Sometime, way back when, people got it into their heads that writing a daily diary was a good thing. Therapy. Collecting and organizing thoughts, etc. Some parents encourage their kids to write diaries - then the kids - realizing that parents are sneaking peeks - hide them.
In a tragic story I was recently told, I was given cause to wonder if keeping a diary is really such a good thing or even a safe thing. The person who told me this story is in the murder business. He investigates murders for a living. He used to work for the state, but now he has his own shingle and works for lawyers who defend murder suspects.
It seems that several years ago that there was a young girl that was murdered. It seems these days that young girls get murdered all the time. In this case, the young girl kept a diary. Whether mom knew about the diary, we'll never know. However after her daughter was brutally murdered mom "found" the diary. While reading her murdered daughter's diary, she made a starting discovery. Her young girl was socially very active - if you get my drift. She told of her experiences and mentioned names. Sometimes the names of prominent young men in the community. Distressed and devastated the mom did what she thought was the right thing to do. She gave the diary to the head police official investigating the murder.
The head police official - not a very straight up guy - recognized many of the names in the diary and realized the value of the book was much greater for himself than using the book to solve the young girl's murder. He took the diary to the person who would be most threatened by its contents. That person asks him - What are we going to do about the mother who gave this to you? The high police official - who is now a conduit - shrugs and says this is not his problem.
Finally it is decided that it would be much better for the interested parties to "buy" the mother off than use the diary as evidence in a murder trial. That's the way it came down. The rather humble and semi-impoverished mom and dad, get a nice house and piece of property out of the deal, the diary disappears, and the prominent well-connected murderers and accomplices never make it to trial - all because of a diary and a naive mother who thought the high police offical would do the right thing.
Did this really happen - or is it my friends imagination?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
The "Sweet Jesus Talking Boy"
The little rich boy had a modus operandi you might say. He would go through his "Jesus talking" seduction rituals and after the seduction was accomplished, he would become increasingly brutal with his victims – yes, you heard it right – victims. He didn't kill them, but he still had victims of his rage. They're still out there – some could be your neighbors - and they still remember the "Sweet Jesus Talking" boy. Why was the stocky built boy so brutal? It could be that the "guilts" set in after he accomplished his conquests and not wanting to admit his own failings, he blamed his fall from grace on his victim and would punish her for leading him astray. While I understand his reasoning, "Sweet Jesus Talking" boy is still a killer, abuser, and victim of his own vices of drink and drugs.
On the fateful day of the young girl's death, "The Sweet Jesus Talking" boy set up the rendezvous point as normal and followed the little girl as she drove away in her car. What started out as regular sex became increasingly violent. Some say "Jesus boy" was not alone, but had friends who liked to watch and sometimes participate. Friends who like him loved drugs and booze. The little girl to them was nothing but sport. An innocent child who had wandered into their web and got caught. An autopsy showed that numerous men had put sperm in the little girl's vagina. Of course, this never came out in the news media or the trial. There were reasons.
On the fateful day of the young girl's death, "The Sweet Jesus Talking" boy set up the rendezvous point as normal and followed the little girl as she drove away in her car. What started out as regular sex became increasingly violent. Some say "Jesus boy" was not alone, but had friends who liked to watch and sometimes participate. Friends who like him loved drugs and booze. The little girl to them was nothing but sport. An innocent child who had wandered into their web and got caught. An autopsy showed that numerous men had put sperm in the little girl's vagina. Of course, this never came out in the news media or the trial. There were reasons.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
White House strips immigration policing powers from Arizona sheriff
Daniel Nasaw in Washington guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 October 2009 17.04 BST Article history
A controversial Arizona sheriff known for taking a hard line against illegal immigrants has been stripped of some of his powers in what he described as a political move by the Obama administration.
Joe Arpaio, a gruff lawman who styles himself as America's toughest sheriff, has won acclaim from US anti-immigrant forces for his relentless pursuit of mostly Hispanic illegal immigrants in Maricopa county, Arizona, a fast-growing county of 4 million people that is home to Phoenix, the nation's fifth largest city.
Arpaio's aggressive tactics include the jailing of illegal immigrants in tent cities surrounded by barbed wire in the middle of Arizona's searingly hot summers, the reduction of meal costs to 20 cents per day, the use of pink jail clothing for men, and chain gangs for women inmates.
Arpaio also came in for criticism when he appeared on the Fox reality show Smile: You're Under Arrest.
Under a two-year-old agreement with the federal department of homeland security, Arpaio and his deputies had been authorised to enforce federal immigration law by arresting suspected illegal immigrants in the field and by checking the immigration status of people arrested on other offences.
But after drawing thousands of complaints and a civil rights investigation from the justice department, Arpaio was this week stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests. County attorney Andrew Thomas, one of Arpaio's supporters, condemned the "setback in the fight against illegal immigration".
For his part Arpaio has promised to continue chasing illegal immigrants using state laws. In an angry press conference, he called US homeland security officials "liars" and said he would personally drive those caught on the streets to the border if federal officers refused to take arrested illegal immigrants into custody. "I'll take a little trip to the border and turn them over to the border," he said.
Arpaio's critics decried his continued plans to arrest illegal immigrants and said the Obama administration should sever all ties with him.
The now-rescinded authority to conduct field sweeps of illegal immigrants yielded only about 300 out of the roughly 33,000 total arrests of illegal immigrants since 2007, the Obama administration has done little to curtail Arpaio, said Frank Sharry, executive director of immigration reform advocacy group America's Voice.
"He's going to go down in history as a man who terrorised the Latino community for the sake of his own visibility and political popularity," Sharry said. "The fact that the Obama administration would lend any of its legitimacy to any of his activities is surprising and disappointing."
Arpaio was first elected sheriff in 1993.
"The department of homeland security is making a historic mistake if it continues its relationship with Sheriff Joe Arpaio," said Paco Fabian, spokesman for immigration reform advocacy group America's Voice. "The federal government is lending its full force and legitimacy to a rogue cop certain to go down in history as a serial violator of civil rights and an enemy of the Latino community."
An estimated 12 million illegal immigrants live in the US. The federal government is virtually paralysed over how to react, with conservatives like Arpaio calling for the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants and increased border enforcement. Obama, many Democrats and some Republicans call for a system that will allow most to gain legal status after paying a fine and learning English, but reform efforts in 2006 and 2007 withered under sustained rightwing opposition.
More than 60 law enforcement agencies across the country have signed onto the same programme under which local officers are effectively deputised to enforce immigration law. But critics of the programme say it wastes police resources needed to fight street crime, promotes racial profiling of Hispanics, targets peaceful workers, breaks up families and breeds distrust of police among immigrants, who become afraid to report crime for fear they will be asked for immigration papers.
A controversial Arizona sheriff known for taking a hard line against illegal immigrants has been stripped of some of his powers in what he described as a political move by the Obama administration.
Joe Arpaio, a gruff lawman who styles himself as America's toughest sheriff, has won acclaim from US anti-immigrant forces for his relentless pursuit of mostly Hispanic illegal immigrants in Maricopa county, Arizona, a fast-growing county of 4 million people that is home to Phoenix, the nation's fifth largest city.
Arpaio's aggressive tactics include the jailing of illegal immigrants in tent cities surrounded by barbed wire in the middle of Arizona's searingly hot summers, the reduction of meal costs to 20 cents per day, the use of pink jail clothing for men, and chain gangs for women inmates.
Arpaio also came in for criticism when he appeared on the Fox reality show Smile: You're Under Arrest.
Under a two-year-old agreement with the federal department of homeland security, Arpaio and his deputies had been authorised to enforce federal immigration law by arresting suspected illegal immigrants in the field and by checking the immigration status of people arrested on other offences.
But after drawing thousands of complaints and a civil rights investigation from the justice department, Arpaio was this week stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests. County attorney Andrew Thomas, one of Arpaio's supporters, condemned the "setback in the fight against illegal immigration".
For his part Arpaio has promised to continue chasing illegal immigrants using state laws. In an angry press conference, he called US homeland security officials "liars" and said he would personally drive those caught on the streets to the border if federal officers refused to take arrested illegal immigrants into custody. "I'll take a little trip to the border and turn them over to the border," he said.
Arpaio's critics decried his continued plans to arrest illegal immigrants and said the Obama administration should sever all ties with him.
The now-rescinded authority to conduct field sweeps of illegal immigrants yielded only about 300 out of the roughly 33,000 total arrests of illegal immigrants since 2007, the Obama administration has done little to curtail Arpaio, said Frank Sharry, executive director of immigration reform advocacy group America's Voice.
"He's going to go down in history as a man who terrorised the Latino community for the sake of his own visibility and political popularity," Sharry said. "The fact that the Obama administration would lend any of its legitimacy to any of his activities is surprising and disappointing."
Arpaio was first elected sheriff in 1993.
"The department of homeland security is making a historic mistake if it continues its relationship with Sheriff Joe Arpaio," said Paco Fabian, spokesman for immigration reform advocacy group America's Voice. "The federal government is lending its full force and legitimacy to a rogue cop certain to go down in history as a serial violator of civil rights and an enemy of the Latino community."
An estimated 12 million illegal immigrants live in the US. The federal government is virtually paralysed over how to react, with conservatives like Arpaio calling for the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants and increased border enforcement. Obama, many Democrats and some Republicans call for a system that will allow most to gain legal status after paying a fine and learning English, but reform efforts in 2006 and 2007 withered under sustained rightwing opposition.
More than 60 law enforcement agencies across the country have signed onto the same programme under which local officers are effectively deputised to enforce immigration law. But critics of the programme say it wastes police resources needed to fight street crime, promotes racial profiling of Hispanics, targets peaceful workers, breaks up families and breeds distrust of police among immigrants, who become afraid to report crime for fear they will be asked for immigration papers.
Snakes !!!
MIAMI (Reuters) - Burmese pythons and other giant snakes imported as pets could endanger some of America's most important parks and wilderness areas if they are allowed to multiply, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Wildlife experts say the Burmese python is distributed across thousands of square miles (kilometers) in south Florida. There could be tens of thousands in the Everglades, a wildlife refuge that is home to the Florida panther and other endangered species.
The Burmese python and four other non-native snakes -- boa constrictors, yellow anacondas, northern and southern African pythons -- are considered "high-risk" threats to the health of U.S. ecosystems because they eat native birds and animals, the U.S. Geological Survey report said.
Wildlife experts say the Burmese python is distributed across thousands of square miles (kilometers) in south Florida. There could be tens of thousands in the Everglades, a wildlife refuge that is home to the Florida panther and other endangered species.
The Burmese python and four other non-native snakes -- boa constrictors, yellow anacondas, northern and southern African pythons -- are considered "high-risk" threats to the health of U.S. ecosystems because they eat native birds and animals, the U.S. Geological Survey report said.
Friday, October 9, 2009
William Blount High School ban on Confederate flag
Blount County students won't be wearing a Confederate flag at school anytime in the future.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a petition from a group of now-former students at William Blount High School who challenged the dress code four years ago. The students were threatened with suspension if they wore Confederate flag T-shirts.
"They should have listened to it, at least heard (our) side of the story," one of the students, Craig White, told WVLT-TV.
"We were just being called out in what we were wearing, when not one of us were involved in what was going on," said his sister, Nicole White. "So it was just unfair to us."
School officials felt the policy was necessary after several race-related incidents, including:
— A racial fight at a basketball game on Feb. 22, 2005;
— An alleged hit list found on March 23, 2005;
— A school lockdown on April 6, 2005, after a student threatened to shoot several students.
The Confederate flag was never specifically banned in Blount County Schools, said Dr. Jane Morton, the system's communications director and compliance coordinator. Principals can prohibit from their schools clothes and other items that feature divisive symbols such as the Confederate flag and the swastika, she said.
Blount County Director of Schools Rob Britt said he is happy the issue is resolved. "We won at the circuit and district levels, and for the Supreme Court not hearing it, really validates and supports our policy and position."
Blount County administrators have always felt they've interpreted and implemented the school board's policy fairly and consistently in all situations, Morton said. "It's been a learning experience for all of us involved in the case; and it really set a precedent for school administrators on how to implement policy."
Britt said the end of the lawsuit reaffirms the dress code policy, and he hopes it will prevent others from trying to wear the Confederate flag in schools.
"We've always tried to keep the best interests of our students at heart," Morton said.
Arguments continue over the board policy, but Britt said tensions have calmed since 2005.
Similar cases, however, are pending elsewhere. The Confederate flag has been banned as an inflammatory symbol of racism, while flag supporters believe they have a free-speech right to express pride in their Southern heritage.
In August, a federal judge in Knoxville upheld a similar ban on Confederate-themed clothing in the Anderson County school system. The case has been appealed to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in part, based on testimony that racial tensions were low at the plaintiff's school.
Meanwhile, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled last month in favor of a Confederate flag clothing ban in the Latta school system. Flag supporters say they will appeal to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Daily Times 9 oct 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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Friday, August 28, 2009
My friend??
copy of letter:
I am wondering why you don't report about the dating situation in your favorite small town. It seems alot of white girls from prominent families are dating (and having relations with) black boys.
Could it be that your favorite mole's own daughter has been caught up in several of these relationships?
Tell your Buddy "M" that everyone knows he is the gossip and tell him he might want to check on what his own daughter "L" is doing insteading worrying about everybody eles' business.
Oh, and you are so common.
JBP iuy concernedcitizen1984 hotmail com
[the term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life]
I am wondering why you don't report about the dating situation in your favorite small town. It seems alot of white girls from prominent families are dating (and having relations with) black boys.
Could it be that your favorite mole's own daughter has been caught up in several of these relationships?
Tell your Buddy "M" that everyone knows he is the gossip and tell him he might want to check on what his own daughter "L" is doing insteading worrying about everybody eles' business.
Oh, and you are so common.
JBP iuy concernedcitizen1984 hotmail com
[the term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life]
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tall and Short
Little MD is 5ft 4",
His wife is 5ft 9".
Short Doc files divorce from tall wife,
The tall wife beats the shit out of the tiny surgeon and tries to eat him alive.
Tiny Doc has her arrested and she spends two nights in jail.
Her crime is cannibalism of the tiny Doc.
His wife is 5ft 9".
Short Doc files divorce from tall wife,
The tall wife beats the shit out of the tiny surgeon and tries to eat him alive.
Tiny Doc has her arrested and she spends two nights in jail.
Her crime is cannibalism of the tiny Doc.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
He's at it again!
Some folks never learn. At least the idiot I'm referring to doesn't. He's been in an out of jail and in and out of rehabilitation. Somebody is protecting him. Particularly when it comes to footing the bill for the expensive rehabilitation facilities he's attended.
This idiot is going to whack somebody with his car. It might be you or one of your kids. Then the DA and others who protected this guy over the years are going to have long faces and complain that they didn't know the problem was so bad. Is it too early to say there is a cover-up going on? It sures smells that way...
The police know who this guy is and can nail him anytime they want - and his enabler as well. When are they going to do it? He needs to be taken off the streets for good.
For those who are protecting him. You know who you are and everyone else knows who you are as well. Don't let this human tragedy continue. Step up to the plate and do something about it. People will think better of you for it.
Otherwise, your lives could really get complicated.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Stupidity of The Alabama Supreme Court
In a 6-3 decision, the Alabama Supreme Court voted to invalidate the power of city courts. Sure only 592 cases are affected but now because of this ruling there are 592 habitual DUI offenders potentially back on the streets to kill and maim their fellow citizens.
How political was this ruling? Think about it - where do most DUI offenders get caught - Duh - in their home towns. The court has ruled that the threshold for DUI for a certain time frame is a conviction in a state court only. Read the following article and be careful on the roads!
Published in the July 13 Online edition of The Gadsen Times
High Courts DUI Decision is Troubling Sometimes, sticking by the rule of law seems wrong. On Friday the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that convictions in municipal courts for driving under the influence don’t count when determining whether repeat offenders have the four DUI convictions that can send them to state prison.
The law since has been rewritten, but as it stood in 2005, the court said, municipal court convictions didn’t count. State law, the court ruled, cited only state court convictions in determining whether a repeat offender had hit felony status.
We understand that municipal courts don’t handle the same kinds of cases that state courts do in most instances, and it may seem simplistic to say so, but a DUI is a DUI in our minds. The venue of the conviction should not matter.
The Legislature rewrote the law in 2006, making municipal court and out-of-state convictions within the last five years count toward the felony level.
It’s unknown how many of the state’s 592 felony DUI offenders will be affected, but there will certainly be some offenders who gain their freedom because of the ruling. We hope they’ve learned a lesson and don’t repeat their behavior.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Burn the town and sack the banks!
In a little over two weeks, I will be travelling to St. Albans, Vermont. This town was made famous by being the object of the furthermost northern raid of Confederate forces during the Civil War. I will have more to tell after I get there.
The raid is the subject of a book by Carolyn J. Prince entitled: Burn the town and sack the banks.
Also on this trip - if I can get to see him - I plan on meeting with the leader of Vermont's secession movement - Thomas H. Naylor, the leader of the 2nd Vermont Republic.
The Second Vermont Republic has been picking up steam for the past few years with over 13% of Vermont's population wishing to secede from the union.
There is something going on in Vermont and I intend to find out what it is.
To purchase book: Burn the town and sack the banks!
Second Vermont Republic
Saturday, July 5, 2008
La la land
Dog fights,deluded Bible thumpers, meth dealers, child molesters, “queen bee” worshipers, a town so out of touch with the rest of the world that it resembles a lost tribe in Africa – if the shoe fits – then you know who I am taking about.
As the oil rich get richer in this small town, will the town soon be abandoned by an exodus of the rich to escape the poor, but frantic mob, of decent simple folk struggling to get by? Is this already happening? Is Costa Rica the new hiding place for the wealthy? Are the rich so insecure that they are now building walled compounds instead of houses?
People who live in commutable cities now cannot commute. They can't afford the gas.
As things get worse who will be left behind? When will the guns soon be turned on each other?
How soon will it be before golf courses close? A sure sign of things to come... Check out this news item from Florida:
SEBRING — It's hardly a laughing matter, but Sam Timms can't help but let out a nervous chuckle. The sub-par economy and high-priced gas have taken a divot from local golf courses' bottom lines.Read entire article
"We're struggling," said Timms, director of golf at Highlands Ridge in Avon Park. "The reason I laugh is because our company's based out of Orlando, and our bosses were here today going over different numbers and where we obtain play.
"The economy's really affecting those numbers, and people don't realize how much."
Summer is typically a slow season for Highlands County's golf courses: Numbers of tee times and golf outings tend to fall as temperatures and humidity rises.
But $4-a-gallon gasoline has many involved in the local golf industry worried about what kind of hazards lie ahead.
Whats next? I guess we will have to wait and see...
Thursday, July 3, 2008
New Probe of Old Crime
It seems no homicide investigation get so old that it can't be reopened. In Mobile, the case of murdered teen, Katherine Foster, has been reopened by Alabama Attorney General Troy King. With modern DNA testing methods and state of the art forensic science, expect to see a number of questionable homicides reopened soon.
With the public interest so keen on solving old, so-called "solved", and unsolved crimes in the state, Attorney General King will soon be a very busy man.
FLASH! New DNA technique exonerates parents in Jonbenet Ramsey probe. Somebody else did it. A technique known as "touch" DNA was used to eliminate the parents and brother of Jonbenet Ramsey from the investigation into her death. Could this technique also be useful in cases where there is suspicion of multiple suspects? Unless evidence is destroyed this is a possibility. I've always wondered if there was more than one participant in the Stephanie Marie King slaying. "Touch" DNA testing might be a good way to find out.
If you have new information on an old "solved" or unsolved crime - OR if you want to turn yourself in, contact the Alabama Attorney General's Office at 334-242-7300.
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