens? No, because Americans refuse to do those kind of jobs because they require hard work and pay very little.

Speaking of illegals committing crimes, there has been a significant increase in hit-and-run traffic accidents. I believe that increase is due to illegals. They don’t want to stick around at the scene because they fear the cops will turn them over to ICE.

You can turn me into the political correctness police for referring to them as illegals instead of undocumented workers.

EUROPEAN TV COMMERCIALS STRICTLY VERBOTEN IN U.S.

Right over the border of Northern Germany in Denmark there are a couple of "Fleggard" supermarkets (belongs to the Costco family) where you really find everything your heart craves, especially high tech and household appliances; a lot cheaper than in Germany...

For this commercial, more than 100 skydiver women jumped from a transport plane, you see them in free fall forming the ad text:

"SIEMENS washing machine for only 269 Euros"



If anyone ever tried to run a TV commercial like this in the U.S., all hell would break loose among the Christian conservative family values organizations.

IRAQIS FLUNKED U.S. TRAINING COURSES

An Iraqi warplane ‘accidentally’ bombs Baghdad

We’ve spent billions of America’s taxpayer dollars to train and equip the Iraqi military. But quite obviously, the Iraqis have flunked their U.S. training courses.

First the Iraqi army’s soldiers flee every time they encounter a dozen or so ISIS fighters, leaving their American military vehicles and other U.S. equipment behind. Now an Iraqi warplane ‘accidentally’ bombed Baghdad.

It was reported Monday that an Iraqi Russian-made Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet was returning from a bombing run against ISIS when it ‘accidentally’ bombed the Jadida neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. The missile flattened three buildings, killing at least seven people and wounding seven others.

Brigadier General Saad Maan explained that "One of the bombs became stuck because of a technical problem, and during its [the aircraft's] return to base it fell on three houses in Baghdad Jadida."

Your tax dollars at work. Blame it on Bush …Oh, in this case we can blame the Russians.

SHARK ATTACKED WRONG GUY

Justin Bieber and his close buddy Joe Termini went swimming at a tropical resort when Termini was bitten by a reef shark

Justin Bieber and close buddy Joe Termini left Sydney Australia Saturday for a tropical island resort. While on the unidentified island, the two decided to go swimming Monday.

The Daily Mail reports that not long after Bieber and Termini dipped themselves into the tranquil waters, Termini was attacked by a reef shark. The shark left a gaping wound on Termini’s chest and rib cage.

Fortunately for Termini, he was attacked by a small reef shark and not by a great white shark. He is recovering.

Damn it, that dumb shark bit the wrong guy!

HOW MANY KINDS OF STUPID IS THIS?

A do it yourself July 4th fireworks display that is bound to turn your head ….. into mush that is

By Bob Walsh

PACOVILLA Corrections blog
July 5, 2015

Devon Staples, 22, of Calais, Maine thought it would be amusing to place a fireworks launch mortar on top of his head yesterday and fire the thing off. It may have been so, but probably not for him. The one good thing is that he will not be around to further pollute the shallow end (very shallow end) of the gene pool.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out there was some alcohol or drugs or both involved in the decision making process. They can do strange things to a person’s notion of “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: The New York Daily News reports that Staples and some friends were at a backyard July 4th party and all had been drinking.

OBAMA COUNTS BORDER TURNBACKS AS DEPORTATIONS

Border turnbacks are clearly not deportations, yet Obama is counting them as such

President Obama long ago convinced me that he excels in the art of lying. In trying to convince the American public that he is tough on illegal immigration, Obama has trumpeted that deportations are way up during his administration. That is clearly not true. The plain truth is that our Liar-in-Chief is counting border turnbacks as deportations to jack up his numbers.

Border turnbacks and deportations are by no means one and tea same. When a Mexican has been turned back at the border, he has not entered the U.S. and thus he cannot be counted as deported.

On Sunday’s ABC This Week With George Stephanopoulos, one of the subjects covered was the murder in San Francisco of Kate Steinle by an illegal Mexican immigrant with a criminal record who had been deported five times but still received protection from the feds under San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy.

Here from the transcript is an exchange between Stephanopoulos and Congressman Bob Goodlatte:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's get into this debate [the murder of Kate Steinle] now with the chair of the House judiciary committee. That committee oversees immigration. Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte joins us now.

Congressman, what went wrong here? And what should be done about it?

REP. BOB GOODLATTE, (R) VIRGINIA: Well, both the government -- the federal government and San Francisco are wrong here. And George let me say at the outset what a tragedy for this family. My heart goes out to them, but quite frankly the federal government, ICE, knows about San Francisco's sanctuary policy. It's a bad policy, but they know about it. Why did they ever turn him over to them when they could have deported him, or they could have prosecuted him for illegally reentering the country four times and send him to prison. Either way, Kate Steinle would be safe.

The fact of the matter is, San Francisco, why would they release somebody back onto their streets who is illegally in the United States and has committed seven prior felonies when they could have contacted ICE and turned him back over to them for deportation. And again, she would have been safe. It's a real tragedy.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So, what's the answer here? Should the federal government -- should there be a law that requires cities like San Francisco to turn over those who have been charged in the past, those who have been deported in the past, those who have been charged with illegal crimes?

GOODLATTE: Well, that is the law and that was the law, the policy regarding detainers, which is the law of the United States, was enforced by the Bush administration as being mandatory.

The Obama administration has converted that into something voluntary. And in doing so, they have eliminated a program that was working called Secure Communities, where individuals like this would be detained and would be turned over to the immigration service.

Now, in addition to that, this administration is releasing criminals back onto the streets themselves. So there's fault to be borne by both...

STEPHANOPOULOS: But as you know...

GOODLATTE: -- but the fact of the matter is...

STEPHANOPOULOS: -- the Obama...

GOODLATTE: -- the laws need to be enforced.

STEPHANOPOULOS: -- the Obama administration points out that over the last six years, deportations of criminals are actually up 80 percent.

GOODLATTE: They are not deporting people in the numbers that have been deported in the past and they're counting people that they apprehend at the border and turn back around.

The Bush administration did not count those as deportations. They simply apprehended them at the border, sent them back into Mexico. That didn't count as deportation.

The Obama administration has started counting those and that has driven those numbers up. But the actual deportations from the interior of the country are way down. This administration is not enforcing our immigration laws and, quite frankly, I don't think they care. And this is -- this tragedy in San Francisco, which is repeated every day around the country and doesn't get this kind of notoriety is the product of that lack of caring about respect for the rule of law and enforcing our laws.

PIER 14 MURDERER WAS A SANCTUARY CITY BENEFICIARY

By BobWalsh

PACOVILLA Corrections blog
July 3, 2015

The man who is believed to have gunned downed a tourist on Pier 14 in the People’s Republic of San Francisco had been convicted of seven felonies and had been deported five times.

Kate Steinle, 32, was shot to death on Wednesday. Francisco Sanchez, 45, is in custody as the suspect. He was released from the S F Jail in March despite an ICE hold on him. ICE had in fact turned him over to the S F authorities on a S F drug drug warrant. He was, at that time, doing federal time for illegal reentry into the country after having been deported.

The S F DA declined to prosecute on the old warrant, and (in accordance with existing S F policy) the Sheriff refused to notify ICE that they were releasing him. It should be noted that the S F policy was incorporated into law by AB4 in 2013. That bill was written by S F Assemblyman Tom Ammiano.

Sanchez asserts that he was shooting at a sea lion (which is a serious felony) and accidentally shot Steinle. He tossed the gun into the bay, but it was recovered. About a zillion people shot cell phone pictures of Sanchez which aided in his arrest.

The S F Sheriff’s Office is blaming ICE for not lodging a stronger hold on Sanchez.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Donald Trump is using the murder of Kathryn Steinle to justify his much excoriated remarks about illegal Mexican immigrants – “Mexico isn’t sending its best. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Trump cannot be faulted for bringing up illegal immigration, but he was clearly wrong in the way he went about it. By broad brushing Mexican immigrants as criminals, The Donald let his mouth overload his ass.

CHINA OUTDOES TEXAS BIGTIME

Us Texans are fond of bragging that we do things bigger and better. After seeing the video about this colossal Chinese building we are going to have to tone our bragging down a tad.

WHAT PART OF THE “NO SWIMMING / ALLIGATORS” SIGN …

… did the late Tommie Woodward not understand?

After a several drinks Thursday night in the bar at Burkart's Marina in Orange, Texas, Tommie Woodward,28, and his girlfriend decided to take a post-midnight dip in Adam’s Bayou. The barkeep and several other people told the couple that no swimming was allowed in the bayiu and there was a prominent “No Swimming / Alligators” sign on the marina premises.

Ah, but you know what one too many drinks will do. Ignoring the warnings and the sign, Tommie took off his shoes and sox and jumped off a dock into the bayou. Almost immediately after he hit the water, Tommie began to scream and disappeared in the jaws of an alligator. His girlfriend – ah, what one too many will do – jumped in, apparently to rescue the now departed Tommie Woodward. She climbed out unhurt.

Orange County sheriff's deputies and a Texas game warden found Tommie’s mangled body nearby at about 4:30 Friday morning, some two hours after the alligator attack was reported to the Orange Police Department.

Now we have a teaching moment. Don’t go swimming where a sing clearly states “No Swimming / Alligators.” Don’t go swimming where people warn you there is no swimming allowed. And most of all, do not go swimming anywhere when you’ve had one drink too many.

HOLY SHIT! AMERICA IS DOOMED BECAUSE THE CIA LACKS DIVERSITY

CIA Director John Brennan is “deeply concerned” that positions held at the upper levels of the intelligence agency do not reflect America

The political correctness police have struck again. This time their target was the CIA.

A yearlong study commissioned by the CIA and led by CIA advisory member Vernon Jordan, a longtime black civil rights activist, was highly critical of the lack of diversity at the upper levels of the CIA. The study, which was released Tuesday, found that:

The agency does not recognize the value of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, nor consistently promote an inclusive, “speak-up” culture where all opinions are heard, valued, and taken into account.

Agency leaders, managers and supervisors do not prioritize diversity in leadership. This fact is evident at the highest levels of the CIA, wherein the most senior positions - with few notable exceptions - are consistently occupied by white male career officers.

Cia Director John Brennan reacted to the study by telling reporters Tuesday that he was “deeply concerned” about the agency’s lack of diversity. “Without diversity we're not going to be able to do our job,” said Brennan. He vowed the CIA would redouble its efforts to recruit and promote minorities.

Brennan released the following statement:

Achieving that outcome is not only a matter of fairness and integrity, but one that is absolutely critical to CIA’s success. Given our global mission, no government agency stands to benefit more from diversity and inclusion than the CIA.

Excellence in foreign intelligence demands broad perspectives, both in our understanding of a complex world and in our approach to challenges and opportunities. Diversity - of thought, ethnicities, backgrounds, and experiences - is essential to CIA’s mission success, and we need it at every level of our enterprise.

Let’s see now. Non-whites (includes Hispanics) make up 30 percent of the general population. Minority employees make up 24 percent of the CIA workforce. 45 percent of CIA employees are women. Now, to me, that comes close to reflecting the diverse population of America.

It is true that with 10.8 percent minorities, the top ranks do not reflect the racial and ethnic diversities in America. There must be a good reason for the lack of diversity in the top ranks, and I do not believe it’s because of discrimination. I suspect the lower ranking minorities simply have not met the skills needed in the upper level positions.

Since its founding in 1947, the mission of the CIA has been to “preempt threats and further US national security objectives by collecting intelligence that matters, producing objective all-source analysis, conducting effective covert action as directed by the President, and safeguarding the secrets that help keep our Nation safe.”

That was then - when the CIA was founded - and this is now. According to Brennan, from now on, the mission of the CIA is to recruit and promote minorities. That will surely make our nation safer.

The CIA is not the New York or Los Angeles police force where diversity at the top is needed to deal with hostile minority communities. If diversity is needed at upper levels of the CIA, then it should consist of Chinese, Russians, Arabs and Iranians to deal with current worldwide threats to the security of the U.S.

Brennan’s statement is a crock of shit meant to appease the political correctness police. It would be nice if there were more ‘qualified’ minorities in upper level positions, but the gathering of intelligence is not dependent on whether whites, African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, women or orangutans occupy the senior positions of the CIA. And you can take that to the bank!

FEDS DECLARE CAPTIVE CHIMPS ENDANGERED

By Craig Malisow

Houston Press
July 1, 2015

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week declared all captive chimpanzees "endangered," restricting their use in biomedical research, granting the chimps at San Antonio's Southwest National Primate Research Center more protection.

The Center is one of a handful of federal research facilities housing chimps — it has "more than 129," according to the website — and the endangered declaration has no current impact on them, since there's no ongoing chimp research there, according to a spokeswoman.

Captive chimps were previously listed as "threatened," and the new classification is a response "to growing threats to the species," according to a Fish and Wildllife press release.

Under the new designation, permits for scientific research will only be issued to "purposes that benefit the species in the wild, or to enhance the propagation or survival of chimpanzees, including habitat restoration," the release states.

John Pippin, the Dallas-based director of academic affairs for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which opposes animal testing, praised the decision in a statement on the Committee's site, saying, "Protection under the Endangered Species Act is long overdue for chimpanzees in laboratories. The new status is a tremendous change that ends the unprotected current status of captive chimpanzees."

The endangered designation is the latest chapter in a phasing-out of research chimps. The Institute of Medicine issued a report in 2011 stating that "most current use of chimpanzees for biomedical research is unnecessary." But by that time, more than 200 lab chimps living out their twilight years at a U.S Air Force Base in Alamagordo, New Mexico were called out of retirement and scheduled for transfer to the Southwest National Primate Research Center.

When The Houston Press first wrote about this controversy in 2012, 14 of the chimps had already been transferred; a year later, the National Institutes of Health retired 310 of its chimps.

But scientists at the Southwest National Primate Research Center maintain that chimpanzee testing (as well as other primate testing) has proved beneficial. Southwest Spokeswoman Lisa Cruz told us in an email that "Animal research has saved lives, extended life expectancy, and improved the quality of life for both humans and animals by enabling scientists to conduct critical experiments that identified ways to prevent, treat, and cure disease. Chimpanzees have played a vital role in advancing human health, including critical research with chimpanzees here at [Southwest] in the development of a hepatitis B vaccine and recent breakthroughs in the cure of hepatitis C virus infection."

Pippin, of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, disagreed in his statement: “Chimpanzees have repeatedly proven to be poor models for many areas of human disease research, such as HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases, neuroscience research, and cancer. The new protections for chimpanzees should cause the National Institutes of Health—the country’s largest funder of basic research—to close the door on a dark chapter of its history and expand its investment in non-animal research methods."

The Alamagordo chimps transferred to Southwest had certainly contributed a lot to science. Take Katrina, a 33-year-old chimp who, we wrote in 2012

did most of her time in a private lab in Tuxedo, New York. She has been sedated or anesthetized at least 295 times, endured 36 liver biopsies, four rectal biopsies, three lymph node biopsies and a cervical biopsy. In 1994, after coming out of a ketamine daze, she mutilated her thumb. Between June 2001 and March 2002 (when she was retired), she lost 38.5 pounds — one-third of her body weight.

And we would also be remiss to overlook Ken, who was first used in biomedical research 12 hours after his birth in 1982, when his blood drawn.

Over the next three years, he was studied at Centers for Disease Control labs in Phoenix and Atlanta. He was infected with hepatitis C from a serum derived from infected chimps and with hepatitis A from human feces. He was infected with HIV in 1993.

Ken was retired from medical research in 1996 after undergoing a total of 77 anesthetizations for serial blood sampling and biopsies. In retirement, he remained at the Air Force base in what is known as the Alamogordo Primate Facility. During a routine health exam on Ken in 2005, vets discovered a protein deficiency in his blood that they believe later led to his swollen scrotum and abdomen.

We hope that, if the feds issue any research permits, it really will be worth it. These animals have already been through a lot.

IFYOU WANT TO MAKE CRIME PAY, GO TO LAW SCHOOL

Former Boston mobster Whitey Bulger’s advice to three Lakeville, Massachusetts teenage girls

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, the notorious former Boston mobster, was on the lam for 16 years before he was apprehended in California in 2011. In 2013, he was convicted on federal racketeering charges that included his complicity in eleven murders. Bulger, 85, has been roosting in a Florida federal lockup pending an appeal of his conviction.

Three 17-year-old students at Apponequet Regional High School in Lakeville, Massachusetts chose to write Bulger as part of a nationwide school contest. They requested his opinion on his legacy and advice on leadership. To their amazement, Brittany Tainsh, Michaela Arguin and Mollykate Rodenbush received a handwritten reply which Bulger penned in February. But instead of writing about his legacy and leadership, Whitey advised them not to waste their lives.

Here is what Whitey Bulger wrote:

Feb. 24, 2015

1:10 a.m.

Hello, Brittany:

I’m sorry but I can’t help you with your school project — There are many people more deserving of your time and interests. I’m a myth created by the media to help them generate Revenue and to hurt a relation because they didn’t appreciate his independence and daring to support an agenda they opposed.

May I suggest you and Molly create a website about the heroic service men of Mass. that are patients in, for instance, Walter Reed Veteran Hospital — good men isolated from society due to war wounds — life for some in pain and loneliness — hearing from school girls that care would do wonders for their morale and recovery.

Don’t waste your time on such as I — we are society’s lower, best forgotten, not looked to for advice on “Leadership”. I’m a 9th grade dropout from school and took the wrong road — my brother 5 years younger applied himself in school and worked hard and spent 40 years in Mass State House and retired and was the President of Mass Senate in State House for second term and President of U. Mass after Retirement. Had 9 children all college graduates and 4 lawyers among them. A Better Man than I.

My life was wasted and spent foolishly, brought shame and suffering on my parents and siblings and will end soon — Advice is a cheap commodity some seek it from me about crime — I know only thing for sure — If you want to make crime pay — “Go to Law School.”

Brittany Best of Luck in the future to you and Molly and Michaela.

Sincerely James Bulger

While Bulger did not give them what they wanted, he did give them some very good advice. I especially liked the line: I know only [one] thing for sure — If you want to make crime pay — “Go to Law School.” Ain’t that the truth!

FORMER LAPD OFFICER WHO KILLED TO SAVE HIS PARTNER’S LIFE SHARES LESSONS ON DEADLY FORCE

Associated Press
June 28, 2015

LOS ANGELES — It all happened in seconds. But those brief moments would forever change life for David Klinger, a self-described “beach kid” who’d dreamt of being a police officer since he was a kid. He’d entered the Los Angeles Police Academy in 1981 with a clear motive. He wanted to try to help make life better for the people of violence-ridden south-central Los Angeles.

Now he was standing with his gun pointed at Edward Randolph, who at 26 was just three years older than himself. Randolph had a butcher knife aimed at the throat of Klinger’s police partner, Dennis Azevedo, who was on the ground trying with all his might to hold back Randolph’s attack.

“Shoot him,” Azevedo cried out to his rookie partner.

Deadly force by police has made headlines from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore. Just this month, a Los Angeles police officer was found “unjustified” in shooting and killing a 25-year-old mentally ill man. Across the country, most officers are exonerated. But more and more people are calling for strategies to make such incidents less common, notably through improved police training.

For Klinger, it has long been a very personal issue — one that led a young cop who entered the “kill zone,” as officers call it, to become a researcher seeking to understand the dynamics of confrontation. In doing so, he hopes to be a voice of reason in an emotional national debate, and an advocate for change.

When Klinger showed up in his ranks on the night shift, Tim Anderson, then an LAPD sergeant, wasn’t sure he was the kind of recruit who’d make it in neighborhoods plagued with gang warfare.

Klinger, a quiet, devout Christian, whose dad was a classical clarinet player, had moved to California from Miami, at age 13, with his mom and two sisters after his parents split up. “Here’s a kid from a very mild-mannered side of life who ends up here,” Anderson says.

But Klinger was determined. “I actually asked for this to be my assignment out of the academy,” he says, sitting in a restaurant north of Los Angeles after revisiting the scene of Randolph’s shooting.

That night in 1981, he was teamed with Azevedo when they were called to a home where an armed burglar had been reported. As a police helicopter circled overhead, a large crowd gathered to watch across busy Vernon Avenue.

“Get out of here!” the officers yelled. Most spectators ran, except Randolph.

Azevedo says he didn’t think Randolph could hear him, or maybe didn’t speak English. So he ran across the street to try to get him to move.

“In the blink of an eye,” Azevedo recalls how Randolph lunged forward and stabbed him in the lower chest with a blow stopped — just barely — by his protective vest. Stunned, Azevedo tried to draw his gun, but he tripped on uneven pavement, he says — and Randolph jumped on him with the knife raised.

Rushing over, Klinger grabbed Randolph’s left wrist, but Randolph broke free. Klinger pulled his own gun and fired at close range.

“I blamed myself for 20 years for not being able to wrest the knife from him,” he says.

Investigators ultimately determined the fatal shooting was justified and that the rookie officer had saved Azevedo’s life. But Klinger still found it difficult to rest easy.

In the year that followed, there were nine more times he says he could have shot a civilian — and believes he would have been justified in doing so. But he but didn’t shoot because the suspects dropped guns, or other officers intervened.

Feeling like a “magnet” for trouble, he moved to a smaller department in Redmond, Washington. But he found no better fit there. It was time for something new.

Today, the 57-year-old Klinger is a professor in the department of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He earned a doctorate and has written a book, “Into the Kill Zone,” telling the stories of officers who’ve shot and killed people.

He also has done research on methods officers can use to avoid deadly force. This spring, testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing on deadly force, one topic he discussed was “tactical positioning,” a strategy in which officers keep a safe distance, unless there is imminent danger.

“Often times, officers find themselves in too close, too quickly, and they don’t have any option other than to shoot their way out of it,” Klinger says. “That’s where I really think we fall down in American law enforcement.”

He uses last year’s police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, as an example. Though he agrees that Officer Darren Wilson was justified in shooting Brown, he also says that shooting might have been avoided if Wilson had waited and called for backup.

Such assessments anger some. But Klinger says police agencies must ask, “What can we learn from this?'”

Even now, there is disagreement among Klinger’s own former colleagues about whether the 1981 killing of Edward Randolph could have been avoided. They agree that Klinger was justified in the shooting.

But Anderson, their sergeant, says Azevedo should have ignored Randolph and let him take his chances as they pursued the burglar, who ultimately got away. “He should’ve never engaged this suspect by himself,” says Anderson, a former SWAT team supervisor, who’s retired and now advises police departments on tactical operations.

Azevedo, also retired after a long law enforcement career, stands by his decision. He says it was his duty to try to protect a person he thought was an innocent bystander.

Either way, Klinger has let go of his guilt with the help of a counselor who, as he puts it, helped his heart accept that he “did what he had to do.”

Speaking of Randolph, he says, “He’s 26 years old. His whole life was driven by other people besides me. So why should I blame myself for my inability to control him for that one second that I was in physical contact with him?”

It has been, perhaps, the most difficult lesson the professor has learned.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Edward Randolph most definitely deserved to be killed!

Klinger chose the wrong profession. He should not have hesitated when his partner called out for him to shoot Randolph.

A cop must be prepared to shoot to kill at any moment. Klinger’s advice to keep a distance between a cop and an armed suspect is good advice, but not always possible. And his advice on calling for backup is also good, but backup may not be available in time.

MURPHY’S LAW WORKED OVERTIME

About to give birth, a woman takes a back road, gets lost, runs out of gas, gives birth, is attacked by bees and after being stranded for three days, is rescued when she set mountain on fire

By Gamaliel Ortiz

KCRA.com
June 29, 2015

OROVILLE, Calif. —An Oroville woman going into labor decided to take the back roads to her parents' home for help, but soon found herself in more trouble than expected.

It began with her gas and cell service running out in the Plumas County National Forest.

"I was told about this back road and people had showed it to me a few times, but I had never driven it by myself," Amber Pangborn told an NBC affiliate in Oroville.

As she traveled down French Creek Road -- not long before running out of gas and cell service -- Pangborn gave birth to her daughter, Marissa. She did it alone on Thursday.

Pangborn, 35, was stranded for the next three days. In that time, she encountered a swarm of bees and mosquitoes.

"I was trying to get them not to sting her, but I got stung," Pangborn said.

She survived only off a few apples and modest amounts of water.

On Saturday, three days into her ordeal, she decided to start a signal fire, hoping to attract some attention -- but that didn't go as planned.

"I think mommy just started a forest fire," Pangborn recalled telling her daughter shortly after starting the fire.

Within hours, the fire was tracked by a U.S. Forest Service worker, and Pangborn and her daughter were found safe.

"I was just crying, and I was just so happy," Pangborn, said. "I thought we were going to die."

They were admitted to Oroville Hospital, and the baby was taken to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento on Sunday for further evaluation.

The two are expected to be reunited soon.

SCOTUS OKAYS MIDAZOLAM FOR EXECUTIONS

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court held that the use of midazolam in executions did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment

The use of midazolam in executions was challenged after the botched Oklahoma execution of Clayton Lockett on April 29, 2014. Here is how Yahoo News described the execution:

First, a sedative was administered to render him unconscious (which, in this case, was midazolam). Next, a paralytic was added to prevent Lockett from moving or thrashing as he died, while also stopping his breathing. Finally, he received a drug to cause cardiac arrest. In Lockett’s case, the procedure went poorly: He awoke after the administration of the midazolam, which was supposed to render him unconscious, all the while kicking his legs, panting, clenching his teeth, and flailing against the restraints. Lockett continued to struggle, eventually raising his head off the gurney completely and managing to articulate the word “Man” before eventually dying 40 minutes later.

(Please excuse me while I collect myself. The description of poor old Clayton’s agonizing demise was more than I could take. I'm OK now, I've managed to stop laughing.)

In a 5-4 ruling Monday, the Supreme Court turned back challenges to the use of midazolam in executions, holding that its use does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Naturally, the four liberal justices dissented.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, saying that “petitioners failed to establish that any risk of harm was substantial when compared to a known and available alternative method of execution.”

In their dissent, liberal justices Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went so far as to note their belief that the death penalty itself was unconstitutional.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent, saying that it “would not matter whether the state intended to use midazolam, or instead to have petitioners drawn and quartered, slowly tortured to death, or actually burned at the stake.”

Sotomayor’s dissent seems akin to the ridiculous rant of a deranged person. She must have been smoking some funny tobacco just before she wrote it. Or there is always the possibility that her uber-liberal mindset has addled her brains.

While this ruling is a victory for the death penalty, we’d better enjoy it while we can. When Hillary Clinton becomes President, she will get to appoint several Supreme Court justices and you can bet they will all have the same mindset as Sonia Sotomayor. Then you can kiss the death penalty goodbye.

CONVIICT LIVES MATTER

Prison inmates start protest movement in wake of David Sweat shooting with white, black and Hispanic inmates united

By Ima Schmuck

The Unconventional Gazette
June 29, 2015

The shooting of unarmed New York prison escapee David Sweat by a state trooper has riled up prison inmates across the U.S. White, black and Hispanic prison inmates have set aside their fierce rivalry to unite and form a ‘Convict Lives Matter’ protest movement.

Terry “Big Terry” Blake, a general in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) prison gang, was incensed over the Sweat shooting. Big Terry, who is in custody on federal racketeering charges, told reporters that correctional officers and cops are always shooting unarmed prison inmates who are only trying to get out of the “hell holes” they’ve been confined in.

“If them niggers can protest and riot when cops shoot one of them spooks,” Big Terry said, “then us convicts ought to be able to protest and riot too when one of our unarmed brothers gets shot by the bulls or the cops. I hate to join up with them niggers and wetbacks, but when it comes to us cons getting shot, we all gotta stick together.”

Donna Lieberman , executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said the ACLU is supporting the rights of convicts to demonstrate, but she stopped short of supporting their right to riot. “We always support the right of any group to demonstrate peacefully,” she said, emphasizing the word ‘peacefully.’

Lieberman is also concerned that an unarmed Sweat was shot in the back by a New York state trooper while running away. She compared the Sweat shooting to that of 50-year-old Walter Scott, an unarmed black man who was shot in the back last April by Michael Slager, a North Charleston, South Carolina cop. As a result, Slager has been indicted for murder.

Prison officials are bracing for the possibility of rioting and are considering lockdowns in those prisons where the “Convict Lives Matter’ movement appears to gaining some traction.

Marshall L. Fisher, Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, said “We ain’t about to let a bunch of criminals demonstrate for any reason or cause, Our correctional officers have been instructed to deal harshly with the leaders of the ‘Convict Lives Matter’ movement in our state prison system.”

Burl Cain, warden of Louisiana’s Angola state penitentiary, said he was not worried about any demonstrations at his prison. “Here at Angola,” he said, “our inmates are well behaved because they know how we deal with troublemakers. I ain’t worried about no ‘Convict Lives Matter’ demonstrations. They ain’t about to happen here at Angola.”

As for the Sweat shooting, Amnesty International general secretary Salil Shetty summed it up in his London office by saying, “The shooting of Mr. Sweat is just one more example of cowboy cops in America.”

WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM?

Opponents of the Vietnam War alleged that African-Americans saw the brunt of combat in the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

We are now approaching the 51st anniversary of the Vietnam War. All through the Vietnam War, I heard the shrill voices of the war’s opponents alleging that it was mostly poor blacks who were seeing combat in the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Here are some interesting statistics forwarded to me by a retired public relations professional:

88.4 percent of the men who actually served in Vietnam were Caucasian (includes Hispanics); 10.6 percent were black; 1 percent belonged to other races.

86.3 percent of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasian; 12.5 percent were black; 1.2 percent belonged to other races.

86.8 percent of the men who were killed as a result of hostile action were Caucasian; 12.1 percent were black; 1.1% belonged to other races.

Overall, blacks suffered 12.5 percent of the deaths in Vietnam at a time when the percentage of blacks of military age was 13.5 percent of the total population.

We can see from these stats that the opponents of the Vietnam War lied when they alleged that blacks saw the brunt of combat during that war. The truth is that blacks served and died in numbers approximating their percentage of the total population.

The blacks who served, died and were wounded in the Vietnam War were true American heroes. And, of course, so were all the others who saw combat in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

DIVORCE LAWYERS LEAPING UP AND DOWN WITH JOY

Supreme Court ruling has lawyers salivating over an expected divorce bonanza

So you think that homosexuals were overjoyed at the Supreme Court’s ruling on Gay marriage. Of course they were overjoyed, but divorce lawyers were even more ecstatic.

Divorce lawyer are leaping – rather than jumping – up and down with joy over the ruling by the Supreme Court that made Gay marriages legal across the land.

Nationwide the divorce rate among heterosexual couples still hovers around 50 percent. There is no reason to think that the divorce rate among Gays will be any less.

Lawyers are salivating over an expected divorce bonanza. Since many homosexuals are successful professionals and business owners, their divorce proceedings are likely to be protracted and thus very costly. Their lawyers will be laughing all the way to the bank.

STOP CUTTING DOWN TREES!

*Look what happens when we cut down too many trees.*

*Global warming is one thing, but see below and look at what is happening if we continue to clear our wooded lands!*

*We have to stop cutting down trees!*

*This is getting really serious!*

SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF MOST BUCK-WILD PRIDE PARADE NATION’S EVER SEEN

5-4 ruling upholds raunchy gay pride parades

The Onion
June 26, 2015

WASHINGTON—Following decades of debate over the constitutional right to same-sex marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court today handed down a 5-4 ruling in favor of the most buck-wild, balls-to-the-wall gay pride parade this country has ever seen.

“After reviewing the constitutional underpinnings of this case, the court finds that it is discriminatory for states to deny the right to the most out-of-control, bonkers gay pride parade that anyone could possibly imagine,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion, which outlined at length the elaborate floats, billowing rainbow flags, and phalanxes of outlandishly dressed participants, barely scratching the surface of how completely bananas things are about to get. “This decision confirms what should be obvious: The government cannot prevent a nonstop bacchanal surging through the streets of every American city. We’re talking half-naked lesbians covered in body paint, rollerblading homosexuals in brightly colored Native American headdresses and sparkling gold briefs, as well as hundreds of thousands of supporters losing their fucking minds while ‘I Will Survive’ blares at 150 decibels. This is going to be an absolute shit show.”

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision was reportedly appended by a concurring opinion authored by Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor in which she agreed that the right to “an uninterrupted three-day batshit insane rager” was mandated by the U.S. Constitution.

ON LOWERING THE FLAG

By Charles Krauthammer

The Washington Post
June 25, 2015

After a massacre like the one at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, our immediate reaction is to do something. Something, for politicians, means legislation. And for Democratic politicians, this means gun control.

It’s the all-purpose, go-to, knee-jerk solution. Within hours of the massacre, President Obama was lamenting the absence of progress on gun control. A particular Democratic (and media) lament was Congress’ failure to pass anything after Sandy Hook.

But the unfortunate fact is that the post-Sandy Hook legislation would have had zero effect on the events in Charleston. Its main provisions had to do with assault weapons; the (alleged) shooter Dylann Roof was using a semiautomatic pistol.

You can pass any gun law you want. The 1994 assault weapons ban was allowed to expire after 10 years because, as a Justice Department study showed, it had no effect. There’s only one gun law that would make a difference: confiscation. Everything else is for show.

And in this country, confiscation is impossible. Constitutionally, because of the Second Amendment. Politically, because doing so would cause something of an insurrection. And culturally, because Americans cherish — cling to, as Obama once had it — their guns as a symbol of freedom. You can largely ban guns in Canada where the founding document gives the purpose of confederation as the achievement of “peace, order and good government.” Harder to disarm a nation whose founding purpose is “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

With gun control going nowhere, the psychic national need post-Charleston to nonetheless do something took a remarkable direction: banishment of the Confederate battle flag, starting with the one flying on the grounds of the statehouse in Columbia, then spreading like wildfire to consume Confederate flags, symbols, statues and even memorabilia everywhere — from the Alabama state capitol to Wal-Mart and Amazon.

Logically, the connection is tenuous. Yes, Roof does pose with the Confederate flag, among other symbols of racism, on his Web site . But does anyone imagine that if the South Carolina flag had been relegated to a museum, the massacre would not have occurred?

Politically, the killings created a unique moment. Gov. Nikki Haley (R) was surely sincere in calling for the Confederate flag’s removal. But she also understood that the massacre had created a moment when the usual pro-Confederate flag feeling — and, surely, expressions of it — would be largely suppressed, presenting the opportunity to achieve something otherwise politically unachievable.

But there’s a deeper reason for this rush to banish Confederate symbols, to move them from the public square to the museum. The trigger was not just the massacre itself, but even more tellingly the breathtaking display of nobility and spiritual generosity by the victims’ relatives. Within 48 hours of the murder of their loved ones, they spoke of redemption and reconciliation and even forgiveness of the killer himself. It was an astonishingly moving expression of Christian charity.

Such grace demands a response. In a fascinating dynamic, it created a feeling of moral obligation to reciprocate in some way. The flag was not material to the crime itself, but its connection to the underlying race history behind the crime suggested that its removal from the statehouse grounds — whatever the endlessly debated merits of the case — could serve as a reciprocal gesture of reconciliation.

The result was a microcosm of — and a historical lesson in — the moral force of the original civil rights movement, whose genius was to understand the effect that combating evil with good, violence with grace, would have on a fundamentally decent American nation.

America was indeed moved. The result was the civil rights acts. The issue today is no longer legal equality. It is more a matter of sorting through historical memory.

The Confederate flags would ultimately have come down. That is a good thing. They are now coming down in a rush. The haste may turn out to be problematic.

We will probably overshoot, as we are wont to do, in the stampede to eliminate every relic of the Confederacy. Not every statue has to be smashed, not every memory banished. Perhaps we can learn a lesson from Arlington National Cemetery, founded by the victorious Union to bury its dead. There you will find Section 16. It contains the remains of hundreds of Confederate soldiers grouped around a modest, moving monument to their devotion to “duty as they understood it” — a gesture by the Union of soldierly respect, without any concession regarding the taintedness of their cause.

Or shall we uproot them as well?

EDITOR’S NOTE: To me the Confederate battle flag was never a symbol of racism, nor is it today. It’s part of our history and the banner under which more than 250,000 Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War. Yes, that's more than a quarter of a million soldiers.

Unfortunately, that flag was hijacked by the KKK and other white supremacy hate groups. The media seized upon that to poison the public’s mind, especially that of African-Americans, into believing that the Confederate battle flag represented hatred of non-whites and thus a symbol of racism.

POLICE CARS CAN NOW IDENTIFY CRIMINALS WHILE ON PATROL

By Marc Weber Tobias

Forbes
June 25, 2015

Police departments around the country have been quietly implementing a powerful crime-fighting tool that promises to be the equal of DNA forensics in identifying and finding criminals. Even more importantly, it will provide information that will help prevent criminal activity and deadly traffic accidents.

The technology is called DDACTS, which is an acronym for Data Driven Approach to Crime and Traffic Safety. It involves mounting on the roof of a police car three high-resolution digital cameras positioned to point forward and cover both sides of the vehicle. Each is equipped with infrared lighting which enables them to see in the dark. GPS is integrated into the system, and the digitized pictures of license plates are fed as they are captured to a laptop within the vehicle.

When police officers begin their shift, they download, via a high-speed WiFi hotspot at their station, the latest database of wanted vehicles, fugitive warrants, suspended or revoked drivers licenses, state and federal criminal databases, stolen cars, and other information on bad guys. These files are updated every four hours and allow the integration of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) cameras with criminal indices at the local, state, and national level for instant hits on cars. FBI statistics indicated that a majority of felony stops occur in vehicles, so the system in effect preselects targets of opportunity.

Denver has been a big advocate of the DDACTS system. Since taking office in 2011, Denver Police Chief Robert White has made it a priority to deploy new crime-fighting tech as its population continues to skyrocket. I was in Denver last week and was shown its DDACTS set-up, which costs $11,000 for each vehicle. You can watch my interview with Denver police commander Paul Pazen, who is the most knowledgeable within the department about the program.

Denver has trained more than a hundred officers on how to best use the new tool. It could drastically increase the effectiveness of field officers by not only giving the patrolman three more sets of eyes, but by doing things instantly with those additional eyes that no police officer could hope to accomplish alone. As a cop drives through his or her district, those cameras capture, read, and process hundreds of plates. More than 835,000 license plates have been read into Denver P.D.’s image database in the past two months. That has resulted in moe than 17,000 hits. The information is stored for 364 days before being permanently purged.

The system has proven invaluable as an investigative tool, as well as for analyzing crime and traffic safety patterns. For example, when there is gang activity or a major crime scene, a DDACTS-equipped vehicle will cruise the area, night or day, and record any and every vehicle within proximity. This allows detectives and field officers to identify potential witnesses and suspects for later investigation. Commander Pazen also stressed the importance of predicting high traffic-accident areas for special attention and enforcement.

While some advocates have voiced privacy concerns about the new system, they are unfounded, according to Commander Pazen, because the system does not track individual vehicles. It only logs those cars that it sees, so it is random. However, that may be about to change in an adjacent jurisdiction of Aurora, Colo. That city of about 350,000, which is on the eastern border of Denver, is in the process of installing fixed cameras at key intersections that will do the same thing as DDACTS and feed information into Denver and other jurisdictions to alert them of wanted vehicles that may be entering their cities.

While Denver was the first city in Colorado to implement this new crime-fighting tool, many others will follow. Some cities, such as Los Angeles, have been using license plate readers for several years, but newly enhanced camera technology, coupled with OCR and data base integration have greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement to increase its effectiveness. So if you are a criminal in Denver or one of the cities that are implementing DDACTS, you should know that not only police officers, but their cars are looking for and can instantly identify you day or night if there is any link between you and your vehicle license plate. The system will store the location of where your vehicle plate is captured and provide an instant notification that you or your car are wanted. If you are driving, then your chances of getting caught are greatly increased.

The next step will be facial recognition, which is already in use in several jurisdictions in the U.S. and in Europe. I am not sure whether Aldous Huxley would be surprised, shocked, or pleased about the use of technology to change the way we catch criminals, but it is clear that law enforcement is being radically changed by technology in terms of its ability to identify and apprehend offenders.

HIGH LEVEL INTERNATIONAL MILITARY GROUP ABSOLVES ISRAEL OF WAR CRIMES IN GAZA

Former chiefs of staff, generals and senior officers from the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom contradict accusations by the Palestinians and their European allies that Israel committed war crimes against the civilian population of Gaza

Finally Israel gets a break.

Ever since the Gaza War, Israel has been pounded by accusations from the Palestinians and their European allies that the Israeli Defense Forces committed war crimes against the civilian population of Gaza. Even the Obama administration condemned Israel for bombing schools, hospitals and mosques which were being used by Hamas to store weapons and munitions.

On the contrary, a group of former chiefs of staff, generals and senior officers from the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom says that Israel went the extra mile to avoid civilian casualties to the detriment of its military operations. Those restraints prevented Israel from defeating Hamas.

Unfortunately, the group’s report will not get the attention it deserves because the world seems determined to demonize and delegitimize the State of Israel.

CAUSE FOR CONCERN: ISRAEL’S RIGOROUS COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW
By Tsvi Sadan

Israel Today
June 23, 2015

“Our overall findings are that during Operation Protective Edge last summer … Israel not only met a reasonable international standard of observance of the laws of armed conflict, but in many cases significantly exceeded that standard.”

That was the conclusion reached by the High Level International Military Group report submitted last week to the UN Human Rights Council. According to the report, this inquiry was unprecedented, and so was the access granted to IDF personal and information.

This group, made up of former chiefs of staff, generals and senior officers from the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, among others, was intently focused on one of the most pressing issues surrounding modern armed conflict: “How civilian lives can be protected and military forces can fight effectively … in a densely packed civilian area.”

This challenge haunts not only Israel, but all Western democracies. Today, these nations face asymmetric armed conflicts where armies no longer fight armies, but must rather contend with paramilitary organizations that exploit international laws of war for their advantage. This yet unresolved challenge is a cause of severe headache for many statesmen and generals.

Contrary to the anti-Israel rhyme heard all over the world, these 11 experts appeared to be concerned that Israel was in fact going “beyond the required legal principles of proportionality.”

Though not saying so explicitly, they feared that Israel’s extraordinary efforts to avoid civilian casualties represented too high a standard, and would therefore hinder effective military action.

Rather than condemn Israel for alleged war crimes, this group seemed to be saying quite the opposite. Because of its fear of condemnation, Israel becomes an example of ineffective military operations that can have dire consequences not only for Israel, but for any other Western country fighting terror.

Though Israelis have long known it to be true, the conclusion that the Gaza campaign “was a legitimate war” carries extra weight coming from an independent international commission of inquiry.

It confirms the fact that “Hamas’s rocket attacks deliberately and indiscriminately targeted Israeli civilian population.”

It reiterates that “Hamas launched attacks against Israel from the heart of its own civilian communities in Gaza and positioned its munitions and military forces there also, including in schools, hospitals and mosques.”

These experts also arrived to the conclusion that “in general Israeli forces acted proportionately as required by the laws of armed conflict and often went beyond the required legal principles of proportionality, necessity and discrimination.”

And finally, just like the Israelis, this fact-finding commission is also concerned that “the measures taken [to avoid civilian casualties] were often far in excess of the requirements of the Geneva Conventions. They sometimes placed Israeli lives at risk. To an extent these steps also undermined the effectiveness of the IDF’s operations by pausing military action and thus allowing Hamas to re-group and replenish.”

This report is a ray of light trying to penetrate the thick prejudice encapsulating the UN. Based on past experience, however, it is unlikely that such reports will make so much as a dent in the world’s blatantly anti-Israel attitude.

FREDDIE GRAY AUTOPSY LEAK INFURIATES PROSECUTOR

By Bob Walsh

PACOVILLA Corrections blog
June 24, 2015

If you follow any amount of broadcast news you are aware that the autopsy of Freddie Gray was leaked to the press yesterday. You might remember that Gray was an all-around humanitarian and small businessman engaged in unlicensed independent pharmaceutical sales when he died in custody, leading to an orgy of rioting.

An article on this from the Boston Sun says that Gray was ripped out of his gord on weed and opiates when he died. Funny but most of the articles on the late lamented Mr. Gray seem to ignore that detail.

It is also noteworthy in that the conclusion states that the alleged fact that the officers failed to follow safety procedures made his death a homicide rather than an accidental death.

The prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby (who was recently featured in Vogue magazine and stated firmly that she had no regrets for anything she said at any time about this case) is seemingly livid about the release of the autopsy results. She is trying hard to muzzle any release of information favorable to the defense while she continues to pollute the jury pool with inflammatory statements from her office.

RETIRED COP USES TWITTER TO ACCUSE BALTIMORE POLICE OF BRUTALITY AND CORRUPTION

By Nancy Dillon

New York Daily News
June 24, 2015

A retired Baltimore cop is blowing the whistle on police brutality and misconduct he allegedly witnessed during his decade on the force.

Former Sgt. Michael A. Wood Jr. listed his disturbing allegations in a Twitter firestorm Wednesday but stopped short of naming names or providing dates and locations.

"So here we go," the ex-detective and U.S. Marine, 35, wrote to his thousands of followers. "I'm going to start Tweeting the things I've seen & participated in, in policing that is corrupt, intentional or not."

The claims read like a blotter.

"A detective slapping a completely innocent female in the face for bumping into him, coming out of a corner chicken store," he said in his first example.

"Punting a handcuffed, face down, suspect in the face, after a foot chase. My handcuffs, not my boot or suspect," the officer who served from 2003 until an injury forced his retirement January 2014 said in his second.

A third tweet claimed fellow officers would turn video cameras away from any action as soon as a suspect was close to being caught.

"Pissing and sh---ing inside suspects homes during raids, on their beds and clothes," he claimed in one tweet that quickly racked up more than 880 re-tweets.

Wood claimed he also had knowledge of officers lying in court and "jacking up and illegally searching thousands of people with no legal justification."

He said he didn't remember "any particular person" who was searched illegally because it happened every day.

"I'm one person relying on a flawed memory system. This is an indictment on the culture of the profession, not a witch-hunt. Sorry," he tweeted.

A spokesman for Baltimore Police questioned the lack of "names and addresses" in Wood's tweets and asked why he waited so long to report the allegations.

"We'll look into this and his background. This is news I'm getting right now," Detective Shawn Strong said.

"What's really hard to convey is that some things are so common place, they didn't register until I was on the other side," Wood tweeted in response to similar challenges on Twitter.

Wood said he made the comments on Twitter in hopes that the police department makes changes to prevent brutality and corruption.

“I have no desire to verify the allegations. If anyone wants to look into them, fine. But I’m not looking for retribution. My purpose is to admit these things and help make policies and training materials to prevent them in the future," Wood told The News in a phone interview Wednesday.

Wood said he would testify if any of the civilians in the cases he mentioned stepped forward and asked for justice, but the incidents involving the slapping of the woman and the suspect who got kicked in the face were from 2004 or 2005.

He said the officer who allegedly kicked the suspect already was off the force.

“The kicking was the most egregious. Yeah I should have done something. Of course. But I was blinded. I was a complete rookie at the time. The truth is that I just said, ‘That’s your suspect. I’m out of here,’” he told The News.

"It wasn’t until I got out of the police department and saw things from a different perspective and got educated that I realized the things that happened were so wrong," he said.

Wood said he plans to keep posting similar examples at a rate of about 10 per day for the next few days.

“I remember one detective who staged a hit and run because he wrecked his car and didn’t want to get in trouble,” he said. “At the time, I was thinking, 'Who cares, he’s not hurting anyone.’ That was the sentiment.”

One former colleague said he had no reason to doubt Wood.

"Sgt Wood was probably one of the most intelligent guys I ever met in the department," former Baltimore Police Detective Joseph Crystal told The News.

Crystal, who resigned from the force in August after reporting a case of police brutality, said he worked directly under Wood in 2009 during his field training.

"He was great," Crystal said of Wood. "He was well versed in department policy and could articulate himself so well."

The son of two NYPD cops, Crystal said he had no direct knowledge of the instances described in Wood's tweets but assumed he was telling the truth.

"I don't know why he's coming forward now, but I'm happy if it will bring him peace," Crystal said. "I wish everyone spoke up when these things happened. If we speak up when we see abuse, we have a chance to fix it. But I understand why officers are reluctant."

In Crystal's case, the married detective says he left the force when fellow cops turned on him because he reported a 2011 beating of a drug suspect by a fellow officer.

They stopped providing backup and didn't want to ride with him in the field, he said.

"The first really horrible thing I saw, I came forward and reported it. My conscience is clear," he said Wednesday.

"I've seen a handcuffed suspect beaten. So can I believe it happened in front of Sgt. Wood too? Of course I can," he said.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA MYTHS DEBUNKED

A Bristol University study conducted with 6,500 volunteers showed that cannabis does not ease pain, nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients, MS muscle contractions, sleep disorders or Tourette’s symptoms

Along comes yet another study by a reputable scientific team which debunks the medical marijuana myths. A study by Dr. Penny Whiting and her team at England’s University of Bristol found that cannabis does not ease pain, nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients, MS muscle contractions, sleep disorders or Tourette’s symptoms.

The proponents of pot claim that marijuana is a medical miracle. They are either ignorant of the true facts or deliberately lying.

In the Bristol University study, Dr. Whiting’s team used 6,500 volunteers and conducted 79 random trials. That seems to meet the standard of scientific inquiry.

The Whiting Study found weak evidence that cannabis eases pain and even weaker evidence that it provides relief for chemotherapy, MS and Tourette patients.

The study further indicates that marijuana contributes to psychosis and does little to ease anxiety.

The researchers also debunked studies which purported to show the beneficial aspects of medical marijuana by pointing out that they did not reach statistical significance.

Twenty three states have legalized the use of pot for medical purposes. The medical marijuana industry has enriched the growers, distributors and dealers of pot and the doctors who prescribe it.

California’s medical marijuana law is a farce and has become a de facto legalization of pot for recreational use. Pot heads can go to almost any doctor licensed to dispense marijuana and get a pot prescription for any number of imaginable faked symptoms. At the end of the day, the doctor can go laughing all the way to the bank.

The Whiting study comes on the heels of a study showing that medical marijuana does not provide any relief to glaucoma patients. The American Glaucoma Society has written: "There is no scientific basis for marijuana's use in treatment," and there is evidence that it could actually do damage.

The American Epilepsy Society says: "Marijuana itself has major shortcomings as an epilepsy treatment ... evidence for efficacy in treating seizures does not meet the necessary standard to recommend it to patients." Worse, researchers state that "marijuana use or withdrawal could potentially trigger seizures in susceptible [epilepsy] patients."

Drs. Deepak Cyril and Mohini Ranganathan of Yale University caution against the rush to legalize medical marijuana and suggest that “perhaps it is time to place the horse back in front of the cart.”

So, smoking pot ain’t the cure-all claimed by its advocates. Medical marijuana is a fraud that has been perpetrated on the pubic and on the legislators in the 23 states that have legalized it.

WHY HILLARY WILL BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT

The traditional American virtues – liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness - no longer inspire or energize a majority of the electorate

The following article was published on November 7, 2012 by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, leader of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey. Although the article is nearly three years old, it is well worth another look because it explains why Romney lost and, since nothing has changed with the electorate since then, foretells why Hillary Clinton will become our next president.

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

If the 2012 election proves one thing, it is that the Old America is gone. And, sad for the world, it is not coming back

By Rabbi Steven Pruzansky

The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo – for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility. And fewer people voted. At the time of this writing (election day), with almost all the votes counted, President Obama has won fewer votes than John McCain won in 2008, and more than ten million off his own 2008 total.

But as we awake from the nightmare, it is important to eschew the facile explanations for the Romney defeat that will prevail among the chattering classes. Romney did not lose because of the effects of Hurricane Sandy that devastated this area, nor did he lose because he ran a poor campaign, nor did he lose because the Republicans could have chosen better candidates, nor did he lose because Obama benefited from a slight uptick in the economy due to the business cycle.

Romney lost because he didn’t get enough votes to win.

That might seem obvious, but not for the obvious reasons. Romney lost because the conservative virtues – the traditional American virtues – of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness – no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate. The notion of the “Reagan Democrat” is one cliché that should be permanently retired.

Ronald Reagan himself could not win an election in today’s America.

The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff. Every businessman knows this; that is why the “loss leader” or the giveaway is such a powerful marketing tool. Obama’s America is one in which free stuff is given away: the adults among the 47,000,000 on food stamps clearly recognized for whom they should vote, and so they did, by the tens of millions; those who – courtesy of Obama – receive two full years of unemployment benefits (which, of course, both disincentivizes looking for work and also motivates people to work off the books while collecting their windfall) surely know for whom to vote; so too those who anticipate “free” health care, who expect the government to pay their mortgages, who look for the government to give them jobs. The lure of free stuff is irresistible.

Imagine two restaurants side by side. One sells its customers fine cuisine at a reasonable price, and the other offers a free buffet, all-you-can-eat as long as supplies last. Few – including me – could resist the attraction of the free food. Now imagine that the second restaurant stays in business because the first restaurant is forced to provide it with the food for the free buffet, and we have the current economy, until, at least, the first restaurant decides to go out of business. (Then, the government takes over the provision of free food to its patrons.)

The defining moment of the whole campaign was the revelation (by the amoral Obama team) of the secretly-recorded video in which Romney acknowledged the difficulty of winning an election in which “47% of the people” start off against him because they pay no taxes and just receive money – “free stuff” – from the government. Almost half of the population has no skin in the game – they don’t care about high taxes, promoting business, or creating jobs, nor do they care that the money for their free stuff is being borrowed from their children and from the Chinese. They just want the free stuff that comes their way at someone else’s expense. In the end, that 47% leaves very little margin for error for any Republican, and does not bode well for the future.

It is impossible to imagine a conservative candidate winning against such overwhelming odds. People do vote their pocketbooks. In essence, the people vote for a Congress who will not raise their taxes, and for a President who will give them free stuff, never mind who has to pay for it.

That suggests the second reason why Romney lost: the inescapable conclusion that, as Winston Churchill stated so tartly, “the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Voters – a clear majority – are easily swayed by emotion and raw populism. Said another way, too many people vote with their hearts and not their heads. That is why Obama did not have to produce a second term agenda, or even defend his first-term record. He needed only to portray Mitt Romney as a rapacious capitalist who throws elderly women over a cliff, when he is not just snatching away their cancer medication, while starving the poor and cutting taxes for the rich. Obama could get away with saying that “Romney wants the rich to play by a different set of rules” – without ever defining what those different rules were; with saying that the “rich should pay their fair share” – without ever defining what a “fair share” is; with saying that Romney wants the poor, elderly and sick to “fend for themselves” – without even acknowledging that all these government programs are going bankrupt, their current insolvency only papered over by deficit spending. How could Obama get away with such rants to squealing sign-wavers? See Churchill, above.

During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai Stevenson: “Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!” Stevenson called back: “That’s not enough, madam, we need a majority!” Truer words were never spoken.

Similarly, Obama (or his surrogates) could hint to blacks that a Romney victory would lead them back into chains and proclaim to women that their abortions and birth control would be taken away. He could appeal to Hispanics that Romney would have them all arrested and shipped to Mexico (even if they came from Cuba or Honduras), and unabashedly state that he will not enforce the current immigration laws. He could espouse the furtherance of the incestuous relationship between governments and unions – in which politicians ply the unions with public money, in exchange for which the unions provide the politicians with votes, in exchange for which the politicians provide more money and the unions provide more votes, etc., even though the money is gone. How could he do and say all these things ? See Churchill, above.

One might reasonably object that not every Obama supporter could be unintelligent. But they must then rationally explain how the Obama agenda can be paid for, aside from racking up multi-trillion dollar deficits. “Taxing the rich” does not yield even 10% of what is required and does not solve any discernible problem – so what is the answer, i.e., an intelligent answer?

Obama also knows that the electorate has changed – that whites will soon be a minority in America (they’re already a minority in California) and that the new immigrants to the U.S. are primarily from the Third World and do not share the traditional American values that attracted immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a different world, and a different America. Obama is part of that different America, knows it, and knows how to tap into it. That is why he won.

Obama also proved again that negative advertising works, invective sells, and harsh personal attacks succeed. That Romney never engaged in such diatribes points to his essential goodness as a person; his “negative ads” were simple facts, never personal abuse – facts about high unemployment, lower take-home pay, a loss of American power and prestige abroad, a lack of leadership, etc. As a politician, though, Romney failed because he did not embrace the devil’s bargain of making unsustainable promises, and by talking as the adult and not the adolescent. Obama has spent the last six years campaigning; even his governance has been focused on payoffs to his favored interest groups. The permanent campaign also won again, to the detriment of American life.

It turned out that it was not possible for Romney and Ryan – people of substance, depth and ideas – to compete with the shallow populism and platitudes of their opponents. Obama mastered the politics of envy – of class warfare – never reaching out to Americans as such but to individual groups, and cobbling together a winning majority from these minority groups. Conservative ideas failed to take root and states that seemed winnable, and amenable to traditional American values, have simply disappeared from the map. If an Obama could not be defeated – with his record and his vision of America, in which free stuff seduces voters – it is hard to envision any change in the future. The road to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to a European-socialist economy – those very economies that are collapsing today in Europe – is paved.

A second cliché that should be retired is that America is a center-right country. It clearly is not. It is a divided country with peculiar voting patterns, and an appetite for free stuff. Studies will invariably show that Republicans in Congress received more total votes than Democrats in Congress, but that means little. The House of Representatives is not truly representative of the country. That people would vote for a Republican Congressmen or Senator and then Obama for President would tend to reinforce point two above: the empty-headedness of the electorate. Americans revile Congress but love their individual Congressmen. Go figure.

The mass media’s complicity in Obama’s re-election cannot be denied. One example suffices. In 2004, CBS News forged a letter in order to imply that President Bush did not fulfill his Air National Guard service during the Vietnam War, all to impugn Bush and impair his re-election prospects. In 2012, President Obama insisted – famously – during the second debate that he had stated all along that the Arab attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was “terror” (a lie that Romney fumbled and failed to exploit). Yet, CBS News sat on a tape of an interview with Obama in which Obama specifically avoided and rejected the claim of terrorism – on the day after the attack – clinging to the canard about the video. (This snippet of a “60 Minutes” interview was not revealed – until two days before the election!) In effect, CBS News fabricated evidence in order to harm a Republican president, and suppressed evidence in order to help a Democratic president. Simply shameful, as was the media’s disregard of any scandal or story that could have jeopardized the Obama re-election.

One of the more irritating aspects of this campaign was its limited focus, odd in light of the billions of dollars spent. Only a few states were contested, a strategy that Romney adopted, and that clearly failed. The Democrat begins any race with a substantial advantage. The liberal states – like the bankrupt California and Illinois – and other states with large concentrations of minority voters as well as an extensive welfare apparatus, like New York, New Jersey and others – give any Democratic candidate an almost insurmountable edge in electoral votes. In New Jersey, for example, it literally does not pay for a conservative to vote. It is not worth the fuel expended driving to the polls. As some economists have pointed generally, and it resonates here even more, the odds are greater that a voter will be killed in a traffic accident on his way to the polls than that his vote will make a difference in the election. It is an irrational act. That most states are uncompetitive means that people are not amenable to new ideas, or new thinking, or even having an open mind. If that does not change, and it is hard to see how it can change, then the die is cast. America is not what it was, and will never be again.

For Jews, mostly assimilated anyway and staunch Democrats, the results demonstrate again that liberalism is their Torah. Almost 70% voted for a president widely perceived by Israelis and most committed Jews as hostile to Israel. They voted to secure Obama’s future at America’s expense and at Israel’s expense – in effect, preferring Obama to Netanyahu by a wide margin. A dangerous time is ahead. Under present circumstances, it is inconceivable that the U.S. will take any aggressive action against Iran and will more likely thwart any Israeli initiative.

That Obama’s top aide Valerie Jarrett (i.e., Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett) spent last week in Teheran is not a good sign. The U.S. will preach the importance of negotiations up until the production of the first Iranian nuclear weapon – and then state that the world must learn to live with this new reality. As Obama has committed himself to abolishing America’s nuclear arsenal, it is more likely that that unfortunate circumstance will occur than that he will succeed in obstructing Iran’s plans.

The American empire began to decline in 2007, and the deterioration has been exacerbated in the last five years. This election only hastens that decline. Society is permeated with sloth, greed, envy and materialistic excess. It has lost its moorings and its moral foundations. The takers outnumber the givers, and that will only increase in years to come. Across the world, America under Bush was feared but not respected. Under Obama, America is neither feared nor respected. Radical Islam has had a banner four years under Obama, and its prospects for future growth look excellent. The “Occupy” riots across this country in the last two years were mere dress rehearsals for what lies ahead – years of unrest sparked by the increasing discontent of the unsuccessful who want to seize the fruits and the bounty of the successful, and do not appreciate the slow pace of redistribution.

If this election proves one thing, it is that the Old America is gone. And, sad for the world, it is not coming back.

FIRST THEY SHOOT UNARMED BLACKS ...

… now, on the way to jail, they stop and treat a racist killer to a Burger King meal

Do you want more proof that cops are racists? Well here it is. After Dylan Roof shot nine African-Americans to death at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, he fled to North Carolina where he was arrested in Shelby, some 200 miles from the scene of the shootings.

And what dastardly deed did the Shelby cops do to prove they are racists? Shelby Police Chief Jeff Ledford revealed that when they arrested Roof, he told the cops he was hungry. Instead of taking him directly to jail, they stopped off at a Burger King and treated the white racist killer to a burger, fries and soda.

Had Roof been black and killed nine white churchgoers, the Shelby cops, or any other white cops, would have shot the black man dead, preferably in the back, of course.

People are now outraged that the Shelby cops had the audacity to take Roof for a treat at a Burger King.

First the cops shoot unarmed blacks in the back and now they treat a white racist killer to a Burger King meal. What more proof do you need that cops are racists?

KEEPING THE KID OCCUPIED FOR THAT AFTERNOON QUICKIE

The Unconventional Gazette
June 23, 2015

The only way to pull off a Sunday afternoon "quickie " with their 8-year-old son in the apartment was to send him out onto the balcony with a Popsicle and tell him to report on all the neighborhood activities...

He began his commentary as his parents got naked and jumped into bed:

"There's a car being towed from the parking lot," he shouted.

"An ambulance just drove by!"

"Looks like the Anderson's have company," he called out.

"Matt's riding a new bike!"

"Looks like the Sanders are moving!"

"Jason is on his skate board!"

After a few moments he announced... "The Coopers are having sex!"

Startled, his mother and dad shot up in bed. Dad cautiously called out..."How do you know they're having sex?"

"Jimmy Cooper is standing on his balcony with a Popsicle."

COULD TRAINING STEM POLICE SHOOTINGS? LAS VEGAS IS A TEST

By Adam Geller

Associated Press
June 20, 2015

LAS VEGAS --By 2 a.m., nearly five hours had ticked by since Stanley Gibson's last call.

"I want to come home," the 43-year-old Gulf War veteran told his wife, Rondha, his voice edged by post-traumatic stress disorder.

But Rondha Gibson did not know where to find him until a white Cadillac, bathed in spotlights, filled her television screen. "Local man shot by Metro police," a headline announced.

"I think that's my husband you guys killed," she recalls telling the dispatcher who answered her 911 call.

On that night in 2011, local leaders had just started acknowledging two decades of shootings by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers. But Gibson's death was a flash point.

Las Vegas, now the first department in the country to complete a "collaborative" Justice Department review, has rewritten its use-of-force rules and ramped up training to de-escalate tense encounters. Some criticized it as not enough. But shootings by officers, which peaked at 25 in 2010, declined to 13 in 2013 and 16 last year. Through mid-June, Metro officers shot three people, killing one. Even critics credit the decrease at least partly to new training.

Shootings by police recently led Ohio officials, dismayed that the state requires just four hours of annual police training, to recommend a ten-fold increase. A Missouri panel recommended training encouraging police to increase distance between themselves and suspects, though some critics say stepping back could heighten risk.

Debate continues over how to stem shootings.

"I think what has happened is the culture has changed now, as a result of the training and as a result of the policy, that you have officers who are ... essentially avoiding situations where they have to make that split-second decision," says William Sousa, a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Others are skeptical, including Rondha Gibson, who won a $1.5 million settlement from Las Vegas police.

"They can say we believe in training," Gibson says. "But at the end of the day they are trained for the cops to go home."

Policing experts say training often falls short.

A 2008 survey of more than 300 departments found one-third limited deadly-force training to requalifying in shooting skills, without focusing on judgment or tactics. More than three-fourths did not share findings from police shooting investigations with trainers.

That raises serious "concerns about how prepared many police officers are" for encounters where they might use deadly force, concluded survey author Gregory Morrison, a professor of criminal justice at Ball State University.

More departments have embraced "reality-based training," using computer simulations or live scenarios. But there's little research on what works, Morrison said.

Meanwhile, calls for police to slow fast-moving confrontations and step back to defuse them have sparked tensions and concerns for officers' safety.

"How is it we can enter situations in a smarter way to create space between us and our adversaries?" says David Klinger, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who, as a rookie officer in California in 1981, shot and killed a man who was attacking his partner. "I think if we train officers in sound field tactics and hold them to a high standard of performance, that we can reduce shootings."

Critics long complained about aggressive policing in Las Vegas.

But in late 2011, The Las Vegas Review-Journal published an investigation detailing 115 killings by officers over two decades. Weeks later, Stanley Gibson, short of medication for his mental illness, called police, demanding an officer come to his home. Over the next 37 hours, officers found him wandering through traffic and throwing chips from a casino table. He was arrested, released, briefly hospitalized, then refused an ambulance.

Finally, police were called to an apartment complex next to one the Gibsons had moved to less than a month earlier, by a woman reporting two black men trying to break in.

Officers blocked Gibson's Cadillac. He ignored commands barked through bullhorns. Commanders devised a plan to fire a bean bag through the rear window and gas him out. But "a series of failures ensued," the Clark County District Attorney found. When the bag shattered a side window, an officer fired, striking Gibson four times.

Afterward, Metro and an arm of the Justice Department announced what they called "collaborative reform."

The resulting audit found many officers designated to deal with Las Vegas' sizable mentally ill population had gone nine years without recertification training. Las Vegas had a history of traffic stops leading to shootings, and errors in situations involving large numbers of officers. But the department did little to prepare for those unpredictable scenarios, a Justice consultant found. Officers were getting no instruction in de-escalating tense situations.

"We had to fix what we knew was not right," says Capt. Matt McCarthy, who leads the department's Office of Internal Oversight.

Gunning across the pavement, a white SUV screeches to a stop.

A man in wraparound shades jumps out and forces his way into a black sedan, as a police cruiser pulls up off the rear bumper. Two Las Vegas officers crouch low, pistols drawn.

"Put the knife down!" one shouts. Slowly, the man steps out and he's taken into custody.

Then all the participants in this training scenario populated entirely by cops sit down to dissect decisions made during the mock confrontation.

"Do you think maybe it would've been better to get at least one car back to create a little ... more time and distance?", instructor Pete Crews asks.

The question is key given findings that Las Vegas police routinely failed to slow high-stakes encounters, resulting in "errors and fatalities."

When the review began, Metro was just rolling out reality-based training, four-hour sessions now required annually for all officers.

Las Vegas has since trained hundreds to deal with people with mental illnesses. It has struggled to incorporate de-escalation into other training.

Some instructors "expressed outright disapproval" of the new use-of-force protocol, the consultant found.

"When you have the trainers actually mocking the training, how seriously are the trainees going to take it?" said Andre Lagomarsino, a lawyer for the family of Trevon Cole, killed by an officer.

McCarthy acknowledges dissent, but says that problem was corrected.

Critics say training appears to have reduced shootings. Trainees are measured in praising its value.

Jason de la Garrigue, says such training reminds him of the split-second decisions of street patrol he largely left behind during five years on the vice squad. But he questioned its impact.

"I can't say it's going to help us reduce (shootings)," he says, "but it's a start."

The radio in Dave Milewski's cruiser crackles: "Subject in a blue sedan fired one shot out of a vehicle at a residence."

This is no training scenario.

Pulling up alongside apartments with bars on second-floor windows, Milewski learns a man shot at a building. Residents describe a second man with a gun, running through a neighboring complex.

With evening light fading, officers' questions lead to a unit below the stairs — and the second gunman.

Only his long-barreled revolver turns out to be a BB gun that resembles a real weapon, but is perfectly legal.

It's a reminder of miscues training can't always anticipate.
"You run out and a cop sees you in a dark alley with one of those, you're getting shot," Lt. Dave Valenta says.

Back on patrol, Milewski recounts the only time he fired his gun on duty — two shots that missed a woman trying to run down him and his partner. That night, he says, he didn't recognize the threat until it was bearing down on him.

"You have weeks where every night you're drawing your gun," he says. "You just never know."

JEWS ACCORDING TO DYLAN ROOF

Before he went on his shooting rampage at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, 21-year-old Dylan Roof left a 2,500 word manifesto, one section of which was devoted to Jews

Being Jewish myself, the 'Jews' section of Dylan Roof's manifesto was of particular interest to me. Roof wants to “destroy the Jewish identity.” He doesn’t have to worry. With the high rate of intermarriages between those who identify themselves as Jews and those of another faith, it will not be too long before the Jewish identity will have disappeared, at least in America.

Here is what Dylan Roof wrote about Jews in his manifesto:

Jews

Unlike many White naitonalists [sic], I am of the opinion that the majority of American and European Jews are White.

In my opinion the issues with Jews is not their blood, but their identity. I think that if we could somehow destroy the Jewish identity, then they wouldnt [sic] cause much of a problem.

The problem is that Jews look White, and in many cases are White, yet they see themselves as minorities.

Just like niggers, most Jews [sic] are always thinking about the fact that they are Jewish. The other issue is that they network. If we could somehow turn every Jew blue for 24 hours, I think there would be a mass awakening, because people would be able to see plainly what is going on.

I dont [sic] pretend to understand why Jews do what they do. They are enigma [sic].

EDITOR’S NOTE: I too do not understand why my fellow Jews do what they do. American Jews consistently support Democratic candidates by a majority of 70 percent or more. They often take positions in favor of the Palestinians whose leadership has repeatedly vowed to obliterate Israel and to make the region judenrein. Roof is right, America’s Jews are an enigma.

TEXAS IS THE ‘PRISON RAPE CAPITAL OF THE U.S.’

Nationwide, prison staff are the accused perpetrators in half of all reports of sexual abuse in prisons and jails

From “Preying on Texas Prisoners: When Guards Demand Sex” by Alysia Santo, The Marshall Project, June 17, 2015:

In Texas, sexual contact between staff and inmates is a state jail felony, punishable by up to two years in prison, but it is rare for prison staff there to be imprisoned for sexually abusing the people in their charge. Since 2000, the state prison system’s inspector general has referred nearly 400 cases of staff sex crimes against inmates to prosecutors. An analysis by The Marshall Project found that prosecutors refused to pursue almost half of those cases. Of 126 prison workers, mostly correctional officers, convicted of sexual misconduct or assault, just nine were sentenced to serve time in state jail. The majority of the rest received fines ranging from $200 to $4,000 and a few years on a type of probation called deferred adjudication, which results in a clean criminal record if conditions are met.

Texas leads the nation in prison sex abuse. In federal surveys of inmates, Texas has had more facilities deemed “high rate” for sexual abuse than any other state, leading the Dallas Observer to declare Texas the “prison rape capital of the U.S.”

Nationwide, prison staff are the accused perpetrators in half of all reports of sexual abuse in prisons and jails, according to the latest justice department survey, which broadly defines any sexual contact, from unwanted touching to romantic relationships to rape, as “staff sexual misconduct.” Most of these allegations are not substantiated by prison investigators. But even when there is enough evidence to prove a staff member had sexual contact with an inmate, criminal sanctions are rare. Fewer than half are referred for prosecution.

Accountability dwindles further from there. Proving sex abuse in prisons is difficult. An inmate’s word may hold little credibility, and prosecutors often refuse to prosecute. The most common punishment for corrections staffers caught sexually abusing inmates is the loss of their jobs.
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Texas, the capital of capital punishment - Texas proud! The prison rape capital – not so proud!