Given other historical precedent, there’s nothing wrong with our current government leaders that wouldn’t be solved far more rapidly, by simply chopping 342 of them open with tomahawks and hurling them into the Potomac river-since Boston Harbor is kinda far to toss the bodies
“…and the sad truth is that 95% of the problems we have in this country could be solved tomorrow, by noon… simply by dragging 100 people out in the street and shooting them in the fucking head.” – An anonymous US Marine.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” ― Patrick Henry
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein
“The U.S. government now poses the greatest threat to our freedoms.
More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, even more than the perceived threat posed by any single politician, the U.S. government remains a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.” – John W. Whitehead
After 72 years the bodies of 36 unidentified US Marines killed during the Second World War are returning to America.
It was in Japan and on the island chain of Tarawa that one of the bloodiest battles claimed more than 6000 lives, 1000 of which were US Marine lives.
The 36 remains “were recovered by a group called History Flight and were flown to Pearl Harbour where a ceremony was carried out yesterday to mark their repatriation,” according toDaily Mail.
It is the plan of the Marines to return the remains to their families once they have been identified. The identification process has been started by History Flight and completing this process will be done by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, bringing closure to so many military families.
According toMilitary.com, there are approximately 520 US troops still unaccounted for…
Race divisions in the United States will lead to our demise as a nation. Just as in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, America is divided into various tribes—factions and groups of people who don’t like each other very much. And just like in Africa, the ongoing genocide is blamed on everything but the killers themselves—colonialism is the scapegoat in Africa, while in America its white supremacy and privilege.
The new buzz word slogan by the fringe left is “Black lives matter”—and certainly they do. Unfortunately; more too white people than to blacks. If blacks actually think that black lives matter why do they abort their unborn and butcher each other on the streets in such staggering numbers? If black lives actually matter why are the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, and the race pimps so silent regarding the black genocide? How many blacks are actually killed by “white supremacy? My guess is zero!!!
Slavery in America has been outlawed for more than 150 years. The Civil Rights Act has been the law of the land for more than fifty years. The playing field has been more than level for many years with set asides, quotas, affirmative action, minority hiring practices, minority college preferences—the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, much of black intelligence has been devoted to devising creative methods of living off the dole, rather than availing themselves of the opportunities which have been provided.
The problem is that conceding more and more to our minorities is simply not enough—and never will be. Since the unfortunate and horrific killings in Charleston, everything and everyone has been blamed except the guy who did the killing. Politicians have been falling all over themselves in their efforts to denounce the Confederate flag. Why? Will its removal from some state buildings: close the achievement gap, decrease black illegitimacy, or reduce the number of inner cities murders? No—it will merely remove another excuse. But, another scape-goat for lack of economic and social progress will emerge—as long as there are race pimps you can count on it!
It appears the speed of the “fundamental transformation of America” is increasing.
The recent “mass shootings” is increasing the demand for more “common sense” gun control-as usual the leftists/marxists are dancing in the blood of the victims before they are even buried-their mantra of “never let a good crises go to waste” is being followed to a “T”.
It’s long past time to stick a fork in FUSA-it’s done,gone-the “fundamental transformation” is almost complete.
This afternoon, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 15 additional organizations devoted to professional journalism filed an Amici Curiae, or Friends of the Court, brief with the Court of Appeals for the Tenth District of Texas n behalf of a motion to lift the gag order imposed June 30 by Judge Matt Johnson on Scimitars Motorcycle Club member Matt Clendennen, his lawyer Clint Broden and others in the case.
The Reporters Committee provides free legal resources, support, and advocacy to protect the First Amendment and freedom of information rights of journalists working in areas where United States law applies. The other friends of the court are The Center for Investigative Reporting, Courthouse News Service, Cox Media Group, Inc., First Look Media, Inc., Gannett Co., Inc., Hearst Corporation, Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, National Newspaper Association, The National Press Club, National Press Photographers Association, The New York Times Company, Newspaper Association of America, Radio Television Digital News Association and The Seattle Times Company.
The Brief
The brief argues:
“ The gag order imposed in this case places unconstitutional restrictions on speech and prevents members of the media from gathering the news and reporting on matters of significant public interest. The trial court failed to apply the correct legal standard for determining whether and to what extent the constitutional rights of the press and the public under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and Article I, Section 8 of the Texas Constitution must yield to preserve (Clendennen’s) ability to receive a fair trial by an impartial jury. The record in this case does not include any findings of inflammatory or prejudicial media coverage that would support a determination that (Clendennen’s) fair trial rights would be threatened in any way by public access to information about his case – let alone findings of prejudice to the extent required to justify curtailing the exercise of state and federal constitutional rights. For that reason alone, the trial court’s gag order must be vacated.
“Moreover, the gag order is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad. Not only does it purport to restrain the speech of too many individuals, including witnesses and law enforcement officers who do not possess information that could jeopardize (Clendennen’s) fair trial rights, but the order also restricts too much speech and is of unlimited duration. The order prevents any gagged individual from making any comment whatsoever to the media, without regard to whether the information is innocuous, purely factual, or already a matter of public record. Unlike gag orders that have passed constitutional muster, the gag order’s ‘no comment’ rule does not preserve for (Clendennen’s) or his counsel the right to assert his innocence, the right to generally discuss legal claims and defenses, or the right to communicate with the media about the status of the proceedings against him. The trial court made no attempt to narrowly tailor the gag order to prevent dissemination only of prejudicial material, or even to limit the order’s duration. It is unclear from the language of the gag order what speech – if any – concerning (Clendennen’s) case or the underlying incident falls safely outside its ambit.
“In addition, the trial court failed to give proper consideration to alternatives designed to safeguard the integrity and impartiality of a jury, including voir dire, which is normally sufficient to root out prejudice, even in the most high-profile
and publicized of criminal trials.”
The ruling upholds the idea that police officers can profile and detain people who aren’t actually committing any crimes.
Kingsville, TX — Last Thursday, the Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled that it is suspicious for a vehicle to have air fresheners, rosaries, or pro-police bumper stickers.
The ruling stems from a 2011 Texas court case in which a couple was pulled over for having rosaries hanging from the rearview mirror, as well as a few air fresheners, and a DARE sticker on the back of the vehicle.
Nohemi Pena-Gonzalez was pulled over by Police Officer Mike Tamez when she was driving just 2 MPH over the speed limit. The officer did not pull her over because she was speeding, but because he suspected that she was trafficking drugs, and found the contents of her vehicle and the sticker to be suspicious.
Eventually, the officer questioned her husband, Ruben Pena-Gonzalez, who agreed to allow the officer search to their vehicle. The officer did not find any drugs, but did find a large sum of cash that he confiscated, and then sent Ruben Pena-Gonzalez to jail.
Recently, the case was taken to the Court of Appeals, where it was decided that Officer Tamez had reasonable suspicion to detain the family and ask to search their vehicle.
“We do have concerns that classifying pro-law enforcement and anti-drug stickers or certain religious imagery as indicators of criminal activity risks putting drivers in a classic ‘heads I win, tails you lose’ position. But we need not decide whether these items alone, or in combination with one another, amount to reasonable suspicion because we find the more suspicious evidence to be the array of air fresheners and inconsistencies in the driver’s responses to the officer’s basic questions. We have long recognized that the presence of air fresheners, let alone four of them placed throughout an SUV, suggests a desire to mask the odor of contraband.”
This ruling upholds the idea that police officers can profile and detain people who aren’t actually committing any crimes. Police already profile people according to a number of different factors, and now they have confirmation that their tactics are legally acceptable.
How all of Waco must laugh at the Constitution. How all its bolo tied mandarins must giggle at the men who have died and suffered in the last 240 years for the silly notion that the natural condition of man is to be free.
This morning, a mere 47 days after Dallas Attorney Clint Broden filed a motion to remove a buffoon named Walter H. “Pete” Peterson from presiding over any further proceedings involving his client, Matt Clendennen, a retired judge named Joe Carroll, photo above, granted the motion.
In his motion for recusal, Broden argued that the buffoon had violated the law when he rubber stamped 177 criminal complaints that were identical except for a blank space that could be used to fill in any name – like Benedict Arnold or Charles Manson or Daffy Duck. Peterson broke the law when he allowed the charging officer, a piece of work named Manuel Chavez who wouldn’t have known any of the men he accused if he fell over them, to just swear that a full ream of affidavits was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Oppressive
Broden argued that the $1 million bonds Peterson set for all the defendants were oppressive and unreasonable. Broden also complained that the August 10 date Peterson set for Clendennen’s “examining trial,” comparable to what most states call a probable cause hearing, essentially undermined the whole point of an examining trial – which is to see if probable cause exists to prosecute. Peterson later refused to expedite Clendennen’s examining trial without explanation.
Broden also complained that Peterson is “not neutral and detached.” He wrote, “It appears that Judge Peterson was at the scene of the alleged incident related to which Mr. C1endennen was arrested. Indeed, upon information and belief, Judge Peterson,
a former Department of Public Safety Trooper, may have injected himself into the law enforcement investigation.”
Broden also accused Peterson of colluding with the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office in choosing the date for Clendennen’s examining trial.
Bottom Line
Peterson is self-evidently biased. He told both the Waco Tribune Herald and the Los Angeles Times that he set all the bonds at $1 million to “send a message” because many of arrested “were from out of town.” And, his actions arrantly violate the Cannons of Judicial Ethics. Broden has filed a complaint against Peterson with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
And the result of this seven week long legal dance is nothing. C1endennen’s examining trial was not rescheduled this morning. It is still scheduled for the second Monday in August. A regional judge named Billy Ray Stubblefield will now decide who will preside over it. Perhaps he will select Judge Roy Bean or Popeye the Sailor Man. Clendennon and Broden are still forbidden to publically discuss Clendennon’s case. And today’s ruling will have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the cases of the other 176 defendants charged by Peterson.
Habersham County, GA — In May of last year, Bounkham “Baby Bou Bou” Phonesavanh, 19-months-old, was asleep in his crib. At 3:00 am militarized police barged into his family’s home because the sheriff’s department claimed that an informant had purchased $50 worth of meth from someone who once lived there. During the raid, a flash-bang grenade was thrown into the sleeping baby’s crib, exploding in his face.
Baby Bou sustained severe injuries and may have possible brain damage.
Prior to obtaining the warrant, Nikki Autry, a Habersham County sheriff’s deputy and a special agent with the Mountain Judicial Circuit Narcotics Criminal Investigation and Suppression Team, claimed a confidential informant “was able to purchase a quantity of methamphetamine from Wanis Thonetheva at Thonetheva’s residence,” which she identified as the house where the Phonesavanhs were staying.
Autry claimed that she “confirmed that there are several individuals outside of the residence standing ‘guard.’”
However, it has come to light that these were lies. The informant never purchased meth at the residence, and there were never armed guards out front.
In a press release on Wednesday, the US Attorney’s Office stated that Autry has been indicted for her insidious role in the horrifying raid.
According to the report, Autry has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of providing false information in a search warrant affidavit and providing the same false information to obtain an arrest warrant. Providing false evidence to a judge to obtain a warrant is a federal civil rights violation.
According to the report, Autry has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of providing false information in a search warrant affidavit and providing the same false information to obtain an arrest warrant. Providing false evidence to a judge to obtain a warrant is a federal civil rights violation.
Due to the foot or so of rain NE Ohio got in June,and a bunch more in early July,I’m playing catch-up on jobs.
One of my biggest jobs of the year is almost done,it’s been damn near impossible to get a lot of it done due to weather-the weather this week’s been great,just a couple thunderstorms here and there.
I only stopped now because it’s dark outside-will be back at it at 7 am,and working ’till dark,wash,rinse,repeat until Sun. or Mon.
I’ll try to get a few posts up during early mornings and after dark Ohio time until job is done.