Wednesday, January 16, 2013
US Punishes Good Citizenship
The US tax codes punishes good behavior and rewards bad behavior. If you work hard and smart to earn your own way, money is taken from you and given to those who don't or won't work or earn their own way. That, to the left in politics is "fair". The same is true when tragedy strikes, punish those who obey the law and do the right thing while deferring blame from the perpetrators of evil.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Who Will Now Stand On Lexington Green?
Many of us like to proclaim the words of Charlton Heston: "From my cold dead hands!", but how many of us understand the depth of these words? Many of you know that long before July 4, 1776 a group of Americans stood on an open field facing the army of the most powerful empire on the face of the earth. A rag tag group of under armed men facing a modern military. What courage! We know the result, in the ensuing battle many of these men died and were wounded, but that sparked a fire which grew to a flame that forced the 'modern' military into retreat. That "shot heard 'round the world" began with a few brave men willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of their families and their future. Do we have that kind of men, or women, today? Will you stand on Lexington Green? Will you endure Valley Forge? Will you rise from defeat or threat to bring forth a new nation? Or to save our own? Or will you slink away to the comfort of your 'man cave' to watch the playoffs? Will you submit to turning your guns in exchange for food? Will you stand like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising or go sheepishly to your prison, your 'reeducation camp'? The old saying of "if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything" comes to mind. What will it take to make you stand up for yourselves, your children, and your liberty? Will you stand on Lexington Green?
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Another Nail in the Coffin
Another nail in the coffin of America was driven home on New Year's Eve by President Obama. He signed into law the NDAA which gives the president authorization to use the military to detain US citizens on American soil. What is frightening is that so many "conservative" republicans voted for the bill in the house and the senate. Find out how your representatives voted and voice your opinion accordingly. The obvious evil parts of the NDAA include:
• Section 1021 of the NDAA allows the U.S. military to indefinitely detain, without due process, any person engaged in "hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners ... without trial until the end of hostilities."
• Section 1022 expressly states that the military will imprison anyone who is a member of al-Qaeda or "an associated force" that acts like al-Qaeda; and anyone who planned or carried out an attack, or attempted attack, against the U.S.
• Section 1022 continues that detaining American citizens is not required. "UNITED STATES CITIZENS — The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States."
This, in conjunction with DHS report, (U//FOUO) Rightwing Extremism: Current Eomomic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment 7 April 2009 (U) Prepared bythe Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division Coordinated with the FBI, gives one reason to think that the US government has stepped back in time to Soviet Russia of 1930. "Our" government is more concerned with controlling the taxpaying population than in protecting it or ensuring the opportunity to exercise our right to pursue happiness. The future is looking to the past and Hollywood has presented depictions for us to see where we are headed in Dr. Zhivago and Evita. Obama and the political class continue to spread the misery.
• Section 1021 of the NDAA allows the U.S. military to indefinitely detain, without due process, any person engaged in "hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners ... without trial until the end of hostilities."
• Section 1022 expressly states that the military will imprison anyone who is a member of al-Qaeda or "an associated force" that acts like al-Qaeda; and anyone who planned or carried out an attack, or attempted attack, against the U.S.
• Section 1022 continues that detaining American citizens is not required. "UNITED STATES CITIZENS — The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States."
This, in conjunction with DHS report, (U//FOUO) Rightwing Extremism: Current Eomomic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment 7 April 2009 (U) Prepared bythe Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division Coordinated with the FBI, gives one reason to think that the US government has stepped back in time to Soviet Russia of 1930. "Our" government is more concerned with controlling the taxpaying population than in protecting it or ensuring the opportunity to exercise our right to pursue happiness. The future is looking to the past and Hollywood has presented depictions for us to see where we are headed in Dr. Zhivago and Evita. Obama and the political class continue to spread the misery.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving
I want to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving and share what I am thankful for: I am thankful to God for loving me enough to sacrifice His son for me, I am thankful for my family and their love, I am thankful for my country and the brave men and women in uniform, I am thankful for my job, which, unfortunately, has kept me away from sharing my views with you, and hopefully I will get on schedule and quit slacking. May God bless you all, pray for and prepare for out country and future!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Wisdom of Yamamoto
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
The Empire of Japan was more confident in invading mainland Asia, China, Korea, Vietnam, Manchuria, than in invading the mainland US. One reason is obviously logistics, but another was voiced by Adm. Yamamoto. American citizens own guns and Asian peasants do not. Although the Asians outnumbered the Americans by millions, their being unarmed and subservient made the difference. We Americans can never surrender our rights to bear arms nor our weapons. Not just to prevent foreign invasion, but because of historic record. The 22 million Russians murdered between 1921 and 1940 were not killed by Germans who invaded in 1941, but by their own government. The 3 million who died in Cambodia's killing fields were also killed by their leaders. Countless millions of Chinese have been murdered by Peking, long before Tianamen Square. Genocides throughout history have been carried out by governments against their own people. In America we have the right and the means to resist such aggression and we must NEVER surrender either.
The Empire of Japan was more confident in invading mainland Asia, China, Korea, Vietnam, Manchuria, than in invading the mainland US. One reason is obviously logistics, but another was voiced by Adm. Yamamoto. American citizens own guns and Asian peasants do not. Although the Asians outnumbered the Americans by millions, their being unarmed and subservient made the difference. We Americans can never surrender our rights to bear arms nor our weapons. Not just to prevent foreign invasion, but because of historic record. The 22 million Russians murdered between 1921 and 1940 were not killed by Germans who invaded in 1941, but by their own government. The 3 million who died in Cambodia's killing fields were also killed by their leaders. Countless millions of Chinese have been murdered by Peking, long before Tianamen Square. Genocides throughout history have been carried out by governments against their own people. In America we have the right and the means to resist such aggression and we must NEVER surrender either.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Iran Denies Terror Plot
Iran denies any involvement in an attempt to assassinate the Saudi ambassador or to bomb the Israeli embassy. I actually believe them, scary, isn't it? I have been wanting the US to destroy the Iranian government since the 1979 occupation of the US embassy. This story rings of a false flag operation as Iran says: " Iranian officials have denied any involvement with the plot and say the story has been designed to turn public attention away from America's domestic political problems." We have a president who has all but abandoned Israel to embrace radical Islamists taking over Egypt, Libya and other countries in the middle east. We have democratic leaders who have opposed any restraints attempted to control Iranian nuclear and terror projects suddenly jumping on the bash Iran bandwagon: "ERIC HOLDER, US ATTORNEY GENERAL: Today the Department of Justice is announcing charges against two people who allegedly attempted to carry out a deadly plot that was directed by factions of the Iranian government to assassinate a foreign ambassador here in the United States."
"It was a terrific achievement by our law enforcement and intelligence communities, and we will be consulting with our friends and partners around the world about how we can send a very strong message that this kind of action, which violates international norms, must be ended," she said at a news conference.
"This case will, I think, reinforce the well-grounded suspicions of many countries about what they're up to."
"The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador, nobody could make that up, right?" she said.
And Sen. Feinstein:
"Iran is increasingly hostile," she said. "My hope is that there can be some kind of discussion that can be convincing for the Iranians to change course. Absent that, at one time or another, if you project out a number of years, we're on a collision course."
But calmer (and less political) heads say:
JOHN STEWART: But former CIA analyst and Iranian expert Robert Baer is not convinced that Iran is behind the plot and says American officials may have got it wrong.
ROBERT BAER, FORMER CIA ANALYST: This doesn't fit their modus operandi at all. It's completely out of character. They're much better than this. They wouldn't be sending money through an American bank. They wouldn't be going to the cartels in Mexico to do this. It's just not the way they work.
I've followed them for 30 years and they're much more careful, and they always use a proxy between them and the operation, and in this case they didn't.
My thoughts are that we have an administration which has been strongly pro Islamic militant, pro illegal immigration, pro enabling (and arming) mexican drug cartels, in big trouble domestically and which is trying to divert attention away from failed domestic policies by involving the US in another middle east conflict. This is basic politics, when you are in trouble at home create an international crisis in which you can be a hero, or when in trouble internationally, create a crisis at home in which you can be the hero. Obama has tried the international hero route with bin Laden and al Awlaki, and it has not worked. He is trying the domestic crisis with the Occupiers and that is not working. We are going to see a really terrible event in the near future as Obama and the democrats try to save themselves and their socialist agenda. In the meantime the republicans are ignoring the people and trying to force Romney and Christie on a people who clearly want a more conservative candidate and presidential administration.
"It was a terrific achievement by our law enforcement and intelligence communities, and we will be consulting with our friends and partners around the world about how we can send a very strong message that this kind of action, which violates international norms, must be ended," she said at a news conference.
"This case will, I think, reinforce the well-grounded suspicions of many countries about what they're up to."
"The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador, nobody could make that up, right?" she said.
And Sen. Feinstein:
"Iran is increasingly hostile," she said. "My hope is that there can be some kind of discussion that can be convincing for the Iranians to change course. Absent that, at one time or another, if you project out a number of years, we're on a collision course."
But calmer (and less political) heads say:
JOHN STEWART: But former CIA analyst and Iranian expert Robert Baer is not convinced that Iran is behind the plot and says American officials may have got it wrong.
ROBERT BAER, FORMER CIA ANALYST: This doesn't fit their modus operandi at all. It's completely out of character. They're much better than this. They wouldn't be sending money through an American bank. They wouldn't be going to the cartels in Mexico to do this. It's just not the way they work.
I've followed them for 30 years and they're much more careful, and they always use a proxy between them and the operation, and in this case they didn't.
My thoughts are that we have an administration which has been strongly pro Islamic militant, pro illegal immigration, pro enabling (and arming) mexican drug cartels, in big trouble domestically and which is trying to divert attention away from failed domestic policies by involving the US in another middle east conflict. This is basic politics, when you are in trouble at home create an international crisis in which you can be a hero, or when in trouble internationally, create a crisis at home in which you can be the hero. Obama has tried the international hero route with bin Laden and al Awlaki, and it has not worked. He is trying the domestic crisis with the Occupiers and that is not working. We are going to see a really terrible event in the near future as Obama and the democrats try to save themselves and their socialist agenda. In the meantime the republicans are ignoring the people and trying to force Romney and Christie on a people who clearly want a more conservative candidate and presidential administration.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Enemy at the Gate
There was a movie out a few years ago, Enemy at the Gate. The story is about a sniper dual during the battle of Stalingrad. In one of the early scenes new conscripts are trucked into the city and every two men are given one rifle and five rounds of ammunition. These men are then forced into an attack on a German defensive position, needless to say the veteran German soldiers cut down the communist draftees. As the Russians begin to retreat, the communist machine guns begin to shoot down their own 'comrades'. Instead of using ammo on the Germans the communists instead shoot their own people. This is so symbolic of how the communists view the world and how they use people, including people who they are 'fighting for' or who are true believers in the communist cause. Why bring this movie up? Because it is illustrative of the Obama regime. Obama will destroy any one in order to accomplish his goal of spreading the misery of the third world to the United States of America. Boeing builds a multi million manufacturing facility in South Carolina to employ 1000 people and the Obama Administration, to appease unions, forces Boeing to abandon their facility. What message does that send to manufacturers around the world? With all the drug violence going on in the USA due to illegal smuggling of drugs, guns, and people from Mexico, Obama's Justice Department raids a guitar manufacturer in Tennessee because of imported wood. The same wood used by other guitar manufacturers in the US, but the raided company is a non-union facility and the other manufacturers are union. Get the picture?
Do not think that Obama is incompetent, he is accomplishing exactly what he has set out to do, and is using wealth envy to continue his campaign for 'fairness' for the proletariat. The 'fairness' of world wide poverty ruled by the comrade master.
Do not think that Obama is incompetent, he is accomplishing exactly what he has set out to do, and is using wealth envy to continue his campaign for 'fairness' for the proletariat. The 'fairness' of world wide poverty ruled by the comrade master.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Department of Justice?
Ok, the FBI will allow convicted felons to buy guns in support of the BATFE's disastrous 'Operation Gunwalker' and 'Operation Fast and Furious'; the DOJ will not secure our borders; the DOJ will violate our immigration laws by following the provisions of the DREAM Act, which did not receive congressional approval; the DOJ will not interfere with states legalizing marijuana; but the FBI will raid Gibson's Guitars, again, for violations of importing endangered plant products? Now really? It appears the clowns are running the circus and in the same manner as the German clowns in the 1930's.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
More on the SPLC
The SPLC and media outlets distribute dis-information on a regular basis, mostly about their enemies, but also to 'trojan horse' some of their allies as enemies. To give them 'street cred' as it were. Case in point, Rep. Peter King (R) NY. Commenting on his hearings on radicalization of American Muslims, the SPLC intimated that Rep. King is a radical right conservative, and many in the mainstream media actually used those words. In reality, Rep. King is far from it. Looking at his record he is more in line with Rep. Mike Doyle (D) PA. King consistently votes on the liberal side of Constitutional and social issues. King is more a Bloomberg republican than a McCain or (gasp) a Reagan republican. King is NOT a radical right winger, nor a Conservative, nor a Constitutionalist, nor really a Republican. He could be the poster boy for RINO's. But the media and the SPLC would have you to believe that he ranks with Teddy Roosevelt, when the truth is that he could not stand in TR's shadow, much less in his shoes. So beware of the info from any of the media, and especially of the SPLC.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Rick Perry or Not?
I was initially enthusiastic about Rick Perry running for president but have done a little digging and now I am not so sure. Granted almost anyone would be better than Obama, but .... I don't know how accurate this info is but here it is. Someone please verify or disprove these points: 14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would Be A Really, Really Bad President at http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/14-reasons-why-rick-perry-would-be-a-really-really-bad-president
Like I said, I don't know and would expect you to verify anything you read here, any way. Good luck and let's hope Obama doesn't executive order mass illegal alien amnesty to increase his voter turnout. Pray for the best and prepare for the worst.
Like I said, I don't know and would expect you to verify anything you read here, any way. Good luck and let's hope Obama doesn't executive order mass illegal alien amnesty to increase his voter turnout. Pray for the best and prepare for the worst.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
She Should Have Gone to Rehab
I have prayed for the family of Amy Winehouse. No parent should have to bury one of their children, it is a cruel twist of fate. It is worse when it is suicide. "Suicide? No one said it was suicide." When you are a habitual drug user, you are committing suicide at a slow and protracted pace. What is worse is that you are dragging the people who love you through a living hell that they don't deserve. So, I have no sympathy for Amy Winehouse, nor do I think that she should receive celebrity lauded upon her. She squandered her talent glorifying drug use and destructive lifestyles, typical of the hollyweirdo crowd. No loss, except to her family. The larger society needs to wash their hands of these degenerate types who are leading our youth down a path of degeneracy and death.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Citizens and Law Enforcement Beware of the SPLC
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was formed in 1971 in Montgomery, AL by Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. It was allegedly instrumental in securing civil rights for blacks during the civil rights movement, but in actuality it merely rode on the shoulders of the people who did the heavy lifting. The liberal lawyers founded the SPLC for the purpose of cashing in on the civil rights movement through lawsuits. It has always been a voice for the extreme left in American politics. The SPLC has worked tirelessly to advance the radical leftist agenda for subjugating the US to international (socialist) rule. The SPLC sends a free copy of its quarterly magazine, The Intelligence Report, to law enforcement officers who sign up for it. Ostensibly it is for educational purposes but is actually a propaganda organ. The common enemy of the SPLC is any one who is pro-American, and editor Mark Potok is quick to declare that the biggest threat to the US are returning US military veterans, the Tea Party participants, Second Amendment advocates, and any one who disagrees with the Obama administration. If you want to enforce or strengthen the immigration laws, balance the budget, and return jobs to the US, you are then a threat to the US. In its most recent issue, it attempts to vindicate the Dept of Homeland Security report that included all of the above groups of people in its most dangerous threat to the US. The writers include enough actual factual stories in an attempt to give credibility to its point of view on all subjects. It is worth reading, but use other sources to verify the information provided. After all, all coins have two sides but the SPLC only wants you to see their side.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
What a Crazy Year...
So, while Obama is trying to stay the execution of a Mexican who raped and murdered an American teenager, he is giving full protection of our constitution to a Muslim terrorist. That makes sense... The Fort Hood terrorist is finally going to trial, just in time for the re-election bid .... Hmmmm, no connection there... The Ninth Circus Court of appeals in San Fagcisco is trying to force the US to stop enforcing "don't ask, don't tell" on constitutional grounds, where in the Constitution does it say that homosexuals have a right to serve in the US military? Hate crimes in northern cities are going un-prosecuted, i.e.,
Milwaukee County Share
Flynn calls looting, beatings in Riverwest barbaric
e-mail print By Meg Jones of the Journal Sentinel
July 6, 2011
Chief Flynn explains large-scale fights, robberies RAW SURVEILLANCE VIDEO: Mob attack in Riverwest gas station Page 1 of 2 Shaina Perry remembers the punch to her face, blood streaming from a cut over her eye, her backpack with her asthma inhaler, debit card and cellphone stolen, and then the laughter.
"They just said 'Oh, white girl bleeds a lot,' " said Perry, 22, who was attacked at Kilbourn Reservoir Park over the Fourth of July weekend.
Though Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn noted Tuesday that crime is colorblind, he called the Sunday night looting of a convenience store near the park and beatings of a group of people who had gone to the park disturbing, outrageous and barbaric.
Police would not go quite as far as others in connecting the events; Flynn said several youths "might" be involved in both.
"We're not going to let any group of individuals terrorize or bully any of our neighborhoods," Flynn said.
Perry was among several who were injured by a mob they said beat and robbed them and threw full beer bottles while making racial taunts. The injured people were white; the attackers were African-American, witnesses said.
Store video of the BP station at E. North Ave. and N. Humboldt Blvd. shows the business being ransacked. A clerk at BP confirmed to the Journal Sentinel that he was busy waiting on customers when one or two people held the door open to let others rush in and steal snacks and candy.
Not far away, 20 to 25 friends from Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood had gathered at the park shortly before midnight to watch some fireworks set off by a neighbor. In interviews with 11 people who said they were attacked or witnessed the attack, a larger group of youths appeared in another section of the park around midnight and were joined by more young people running up the park's stairs.
At some point the group of friends and the group of youths intersected; those interviewed said the attack appeared to be unprovoked.
"I saw people dancing and I figured they were just having a good time," said Riverwest resident Jessica Bublitz, 28.
Minutes later Bublitz saw a male friend hit in the temple and fall down. Her fiancé told her to run to safety. James Zajackowski, 28, said things suddenly turned chaotic.
"Within 30 seconds to a minute, bottles were flying and people started getting punched. I was in shock. I thought, 'Really? Is this really happening?' I was on the ground, people were trying to get into my pockets, I could feel their hands but I held on to my cellphone and my wallet," said Zajackowski, a census worker.
Emily Mowrer, 27, was not hurt but saw her friends beaten and punched and full beer bottles thrown at them. Her boyfriend was punched. She saw Perry lying with blood on her face, not moving. She called 911 on her cellphone.
"I saw some of my friends on the ground getting beat pretty severely. They got away with one of my friends' bikes. Some people had their wallets stolen," said Mowrer, who owns a house with her boyfriend in Riverwest. "It didn't seem like it was a mugging - it seemed like an attack. Like they weren't after anything - just violence."
Andy Lange, 29, a social worker who has lived in Riverwest for 10 years, said one of his friends was hit in the head with a bottle and needed staples to close the wound. Lange said he was struck in the face and didn't even see who hit him.
Perry needed three stitches to close a cut above her eye. She said she saw a friend getting kicked and when she walked up to ask what was happening, a man punched her in the face.
"I heard laughing as they were beating everybody up. They were eating chips like it was a picnic," said Perry, a restaurant cashier. "All I remember is seeing bright lights (after the punch), then my backpack was gone and blood was spurting out of my head."
A police spokeswoman on Monday said police received no reports of mobs of people committing crimes in the Riverwest area, only the reports of two armed robberies.
At the Tuesday news conference, Flynn attempted to defuse reports that mobs of youth were running through the Riverwest neighborhood attacking citizens. However, he acknowledged that those responsible for the BP store looting and attacks at Kilbourn Reservoir Park had mob-like characteristics.
"Clearly we had mob-like behavior in the incidents involving the robberies at Reservoir Park as well as the ransacking of the BP station. . . . Certainly we had elements of mob-like behavior that challenged us on July 3," Flynn said.
With an estimated 200,000 people watching the lakefront fireworks, which ended about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, there was heavy traffic in the area as people headed home and police were responding to fights.
The BP was overrun shortly before midnight, and minutes later the attacks occurred in the park. Several people seen on the BP station surveillance video may have been involved in the park beatings, Flynn said.
Two strong-arm robberies were investigated by police at the park, the first at 11:50 p.m. and the second, involving Perry, at 12:15 a.m. Three males - two 16-year-olds and one 18-year-old - were arrested in the first robbery. No arrests have been made in the attack on Perry.
Most of the 11 people who told the Journal Sentinel they were attacked or witnessed the attacks on their friends said that police did not take their complaints seriously. They each said police responded to the scene quickly and tended to the injured, but officers did not take statements from them and told them to leave the area.
"You've got 20-plus people giving eyewitness accounts. I'm very surprised that they said it wasn't a mob," said Mowrer.
Lange said he told an officer about the beatings but noticed the officer didn't write anything down or note his name. Bublitz tried to tell an officer that her three-speed bicycle had been stolen and that one of her friends was hurt but said the officer told her he was looking for evidence.
"About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn't listen to us, they wouldn't take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating," Bublitz said.
Jesse Garza of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report
It is going to be a crazy summer, and next two years.
Milwaukee County Share
Flynn calls looting, beatings in Riverwest barbaric
e-mail print By Meg Jones of the Journal Sentinel
July 6, 2011
Chief Flynn explains large-scale fights, robberies RAW SURVEILLANCE VIDEO: Mob attack in Riverwest gas station Page 1 of 2 Shaina Perry remembers the punch to her face, blood streaming from a cut over her eye, her backpack with her asthma inhaler, debit card and cellphone stolen, and then the laughter.
"They just said 'Oh, white girl bleeds a lot,' " said Perry, 22, who was attacked at Kilbourn Reservoir Park over the Fourth of July weekend.
Though Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn noted Tuesday that crime is colorblind, he called the Sunday night looting of a convenience store near the park and beatings of a group of people who had gone to the park disturbing, outrageous and barbaric.
Police would not go quite as far as others in connecting the events; Flynn said several youths "might" be involved in both.
"We're not going to let any group of individuals terrorize or bully any of our neighborhoods," Flynn said.
Perry was among several who were injured by a mob they said beat and robbed them and threw full beer bottles while making racial taunts. The injured people were white; the attackers were African-American, witnesses said.
Store video of the BP station at E. North Ave. and N. Humboldt Blvd. shows the business being ransacked. A clerk at BP confirmed to the Journal Sentinel that he was busy waiting on customers when one or two people held the door open to let others rush in and steal snacks and candy.
Not far away, 20 to 25 friends from Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood had gathered at the park shortly before midnight to watch some fireworks set off by a neighbor. In interviews with 11 people who said they were attacked or witnessed the attack, a larger group of youths appeared in another section of the park around midnight and were joined by more young people running up the park's stairs.
At some point the group of friends and the group of youths intersected; those interviewed said the attack appeared to be unprovoked.
"I saw people dancing and I figured they were just having a good time," said Riverwest resident Jessica Bublitz, 28.
Minutes later Bublitz saw a male friend hit in the temple and fall down. Her fiancé told her to run to safety. James Zajackowski, 28, said things suddenly turned chaotic.
"Within 30 seconds to a minute, bottles were flying and people started getting punched. I was in shock. I thought, 'Really? Is this really happening?' I was on the ground, people were trying to get into my pockets, I could feel their hands but I held on to my cellphone and my wallet," said Zajackowski, a census worker.
Emily Mowrer, 27, was not hurt but saw her friends beaten and punched and full beer bottles thrown at them. Her boyfriend was punched. She saw Perry lying with blood on her face, not moving. She called 911 on her cellphone.
"I saw some of my friends on the ground getting beat pretty severely. They got away with one of my friends' bikes. Some people had their wallets stolen," said Mowrer, who owns a house with her boyfriend in Riverwest. "It didn't seem like it was a mugging - it seemed like an attack. Like they weren't after anything - just violence."
Andy Lange, 29, a social worker who has lived in Riverwest for 10 years, said one of his friends was hit in the head with a bottle and needed staples to close the wound. Lange said he was struck in the face and didn't even see who hit him.
Perry needed three stitches to close a cut above her eye. She said she saw a friend getting kicked and when she walked up to ask what was happening, a man punched her in the face.
"I heard laughing as they were beating everybody up. They were eating chips like it was a picnic," said Perry, a restaurant cashier. "All I remember is seeing bright lights (after the punch), then my backpack was gone and blood was spurting out of my head."
A police spokeswoman on Monday said police received no reports of mobs of people committing crimes in the Riverwest area, only the reports of two armed robberies.
At the Tuesday news conference, Flynn attempted to defuse reports that mobs of youth were running through the Riverwest neighborhood attacking citizens. However, he acknowledged that those responsible for the BP store looting and attacks at Kilbourn Reservoir Park had mob-like characteristics.
"Clearly we had mob-like behavior in the incidents involving the robberies at Reservoir Park as well as the ransacking of the BP station. . . . Certainly we had elements of mob-like behavior that challenged us on July 3," Flynn said.
With an estimated 200,000 people watching the lakefront fireworks, which ended about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, there was heavy traffic in the area as people headed home and police were responding to fights.
The BP was overrun shortly before midnight, and minutes later the attacks occurred in the park. Several people seen on the BP station surveillance video may have been involved in the park beatings, Flynn said.
Two strong-arm robberies were investigated by police at the park, the first at 11:50 p.m. and the second, involving Perry, at 12:15 a.m. Three males - two 16-year-olds and one 18-year-old - were arrested in the first robbery. No arrests have been made in the attack on Perry.
Most of the 11 people who told the Journal Sentinel they were attacked or witnessed the attacks on their friends said that police did not take their complaints seriously. They each said police responded to the scene quickly and tended to the injured, but officers did not take statements from them and told them to leave the area.
"You've got 20-plus people giving eyewitness accounts. I'm very surprised that they said it wasn't a mob," said Mowrer.
Lange said he told an officer about the beatings but noticed the officer didn't write anything down or note his name. Bublitz tried to tell an officer that her three-speed bicycle had been stolen and that one of her friends was hurt but said the officer told her he was looking for evidence.
"About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn't listen to us, they wouldn't take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating," Bublitz said.
Jesse Garza of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report
It is going to be a crazy summer, and next two years.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
To ID or Not to ID?
Since the advent of the Patriot Act you have to have two forms of identification (one of them has to be a government issued photo ID) to open a new bank account with your own money, but to vote in any election you don't have to provide any form of ID, much less any proof of voter registration. You just show up and vote, that is how dead people in Chicago, Memphis, Philadelphia, Detroit and other Democrat strongholds are voting in our elections. Until this changes and proof of ID and registration are required to vote, our system will continye to be flawed and 'un-fair'.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
GM CEO Wants Higher Gasoline Tax
Apparently the CEO of GM (Government Motors)Dan Akerson, wants the US government to increase the federal gasoline tax by $1.00 per gallon. Does he have any clue what that would do to American citizens struggling to get to work? With gas prices at near record high levels, an increase in the federal tax would severely strain the limited incomes of Americans trying to work and to provide food for their families. "In an interview published in Tuesday's Detroit News, Akerson floated the idea of a $1 a gallon increase in the gas tax as a way to encourage buyers to purchase smaller, more fuel efficient cars. Greg Martin, spokesman for GM's Washington office, confirmed that the quotes reflect Akerson's and GM's view." This twisted view of the world is due to the fact that GM's Volt is showing pathetic sales figures (never mind the Toyota's Prius is a high seller). So what we have is a political puppet of Obama in the CEO position of GM parrotting Obama's environmental wacko (i.e., Communist) agenda. These people are consistently trying to destroy our country.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Memorial Day
On this Memorial Day we need to reflect on the Americans who have fallen in order to protect our country and our way of life. Go out of your way to thank an active duty service member or veteran, they have stood on the line between our reletively safe lives and the anarchy of a savage world. May God bless the USA and her citizens and her citizen soldiers.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Play On Words...
Usually when looking for something on the Internet, something I am not looking for finds me, for example: A new patient dressed only in saran wrap enters the psychiatrist's office, the doctor looks up and says: "I can clearly see, you're nuts." Some days....
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
The American Police State
Like it or not the USA is rapidly becoming a police state to rival the old Soviet empire. With the US courts eliminating our Fourth Amendment rights, constant video taping, and police killing citizens we are looking more like one of the 'banana republics' we so like to make fun of. The 10th Circuit Court has issued over 200 'sneak and peek' search warrants, which enable law enforcement to enter your home or business, search through your belongings, and not inform you that the search ever happened, much less what they were searching for, this clearly violates the letter and spirit of the 4th Amendment. And in Indiana the courts were more blatant: Read this, from Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David: “A right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”
As one of the two dissenting judges wrote, the ruling “sweeps with far too broad a brush by essentially telling Indiana citizens that government agents may now enter their homes illegally – that is, without the necessity of a warrant, consent or exigent circumstances.”
And it gets worse:FEMA is preparing a list of farms and what they produce so that in 'case of emergency' they know where to come to confiscate (government jargon for stealing) the farmers crops.
Local police are regularly killing honest citizens: Detroit police shot and killed a seven-year-old girl during an early morning raid of a home on the city’s east side Sunday morning. The child, Aiyana Stanley Jones, was struck in the head and neck area while sleeping on a couch at the home on Lillibridge Street.
"Vanessa Guerena thought the gunman might be part of a home invasion -- especially because two members of her sister-in-law's family, Cynthia and Manny Orozco, were killed last year in their Tucson home, her lawyer, Chris Scileppi, said. She shouted for her husband in the next room, and he woke up and told his wife to hide in the closet with the child, Joel, 4.
SWAT officers fired at least 71 shots at suspect Jose Guerena, a former U.S. Marine, and a family struggles to put the pieces together. Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multi-house drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. At first the Pima County Sheriff's Office said that Guerena fired first, but on Wednesday officials backtracked and said he had not. "The safety was on and he could not fire," according to the sheriff's statement."
DeAuntae Farrow, 12, who was shot twice by a West Memphis police officer just over a week ago was laid to rest over the weekend. The accused officer said Farrow was playing with a toy gun, which he mistook as real.
When Tony Arambula managed to corner an armed intruder in his son's bedroom he expected police to come to his aid.
Instead, a Phoenix police officer confused Arambula for the intruder and shot him six times before realizing his mistake, a moment captured on the 911 call with a simple "F**k."
Even after realizing their mistake, Arambula said he was treated roughly, being dragged out of the house and transported briefly on the hood of a police car.
Now Arambula, 35, who survived but faces a lifetime of pain, is suing the city of Phoenix and the officers who responded to his house that night.
The lawsuit, filed in Maricopa County Court, alleges that Phoenix Police Officer Brian Lilly and his on-scene supervisor, Sgt. Sean Coutts, quickly conspired to cover up the mistake, not realizing that 911 was still recording Arambula's call for help.
We the people have to know what is going on and hold the government accountable. We have to be responsible for governing ourselves, as our founders intended, or we will return to the tyranny our founders fought against. Now is the time for ballots, not bullets; for reason, not action; for preperation for when the wolves vote on what is for dinner.
As one of the two dissenting judges wrote, the ruling “sweeps with far too broad a brush by essentially telling Indiana citizens that government agents may now enter their homes illegally – that is, without the necessity of a warrant, consent or exigent circumstances.”
And it gets worse:FEMA is preparing a list of farms and what they produce so that in 'case of emergency' they know where to come to confiscate (government jargon for stealing) the farmers crops.
Local police are regularly killing honest citizens: Detroit police shot and killed a seven-year-old girl during an early morning raid of a home on the city’s east side Sunday morning. The child, Aiyana Stanley Jones, was struck in the head and neck area while sleeping on a couch at the home on Lillibridge Street.
"Vanessa Guerena thought the gunman might be part of a home invasion -- especially because two members of her sister-in-law's family, Cynthia and Manny Orozco, were killed last year in their Tucson home, her lawyer, Chris Scileppi, said. She shouted for her husband in the next room, and he woke up and told his wife to hide in the closet with the child, Joel, 4.
SWAT officers fired at least 71 shots at suspect Jose Guerena, a former U.S. Marine, and a family struggles to put the pieces together. Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multi-house drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. At first the Pima County Sheriff's Office said that Guerena fired first, but on Wednesday officials backtracked and said he had not. "The safety was on and he could not fire," according to the sheriff's statement."
DeAuntae Farrow, 12, who was shot twice by a West Memphis police officer just over a week ago was laid to rest over the weekend. The accused officer said Farrow was playing with a toy gun, which he mistook as real.
When Tony Arambula managed to corner an armed intruder in his son's bedroom he expected police to come to his aid.
Instead, a Phoenix police officer confused Arambula for the intruder and shot him six times before realizing his mistake, a moment captured on the 911 call with a simple "F**k."
Even after realizing their mistake, Arambula said he was treated roughly, being dragged out of the house and transported briefly on the hood of a police car.
Now Arambula, 35, who survived but faces a lifetime of pain, is suing the city of Phoenix and the officers who responded to his house that night.
The lawsuit, filed in Maricopa County Court, alleges that Phoenix Police Officer Brian Lilly and his on-scene supervisor, Sgt. Sean Coutts, quickly conspired to cover up the mistake, not realizing that 911 was still recording Arambula's call for help.
We the people have to know what is going on and hold the government accountable. We have to be responsible for governing ourselves, as our founders intended, or we will return to the tyranny our founders fought against. Now is the time for ballots, not bullets; for reason, not action; for preperation for when the wolves vote on what is for dinner.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Obama Tells Israel to Return to Pre-1967 War Borders
Isn't that fascinating? History repeating itself, yet again. I am reminded of Chamberlain telling Czechoslovakia that they had to surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler to insure "Peace in our Time". We saw how well that worked out. Now Obama wants Israel to surrender all lands they gained when the Arabs attacked them in the various wars since 1967. Why would a US president want to undermine Israel in such a way? Why would any national leader want to undermine a key ally of so many years? I am assuming that since Obama's speech in Texas, USA, that he would want the US to return to the borders we had with Mexico in 1846. The last two speeches of the 'President' would encourage the extremists of the middle east to intensify their attacks on Israel and would encourage the criminal cartels running Mexico to increase their illegal smuggling of drugs and people (513 illegals caught in two tractor trailer trucks bound for the US). Both situations are bad for the US and its honest citizens and this US government seems to be dead set on undermining our allies and our country. Obama, born to spread the misery.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Bad Politicians on Both Sides of Border
Get ready, Cinco de Mayo is coming and all the usual suspects will be out praising the illegals here in the USA. One thing that the USA and Mexico has in common is that both have bone headed politicians, for example, Mexican opposition senators are proposing legislation to ... fight drug cartels? No....to introduce a bill of rights for their people? No.... try to draw more industry to their impoverished nation? No.....The legislation they are proposing is to ban bullfighting.... With all the critical issues facing Mexico, these animal rights wackos are concerned with bullfighting. Sounds like some of our loopy legislation, doesn't it? Maybe they are counting on Obama to grant amnesty to all illegals in exchange for voting democrat and the entire population will go north so they can be left to love their bulls in private. Who knows, sounds like San Francisco to me. But seriously, make sure you fly the flag of the USA on May 5, 2011, here, in the USA.
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