Writing is an amazing mental exercise. Sometimes, we grasp a subject, we decide to put our ideas into words and in the process typing, we go off in a different direction. We invent a widget that looks nothing like the blueprint.
When I read that Minneapolis had threatened to defund the police, my reaction was to make a few snarky remarks. I shall take a NIMBY approach but thank you, Minnesota, for serving as guinea pigs in this bold social experiment. Then I got to the keyboard and my fingers took over. and they repeatedly asked, "Why should we fund big-city police forces?"
Things are different in small-town America. There, we have police who behave in a traditional and predictable manner. I tend to think of the police in much of the same way as people think of Congress. In the abstract, we might not hold a strong opinion of such institutions but we usually reelect the incumbents. I have a low opinion of the law enforcement industry but local cops--especially in the small towns and cities where I have resided --have been consistently great.
Throughout America, we tolerate a level of police predation, parasitism, and pension because we know that we can press a button and the police will stand between us and an AK-47. A favorable cost-benefit analysis tilts the scales. But how does the balance sheet look when the police are no longer willing to stand between the sniper and the citizen? Short of that extreme, what happens when police are no longer willing to stand between brick and plate glass?
Remember when we had to read the British tabloids to find out about Barack Obama's secret life or when we had to watch Dutch TV to find a Julain Assange interview? I have been watching Australian coverage of American riots. The foreign journalists are not compulsively honest but they are not as blatantly partisan or dishonest as their highly-paid American counterparts.
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The Aussies have yet to tell me that Donald Trump murdered George Floyd. I have not heard the horse shit lines about "mostly peaceful protestors" juxtaposed with a backdrop of arson. I have not been treated to insults about systemic racism juxtaposed with looted pharmacies and liquor stores. What they did tell me, somewhat innocently I suppose, is that New York had a strong police presence but that the police and looters clustered in different places. Huh?
Let's back up a step or two. Why should a citizen of a sanctuary city fund a police force? The sanctuary police force has already surrendered to globalist criminals and has ceased to make public safety their primary objective. Returning to that aforementioned balance sheet, even if the police cannot deport the serial rapist, the citizens are still afforded some protection and the smiles return to the faces.
Now let's revisit present-day big city America where the police are not offering merchants and citizens any protection at all. We have witnessed scenes where police officers have "taken a knee" in ugly displays of servitude to the criminal mobs. Why don't the citizens step up and say, "Let Antifa fund your pension, blue boy. You are fired."
While we are on the subject of defunding fat cat pensioners, should we abolish the FBI? Maybe we could hold our noses and look past the country's largest organized crime cartel if they defended us against Terror Incorporated. You know, the old Whitey Bulger might have been a sinner but the streets of Southie were always safe. No crime in Little Italy. Little old ladies have nothing to worry about in Angelo Bruno's neighborhood. This time around, the Hoover Gang did not step up.
There was a time, not too long ago, when some questions were too ridiculous to entertain. For instance, if you proposed to replace the metropolitan police with street gangs in 2005, you would not have been granted much attention. In 2020, that idea does not seem so ridiculous. If we replaced the Seattle or Chicago or Houston Police Department with the Killaz, would things be any worse? Would it make any difference? Maybe it's time we found out.
Showing posts with label FBI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FBI. Show all posts
Friday, June 5, 2020
Saturday, June 16, 2018
That Was The Week That Was
WOW!
A glorious week!
Delivering peace to the Korean Peninsula is the medical equivalent of an 89 cent cancer cure with free home delivery (Sorry if the pill is bitter.)
Trump's critics can downplay this achievement all they like but none of their darlings will ever match this glorious event.
If you want to continue to smear Donald Trump you must also take that fight to the history books.
If, heaven forbid, the Trump presidency should end abruptly, DJT would be remembered as one of the most profound and significant historical figures America ever produced. Has it really just been 500 days?
Peace for Korea? That was Tuesday. That might be enough for most weeks, most months, most years, most decades but this glorious week was not half over. On the president's birthday, the long-awaited Inspector General report was finally released. To those of you who are discouraged by its contents and those of you who scream, "White wash," fear not.
Yes, the OIG report was whitewashed but fear not. POTUS can release the unredacted version and expose the white washers [RR] in the process. And he will, btw. Meantime, the OIG reveals a boatload of corruption at the FBI.
We should take a moment to honor Inspector General Michael Horowitz, This guy delivered the goods as his arm was being twisted in a million different directions. The already oft-quoted summary that Comey did not show political bias needs some clarification. Comey did not explicitly express political favoritism (unlike several of his idiot subordinates) and Horowitz dutifully reported the absence of expressed bias.
Horowitz stayed in his lane and did his job. He is not a prosecutor. Unlike an Inspector General, a skilled prosecutor can build a case for motive based on a perpetrator's ACTIONS. And yes, Horowitz, et al, have provided the foundation for further legal action.
A glorious week. To all you Trump-haters, please take a timeout to reflect on the good fortunes of the Korean people. Show some joy for the survivors of mass starvation. Share some bliss for the millions who might now see a dentist for the first time in their lives. Show some love for the tens of millions of Asians and Americans who are now much safer from nuclear annihilation. If you have any heart left, any human capacity for joy, any feeling at all that is not venomous, please view the silver lining in your darkened skies.
A glorious week.
A glorious week!
Delivering peace to the Korean Peninsula is the medical equivalent of an 89 cent cancer cure with free home delivery (Sorry if the pill is bitter.)
Trump's critics can downplay this achievement all they like but none of their darlings will ever match this glorious event.
If you want to continue to smear Donald Trump you must also take that fight to the history books.
If, heaven forbid, the Trump presidency should end abruptly, DJT would be remembered as one of the most profound and significant historical figures America ever produced. Has it really just been 500 days?
Peace for Korea? That was Tuesday. That might be enough for most weeks, most months, most years, most decades but this glorious week was not half over. On the president's birthday, the long-awaited Inspector General report was finally released. To those of you who are discouraged by its contents and those of you who scream, "White wash," fear not.
Yes, the OIG report was whitewashed but fear not. POTUS can release the unredacted version and expose the white washers [RR] in the process. And he will, btw. Meantime, the OIG reveals a boatload of corruption at the FBI.
We should take a moment to honor Inspector General Michael Horowitz, This guy delivered the goods as his arm was being twisted in a million different directions. The already oft-quoted summary that Comey did not show political bias needs some clarification. Comey did not explicitly express political favoritism (unlike several of his idiot subordinates) and Horowitz dutifully reported the absence of expressed bias.
Horowitz stayed in his lane and did his job. He is not a prosecutor. Unlike an Inspector General, a skilled prosecutor can build a case for motive based on a perpetrator's ACTIONS. And yes, Horowitz, et al, have provided the foundation for further legal action.
A glorious week. To all you Trump-haters, please take a timeout to reflect on the good fortunes of the Korean people. Show some joy for the survivors of mass starvation. Share some bliss for the millions who might now see a dentist for the first time in their lives. Show some love for the tens of millions of Asians and Americans who are now much safer from nuclear annihilation. If you have any heart left, any human capacity for joy, any feeling at all that is not venomous, please view the silver lining in your darkened skies.
A glorious week.
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Robert Mueller Is Not Worse Than You Imagine, He Is Worse Than You Can Imagine
Did Robert Mueller, the special counsel who is currently trying to frame President Donald Trump, take part in a much earlier FBI frame up that sent four innocent men to prison for more than 30 years, and resulted in an eventual settlement of more than $100 million for false imprisonment?
The answer appears to be yes. This is not Mueller’s first frame up.
Another prominent Bostonian, Harvery Silverglate, has another endearing tale about Robert Mueller.
Silverglate describes an effort by Mueller to entrap him on a perjury charge with no just cause.
He also recounts a second glorious meeting with Robert Mueller involving the high profile case of Dr. Jeffrey R. MacDonald in which Mueller would not discuss or consider FBI misconduct.
And superstar journalist, Sara Carter, has connected a few dots that were not that hard to connect.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller III and Whitey Bulger
James ‘Whitey’ Bulger: a notorious gangster and murderer from Boston, who was also a long time confidential informant of the FBI.
During the 1980s, Mueller served as an assistant US attorney and then as the acting US attorney in Boston. The FBI was under his supervision during the time Bulger was an informant.
Former FBI Special Agent John Connolly, who is now in prison for racketeering and murder-related charges, had been the handler for James ‘Whitey’ Bulger. He allegedly tipped off Bulger that one of his business associates was going to testify against him. Bulger had his associate murdered.
Bulger was a confidential informant for the FBI since 1975 and escaped arrest by the FBI in the 90s after his FBI handler informed Bulger an arrest was imminent. He was on the run for 16 years and captured in 2011. Mueller was then director of the FBI.
In 1965 four men were convicted of a murder that the FBI later learned they did not commit. Three of the men faced death sentences.
The FBI had learned during the time Bulger was an informant that the men did not commit the murders. The men served decades in prison and two of them died in prison.
A jury trial revealed that the FBI had known the men were innocent but withheld the evidence from state law enforcement authorities.
In 2007, a jury awarded more than $101 million in damages to the surviving men and their families.
However, during the time the men were in prison Mueller wrote multiple letters to the parole and pardons board opposing clemency for the four men. Mueller never answered questions as to what he knew about the case or if he was aware of the men’s innocence, as reported extensively by Kevin Cullen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer with the Boston Globe.
In 2013, Bulger went on trial for 32 counts of racketeering, money laundering and extortion. He was also indicted on weapons charges and 19 counts of murder.
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Emphasis was added to the above because conspiring to obstruct evidence by knowingly keeping four innocent men is not just a boatload of felonies, it is about as evil as evil gets.
Carter might have her details wrong about Bulger and the 1965 wrongful conviction of four innocent men. One, I think the FBI knew from the onset that the four men were innocent.
Two, some of the principles get recycled but Whitey Bulger was not a significant underworld figure in 1965. He would later work/conspire with at least one FBI agent who knew of the wrongful conviction and later aided/abetted/served Bulger throughout his reign of terror. The agent in question being, H. Paul Rico.
Also, the motives for convicting and falsely imprisoning the four innocent men were the very worst of reasons. They were protecting a gangster who was the real killer.
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Despite the constancy of propaganda promoting our wondrous legal system, it is perhaps the rottenest of all our institutions. If Bob Mueller knowingly kept innocent people in prison to protect the bureau, there should be some sort of consequence. Statutes of limitation make convictions impossible but why has he been allowed to practice law or keep receiving his pension?
Mueller is a bad apple.
Friday, May 26, 2017
Would James Comey Lie?
In his final congressional testimony before he was fired by President Trump this month, then-FBI Director James Comey unequivocally told lawmakers his agency used sensitive espionage data gathered about Americans without a warrant only when it was “lawfully collected, carefully overseen and checked.”
Once-top secret U.S. intelligence community memos reviewed by Circa tell a different story, citing instances of “disregard” for rules, inadequate training and “deficient” oversight and even one case of deliberately sharing spy data with a forbidden party.
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I read the Wikipedia entry for Circa News but I am still confused as to who they are. Amazing that they do more actual reporting than most news organizations, including Fox News.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Trump Should Appoint Rudy Giuliani Interim FBI Director And Not Worry About A Permanent Replacement
So Chuckie The Clown does not want to to approve an FBI Director unless he is granted a fishing expedition without probable cause? Let him drag his feet. Meanwhile, The president should appoint Rudy Ball Buster to straighten out the den of corruption known as the FBI.
Think things are interesting now? Just think how much fun the nightly news would be if the FBI starting doing its job.
Think things are interesting now? Just think how much fun the nightly news would be if the FBI starting doing its job.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Holy Spam Guard, Batman! 650,000 Emails On Weiner Device
Whatta ya bet he was also getting those male enhancement offers he never asked for? Seems like he would not need any of that Levitra stuff either but I bet they rooted him out, so to speak. When you got Huma in the sack and a Lolita on your contacts and dozens and dozens of babes, the marketing guys might catch up with you. "It's all Spam, people! Spam! Spam! Spam!"
BTW, the original source is Wall Street Journal but they require a subscription so I am linking you to Zero Hedge, who summarizes things nicely.
There is more to the story already. DOJ blocked FBI probe. There really was a near-mutiny at the FBI. Read All About It!
BTW, the original source is Wall Street Journal but they require a subscription so I am linking you to Zero Hedge, who summarizes things nicely.
There is more to the story already. DOJ blocked FBI probe. There really was a near-mutiny at the FBI. Read All About It!
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Chaffetz To FBI: "You Are Hereby Served"
Yes, the system is rigged. Yes, the FBI has a long history of corruption that remains to this day. Yes, I have had deep-seated differences with Representative Chaffetz.
But...this is a moment to savor.
But...this is a moment to savor.
Saturday, July 30, 2016
The Biggest Scandal In US History Is Not Going Away Just Yet, Folks
History will be cruel if not sadistic in evaluating the Obama Administration. This is the most corrupt administration ever and the degree of corruption is on a scale that is hard to comprehend.
The Obama Administration flooded the zone with abuses of power to the point that it requires a lot of effort, a lot of scholarship, a lot of work just to track all of them. In normal times, the Obama Administration's weaponizing of the IRS that probably tilted the scales in the president's 2012 re-election would be considered the grossest American scandal by a Secretariat at Belmont margin.
The problem with awarding that scandal a blue ribbon is that the IRS's many crimes--yes crimes, as in blatantly illegal criminal activity--is that they are impossible to separate from Obama's larger effort to ELIMINATE free and honest elections. That titan is dwarfed by the cover-up of the Lerner et al, reign of terror.
Once more, the cover-up is the bigger story. It involves more parties and more prominent players than the IRS conspirators. Included in the obstruction of justice is of course, Obama's Department of Justice including the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Who, in the wildest stretch of the imagination, would even entertain the idea that the FBI would facilitate wrongdoing on behalf of privileged insiders? Life is so full of surprises, isn't it?
Again, Judicial Watch has done the work the MSM--including the vastly overrated Fox News and their endless parade of high-priced shills--refuses to do. Where else can you find this information stated so boldly?
“These new smoking-gun documents show Obama FBI and Justice Department had plenty of evidence suggesting illegal targeting, perjury, and obstruction of justice,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Both the FBI and Justice Department collaborated with the Lois Lerner and the IRS to try to prosecute and jail Barack Obama’s political opponents. These FBI documents show the resulting compromised investigation looked the other way when it came to Obama’s IRS criminality.”
Whoa! May God bless Judicial Watch!
These days I am guarded with my financial contributions but I plan to send Judicial Watch a token gift in the near future. Keep up the great work, JW!
The Obama Administration flooded the zone with abuses of power to the point that it requires a lot of effort, a lot of scholarship, a lot of work just to track all of them. In normal times, the Obama Administration's weaponizing of the IRS that probably tilted the scales in the president's 2012 re-election would be considered the grossest American scandal by a Secretariat at Belmont margin.
The problem with awarding that scandal a blue ribbon is that the IRS's many crimes--yes crimes, as in blatantly illegal criminal activity--is that they are impossible to separate from Obama's larger effort to ELIMINATE free and honest elections. That titan is dwarfed by the cover-up of the Lerner et al, reign of terror.
Once more, the cover-up is the bigger story. It involves more parties and more prominent players than the IRS conspirators. Included in the obstruction of justice is of course, Obama's Department of Justice including the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Who, in the wildest stretch of the imagination, would even entertain the idea that the FBI would facilitate wrongdoing on behalf of privileged insiders? Life is so full of surprises, isn't it?
Again, Judicial Watch has done the work the MSM--including the vastly overrated Fox News and their endless parade of high-priced shills--refuses to do. Where else can you find this information stated so boldly?
“These new smoking-gun documents show Obama FBI and Justice Department had plenty of evidence suggesting illegal targeting, perjury, and obstruction of justice,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Both the FBI and Justice Department collaborated with the Lois Lerner and the IRS to try to prosecute and jail Barack Obama’s political opponents. These FBI documents show the resulting compromised investigation looked the other way when it came to Obama’s IRS criminality.”
Whoa! May God bless Judicial Watch!
These days I am guarded with my financial contributions but I plan to send Judicial Watch a token gift in the near future. Keep up the great work, JW!
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Am I The Only One Who Harbors Doubts About James Comey's Integrity? And Would It Make A Difference?
Call me a cynic. I have heard it said repeatedly that FBI Director, James Comey is a man of unending, undying, overflowing integrity. Really? And we base this judgment on what exactly?
Let us just assume Comey is an honest man. He is directing one of the most corrupt agencies America has ever produced. This is an agency that needlessly burned children alive at Waco. They murdered a woman and her 14 year old son at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Perhaps to keep their skills sharp, the FBI killed Ibragim Todashev on May 22, 2013.
The FBI's Boston field office out-mafiaed the mafia. They let a homicide take place that they could have prevented and then sent four innocent men to prison to protect an informant. Their lawlessness predated Whitey Bulger's reign of terror by over a decade. In an Orwellian rewriting of history they created a Bulger/Connolly/Southie mythology that omits H. Paul Rico from the narrative. In return for "technical assistance" and the veneer of legitimacy, the creators of the horse shit movie, "Black Mass" conspicuously erase the ongoing significant influence of one, H. Paul Rico, a retired FBI agent who died in jail awaiting trial for murder.
Space and time does not allow for the airing of all of the Fibby's dirty laundry. We do need to mention Robert Hanssen, a former FBI counter-espionage big shot, is now serving 15 life sentences for selling US secrets to both the Russians and the Soviets. And of course, the Bureau's greatest hits will always be headlined by J. Edgar Hoover who allowed his agency to be baptized by the high priests of organized crime shortly after its birth. It would be a cozy relationship that would continue for the duration of Hoover's life.
So even if the unfounded rumors that James Comey is a man of high integrity happens to have a coating of truth, this saintly figure has descended into a pit of vipers. Does anyone really think he can herd snakes?
"What do you want? Tears?" H. Paul Rico
Let us just assume Comey is an honest man. He is directing one of the most corrupt agencies America has ever produced. This is an agency that needlessly burned children alive at Waco. They murdered a woman and her 14 year old son at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Perhaps to keep their skills sharp, the FBI killed Ibragim Todashev on May 22, 2013.
The FBI's Boston field office out-mafiaed the mafia. They let a homicide take place that they could have prevented and then sent four innocent men to prison to protect an informant. Their lawlessness predated Whitey Bulger's reign of terror by over a decade. In an Orwellian rewriting of history they created a Bulger/Connolly/Southie mythology that omits H. Paul Rico from the narrative. In return for "technical assistance" and the veneer of legitimacy, the creators of the horse shit movie, "Black Mass" conspicuously erase the ongoing significant influence of one, H. Paul Rico, a retired FBI agent who died in jail awaiting trial for murder.
Space and time does not allow for the airing of all of the Fibby's dirty laundry. We do need to mention Robert Hanssen, a former FBI counter-espionage big shot, is now serving 15 life sentences for selling US secrets to both the Russians and the Soviets. And of course, the Bureau's greatest hits will always be headlined by J. Edgar Hoover who allowed his agency to be baptized by the high priests of organized crime shortly after its birth. It would be a cozy relationship that would continue for the duration of Hoover's life.
So even if the unfounded rumors that James Comey is a man of high integrity happens to have a coating of truth, this saintly figure has descended into a pit of vipers. Does anyone really think he can herd snakes?
"What do you want? Tears?" H. Paul Rico
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Saturday, March 1, 2014
How long can the FBI cover up Ibragim Todashev's murder? In the Case Of Edward Deegan It Was 30 Years
Hoosierman posted an excellent story about the (what is the polite term for conspiracy to obstruct justice?) Ibragim Todashev slaying.
http://obotomy.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-long-can-fbi-cover-up-ibragim.html
In the case of Edward "Teddy" Deegan the FBI covered up the truth for over 30 years. They never did come clean and were it not for a pit bull of a journalist named Dan Rea (now a talk radio host) we might not have ever learned the truth.
Truth is sometimes uglier than fiction. In 1968, the FBI framed four innocent men to protect their informant, crime boss Joe Barboza. If this all sounds familiar, the FBI would later conspire with and murder for another Boston crime boss, Whitey Bulger. If you ever read up on the Bulger fiasco and it is stated that Whitey was mishandled or that he simply outwitted his FBI godfathers, put the page down and read something more truthful. The FBI orchestrated the Barboza scandal(s) and they helped choreograph Whitey's crimes years later.
By the way, the Barboza case reached the highest level of FBI cooperation. J. Edgar Hoover knew that innocent people were sent away to aid and abet and bolster and defend Barboza.
In 2007 a federal judge leveled a $101 million verdict against the FBI.
http://injusticebusters.org/index.htm/Salvati_Joe.htm
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/07/judge_to_issue.html
http://obotomy.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-long-can-fbi-cover-up-ibragim.html
In the case of Edward "Teddy" Deegan the FBI covered up the truth for over 30 years. They never did come clean and were it not for a pit bull of a journalist named Dan Rea (now a talk radio host) we might not have ever learned the truth.
Truth is sometimes uglier than fiction. In 1968, the FBI framed four innocent men to protect their informant, crime boss Joe Barboza. If this all sounds familiar, the FBI would later conspire with and murder for another Boston crime boss, Whitey Bulger. If you ever read up on the Bulger fiasco and it is stated that Whitey was mishandled or that he simply outwitted his FBI godfathers, put the page down and read something more truthful. The FBI orchestrated the Barboza scandal(s) and they helped choreograph Whitey's crimes years later.
By the way, the Barboza case reached the highest level of FBI cooperation. J. Edgar Hoover knew that innocent people were sent away to aid and abet and bolster and defend Barboza.
In 2007 a federal judge leveled a $101 million verdict against the FBI.
http://injusticebusters.org/index.htm/Salvati_Joe.htm
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/07/judge_to_issue.html
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Who Cares If The Always-Reputable FBI Monitors Our Email?
WASHINGTON — The FBI gave its informants permission to break the law at least 5,658 times in a single year, according to newly disclosed documents that show just how often the nation's top law enforcement agency enlists criminals to help it battle crime...
...Agents authorized 15 crimes a day, on average, including everything from buying and selling illegal drugs to bribing government officials and plotting robberies. FBI officials have said in the past that permitting their informants — who are often criminals themselves — to break the law is an indispensable, if sometimes distasteful, part of investigating criminal organizations.
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