Category — Crime

What do Syria, Myanmar, Darfur, Hell, Afghanistan, Iran and Britain have in common? God-awful places to live is the answer.
However none except Britain are so uncivilized as to keep you from protecting life and property. The U.S. under the Donks and libs strive mightily to get us to that place particularly with the “progressive education” so enjoyed.

For more than two years, Sydney Davis’ house has been under siege from stone-throwing youths. And more than two hours into the latest attack on his family home, the police had yet to respond.

So after a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, the 65-year-old grabbed a plank of wood and ran towards the gang to scare them away. But his desperate act came just as the police finally arrived on the scene - where they promptly arrested him for possession of an offensive weapon.

He now faces up to six months in prison. [snip]

In Britain, protecting oneself by means of a weapon, from assault with intent to maim or kill, is punishable with time in prison, not short either.

How did they get they get to this position. By the liberal method of constantly moving the goal posts back to get a bit more correctness in the law.

When the Donks took over congress in the ‘70’s here, they got their ideas from across the pond. We are about 10 years behind Britain in rampant stupidity, only because of luck and some members of SCOTUS. No problem seeing why the left vilifies the conservative side of the bench, is there?

A sampling of cases illustrates the impact of these measures:

In 1973 a young man running on a road at night was stopped by the police and found to be carrying a length of steel, a cycle chain, and a metal clock weight. He explained that a gang of youths had been after him. At his hearing it was found he had been threatened and had previously notified the police. The justices agreed he had a valid reason to carry the weapons. Indeed, 16 days later he was attacked and beaten so badly he was hospitalized. But the prosecutor appealed the ruling, and the appellate judges insisted that carrying a weapon must be related to an imminent and immediate threat. They sent the case back to the lower court with directions to convict.

A proper and PC verdict, would you say?
Now if the jogger said he was carrying the metal to help him lose weight and build up stamina, what could the prosecutor have said?
The lesson to be learned in this PC world is do not tell the truth!

In 1987 two men assaulted Eric Butler, a 56-year-old British Petroleum executive, in a London subway car, trying to strangle him and smashing his head against the door. No one came to his aid. He later testified, “My air supply was being cut off, my eyes became blurred, and I feared for my life.” In desperation he unsheathed an ornamental sword blade in his walking stick and slashed at one of his attackers, stabbing the man in the stomach. The assailants were charged with wounding. Butler was tried and convicted of carrying an offensive weapon.

NYC has a law that allows prosecution for assault if one defends themselves with their cane. A prosecutor can bring the case to the grand jury, which as you know, will indict a ham sandwich for not having mustard. I presume using your crutch would make matters ever worse.

In 1994 an English homeowner, armed with a toy gun, managed to detain two burglars who had broken into his house while he called the police. When the officers arrived, they arrested the homeowner for using an imitation gun to threaten or intimidate. In a similar incident the following year, when an elderly woman fired a toy cap pistol to drive off a group of youths who were threatening her, she was arrested for putting someone in fear. Now the police are pressing Parliament to make imitation guns illegal.

Absolutely right! We cannot have these young malefactors wetting their pants, can we.

In 1999 Tony Martin, a 55-year-old Norfolk farmer living alone in a shabby farmhouse, awakened to the sound of breaking glass as two burglars, both with long criminal records, burst into his home. He had been robbed six times before, and his village, like 70 percent of rural English communities, had no police presence. He sneaked downstairs with a shotgun and shot at the intruders. Martin received life in prison for killing one burglar, 10 years for wounding the second, and a year for having an unregistered shotgun. The wounded burglar, having served 18 months of a three-year sentence, is now free and has been granted $5,000 of legal assistance to sue Martin.

Comparison
Bernard Hugo Goetz, known as Bernhard or Bernie (born November 7, 1947) was dubbed the “Subway Vigilante” by the New York press. How the BBC views this.

Vermonters of all political persuasions can get behinds this novel and green innovation. Rechargeable batteries in series connected to a capacitor delivers proper amperage with a short cycling time.

Solar-Powered Electric Chair

AUSTIN, TX—Garrett Durning of the Texas Environmental Defense League has spent the last three months campaigning tirelessly for the installation of solar-powered electric chairs in state prisons. “Texas wastes more than 500,000 watts of electricity on every criminal it executes,” Durning told reporters Monday. “We live in the 21st century, and it’s high time we acted like it. Let’s stop depleting our non-renewable fossil fuels. Solar power is a more energy-efficient way to execute the condemned.” Durning added that wrist and ankle restraints should be made of hemp rather than leather, the use of which is cruel.

Furthermore, by using found and recycled materials the state can save a tree. I’m sure the Burlington/Middlebury peoples artist collectives will create a suitably shaped device honoring the victims and all with no carbon footprint.

Toss aside a harmonic convergence of this level dispassionately. I should say not!

Massachusetts voters wanted change, and now they are going to get it.

What’s that? You thought you were going to get lower property taxes? Not quite, but how about we free some convicted murderers as a consolation prize!

Howie Carr has the story (HT: Deval Patrick Watch):

The Parole Board is open Under New Management - liberal bleeding-heart management.

This is splendid news for stone killers and rapists, bad news for everybody else.

This week we got the first of what will no doubt be a long line of murderers being cut loose: Karter Reed, who wept at his Parole Board hearing in March. Of course Killer Karter wasn’t crying at Dartmouth High School back in 1993, when he fatally stabbed a teenager he didn’t even know, laughing and jeering as his victim lay dying on the classroom floor. Even Deval’s Parole Board had to stipulate that.

“The Parole Board does acknowledge this tragic senseless loss of a young and innocent victim but . . . ”

But we’re liberals, and it’s our $90,000-a-year job to fling open the prison doors for murderers. For 16 years, these horrid Republicans would never release any of these poor young men who’ve been turning their lives around, and now it’s payback time.

The vote to let Killer Karter go was 4-3. It was close only because the Parole Board still includes some holdovers not appointed by Gov. Deval Patrick, that great benefactor of rapists. Next year the votes will be 5-2, then 6-1.

“Mr. Reed was incarcerated at a very young and susceptible age,” the limousine liberals wrote. But not to worry, Killer Karter has rehabilitated himself. Here are some of the prison programs he availed himself of: Alternatives to Violence, Training for Trainers, Training for Facilitators and Welcome Diversity, Anger Management, Toastmasters and, my favorite, Barber School.

Together We Can … empty the prisons!

We can expect more of this type of “Change” if Obama wins in November too! The only difference is that it will be terrorists being set free by him.

Oh well, you can’t say we didn’t warn you Massachusetts:

• Together We Can… Put Rapists Back on the Street
• The Gift That Keeps On Giving
• “Free ‘em all” Deval sort of apologizes for his Benjamin LaGuer missteps
• Dukakis Defends “Free ‘em all” Deval
• The Gift That Keeps On Giving - Part 2

Has it occurred to you that any American citizen wishing employment needs to produce more paper than can be culled from a hectare of Canadian woods. That’s for cleaning toilets to working in a bank. Speaking of banks, try opening an account with just your Social Security card, not going to happen. You need to prove beyond unreasonable doubt of your bona fides.

If arrested for a criminal act or even a DUI, you’ll be questioned and charged with no delay. Bring money, you’ll need an armored car full.

However, to avoid these roadblocks, merely claim you are an illegal.

Do you have a criminal background? Not a problem, since the Liberals won’t ask and forbid local powers from inquiring. Consider driver’s licenses an inconvenience, since purchasing insurance isn’t on the vehicle operating agenda. Taxes are impedimenta to our appreciating our beer. Illegals treasure their Corona with abandon then motor off to relish a night on the town. Don’t worry about that DUI, CA wants to make it illegal to notify ICE if they believe deportation would occur.

Some of the more adventurous may even engage in a spot of rape. Oh to live la dolce vita with such lack of inhibition.

We know where Clinton and Obama stand on this problem, offer amnesty. McCain has been quiet, he does have an ardent open border believer running his candidacy, Juan Hernandez. Where does this bring us to in November?

“Pirates can claim UK asylum”

Not just a problem for Penzance: “The Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights.

Here’s another idea that will go far in “making the world safe for the children.”

Warships patrolling pirate-infested waters, such as those off Somalia, have been warned that there is also a risk that captured pirates could claim asylum in Britain” on the grounds that if sent back to Somalia they could face cruel punishments such as beheading or hand-chopping. (Marie Woolf, Times Online, Apr. 13).

Vermont court to decide if disliked prison food is punishment

MONTPELIER, Vt. (Map, News) - When shooting suspect Christopher Williams acted up in prison, he was given nutraloaf - a mixture of cubed whole wheat bread, nondairy cheese, raw carrots, spinach, seedless raisins, beans, vegetable oil, tomato paste, powdered milk and dehydrated potato flakes.

Prison officials call it a complete meal. Inmates say it’s so awful they’d rather go hungry.

On Monday, the Vermont Supreme Court will hear arguments in a class action suit brought by inmates who say it’s not food but punishment and that anyone subjected to it should get a formal disciplinary process first.

Prison officials see nutraloaf as a tool for behavior modification. http://federalism.typepad.com/crime_federalism/

“It’s commonplace in other states as a way of providing nutrition in a mechanism that dissuades inmates from throwing feces, urine, trays and silverware,” said Vermont Corrections Commissioner Rob Hofmann.

“It tends to have the desired outcome,” Hofmann said. [snip]

Most Vermont inmates given nutraloaf have used their eating utensils to throw body waste. Nutraloaf, however, is served on a simple piece of paper, removing from the inmate’s reach the utensils that can be used to store the waste before it is thrown.[snip]

Christopher Williams, 29, who is charged in a 2006 school shooting that killed two people in Essex, was given nutraloaf after he’d assaulted guards and smeared excrement in his cell.
Since then, his name hasn’t appeared on the list of inmates given nutraloaf.
“His name was nowhere to be found,” Hofmann said. “I presume it was effective.”

What has Vermont come to, serving prisoners wholesome food after they misbehave? Put them on a broccoli rabe diet for a month (that will stop the feces throwing) or beat them to within an inch of stupidity with a waterboard, since it’s impolite to use it as intended. Actually, given the level of intelligence extant, holding up the board should be sufficient.

If the inmates worked on road gangs 10 hours a day, they be too tired to cause troubles. Who knows, they might even recognize the work ethic when they step up to it. The state also saves a large portion of tax dollars used to pay state employees to do the lump work. Realizing additional savings by canceling the cable TV and converting the workout room to additional cell space helps the taxpayers.

Furthermore, having the correctional facilities a bit inconvenient may produce a sharp drop in recidivism, either by modifying their behavior or by leaving the state. I care not which they choose.

Just Say No?

Jeffrey Wennberg on Crime, Drugs, and Vermont’s quality of life

(Wennberg is a former mayor of Rutland)

On Monday, March 24th, the United States Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing in Rutland to look into the explosion of violent crime and drug offenses in Vermont. Sen. Patrick Leahy, who chairs the panel, notes that while violent crime is growing at 1 percent nationally, it is growing at ten times that rate in Vermont. Meanwhile Governor Douglas and law enforcement leaders have recently made page-one news with statewide drug busts netting crack cocaine, heroin and a significant number of big-city drug entrepreneurs.

And yet, just weeks ago, the Vermont Senate voted 22 to 7 to approve the bill that would give those caught with small amounts of marijuana the choice of participating in the Diversion program, and by so doing avoid a criminal record. Public opinion polls indicate a solid majority of Vermonters support the measure.

So why are they so upset with the burgeoning community dope market in Rutland and Barre, which merely supplies the adjunct desires? They believe a little bit of dope is just the thing to start the day.
Sensitive Vermonters wish to rehabilitate, not incarcerate, to prevent damage to tender psyches. Wagging fingers, wrist slaps and court diversion are the chastisements of preference.

Now that some of the capitalists wish to practice horizontal integration to corner the market, the locals become upset. Is something wrong with their laissez-faire policy that heretofore was undiscovered?
Purveyors of recreational drugs no longer are welcome in town. Now what to do. Since all these interlopers have poor self-esteem from bad potty training, hearing the word no spoken harshly, or poor schooling, Vermonters wished not to further ding their mellow. They simply asked them to go elsewhere.
Via incarceration and labeling, elsewhere however rejected them. The return hegira to Rutland, which holds self-esteem and image paramount produces quandary. For the prodigals are violent, bringing big city solutions to little city Vermont.

Stay tuned; let us see what actually happens after the legislative hand wringing phase. You know the good Senator Leahy has all the answers

Life in the Bad Apple is tough. After the Heller case is adjudicated, less of these disgraces should occur for the means of true equal protection will exist.

200 surveillance cameras at Van Dyke houses fail to stop rape suspect

Once again a rapist was caught on videotape, and once again cops failed to see him, police sources said Thursday.

A 19-year-old woman was raped at knifepoint inside the Van Dyke houses in Brooklyn early Thursday - a housing complex with more than 200 cameras supposedly monitored around the clock by the NYPD.

Should she have called 911 as Mayor Menino suggests? Or do as Bloomberg suggests, leave personal protection to the police?

One thing that would have worked in this situation is a .38 snubby. Guaranteed!

Protein Wisdom opined thusly on the Spitzer cockup.

Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?

[snip]
he previously prosecuted — quite aggressively and publicly – several citizens for the “crime” of operating an adult prostitution business. That hypocrisy precludes me from having any real personal sympathy for Spitzer, and no reasonable person could defend him from charges of rank hypocrisy. And he should be treated no differently — no better and no worse — than the average citizen whom law enforcement catches hiring prostitutes.

But how can his alleged behavior — paying another adult roughly $1,000 per hour to travel from New York to Washington to meet him for sex — possibly justify resignation, let alone criminal prosecution, conviction and imprisonment? Independent of the issue of his hypocrisy — which is an issue meriting attention and political criticism but not criminal prosecution — what possible business is it of anyone’s, let alone the state’s, what he or anyone else does in their private lives with other consenting adults?

See that? He paid f****ng $1000 per hour! Certainly that precludes any question of victimization, right? Leaving aside the issue of legality regarding an offense over which he gleefully prosecuted others with reference to criminal statutes . . . I mean, do you think he ought to be held to the letter of the law? Should he be treated more harshly because he was in a position of public trust, pledged to uphold the law? [snip]

No, he should be treated harshly for showing no fiscal responsibility (a Democrat foible). Paying some bimbo $5000.00 exhibits no common sense, it didn’t even buy silence.

For the charge of hypocrisy, having his johnson pounded flat on an anvil by a 3 pound lump hammer is light punishment.

Like most elitist clayfoot clowns, however, they never run for election on the prostitution platform. I don’t know why? If the public actions were compatible with personal morals, would not they be a shoo in to high office.

Worse, Spitzer’s problem doesn’t seem to be about getting dipped. He engaged in the activity called structuring, which he should know is quite criminal. He prosecuted many on Wall Street for similar missteps.

Let us clean up the political mess. The following steps make it easy:

1. First a warm and fuzzy auto-de-fe.
2. Then public crucifixions for all miscreants.

Where did I put my rack and sack of stones? And what’s with the stupid wife?

Deval Patrick brought in a real gem for the Department of Corrections. Harold W. Clarke thinks Massachusetts’ system is too “tough”:

“We got tough and what have we gotten for that? Do we feel any safer?” asked Clarke, who began on Nov. 26, 2007, after years at the helm of prison systems in Nebraska and Washington state. “Rates of recidivism are climbing. We are going in the wrong direction and this is getting worse.”

Mr. Clarke and I obviously share a different definition of tough. I don’t call Judge Moses releasing his 3^rd recidivist sex offender tough. Or perhaps Mr. Clarke thinks the 10s of thousands of wasted tax dollars spent on a convicted murderer’s sex change treatments is our justice system being unmerciful.

If this is “tough”, the Clarke “improvements” will be absolutely frightening. We can all sleep sounder now knowing a moonbat who thinks society failed the criminals is running corrections.

And what do you think they told the judge?

Cabot men charged with armed robbery

Show clerk an axe, ask for $20

BARRE – Two Cabot men wanted money for snacks, so they held up the Woodbury Village Store, brandishing an axe Tuesday afternoon and demanding the store clerk give them $20, according to court documents.

Brian Rossell, 21, and Robert Martino, 20, pleaded innocent to assault and robbery with a weapon in Vermont District Court on Wednesday. [snip]

The rest of this comedy here.

What would the ACLU think about this? Do you care?

Is it no wonder we get what we get for “Presidential Timber.” I know most have seen this before; it is so apt in a primary season, however. Where is your critter in this list?

Qualities of Leadership

Can you imagine working at the following Company? It has a little over 500 employees with the following statistics:

29 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have bankrupted at least two businesses
3 have been arrested for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are current defendants in lawsuits
84 were stopped for drunk driving

Can you guess which organization this is?
It’s the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group that perpetually cranks out hundreds upon hundreds of new laws designed to keep the rest of us in line.

The total is 373, some may be multiple offenders. With this crowd, I’m surprised the number is so low.
There is one number that stands out as a serious charge. 117 of these clowns have bankrupted at least 2 businesses.

Why are they still in office spending our money?

Every day shows us just how bad some individuals luck can be. Getting mugged is beyond the pale for anyone.

That this happened in the Bloomberg’s safe city starts the gods talking. Working for the UN adds another layer of misfortune. Working on her brother’s campaign  courted Loki. Pile on the sibling relationship, going to anything in SoHo at night and one has Asgard throwing a selection of mishaps just because you’re available.

Sen. John Kerry’s Sister Mugged In New York City

NEW YORK (AP) ― A mugger knocked down U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s sister and stole her purse in downtown Manhattan.

Police say Margaret Kerry was attacked after leaving a theater in SoHo at about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday. A thief stole her pocketbook, which held about $60 and credit cards. Kerry, 66, suffered a cut to her head.

Police say no suspects have been arrested. Kerry told the New York Post that she didn’t get a good look at her attacker.

Kerry, who works for the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, worked on her brother’s 2004 presidential campaign.

…some people would have no luck at all.

Fascism is the Fourth Estate. About 4 fewer excesses than Stalin and Hitler combined.

An Iowahawk Special Investigative Report With Statistical Guidance from the New York Times

A Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject. In Cincinnati, a television reporter is arrested on charges of child molestation. A North Carolina newspaper reporter is arrested for harassing a local woman. A drunken Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member is arrested for wife beating. A Baltimore newspaper editor is arrested for threatening neighbors with a shotgun. In Florida, one TV reporter is arrested for DUI, while another is charged with carrying a gun into a high school. A Philadelphia news anchorwoman goes on a violent drunken rampage, assaulting a police officer. In England, a newspaper columnist is arrested for killing her elderly aunt.

Unrelated incidents, or mounting evidence of that America’s newsrooms have become a breeding ground for murderous, drunk, gun-wielding child molesters? Answers are…[snip]

This is what fascists do. It is their nature!