Tuesday night the UCLA library was anything but a quiet place to study when Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23 was questioned by a university cop and asked for a student ID card. After a refusal the student was asked to leave the library. That escalated into an arrest situation. The library was filled with other students at the time. Tabatabainejad was eventually zapped by a Taser Gun and began screaming. Other students began screaming too, and it quickly became a scene of chaos and bedlam. Another student captured six minutes of the circus on a cell phone camera. The video shows no acts of anything more some students trying to hold court on the incident right then and there instead of the courtroom. Tempers were out of control and the cops sounded really officious and loud. Instead of the cops carrying their prisoner out they apparently kept shocking him demanding he get up and walk. Had Tabatabainejad simply submitted to the arrest and fought for his rights in the courtroom he’d be i...

I wrote about getting out of jury duty a while back. For obvious reasons this blog gets hundreds of hits from Google searches on this subject. For the jury system to work we need a cross section of the community, not just the retired, or factory and government workers actually sitting on juries. Do we expect the doctors, lawyers, cops and business people to line up with simple and obedient servants for this duty any time soon?That just won't happen. The system is nearly broken and I’m not going to help repair it in any way. In the last three decades the judges and court clerks have felt the need to frisk Americans before they enter public buildings. More than need it was truly a case of monkey see, monkey do. The court bureaucrats get around the Fourth Amendment, Constitutional search issues by arguing that such searches are by your consent since you do not have to enter the courthouse at all. If you refuse to be searched they will simply deny your admittance. That all cha...

Ever wonder what it would be like to experience the heart stopping rush of risking it all playing high stakes Blackjack in Las Vegas? You’ll get the star treatment with that kind of gambling and receive great perks that include, transportation, the best hotel rooms, meals, shows, and service. Perhaps you’ll even star in your own biographical film about your life. Is it all too good to be true? Watch the new docufilm, “VEGAS STRIPPED” and judge for yourself as you walk in our gambler, Darren Leverenz’s shoes. Three excellent storytellers, Producer Nancy Alspaugh , Producer and Director Bernard Salzman along with the gambler, Darren Leverenz , take you on an amazing ride into this Las Vegas dream come nightmare. Experience the glitz, the glamour and the heartbreak of a man who shares this probing, postmortem examination of his remarkable life with us. The official site for VEGAS STRIPPED

The Democrats have taken control of Congress Here’s a 30 second video of what’s in store for all Americans.

With control of both Houses Of Congress in the hands of Democrats and a Presidential election in two years, we will face the largest challenges to our freedom ever in the history of this country. It’s only a slim margin you say? The now expired so called Assault weapons ban was tied 50-50 for passage in the Senate until Al Gore voted his party line to break the tie. We were saddled with that hateful legislation for ten long years! Elect a Republican you say? Who? John McCain or Rudy Guliani ? Why both of these top Republican contenders are long time gun-rights haters. Don’t expect them to care about our gun rights despite what they will tell us to get our votes. As for the Democrats, I can’t wait to see Hillary Clinton’ s duck hunting outfit for her photo op as a defender of the Second Amendment. I fully expect top see a brand new version of that gun ban this time classifying many more firearms as Assault Weapons than they did last time. Expect and end to the gun shows along ...

I’m going to offer my thoughts about tonight’s WBBM-TV report questioning hidden homicides in Chicago. The Chicago Police Department only turned over to WBBM-TV a handful of the 80 plus cases where the Medical Examiner’s records disputed the department’s conclusions. Perhaps a Federal Grand Jury should investigate the records that the department refused to turn over. Covering up murders if that's true are as bad as it could get. The potential implications here are beyond horrendous. Mayor Daley has used the apparently fraudulent homicide records for political gain and to showcase Chicago’s gun ban as a successful crime-fighting tool. It’s no secret that the department has been killing crime though reporting chicanery for nearly as long as the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program has been in existence. Watching Mike Chasen suggesting that the medical judgment of cops is superior to the forensic pathologists at the medical examiner has to be a joke. I think its time to end this o...

Crimefile News has learned that Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Pam Zekman of the CBS 2 Chicago’s investigative team at WBBM-TV is doing a story tonight at 10:00 pm based on a small sampling of cases ruled to be homicides by the Cook County Medical Examiner. These same cases are kept on the books of the Chicago Police Department as “DEATH INVESTIGATIONS” instead of homicides reportable under the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports. This makes Chicago a much more safer city on paper than the truth would show. I’m told this report will pull no punches and may expose an insidious practice of covering up murder cases. I suspect that after this report makes air it will become obvious that the City of Chicago has been spending money for campaign contributing city contractors instead of bringing the police department up to its needed number of officers. It may well be time for some leaks of sensitive information in order to cure a serious problem that affects the safety of officers. I suspect fol...

In case you've not met the Iron Maden from San Francisco, you will in this video.

A Crisp County, Georgia sheriff's deputy, Steven Rankin, 25 was seriously wounded when he was shot in the face during a traffic stop. Rankin pulled career criminal Ben Westbrook, 32 over at 1:47 a.m. on February 4, 2006 for loud music and erratic driving. Deputy Rankin lost about 70 percent of his upper right jawbone and several teeth in the shooting and he's already had several surgeries to repair the damage to his face. Deputy Rankin still has additional surgeries planned to repair the injuries. Today he’s on light duty. According to court documents, Westbrook plead guilty to nine charges, including aggravated assault, aggravated battery, obstruction of an officer, removal of the firearm of a law officer, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, discharging a firearm near a public highway, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, attempting to elude officers and driving with a suspended license. This is yet another fine example of how out nations 22...

That story is flying all over the place today. Allegedly the recently dumped Federline claims to have four hours of an explicit sex tape of him and the Little Pop Tart Princess getting it on. Supposedly Federline is threatening to make the tape available for public consumption if Spears doesn’t pay him what he wants. I think such a tape if it exists could quickly bring $200 million in profits if placed on the celebrity porn film market. Now a more serious problem for Federline are the felony crime laws against extortion and racketeering he may well have violated. Federline is out on his tattooed ass with little hope of continuing to live the lifestyle he quickly became used to living. A pre-nuptial agreement prevents Federline from cashing into much of Britney Sprears’ estate. Should Federline somehow gain child custody he will get a handsome monthly child support payment to keep the kids in style. Should Federline get jailed for extortion, child support will no longer be an issu...

I’ve talked about the necessity defense before as a way around laws that prohibit carrying weapons for reasonable self-defense. Necessity is a rarely used legal defense employed when people accused of crimes claim to have been forced to break a law for simple survival. Examples of this would be a person who is in danger of starving, dehydration or threatened by weather conditions breaking into a building to get whatever is needed for survival. The same principal would apply someone who is threatened by crime and poor or slow police response to calls for help where he must live or work. Recently that was found to be the case in a Maryland prison where a judge allowed the defense where a convict armed himself with a prison made knife and killed another inmate. Self-defense is the law of the land even in prisons. The Circuit Court Judge, Pamela North instructed a jury that a person may arm himself "in reasonable anticipation of an attack." Yes, even a prison convict has a ...

Many of my copper pals are telling me I’m growing liberal in my old age. Some have said, but for my strong stand on gun rights they know I’m a closet Barbara Streisand fan. Of course I deny listening to the Bolshevik broad’s music. Okay, I lied a little; there is one song she did that’s beyond cool. It’s that duet with Barry Gibb from a while back. I found the video on YOUTUBE. Thank you Barbara and Barry, you rang my bell with this one.

How extravagant! It must be great that Scottsdale can burn taxpayer cash to make a political statement about guns. The self-proclaimed, West’s most Western town” is really just plain Left, not West. The west’s most Leftist town is planning the destruction of 700 recovered firearms from their evidence vault. This town like so many others is under the control of gun-rights hating Liberals who think they’re somehow doing something to eradicate guns from the face of our earth by destroying them. Trading the guns to licensed dealers in exchange for regulation departmental weapons has been rejected. Selling the guns at public auction under proper federal laws has been rejected. Letting public supported museums acquire desirable items for their own collections has been rejected. The politicians from this town should be forced to pay the market value of the firearms to their taxpayers for allowing this wanton, willful waste. No gun dealers or gun manufacturers have complaints about these...

Have a safe Veteran’s Day…

These two officers are under both FBI and a departmental investigation in connection with an arrest captured on a cell phone. I can’t tell you what led to the arrest or what kind of resistance they had to overcome before the short portion of this event you can see. The suspect here is 24 year-old, William Cardenas , a known gang member who was being arrested in connection with possession of a stolen gun. AP talked with the attorney that reps the arrestee and published this story . An update ! Chief William Bratton responds on the LAPD blog.

That may be happening again soon at the West Los Angeles VA hospital . Today I spoke with the Director of the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Charles Dorman who told me that’s exactly what they intend to do. Apparently Mr. Dorman feels that his workers are at risk because of a couple of scary incidents involving veteran patients. What Mr. Dorman forgot is things like crime happen in any free society. They also happen in secure prisons. Mr. Dorman has not learned that even in America’s most secure prisons, weapons, even guns have been used to commit murders. Determined criminals or terrorists really can’t be stopped by frisking them or using metal detectors. Then there is the sticky issue of the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution. The intended searches do not come about with required Probable Cause or Warrants. The argument of consent searching is not valid since avoiding health care is not an option. Must we trade our privacy, freedom and dignity for our very liv...

One has to understand fully why the Republicans lost control both houses of Congress. George Bush was always a lousy choice to be the standard bearer for the party. Bush is a typical Texas Liberal who pretends to be a Republican because it’s the only way he can win an election against other Liberals. The single largest blow Bush dealt to the Republican Party was that failed Guest Worker Amnesty plan for the millions of illegal aliens that have squatted on our soil. Mexico has exported crime, drugs and their uneducated to America unchecked for decades. Despite sufficient laws on the books to deal with the problem the immigrants were either exploited as a political force for the Democrats and as low paid workers for far too many of our corporations. That inexcusable refusal of the Bush administration to enforce existing immigration laws did the most damage to our own working poor. The hardest hit are our own Black and Brown people who lost jobs to the invaders. This issue was neve...

Yes, it’s another fine mess for this Baldwin brother. TMZ.com broke the story of how Danny Baldwin, 46 got popped by Santa Monica cops in a hot SUV. The cops also reportedly found dangerous drugs and paraphernalia in Baldwin's motel room. The tip off came from the ON STAR service that located the stolen GMC Yukon, SUV at the motel where Baldwin was staying. Baldwin spent nearly 24 hours in the Los Angeles county jail on the drug charges before being turned over to Orange County authorities which is where the vehicle was reported stolen. As of 5:30 pm, Baldwin was still in the receiving area of the Orange County Jail. This arrest is the second this year in Santa Monica for the troubled actor. In the earlier case the cops also reportedly found dangerous drugs and paraphernalia in Baldwin's motel room. This first cocaine possession arrest from last April is still pending disposition in court. This Baldwin brother has an enviable list of credits on the Internet Movie Database , p...

It was during the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe that justice caught up with deposed Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena. On Christmas Day in 1989 this couple was given a trial of sorts, sent kicking and screaming to the hereafter, put in caskets and buried within record time. For the arrogant politicians that suspend or otherwise take freedom, liberty or property from their fellow citizens--they need to see this couple getting their just deserts. This should happen a little more often. Sit back and watch justice happen…

They already took the guns from law-abiding citizens of the United Kingdom and the crime rate has soared well into the stratosphere ever since. Now that nation’s do-gooders are after knives. Along with a big ad campaign they’ve created collection points where Brits can do their part by turning in those awful knives before the government simply takes them away. The United Kingdom abolished any and all rights to self-defense long ago. The government ties down the law-abiding citizens while allowing the criminals to rape, rob and murder without interruption. Of course you can always dial 999 and wait for the police to put your remains into a rubber body bag. This goofy land will be safe from any dollars I have to spend on vacations. A website to help Brits along with the program.