FOP Board Meeting: Stripping Disabled Cops of their Protection

Chicago, IL—Tuesday, December 7 at noon inside Plumber’s Hall located at 1412 W. Washington, St. Lodge 7 of the FOP will meet with the membership.

Up for consideration and suggestion at is the return of the right to keep and bear arms of disabled cops throughout the state of Illinois.

We can only guess how this happened. Perhaps it was a police boss that thought by disarming injured cops he’d cure potential malingering and get them back to work quicker.

The Illinois UUW statute is in serious conflict with the Second Amendment since both the Heller and McDonald decisions of the Supreme Court. The days of prosecutions of law-abiding people carrying guns on the streets for self-defense are numbered as various challenges wind their way through the court system.

In the meantime cops who are ambulatory, walking around the city where they worked and were forced to live, are running into violent criminals they’ve arrested in the past. Any one of these criminals could believe that some disabled cop he spots in some mall knows about an existing arrest warrant. The danger to the disabled cop and members of his family are unnecessarily put at risk by an uncaring bureaucracy.

Currently there is pending legislation to cure this wrong and the FOP needs to hear from its membership. Incredibly as it seems Lodge 7 has no plans to support this bill unless the membership demands it.

Every officer is only a gunshot, traffic accident or a slip and fall away from being stripped of their protection like officers suspected of crimes and serious misconduct. This is wrong and you have the ability to demand a reasonable correction to an unreasonable situation. Be heard!

TV Crime News Done My Way

If I owned or controlled a TV station in let’s say Chicago I’d being doing TV news just a little differently.

I have a gritty crime reporting unit that is separated from general assignment reporting. As always the news casts leads off with whatever segment has the most importance of that day. Weather always leads when it’s severe or the broadcast could be hinged on a major sports story. However when it bleeds, it leads.

The crime, courts and corruption segment would have its own name like Crimebeat, special graphics and faces. Reporters in this group need an attitude and style set apart from general assignment correspondents. They’d be using certain cop slang terms such as perp-walk, pinched, collared, and mug-shot. These reporters would be recruited from the ranks of cops, prosecutors and defense lawyers.

TV news viewers need to believe the crimebeat reporter understands his or her business. In the end it’s all about credibility and trust. No news department can function without the trust of those people inside the criminal justice system. Fluff reporters and crime news just don’t mix except in rare stories.

Crimes are by nature sensational and dramatic. The viewers want to know about the newsmaker’s actual prior criminal record rather than what some attention-whore, busybody neighbor has to say about him. Viewers want cold hard facts over gossip any day.

Crime reporters must learn how to use and abuse the court's and other public records to tell these stories.

If they’re leading with an important crime story, than they should put the necessary resources and work into it. Today’s TV new organization all have websites and the anchors and reporters should be promoting it. The viewers can be directed to view the actual court documents and see full length interviews rather than the 15 second sound-bites of the news makers. The website is the place for all those things that can’t possibly get stuffed into a TV newscast.

The Internet is here to stay and the news department’s website must attract both viewers and advertisers.

TV news has seen little change since the days or Edward R. Murrow. TV news is and should be exciting, accurate and interesting. The delivery of this product has instead become lethargic and lame.

Crime news affects everyone. I’m not suggesting we create a product that mimics Orson Wells’, War of The World broadcast. People don’t need panic-peddling broadcasters but they need to know the dangers they face with reduced law-enforcement resources and budgetary induced prisoner releases.

The public should also get the truth about their needs and rights to cope with the reality of violent crime. Providing tips on safety, locks, alarms, firearms training and self-defense is a duty of broadcasters.

Harold Martin Smith, Ronni Chasen and Wild Goose Chases

Hollywood, CA—It was apparently defective information supplied to the TV Show, America’s Most Wanted and talkative but unreliable neighbors that made an ex-con an unlikely suspect in the Ronni Chasen murder.

When police obtain search warrants they are placed under oath. The rub is those who provide such information to police are never under oath. Accordingly search warrants are routinely issued on unreliable hearsay or even gossip. We will have to wait until the Smith search warrant is unsealed to know for sure. California’s public records laws are some of the worst in the nation. It’s unlikely that warrant will ever see sunshine especially now.

Had there been a connection between any weapon in Harold Smith’s possession and the Chasen murder, Beverly Hills police would know by now and they’d be interrogating other investigative leads and closing in on the real story.

Smith was already a two time loser and apparently his ongoing criminal conduct was making him a solid candidate for California’s, Three Strikes Law. It looks like he reached the point of no return when he saw police. Just having a gun in his possession was enough to put him behind bars for life. Smith took the easy way out and taxpayers should thank him for that.

Smith became a big time, Red Herring and a diversion in the Ronni Chasen murder investigation. Police have now returned to looking at old conflicts in Chasen’s personal life. Somebody was motivated enough to make her really dead.

Chasen’s killer exercised skill and discipline in committing this murder. On its face it seems like a contract hit. Road rage cases nearly always result in bullets being sprayed everywhere because of uncontrolled anger and emotion. It’s obvious that Chasen’s car was stopped at the time shots were fired. The killer was either shooting from another vehicle or was standing in the street while firing the murder weapon. The presence or absence of shell casings in the street may help shed some light on this angle assuming a semi-automatic pistol was used.

There are big factors that need examination and they are the trade-names, partnerships, contracts, insurance policies and of course litigation of any kind involving Chasen or her business enterprises.

The only thing we know for sure is that someone thought they’d be better off with Ronni Chasen being dead. Ether they’d profit from Chasen’s death or have found some sweet revenge. The murder of Ronni Chasen was anything but a random crime.

Prisoners, cell phones, internet access and communication

Let me say that my blog visitors don’t consider me a bleeding heart or a Liberal by a long-shot. I believe that those who prey upon and victimize their fellow man deserves swift and severe punishment.

There was a recent story of a prison inmate that created a Facebook page with a contraband Blackberry cell-phone. Cell-phones are considered a big no-no by the wardens of our jails and prisons. They are so wrong about this.

These can become privileges that foster good behavior. Inmates can be induced to perform well in educational or job training programs with a small perk like that.

Prison visitation can be accomplished through the use of Skype.com’s free video teleconferencing service. There would be no risk of contraband being brought into our correctional facilities.

Let’s face it inmates will be released someday and it’s better if they have the support of friends and loved ones. Prisons are nearly always difficult for visitors to travel because of distances. Those important bonds can be fostered through simple communications.

Imagine inmates able to communicate well enough to find honest ways to re-integrate with society? We want these people off of welfare and functioning rather than remaining anti-social misfits going off like landmines after their release.

This entire idea of our modern communications must be re-thought. The Russian government has seen the light and they’re doing this right now.

The real punishment of prison is the absence of liberty and being bossed around by prison guards. The food generally is pretty disagreeable and having to live with a bunch of despicable felons has got to be horrible. The absence of any physical contact with the opposite sex must be devastating. Of course the Gay prisoners are never deprived.

I can’t help but think about an, actually innocent women, who’s been in prison for just over 20 years. Her mother lives in Germany and is suffering from cancer. There is no way she can travel and visit her daughter. Aside from the cost are the medical issues that are preventing any visits. Skype.com has a humane answer to this problem. Would a one hour video call every week or two somehow damage society?

No, Murdered Publicist Ronni Chasen Was Not Loved By All

Beverly Hills, CA—When Ronni Chasen was gunned down in her car last month in Beverly Hills it became obvious there was some very bad blood between her and someone else.

TMZ.com has published a report that included a copy of the 1994 Last Will and Testament of the murdered women. This very wealthy murder victim stiffed her niece, Jill Gatsby, a near-do-well actress, singer etc. in the Will.

Chasen willed her a measly ten-spot as quoted in the document, "I have intentionally and with full knowledge of the consequences omitted to provide for my niece, Jill Cohen, also known as Jill Gatsby, except for the gift of $10."

It is customary to leave something to relatives you hate so they can’t later claim they were somehow forgotten and get a piece of your pie from some sympathetic probate judge.

Gatsby chose an entertainment career that has been stuck in park just as many thousands of others seeking fortune and fame in Hollywood. Ronni Chasen had the ability to promote anyone with minimal talent into a lucrative career. It is obvious Chasen was of no help to her niece.

On the other side of the coin Chasen had the ability to destroy a career in the entertainment business. Whatever created this rift seemed anything but insignificant.

As we speak Beverly Hills police detectives are looking for any connection between the dead murder suspect and Jill Gatsby. Any evidence of financial support would of course be incredibly damning. Of course the police are looking at every other possibility too.

Will there suddenly be a parade of witnesses coming forward telling police about this family feud? I don’t doubt for a second this whole ugly affair will become the best current show in Hollywood. The venue will be the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

One thing for sure this case is getting spicier by the minute.

Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen's Murder has been Solved

Beverly Hills, CA—My analysis of the scant publicized facts connected to the November 16th murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen has proven to be correct. I said this was no random killing and that Ms. Chasen had pissed off someone in a big way. I properly predicted police would quickly zero in on the offender and clear this case.

Tonight the Associated Press published the story that the yet to be identified suspect shot himself dead as police were closing in on him to serve a search warrant. I call him a suspect rather than that nebulous. “Person of Interest” term because of the existence of the search warrant.

In order to obtain a search warrant police need to establish Probable Cause under oath that a crime was committed and provide the judge with, the who, what and where facts of the case. There is a very thin line between obtaining a search warrant and making an arrest.

Now we know the police have at least one gun in their possession to rule in or out of the Chasen murder. That search warrant affidavit information submitted by the Beverly Hills homicide detective will tell us about the motive along with the rest of the story.

The motive for the killing will be unfolding along with the name of the dead suspect. I won't rule out additional suspect/s in this case.

I got several responses some of which I deleted strongly criticizing my rejection of the random shooter theory. Somehow I felt that was the suspect trying desperately to promote that phony idea.

What we know right now is the dead suspect was confronted by police in low rent Harvey Apartments on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood. More information below the picture:
Thursday morning UPDATE:

Neighbors at the Harvey Apartments have shared gossip about the dead suspect with local media.

They described the African-American suspect they knew as Harold as somewhat of a braggart and self-described ex-convict. He reportedly told be people he was expecting $10,000.00 and also bragged that he killed Ronnie Chasen.

Was Harold merely a braggart that wanted to seem important who brought police attention on to himself? The reward money did not go unnoticed in Hollywood’s underbelly.

There are a lot more questions than answers right now.

The TSA Tyranny Trial Balloon, an Obama Administration Test

Washington, DC-- The sudden and shocking use of naked pornoscanners and incredibly offensive genital groping of American men women and children at airports is just a test. This has nothing to do with anti-terrorism and everything to do with incremental efforts to establish absolute power.

The TSA controversy has oddly become a loyalty test. Those Americans that favor Barack Obama are generally okay with the new program. The Conservatives and Libertarians on the other hand are preparing for Civil War. It all boils down to the suspension of the Bill of Rights by a rogue President.

You can be sure there are plans to take the pornoscanners to American streets to enforce United Nations Global Gun Control that Obama and his cronies have openly favored.

Obama has control of the Internet and will be soon shutting down loud voices or resistance like Alex Jones and prisonplanet.com.

As the voices of resistance are shut down, brave Americans will have no choice but to use the same tactics that enabled the Bill of Rights as the law of the land. I hope I’m being very clear. Freedom and liberty have never been simply handed out by governments to their people. Freedom cannot be maintained without the use of extreme violence against those taking it away.

Our government has destroyed the free market through the outrageous bailouts. Our economy has been destroyed by government forcing financial institution to make loans to people that can’t or won’t pay them back.

Our government has become a bloated monster that eats its children in order to survive.

Millions of Americans have become entitlement addicted as unemployment benefits have been extended to two full years. Why bother to get off the couch and work since job hunting is too difficult anyway?

State and local governments can’t possibly continue pay for the pensions, criminal justice system and correctional facilities.

When faced with impending doom human beings simply smile and go into denial. A look at history makes it only too clear we are headed for very dark times, of Civil War, anarchy and holocaust.

The Obama Administration is creating the perfect storm or crisis to justify declaring martial Law. We can only hope enough cops and military people will courageously resist orders to wage war on Americans. Americans can either take up arms or line up for the concentration camps.

Government Secrets Endanger Freedom

Chicago, IL—When we think of government secrets we think of intelligence agencies and their spies. Military secrets are paramount to any nation’s defense and that’s not what I’m talking about.

Secrecy in state and local governments is out-of-control. The secrecy advocates are all Left wingers that thirst for power over citizens and their money. Yes, those in government that hate transparency are nearly always on the Left. Those who demand open records are nearly always the Conservatives and Libertarians.

Corruption in government is always rampant wherever records are buried from public view. The excuse always offered for the secrecy is a bogus claim of privacy. What they really want is privacy from prying eyes that will expose waste, mismanagement, theft, extortion and bribery. Hiding public records promotes the abuse of Americans by power hungry and corrupt bureaucrats.

The Left fought the release of sex offender records for decades, again citing privacy. What they really were doing was covering up the ineffectiveness of wildly expensive and failed programs to rehabilitate these incurable predators.

Billions of taxpayer dollars were given to government contractors that were pals of those using our tax dollars to pay the crooks that in-turn, fund their political campaigns. Releasing those records would also lead to releasing yet more records.

Every rogue government on earth, lock government records from public view. There should be no secret records in America at state and local agencies.

The criminal conviction records of all Americans kept by the FBI should be a public record.

Medical information and misdemeanor juvenile arrest records perhaps are reasonable exceptions. Felony crimes and court proceedings involving juveniles should always be public records

Court records including information of the names of every victim or witness in criminal cases must be a public record. It is un-American to imagine public trials using hearsay testimony or testimony is received in secret. All criminal trials in America must be public and every person accused has the absolute right to confront and cross-examine witnesses against them.

Ongoing police investigations should be exempt from disclosure but the moment a case is closed or is being prosecuted all records of that incident should be open. Despite long standing practices the records of government informants and snitches don’t deserve any government protection from disclosure. We know that Gestapo and KGB agents would hate that idea of public disclosure along with too many inside American law enforcement agencies.

Every dime of taxpayer or government fine money deserves absolute sunshine. That same goes for money and property seized under government RICO laws.

Allowing state and local governments the ability to hide records invites and enables endless corruption and abuse.

Florida, Texas and Arizona are states with a fairly solid history of keeping open records. They sky has not fallen because of this. The very worst jurisdictions where public records are kept secret are New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

The news media used to file lawsuits to gain access to unlawfully blocked records but for the most part that no longer is the case.

It’s almost laughable when politicians create laws to shield public records from view they put names on the bills like “Freedom of Information” on them to mislead the voters.

Keeping government records open is essential to basic liberty.

Public Information Officers Have a Dirty Job

Los Angeles, CA—He was a Public Information Officer (PIO) for the Los Angeles County Superior Court. It was a well paying job with great benefits. His job was to provide public information to the masses through the media. This sounds simple enough until the public records being revealed have a certain odor to them.

His name is Allan Parachini and he came from the ranks of working reporters at the L.A. Times to be named as PIO for the court. He was hired to do a sort of tap dance between judges and administrators who often hate each other. They all demanded that Parachini be their personal cheerleader.

The most infamous PIO of all times was a real media genius we remember as Joseph Goebbels, who was the Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda for the Third Reich. Goebbels kept the secrets and fed the world’s news media a steady diet of disinformation. Instead of serving the German people, he served and was a huge part of a criminal regime.

When it comes to American court records, and the operation of the related bureaucracy there is no room for secrecy. We are not supposed to have secret, Star Chamber style proceedings and hidden contracts in any American Court. The only small exception is over sealed records involving juvenile and mental health related court proceedings.

Then there are judges that order the PIOs to make it difficult or impossible for reporters to get their electronic news-gathering equipment near prosecution witnesses. Prosecutors know their witnesses love the media limelight and will derail prosecutions with their inconsistent statements. Some judges will do everything and anything prosecutors ask.

For Parachini, figuring out just who his boss is, is not an easy task. Ultimately Parachini’s real master is the public, or least it should be that way.

Parachini’s duty was to field questions from reporters, producers and those bloggers like me and of course TMZ.com. Again there are no secrets in the courts business affairs but they fired Parachini claiming he passed on secrets to TMZ for pay.

If they had any evidence of bribery, Parachini would be criminally prosecuted. They can prove Parachini talked with TMZ’s people, but of course that’s precisely why he was hired. They unceremoniously disgraced and put Parachini out on the street.

Parachini has offered a more understandable reason for his firing and that was because he sought to release certain public spending and contract records tainted by an ugly odor. That was an unforgivable sin unless you take the position that the Public Information Officer works for the public.

Now, Parachini will have to seek protection for his rights in some courtroom. I see a problem in that those judging the merits of Parachini’s claim will all be part of the same judicial fraternity that put Parachini on the street.

For Allan Parachini I have a saying that I live by, “If justice ever happens it’s usually by accident and for all the wrong reasons.”

Good luck Allan.

Accused Cop Killer, Why Was He Out of His Cage?

Chicago, IL—He was put away for armed robbery with a gun. He’s out with yet another gun executing a former cop and a Chicago cop who was gathering evidence at a burglary scene.

View the records from the Illinois department of Corrections and ask Governor Pat Quinn what this convicted predator is doing out of his cage on our streets. It looks like he served less than three years for a major dangerous felony.

Timothy Herring, Jr.
Date of Birth: 12/11/1990
Weight: 167 lbs.
Hair: Black
Sex: Male
Height: 6 ft. 00 in.
Race: Black
Eyes: Brown
Admission Date: 07/22/2010
Parole Date: 09/14/2010
Projected Discharge Date: TO BE DETERMINED
SENTENCING INFORMATION
MITTIMUS: 07CR2403101
CLASS: X
COUNT: 1
OFFENSE: ARMED ROBBERY/ARMED W/FIREARM
CUSTODY DATE: 10/20/2007
SENTENCE: 6 Years 0 Months 0 Days
COUNTY: COOK
SENTENCE DISCHARGED?: NO

Okay so you want to feel bad for this fellow saying he deserved another chance. Aside from blowing an opportunity at a productive life he’s now on the fast track to a well-deserved lethal injection. This lad’s life was destroyed by Liberals that never gave him enough time to rehabilitate. That’s right, aside from the two innocent victims a third life will be lost in the process, that of, Timothy Herring, Jr.

We still don’t know how many other homicides and serious crimes he committed while he was roaming the streets.

I guess we need to ask Governor Quinn and Mayor Daley, why the law abiding folks can’t carry a firearm for self-defense. These very same politicians are responsible for the tortured public policy to turn the streets of Chicago over to extremely dangerous thugs like Timothy Herring, Jr.

If herring’s first armed robbery victim that we know about had a gun and dispatched this rabid dog two people would be alive today and the taxpayers would not have to spend millions for both sides of a death penalty case’s litigation costs.

The people of Illinois this demonstrates more than ever that the inmates are running the asylum.

At right is the Chicago police booking photo.


A second individual, Timothy Willis, 22, (below) was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and obstruction of justice in this case.

Next! The Second Obama Apology Tour-Post-Wikileakes

Washington, DC—Since the Obama Administration has not been forthright with so many other nations we can expect Barack Obama to depart once again to bow to every leader he can find on his second Apology Tour.

Hillary Clinton is in an untenable position and I’d be surprised if we don’t see her resignation soon as Secretary of State. Robert Gates is in a similar position now too. Their personal credibility is now in shambles.

I’m not sure what’s next for the Obama administration but it will never be in the best interest of the American people.

We have learned one thing about the world’s leaders and that is they have no more diplomatic skills than the average kid in a schoolyard.

Murdered Ex-Cop Stephen Peters and Illinois Gun Laws

Chicago, IL—The ex-cop, Stephen Peters who was murdered along with Chicago Police Officer Michael Flisk reportedly was carrying a handgun in the alley behind his home. Peters had worked for the South suburban Robbins Police Department and later with the disbanded Chicago Housing Authority Police Department. At the time of his murder he was not a peace officer.

Peters had every right to possess and carry a gun under the United States Constitution as the Supreme Court recently ruled in Heller and McDonald. However still waiting for the judicial axe to fall is the Unlawful Use of a Weapon Illinois Statute and Chicago’s “re-worked” gun ban. At the time of Peters’ murder he may have been in violation of that soon to be declared un-Constitutional felony crime.

We know Peters was a trained and qualified cop and the fact that they disbanded his department did not make him somehow less honorable or worthy of the right to protect himself.

If Peters had actual retired status he may have been covered under the LEOSA HR-218 law that allows retired cops to carry in every state. That is of course provided he paid a fee and obtained the proper LEOSA ID card. So far Stephen Peters’ actual status was unknown, at least to me.

We now know Peters was endangered because of the crisis existing in his neighborhood, created by massive early prisoner releases and the willful neutering of the Chicago Police Department by the city’s politicians.

The Illinois General Assembly needs to avoid the embarrassment of having their laws declared un-Constitutional. They need to end the absolute ban on the right of law-abiding American citizens to carry firearms for self defense. They also need to prohibit cities and villages from making their own gun laws inconsistent with state laws.

In order to comply with Heller and McDonald the Legislature must lift the carry ban. They still have the power to require special carry permits of those exercising their rights as long as they are freely issued. Any total ban against residents of the other 49 states must end too. Reciprocity is the way to handle that.

Governor Pat Quinn and many members of the Illinois General Assembly are dedicated Gun Rights haters. They can be counted on to break the law of the land for their personal preferences as long as they can get away with it. Quinn and his allies must face the fact that they could wind up with zero authority to regulate the carrying of concealed weapons if they don’t have some reasonable permit program in place to maintain some control.

Wikileaks Exposes Whitehouse Deception and More

I can’t say that I like the idea of classified national security information being released to the entire world. However the conduct of our last two Presidential Administrations has become an international embarrassment.

Barrack Obama’s purely symbolic Gitmo closing campaign promise, resulted in millions of taxpayer’s dollars being used to bribe nations into accepting terrorists from our custody. It was even used in a pay to play scheme for diplomatic advantage. One thing for sure this is downright despicable.

There is plenty of blame to pass around to George Bush, but what Barack Obama has done in less than two years appears to be on its face impeachable.

One thing for sure Congressional investigations of Obama his Czars and choice of Secretary of State will take more time than Congress has.

I hope there is an impeachment and a lesson from the disclosures for all those entering the Whitehouse to not lie to the American people. Somehow I expect Congress will find enough federal felonies to put Bush and Obama away for life.

Maybe we can find an honest Conservative for the Office of President for a change.

Chicago Cop Killing Suspect is a Recently Paroled Armed Robber

Chicago, IL--The Chicago Police New Affairs Office has released a few scant details about the suspect they’re questioning in connection with the Friday afternoon murders of Chicago police officer Michael Flisk and former Robbins and CHA cop Stephen Peters. The men were ambushed and murdered in a garage where Flisk was collecting evidence from an earlier burglary.

Police have picked up a 19 year-old paroled armed robber that lived nearby. I’m calling this yet to be named person a suspect since police had Probable cause to obtain and serve a Search Warrant on the suspect’s home.

The Parolee was just released from the Illinois Department of Corrections within the last 60 days. I’m convinced that before the sun goes down he will be named and charged with the double murder. I believe any delay will be to give cops additional time to locate and arrest his accomplice/s.

Chicago is in a crisis because of an undermanned, outgunned and demoralized police department. Currently the officers patrolling the African-American Ghettos are understandably on edge. The days of officers avoiding the use of deadly force may be coming to a quick end following several recent ambush murders of their own.

Governor Pat Quinn will have to explain why he has let so many young, dangerous predators lose on Chicago’s streets. Of course the politicians will be blaming gun rights of the law abiding for the murders. They refuse to keep convicted criminals off the streets and have neutered law enforcement.

Chicago is in a state of Anarchy.

Law-abiding citizens of Chicago need to immediately re-think the gun ban culture. The Supreme Court has ruled in Heller and McDonald that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. It is now the state and local government breaking the law by violating Chicagoan’s rights to carry loaded firearms for self-defense.

Get the Illinois Firearm Owner’s Identification Card, some training and carry the gun concealed wherever you feel the need to do so. Why leave yourself and family defenseless in a city where street thugs are clearly the ruling class?

If you have to shoot in self-defense, secure all weapons used against you and leave the scene for your own safety. Do not call police and should they want to talk to you tell them you want a lawyer. Do not say anything at all about the event to anyone but a lawyer hired or appointed to defend you.

Watch the video below for information you will need should you use deadly force in self-defense:

The National Tamper-proof ID Card Scam—Watch Out!

Washington, DC—It’s a plan that has the full support of confused, so-called Conservatives like Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly. The concept is to have a government issued, tamper-proof, picture ID card for every man, woman and child in America.

On its face it sounds like a great way to control immigration, entitlement and voter fraud. It will do none of those things.

The government has redundantly thrown every obstacle possible in the way of immigration enforcement for the lifetimes of most Americans. Police will never be allowed to demand that ID card as they can now do with a driver’s license of a person driving a car. There will never be an Identification card requirement for voters unless we repeal or re-write the Voting Rights Act.

The government will always exempt those people living on the margins of society and exemption from the ID card requirement as they have always done.

The national ID card in just another big government program that provides a false promise of safety and security, in exchange for your hard won liberty and privacy.

What will happen is there will be a grand single database for every responsible taxpaying American for government agents to use and abuse. It will keep track of everyone with current photographs along with the requirement of proof of their physical address. Everyone means only those willing to comply with the ID card requirement.

I see this as ominously as the tattoos the Nazi’s required of concentration camp inmates. The government implanted micro chip can’t be far behind.

Soon enough technology will provide a way to instantly read a person’s DNA code with a hand held device. We will have to deal with that horror when it comes along.

Americans are so willing to give up a slice of privacy, freedom and liberty every time their favorite politician suggests they do so. We seem to forget how wildly popular Adolph Hitler and National Socialism was in Europe until that bad Idea cost 50 million lives including nine million Germans.

There are those amazing people that always trust their government even when they are placed in lines for extermination.

Drew Peterson’s Cop Son Faces the Music Tuesday Night!

Oakbrook, IL—On 30 November at 19:00 HRS the Police And Fire Commission meets at the Village Hall to hear allegations against Officer Stephen Peterson. Stephen Peterson is the son of Drew Peterson, the retired Bolingbrook, IL police sergeant who stands accused of killing his third wife.

It is undisputed that just prior to his arrest, Drew Peterson asked his son Stephen to hold his favorite guns for safekeeping. They were delivered in gun cases that remained unopened by the elder Peterson.

Soon the elder Peterson was arrested and Illinois State Police demanded to know where his guns were. The elder Peterson informed them they were at his son’s home. Investigators went to the younger Peterson who voluntarily handed over the cased guns. Included was that short barreled rifle that was later the subject of a failed prosecution against the elder Peterson on a very technical legal question.

Apparently there exists no evidence that the younger Peterson ever opened the cases or examined the contents. The younger Peterson had no reason to handle those items. There is also no evidence that the guns were ever hidden or made unavailable to investigators. Last but not least, there is no allegation or even a suggestion that the guns were ever involved in any crime by anyone.

This police commission matter is more about punishing Drew Peterson through his son who is the primary caretaker of his tender aged siblings. I guess if the Illinois State Police torture the kid enough they somehow think he can or will help the Will County States’ Attorney convict his father. The problem here is that Stephen Peterson is convinced that his father is an honorable man and not the killer gossip mongers have claimed.

This action against Stephen Peterson is a Witch Hunt that shows the ugly side of government. I would suggest that any police officers with the time should show up at that Tuesday night Oakbrook hearing in support of a decent young cop.

Let’s hope that the Village of Oakbrook can be unemotional and fair as these facts unfold before them.

An Update:
The hearing was underway and had been continued to be completed on December 9, 2010. It may go even beyond that date too.

Disabled Chicago Cops Are Unnecessarily Unprotected

Chicago, IL—I’m torn to not publishing this information because I don’t want to inform the local thugs. On the other hand this outrage needs to be fixed.

It is obvious that cops on and off duty are targeted these days for killing by emboldened street thugs that don't let Chicago's gun laws slow them down a bit. Today's count of murdered cops is shocking to say the least.

First let me say government has no business impairing any law abiding citizen’s right to keep and bear arms. The Heller and McDonald cases have reestablished that as the law of the land. It is the local governments that are breaking the law not people carrying firearms for simple self-defense reasons.

The Chicago Police Department strips officers who are placed on Duty Disability of their police powers and guns the same way they do officers suspected of criminal conduct pending investigation and discipline.

Injured officers are routinely given doctors orders to get exercising so they can properly mend. These officers are in a vulnerable state while injured in that they cannot run and defend themselves as they could if they were not injured. I know of no officers that don’t from time to time have unintended encounters with those people they have arrested in the past in places like shopping centers and gas stations. Imagine being out with your spouse and children and see some dangerous criminal that knows you’re a cop and that you know is wanted on a BFW warrant.

This situation is aggravated by the city’s residency requirement that dictates cops must live within the community they police. Disabled cops are set up for these confrontations with the criminals they have to deal with professionally.

Disabled cops should not try and make arrests but in the gravest extreme they have a right and a duty to protect themselves and families.

There is a bill before the Illinois legislature right now and on December 7th at Plumbers Hall, Lodge 7 of the FOP is considering whether to support this or not. Please somebody tell me why the FOP has not already pushed this effort on their own?

Apparently the FOP needs your cards, letters, e-mails and calls. Every cop and their families need to get to that December 7th meeting and be seen and heard before they find themselves on Duty Disability striped of their guns.

Is the real reason for the FOP’s quandary their desire to make the Lame Duck Mayor and the police haters on City Council happy?

Let me say that despite whether this law passes or not that every cop has the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms anyway. The right to be free from unlawful searches is also the law of the land. Any disabled cop who does not carry a gun, does so at their and their family’s peril.

Here is website for with information on this legislation.

Two Cops Murdered At Burglary Scene, A City is in Crisis

Chicago, IL—Despite claims that crime is down, there is more blood on Chicago’s streets than ever. Two cops are dead tonight as the city mourns yet again.

One Chicago police officer was collecting evidence at a garage burglary scene as the victim, a retired CHA police officer looked on. Little is known other than the two officers were ambushed and murdered and the African-American suspects fled in a Cadillac Escalade.

The Superintendent of police Jody "J-Fled" Weis was just proclaiming that crime was down again as another cop was found murdered in his personal SUV. I guess the rivers of blood flowing tell a different story.

The good news is they will be hiring and training 200 hundred recruits in the police academy to replace many more hundreds of seasoned officers that have already retired.

It’s well past the time that J-Fled should resign. The city is a bloody mess that way out-of-control. The early release of hundreds of dangerous felons by the governor has stimulated the funeral industry in a big way.

There will be at least for more children growing up without their father because of Governor Pat Quinn.

Update: the Chicago police officer murdered is identified as 46-year-old Michael Flisk, who was assigned as an evidence technician. Flisk was a 20-year member of the department who left a wife and four children, and three siblings on the force.

Anti-TSA Airport Demonstrations were a Bad Idea.

Washington, DC-- TSA Tyrants unleashed their sexual groping and pornscanner program on America without Congressional oversight or public comment. Yes, there are many cowards that really believe that without the TSA we’d all be murdered by terrorists. The cowards have traded their right to liberty, freedom and privacy for pretend security.

Planning a demonstration at an airport has little appeal. Parking costs alone are astronomical and airport police have zero tolerance to any disruption of foot or vehicular traffic. I know most American including myself don’t want to ruin the Thanksgiving dinners of anyone. This planned opt out idea was just not well thought out. Also let’s face it Americans have been well-intimidated by the TSA that will prevent them from traveling on airplanes should they resist.

Instead we must boycott the airlines and flood the politicians and bureaucrats with hostility and complaints. Demonstrations need to be held at the government office buildings or homes of those allowing this un-American Nazi like program.

Should any TSA screeners touch your children on their genitals, buttocks or breasts that are under the age of consent simply call the local cops. The TSA lacks authority to do that and it’s a felony in every state. You can also be arrested yourself for allowing sexual touching of your children.

At the same time there are millions of Americans that know the TSA is an ineffective, invasive, and wasteful. The truth is Police State tactics have no impact on terrorists whatsoever. The terrorists simply work around whatever security programs are in place.

Even rocket making hobbyists have the ability to construct a missile with the capability to bring down any civilian aircraft especially at lower altitudes planes must fly close to our airports as they take off and land.

Any small group of well-armed and determined men can invade any major airport either at the tarmac level or at departure boarding areas and facing minimal or even no resistance as they gain control of large groups of unarmed Americans and planes.

Terrorists can easily get their personnel inside the service side of airports to deposit timed or altitude detonated explosives on planes. This can happen by way of food service, cargo and airplane maintenance operations. The companies all must hire sub-contractors to perform their missions.

Explosives can easily be concealed and made to look perfectly harmless. Plastic explosives can be shaped to any form and then be spray-painted and made to look like airplane parts or even a loaf of bread.

Whatever X-Ray, sniffer or physical inspection efforts can be made terrorists always find their way around them.

The TSA has put in place an illusion of security to placate and reassure frightened Americans that they are safe.

In Germany there was a small band of Communists called the Baader-Meinhoff Gang that later became the Red Brigade. Ulrike Meinhoff was a journalist who could wield bombs and a machine-gun against soldiers and cops as effectively as any male combat soldier. This group held the nation hostage for years as they kidnapped, bombed and shot their way around the world. They were responsible for the killings of at least four American soldiers who were serving in Germany.

The Baader-Meinhoff/Red Brigade group was never once discovered or disrupted by the best plans of so-called layered security the experts had put in place. This fanatical group was finally stopped by conventional intelligence and investigative means by real cops.

The TSA should be disbanded and liberty returned to American passengers. We must keep people with passports from hostile nations and those convicted of violent felonies off our planes. We can effectively fight terrorism in an aggressive and Constitutional way.

What we do need for anti-terror efforts is a force made of seasoned street cops to use behavior profiling and investigative efforts to deal with terrorists wherever they may be.

We don’t need or want a force of abusive, groping and poorly trained people placed as part of a Socialist jobs program masquerading as law enforcement personnel complete with gold badges.

Happy Thanksgiving

I know millions of Americans have taken to the road this holiday weekend to escape TSA tyranny. That means we must all drive safely so we may enjoy this great day with our families and friends.

I’d like to wish all my visitors a very Happy Thanksgiving with lots of those wonderful calories!

Paul