Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani was interviewed about the proposed Ground Zero mosque by Matt Lauer on this morning's NBC Today show. Rudy cane out firmly against building the mosque on that site and questioned the purported intent of the mosque to heal wounds and bridge the divide between faiths. Here is what he said about that:
__The question here is a question of sensitivity, people's feelings. And, are you really what you pretend to be? As I understand this, this Cordoba House, the idea of it is to healing. To show that Muslims care about the same things as Christians and Jews do. That we're one people. That we should be one. Well, if you're going to, if you're going to so horribly offend the people that were most directly offended by this, most directly affected by this, the families of the September 11 victims -- who I happen to know and have gotten to know, you know, really well -- then how are you healing? I mean all this is doing is creating more division, more anger, more hatred.
Giuliani also questioned where the funding was going to come from. Here is what he said about that:
__He's [Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf] got $180,000 in the bank, he wants to raise $100 million. Ask me how he's going to do it. ….. I question whether they can raise the money. Every indication from the attorney general's reports of their charities are they have about $180,000. $100 million project. And then where is the money coming from?
I think I know where most of the $100 million is going to come from. It’s going to come from the Saudis and they are going to make sure the mosque will be staffed with puritanical Wahhabi imams and not with the 'moderate' types our politicians and Muslim apologists keep yacking about.
And when Lauer asked the former mayor if he thought union workers - plumbers, electricians, carpenters - will build the mosque on that site, Rudy replied:
__A couple of construction workers told me, in their typical New York accent, "We ain't working on that project. Let 'em see if they can go find somebody to work on that project."
Not all Muslims support the building of a mosque near the World Trade Center site. Neda Bolourchi, a Muslim from Los Angeles whose mother was on one of the planes that flew into the Twin Towers, wrote this in a Washington Post op-ed:
__I fear that over time, it [the mosque] will cultivate a fundamentalist version of the Muslim faith, embracing those who share such beliefs and hating those who do not. To the supporters of this new Islamic cultural center, I must say: Build your ideological monument somewhere else, far from my mother's grave, and let her rest.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
WHY OPPOSITION TO THE DEATH PENALTY IS SIMPLY INCREDULOUS
On Tuesday evening, Peter Cantu was executed for the horrific rape-murder of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Peña, 16, after spending 17 years on death row. Cantu became the 16th person put to death in Texas this year and the 463rd since the death penalty was restored.
The Houston Chronicle described the crime for which Cantu was executed as the ‘Unfathomable Cruelty’:
__In June 1993, Ertman and Pena had left a Thursday night gathering of friends in a rush to be home before their curfew. A small gang known as the Black and Whites was conducting a fight-filled initiation ceremony for a prospective member across from Houston’s T.C. Jester Park when the girls crossed their paths while taking a shortcut home. The girls were hurrying along railroad tracks in the dark when they were spotted by the gang, pulled off the tracks and taken into nearby woods where they were repeatedly raped. When the attackers were finished, the girls were taken deeper into the woods where, at Cantu’s urging, they were beaten, strangled and stomped [beyond recognition] to death.
__Even the police were stunned. The attackers shouted obscenities at TV cameras when they were arrested and reportedly bragged of their crimes once in their jail cells. The killers didn't crumple or cry when recounting the bestiality of their acts to investigators. All of it - the entire ugly tableau of human destruction - was told as if it had been a TV rerun from a year ago.
Five other gang members were also tried and convicted in this case:
___Jose Medellin and Derrick O’Brien were both executed for their roles in the slayings. Medellin was executed on Aug. 5, 2008, and O’Brien was executed on July 11, 2006.
__Efrain Perez and Raul Villarreal had their death sentences commuted after the Supreme Court barred the death penalty for those who commit crimes under the age of 18.
__Venancio Medellin, who was 14 at the time of the attack, is serving a 40-year sentence.
It is simply incredulous that anyone could be opposed to the death penalty when horrific murders are committed by vermin like these six pieces of shit. Not only did they gang-rape, strangle, beat and stomp the two teenagers beyond recognition, but they also laughed, joked and bragged about what they had done. As Bob Walsh noted on PacoVilla Corrections blog, SOME PEOPLE JUST NEED KILLING.
Cantu was defiant until the moment of his death. He made no apology to the families of his victims and he made no statement in the death chamber when given the opportunity.
After witnessing Cantu’s execution, Adolfo Pena, Elizabeth’s father, spoke to the media: "We can say it’s the end, but it’s never going to be closure. Three of the animals that did this are gone. [The execution] doesn’t really make me feel any better, knowing that there are three guys [Efrain Perez, Raul Villarreal and Venancio Medellin] that got away with this. But I think I will probably sleep a little better."
There were only a few protesters against the death penalty outside the prison where Cantu was to be executed. Usually there is a good-sized turnout for every execution by those weeping and wailing against capital punishment. But for Cantu’s execution, it seems as though most abolitionists did not have the balls to show their shameless bleeding heart faces in public.
The Houston Chronicle described the crime for which Cantu was executed as the ‘Unfathomable Cruelty’:
__In June 1993, Ertman and Pena had left a Thursday night gathering of friends in a rush to be home before their curfew. A small gang known as the Black and Whites was conducting a fight-filled initiation ceremony for a prospective member across from Houston’s T.C. Jester Park when the girls crossed their paths while taking a shortcut home. The girls were hurrying along railroad tracks in the dark when they were spotted by the gang, pulled off the tracks and taken into nearby woods where they were repeatedly raped. When the attackers were finished, the girls were taken deeper into the woods where, at Cantu’s urging, they were beaten, strangled and stomped [beyond recognition] to death.
__Even the police were stunned. The attackers shouted obscenities at TV cameras when they were arrested and reportedly bragged of their crimes once in their jail cells. The killers didn't crumple or cry when recounting the bestiality of their acts to investigators. All of it - the entire ugly tableau of human destruction - was told as if it had been a TV rerun from a year ago.
Five other gang members were also tried and convicted in this case:
___Jose Medellin and Derrick O’Brien were both executed for their roles in the slayings. Medellin was executed on Aug. 5, 2008, and O’Brien was executed on July 11, 2006.
__Efrain Perez and Raul Villarreal had their death sentences commuted after the Supreme Court barred the death penalty for those who commit crimes under the age of 18.
__Venancio Medellin, who was 14 at the time of the attack, is serving a 40-year sentence.
It is simply incredulous that anyone could be opposed to the death penalty when horrific murders are committed by vermin like these six pieces of shit. Not only did they gang-rape, strangle, beat and stomp the two teenagers beyond recognition, but they also laughed, joked and bragged about what they had done. As Bob Walsh noted on PacoVilla Corrections blog, SOME PEOPLE JUST NEED KILLING.
Cantu was defiant until the moment of his death. He made no apology to the families of his victims and he made no statement in the death chamber when given the opportunity.
After witnessing Cantu’s execution, Adolfo Pena, Elizabeth’s father, spoke to the media: "We can say it’s the end, but it’s never going to be closure. Three of the animals that did this are gone. [The execution] doesn’t really make me feel any better, knowing that there are three guys [Efrain Perez, Raul Villarreal and Venancio Medellin] that got away with this. But I think I will probably sleep a little better."
There were only a few protesters against the death penalty outside the prison where Cantu was to be executed. Usually there is a good-sized turnout for every execution by those weeping and wailing against capital punishment. But for Cantu’s execution, it seems as though most abolitionists did not have the balls to show their shameless bleeding heart faces in public.
A COLLEGE DEGREE WILL BE WORTH NO MORE THAN A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
If everyone obtains a college education, as called for by President Obams, a college degree will be worth no more than a high school diploma. Why? Because the more there is of anything, the less its value. Besides that, the great majority of high school graduates are simply not capable of taking the kinds of college courses that will enable the United States to maintain a leadership position in the critical sciences and technologies.
The majority of high school graduates will seek business and financial degrees, social studies and political science degrees, education degrees, etc. rather than degrees in advanced physics, chemistry and math. Many students will seek degrees in African-American Studies, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies, and other so-called cultural diversity degree programs which will be worthless to students when they leave the university for the real world and absolutely worthless to the future well-being of our nation.
You can bet that university students in Japan, Korea, China and India are not seeking a degree in Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies. In the first place, it is very hard to get into a university in those countries. Their high schools are really like junior colleges. After they graduate from high school, students who want to obtain a college degree will enroll in special advanced studies schools, hoping that this will enable them to do well on tough college entrance exams.
In order for our young people to obtain gainful employment in a good paying job, they must be able to read, write and do math well. If they can’t do that they won’t be able to hold down any job that requires acquiring the latest technological skills. That means that our high schools have to do a far, far better job than they are doing now. The current dumbed-down public school programs have led to dumbed-down college programs.
A college education for everyone? You gotta be kidding! Instead of getting everyone into college, we need to start off by kicking disruptive students out of our high schools. Put them in special vocational schools so they can learn to lay bricks, pour concrete, put up houses and do other kinds of manual labor.
Leave the high schools to those who want and have the ability to learn math and science. If that means leaving our high schools to the elite, so be it. At least that way a high school diploma will be as meaningful as those in Japan, Korea, China and India. Then our nation’s colleges will be freed from having to offer remedial courses.
Only then will our universities be able to turn out the engineers, scientists and mathematicians we need to maintain a leadership position in the critical sciences and technologies. And that will make a college degree really valuable..
The majority of high school graduates will seek business and financial degrees, social studies and political science degrees, education degrees, etc. rather than degrees in advanced physics, chemistry and math. Many students will seek degrees in African-American Studies, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies, and other so-called cultural diversity degree programs which will be worthless to students when they leave the university for the real world and absolutely worthless to the future well-being of our nation.
You can bet that university students in Japan, Korea, China and India are not seeking a degree in Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies. In the first place, it is very hard to get into a university in those countries. Their high schools are really like junior colleges. After they graduate from high school, students who want to obtain a college degree will enroll in special advanced studies schools, hoping that this will enable them to do well on tough college entrance exams.
In order for our young people to obtain gainful employment in a good paying job, they must be able to read, write and do math well. If they can’t do that they won’t be able to hold down any job that requires acquiring the latest technological skills. That means that our high schools have to do a far, far better job than they are doing now. The current dumbed-down public school programs have led to dumbed-down college programs.
A college education for everyone? You gotta be kidding! Instead of getting everyone into college, we need to start off by kicking disruptive students out of our high schools. Put them in special vocational schools so they can learn to lay bricks, pour concrete, put up houses and do other kinds of manual labor.
Leave the high schools to those who want and have the ability to learn math and science. If that means leaving our high schools to the elite, so be it. At least that way a high school diploma will be as meaningful as those in Japan, Korea, China and India. Then our nation’s colleges will be freed from having to offer remedial courses.
Only then will our universities be able to turn out the engineers, scientists and mathematicians we need to maintain a leadership position in the critical sciences and technologies. And that will make a college degree really valuable..
HIGH SCHOOL QUIZ: WHAT CURVES TO THE LEFT AND HITS THE SWEET SPOT EVERY TIME?
Another educated idiot at work.
KELLY GENE PARKER: HS PRINCIPAL BRAGS ABOUT HIS PENIS TO 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
August 17, 2010
Kelly Gene Parker, the former principal of a Waco-area high school, wasn't against all that there "sexting" like some high school principals can be. Especially the ones from the Waco area.
A former Meridian High School student is suing the school district, claiming Parker sexually harassed her and that she was retaliated against for reporting it.
Parker, the suit says, pleaded guilty last year to having an inappropriate relationship with a student.
Inappropriate? Check out these five text messages included in the suit:
1. "I'm great in the sack ... i know how to please a woman and make her climax over and over... it may sound like im bragging but im not ... my dick curves to the left and hits the sweet spot every time."[Oh, what lady doesn't fall for the old curved-dick line? What -- most of them?]
2. "Just thinking how good u would look sittin there w/ no clothes on ... esp w/ ur legs spread"[So subtle...until you get to "w/ no clothes on"...and then the descent into utter pervdom picks up speed fast.]
3. Asking her the "color of ur pubic hair"[Really, it's all this paperwork the district makes us fill out. It's a hassle, but what are you gonna do?]
4. "... I'm not perverted, what do you think grown up couples talk about ... either ur grownup and mature to handle it or not."[Yeah, you silly high school junior. This is how sophisticated adult couples discuss issues of importance to them. Such as pubic-hair color.]
5. "i just wish you would think about me and my needs"[Oh God, he's not just a perv, he's a whiner. NEXT!!]
The plaintiff is suing the Meridian school district seeking "punitive damages for discrimination, sexual harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault, and constitutional violations," Courthouse News Service reports.
KELLY GENE PARKER: HS PRINCIPAL BRAGS ABOUT HIS PENIS TO 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
August 17, 2010
Kelly Gene Parker, the former principal of a Waco-area high school, wasn't against all that there "sexting" like some high school principals can be. Especially the ones from the Waco area.
A former Meridian High School student is suing the school district, claiming Parker sexually harassed her and that she was retaliated against for reporting it.
Parker, the suit says, pleaded guilty last year to having an inappropriate relationship with a student.
Inappropriate? Check out these five text messages included in the suit:
1. "I'm great in the sack ... i know how to please a woman and make her climax over and over... it may sound like im bragging but im not ... my dick curves to the left and hits the sweet spot every time."[Oh, what lady doesn't fall for the old curved-dick line? What -- most of them?]
2. "Just thinking how good u would look sittin there w/ no clothes on ... esp w/ ur legs spread"[So subtle...until you get to "w/ no clothes on"...and then the descent into utter pervdom picks up speed fast.]
3. Asking her the "color of ur pubic hair"[Really, it's all this paperwork the district makes us fill out. It's a hassle, but what are you gonna do?]
4. "... I'm not perverted, what do you think grown up couples talk about ... either ur grownup and mature to handle it or not."[Yeah, you silly high school junior. This is how sophisticated adult couples discuss issues of importance to them. Such as pubic-hair color.]
5. "i just wish you would think about me and my needs"[Oh God, he's not just a perv, he's a whiner. NEXT!!]
The plaintiff is suing the Meridian school district seeking "punitive damages for discrimination, sexual harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault, and constitutional violations," Courthouse News Service reports.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
A HITLER MYTH UNRAVELS: DER FUEHRER WAS JUST A 'REAR-AREA-PIG'
Quite long, but well worth the read, unless you’re a neo-Nazi.
A LONER, AN OBJECT OF RIDICULE AND A ‘REAR-AREA-PIG’: ADOLF HITLER ACCORDING TO HIS REGIMENT
By Dalya Alberge
Mail Online
August 17, 2010
Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitism was not sparked by his WWI experience and he was a 'rear-area pig' rather than a war hero, new research has revealed.
Previously unpublished letters from veterans of Hitler's regiment have challenged the Nazi portrayal which suggested his virulent nationalism was prompted by his experience on the western front.
They overturn his image of his unit, the List Regiment, as a band of brothers, intolerant and anti-Jewish with Hitler 'a hero at its heart'.
They confront long-held views on Hitler’s brave war record, revealing that front soldiers shunned him as a "rear area pig" several kilometers from danger.
The letters and a diary also disclose that List men regarded him as an impractical object of ridicule, joking about his starving in a canned food factory, unable to open a can with a bayonet.
He was viewed by his comrades in regimental HQ as a loner. He was neither popular nor unpopular.
They referred to him as the 'painter' or the 'artist' and noticed that he did not indulge in their favourite pastimes– letter-writing or drinking – but was often seen with a political book in his hand or painting. He was also particularly submissive to his superiors.
No individual has been more scrutinized than Hitler, but detective work into the List by Dr Thomas Weber, lecturer in modern history at Aberdeen University, unearthed new evidence.
Dr Weber said that previous biographies have had to rely on evidence from Hitler and Nazi propagandists: 'Since Hitler was an ordinary soldier in the First World War, there was not an easily available file on him. Biographers didn’t dig deep enough.''The myth of Hitler as a brave soldier and the camaraderie of the trenches was used by the Nazi party from the beginning in order to extend its appeal beyond the far right.
'They went to great lengths to protect this idea and through my research I discovered that a memoir written by one of his comrades was significantly altered between its first publication in 1933 and the outbreak of the Second World War.'
He added: 'The story was that World War One created Hitler and radicalised him and led to the birth of the Nazi movement.
'But his life in the war really was his Achilles heel and the story could collapse like a house of cards.
'I've been trying to show that this is a totally made-up story. Hitler was untypical of the regiment and he was not really radicalised in the war.'
Within the Bavarian War Archives, he discovered papers undisturbed for almost nine decades. Elsewhere, he found unpublished letters and Nazi Party membership files, and traced Jewish List veterans.
It was known that Hitler served as a runner but, armed with new evidence, Dr Weber realises that historians have not distinguished between regimental runners, a relatively safe job, and battalion or company runners, who had to brave machine-gun fire between trenches – Hitler was a runner at regimental HQ several kilometers from the front, and living in comfort in a room.
In unpublished letters, Alois Schnelldorfer, who also served at List HQ, told his parents that his task was 'to sit in an armchair and make calls like a postmistress'.
He also confirmed the front-line view of more generous provisions than the men in the trenches: 'I can drink a litre of beer under a shady walnut tree.'
Speaking of Hitler’s famous 1st Class Iron Cross - the 2nd Class was a relatively common award - Weber said that the 1st Class was often received by those in contact with higher-up officers rather than combat soldiers, typically those posted to regimental HQs.
The documents also make clear that virulent anti-Semitism did not exist, as an unpublished diary by a Jewish List soldier shows.
Also, although it was known that Hitler’s Iron Cross was recommended by Hugo Gutmann, a List Jewish adjutant, when Gutmann was incarcerated by the Gestapo in 1937, it was List veterans who enabled him to survive, Weber discovered.
Gutmann referred to a prison-guard who took risks to help him: 'As a good Catholic he despised the Nazis'.
Another List ex-comrade helped him to escape to America.
Dr Weber also unearthed evidence to show that the veterans of the List Regiment did not – as maintained by all Hitler biographies – unanimously support Hitler after the war.
An unpublished 1934 postcard by a Hitler admirer laments his being cold-shouldered by veterans in 1922. Dr Weber discovered that few front-line List soldiers became Nazis, whereas several regimental HQ staff were prominent in the party.
Dr Weber concludes that Hitler, who worked for a left-government after the war, became violently nationalist and anti-Semitic from the post-war and post-revolutionary economic and political crisis.
Dr Weber discovered that records had survived largely intact and were housed in the Bavarian War Archive, but that those pertaining to Hitler's battle group were filed not under the List Regiment, but under the higher division to which the regiment belonged. As a result, they had lain untouched for decades.
His research will be published in Hitler’s First War, by Oxford University Press next month.
A LONER, AN OBJECT OF RIDICULE AND A ‘REAR-AREA-PIG’: ADOLF HITLER ACCORDING TO HIS REGIMENT
By Dalya Alberge
Mail Online
August 17, 2010
Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitism was not sparked by his WWI experience and he was a 'rear-area pig' rather than a war hero, new research has revealed.
Previously unpublished letters from veterans of Hitler's regiment have challenged the Nazi portrayal which suggested his virulent nationalism was prompted by his experience on the western front.
They overturn his image of his unit, the List Regiment, as a band of brothers, intolerant and anti-Jewish with Hitler 'a hero at its heart'.
They confront long-held views on Hitler’s brave war record, revealing that front soldiers shunned him as a "rear area pig" several kilometers from danger.
The letters and a diary also disclose that List men regarded him as an impractical object of ridicule, joking about his starving in a canned food factory, unable to open a can with a bayonet.
He was viewed by his comrades in regimental HQ as a loner. He was neither popular nor unpopular.
They referred to him as the 'painter' or the 'artist' and noticed that he did not indulge in their favourite pastimes– letter-writing or drinking – but was often seen with a political book in his hand or painting. He was also particularly submissive to his superiors.
No individual has been more scrutinized than Hitler, but detective work into the List by Dr Thomas Weber, lecturer in modern history at Aberdeen University, unearthed new evidence.
Dr Weber said that previous biographies have had to rely on evidence from Hitler and Nazi propagandists: 'Since Hitler was an ordinary soldier in the First World War, there was not an easily available file on him. Biographers didn’t dig deep enough.''The myth of Hitler as a brave soldier and the camaraderie of the trenches was used by the Nazi party from the beginning in order to extend its appeal beyond the far right.
'They went to great lengths to protect this idea and through my research I discovered that a memoir written by one of his comrades was significantly altered between its first publication in 1933 and the outbreak of the Second World War.'
He added: 'The story was that World War One created Hitler and radicalised him and led to the birth of the Nazi movement.
'But his life in the war really was his Achilles heel and the story could collapse like a house of cards.
'I've been trying to show that this is a totally made-up story. Hitler was untypical of the regiment and he was not really radicalised in the war.'
Within the Bavarian War Archives, he discovered papers undisturbed for almost nine decades. Elsewhere, he found unpublished letters and Nazi Party membership files, and traced Jewish List veterans.
It was known that Hitler served as a runner but, armed with new evidence, Dr Weber realises that historians have not distinguished between regimental runners, a relatively safe job, and battalion or company runners, who had to brave machine-gun fire between trenches – Hitler was a runner at regimental HQ several kilometers from the front, and living in comfort in a room.
In unpublished letters, Alois Schnelldorfer, who also served at List HQ, told his parents that his task was 'to sit in an armchair and make calls like a postmistress'.
He also confirmed the front-line view of more generous provisions than the men in the trenches: 'I can drink a litre of beer under a shady walnut tree.'
Speaking of Hitler’s famous 1st Class Iron Cross - the 2nd Class was a relatively common award - Weber said that the 1st Class was often received by those in contact with higher-up officers rather than combat soldiers, typically those posted to regimental HQs.
The documents also make clear that virulent anti-Semitism did not exist, as an unpublished diary by a Jewish List soldier shows.
Also, although it was known that Hitler’s Iron Cross was recommended by Hugo Gutmann, a List Jewish adjutant, when Gutmann was incarcerated by the Gestapo in 1937, it was List veterans who enabled him to survive, Weber discovered.
Gutmann referred to a prison-guard who took risks to help him: 'As a good Catholic he despised the Nazis'.
Another List ex-comrade helped him to escape to America.
Dr Weber also unearthed evidence to show that the veterans of the List Regiment did not – as maintained by all Hitler biographies – unanimously support Hitler after the war.
An unpublished 1934 postcard by a Hitler admirer laments his being cold-shouldered by veterans in 1922. Dr Weber discovered that few front-line List soldiers became Nazis, whereas several regimental HQ staff were prominent in the party.
Dr Weber concludes that Hitler, who worked for a left-government after the war, became violently nationalist and anti-Semitic from the post-war and post-revolutionary economic and political crisis.
Dr Weber discovered that records had survived largely intact and were housed in the Bavarian War Archive, but that those pertaining to Hitler's battle group were filed not under the List Regiment, but under the higher division to which the regiment belonged. As a result, they had lain untouched for decades.
His research will be published in Hitler’s First War, by Oxford University Press next month.
PHONY PROVOCATIVE MISSION (9)
Here is some additional information proving that the Gaza Flotilla’s real mission was to force a violent confrontation with the Israelis.
TRUTH BEHIND THE HARM-ADA
by Steven Emerson
The New York Post
June 3, 2010
The "Free Gaza" flotilla was far more than a collection of innocent "peace activists" try ing to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Most passengers may have been nonviolent -- but a significant minority were anything but.
The passengers reportedly included 100-plus members of various Muslim Brotherhood chapters, at least 20 of whom taped al Qaeda-style "martyr" videos before embarking.
And the chief organizers clearly had more than "peaceful" intentions for the flotilla.
The Middle East Media Research Institute reports that a Gaza-based Hamas leader declared last Friday -- three days before the voyage started -- that the head of the Turkish ship had told him: "We will not allow the Zionists to come near us, and we will wage resistance against them."
The morning before the Israelis attempted to board, a Turkish passenger on the lead boat posted on Facebook, "The Turks are prepared with water canons [sic] and slingshots tonight I think all hell will break loose."
The radical Islamic Turkish "charity" Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH) was the chief financier of the fleet. At an April press conference, its chairman, Bulent Yildirim, admitted the real goal: "We are embarking on our journey together with over 1,000 people to break the embargo."
The longtime organizer of the blockade-busting effort is a group called Free Gaza.
One of its leaders, Huwaida Arraf, made the flotilla's purpose plain at a June 19, 2009, press conference: "It is crucial that we continue sending boats to Gaza to challenge Israel's criminal closure of the strip. Gaza does not need our charity but needs us to stand up against the forces that continue to deliberately deny an entire people their human rights."
Arraf is long on record as supporting Palestinian terrorism. In a 2002 article, she urged the Palestinians to incorporate violence in their strategy.
The IHH is even less peaceful.
A US law-enforcement official stated in a 2003 affidavit that in the trial over the plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport, French counterterrorist Judge Jean Louis-Brugiere "testified that that the Turkish group IHH had played an 'important role' in the millennium bomb plot."
The French magistrate also testified that Yildirim aimed to "recruit veteran soldiers in anticipation of the coming holy war."
The IHH is banned in Israel for its association in a radical Islamic conglomerate called the Union of the Good, led by Muslim Brotherhood leader Yousef Al Qardawi, who has issued fatwas calling for the killing of Jews and Americans.
Turkey itself arrested members of the IHH in the late '90s for smuggling automatic weapons to terrorist groups. Today, the IHH works very closely with Hamas.
This is the true face of those that the world is now lionizing against the "murderous" Israelis.
TRUTH BEHIND THE HARM-ADA
by Steven Emerson
The New York Post
June 3, 2010
The "Free Gaza" flotilla was far more than a collection of innocent "peace activists" try ing to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Most passengers may have been nonviolent -- but a significant minority were anything but.
The passengers reportedly included 100-plus members of various Muslim Brotherhood chapters, at least 20 of whom taped al Qaeda-style "martyr" videos before embarking.
And the chief organizers clearly had more than "peaceful" intentions for the flotilla.
The Middle East Media Research Institute reports that a Gaza-based Hamas leader declared last Friday -- three days before the voyage started -- that the head of the Turkish ship had told him: "We will not allow the Zionists to come near us, and we will wage resistance against them."
The morning before the Israelis attempted to board, a Turkish passenger on the lead boat posted on Facebook, "The Turks are prepared with water canons [sic] and slingshots tonight I think all hell will break loose."
The radical Islamic Turkish "charity" Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH) was the chief financier of the fleet. At an April press conference, its chairman, Bulent Yildirim, admitted the real goal: "We are embarking on our journey together with over 1,000 people to break the embargo."
The longtime organizer of the blockade-busting effort is a group called Free Gaza.
One of its leaders, Huwaida Arraf, made the flotilla's purpose plain at a June 19, 2009, press conference: "It is crucial that we continue sending boats to Gaza to challenge Israel's criminal closure of the strip. Gaza does not need our charity but needs us to stand up against the forces that continue to deliberately deny an entire people their human rights."
Arraf is long on record as supporting Palestinian terrorism. In a 2002 article, she urged the Palestinians to incorporate violence in their strategy.
The IHH is even less peaceful.
A US law-enforcement official stated in a 2003 affidavit that in the trial over the plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport, French counterterrorist Judge Jean Louis-Brugiere "testified that that the Turkish group IHH had played an 'important role' in the millennium bomb plot."
The French magistrate also testified that Yildirim aimed to "recruit veteran soldiers in anticipation of the coming holy war."
The IHH is banned in Israel for its association in a radical Islamic conglomerate called the Union of the Good, led by Muslim Brotherhood leader Yousef Al Qardawi, who has issued fatwas calling for the killing of Jews and Americans.
Turkey itself arrested members of the IHH in the late '90s for smuggling automatic weapons to terrorist groups. Today, the IHH works very closely with Hamas.
This is the true face of those that the world is now lionizing against the "murderous" Israelis.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
AWWWW, WHAT A SHAME: Three cheers for the Israeli cops
The same tired arguments used in the United States are also used in Israel. Overlooked by all pot heads is the fact that possession and use of marijuana is against the law. And when they get caught breaking the law they scream like stuck pigs.
POT SMOKERS SAY THEY ARE PERSECUTED, DEMAND INVESTIGATION
More than 50 citizens contacted State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss with a request that he look into 'waste of tax money' on police searches for them. 'Where were officers who caught groom smoking joint when Arik Karp was murdered?' Comptroller promises to check
By Aviel Magnezi
Ynet news.com
August 15, 2010
"Investigate the disproportionate investment of resources in going after marijuana consumers," asked dozens of Israelis of State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss on Sunday in a letter.
The letter, which bore dozens of signatures, starts off with a personal appeal. "I am 32-years-old, a combat officer in reserves, a manager on a government network, hold a Bachelors Degree with honors from Hebrew University. In short, I am a normative person and a contributing and tax-paying citizen. Unfortunately, the taxes I pay are used to persecute me and make me into a criminal without me having harmed anyone."
The letter noted that "tens of hundreds of thousands of entirely normative people smoke marijuana" and that the police "are doing everything in their capacity to persecute them."
The letter's authors claimed that the persecution has intensified in recent weeks, with the police searching private homes.
Fifty-six citizens signed the letter, complaining of body searches on passersby. They also noted that a man was recently apprehended for smoking a joint by undercover policemen during his beach wedding. "Where were these policemen when Arik Karp was murdered on the beach?" wondered the letter's signatories, claiming that the war against them is coming at the expense of the war on gruesome crimes.
The letter also made note of marijuana's medical benefits, and gave the lenient enforcement policy towards marijuana smokers in Europe, Canada, and the US.
Omer, one of the letter's authors, explained in a conversation with Ynet, "A stigma has been created around marijuana consumers – druggies. I contribute to society and have never harmed anyone, but it's enough for me to smoke a joint and be caught, and I immediately have a criminal record."
The letter also claimed that the said persecution pushes marijuana smokers into the hands of drug dealers, where they are exposed to harder drugs.
The letter emphasized that it does not seek to change the laws against smoking marijuana, but rather to point out the waste of resources in enforcing it.
State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss' office responded, "The state comptroller received the letter and will examine it."
__Aviad Glickman contributed to this report
POT SMOKERS SAY THEY ARE PERSECUTED, DEMAND INVESTIGATION
More than 50 citizens contacted State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss with a request that he look into 'waste of tax money' on police searches for them. 'Where were officers who caught groom smoking joint when Arik Karp was murdered?' Comptroller promises to check
By Aviel Magnezi
Ynet news.com
August 15, 2010
"Investigate the disproportionate investment of resources in going after marijuana consumers," asked dozens of Israelis of State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss on Sunday in a letter.
The letter, which bore dozens of signatures, starts off with a personal appeal. "I am 32-years-old, a combat officer in reserves, a manager on a government network, hold a Bachelors Degree with honors from Hebrew University. In short, I am a normative person and a contributing and tax-paying citizen. Unfortunately, the taxes I pay are used to persecute me and make me into a criminal without me having harmed anyone."
The letter noted that "tens of hundreds of thousands of entirely normative people smoke marijuana" and that the police "are doing everything in their capacity to persecute them."
The letter's authors claimed that the persecution has intensified in recent weeks, with the police searching private homes.
Fifty-six citizens signed the letter, complaining of body searches on passersby. They also noted that a man was recently apprehended for smoking a joint by undercover policemen during his beach wedding. "Where were these policemen when Arik Karp was murdered on the beach?" wondered the letter's signatories, claiming that the war against them is coming at the expense of the war on gruesome crimes.
The letter also made note of marijuana's medical benefits, and gave the lenient enforcement policy towards marijuana smokers in Europe, Canada, and the US.
Omer, one of the letter's authors, explained in a conversation with Ynet, "A stigma has been created around marijuana consumers – druggies. I contribute to society and have never harmed anyone, but it's enough for me to smoke a joint and be caught, and I immediately have a criminal record."
The letter also claimed that the said persecution pushes marijuana smokers into the hands of drug dealers, where they are exposed to harder drugs.
The letter emphasized that it does not seek to change the laws against smoking marijuana, but rather to point out the waste of resources in enforcing it.
State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss' office responded, "The state comptroller received the letter and will examine it."
__Aviad Glickman contributed to this report
PHONY PROVOCATIVE MISSION (8)
Last May’s Israeli attack on the blockade running Gaza Flotilla was roundly condemned by the Europeans, the Muslim world, Canada, India and by many African and Latin American countries. If you listened to the worldwide diatribes you would think that Israel committed a monumental atrocity. As I have written before, the Israeli commandos who boarded the Mavi Marmara were immediately set upon by pipe and club wielding crewmembers.
Giora Eiland, who headed a military inquiry into the raid, has now shed some more light on the real mission of the Gaza Flotilla. Instead of delivering aid to the Palestinians in Gaza, the flotilla’s real mission was to force a violent confrontation with the Israelis. The mindset of the Mavi Marmara crew members is best described by the wife of Cevdet Kiliclar, one of nine ‘peace activists’ killed during the raid, when she told the gathering at his funeral that "He wanted to be a martyr there."
And now Turkey has put police investigators aboard the Mavi Marmara to look for evidence that will disprove Israel’s contention that its soldiers were attacked by crewmembers.
ISRAELI GENERAL: FLOTILLA CREW PLANNED TO KILL AND BE KILLED
by Eli Stutz
IsraelNationalNews.com
August 16, 2010
Ex-Israeli General Giora Eiland told BBC's Panorama Television program that Gaza-bound Flotilla crew members were deliberately planning violence. "They (the activists) were committed to kill and be killed," said Eiland.
Eiland led a military inquiry into the events surrounding the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident. Eiland said that the resistance of the flotilla crew was "huge" and that it was surprising that there weren't more people killed, especially in a complex area such as a ship.
Meanwhile, the BBC posted a video story on one flotilla crew member who was killed in the incident, Turkish citizen Cevdet Kiliclar. Kilicar was the website manager for the IHH, the organization behind the flotilla. Kilicar took video footage and photos during the voyage and subsequent incident, and he is seen in the video praying with the rest of the crew. He is also on tape saying about two Muslims killed in Afghanistan, "may they rest in peace," and wishing, "may Allah grant us the same fortunate ending as them."
During his funeral in Istanbul, Kilicar's wife said, "He was crying his eyes out over Gaza. He wanted to be a martyr there."
The IDF military inquiry last month concluded that while there may have been professional mistakes during the operation, the use of force was justified. Video evidence shows flotilla members attacking and beating Israeli soldiers, and Israel has reported that soldiers were fired on and possibly taken hostage briefly by the crew.
Currently, Israel is holding a second inquiry into the incident led by retired Supreme Court Judge Yaakov Terkel. The U.N. has also begun its own inquiry.
Giora Eiland, who headed a military inquiry into the raid, has now shed some more light on the real mission of the Gaza Flotilla. Instead of delivering aid to the Palestinians in Gaza, the flotilla’s real mission was to force a violent confrontation with the Israelis. The mindset of the Mavi Marmara crew members is best described by the wife of Cevdet Kiliclar, one of nine ‘peace activists’ killed during the raid, when she told the gathering at his funeral that "He wanted to be a martyr there."
And now Turkey has put police investigators aboard the Mavi Marmara to look for evidence that will disprove Israel’s contention that its soldiers were attacked by crewmembers.
ISRAELI GENERAL: FLOTILLA CREW PLANNED TO KILL AND BE KILLED
by Eli Stutz
IsraelNationalNews.com
August 16, 2010
Ex-Israeli General Giora Eiland told BBC's Panorama Television program that Gaza-bound Flotilla crew members were deliberately planning violence. "They (the activists) were committed to kill and be killed," said Eiland.
Eiland led a military inquiry into the events surrounding the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident. Eiland said that the resistance of the flotilla crew was "huge" and that it was surprising that there weren't more people killed, especially in a complex area such as a ship.
Meanwhile, the BBC posted a video story on one flotilla crew member who was killed in the incident, Turkish citizen Cevdet Kiliclar. Kilicar was the website manager for the IHH, the organization behind the flotilla. Kilicar took video footage and photos during the voyage and subsequent incident, and he is seen in the video praying with the rest of the crew. He is also on tape saying about two Muslims killed in Afghanistan, "may they rest in peace," and wishing, "may Allah grant us the same fortunate ending as them."
During his funeral in Istanbul, Kilicar's wife said, "He was crying his eyes out over Gaza. He wanted to be a martyr there."
The IDF military inquiry last month concluded that while there may have been professional mistakes during the operation, the use of force was justified. Video evidence shows flotilla members attacking and beating Israeli soldiers, and Israel has reported that soldiers were fired on and possibly taken hostage briefly by the crew.
Currently, Israel is holding a second inquiry into the incident led by retired Supreme Court Judge Yaakov Terkel. The U.N. has also begun its own inquiry.
'DINE AND DASH' SCHMUCK
It worked for a while. And you can be sure the ambulances and hospitals got stiffed too.
MAN WHO FAKED HAVING A SEIZURE TO AVOID PAYING HIS RESTAURANT BILLS IS JAILED IN U.S.
By Paul Thompsonj
Mail Online
August 16, 2010
A man who pretended to have a fit to avoid paying his restaurant bills has been jailed in the U.S.
Andrew Palmer would order an expensive meal - and, when presented with the bill, fake a seizure.
He would roll around on the floor as frantic restaurant staff called for an ambulance.
The 43-year-old conman would be carried out on a stretcher - without paying his bill.
Investigators believe he pulled the scam on at least a dozen restaurants in Baltimore, Maryland.
Once at the hospital he would discharge himself after treatment.
Police dubbed him the 'dine and dash' thief.
Palmer, who has a lengthy arrest record for theft, was caught after restaurants in Baltimore were warned to be on their guard against a diner who faked illness.
'In each case, when Palmer did not have funds to cover the restaurant bill, he feigned a seizure that required the presence of medical personnel,' said prosecutors in Baltimore.
In one incident other diners watched in horror as he 'rolled from side to side and spitting' while faking the seizure.
He had run up a £50 bar tab at the Schmuckers restaurant and went into his well-rehearsed routine when waitress handed him the bill.
Palmer was given the maximum sentence of 18 months by a court in Baltimore.
MAN WHO FAKED HAVING A SEIZURE TO AVOID PAYING HIS RESTAURANT BILLS IS JAILED IN U.S.
By Paul Thompsonj
Mail Online
August 16, 2010
A man who pretended to have a fit to avoid paying his restaurant bills has been jailed in the U.S.
Andrew Palmer would order an expensive meal - and, when presented with the bill, fake a seizure.
He would roll around on the floor as frantic restaurant staff called for an ambulance.
The 43-year-old conman would be carried out on a stretcher - without paying his bill.
Investigators believe he pulled the scam on at least a dozen restaurants in Baltimore, Maryland.
Once at the hospital he would discharge himself after treatment.
Police dubbed him the 'dine and dash' thief.
Palmer, who has a lengthy arrest record for theft, was caught after restaurants in Baltimore were warned to be on their guard against a diner who faked illness.
'In each case, when Palmer did not have funds to cover the restaurant bill, he feigned a seizure that required the presence of medical personnel,' said prosecutors in Baltimore.
In one incident other diners watched in horror as he 'rolled from side to side and spitting' while faking the seizure.
He had run up a £50 bar tab at the Schmuckers restaurant and went into his well-rehearsed routine when waitress handed him the bill.
Palmer was given the maximum sentence of 18 months by a court in Baltimore.
Monday, August 16, 2010
WOOF, WOOF, WOOF, I SHOULDA BIT THE PRICK'S DICK OFF!
PAROLEE BUSTED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT ON DOG
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
August 14, 2010
A Michigan parolee is now under custody after admitting to his parole agent that he sexually assaulted his pit bull.
Jose Antonio Sanchez, 58, the dog lover in question, is in the slammer in Muskegon, Michigan against a bail of $50,000. He was previously on parole for sexual assault of an under 13-year old victim.
A vet confirmed the sexual assault had taken place. (I’ll bet that was the first time the issue had come up in his/her practice.) He is facing a charge of sodomy, which could get him 15 years.
What do you want to bet people bark when they walk by his cell?
Clicking here will link to a brief AP story on this case.
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
August 14, 2010
A Michigan parolee is now under custody after admitting to his parole agent that he sexually assaulted his pit bull.
Jose Antonio Sanchez, 58, the dog lover in question, is in the slammer in Muskegon, Michigan against a bail of $50,000. He was previously on parole for sexual assault of an under 13-year old victim.
A vet confirmed the sexual assault had taken place. (I’ll bet that was the first time the issue had come up in his/her practice.) He is facing a charge of sodomy, which could get him 15 years.
What do you want to bet people bark when they walk by his cell?
Clicking here will link to a brief AP story on this case.
FIRST GAS 'EM, THEN ROB 'EM
GASSED IN THEIR BEDS BY RIVIERA ROBBERS: Terrifying ordeal of the British tourists falling victim to Mediterranean gang crime wave
By Emily Andrews
Mail Online
August 14,2010
Britons on the French Riviera are being drugged and robbed by thieves who gas them as they sleep.
The gangs quietly break in or slip inside patio doors left open because of the heat.
They then crouch down and release the gas into air conditioning units or under the victims' bedroom doors.
After waiting outside for the gas to take effect, they creep back in and can take their time to ransack the rooms and steal cash, jewellery, credit cards, cameras and laptops.
The thieves wear masks to stop them succumbing themselves.
One victim, Lisa Smythe, was staying with her two sons in a four-bedroom house in Valbonne when they fell victim to an £80,000 robbery.
The family were gassed through the letter box, but when one of the sons woke up to find masked men in his room they injected him with something to knock him out.
Mrs Smythe, 38, woke up feeling groggy and struggled to wake her sons.
Her eight-year-old, Robbie, had a needle mark on his arm, and he had to be tested for HIV.
Jewellery, cash and computers worth £50,000 had been stolen, as well as a £30,000 Mercedes CLK Cabriolet.
French police suspect the involvement of Russian mafia and Romanian gangs who target English-speaking tourists and expats, believing them to be rich and owning expensive cars and yachts.
By Emily Andrews
Mail Online
August 14,2010
Britons on the French Riviera are being drugged and robbed by thieves who gas them as they sleep.
The gangs quietly break in or slip inside patio doors left open because of the heat.
They then crouch down and release the gas into air conditioning units or under the victims' bedroom doors.
After waiting outside for the gas to take effect, they creep back in and can take their time to ransack the rooms and steal cash, jewellery, credit cards, cameras and laptops.
The thieves wear masks to stop them succumbing themselves.
One victim, Lisa Smythe, was staying with her two sons in a four-bedroom house in Valbonne when they fell victim to an £80,000 robbery.
The family were gassed through the letter box, but when one of the sons woke up to find masked men in his room they injected him with something to knock him out.
Mrs Smythe, 38, woke up feeling groggy and struggled to wake her sons.
Her eight-year-old, Robbie, had a needle mark on his arm, and he had to be tested for HIV.
Jewellery, cash and computers worth £50,000 had been stolen, as well as a £30,000 Mercedes CLK Cabriolet.
French police suspect the involvement of Russian mafia and Romanian gangs who target English-speaking tourists and expats, believing them to be rich and owning expensive cars and yachts.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
SHOW SOME SENSITIVITY TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FAMILIES (2)
Even those who love to hate Newt Gingrich cannot deny that he presents a compelling case against building a mosque near Ground Zero. Here is what he wrote on his July 21 blog:
NO CORDOBA AT GROUND ZERO
By Newt Gingrich
There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
The proposed "Cordoba House" overlooking the World Trade Center site – where a group of jihadists killed over 3000 Americans and destroyed one of our most famous landmarks - is a test of the timidity, passivity and historic ignorance of American elites. For example, most of them don’t understand that "Cordoba House" is a deliberately insulting term. It refers to Cordoba, Spain – the capital of Muslim conquerors who symbolized their victory over the Christian Spaniards by transforming a church there into the world’s third-largest mosque complex.
Today, some of the Mosque’s backers insist this term is being used to "symbolize interfaith cooperation" when, in fact, every Islamist in the world recognizes Cordoba as a symbol of Islamic conquest. It is a sign of their contempt for Americans and their confidence in our historic ignorance that they would deliberately insult us this way.
Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for "religious toleration" are arrogantly dishonest. They ignore the fact that more than 100 mosques already exist in New York City. Meanwhile, there are no churches or synagogues in all of Saudi Arabia. In fact no Christian or Jew can even enter Mecca.
And they lecture us about tolerance.
If the people behind the Cordoba House were serious about religious toleration, they would be imploring the Saudis, as fellow Muslims, to immediately open up Mecca to all and immediately announce their intention to allow non-Muslim houses of worship in the Kingdom. They should be asked by the news media if they would be willing to lead such a campaign.
We have not been able to rebuild the World Trade Center in nine years. Now we are being told a 13 story, $100 million megamosque will be built within a year overlooking the site of the most devastating surprise attack in American history.
Finally where is the money coming from? The people behind the Cordoba House refuse to reveal all their funding sources.
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. Sadly, too many of our elites are the willing apologists for those who would destroy them if they could.
No mosque.
No self deception.
No surrender.
The time to take a stand is now - at this site on this issue.
NO CORDOBA AT GROUND ZERO
By Newt Gingrich
There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
The proposed "Cordoba House" overlooking the World Trade Center site – where a group of jihadists killed over 3000 Americans and destroyed one of our most famous landmarks - is a test of the timidity, passivity and historic ignorance of American elites. For example, most of them don’t understand that "Cordoba House" is a deliberately insulting term. It refers to Cordoba, Spain – the capital of Muslim conquerors who symbolized their victory over the Christian Spaniards by transforming a church there into the world’s third-largest mosque complex.
Today, some of the Mosque’s backers insist this term is being used to "symbolize interfaith cooperation" when, in fact, every Islamist in the world recognizes Cordoba as a symbol of Islamic conquest. It is a sign of their contempt for Americans and their confidence in our historic ignorance that they would deliberately insult us this way.
Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for "religious toleration" are arrogantly dishonest. They ignore the fact that more than 100 mosques already exist in New York City. Meanwhile, there are no churches or synagogues in all of Saudi Arabia. In fact no Christian or Jew can even enter Mecca.
And they lecture us about tolerance.
If the people behind the Cordoba House were serious about religious toleration, they would be imploring the Saudis, as fellow Muslims, to immediately open up Mecca to all and immediately announce their intention to allow non-Muslim houses of worship in the Kingdom. They should be asked by the news media if they would be willing to lead such a campaign.
We have not been able to rebuild the World Trade Center in nine years. Now we are being told a 13 story, $100 million megamosque will be built within a year overlooking the site of the most devastating surprise attack in American history.
Finally where is the money coming from? The people behind the Cordoba House refuse to reveal all their funding sources.
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. Sadly, too many of our elites are the willing apologists for those who would destroy them if they could.
No mosque.
No self deception.
No surrender.
The time to take a stand is now - at this site on this issue.
SHOW SOME SENSITIVITY TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FAMILIES
I happen to agree with President Obama that Muslims have the right to build a mosque on private property just as any other faith has the right to build a house of worship so long as they comply with all local regulations. But does that make it right for the Muslims to build a mosque near Ground Zero?
What Obama failed to tell his audience was that along with that right, Muslims must be sensitive to the feelings of those who lost loved ones in an attack carried out in the name of Islam. The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center took the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent people. Almost all of their families and friends see Ground Zero as a shrine to their lost loved ones, hallowed ground that is not to be desecrated by the presence of a nearby mosque.
I do not for one minute believe the intent of this mosque is to promote understanding between Muslims and other faiths, as clamed by those who want to build the mosque at that particular location. I believe the proposed mosque is a deliberate ‘in-your-face’ provocation that has nothing to do with America’s cherished right to freedom of religion. Why else would they turn down New York Governor David Paterson’s offer of some state land for a different mosque site.
To New York’s Muslims I say, show some sensitivity to the World Trade Center families and build your mosque at a different location! And that’s what Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama should have told them too!
What Obama failed to tell his audience was that along with that right, Muslims must be sensitive to the feelings of those who lost loved ones in an attack carried out in the name of Islam. The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center took the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent people. Almost all of their families and friends see Ground Zero as a shrine to their lost loved ones, hallowed ground that is not to be desecrated by the presence of a nearby mosque.
I do not for one minute believe the intent of this mosque is to promote understanding between Muslims and other faiths, as clamed by those who want to build the mosque at that particular location. I believe the proposed mosque is a deliberate ‘in-your-face’ provocation that has nothing to do with America’s cherished right to freedom of religion. Why else would they turn down New York Governor David Paterson’s offer of some state land for a different mosque site.
To New York’s Muslims I say, show some sensitivity to the World Trade Center families and build your mosque at a different location! And that’s what Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama should have told them too!
SHE PLAYED HARDBALL, WENT OVERBOARD AND WENT AGAINST THE DA
Who is she? According to Lindsay Lohan’s mother Dina, it’s Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel. During an interview by Matt Lauer on NBC-Today, Lohan’s mother blamed the judge for all of Linsay’s troubles, accusing the judge over and over again of "playing hardball," "going overboard" and going "against the district attorney." And when Lauer didn’t buy that, dear old mom then blamed the tabloids for painting a wrong picture of her angelic daughter.
Dina told Lauer that Judge Revel had been removed from the case and that Lindsay was about to be released from rehab, well short of the 90 day stay the judge had ordered. Dearest mommy even went so far as to say that Lindsay really did not have a drug or alcohol problem. According to her, that was all overblown by the media.
Mommy also insisted that Lindsay never violated her probation because she was working when she missed some court mandated alcohol education classes and because she was working at the Cannes Film Festival when she failed to appear for a court hearing. Thus, for the Lohans work is defined as PARTYING UNTIL THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING.
Shortly after the interview Dina announced that Linsay would be moving to New York to get away from the Hollywood scene. Yeah, like there's no night life in the Big Apple.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Linday appears to have inherited her trashiness from dear old mom. Dina Lohan is the perfect example of an enabler. She even went out partying all night with Lindsay several times while her daughter was on probation for DUI and drug charges.
Now I ask you, whose to blame for Lindsay’s troubles – the judge or her mother? I say neither. Lindsay brought her troubles on herself, albeit with some help from her trashy mother.
Dina told Lauer that Judge Revel had been removed from the case and that Lindsay was about to be released from rehab, well short of the 90 day stay the judge had ordered. Dearest mommy even went so far as to say that Lindsay really did not have a drug or alcohol problem. According to her, that was all overblown by the media.
Mommy also insisted that Lindsay never violated her probation because she was working when she missed some court mandated alcohol education classes and because she was working at the Cannes Film Festival when she failed to appear for a court hearing. Thus, for the Lohans work is defined as PARTYING UNTIL THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING.
Shortly after the interview Dina announced that Linsay would be moving to New York to get away from the Hollywood scene. Yeah, like there's no night life in the Big Apple.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Linday appears to have inherited her trashiness from dear old mom. Dina Lohan is the perfect example of an enabler. She even went out partying all night with Lindsay several times while her daughter was on probation for DUI and drug charges.
Now I ask you, whose to blame for Lindsay’s troubles – the judge or her mother? I say neither. Lindsay brought her troubles on herself, albeit with some help from her trashy mother.
HOW ARE THEY GOING TO DETERMINE WHO'S THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS?
This incident took place only for or five miles from where I live. The fact that the officers missed, shows that shooting in a real ‘life-or-death’ situation is a lot different than shooting at the police firing range. And that is why officers, when they perceive an immediate threat to their lives, often don’t stop shooting until their guns are empty. Fortunately for the bar owners, that Friday the 13th did not turn out to be an unlucky tragedy.
POLICE MISTAKE BAR OWNERS FOR BURGLARS, OPEN FIRE
By Miya Shay
KTRK-TV
August 13, 2010
Houston police thought they were preventing a break-in, but instead they fired their weapons at the owner of a southeast Houston restaurant.
It happened around 5am Friday morning in the 500 block of Dixie Farm Road near Ellington Field.
Break-ins have been a problem in the area, but so far they haven't had any shootings. That is, until the Houston Police Department opened fire this morning.
Bartender Michelle Larrison has seen her share of break-ins at the Smokin' J's Sports Bar. The latest was just last week.
"Last Tuesday, they shattered the front glass door, which is why we now have the bars across the front door," said Larrison.
The break-ins are so prevalent, that an officer from Houston Police Department's Crime Reduction Unit was actually watching the bar from the outside early this morning. When the officer saw something unusual, backup was called. But what they didn't realize was that the bar owners were inside monitoring security cameras and when they heard a commotion, they headed out the back door.
"As he came out of the office, the cops heard the gun go 'click, click' and when they heard that 'click, click,' that's when they fired," said Larrison. "But I'm very glad to know that the police are watching this place."
Police say when one of the owners went outside with his weapon and two officers fired, thinking he was a suspect. They both missed.
At the convenience store next door, security cameras captured some of the officers involved in the investigation of just how HPD officers can mistake a bar owner for a burglary suspect.
"It creates the problem. He could be dead, he could be killed. It's too bad for the police department and the people. It's scary," said Abraham Tamang.
Neither of the bar owners wanted to talk on camera, but for people who live nearby this near miss by officers is worrisome.
"They shot at the wrong people, obviously, if it was the owner in his own establishment. And that's a little unsettling. How are they going to determine who's the good guys and the bad guys?" said neighbor Kristen Crow.
We talked to some other businesses in the area who said that the burglaries are nothing new. They also said they are relieved the bar owner was not hurt in this incident.
POLICE MISTAKE BAR OWNERS FOR BURGLARS, OPEN FIRE
By Miya Shay
KTRK-TV
August 13, 2010
Houston police thought they were preventing a break-in, but instead they fired their weapons at the owner of a southeast Houston restaurant.
It happened around 5am Friday morning in the 500 block of Dixie Farm Road near Ellington Field.
Break-ins have been a problem in the area, but so far they haven't had any shootings. That is, until the Houston Police Department opened fire this morning.
Bartender Michelle Larrison has seen her share of break-ins at the Smokin' J's Sports Bar. The latest was just last week.
"Last Tuesday, they shattered the front glass door, which is why we now have the bars across the front door," said Larrison.
The break-ins are so prevalent, that an officer from Houston Police Department's Crime Reduction Unit was actually watching the bar from the outside early this morning. When the officer saw something unusual, backup was called. But what they didn't realize was that the bar owners were inside monitoring security cameras and when they heard a commotion, they headed out the back door.
"As he came out of the office, the cops heard the gun go 'click, click' and when they heard that 'click, click,' that's when they fired," said Larrison. "But I'm very glad to know that the police are watching this place."
Police say when one of the owners went outside with his weapon and two officers fired, thinking he was a suspect. They both missed.
At the convenience store next door, security cameras captured some of the officers involved in the investigation of just how HPD officers can mistake a bar owner for a burglary suspect.
"It creates the problem. He could be dead, he could be killed. It's too bad for the police department and the people. It's scary," said Abraham Tamang.
Neither of the bar owners wanted to talk on camera, but for people who live nearby this near miss by officers is worrisome.
"They shot at the wrong people, obviously, if it was the owner in his own establishment. And that's a little unsettling. How are they going to determine who's the good guys and the bad guys?" said neighbor Kristen Crow.
We talked to some other businesses in the area who said that the burglaries are nothing new. They also said they are relieved the bar owner was not hurt in this incident.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
YOU'RE RACIST
ALL RACISM ALL THE TIME
By Doug Gamble
PoliticalMavens.com
August 13, 2010
Liberals have made it clear that if you oppose any of President Barack Obama’s policies, you’re racist. And if you oppose illegal immigration, you’re racist. But it doesn’t stop there. With new guidelines being issued minute by minute making it hard to keep track of what’s racist, here’s an update:
If you want the white pitcher of the baseball team you’re cheering for to strike out a black batter on the opposing team, you’re racist.
If you cheer for a football team with a white quarterback and you want your team to beat a team with a black quarterback, you’re racist.
If the children you gave birth to are white, you’re racist.
If you watch the George Lopez show but don’t laugh at all his monologue jokes, you’re racist.
If you put cream or milk in your coffee because you don’t like it black, you’re racist.
If you watch "Cops" but don’t change the channel in outrage when a black man is arrested, you’re racist.
If you go to Las Vegas and choose the slots over blackjack, you’re racist.
If you’re a Cleveland Cavaliers fan and you’re upset at Lebron James because he abandoned your team for Miami, you’re racist.
If you’re on any flight that passes through Phoenix on the way to your destination, you’re racist.
If you supported Holland over Spain in the World Cup final, you’re racist.
If you’re so old you remember the last time two white guys fought each other for the heavyweight championship and you enjoyed that fight, you’re racist.
If you prefer McDonald’s to El Pollo Loco, you’re racist.
If you don’t buy the books recommended by Oprah Winfrey, you’re racist.
If you hope not to develop black lung disease, you’re racist.
If you dress your bed in white sheets, you’re racist.
And by the way, if you’re a male who disagrees with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, you’re also sexist.
By Doug Gamble
PoliticalMavens.com
August 13, 2010
Liberals have made it clear that if you oppose any of President Barack Obama’s policies, you’re racist. And if you oppose illegal immigration, you’re racist. But it doesn’t stop there. With new guidelines being issued minute by minute making it hard to keep track of what’s racist, here’s an update:
If you want the white pitcher of the baseball team you’re cheering for to strike out a black batter on the opposing team, you’re racist.
If you cheer for a football team with a white quarterback and you want your team to beat a team with a black quarterback, you’re racist.
If the children you gave birth to are white, you’re racist.
If you watch the George Lopez show but don’t laugh at all his monologue jokes, you’re racist.
If you put cream or milk in your coffee because you don’t like it black, you’re racist.
If you watch "Cops" but don’t change the channel in outrage when a black man is arrested, you’re racist.
If you go to Las Vegas and choose the slots over blackjack, you’re racist.
If you’re a Cleveland Cavaliers fan and you’re upset at Lebron James because he abandoned your team for Miami, you’re racist.
If you’re on any flight that passes through Phoenix on the way to your destination, you’re racist.
If you supported Holland over Spain in the World Cup final, you’re racist.
If you’re so old you remember the last time two white guys fought each other for the heavyweight championship and you enjoyed that fight, you’re racist.
If you prefer McDonald’s to El Pollo Loco, you’re racist.
If you don’t buy the books recommended by Oprah Winfrey, you’re racist.
If you hope not to develop black lung disease, you’re racist.
If you dress your bed in white sheets, you’re racist.
And by the way, if you’re a male who disagrees with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, you’re also sexist.
AFTER MONTHS OF GOING THROUGH HELL, FALSELY ACCUSED OFFICERS CLEARED BY DNA
Paco noted that a single inmate’s false allegation of staff gang rape placed a Sheriff’s agency and jail in turmoil, disrupting the lives of several innocent staff for over a year and a half.
Of course, the ordeal these officers went through pales when compared to the ordeal of those who were convicted of rape only to be cleared by DNA after spending years in prison.
MURDERER FATHERED BABY IN JAIL
DNA shows mother was not raped by prison staff
By Denise A. Raymo
Press Republican
August 13, 2010
MALONE, NY -- Killer Rhonda Amber Dufoe was impregnated by her boyfriend, murderer Richard "Dickie" Oakes, while they were inmates at Franklin County Jail.
Dufoe, who is to be sentenced Sept. 20 for her role in the 2008 shooting death of Thomas J. Hathaway Sr., gave birth to a boy, Xavier Tallman Warren Oakes, on July 28 at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, Suffolk County.
DNA tests revealed a 99.99-percent likelihood that Oakes is the baby's father, Maj. Richard Smith, commander of Troop B State Police, said Thursday.
It matched all 13 characteristics routinely used in DNA identification, making the odds that Oakes is not the father 1 in 90 million.
DENYING SEX
Smith, along with Franklin County Sheriff Jack Pelkey and County District Attorney Derek Champagne, made the announcement at a news conference Thursday afternoon.
They cannot say for certain how Dufoe got pregnant because both she and Oakes have repeatedly denied they had sexual relations in jail.
But, the DA said female inmates in other correctional facilities have used "a number of creative ways" to become pregnant, including a rubber glove with semen inside.
Dufoe, who is being held in St. Lawrence County Jail in Canton, has now been charged with second-degree obstruction of governmental administration and issuing a false statement for filing, both misdemeanors.
CLAIMED RAPE
After more than 18 months in County Jail, Dufoe told a female correction officer in April that she has been raped by as many as three correction officers during her time there and was pregnant.
Tests determined she was about six months along, but paternity could not be established until the baby was born.
She was re-interviewed at the Clinton County Jail a few weeks later and again denied she had sex with Oakes and said she did not impregnate herself with his sperm.
Dufoe was arraigned in Malone Town Court before Judge John Marsden and returned to the custody of St. Lawrence County Sheriff's deputies on $2,000 cash bail or $4,000 insurance bond.
She signed paperwork giving guardianship of the baby to Oakes's sister, Nancy Oakes.
OFFICERS CLEARED
Thursday's announcement ends months of speculation about the baby's paternity and controversy at the jail, which has been battered by harsh criticism of its staff and administration.
Two officers had been suspended with pay because of the accusations, but both are returning to work Friday, Sheriff Jack Pelkey said.
"I'm just glad this investigation can finally be put to rest," he said, adding that he always believed his employees when they said they were not the baby's father.
He called the two men to share the paternity results, "and they said, 'I told you so,' and I told them, "I knew.' They are relieved."
THOROUGH PROBE
Smith said the State Police had put in more than 1,000 man hours on the "extensive and expensive case.
"It took a lot of people a lot of hours to pull this together and exonerate the two officers," he said.
And it was that effort that Champagne praised.
He said similar claims by female inmates incarcerated in other facilities would likely be ignored and not taken seriously. But the 20 or so Troop B officers took the task very seriously and did a thorough and professional job.
"It's very easy not to look into something like this," the DA said, adding that Pelkey also deserved credit for his agency's cooperation with state investigators.
Of course, the ordeal these officers went through pales when compared to the ordeal of those who were convicted of rape only to be cleared by DNA after spending years in prison.
MURDERER FATHERED BABY IN JAIL
DNA shows mother was not raped by prison staff
By Denise A. Raymo
Press Republican
August 13, 2010
MALONE, NY -- Killer Rhonda Amber Dufoe was impregnated by her boyfriend, murderer Richard "Dickie" Oakes, while they were inmates at Franklin County Jail.
Dufoe, who is to be sentenced Sept. 20 for her role in the 2008 shooting death of Thomas J. Hathaway Sr., gave birth to a boy, Xavier Tallman Warren Oakes, on July 28 at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, Suffolk County.
DNA tests revealed a 99.99-percent likelihood that Oakes is the baby's father, Maj. Richard Smith, commander of Troop B State Police, said Thursday.
It matched all 13 characteristics routinely used in DNA identification, making the odds that Oakes is not the father 1 in 90 million.
DENYING SEX
Smith, along with Franklin County Sheriff Jack Pelkey and County District Attorney Derek Champagne, made the announcement at a news conference Thursday afternoon.
They cannot say for certain how Dufoe got pregnant because both she and Oakes have repeatedly denied they had sexual relations in jail.
But, the DA said female inmates in other correctional facilities have used "a number of creative ways" to become pregnant, including a rubber glove with semen inside.
Dufoe, who is being held in St. Lawrence County Jail in Canton, has now been charged with second-degree obstruction of governmental administration and issuing a false statement for filing, both misdemeanors.
CLAIMED RAPE
After more than 18 months in County Jail, Dufoe told a female correction officer in April that she has been raped by as many as three correction officers during her time there and was pregnant.
Tests determined she was about six months along, but paternity could not be established until the baby was born.
She was re-interviewed at the Clinton County Jail a few weeks later and again denied she had sex with Oakes and said she did not impregnate herself with his sperm.
Dufoe was arraigned in Malone Town Court before Judge John Marsden and returned to the custody of St. Lawrence County Sheriff's deputies on $2,000 cash bail or $4,000 insurance bond.
She signed paperwork giving guardianship of the baby to Oakes's sister, Nancy Oakes.
OFFICERS CLEARED
Thursday's announcement ends months of speculation about the baby's paternity and controversy at the jail, which has been battered by harsh criticism of its staff and administration.
Two officers had been suspended with pay because of the accusations, but both are returning to work Friday, Sheriff Jack Pelkey said.
"I'm just glad this investigation can finally be put to rest," he said, adding that he always believed his employees when they said they were not the baby's father.
He called the two men to share the paternity results, "and they said, 'I told you so,' and I told them, "I knew.' They are relieved."
THOROUGH PROBE
Smith said the State Police had put in more than 1,000 man hours on the "extensive and expensive case.
"It took a lot of people a lot of hours to pull this together and exonerate the two officers," he said.
And it was that effort that Champagne praised.
He said similar claims by female inmates incarcerated in other facilities would likely be ignored and not taken seriously. But the 20 or so Troop B officers took the task very seriously and did a thorough and professional job.
"It's very easy not to look into something like this," the DA said, adding that Pelkey also deserved credit for his agency's cooperation with state investigators.
Friday, August 13, 2010
POLICE HARASSMENT
Recently, the City of Miami Police Department ran an e-mail forum (a question and answer exchange via email) with the topic being, "Community Policing."
One of the civilian email participants posed the following question: "I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?"
From the "other side" (the law enforcement side) Lt. Milton, obviously a cop with a sense of humor replied:
"First of all, let me tell you this...it's not easy. In Miami , we average one cop for every 600 people. Only about 60% of those cops are on general duty (or what you might refer to as "patrol") where we do most of our harassing.
The rest are in non-harassing departments that do not allow them contact with the day to day innocents. And at any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60% patrollers are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty. So roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 5,000 residents.
When you toss in the commercial business, and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 10,000 or more people a day.
Now, your average ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds long. This gives a cop one second to harass a person, and then only three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. To be honest, most cops are not up to this challenge day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those people which we can realistically harass.
The tools available to us are as follows:
PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. "My neighbor is beating his wife" is a code phrase used often. This means we'll come out and give somebody some special harassment.
Another popular one is, "There's a guy breaking into a house." The harassment team is then put into action.
CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or no driver's licenses and the like. It's lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.
RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for hours.
STATUTES: When we don't have PHONES or CARS and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called "Statutes"; Criminal Codes, Motor Vehicle Codes, etc... They all spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people.
After you read the statute, you can just drive around for awhile until you find someone violating one of these listed offenses and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, there's this book we have that says that's not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy. It is a really cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well.
We seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because for the good citizens who pay the tab, we try to keep the streets safe for them, and they pay us to "harass" some people.
Next time you are in my City, give me the old "single finger wave." That's another one of those codes. It means, "You can harass me." It's one of our favorites. "
EDITOR’S NOTE: A great big thanks to Trey for sending me this jewel. True or not, it makes a great rebuttal to those who think poorly of the police, and it does so in a rather humorous vein.
One of the civilian email participants posed the following question: "I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?"
From the "other side" (the law enforcement side) Lt. Milton, obviously a cop with a sense of humor replied:
"First of all, let me tell you this...it's not easy. In Miami , we average one cop for every 600 people. Only about 60% of those cops are on general duty (or what you might refer to as "patrol") where we do most of our harassing.
The rest are in non-harassing departments that do not allow them contact with the day to day innocents. And at any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60% patrollers are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty. So roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 5,000 residents.
When you toss in the commercial business, and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 10,000 or more people a day.
Now, your average ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds long. This gives a cop one second to harass a person, and then only three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. To be honest, most cops are not up to this challenge day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those people which we can realistically harass.
The tools available to us are as follows:
PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. "My neighbor is beating his wife" is a code phrase used often. This means we'll come out and give somebody some special harassment.
Another popular one is, "There's a guy breaking into a house." The harassment team is then put into action.
CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or no driver's licenses and the like. It's lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.
RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for hours.
STATUTES: When we don't have PHONES or CARS and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called "Statutes"; Criminal Codes, Motor Vehicle Codes, etc... They all spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people.
After you read the statute, you can just drive around for awhile until you find someone violating one of these listed offenses and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, there's this book we have that says that's not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy. It is a really cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well.
We seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because for the good citizens who pay the tab, we try to keep the streets safe for them, and they pay us to "harass" some people.
Next time you are in my City, give me the old "single finger wave." That's another one of those codes. It means, "You can harass me." It's one of our favorites. "
EDITOR’S NOTE: A great big thanks to Trey for sending me this jewel. True or not, it makes a great rebuttal to those who think poorly of the police, and it does so in a rather humorous vein.
AWWWW, HE HAD HIS MARIJUANA COOKIE STOLEN AND NOW HE WON'T BE ABLE TO SLEEP
Medical marijuana for insomnia? Kookfornia’s medical pot law is one big joke, only it’s not funny.
MEDICAL POT USER RIPS CALIF. POLICE INVESTIGATION
The man had his credit card and a marijuana-infused brownie stolen at gunpoint outside a bar
By Jessica A. York
Vallejo Times Herald
August 12, 2010
VALLEJO, Calif. — A Vallejo man claims he is "the only detective on the case" of his stolen credit card and marijuana-infused brownie, reportedly taken at gunpoint outside a bar early Sunday morning.
The man, who asked that his name not be published, said he and two friends were held up by two armed assailants in a parking lot near the My Office bar on Sacramento Street at about 1:40 a.m.
Vallejo police arriving to retrieve information about the holdup allegedly required proof that the man was legally permitted to possess marijuana. He said he had willingly offered information to a 911 dispatcher that his medical marijuana edible, needed to counteract his insomnia, had been stolen.
"That's the whole reason why they treated me like a criminal, because of the marijuana," the man said. "I just felt like when the cops came out, they threatened to arrest everyone around me when we did nothing."
Vallejo police Lt. Abel Tenorio said he was unfamiliar with the details of the holdup investigation, but said asking for proof of eligibility to carry marijuana is standard procedure.
"Seeing as how it's not covered in the report, I don't know the circumstances of that," Tenorio said. "It looks to me that the officer focused on the robbery."
The man said he tracked the purchases made on his credit card to businesses around his home. In fact, he said he willingly gave the suspects his card's PIN code just so he could track them. When he asked bank and gas station officials to share their surveillance footage of the people making the credit car purchases, however, he was told that only police officers were allowed access.
Tenorio said that four of the department's investigators are investigating two homicides — one reported the day before and the day of the holdup.
The man, who is not allowed to own a gun because of a recent marijuana possession charge, said he fears for his life.
"They only stole about $40 from me, but my point is if these people don't get off the street, they're going to end up shooting somebody, if they haven't already," the man said.
MEDICAL POT USER RIPS CALIF. POLICE INVESTIGATION
The man had his credit card and a marijuana-infused brownie stolen at gunpoint outside a bar
By Jessica A. York
Vallejo Times Herald
August 12, 2010
VALLEJO, Calif. — A Vallejo man claims he is "the only detective on the case" of his stolen credit card and marijuana-infused brownie, reportedly taken at gunpoint outside a bar early Sunday morning.
The man, who asked that his name not be published, said he and two friends were held up by two armed assailants in a parking lot near the My Office bar on Sacramento Street at about 1:40 a.m.
Vallejo police arriving to retrieve information about the holdup allegedly required proof that the man was legally permitted to possess marijuana. He said he had willingly offered information to a 911 dispatcher that his medical marijuana edible, needed to counteract his insomnia, had been stolen.
"That's the whole reason why they treated me like a criminal, because of the marijuana," the man said. "I just felt like when the cops came out, they threatened to arrest everyone around me when we did nothing."
Vallejo police Lt. Abel Tenorio said he was unfamiliar with the details of the holdup investigation, but said asking for proof of eligibility to carry marijuana is standard procedure.
"Seeing as how it's not covered in the report, I don't know the circumstances of that," Tenorio said. "It looks to me that the officer focused on the robbery."
The man said he tracked the purchases made on his credit card to businesses around his home. In fact, he said he willingly gave the suspects his card's PIN code just so he could track them. When he asked bank and gas station officials to share their surveillance footage of the people making the credit car purchases, however, he was told that only police officers were allowed access.
Tenorio said that four of the department's investigators are investigating two homicides — one reported the day before and the day of the holdup.
The man, who is not allowed to own a gun because of a recent marijuana possession charge, said he fears for his life.
"They only stole about $40 from me, but my point is if these people don't get off the street, they're going to end up shooting somebody, if they haven't already," the man said.
THE TOE GOT A PROPER BURIAL, BUT THE BODY WAS DUMPED AS MEDICAL WASTE
One Hair Balls reader, Lorena, commented: Although I can sympathize with the couple, why do they need to sue. Seriously? Another reason why this country is all messed up. Trying to get a quick buck here and there.
Ginger responded to Lorena by saying: Because the hospital provides a service and they have a responsibility to handle these kinds of situations. It's not like they put the wrong icing on a wedding cake. This couple was four months away from having a baby, the baby died - you don't send someone a toe instead to make the event more traumatic after you think you're getting closure during the burial. I'm sure they paid the hospital for all of those services. I would definitely have sued.
I'm with Ginger! While there are far too many frivolous make-a-quick-buck lawsuits, this ain't one of them.
RICHARD & AMY RAMOS: HOSPITAL GIVES THEM A BIG TOE INSTEAD OF A FETUS TO BURY
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
August 12, 2010
Amy Ramos was five months pregnant when she had complications and her baby's heart stopped.
She and her husband Richard arranged to bury the fetus, telling the East Houston Medical Center to send it to Carter Funeral Home, where they had a service and burial on August 11.
And then: "About two hours after the burial service, [they] received a telephone call from the doctor stating that there was a mix-up and they were given a big toe instead of a fetus."
Talk about phone calls you don't want to get. Or make, for that matter.
The plastic container used in the burial was dug up, and indeed was found to contain a big toe and not a five-month-old fetus.
The Ramoses are suing. For, among other things, "failure to properly identify the remains of [a] five-month-old fetus."
Jay-sus: A big toe? How casually do you have to throw something in a container to mistake a big toe for a fetus?
The plaintiffs are asking for damages "aggregating more than $100,000."
The hospital and funeral home have not yet responded to the suit.
Ginger responded to Lorena by saying: Because the hospital provides a service and they have a responsibility to handle these kinds of situations. It's not like they put the wrong icing on a wedding cake. This couple was four months away from having a baby, the baby died - you don't send someone a toe instead to make the event more traumatic after you think you're getting closure during the burial. I'm sure they paid the hospital for all of those services. I would definitely have sued.
I'm with Ginger! While there are far too many frivolous make-a-quick-buck lawsuits, this ain't one of them.
RICHARD & AMY RAMOS: HOSPITAL GIVES THEM A BIG TOE INSTEAD OF A FETUS TO BURY
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
August 12, 2010
Amy Ramos was five months pregnant when she had complications and her baby's heart stopped.
She and her husband Richard arranged to bury the fetus, telling the East Houston Medical Center to send it to Carter Funeral Home, where they had a service and burial on August 11.
And then: "About two hours after the burial service, [they] received a telephone call from the doctor stating that there was a mix-up and they were given a big toe instead of a fetus."
Talk about phone calls you don't want to get. Or make, for that matter.
The plastic container used in the burial was dug up, and indeed was found to contain a big toe and not a five-month-old fetus.
The Ramoses are suing. For, among other things, "failure to properly identify the remains of [a] five-month-old fetus."
Jay-sus: A big toe? How casually do you have to throw something in a container to mistake a big toe for a fetus?
The plaintiffs are asking for damages "aggregating more than $100,000."
The hospital and funeral home have not yet responded to the suit.
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