An illegal immigrant who made his way into the U.S. through Mexico, got caught, made a nebulous asylum claim of "religious persecution" from a government that no longer existed at the time he left his home country (but the rest of his family seemingly has no issues and stayed there), had his claim denied, is ordered deported in 1996 and not only ignored the order but subsequently missed not one but two court hearings to appeal his status, is finally located and picked up by ICE and is in jail awaiting return to his homeland, so naturally he's crying about how unfair the system is.
The man unwisely married and had five children while under that active deportation order, so of course it's America's fault that his family is apparently going to be split up. Nope, he has no sense of personal responsibility whatsoever for his current predicament despite the choices being entirely his at every step of the process.
And no, he doesn't qualify for President Obama's illegal end-run around the law relaxation of immigration policy for certain individuals, which seems to be the main point of the story - let's let everyone unlawfully here stay!
By the way, the illegal alien is from Romania, about as white as a country gets, so the tired old racial bias argument simply won't play here.
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Monday, September 03, 2012
Sunday, August 05, 2012
Another happy ending
Five armed thugs got the shock of their lives while attempting to rob Continental Jewelry in Garden Grove, California last week when the 65-year-old female business owner pulled out her own handgun and opened fire on the invaders:
The segment at :35 when the cowardly hoods smash into each other, Three Stooges-like, as they frantically try to exit the store all at once is particularly enjoyable. The bottom-feeders were so panicked that they actually left three of their crew behind when they drove off. Police are still searching for the suspects, but we imagine they won't be back to that part of town anytime soon.
Once again, just as we saw in Florida the other week, a legally possessed and justifiably used firearm allowed an elderly citizen to successfully defend themselves against a superior number of armed attackers. The Brady Campaign and Violence Policy Center would have you believe these sorts of incidents are rarer than unicorn farts.
Don't buy it.
The segment at :35 when the cowardly hoods smash into each other, Three Stooges-like, as they frantically try to exit the store all at once is particularly enjoyable. The bottom-feeders were so panicked that they actually left three of their crew behind when they drove off. Police are still searching for the suspects, but we imagine they won't be back to that part of town anytime soon.
Once again, just as we saw in Florida the other week, a legally possessed and justifiably used firearm allowed an elderly citizen to successfully defend themselves against a superior number of armed attackers. The Brady Campaign and Violence Policy Center would have you believe these sorts of incidents are rarer than unicorn farts.
Don't buy it.
Friday, August 03, 2012
Magic
It's quite interesting to note the near-instantaneous transformative effect the presence of a running video camera has on the surly and bullying attitude of Sergeant Scott Eberle of the San Rafael, California Police Department:
(Carlos Miller via Reason)
(Carlos Miller via Reason)
Monday, July 16, 2012
Why I Carry a Handgun for Protection, Vol. 59
Because contrary to the denials by the Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center that such events regularly occur, naked blood-soaked criminals high on drugs really do randomly invade houses and kill innocent people, which is sadly what happened to an eighty-something female homeowner in Sacramento, California on Sunday:
"Detectives do not think he had any connection with the victim and that it was simply a random act of violence."
California is ironically one of the states that puts up such onerous hoops to lawful gun ownership and carry that many residents simply don't bother, to some of their detriments.
These sorts of incidents really do happen and people really do horribly perish from such attacks by the detritus of our society. Be ready should it happen to you.
"Detectives do not think he had any connection with the victim and that it was simply a random act of violence."
California is ironically one of the states that puts up such onerous hoops to lawful gun ownership and carry that many residents simply don't bother, to some of their detriments.
These sorts of incidents really do happen and people really do horribly perish from such attacks by the detritus of our society. Be ready should it happen to you.
Friday, July 06, 2012
Coparazzi
Did you hear the one about Beverly Hills police officer Roy Garrett, who spent his entire career shaking down celebrities at traffic stops for autographed photos in return for letting them out of their tickets?
"Margaret Barrett, director of entertainment and music at Heritage Auctions in Beverley Hills, said: 'Officer Garrett was a traffic officer in Beverly Hills during the 50s and 60s.
'He had a good gig going and had the same Modus Operandi for years.
'He would have some reason to stop these stars of Hollywood's golden era on places like Sunset Boulevard, like for speeding or running a red light.
'But he made no secret of offering to let them off a ticket in return for a signed photo of them.
'It was all quite innocent and in any case he died about 15 years ago so he isn't going to get busted for it now.'"
It wasn't a "good gig", ma'am, it was a textbook abuse of his authority. What happens when one of those stars runs over an innocent person because their reckless driving was never officially addressed? We also can't imagine any tourists getting a similar break from Officer Garrett. No doubt those hapless gawkers served as the chumps who filled out his monthly ticket quota.
Garrett's family, feeling no sense of shame over his actions, is preparing to auction off the trove to finance a trip to Disney World. Hopefully they'll drive to their Florida destination and in so doing rack up a bunch of moving violations.
"Margaret Barrett, director of entertainment and music at Heritage Auctions in Beverley Hills, said: 'Officer Garrett was a traffic officer in Beverly Hills during the 50s and 60s.
'He had a good gig going and had the same Modus Operandi for years.
'He would have some reason to stop these stars of Hollywood's golden era on places like Sunset Boulevard, like for speeding or running a red light.
'But he made no secret of offering to let them off a ticket in return for a signed photo of them.
'It was all quite innocent and in any case he died about 15 years ago so he isn't going to get busted for it now.'"
It wasn't a "good gig", ma'am, it was a textbook abuse of his authority. What happens when one of those stars runs over an innocent person because their reckless driving was never officially addressed? We also can't imagine any tourists getting a similar break from Officer Garrett. No doubt those hapless gawkers served as the chumps who filled out his monthly ticket quota.
Garrett's family, feeling no sense of shame over his actions, is preparing to auction off the trove to finance a trip to Disney World. Hopefully they'll drive to their Florida destination and in so doing rack up a bunch of moving violations.
Thursday, July 05, 2012
The Jack-Booted Thug(s) of the Week...
... are the Long Beach, California police officers who not only smashed multiple surveillance cameras while serving a warrant on a local medical marijuana dispensary (for the last time, are these businesses legal or not?), one of the public "servants" present at the raid apparently thought it would be a good idea to go ahead and walk on an unresisting and compliant suspect's neck and back with both of his jack-booted feet:
The main charge? Operating without a city permit. Well that certainly justifies the level of force seen here, doesn't it?
Unfortunately for the shock troops the footage was also being recorded offsite, which allows their antics to be viewed by everyone.
The store owners must have had prior knowledge of these unlawful tactics, as that's a crystal clear case of destruction of evidence (not to mention trashing the private property of someone yet to even be charged with a crime), which violates all known precepts of good police work.
Not that those guidelines apparently matter anymore, especially in California.
The main charge? Operating without a city permit. Well that certainly justifies the level of force seen here, doesn't it?
Unfortunately for the shock troops the footage was also being recorded offsite, which allows their antics to be viewed by everyone.
The store owners must have had prior knowledge of these unlawful tactics, as that's a crystal clear case of destruction of evidence (not to mention trashing the private property of someone yet to even be charged with a crime), which violates all known precepts of good police work.
Not that those guidelines apparently matter anymore, especially in California.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Unintended consequences
California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation yesterday designed to collect online tax revenue from corporations that do not have a physical presence in the state (because the Supreme Court has ruled that such a practice is unconstitutional) by somehow tortuously redefining "company" to include any and all small satellite businesses that happen to subcontract for that corporation.
For example, this would be akin to decreeing, say, Roy's Nuts and Bolts of California to be a subsidiary of a fictitious Iowa-based Onlinefasteners.com simply because Roy happened to ship a couple of odd-sized lag bolts to a customer in Oregon who ordered them online from Onlinefasteners, thus making a couple of bucks to which California obviously has no claim.
Amazon.com and Overstock.com have subsequently announced that effective immediately they would be ending their affiliate programs with small California companies (estimated to be as many as 25,000) such as independent bookstores and small retail shops, meaning that many of them will now most likely be driven out of business and thus will not be contributing any more local sales and income taxes into the state's coffers. Other online companies are expected to quickly follow suit.
In other words, greedy California not only stands to gain nothing, it's actually going to lose badly-needed tax revenue as a direct result of this ill-conceived law.
Well done, Governor. Enjoy your eventual heaping bowlful of nothing.
For example, this would be akin to decreeing, say, Roy's Nuts and Bolts of California to be a subsidiary of a fictitious Iowa-based Onlinefasteners.com simply because Roy happened to ship a couple of odd-sized lag bolts to a customer in Oregon who ordered them online from Onlinefasteners, thus making a couple of bucks to which California obviously has no claim.
Amazon.com and Overstock.com have subsequently announced that effective immediately they would be ending their affiliate programs with small California companies (estimated to be as many as 25,000) such as independent bookstores and small retail shops, meaning that many of them will now most likely be driven out of business and thus will not be contributing any more local sales and income taxes into the state's coffers. Other online companies are expected to quickly follow suit.
In other words, greedy California not only stands to gain nothing, it's actually going to lose badly-needed tax revenue as a direct result of this ill-conceived law.
Well done, Governor. Enjoy your eventual heaping bowlful of nothing.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
A snapshot of life
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Los Angeles, California
7:15 p.m.
Seen posted on the door of an art gallery in Little Tokyo:
The careless flicking of leftover food bits by casual browsers is apparently quite the issue at this particular establishment.
On a related note, the food at the nearby Shabu-Shabu House is well worth however long the wait might be for you to get a seat.
Los Angeles, California
7:15 p.m.
Seen posted on the door of an art gallery in Little Tokyo:
The careless flicking of leftover food bits by casual browsers is apparently quite the issue at this particular establishment.
On a related note, the food at the nearby Shabu-Shabu House is well worth however long the wait might be for you to get a seat.
Monday, June 13, 2011
The Jack-Booted Thug(s) of the Week...
... are the Customs and Border Protection agents who on May 26 made a shipful of 2,000 elderly British tourists on a 72-day dream cruise wait in line for seven hours with no food, water or lavatory access, all to simply be cleared for entry into the Port of Los Angeles for a one-day visit.
According to the passengers, most of the reason for this completely unacceptable wait was the addition of a bunch of wildly overreaching security checks, in apparent direct retaliation for some of the cruisers daring to complain about the already-long wait since they had already been given advance clearance to enter the U.S. and their itinerary had already taken them to nine other American ports:
"The fingerprints of both hands were taken as well as retina scans and a detailed check of the passport as well as questioning as to their background."
Because, you know, elderly wealthy Brits champing at the bit to relax and spend their money in our country are a well-known source of terrorist zealots.
Here's the part that earns these CBP goons this week's coveted award:
"When one lady asked in desperation whether she could use a bathroom, one immigration official is said to have replied: 'Do it over the side, we won’t mind.'"
Way to represent our nation and welcome guests to our country, Zippy.
Even the cruise line itself admits that the incident happened pretty much the way their passengers said it did, although the company was a bit more PC about it:
"[A company spokeswoman] added: 'The delay in immigration procedures was largely to blame on issues with the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) computer systems, not aided by the verbal approach that a minority of our passengers, clearly frustrated by this delay, took with the local immigration officers.'
'The US has a record for the most stringent and thorough security and entry requirements in the world, and they felt the need to enhance their security checks further, which they have the power to do.'"
Then those particular agents need to have that power permanently taken away from them.
According to the passengers, most of the reason for this completely unacceptable wait was the addition of a bunch of wildly overreaching security checks, in apparent direct retaliation for some of the cruisers daring to complain about the already-long wait since they had already been given advance clearance to enter the U.S. and their itinerary had already taken them to nine other American ports:
"The fingerprints of both hands were taken as well as retina scans and a detailed check of the passport as well as questioning as to their background."
Because, you know, elderly wealthy Brits champing at the bit to relax and spend their money in our country are a well-known source of terrorist zealots.
Here's the part that earns these CBP goons this week's coveted award:
"When one lady asked in desperation whether she could use a bathroom, one immigration official is said to have replied: 'Do it over the side, we won’t mind.'"
Way to represent our nation and welcome guests to our country, Zippy.
Even the cruise line itself admits that the incident happened pretty much the way their passengers said it did, although the company was a bit more PC about it:
"[A company spokeswoman] added: 'The delay in immigration procedures was largely to blame on issues with the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) computer systems, not aided by the verbal approach that a minority of our passengers, clearly frustrated by this delay, took with the local immigration officers.'
'The US has a record for the most stringent and thorough security and entry requirements in the world, and they felt the need to enhance their security checks further, which they have the power to do.'"
Then those particular agents need to have that power permanently taken away from them.
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
The Jack-Booted Thug(s) of the Week...
... are the Department of Education (?) SWAT team goons who broke down Stockton, California resident Kenneth Wright's door at 6 a.m. yesterday morning while apparently looking for his student loan-defaulting estranged wife (who doesn't even live there), traumatizing this innocent man and his three young children:
"Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts as a S.W.A.T team barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.
'He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there,' Wright said."
Mr. Wright was handcuffed and he and his kids were made to sit in a patrol car for six hours, after which they were finally released without so much as an apology or explanation.
Think about all the myriad implications of this incident for a second and try hard to not let the rage build:
1. The Department of Education, of all government agencies, somehow "needs" a taxpayer-funded SWAT team that is equipped and willing to perform dynamic entries. How many of these sorts of unnecessary raids do they do each year, for Pete's sake?
2. The Department of Education convinced a judge to sign a dangerous (for all parties) "no-knock" warrant allowing said SWAT team to kick in the door of an innocent private citizen solely because his spouse has an unpaid tuition loan. Does that sound even remotely like the kind of emergency or imminent deadly threat situation that would nominally require such drastic measures?
Here's the most incredibly stupid description of such a warrant service we've ever read:
"The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife's defaulted student loans."
Utterly infuriating madness.
3. Even if the above circumstances were somehow justified, the idiots on the SWAT team didn't even bother to perform the expected surveillance or investigation to ascertain whether the target of their little operation even lived at the address, much less if there were innocent children around that could be terrorized or injured by their unbelievably hazardous and stupid cowboy raid.
4. The idiots on the SWAT team manhandled, abused and mechanically restrained a person who presented no threat and offered no resistance, and then forced him and his frightened kids to sit in a hot police cruiser for hours in front of all their neighbors, no doubt causing the entire family enormous stress, fear and humiliation.
5. Once the idiots on the SWAT team figured out they had screwed up, the arrogant officers basically uncuffed Mr. Wright, shoved him towards his smashed front door and took off without any sort of apology whatsoever. Federal cops are never wrong, you know.
Enough is enough. This is one of the most egregious abuses of official police powers we have ever documented here, and we've recorded some doozies. Those thugs (and their incompetent and abusive martinet bosses who unleashed them, as well as the judge who allowed this travesty to occur) need to be separated from their government jobs in short order, and every freedom-loving American must contact their representatives in Congress to demand that all funding for these Federal goon squads be immediately cut off.
Please don't let this challenge to our independence and liberty go unanswered. The next innocent person's door to be kicked in could be your own. Are you paid up on your student loans?
(Many thanks to our good friend and fellow blogger Bike Bubba for the heads-up on this story)
"Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts as a S.W.A.T team barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.
'He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there,' Wright said."
Mr. Wright was handcuffed and he and his kids were made to sit in a patrol car for six hours, after which they were finally released without so much as an apology or explanation.
Think about all the myriad implications of this incident for a second and try hard to not let the rage build:
1. The Department of Education, of all government agencies, somehow "needs" a taxpayer-funded SWAT team that is equipped and willing to perform dynamic entries. How many of these sorts of unnecessary raids do they do each year, for Pete's sake?
2. The Department of Education convinced a judge to sign a dangerous (for all parties) "no-knock" warrant allowing said SWAT team to kick in the door of an innocent private citizen solely because his spouse has an unpaid tuition loan. Does that sound even remotely like the kind of emergency or imminent deadly threat situation that would nominally require such drastic measures?
Here's the most incredibly stupid description of such a warrant service we've ever read:
"The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife's defaulted student loans."
Utterly infuriating madness.
3. Even if the above circumstances were somehow justified, the idiots on the SWAT team didn't even bother to perform the expected surveillance or investigation to ascertain whether the target of their little operation even lived at the address, much less if there were innocent children around that could be terrorized or injured by their unbelievably hazardous and stupid cowboy raid.
4. The idiots on the SWAT team manhandled, abused and mechanically restrained a person who presented no threat and offered no resistance, and then forced him and his frightened kids to sit in a hot police cruiser for hours in front of all their neighbors, no doubt causing the entire family enormous stress, fear and humiliation.
5. Once the idiots on the SWAT team figured out they had screwed up, the arrogant officers basically uncuffed Mr. Wright, shoved him towards his smashed front door and took off without any sort of apology whatsoever. Federal cops are never wrong, you know.
Enough is enough. This is one of the most egregious abuses of official police powers we have ever documented here, and we've recorded some doozies. Those thugs (and their incompetent and abusive martinet bosses who unleashed them, as well as the judge who allowed this travesty to occur) need to be separated from their government jobs in short order, and every freedom-loving American must contact their representatives in Congress to demand that all funding for these Federal goon squads be immediately cut off.
Please don't let this challenge to our independence and liberty go unanswered. The next innocent person's door to be kicked in could be your own. Are you paid up on your student loans?
(Many thanks to our good friend and fellow blogger Bike Bubba for the heads-up on this story)
Monday, May 23, 2011
Why I carry a handgun for protection, Vol. 52
Because of events just like what happened today, when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state of California to immediately release upwards of 46,000 inmates, many of whom are violent felons, due to overcrowding in the mismanaged prison system there.
"[Dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia] added that 'terrible things are sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order.' Justice Clarence Thomas agreed with him."
We of course want prisoners to be treated humanely, but there's got to be a better solution to this crisis than simply opening the prison gates and letting so many predators back out among the law-abiding populace to once again wreak their mayhem.
California is one of the few states left that unfairly refuses to issue handgun carry permits to most law-abiding citizens, reserving that "privilege" for special persons such as Dianne Feinstein (virulently anti-gun politician for everyone else but her) and Sean Penn (rich and famous celebrity who has a long and violent police record, including an arrest for felony domestic assault). That's too bad, because it certainly appears as if those innocent residents are going to need all the help they can get in very short order.
"[Dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia] added that 'terrible things are sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order.' Justice Clarence Thomas agreed with him."
We of course want prisoners to be treated humanely, but there's got to be a better solution to this crisis than simply opening the prison gates and letting so many predators back out among the law-abiding populace to once again wreak their mayhem.
California is one of the few states left that unfairly refuses to issue handgun carry permits to most law-abiding citizens, reserving that "privilege" for special persons such as Dianne Feinstein (virulently anti-gun politician for everyone else but her) and Sean Penn (rich and famous celebrity who has a long and violent police record, including an arrest for felony domestic assault). That's too bad, because it certainly appears as if those innocent residents are going to need all the help they can get in very short order.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Quite the dichotomy
USA Today has an article out which highlights the unfortunate effects of the current housing bust in Merced County, California. That state, of course, is the poster child for the deleterious effects caused by high taxes, bad government decisions, a stranglehold on the local economy by thuggish public sector unions and greed by homeowners who leveraged themselves into untenable situations.
We found it quite enlightening that of the four families interviewed for the piece, the one person who waited to buy something he could afford, willingly commutes a long distance to work and is basically making lemonade out of his situation isn't a government worker but rather a maintenance supervisor for a private garbage company:
"'I feel like I won the lottery,' [Ray Ortiz] says."
We found it quite enlightening that of the four families interviewed for the piece, the one person who waited to buy something he could afford, willingly commutes a long distance to work and is basically making lemonade out of his situation isn't a government worker but rather a maintenance supervisor for a private garbage company:
"'I feel like I won the lottery,' [Ray Ortiz] says."
Well done, sir.
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