Crime

Jul112022

Episode 568 – How Low Can He Go?

The White House continues to support violence against the Supreme Court members.

Biden approvals craters and the media is trying to figure out how to avoid the red wave that’s coming in November.

And justice appears to be non-existent in New York City.

 

Kamalaisms

Poor Kamala can’t seem to get through one interview without making an ass out of herself.

Here, she is being asked if the Biden administration missed the boat with trying to codify Roe versus Wade even though they knew that it was going to be overturned a month before the ruling was released thanks to the leak which has yet to be discovered (I wonder why). She gives the type of answer we have grown accustomed to:

Wow, I have nothing to say. I just hopes she keeps doing these interviews because I am highly entertained.

 

It’s On Them

So, last week, Justice Kavanaugh was having dinner with his wift at Morton’s Steakhouse (a very good but over-rated restaurant). While there, protestors gathered out front and started getting loud. Kavanaugh decided to leave the restaurant thought the back to escape the crowd.

Many online thought it was a rather cowardly act but let’s not forget he was with his family and someone did try to assassinate him only a couple of months ago. Karin Jean Pierre was asked about this and her response was as tone-deaf as usual:

This is big talk from her because no one on the right does this crap. No one is forcing her to leave a restaurant because they’ve assembled in fron. No one has tries to assassinate her or her family.

But it wasn’t just her.

Pete Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten, released a tweet

“Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions.”

Again approving of the protests that are affecting every moment of his live and approving os the potential violence against Kavanaugh and his family. Again, nobody is protesting him and no one attempted to assissinate him. Of course, he was ravaged online.

But Pete was asked about this. Again, these people just don’t give a damn even though all this protesting is illegal! Listen:

He just contradicted himself. He said they should be free from harassment and intimidation but the people have a right to protest. If they are “protesting” at his house or while he’s eating at a restaurant isn’t this harassment and intimidation? Of course, Pete’s opinion would be different if he was protested while he was at a restaurant or at home. I’m sure he would have a different opinion if someone had attempted to assassinate him or his family.

Anything that happens is now on the Democrats hands. If one hair on any of these justices heads is harmed, it will be on them. But I’m sure they don’t care. I have said it before and I’ll say it again that I think they want someone to assassinate a justice or two so Joe Biden can pick a couple of Leftist justices and change the balance of the court. That’s a cynical opinion but someone is going to have to show me evidence that changes my mind.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/chasten-buttigieg-mocks-kavanaugh-for-fleeing-restaurant-amid-protests-but-the-joke-blows-up-in-his-face

 

Here We Go Again

Joe Biden’s approval ratings have plummeted in a couple of polls this weekend.

The Civiqs Poll’s daily tracking survey of registered voters found that his approval is at 30% while his disapproval is at 57%. All age groups and special interest groups had him under 40%. The worst group was ages 18-34 which had it at 21%.

In a separate poll, Interactive Polls, has him down to 29%. Biden’s approval rating is historically low. According to Gallup, five presidents have sunk into the 20s. Those presidents include Harry Truman (22 percent), Richard Nixon (24 percent), Jimmy Carter (28 percent), George H.W. Bush (29 percent), George W. Bush (25 percent).

The New York Times ran a poll that says more than two-thirds (69%) of independents disapprove of Biden’s job performance — with nearly half (48%) disapproving “strongly.” Only 26% want Biden to run again in 2024. It found 77% thought the country was in trouble with 13% thinking the country is on the right track.

Here’s the thing, Biden doesn’t have a floor. His approval rating could be in the teens. His base (which is the Left) is tired of him and you see it in the newspapers. Moderate Democrats, Independents and minorities are struggling the worst and see nothing is getting better. He has a 36% approvals from Hispanics and a 56% with blacks (down from 88%). With Democrats, he’s down to 58% from 92% when he was elected. So expect this to be in the teens when the news comes out that we are in a recession, which is coming.

Biden is not helping himself here. This weekend, he released a tweet (well, his intern did) that got a lot of flack:

He got skewered over this tweet.

This is coming from a guy who said the buck will stop with him when he became President but all he’s been doing is blaming everybody. He’s blamed Russia. He’s blamed Trump. He’s blamed Republicans. He’s blamed big business. He’s blamed small business. He’s blamed the people.

This obviously is not sitting well with the public looking at his polls. People know Democrats run the Presidency, Senate and House but nothing is getting done.

And, of course, he’s being mocked because he went to Delaware again this weekend.

Abortion is not working. In a few polls, abortion is shown to be tenth on the list of important issues at 5% of people are concerned about it.

So with all this happening and an election approaching and nothing to run on, what are they going to do? How about start another pandemic?

The media is really pushing monkey pox but this one doesn’t seem to be going really well. Apparently it’s only spread by sex between gay and bisexual men. That’s means most of the country is not going to have too much of an issue with this.

Omicron now has a fifth variant that the media is pushing will be much worse than any variant. China is even shutting down again (remember, they said they only had 5000 deaths). Well, they’re pushing it and no one seems to care.

Everything Democrats keep pushing is going nowhere. If Biden wants to save the party in November, and he’s running out of time, he’s going to have to change his policies.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/joe-biden-approval-drops-to-30-after-a-brutal-week-civiqs-poll/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/10/poll-joe-bidens-approval-rating-sinks-historic-low-29-percent/
https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/man-likely-spread-monkeypox-at-texas-bathhouse/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-strain-covid-symptoms-ba4-ba5-omicron-b2119817.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-democrats-dont-want-biden-to-run-in-2024-new-york-times-poll-shows

 

This is Justice?

In an absolutely horrid story last week. A bodega owner in New York City defended himself from a career criminal and is now facing second degree murder charges. Here’s the story:

  • A 61-year-old bodega employee, Jose Alba, who is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic and a naturalized citizen with three children was working late one night.
  • A woman came into the store to by chips but her EBT card (yep, she is on food stamps) didn’t have the funds to buy the chips.
  • The two got into an argument and the woman left to get her boyfriend who turns out to be an unemployed ex-con.
  • The man was Austin Simon, 35, who had served prison time for assaulting an officer.
  • Simon goes behind the counter and starts assaulting Alba with Simon’s girlfriend cheering him on.
  • Alba grabs a knife and stabs Simon three times, killing him.
  • All this was caught on camera. The video was made public.
  • Alba was arrested, put in Riker’s Island and given a $250,000 bail.
  • The Left-wing DA, Alvin Bragg, wants to charge him with 2nd degree murder.
  • A judge did lower the bail to $50,000 and Alba was able to make bail but he did have to spend time in Riker’s Island.

With crime being what it is and criminals being released without bail, this seems incredible to me especially since it is so obviously self-defense from a human being that probably should have never been on the streets because of DAs like Bragg.

This is not being taken well:

  • The bipartisan group of City Council members said the DA’s controversial, progressive approach to law enforcement was “rewarding the guilty and punishing the innocent.”
  • Mayor Eric Adams also condemned the arrest, stating: “My heart goes out for this hard-working, honest New Yorker that was doing his job in his place of business, where a person came in and went behind the counter and attacked him.”
  • United Bodegas of America officials announced Saturday they would meet with the prosecutor on Tuesday to discuss Jose Alba’s case.
  • United Bodegas of America posted his bail since Alba couldn’t afford it.

The DA is still investigating the incident but the pushback is so hard, I doubt he will be prosecuted.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/nyc-politicians-demand-alvin-bragg-drop-jose-alba-murder-charge/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow
https://nypost.com/2022/07/10/nyc-bodega-owners-urge-da-bragg-to-drop-murder-charges-against-clerk-jose-alba/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

 

 

 

 

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Apr112022

Episode 518 – When the Narrative Crashes

What happens when a crisis goes against the narrative? Let’s talk about the Sacramento mass shooting.

 

Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste

A tragedy occurred in Sacramento, California last weekend. Of course, there is a narrative that could be wound around it by the Leftists. As usual, it is another story that was actually created by bad Leftist policy. Let’s take a look at it.

According to the The Sacramento Bee:

Six people were killed and 12 others were injured in a mass shooting in downtown Sacramento early Sunday, transforming a section of the city normally teeming with nightlife into a horrific crime scene of blood, shattered glass and grieving relatives. The death toll, and the number of wounded, made the bloodbath in the vicinity of 10th and K streets the worst mass shooting in Sacramento’s history.

Here’s what happened:

  • The shooting happened just after 2 a.m in an area with a bunch of dance clubs.
  • There was a a large fight that started among multiple people.
  • The suspects started shooting at each other.
  • The shootout took place in a 2 by 4 block radius, so this was a huge fight.
  • There were hundreds of rounds fired.
  • Here’s what the police didn’t know:
    • How many shooters there were.
    • Why the shooting took place.
    • Whether the shooting was targeted or indiscriminate.
    • Who the shooters were.

Needless to say, it is hard to really report on anything about this shooting or come up with any conclusions, right? It took 18 hours before police even removed the bodied because they had no idea what was happening. They were collecting videos from phones to get clues.

But this doesn’t stop the media from going off.

 

The Narrative.

The first narrative is that this was a mass shooting. This does fall under the definition of a mass shooting but most people think of one person who is pissed off at someone and then just starts shooting. This wasn’t the case here. At all.

Of course then the media spit out how there are 12,000 mass shootings in the United States this year. That’s an exaggeration. But they did say there were around 120 mass shootings. Of course, when you look at each of case, one one would shrug at whether or not that case would be a mass shooting. For example, a father got into a fight with his in laws, shot them (they survived) and then shot a police officer in the leg (he survived) and was arrested. This is considered a mass shooting. Gang violence, including drive-by shootings, is considered a mass shooing.

Why does this matter? Because there is a big difference between some nut job taking out 10 people versus a gang member  shooting at other gang members and hitting innocent people. With the nut job, it is hard to argue against gun control (sort of). With the gang member, no so much.

The media went off on gun control. President Biden said he is going to sign an executive order limiting ghost guns and magazine sizes. California is looking at implementing an additional 100 laws restricting guns. Mind you, California has some of the most strict rules on guns second only to New York.

CNN, MSNBC, the AP, New York Times, the Washington Post all had articles about how “gun violence” is a disease in this country. Even the Sacrament Kings head coach, Steve Kerr, said we need some “common sense” gun control. Of course, no one defines what “common sense” gun control is. My guess it’s banning all guns.

This is what they were talking about all Sunday and half of Monday. Then, it just stopped.

 

The Truth

The Post Millennial revealed:

On Tuesday, Sacramento police arrested 27-year-old Smiley Martin, who remains in the hospital for injuries he sustained during the shooting, and faces charges of possession of a machine gun and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

  • Martin has a lengthy criminal record.
    • Robbery.
    • Carrying illegal firearms.
    • Lying to police.
    • Resisting arrest.
  • In 2017 he was given a 10 year sentence for beating his “girlfriend” within an inch of her life.
    • They were fighting and she ran out of the apartment they were in.
    • He followed her to the street and beat her.
    • She ran back into the apartment and followed.
    • In the apartment, he beat her again.
    • He dragged her by the hair and put her in his car and beat her again with a belt.
  • He applied for parole in 2021 and the parole board recommended he stay in prison because of his violent nature and he would offend again.
  • He was released a year later after serving only four years.
  • He was a gang member and got into some argument with rival gang members and that’s when the shooting started.

Oh, I forgot, he is black. Now do you see why the media stopped reporting this?

Now, let’s take a look at the shooting itself:

  • The people he was shooting at were black.
  • He was illegally carrying a gun (felons can’t carry firearms).
  • The gun was modified to make it an automatic. That’s illegal.
  • He was out on parole serving less than half of his sentence even though the parole board said he should stay in prison because he is violent and would commit more crimes.

The system failed in this one. Gun control would have done nothing to stop this. Instead of pointing to the real problem; which are gangs, crime and a loose justice system, it is better to just ignore it.

Do you know who knows that? Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert. She was on the Lawrence Jones’ show this weekend on Fox News and she had some really common sense things to say. She had written a letter to keep Smiley Martin in prison. Here’s what she said:

 

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article260065985.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/us/sacramento-california-shooting-wednesday/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1091010496/sacramento-mass-shooting-arrests-developments-details
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article260131840.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-alarm-bells-are-blazing-sacramento-shooting-spurs-calls-action-gun-vi-rcna23097
https://thepostmillennial.com/sacramento-mass-shooting-suspect-was-released-from-jail-years-early-despite-being-labelled-a-significant-threat?utm_campaign=64470
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sacramento-shooting-suspect-early-release-da-schubert

 

Do Something NOW!

Because of this crime in Sacramento, Democrats have been saying that ghost guns are the primary reason for gun violence. A ghost gun is defined as a gun that is put together from a kit and has no serial numbers. But there’s a problem. The government defines ghost guns as weapons with no traceable serial numbers. The government claims that there were 24,000 ghost guns recovered.

So what is the problem? The government considers a gun which had its serial number scraped off. In other words, a criminal makes a non-ghost gun into a ghost gun. That’s illegal. That report of 24,000 ghost guns doesn’t discuss the number of guns that were acquired and built from kits.

I also want to point out that California, where the “mass” shooting takes place, already the most restrictive gun control policies and requires the serialization of legally obtained kits to create a ghost gun.

This rule has been in the works for months, but the Left is getting impatient. Chuck Schumer said in a statement:

“It’s high time for a ghost gun exorcism before the proliferation peaks and before more people get hurt — or worse. My message is a simple one: No more waiting on these proposed federal rules.” Ghost guns are “too easy to build, too hard to trace and too dangerous to ignore.”

Do you notice the answer for everything to a Leftist is to take things away? Take away free speech. Take away our freedom to assemble. Take away our ability to go to church. Take away our money. Take away our businesses. Take away our guns (which is God-given and is used to protect all of the above).

Here’s what the rule is going to address:

  • Change the current definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun.
  • Require manufacturers and dealers who sell ghost gun parts to be licensed by the federal government and require federally licensed firearms dealers to add a serial number to any unserialized guns they plan to sell.
  • Require firearms dealers to run background checks before they sell ghost gun kits that contain parts needed to assemble a firearm.

There is some pushback.

  • Republicans are stating that Joe Biden cannot just create a rule limiting gun ownership. It’s a Congressional job and then even that is limited because of the second amendment.
  • Gun advocates plan to sue and will probably win to stop this.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-expected-release-ghost-gun-rule

 

 

 

 

 

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Nov232021

Episode 452 – The Real Terrorism

A terrible act of terrorism hits Wisconsin. But who are the real terrorists?

 

News

Here are some news stories that came out that I shouldn’t skip:

  • President Biden took a physical.
    • The President has experienced increasing frequency and severity of “throat clearing” and coughing during speaking engagements. He has exhibited such symptoms for as long as I have known him, but they certainly seem to be more frequent and more pronounced over the last few months. It is acknowledged that this perception may be artificially confounded by the undeniable fact that, as President, a much greater attention is directed toward his public engagements as compared to that which he experienced in previous positions. Nevertheless, this symptom is clearly present, and warranted detailed investigation.
    • The President’s ambulatory gait is perceptibly stiffer and less fluid than it was a year or so ago. He has several reasonable explanations for this in his orthopedic history, but again, a detailed investigation was appropriate.
    • He did not appear to take a cognitive exam.
  • President Biden has indicated that he is going to run for re-election. Wow, at 36% approval rating, that’s going to go well.
  • Finally, Joe Biden has decided to release 50 million barrels of oil. Sounds like a lot. We use 18 million barrels of oil a day. If we do the math, that extra oil will get us halfway through Friday.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-physical-reveals-multiple-health-issues-does-not-appear-to-have-gotten-cognitive-test-reports
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-taps-strategic-oil-reserves-for-50-million-barrels-to-address-high-pump-prices

 

Black Supremacy, Domestic Terrorism?

Something you are not going to hear a lot about on CNN and MSNBC is how a 39-year-old black man named Darrell Brooks Jr., drove his car through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. So far, 5 have been killed and over 48 have been injured including 10 kids.

There is very little information on this case and trust, because he is black, the media won’t get that information out anytime soon. He’s got a record to length of my arm including two open felony cases ($1000 and $500 bail), he has served very little jail time because Wisconsin is a social justice state, and he’s a sex offender.

Here he is explaining how he got into trouble for sleeping with a 16-year-old:

He is a BLM supporter and was heavily against the police. He was bonded out on $1000 bail on Friday.

So tell me, does the justice seem fair? Why was this guy on the street? White supremacy?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-least-5-dead-40-injured-after-driver-plows-into-christmas-parade-possible-suspected-identified

 

Let’s Take a Look

The media is being really quiet about this guy. It looks like there’s a reason.

The media, with the little information they put out, screwed even that little information. They first reported that Brooks was being chased, fleeing from another crime scene. I wasn’t surprised about this lie because that would let the media blame the police for keeping the chase going and that caused the accident, not the black criminal.

That story turned out to be false.

So was it terrorism? The Waukesha police chief says “no”. This guy has a long criminal history including battery, domestic violence, cocaine possession and resisting arrest. We also can’t forget he’s a registered sex offender for having sex with a 16-year-old. He was also on bail for two pending felony charges and three misdemeanor charges (that’s part of the problem). Earlier this month, the suspect was arrested for allegedly punching his child’s mother in the face and hitting her with his car at a gas station. The bail amounts? One for $500 and the second one was more severe, $1000. Right now, the Wisconsin DA admits the bail amounts are way too low and there is an investigation into what happened. More on that later.

His social media account does show that he is a Black Lives Matter supporter, that he hates Republican politicians and media, and he was spewing black nationalistic quotes from people like Malcom X.

But was this terrorism.

Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire thinks that this was terrorism based on the videos (he appeared to be aiming at people), the location (this was only a few miles from Kenosha) and the timing (two days after the Rittenhouse verdict).

What do I think? It definitely is a form of terrorism. But there are a few things in the video that tell me this may not have been intentional, planned terrorism. The video shows that, though he looks like he’s in a hurry, he was being chased by the police. I cannot be sure when the chase started and we have not been told. In the video, he does look like he is trying to avoid people not aiming at them. There was one video that showed Brooks driving by the sidewalk and he had a clear shot at a child. All he had to do was veer a little right to take her out. He didn’t.

The real terrorism is crime. People are not safe anywhere. This guy had no business being on the street. I’ll go a step further, he had no business being out of prison. This is a career felon. He cannot be rehabilitated. He should be spending the rest of his life in prison. This guy was going to take a life. That’s because he doesn’t care about life. He showed that in the video I played earlier.

In the 1990s, a bunch of states had a three strikes law. These laws stated that someone who committed three felonies were automatically sentenced to life in prison because they were see as career criminals. Even California had it. But blue states like California got rid of the three strikes laws because of social justice. Jails and prisons are seen as evil places that victimizes people, especially people of color.

Crime rates in the United States have gone through the roof. The Left wants to defund the police, close jails and prisons, and end bail. They are responsible for the terror they have unleashed on this country. Wisconsin is an example of this. Instead of changing their tune, the Left just doubles down.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/waukesha-police-chief-there-was-no-police-pursuit-that-led-up-to-this-incident
https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-waukesha-killer-charged-with-5-counts-of-intentional-homicide-alleged-social-media-posts-show-extreme-views-reports
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-wisconsin-da-admits-waukesha-person-of-interest-released-on-inappropriately-low-bail-before-tragedy

Doubling Down

The day after this tragedy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a tweet about a letter she sent requesting that New York eliminate cash bail because people of color are being kept in jail awaiting their trials.

Couple of things here:

  • Just because someone hasn’t been convicted of a crime does not mean that they did not commit a crime.
  • Typically when someone is given a high bail it’s because of the seriousness of the crime and a preview of the evidence given to judge at bail hearing.
  • Bail is made to ensure that the suspect comes back to court. High bail is used when the judge is pretty sure he won’t come back to court.
  • The judge also wants to ensure that the suspect won’t commit another crime.
  • I also find it funny that she wants to release criminals for social justice but she wanted Kyle Rittenhouse thrown in prison for life for the sin of defending to himself.
  • Finally, why would she say this the day after a guy ran over 53 people, killing 5, and he was out of jail because because of an inappropriately low bail.

She got a lot of crap about this on Twitter:

  • Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire: “Your timing is…odd.”
  • Mike Cernovich, political commentator: “The day after a massacre occurred in Wisconsin by a violent criminal released under bail reform policies, AOC posts this.”
  • Dana Loesch, radio host: “Because Waukesha wasn’t bad enough apparently.”
  • Matt Walsh, The Daily Wire: “Holy sh**. @AOC is a demonic sociopath. A guy out on $1,000 bail just mowed down a bunch of women and children, and her immediate response is to ensure that even more violent criminals are released back into their communities. These people are really, truly, diabolically evil.”
  • Erick Erickson, radio host: “The Squad really is a House Freedom Caucus parody project, right? I refuse to believe these people aren’t part of a satirical project poking fun at the left.”
  • Matt Whitlock, political strategist: “The day after a man kills 5 people and injures 48 while out on a $1,000 bond (after trying to kill someone ELSE with his car), AOC comes out with a letter arguing that bails are too high. Can’t make it up.”
  • Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch: “The extremist Left opposes incarceration, in principle. Don’t be distracted by arguments about bail, criminal justice reform, etc. The communist revolutionaries believe the criminal justice system has no moral authority to jail anyone (other than their political enemies).”
  • Dan McLaughlin, National Review: “Today was really not the day to be pushing to get more dangerous people out on bail. Really, really not.”

But it isn’t just AOC. Another dumbass, Rashida Tlaib, was interviewed by Axios reporter Jonathan Swan about a bill she proposed that would release all federal prisoners. It didn’t go well for her:

This is the problem with Leftists. They are so busy tearing down the systems of the United States, they have no answer as to the damage that could be done not do they have a replacement to the system they’re tearing apart.

She also knows that her bill will cause a severe backlash. It will make lives worse for a lot of people. She is lying about who it will affect and the extent of the bill she wrote. She needs to make it look good. She doesn’t want you to know her bill would release terrorists, serial killers and the leadership of hate groups like the Aryan Nation. Hey, I think these people are mentally ill too but I don’t want them on the streets.

Finally, look at how blasé she is about it. Her stupid bill is not going to affect her life. She is an elite. She has private security. It’s our lives that are going to be f-ed.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-faces-backlash-for-urging-lowering-of-bail-amounts-after-people-killed-at-christmas-parade
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-aoc-targets-excessive-bail-day-after-suspect-out-on-bail-hit-50-people-with-car-in-waukesha
https://www.dailywire.com/news/but-thats-what-what-the-act-says-jonathan-swan-corners-rashida-tlaib-over-prison-bill-that-would-release-everyone

 

Conclusion

I have said this before and I’ll say it again. I think there should be some reforms. I think there should be some rehabilitation for prisoners if they are going to get out. I think prisoners should work in meaningful ways to help that rehabilitation.

But I also believe that prison is there for one real reason: punishment. It’s justice for the victim. Prison should be the lack of freedom, it should be miserable and it should be hard. And, if someone is there for life, we shouldn’t give a damn about their suffering, comfort or rehabilitation. They should get stuck in their cells and rot.

 

 

 

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Jul022021

Episode 374 – Clueless

Bill Cosby is free because the system worked, not because he is innocent.

Leftist policies aren’t helping crime and Dems are trying to find a new narrative.

And California is a crap show and they are starting the second act.

 

Justice Can Suck

In a surprise ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out the conviction of sexual assault against a woman known as Andrea Constand. Cosby was convicted of drugging and having sex with the woman when she was unable to consent. Cosby, apparently, had done this multiple times throughout his life but the statute of limitations prevented him from being convicted by more women.

This is what happened:

  • During the investigation, the initial District Attorney said that they could not try Cosby for the crime for lack of physical evidence. It would turn out to be a he said/she said case.
  • Cosby was told he would not be tried. This eliminates the 5th Amendment protections.
  • Cosby was being sued by the woman and testified in the civil trial. He admitted doing what he was initially accused of.
  • A new prosecutor took over and used Cosby’s testimony in the civil trial against Cosby in a new criminal trial.
  • This violated his 5th Amendment rights. Kind of an easy call.
  • The other issue that should have been handled by the judge during the criminal trial was the testimony of the other women who accused Cosby. This should have been stopped because it is not evidence and is prejudicial.
  • Cosby was convicted and sentenced to 3-10 years. He has already been through a parole hearing after two years and was denied.
  • The case finally go to the state supreme court which overturned the case due to prosecutorial misconduct.
  • Cosby cannot be tried again because of double jeopardy.

After he was released, Cosby and his representatives made a statement. It was a pretty silly statement:

Couple things about this:

  • Bill Cosby is not innocent. He got off on a technicality.
  • The prosecution bungled this thing from the start.
  • This shows that the #MeToo movement probably influenced the court system.
  • Though it is not fair because Cosby is guilty, the system worked. Due process was violated by an over anxious DA and Cosby was let go. Remember that this could happen to you and you may be innocent.

 

https://nypost.com/2021/06/30/bill-cosby-rep-calls-his-prison-release-a-beautiful-day-for-women/

 

Gaslighting

The Left is in trouble. Crime is out of control and, suddenly, their talk of defunding the police is becoming very unpopular. They have decided that they need to take a different route on this defunding the police thing. Best way to do that is start lying.

There are a few lies they are going to push. the first is the most idiotic. It’s the Republicans that are for defunding the police. Listen to Jen Psaki making this crazy proclamation:

Even Peter Duecy seems absolutely shocked by this statement. He sat there and just stared at her. He didn’t ask her another question about it until the next day and she just doubled-down on it.

Something to be aware of: American Rescue Plan did have some money for law enforcement. But it also had about $2 trillion on other garbage. There was no way Republicans, in their right mind, would have approved this bill. It was a garbage pork bill. Just because the Republicans passed on one good thing to get rid of a thousand bad things doesn’t mean that they are against the police.

But that’s not what the media is pushing. They bought Jen’s crap hook, line and sinker.

Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post released an op-ed saying:

Needless to say, this was not embraced on Twitter:

Yeah, this crap isn’t going to fly. There are terabytes of images from Twitter that show nothing but Leftists screaming about getting rid of the police. What’s worse for them is that their policies are actually defunding the police.

This Broad Again

Lori Lightfoot, the horrid mayor of Chicago, has a better way of explaining crime.

What crime? There’s no crime here.

First, listen to this reporter’s question. It really attacks Lightfoot:

Wow:

  • He points out that the crime in Chicago is insane.
  • His cutting Lightfoot off is pissing her off.
  • He lists several he profile crimes in the recent data.
  • He shows how the culture has changed so much that they now call the “Shopping District” the “Homeless Encampment”.
  • She cuts him off because he’s absolutely right about everything.
  • Then he really lays into her with his question.

Her answer leads to a bigger “wow”.

  • No, we have the facts.
  • People are leaving the city in droves because of the alignment.
  • 40% of residents have said they are going to leave Chicago and a substantial number have already left.
  • She said the 32 businesses have open doors within Chicago. Question: How many have left? I bet there are more than 32.
  • As far as crime going down, that is just a lie. Crime in Chicago is going up. Each weekend is averaging over 50 shootings! That’s per weekend not week. She’s just lying.

I also want to point something out and this is not a criticism. Lightfoot seems to be shaking a lot. Could she have a disorder of some kind like Parkinson’s Disease? I do not mean to make fun of her and I don’t wish that horrid disease on anyone but I have seen several interviews with her and her shaking is something I have noticed every time.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-psakis-claim-republicans-not-dems-defund-the-police

 

 

California Really Has It On Point

Why Not? It’s Not Their Money

San Francisco, unable to control their homeless problem has come up with an idea: create a city sponsored homeless encampment. The city of Los Angeles, that has over 60,000 homeless people, is watching with great interest.

  • San Francisco has six city sanctioned homeless encampments throughout the city.
  • The services offered include food, bathrooms, showers and community services such as placement programs.
  • Other services that are not mentioned in the article include needle exchanges.
  • The tents are kept separate for COVID reasons. This means there aren’t a lot of tents in one area (typically 20).
  • There are no rules. The people could come and go as they wished. No consequences.

Of course, Jeff Kositsky who runs the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, blames the United States for the homeless problem. He said:

The dynamic on the streets “has to do with the failures of our brand of capitalism, institutional racism, a broken behavioral health system, and none of us who do this work, we’re not going to fix that. What we’re trying to do is manage a really deep systemic issue where homelessness is a very visual depiction of our failures as a society.”

Of course, it has nothing to do with the crappy policies of California and San Francisco that made leasing an apartment in California almost impossible.

At first, it was thought it would cost $2600 per person per month to keep these encampments. Now, with all the services and food, it has been found that it costs between $61,000-70,000 per tent, mostly because more people are living in them.

Good job, California! Why to spend money that isn’t yours!

This is how we fix this problem:

  • First, it is not a right to live on the street making others lives miserable.
  • There are three types of people on the street for the most part:
    • Drug addicts.
    • Mentally ill.
    • Those that like it.
  • Those that live on the streets because they like it need to find another place.
  • The other two do not need jails. Bring back the sanitarium system.

That’ll Help Too

A bill introduced by California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) that decriminalizes possession of psychedelic drugs in the state made progress Tuesday after he removed a potential date-rape drug from the legislation.

According to the Associated Press, people 21 and older can use:

  • Mushrooms.
  • Mescaline.
  • LSD.
  • MDMA (Ecstacy)

Wiener had to remove ketamine from the bill because it is commonly used as a date rape drug.

Wiener said:

“People’s lives are literally transformed because of these substances.” Fox News has reported regarding recent research into the use of “psychedelic drugs to treat depression, drug addiction, PTSD, and a range of other mental health afflictions.”

I’m not a fan of drug legalization:

  • We have a lot of problems in our cities now because of drugs.
  • There are no consequences. Drug addicts become defacto wards of the state using my tax payer money to support their addictions.
  • Drug abuse is also lowering the standard of living for everyone, not just the drug addicted.
    • More accidents.
    • More homeless.

This is not going to fix California. It is going to get worse.

https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-05-07/san-francisco-tests-campsites-homelessness-solution
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ca-state-sen-scott-wieners-bill-decriminalizing-psychedelics-moves-forward-after-removing-date-rape-drug

 

 

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-derangement-syndrome-media-democrats-2024

 

 

 

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Jun292021

Episode 372 – Keep Digging That Hole

Joe Biden continues to miss the point and be old and Kamala Harris’ “leadership” is not helping his administration at all.

And when are the idiot Olympics athletes going to get it?

 

Are You Kidding Me?

Crime, especially violent crime is up like crazy over the last year and a half. Joe Biden decided to answer the call by condemning what everyone thought he would condemn: guns.

So his new “crime prevention” program will focus on:

  • Stronger background checks.
  • Banning “assault” rifles.
  • Banning ghost guns.
  • Banning high capacity magazines.
  • And expanding community policing. Whatever that means.

Biden touted the same BS lines he talked about before.

As far as “assault rifles” and high capacity magazines, Biden said:

“Talk to most responsible gun owners they’ll tell you there’s no possible justification for having 100 rounds in a magazine” and said that deer do not wear Kevlar vests. A very tired argument.

Then he said something really weird:

“Those who say the blood of Patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we’re gonna have to move against the government. If you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.”

Hmm:

  • Seems like an overt threat.
  • Is he really saying he will nuke American citizens if they revolt against a tyrannical government?
  • Isn’t him saying he will suppress any revolt with nukes and F-15s a sign of tyranny.

Biden continues:

“We’re not changing the Constitution. We’re enforcing it.”

  • Not sure how taking guns away is enforcing the Constitution.
  • Biden touted “zero tolerance” for gun dealers who willfully violate the law, and claimed that 90% of illegal guns found at crime scenes were traced back to 5% of gun dealers.
  • The “zero-tolerance” policy targets federally licensed firearms dealers who “willfully” transfer a weapon to someone prohibited from owning one or ignore a tracing request from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
  • The ATF would seek to revoke the dealer’s license after the first offense.

“If you willfully sell a gun to someone who’s prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record … my message to you is this: We’ll find you and we will seek your license to sell guns.”

Couple of question for you:

  • How many legal gun dealers are willing to risk their license by illegally?
  • What about going after the people who illegally get guns? Most crime is committed by felons where it is already illegal to own a weapon.
  • Why are crime rates going up mostly in blue cities where guns are already heavily regulated and almost impossible to get? Los Angeles, New York and Chicago have the highest gun crimes in the country and all three have incredibly overbearing gun laws.
  • What about Hunter Biden? Why isn’t he being prosecuted?

NRS spokeswoman Amy Hunter told Fox News:

“This is a political red herring aimed at hiding the real and abysmal failures of the Biden administration. Crime rates are high because of the efforts to defund the police and a failure to prosecute career criminals. The simple fact is strict enforcement of existing laws – including gun laws – coupled with support of law enforcement and prosecutors to do their jobs would result in a dramatic decrease in crime. But, the president would rather play politics than make Americans safer.”

This is absolutely correct. As usual, the Left is missing target. Handcuffing and defunding the police, making crime legal and releasing criminals has nothing to do with a spike in crime, according to the Left.

No one misses the target more than Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who calls the crime increases “hysteria”:

What context is she talking about? When I see that violent crime throughout the country is up 50%, there’s context to that?

Yeah. This is coming from someone who lives in a secure building and walks around with armed guards. Talk about tone dead. But she represents the Left’s beliefs.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-crime-prevention-strategy-gun-control

 

So Much for a Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Joe Biden tried to pull a shell game move on the Republicans. Dumbass Republicans such as Mitt Romney were fooled.

  • Republican and Democratic Senators got together and came up with a bipartisan deal on infrastructure. The deal would cost over $1.2 trillion (I hate this).
  • Joe Biden then said that he would not sign the deal unless they passed his partisan bill that would cost trillions of dollars for climate change and crap like that.
  • The larger bill was suppose to be voted on first then the infrastructure bill.
  • Republicans than changed their minds and condemned the infrastructure bill because Biden said he would veto the infrastructure bill if his big bill was not passed.
  • The White House is now trying to do damage control to save the bills.

I don’t understand why there are Republicans that continue to think that Joe Biden is a moderate and running the country. They don’t need to vote for any of this crap that we don’t need to spend money on. The infrastructure in this country isn’t bad enough to spend $1.3 trillion of money we don’t have while we are trying to economically recover from the pandemic.

Let the Democrats do what they want and stop supporting them or trying to think there can be some sort of bipartisan crap. There is none and the Democrats don’t want it. Don’t vote for their bills. Let them waste all their shots at reconciliation. Let them take responsibility for their own mess. Don’t help them ruin the country.

 

She’s Not Helping At All

This weekend, Kamala Harris decided to go to the border. Sort of but not really.

  • She stopped at a Border Patrol facility in El Paso.
  • El Paso is a border city but not right on the border.
  • The facility she visited a facility that did not detain any illegal aliens.
  • In a press conference after her visit she:
    • Blamed the Trump administration for the mess. Not true.
    • Said they were making progress.
    • Insisted she had been to the border before, even yelling at a reporter about it.
  • She then got on a plane and headed to California.
  • When Jen Psaki was asked by reporters why she did not go to where the crisis was actually happening, she gave some gobblty-gook about how the Trump administration made this mess.

She did not want to go to the border because it would be a terrible photo op. The “kids in cages” thing that the media blew up on during the Trump administration is actually happening during the Biden administration.

The media is also getting impatient with the administration’s response and they are beginning to hammer them for it.

The 2022 elections couldn’t come fast enough.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-first-trip-to-border-texas
https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-blames-trump-for-border-crisis-touts-biden-admins-extreme-progress-on-immigration-in-border-speech
https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-visits-u-s-mexico-border-says-it-was-always-the-plan-to-go
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kamala-harris-snaps-at-reporter-during-border-tour-its-not-my-first-trip
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-hammers-harris-for-spot-she-choose-to-visit-on-border-harris-denies-gop-pressure-led-to-trip

 

Why Is She Representing Our Country?

NBC is going to take a bath on these Olympics in Tokyo this summer. The woke thing of some of these athletes is really a turn off. I have a feeling the United States Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee may have to take some steps to stem this tide of wokism and politicking by the athletes or they could lose a lot of money.

  • On Saturday, the last day of the US Olympic trials in track took place.
  • The ladies for the hammer throw were on the podium getting their medals.
  • Everyday, during the trials, the National Anthem is played at 5:30 PM.
  • The National Anthem began to play while the women were on the podium.
  • The first and second place women turned to the flag and put their hands on their heart.
  • The third place women, a broad named Gwen Berry, put her hand on her hip and turned away from the flag.
  • When the anthem finished, she held up a T-shirt that said “Activist Athlete”.
  • Later, she said she was “pissed off” because she was “blindsided” by the National Anthem being played while she was on the podium. This was a BS lie:
    • The anthem played every day at the same time no matter what was going on.
    • She had the T-shirt with her on the podium.
    • She was looking straight at the camera when she turned away.
  • Later, on Twitter, she asked for people to donate to her track club so she could train without needing to get a job.

This was clearly a planned publicity stunt. I think it backfired. She looked selfish, disrespectful and spoiled. She took a lot of crap over it.

But she double-downed on Twitter:

These people need to get kicked off the team. Anyone who hates the United States shouldn’t represent it during the Olympics.

I hate even talking about this story because it just gives her more publicity and, after all, who the hell really knows anything about the hammer throw.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/message-sent-berry-turns-away-from-flag-during-anthem
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/gwen-berry-national-anthem-demonstration-scrutiny

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Apr222021

Episode 334 – Mob Justice

The George Floyd trial ends with Derrick Chauvin being convicted on all counts. But, with the reactions of the results, we can see that this will never end.

 

The Verdict

The verdict is in:

There are major questions about this trial. I saw him getting man slaughter but never thought he was going to get convicted of murder because I didn’t think the evidence was there.

It took ten hours for the jury to convict Chauvin and they had no questions. This was a month long trial and it only took them ten hours?

The jury basically had to ignore some things:

  • The drugs in his system. Fentanyl and meth.
  • The fact that Floyd overdosed in drugs two months before.
  • Floyd’s enlarged heart.
  • Floyd’s constricted arteries to his heart.
  • Floyd’s hypertension.
  • Floyd’s criminal history.
  • The videos.
  • The lies about Chauvin being on his neck.
  • The assault Floyd committed in the police car.
  • Floyd resisting arrest.

 

The reality is the jurors feared the consequences of voting not guilty. There is no way they could convict on murder in only ten hours. The fact that the media already had a description of all the jurors is very telling and that all of them lived in the area.

This is what is going to lead to appeals. There was plenty done wrong in this case and I don’t see how an appeals court doesn’t overturn some of this. This might even lead to a mistrial.

  • Change of venue.
  • Sequestration.
  • Non-probative, prejudicial witnesses for the prosecution.
  • Biden and Waters comments.
  • Third degree murder? Depraved Heart murder?
  • Second degree murder? Intent to assault which caused the death of an individual?

 

I am a cynical guy these days. I would not be shocked if this case was declared a mistrial and will need to be retried. Not because of all the bad decisions by Judge Cahill but because the left wants a retrial. The left wants to be able to point and say there can never be justice for black people.

We will see because this is going to be appealed and the case for appeal is quite strong.

 

 

Reaction

The reaction from George Floyd’s girlfriend is basically the reaction everybody had:

BLM and Antifa continued to protest. They made it clear that they would never be satisfied with the results.

  • These people are never going to stop. Peace and justice aren’t enough.
  • They see Chauvin’s conviction as justice but see it as motivation to continue on trying to destroy the system.
  • They want communism, the ending of the police. Heroes are criminals and criminals are heroes.
  • George Floyd is not seen as a criminal but as a symbol. He is seen as one being sacrificed for the movement. Not a drug addict handing out a fake $20.
  • These people do not care about George Floyd or Derrick Chauvin. They care about destroying the system.
  • I also want to point out that everybody I’m going to talk about is basically admitting they influenced the jury.

 

Al Sharpton, maybe the greatest race baiter in modern American history, said:

 “… we don’t find pleasure in this. We don’t celebrate a man going to jail. We would have rather George be alive. But we celebrate that we — because young people, white and black — some castigated, many that are here tonight, marched and kept marching and kept going. Many of them looked down on but they kept marching and wouldn’t let this die. And this is an assurance to them that if we don’t give up that we can win some rounds but the war and the fight is not over. Just two days from now, we are going to have to deal with the funeral of Duante Wright in this same county, this same area.

“We still have cases to fight. But this gives us the energy to fight on and we are determined that we are going to fight until we make federal law — the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act must be law. We want to thank all that were involved, especially the attorney general and the governor and others.

“We want to thank President Biden, who the first time he came out of his house during the campaign he flew to Houston and met with the family and Attorney Crump and I. And he sat there and I will never forget — he said to George’s daughter that ‘I heard you say your father is going to change the world.’ Well, we can now tell George’s daughter she was right. Her father has begun the changing of the world for real.”

  • Again, this will never end.
  • George Floyd is not going to change the world. He’s not a hero. He’s not a civil rights champion. He didn’t die for the cause.
  • He was a criminal that died for resisting arrest and drugs.
  • One of Floyd’s supporters actually compared George Floyd to Emmitt Till. This is insane.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-activists-following-conviction-were-never-gonna-be-satisfied-burn-it-down
https://www.dailywire.com/news/rev-al-sharpton-reacts-to-verdict-the-war-and-the-fight-is-not-over
https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-directs-allies-to-l-a-mayor-garcettis-home-after-chauvin-guilty-verdict
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7120/text

 

Reaction in Politics

Biden and Harris

President Biden and President-in-waiting Kamala Harris weighed in on this. Of course, what they promulgated, as usual, is that we are systemically racist and we need President Biden and the federal government to change the system, have more power and save black people.

Kamala Harris said:

Biden’s comments weren’t much better and certainly didn’t deviate from the narrative:

OK:

  • I find it creepy that Kamala is with Old Joe all the time.
  • Let’s face it, this is only a local crime. Why is the White House weighing in on this? Could it be to push this narrative?
  • Old Joe and Kamala are pushing that this verdict is only the start and the end is no where to be seen.
  • Notice they talk about the “protests” of last summer. There is no mention of the riots. These riots are continuing. They have not stopped. The violence happened again last night.
  • There was never a comment about the police being good in any way.
  • They are bringing up something that the prosecution never brought up: race or racism.
  • What is really ironic is hearing about systemic racism coming from a guy who has been part of the system for 60 years and a gal who was known for throwing people in jail for longer than their sentences in some cases.
  • The thought that these two boneheads are going to fix anything is crazy.

 

These guys want to federalize everything. They want power. They need the “crisis” to continue. It cannot end with a guilty verdict of Derrick Chauvin. I’ll go a step further: I feel they really wanted a not guilty verdict. That would have gone with the narrative much better.

Nancy Pelosi

This had to be one of the most idiotic statements by a politician. OK, I didn’t get to AOC and her squad yet. But let’s listen to Nancy Pelosi:

  • This just an insane statement and actually very cold.
  • George Floyd did not sacrifice anything for anything. This wasn’t his attempt at social and racial justice. He probably died of a heart attack and a drug overdose.
  • George Floyd was not calling out to his mom, who died two years earlier. They think he was calling out to his girlfriend who he called mom. It was the name of her contact on his phone.
  • Floyd was saying “I can’t breathe” while he was sitting in his own car. He said it about 10 times.
  • This is trying to to make a martyr out of a criminal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you see a pattern here? This is not going to end until the entire system is torn down.

Ilhan Omar, in a series of tweets, really summed up what the squad and the left wants.

Omar listed the following items, which included calls to disband police departments:

  • Independent agency to investigate police misuse of force
  • Criminalize violence against protesters
  • Demilitarize police departments
  • Disband and deconstruct failed police departments
  • End traffic stops for minor equipment violations
  • Federal investigations into departments who utilize practices like arrest quotas
  • End the school-to-prison pipeline
  • Ban all racial profiling by federal, state, and local agencies
  • Legalize recreational cannabis nationwide, expunge the records and seek amnesty for those incarcerated for cannabis-related offenses
  • Restore felon voting rights
  • Ensure that formerly incarcerated individuals are fully supported in their transition back to society
  • End mandatory minimum sentencing laws for low-level offenses
  • Invest in a public-health approach to the addiction crisis

 

Getting a clearer picture to what the left wants? Anyone who is against this is a racist.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-takes-aim-at-america-following-george-floyd-verdict-systemic-racism-a-stain-on-our-nations-soul
https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-other-far-left-lawmakers-on-chauvin-convicted-on-all-counts-not-justice-system-not-working

 

Need to Keep the Crisis Going

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/derek-chauvin-verdict-garland-announces-doj-minneapolis-policing-probe

 

Here We Go Again

Need more proof that this is never going to end? Yesterday in Columbus, Ohio, a couple of hours before the Chauvin verdict, police were called because a 16-year-old girl, who was black, threatened people with a knife.

The girl was shot after she appeared to attack two girls with a knife. The officer was white. There are huge protests over this whole thing so the Columbus police department released the body cam footage. It showed the girl in question push one girl down and attack another girl, also 16, with the knife.

By the way, the girl who dialed 911 and was attacked with the knife is also black. That officer saved her life.

Ben Crump, the race-baiting lawyer representing the family of George Floyd released a tweet:

See the pattern? Lies, lies, lies. All this to stir up emotion and suppress reason. This girl was intent on killing someone. Another black person. It was never mentioned that a white police officer saved the life of a black youth.

Now, I feel that this case is so obvious that it’s going to go away. There is no way the left is going to BS this story into something it’s not. It’s too obvious. This girl assaulted two other girls with a knife. This police officer is a hero. But he’s under criminal investigation anyway.

This is what is going to happen in the next couple of years because the left won’t stop gaslighting and enraging the naïve youth:

  • The good police officers will start retiring.
  • Those left will not go out of their way to help people for fear of being persecuted.
  • Cities will have problems getting new police officers.
  • With less police officers on the street there will be more crime.
  • The most crime will be in black, brown and poor neighborhoods.

 

It’s that simple. The good news is that gun ownership is going to go up because the people are going to learn to protect themselves.

Here’s the thing and I am going to use some terms from greater minds than I:

  • This was a mob conviction. And mobs are never sated. This will never end. Everyone on the left has said it. -Tucker
  • George Floyd has become a symbol, a martyr, an idol.
  • Politics has hijacked the Floyd movement and our institutions. The courts were the last remnants of our civilization. It looks like even that has been taken over. There were some Conservatives that were relieved that Chauvin was guilty. It’s cowardice and it will never end unless we fight, but one can understand. -Greg Gutfeld.
  • This trial was influenced by politicians and rioters. Violence works is the message. Rioting works.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-floyd-lead-attorney-tweeted-columbus-girl-was-unarmed-ny-times-leaves-that-out
https://www.foxnews.com/us/officer-involved-shooting-columbus-ohio-1-dead
https://www.dailywire.com/news/activists-erupt-after-police-kill-black-ohio-girl-video-shows-cop-protected-woman-from-knife-attack

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Episode 290 – Wokeness for Serial Killers?

 

The Culture

Last week, Josie and I watched a Netflix miniseries called Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer. Actually, I saw it twice because Josie fell asleep once and had to leave my place once. I finished it because I was transfixed.

Now I remember this case. I was 17 years old at the time and lived in Los Angeles. Josie was only 6 years old and lived in San Diego. I wasn’t into news at the time but I followed this one. I remember that we would lock all our door and windows. I remember that there were hourly reports on the case. I remember that the news, only daily at the time, spent 15 to 20 minutes out of an hour on the murders. And there were a lot of murders. One every few days.

The documentary, which I recommend if you are into true crime stories, was excellent. There were a lot of things that were skipped probably because of censorship reasons. Richard Ramirez, who ended up being the Night Stalker, was a seriously twisted…human being? No, he was an animal. Filth. But, outside of that, the story was pretty accurate.

But the Left wing news outlet, Vox, had a problem with it. one could tell by there title, Night Stalker Review: Netflix misguided Night Stalker series treats cops like gods by Aja Romano. The bad grammar on the title is theirs.

It said:

The climactic moment of Netflix’s true crime docuseries Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, is probably supposed to feel cathartic. In the final minutes of the four-part series’ third installment, San Francisco detective Frank Falzon recalls how he tracked down a friend of the California serial killer whose string of attacks throughout 1984 and 1985 made him a household name among true crime followers.

Falzon describes this moment with relish almost four decades later. In his recounting, the friend — who’d originally contacted police himself with a tip about the Night Stalker’s identity — balked when Falzon asked him to reveal the Night Stalker’s full name. So Falzon forcibly dragged the friend-turned-informant into his police car, threatened him, and punched him in the face. This is a lie. That’s not what happened and that’s not what the movie said had happened.

  • A woman calls saying her father, who was homeless, might be hanging out with Ramirez in Skid Row.
  • Police find the man and he admits that Ramirez confessed the murders.
  • He said that Ramirez gives him a gun and sold it to someone in Tajuana.
  • Police fly to TJ and get the gun. They also find a radio which has a matching serial number to one that was stolen during one of the murders. At this point, they know Ramirez is the murder but only know him as “Rick”.
  • An informant gives a bracelet to police.
  • Police question the woman who owned the bracelet and said it was a gift from her boyfriend.
  • The boyfriend was, then, confronted by police and that’s when he got smacked down for not turning over a serial killer.

Worse, he knew what Richard Ramirez was doing.

“It wasn’t my best punch, but it definitely wasn’t my worst,” Falzon says. After further threats, Falzon says, he lunged toward the informant, who cringed away from him, “threw his hands up in a cross,” and stammered out: “Richard Ramirez. Richard Ramirez. Richard Ramirez.”

As Falzon repeated the name, the music swelled and grew more ominous. The episode cut to the docuseries’ cliffhanger end credits. And all I could think was how terrified this person must have been of the police.

Um, he should have been terrified of the police. He was hiding the name of a serial killer, rapist and child rapist. A man who had victimized over 20 people that the police knew of.

On the one hand, the production must have felt it would be satisfying to deprive Ramirez of some of that notoriety. To some extent, it is satisfying. In particular, it’s inspiring to hear from Ramirez’s survivors, including one couple who narrowly escaped their brush with Ramirez, and one victim who was assaulted by Ramirez when she was a child. Seeing her declare with certainty that she’s fine feels like the ultimate victory over Ramirez.

But Ramirez’s life arguably fits into a conversation about the cyclical nature of abuse and the cyclical horror of war — each a form of trauma. Likewise, a more thorough examination of Ramirez’s actions in the context of Satanic Panic could have made for a fascinating discussion within the series, had it been handled well. To what extent was Ramirez responding to the Satanic Panic of the era, and to what extent was he acting independent of it, but still becoming a part of the larger societal hysteria? These are all themes I’d have loved to see explored.

So, what this is saying, is that the film unjustly made the police into heroes for capturing a serial killer who left few clues and was completely random in his crimes. Instead, the documentary should have showed how a rapist, serial killer who kidnapped children and raped them was a victim. Nice.

The absence of Ramirez from his own story wasn’t that confusing to me because I could see what Night Stalker was trying to do. But it was confusing to other viewers I’ve spoken with, many of whom were totally unfamiliar with Ramirez’s story and naturally expected to learn about the titular serial killer.

There’s an obvious argument to be made that “understanding the mind of a serial killer” is too often used to justify overblown, glorified serial killer narratives. Sure. But we also need to understand the minds of serial killers, as well as the societal and personal circumstances that can lead to criminal behavior, if we’re ever going to fully understand criminality and attempt to rehabilitate potential offenders before it’s too late.

The only thing that would have confused me is why the writers didn’t say all that Richard Ramirez did. A lot of that was cut out because of the shear brutality of his crimes. There was more than enough as far as the timeline goes and pictures and videos of the crime scenes. In fact, other critics said that the documentary was too violent.

Perhaps it was. Carrillo and Salerno seemed to do good police work, even if the clue that led to the killer came from a Northern California citizen who apparently got punched in the face for his good deed. We need dedicated police officers who have positive relationships with their communities. Whenever cops do good work — work that truly serves the public — that moment feels like a victory. It comes with deep relief and pride in the justice system for functioning as it should.

But herein lies the difficulty of being a true crime fan: We have to recognize that police officers as a group perpetuate an inherently flawed and racist system of justice that fails people of color and marginalized communities far more often than it serves them. We can never lose sight of the reality that for every moment when the cops and the community are in harmony, there are countless others when the police force is the oppressor. And cases like Ramirez’s are often used as excuses for police to crack down and enact violence on people who aren’t serial killers.

Night Stalker doesn’t acknowledge this paradox at all. Instead, it treats Carrillo and Salerno like demigods. It approvingly lets a cop talk about punching an informant in the face and edits it like a pivotal, satisfying moment of triumph rather than a horrifying example of police brutality. And that strange omission — I mean, it’s dealing with the LAPD in the ’80s, perhaps the most notoriously racist police force to exist outside of the LAPD in the ’90s! — undermines Night Stalker’s effort to excise the bad seed at the heart of its story. Especially given the racial tensions between the police and their communities that erupted across the nation in 2020, I’m wondering if the production team ever stopped to think about how their approach to the police might be perceived.

Do you know how the police could reach out an support the community? By capturing a serial killer who was raping and sodomizing women, girls and boys. Arresting a man who was killing people every couple of days with no discernable pattern and would not leave any clues. Guess what? The community thought that too. Ask the 50 people who beat the crap out of Richard Ramirez when the caught him.

These detectives were not demigods. They made mistakes. They problems in their family lives. They were drinking too much. They made mistakes during the investigations. All this was in the show including that the police officer lost his temper and smacked down that guy who wouldn’t tell them who Richard Ramirez was.

And about that guy. This author is making the guy who got punched into a “citizen”. This is crap. He knew what Richard Ramirez was doing. He was fencing the stuff Ramirez was stealing during his crimes. How do you think the cops found him. He was also be belligerent and was picking a fight. This is something the writer of the article kind of leaves out. That guy was not an individual that the community of color would have embraced.

But, the writer has to say this because it validates the narrative that cops are bad and they abuse innocent civilians. And any story or documentary that show how the police did their jobs and how they felt cannot be celebrated. Here’s the thing: this case may never have been solved simply because the assaults and murders were so random and there were no clues left.

Night Stalker is a reminder that building a true crime story around the non-criminals isn’t enough. You need balance — and more crucially, context — for every narrative beat, especially because these are real crimes, still sending ramifications and echoes throughout society decades later.

Those echoes are clear, just from the fact that so many people who witnessed and lived through the Ramirez story are still around to talk about it nearly four decades later. History is living and walking — and very occasionally still stalking — among us. In the case of Night Stalker, that history deserved more careful attention.

The story was about how Richard Ramirez was caught. So it makes sense that the writers would talk to the cops who were involved in the investigation. This was not about the mental capacity of Richard Ramirez, his life that may have made him, or what the community thought of the police. This is a true story.

The last line where “history is living and walking” is a lie. History is history. It does not change. This podcast is history and it’s not going to be change. It’s people who change history. The revisionist history. That doesn’t mean the history actually changed. We are seeing this in our history books today. We are seeing this in our children who cannot tell us who the first President was and can’t pass the civics exam to become an American citizen

Overall I thought the movie was very good. It brought back a lot of memories and showed aspects of the case that were not known back then. I did not know how much of an unimaginable bastard Richard Ramirez was until this documentary and how much effort the police had to make to catch him. It’s worth a watch if, for nothing more, because Vox says you shouldn’t see it.

https://www.vox.com/culture/22240673/netflix-night-stalker-docuseries-frank-salerno-gil-carrillo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez

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