If someone is wielding a knife at a police officer and they are told to put it down – and instead they go into attack mode…I’d say it’s time for self defense and protection of citizens in the area.
from Chron.com -
LOS ANGELES — Police say at least 100 protesters are throwing eggs, rocks and bottles at a police station in the Westlake neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles, following a bicycle officer’s fatal shooting of a knife-wielding man.
[...]
Beck said the Sunday incident started when someone flagged down three bicycle officers to tell them a man was threatening people with a knife.
The officers approached the suspect and told him in Spanish and English to put down the knife, Beck said. Instead, Jamines raised the knife above his head and lunged at Officer Frank Hernandez, a 13-year veteran of the department.
An 8-year-old girl who was jumping rope Tuesday night with her friends outside in Chicago’s far South Side was killed by two gunmen who rode up on bicycles and opened fire.
The tragedy is just the latest in a recent spate of high-profile shootings to hit the city, many of them involving young victims.
Thugs shooting murdering precious children as if they are part of a game at a carnival show. There couldn’t have been any thought that these were living, breathing beings…just beginning their lives.
Would you ever have believed that the United States of America has a “serious problem with human trafficking?” Well, believe it.
from NPR -
This year, for the first time ever, the U.S. included itself in the State Department’s annual report on human trafficking. The report said the U.S. has a serious problem with human trafficking — a practice they call the equivalent of modern-day slavery, including commercial sex exploitation and forced labor — as a source country, and as a destination for victims.
One commenter on Ynet News says, “Hell must be a relief for these poor little girls.” Strong words (although they are not “little girls,” one was married at 14 and is now 19). Many would believe they are in a living hell. Let’s forget for a minute (if we can) about the form of execution and just start with the punishment fitting the crime. In some cases there has already been lashing and years of imprisonment.
Maryam Ghorbanzadeh was recently convicted of adultery and although she is pregnant, was sentenced by an Islamic court to death by stoning.
However, given her condition, there is a chance the sentence would be changed into death by hanging, which is the customary method of execution in Iran.
[...]
Held at the Tabriz prison alongside Ghorbanzadeh is Azhar Bakri, 19, who was also sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery.
Bakri was jailed four years ago after her husband, whom she married at 14, accused her of having an extramarital affair. According to various reports, she has suffered massive abuse by the guards.
I still get shivers up my spine when I think back to this time in in history…Charles Manson and “his women.” How nice Leslie Van Houten is a “mentor” to other women in prison. How nice…
from CNN -
California’s parole board Tuesday refused to release onetime Manson family acolyte Leslie Van Houten, finding the 60-year-old remains dangerous more than four decades after the group’s Southern California murder spree.
The board found that Van Houten “still poses a risk to society,” spokesman Luis Patino said. The decision marks the 19th time that she has been denied parole, and she won’t be eligible again until 2013, Patino said.
There always seems to besome warning of some type of revolution on the horizon. Here’s a new one. I don’t know if I would call it a “revolution.”
Is it a bird? Is it a plane (well, sort of…how about a drone…on U.S. soil)?
In the coming years, law enforcement agencies will seek to useUAVs to police borders, control crowds, track criminals, detect illegal narcotics activities, and spot crime. Other potential civilian uses include mineral and energy exploration, agricultural surveys, communications relay, and wildfire monitoring. The revolution is coming.
from Social Science Research Network, Rapp, Geoffrey Christopher, Unmanned Aerial Exposure: Civil Liability Concerns Arising from Domestic Law Enforcement Employment of Unmanned Aerial Systems. North Dakota Law Review, Vol. 85, pp. 623-648, 2010; University of Toledo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-08
It’s been said before, and we’re being warned again …
In May it was reported Hezbollah may be using Mexican drug routes to the U.S. for drug trafficking.
from the Washington Times -
The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America’s tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S.
Hezbollah relies on “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels,” said Michael Braun, who just retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Friday, we were warned once again by Rep. Sue Myrick, R-NC a member of the House Intelligence Committee, that Hezbollah may be at our border and members of these cartels have been reported to be influenced by Iran and sponsored by none other than Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
from Ynet News -
“It is vital we know what is happening on our border, especially as crime and violence continue to rise there and as terrorist plots and threats are increasing inside the US,” she [Myrick]wrote.
[...]
In her appeal to Napolitano, Myrick quoted a senior Mexican army official who says Hezbollah agents may even be training cartel members to make bombs. “This might lead to Israel-like car bombings of Mexican/USA border personnel or National Guard units,” she said.
Corporal punishment is lawful as a sentence for crime. The administration of justice is based on Sharia law, in which the prescribed penalty for a hadd offence is mandatory. Flogging is mandatory for a number of offences, and can be used at the discretion of judges as an alternative or in addition to other punishments. Sentences range from dozens to thousands of lashes, and are usually carried out in instalments, at intervals ranging from two weeks to one month. The Code of Criminal Procedure (2001) states that an arrested person “shall not be subjected to any bodily or moral harm” or to “any torture or degrading treatment” (article 2). The Act promulgated in A. H. 1389 (1969) encourages juvenile courts to settle cases without placing children in supervised facilities and to limit penalties to admonishment, guidance, counselling or a reprimand, but under the Juvenile Justice Act of A. H. 1395 (1975) young persons under 18 may be sentenced to corporal punishment, including flogging, stoning and amputation. The Law of Criminal Procedure states that the king or his representative must ratify sentences of amputation and flogging (article 220).
So that would explain why a minor would receive 80 lashes for mingling and talking with 3 other women and 11 men at a a party. The other party-goers received flogging and prison terms.
from Ynet News -
Judicial officials say a Saudi court has convicted four women and 11 men for mingling at a party and sentenced them to flogging and prison terms.
The men, who are between 30 and 40 years old, and three of the women, who are under the age of 30, were sentenced to an unspecified number of lashes and one or two year prison terms each.
You like potato and I like potahto, You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto, Let’s call the whole thing off
“Unauthorized.”
Sorry, I just can’t…they are illegal immigrants.
A locked refrigerated truck was found to be holding 48 illegal immigrants at a Laredo Customs and Border checkpoint. Well, thank goodness for the dog at the checkpoint that was able to detect the illegals crammed in the trailer. If not, who knows if they would be alive. The driver, 72 year-old Wayne West, at first denied knowing what cargo he was carrying. Hmpf…
from San Antiono Express-News -
The trailer was refrigerated, according to Russell Jordan, West’s attorney, and all those in the trailer declined medical treatment, immigration officials said. They were turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
[...]
The immigrants were from Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador, said Nina Pruneda, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
