Wednesday, June 14, 2006

ANOTHER BOGUS "HATE CRIME"

A Nash County woman claims she and her family are victims of a hate crime. She says they've gotten harassing phone calls with racial insults and they even found a burning cross in their backyard. The woman says she believes she might even know who did it. Mary Few says it's a crime that holds her family in fear, "stressed.. Can't sleep, nerves gone..." According to Mary Few an unidenified man called her home asking to buy her husband's car. When they refused to sell she says the harassing calls started..." He said I hate ni..s"

Mary Few says days later she came home to find her husbands tractor dragged out and a cross burning in the backyard. Mary Few filed reports with police. Hours after the public got wind of the story she says her family got another surprise, the Fews says the suspect had hit again. This time spray painting KKK all while they were inside and in broad daylight.

Middlesex Police Chief Charles Ferrell says the suspects are bold and they are not ruling anyone out..not even..the Fews. "I can tell you that..umm..when we canvassed the area over there, right after that I found a red spray paint can under his shelf that was hid." Farrell say the investigation turned up some strange signs including Mr. Few's reaction, "When I found it he didn't seem to be too thrilled and he was like that ain't nothin, that been out there for two years."

And what about those harassing phone calls? Seth: "You see anything else strange about this?" Farrell: "Yea, that their not cooperating at all with the telephone company" "The pulled the tractor over there. See the tracks?" Police traced the tracks and compared it to a story of where Mr. Few was last seen driving his tractor. "He told me where he backed to. I said that's exactly where those marks are at!" And while Farrell says the story seems strange, he says he'll keep tracking it wherever it leads him. Middlesex police say they will continue to watch the home.

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Failure to Railroad Duke Students Upsets Liberals and News Media

By Jim Kouri. (Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police)

Today was a major setback for liberals -- especially radical feminists and their male lapdogs -- in their continued efforts to demonize men, especially white men. It looks as if the Duke University rape case is unraveling like a cheap sweater.

When the story first hit the airwaves and pages of national and local newspapers, the feeding-frenzy was intense: here was a case involving a group of rich, white male college athletes accused of beating and raping a poor, black woman working her way through college by dancing at parties. The media spin was breathtaking. These young, testosterone-driven men of privilege attacked and raped an innocent black woman who had to work as a stripper to raise her child and pay tuition for an education at third-tier college. The story had it all: Drunken white men with more money than they deserved; a horribly beaten and raped young woman; a white-on-black hate crime; exotic dancers forced into "that life" because of social injustice; and titillating sex at a top-ranked university.

Yes, this case fit nicely into the liberal media's template of American men who are soldiers, police officers or athletes -- a species of violent, immoral savages who victimize the weak whether they're fighting in Iraq, policing big city streets, or playing a highly competitive sport. Even the sport these Duke students played smacked of privilege and class -- lacrosse. Heck, when I was growing up we played stickball with a broomstick and rubber Spaulding and chalk-drawn bases on a city street. Lots of time outs in that game since we had to stop playing when a car drove through our "field." I never heard of lacrosse.

In the early stages of the Duke rape investigation there were left-leaning journalists hanging onto each syllable uttered by the District Attorney. The DA held press conferences and pandered to black voters in his district since he was coincidentally running for reelection. Listening to his TV press conferences one would think he had a "slam dunk" case against these evil white men. And the cherry on top of the cake was the DA being a liberal Democrat.

That was in March and April. As time passed, little by little information about the case came out that began to suggest the prosecutor overplayed his hand. Slowly, but surely, exculpatory evidence surfaced that tended to exonerate the Duke students: Lack of DNA evidence; a key witness -- the alleged victim's fellow stripper -- who changed her story every time she opened her mouth; one of the indicted students having an ironclad alibi that placed him miles away from the accuser; medical record notations of minor injuries inconsistent with a beating; the "victim's" use of sex toys when she entertained a couple in their hotel room that very likely mimicked vaginal distress from a rape; and the list goes on.

With each new revelation, the liberal talking heads would say, "Well that doesn't mean she wasn't raped." Correct. But it also doesn't mean she was. And then there's that "presumed innocent" thing that liberals love trotting out when it suits their purposes, but seem to forget when dealing with crimes that enter the "political correctness" zone.

To add to the drama, the New (and unimproved) Black Panthers injected themselves into the media frenzy. The liberals were ecstatic. Would they bring firearms? Would they confront these whiteboys? Would they "invade" the university campus while liberals uttered the Stalinist line about rich white men victimizing poor black women? Would the majority of men on the Duke campus hide like girlie-men?

It was incredible. A woman crying rape knocked the anti-Bush, antiwar stories right off the TV screens of cable news channels and front-pages of newspapers and newsmagazines. You know a case is big when Greta Van Susteran camps out on location to cover it.

But, alas, the liberals are left with a hate crime in which the key witness told cops the rape charge was a "crock." Lucky for them they have Haditha so they can vent their anger over US Marines allegedly killing people during a war. Perhaps the Duke whiteboys didn't rape a helpless woman, at least the liberal-left can focus on those men Senator Dick Durbin once compared to Nazis. Those horrible men in uniform Rep. John Murtha calls cold-blooded murderers. Our men in combat whom Senator John Kerry said are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night. They're left with the United State Marines to denigrate and railroad, the way they tried to railroad the members of the Duke lacrosse team.

Why, you may be asking yourself, is this writer so cynical about this particular rape case? Because, when I worked in law enforcement, I came across more cases of false sexual assault charges than actual sex crime cases. One case stands out in my mind because of the enormous injustice perpetrated on a 19-year old, white male college student who had the misfortune to meet and bed a liar.

One night, the guy hooked up with other students to go out drinking and dancing. As often happens when you mix overly stimulated hormones and booze, the guy ended up in one of girls' dorm room where they enjoyed an evening of carnal knowledge.

The next day, the male student was summoned to the Dean of Students' office and was told that his "one-night stand" filed rape charges against him. The police were called and we conducted an investigation. Stories about the alleged rape appeared in the newspapers, including the boy's name and hometown. Even the college's newspaper printed a story about the rape on campus. The campus feminists used the case to make demands on the college administration who naturally caved-in.

Eventually, the guy dropped out of that college because of harassment by some of his fellow students -- mostly women blinded by feminist ideology -- and the embarrassment of being labeled a sex offender. And after all that, he still faced a criminal trial.

But not so fast. After a two-week investigation, this was what came to light: The girl had a fiance'. One of her girlfriends told that fiance' that his dearly beloved slept with another student. The girl didn't want to lose her fiance', so she told him she had been raped while she was intoxicated. He insisted she press charges, which she did to save her relationship. Finally, when faced with the facts, the girl confessed to making a false claim of rape and that in fact she initiated the sexual relationship. Meanwhile, the alleged rapist had left college and was labeled a sex offender.

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Food freedom an increasingly precarious right

Discussing the food Nazis, Walter Williams once said, “Allowing government to be in the business of caring for people for any reason moves us farther down the road to serfdom . . . . If government is going to take care of us, it will assume it has a right to dictate how we live . . . . Numerous health studies have shown that sedentary lifestyles and lack of exercise also contribute to healthcare costs.” Furthermore, Williams said that he “wouldn’t be surprised at all if America ’s neo-Nazis call for government mandates requiring morning exercise, biking, jogging and fitness facility memberships.” Dr. Williams said that in 2002. The sound of food-fascist jackboots thumping on the pavement has only gotten louder and closer since he spoke those words.

In the movie Demolition Man, a cop named John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), wrongfully convicted of a heinous crime, is awakened from cryogenic suspension more than 30 years after he was frozen in order to catch his nemesis from the late 1990s, Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), who has escaped from cryo prison after being frozen at the same time as Spartan. Among the many changes in the future, all foods or anything deemed to make life unhealthy, has been unilaterally declared by a benevolent, all-knowing government, masterminded by an evil Mr. Rogers-like elitist, Dr. Raymond Cocteau (Nigel Hawthorne), to be illegal.

No salt, no spices, no ice cream, no fatty foods, no large portions, no tobacco, no physical contact of any sort. Cocteau is credited with single-handedly saving civilization as it existed in Southern California in the dark years of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. The masses worship him like a savior and a god and cannot imagine what would happen to them if he ever was to die. The tranquility and peace their society enjoys blinds them to the obvious fact that they are slaves to Cocteau’s will.

Spartan sees right through the veneer of slavery, fascism, serfdom, or whatever you might want to call the “paradise” that Cocteau has created. Through decades of indoctrination and propaganda, he has engineered a society that willingly cedes its individuality, choices, intellectual curiosity, and as Phoenix argues at one point with Cocteau, the all-important “right to be assholes.”

When Demolition Man was made (1993), it was an entertaining satire and full of hyperbole on where all the whining and complaining by the ninny-nannies opposed to every possible dietary or lifestyle “vice” might take us in the future. Much of what the movie lampooned as future illegal behavior, has come closer to reality with each passing year. Many variations of food Nazis have goose-stepped their message into the public eye over the past decade, warning us about the many dangers of Mexican food, Chinese food, ice cream, salt, fast food, potato chips, pizza, red meat, chicken, pork, and basically anything that most people find tasty and enjoyable.

What many people fail to realize is that the food we choose to eat, and the vast number of food choices we have, is one the few remaining freedoms we have left. The FDA puts up roadblocks, like any other government agency, in order to justify its existence and bloated budgets, but for the most part we have vast freedom with what and how much we eat. If we can afford to buy it and consume it, we can choose to be gluttons. Now, the state and its minions are strongly hinting all that should change because of the high healthcare costs associated with obesity, poor nutrition, and a sedentary lifestyle. Surprise, surprise.

The food Nazis want consumers of food and food services and those who provide the goods and services desired, to change their ways or the fascists are going to take charge of the situation and create their own nightmare version of Cocteau’s world of dietary and lifestyle perfection. They claim to be interested in benevolence, you know, “for the children” and the general health of all. What they really want is that final bit of control of our personal lives that continues to elude them. Controlling what we eat will give them enormous leverage in wresting away our remaining freedoms. The food Nazis will find compatibility of purpose with other situational Nazis interested in completely controlling our lives. Remember what Trotsky said: “He who does not obey shall not eat.”

It will not matter if you are buying food to prepare at home or eating out at your favorite restaurant. The old menus you loved and the old servings that kept you coming back will no longer exist. Restaurants and subjects (formerly citizens) not complying will be identified as criminals. Their families, friends, and communities will be indoctrinated to see them as pariahs. They will be relegated to the lowest caste of society. To pay the economic burden they have imposed on others because of their unacceptable and illegal dietary choices, they will be made to work on large, environmentally-friendly farms that grow healthy foods for those committed to a better and more healthy world.

CNN reports the FDA is right now “enlisting” the restaurant industry to help fight obesity by voluntarily downsizing portions served to patrons. Supermarkets and convenience stores will be next. And your favorite, late-night fast food joints? Forget about it. If they are not forced out of business outright, they will fold in the early years of the brave new world being created by the food Nazis.

Walter Williams points out that the crusade against tobacco, much like the current one being waged against “unhealthy” foods, started in virtually unnoticeable, seemingly innocent, and incremental ways. John Spartan, fed up with the comically fascist world of dietary prohibitions he had been thawed out to safeguard from the rampages of Simon Phoenix, requested in frustration, “somebody put me back in the fridge.” If the food Nazis get their way some years hence, your fridge will only hold enough of the right food to meet your centrally-planned caloric and dietary intake, formulated to maximize what others think is necessary to live a healthy life and minimize future health care costs for the state. Better stuff your face while that freedom still exists.

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