A man at a local restaurant paid for his meal with his credit card.
The bill for the meal came, he signed it and the waitress folded the receipt and passed the credit card along.
Usually, he would just take it and place it in his wallet or pocket. Funny enough, though, he actually took a look at the card and, lo and behold, it was the expired card of another person.
He called the waitress and she looked perplexed.
She took it back, apologized, and hurried back to the counter under the watchful eye of the man.
All the waitress did while walking to the counter was wave the wrong expired card to the counter cashier, and the counter cashier immediately looked down and took out the real card.
No exchange of words -- nothing! She took it and came back to the man with an apology..
(This scenario actually happened to me at a local restaurant - Falls Terrace - between the waitress and the front desk cashier.)
Verdict Make sure the credit cards in your wallet are yours.
Check the name on the card every time you sign for something and/or the card is taken away for even a short period of time.
Many people just take back the credit card without even looking at it, “assuming” that it has to be theirs.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
THE VAG STASH GOT STUCK
After getting busted and being warned about bringing any drugs or drug paraphernalia inside the jail, Christina Searcy tried to extract a meth pipe from her vagina, but it was stuck
On Friday, Christina Searcy and three companions were traveling on U.S.59 in Montgomery County (north of Houston) when they were pulled over by deputy constables investigating a hot check case. As soon as the constables approached the car they got a strong whiff of pot. When Kevin Hales, the driver, opened the door – Oops - a joint fell out of the car. When they searched the car, the deputies also found several baggies of cocaine.
Before taking the four to the slammer, the deputies warned them that they would face additional charges if they carried any drugs or drug paraphernalia into the jail. Kimberly Kinn immediately pulled a meth pipe from her bra and handed it to the deputies. Poor ‘ole Christina had no such luck. She had stashed her meth pipe inside her vagina and it was stuck. She was taken by ambulance to the Kingwood Hospital emergency room where the meth pipe was extracted.
Christina was taken to the Montgomery County jail sans any contraband. Court records show she had prior meth convictions in 2007, 2010 and 2011.
On Friday, Christina Searcy and three companions were traveling on U.S.59 in Montgomery County (north of Houston) when they were pulled over by deputy constables investigating a hot check case. As soon as the constables approached the car they got a strong whiff of pot. When Kevin Hales, the driver, opened the door – Oops - a joint fell out of the car. When they searched the car, the deputies also found several baggies of cocaine.
Before taking the four to the slammer, the deputies warned them that they would face additional charges if they carried any drugs or drug paraphernalia into the jail. Kimberly Kinn immediately pulled a meth pipe from her bra and handed it to the deputies. Poor ‘ole Christina had no such luck. She had stashed her meth pipe inside her vagina and it was stuck. She was taken by ambulance to the Kingwood Hospital emergency room where the meth pipe was extracted.
Christina was taken to the Montgomery County jail sans any contraband. Court records show she had prior meth convictions in 2007, 2010 and 2011.
HOW HIGH IS TOO HIGH?
Now that Pandora’s Box has been opened in Colorado, a monster has been unleashed that will not go willingly back into the box
By Greg ‘Gadfly’ Doyle
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
January 20, 2015
Aside from the moral and medical issues associated with the legalization of Marijuana, the question that never gets answered by the pot advocates is: How high is too high?
There are no standards for public intoxication or driving while under the influence of pot as there is with alcoholic beverages. Now that Pandora’s Box has been opened in Colorado, a monster has been unleashed that will not go willingly back into the box. Only government restrictions will curtail all the predictable aftereffects of bad law.
And here is an interesting note. My niece lives in Colorado and she told me just last week that the odor of pot drifts through almost every public place, so that breathing clean air is a challenge. Funny, here in California smoking cigarettes in public places can lead to fines.
By Greg ‘Gadfly’ Doyle
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
January 20, 2015
Aside from the moral and medical issues associated with the legalization of Marijuana, the question that never gets answered by the pot advocates is: How high is too high?
There are no standards for public intoxication or driving while under the influence of pot as there is with alcoholic beverages. Now that Pandora’s Box has been opened in Colorado, a monster has been unleashed that will not go willingly back into the box. Only government restrictions will curtail all the predictable aftereffects of bad law.
And here is an interesting note. My niece lives in Colorado and she told me just last week that the odor of pot drifts through almost every public place, so that breathing clean air is a challenge. Funny, here in California smoking cigarettes in public places can lead to fines.
VICTIM OF 1986 RACIST ATTACK OPPOSES PARDON FOR WAHLBERG
Kristyn Atwood says “If you're a racist, you're always going to be a racist”
On January 16, I wrote about former state prosecutor Judith Beals’ opposition to granting Wahlberg the pardon he seeks because he committed hate crimes. I responded to Beals’ opposition by saying:
Holy shit! Now we learn that this 43-yar-old actor was a despicable racist when he was 14 and 16. Political correctness requires that we never forgive someone for having been a racist in his teens. Heaven forbid! Ms. Beals, has it ever occurred to you that people can and do change? So get off that politically correct horse of yours and give Mark Wahlberg a break!
Kristyn Atwood, 38, was one of Wahlberg’s victims when he and some other white Boston thugs threw rocks at a group of black fourth-grade students, calling them “niggers” and chasing them down the street. Atwood says she is still scarred by the incident and believes that “If you're a racist, you're always going to be a racist.” For that reason she does not want Wahlberg to ever be pardoned.
I’ve got the same words for Kristyn Atwood that I had for Judith Beals:
Kristyn, I understand why you feel the way you do. You were the victim of a vicious racial incident when you were a fourth-grader. But has it ever occurred to you that people can and do change? Wahlberg has been trying to make up for his misdeeds by donating his time and money to help inner-city kids and at-risk youths. So please give Mark Wahlberg a break!
There is no way that I can disregard or minimize the awful crimes that Wahlberg committed as a 14 and 16-year-old hoodlum, but that was 28 years ago. Since then he has demonstrated that he has truly turned his life around. Even though I am a hard-nosed law and order guy, I believe very strongly that Mark Wahlberg deserves the pardon he is seeking.
MARK WAHLBERG HARASSMENT VICTIM SAYS ACTOR SHOULD NOT BE PARDONED
Kristyn Atwood was among a group of children Wahlberg and his friends attacked with rocks and racial epithets during a field trip in Boston in 1986
By Philip Marcelo and Rodrique Ngowi
Associated Press
January 20, 2015
BOSTON -- A victim of one of Mark Wahlberg's racially motivated attacks as a teenage delinquent in segregated Boston in the 1980s insists he shouldn't be granted a pardon for his crimes.
Kristyn Atwood was among a group of mostly black fourth-grade students on a field trip to the beach in 1986 when Wahlberg and his white friends began hurling rocks and shouting racial epithets as they chased them down the street.
"I don't think he should get a pardon," Atwood, now 38 and living in Decatur, Georgia, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"I don't really care who he is. It doesn't make him any exception. If you're a racist, you're always going to be a racist. And for him to want to erase it I just think it's wrong," she said.
Mary Belmonte, the white teacher who brought the students to the neighborhood beach that day, sees things differently. "I believe in forgiveness," she said. "He was just a young kid — a punk — in the mean streets of Boston. He didn't do it specifically because he was a bad kid. He was just a follower doing what the other kids were doing."
The 43-year-old former rapper, Calvin Klein model and "Boogie Nights" actor wants official forgiveness for a separate, more severe attack in 1988, in which he assaulted two Vietnamese men while trying to steal beer. That attack sent one of the men to the hospital and landed Wahlberg in prison.
Wahlberg, in a pardon application filed in November and pending before the state parole board, acknowledges he was a teenage delinquent mixed up in drugs, alcohol and the wrong crowd. He points to his ensuing successful acting career, restaurant ventures and philanthropic work with inner city youths as evidence he's turned his life around.
"I have apologized, many times," he told the AP in December. "The first opportunity I had to apologize was right there in court when all the dust had settled and I was getting shackled and taken away, and making sure I paid my debt to society and continue to try and do things that make up for the mistakes that I've made."
Court documents in the 1986 attack identify Wahlberg among a group of white boys who harassed the school group as they were leaving Savin Hill Beach in Dorchester, a mixed but segregated Boston neighborhood that had seen racial tensions during the years the city was under court-ordered school integration.
The boys chased the black children down the street, repeatedly shouting "niggers" and hurling rocks until an ambulance driver intervened. Wahlberg was 14 at the time.
Atwood says she still bears a scar from getting hit by a rock. No one was seriously injured, but the attack left a lasting impression.
"I was really scared. My heart was beating fast. I couldn't believe it was happening. The names. The rocks. The kids chasing," Belmonte told the AP.
Wahlberg and two other white youths were issued a civil rights injunction: essentially a stern warning that if they committed another hate crime, they would be sent to jail.
In 1988, Wahlberg, then 16, attacked two Vietnamese men while trying to steal beer near his Dorchester home.
According to the sentencing memorandum, he confronted Thanh Lam, a Vietnamese man, as he was getting out of his car with two cases of beer. Wahlberg called Lam a "Vietnam f------ s---" and beat him over the head with a 5-foot wooden stick until Lam lost consciousness and the rod broke in two.
Documents say Wahlberg ran up to another Vietnamese man, Hoa Trinh, and asked for help hiding. After a police cruiser drove past, he punched Trinh in the eye. Later, he made crude remarks about Asians.
Wahlberg ultimately was convicted as an adult of two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, marijuana possession and criminal contempt for violating the prior civil rights injunction. He was given a three-month prison sentence, of which he served about 45 days.
Trinh declined to be interviewed by AP, and efforts to locate Lam were unsuccessful.
Judith Beals, a former state prosecutor involved in the cases, said Wahlberg's crimes stand out because he violated the injunction with an even more violent attack on people of yet another race.
"It was a hate crime and that's exactly what should be on his record forever," Atwood said.
On January 16, I wrote about former state prosecutor Judith Beals’ opposition to granting Wahlberg the pardon he seeks because he committed hate crimes. I responded to Beals’ opposition by saying:
Holy shit! Now we learn that this 43-yar-old actor was a despicable racist when he was 14 and 16. Political correctness requires that we never forgive someone for having been a racist in his teens. Heaven forbid! Ms. Beals, has it ever occurred to you that people can and do change? So get off that politically correct horse of yours and give Mark Wahlberg a break!
Kristyn Atwood, 38, was one of Wahlberg’s victims when he and some other white Boston thugs threw rocks at a group of black fourth-grade students, calling them “niggers” and chasing them down the street. Atwood says she is still scarred by the incident and believes that “If you're a racist, you're always going to be a racist.” For that reason she does not want Wahlberg to ever be pardoned.
I’ve got the same words for Kristyn Atwood that I had for Judith Beals:
Kristyn, I understand why you feel the way you do. You were the victim of a vicious racial incident when you were a fourth-grader. But has it ever occurred to you that people can and do change? Wahlberg has been trying to make up for his misdeeds by donating his time and money to help inner-city kids and at-risk youths. So please give Mark Wahlberg a break!
There is no way that I can disregard or minimize the awful crimes that Wahlberg committed as a 14 and 16-year-old hoodlum, but that was 28 years ago. Since then he has demonstrated that he has truly turned his life around. Even though I am a hard-nosed law and order guy, I believe very strongly that Mark Wahlberg deserves the pardon he is seeking.
MARK WAHLBERG HARASSMENT VICTIM SAYS ACTOR SHOULD NOT BE PARDONED
Kristyn Atwood was among a group of children Wahlberg and his friends attacked with rocks and racial epithets during a field trip in Boston in 1986
By Philip Marcelo and Rodrique Ngowi
Associated Press
January 20, 2015
BOSTON -- A victim of one of Mark Wahlberg's racially motivated attacks as a teenage delinquent in segregated Boston in the 1980s insists he shouldn't be granted a pardon for his crimes.
Kristyn Atwood was among a group of mostly black fourth-grade students on a field trip to the beach in 1986 when Wahlberg and his white friends began hurling rocks and shouting racial epithets as they chased them down the street.
"I don't think he should get a pardon," Atwood, now 38 and living in Decatur, Georgia, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"I don't really care who he is. It doesn't make him any exception. If you're a racist, you're always going to be a racist. And for him to want to erase it I just think it's wrong," she said.
Mary Belmonte, the white teacher who brought the students to the neighborhood beach that day, sees things differently. "I believe in forgiveness," she said. "He was just a young kid — a punk — in the mean streets of Boston. He didn't do it specifically because he was a bad kid. He was just a follower doing what the other kids were doing."
The 43-year-old former rapper, Calvin Klein model and "Boogie Nights" actor wants official forgiveness for a separate, more severe attack in 1988, in which he assaulted two Vietnamese men while trying to steal beer. That attack sent one of the men to the hospital and landed Wahlberg in prison.
Wahlberg, in a pardon application filed in November and pending before the state parole board, acknowledges he was a teenage delinquent mixed up in drugs, alcohol and the wrong crowd. He points to his ensuing successful acting career, restaurant ventures and philanthropic work with inner city youths as evidence he's turned his life around.
"I have apologized, many times," he told the AP in December. "The first opportunity I had to apologize was right there in court when all the dust had settled and I was getting shackled and taken away, and making sure I paid my debt to society and continue to try and do things that make up for the mistakes that I've made."
Court documents in the 1986 attack identify Wahlberg among a group of white boys who harassed the school group as they were leaving Savin Hill Beach in Dorchester, a mixed but segregated Boston neighborhood that had seen racial tensions during the years the city was under court-ordered school integration.
The boys chased the black children down the street, repeatedly shouting "niggers" and hurling rocks until an ambulance driver intervened. Wahlberg was 14 at the time.
Atwood says she still bears a scar from getting hit by a rock. No one was seriously injured, but the attack left a lasting impression.
"I was really scared. My heart was beating fast. I couldn't believe it was happening. The names. The rocks. The kids chasing," Belmonte told the AP.
Wahlberg and two other white youths were issued a civil rights injunction: essentially a stern warning that if they committed another hate crime, they would be sent to jail.
In 1988, Wahlberg, then 16, attacked two Vietnamese men while trying to steal beer near his Dorchester home.
According to the sentencing memorandum, he confronted Thanh Lam, a Vietnamese man, as he was getting out of his car with two cases of beer. Wahlberg called Lam a "Vietnam f------ s---" and beat him over the head with a 5-foot wooden stick until Lam lost consciousness and the rod broke in two.
Documents say Wahlberg ran up to another Vietnamese man, Hoa Trinh, and asked for help hiding. After a police cruiser drove past, he punched Trinh in the eye. Later, he made crude remarks about Asians.
Wahlberg ultimately was convicted as an adult of two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, marijuana possession and criminal contempt for violating the prior civil rights injunction. He was given a three-month prison sentence, of which he served about 45 days.
Trinh declined to be interviewed by AP, and efforts to locate Lam were unsuccessful.
Judith Beals, a former state prosecutor involved in the cases, said Wahlberg's crimes stand out because he violated the injunction with an even more violent attack on people of yet another race.
"It was a hate crime and that's exactly what should be on his record forever," Atwood said.
PARKINSON’S OR ALZHEIMER’S?
The Unconventional Gazette
January 20, 2015
Two old geezers were sitting on a park bench talking about aging. One turns to the other and asks:
“At our age, what would you rather have, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s?”
The other guy replies:
“Parkinson’s! Better to spill half an ounce of Jack Daniels than to forget where you keep the bottle.”
January 20, 2015
Two old geezers were sitting on a park bench talking about aging. One turns to the other and asks:
“At our age, what would you rather have, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s?”
The other guy replies:
“Parkinson’s! Better to spill half an ounce of Jack Daniels than to forget where you keep the bottle.”
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
TWO CALIFORNIA TEACHERS MAKE WHOOPEE ON BEACH WITH STUDENTS
West Covina teachers Melody Lippert and Michelle Chirell get busted for showing some lucky boys a really good time
Melody Lippert, 38, and Michelle Chirelli, 30, both teachers – now ex-teachers - at South Hills High School in West Covina, California, sure know how to show some lucky boys a really good time.
Last November, Melody – what a sweet sounding name – got together at San Clemente State Beach with a group of boys from her school. The boys were doing the overnight camping trip thing. Melody gave the boys some alcohol and then had sex with one of them. She made plans with the students for a future encore performance.
Several weeks later, some of the same boys set up another camp at the beach. This time Melody brought along Michelle. Two boys in the group lucked out when they were chosen by their dedicated teachers for a demonstration of some hands-on sex education. Each fucked their chosen student and Michelle added a blow job to the demonstration.
Unfortunately for Melody and Michelle, this story did not have a happy ending. Some of the boys must have bragged about what a great time they had because the West Covina police notified the Orange County Sheriff’s Department about the sex education demonstration at the beach - San Clemente State Beach is under their jurisdiction. Alas, Melody and Michelle got busted Saturday.
Melody was jailed on $20,000 bond for conspiracy, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Michelle was jailed on $50,000 bond for oral copulation and unlawful sex with a minor. Both babes posted bail and are to appear in court for arraignment on Wednesday.
The camping trips were not school sponsored. Melody and Michelle have flushed their teaching careers down the toilet and are facing some serious slammer time.
Most of you will say the moral of this story is for teachers not to have sex with students. However, I say the moral of this story is: Boys keep your damn mouths shut!
Melody Lippert, 38, and Michelle Chirelli, 30, both teachers – now ex-teachers - at South Hills High School in West Covina, California, sure know how to show some lucky boys a really good time.
Last November, Melody – what a sweet sounding name – got together at San Clemente State Beach with a group of boys from her school. The boys were doing the overnight camping trip thing. Melody gave the boys some alcohol and then had sex with one of them. She made plans with the students for a future encore performance.
Several weeks later, some of the same boys set up another camp at the beach. This time Melody brought along Michelle. Two boys in the group lucked out when they were chosen by their dedicated teachers for a demonstration of some hands-on sex education. Each fucked their chosen student and Michelle added a blow job to the demonstration.
Unfortunately for Melody and Michelle, this story did not have a happy ending. Some of the boys must have bragged about what a great time they had because the West Covina police notified the Orange County Sheriff’s Department about the sex education demonstration at the beach - San Clemente State Beach is under their jurisdiction. Alas, Melody and Michelle got busted Saturday.
Melody was jailed on $20,000 bond for conspiracy, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Michelle was jailed on $50,000 bond for oral copulation and unlawful sex with a minor. Both babes posted bail and are to appear in court for arraignment on Wednesday.
The camping trips were not school sponsored. Melody and Michelle have flushed their teaching careers down the toilet and are facing some serious slammer time.
Most of you will say the moral of this story is for teachers not to have sex with students. However, I say the moral of this story is: Boys keep your damn mouths shut!
LEGALIZED POT: COLORADO EXPERIENCES EXPLODING HOUSES
Now that pot is legal in Colorado, marijuana aficionados are blowing up their homes cooking up batches of hash oil
While houses all over the country are exploding during the extraction of potent pot drops with flammable chemicals, usually butane, to produce hash oil, the problem seems to be most notable in Colorado since that state legalized pot two years ago. Those marijuana aficionados aren’t satisfied with just smoking a joint, they’ve got to have their more potent hash oil. And one mistake during the cooking process – poof – thee goes the house.
The cooking process involves butane fuel pumped through a tube packed with raw pot plants. That draws out the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), thereby producing a gold-colored highly potent concentrate of hash oil. Because the process often fills a room with butane vapors, an accidental spark can set off an explosion. There were 32 such explosions in Colorado last year, up from 12 the year before.
Colorado authorities want a law passed prohibiting the manufacture of hash oil, but lawyers say not so fast. Because the new law made it legal to grow, process, sell, and smoke pot, lawyers insist that the manufacture of homemade hash oil cannot be considered a crime.
Welcome to the legalization of pot. The taxes collected by the state have not met expectations and are a mere drop in the bucket of Colorado’s multibillion dollar annual budgets. The black market in pot has flourished because the pot heads do not want to pay those taxes. There has been a significant increase in the use of marijuana by adults. But there has also been a marked increase in its use by kids. And - oh the joy of it all - now houses are exploding too.
While houses all over the country are exploding during the extraction of potent pot drops with flammable chemicals, usually butane, to produce hash oil, the problem seems to be most notable in Colorado since that state legalized pot two years ago. Those marijuana aficionados aren’t satisfied with just smoking a joint, they’ve got to have their more potent hash oil. And one mistake during the cooking process – poof – thee goes the house.
The cooking process involves butane fuel pumped through a tube packed with raw pot plants. That draws out the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), thereby producing a gold-colored highly potent concentrate of hash oil. Because the process often fills a room with butane vapors, an accidental spark can set off an explosion. There were 32 such explosions in Colorado last year, up from 12 the year before.
Colorado authorities want a law passed prohibiting the manufacture of hash oil, but lawyers say not so fast. Because the new law made it legal to grow, process, sell, and smoke pot, lawyers insist that the manufacture of homemade hash oil cannot be considered a crime.
Welcome to the legalization of pot. The taxes collected by the state have not met expectations and are a mere drop in the bucket of Colorado’s multibillion dollar annual budgets. The black market in pot has flourished because the pot heads do not want to pay those taxes. There has been a significant increase in the use of marijuana by adults. But there has also been a marked increase in its use by kids. And - oh the joy of it all - now houses are exploding too.
AMERICA-HATING FILMMAKER MICHAEL MOORE OUTRAGED AT AMERICAN SNIPER
The strident gun control freak calls military snipers cowards who will shoot you in the back
Clint Eastwood’s film American Sniper has garnered six Academy Award nominations and has been a record breaking box office hit.
America-hating documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is not impressed. That’s putting it mildly because he has slammed the film for glorifying military snipers. As far as the strident gun control freak and capitalism-critic is concerned, snipers are cowards who will shoot you in the back.
Here is what Moore tweeted:
“My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.”
“And invaders r worse” obviously refers to the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nicholas Irving, a former Ranger sergeant, had 33 confirmed kills as a sniper. For that he was known as “The Reaper.” Irving shot back at Moore, saying, "A lot of good guys and my friends died for his right to freedom of speech.” And Newt Gingrich said, "Michael Moore should spend a few weeks with ISIS and Boko Haram. Then he might appreciate American Sniper.”
Moore has been vociferous in his opposition to America’s military actions. The extreme left-wing gun control freak has described the American national symbol as the gun, not the bald eagle. And he has coined the phrase "Guns don't kill people - Americans kill people."
While Moore considers military snipers as cowards, I consider them brave men who are true heroes. Snipers perform a very unpleasant task designed to save the lives of American soldiers. If anyone is a coward, it’s that armchair sniper Michael Moore.
Clint Eastwood’s film American Sniper has garnered six Academy Award nominations and has been a record breaking box office hit.
America-hating documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is not impressed. That’s putting it mildly because he has slammed the film for glorifying military snipers. As far as the strident gun control freak and capitalism-critic is concerned, snipers are cowards who will shoot you in the back.
Here is what Moore tweeted:
“My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.”
“And invaders r worse” obviously refers to the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nicholas Irving, a former Ranger sergeant, had 33 confirmed kills as a sniper. For that he was known as “The Reaper.” Irving shot back at Moore, saying, "A lot of good guys and my friends died for his right to freedom of speech.” And Newt Gingrich said, "Michael Moore should spend a few weeks with ISIS and Boko Haram. Then he might appreciate American Sniper.”
Moore has been vociferous in his opposition to America’s military actions. The extreme left-wing gun control freak has described the American national symbol as the gun, not the bald eagle. And he has coined the phrase "Guns don't kill people - Americans kill people."
While Moore considers military snipers as cowards, I consider them brave men who are true heroes. Snipers perform a very unpleasant task designed to save the lives of American soldiers. If anyone is a coward, it’s that armchair sniper Michael Moore.
CALIFORNIA COPS THREATENED WITH LAWSUIT FOR DOING THEIR JOBS
Lawyer claims Stockton cops were to blame for the taking of hostages in bank robbery and for his client getting shot by one of the robbers
Let’s see now, if the Stockton, California cops had not blocked the escape route of some bank robbers, bank employee Kelly Huber would not have been taken hostage and she would not have been accidentally shot by one of the robbers. Now that’s what I call creative thinking. But why stop there? Why not sue the cops for global warming as well?
Bob Walsh says the reason Huber is suing the city instead of the robbers, is that the city has deep pockets while the robbers don’t have shit. Besides, two of the robbers were killed during a final shootout with the police.
HOSTAGE FILES CLAIM AGAINST CITY, POLICE IN BANK OF THE WEST ROBBERY
By Jason Anderson
Stockton Record
January 19, 2015
STOCKTON — An attorney representing one of the hostages taken in a bank robbery that led to a deadly shootout has filed an injury claim stemming from the case against the city of Stockton and the Stockton Police Department.
Attorney Michael J. Dyer filed the claim on behalf of Kelly Huber, one of three women who were taken hostage July 16 as three heavily armed gunmen fled from a Bank of the West branch on Thornton Road. The claim seeks upwards of $500,000 in damages.
A copy of the claim was mailed to The Record last week. The document indicates that a copy was mailed to the Police Department and delivered to the City Clerk’s Office, but police and city officials were unable to confirm receipt of the claim over the weekend.
Dyer said the City Council now has 90 days to accept or reject the claim. If the claim is rejected, as Dyer anticipates, he would have up to six months to file a lawsuit.
“We wouldn’t wait,” he said. “We would file it the same week.”
Neither Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Police Department, nor Connie Cochran, a spokeswoman for the city, would comment on the pending litigation.
The claim alleges that officers acted negligently and in violation of police procedures when they interrupted the robbery and engaged the gunmen, resulting in a pursuit that included a rolling gun battle and a final shootout. One of the hostages, 41-year-old Misty Holt-Singh, and two of the gunmen died in the shootout.
Huber, the bank manager, and another bank employee were thrown or jumped out of the getaway vehicle during the pursuit, authorities said. Dyer said one of the bank robbers who was later killed in the shootout accidentally shot Huber, who was driving as they fled from the bank.
“He said, ‘Oh, God, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do that,’ ” Dyer said.
According to the claim, Huber sustained two gunshot wounds, one to each leg. The wounds caused severe injuries, including broken bones and tissue damage, resulting in disability, emotional distress, scarring, disfigurement and lost wages, Dyer said. Dyer indicated that Huber still is recovering from her injuries and is incurring wage losses.
“It is believed the total claim will exceed $500,000,” Dyer said. “This amount may adjust upward or downward depending on future circumstances.”
The claim further states: “The negligence and violation of procedures included but are not limited to: 1) confronting the robbers before they disengaged with (Huber) and other victims; 2) confronting the robbers without a plan for containment and communication; 3) failing to communicate with bank security, which had video cameras in and outside of the bank detailing the robbery in progress; 4) causing a chase to ensue with gunfire; 5) placing (Huber) in a more dangerous position upon confrontation by police.”
Dyer contends that the gunmen would not have taken hostages if police had not blocked the exit as they fled from the bank. Dyer noted that two of the gunmen had robbed the same bank before, saying that in the earlier robbery they fled in a vehicle belonging to a bank employee without taking hostages.
This time, they were holding Huber at gunpoint as they exited the bank, but Dyer believes they intended to let her go after she led them to her vehicle.
“It’s pretty standard procedure for police to hang back until the robbers leave the building and the employees and customers are out of harm’s ways before they attempt to approach them,” Dyer said. “In this case, a police car came up and blocked the exit as the robbers were leaving, and that caused them to take hostages. Once they knew the police were there, rather than just taking the car and taking off, they brought Ms. Huber back into the bank and grabbed Misty, the customer, and another bank employee, and we all know what happened after that.”
Dyer said Huber has been unable to return to work as she continues to recover from her injuries.
“She still walks with a cane,” Dyer said. “She had surgery to put metal screws, bolts and plates in her leg, so she still has a long way to go. Otherwise, she’s doing pretty well. Mentally, she’s doing very well considering the trauma. She’s been a longtime banker and this is not her first robbery. She’s had a gun put in her face a few times, by these same robbers, in fact.”
Let’s see now, if the Stockton, California cops had not blocked the escape route of some bank robbers, bank employee Kelly Huber would not have been taken hostage and she would not have been accidentally shot by one of the robbers. Now that’s what I call creative thinking. But why stop there? Why not sue the cops for global warming as well?
Bob Walsh says the reason Huber is suing the city instead of the robbers, is that the city has deep pockets while the robbers don’t have shit. Besides, two of the robbers were killed during a final shootout with the police.
HOSTAGE FILES CLAIM AGAINST CITY, POLICE IN BANK OF THE WEST ROBBERY
By Jason Anderson
Stockton Record
January 19, 2015
STOCKTON — An attorney representing one of the hostages taken in a bank robbery that led to a deadly shootout has filed an injury claim stemming from the case against the city of Stockton and the Stockton Police Department.
Attorney Michael J. Dyer filed the claim on behalf of Kelly Huber, one of three women who were taken hostage July 16 as three heavily armed gunmen fled from a Bank of the West branch on Thornton Road. The claim seeks upwards of $500,000 in damages.
A copy of the claim was mailed to The Record last week. The document indicates that a copy was mailed to the Police Department and delivered to the City Clerk’s Office, but police and city officials were unable to confirm receipt of the claim over the weekend.
Dyer said the City Council now has 90 days to accept or reject the claim. If the claim is rejected, as Dyer anticipates, he would have up to six months to file a lawsuit.
“We wouldn’t wait,” he said. “We would file it the same week.”
Neither Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Police Department, nor Connie Cochran, a spokeswoman for the city, would comment on the pending litigation.
The claim alleges that officers acted negligently and in violation of police procedures when they interrupted the robbery and engaged the gunmen, resulting in a pursuit that included a rolling gun battle and a final shootout. One of the hostages, 41-year-old Misty Holt-Singh, and two of the gunmen died in the shootout.
Huber, the bank manager, and another bank employee were thrown or jumped out of the getaway vehicle during the pursuit, authorities said. Dyer said one of the bank robbers who was later killed in the shootout accidentally shot Huber, who was driving as they fled from the bank.
“He said, ‘Oh, God, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do that,’ ” Dyer said.
According to the claim, Huber sustained two gunshot wounds, one to each leg. The wounds caused severe injuries, including broken bones and tissue damage, resulting in disability, emotional distress, scarring, disfigurement and lost wages, Dyer said. Dyer indicated that Huber still is recovering from her injuries and is incurring wage losses.
“It is believed the total claim will exceed $500,000,” Dyer said. “This amount may adjust upward or downward depending on future circumstances.”
The claim further states: “The negligence and violation of procedures included but are not limited to: 1) confronting the robbers before they disengaged with (Huber) and other victims; 2) confronting the robbers without a plan for containment and communication; 3) failing to communicate with bank security, which had video cameras in and outside of the bank detailing the robbery in progress; 4) causing a chase to ensue with gunfire; 5) placing (Huber) in a more dangerous position upon confrontation by police.”
Dyer contends that the gunmen would not have taken hostages if police had not blocked the exit as they fled from the bank. Dyer noted that two of the gunmen had robbed the same bank before, saying that in the earlier robbery they fled in a vehicle belonging to a bank employee without taking hostages.
This time, they were holding Huber at gunpoint as they exited the bank, but Dyer believes they intended to let her go after she led them to her vehicle.
“It’s pretty standard procedure for police to hang back until the robbers leave the building and the employees and customers are out of harm’s ways before they attempt to approach them,” Dyer said. “In this case, a police car came up and blocked the exit as the robbers were leaving, and that caused them to take hostages. Once they knew the police were there, rather than just taking the car and taking off, they brought Ms. Huber back into the bank and grabbed Misty, the customer, and another bank employee, and we all know what happened after that.”
Dyer said Huber has been unable to return to work as she continues to recover from her injuries.
“She still walks with a cane,” Dyer said. “She had surgery to put metal screws, bolts and plates in her leg, so she still has a long way to go. Otherwise, she’s doing pretty well. Mentally, she’s doing very well considering the trauma. She’s been a longtime banker and this is not her first robbery. She’s had a gun put in her face a few times, by these same robbers, in fact.”
Monday, January 19, 2015
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING
What a great way to establish trust with the community, but while they're playing chess on this New York street, people are getting mugged less than a block away.
BLUE LIVES MATTER
More than 300 demonstrators marched on the Capitol in support of the nation’s police
The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of white cops led hundreds of thousands ‘Black Lives Matter’ protesters to participate in anti-police demonstrations throughout the U.S., with some of those demonstrations still going on.
Right after the assassination of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, three wives of DC cops, Kelly Wince, Bobbie Padgett and Rachel Bowman, used social media to organize a ‘Blue Lives Matter’ march and rally at the Capitol in support of the nation’s cops.
On Saturday more than 300 ‘Blue Lives Matter’ demonstrators marched in a sea of blue to the Capitol in support of the police. In addition to the “Blue Lives Matter” signs, some other signs read:
“We Are Part of the Blue Family”
“I Support My Man In Blue” (carried by women)
“Breathe Easy, Don’t Break the Law” (a reference to Garner’s ‘I can’t breathe’)
The protesters, many wearing blue t-shirts imprinted with ‘Blessed Are the Peacekeepers,’ marched from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial to the steps of the Capitol where they held their rally. The demonstrators were addressed by a number of speakers. Andy Maybo, chairman of the National Memorial Committee of the Grand Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, said:
“This is a blue family reunion. Blue lives matter. It’s not about Ferguson. It’s about supporting law-enforcement as a whole. Law-enforcement needs to be recognized as those who are there to protect and serve. No matter what the situation,” Maybo told the crowd, “law enforcement will be there for you.”
It was great to see a large group of demonstrators supporting the police. Kelly Wince, Bobbie Padgett and Rachel Bowman are to be commended for organizing the rally. I just wish there had been more people participating in the pro-police demonstration, especially since an anti-police, Sharpton-led rally at the Capitol attracted hundreds of thousands.
As for me, I agree that black lives matter. But cops are not out to kill blacks! Instead, they protect the black community day in and day out. That’s why I feel blue lives matter even more!
The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of white cops led hundreds of thousands ‘Black Lives Matter’ protesters to participate in anti-police demonstrations throughout the U.S., with some of those demonstrations still going on.
Right after the assassination of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, three wives of DC cops, Kelly Wince, Bobbie Padgett and Rachel Bowman, used social media to organize a ‘Blue Lives Matter’ march and rally at the Capitol in support of the nation’s cops.
On Saturday more than 300 ‘Blue Lives Matter’ demonstrators marched in a sea of blue to the Capitol in support of the police. In addition to the “Blue Lives Matter” signs, some other signs read:
“We Are Part of the Blue Family”
“I Support My Man In Blue” (carried by women)
“Breathe Easy, Don’t Break the Law” (a reference to Garner’s ‘I can’t breathe’)
The protesters, many wearing blue t-shirts imprinted with ‘Blessed Are the Peacekeepers,’ marched from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial to the steps of the Capitol where they held their rally. The demonstrators were addressed by a number of speakers. Andy Maybo, chairman of the National Memorial Committee of the Grand Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, said:
“This is a blue family reunion. Blue lives matter. It’s not about Ferguson. It’s about supporting law-enforcement as a whole. Law-enforcement needs to be recognized as those who are there to protect and serve. No matter what the situation,” Maybo told the crowd, “law enforcement will be there for you.”
It was great to see a large group of demonstrators supporting the police. Kelly Wince, Bobbie Padgett and Rachel Bowman are to be commended for organizing the rally. I just wish there had been more people participating in the pro-police demonstration, especially since an anti-police, Sharpton-led rally at the Capitol attracted hundreds of thousands.
As for me, I agree that black lives matter. But cops are not out to kill blacks! Instead, they protect the black community day in and day out. That’s why I feel blue lives matter even more!
POLICE DOG SHOWS INTEREST IN THE BIBLE’S BOOK OF DANIEL
A sniffer dog at Ohio’s Hamilton County jail hit on a heroin-laced bible mailed by a woman to an inmate
Ohio’s Hamilton County Justice Center uses a sniffer dog to detect drugs that may have been smuggled to the jail’s inmates. Last month the dog detected a heroin-laced bible that had been mailed to inmate Timothy King by a woman, Tehani Teepe.
The heroin was disguised as a half-dollar sized coffee stain on the ‘Book of Daniel’ title page (p. 420) of the bible. Lab tests revealed that the stain contained between 30 and 40 hits of heroin. If King had taken all of it at once, he probably would have croaked.
Teepe and King have been charged with illegal conveyance of contraband into a correction facility, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
Ohio’s Hamilton County Justice Center uses a sniffer dog to detect drugs that may have been smuggled to the jail’s inmates. Last month the dog detected a heroin-laced bible that had been mailed to inmate Timothy King by a woman, Tehani Teepe.
The heroin was disguised as a half-dollar sized coffee stain on the ‘Book of Daniel’ title page (p. 420) of the bible. Lab tests revealed that the stain contained between 30 and 40 hits of heroin. If King had taken all of it at once, he probably would have croaked.
Teepe and King have been charged with illegal conveyance of contraband into a correction facility, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
FORMER FBI AGENT HAMMERS ERIC HOLDER IN OPEN LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
K. Dee McCown accuses Holder of inflaming racial tensions and fomenting hatred against the police
I checked this letter out with Snopes. Although it is unknown how the letter got posted on the internet, it was actually written to Holder by former FBI Agent K. Dee McCown who told Snopes, "I in fact wrote the letter and stand by every word. It's time to stand up and speak truth to power. Thanks for checking."
Here is McCown’s letter:
K. Dee McCown
College Station, Texas
December 28, 2014
Attorney General Eric Holder
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Dear Attorney General Holder,
It is unlikely that we met while I served in the FBI. That being said, we served at the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the same years and on the same "team" conceptually speaking. During my service in the FBI I worked with a number of U.S. Attorney Offices in the United States to include a tour at FBIHQ where I worked with the Department of Justice (Main) on a daily basis.
I begin my letter with this comment to highlight that I am not a bystander on the topic of law enforcement in the United States. I worked and managed a variety of federal investigations during my 12 years of service in the FBI, to include the management of several Civil Rights cases in the State of Texas. In fact, during my last tour in the Bureau, I was an FBI Supervisor responsible for managing federal investigations in nine (9) Texas counties, many of which were rural; in places where one would suspect racism to flourish given the narrative often pushed by Hollywood and urban progressive elites like yourself. I performed this mission diligently and under the close supervision of two FBI managers; an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) and Special Agent in Charge (SAC,) both of which happened to be African American and outstanding law enforcement professionals. I also performed this mission serving side by side with a variety of law enforcement agencies at the Federal, State and local level.
I have observed you closely during your tenure as Attorney General and notably during these last tumultuous years; watching you negotiate a number of controversial public matters to include the ATF Fast and Furious scandal, Black Panther Party intimidation at voting booths, IRS targeting of American citizens (citizen groups opposed to the Obama Administration,) the ignoring of US Immigration laws, DOJ criminal indictments of select news reporters and your management of several high profile criminal investigations involving subjects of race, notably African Americans.
Until today, I chose to hold my tongue. However, with the assassination of two NYPD officers last weekend in New York City, at the hands of a African American man with a lengthy criminal record, fresh from his participation in anti-police activities; coupled with numerous "don't shoot, hands up," and "black lives matter" anti-police protests (some of which are violent) occurring daily around the nation, I am compelled to write you this letter.
To be blunt Mr. Holder, I am appalled at your lack of leadership as the Attorney General of the United States and your blatant politicizing of the Department of Justice. Your actions, both publicly and privately, have done nothing to quell the complex racial issues we face in our country and have done everything to inflame them. As the "top cop" of the United States, you share in the blame for much of the violence and protests we are now witnessing against law enforcement officers honorably serving throughout our nation.
During one of your first public speeches as Attorney General you made it a point to call America "a nation of cowards" concerning race relations. That speech, followed by other public announcements where you emphatically opined that the odds were stacked against African Americans in regard to the enforcement of law, your intention to change the law and permit convicted felons to vote after incarceration, and your changes to federal law ending "racial profiling," are poignant examples of how detached you remain from the challenges faced by law enforcement officers serving in crime ridden neighborhoods throughout the nation. These opinions are also indicative of a man that lives and works in the elitist "bubble" of Washington D.C.
Your performance, as the nation's Attorney General, during the Trayvon Martin case in Sanford, Florida and the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri clearly highlights your myopic view on this topic. Contrary to your embarrassing prejudgment in the Brown case and evasive post trial remarks on the Martin case, neither Brown nor Martin were targeted and/or killed because of their African American race. Rather, as non-emotive investigations determined, both teens died as a consequence of their own tragic and egregious behavior; behavior that involved a violent assault on a law abiding citizen in the Trayvon Martin case, and a violent assault on a young police officer in the Michael Brown case. Yet you, as the number one spokesman for law enforcement in the country, blame the deaths of these men on years of institutional racism and the alleged epidemic targeting of African American men by police departments around the country; nothing could be further from the truth. Following the Michael Brown case Grand Jury decision all you could muster was the following comment:
"The Department of Justice is currently investigating not only the shooting but also the Ferguson police department in what is called a "patterns and practices" inquiry to determine if the police department has engaged in systematic racism."
So, let's get this straight. At a decisive moment in history when our nation required a strong and unbiased voice from its' senior law enforcement official, you Mr. Holder, made it your personal mission to join with other racial antagonist and politicize a tragic event, accusing a young white police officer of a racially motivated killing in what we now know was a justified self-defense shooting of a predatory felon.
Your behavior is unbelievable. You sir, have sacrificed your integrity on the altar of political expediency. You, Mr. Holder, are the "coward" and hypocrite you so loudly denounce when speaking of broken race relations in America.
Further to this point Mr. Holder, law enforcement officers around the country remain dismayed and shocked at the counsel you keep; that being your close relationship with none other than Al Sharpton, a racist "shake down artist" who spreads hate, divisiveness and the promotion of anti-law enforcement sentiment throughout the country; a tax evading fraudster who has unbelievably visited the White House over 80 times in recent years. It is simply beyond my comprehension as a former federal law enforcement professional, that you, the Attorney General of the United States, joined arms in common cause with a charlatan like "the Reverend" Al Sharpton; and it speaks volumes to your personal character and lack of professional judgment.
Violent crime, out of wedlock births, drug abuse, rampant unemployment and poverty found in many low-income minority neighborhoods are not a result of racist community policing and racial profiling as you so quickly assert, and frankly most law abiding Americans are exhausted of hearing this false narrative repeated time and again by you and others in the racial grievance industry. While no one, me included, would ever suggest that African Americans have not suffered from institutional racism in the past, I would strongly argue that we no longer live in the Mississippi of 1965, nor do we live in a country that even closely resembles the "Jim Crow" South of yesteryear. Those days, thankfully, are in the past as are the generations of Americans that supported such egregious behavior and endured such suffering.
Rather, Mr. Holder, we live in a day and time where the root cause of many problems faced in our African American communities can be attributed to the breakdown of civil order due to the rejection of institutional and family authority and the practice of counter-culture values; and most notably, from the absence of strong male leadership in fatherless black families. The reason that our local police officers are so often entwined in tragic events in black communities is because it is the police that have filled the void in these communities that should be occupied by moral and strong black men leading family units with Godly values. You, Mr. Holder, especially, should be thanking the police rather than persecuting them for the gap they fill in these communities because if it were not for the intervention of local police many African American neighborhoods would be in a state of total anarchy.
Yet tragically, you and your race-baiting colleague Al Sharpton (a paid media personality under contract with MSNBC news) choose to remain silent because to publicly speak this self-evident truth threatens to not only alienate and offend the most loyal voting constituency of the Democratic Party but diminish your and Al Sharpton's self-serving power base in these suffering communities. God forbid that you would suggest individual citizens accept responsibility for their own behavior and the collective failure of their communities; it is so much easier for you and others like you to make excuses, play the victim card, and pander rather than address the real root causes that plague many low income neighborhoods.
Mr. Holder, the public is aware of FBI statistics that tell a different story than the one you and Sharpton preach. We know that young African American males, representing a tiny fraction of the U.S. population, are by far the greatest perpetrators of violent crime in America when compared to their peers in other ethnic groups, and, we know that citizens of African American descent overwhelmingly make up the majority of their victims. We also know that incidents where white police officers shoot and kill black perpetrators are rare and on the decline. We know further that although there are legitimate and bona fide Federal Civil Rights investigations in the United States worthy of pursuing, they are miniscule when compared to the false narrative portrayed by you, President Obama and Sharpton declaring rampant discrimination against African American men by police officers throughout the country. You are just plain wrong.
In closing Mr. Holder I will leave you with this thought; you were given a rare opportunity to lead with integrity during a variety of divisive and controversial issues during your tenure as the 82d Attorney General of the United States and rather than be a man of moral courage you chose instead to cower, further inflame racial tensions, advance false narratives and play progressive political activist.
Time and again you chose to "politicize" the mission of the Department of Justice rather than pursue justice and now, tragically, we are witnessing the fruits of your irresponsible behavior in the murder of two innocent police officers in New York City, assassinated by a man motivated by the flames of racial hatred that you personally fanned. How many more police officers will be injured or die in the coming days because of the perilous conditions you helped create in this nation. You, President Obama and Al Sharpton own this problem lock, stock and barrel and now it is your legacy.
As thousands of NYPD officers turn their collective back on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, another dishonest politician and Sharpton disciple, so too do countless Federal law enforcement officers turn our backs on you.
K. Dee McCown
FBI (1997 - 2008)
CC: Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Cornyn
Senator Ted Cruz
Senator Harry Reid
The Honorable Bill Flores
The Honorable John Boehner
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
I checked this letter out with Snopes. Although it is unknown how the letter got posted on the internet, it was actually written to Holder by former FBI Agent K. Dee McCown who told Snopes, "I in fact wrote the letter and stand by every word. It's time to stand up and speak truth to power. Thanks for checking."
Here is McCown’s letter:
K. Dee McCown
College Station, Texas
December 28, 2014
Attorney General Eric Holder
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Dear Attorney General Holder,
It is unlikely that we met while I served in the FBI. That being said, we served at the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the same years and on the same "team" conceptually speaking. During my service in the FBI I worked with a number of U.S. Attorney Offices in the United States to include a tour at FBIHQ where I worked with the Department of Justice (Main) on a daily basis.
I begin my letter with this comment to highlight that I am not a bystander on the topic of law enforcement in the United States. I worked and managed a variety of federal investigations during my 12 years of service in the FBI, to include the management of several Civil Rights cases in the State of Texas. In fact, during my last tour in the Bureau, I was an FBI Supervisor responsible for managing federal investigations in nine (9) Texas counties, many of which were rural; in places where one would suspect racism to flourish given the narrative often pushed by Hollywood and urban progressive elites like yourself. I performed this mission diligently and under the close supervision of two FBI managers; an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) and Special Agent in Charge (SAC,) both of which happened to be African American and outstanding law enforcement professionals. I also performed this mission serving side by side with a variety of law enforcement agencies at the Federal, State and local level.
I have observed you closely during your tenure as Attorney General and notably during these last tumultuous years; watching you negotiate a number of controversial public matters to include the ATF Fast and Furious scandal, Black Panther Party intimidation at voting booths, IRS targeting of American citizens (citizen groups opposed to the Obama Administration,) the ignoring of US Immigration laws, DOJ criminal indictments of select news reporters and your management of several high profile criminal investigations involving subjects of race, notably African Americans.
Until today, I chose to hold my tongue. However, with the assassination of two NYPD officers last weekend in New York City, at the hands of a African American man with a lengthy criminal record, fresh from his participation in anti-police activities; coupled with numerous "don't shoot, hands up," and "black lives matter" anti-police protests (some of which are violent) occurring daily around the nation, I am compelled to write you this letter.
To be blunt Mr. Holder, I am appalled at your lack of leadership as the Attorney General of the United States and your blatant politicizing of the Department of Justice. Your actions, both publicly and privately, have done nothing to quell the complex racial issues we face in our country and have done everything to inflame them. As the "top cop" of the United States, you share in the blame for much of the violence and protests we are now witnessing against law enforcement officers honorably serving throughout our nation.
During one of your first public speeches as Attorney General you made it a point to call America "a nation of cowards" concerning race relations. That speech, followed by other public announcements where you emphatically opined that the odds were stacked against African Americans in regard to the enforcement of law, your intention to change the law and permit convicted felons to vote after incarceration, and your changes to federal law ending "racial profiling," are poignant examples of how detached you remain from the challenges faced by law enforcement officers serving in crime ridden neighborhoods throughout the nation. These opinions are also indicative of a man that lives and works in the elitist "bubble" of Washington D.C.
Your performance, as the nation's Attorney General, during the Trayvon Martin case in Sanford, Florida and the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri clearly highlights your myopic view on this topic. Contrary to your embarrassing prejudgment in the Brown case and evasive post trial remarks on the Martin case, neither Brown nor Martin were targeted and/or killed because of their African American race. Rather, as non-emotive investigations determined, both teens died as a consequence of their own tragic and egregious behavior; behavior that involved a violent assault on a law abiding citizen in the Trayvon Martin case, and a violent assault on a young police officer in the Michael Brown case. Yet you, as the number one spokesman for law enforcement in the country, blame the deaths of these men on years of institutional racism and the alleged epidemic targeting of African American men by police departments around the country; nothing could be further from the truth. Following the Michael Brown case Grand Jury decision all you could muster was the following comment:
"The Department of Justice is currently investigating not only the shooting but also the Ferguson police department in what is called a "patterns and practices" inquiry to determine if the police department has engaged in systematic racism."
So, let's get this straight. At a decisive moment in history when our nation required a strong and unbiased voice from its' senior law enforcement official, you Mr. Holder, made it your personal mission to join with other racial antagonist and politicize a tragic event, accusing a young white police officer of a racially motivated killing in what we now know was a justified self-defense shooting of a predatory felon.
Your behavior is unbelievable. You sir, have sacrificed your integrity on the altar of political expediency. You, Mr. Holder, are the "coward" and hypocrite you so loudly denounce when speaking of broken race relations in America.
Further to this point Mr. Holder, law enforcement officers around the country remain dismayed and shocked at the counsel you keep; that being your close relationship with none other than Al Sharpton, a racist "shake down artist" who spreads hate, divisiveness and the promotion of anti-law enforcement sentiment throughout the country; a tax evading fraudster who has unbelievably visited the White House over 80 times in recent years. It is simply beyond my comprehension as a former federal law enforcement professional, that you, the Attorney General of the United States, joined arms in common cause with a charlatan like "the Reverend" Al Sharpton; and it speaks volumes to your personal character and lack of professional judgment.
Violent crime, out of wedlock births, drug abuse, rampant unemployment and poverty found in many low-income minority neighborhoods are not a result of racist community policing and racial profiling as you so quickly assert, and frankly most law abiding Americans are exhausted of hearing this false narrative repeated time and again by you and others in the racial grievance industry. While no one, me included, would ever suggest that African Americans have not suffered from institutional racism in the past, I would strongly argue that we no longer live in the Mississippi of 1965, nor do we live in a country that even closely resembles the "Jim Crow" South of yesteryear. Those days, thankfully, are in the past as are the generations of Americans that supported such egregious behavior and endured such suffering.
Rather, Mr. Holder, we live in a day and time where the root cause of many problems faced in our African American communities can be attributed to the breakdown of civil order due to the rejection of institutional and family authority and the practice of counter-culture values; and most notably, from the absence of strong male leadership in fatherless black families. The reason that our local police officers are so often entwined in tragic events in black communities is because it is the police that have filled the void in these communities that should be occupied by moral and strong black men leading family units with Godly values. You, Mr. Holder, especially, should be thanking the police rather than persecuting them for the gap they fill in these communities because if it were not for the intervention of local police many African American neighborhoods would be in a state of total anarchy.
Yet tragically, you and your race-baiting colleague Al Sharpton (a paid media personality under contract with MSNBC news) choose to remain silent because to publicly speak this self-evident truth threatens to not only alienate and offend the most loyal voting constituency of the Democratic Party but diminish your and Al Sharpton's self-serving power base in these suffering communities. God forbid that you would suggest individual citizens accept responsibility for their own behavior and the collective failure of their communities; it is so much easier for you and others like you to make excuses, play the victim card, and pander rather than address the real root causes that plague many low income neighborhoods.
Mr. Holder, the public is aware of FBI statistics that tell a different story than the one you and Sharpton preach. We know that young African American males, representing a tiny fraction of the U.S. population, are by far the greatest perpetrators of violent crime in America when compared to their peers in other ethnic groups, and, we know that citizens of African American descent overwhelmingly make up the majority of their victims. We also know that incidents where white police officers shoot and kill black perpetrators are rare and on the decline. We know further that although there are legitimate and bona fide Federal Civil Rights investigations in the United States worthy of pursuing, they are miniscule when compared to the false narrative portrayed by you, President Obama and Sharpton declaring rampant discrimination against African American men by police officers throughout the country. You are just plain wrong.
In closing Mr. Holder I will leave you with this thought; you were given a rare opportunity to lead with integrity during a variety of divisive and controversial issues during your tenure as the 82d Attorney General of the United States and rather than be a man of moral courage you chose instead to cower, further inflame racial tensions, advance false narratives and play progressive political activist.
Time and again you chose to "politicize" the mission of the Department of Justice rather than pursue justice and now, tragically, we are witnessing the fruits of your irresponsible behavior in the murder of two innocent police officers in New York City, assassinated by a man motivated by the flames of racial hatred that you personally fanned. How many more police officers will be injured or die in the coming days because of the perilous conditions you helped create in this nation. You, President Obama and Al Sharpton own this problem lock, stock and barrel and now it is your legacy.
As thousands of NYPD officers turn their collective back on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, another dishonest politician and Sharpton disciple, so too do countless Federal law enforcement officers turn our backs on you.
K. Dee McCown
FBI (1997 - 2008)
CC: Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Cornyn
Senator Ted Cruz
Senator Harry Reid
The Honorable Bill Flores
The Honorable John Boehner
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
DID THE CIA KILL ONE OF ITS OWN TO KEEP THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PANAMA INVASION FROM COMING OUT?
Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore died ‘accidentally’ in 1997 when his car ended up in the California Aqueduct with both hands cut off
Here is a story that will get conspiracy buffs pretty well exercised. The Daily Mail has an exclusive report about alleged CIA operative and Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore who went missing in 1997 and was found a year later with his car in the California Aqueduct. Devore had just completed a script that would have exposed the truth about the Panama invasion. His death was ruled an accident despite the fact that both of his hands had been cut off.
SCREENWRITER MYSTERIOUSLY KILLED IN 1997 AFTER FINISHING SCRIPT THAT REVEALED THE ‘REAL REASON’ FOR U.S. INVASION OF PANAMA HAD BEEN WORKING FOR THE CIA … AND BOTH HIS HANDS WERE MISSING
Gary Devore disappeared in 1997 right after he finished a script alleging an ulterior motive for the US invading Panama; his body was found a year later in the California Aqueduct with his hands missing
By Mia de Graaf and Sean O’Hare
Daily Mail
January 18, 2015
When the skeletal remains of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore were found strapped into his Ford Explorer submerged beneath the California Aqueduct in 1998 it brought an end to one of America's most high profile missing person cases.
The fact that Devore was on his way to deliver a film script that promised to explain the 'real reason' why the US invaded Panama, has long given rise to a slew of conspiracies surrounding the nature of his 'accidental' death.
It didn't help that Devore's hands were missing from the crash scene, along with the script, and that investigators could offer no plausible explanation as to how a car could leave the highway and end up in the position it was found a year after he disappeared.
Now the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal that Devore was working with the CIA in Panama and even a White House source concedes his mysterious death bears all the hallmarks of a cover-up.
The findings, published in a new documentary The Writer With No Hands, are the first testimonies ever aired that give credence to the theories that surrounded the case in the late 90s.
Chillingly, the British research team - which was warned to drop the investigation by a Department of Defense contractor - has also secured testimony from the coroner which reveals the human hands said to be recovered from Devore's car were in fact around 200 years old.
'Someone in authority lied. Or made a shocking error,' producer Dr Matthew Alford tells DailyMail.com.
'There could be an innocent explanation for the hands but it is as extraordinary as the conspiracy theory and very suspicious.'
Devore, who wrote Dogs Of War, Raw Deal and Time Cop, had been working on his directorial debut: The Big Steal.
Once a truck driver, he had made a successful career shift into Hollywood. He was a friend to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tommy Lee Jones's best man, and ex-boyfriend of Janet Jackson.
The Big Steal, he told friends, would be 'the hardest hitting film studios have ever seen', featuring 'disturbing details' about the US invasion of Panama.
The first draft of the script, shown exclusively to the Daily Mail, tells the story of American operatives robbing a Panamanian bank to cover up for 'something much more serious'.
One line reads: 'With good natured suspicion, Romos speculates on US intent. All this to pick up Noriega?'
Another: 'It sounds like the Pentagon planned the bank robbery and the war is just a diversion.'
Devore's research for the end product included an article from London's now defunct Sunday Correspondent alleging dictator General Manuel Noriega had compiled a stash of sex tapes featuring top-ranking US officials.
Noriega, the article explains, ran a well-known 'honey trap': inviting diplomats to his home filled with alcohol, drugs, beautiful women, and beautiful men - and covertly filming their antics.
After years of research, Dr Alford suggests the film may have implied the invasion was nothing more than a diversion that would allow the US into Panama to steal back incriminating photos of senior US officials that Noriega could have used as blackmail.
According to Devore's widow Wendy, there was a constant stream of phone calls from CIA officials in the month leading up to Devore's death.
She told DailyMail.com: 'When we first married he told me he got a lot of calls from government agencies. He told me to ignore it, so I did. If the phone rang, I could take a message or say he was out, but not to speak to them really.
'We had a few at first, then not very many. Then in the last month one man was calling all the time.
'He was dealing in things that you're not necessarily supposed to deal in.
'I found out a lot of people in Hollywood had these connections with the CIA and knew things that will never be made public.
'After he disappeared, things just didn't add up.
'It's very easy to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but when you're married to someone you know little things about them that seem insignificant but are actually crucial. I know there are things that don't add up.'
The CIA declined to comment.
However, a former White House official from the Regan/George HW Bush era has now confirmed to documentary producer Dr Matthew Alford, that Devore harbored a deep-rooted relationship with the agency and traveled with officials to Central American companies including Panama. Documents also reveal the relationship was investigated by the FBI.
Speaking on camera, he concedes the case has the hallmarks of a cover-up.
Devore's widow, who has since looked into the allegations, said she has discovered Gary traveled to Panama with a senior CIA official when he had said he was going to a location with his production team.
Wendy told DailyMail.com: 'I think the information that I have learned since he disappeared has pointed very strongly to the fact that he had another life and it points to the intelligence community certainly.
'I was never told about it beforehand because I think it was another method of keeping me safe and keeping me from asking questions.
'He told me he was going on location 'reckies'. I think sometimes he was but I have since found out he often wasn't with the crews he said he was.
'He went away a lot with members of the CIA special ops. They went to Panama together.'
On the night of his disappearance, Devore, aged 55, had gone to the Santa Fe home of his friend and long-time collaborator, actress Marsha Mason, on June 27, 1997, to finish the final draft of the script, carrying all his research on his Toshiba laptop.
He called Wendy late that night to say he had finished and was driving home with the finished piece.
At 1.15am, he said he was around four hours away and might stop at a motel to polish the script. Wendy told him to come home because he had a party planned for the next day to watch Mike Tyson's notorious fight against Evan Holyfield. That was the last contact anybody had with Devore.
Within a week of his disappearance, men from the FBI, CIA, NSA and DOD arrived at the couple's Santa Barbara home.
After an official went into his office, the computer was wiped of information. Devore's remaining research material disappeared during this period.
A search team spent a year tracking Devore's gas station stops and cell phone signal. They pinpointed his route on the Highway 14 south of the Mojave desert, and all the land around that route.
Finally, an amateur detective Douglas Crawford had a 'hunch' that he could be under the California Aqueduct, as that was the location of another recent death.
Although it had already been searched by helicopters and people on the ground, he was right: Devore was there.
When Devore's car was found, his Toshiba laptop was not in the car, nor was his gun or ammunition which had been under the seat.
Crawford refused DailyMail.com's request for a comment on this investigation.
A police report stated Devore had evidently driven off the aqueduct, which Dr Alford disputes.
'Newspapers speculated that Gary stopped for a break and then got back on the freeway travelling the wrong direction. However, to do this, Gary would have needed to have ignored 'Do Not Enter' signs and driven over two miles the wrong way on the freeway without realizing.
'Despite the crash happening at night and there being no lighting on the freeway, Gary's car headlights were found in the "OFF" position. I consequently tried driving like this and it's horrific and impossible.
'Gary had worked as a professional long haul driver, so friends and family do not believe he would have done anything daft on the road, even if he was tired.'
Wendy, whose request to read the confidential police files was refused, agrees.
'There are things that don't add up,' she said. 'When he called me the last time he sounded strange and agitated.
'When they found him in that aqueduct, which had been searched already by the way, he was wearing a seat belt with his wallet in his back pocket.
'Ask anyone who knew Gary: he never wore seat belts, and truck drivers never drive with their wallet in their back pocket.'
For 18 years Wendy has been calling to see the confidential reports done on her husband's disappearance, and broadcasting her belief that the CIA had a hand in it.
The agency is openly cooperative with Hollywood: in 1996, the role of Entertainment Liaison Officer was created to provide filmmakers with factual advice and authentic props.
Chase Brandon, a CIA operative who was a special operative in Panama for 25 years (and Tommy Lee Jones's cousin), was appointed.
The agency does not deny that, before Brandon's appointment, filmmakers gathered research on CIA language, style, systems, and even operations on an unofficial basis.
Indeed, Tricia Jenkins, author of The CIA In Hollywood, told DailyMail.com she has recently acquired new evidence showing how the CIA worked off-the-books to influence Hollywood scripts to an extent never previously known.
She said: 'In this documentation, concerning one major Hollywood movie, it is clear that the CIA functioned as the principle partner in shaping the original script and its influence exceeded that which would have been filled by an aggressive producer or studio executive.'
Devore's meetings however were 'beyond anything that could be considered normal for a screenwriter,' Alford says.
One of Hollywood's top private investigators Don Crutchfield, hired by Wendy Devore in 1997, attributes immense importance to the script.
'If I had that script in my hand, I could tell you what happened to Gary Devore,' said Crutchfield, who has worked for Michael Jackson and The Beatles after working as a bodyguard for Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra.
Here is a story that will get conspiracy buffs pretty well exercised. The Daily Mail has an exclusive report about alleged CIA operative and Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore who went missing in 1997 and was found a year later with his car in the California Aqueduct. Devore had just completed a script that would have exposed the truth about the Panama invasion. His death was ruled an accident despite the fact that both of his hands had been cut off.
SCREENWRITER MYSTERIOUSLY KILLED IN 1997 AFTER FINISHING SCRIPT THAT REVEALED THE ‘REAL REASON’ FOR U.S. INVASION OF PANAMA HAD BEEN WORKING FOR THE CIA … AND BOTH HIS HANDS WERE MISSING
Gary Devore disappeared in 1997 right after he finished a script alleging an ulterior motive for the US invading Panama; his body was found a year later in the California Aqueduct with his hands missing
By Mia de Graaf and Sean O’Hare
Daily Mail
January 18, 2015
When the skeletal remains of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore were found strapped into his Ford Explorer submerged beneath the California Aqueduct in 1998 it brought an end to one of America's most high profile missing person cases.
The fact that Devore was on his way to deliver a film script that promised to explain the 'real reason' why the US invaded Panama, has long given rise to a slew of conspiracies surrounding the nature of his 'accidental' death.
It didn't help that Devore's hands were missing from the crash scene, along with the script, and that investigators could offer no plausible explanation as to how a car could leave the highway and end up in the position it was found a year after he disappeared.
Now the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal that Devore was working with the CIA in Panama and even a White House source concedes his mysterious death bears all the hallmarks of a cover-up.
The findings, published in a new documentary The Writer With No Hands, are the first testimonies ever aired that give credence to the theories that surrounded the case in the late 90s.
Chillingly, the British research team - which was warned to drop the investigation by a Department of Defense contractor - has also secured testimony from the coroner which reveals the human hands said to be recovered from Devore's car were in fact around 200 years old.
'Someone in authority lied. Or made a shocking error,' producer Dr Matthew Alford tells DailyMail.com.
'There could be an innocent explanation for the hands but it is as extraordinary as the conspiracy theory and very suspicious.'
Devore, who wrote Dogs Of War, Raw Deal and Time Cop, had been working on his directorial debut: The Big Steal.
Once a truck driver, he had made a successful career shift into Hollywood. He was a friend to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tommy Lee Jones's best man, and ex-boyfriend of Janet Jackson.
The Big Steal, he told friends, would be 'the hardest hitting film studios have ever seen', featuring 'disturbing details' about the US invasion of Panama.
The first draft of the script, shown exclusively to the Daily Mail, tells the story of American operatives robbing a Panamanian bank to cover up for 'something much more serious'.
One line reads: 'With good natured suspicion, Romos speculates on US intent. All this to pick up Noriega?'
Another: 'It sounds like the Pentagon planned the bank robbery and the war is just a diversion.'
Devore's research for the end product included an article from London's now defunct Sunday Correspondent alleging dictator General Manuel Noriega had compiled a stash of sex tapes featuring top-ranking US officials.
Noriega, the article explains, ran a well-known 'honey trap': inviting diplomats to his home filled with alcohol, drugs, beautiful women, and beautiful men - and covertly filming their antics.
After years of research, Dr Alford suggests the film may have implied the invasion was nothing more than a diversion that would allow the US into Panama to steal back incriminating photos of senior US officials that Noriega could have used as blackmail.
According to Devore's widow Wendy, there was a constant stream of phone calls from CIA officials in the month leading up to Devore's death.
She told DailyMail.com: 'When we first married he told me he got a lot of calls from government agencies. He told me to ignore it, so I did. If the phone rang, I could take a message or say he was out, but not to speak to them really.
'We had a few at first, then not very many. Then in the last month one man was calling all the time.
'He was dealing in things that you're not necessarily supposed to deal in.
'I found out a lot of people in Hollywood had these connections with the CIA and knew things that will never be made public.
'After he disappeared, things just didn't add up.
'It's very easy to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but when you're married to someone you know little things about them that seem insignificant but are actually crucial. I know there are things that don't add up.'
The CIA declined to comment.
However, a former White House official from the Regan/George HW Bush era has now confirmed to documentary producer Dr Matthew Alford, that Devore harbored a deep-rooted relationship with the agency and traveled with officials to Central American companies including Panama. Documents also reveal the relationship was investigated by the FBI.
Speaking on camera, he concedes the case has the hallmarks of a cover-up.
Devore's widow, who has since looked into the allegations, said she has discovered Gary traveled to Panama with a senior CIA official when he had said he was going to a location with his production team.
Wendy told DailyMail.com: 'I think the information that I have learned since he disappeared has pointed very strongly to the fact that he had another life and it points to the intelligence community certainly.
'I was never told about it beforehand because I think it was another method of keeping me safe and keeping me from asking questions.
'He told me he was going on location 'reckies'. I think sometimes he was but I have since found out he often wasn't with the crews he said he was.
'He went away a lot with members of the CIA special ops. They went to Panama together.'
On the night of his disappearance, Devore, aged 55, had gone to the Santa Fe home of his friend and long-time collaborator, actress Marsha Mason, on June 27, 1997, to finish the final draft of the script, carrying all his research on his Toshiba laptop.
He called Wendy late that night to say he had finished and was driving home with the finished piece.
At 1.15am, he said he was around four hours away and might stop at a motel to polish the script. Wendy told him to come home because he had a party planned for the next day to watch Mike Tyson's notorious fight against Evan Holyfield. That was the last contact anybody had with Devore.
Within a week of his disappearance, men from the FBI, CIA, NSA and DOD arrived at the couple's Santa Barbara home.
After an official went into his office, the computer was wiped of information. Devore's remaining research material disappeared during this period.
A search team spent a year tracking Devore's gas station stops and cell phone signal. They pinpointed his route on the Highway 14 south of the Mojave desert, and all the land around that route.
Finally, an amateur detective Douglas Crawford had a 'hunch' that he could be under the California Aqueduct, as that was the location of another recent death.
Although it had already been searched by helicopters and people on the ground, he was right: Devore was there.
When Devore's car was found, his Toshiba laptop was not in the car, nor was his gun or ammunition which had been under the seat.
Crawford refused DailyMail.com's request for a comment on this investigation.
A police report stated Devore had evidently driven off the aqueduct, which Dr Alford disputes.
'Newspapers speculated that Gary stopped for a break and then got back on the freeway travelling the wrong direction. However, to do this, Gary would have needed to have ignored 'Do Not Enter' signs and driven over two miles the wrong way on the freeway without realizing.
'Despite the crash happening at night and there being no lighting on the freeway, Gary's car headlights were found in the "OFF" position. I consequently tried driving like this and it's horrific and impossible.
'Gary had worked as a professional long haul driver, so friends and family do not believe he would have done anything daft on the road, even if he was tired.'
Wendy, whose request to read the confidential police files was refused, agrees.
'There are things that don't add up,' she said. 'When he called me the last time he sounded strange and agitated.
'When they found him in that aqueduct, which had been searched already by the way, he was wearing a seat belt with his wallet in his back pocket.
'Ask anyone who knew Gary: he never wore seat belts, and truck drivers never drive with their wallet in their back pocket.'
For 18 years Wendy has been calling to see the confidential reports done on her husband's disappearance, and broadcasting her belief that the CIA had a hand in it.
The agency is openly cooperative with Hollywood: in 1996, the role of Entertainment Liaison Officer was created to provide filmmakers with factual advice and authentic props.
Chase Brandon, a CIA operative who was a special operative in Panama for 25 years (and Tommy Lee Jones's cousin), was appointed.
The agency does not deny that, before Brandon's appointment, filmmakers gathered research on CIA language, style, systems, and even operations on an unofficial basis.
Indeed, Tricia Jenkins, author of The CIA In Hollywood, told DailyMail.com she has recently acquired new evidence showing how the CIA worked off-the-books to influence Hollywood scripts to an extent never previously known.
She said: 'In this documentation, concerning one major Hollywood movie, it is clear that the CIA functioned as the principle partner in shaping the original script and its influence exceeded that which would have been filled by an aggressive producer or studio executive.'
Devore's meetings however were 'beyond anything that could be considered normal for a screenwriter,' Alford says.
One of Hollywood's top private investigators Don Crutchfield, hired by Wendy Devore in 1997, attributes immense importance to the script.
'If I had that script in my hand, I could tell you what happened to Gary Devore,' said Crutchfield, who has worked for Michael Jackson and The Beatles after working as a bodyguard for Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
AND THE OSCAR FOR BEST ACTOR IN AN EXECUTION CHAMBER GOES TO ..... CHARLES WARNER
While strapped down on the Oklahoma execution chamber gurney, Charles Warner screamed “My body is on fire … it feels like acid” before any of the lethal drugs were even administered
If they were to hand out Oscars for Best Actor in an execution chamber, Charles Warner would win the award hands down.
On January 15, the State of Oklahoma executed Charles Frederick Warner for the 1997 rape and murder of an 11-month-old girl. In his last minute appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the argument that the botched execution of Clayton Lockett on April 29, 2014 proved that Oklahoma’s three-drug lethal cocktail would subject Warner to agonizing pain, thereby violating his constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The four liberal Justices voted to stop the execution.
After Warner had been strapped down on the death chamber gurney, the execution began with a saline drip through the IV line. At that point Warner screamed “My body is on fire … it feels like acid.” His theatrics occurred before any of the lethal drugs were even administered.
When the injection of the first drug – midazolam – began, Warner repeated “My body is on fire” before dozing off. He was pronounced dead 18 minutes after the execution began.
It is believed that Warner’s theatrics were designed to help the appeals of those remaining on Oklahoma’s death row. Rex Duncan, an Oklahoma prosecutor, said, “I think what you witnessed is predictable, especially if it could be helpful to the guys behind him.”
On the same day, the State of Florida executed Johnny Shane Kormondy, 42, for the 1993 murder of a man during a home invasion robbery. Florida uses the same three-drug lethal cocktail as Oklahoma. That execution went off without a hitch and with no theatrics by Kormondy.
As for the Oscar winning Warner, it seems to me that for raping and murdering an 11-month-old baby girl, a dose of acid to make his body feel on fire would have been a befitting end to that worthless piece of shit.
If they were to hand out Oscars for Best Actor in an execution chamber, Charles Warner would win the award hands down.
On January 15, the State of Oklahoma executed Charles Frederick Warner for the 1997 rape and murder of an 11-month-old girl. In his last minute appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the argument that the botched execution of Clayton Lockett on April 29, 2014 proved that Oklahoma’s three-drug lethal cocktail would subject Warner to agonizing pain, thereby violating his constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The four liberal Justices voted to stop the execution.
After Warner had been strapped down on the death chamber gurney, the execution began with a saline drip through the IV line. At that point Warner screamed “My body is on fire … it feels like acid.” His theatrics occurred before any of the lethal drugs were even administered.
When the injection of the first drug – midazolam – began, Warner repeated “My body is on fire” before dozing off. He was pronounced dead 18 minutes after the execution began.
It is believed that Warner’s theatrics were designed to help the appeals of those remaining on Oklahoma’s death row. Rex Duncan, an Oklahoma prosecutor, said, “I think what you witnessed is predictable, especially if it could be helpful to the guys behind him.”
On the same day, the State of Florida executed Johnny Shane Kormondy, 42, for the 1993 murder of a man during a home invasion robbery. Florida uses the same three-drug lethal cocktail as Oklahoma. That execution went off without a hitch and with no theatrics by Kormondy.
As for the Oscar winning Warner, it seems to me that for raping and murdering an 11-month-old baby girl, a dose of acid to make his body feel on fire would have been a befitting end to that worthless piece of shit.
ARIZONA STUDENTS WILL BE REQUIRED TO PASS A CIVICS TEST TO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL
A new Arizona law requiring all high school students to pass a civics test before they can graduate will become effective at the start of the new school year in 2016
A new law goes into effect at the start of the new school year in 2016 which requires that all Arizona students must pass a 100 question civics test in order to graduate from high school. To pass, they must get at least 60 of the multiple-choice questions right. The test is similar to the tests given to immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship. Several other states are in the process of passing laws similar to the Arizona law.
I have long complained about the dropping of courses like civics and geography from the high school curriculum in order to accommodate courses in diversity and multi-culturalism. This test will force schools to reestablish courses like civics and geography.
Here is a sample of 10 questions from the Arizona test:
1. How many amendments does the Constitution have?
12, 27, 35 or 42
2. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
4, 8, 6 or 10
3. We elect a president for how many years?
4, 12, 8 or 5
4. What is the name of the president of the United States now?
Obama, Ford, Clinton or Bush
5. If the president can no longer serve, who becomes president?
Chief of staff, the vice president, secretary of state, lead general
6. What do we call the first 10 amendments to the constitution?
The Bill of Rights, the Ten Commandments, the Bill of Lading or the List of Ten
7. Which is a right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Right to vote, right to avoid taxes, right to free exercise of religion and right to bear arms
8. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
Formed an alliance with South America, announced our independence from Great Britain, announced our independence from Germany or freed the slaves
9. Before he was president, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
World War II, World War I, Civil War
10. Name one state that borders Canada.
California, Idaho, Ohio or Massachusetts
The standardized tests now given public school students as a means of evaluating teachers have led the teachers to teach to the tests. I’m afraid they will do the same with the new civics test.
A new law goes into effect at the start of the new school year in 2016 which requires that all Arizona students must pass a 100 question civics test in order to graduate from high school. To pass, they must get at least 60 of the multiple-choice questions right. The test is similar to the tests given to immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship. Several other states are in the process of passing laws similar to the Arizona law.
I have long complained about the dropping of courses like civics and geography from the high school curriculum in order to accommodate courses in diversity and multi-culturalism. This test will force schools to reestablish courses like civics and geography.
Here is a sample of 10 questions from the Arizona test:
1. How many amendments does the Constitution have?
12, 27, 35 or 42
2. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
4, 8, 6 or 10
3. We elect a president for how many years?
4, 12, 8 or 5
4. What is the name of the president of the United States now?
Obama, Ford, Clinton or Bush
5. If the president can no longer serve, who becomes president?
Chief of staff, the vice president, secretary of state, lead general
6. What do we call the first 10 amendments to the constitution?
The Bill of Rights, the Ten Commandments, the Bill of Lading or the List of Ten
7. Which is a right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Right to vote, right to avoid taxes, right to free exercise of religion and right to bear arms
8. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
Formed an alliance with South America, announced our independence from Great Britain, announced our independence from Germany or freed the slaves
9. Before he was president, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
World War II, World War I, Civil War
10. Name one state that borders Canada.
California, Idaho, Ohio or Massachusetts
The standardized tests now given public school students as a means of evaluating teachers have led the teachers to teach to the tests. I’m afraid they will do the same with the new civics test.
200 WIRETAPS RESULT IN INDICTMENT OF 60 SINALOA CARTEL LEADERS
117 members of the Sinaloa cartel have been charged with smuggling meth, pot, coke and heroin into the U.S., including 60 cartel leaders each charged in 14 federal indictments
A federal investigation that began in San Diego, California in 2011 and involved 200 wiretaps has resulted in 117 Sinaloa cartel members being charged with smuggling meth, pot, coke and heroin into the U.S. Among those charged were 60 cartel leaders hit with 14 indictments each.
MEXICO’S SINALOA CARTEL LEADERS CHARGED IN SAN DIEGO
By Elliot Spagat
Associated Press
January 16, 2015
SAN DIEGO -- Top leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel smuggled huge amounts of methamphetamine and other drugs to the United States, according to indictments unsealed Friday that reflect the organization's recent success dominating criminal activity on California's southern border.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and two of his sons are among five dozen people charged in 14 indictments. Another son has pleaded guilty in the same investigation, which began in 2011 by targeting a small drug-dealing ring in the San Diego suburbs of Chula Vista and National City and reached top leaders through the use of more than 200 wiretaps.
So far, 117 people have been charged in the investigation, which alleges the cartel smuggled Mexican methamphetamine and marijuana, as well as South American cocaine and heroin, across the U.S. border.
The elder Zambada, who is at-large, was a key target for U.S. and Mexican authorities well before last year's arrest in Mexico of Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Zambada was charged in two other U.S. cases in 2009 filed in Chicago and Brooklyn, New York. Adam Braverman, an assistant U.S. attorney, said he is charged elsewhere in the country in cases filed under seal.
"We know for sure that Mayo is recognized as a leader. But it's hard for him to run day-to-day operations because he's definitely on the run. He's moving from place to place," said William Sherman, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in San Diego.
U.S. authorities said the elder Zambada is 64 years old and has four sons, including three who were charged in the San Diego investigation. Zambada is charged with continuing a criminal enterprise, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, and multiple counts of conspiracy. The indictment was filed under seal in July.
Ismael Zambada Imperial, who has been in Mexican custody since his November arrest, is said by U.S. authorities to be 30 years old and responsible for smuggling cocaine across the U.S. border and laundering money. Ismael Zambada Sicairos, who is at-large, is said to be 32 years old and responsible for making methamphetamine in Mexico, smuggling it across the U.S. border and money laundering.
Serafin Zambada pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges last year in San Diego after his arrest at a Nogales, Arizona, border crossing. Vicente Zambada pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in Chicago in 2013.
The Sinaloa cartel, long one of Mexico's most powerful, has extended its grip in recent years to Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, defeating a longtime rival family.
U.S. authorities say the Sinaloa cartel used its new stronghold to orchestrate a surge of cheap methamphetamine into the country. U.S. inspectors seized 23,335 pounds of the drug at border crossings with Mexico in the 2014 fiscal year, more than double the 10,106 pounds discovered three years earlier. More than 63 percent seized last year at Mexico crossings was in California.
Those indicted are "family members and people that were being groomed to take over all future operations of the cartel," said the DEA's Sherman.
They include Alfonso Arzate, known as "Achilles," who is described by U.S. and Mexican authorities as a major figure in Tijuana, and his younger brother, Rene Arzate, who is known as "The Frog." Braverman said it is the first time the brothers have been charged in the U.S. Both men are at-large.
A federal investigation that began in San Diego, California in 2011 and involved 200 wiretaps has resulted in 117 Sinaloa cartel members being charged with smuggling meth, pot, coke and heroin into the U.S. Among those charged were 60 cartel leaders hit with 14 indictments each.
MEXICO’S SINALOA CARTEL LEADERS CHARGED IN SAN DIEGO
By Elliot Spagat
Associated Press
January 16, 2015
SAN DIEGO -- Top leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel smuggled huge amounts of methamphetamine and other drugs to the United States, according to indictments unsealed Friday that reflect the organization's recent success dominating criminal activity on California's southern border.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and two of his sons are among five dozen people charged in 14 indictments. Another son has pleaded guilty in the same investigation, which began in 2011 by targeting a small drug-dealing ring in the San Diego suburbs of Chula Vista and National City and reached top leaders through the use of more than 200 wiretaps.
So far, 117 people have been charged in the investigation, which alleges the cartel smuggled Mexican methamphetamine and marijuana, as well as South American cocaine and heroin, across the U.S. border.
The elder Zambada, who is at-large, was a key target for U.S. and Mexican authorities well before last year's arrest in Mexico of Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Zambada was charged in two other U.S. cases in 2009 filed in Chicago and Brooklyn, New York. Adam Braverman, an assistant U.S. attorney, said he is charged elsewhere in the country in cases filed under seal.
"We know for sure that Mayo is recognized as a leader. But it's hard for him to run day-to-day operations because he's definitely on the run. He's moving from place to place," said William Sherman, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in San Diego.
U.S. authorities said the elder Zambada is 64 years old and has four sons, including three who were charged in the San Diego investigation. Zambada is charged with continuing a criminal enterprise, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, and multiple counts of conspiracy. The indictment was filed under seal in July.
Ismael Zambada Imperial, who has been in Mexican custody since his November arrest, is said by U.S. authorities to be 30 years old and responsible for smuggling cocaine across the U.S. border and laundering money. Ismael Zambada Sicairos, who is at-large, is said to be 32 years old and responsible for making methamphetamine in Mexico, smuggling it across the U.S. border and money laundering.
Serafin Zambada pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges last year in San Diego after his arrest at a Nogales, Arizona, border crossing. Vicente Zambada pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in Chicago in 2013.
The Sinaloa cartel, long one of Mexico's most powerful, has extended its grip in recent years to Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, defeating a longtime rival family.
U.S. authorities say the Sinaloa cartel used its new stronghold to orchestrate a surge of cheap methamphetamine into the country. U.S. inspectors seized 23,335 pounds of the drug at border crossings with Mexico in the 2014 fiscal year, more than double the 10,106 pounds discovered three years earlier. More than 63 percent seized last year at Mexico crossings was in California.
Those indicted are "family members and people that were being groomed to take over all future operations of the cartel," said the DEA's Sherman.
They include Alfonso Arzate, known as "Achilles," who is described by U.S. and Mexican authorities as a major figure in Tijuana, and his younger brother, Rene Arzate, who is known as "The Frog." Braverman said it is the first time the brothers have been charged in the U.S. Both men are at-large.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
ROXANNE RIMER: BEST WOMAN DRIVER OF THE DECADE
Steals cop car and drives it 10 miles with hands cuffed behind her back, attaining a speed of 120 mph
This is one for the books. Roxanne Rimer, 27, got caught shoplifting Wednesday at a Kohl’s store in Center Township, Pennsylvania. She shoved a store security guard and escaped to the parking lot where her grandfather and mother were parked. She got into a fight with her mother and grandfather because he refused to drive away. She managed to get into the front seat and hit the gas pedal. That caused the car to travel a short distance over a hill. The cops arrived and busted Roxanne, placing her into the back of a Center Township cop car.
Now this is where the story gets really good. While the cops were outside the car interviewing witnesses, Roxanne, her hands cuffed behind her back, somehow managed to break through the plexiglass shield and get into the front of the cop car. (It is believed the shield was not latched.) Then she was able to put the car in gear … and off she went. She hit another Center Township cop car and also her grandfather’ car. Then she went on her merry way through several Pittsburgh suburbs, steering the car with her body and at times going over 120 mph with the cops in hot pursuit.
Roxanne managed to ditch the pursuing police. At one point she stopped, got out of the cops car and asked a pedestrian to drive the stolen patrol car for her. When he refused, she got back in and took off again until she wrecked the car more than ten miles from where she stole it. She then managed to hitch a ride with some guy, her hands still cuffed behind her back. Roxanne was either pushed or jumped out of the car in West Aliquippa. She then started to run with her hands still cuffed behind her back, but was caught by cops who spotted her. When the arresting cops searched Roxanne, they found some hypodermic needles in her possession.
Roxanne is facing numerous charges. After her arrest in West Aliquippa, she told reporters that she did not remember anything after being placed in the back of the patrol car.
For driving a car at 120 mph while steering it with her body, Roxanne is awarded the title of ‘Best Woman Driver of the Decade.’ When she gets out of jail, NASCAR might want to sign her up.
This is one for the books. Roxanne Rimer, 27, got caught shoplifting Wednesday at a Kohl’s store in Center Township, Pennsylvania. She shoved a store security guard and escaped to the parking lot where her grandfather and mother were parked. She got into a fight with her mother and grandfather because he refused to drive away. She managed to get into the front seat and hit the gas pedal. That caused the car to travel a short distance over a hill. The cops arrived and busted Roxanne, placing her into the back of a Center Township cop car.
Now this is where the story gets really good. While the cops were outside the car interviewing witnesses, Roxanne, her hands cuffed behind her back, somehow managed to break through the plexiglass shield and get into the front of the cop car. (It is believed the shield was not latched.) Then she was able to put the car in gear … and off she went. She hit another Center Township cop car and also her grandfather’ car. Then she went on her merry way through several Pittsburgh suburbs, steering the car with her body and at times going over 120 mph with the cops in hot pursuit.
Roxanne managed to ditch the pursuing police. At one point she stopped, got out of the cops car and asked a pedestrian to drive the stolen patrol car for her. When he refused, she got back in and took off again until she wrecked the car more than ten miles from where she stole it. She then managed to hitch a ride with some guy, her hands still cuffed behind her back. Roxanne was either pushed or jumped out of the car in West Aliquippa. She then started to run with her hands still cuffed behind her back, but was caught by cops who spotted her. When the arresting cops searched Roxanne, they found some hypodermic needles in her possession.
Roxanne is facing numerous charges. After her arrest in West Aliquippa, she told reporters that she did not remember anything after being placed in the back of the patrol car.
For driving a car at 120 mph while steering it with her body, Roxanne is awarded the title of ‘Best Woman Driver of the Decade.’ When she gets out of jail, NASCAR might want to sign her up.
SHARPTON HAS APOPLECTIC FIT AND IT IS NOT ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY
The racial rabble rousing reverend is bringing his wrath down on the Oscars for snubbing black actors
Hail to the Oscars! They’ve achieved the near impossible. The Academy Awards have given Al Sharpton something besides police brutality to scream about. Hellfire and damnation, not a single black actor got nominated for an Oscar.
Sharpton had an apoplectic fit. All of a sudden he had something other than police brutality to get his poopie in an uproar. Here are some of the statements the racial rabble rouser made about the Oscar nominations:
“The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets.”
"In the time of Staten Island and Ferguson, to have one of the most shutout Oscar nights in recent memory is something that is incongruous."
“The lack of diversity in today’s Oscar nominations is appalling and while it is good that Selma was nominated for ‘Best Picture,’ it’s ironic that they nominated a story about the racial shutout around voting while there is a racial shutout around the Oscar nominations. With all of the talent in Selma and other Black movies this year, it is hard to believe that we have less diversity in the nominations today than in recent history.”
“I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards.”
Possible action around the awards? That can mean only one thing. Race pimp Sharpton is planning to lead protest demonstrations during the award ceremonies February 22. He better hope that no white cop shoots an unarmed black man around that time because the disgusting pig, as James Woods calls Sharpton, cannot be in two places at the same time.
As an afterthought it occurred to me that Sharpton’s threats could actually be a devious scheme to intimidate the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences into selecting Selma as the Best Picture.
Hail to the Oscars! They’ve achieved the near impossible. The Academy Awards have given Al Sharpton something besides police brutality to scream about. Hellfire and damnation, not a single black actor got nominated for an Oscar.
Sharpton had an apoplectic fit. All of a sudden he had something other than police brutality to get his poopie in an uproar. Here are some of the statements the racial rabble rouser made about the Oscar nominations:
“The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets.”
"In the time of Staten Island and Ferguson, to have one of the most shutout Oscar nights in recent memory is something that is incongruous."
“The lack of diversity in today’s Oscar nominations is appalling and while it is good that Selma was nominated for ‘Best Picture,’ it’s ironic that they nominated a story about the racial shutout around voting while there is a racial shutout around the Oscar nominations. With all of the talent in Selma and other Black movies this year, it is hard to believe that we have less diversity in the nominations today than in recent history.”
“I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards.”
Possible action around the awards? That can mean only one thing. Race pimp Sharpton is planning to lead protest demonstrations during the award ceremonies February 22. He better hope that no white cop shoots an unarmed black man around that time because the disgusting pig, as James Woods calls Sharpton, cannot be in two places at the same time.
As an afterthought it occurred to me that Sharpton’s threats could actually be a devious scheme to intimidate the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences into selecting Selma as the Best Picture.
THREE DECADES OLD DOUBLE MURDER CASE SOLVED BY DNA TESTING
DNA testing pf evidence from the 1984 Houston stabbing deaths of two sisters has led to the arrest of Edmond Beauregard Degan
After three decades, the 1984 Houston stabbing deaths of sisters Yleen and Lillie Kennedy has finally been solved. DNA testing of evidence found over thirty years ago at the scene of the murders has led to the arrest of Edmond Beauregard Degan who is now charged with capital murder.
DNA LEADS TO ARREST IN 30 YEAR OLD COLD CASE
By Michael Barajas
Houston Press
January 16, 2015
HPD announced Friday morning that it has made an arrest in the fatal stabbing of two sisters in the Heights that went unsolved for three decades.
Police say a relative found the bodies of Yleen and Lillie Kennedy, 33 and 23 years old, around March 5, 1984 on the 600 block of east 12th street. Yleen had been beaten, shot, stabbed and sexually assaulted, while her sister had been shot to death. When police arrived, they found the home had been ransacked.
The case went nowhere until 2009, when HPD's cold case unit reviewed the murder, processed some evidence taken from the scene and found DNA. But back in 2009, there wasn't a hit when HPD ran the DNA profile through CODIS.
The case remained stagnant until late 2014, police say, when investigators got a tip from someone suggesting Edmond Beauregard Degan might be a suspect. Investigators discovered that Degan, now 57, still lived in Houston. Police somehow managed to get a sample of Degan's DNA and ran it through the system. Degan was a "high probability match" to the DNA lifted from evidence found at the crime scene, police said Friday. Police arrested Degan on Wednesday and charged him with capital murder.
According to court records, Degan pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon back in 1985 and was sentenced to 13 years in prison (it's not clear how much of that time he served). He was also convicted of misdemeanor assault and terroristic threat charges in 2001 and 2002, court records show.
After three decades, the 1984 Houston stabbing deaths of sisters Yleen and Lillie Kennedy has finally been solved. DNA testing of evidence found over thirty years ago at the scene of the murders has led to the arrest of Edmond Beauregard Degan who is now charged with capital murder.
DNA LEADS TO ARREST IN 30 YEAR OLD COLD CASE
By Michael Barajas
Houston Press
January 16, 2015
HPD announced Friday morning that it has made an arrest in the fatal stabbing of two sisters in the Heights that went unsolved for three decades.
Police say a relative found the bodies of Yleen and Lillie Kennedy, 33 and 23 years old, around March 5, 1984 on the 600 block of east 12th street. Yleen had been beaten, shot, stabbed and sexually assaulted, while her sister had been shot to death. When police arrived, they found the home had been ransacked.
The case went nowhere until 2009, when HPD's cold case unit reviewed the murder, processed some evidence taken from the scene and found DNA. But back in 2009, there wasn't a hit when HPD ran the DNA profile through CODIS.
The case remained stagnant until late 2014, police say, when investigators got a tip from someone suggesting Edmond Beauregard Degan might be a suspect. Investigators discovered that Degan, now 57, still lived in Houston. Police somehow managed to get a sample of Degan's DNA and ran it through the system. Degan was a "high probability match" to the DNA lifted from evidence found at the crime scene, police said Friday. Police arrested Degan on Wednesday and charged him with capital murder.
According to court records, Degan pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon back in 1985 and was sentenced to 13 years in prison (it's not clear how much of that time he served). He was also convicted of misdemeanor assault and terroristic threat charges in 2001 and 2002, court records show.
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