Archive for the ‘Crime’ Category
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Right after one of the gang members said “Oh you’re dead. I’m gonna kill your family and your babies. You’re dead.”
If this was Texas, we’d be reading about how police arrested the gang members, or maybe how a grand jury no-billed the home owner after he ventilated the guy who just threatened to kill his family.
But since this took place on Long Island, New York, you know exactly how it turned out: Police arrested the man defending his home with “felony reckless endangerment” for firing four warning shots into the ground.
Tags:Guns, New York
Posted in Crime, Guns | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Your dog gets into a tussle with another dog in an off-leash dog park. Do you:
- Separate the dogs
- Ask the owner of the other dog to leave the park
- Shoot the other dog dead.
Evidently, “3” is the answer you choose if you’re an off duty cop and criminally stupid. And because he was a cop, no charges were filed.
It angries up the blood, it does…
(Hat tip Say Uncle.)
Tags:Crime, dogs, stupid
Posted in Crime, Guns | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Warning: Graphic Material Contained in Links Below
Dwight linked to this after-action report on a two-hour gun-battle between the Mexican Army and members of drug cartel in Nuevo Laredo. (Warning: Includes some graphic images.)
Later, some people pointed out that at least one of the images looked strangely familiar. Some commentators doubted whether such a gun-battle had even taken place at all.
But there are many news bulletins about the battle itself. Also, the vast majority of those photos appear to be from that shootout, many of which are also shown here. (Again, remember that graphic clip warning. We’re talking serious, non-CGI exploded skulls here.) Of course, maybe that set of photos is from another shootout as well, but the photos do seem to be, at the very least, compatible with the (admittedly sketchy) news stories on the event.
On the other hand, those stories of drug gangs taking over ranches on this side of the border appear to be bunk.
Tags:Crime, drug lords, drugs, Guns, Mexico, Nuevo Laredo Shootout
Posted in Border Control, Crime, Guns, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 30th, 2010
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PLEASE REPLY IN UTTER CONFIDENCE.
ALLAH AKBAR!
MAJ. NIDAL HASAN
CELLBLOCK 3F
BELL COUNTY JAIL
111 WEST CENTRAL AVENUE
BELTON, TX 76513-3078
Tags:Ft. Hood, Jihad, Nidal Hasan
Posted in Crime, Jihad | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 30th, 2010
With 68% of Aemricans supporting building a border fence, illegal alien amnesty even less popular than cap-and-trade (even when disguised as “comprehensive immigration reform”), and an overwhelming majority of Americans siding with Arizona’s new border enforcement law and against the Obama administration, you would think that Democrats would be scrambling to get on the same side of the issue as voters, or at least doing their best to ignore, so as not to be slaughtered come November.
You’d be wrong.
Instead, the Obama Administration has decided to an end-run around that whole pesky “consent of the governed” issue to have Immigration Services implement an amnesty without congressional approval.
Combined with the Democrat’s perpetual efforts to give voting rights to felons, it reminds me of that old Stalin-era joke: “The government has lost faith in the citizens, and has reluctantly decided that it must elect a new people.”
Tags:Arizona, Border Controls, Democrats, Illegal Aliens, Obama
Posted in Border Control, Crime, Democrats | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
According to this story,
Convicted DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo tells actor William Shatner on a cable TV special that he and his partner tried to recruit fellow shooters for their 2002 spree and that his accomplice killed one man for backing out, according to the program set for airing Thursday [on A&E].
That little tidbit raises a number of interesting points:
- It reminds us that the whole DC Sniper case was severely hampered by political correctness from the git-go, from wasting time looking for the imaginary white guy the FBI profiler said had to be a shooter, to downplaying the Jihad angle of Malvo and executed co-conspirator John Allen Muhammad.
- That we’re just now getting these revelations suggests that the media is very poor at follow-up, especially considering that the DC Sniper case dominated news cycles for well over a month, and was one of the biggest stories between 9/11 and the liberation of Iraq.
- And who’s breaking this story? Anderson Cooper? No. Steve Kroft? No. Not even (God help us) Geraldo Rivera. No, this story is evidently being broken by William Shatner on A&E.
- This would be the perfect point for one of those rants about the blurring of the lines between journalism and entertainment, but you know what? That ship sailed a long time ago. At least as long ago as Network (which, by the way, is still brilliant), and arguably even earlier. But why Shatner, and why A&E? Who knows, maybe Malvo said “I got a secret, but I won’t tell it to anyone but Captain Kirk! And you damn well make that original recipe Captain Kirk! None of this Kirk 2.0 crap!”
- Actually, Shatner’s about the only one not to be blamed for the situation, as he’s made it apparent that there’s nothing he’s afraid of tackling, and I’m actually something of a Shatner devotee.
- But having Shatner break the story reminds me of that Jon Stewart tagline:
I guess we’ll have to get used to saying “William Shatner, Investigative Journalist” in the same way we’ve gotten use to saying “Emmy-Award-winning actor William Shatner.”
(Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds, although I think Instapundit buried the lede here, leaving out the all-important Shatner Angle.)
Tags:DC Sniper, Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, Jihad, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, William Shatner
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
A few tidbits to tide you over the Independence Day weekend:
- Dwight over at Whipped Cream Difficulties has a very interesting post up on Maywood, California closing their police department down. Summary: It has less to do with the budget crunch than with the entire department acting like corrupt, out-of-control thugs running roughshod over innocent people. Dwight and I both though of the similar situation in the (now thankfully dissolved) township of New Rome, Ohio.
- “I don’t know whether the Tea Party movement will die out. But I sure hope it hangs on long enough to take down Lindsey Graham.” (Yeah, this was already on Fark, with that exact headline, but since I was the submitter…)
- Former leftist, opponent of jihad, devout atheist and relapsed smoker Christopher Hitchens has suspended his book tour to be treated for esophageal cancer. Hitchens intellectual journey from being a (mostly) far-leftist to being a (mostly) neo-conservative has been deeply gratifying to those of us on the right, and as a voice sounding the alarm against radical Islam he’s probably only second (at least in the U.S.) to Mark Steyn. (So yes, the two most powerful voices against jihad in the U.S. are a Brit and a Canadian.) As an agnostic, I have no particular stance on the metaphysical certitude of Hitchens’ atheism, but I do believe he’s underestimated the vital role religion plays as a binding agent in a free society, as those societies which made atheism a central tenant (the Soviet Union and its ilk) don’t seem to have profited by it. (To paraphrase the late Octavia Butler, “I don’t believe in God, but the people growing up today don’t seem to believe in anything at all, and it’s scary.”) I always thought it would be interesting to debate Hitchens on the issue from the viewpoint of the social utility of religion rather than its metaphysical truth. BattleSwarm Blog wishes him a speedy recovery.
(Hat tips: Whipped Cream Difficulties, the Bookfinder Insider Mailing List)
Tags:cancer, Christopher Hitchens, Lindsey Graham, LinkSwarm, Maywood, New Rome
Posted in Crime, Jihad, Republicans, Waste and Fraud | 1 Comment »
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
A few links for whiling away the day:
Tags:anti-semitism, Bobby Jindel, Budget, Father's Day, Helen Thomas, Israel, LAPD, LinkSwarm, oil spill
Posted in Crime, Democrats, Jihad, Media Watch, Uncategorized, Waste and Fraud | No Comments »