Edward Snowden Hero or Traitor? It’s Up to You to Decide!

Somewhere in Russia---German Public Television network ADR caught up with Edward Snowden for an exclusive interview.

This interview has been removed form YouTube and numerous other video sharing sites because it is against interest of our rogue government. 

Snowden risked his $250,000.00 per year job, his liberty and very life to expose the most unlawful, vast and Machiavellian government surveillance program in the history of the entire world.

Snowden has proven that while we slept criminals have obtained total control of our government in a secret and bloodless Coup d'état. 

The unlawful NSA spying was not something that any elected politicians ever offered in their campaign speeches.  Had they done so, they would have never gotten elected.

Barack Obama cannot claim ignorance or dare deny responsibility for this multi-billion dollar tax funded criminal government enterprise.

The information contained within the NSA’s unlawfully seized data would allow for:

Agents learning embarrassing personal secrets to blackmail members of Congress, judges, prosecutors, or political candidates forcing them to vote or make rulings in ways inconsistent with the law or public good.

Agents that steal trade secrets from inventors and businesses could enrich themselves selling them to competing businesses all over the world. 

Agents would be able to learn inside financial information on any and all publically traded companies and obtain untold wealth through insider trading.

Can we now be sure for example that Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was not blackmailed into uncharacteristically voting to uphold the Obamacare massive train wreck? 

No American is safe from the worst kind of abuse or monstrous crime carried out by a government that refuses to act within our established laws and Constitution.

We cannot allow our politicians to create and maintain massive programs that violate every American principal or freedom that we ever fought to maintain.  The creation of the Snowden exposed NSA domestic spying program is nothing less than Treason and those responsible for it should be arrested and put on trial.

Edward Snowden is a hero in every respect.  He risked all to expose this and we have a duty to stop this cancer on our government. Watch this video interview while you still can!

Snowden-Interview in English by perkin2

George Zimmerman and His Dark Future

Sanford, FL—We now know that Travon Martin was a drug abusing, burglar and thug doing all the wrong things.  Young Martin selected the wrong person to bully and assault.  That cost Martin his life.

I’m not going to retry the case that acquitted George Zimmerman but the lies from the Martin family, their lawyers, African-American community organizers and the gun rights hating mainstream media fell apart in court.

Now Zimmerman is absolutely broke, shell-shocked and suffering from what he says is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I believe that Zimmerma’s PTSD is associated not with the incident with Martin but by being terrorized by prosecutors, so-called community leaders and media whores.  That vicious assault on Zimmerman clearly left it’s marks. 

If Zimmerman is correct that he suffers from PTSD he is in a now category of people that have lost their rights under federal law to possess firearms for life.  He may be able to collect Social Security disability payments.

Zimerman’s life is in a shambles despite his acquittal.  That’s not unusual for self-defense shooting survivors.

Zimmerman rightly says he was made a scapegoat by Barak Obama and his Attorney General.  They shamefully used it to advance their Gun Ban agenda.

Zimmerman says he wants to go to law school.  Having a law license is no guarantee he can make a living practicing law.  He says he wants to help people put in cases such as his own.  Those cases are incredibly rare and making a living on them would be nearly impossible.

I don’t know what next for Zimmerman but his future is bleak.  He once wanted to be a cop but that will never happen now.

Zimmerman is a pariah because the vicious political crusade of an over-zealous and racist special prosecutor.  The prosecutor is protected in a great extent by legal immunity for her malicious actions.

Zimmerman has pending litigation but that will be seriously challenged by public misconceptions.  To be compensated for his losses a jury must find him to be a sympathetic victim.

Zimmerman is paying a hefty price for wanting to get involved protecting his community as an unpaid civilian watchman.    

You better think of a good teaser hook to make people watch your video!

Los Angeles, CA—As a blogger and multimedia journalist I occasionally put up videos here on Crimefile News.

Currently time and lack of funding precludes me from putting up more video.  Getting people to watch your video no matter how good it is challenging.  You need to tease people with hot button words we’ve all seen. 

“You better watch this video before the censors take it down!”  “Watch Ms. X destroy so and so in this video!”  “Watch Mr. X meltdown under tense questioning!”   “This video will make you break out the tissues!”   Frankly these are getting very old.  They’ve been used and abused and I refuse to fall for them anymore.

The truth is that Internet viewers are incredibly impatient and loading videos for some can be a slow process.  When you add in that many videos turn out to be a disappointment that don't deliver on the promised hype you better be creative rather than deceptive.

Putting in the proper key words or meta tags in crucial.  Having an exciting thumbnail or start image is important. 

Videos need to be clear with great audio.  They need to be short and always leaving the viewer wanting more. 

There are other rules regarding multiple angles and static shots that were established in the past few decades.   Are those rules evolving? 

GoPro cameras are high definition cameras in a tiny waterproof package.  They are incredibly for point of view video and action shots.  They go where other cameras simply cant.  Additionally people don’t shy from them like they do the more noticeable cameras they are used to seeing. 

I’m no expert on video but I have played with the equipment since it became affordable 20 years ago.  It’s getting better and cheaper every day.

Viewers really don’t want junk.  They want to be taken somewhere away from their surroundings and dull lives.

I put up a video a few weeks ago at the largest gun show in the world in Las Vegas.  It’s called the SHOT Show.  The video is not about guns but rather how the show is set up and my actual experience in Sin City.

The video shows my experience from my own point of view.  I broke lots of established video rules. 

My intent was to show you what those few days were like through my eyes.  Yes, I shot this all on a GoPro Hero 3+ .  I edited the video on Final Cut Pro X.  Along with post production, unscripted voiceovers.   I also added some copyrighted music for the mood. 

My pals that love guns would want me to stop and spend time with the actual products but the video would be four days long.  This was really a SHOT Show teaser.  There is little substitute for actually attending this massive show. 

A sign of a successful video is that people think it was shorter than it actually was.  So ignore the time markers until after you’ve seen the video.  Then compare your time impression with the actual time of the video. 

I kept it simple reducing four days into minutes.  I’d like comments on the video. 

A Life Saved Only To be Lost a Year Later…

Chicago, IL—The Internet is adding information at a rapid pace.  I often wondered what happened to a suicidal woman I helped pull from the Chicago River in July of 1976.  Today I found the tragic answer.

It was just after eating a rather large breakfast I was in my personal car Westbound on the Congress Street Expressway Bridge by the huge post office building. 

Suddenly in the stop and go rush hour traffic I saw a women bleeding from both wrists climbing on the South side railing of the bridge and suddenly she jumped into the filthy water below. 

I pulled to the right and stopped my car in an effort to deal with the obvious emergency.  I crossed all the lanes of traffic on foot.  I discovered a man had broken the glass covering a life preserver and managed to hopelessly tangle its attached rope to the bridge.

I could see the woman floundering below and ran down to the embankment to aid her.  As I was running I saw a man later identified as David M. McCauley dive into the water after the woman. 

I was no champion swimmer and dreaded the thought of the nasty sewer like water and fighting with this suicidal woman in efforts to pull her out. 

Whatever reluctance I may have had disappeared when it was obvious that Mr. McCauley may be killed trying to save this woman by himself. 

I quickly striped off my gun belt and uniform.  Two women had come to the riverbank and were watching.  I told one of them to run and call the police and fire departments (this was before the 911 system was established).  I asked the other woman to please watch out for my gun and clothing. 

I swam out to the pair in time to see that the woman had Mr. McCauley’s head under water.  As I tried to help she managed to pull me under too.  Finally she gave in and we were able to tow her to shore. 

There was no way out of the river because at the time it had sheer high walls on both sides.   We soon could hear sirens and saw firemen lowering a ladder into the water.  A fire Lt. jumped in and helped us push the woman up the ladder. Thankfully a fire station was very close to us.

McCauley and I got out of the water and dried off with white fire department sheets.  I put my uniform on and gave my car keys to cops that had responded. 

A sergeant from the First District (I was assigned to 012 just West) told me to get into his car because he was taking me to the hospital. We drove behind the ambulance transporting the woman. I soon became nauseous and was ready to vomit.  That’s when the good sergeant flipped on the lights and siren. 

Moments later we were at Rush St. Luke's Hospital's  emergency room doors where I got out and upchucked in the driveway (that was much better than in the patrol car!)

Other officers made a hospitalization case report and I was given a prophylactic injection because of my exposure to that nasty river water.

The next day I saw my picture on the front page of the Chicago Tribune and the story accompanying it.  Somehow it did not feel good.  This came at the expense of the high profile exposure of a woman’s emotional troubles.  They had published this troubled woman’s name along with the distant photos they had her in the actual rescue.

Mr. McCauley was a district sales manager from Allstate Insurance.  McCauley was appropriately put in for a Carnage Hero Foundation Award and received it.  I received a Department Commendation and a second special award from the late Mayor Richard J. Daley.

As to what happened to the suicidal woman that’s the rest of this story.  Billie Gail Hubacher, 38 was placed in the psychiatric unit of the hospital after they tended to her self-inflicted wrist wounds.  Soon they released her for future out patient treatment.

I knew nothing else until this morning when I discovered she died just short of a year later at 39 years of age on May 1, 1977.  I can only assume that Hubacher finally succeeded in taking her own life. 

Depression can be so deadly.  I don’t know what demons Hubacher was fighting in her last year on earth.  Suicide at such a young age was certainly no answer to her problems. 

Hubacher was obviously an emotional train wreck.  She may have been pretty and well educated but I could never tell from that fateful encounter.  Did that really matter in the end? 

I can’t imagine what I could have done to help.  However in retrospect nearly four decades later I could have simply visited her at the hospital just to let her know I cared that she lived.  

I should have taken the time to tell her the truth that there was much better life and adventures still ahead for her.  

I am indeed my brother’s (in this case my sister’s) keeper.  Here I know I failed in my duty as a human being.

Why I Hate Spirit Airlines and So Should You!

Los Angeles, CA—I should have written this sooner but the negative experience I had with this airline has been continually relived in my mind.  Better I do this late than never!  

It was well over a year ago I had to take a short notice flight to Chicago.   I searched for the cheapest fare, which was anything but cheap.

Spirit Airlines came in at the lowest fare but not by much.  This was my fist and hopefully last flight on this carrier. 

What went wrong you might ask?  To begin with Spirit is following the competition in doing the things I hate like those confusing nickel and dime schemes over baggage fees.  I want to be charged a single price and be left alone.

Because of the fees overhead bins are always overstuffed and the loading and unloading of passengers is painfully slower than need be. 

From the boarding counter to exiting the plane their clerks and crew were unfriendly and downright mean.  I never once saw any of them smile.

The pre-boarding loudspeaker announcements were always tense and agitated.  They warned us like we were Nazi prisoners boarding trains to death camps that the plane was absolutely full.

When I got to my seat it had a brown colored stain on it and since the plane was full I could not change it.  Then I learned that the seats do not recline even an inch!  I’m 6 feet tall and weigh in at over 200 pounds.  L.A. to Chicago is a somewhat long flight. 

The flight attendants were very impatient with the passengers that were seemingly to slow at obeying commands to stow those electronic devices.

I was wondering where Spirit recruited their help.  Those people showed every sign of hating their jobs and the passengers.

I can’t imagine that every flight is like that because if they were, Switzerland’s Human Rights organizations would be investigating. 

I have to admit I’m old enough to remember when flying was fun.  Once upon a time, there was no frisking passengers or searching their luggage.  You could pay for your flight with cash and board planes without ID. 

The flight crews of old were delightfully friendly.  There were no flight attendants.  Stewardesses took care of the passengers needs.  They were young, radiant and incredibly pleasant.  Women that were hard on the eyes or men simply were excluded from these positions. 

The glory days of airline travel are long over and so what if I got spoiled but I refuse to pay for what Spirit dishes out.  I'd rather walk!

Frankly this single round trip experience with Spirit was enough for me and I will gladly pay more to avoid this airline.