The Audacity of Harangue

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That’s exactly what it was yes­ter­day and today with “Pres­i­dent” Obama and “President” Felipe Calderon of Mex­ico, regard­ing ille­gal immi­gra­tion and the Ari­zona anti–ille­gal immi­gra­tion law.  (That’s what it is, folks — NOT anti-immigration.)

Obama said this:  “We’re exam­in­ing any impli­ca­tions espe­cially for civil rights because in the United States of Amer­ica, no law abid­ing per­son — be they an Amer­i­can cit­i­zen, ille­gal immi­grant, or a vis­i­tor or tourist from Mex­ico — should ever be sub­ject to sus­pi­cion sim­ply because of what they look like.”

And Calderon said this:  “We are and will con­tinue to be respect­ful of the inter­nal poli­cies of the United States and its legit­i­mate right to estab­lish, in accor­dance to its Con­sti­tu­tion, what­ever laws it approves,” he said, “But we will retain our firm rejec­tion to crim­i­nal­ized migra­tion so that peo­ple that work and pro­vide things to this nation would be treated as criminals.”

Crim­i­nal­ized migra­tionCRIMINALIZED MIGRATION????  It’s ILLEGAL to come into this coun­try with­out the proper pro­ce­dure and papers.  HEY OBAMA — I have a news flash for you:  A per­son, if they’re com­ing into this coun­try ille­gally, is NOT a law-abiding per­son!!  This law passed by Ari­zona, S.B. 1070, re-affirms what is in our fed­eral law, and does NOT dis­crim­i­nate NOR encour­age racial pro­fil­ing.  It is quite appar­ent that no one that has come out crit­i­ciz­ing this law (i.e. Eric Holder, Janet Napoli­tano, Obama, Calderon, etc.) has actu­ally read said law.  Do your­self a favor before mak­ing an ass out of your­self:  READ THE $@%& LAW!!

I stand by Ari­zona, and from now on I will buy every­thing I can that is made there.  I will sup­port this state whole­heart­edly, and I am hope­ful that my own state and other states will fol­low suit soon.  As per the United States Con­sti­tu­tion, “The Con­gress shall have Power To lay and col­lect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and pro­vide for the com­mon Defence and gen­eral Wel­fare of the United States”.  Also, “The pow­ers not del­e­gated to the United States by the Con­sti­tu­tion, nor pro­hib­ited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respec­tively, or to the peo­ple.”  The right to secure the bor­der of the State is not pro­hib­ited by the Constitution.

Oh, and another thing:  The AUDACITY of our so-called Pres­i­dent, allow­ing noth­ing but a glo­ri­fied drug dealer to address OUR Con­gress, is despicable. S.B. 1070 is noth­ing but a re-statement of the FEDERAL LAW, which Obama and his pre­de­ces­sors have FAILED to uphold, giv­ing the Ari­zona law enforce­ment the abil­ity to ENFORCE the law. I’m so sick and tired of our topsy-turvy gov­ern­ment. Obama’s speech with Calderon yes­ter­day was sedi­tious, and he ought to be thrown out on his..err, ears. It’s high time Obama be impeached for his crimes against the United States.

Some def­i­n­i­tions for you:

Harangue:  a scold­ing or a long or intense ver­bal attack; diatribe.

Ille­gal:  for­bid­den by law or statute.

Impeach­ment:  Impeach­ment, in the U.S. and Great Britain, pro­ceed­ing by a leg­is­la­ture for the removal from office of a pub­lic offi­cial charged with mis­con­duct in office. Impeach­ment com­prises both the act of for­mu­lat­ing the accu­sa­tion and the result­ing trial of the charges; it is fre­quently but erro­neously taken to mean only the removal from office of an accused pub­lic offi­cial. An impeach­ment trial may result in either an acquit­tal or in a ver­dict of guilty. In the lat­ter case the impeached offi­cial is removed from office; if the charges war­rant such action, the offi­cial is also remanded to the proper author­i­ties for trial before a court.

Rape Accuser Charged with Attempted Murder, Arson

Remem­ber the name Crys­tal Gale Mangum?  If not, surely you remem­ber the 2006 Duke Lacrosse rape scan­dal.  She’s the one that accused three mem­bers of the Duke lacrosse team of lock­ing her in a bath­room, sex­u­ally assault­ing and rap­ing her.

Reade Selig­mann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans were indicted on charges, thrown off the lacrosse team and wrongly con­victed in the court of pub­lic opin­ion.  Now it appears that she is get­ting her come­up­pance:

Durham police arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crys­tal Gale Mangum, 33, late Wednes­day after she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bath­tub and threat­ened to stab him.

Author­i­ties charged her with attempted first-degree mur­der, five counts of arson, assault and bat­tery, com­mu­ni­cat­ing threats, three counts of mis­de­meanor child abuse, injury to per­sonal prop­erty, iden­tity theft and resist­ing a pub­lic officer.

Lock her up and throw away the key.  “Good rid­dance to bad rubbish.”

Kercher Murder Trial Update: Defendants make final pleas

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Victim, Meredith Kercher

Mered­ith Kercher

Break­ing  from Sky News:  Amanda Knox has made her final state­ment in the Mered­ith Kercher mur­der trial.  Speak­ing in a trem­bling voice and in Ital­ian, Amanda said she feared ”hav­ing the mask of a killer forced onto my skin”.

She also said she was con­fi­dent her con­science was clean, and thanked the pros­e­cu­tion for the job they’re doing. “I want to thank the accusers because they are only try­ing to do their job even if they don’t under­stand,” Knox said.

Maria del Grosso, Knox’s defense attor­ney, said, “This the­ory of sex­ual vio­lence demands strong evi­dence and what does the pros­e­cu­tor bring? That Amanda mur­dered because Mered­ith didn’t like the fact she did not flush the toi­let and that Amanda was an adulteress.” 

Amanda has been described as punc­tual, a good stu­dent, extro­vert, sup­port­ive, some­one who enjoyed music and sport, yoga and many other interests.”

Ear­lier, Raf­faele Sol­lecito tes­ti­fied in his defense that he was not a vio­lent per­son and never had been.  He said, “Why would I want to com­mit some­thing so hor­ri­ble as mur­der?  I want to under­stand why I would par­tic­i­pate in this mur­der for no motive. I am not a dog on a lead and I am not depen­dent on Amanda as the pros­e­cu­tion say.”

Knox, 21, and Sol­lecito, 25, have been charged with mur­der and sex­ual assault.  The pros­e­cu­tion is ask­ing for life sen­tences for both defendants.

It’s really sad that some­one so promis­ing as Ms. Kercher was taken from this world at such a young age and in such a bru­tal man­ner.  My heart and prayers go out to her fam­ily.  I’m also pray­ing for jus­tice to be done in this case.  I would hate to see Knox and Sol­lecito, if they truly are inno­cent, to wind up with a life sen­tence in jail.  How­ever, I would equally hate to see mur­der­ers go free.  I’m pray­ing the jury in this case will weigh all the evi­dence and ren­der a just verdict.

The jury has retired to delib­er­ate the case, and a ver­dict is expected within the next 48 hours.

Is Amanda Knox innocent?

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On Novem­ber 2, 2007, Mered­ith Kercher, a British stu­dent from the Uni­ver­sity of Leeds study­ing abroad in Peru­gia, Italy, was found stabbed to death in a shared apart­ment.  For two years, the pros­e­cu­tion has been try­ing to tie two other stu­dents — Amanda Knox from Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton, and Raf­faele Sol­lecito from Giov­inazzo, Bari, Italy — to the mur­der.  Rudy Guede, 20, from the Ivory Coast,  was arrested after flee­ing to Ger­many and has been found guilty in the mur­der of Kercher.

The trial for Knox and Sol­lecito started on 16 Jan­u­ary 2009.  Rudy Guede, who was a close friend of Knox and Sol­lecito, declined to tes­tify in the trial.   Knox tes­ti­fied for the first time in June, say­ing that she was inno­cent and was at Sollecito’s flat on the night of the mur­der.  For a more exten­sive his­tory on the trial, see this Wikipedia arti­cle.

Accord­ing to the pros­e­cu­tion, Knox and Sollecito’s modus operandi was a sex game turned deadly.  Accord­ing to Speigel Online, Kercher was upset that Knox had brought home the two men — Guede and Sol­lecito — some­thing Knox had appar­ently done before.  An argu­ment broke out between the two women over the dif­fer­ences in lifestyle.  (Kercher is described as an “inno­cent angel”, one that wasn’t prone to bring home strange men and be promiscuous).

This is how the prosecutor’s ani­mated film depicts the mur­der: Kercher falls to the floor and the three oth­ers begin to undress her. Kercher strug­gles, Sol­lecito pulls out his pock­etknife and Knox gets a knife from the kitchen. Guede tries to rape Kercher, Sol­lecito injures her and Knox finally kills her by slit­ting her throat. The three flee the apart­ment. Later, Knox and Sol­lecito return to clum­sily stage a bur­glary and wipe away their fingerprints.

The indict­ment against the two is based on cir­cum­stan­tial evi­dence and very lit­tle, if any, wit­ness tes­ti­mony.  The defense is argu­ing that there is no clear proof, no con­fes­sion, and no motive.  The ver­dict is sup­posed to be announced at the end of this week.

Maurice Clemmons, Cop Killer, fatally shot by cops

Mau­rice Clem­mons, the thug that exe­cuted four Lake­wood, Wash­ing­ton offi­cers, has been shot and killed by Seat­tle police.  As a Chris­t­ian, I regret the fact that Clem­mons’ soul is more than likely lost and he’s in hell right now.  (As an aside, I refuse to post pic­tures of thugs and ter­ror­ists on my blog.  If you want to see what these degen­er­ates look like, go to the news sites.  I will post pic­tures of the vic­tims, though, as I did yes­ter­day - out of respect and remem­brance of the lives they led.)

How­ever, from a “judi­cial” stand­point, I only have two words:  Good riddance.

If you want to read more on the story, go here.

For more on the police offi­cers that lost their lives in the line of duty, go here.  I am con­tin­u­ing to pray for the fam­i­lies dur­ing this time of loss and mourn­ing.  May God pour out His bless­ings on you and give you peace.

In trib­ute to the fallen offi­cers, here’s a poem from Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

Sun­set and evening star,
  And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moan­ing of the bar,
  When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as mov­ing seems asleep,
  Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the bound­less deep
  Turns again home.

Twi­light and evening bell,
  And after that the dark!
And may there be no sad­ness of farewell,
  When I embark;

For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
  The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
  When I have crossed the bar.

Officers Slain in Seattle — UPDATE: Suspect Not in Home

Officer Ronald Owens, 37.

UPDATE (9:45 a.m.):  Pierce County Sheriff’s Office says that the sus­pect was not in the home they surrounded…More as the story develops.

Four police offi­cers from the Seat­tle sub­urb of Lake­wood were slain Sun­day when they were attacked unpro­voked at a local cof­fee shop.  The four offi­cers are:

renningerSergeant Mark Ren­ninger, 39, with 13 years of law enforce­ment expe­ri­ence.  He is sur­vived by a wife and three children.

 

 

 

 

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Offi­cer Ronald Owens, 37, with 12 years of law enforce­ment expe­ri­ence.  He is sur­vived by a for­mer wife and a daughter.

 

 

 

 

griswoldOffi­cer Tina Gris­wold, 40, with 14 years of law enforce­ment expe­ri­ence.   She is sur­vived by her hus­band and two children.

 

 

 

 

richardsOffi­cer Greg Richards, 42, with 8 years of law enforce­ment expe­ri­ence.  He is sur­vived by a wife and three children.

 

 

 

 

Michelle Malkin has been cov­er­ing this story exten­sively, and so has The Other McCain.  My prayers are with these families. 

Nine chil­dren were ren­dered par­ent­less by a soul-less thug in less than five min­utes.  The police have sur­rounded a house in Seat­tle with the cop killer inside — word is he’s wounded and pos­si­bly dead.  I hope it’s the for­mer and not the lat­ter.   This guy — Mau­rice Clem­mons - deserves to suf­fer tremen­dously for what he’s done.

But then again, if he’s dead, he’s already burning.

Clem­mons has a long, long rap sheet — one that goes back all the way to Arkansas when Mike Huck­abee was gov­er­nor.  MM has the whole back­story on this guy, as well as Huck’s unnec­es­sary com­mu­ta­tions and clemen­cies that resulted in Clem­mons being set free…If his 95-year sen­tence had not been com­muted, it’s very pos­si­ble this shoot­ing would never have taken place.

Pic­ture source:  City of Lakewood

KSP: Kentucky Census Worker Committed Suicide

I haven’t blogged about this story at all in the past.  It has been widely cov­ered by other con­ser­v­a­tive blog­gers, namely Michelle Malkin, Robert Stacy McCain, and Dan Riehl.  It has also cre­ated a firestorm of lib­eral vs. con­ser­v­a­tive com­ments and posts:  Sites like the Daily Kos, Huff­in­g­ton Post, and The Daily Dish took every oppor­tu­nity to blame this on extreme right-wingers, anti-government folks, and even some talk show hosts and blog­gers (i.e., Glenn Beck and MM).  Now, whether they will ever admit it or not, these blog­gers are com­ing out with egg on their faces.

With that said, the Ken­tucky State Police inves­ti­ga­tion — aided by the FBI — has con­cluded the cen­sus worker, Bill Spark­man, staged his own death to appear like a homi­cide — one that would lead inves­ti­ga­tors and reporters to believe it was a mur­derer with strong anti-federal-government lean­ings.  Turns out it was the “vic­tim” who was the per­pe­tra­tor of the crime.  Full details are here.

Michelle Malkin in par­tic­u­lar took some pretty nasty hits dur­ing all of this, espe­cially from Andrew Sul­li­van.  Her cov­er­age is here and here.  Michelle truly is the shin­ing exam­ple of a pro­fes­sional in her field.  Mr. Stacy McCain, from what I’ve read, actu­ally did some report­ing from Ken­tucky and was able to get more of the story.  He’s even com­piled a list of those who blamed the con­ser­v­a­tives for Sparkman’s death.

Because of this firestorm, I have truly learned which sites are best avoided.  Of course, the Daily Kos and HuffPo are to be avoided with­out ques­tion.  But Lit­tle Green Foot­balls and the Daily Dish are also on the black­list.  These are sites which once touted they were con­ser­v­a­tive, but have for a while now been wolves in sheep’s cloth­ing.  So if you go to those sites, tread very care­fully and do your research.