Thursday, February 05, 2015

NBC News Credo--We Make Up the News That We Want You to Believe.

Brian Williams and Josef Goebbels 
New York, NY—NBC News has like all the major networks have lost audience, revenue and credibility in recent years.
Make no mistake; the days of Walter Cronkite are long gone.  When Cronkite said, “And that's the way it is.” that had some real meaning.  Instead today it’s,  “that’s the way we want you to believe it is.”
It was Nazi propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels who said that,  “If you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth.”  He used the new media of the day, radio to convince the German people that Adolf Hitler was their savior.  Of course if you heard it on the radio it must be true. 
Likewise Franklin Roosevelt fed Americans what he wanted them to believe in his infamous radio Fireside Chats.  
Soon it was TV that took on the role of indoctrinating the masses. But in the USA they made somewhat an early effort to avoid the Goebbels style of reporting news.
In recent decades NBC has reported all things from a Leftist slant and like the others major news organizations.  They became the de facto Obama Administration’s public relations agency.  They’ve managed to cover-up scandal after scandal plaguing Obama.
We seem to have forgotten how relentlessly American TV news destroyed Richard Nixon on the Watergate Scandal.  The difference was Nixon was a Conservative and was naturally targeted by the Left leaning media.
Now in a senseless moment of stolen valor the NBC News primary news anchor claimed to be in a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq.  That fable took on a life of it’s own but was exposed as being so much baloney.  
Williams apologized suggesting that he misspoke mitigating it like it was some unintended teleprompter error.  In a real world where the truth matters NBC would have removed him the second he crossed the line. 
It remains to be seen what NBC does but they all know that the news media has seen instance after instance where news stories have been invented, slanted and fictionalized.  Do they even care at this juncture?
Williams is the masthead of NBC.  NBC is on a steep decline anyway so whatever they do will be too little and too late to save the network’s reputation.
Similar issues came up with CBS and their former anchor Dan Rather. Rather was spreading libelous propaganda targeting George W. Bush but when he was caught red-handed CBS had to show him the door.
If you see it on TV you can bet it’s a lot of things, but truth is not necessarily one of them.
For those that call themselves journalists and take that role seriously Williams is now as toxic as they come.  


Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Where America Went Wrong With Muslims

Washington, DC—The reality is that Arab Muslims are by nature a reactionary and savage lot.  They carry their bankrupt 13th Century culture with them that cannot nor will not ever integrate into a modern civilized society.
Arab Muslims have historically roamed the deserts almost exclusively making war on one another until all the foreign commerce barons and trade profiteers began to exploit them. 
In the last 80 plus years we learned that the Arab Muslims were sitting on huge oil reserves we needed for our planes, trains and automobiles.  We began to pay them for their oil instead of developing the oil we already had.
The Arab Muslims also are the worlds leading Opiate suppliers.  They make a fortune satisfying all of the Western drug addicts.
The Arab Muslims hate the Western world despite that fact that they continue to do business with us.  These days bribes, favors and every possible form of corruption is what motivates and guides our politicians.  When it comes to our Muslim policy only dirty money rules.
Muslims may hate Westerners but the truth is they all hate each other more.  Today all internal Arab Muslim conflicts are all waged with American military blood, sweat and tears. We support our favored Muslim tribe and government’s battles over others.  
George H.W. Bush took us to an oil war benefiting his pal’s own interests against Iraq.  Of course that angered at least half of all Arab Muslims.  Eventually that brought devastating terror attacks to American soil.
In effect, we interfered with and policed Muslims so they could not make war on each other.  Had we stayed out of Muslim Arab affairs there would be many millions fewer Arab Muslims to worry about.  
Nothing would have been better for civilization than a massive war between Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.  We could have simply came in after, cleaned up and gotten the cheapest oil ever.   
Frankly our CIA could have easily been able to inflame each side against the other and there would be little Arab Muslim interest in fighting with the West.  It would be far better if these Arab Muslims were weak, broke and totally dependent of the rest of the world.
Arab Muslims now hate us more than ever.  They have never been so united and we can thank our corrupt Congress, Presidents, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama for anti-Western terror, TSA tyranny and the massive cost of their corrupt mess.
Arab Muslims will eventually use all of the deadly war weapons we brought to them against us.  In the end we let our own government become our biggest enemy. 

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

The Marion “Shug” Knight’s Murder Case Really Smells!

Compton, CARap Mogul, Shug Knight’s lifestyle is very troublesome.  He’s done things that may be acceptable in the African-American Rap Culture but few other places.
Personally I'm in no way vouching for Knight's lifestyle or prior conduct.  My interest is only in simple fairness. 
Violence seems to relentlessly follow Knight wherever he goes and he’s got numerous bullet scars to prove it.  Last weekend Knight was in the congested parking lot of Tam’s Burgers at Central and Rosecrans Avenues in Compton, CA.
Apparently once again violence broke out while Knight was seated in his truck at the drive in.   Knight understandably fled for his life.  In the process Knight apparently ran over his friend Terry Carter killing him and injured another man.
Knight was well known to the witnesses present.   Under the circumstances Knight’s flight seemed clearly necessary.  Knight fled to safety and called his lawyer, James Blatt.   Knight then quickly made himself available for the L.A. County Sheriff’s officers.  
Knight is now charged with murder, attempted murder and two counts of fleeing the scene of an accident.
By the way I went to the scene to investigate myself and most notably there are no surveillance cameras that could have obtained video of this event.  If any video exists it would have to come from a hand held cellphone or dashboard camera of a vehicle.
I also flew my camera drone overhead obtaining video of the entire area.  The images clearly show that lot is surrounded by an unusual and unnecessary brick wall that significantly limited Knight's options or anyone’s escape through the narrow entrances and exits. 
With the expected busy activity in the congested parking lot on a weekend night, quick vehicular escape from that lot would be nearly impossible without colliding with people or vehicles.  Had there been reasonable driveway space instead of the brick wall I suspect that no injury or death would have occurred.
When the laws related to exchanging information and rendering aid to accident victims there were promulgated there were no paramedics, just ambulance drivers and there were certainly no cellphones in everyone’s pocket.  Times have changed. 
Those injured in Tam’s parking lot almost immediately got the best help modern medicine could provide.  Knight is no paramedic or physician and reasonably understood help would be on the way.  Knight simply followed the natural law of, fight or flight choosing the later.
Cops and prosecutors have it in for Knight and apparently will go to any length to jail him whether there is evidence or not.
They want to keep Knight behind bars while this tragic case is tried in perhaps a year or two.  They also know that Knight’s criminal defense will deplete most or all of his financial assets.  
I simply can’t see any jury-convicting Knight who was obviously fleeing for his very life of anything here. 
As for the victims and their families the only thing that really matters now is civil justice and financial compensation.  That’s why we all have insurance. 
Using the Criminal Justice System for vendettas and publicity is wrong.  The cops and prosecutors need to recognize their duty and not waste taxpayer money on their current efforts to prosecute or persecute Knight.  





Red Power Ranger, Ricardo “Rico” Medina, Jr. Was Cleared in Sword Stabbing today by Prosecutors!

Ricardo "rico" Medina Jr. 
Palmdale, CA—After the totally unnecessary murder arrest and jailing of actor, Ricardo “Rico” Media, Jr. prosecutors have understandably declined criminal charges.
Roommate, Joshua Sutter, attacked Medina.  Medina fled from Sutter locking him and a girlfriend in the safety of a bedroom.  
In a wild scene like that Jack Nicholson the film, The Shining, Sutter broke down the door and Medina’s display of a sword was not enough to end Sutter’s attack.  Medina’s then justifiably stabbed Sutter.
This seemed on its face a classic but unfortunate justifiable homicide based on the information provided by the Sheriff’s spokesman.  Yet, some brain dead excuse for a cop jailed Medina despite a serious lack of evidence.
Cops can temporarily hold a potential suspect for investigation and when there is no evidence of a crime they must release him.  If later sufficient evidence is obtained then they can re-arrest their suspect. 
Medina was traumatized enough by being victimized and having to use deadly force on another. The jailing an innocent man was and is simply cruel and malicious.
Had Medina posted bail he’d have lost $100,000 forever in bondsman fees.
Now Medina must learn if Hollywood will allow him to work again despite this tragic incident and misleading publicity.  We can only hope his agent stands by him and keeps his career moving.
Cops in this jurisdiction have a duty to protect the rights of people that defend themselves and others.  This arrest was beyond indefensible. 

Imagine if they arrested and held every cop that justifably shoots someone in jail like they did Medina?  Of course some people are more equal than others in our world!





Monday, February 02, 2015

Why Prosecutors, Judges and Defense Lawyers fail to Understand Lawful Self-Defense

Los Angeles, CA—In this part of the world where the Second Amendment is redundantly denounced people fall victim to all manner of assaults.  When people refuse to be victims and fight for their lives the Criminal Justice System sometimes takes on an evil role.
We must begin with the players in the criminal justice system.  They are all lawyers.  Over the last four decades I’ve met and worked with a great deal of these lawyers. 
Only a tiny percentage was ever soldiers, cops or any kind of combatants.  They usually have zero firearms experience beyond watching a Hollywood created shooting.  Specifically, that scene where a person fires a gun at another causing the hapless victim to fly backwards over a car and then through a plate glass window.
Nearly all lawyers are gun rights hating liberals that simply don’t understand that guns save lives.  They’ve been brainwashed their whole lives and during their formal education.
Lawyers are by nature intellectual bookworms that have avoided always violence or being around violent people outside their law practices.
Most lawyers come from upscale families and have enjoyed living in safe communities and have never been confronted by criminal assault or even a schoolyard brawl.
Because of their positions in the Criminal Justice System these lawyers delude themselves into thinking they’re experts on the violence they sort out in courtrooms.  Frankly lawyers are far too often the blind leading the blind on cases where justifiable deadly force is involved.
Most shooting for example happen within seconds, at arms length and are not caught on tape.  Twisting bodies moving at breakneck speed, reflexes and fear makes understanding exactly what happened sometimes nearly impossible.
When you add the lies of the participants, witnesses and others falsely claiming to have seen the incident getting to the truth is nearly impossible.
I found that even the victim’s that succeed in surviving a deadly attack by using deadly force often lie to police in order to exaggerate their self-defense claims.  
Wow!  How can these cases be fairly examined, prosecuted or tried?  The answer is monumental and life-changing mistakes are the rule rather than the exception.
Remember forcing a person that justifiably used deadly force to survive to be tried by a jury inflicts massive punishment even if there is an acquittal.
Those accused often lose their life savings, homes, jobs, marriages, friends and reputations while waiting sometimes years to clear their names at a trial.  Bankruptcy becomes necessary further victimizing those wrongly accused.
I’ve seen decent middle-class people who were acquitted leave jail to begin life again in a homeless shelter! 
Prosecutors must take responsibility and understand that the accused must be given the benefit of the doubt.  They can’t cave into demands by family members or community groups for prosecution. 
Prosecutors routinely wash their hands in the accused’s blood somewhat like Pontius Pilate.  They simply shrug their shoulders and say, “Let’s let a jury decide.”
Prosecutors have a very real conflict of interest since the fewer cases they file means a smaller budget and restricting their chance for advancement.  Bankrupting those innocents they can’t convict is a vicious and heartbreaking reality.
Defense lawyers need to recognize their own ignorance and seek out investigators and experts that can actually reconstruct the violent event.
Reflexes, size, strength disparity and coordination of the combatants along with genuine fear and survival instinct all play a part in a violent event and must be weighed.  
In the end we use the reasonable man standard to determine justification.  That includes the reasonable fear involved a violent event. 
I have to ask why any prosecutor would concern himself or herself with some aggressive fool that lost his life trying to victimize another.  That aggression should be the solid evidence of doubt benefiting the accused.
Defense lawyers have a duty to put aside their negative views on weapon and self-defense.  They must recognize their job to protect the rights of their clients to things like Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground Laws.

Sunday, February 01, 2015

L.A. County Sheriff Arrested the Actor who played the Red Power Ranger in an Obvious Case of Self-Defense

Ricardo Medina, Jr. 
Palmdale, CA—L.A. County Sheriff’s officers responded to a Saturday 911 call from Ricardo Medina, Jr., 37 after he reportedly stabbed his roommate. 
Deputies entered the home and found Joshua Sutter mortally wounded after being stabbed by a sword allegedly by the actor most famous for playing the Red Mighty Morphing Power Ranger. 
A Sheriff’s spokesman said that Sutter was fighting with Medina who with his unidentified girlfriend fled to a bedroom.  The dead man then forced his way into the bedroom when he was mortally wounded.
Sutter lived in the home but assuming the sheriff’s department is correct that he stepped up his violence by forcing his way into the safety of the bedroom.  Depending on size or strength disparity use of deadly force to terminate such of an attack was reasonable.
Bail for Medina was set at $1million.  
Since I specialize in self-defense cases this one is right up my alley.  Should the District Attorney senselessly file a complaint or obtain an indictment I know I can help Medina.  I'd welcome a call from him or his lawyer. 
It would be a shame to see this lad’s life be destroyed by an ill-advised prosecution.  Barring solid evidence, a confession or a witness statement this matter should end.
If Medina is forced to stand trial his career is over even if he is eventually acquitted. Americans are supposed entitled to the benefit of the reasonable doubt.  Making a jury determine if the act was justified is a form of prosecutorial tyranny. 
Such a prosecution could easily cost the accused to pay as much as $1 million in legal fees and costs.