The Lost Sounds of Chicago Police

Chicago, IL—There are two sounds unique to Chicago police officers that are lost forever.

First is the old “Traffic Ace” whistle made by Sports, Inc that was located on North Broadway and Catalpa Avenues. The red one in the picture above is very rare. There were a lot of white ones but like mine most were black. There is no pea in an official Chicago police whistle.

That whistle became a musical instrument for the talented cops that could somehow master the thing. Cops could even recognize who was using the whistle by the tone and skill.

If there are any old geezers out there that still have the whistle and can play it I want to record that event for this blog.

The next lost sound was introduced under the O.W. Wilson administration. Wilson changed the patrol vehicles from black and white with red overhead lights to blue and white with blue overhead lights. The sirens were made to be significantly different than the fire department was using along with most of the world. A new mechanical siren was used but the difference was it had a baffle that made a really great sound.

If there was a 10-1 happening you knew help was on the way with those sirens. I suspect that that siren saved lives in that violent and armed offenders often fled as soon as that sound hit the air.

The new electronic sirens just don't seem to stir the excitement like the old mechanical one with the baffel.

Again I want to record that sound for this blog. Better yet I’d buy one of those sirens if I could find one somewhere.

Chicago Traffic management Aids Walk the Plank!

Chicago, IL—There was a time when trained and armed police officers directed traffic in Chicago’s busy loop. They did a lot more than direct traffic. They also knew their city and could answer any tourist’s questions intelligently. They were a genuine high visibility crime deterrent.

The white hat wearing Loop Traffic cops even turned blowing the official Chicago police plastic traffic whistle manufactured by Sports, Inc a concert quality musical event. That great sound has probably been lost forever. I still have my issued whistle but could never master it like those old pros.

Consider the Chicago Traffic management Aids. They don’t have to demonstrate literacy or basic intelligence. They have little training, no firearms and thankfully no police powers making them no obstacle for today’s violent flashmob robbers. The fact is that rather than keep traffic moving they more often obstruct it as they demonstrate their flair of abusing the limited authority they have.

The traffic management aid serves no purpose useful whatsoever. Mayor Rham Emmanuel has apparently seen the light and taxpayers will no longer be saddled with their costly and unnecessary existence.

Perhaps these people can find work removing the horribly expensive concrete plant boxes constructed on miles of Chicago’s streets that have endangered drivers, obstructed the orderly flow of traffic and more importantly our emergency vehicles that need all the room that gen get.

Jobs programs are fine as long as they address work that the taxpayers actually need.

Washington’s Marxist Spending Orgy Goes Unchecked!

Washington, DC—With 535 overpaid opportunists controlling our tax money the American experiment is about to crumble. The American taxpayer has lost control over his government well beyond the point of enslavement.

Communists, socialists and a vast voting block of hyper-breeding, entitlement addicted parasites have stolen our freedom and destroyed the American way of life.

This destruction of a once great nation where everyman had a birthright to the American dream has evaporated.

Politicians campaign on a pledge that they will protect the taxpayers and once elected take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. That changes instantly as they sell out and pander to Wall Street bankers and anyone feathering their beds. These political whores enter the halls of congress as middle class Americans and become multi-millionaires overnight.

Even some of the so called “Tea Party” politicians have already fallen under the spell of cold hard cash leaving their principals in the dirt. The majority in Congress are doing what they do best, extorting from the population.

Carrying the Party title of Republican has only become a vehicle used to confound and fool naïve voters.

The business of the government budget is a simple one that’s been complicated into a criminal conspiracy to bilk and defraud the working class population. Taking on endless debt to pay for things we don’t want or need to the detriment of the deserving is what has happened.

Our politicians have chosen to comprise away their self-respect to make deals with the devil so they may enjoy wealth most Americans will never dream about.

We have reached the point where American taxpayers need to simply say no and refuse to feed the monster. They can’t spend what we don’t send them. They can’t make war on taxpayers with an unfunded and hungry Army. The monster must be starved into submission or we can have a Civil War.

Truth and Treason—Can this Happen Here?

Hamburg, Germany—Young Helmuth Hubener was a typical Christian German lad but for being in the Mormon Faith. He joined the boy scouts and that progressed to the Hitler Youth in 1942.

Hubener obtained a radio and learned the shocking truth of what Adolph Hitler was doing to Germany by listening to BBC German language broadcasts. Getting caught listening to the forbidden broadcasts was a serious criminal offense.

The lad felt it was his duty to get the information out and did so with the help of two young pals and a typewriter. He got caught and at age 17 was brought before the notorious Nazi Judge, Roland Friesler at the People’s Court in Berlin (Today the modern Sony Center sits on the site of that terrible place) for a show trial.

Hubener’s fate was quickly sealed with a death sentence. He was brought to the execution chamber of Berlin’s Plotenzee Prison and beheaded by the guillotine for resisting the tyranny of the National Socialist Regime.

Young Hubener became one of thousands of good Germans that were arrested, tortured and murdered for revealing the closely guarded secrets of the Nazi atrocities.

It’s an undeniable fact that any government even ours could degenerate into a murder machine that the Nazis and Communists operated. We must zealously protect the Bill of Rights or live and die in a monstrous police state.

2012 will bring the premier of a film based upon the book by Susan Campbell Bartoletti called The Boy Who Dared. Haley Joe Osment (Sixth Sense) landed the starring role and if the trailer is any indication of how the film will play it’s bound to be a winner.

Watch the trailer below and after that is a video I shot this past March at the actual execution chamber where Hubener and thousands of other good German men and women was murdered by the Nazis.

Germany, Terrorism and Soft Targets

Berlin, Germany—Summer time in Berlin is always the right time to visit this city. Berlin has a blend or rich history, a modern skyline and no shortage of places to enjoy life. Berlin is truly an exciting city.

Berlin is also a soft terrorist target. Germany has never fully recovered from the stain of the Nazi period and any strengthening of their police resources raises eyebrows everywhere. Government is not nor ever been the answer to terrorism anywhere. Government is never up to that task anyway.

The Sony Center is probably the most vulnerable soft target in this metropolis. The place is loaded with law-abiding, unarmed people waiting to be victimized. The police would arrive too late and be unable to respond to a major crisis here.

What is a better solution to deal with terrorism here and for that matter anywhere? The answer lies within the ranks of those law-abiding potential victims enjoying their visit.

Government must demand that citizenship responsibilities include a commitment for the defense of our cities and way of life. Law abiding citizens must be trained, armed and understand their duty to defend self, family, neighbors and country.

If only 15 percent of the visitors to the Sony Center’s law abiding visitors were trained and armed anyone attempting to attack would most likely fail with minimum innocent casualties. The citizens would have a fighting chance to survive and no traditional government force could out-perform the citizens already on the scene.

We don’t need police states with shock troops to control hard corps criminals and terrorists, just ordinary citizens with a strong commitment to public safety and a sense of duty.

Citizens must begin to rely on each other for necessary protection. The terrorists will always be able to outsmart government. Terrorists have always counted on governments to make sure their potential victims are unarmed and defenseless.

The Chicago Police Board Scam Has to End

Chicago, IL—The Chicago Police Board has more functions than punishing cops over allegations of misconduct. The reality is the board itself is a mystery operating in the shadows of City Hall. The Board has had a strong odor of major corruption for decades. It operates in total defiance of the principals of open government.

The board members are appointed and get paid handsomely whether they work or not. They only answer secretly, to their appointing authority. The board hearings are not publicly accessible, nor are the videos or transcripts of the proceedings.

The board is almost never present during discipline hearings and the Master of Ceremonies is a politically connected lawyer who is the appointed hearing officer. The hearing officer makes a recommendation and the board simply acts as a rubber stamp. The board members are supposed to view the video of the hearings at their convenience but there is absolutely no reliable evidence that they do that.

The board must come out of the shadows, be present at the hearings and act as the trier of facts.

Police Board decisions are too often reversed later in the courts because of denials of due process and the reality that they made conclusions that were against the manifest weight of the evidence. Millions of dollars in back pay must be unnecessarily awarded to exonerated cops for work never provided. That’s because the board consistently manages to violate the civil rights of the officers whose careers were on the Police Board’s carpet.

By the same token the politically connected officers with very troubling conduct histories get special protection from the board they don’t deserve.

The Chicago Police Board is a scam that exists only to give the appearance of a functioning organization to met out fair discipline and wherever else they have the authority over.

The board needs to be replaced with a new commission that operates transparently. The men and women of the Chicago Police Department deserve nothing less than a real commission staffed with dedicated members operating in the sunshine.

There is an Extraordinary Acting Coach in Santa Monica, CA

Santa Monica, CA--Graham Beckel has been acting professionally for 40 years. He played a corrupt LAPD sergeant in Hollywood Confidential, an admiral in Pearl Harbor and hundreds of other roles. Beckel is a consummate pro, who’s always in demand for those special parts.

Savvy actors seeking to hone their skills all need a place to work their scenes and become primetime perfect. Beckel has created a great lab for actors and works with them from very young beginners to mature veterans.

Beckel’s goal is to help actors be all that they can be and he’s a really gifted teacher that will make that happen. Those fortunate enough to live near Santa Monica can visit the Santa Monica Playhouse on Tuesday nights, enroll in Beckel’s classes and experience the magic.

The details of Graham Beckel's acting class can be found at: http://www.grahambeckel.com/

Between the student’s scenes Holly Gleason performs live music and last night Graham who was also blessed with a great voice sang a duet with Holly. I shot that number called L.A. Dawn which was written by Beckel with my video camera and placed it here for your enjoyment.

The Drew Peterson Prosecution May have Finally Ended

Joliet, IL—Retired Bolingbrook police sergeant, Drew Peterson has been held in jail on a $20 Million bail bond for more than two years. He was charged with killing his third wife Kathleen Savio. She was found dead inside the bathtub of her locked home. Peterson and Savio were embroiled in an ongoing divorce at the time of her death.

Savio had hired a locksmith to change the locks and Peterson did not have a key. There was no forced entry found at this home at the time of her death,

Depending on whom you may want to believe, Savio died from an accidental fall or was murdered by an intruder. There is no physical evidence that ties Peterson to the death of Savio. Savio’s family members stand to profit if Peterson is ever convicted of killing Savio. That damaging hearsay evidence was blocked by the Illinois Court of Appeals yesterday from admission in the pending criminal case against Peterson.

There is a serious lack of evidence now and trying Peterson now would result in an acquittal. It would be a waste of time and tax money to prosecute this case. The real damage of trying Peterson is that should they ever find any compelling and admissible evidence they would be unable to re-arrest or try Peterson again.

Peterson fourth wife Stacy Peterson suddenly vanished after telling a friend she wanted to disappear in a plan to escape her unhappy marriage. In that case there is no evidence of any kind that would shed light on where she might be or her condition.

The true crime aficionados have set the gossip machine in overdrive with theories about these unsolved mysteries. Their prevailing opinion is that Peterson is a double murderer that deserves maximum punishment. Thankfully these people cannot dictate away our Bill of Rights.

I’ve said before that I’m not clairvoyant and tell you for sure that Drew Peterson did not kill anyone. Nor can any known witness tell us what really happened to either of Peterson’s wives.

The only reasonable thing to do is release Peterson until there is some genuine evidence of his having killed someone. There is no statute of limitations on murder.

Peterson with have anything but an ideal life once he is freed until this mystery is solved clearing him. I don't see that happening during his lifetime.

This may however place some Hollywood film producers into a litigation quagmire if they continue on with their project that appears to be labeling Peterson as a murderer. Profiting on Peterson’s name and likeness will suddenly become very risky at this particular juncture.

Here is the Court’s Opinion:

Peterson Appeal Opinion

Obama Administration’s Criminal Gun Running Scheme Leaves Gun Ban Advocates Speechless

Washington, DC—The Brady Violence Center is usually never quiet about guns being placed in the hands of known criminals. The same could be said for the Congressional Black Caucus along with a small Army of Leftist politicians that have demanded gun bans for decades.

Of course, when the gun rights hater they anointed to sit in the Whitehouse got caught using tax funds extorted from hardworking Americans to arm violent criminals they are speechless.

Yes, the Obama Whitehouse deliberately set out to create a gun violence crisis to bring world-wide disdain and condemnation of American’s right to keep and bear arms.

Operations: Gunwalker and Fast and Furious were set in motion to do nothing less than to engineer massive carnage by criminals using guns from American gun dealers. The problem is the Obama Administration got caught in the act.

Obama has made no secret that he wants to amend our Constitution by signing a United Nations civilian gun ban treaty. Somehow I don’t recall a legal way for America’s politicians to attack the Bill of Rights and negate any of them by signing a treaty. Despots throughout civilized history have never cared about liberty or freedom.

With two recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings (Heller and McDonald) reaffirming the second Amendment, Obama sees the UN treaty as a way to make an end run around our freedom and liberty.

Eric Holder involved at least three if not more federal law enforcement agencies in the scheme by knowingly and intentionaly allowing the illegal sales of thousands of firearms to dangerous criminals who were trafficking them to Mexican drug cartels and Central American criminals.

So far two the guns the Obama Administration knowingly delivered to criminals were used to murder two federal agents.

This has gone far beyond a simple mistake and has made the Obama Administration an accessory to murder. There is no legitimate excuse for this nor is there any plausible explanation that would convince any reasonable jury that Gunwalker along with Fast and Furious was somehow merely a clumsy attempt to prevent crime.

The Gun rights haters will scream if some person was convicted of pushing their domestic partner decades earlier, wants to own a gun today.

The silence by the gun ban advocates on the Whitehouse gunrunning allegations reveals how they are far beyond being disingenuous.

We need to appoint a special prosecutor now to bring the Obama Administration criminals to justice. The families of the foreign victims of Obama Administration criminals also need to file wrongful death lawsuits against Obama and his henchmen.

The Power of Video Production Skills

Los Angeles, CA—As television, magazines and newspapers completely reinvent themselves for the newer and more versatile webcasting platforms video has become more important than ever.

Every smartphone, IPad, or computer must be fed lots of exceptional video. There are screens in your pockets, cars as nearly every business displays large screens that are all demanding viewers.

Creation of video was always nearly impossible for anyone without the financial assets of a small nation. Today for a few thousand bucks and the discipline to learn the art of shooting, writing and editing you can create and control the content of what’s on some of those screens.

Today even the smallest of business need watchable and entertaining videos to showcase their products and services at least for their own websites.

Today every businessman or woman should be able to deliver a quality video presentation by a click of a mouse to any potential customer or client in the world. If they can’t do this they will forfeit their business to someone who can.

Fighting Fat With Crimefile!

Chicago, IL—We all must maintain super-hero figures to effectively fight crime. I have a guaranteed weight loss system for the hardworking men and women that work in 012.

The same system will work in every district if you apply the same secret formula with other fine establishments.

Amy Winehouse Has Died

I don’t what turned me off the most, her drug use, smoking, tattoos or the hair and eye makeup out of an Ed Wood horror film. For me Amy Winehouse had no relevance until now. Until I ran across her rendition of, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Winehouse’s voice is a divine gift.

Now I'm saddened to hear that this gifted young woman has died. She had a lot to offer this world but is just a sad memory now.

She lived and apparently died in a world of alcohol and drugs like so many well off and talented folks

I had to put her version of Will You Love Me Tomorrow on my Ipod along with The Shirells, Ben E. King and Carole King’s versions of that great song.

This is now a sad song:

Norway’s Death Toll on Par Our Own 1990 Happyland Social Club Murders

Oslo, Norway—So far the horrific and indiscriminant killings attributed to 32 year-old malcontent, Anders Behring Breivik are on par with the terror attack at a Bronx nightclub in March of 1990 that claimed 87 lives.

That’s despite the extraordinary ability of Breivik to masquerade as a policeman, employ firearms and six tons of explosive fertilizer to inflict his carnage.

Unemployed Cuban refugee Julio González simply used a single gallon can of gasoline to incinerate 87 people at the Happyland Social Club in his attack on a former girlfriend. Most people are simply beyond ignorant just how explosive and volatile gasoline really can be.

Hollywood has elevated the firearm to having magical levels of destruction with those awesome special effects. Filmmakers have somehow brainwashed the entire world into believing that there’s no more effective weapon than a gun.

The fact is and has been that well over 60% of people shot survive. Chicago’s weekend violence statistics show firearms being incredibly ineffective as scores are wounded for everyone that’s actually killed.

Modern emergency medical treatment probably deserves the credit for reducing the homicide rate because most urban area shooting victims get prompt treatment.

I’m still amazed that not a single terrorist has bothered to use a weed sprayer with gasoline. Imagine what two or three maniacs with weed sprayers could do in a crowded airport, shopping center or nightclub?

I doubt that anyone but me would look twice at a Mexican carrying a weed sprayer in Los Angeles.

Why Police “Perp Walks” are Dangerous to American Freedom

Los Angeles, CA—On March 31, 2011 Brian Stow a SF Giants fan traveled to L.A. to cheer his favorite baseball team on at Dodger Stadium. Stow was savagely beaten by two Hispanic male offenders simply because he wore a Giant’s jersey to this game. Stow may never fully recover from his injuries.

Naturally the LAPD quickly established a Dragnet for the low-life suspects. A call came in from a parole agent suggesting a possible suspect named, Giovanni Ramirez of Los Angeles. Ramirez was a convicted robber loaded with jail style tattoos who matched the composite drawing police obtained with the aid of eyewitnesses at the scene. On May 22, 2011 They stormed the Ramirez’s residence and recovered a handgun that the felon was barred from possessing as they arrested their prime suspect.

Because of the gun found in Ramirez’s possession he was held on a parole violation and returned to prison for a ten-month period.

Giovanni Ramirez quickly tried to explain his whereabouts to police and the fact he was not involved in this brutal assault. His plea fell on deaf ears as the LAPD delightfully informed the press and public that they caught one of the vicious criminals responsible for this despicable act. There was just one huge problem they arrested the wrong thug.

Ramirez was cleared not by solid police work but by our new surveillance society. His digital images were captured far away from the crime scene and there was a trail of data making their prime suspect’s participation in this crime impossible. Additionally he took and passed a polygraph test.

The LAPD had dug their heels in with their big announcement as they facilitated a “Perp Walk” for their “Usual Suspect”.

Today they are announcing the exoneration of Giovanni Ramirez and the subsequent arrests of two new suspects. That, as Ramirez stays behind bars because of that little problem of getting caught with a gun during his takedown by the LAPD SWAT Team.

The police and prosecutor's press releases and the suspect Perp Walk always endangers the accused’s rights to a fair trial. Today no suspect arrested by police in a high profile case can escape the hate. As always the media can be counted upon to smear the suspect with their, Mark of Cain.

Laws precluding cops and prosecutors from issuing press releases or making comments to the media about arrests they’ve made or evidence they plan on presenting in court would never endanger the rights of the free press.

Prosecutors and cops need to be muzzled at least or until after these cases are fairly tried in a courtroom.

The sad truth is that it's not always some convicted thug with a long rap-sheet that takes a fall for a crime he didn't commit. If they can do this to Ramirez, they can always do it to you or someone you love. We need to end the Perp Walks now and forever.

Need Cops In Chicago? Here is a Novel Solution that Includes Funding!

Chicago, IL—The Windy City needs to give their police department some serious CPR. The department is undermanned, out-gunned, demoralized and dysfunctional because of miserable management and political shenanigans.

They can continue as they have and things will deconstruct to the point of anarchy. They can apply a Band-Aid but that can’t and won’t stop the public safety hemorrhage.

The city should auction off a prime parcel of lakefront property with the proviso that it be used for a small business commuter airport like the one Richard M. Daley destroyed in the middle of the night a few years ago.

Next they could do the same with another small stretch of property for a world-class gun range, training facility and pro shop to replace to old Lincoln Park Gun Club they shut down decades ago. I think it is abundantly clear to Mayor Emanuel and Superintendent McCarthy that the Illinois gun carry ban is about to end. The right way to deal with this is to invite the public to learn how to use the weapons properly, safely and justifiably. Perhaps one could be established on the North side, and another on the South Side.

The city could also get really serious about making Chicago the place to make feature films and TV series. Leasing out city buildings like abandoned police stations and courtrooms to filmmakers would put them to good use. Also, film permits need to be granted to students and such with minimal red tape and cost. Today’s film students are tomorrow’s major directors.

The catch is the money is to be used only for police resources. The funds could be used to hire back seasoned officers that have already retired. The savings in training costs alone would be quite substantial.

Next officers need to be encouraged to provide their own serviceable carbines and shotguns, as they must do now with their duty side arms. This will help level the playing field between the officers and the heavily armed street gangs.

The political hiring, assignment and promotion of cops must end. The department must use proven civil service, personnel management that fairly and equitably rewards officers for excellence. The phone calls from clout heavy reverends and ward healers must go unanswered.

Finally there must be a solid policy to criminally prosecute people that make phony allegations against our cops. The policy has been to never prosecute the people that routinely cause a huge waste in investigative resources with malicious allegations against cops.

If these things were accomplished over the next year there would be a new attitude within the ranks of our Thin Blue Line. After a while we could phase out the retired hire back program for traditional police recruits.

The Fear Pandering Brady Campaign/Center is on Life Support Today

Washington, DC—They’ve been around for over four decades changing their name and goals like most people change their underwear. Today it’s the Brady Campaign that has been trading on the name of former presidential media spokesman, Jim Brady wounded by a madman.

I have the most fun with Brady grading states on what they’ve been calling sensible gun laws. Gun laws, is misleading because it’s only gun bans this organization will fully support. As for the list, the states with the most restrictive gun bans are also the most violent ones. The states Brady has flunked are always the ones with minimal rates of violent crime. Of course the most violent cities rate Brady’s A or A-plus rating. The violent cities of America all have Leftist mayors the Brady folks support and love.

The Brady people were experts at misleading the public with their propaganda. They re-invented a whole class of firearms by redefining the title of Assault Weapons. Assault weapons are select-fire military rifles or carbines. The Brady people abused the term to include anything looking similar to an assault weapons. The ignorant media was sucked into this deception and they still misuse that term today.

The deception led to that failed ten-year Assault Weapons Ban we saw passed by a single vote. Today it is expired and there is little interest outside of some diehard gun rights haters to bring it back. The hated ban simply had zero impact on violent crime.

The Brady people nearly succeeded in convincing the entire nation that gun bans would somehow keep them safe. However, the experience was radically different. Gun laws are only obeyed by the law-abiding and as a result of the bans violent criminals are assured unarmed and unprotected victims.

The Brady people railed against returning law-abiding their right to arm themselves with a concealed weapon for self-protection. State by their hysterical campaign of fear-mongering failed. The Brady people predicted the streets would run red with blood and these armed citizens would be turned into armed zombie killers.

States began keeping accurate statistics and learned that the permitted gun packers were incredibly well-behaved. A tiny percentage of permits were suspended or revoked after a holder would use deadly force but they were soon reinstated once these shootings were ruled justifiable. I’ve yet to see a case where a criminal committing a violent crime actually bothered to get a permit to carry a firearm to some crime scene.

The carry bans have fallen so far in all but one state, Illinois. Litigation appears to be forcing Illinois to fall in line with the Second Amendment. Various courts have ruled the Second Amendment guarantees not just the right to keep arms but to bear them as well.

The Brady Campaign’s days of peddling fear are all but over. Americans in many places have spent over four decades unarmed and vulnerable to criminals.

Americans have learned that magazine capacity is more about dealing with cowardly criminals that travel in groups. Americans are rapidly learning they need not submit to urban terrorism enabled by ignorant politicians who bought into the defective Brady philosophy.

It’s Time for Another Conservative Broadcast News Channel

Los Angeles, CA—Fox News is in need of competition since it stands somewhat alone in a world of Leftist propaganda. Without competition Fox News is stagnating in a rut of mediocre content. Without the hot babes they sport as anchors I find little to enjoy there anymore.

Bill O’Reilly tries to pass himself off as a Conservative because he’s at odds with the Looney Left. Being at odds with Barack Obama, Barney Frank and the rest of the Liberal firebrands hardly qualifies as conservative credentials. O’Reilly is little more than a big government loving control freak. There will never be enough laws restricting freedom to satisfy this pretender.

Sean Hannity and Mike Huckabee are two more examples of almost Conservatives. They seem more interested in keeping their political images polished rather than digging past the phony façade of America’s politicians.

There are very few bright lights at Fox News like Judge Andrew Napolitano. For the most part Fox News does not have a real Conservative image. Glen Beck showed a lot of promise but seemed constrained at times due to Leftist efforts to silence him through advertisers.

Why Fox News employs that has-been Leftist gadfly, Geraldo Rivera escapes all logic. Rivera is as empty as his deflated decades old TV special on Al Capone’s vault.

What’s needed is another Conservative themed TV and web news organization. Competition would Improve Fox News giving it new life. The new contender would have to work hard to win viewers from Fox and the leftist propaganda machines. You’d have two news sources that would decimate what’s left of mainstream broadcast media.

Competition breeds excellence instead of the malaise Fox seems to be generating these days.

I’d give a top-notch news director type six months and a lot of cash to assemble a new news player with bureaus both here and in Europe. It would be more about news gathering and reporting than chest beating by personalities.

The way that ABC, CBS and NBC have kept viewers is that they do more than disseminate their political slant. They primarily still do news. Fox News has been notoriously weak on providing actual news content.

I see a goal is to establish a new breed of reporters that ask the politicians those tough questions that even Fox News was too timid to ask. The purpose would be to hold government accountable through constant digging into suspected government corruption. That’s just not that difficult in a nation where there has never been a shortage of politicians fleecing taxpayers.

As for the campaigns to silence Conservatives delivering news, they can be derailed if there are more than one or two targets for their wrath.

Chicago Cops Handling Justifiable Shooting Incidents.

Chicago, IL—We all know that Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez hates Conservatives, cops and gun owners. We also know that she will indict anyone for murder that uses deadly force that she can despite reasonable justification.

Most experienced officers can early on read the signs of a righteous shooting. We need to give taxpayers the benefit of the doubt when they have shot up some young thug whose mother will avow he was just turning his life around.

The patrol men and women responding to that kind of a shooting should start their investigations with enhanced Miranda warnings even before the point of accepting a shooters statements or excited utterances. Most people involved in justifiable shooting want to make a case of necessity to you on the street out of presence of a lawyer. It is most often very difficult to shut them up because of all the excitement. Please, do them the favor of stopping them cold.

Tell the shooters that you and the detectives that follow up the shooting will not be making the decision to charge them with a crime. That as we know will happen on the whim of some ASA dancing to Alvarez’s depraved music.

Advise these folks to say nothing without a lawyer and quickly tell them they won’t be arrested if they invoke their rights with you and the dicks. Tell the potential shooter you’re not psychic and without a confession you’d not have enough evidence to arrest anyone.

The passage in the case report is always best read that, “Reporting officer asked (blank) what happened and he invoked his rights to remain silent and asked to have an attorney present.”

Your report can then reflect a whodunit angle since people refused to talk. Alvarez’s hands will be tied.

You simply give people their rights a little early in the game and save them from spending a couple of years in jail while they wait for a judge or jury to free them.

I’ve yet to see a CR get issued for handing out Miranda warnings too early in an investigation.

Appeals Court Shuts Down TSA’S Naked Scanners!

Washington D.C.—After the TSA unceremoniously subjected travelers to naked X-Ray scans there was an uproar over the invasive process and the unknown long term health effects of the Equipment used.

The TSA implemented the program and bypassed required public input and normal comment periods. Today the D.C Court of Appeals spanked the Homeland security and the TSA. They ordered theTSA to follow proper comment procedure.

I guess the TSA will have to settle for massive groping of our junk. Perhaps it time to stop bathing before we fly. Let’s all make the TSA swine as miserable as possible.

Here is a copy of the opinion right of the court clerk’s press:
TSA Naked Scanners Shut Down

American Criminal Trials for Fun and Profit!

Pictured above, actor Rob Lowe and sergeant Drew Peterson

Joliet, IL—Retired Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson has sat in jail on a murder charge for well over two years waiting for a fair day in court. Our founding fathers were wise enough to give him and all of us the presumption of innocence. That presumption has been hijacked, at least from Peterson long ago.

The case against Peterson for murder is based on what’s always been inadmissible hearsay evidence in any American courtroom until the Illinois Legislature made a special law just for him. The untested law would allow the second and third-party gossip of the very people profiting from the death of Peterson’s third wife to be admitted to a jury.

The problem with the Peterson case is the use over-hyped and sensationalized trial material for fun and profit. Tabloid court news spinning organizations like that of Nancy Grace’s win big ratings and cold hard cash bringing viewers on board to watch Peterson get totally trashed.

Now a film based on a very poorly researched and written book is in production. Hollywood plans to tell America that Drew Peterson is a scoundrel and murderer before any jury is ever seated. Of course the pre-trial publicity has made Peterson the scorn of the true-crime addicts that don’t have lives. This is the same group that can’t seem to get enough Casey Anthony hate out of their system.

Countless Americans have died on battlefields so we could have a fair criminal justice system. Today too many Americans want their favorite media celebrities to tell them who is guilty, based on unsubstantiated chitchat and hateful sound bites rather than vetted evidence in a court room. This process turns any high profile case into a perverted sporting event for a large population segment of dysfunctional true-crime addicts.

As for the Peterson trial itself assuming that ever happens, thankfully Nancy’s Grace’s cameras are barred from all Illinois courtrooms.

Making a film and lots of profit after the trial would be fine. Making a film based on the outcome of a fair trial would be reasonable. Portraying Peterson as a cold-blooded wife killer before a jury has a chance to weigh and test the evidence is outrageous.

Making profit on the name and likeness of a private person who has simply been accused of a crime is dead wrong. Making a reasonably truthful film reflecting the trial outcome after the fact based on public record is another matter altogether.

As for the profit of Peterson related material reasonableness suggests that if Peterson would be convicted he’d have no right to any portion. If he’s acquitted or a court rules that indictment was improperly brought by a defective hearsay statute Peterson should have his right to profit from his name and likeness protected.

As for the gossip-mongering true-crime swine, they will only be satisfied with a trial by Tabloid TV along with the public torture and execution of Drew Peterson.