Was it a Stand Your Ground Law, or Darwin’s Law That Killed your Bully Son?

Grieving parents of thugs everywhere seem to relentlessly whine and carp when someone seriously hurts or kills their thuggish son.   Yes, it’s nearly always a son because daughters are rarely involved in these things.   Many parents want their sons to appear tough and fearsome and don’t discourage their violent manifestations.  

It’s really not too much to ask young men to keep their hands and weapons to themselves.  Those that can behave, never wind up dead or in the hospital because a victim hurt them that they were assaulting.  

Some 21 states adopted the so-called Stand Your Ground or similar Castle Doctrine laws.   In these states thugs that terrorize others can simply be shot or stabbed dead by their intended victims.  These laws protect the weak, elderly and women from being over-powered and severely injured or worse.  What’s wrong with that? 

Too many young males are involved in risky behavior much of it fueled by alcohol or illegal drugs.   Why should anyone have to submit to a severe beating by a bully?  However there are those that want the law to take the risk out of intimidation, assault and battery.  But I ask, what about the risk to the thug’s innocent victims? 

As a cop or now a defense investigator I have seen many cases of so-called road rage and similar events that begin with a minor transgression.  When the man (and it’s usually a man) over-reacts to the transgression a middle finger salute is too often displayed.  From there things escalate to injury or death.  In many jurisdictions the losers go to the hospital or morgue and the winners to prison.  I’ve learned that the middle finger can be a killer.

Why should we protect those that let their tempers slide into assaulting others?   If someone makes a decision to unlawfully attack another, they always deserve what they get.  

If you examine this issue in its simplest form, its nature’s law not man’s law that’s involved here.  We all have been given the gift of fear and the instinct for survival.  We will nearly always engage in flight or fight so that we can live another day.  This is really so much more about bullies being victims of Darwin’s Law, not those Stand Your Ground laws.

Chicago’s African-Americans are Murdering Each Other at an Alarming Rate

Chicago, IL—In just over 12 hours 25 people have been shot including a six year-old girl.   Cold-blooded murder appears to be the favorite hobby of Chicago’s Black population.  Is this racist?  Perhaps they are hate crimes?  It is genocide but on a much greater scale than the Ku Klux Klan ever pulled off.

This is happening because of our polite society’s fear of being labeled racist, intolerant or bigoted.  We simply tolerate this carnage and refuse to identify and condemn the cultural phenomenon behind this urban terror.  Toleration of a bankrupt and vile culture is the root of the problem.  Until we face this fact we can never begin to bring any positive change.

Until we stand up and make war on ghetto thugs we can expect this horror every day.     

The politicians have blamed American gun rights for Chicago’s killing fields.   That assessment is absolutely correct!  But these ignorant politicians just have it all backwards.

It’s the unconstitutional gun laws that have disarmed all but society’s most dangerous criminals.   The two-legged sewer rats are protected from law-abiding folks and any meaningful ability to defend themselves and families.  The thugs of course are prohibited by federal, state and local laws from possessing firearms because of felony convictions, probation, parole or their drug habits.  The thugs are always well armed. 

Despite Supreme Court rulings to the contrary, Chicago still has a virtual gun ban and Illinois has a broken state Firearm Owner’s Identification Card system that can’t (or won’t) seem to provide the permits.   The law abiding are forced by local and state government to sit helplessly and wait their turn to be murdered.  

The social engineering of Chicago has been a massive, frightening and deadly failure.  Instead of correcting anything the politicians here give everyone more of the same but in spades.

UPDATE!  The bloody Memorial Day weekend brought over 40 reported shootings and ten murders.  That does not count the cases where shot were fired and nobody was hit.  Thankfully the ghetto rats don't learn marksmanship any better than they do reading, writing or arithmetic. 

 

Why We Must Not Tolerate Drones Being Employed On Our Own Soil

Washington, DC—At the end of the Civil War Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibited our military forces from law enforcement activities on our own soil.  There was enough horror inflicted by soldiers burning down homes all over the American South.  Wanton acts of cruelty by military forces on American civilians were beyond shocking.

Our Congress has steadfastly refused to turn this kind of absolute power to the government until Barack Obama wanted it.  That along with the power to imprison Americans without lawyers, trials or Due Process has placed us all in the crosshairs of an absolute tyrant.  These are just some of the very powers that Josef Stalin and Adolph Hitler had to massacre millions of their own citizens. 

Additionally the despots of World War Two never had the kind of comprehensive data collected and stored on computer of every man, woman and child like our government collects today. 

A tyrant today in our Whitehouse could murder us far more efficiently than ever before in the history of the world.  We are handing over additional raw power to our government to destroy and plunder us every second.  I guess we refused to learn that absolute power corrupts absolutely. 

The political Left bitterly and rightly decried the Patriot Act but under Obama it has been expanded significantly.  Now the Left is silent about that and some many other attacks on American’s liberty, privacy and peace.

The government has been sending unmanned drone aircraft to spy on Americans and these flying machines can also destroy our homes and businesses.  Needless to say anyone caught inside will be incinerated.

Soldiers take an oath to defend the Constitution and most may have some sense of right and wrong to prevent them from committing atrocities against fellow Americans. 

The problem with the drones is that they can be operated by or mercenaries or even criminals.  Unlike conventional military aircraft pilots we will never know who is behind the curtain at the controls of killer drones.   They will only place people behind the controls of the drones that will blindly take orders from superiors.

Frankly I can understand why Americans want to shoot the drones down on sight if they appear over our property uninvited.

At what point to we say enough?  At what point do Americans began to retaliate against politicians and their bureaucrats with gasoline, bombs and firearms?  Frankly, four more years of Barack Obama’s ambitious destruction of liberty, free enterprise and privacy will invite a second and far more deadly Civil War.

The Tragedy of Why Obama’s Birthplace Does Not Matter to Most Americans

Chicago, IL—Barack Obama has used different names, Social Security numbers and there is more than enough evidence to prove he’s not a Natural Born Citizen.  It’s also apparent now that he’s got a British passport and perhaps others.

Obama and his wife were on the rolls of qualified lawyers in Illinois.  They have been removed from the rolls in a matter other than simple retirement.  The State Bar has refused to indicate why they were removed.  The Illinois State Bar has a website you can check yourself.   Were they disbarred for making false applications after investigation into documents they provided?

The findings of well-qualified experts have made a compelling case that the offered Hawaiian birth certificate for Obama is an obvious forgery.

Why then, has the media and the majority of members of Congress simply put the Birth issue aside?  The same is true for the faux Conservative,  Fox News.  Far too many people simply don’t seem to care.

Here are the reasons behind the massive apathy and downright contempt of the Obama birth issue.  Many are Obama supporters that will follow him straight to Hell.
Many truly assume and believe that the “authorities” always investigate would never let such a thing happen.  Many think that this is just a political conspiracy to discredit Obama.

The truth is that many Americans believe that the Constitution is an outdated document created by slave owners that were also bigots.  In their view, the provision for Presidential qualifications is designed to be discriminatory and going after Obama is an act of racial intolerance.  Rather than to campaign to change the Constitution they will simply violate it.

Whatever the reasons too many people will forgive the fraud and deceit until the elite propagandists declare Obama unfit.  

The sad truth is that millions of Americans have shed blood so that we could maintain or Constitution and Bill of Rights.  Today there are millions of fools that don’t think they need freedom, liberty or the Bill of Rights.  They have been raised not by parents but a nanny government that brainwashed them into thinking they deserve money from others that they don’t earn.

We are no longer the land of the free or the home of the brave.  Until the Whitehouse is purged and the Communist stench removed I will no longer stand for the Star Spangled Banner nor pledge my allegiance to a flag that has been hijacked.  My American citizenship is losing value at a record pace.   

Without our freedom we are nothing more than a banana republic run by criminals.

Audio and Video Recording Prohibitions exist to Protect Government Extortionists

Chicago, IL—Secretly recording a conversation you have engaged with anyone carries severe penalties reserved only for our most violent crimes.  I’m not talking about wiretapping or capturing conversations of others but your very own! 

These recording prohibitions only exist in the jurisdictions with the grandest histories of political corruption.  The reason for these laws is not for the protection of privacy but to protect politicians and bureaucrats from having these recording used against them in criminal or civil prosecutions.

The building inspector suggests that your code violations can go away with the right inducement to him.  A politician or his campaign aid promises support for your contract to perform work for the county provided you support his political war chest.  This kind of corruption is commonplace in nearly every large city in America.

I remember when Arizona lobbyist friends telling me how relieved they were when limits were placed on campaign contributions there.  They seemed to believe the extortion would somehow slow down.  Just months later AZSCAM broke and a number of members of the legislature went to prison.  The damning evidence used to convict was both video and audio recordings.  Arizona only required, “one party recording consent.” 

Today the focus of these laws has shifted to peace officers being recorded by the media and public.  Cops have been arresting people that record them.  The fun part is that once the recording devices are shut down the stories about what was said vary widely.   We’d all rather hear what was said on tape than listen to the players recounting their own words.

Frankly if people know they can be recorded and that those recordings can be used as evidence their behavior improves dramatically.     

Cops should recognize that the troublemakers with recording devices run the risk of having their digital media used against them if they break the law.   Nothing prevents a cop from seizing recording media that captures a crime in progress as evidence for a future court date.   Recordings far more often protect cops from the constant lies told by jerks to internal investigators.

Audio and video recordings speak for themselves. They are objective and don’t lie.  Editing is possible but that leaves unmistakable digital footprints that can be easily exposed.  Recordings rather than what people testify about are far more reliable.

Any politicians supporting recording prohibitions are merely looking for ways to conceal criminal conduct.  This is not about our privacy but rather protecting the very people that would victimize all of us. 

In Illinois the recording prohibition was struck down for the second time.  Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez has done all she could and is still working to reinstate this travesty.  The crooks in the Illinois Legislature already have put a new law up to work around and obstruct the court's decision. 

Chicago Riot Control Has Always Been Ineffective and Costly.

Take the fight out of Chicago's rioters with some plain water

Chicago, IL—Today I watched some interesting video that I suspect has or will lead to excessive Injury On Duty Injury reports for Windy City’s finest.  I also expect a rush to medical providers and civil lawyers by those who made the mistake of assaulting Chicago cops.

When I was living in Germany 1968-1970, I watched the, Frankfurt Stadt Polizei deal with their hippies and troublemakers.  The cops in Frankfurt always made short work of crowd control with minimal injuries to all.   Was it magic?  Brutality? No!  It was just plain water.

All over Europe they use vehicle mounted, water cannons to quell disturbances.  They soak the troublemakers, who soon get very uncomfortable and very cold.  Police can identify the problem people because they are all wet and shivering.   They only want to go home after a good soaking.  For many of them this is the only time they bathe.

The water cannon can be a little overpowering but those who do not follow lawful orders to disperse can simply be hosed down on the gentle cycle.  Who wants to fight when they are all wet?  A side benefit is that the water will short out electronic detonators and wreck ignition sources for Molotov cocktails for the really evil ones.  Perhaps a few ruined cell phones will make communication more difficult for those riot organizers.

I noticed that Chicago's troublemakers were carrying cameras of all kinds.  The water cannons would really make such photography a meaningful challenge.

The water cannon will also spare cops from unwarranted discipline hearings and indictments bases on bogus allegations.  The Medical rolls will have fewer personnel to deal with and the city’s liability would be greatly reduced.

I hope this post inspires Chicago’s politicians and bureaucrats to find a more effective and humane way for cops to protect themselves than wooden batons and stun guns alone.  Imagine how a water soaked troublemaker would dance after being hit with a Tazer Stun gun?

 

The Magical Music of Bob Lind is On Tour

Bob Lind today...

Los Angeles, CA—Back in 1966 there was a hit single, Elusive Butterfly by then 23 year-old, Bob Lind that was re-recorded by scores of popular singers including Petula Clark, Johnny Mathis and even the Four Tops.  Lind has since written many hits made famous by other artists along the way.  Today he's got quite a few wonderful songs you really need to enjoy.  

Bob Lind  is currently on a Western United States tour right now.  He is playing in intimate settings that are incredibly enjoyable.  He’s appearing in WY, CO, AZ and CA in various venues. 

This time Bob is being accompanied on the tour by talented singer Danny O’Keefe.  If you’ve never caught Bob’s show it’s a great time to do so.  I won’t miss this and neither should you!

Here are two dates in the Los Angeles Area:

May 25, 2012 Friday, 8pm

Bob Lind & Danny O'Keefe

McCabe's Guitar Shop

3101 Pico Blvd

Santa Monica, CA 90405

(310)828-4497

www.mccabes.com

May 24, 2012 Thursday, 8 pm

Bob Lind & Danny O'Keefe

The Coffee Gallery Backstage

2029 N. Lake

Altadena, CA

626-798-6236

www.coffeegallery.com

Check all of Bob and Danny’s touring dates and places right here:

http://www.boblind.com/tour.html

Is it Finally the Beginning of the End of the Obama Nightmare?

Los Angeles, CA—Was this the real revelation Andrew Breitbart was planning to make that he knew would bring down Barack Obama?   Was Breitbart murdered to bring about his silence?

There are still so many questions that need answers.   Things are just not making sense and usually when I find myself confused during an investigation, major things will be discovered.   Frankly the incredible timing of Breitbart’s death and the huge financial stake of Obama’s political campaign places murder right at the top of my list.

Have the people around Breitbart been terrorized into silence?  We’ve heard nothing from his grieving family and precious little from his business associates. 

Obama has spent well over a $1 million in legal fees to avoid producing simple documents like a certified copy of a birth certificate, passport and student loan records.  People only do this kind of concealment to protect dark secrets from surfacing.

So far the courts have gone out of their way to protect Obama’s records from any public scrutiny.  The mainstream media including Fox News has given Obama a pass on this question. 

Despite clear and convincing evidence gathered by investigators and expert’s the allegations of document forgery have been awash with scorn from mainstream media political hacks.

Obama must be a Natural Born American Citizen to hold the nation’s highest office.  If he was not qualified every act, every piece of presidential activity is invalid.  He placed the nation in a constitutional crisis.  This may well have been a crime too.  Forgery and fraud has certainly occurred. 

There is far too mush evidence and efforts to conceal the facts to allow this charade to continue another minute.   It’s time for subpoenas, depositions and the production of records in the matter of Barack Obama’s qualification to be President.

All those responsible for the fraud should be arrested and prosecuted.  This is no small scandal. 

Read the about vetting material used for Obama’s first book in breitbart.com: 

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii

My First and Only Encounter with the Late Disco Legend Donna Summer

Munich, Germany—In 1969, I was a young Army medical corpsman assigned in Aschaffenburg, near Frankfurt.  I was in an American Express office and saw a simple poster, it read, “Tanz Zug Nach Munchen fur HAAR.”   I had been rapidly learning German and knew the translation.  It was an ad for the dance train trip to see the German version of the new hit musical Hair in Munich.   The cost, I seem to recall was only 90 DM per person or about $23.00.

I took my wonderful girlfriend of the moment, Gertraud who was a hot little blond from a town called Bad Neustadt and we partied all the way from Frankfurt to Munich.  We arrived for the evening performance and it was terrific.  Just as in the Broadway play they had a few Black actors.  I was unfamiliar with any of the cast members but enjoyed a world-class performance.

One young actress, singer and dancer really surprised me.  She spoke and sang in German.  Her voice and personal style was amazing.  More than a year later I learned that this was Donna Summer performing under her real name LaDonna Gaines.

Summer was the daughter of an American Air Force member and had a wonderful command of the German language as a result of a prolonged childhood stay in this great country.

I learned the sad news today that Donna Summer has died in Florida at the age of 63 from lung cancer that may be related to the 9/11 attack on America.  I will never forget seeing her when we both were entering adulthood and celebrating our youth.  My regret was never meeting her later in life. 

Here is a cut from the original cast album where can you hear this lady's unmistakeable voice.  You will hear this late great songbird celebrate life.  Listening to this today brings me sadness that that great time in my life is gone. Rest in peace, dear Donna…

Why did we Allow Government to Nationalize Charity?

Washington, DC—When we formed our government there were no provisions for social safety nets.  It was just not deemed a function for government.  Americans are charitable by nature and we all hate to see helpless people deprived by circumstances.  We always contributed generously to churches and such to aid the disabled and needy.

We have terrific and efficient charities such as the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities and the American Red Cross.  They were undermined and in effect made obsolete by our politicians.

Government should have been limited to national defense and infrastructure.  Nowhere did we ever create a right to handouts or free medical care.   We created a system where productivity creates wealth for virtually everyone.  

Our politicians have damaged the American dream with wealth redistribution schemes that have punished the productive and instead rewarded criminals and parasites.  The really needy and deserving people are more deprived than ever as a result.

Frankly government politicians and their bureaucrats have turned what should charity into a scam well beyond epic proportions.   Criminals took charge of tax funds in order to administer the social train wreck that has made many millions of pathetic derelicts. 

Our social welfare system has robbed these Americans of self-reliance and the desire to become productive.  We’ve created an entire entitlement zombie population.  As a result our government has destroyed their lives.

Rapidly and uncontrollably we included millions of the impoverished of Mexico and Central America into our social safety net despite their criminal trespassing on our soil. 

We measure poverty by the amount of homeless we see on the street.  Before the War on Poverty and Great Society programs we had only a fraction of the homeless we see wandering the streets today.   Most Americans are not old enough to remember that far back. 

If we are to survive as a nation we must turn back the trespassers and turn over charity to the faith based organizations and such. 

California’s Massive Financial Crisis, Suicide by Spending

Gov. Jerry Brown D-CA

Los Angeles, CA—Governor Jerry Brown passed the bad news along that the spendaholics in the General Assembly couldn’t break their old addictions.  They have quickly doubled the state debt to $16 Billion.  California can’t pay its bills.

They think they can force a tax increase but the clowns can’t seem to understand that slows productivity and causes more taxpayers to flee the state. Tax increases will make the problem much worse.

California’s Liberals have gone out of their way to provide free medical care and education to all of Mexico and Central America trolling for a dependent population to keep their Socialist dream alive.  That alone can easily account for their deficit.

Now the pretend cuts are being made and the liberal judges have been ordering the state to fund programs unique to the once Golden State.  I guess California will have to counterfeit currency like the FED does or file bankruptcy.

California overregulates everything that it can.  They could lose half of the occupational licensing agencies and not miss a beat.   They could end their unlawful gun prohibition activities and save millions there too.

Imagine if California simply ended their participation in the Drug War how much could be saved there along with lives related to drug violence.

The death penalty in California has been quietly costing billions too.  The taxpayers must pick up the tab for both the prosecution and defense of cases that are mired in litigation for nearly four decades each!  It’s far cheaper to weld cell doors shut.

California’s cops don’t have time or manpower to chase criminals but they can shut children’s lemonade stands and arrest those teenaged Steven Spielbergs trying to learn how to make movies for film permit violations.

California will simply continue to spend hoping that the frugal states will be required to fund California’s foolishness. 

California’s politicians need to take an unpaid six-month furlough every year.  That would reduce spending for sure.  They all love to brag about how hard they work.  The harder they work the larger the deficit. 

 

Want to Commit a Burglary, Rob a Bank or Kill Someone in Chicago?

Chicago, IL—NATO week will tie up cops and keep nearly all of them near McCormick Place.  Normally quiet neighborhoods on the Northwest and Southwest will be far more under-policed than normal. 

I can’t imagine that the most dangerous criminals in the Midwest are not thinking the same thing right now.   NATO is creating the Perfect Storm for crime in the Windy City.

Will we see daytime Flash Mobs at Chicago’s shopping malls looting the Apple Stores and such? 

Perhaps it would be a great time to play hooky from work and stay home with a gun handy. 

Who will be watching the cop’s homes while they are forced to deal with the anti-NATO and Occupy swine?  Who will be responding to burglary and hold up alarms?