The Official Crimefile Review of Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino

Westwood Village, Los Angeles, CA—Okay so I’ve been a Clint Eastwood fan all the way back to those Spaghetti Westerns of the late 1960s. How can an Eastwood fan not see any film he both directs and stars in?

Gran Torino is about a retired Michigan autoworker and aging Korean War vet, Walt Kowalski who just lost his wife. He’s now finding that he has to make some serious social adjustments to today’s new society. He is about to embark on adventures we’d all like to avoid.

Kowalski’s most important prized possession is a mint condition Ford Gran Torino.

Kowalski can’t seem to connect with his two adult son’s or their families. I met Kowalski many times in this life. He’s a composite of so many older military veterans that have returned to an ungrateful nation.

Along the way Kowalski has to deal with thugs in a way that made Eastwood’s films so popular. Torino offers a lot more to than vengeance and curbside justice.

Walt Kowalski has to deal with the next door neighbors who happen to be Hmong immigrants. There are serious clashes with ethnic gangs of hood rats.

This is an actor’s film instead of something loaded with special effects and expensive sets. It gets by on high octane acting alone. I see some Academy Awards in the future for these fine stars. Ahney Her, Bee Vang and Christopher Carley who all rock as their young characters help Kowalski reestablish his relevance as a person.

This film is one of Eastwood’s finest.

Chicago Needs A Subway Vigilante Like Bernhard Goetz

Chicago, IL—In this Murder Capital there is a rash of attacks going on in the CTA Subway and elevated lines. Unarmed commuters are being terrorized by armed thugs. My question is, where’s New York's Bernie Goetz when you need him?

All Americans have the right to use deadly force to stop robbery, rape, kidnapping and serious assault that can happen on public transportation.

Why become a victim? Get a reliable, large caliber handgun, training and carry it! Why give a rat’s ass about any gun bans when the thugs don’t? More importantly shoot the bastards!

Should you shoot a thug or two leave them lay and disappear. You have a right not to talk to police and no law requires you to stay. If the cops catch up with you say nothing and ask for a lawyer. You can’t be penalized for silence and cooperation get’s you nothing but a solid case against you for carrying a gun.

At first Bernhard Goetz was only a ghost. They only had a poor artist’s rendering of him until he made contact with the police. Goetz spilled his guts and went through hell for years even though he was acquitted for assault and homicide related charges. Why put yourself through Hell when you can shut up instead?

Even in Chicago you need not surrender to crime. Fight back and win. Let the mothers of these thugs scream and whine at the loss of their darling little cowards. Let the Liberals express their shock and horror of American surviving through self-reliance and self-defense.

Justifiable use of force in defense of self or others is never a crime. Some jurisdictions use bogus laws to violate the rights of Americans to keep and carry firearms and to that I say, so what! Cowardly thugs will skip this venue in a hurry as peace, comfort and safety will replace terror abd what's wrong with that?

Obama Is An Assassination Lightening Rod.

Washington, DC—I’ve said it before that being President of the United States brings a ten percent chance of assassination with it.

Foreign operatives, the mentally disturbed and people with deep political convictions are the ones most likely to succeed in such an act.

Barack Obama is hated by millions for two reasons, the Black color of his skin and the Red color of his politics. I’ve grown up like so many Americans during the Cold War with the view that the only good Communists are dead Communists.

Like the late Martin Luther King embraced Marxism so does Obama.

I don’t have the stomach to take action until someone over-rides the Constitution threatening our freedom. History has taught us that even without such a threat there is no shortage of candidates wanting to fill the shoes of John Wilkes Booth.

The Secret Service

This organization has hundreds of agents and uniformed officers with the job of protecting the President. They know full well that the next attack on an American President may come from an unconventional and technologically advanced weapon. The days of using simple firearms for such deeds may be over.

The Secret Service has to assess every threat and deal with them. I hear the words, “credible threat” all the time and I’ll be damned if I would know one if I saw it. Every threat is credible until proven it was not a threat.

These fine men and women are sworn to uphold, defend and protect the Constitution. At what point in a President’s term do they turn on a President that threatens the American way of life?

Today we are traveling in uncharted territory with the Left leaning George W. Bush and the Liberal majority in our Congress destroying our free enterprise system.

Bailing out poorly run or corrupt banks and businesses with tax money will never work. No other solvent banks or businesses can compete with competitors getting free government money for failure.

We have the greatest challenges ahead for the American Experiment. I give neither Barack Obama nor our soon to be, former way of life much chance of survival.

Orlando SHOT SHOW Being Covered By Master Gun Scribe Frank James

Orlando, FL—No I could not attend this year’s show but Frank James is saving me from the sore feet as he and his camera are out chasing the new stuff.

He has plenty of pictures on his site right here.

Blogo Lawyer Ed Genson Walks off The Job.

Springfield, IL—In a move I predicted, lawyer, Ed Genson will wind up litigating Governor Rod Blagojevich's removal in Federal District Court rather than before the Illinois Senate. The cunning lawyer said today he'd not become part of an un-American exercize.

The heavily, Democratically controlled Senate won’t afford Blagojevich simple due process rights such as being able to subpoena witnesses and confront his accusers. They are afraid of exposing Barack Obama to revelations that would lead to his fall from Grace.

The court will have no choice but to stay any removal and order the Senate to stop violating Blagojevich’s rights. That means they will have to allow the governor his right to due process so he can raise his defense.

This strategy buys time for everyone and will also provide a more convenient time for Blagojevich to negotiate a plea agreement and resignation. That of course is exactly what Obama needs.

On a side note there is dissention within the FBI. Some Chicago field agents think that the Justice department is protecting Obama from scandal. Some have speculated on their impending transfer to the field office in Guam once Obama has got Obama hatchet man Eric Holder running the show.

US Airways Passengers Are Safe

NY,NY—In the Catholic Church there was a patron Saint of travelers. He was St. Christopher who was defrocked as a saint by the church as a myth over 20 years ago. Some Catholics still wear those medals despite the church’s demotion of Mr. Christopher.

Was it some kind of divine protection or just dumb luck that nobody died in today’s aircraft mishap?

I know there is a lot of damage. Lost data and destroyed laptops, cameras and ruined clothing. All the cargo and luggage is below the water line. It will cost a bundle to extract the plane and make it airworthy once again. But no lives were lost!

I remember a similar accident I personally witnessed from the air of a November 1968 water landing for Japan Airlines flight. I could see the passengers in little yellow life rafts around that plane in the San Francisco Bay.

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The SHOT SHOW Is In Orlando, FL

Orlandao, FL—The SHOT SHOW is the largest gun related trade show in the world. This year it’s being held in gator country.

I can’t be there this year but attending and blogging every day is the prolific gun writer, Massad Ayoob. He is my eyes and ears this time and he can be yours too.

Anyone attending the show should pay a visit to the Eagle Grips booth for the world’s best gun grips.

Next year the show returns to Las Vegas and I will be there.

Read Ayoob’s blog right here!

Gun Triggers, Police Training, and That Sad BART Shooting

Oakland, CA—The New Year’s shooting that took the life of Oscar Grant was tragic for sure. I don’t buy that event as an intentional shooting.

No cop would intentionally shoot a helpless man in the back in front of scores of witnesses under the conditions made clear by the cell-phone captured videos.

Before this is over it may destroy the life of a second man, Johannes Mehserle, 27, the cop who pulled the trigger.

The duty or service weapon for BART police officers is the Sig-Saur .40 caliber semi-automatic. It has a 12 pound+ trigger pull. This is an ideal police sidearm.

What then caused the event? I won’t rule out some form of negligence but there were serious distractions that most certainly contributed to the killing.

Police officers are trained to fight off tunnel vision. That is our natural instinct to focus on what’s happening or the threat in front of us. Police are taught to pay attention to all 360 degrees around their positions.

The answer to the questions about was going through the young officer’s mind during this event has yet to be explained. Under the circumstances we cannot demand answers from this cop. He is protected by the same Bill of Rights that we fought wars to protect.

On that Oakland platform there was an angry mob taunting and making verbal threats to police simply doing their job. That crowd can take part of the blame because they distracted at least one cop and that’s all it took.

Was there something the officer saw or heard that caused him to draw the weapon that’s not visible on the videos?

Cops have to multitask under threatening conditions. They carry lots of equipment, perhaps too much equipment. They automatically extract that equipment from their uniform belts without looking. That in itself can be problematic.

Could have there been a spastic or involuntary movement of his trigger finger?

The experts will be examining this case for decades and perhaps so will our courts.

Roland Burris The Movie Star!

Chicago, IL—Most of my readers did not know our Blagoman shill, about to be sworn in as the new Illinois junior Senator was a movie star in a past life.

Ok folks! Tell me what major motion picture showed this image of Roland Burris?

Go ahead and make your guesses in the comments section and I will verify the right answer. A hint: Chicago coppers should figure this out in about 1 second.

The answer is posted with comments...

Transit Cop In Custody Charged With Murder.

Minden, NV—Bay Area Rapid Transit cop, Johannes Mehserle, 27, of Lafayette, CA surrendered here on a California arrest warrant from Alameda County, CA.

Mehserle was recorded on several cell phone video cameras shooting 22 year-old Oscar Grant who was face down in a prone position. Grant died from his wound.

The videos show Mehserle trying to put cuffs on Grant, and Grant appears to be struggling, when Mehserle suddenly pulls his service weapon from his holster and fires one shot into Grant's back.

This event polarized Oakland and has lots of very ugly anger spilling over. Small riots have broken out bringing about ove1 100 arrests in Oakland since the shooting. That anger caused Mehserle who had been getting death threats sought safety and refuge in Nevada.

The biggest question that remains unanswered if whether or not the act was deliberate or an accident. That question may be answered by a jury of Oakland residents.

Nobody said being a cop was easy.

The Lost History Of The Chicago Police Department

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Chicago, IL—There is little information provided to Chicago police officers about the department and its rich history. For example many officers don’t know the names of or the philosophy of the past police superintendents and before that, police chiefs.

I’m sure in the Graphic Arts unit there are many old photographs. There are decades of old Star Magazine issues that should be digitized and made available.

If I had about a month and the full cooperation of the department I put up a historical website with the highlights of the department’s good and bad times.

I’d love nothing more than to put up the stories and pictures behind each year’s winner of the coveted Police Medal. The story of these heroes and their moments of bravery are inspiring.

Going through old Police Board files and publishing some of the more notable discipline cases would show how human failings distracted officers from their missions.

The influence of corrupt politicians has left its mark on the department. If we don’t know about the problems how do we avoid repeating the same mistakes?

The department’s crime lab has been able to solve many high profile cases. They have pictures of amazing evidence going back many decades.

The old O’Brien Street academy must have had its share of recruit's ghosts running through the boiler room at night. I bet you could also hear the ghostly screams of recruits as the bones in their wrists snapped during defensive tactics training.

I had to laugh when I got this old picture of the academy. In the picture I can see my old blue 1971 Chevy Vega. That was Motor Trend Magazine's, Car of the Yrar. I had my “get out of parking tickets” stickers from the IPA and COP on both sides of the windshield. (See lower left corner of the picture)

There must be a real history buff that will handle this important mission.

Controlling Elder Abuse At Care Homes While Providing Peace Of Mind.

PROTECTING MOM WITH THE GRANDMACAM!

We’ve all heard horror stories of the rape, beatings along with the neglect of incapacitated and elderly people confined to some care facilities. Sex offenders, sadists and other criminals sometimes find employment in these places. The victims of these kinds of crimes are too often unable to resist or even complain about that kind of treatment.

In addition to investigating abuse allegations my investigation agency has taken on care facility security audits and dealing with efforts to prevent abuse. I’d much rather make these crimes impossible than investigate them after the fact.

With technology there is a cure. People will always behave themselves if they know they are being watched. Families will never have to worry about loved ones who need protection again.

The care facilities can offer a secure video link to families that will be able to watch their loved one in real time from anywhere in the world on a computer with an Internet connection. The care givers would never know when the the patient is being watched and a backup 30 day digital recording can be saved to resolve any neglect or abuse questions.

Consent must be given by the patient or if incapacitated the guardian of the patient can give formal consent. We must abide by all federal, state and local laws. Getting laws changed in states that may preclude this would be easy because of the greater good and they would accommodate the elderly by making any needed changes.

Reputable care facilities that are proud of the services they offer will embrace this effort. The facilities will find this kind of passive surveillance will both serve as a marketing tool and protection from allegations of abuse or neglect.

The tools needed are a simple computer, internet connection, camera and necessary software.

I have already brought this service to in home applications. I’ve done it in both covert and overt settings. It’s time to bring this to care facilities.

This is also about giving peace of mind to families that their loved ones are safe and in comfortable conditions.

People desiring this type of service can contact me right here for information and costs. Paul Huebl Investigations

Police Equipment From The Past.

Los Angeles, CA—I noticed that the uniform pockets of most local L.A. area police uniforms had sap pockets. I asked some of the coppers if they carried saps. They all did not even know what a sap or a blackjack was. I felt like a real dinosaur knowing I was old enough to be the father of these grown officers.

They carried other items in the sap pockets like flashlights or collapsible ASP batons.

Blackjacks are round and saps are flat. They are impact weapons designed for close up and personal combat. The bigger blackjacks will smash skulls and break bones. The idea is a person can be subdued with these impact weapons in short order.

I own five of these law enforcement relics in good condition. The two best I have are the Convoy blackjack and the Texan sap. I also have a great pair of deerskin gloves with six ounces of powered lead protecting each fist.

Saps were great to use for plain clothes assignments because regulation police batons are too difficult to conceal.

These weapons are outlawed for civilian possession in many states. They became a sore point (no pun intended) with minority groups and by the early 1970s were outlawed for police use. They became a public relations nightmare because of their effectiveness.

I have used both saps and blackjacks in street combat and found them to be helpful in causing aggressive suspects submit to arrest. I also found that often the mere display of a blackjack or sap was as counter-productive as waiving a red flag at a bull.

During the Blackjack Age, many suspects who were truly fearless wound up in dire need of dentures or suffered broken bones and fractured skulls with those associated neurological disasters.

In 1967 pop singer, singer Jimmy Rodgers was pulled over by an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer on the 405 San Diego Freeway. It was widely believed that the officer struck Rodgers in the head with a blackjack. Rodgers had little memory other than to say he was attacked. Rodgers endured a long recovery and rehabilitation period. The city settled out of court for $200, 000.00.

Our Prisons Can No Longer Afford To House Inmates

Nearly every state in the union has overspent tax money on things nobody needs or wants. We are slowly learning that politicians pour money into the business coffers for campaign contribution kickbacks rather than the need for the goods and services. They politely call that Pay for Play. It’s simple corruption.

California’s in a substantial mess for this reason. Now they are planning to hand out IOU’s instead of tax refunds in the not so Golden State.

At least one prison in Illinois is behind $20,000.00 in paying their power bill. The local utility company is justifiably threatening to shut off power there.

They are desperate to release prisoners. The problem is they want to release young prisoners that can be counted on to reoffend. They want to eliminate the parole supervision and cut whatever corners they can get away with.

There are a substantial number of really old offenders behind bars that can be released to make way for the dangerous young criminals with little or no risk.

I’m talking about prisoners older than 60 who have medical issues, exemplary prison records and who are locked up only because their crimes were so notorious. We are a vengeful society and want cop killers, child killers, and political assassins to quietly die in prison.

Examples of some of these inmates are cop killer Gregory Powell, of the Onion Field fame who is in his 80’s today. Then there is Susan Adkins of the Manson Family who is dying of brain cancer and has already lost one of her legs to the disease. In Illinois there is William George Heirens who has been locked up since he was 17 years-old in 1946.

Many people in prison committed absolutely horrible crime at very young ages and have grown old in prison. They’re too weak, too old and have lost interest in doing the things that put them behind bars.

When a person is in a wheelchair, diabetic, hypertensive, blind or has cancer in addition to being an advanced age it’s really difficult to continue on as a criminal. If a person no longer is a threat to society why keep them locked up while letting out those who are young, violent or are prolific thieves?

Releasing the old and infirmed inmates is far less dangerous than letting young criminals out on our streets.

Frankly if we’d only put more, Pay to Play politicians behind bars we’d not be in this mess. Instead we keep reelecting the pork peddling jerks to Congress and every other office as we whine about taxes.

LAX Police Are Violating Civil Rights

Los Angeles, CA—I’m reporting this case today because the so-called facts provided by the LAX Police Department and local media yesterday did not make sense.

Initially the media was told by police that 37 weapons were recovered from a man’s pickup truck at an LAX vehicular checkpoint. I guess simple counting is beyond the LAX Police Department’s expertise because with a subsequent recount that number now stands at 16.
Phillip Dominguez, 47, an Orange County resident was heading to the airport to pick up a friend arriving on a flight. The two then planned to go target shooting. The LAX police put up an impromptu roadblock to conduct random searches of vehicles entering. Of course our Constitution's Bill of Rights applies to those searches and absent a court issued search warrant or probable cause that a crime was committed. Police can only search upon consent.

Police searched some locked boxes in the truck's locking truck-bed and found the firearms and ammunition. Soon the handcuffs were applied to Dominguez's wrists.

Two of the 16 guns found were said to be loaded. That was the case for an antique musket rifle and a revolver.

Police admitted that there was no evidence of a violent or terrorist plot. Just a highly technical and really lame violation over transporting a weapon was involved.

Outside of passenger screening areas there are no other special gun laws covering the airport.

In addition to the LAX police the FBI and BATFE were put on this major investigation. Dominguez was released on $50,000.00 bail at 11:00PM last night.

That says so much for the right to keep and bear arms in the Bolshevik Republic of California. Somehow I don’t feel safer as a result of this arrest. On the contrary, I feel the big hand of an out of control police state in my pants.

Here is some video with missing audio of this same fellow engaged in some paintball activities.

Need an Industrial Grade Bitch-slapper?

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Here it is folks the long awaited, Slapper! Second City Cop brought out this handy device they issued him when he was a recruit in the Chicago Police Academy back in 1922!

Here you can learn about bitch-slapping before this handy device was invented:

Frightening Drug War Violence Is Coming To Your City

With our economy tanking in a hurry we still have the recession and depression-proof drug trade. Huge profits and insatiable drug appetites will bring even more entrepreneurs than ever.

American police will never be able to control the kind of violence as it’s been creeping inside our own fee society.

For the past two years I’ve been getting the most vile and ghoulish videos and pictures from the cops that read my blog. The images are that of unimaginable crime scenes. They show tortured, mutilated and dismembered corpses of cops, soldiers, rival drug runners, snitches, and various public officials. One video shows 24 decapitated bodies with heads everywhere. Needless to say I won’t be sharing those images here.

Ciudad Juárez, also known as just Juárez is a city of 1.5 million people. It stands on the Rio Grande, across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas. This formerly peacful city had some 1,600 drug related killings in 2007.

We began the Drug War to prevent our own children from being able to get or get hooked on drugs. Despite our grand efforts there is no child in America who can’t get all the drugs they want. The only roadblock is the amount of money they can pay. Of course drug addicts will do whatever it takes to obtain the money to supply their habits. And no small part of our crime rate is fueled by desperate Americans who have become an underclass of career criminals as a result.

The actual cost for the illegal drugs is that of sugar, coffee or cigarettes. The huge profits only exist because the drugs are illegal. Our government and laws have done more to contribute to the incredible wealth of the Southern hemisphere’s drug lords. Of course American criminals have been able to make a handsome living from this trade as well.

When are we going to wise up? We can put these criminals out of business in a single day through legalization of all the drugs we have outlawed. The risk to our children would not be greater and in fact drug violence kills far more people than the drugs themselves.

If we don’t get smart, we can watch this Third World drug related carnage on our own streets soon.

More Genocide At A Chicago All Black High School

Chicago, IL--When I heard there were five people shot tonight at a Chicago high school. I did not have to speculate what ethnic group would generate that kind of violence. The school involved was none other than all Black Dunbar High School.

One of Dunbar’s more recent graduates is none other than, American Idol and Oscar winning actress Jennifer Hudson. We all know what happened to her mother, brother and nephew just a few months ago.

There was a night basketball game with players from another Southside all Black high school. Rival gangs apparently wanted to impress some cheerleaders. It was around 8:00 PM when a car pulled up and shooting began.

No this problem is not genetic it’s strictly cultural. Chicago’s Black Culture of deadly violence and lawlessness is just proudly showing itself.

Chicago police responded with some 200 officers to restore order. Police will have to use surveillance video to attempt to identify the lads involved.

Mayor Richard M.Daley’s Gun Free Zones in his Gun Free City are more dangerous than any place where firearms and concealed carry are legal. Chicago is the place where genocide reigns supreme.

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The Shooting Of Oscar Grant In Oakland

Oakland, CA—Bay Area Rapid Transit police had arrested Oscar Grant. He resisted and died as a result. Was it excessive force, an accident or something else?

The truth is I don’t care. When someone engages in risky behavior such as resisting police there is always that chance they could lose their life. Save the fighting for the courtroom since you can’t do that on the street.

This is a case of White cops trying to keep order in an area populated by Blacks. In this instance, as soon as there were signs of a conflict every Black kid with a cell phone camera whipped it out and recorded the event.

I’m not sure what happened other then the lad took a calculated risk and gambled away his life.

This kind of an event is ugly for every cop. You don’t want these things to happen but unfortunately sometimes they do. Being a cop is risky too. You can be killed or punished emotionally for the rest of your life should you accidentally kill someone.

Having worked in a ghetto I know that police are hated and that the locals feel that laws are only for rich Whit folks to obey. That's the prevailing ghetto attitude, that’s always reinforced by Liberal politicians stinks.

I can’t imagine what it’s like to do police work with a bunch of sneering little pukes shooting video hoping to egg on the event so they can make a splash on YouTube. Here are three videos from this event. You can listen to the jerks taunting the police.

Patrick Swayze hospitalized with pneumonia

LOS ANGELES – AP is reporting that Patrick Swayze has checked himself into the hospital for observation after contracting pneumonia.

Swayze has pancreatic cancer and has a greatly impaired immune system as a result of treatment he’s been undergoing. This does not sound good for the 56 year-old actor and survival for this type of complication does not provide a promising results.

A&E President President Abbe Raven announced the hospitalization news Friday at a meeting of the Television Critics Association.

Swayae is said to be planning his quick return to promoting his new series, The Beast. Let’s hope that happens.