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Category: Crime

  • Law Enforcement’s Legit Gripe with the Latest DOJ Nominee

    The last few days, I’ve been watching the debate over Debo Adegbile’s nomination as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. I’m glad I waited to write something about it, because our buddy, John Bruhns, an Iraq veteran who used to protest the war but grew out of that to be a good conservative and an advocate for national security, sent us this piece he wrote, since he was pretty sure that his editors at the Huffington Post wouldn’t touch it.

    Over the past few days, the nomination of Debo Adegbile to a powerful post in the Department of Justice – assistant attorney general for the civil rights division – has been gaining a groundswell of support from civil rights advocates, union leaders, politicians, and even a top corporate executive. On the face of it, the popularity of this choice makes sense: the 12-year veteran of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund appears to check every box for leading an office that enforces anti-discrimination laws, having argued twice in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in cases about voting rights. Born to an Irish mother and Nigerian father, Adegbile, who grew up poor in New York City, seems to be every progressive’s dream. He was even a child actor on “Sesame Street.”

    But there is one huge factor that disqualifies him for the job: decades after Mumiu Abu-Jamal was tried and convicted of the heinous murder of a police officer on the streets of Philadelphia, Adegbile stepped in and took up his cause, finding a legal technicality to get his death sentence commuted to life in prison.

    According to The Hill:

    Abu Jamal was sentenced to death, but appeals of the sentencing kept his case in the courts for much of the next three decades.

    In 2011, Abu Jamal avoided the death penalty, after the courts ordered that he should be resentenced after flaws during his original 1982 trial. Prosecutors then announced they would no longer seek the death penalty against him.

    The NAACP legal defense fund represented Abu Jamal during the resentencing. From 2001-2013, Adegbile held various leadership roles in the fund.

    Showing poor judgment at best, Adegbile jumped on the bandwagon of Hollywood actors, writers, news authors and commentators who hold up the radical Black Panther supporter as some kind of innocent martyr. This cold-blooded murderer shot the young police officer Daniel Faulkner at close range, including once in the face from 12-inches away. He was later overheard saying, “I shot the mother_cker and I hope he dies.” The evidence of his guilt was overwhelming. And yet this brutal execution of Faulkner has somehow turned Abu-Jamal into an international cause celebre. Stephen Vittoria’s documentary,
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  • Who knew; atomic wedgies kill

    I saw this yesterday, but I thought it was an Onion article or something, but I guess not;

    Pottawatomie County deputies say a man killed his stepfather by giving him an atomic wedgie. Brad Lee Davis, 33, is now behind bars accused of murder.

    Court papers show Davis admitted to pulling Denver St. Clair’s underwear over the his back and head — allowing the elastic band to wrap around St. Clair’s neck.

    Apparently, Davis, a former Marine, called 911 to report his crime and stuck around to talk to police before he was hauled in. there’s probably ore to the story than just an atomic wedgie, though. The article says that there’s blunt force trauma involved, too.

    Maybe Davis should have given St. Clair the less-lethal wet willie, or an Indian rub. But these crimes need to stop, so I’m going to write my Congressman and urge him to support legislation to ban tidy whities – boxers don’t have the elasticity of briefs for men and probably couldn’t have been stretched over St. Clair’s head. No one needs an elastic waistband that large. If you can’t get the crotch wedged into a man’s ass crack with boxers, you have no business giving wedgies.

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    Thanks to Rick for the link.

  • “Big Eastside” a little lower today

    Beretverde sends us a link to a story that would normally be a feel good story, but this resident beat a group of assailants with his hands instead of a firearm;

    His attorney, C.J. McElhinney, says the MMA fighter was at home with his young son, his fiancee and her friends when the suspects called and threatened his life, “I’m big Eastside,” suspect Leonard Calvillo reportedly said, referring to a local gang, ” … I’ll kill you and your family … I will go to your house.”

    Witnesses in the home told investigators that when the men smashed their way into the home, one was carrying a “crude shank” while another grabbed a knife found inside the home.

    But the experienced martial arts fighter made them pay a high price for the invasion; one wound up fatally stabbed and a second had to be taken to a local hospital suffering from deputies described as “severe facial injuries.”

    The family man has minor injuries, apparently. Recon is everything.

  • Bet This Will P!ss Ya Off

    NY judge orders ‘compassionate release’ of terror lawyer Lynne Stewart

    What really bothers me is that the Bureau of Prisons asked for her early release on “compassionate grounds” due to her terminal illness.  Funny, but the last time I checked terrorist organizations just didn’t seem to be overly concerned with “compassion”.

    Stewart was convicted in 2005 of assisting terrorism by smuggling messages from “blind sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman to his followers while acting as his defense attorney.  She was sentenced to serve 10 years for that crime.

    Do the crime, do the time.  IMO if you help terrorists you damn well deserve to die in prison, one way or another.  If that means you go the long, hard route via terminal cancer while behind bars – that’s OK by me.

    This seriously NSFW video is for everyone involved with this despicable turncoat’s release – but especially U.S. District Court Judge John G. Koeltl, who ordered it.

    Justice is supposed to be blind, judge – and a judge is supposed to ensure justice.  Here, you proved you’re nothing more than another ideologue in a robe who sides with terrorists.

    I’d best not say anything else, as I’m kinda upset about this.

  • Scary black guns for Boston PD? No, says Mayor.

    I’m conflicted over this story sent to us by Jerry920 from Fox News in which the Boston Mayor-elect Martin Walsh, opposes arming some local police with AR-type rifles. While I’m concerned that police are beginning to look more and more like an occupying force, what with their black, military style clothes and military-style weapons, I don’t think that politicians are the people who should make the decision how they should be armed;

    The Boston Police Department had been pushing for a limited number of officers to carry the high-powered rifles, in light of recent mass shootings as well as the Boston Marathon bombing earlier this year.

    But after the incoming mayor initially stayed mum on the idea, a spokeswoman for Walsh told the Boston Herald he’s not on board — not yet, anyway.

    “Mayor-elect Walsh is opposed to the AR-15 rifles,” she was quoted as saying. “Unless otherwise convinced by the Boston Police Department, he does not think they are necessary.”

    The plan is to arm 22 officers on the Boston PD force with AR-15 style weapons (the scariest looking weapons). Now if they had planned to arm every single patrol officer with an M4 slung across his chest, I might have a bigger problem with it, but it’s to arm a very small percentage of officers, who one day might need the large ammunition capacity weapons. And if having those officers available as one tool in their box to fight crime on one occasion in the coming years saves a life or two, I think it’s probably worth it.

    But for a politician to arbitrarily make the statement “I don’t believe arming them with assault weapons is going to make them any safer,” like City Councilor Charles Yancey said, is just myopic. Of course, all of those police organizations who lined up behind the “assault weapon ban” brought all of this irrational fear of the guns in the first place and they’re partly at fault.

  • “We all Santa today”

    In our nation’s capital yesterday, one of Santa’s helpers was shot in the back with a pellet gun while he was delivering toys to children who live in Barry Farm – a district in Southeast DC which is almost all public housing projects. From MyFoxDC;

    Xavier Hawkins was leading the way down Stevens Road in Southeast D.C. when someone fired as many as three shots.

    The 50-year-old is doing okay Tuesday night — thankful he was hit and not any of the children who were around him. Hawkins was briefly hospitalized before being released in the early afternoon.

    The Interstate Van Lines employee was playing the role he plays every year when someone tried to ruin Christmas.

    For 22 years, Interstate Van Lines has worked with the Marines to make Christmas just a little bit brighter for the children who live in Barry Farm.

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  • EPA’s CIA fraud to be sentenced

    We’ve talked about the Environmental Protection Agency’s lead climate change expert, John C. Beale. He pleaded guilty to his fraud, which earned him hundreds of thousands of dollars while he pretended to be on CIA secret squirrel missions on the government dime. His supervisors and work mates don’t understand how this could happen according to NBC News sent to us by one of our ninjas;

    To explain his long absences, Beale told agency officials — including McCarthy — that he was engaged in intelligence work for the CIA, either at agency headquarters or in Pakistan. At one point he claimed to be urgently needed in Pakistan because the Taliban was torturing his CIA replacement, according to Sullivan.
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    “Due to recent events that you have probably read about, I am in Pakistan,” he wrote McCarthy in a Dec. 18, 2010 email. “Got the call Thurs and left Fri. Hope to be back for Christmas ….Ho, ho, ho.”

    In fact, Beale had no relationship with the CIA at all. Sullivan, the EPA investigator, said he confirmed Beale didn’t even have a security clearance. He spent much of the time he was purportedly working for the CIA at his Northern Virginia home riding bikes, doing housework and reading books, or at a vacation house on Cape Cod.

    “He’s never been to Langley (the CIA’s Virginia headquarters),” said Sullivan. “The CIA has no record of him ever walking through the door.”

    In other words, the bureaucracy was so lazy that they didn’t even put a moment’s thought into the question “Why would a CIA agent work for the EPA?” It takes just a minute to check on a security clearance, but they’re too busy being business unfriendly at the EPA to even care, apparently. I’m guessing that they’ll never figure that because he was lying about his employment history, he might have been lying about climate change, too.

  • Bleeding Hearts . . . and Bloody Hands

    Today is the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings.  We’ll doubtless hear great hue and cry from our liberal “brethren” about that, and about how “evil guns” killed innocents.

    Yeah, they’re lying – and they know it.  But that won’t stop many clueless schmucks from lapping it up.  And the media will be there to broadcast the false outrage and tears.

    They’re using innocents murdered by a lunatic as political props. I wish I could say that shocks me. But coming from the “Progressive” side, it doesn’t.  They do crap like that all the time.

    The hypocrisy, though, disgusts me. Because if anyone besides the shooter, Adam Lanza, is to blame for Sandy Hook – it’s our Bleeding-Heart Liberal “Brethren”.

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