Washington, DC—Today there are millions of government employees and government contractors engaged in various roles serving taxpayers. Some of them have inside information that is about to change the course of American history.
Today our government is more than ever, unaccountable and out-of-control.
Many agencies operate like third world dictatorships where corruption of every kind is a way of life. Frustrated workers want to blow the whistle and turn to the news media. That happens all the time. Unfortunately too often the mainstream media won’t do their job because they are politically in bed with government wrongdoers.
Such was the case when BATFE agents shocked by the Obama Administrations intentional delivery of thousands of firearms to Mexican drug cartels tried to expose the program. That deadly operation was called Fast and Furious, and Gun Walker.
These whistle-blowing agents were ordered to hand over government stimulus tax money to known criminals who would buy firearms from various gun dealers. The Obama Justice Department deliberately short-circuited the FBI unit created to do background checks of every gun purchaser in the United States. The FBI knowingly cleared their selected felons and misfits who were barred by law to buy these guns.
The whistle-blowing law enforcement agents have risked their careers and lives to expose a deadly and frightening scandal reaching straight to the highest levels of our government.
At least two two of the involved guns have been linked to the murders of two of our Border Patrol Agents. The same hold true for many other guns since linked to the murders hundreds of Mexican Nationals.
There was only one purpose for this operation. It was to simply manufacture a crisis through engineering of statistics that would show that American’s gun rights were somehow responsible for Mexico’s unprecedented wave of drug violence.
This simply was a Obama Administration propaganda operation to garner support for reauthorization of the so-called 1994 Assault-Weapons Ban that had expired.
Despite the expiration of the ban and nationwide loosening of gun carry laws, violent crime has dramatically gone down in the US along with gun accidents.
The political Left’s gun control philosophical cornerstone had been debunked as ineffective, incredibly expensive and counter-productive.
Now the Obama Administration was caught red-handed, creating a crisis to make gun control politically popular.
Additionally the Obama Administration wanted to circumvent the Second Amendment by signing on to a United Nations Treaty that would end civilian gun rights in America. In theory, it was a much easier way to amend our hated Constitution. Yes, that’s the same Constitution every public official including Obama and his minions are sworn to uphold, defend and protect.
The mainstream media did everything they could to ignore this deadly scandal. It was America’s bloggers that took this outrage and made it public. Bloggers relentlessly posted and published in every possible form of our new Social Media to wake up America.
Finally, members of Congress had to act and begin asking questions about the program.
The Obama Administration simply began spreading lies, stone-walling as they began a massive and on-going cover-up. Now Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder has been caught in a web of corruption and perjury. He’s been declared to be In Contempt of Congress for continued withholding of subpoenaed documents.
Barack Obama has invoked Executive Privilege in an effort to somehow legalize the stonewalling.
Yes, that’s exactly what Richard Nixon did to cover-up a non-violent Watergate Hotel burglary where government sponsored spies were seeking damaging political information and intended campaign tactics.
The difference between the Nixon Watergate scandal and Obama’s Fast and Furious shame is that two American law enforcement officers have been murdered. That along with hundreds of Mexican nationals.
Unfortunately for Obama, government insiders are still blowing their whistles to bloggers and now congressional staffers. Secret wiretap transcripts exposing the roles of senior government officials in this vast conspiracy have been delivered to bloggers and some congressional offices.
Now bloggers and patriotic members of Congress have been able set a massive perjury trap for these rogue officials.
Obama has placed himself above the law repeatedly and redundantly. He has become a criminal and a despot. He must be purged from office and held accountable.
Now let’s cut to the chase and talk about what’s really involved here. In America when anyone gives a weapon to somebody they reasonably expect will use in a crime they are guilty of that same crime as an accessory. Every government official involved in the Fast and Furious conspiracy could and should be facing murder charges.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Stolen Valor Designated by the Supreme Court as Free Speech
David Grove, Fake War Hero |
We give medals, admiration and our thanks to those who risked life and limb to save others. Then there is the valor thief who brags about dangerous missions and exploits that never happened. These are total jerks that con their way through life. They do this to get employment, trust and attention from potential sex partners. There is usually some kind of ill-gotten gain involved.
Thankfully today there are military databases that list those who have won distinguished awards that can be used to expose some of the fraudsters.
I served my country as an Army Medical corpsman in Cold War Germany somehow escaping combat in Viet Nam. Frankly the only danger I saw came from fellow soldiers that like to get drunk and fight. I don’t know how to explain this, but I’m as proud of my service as I would if I’d have won the Congressional Medal of Honor.
I have to admit that I do sometimes think sadly about those brave young souls, my peers, who died perhaps in my place. The Viet Nam War was my war. I was drafted because of it and believed in the concept that our precious and rapidly evaporating freedom was earned at a heavy price. Lady Luck or the Good Lord was looking out for me.
The Broadway hit musical, Miss Saigon that recreates the fall of South Vietnam tears at my heartstrings whenever I see it or listen to the soundtrack. The Leftist cowards in our Congress double-crossed the people of South Viet Nam and facilitated the holocaust at Pol Pot’s killing fields. I can’t help but imagine the abject terror of those trying to escape on overloaded helicopters sent to evacuate them from the roof of the US Embassy.
I can’t imagine having such an empty worthless life that making crap up could ever be considered an option. I guess some jerks feel little or no shame being exposed as a valor thieves. The use of stolen valor or for that matter any lie for financial gain should always be a serious crime.
I also think of an old friend, Joe Foss. Foss was a WWII flying ace that redundantly risked his life in the Pacific in mortal air combat with suicidal Japanese fighter pilots. President Franklin Roosevelt placed the Congressional Medal of Honor, around his neck. Foss went on to become the AFL commissioner, Governor of South Dakota and President of the National Rifle Association.
Before Foss died a several years ago he was publically humiliated by one of the incredibly ignorant douchebags employed by the TSA. The TSA screener deemed the pin on the back of Foss’s medal to be a deadly weapon and confiscated it! Foss, who was then in his 80’s, had to summon local police to intervene and retrieve his award.
Foss was bringing that hard earned medal to a speaking engagement. Joe Foss was more than a hero. He was a patriot, a leader and someone I’m very proud to have known. Speech is protected in this nation, as it should be. However, I admit I’d be the first to look away if a valor thief was getting the beating of his life.
Learn more about the late and great hero, Joe Foss
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
America’s Healthcare Crisis was a Created Disaster
Washington, DC—Despite claims of open government and
transparency the Obama Administration put a bunch of unelected Left Wing
lunatics in charge of reinventing healthcare and insurance. They had a lot of things in mind bout none of
them were about the rights of all Americans under our Constitution.
The Obamacare project or that Socialist conspiracy was
passed into law by a congress that had admittedly not even read the massive
legislative package. The bill was passed
on pure partisanship and 'faith'. That
alone should invalidate the whole mess.
Our Supreme Court will weigh in on this monster Thursday and
it already looks as though it’s in for a well-deserved, massive rewrite.
Now back to the real healthcare crisis at hand. I said we have a created crisis. We must examine just what we did that
deprived Americans of affordable insurance and healthcare.
The cost of healthcare has skyrocketed primarily during the
last four decades when we through non-enforcement invited millions of
criminals, poverty refugees and assorted trespassers to ignore our immigration
laws.
In America no hospital emergency room can turn the sick or
injured away because they can’t pay or if they are illegal aliens. That includes pregnant women about to give
birth. All of Central America knows this
and have enjoyed free medical care for decades at the expense of all Americans.
Every medical bill sent to patients or insurance companies
must be and is drastically inflated to cover those loses and to insure enough
profit to keep hospital doors open.
The other problem is that we insist upon treating the sick
and injured that refuse to cease their sometimes incredibly risky behavior and
health habits. We just won’t say no to
anyone. It’s not fair to force insurance
companies to cover drug addicts and violent criminals. Of course we have a percentage of the
population that is horrified of any thought of requiring personal
responsibility.
We must begin by returning Central America’s trespassing
medical freeloaders back where they came from.
I’m not anti-immigrant nor am I a racist. Hundreds of thousands of aliens have earned
their citizenship through military service.
I would not be opposed to a program that would allow the illegals to
return to their countries of origin and apply for legal visas and eventually
citizenship. The ability to read and
write English on a sixth grade level would be a reasonable entry requirement. It’s legal immigrants that have made this
country great.
Our telephone systems also need to change. Press one for English, or Two to get
deported.
We should give serious preference to immigrants that can
demonstrate skills and abilities that would keep them off the welfare rolls.
As for the so-called Dream Act concept of legitimizing those
smuggled into America by their parents I am inclined to consider letting them
stay based on school performance and excellent behavior. Their parents on the other hand should be
located and deported. A Green Card and
the path to citizenship must also come with a price such as honorable military
service or some similar public service.
The open border Leftist propagandists have, deceptively
redefined Immigration Reform. We need
reform all right, which is to reform our enforcement efforts, as Congress
originally intended them.
As for American healthcare policy, we cannot begin to deal
with this until after we reverse the damage done by millions of impoverished
and ignorant trespassers.
Socialism can only exist with a massive percentage of the
population being kept ignorant, dependent and poor. It’s the Socialists that have infiltrated our
government that are constantly engineering the failure of our free market and
Capitalism.
Fighting Crime The Chicago Way!
Chicago, IL—In this city known for rampant corruption and
cronyism the politicians know what to do with the money they extort from
taxpayers! Whenever possible taxes here are only used to support thieves, thugs and liars.
Chicago’s ghetto violence is way over the top this
year. Whenever the temperature rises so
does the body count. Chicago's cops are undermanned, outgunned, underpaid and demoralized. Their pensions are on the fast track to be part of certain future bankruptcy proceedings. Imagine just what the working cops think of Chicago's latest anti-violence plan?
The only way to deal with violence like this is hire, train
cops and send the violent ghetto rats off to prison until they are too old to
hurt anyone. That works.
However in the “City That Works” any anti-crime or violence
program is acceptable only if wastes lots of money and as long as it doesn’t work. The Mayor and his merry men are going to
once again show how theft and bad government still has the affection of Chicago’s
voters.
Chicago’s politicians have agreed to hand over $1,000,000.00
to a group calling themselves, “Cease Fire".
They were founded simply to take city tax money and pretend they’re
working on violence reduction. Of course
Cease Fire will be working in “secret negations” to make Chicago safer. I’m sure the time and money will be easy to
audit that way.
Cease Fire is a group of, not so retired ghetto gangsters
with significant rap sheets that are supposed to convince their pals not to
kill each other, or innocent civilians.
They could hire, train and equip lots of cops that would have a positive result on crime reduction.
They only thing wrong with that idea is, that it works.
Chicago is bankrupt and we need not wonder why for a
second.
Legalizing Drugs, the Right Way
Washington, DC—Millions of America’s inhabitants are
addicted to chemicals that have been outlawed.
The list of banned substances grows every day as ignorant politicians
try to enjoin pathetic people seeking new ways to escape reality and experience
intoxication. The police state constantly
increases its grip on innocent people that don’t use or want drugs. Then there are all of us that must pay for
the massive failure called the Drug War.
The simple truth is that drug laws have not prevented those
who crave illicit drugs from obtaining them.
The laws have not saved lives. On
the contrary the laws have resulted in thousands of killings related to drug
trafficking. Unfortunately many killed
are not involved with drugs. Thousands
of lives have been shattered and destroyed by bad police work, botched drug
raids and false imprisonment.
The very worst of criminals and corrupt government officials
are being obscenely enriched because of the Drug War’s guarantee to keep drug
trafficking profits at the highest levels. We have the absolute power to put
these criminals out of business in a single day, by simple legalization.
How should we legalize drugs? Some say regulate and tax them. On it’s face, collecting taxes on the backs
of drug addicts sounds great. The
reality is that continued regulation and taxing of the drugs keep opportunities
for government corruption and the same criminals we seek to bankrupt. There should be no regulation of drugs marked
to feed recreation and addiction.
Consumers of the poison need to beware and find their own methods of
quality control. How is that somehow
different that what’s going on right now?
Drugs sold for therapeutic reasons still need the FDA and
quality control. There should be no
changes here other than to let physicians prescribe whatever drugs they see fit
for their patients. Heroin has a
legitimate place in pain management and treatment of elderly and dying
patients. Physicians cannot now use it
for any patient for any reason. In this
regard cops need to be removed from our doctor’s offices.
We need to end the arrest, searches and, prosecutions of
anyone for mere possession, manufacturing or sale of drugs. We can do this while keeping the violent
behind bars along with those involved with government corruption and money
laundering. That same should hold true
for those who have not reported or paid income tax on their ill-gotten
gains.
If we take these simple steps, we do know that street crime
will drop to the lowest level ever.
There will be no more turf wars, between drug lords.
Right now many addicts have habits that consume well beyond
$1000,00 per day. They can’t earn the
money any other way than theft, burglary, robbery, sex commerce and involvement
in the illicit drug trade. The outlawed
drugs would not exceed to price of sugar, coffee or tea without the
prohibition.
If the Drug War had any success at all I guess continuing it
would have some benefit. However we all
know the Drug War’s only benefit is to make rich criminals richer. Why do we tolerate and continue feeding this
disaster?
I would like to see the day that addicts seeking treatment
to get well can simply walk into a medical facility to turn their lives
around. Instead we have created scam
opportunities for bogus government drug treatment contractors that do nothing
more than warehouse addicts simply to shave prison time off of their
punishment.
Drug addicts are easily hated and demonized. They are a desperate lot that will victimize
or do the most despicable acts just to feed their habits. Perhaps it’s the right time to help these
sick bastards become healthy and productive.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Chicago’s Great Gun “Turn In” Scam
Chicago, IL—The Windy City’s
Political Gadflies will be out in force once again. They are hosting another so-called Gun Turn In for guns, bb guns and toys.
People once again will be
enticed with immunity from arrest and gift cards to turn in virtually anything
that even looks like a gun.
These events bring people in
from suburban areas, Indiana and Wisconsin who are able to sell Chicago some
completely unserviceable and worthless firearms. The truth is that area firearm dealers
(remember Chicago has no firearm dealers) go out of their way to collect junk
to bring in for substantial profits.
Chicago's gun-rights hating
political and religious advocates will all sing and hold hands while they
convince each other that they are somehow saving lives. The problem here is there exists no data
whatsoever, anywhere that can even provide a shred of empirical evidence that a
single injury or death is prevented by these efforts.
One thing for sure, is that
anyone wanting a serviceable weapon can use the proceeds obtained at the Gun
Turn In to buy a working gun and live ammunition.
This is not going to lower
the vast numbers of senseless shootings that almost exclusively happen in
Chicago’s ghettos. This will not save
lives. This is nothing more than a very extravagant
and expensive effort at symbolism over substance.
This will however cost
taxpayers a bundle for media ads, manpower and the cash paid out. We can continue to wonder how many additional
burglaries and gun thefts will take place because of this heavily promoted Chicago
fencing operation?
As usual, Chicago’s worthless
members of the media will ask no questions or talk to nobody from the NRA or Illinois State Rifle Association. They will never
ask who pays for this fiasco or how much it really costs taxpayers. That’s because Chicago’s media has become
nothing more than public relations agencies for local incumbent Democratic political
campaigns.
Chicago’s political
incumbents can always count on lots of valuable face time courtesy of local
media by simply repeating the same failed and money wasting programs like the Gun Turn In.
Monday, June 18, 2012
The Call Me Mr. Fry—A Theatrical Review
Los Angeles, CA—In the City
of Angeles they have the Hollywood Fringe Festival going on right now. Live theater here is non-stop in this
entertainment district.
Standing out is a show
called, They Call Me Mr. Fry. Jack Fry is
a real Los Angeles, inner-city, substitute, fifth grade school teacher. This is about his first year in what would
best be described as somewhat of a combat zone.
In fact the teachers get paid extra for the challenges there.
What Jack Fry does in his
production is relive the culture shock, fears, hopes, and dreams along with the
lives involved in his teaching experience for the audience.
Fry delivers a commanding
performance as he takes you through school district’s bureaucratic political
correctness gone bonkers. Fry enters a
world of gangs, violence, neglect, heartbreak and poverty to capture the
attention of his students, long enough to teach them.
Fry’s show has a similar
theme to that touching 60’s film with Sidney Poitier, To Sir With Love. The difference it’s Fry that becomes all of
the characters in his story. The
laughter, anger, tears and joy are amazingly similar between these two
theatrical works.
Fry is the natural target of
everyone’s wrath, punishment and surprises.
Fry teaches these difficult children, but it’s Fry who learns the most
important lessons.
Fry realizes a shocking
discovery that he spends more time with some of the children and knows them
better than their own parents.
If I have a gripe about
teachers is that so many of them duck, run and simply mark time until they
retire. They are not inspired and have
no ability to inspire anyone else.
Teachers must be first class
showmen and women. How else can you keep
the attention of students long enough to transfer that all-important
educational information?
I challenge anyone to name
more than a handful of teachers that were ever inspiring to him or her. I personally view the American teaching profession
as mired in a world of seniority, tenure, unions and abject mediocrity.
Fry’s students are indeed
lucky because he’s a born showman. He
has a charismatic gift to hold his student’s attention to pass on the
information they desperately need to break the chains of poverty.
This show is a, must see for
parents, teachers, and politicians everywhere.
This summer Fry is again
taking the show on the road to a city near you and has the details on his web site. http://theycallmemisterfry.com/Site/Home.html
Here is a trailer to enjoy:
Friday, June 15, 2012
Obama Has Redundantly Devalued American Citizenship
Washington, DC—With every new tax, restriction of liberty
and now dictate to grant amnesty to the trespassers sneaking into this once
great nation, our citizenship is worth much
less.
America was the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Americans were once taxed at a lower rate than nearly any developed
nation.
We’ve allowed politicians to create a police state where
Americans are groped while entering airports and government buildings. Our telephone, banking and Internet
activities have for all practical purposes become government property.
Today tax rates have caused corporation after corporation to
relocate to Europe for relief. That of
course has taken millions of jobs from Americans.
Today our dictator, Barack Obama has granted blanket amnesty to
Illegal aliens and that has officially added a huge number of people to our
dire unemployment situation. That will
also place these parasites to the front of the government entitlement lines.
The value of our citizenship has been reduced to almost
nothing compared to foreign nations.
Of course the hardest hit by this outrageous amnesty will be
Americas poorest citizens and the lawfully naturalized citizens that follow the
rules. They now must compete with a
flood of trespassers for the few jobs we still had.
Any productive American that can flee the USA will be
thinking hard of doing just that. That
is, until they place a Berlin style guarded wall to prevent our escape. I know I am looking to find a way to spend my
golden years in Germany or Switzerland.
Being an American is not fun anymore…
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Chicago Politicians Must Face Violence Crisis, Here’s a Solution
Chicago, IL—The Windy City has been off to a violent start of summer. They have a major shortage of officers to deal with crime.
There is a simple solution to deal with this urban nightmare. Ignoring this problem will have dire consequences affecting rental property, businesses and the quality of life for years to come. Chicago’s lost enough taxpayers to safer and less hostile communities.
There are several thousand honorably retired Chicago cops around. Loads of them are fit, trained and still have their uniforms and equipment.
They can be brought back to cover weekends and evening hours. These officers can be assigned, to less strenuous beats while the younger officers are sent to do the heavy lifting.
The retirees should not be forced to reside within the city because many of them moved upon retirement to the suburbs. This will not exceed the overtime rates of regular officers.
There is a simple solution to deal with this urban nightmare. Ignoring this problem will have dire consequences affecting rental property, businesses and the quality of life for years to come. Chicago’s lost enough taxpayers to safer and less hostile communities.
There are several thousand honorably retired Chicago cops around. Loads of them are fit, trained and still have their uniforms and equipment.
They can be brought back to cover weekends and evening hours. These officers can be assigned, to less strenuous beats while the younger officers are sent to do the heavy lifting.
The retirees should not be forced to reside within the city because many of them moved upon retirement to the suburbs. This will not exceed the overtime rates of regular officers.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Chicago’s Media has Become the Public Relations Arm of Local Government
Chicago, IL—I’m going to single out WLS-TV 7, however this
applies to every major news organization in the Windy City.
I want to begin with a quote from a late and great writer. You should always keep this quote in mind when reading news stories:
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want
printed: everything else is public relations.”
― George Orwell
There has been a racist war on white people primarily on
Chicago’s North Loop and Gold Coast areas.
Those engaged in ongoing mob violence are exclusively young
African-Americans. The victims are
exclusively white, affluent residents, visitors and tourists.
These are the facts and the Chicago’s administration officials along with the media are well-aware of this but they are engaged in a conspiracy to hide the
truth from the public. The facts are
frightening and the public should be warned.
White people need to be warned to avoid young African-Americans because
their very lives depend on it.
Call them Hate Crimes or a crime trend. Call this whatever you like but it’s real and
it’s news and should be reported. City
officials and the news organizations are convinced that Chicagoans can’t handle
the truth. The media simply avoids the
issue and refer to the African-America thugs as teens and teenagers even though
many are adults. It seems as if they are
describing ordinary children out having fun.
The motivation for these racial attacks is far more than
theft. This is wanton cruelty, sexual
assault and worse. These are hate
crimes by blacks targeting white people.
Michelle Gallardo |
I put a call into the News Director, Jennifer Graves of WLS-TV and she has
refused to return calls or comment.
We cannot ever begin to deal with this race war without
acknowledging that it even exists. We
can pretend as visitors are invited to come to the Gold Coast of an evening of
good food, entertainment and fine hotels.
What they are finding is sheer horror and life saving trips to hospital
emergency rooms or worse.
The police department is undermanned, demoralized and
outgunned. They can’t begin to guarantee
safety for their own officers. They
can’t protect the public under present conditions.
As for Chicago’s media they have been doing a great job of
public relations for Chicago’s mayors, police superintendents and assorted
officials. I understand that the news
business is in trouble and the only place to go for laid off reporters is to
the ranks of public information officers.
The reporters are simply too afraid to make Chicago politicians
angry.
Illinois needs to allow citizens their constitutionally
protected activity to bear arms in self-defense. People should never be denied meaningful
self-help when it comes to protecting their own lives. The police can only do so much and thugs
avoid their dreadful conduct when the cops are on the scene. As always in Chicago, there’s never a cop
around when you need one.
And the WLS-TVcoverup continues with censored reports about new black mob attacks on white physicians near hospitals.
And the WLS-TVcoverup continues with censored reports about new black mob attacks on white physicians near hospitals.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Chicago’s Secret Race War
Chicago, IL—Let me begin by saying that African-Americans
born and raised in Chicago have made important contributions to our military,
public safety, medicine, arts, entertainment and business. This is not an attempt to denigrate people on
account of skin color.
Nobody knows the truth more than the productive and
law-abiding African Americans that have tried to make the Windy City a better
place. This is more about misplaced
sensitivities, dangerous and shameful denial.
As temperatures rise here African-American criminals commute
from South and west side ghettos to stalk, beat, rob, rape and kill white
people on Chicago’s Gold Coast. This
phenomenon is fueled by avarice, greed and simple racial hate. If they can achieve sufficient numbers
unstoppable flash mobs savagely swarm businesses and victims.
Bank robber Willie Sutton said it best when a reporter asked
him, why he robbed banks? Sutton
answered with a smile, “That’s where the money is!” I won’t discount the fact that it’s no
secret that lots of young, affluent white people either live on or visit the
Gold Coast. The Yuppies bring cash,
credit cards, I-phones and their exceptional vulnerability that has become attractive thug
bait.
Chicago’s predators were created by a racist and Socialist
system that was designed to keep African-Americans, ignorant, poor, aimless,
dependent and without hope. That
program worked beyond the creator’s wildest dreams. An underclass exists now that will blindly
support more Socialism that will keep them in power for generations.
Here the dangerous predators are all nearly exclusively
African-American and their victims are all nearly exclusively white. There are
virtually no cases of Whites victimizing African-Americans in similar
fashion.
City officials and local media have engaged in a conspiracy
to hide the racial aspects of the Gold Coast’s violent crimes from the
public. Perhaps they don’t want to
frighten tourists or damage patronage of hotels, restaurants and theaters. They certainly don’t dare expose the failed
social planning responsible for this untenable situation. There is a race war going on that’s being
kept secret but for various police bloggers that refuse to remain silent.
There are two huge problems that continue to contribute to
this frightening metropolitan disaster.
A lack of sufficient police manpower and Chicago’s continued unlawful
restraint of the right to meaningful self-defense and self-help facilitates
this one-sided war.
The African-American thugs know the city’s deliberate limitations. They know they face little
risk and the high probability they will escape interference and justice for
their vicious acts.
The only way to combat this war is to properly warn the
public, immediately increase police manpower through rehiring already capable, trained
and equipped police retirees and to legalize self-defense.
The anti-crime plans offered by Chicago’s politicians and
bureaucrats are supported and put forward only if they can’t possibly
work.
Les Miserables, the Musical is coming to the Big Screen!
Los Angeles, CA—Les Miserables is a book written by the late
Victor Hugo. This classic novel was published during our own Civil War. It’s about 19 years of events and a political
climate that ended in an insurrection in in France in 1832. The story unfolds
around, a man Jean Valjean who burglarized a bakery for a loaf of bread.
Times were tough for this man who was arrested and imprisoned at hard labor. His five-year sentence was lengthened considerably after numerous failed escape attempts. Valjean is finally released and briefly returns to crime breaking parole.
Soon Valjean sees the error of his ways and established a new identity and undergoes a dramatic change for the better managing to become a wealthy manufacturer and benevolent town mayor.
Times were tough for this man who was arrested and imprisoned at hard labor. His five-year sentence was lengthened considerably after numerous failed escape attempts. Valjean is finally released and briefly returns to crime breaking parole.
Soon Valjean sees the error of his ways and established a new identity and undergoes a dramatic change for the better managing to become a wealthy manufacturer and benevolent town mayor.
Along the way Valjean winds up with a victimized and orphaned
little girl, Cozette to care for and to raise as his own. In the middle of this mess a revolution is
going on and all Hell breaks loose.
All the while, the dedicated policeman, Javert, is
relentlessly hunting down Valjean like a rat. Valjean is discovered after an accident.
There is a cast of rich characters with their own tragic
tales that all unfold in this sad story. It is a literary masterpiece that has been
retold many times in film and in the theater.
In 1985, producer Cameron Mackintosh along with director
Trevor Nunn and John Caird adapted the story into a terrific and wildly
successful musical. Claude-Michel
Schönberg composed the music, and Alain Boublil wrote the libretto.
Now this musical has been adapted for the silver
screen. Okay, they now managed to have
me spellbound and waiting with major excitement to see the film that is set for
release this Christmas. Needless to say
they have an all-star cast. Now, if I can only manage to get invited to
the premier of the film…
The cast:
Les Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean
Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert
Anne Hathaway as Fantine
Amanda Seyfried as Cosette
Eddie Medmayne as Marius Pontmercy
Samantha Banks as Eponine
Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter, as Monsieur and
Madame Thendardier!
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Santa Monica Police Dragnet is in Progress for an Accident Involving Lindsay Lohan
Santa Monica, CA-Pacific Coast Highway is an incredibly
scenic stretch of highway next to the ocean.
June 8th was a particularly nice morning for the somewhat troubled young actress Lindsay Lohan. Lohan was either a passenger in or driving a black Porsche Northbound in the 1100 block on her way to portray the late and great Elizabeth Taylor in a biopic film.
Something unexpected happened. There was a collision between a large dump truck driven by an African-American male and Lohan’s black Porsche.
June 8th was a particularly nice morning for the somewhat troubled young actress Lindsay Lohan. Lohan was either a passenger in or driving a black Porsche Northbound in the 1100 block on her way to portray the late and great Elizabeth Taylor in a biopic film.
Something unexpected happened. There was a collision between a large dump truck driven by an African-American male and Lohan’s black Porsche.
Lohan and a male occupant of the Porsche were injured. They were being followed by a SUV that
stopped and rendered aid to the injured.
Aid was rendered and the insurance information was exchanged. Once that happens no driver is required to
remain at the scene for any reason including talking to police or proving
themselves sober.
Santa Monica Police responded to a call by the truck driver. Police checked all three occupants of both
vehicles for impairment and found them all to be alert and sober.
As what routinely happens with vehicle accidents some
drivers claim the responsibility was on the other driver.
Was this a simple case of an inattentive Porsche operator
driving too fast and being unable to stop in time to avoid a collision with the
rear of the truck? Was it a case of the
truck cut recklessly in front the Porsche causing the collision?
Photos of the Lohan Porsche seem to support the cutting off
theory since the damage is not from the kind of impact expected when making
direct impact with another vehicle from behind.
A young woman interviewed the truck driver on video and apparently sold
her recording to TMZ. In that interview
the driver claimed that Lohan tried to flee the scene by entering the SUV that
was following her. He also claimed she
was trying to hide a pink bag. To the contrary the evidence clearly shows nobody attempted to flea anywhere.
Both occupants of the Lohan Porsche were injured and
required medical care. That is more
important than talking or arguing with the other driver. The truck driver’s claim that Lohan was
hiding a pink bag is beyond meaningless since if the bag existed nobody knows
what may have been inside of it. The truck
driver went on to claim that Lohan’s people at the scene offered him money not
to blab about the accident. Did the truck driver attempt to extort money from Lohan and get rebuffed? I ask, who really
cares about that?
The best part of this story is that Lohan and the other
Porsche occupant have not been confirmed as the driver! Police have yet to determine who actually was
driving the Porsche!
So the Santa Monica Police Department have put out a press
release asking for witnesses to come forward so they can determine what
happened and most importantly who was driving the Lohan Porsche.
Let’s review this for a second. There is an accident with property damage and
minor injuries. Both vehicles are
presumably insured and the injured in the Porsche don’t want to make
claims. This is only about a minor
traffic accident and who may or may deserve a simple citation. Does this deserve such a police dragnet? Are they desperately looking for witnesses
because it involved Lindsay Lohan?
Let’s say arguably that the truck driver was without
blame. He has not suggested that he was
injured and the damages, if any involve the truck he was driving presumably
owned by his employer. Insurance
information was exchanged for the vehicles and the insurers will deal with the
property damage in a non-criminal setting.
Lohan never missed a beat, once she was patched up at the
UCLA hospital facility in Santa Monica she reported to the set of her film.
As a long time cop and PI, I found that it’s rare that you
cannot assign blame to the cause of an accident. Most often the drivers can’t wait to tell
their sides of the story to police. This appears to be one of the rare ones where police don't know who was driving.
In this investigation the cops can simply suspend the blame
due to a lack of evidence. Lohan and her
fellow Porsche occupants have an absolute right not to talk to police or
anyone. If before the Statute of
Limitations expires they get enough evidence they can mail their summons to the
driver who was determined to be at fault.
What we all must understand here is, that police have not
been able to clear the truck driver or the Porsche occupants of being
responsible for the accident.
Had this involved anyone other than Lindsay Lohan would
anyone have cared?