It’s almost been 8years since the plot to sink either the USS Sullivans or the USS Cole was set in motion. For many time doesn’t matter. Families for the USS Cole victims have tried to meet with President Bush to get him to take action, but after 8 years President Bush refuses to take action against the plotters or to even meet with the families of the USS Cole or its survivors. One would think that if nothing else the photo opportunity would be worthy, but not President Bush.
They’re heeeeeeeeere…..
In House Judiciary Committee testimony, Mueller was asked about cells of Al Qaida in the country.
“As to your first question as to whether we have found affiliates or, as you would call them, cells of Al Qaida in the United States, yes, we have. Again, I cannot get into it in public session, but I would say yes, we have.”
Perhaps President Obama will ask his FBI Director who they are so he can invite them to the White House to talk? You know, like FDR did to Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo.
This research and investigation comes from very frustrated, but dedicated people monitoring the rise of militant Islam (though history shows no other form) in the West. They are well researched, informed, and as expected, the West is ignoring them. In essence, these Islamists are well funded, entrenched, and now politically coddled groups within the United States and Canada. They are also deadly with a long history of attacks against “infidels” of all stripes.
From the New English Review
Jamaat ul-Fuqra
“The best positioned group to help al-Qaeda launch an attack in the US.”
by Jerry Gordon
Wall Street Journalist Danny Pearl was on his way to a meeting with Jamaat ul-Fuqra (JF) founder, Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani in Lahore, Pakistan on January 22, 2002. He was on the hunt for al Qaeda connections when he was abducted and slaughtered by Islamic Extremist and British citizen, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.
Were there any connections between the shadowy Sheik Gilani and the murder of Pearl? Pakistani authorities had Gilani jailed and later put under house arrest. Given the turmoil in that country, we may never know the extent of his involvement.
What we do know is that since the founding of JF, or the “community of the impoverished,” by Gilani in 1980, a network of 45 paramilitary training camps in the US and Canada have been created. The group here in the US has committed attacks and robberies, acquired contraband arms, engaged in counterfeit activities, and proselytized effectively among Afro-American prison inmates. JF members participated in the 1993 terror bombing of the World Trade Center.
JF seeks to “purify Islam” through violence.
What is of great concern is that federal and state law enforcement authorities have investigated and monitored JF and its front group Muslims of the Americas (MoA) and delisted the group as a terrorist organization. Nor has the IRS taken away MoA’s charitable tax exempt status.
Sadly, throughout the years on the department I’ve been to dozens of funerals for fellow law enforcement personnel who have given their lives for the job, for the community, and for those who work beside them. It’s been 17 days since Officer Randy Simmons from the LAPD was killed making entry into a house to capture a barricaded suspect who had killed his own family. His was the first combat death on the SWAT team since its inception, which is remarkable if you think about it, but not surprising. They train constantly and are the cream of the crop on their department.
Jack Dunphy writes a great article today about his passing and the funeral, including the Gates story you may have heard about already:
It was a funeral befitting a great man: 10,000 mourners packed into the biggest church they could find, poignant eulogies, glorious music, a grand procession through a grateful city to a final resting place amid rolling hills and a view to the sea, all of it carried live on television. Sadly, it was only after Randy Simmons was killed that most of us came to learn just how great he was. Read the rest of this entry »
So a kid walks into a college campus and guns down a half dozen people who had been forced to forfeit their lives because the state will not allow them to protect themselves, and what does Obama say about it?
Before speaking to a rally here, Obama said the nation must do a “more effective job of enforcing our gun laws, strengthening our background check system, being able to trace guns that are used in violent crimes to unscrupulous gun dealers — so that we can crack down on them — closing gun show loopholes.”
Obama said he believes in the Second Amendment, but that there is plenty of room for added gun regulations. “There is an individual right to bear arms, but it’s subject to commonsense regulation,” he said.
What a sad story, but in this instance the sentence fit the crime:
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded a couple convicted of torturing to death a nine-year-old girl, including burning her with a red-hot spoon and beating her with a metal pipe, the interior ministry said.
Saudi Nashat Haji, 32, was beheaded by the sword for murdering his daughter, Khosoun, said a ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
We Americans (at least most of us) believe that God gives all human beings certain inalienable rights, that everyone is created equal, and that among these rights are the right to live, to live in a government that derides its power from the consent of the people, and the right to pursue our own happiness. These rights do not just belong to people who are lucky enough to have been born to legal citizens of the U.S. living between two great oceans, S of Canada, and N of Mexico. They are rights that belong to all human beings.
Sometimes, some Americans can lose that perspective. They can blow off the tyranny and terror that is cast upon other human beings as a means of influencing our own political will (recall that war is defined as one nation imposing its political and/or economic will upon another through violent means).
Perhaps this recollection of last week’s events in the war against Islamic holy warriors will make those people remember that those rights mentioned earlier are not American rights, but human rights. The following events really did happen last week:
Now, I dunno if these master criminals are brainiacs or Clinton campaign operatives or what their political leanings are. I have no idea. I don’t even know if their really guilty-though it does look like it was just a couple of guys who had too much beer (perhaps drowning their sorrows at either Fred Thompson or Dennis Kucinich leaving Presidential campaign politics in the wind). It doesn’t even sound like the damage was worth noting.
What is very Very VERY clear is that this story is not getting the press coverage that one might envision were the subject of the break in:
Bill and Hillary’s campaign headquarters or
Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign headquarters.
Drunk, Stoned, Hip Hop Thugs Responsible for Friend and Tiger’s Death!
I Miss the Tiger!
Even though it appears that the official police investigation is ongoing, we know have a clearer idea of what happened on Christmas Day at the San Francisco Zoo that left one young man and a beautiful 4 year old Siberian Tiger dead.
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Dr. Walter Williams wrote an excellent editorial a few days ago about the silence from the black leaders and the MSM about black on white crimes. He describes how the Duke case generated a huge wave of media reports and condemnation from black leaders but it all turned out to be a hoax. He describes the James Byrd murder in 98 which was used in attempts to derail Bush’s first Presidential run, they said he didn’t support hate crime legislation. Problem was that two suspects were sentenced to death and the third to life. Sounds like punishment to me.
But have you heard of the Christian and Newsom murders? If you read blogs you may well have, but to all those who rely on the dinosaur media to give you your news your fresh out of luck. They have virtually ignored the crime, along with the black leaders:
According to a 46-count indictment, suspects Darnell Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, George Thomas and Vanessa Coleman, all blacks, are charged with committing rape, including sodomy against Christian and Newsom, both of whom are white. After being raped, Newsom was shot several times and his body was found burned along nearby railroad tracks. Christian was forced to witness her boyfriend’s rape, torture and subsequent murder before she was ultimately raped, tortured and murdered. The police discovered her body inside a large trash can in the kitchen of the home where the murders took place. Before disposing of her body, the murderers poured bleach or some other cleaning agent down her throat in an effort to destroy DNA evidence. Trial dates have been set for next May.What have we heard from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others who rushed to judgment and outrage as they condemned whites in the cases of the “Jena 6″ and Don Imus when he referred to the Rutgers ladies basketball team as “nappy-headed ho’s”? Where were the national news media and public officials? You can bet the rent money that were the victims black and the perpetrators white, Knoxville would have been inundated with TV crews, with Jackson, Sharpton and other civil rights spokesmen and politicians from both parties condemning racism, possibly blaming it all on George Bush.
How about the Wichita Massacre in 2000? Heard about that crime? No? Shocker:
Those four were raped and murdered by Reginald and Jonathan Carr after a home invasion robbery:
At about 11 PM on the freezing cold night of December 14, 2000, Reginald Carr, 23, and Jonathan Carr, 20, invaded the home of three young Wichita men who had two female guests. The Carr Brothers forced all of them to strip naked. They beat the men and raped the women.In addition to repeatedly raping the women, the Carr Brothers have been found guilty of forcing them to perform sexual acts on each other, sodomizing one of them, and forcing the three male victims to perform sex acts with each of the women. Then the Carr Brothers robbed them and brutally murdered four of them.
According to a lone survivor’s horrifying pre-trial testimony, after sexually tormenting them, the Carr Brothers took the friends individually to an ATM machine and forced them to withdraw as much cash as possible. Then, the Carr Brothers transported their naked victims to a remote soccer field and forced them to kneel in the snow before shooting them execution-style in the head, and then running them over with a truck. After leaving their victims for dead, the Carr Brothers returned to the men’s apartment and stole appliances, bedding, and china.
Both brothers were found guilty and sentenced to death. But where was the media? Court TV declined to even carry the trial, verdict, or sentencing on their channel instead opting to give a few updates.
Remind me, where was Court TV during the Duke case?
Yup, they were camped out at Duke 24/7 during the whole bogus story.
Dr. Williams ends his piece with a warning:
The failure of civil rights leaders, people like Jackson and Sharpton, as well as politicians to vocally condemn black-on-white crime — and the relative silence of the news media in reporting it — is not simply a matter of double standards. It’s dangerous, for it contributes to a pile of racial kindling awaiting a racial arsonist to set it ablaze. I can’t think of better recruitment gifts for America’s racists, either white or black.
Take us back a hundred years and you will find the MSM of the time, along with the white leaders, ignoring the white on black crime that went on. Is this where we are at now in reverse?
Is it because they are afraid to insult the black culture? Times are screwy when Whoopi Goldberg will defend Michael Vick’s crimes because “it’s part of black culture” but many in the black community will rail against Bill Crosby for telling the black youth to get their acts straightened out.
I’m not sure if this is part of the whole liberal victimhood saga or some other deeper problem inside our MSM, but as Dr. Williams noted, if not fixed “it contributes to a pile of racial kindling awaiting a racial arsonist to set it ablaze.”
I was up in the Bay Area yesterday when news broke out that a tiger at the San Francisco zoo has gotten loose and killed a visitor before the cops arrived and killed the sucker.
Leigh Lawson stands in front of
the San Francisco Zoo on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, protesting the
killing of a Siberian tiger that killed one person and injured two
others on Christmas Day. Police officers shot the tiger after it
escaped from its enclosure and attacked the three visitors. Lawson,
picketing alone, outside the zoo Wednesday afternoon, says she wishes
officers had tranquilized the animal instead.
To which I say, “what took so long?” I mean this is San Francisco and the nuts run rampant there.
The sad part? She wasn’t there in memoriam for the 17 year old who was killed. No, she was there to protest the “excessive” force used by the police.
It takes all kinds.
UPDATE
A lively discussion going on in the comment section, check it out. Also, lots of new information out today:
The last minutes of a 17-year-old boy’s life were spent trying to save his friend from the tiger that was mauling him at the San Francisco Zoo, only to have the animal turn on him, police and family members said.Carlos Sousa Jr. and his friend’s brother desperately tried to distract the 350-pound Siberian tiger, but the big cat instead came after Sousa.
“He didn’t run. He tried to help his friend, and it was him who ended up getting it the worst,” the teen’s father, Carlos Sousa Sr., said Thursday after meeting with police.
The heroic portrait of Sousa and a timeline of the dramatic Christmas Day attack emerged as officials revealed that the tiger’s escape from its enclosure may have been aided by walls that were well below the height recommended by the accrediting agency for the nation’s zoos.
San Francisco Zoo Director Manuel A. Mollinedo acknowledged that the wall around the animal’s pen was just 12½ feet high, after previously saying it was 18 feet. According to the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, the walls around a tiger exhibit should be at least 16.4 feet high.
Mollinedo said it was becoming increasingly clear the tiger leaped or climbed out, perhaps by grabbing onto a ledge. Investigators have ruled out the theory the tiger escaped through a door behind the exhibit at the zoo, which remained closed Friday
~~~After interviewing the brothers, police said Kulbir Dhaliwal was the animal’s first victim.
As the tiger clawed and bit him, Sousa and the younger brother yelled in hopes of scaring it off him, police said. The cat then went for Sousa, slashing his neck as the brothers ran to a zoo cafe for help.
After killing the teenager, the tiger followed a trail of blood left by Kulbir Dhaliwal about 300 yards to the cafe, where it mauled both men, police said.
Four officers who had already discovered Sousa’s body then arrived and found the cat sitting next to one of the bloodied brothers, police Chief Heather Fong said. The victim yelled, “Help me! Help me!” and the animal resumed its attack, Fong said.
The officers used their patrol car lights to distract the tiger, and it turned and began approaching them, leading all four to open fire, she said.
~~~
On Thursday, Fong denied earlier reports that police were looking into the possibility that the victims had dangled a leg or other body part over the edge of the moat, after a shoe and blood was found inside the enclosure. No shoe was found inside, but a shoeprint was found on the railing of the fence surrounding the enclosure, and police are checking it against the shoes of the three victims, she said.
I’m still highly doubtful that the tiger just decided to jump out for no reason but it appears a bit of disinformation was spread about the shoe being found in the enclosure.
Now this is just wonderful. The lefties have succeeded in saving the life of a man who raped and killed a seven year old. They should all be so proud:
The man who raped and killed 7-year-old Megan Kanka — the 1994 crime that
inspired “Megan’s Law” — is one of eight men whose sentences were commuted to
life in prison this week as part of New Jersey’s new ban on execution.The Garden State on Monday became the first state in more than three decades
to abolish the death penalty after a commission ruled the punishment is
“inconsistent with evolving standards of decency.”
Gov. Jon Corzine the day before commuted the sentences of eight men sitting
on the state’s death row. They will now serve life in prison without parole,
according to the governor’s office.Among the eight is Jesse Timmendequas, 46, who was sentenced to death in June
1997 for Megan’s murder.Prosecutors said Timmendequas lured Megan to his home by saying he wanted to
show her a puppy. He then raped her, beat her and strangled her with a belt. A
day later, he led police to her body.“Megan’s Law,” introduced after her death, requires that authorities notify
neighbors when a sex offender moves into an area. Timmendequas had twice been
convicted of sex crimes — on 5- and 7-year-olds — before he murdered Megan.
Now the Kanka family will receive no justice and this monster will be allowed to live out his days on the taxpayers dime for many years to come. That is if the Democrats (or a Republican like Huckabee) don’t allow him out someday, feeling sorry for him as he gets older and all.
How about these other families:
Marilyn Flax often visits her husband Irving’s graveside to tell him what they’ve missed together since he was kidnapped and murdered in 1989 by New Jersey death row inmate John Martini.She also often contemplates Martini sitting in a Trenton prison where he gets daily recreation periods and can chat with other death row inmates.
“How can I ever forget the day that John Martini kidnapped and shot my husband three times in the back of the head?” Flax asked. “I will also never forget the last words my husband said, in a terrifying, piercing voice, ‘Give them the money. They are going to kill me.’ “
Flax recalled those words as she fumed over plans by New Jersey lawmakers to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life in prison, without parole. The plan was approved by the Senate on Monday and the Assembly on Thursday and is scheduled to be signed into law Monday by Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a death penalty foe.
~~~Flax called the legislative process a “three-ring circus of half-truths, lies and illusions.
“The agenda was preset,” said Richard Kanka, whose 7-year-old daughter Megan was killed in 1994 by a released sex offender, prompting nationwide community notification laws. “The outcome was predictable.”
Sharon Hazard-Johnson, whose parents were killed in their Pleasantville home in 2001 by death row inmate Brian Wakefield, emphasized to lawmakers that nobody on New Jersey’s death row has been found to be innocent.
“That’s proof that the system works,” she said.
In the end this may not be that big of a deal since New Jersey, being a completely corrupt and wacky state, has allowed unlimited appeals and have not executed one scumbag since the 60’s. So whats the point?
But for those who pine away for these killers and tell us that life without parole is good enough, tell that to the families of Bryon Schletewitz, Josephine Rocha, and Douglas White.
Clarence Ray Allen, who is scheduled for execution at San Quentin
State Prison on Tuesday, is living proof that a convicted killer can
snuff out the lives of innocent people from behind bars. In 1977, Allen
began serving a life sentence for the murder of his son’s 17-year-old
girlfriend — her punishment for confessing to a victim robbed by the
Allen gang. Allen then concocted a scheme he thought would set him free
– file an appeal, kill the witnesses, then walk after a re-trial with
no witnesses to testify against him.Toward that end, Allen provided fellow inmate Billy Ray Hamilton
with a list of eight names of witnesses before Hamilton was paroled. In
1980, Hamilton murdered Bryon Schletewitz, 27, an Allen witness, along
with two innocent teenagers (Josephine Rocha and Douglas White) who
worked at the Schletewitz family store, which the Allen gang had
robbed. Authorities later found the list of Allen witnesses and letters
Allen sent to a son about his plan.Juries sentenced Allen and Hamilton to death, and issued life
sentences for two accomplices. “Given the nature of Allen’s crimes,”
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw wrote in a ruling that
denied an Allen appeal, “sentencing him to another life term would
achieve none of the traditional purposes underlying punishment:
incapacitation, deterrence, retribution or rehabilitation.”
Somehow, I think the fact that these monsters get lwop instead of death won’t matter much to many victims families.
UPDATE
This should make you feel more at ease about allowing the worst of the worst to stick around:
Two inmates escaped from a county jail, hiding the holes they made in the walls by putting up photos of bikini-clad women, officials said.Authorities searched over the weekend for Jose Espinosa, who was awaiting sentencing for manslaughter, and Otis Blunt, who was facing robbery and other charges. They also launched a review of jail security.
The two got out of the Union County jail Saturday evening. The county prosecutor’s office said the two apparently removed cement blocks from two walls, squeezed through the openings, jumped to a rooftop below and then made it over a 25-foot-high fence. The section they escaped from was supposed to be the most secure area of the facility.
Michelle Malkin links to Ted Frank’s blog, OverLawyered, who looked over the gang-rape case against KBR and came away a bit skeptical, as I was and still am:
In February 2006, Jamie Leigh Jones filed an arbitration complaint,
complaining that, for her administrative assistant job with KBR in Iraq, she was
placed in an all-male dorm for living arrangements, and a co-worker sexually
assaulted her. (KBR says the co-worker claimed the sex was consensual, though
Jones claims physical injuries, such as burst breast implants and torn pectoral
muscles, that are plainly not consistent with consensual sex. The EEOC’s Letter
of Determination credited the allegation of sexual assault.)Fifteen months later, after extensive discovery in the arbitration, Jones,
who lives in Houston, and whose lawyer is based in Houston, and who worked for
KBR in Houston, sued KBR and a bunch of other entities (including Halliburton,
for whom she never worked, and the United States), in federal court in Beaumont,
Texas. The claims were suddenly of much more outrageous conduct: the original
allegation of a single he-said/she-said sexual assault was now an allegation of
gang rape by several unknown John Doe rapists who worked as firemen (though she
did make a claim of multiple rape to the EEOC, though it is unclear when that
claim was made); she claims that after she reported the rape, “Halliburton
locked her in a container” (the EEOC found that KBR provided immediate medical
treatment and safety and shipped her home immediately) and she threw in an
allegation that a “sexual favor” she provided a supervisor in Houston was the
result of improper “influence.” (But she no longer makes the implausible claim
that she was living in an all-male dorm in Iraq.)The US got the claim dismissed quickly (Jones hasn’t yet followed the
appropriate administrative claims procedure); the case was transferred back to
Houston where it belonged (the trial lawyer’s ludicrous brief in opposition
didn’t help). But the fact that the defendants are pointing out that the lawsuit
over a pending arbitration violates 28 U.S.C. § 1927 and are asking for the
court to mandate only one single proceeding in arbitration rather than a
multiplicity of parallel proceedings, is now being treated as a cause célèbre by
the left-wing blogosphere in its campaign against the contractual freedom to
arbitrate. (Note that two elements explicitly designed to arouse the ire and
inflame the passions of the left–Halliburton and gang-rape–only came about after
Jones switched attorneys.)~~~
People with legitimate claims usually don’t have lawyers trying so
desperately to forum-shop that they file amateurish briefs like this, and Jones
loses a ton of credibility with me over that. At a minimum, Jones’s story has
changed over time, and has gotten considerably more lurid.
As I said in the beginning, if the case turns out to be true then off with the heads of those who raped her. My regular readers understand I have no problem with waterboarding so hell, waterboard the eff out of them. But….and this is a big but….the whole case smells. Her stories have changed multiple times, she has a website and a foundation and freaking marketing director for gods sake.
Supposedly evidence was collected and then given over to the company responsible for the rape….huh?
Then read through all of the work Ted Frank did at Overlawyered above and tell me that the case doesn’t seem screwy?
But just as I wrote in my first post, I will give her the benefit of the doubt…for now. As will Ted:
Of course, more facts could come to light that change my mind in either
direction. There’s already been a lot of discovery, but Jones’s papers in court
seem to focus on me-too evidence (that should eventually be held to be
inadmissible) rather than evidence related to Jones. I’d love to see the pending
motions for summary judgment in the arbitration that led Jones to file a second
lawsuit.And one hopes Jones realizes that she’s being used by attorneys who are
pursuing their own agenda to promote the litigation lobby’s pet
anti-consumer/pro-lawyer legislation. The shenanigans of bringing a second
lawsuit and suing the irrelevant Halliburton are not helping her case if she has
a legitimate one.
Is she getting screwed over by the lawyers? Could be. But are her changing stories the work of her lawyers?
I’m sure many of you will recall the Philadelphia incident some 20 years ago where they dropped a bomb on a housing complex to get some members of the terrorist organization MOVE to surrender. Didn’t work out so well. Burned many houses and killed the members. The city paid dearly for that one.
But what you may not remember is how MOVE came to be, and the fact that they killed a police officer three years prior to Mumia killing Daniel Faulkner.
Tony Allen, a former MOVE member who left the organization in 2004 has now devoted his life to outing the criminals inside MOVE and to debunking the Mumia cult. He gives a quick rundown on MOVE:
1973. Handy-man,Vincent Lephart (who would later change his name to John Africa) met a college professor named Donald Glassey. Glassey was impressed by Lephart’s anti-society philosophy and agreed to write them down.These writings would turn into the “Guidelines,” which would become the bible of the MOVE cult. The two men would hold “rap-sessions” that would attract diverse audiences and discuss Lephart’s views. Some of those in attendance to these meetings would become the first members of MOVE.
Accounts vary about his group’s original name. Some said it was Community Action Movement; while others said it was the American Christian Movement for Life. Regardless, the name was soon shortened and capitalized to MOVE.
The charismatic Leaphart, whose IQ was measured at 89 and who was considered to be “orthogenically retarded” before he dropped out of public school, began calling himself John Africa. All other MOVE members adopted the last name “Africa,” signifying that they were members of a common family.
Before long, MOVE’s outlandish, and sometimes violent behavior divided the liberal and tolerant Powelton Village community. The group’s supporters stated that they were being harassed by the police; critics viewed them as a nihilistic cult that existed to disrupt and, in more than a few cases, physically attack those who disagreed with it.
1973. In May, MOVE members bought half of an apartment building at 33d and Pearl Streets in Powelton Village and later took over the other half after allegedly threatening the owner’s life.
1973-1976. MOVE members initiated hundreds of demonstrations against any and everything. These vulgar demonstrations would often escalate into violence and MOVE members would often be arrested and routinely convicted on numerous charges. Much to the dismay of neighbors and city health inspectors, the group erected an eight foot high barricade around their headquarters and erected other types of fortification around the compound.
March 28, 1976. There is a large brawl between Philadelphia Police who responded to noise complaints at the MOVE compound. MOVE claimed that in the encounter that a three week old child was killed. They declined to allow for an autopsy on the child and later a former member of the group would admit that the child had died “naturally” and that MOVE had chosen to use the baby’s death for “propaganda” against the police.
MAY 20, 1977. A half-dozen MOVE members, some wearing khaki uniforms, brandished shotguns, rifles, pistols, and wooden clubs from atop the barricade after the courts gave L&I inspectors the go-ahead to enter the MOVE property.
“Don’t attempt to enter MOVE headquarters or harm MOVE people unless you want an international incident,” MOVE declares in a written statement. “We are prepared to hit reservoirs, empty hotels and apartment houses, close factories and tie up traffic in major cities of Europe. The statement was signed with the chemical formulas for nitroglycerine and TNT.
Later on that year, John Africa and several of his disciples were indicted on federal weapons and conspiracy charges after the ATF uncovered 41 bombs from the property of a MOVE member’s relative.
AUG. 8, 1978. Police moved against the Powelton compound, after MOVE failed to abide by the terms of a previous deal ending the blockade around their headquarters. MOVE members told the police that “A lot of your wives will be wearing black tonight.”
MOVE members open fired and veteran police Officer James J. Ramp was shot dead at age 52. Three other officers and four firefighters were wounded. No MOVE members were killed in the assault, but one, Delbert Africa, was brutally attacked when he climbed out of the water-filled basement.After the longest and most expensive criminal trial up until that time, nine MOVE members - five men, four women - were convicted of third-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 30-100 years in prison each.
There is plenty more history on the webpage, including the fact that witnesses have been killed prior to later trials against MOVE members. But what concerns me now is that in August members of this group will be up for parole for the first time. Tony has started a petition:
James Ramp was killed by people who have never once acknowledged the crime to which they have committed, never apologized to the family they left devastated, never once told the truth about the situation. And to add insult to injury, they defile his memory by claiming that the bullet that ended his life was one fired from a fellow officer.And just as absurd as it is to think that these MOVE members will breath the free air, it should go without saying that one of those sent to jail for the killing is already free. This August she was observed screaming around the city “Free The MOVE 9″. She is still unrepentant, still a devotee of the cult of death that murdered James Ramp and still a murderer. But yet she is free to do as she wishes, while Officer Ramp is free only to lay in his grave.
In an effort to demonstrate to the parole board the resistance to the release of the “MOVE 9″, I started a petition that to date has garnered nearly 2,000 signatures. I have set a goal of 10,000 to send to the parole board around June or July.
Tony has found out that the PA Parole Board do not take into account the concerns of individuals except those directly affected by the crime. The concerns of the community in which these people would be paroled to have no weight.
However, I would have to think on a personal level that if inundated by letters and presented with thousands of signatures, that such an outpouring of outrage would have to affect the decision of the parole board. That the board has already let out one of the murderers of James Ramp is vile enough, to unleash eight more is unconscionable and must be stopped.
So, after signing the petition, please take the time to write a letter to the parole board. These scum should never see the light of day
Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole
1101 South Front Street, Suite 5100
Harrisburg, PA 17104-2517
(717) 787-5699
I agree with Rusty on this one. This rape story seems just too movie like for me. It’s sad but since the Duke case we should be a tad more
skeptical when the alphabet media come up with these rape stories.
Remember the outrage that occurred when Duke first hit the news. Everyone was aghast and calling for the students heads. Problem was that the whole thing was a lie.
So I’m withholding judgment on this one for now. If it turns out to be true tho then off with their heads:
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR
coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are
covering up the incident.Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by
multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under
guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she
left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.“Don’t plan on working back in Iraq. There won’t be a position here,
and there won’t be a position in Houston,” Jones says she was told.In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its
then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container
for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed
security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.
You have the devil company itself involved, you have a cover-up involved, you have political intrigue involved and as Rusty said “throw in a crusading lawyer
using civil law to find justice when criminal courts have let the
victim down and you have the perfect John Grisham book.”
Tooooo perfect. They even have a beautifully done website and a foundation all set up.
This part of the story raised my suspicions a bit:
Jones told ABCNews.com… that an examination by Army doctors showed she had been raped “both vaginally and anally,” but that the rape kit disappeared after it was handed over to KBR security officers.
I’m sorry, I don’t buy that at all. Why in the world would the Army hand over criminal evidence to the company involved in the crime?
Doesn’t make sense.
Then these evil men threatened her if she talked. Did they threaten her with death? A beating? You know, because they are evil and all I would expect that. But no, they threaten her with her job. They really thought that she would care about her job with a company that was involved in her rape?
But you do have a Congressman involved in getting her rescued so the believability index goes up a bit.
Benefit of the doubt goes to her…..for now.
UPDATE
Another reason to be suspicious. From her journal:
August 18-2007- I optioned my
story to be written for a screenplay. The screenplay is currently in
development and is being written by Tom Whitus.
This lady want justice or publicity? And she has a marketing director!
