Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
The Culture of Predatory Violence: “Yo! Imma Kick Yo Ass! Knowhutamsayin?”
April 30, 2013
Going to start a new blog very soon that will be dedicated to spotlighting the growing culture of predatory violence in America. Every day that goes by we hear report after report of young urban thugs, young black mobs, attacking, killing, and robbing people at random. It’s not about race, it’s about culture.
Every excuse imaginable has been given for reasons why these punks continue to hurt and kill. “Oh it’s because of poverty.” Bullshit! How about having a respectable employed father in the house. How about keeping your baby mamma’s legs closed and your baby daddy’s penis in his pants. How about getting an education and stop listening to your boyz when they say being educated is being white. How about sterilizing some of those damn brood mares that keep unloading future young thugs on society at taxpayer expense. That, in and of itself is a goddamn crisis in America.
How about the fact that Rap music lyrics encourage these young black thugs to rob and kill because it’s cool. How many times have you seen a news report where an expensive car or SUV was found on the side of a road full of bullet holes with a dead black guy slumped over the steering wheel? Do you remember your first thought? “It was probably a rapper.” It’s an easy bet you can take that one to the bank.
Recently here in my home town of Atlanta, news reports came in about someone driving a $400,000 Maybach that was shot and killed while driving thru the city on Interstate 20. Well, @Talkmaster, Neal Boortz, nailed it in a Tweet as soon as the news broke that morning.
Neal Tweeted:
Guessing a rapper. http://shar.es/JXcMR
Most of us already knew, just from news report experience that Neal was correct, and he was.
I know that when we have a culture with no father figure or family structure these inner city kids wander into the streets looking for someone to bond with. It’s easy pickins for the older gang leaders to indoctrinate young lonely children. You have young black kids looking to gang bangers to be their role models and being part of a family structure. Gangs come in all races, but I’m talking about an urban nightmare right now that primarily affects a certain culture in our inner cities that just happens to be black. Look at the statistics before you start calling me a racist. Oh and it would help if you learned the true definition of the word before you tossed it around every time you got pissed at a white person. It doesn’t help you at all when you use words that you cannot define. It makes you ignorant and nobody takes you seriously.
Today I tweeted my Twitter pal, Neal Boortz, for an idea on a title for my newest blog, and like the @Talkmaster, he came through with a rather catchy title. Neal is also pretty sick of the predatory violence in America and has no problem laying it all out on the who and why, so I’ve decided to join in by putting the spotlight what the media refuses to.
Want a good idea of what I’m talking about? Just go and check out what reporter Colin Flaherty wrote in his article about the violence in Detroit.
Why doesn’t someone in the black community speak out about the obvious? Where are all the so called black leaders, and Hollywood celebrities at while this crisis is building? They seem to be very quick to judge George Zimmerman but what about when the obvious occurs? Not a word. Total silence on the matter.
I won’t be holding back, and I will not let the PC police get in my way. You’ll be seeing videos and whatever the hell else I can find that highlights the culture of predatory violence. It’s high time this subject came out of the hoody closet. I’ll take the abuse that I know is going to come. It will be nothing new to me. Like others before me, I’ve been called a racist. I am not. I just happen to be a white guy that speaks the cold hard truth, and nothing you say or do will stop me. -JRoycroft
Special thanks to Neal for giving me a catchy title for my new weekly topic.
@J_Roycroft “Yo! Imma Kick Yo Ass! Knowhutamsayin?”
Threats of Gun Violence on the Rise in Government Schools
No parents, animals or other children were harmed in any way during the taking of this picture. This picture was taken by a licensed concealed weapon permit holder. Please, for God’s sake, do not try this at home without proper training and mature adult supervision. * Only filtered water was used in these dangerous weapons.
April 9, 2013 – The threats of gun violence are steadily increasing in our government schools. Here is a list of some of the latest gun related incidents involving some of society’s most dangerous threats to our children. These incidents are since the December Sandy Hook elementary school massacre.
Our only chance for our innocent little children is for America to embrace the idea of a disarmed society. No guns means no more dead children in our class rooms.
- March, police rushed to Malden High School in Massachusetts after reports of a gun only to discover a neon-colored water pistol.
- March a third grader in Michigan was reprimanded by school officials when he brought a cupcake to school adorned with a plastic toy soldier holding a gun.
- A ten year old Virginia boy who was arrested for taking a plastic toy gun to school is now facing a potentially permanent criminal record over the incident.
- A student in Florence, Arizona was recently suspended because he had a picture of a gun on his computer.
- A six-year-old kindergartner in South Carolina was suspended for taking a small transparent plastic toy gun to school for a show and tell.
- A five-year-old in Massachusetts who faced suspension for building a small toy gun out of lego bricks and play-shooting his classmates.
- An incident erupted when a discussion between two children about a toy nerf gun caused a lock down and a massive armed police response at two elementary schools in the Bronx.
- A Long Island high school was also placed on lock down for 6 hours in response to a student carrying a toy nerf gun.
- A five-year-old girl was suspended after a three hour grilling, and described as a “terroristic threat” when she brought a pink bubble gun to school.
- A South Philadelphia elementary student was searched in front of classmates and threatened with arrest after she mistakenly brought a “paper gun” to school.
- A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his elementary school, also in Maryland, for making a gun gesture with his hand and saying “pow”.
- Two 6-year-olds in Maryland were suspended for pointing their fingers into gun shapes while playing “cops and robbers” with each other.
- In Oklahoma, a five-year-old boy was also recently suspended for making a gun gesture with his hand.
- A 13-year-old Middle School seventh grade student in Pennsylvania was also suspended for the same hand gesture.
Each and every day we hear reports of delinquent children committing these horrific acts of gun violence against their classmates. These are our children, the children who belong to all of us. We are all in this village together and we must fight against all that is bad in our village.
Please, for society and our village, we must put an end to all the gun related violence by supporting stiffer gun control and the ultimate banning of all guns in our society. -JRoycroft
Trayvon Martin’s Girlfriend Lied To Investigators
March 5, 2013 – The murder case against George Zimmerman has apparently taken a turn for the worst for prosecutors in Florida. The most important witness against Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin‘s girlfriend, was caught in a lie Tuesday. She had told police that she was in the hospital during Martin’s funeral and that is why she did not attend. When investigators checked hospital and medical records they discovered she had not been in the hospital.
When reporters asked the state’s lead prosecutor, Bernie de la Rionda, if he would charge the girlfriend with perjury he responded: “You can all read the law and make your own decision.”
Another lie told was about her age. She told investigators during her recorded interview that she was 16 years old. She was actually 18 at the time.
The girls Twitter and Facebook accounts have been subpoenaed so that investigators can read her posts. It’s going to be interesting to hear what the little liar posted about the case and her dealings with her little thug wannabe Trayvon.
It may not sound like such a big deal that she lied about her age or even why she missed his funeral. It’s the fact that she lied to investigators during a murder investigation. You don’t do that. You don’t lie to law enforcement, especially when you are the number one witness in the states case.
What this girl did was destroy her credibility as a key witness. Prosecutors know that if she takes the stand, the Zimmerman team will have a field day destroying her as a responsible, honest citizen.
I believe this new turn of events only helps George Zimmerman’s defense. Nothing Martin’s girlfriend says on the stand now can be believed. She is a proven liar, and that does not work well at all for the state. -JRoycroft
Warrantless Police Searches of Your iPhone or Android
March 3, 2013 – In this age of the smartphone, more and more people are using it in place of their laptop as their number one information/communications resource. Here is something you should be aware of.
Apple and Google are not your friends when it comes to your privacy. The law is very vague when it comes to the legality of warrant-less police searches of your smartphone. It is not uncommon for a police officer to ask for your smartphone during a traffic stop. Some police agencies have the ability to attach a device to your phone and extract limited information from it. That information can be used to determine if you were texting while driving or even how fast you were driving at the time of the traffic stop via your GPS system.
In other cases where an investigation is underway, law enforcement will use your smartphone as evidence against you or to further their investigation. The ACLU published a report it obtained from a drug investigation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, documenting the seizure and search of a suspect’s iPhone from her bedroom.
This from a story in Forbes magazine:
In this case, ICE was able to extract the iPhone’s details with the help of the forensics firm Cellebrite. The suspect doesn’t seem to have enabled a PIN or passcode. But even when those login safeguards are set up in other cases, law enforcement have still often been able to use tools to bypass or brute-force a phone’s security measures. Google in some cases helps law enforcement to get past Android phones’ lockscreens, and if law enforcement can’t crack a seized iPhone, officers will in some cases mail the phone to Apple, who extract the data and return it stored on a DVD along with the locked phone.
There is no such thing as a safe smartphone when it comes to law enforcement. Regardless of whether or not you are using it for legal reasons, just know that once that phone is out of your hands and into a friends hands, you are responsible for its content. In other words, don’t let your friend call his drug dealer if you are trying to make a score for personal consumption marijuana for the weekend. So before you call your friend in Colorado or Washington where pot is legal, you better be living in one of those states if your calling to make a score. Know what I mean?
Treat your smartphone as you would a home computer. Be aware that big brother is not your friend…They are friends with your smartphone company and together they can make your life miserable. Most of us don’t have to worry about these things but it’s always good to know what powers our government have over our everyday lives. Just like a Predator Drone has the technology to distinguish which person in a crowd is carrying a firearm. I bet you didn’t know that either. -JRoycroft
Related articles
- iPhone Search Warrant Reveals Trove of Possibly Incriminating Evidence (gottabemobile.com)
- What the Government Can Get From Your iPhone (truthdig.com)
- ICE iPhone seizure shows extent of government’s data retrieval abilities – Apple Insider (appleinsider.com)
- New Document Sheds Light on Government’s Ability to Search iPhones (leaksource.wordpress.com)
The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam
January 27, 2013 – (Updated Feb 28, 7:11PM) A friend, Lance Millard, sent me an interesting story about this Vancouver girl, Elisa Lam. She’s the young college student that was found dead in a water supply tank on the roof of sleazy Los Angeles hotel last week.
Police pulled Lam’s body from the water tank atop the Cecil Hotel on February 19, which was about three weeks after she was last seen there.
The Los Angeles County coroner’s spokesman Ed Winter said the matter was being treated as a death investigation at this time and did not elaborate on how the girl got into the tank or how long her body had been there. The autopsy results were deemed inconclusive and it will be several weeks before toxicology results will be available. No cause of death has been determined.
There is a video that has surfaced taken on February 1, the day she was to have checked out, which shows Elisa Lam entering an elevator and acting very strange. After watching the video I come to the conclusion that she was hiding from someone, in a playful manner.
First of all, this girl does not appear to be frightened in any way. She gets on the elevator and presses every button with intent as if she wants it to stop at every floor. Maybe her way of confusing her hunter. Then she gets out, looks around and re-enters pressing the buttons again. The elevator doors won’t close. She stands in the corner and clearly, cracks a brief smile, and then walks back out. She is seen standing outside that elevator smiling, talking to someone while gesturing with her hands. Looks to me like she was playing, or at least trying to hide from someone in a playful manner.
My original theory was that perhaps she continued her game of hide and seek on the roof where she accidentally drowns herself after falling into the tank. Problem though, the tank isn’t easily accessible and would have required a ladder to climb. There is also a small door that she would have had to open and then climb down into. So now I’ve changed my thought on how she got into that water tank. She needed help. It may still be an accidental death, but someone still had to have helped her get into that tank.
Who was she talking to outside that elevator? If there was security video inside the elevator it would stand to reason that there was a security camera elsewhere that probably shows her with someone else. She doesn’t look frightened in the video, so who was she with? That person has the answers to all the questions. I wonder what the maintenance man was doing that day?
Oh and one more little tid bit of strangeness that has been added to this story. There is a big Tuberculosis scare in Los Angeles going on now. The Feds are even involved in the investigation. What does that have to do with Elisa Lam’s death? Probably nothing at all … except that the name for the assay for TB testing is called … waaaaait for it …… LAM-ELISA. Now hows that for a strange coincidence? -JRoycroft
Related articles
- Body found in LA hotel water tank may be missing Canadian tourist (news.yahoo.com)
- Elisa Lam’s unexplained death draws attention, theories in China (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
- Woman’s body found in hotel water tank (wqad.com)
- More tests needed in LA hotel water tank death (cnsnews.com)
- Body of missing Canadian Elisa Lam found in L.A. hotel’s drinking water tank (macleans.ca)
- Elisa Lam Autopsy Inconclusive, Mysteries Surround Vancouver Woman’s Death (americanlivewire.com)
Has a Murderer Ever Officially Started a Daytona 500 Race?
February 23, 2013 – Daytona pole sitter Danica Patrick will probably be the buzz at Sundays Daytona 500. Patrick has a well deserved spot starting first on Sunday, along side four-time champion Jeff Gordon.
“Can I win? Yeah. Absolutely,” Patrick said. “I feel comfortable in this kind of race situation. I feel comfortable in the draft. I feel comfortable that the speeds are not a problem. I know I am inexperienced. I know I am rookie out there. I will do the best job I can to win. I do believe I have a chance to win. I do believe experience would help, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a chance to win.”
What won’t be under the spotlight is the fact that a man who got away with murder in Atlanta will be the official starter of the Daytona 500.
From a story in the Atlanta Daily World by DION RABOUIN writes,
In June 2000 Fulton County Superior Court Judge Alice D. Bonner approved a deal allowing Lewis to avoid murder charges and jail time by pleading guilty to misdemeanor obstruction of justice. Lewis was sentenced to 12 months’ probation, the maximum sentence for a first-time offender. As part of his sentence he agreed to testify against two co-defendants who were eventually found not guilty of murder as well.
To this day, no one has served time for the stabbing deaths of 24-year-old Richard Lollar and 21-year-old Jacinth Baker.
Ray Lewis will drop the green flag at Daytona and the race will go on. Two people were murdered and no one will ever be brought to justice. It will never cease to amaze me how jocks, even those who commit violent acts against others continue to be placed upon pedestals as if society is expected to bow before them.
Today we are subjected to classless acts of behavior from every sport with players fighting, cheating and murdering. Yet we give them a pass, because after all, these are star players and no one is willing to take a stand that might jeopardize a win.
Ray Lewis takes the spotlight at Daytona on Sunday, while Richard Lollar and Jacinth Baker took one for the team. -JRoycroft
Drones Over American Neighborhoods
February 17, 2013 - Since 2007, the Federal Aviation Administration has issued 1,428 permits to domestic drone operators with 327 listed as still active. Among these permit holders are law enforcement, universities, state transportation departments and at least seven federal agencies. These remote controlled aircraft range from tiny model airplanes up to large Predator types which could be modified to carry weapons.
Just recently in Alabama, a midsized drone was used to monitor the bunker where a 65-year-old gunman held a 5-year-old boy hostage. Authorities refused to say who was operating the AeroVironment drone. The F.B.I. eventually stormed the bunker, killing the man and safely rescuing the little boy.
Reps. Ted Poe (R-Texas) and Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) introduced privacy legislation Thursday that would require police to get a warrant or a court order before operating a drone to collect information on individuals.
“We need to protect against obtrusive search and surveillance by government and civilian use,” Poe said.
15 states are considering proposals to limit drone use. The City Council in Charlottesville, Va., passed a resolution on Feb. 4 barring local police from using drones to collect evidence in criminal cases.
Some people say that the airspace above their homes is private property. Well, sorta. The Federal Aviation Administration governs the airspace and should you decide to place a tower or any object above the tree level in your yard you better be prepared to follow local and federal guidelines. Drones are considered aircraft, and guess what- aircraft have a the privilege, providing they obtained proper permits, to fly over your property. Should you decide to shoot one down, well, I hope you have some really good legal representation cause your ass is gonna need it.
It’s the times we live in folks. Look who occupies our White House and all the drastic things that have come about in such a short span of time. You know, like in the past four years. Our privacy rights, along with several other constitutional rights are being tested daily by those who seek to own us. This is no longer your grandfathers America. Better get used to it. -JRoycroft
Related articles
- Drones, Coming Soon to Police Force Near You (readersupportednews.org)
- Surveillance Drones Take To The Skies Above U.S. (patdollard.com)
- Why Drones Should Make You Afraid. Very Afraid. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- Obama To Work On Drone Policy With Congress (huffingtonpost.com)
- U.S. a step closer to wide domestic use of drones (cbsnews.com)
