We Must Stop TSA Tyranny Now

Washington, DC—Airline security has always been dysfunctional from the day the FAA took over that responsibility. They began by getting a poorly thought out mandate that all passengers be screened by people we would not trust to walk our dogs.

The FAA disarmed any pilots that were permitted by local laws to carry guns. Likewise they disarmed vetted, trained cops flying on our airplanes. That was because of the personal gun rights hating philosophy of these political patronage appointees.

Criminals, illegal aliens and those with minimal mental capacity were hired to inspect the personal property and possessions of travelers. It was never intended to be real security but a pretend effort to fool passengers into thinking they were somehow safe.

That unforgettable attack of September 11, 2001 and the FAA policies enabled the murders of nearly 3,000 and damages in the hundreds of billions. The pilots were unarmed and defenseless and two off duty cops on two of the four planes were also disarmed and helpless. Had the pilots and off-duty cops been armed, 9/11 would have been just another day.

Not one FAA official or government bureaucrat was even criticized for creating the perfect conditions for the Muslim terrorists.

The TSA was created as a new ways to waste billions on government contractor fraud as thousands of hard corps unemployable people were given jobs and the power to abuse and steal the belongings of passengers.

The cargo side of airline security is not seen by passengers and accordingly is largely ignored. The TSA administration has equated the public perception of their job performance by how much aggravation passengers can be put through.

To date the TSA or their predecessors have not stopped a single terrorist incident.

Not one politician or government bureaucrat has ever suggested that people flying on passports from countries unfriendly to the United States be banned from our planes. Somebody, please tell me how that makes any sense at all.

Now the TSA want to expose passengers to unknown health risks by forcing them through body X-Ray imaging devices. The TSA has also recently digressed from less invasive metal detection wanding, to offensive, outrageous genital groping and fondling.

One invasive step at a time, Americans seem willing to accept anything from government. I guess the German people felt that Adolph Hitler was working for public safety during the reign of the Third Reich. This TSA attack on travelers is a criminal effort that violates the rights of Americans that must be shut down right now.

We fought wars to stop such government abuse and we must fight again right now or we will have surrendered our dignity with our liberty. Homeland Security and the TSA are out-of-control as they have waged war not on terror but on American Passengers.

Americans need not take abuse from TSA workers. You have an absolute right to order these people to take their hands off you and to use physical force if they don't. Call the local police on your cell phone should they touch your private parts. Lawyers are waiting to sue on your behalf for this kind on conduct. Don't remain silent and then try and report it when your trip is over.

The largest pilots union has told its members to refuse the X-Ray body scanners. They need our support.Meet TSA thug Butler at LAX terminal 2

Watch how one TSA baggage screener broke TSA rules and the law in an effort to prevent me from lawfully shooting video at LAX airport. Had she not stopped her assault on me I’d have thrown that miserable bitch down a long flight of concrete stars from the upper level of Terminal Two. She learned quickly I was serious.

Tax Tyranny and Corruption is Behind America’s Economic crisis

Washington, DC—No, don’t confuse me with the so-called Tea Party movement. That group has done far too little and much too late. The real Tea Party forcibly boarded the King’s ships and destroyed property to get their point across.

Waving flags and standing around watching tyranny is a meaningless exercise that did not even get a single acknowledgment from the Whitehouse. Perhaps if the Tea Party folks sent in a few high explosive mortar rounds to the Rose Garden, Barack Obama might have noticed people were intolerant of his Socialist agenda.

Perhaps calling today’s Tea Party people Astroturf was a good description because it was a movement of pretenders instead of true patriots.

Our politicians have decreed that American taxpayers must provide free education and medical care to all of Central America as we feed our own existing entitlement monster. This is a bottomless pit that swallows cash from every working family’s food budget.

We have no choice but to reverse the tsunami of ignorant, impoverished criminals that have invaded and occupy our country. We must force a change in culture in the American ghettos or cut off the free money we are currently forced to pay them.

Confiscatory taxation is slavery and violates the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. American’s need not tolerate this but they are too intimidated resist the tyranny.

Americans have been programmed somehow to accept tax credits instead of tax breaks. We’ve somehow been fooled to send our money to Washington so they can send a fraction of back to us later. The Tax Credit concept would have our founding fathers back into the streets with their guns if they were alive today.

Government has provided golden retirement parachutes for themselves as Social Security is insolvent. There is no break for the nation’s number one employer, small businesses.

The only way out of this sinkhole to continued Socialism is resistance to the unlawful government policy and the enemies of America behind this agenda.

We cannot rely on the election process alone to rid the country of Communists and Socialists. Citizens must administer punitive action against these tyrants and their families at every opportunity. The only way they will stop is when they are too frightened to continue. Our founding fathers wanted politicians to fear the wrath of the people but that has been totally reversed by our police state.

Our economy can only improved by reducing government by as much as 80% in size, ending the entitlement society we’ve become and by a serious policy to shut our borders to trespassers. We must deport the trespassers inviting them to take their American born children with them in lieu of sending the kids to foster care or institutions.

Americans can either resist the tyranny or live as terminal victims and slaves. We must do whatever it takes to get that Communist Barack Obama and his cabal out of our Whitehouse. We elected a new Congress. How soon will these folks be bought off through corruption and become clones of the criminals they replaced?

Corrupt government’s like our own will do anything including murder, imprison and torture in order to survive. Nowhere in the world has any government voluntarily reduced its own size. The only way that ever happens is by war.

Whatever we are doing or have done in America for the last five decades is not enough to see the return of freedom, liberty and our former way of life. We’ve lost what millions of American valiantly fought and died trying to protect. What shame…

Barack Obama, the Most Toxic Politician in America.

Washington, DC—The referendum on the first 22 months of the Obama Administration is over. It was indeed a stunning defeat and so far there is a loss of at least 60 of the Messiah’s most loyal followers from the House of Representatives.

Obama shoved his Socialist agenda down the throats of Americans as he locked Republican’s and Conservatives out of the political process.

Behind closed Whitehouse doors the total destruction of our form of government was in progress as Obama handed at least a trillion dollars to the very crooks that are responsible for the banking and mortgage lending scandals. Obama seized and nationalized American automakers along with banks destroying free enterprise and competition. He also set about nationalizing our health care and insurance industries.

That money went straight to the crook’s off shore bank accounts and personal stockpiles of gold providing no benefit whatsoever to the millions of Americans desperately in need of employment.

Obama went on his Apology Tour that humiliated millions of Americans and comforted our enemies. Obama began dismantling our nuclear stockpile and weakening our national defense capability.

Obama pushed for the bailouts and reckless printing of money designed to bring hyper-inflation and the death of Capitalism in America. The obvious goal was to replace it with a Socialist model that failed everywhere it’s been tried.

Obama now claims he now wants ideas from Republicans that he avoided over the last 22 months. Obama really knows he is a lame duck and that his Socialist agenda is as dead as Dillinger. Obama is out of options to save face.

January 2011 is 60 days away and the blizzard of Congressional subpoenas will bring lots of sunlight into the rampant Whitehouse chicanery. Obama’s birth, student loan, passport and Illinois State Bar records will also get the spotlight that $1.5 million in legal fees has protected them in the courts. Obama’s birthplace will no longer be the subject of speculation,

I fully expect Obama’s staffers to leave by the droves like rats abandoning ship. I’m fully confidant Obama will never finish this term before he faces ouster and perhaps criminal prosecution.

The only cure I can see for what ails America is a moratorium on the personal income tax and quarterly payments by employers that don’t lay off workers. As jobs and confidence returns a much smaller government must be in place of the over-bloated Socialist disaster we have now. We need to return to the values of our wise founding fathers.

America must end the addiction to entitlements if we are to survive as a nation. We cannot continue to educate and provide free medical care to the masses of poor and ignorant of Central and South America that have trespassed on our soil.

Finally! Meet the Big Bopper’s Girlfriend, Chantilly Lace!

Los Angeles, CA— February 3, 1959 will always be known as the day the music died. Three talented young lads suddenly shot up to fame in 1958.

They were all beginning lives of fortune and fame as their music was being played all over the world. J. P. Richardson, also know at The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens boarded a four seat plane for their next engagement in Minnesota.

There was a fourth lad I met many years later in Phoenix who was supposed to be on that plane. He was none other than the late great Waylon Jennings gave up his seat to Richardson who was suffering from the flu. Jennings was Buddy Holly’s bass player at the time. Holly's guitarist, Tommy Allsup, agreed to a coin toss with Richie Valens for the remaining seat. Valens won. Several miles from Clear Lake, Iowa the plane went down in a blizzard taking four souls including the 21 year-old pilot, Roger Peterson.

Richardson was a D.J., song writer and now a singer who’s somewhat silly but entertaining song Chantilly Lace was a big hit. Richardson acted out that song on stage by singing in to a telephone.

I just spotted Richardson’s girlfriend, Chantilly Lace time-traveling into the present, wearing a wild looking pair of leggings! She was actually on the cell phone with Richardson. Who else could it have been? I was lucky and caught her on video before she disappeared into the past for yet another date with the Big Bopper.

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Will Voters Punish Congressional Misdeeds Today?

All over the country voters that had tough questions about bailouts and Obamacare were belittled, insulted and shoved around by thugs at Town Hall meetings.

Despite nearly every poll showing upwards of 60% of the voter did not want the huge Obamacare bill that was not even read by Congress, they passed it anyway plunging Americans into massive debt.

Under Obama, Pelosi and Reid the United States Government became a secret Soviet style regime. The men and women in our Congress arrogantly reinforced the wall between themselves and Americans. They live under one set of rules and force us to live on another.

Congress has lost its way. Instead of representing the people in their districts they represent campaign contributors from any organizations from all over the world. Money talks, not the humble voters.

Congress was intended to be formed with low paid, part-time public servants, who would come in from their districts to reflect the local attitudes in Washington. Once they debated and voted they’d return to their districts and live on the economy they have been controlling.

Today these are full-time career politicians that freely burn the tax dollars they order confiscated from American family food budgets. The travel, non-stop partying and narcissistic lifestyle of our congressmen and women are as addicting as any drug. That addiction is fed in every conceivable way by lobbyists and special interests that include foreign governments.

That Mr. Smith goes to Washington fighting for what’s right image just does not happen in the halls of Congress. Instead we have a criminal syndicate sitting around scratching each other backs while they count their cash. The division between the political parties has become almost nonexistent as they work together in a self-serving, mutual admiration society.

Voters must rid the halls of Congress of incumbents and mandate limit terms for every political office. They only thing our Congressmen and women learn through experience in the Beltway is that crime pays them handsomely.

Janet Napolitano is Obstructing Justice and Aiding Terrorists.

Washington, DC—Janet Napolitano, a lawyer was elevated to the position of U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona by Bill Clinton for her party loyalty. After the Democrats were gone from the Whitehouse she lost her patronage job and got elected as Governor Arizona. Like most Leftist Democrats she spent much faster than the tax money came in.

Napolitano opted for photo radar highway enforcement as a way to fund out-of-control government. In the process the courts ignored hearsay prohibitions to get otherwise inadmissible evidence admitted. I guess when judge’s retirement are funded through traffic fines anything goes as people’s Due Process rights are violated.

Napolitano also broke criminal law requiring people engaged in obtaining evidence and investigating criminal or civil matters to obtain private investigation licenses by contracting with the robocam company. Police and government employees are exempt but not private contractors.

Barack Obama appointed Napolitano as Homeland Security Secretary simply because she could be counted upon to obstruct justice when it came to immigration crimes enforcement and leave our borders vulnerable to crime and terrorist attack.

Rather than to shift focus of Airline security to people traveling on passports from countries we are at war with Napolitano dropped the hammer on American grandmothers and even pilots forcing them through special invasive X-Ray imagining machines exposing then to privacy invasion and unknown health risks.

There was a TSA related firearms accident caused by a booby-trap padlock holster required for airline flight deck officers. On Napolitano’s watch, an exhaustive investigation report and recommendation was made by the Inspector general’s office to scrap the dangerous padlock. Napolitano refused to follow the recommendation. I guess she will wait until someone is killed and their family collects millions from taxpayers.

Napolitano has left the borders unsecured and has placed American lives in unnecessary danger at a time when terrorists are constantly threatening to kill us.

Napolitano had no experience or training as a cop and has no qualifications to hold that position. Napolitano is aiding and abetting criminals and foreign terrorists by Obstruction of Justice. Janet Napolitano is dangerous for America.

Why The Obama Socialist Agenda Must be Stopped Cold

Washington, DC—This has been unlike any election campaign season in decades. The difference is because the flow of political information was not being filtered exclusively through three TV networks and publishing giant’s Leftist propaganda monopoly.

Cable TV, radio diversity and the Internet has opened the door to free speech. The real political struggle is between American style freedom and One World Socialism. There is no reasonable or acceptable middle-ground for either side.

The dream of a One World Socialist Government is designed to prevent dissidents from voting with their feet to leave a miserable nation. Socialist politicians want to be sure there’s no place for their citizens to run.

Socialism has always had a really dark history of, mass murder, mass poverty and constant misery. The Party elite always turn the treasury into personal slush funds free of restraint or oversight. The rest of the population must cooperate or face treason charges for the slightest resistance. Socialism is not some romantic form of government with loyal party members singing around a campfire.

The Internet has educated Americans in a philosophy and form of government that is second to none. Millions of Americans have fought and died for the Constitution and Bill of Rights the Socialists want to shred. Thankfully our founding fathers put a safety lock on our Constitution to prevent destruction by a simple majority of voters acting on a whim.

Barack Obama’s birth origin is a carefully guarded secret that has so far cost him and his supporters $1.5 million to protect from prying eyes in the courts. There can be only one reason for Obama’s effort to keep those records sealed and that’s simple fraud. The Constitution dictates our presidents must be Natural Born Citizens. January will bring Congressional Subpoenas putting those records under some much needed sunshine.

Barack Obama’s political life was created in the bowels of Chicago political corruption. Obama’s close political associates were all criminals, Communists, thieves and thugs. Obama’s long time religious adviser was and is an anti-American, racist hatemonger. The Chicago Regular Democratic Organization is rife with white collar criminals involved in an ongoing conspiracy that has bankrupted that once great city. It is unrealistic to believe any high ranking member of this evil cabal has any integrity whatsoever.

Our economy was destroyed by the Socialists in our Congress dictating lenders provide millions of home loans to those unable or unwilling to repay them. That was not an accident but a design to invite the new Socialist form of government to replace what our founding fathers fought and died to give us.

Taxation to the point of slavery is nothing less than slavery. Confiscatory taxation always shuts down productivity and the economy of any nation. We have been shut down because our Socialist politicians have never found a new tax or tax increase they did not love.

These same Socialist politicians have raised their own wealth and standard of living at every opportunity. The more they tax Americans, the more bodyguards they hire with our money.

This mid-term election tomorrow is only a start on the road back to free enterprise, competition and productivity. The return of the once unparalleled American standard of living will be on the way only if we can stamp out Socialist Tyranny.

Obama’s agenda is dangerous for America, our citizens and most basic freedoms. Obama is a Socialist Traitor engaged in High Treason and he must be stopped cold. To allow Obama and his agenda to continue will bring the full wrath of Socialism and its deadly consequences visit our children.

Blaming George W. Bush

Washington, DC—The Congressional Socialists that are getting the Bum’s Rush out of our Capital Building Tuesday all blamed Bush of the troubles in America. George W. Bush was a lot of things but Conservative was not one of them.

The truth is Bush had no control over the Socialist majority Congress that brought us virtually everything that torpedoed our economy. The mortgage banking crisis came after lenders were forced by Congress to make loans to millions unable or unwilling to repay them. The un-American TARP bailout program favored crooked banks for handouts destroying honest competition. Bush’s participation was minimal considering Congress approved this Bolshevik garbage by wide majorities.

Bush got us in to two wars that has done nothing but cost American taxpayers a huge fortune and killed thousands of our youngsters, while crippling thousands more for life. Both wars would have been far more acceptable if Iraq and Afghanistan were simply bombed off the map without the use of ground troops. The concept of invading and pacifying a land of religious fanatics is at best an insane one.

Bush was a terrible president as was his father. They were both big government “spendaholics”.

As for Barack Obama, he appears to have single-handedly brought about the much anticipated Tuesday flushing of the Congressional toilet. Obama brought America Socialism with the destruction of free enterprise by bailout, the seizure and nationalization of the banks, auto, health insurance and healthcare industries. Americans apparently finally have awakened and saw this destructive Socialist attack for what it was.

If two years and a trillion dollars has taught America a lesson in failed Socialist policies than we must thank Barack Obama before we hang him for Treason.

The News Stories are Too Often About the Gun Rather Than the Criminal

Lancaster, CA—During a traffic stop at 3:40 AM by L.A. County deputies, shots rang out from the car they pulled over and a short vehicular chase began. When cornered a gang member, parolee, Christopher Orlando, 25 and Shayla Janelle Harper, 26 were placed under arrest.

Police discovered the criminal duo’s really crappy Tec-9 pistol had malfunctioned and it has been suggested that may have prevented injury or death to the deputies. The Tech-9 was quickly elevated with photos and fiction by local media to the status of a superior weapon that was once outlawed by that federal law that had expired.

The Tec-9 is difficult for an experienced marksman to shoot with any accuracy, is chambered for the underpowered 9 MM caliber and is a woefully unreliable weapon. The thugs would have been much more dangerous had they a conventional revolver or pistol.

This is yet another prime example of ugly guns being portrayed as more powerful or dangerous than prettier firearms.

The gun is the least interesting part of the story when the media could have informed readers and viewers about the two criminals and their past. I think viewers are much more concerned about dangerous, already convicted young criminals roaming our streets rather than getting an embellished media sales pitch on a really lousy, poor man’s gun.

This was nothing more than a cheesy media attempt to sway public opinion to support yet another unconstitutional gun ban.

The Great Divider’s Last Stand

Washington, DC—Elected nearly two years ago on a platform of transparency, an obviously false promise against any tax increase for middle class Americans along with the creation of needed new jobs Barack Obama has delivered nothing except government tyranny.

Instead of transparency, Obama assembled a group of Communists and such that worked behind closed doors dismantling free enterprise, destroyed competition with bogus bailouts as they nationalized banks and automakers.

The Obama appointees were creating a system of slavery forcing productive Americans to pay for the entitlement addicted and that never ending tidal wave of illiterate and needy illegal immigrants trespassing on our soil.

The country has never been this divided and was and is well on the way to Civil War.

The election Tuesday is referendum on Obama and his fellow socialists in our Congress. The polls all seem to indicate the long overdue flushing of a lot of Socialist incumbent’s careers will begin.

They want to blame George Bush when it was Congress that forced ever mortgage lender to risk our entire economy on millions of risky home loans doomed to failure.

Barack Obama and his group of rogues set out to nationalize healthcare and insurance industries despite what the majority wanted or were willing to pay for. Never mind that the whole program was un-American and unconstitutional.

I’ve been convinced that Obama will be forcibly removed from the Whitehouse before his term expires in 2012 if the Obama majority is defeated.

In January it will be raining Congressional subpoenas inviting current and former Whitehouse staffers to explain just what was going on behind those closed doors for the previous two years. The question of Obama’s birth and citizenship status will no longer escape the sunlight. It could be that every act or law signed by Obama gets invalidated.

Get out to the polls and depose the despots! Hopefully America will never flirt with Socialism again.

You Have a Right to a Speedy Trial Unless Your Name is Drew Peterson

Joliet, IL—In America we pride ourselves on the Bill of rights. The problem is that the older our Bill of Rights becomes, the more exceptions to liberty is carved away by the courts.

Retired Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson had no criminal record but become a so called “person of interest” in the disappearance of his fourth wife Stacy Peterson. At least one witness told police that Stacy told him how she planned on disappearing because she wanted to end her relationship with her much older husband.

The disappearance of Stacy Peterson caused a new investigation into the unfortunate death of Peterson’s third wife Kathleen Savio that was ruled earlier as a bathtub related accident. Peterson did not have legal access or keys to enter the home where the young woman died. Accident or even murder this is still a real whodunit.

A second and then a third autopsy of Savio’s remains were done years later. The results were called murder and with no eye witnesses, physical evidence cops and prosecutors want to rely on what Kathleen is credited with telling Stacy Peterson and others about Drew Peterson. Savio’s divorce and financial demands against Peterson obviously colored and motivated any of Savio’s alleged remarks. Savio’s family clearly has a financial interest in convicting Drew Peterson since there is ongoing civil litigation. Family members have claimed to be witnesses to the hearsay statements.

Hearsay has no place in a courtroom outside of a Police State such as The Peoples Court of Germany during the Third Reich. That did not stop Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow from asking for a special hearsay exception law to use against a suspect he had no admissible evidence to convict. The Legislature and Governor quickly approved the yet to be tested Drew Peterson Law and Peterson was quickly indicted and arrested for Murder.

Bail was set at an unheard of $20 million without a single hint that Peterson was a flight risk or danger to the community. That kind of bail is reserved for cases with the proof is evident and the presumption of guilt is great. They made yet another exception for drew Peterson.

Peterson was ready for trial many months ago but court ruled against the prosecution on most of the unreliable hearsay evidence Glasgow needed to try this paper thin case. Glasgow has appealed the court’s rulings and as a result Drew Peterson must endlessly wait for his day in court locked in a jail cell.

Peterson has lost well over a year of his life already without being convicted of any offense whatsoever. The excessive bail stands as a novel and un-American hearsay law and related lower court rulings slowly grinds through the higher courts of Illinois.

Peterson is not being punished for any crime, but merely for his redundant nationally televised, and vocal denials of involvement in with the fate of two ex-wives. Peterson has become a person that everyone including that blindfolded Lady Justice now loves to hate.

Drew Peterson was jailed for no other reason because he proclaimed his innocence and criticized the efforts of the law enforcement agents and agencies for their efforts to arrest and convict him at any cost. Peterson was jailed simply as a way to silence him.

Drew Peterson’s rights to reasonable bail along with a speedy and fair trial have all been violated by every branch of government.

I sat at a fact-finding lunch with both Drew Peterson and his lead lawyer Joel Brodsky only a week before his indictment, and that pre-arranged, staged television news photo opportunity of the arrest.

At the lunch I don’t think Brodsky had even a clue to what new legal lows Glasgow would stoop to in his absolute perversion the prosecution process.

Chicago Police, Arrest Incentives and Another Scandal

Chicago, IL—Chicago politician's demands for their favorite enforcement leads to impropriety. An example is arresting people that dare place their own safety above unconstitutional gun prohibitions.

Generally most genuine criminals carry all manner of weapons. Passing and publishing prohibitions of any kind never deters criminals. Police arrest people for possessing or selling drugs and find their guns. Various calls related to assaults, threats and other senseless crimes often also lead to gun arrests.

Police can’t and don’t run around randomly searching people looking for guns. Law-abiding citizens can carry guns for decades without detection or arrest simply because they never give police probable cause to stop and search them.

The Chicago Police Department’s commanders must show numbers to these politicians so they give the cops awards and perks for hauling in the guns. In my day the tactical teams of plain clothed officers assigned to districts would win eight hours compensatory time-due for every gun arrest along with a big pat on the back.

What happens in the Circuit Court of Cook County was a game of sorts. Prosecutors always have an attractive plea deal that allow for the gun to be confiscated and destroyed with the defendant getting a slap on the wrist at best. That is unless of course he was already a convicted felon, then the stakes are only a little higher.

Felons with guns never get the ten-years in prison they could get under federal law. They’d nearly always get much softer sentences rarely exceeding a year behind bars provided they plead guilty.

The reality is that actual trials on gun possession charges are incredibly rare. The need for an officer making the arrest to actually testify under oath is nearly non-existent.

Like nearly all cops I had a part-time job to bring in more money. I handled security for the old and now gone Continental Trailways Bus Company in Chicago’s Loop. Bus and train stations attract all manner of creeps and thugs. Many of them are armed and I would arrest one or two of these misfits per week that were carrying guns. If I signed the complaints I’d get no personal benefit whatsoever. I never had to sign a single complaint.

The 001 District tactical team, needed gun arrests to satisfy that old dinosaur commander, Paul V. McLaughlin. McLaughlin showered his boys with lots of praise and perks for bragging rights to lots of gun arrests in his district.

I’d make the stop and seizure and put a call into the communication center zone asking for a 001 tactical team to meet me at the baggage department. Next the district teams would race each other “code one” to Trailways knowing whoever got their first would win the prize.

The prisoner and the evidence were always taken off my hands with a big smile. I did not have to write a report, sign a complaint,inventory or impound the evidence.

I never wrote or even read the reports made by the tactical teams, attended court trials or hearings. The reports I correctly assumed told a tale of an some kind of on view arrest by a team member rather than me. The hapless defendant did not have a clue what was going on as his lawyer worked out an attractive plea deal with prosecutors. Those gun cases would always have a seemingly satisfactory conclusion.

Unfortunately the same zealousness for gun arrests has snared many good men and women simply trying to protect themselves and family members from urban violence. It happens at a traffic stop where the cop will simply ask, “Do you have any weapons on your person or in this car?” An honest answer here leads to an arrest and a criminal conviction stain that will affect jobs, professional licenses and reputations for life.

Apparently now a certain Chicago police district tactical team is facing disgrace, firing and criminal prosecution for the same type of program. A program designed to satisfy politicians that encourage and enable gun arrests at all cost.

Offering any kind of extra incentive to encourage the arrest of anyone is wrong and invites abuse.

As for possible crimes cops could be charged with include, Perjury in connection with the complaint signed under oath and Official Misconduct. There are numerous transgression of department general orders that include false reporting.

Perhaps it’s time for the courts, police, prosecutors and politicians to re-think their entire gun law and enforcement policy. For too long they have focused on the guns rather than the criminals. Violent criminals using guns in crimes in Chicago have been allowed to roam the streets despite numerous arrests and convictions. Simply grabbing guns is never a preferable solution to locking predatory criminals away from society.

The Political Correctness Police are at it Again.

New York, NY—With all the burning issues for the City Council here they seem to have way too much time on their hands. They are struggling with the issue of outlawing the Wolf-Whistle in the city’s streets directed to the fair sex.

It is an absolute right for women to take the extra time to display their elegance and femininity in America. Beautiful young women walk down our streets with their high heels striking the pavement in a practiced staccato is something I equate to a primitive mating call. I live for that sight and sound.

They dress to impress and deserve all the admiring glances they can get. Every now and then there is a wolf-whistle or two to let the lady know her extra effort to look great is appreciated. Usually well-adjusted women will turn and smile for the compliment.

I certainly don’t want to see these terrific gals frightened, harassed, followed or insulted. Most or all of the conduct I just described may well violate existing laws that should be enforced. But to outlaw the wolf-whistle is plain un-American.

To even suggest that a complimentary wolf-whistle should result in an arrest and a criminal record is insane. My question is, has Taliban madmen taken over New York’s government?

Just so you know the wolf whistle in the video below is only a sound effect added post production.

Shooting With the Stars in Van Nuys, CA

Van Nuys, CA—Despite some of the worst gun laws in the nation people in L.A. still have access to firearms for self-defense. There is a conveniently located indoor range that is frequented by some surprising Hollywood celebrities that received their training and maintain their shooting skills at THE TARGET RANGE.

If you own a firearm for personal protection, that’s only a small part of your needs. Training in efficient use of the weapon and the laws and liability of the justifiable use of deadly force is a must.

There are two types of training you can receive, a civilian course or the more intense Security Firearms Program. The latter is the course mandated for security personal such as armored car drivers and bodyguards. I have always recommended the Security Firearms course for civilians too.

The security Firearms course deals with safety, marksmanship, weapons-retention along with a good dose of law surrounding use of force with follow up written testing. This is really not a difficult course but will give you the best bang for the buck. It may keep you from making a mistake that could threaten your liberty should you need to shoot in the gravest extreme.

At The Target range is Valley Guard Training where you can get a real pro to give you what you need to both protect your life and your liberty. The primary trainer at Valley Guard Training is, Alan Kushner. Mr. Kushner provides the tools to men and women that will keep them safe and inspire their confidence.

As for celebrity self-protection Mr. Kushner is definitely the go-to guy for some meaningful anti-stalking immunization tips.

The facility has a wide range of handguns available for training and purchase.

Click Here to visit Valley Guard Training’s Website.

The European Union Does Not Understand America’s Rejection of Obama

Berlin, Germany—Berliners above all in Germany have a fondness for Americans. It was America that saved this grand, but defeated city from Soviet tyranny. When the Soviets began their punitive blockade around Berlin at the start of the Cold War, America responded with the Berlin Airlift bringing in food, medical supplies and heating fuel. Our pilots risked the threat of being shot down in the process.

During World War Two, Berlin was nearly bombed off the map but was rebuilt in to a splendid and thriving modern metropolis. Today’s Berlin is a great city to live, work and raise a family.

I was personally blessed to be sent to duty as an Army draftee to Germany during the Viet Nam War where I served as a medical corpsman. My very best life memories are when I was living among my German friends in that terrific country.

It was just over two years ago that a tall young man with a great smile came here to introduce himself to the European Union. It was the American Presidential candidate, Barack Obama. He stayed at the prestigious five-star, Hotel Aldon where Michael Jackson once dangled is new baby out a window. This Hotel was heavily damaged during the war but rebuilt to absolute grandeur sitting close in proximity to the Brandenburg Gate.

Obama drew a huge crowd of curious Germans eager to see the first African contender for the Office of President of the United States. At die Siegessäule, or the Victory Tower, a monument to three 19th Century Prussian victories, Barack Obama addressed the jubilant Berliners.

Obama is admired in most of Europe right now as a good Socialist bringing political reform and government re-structure to America. They seem to not understand that even a simple majority of voters can’t change our Constitution. Our founding fathers gave it special protection.

After World War One, there was another man that could draw even bigger German crowds wherever he went. He too had a great smile and offered Hope and Change under the flag of National Socialism. The German people loved their new hero and Germany went from near starvation to relative prosperity. Adolph Hitler was Europe’s new rock star. Of course that was in the beginning of a nightmare costing some 50 million lives over its twelve-year reign.

Had Adolph Hitler not invaded most of Europe or ordered the holocaust he’d have been considered a great man. Of course his Socialist form of government eventually would have brought abject poverty as the great political Ponzi Scheme once again failed as they ran out of other people's money.

Political science still confounds most people that never really learn the pros and cons of various styles and forms of government. They still want to trust those politicians that smile, kiss babies and promise a good life for all. The greatest fault of all people on this planet is their failure to look to history. Every really important society in history was built on injustice and slavery. Socialism is slavery and Socialists are mass murderers.

There was very little difference between Communism and National Socialism beyond their competition for public support. Socialism is the root of these government programs.

Obama is a Socialist and Europe is still full of Socialists and Communists that have never believed in any other form of government despite history.

Europe must recognize that our country is a Democratic Republic with free enterprise at its core. The seizure by bailouts of financial institutions, banks, automakers and the healthcare industry is un-American and absolute Socialism. Obama’s idea of hope and Change is right out of Hitler’s Mein Kamph and Karl Marx’s Das Kapital.

Many in Europe are dismayed that Obama has been discovered for what he is and rejected by most Americans. Millions of Americans are willing to fight Socialism to the death. Fortunately Conservative Americans are already well-armed and have been acquiring millions of more firearms and tons of ammunition to preserve our Constitution and way of life.

It appears in every poll, that Americans have realized just how close they came to becoming another China or North Korea. We can look forward to the defeat of a lot of incumbent Socialists in our Congress. This will bring a new beginning of many investigations into criminal conspiracies, corruption and Obama’s birth records.

Europe must understand and accept that America has refused to become a Socialist nation. Americans will continue to fight as they always had for their Constitution and Bill of Rights. Let freedom Ring.

On Tuesday, November 2, 2010 get out and remove those corrupt, incumbent Socialists from our nation’s capital.

Bankrupt State And Local Governments Are Sill Violating People’s Civil Rights

Los Angeles, CA—The California Assembly has written a telephone book size chapter on firearms regulations. They have laws against guns that are too big, too small or too cheap. They have laws to deal with all manner of possession or carrying. The sad truth is the average cop can’t possibly keep up with all the gun laws of the not-so-golden state. Concealed weapons permits are still impossible for civilians to obtain in any of the most populace and dangerous counties.

Non-residents are absolutely and wrongly barred from any right or even a privilege to carry a loaded firearm in the state even if they have wallets filled with permits issued by other states. People are being falsely arrested and prosecuted.

Illinois has an absolute ban on carrying concealed or loaded weapons. This state too has a hodge-podge of local confusing laws throughout the jurisdictions under control of Democrats. They just don’t care what our Bill of Rights or our Supreme Court may say. People are being falsely arrested and prosecuted.

Wisconsin’s absolute ban on concealed weapons is falling one county at a time but only after people are falsely arrested and prosecuted.

As for New York and New Jersey it’s pretty much the same story. People are being falsely arrested and prosecuted.

Not only do these states have to pay the cost of enforcing these unconstitutional laws they are already paying to defend lawsuits attacking the laws that ultimately fall. The local judges that are sympathetic to the desires of the politicians that appointed them will ultimately be overruled by judges that will follow the law of the land.

The Federal Courts will have to enforce the provisions of 42-USC-1983 against these rogue jurisdictions and juries will be awarding damages that will be paid by hardworking taxpayers.

The Supreme Court has spoken in Heller, and McDonald that the rights of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. That clearly means firearms can be carried outside of the home in every state and territory of the United States.

That means they can only require permits if they are freely issued to law-abiding Americans. Residency requirements are also unenforceable for people from other states enjoying Constitutionally Protected activity. How many millions will be wasted enforcing the unenforceable? It seems now that it’s rogue local governments that have become the law-breakers.

The only government option is to repeal all laws barring the carrying of firearms in all but a few sensitive locations or to begin a, shall issue program for carry permits.

Court Trials and Media Coverage

Los Angeles, CA—L.A. seemed to be Ground Zero for televised trials in the nation. Nobody will ever forget that O.J. Simpson Circus that mesmerized the nation. It was O.J., all the time and after many months of trial, TV and book publishing careers were established for many of the players.

The court was transformed from an evidence testing and truth finding exercise to an entertainment event worthy of ancient Rome. I did not find fault with the verdict as most of the nation did, I found fault in the behavior of the judge, lawyers and witnesses that were playing for the camera and hope for future celebrity.

Many of the TV commentators repetitively misreported what happened in the court. Of course the only person convicted of a crime was that infamous LAPD detective, Mark Fhurman for his perjury.

Simpson was acquitted because police only proved they’d do anything including lie under oath to convict him and for shoddy evidence gathering that was inadvertently exposed by TV news cameras.

There was reasonable doubt and that was the standard that would block a guilty verdict. We can’t say today with any credible certainty who slashed and stabbed Nicole Simpson or Ron Goldman to death in Brentwood. We can only guess.

Court TV was popular but was thankfully obstructed by laws in most states and the Federal court rules that prohibit cameras in courtrooms. Court TV became nothing more than prosecutorial cheer leaders.

I still believe Court TV caused the wrongful conviction and death sentence of Scott Peterson. When the verdict was read a Court TV inspired lynch mob had a major celebration outside of that Modesto, CA courthouse. You’d think their favorite football team had just won the Super Bowl.

What Court TV did was sway the jury, their friends and family. Nobody could escape the constant courtroom video replays and non-stop poisonous commentary well into every evening.

Court TV has since gone the way of The Gong Show and is not missed by me. The practice of broadcasting more than a few minutes of testimony from trials has apparently ended nearly everywhere. The culprit today may well be the strangled budgets of television news. The winner here is our sacred right to a fair trial.

Reporters trying to cover trials don’t really do so well. Hours and even days seem to pass with no newsworthy happenings. Expert testimony is so dry and the arguments over evidence confound most observers. Additionally the best arguments are often made inside the judge’s chambers, or after the jury is ushered out of the courtroom. Perhaps most reporters should stick to only covering the trial’s opening and the final verdicts.

Covering trials is an art. Reporters must gain the trust of sources to get needed information. An example would be related to tips about the importance of a certain witnesses to either devastate the prosecution or defense. Reporters often must cover more than one trial at a time. Lawyers that fear reporters won’t dare talk to them. I’d fear most reporters covering the courts.

Court reporters must understand both the law and the rules of evidence to be able to accurately inform their viewer or readers how court rulings impact the cases. Reporters must understand both the penalties and the court’s customary imposition of them. Bail hearings, Motions Practice and the trials themselves are all very important and newsworthy in those high-profile cases.

In Los Angeles there is a Dean of all Court reporters. She’s not missed a single significant court hearing or trial since she covered the Manson Family Trials. She covers the high profile parole hearings and cases throughout California and Las Vegas. That extraordinary woman is Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch.

Deutsch reports rather than advocates. She reports equally on the good, bad and the ugly. No defendant would ever suffer if her reports were read by a jury because she accurately publishes the court proceedings. Deutsch relies on the existing sensationalism of the accusations or defenses without embellishment to keep her readers returning to her reports.

If you want to report news in the courts Linda Deutsch is the best example for you to emulate.

Memories of one Chicago Police 023 District Sergeant

Chicago, IL—One of the most important landmarks in Chicago is the old Town Hall, 023 District station. It should be restored and turned into a museum or at least a watering hole for off-duty coppers. I never worked that district but would have loved the assignment for sure.
One veteran of this building is my pal, Andy Murcia.

I met Murcia long ago as we were waiting for our cases to be called in the old Branch 64 courtroom of Judge Lawrence I. Genison. This was the last stop misdemeanor court for those defendants demanding jury trials. Nobody wanted jury trials just a better break before this very soft judge.

Andy had just made sergeant at a time when few white males could be promoted do to never-ending litigation in the federal District Court.

Andy had a great part-time security gig at the Ambassador East Hotel on the gold Coast. One night he happened upon a terrific looking lady that changed to good sergeant’s life forever. That lady was none other than, Golden Globe and Emmy winning actress Ann Jillian.

If you are too young or seem to have forgotten Ann’s lively work a search of YouTube will bring up many video clips for your enjoyment.

Ann was making a smooth transition as the child star of Babes in Toyland, Gypsy and a memorable Twilight Zone episode. Ann and Andy fell in love and Andy eventually took a leave of absence to become Ann’s manager. It was off to Hollywood. Despite terrific success soon Ann took her own leave of absence to become a full-time mom. Their son Andy is a tall, strapping 18 year-old college freshman today.

Andy is quite the writer and I thought I’d share his memories of his old 023 District home with my readers.

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The Right Way for Reporters to Cover a Breaking Crime Story

I see it time and time again. A serious crime occurs and the media races to the scene. It’s the job of the reporters and photographers to gather the facts and inform their viewers/readers/visitors of significant details. Too often reporters have nothing of substance to report even after several hours.

The reporters arrive to a silent scene surrounded by yellow crime scene tape they generally are forbidden to cross. With scant information reporters desperately hound every neighbor looking for information connected to the home in question. This is necessary work.

Sometimes the neighbors are friends or witnesses with a solid connection to the story. I have no problem hearing from these folks. That’s useful and relevant information.

More often than not the neighbors know little or nothing about the occupants of the house and are encouraged to offer their opinions about the event anyway. Usually it’s the neighborhood busybody wanting to be on TV who will deliver the rambling “That’s so scary” sound bite in light of the temporary police presence. This non-interview is a sure sign that the reporter has absolutely nothing of substance to share that’s newsworthy.

Any reporter worth their salt would have obtained the ownership information connected to the property and vehicles present. They would be checking court records looking for criminal and domestic relations cases involving those names that are discovered from their research. The criminal history or nasty divorce involving the players moves way up to the top of the reporter’s investigation list.

The reporters armed with real information can then locate and contact the attorneys and relatives of those people to determine their whereabouts and recent disputes. While they’re at it reporters can get photographs and biographical information on their news makers. Of course, the Social networking sites can be a goldmine of useful information.

Once the investigated names are reliably established as victims or suspects, the story can be properly reported.

When the police media officer is finally available the reporter can ask some relevant questions that may lead to answers. The smart reporter will ask out of earshot of his competitors.

Real reporters will go out of their way to find and interview potential suspects even before the police get to them.

News deadlines are rapidly becoming a thing of the past since print, TV and radio have websites. Reporters can do their needed research from the field with laptop computers and the know-how. Producers can be pressed into service for that function back in the newsrooms for the reporters out in the field. The job is to get it published as soon as possible.

When you see that, “That’s so scary” sound bite, you know the reporter has failed.

Beware of the promotional news tease, “Once again violence has neighbors in one local community locking their doors, news at ten.” That’s the code alerting you that you can skip the broadcast that night.

I have a message for reporters. If you are willing to let police media affairs officers decide what information will be made public and when, who needs reporters or for that matter a free press? News directors and editors can simply send photographers to gather the police sound bites and reporters are not needed at all.

Too many police departments seem to have a solid lock and filter on local news coverage and personally I find that downright disturbing.

I’m always amazed at ignorant cops that want to control the media’s access to criminal suspects. Reporters are never bound to the Miranda ruling and every lie or incriminating statements given to the media by suspects are pure gold for prosecutors.

Too many police beat reporters generally are pathetically ineffective and worthless. I don’t see how, rewriting police propaganda office press releases, qualifies as good journalism.

Obama and the Teleprompter

Washington, DC—Certainly George Washington or Abraham Lincoln did not have teleprompters.

That gizmo was invented after television in 1950. Prior to that stagehands held up cue cards. The actors were looking everywhere but at you when they were reading them.

Teleprompters are great for TV news anchors who must deliver clear and accurate information to their audience sometimes minutes or even seconds after news breaks.

Teleprompters allow actors to look directly into the camera lens and read the material rather than to rely on memory. Later they began to use multiple Teleprompters for use in addressing large audiences.

Teleprompters are critically important when the people reading the text to the audience did not write it. Speechwriters make our politicians sound intelligent and informed. Somehow I’ve always been offended by politicians that can support their own positions in their own words.

Teleprompters have been used by all presidents since Harry Truman. It’s been said that Richard Nixon preferred to memorize what he had to say rather than be a slave to a machine.

Barack Obama can’t recite a simple paragraph without someone writing the words and putting it on a Teleprompter for him. I can’t help but believe that Obama is a mechanical puppet for some strange shadowy alien standing behind a curtain. That Wizard of Oz image flashes in my mind every time Obama is seen speaking.

Reading a Teleprompter requires the actor to pretend he’s speaking from his heart and not reading as he makes important eye contact with the audience. Yes, it’s all an act.

It’s somewhat obvious to me that Obama is not connected to the words he speaks. He reads the material like a second-rate voiceover actor doing a commercial for a product he does not believe in.

I remember a Cold War era episode of the TV show, Outer Limits where our President was a programmed humanoid robot made by an enemy nation. Barack Obama fits that image exactly. Obama has set about destroying free enterprise, our economy and national defense at breakneck speed as he embraces the teachings of Karl Marx.

The Manchurian Candidate was another theatrical offering on this same concept based on the very real government mind control experiments involving chemical mind twisters like LSD.

No matter the reason Barack Obama appears to me as a composite invention of a foreign invader.

Like Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr., United States ambassador to Guatemala in 1950, said when he accused the Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán government of being Communist. Patterson explained his reasoning as follows:

“Suppose you see a bird walking around in a farm yard. This bird has no label that says 'duck'. But the bird certainly looks like a duck. Also, he goes to the pond and you notice that he swims like a duck. Then he opens his beak and quacks like a duck. Well, by this time you have probably reached the conclusion that the bird is a duck, whether he's wearing a label or not."

I don’t think that Obama is a duck, but I sure believe he’s a Socialist or at least that’s true of the man behind the curtain controlling him. Perhaps a Congressional Subpoena or two may take on the roll of Toto by pulling the curtain back for all to see who is really running America now.