Had this attorney been quoted in a newspaper, I would not have commented because newspapers frequently take others out of context. However below is the entire video in context.
I was watching the news this morning when I heard an attorney that is on the defense team for one of the 9/11 terrorists. That is Attorney Scott Fenstermaker.
This slime ball of an attorney advised that their defense strategy will be a “justification defense.” How does one “justify” those attacks on America? How does one justify murdering all those innocent 9/11 victims?
I am an advocate for providing American citizens with due process and fair jury trails. But never for confirmed International terrorists.
I’m not an O’Reilly fan. However I do agree with O’Reilly calling this defense attorney a “weasel.” Actually the more appropriate fitting words are not allowed by the FCC.
This pathetical attorney states that you won’t hear any al-Qaida terrorist propaganda; but you’ll be hearing a lot of “United States Government propaganda.” I say to Mr. Scott Fenstermaker, move out of America if you don’t like it hear.
This guy is worse than a weasel. He’s in my opinion a traitor and a turn coat. He looks like his mother bottle fed him cookies and milk too long.
When Fenstermaker was told that millions hated him, he replied “I’m honored because the people that hate me ah, hate ah, the rule of law.”
Mr. Fenstermaker the rule of law, constitutional rights and habeas corpus rights should be for American citizens. Therefore should never be given to foreign terrorists that want to kill us.
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Video of Attorney's Interview
Nov 24, 2009
Attorney Scott Fenstermaker is Worse Than a Weasel
Nov 20, 2009
Before and After Photos of WWII
One of the best history lessons I had was in Europe. While in France I walked on the beach of the Sea of Normandy. This is the shore where thousands of our soldiers gave their lives in order to free France from a left wing dictator named Adolf Hitler; along with his Nazism, communism and socialism. It’s been said that if it weren’t for the American military, the French would all be speaking German today.
A Frenchman in his eighties gave me a ride on a 1941 Willys Jeep. This Jeep belonged to the U.S ARMY, but it was left behind. The old guy did a fine job at restoring it.
Ironically now many Americans are willing to surrender our souls and our Country over to communism and socialism.
My regret while in France was that I did not bring a camera. However thankfully someone put together a nice PowerPoint below showing before and after photos of WWII.
The question is what will the photos of Americas 'future' look like?
Before and After Photos of WWII
http://www.hi-caliber.org/Normandie.pps
Nov 18, 2009
A Mayor orders her police to not foot pursue suspects
This is an amazing story where Sallie Peake the Mayor of the City of Wellford, South Carolina made a new policy admonishing her police officers that they can no longer chase wanted suspects on foot.
My experience tells me that there’s more to this story than told.
The last time I saw a policy similar to this was when an LAPD South Bureau Commanding Officer made a policy restricting officers contacts with gang members. It was later discovered that he was coddling his criminally minded son that was frequently being stopped by the police. But heck the criminals they don’t play by the rules, the police officers are shackled by laws and treated like fools.
I may be wrong here, but I suspect this Mayor may allegedly be protecting her loved ones that have been chased by the police ‘one time’ too many (lets see if anyone knows what ‘one time’ means, then comment below.)
In all fairness if the Mayors reason is in fact due to the costs that her officers incur while injured, then she is correct. Foot pursuits are very unpredictable. Officers frequently get hurt. Then when the suspects are caught, they almost always resist. Henceforth - when they do resist they too get injured. It’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it.
According to the below article Wellford Police Chief Chris Guy caved into the Mayors request. What ever happened to the days when Chiefs stood up to this nonsense? LAPD Chief Daryl F. Gates would have.
But at least they still have a strong Sheriff in Spartanburg County. Sheriff Chuck Wright opposed that policy, and even warns that the Mayors memo “prevents police from upholding the law – a direct violation of their constitutional oath.” Bottom line is the police work for the people and not the Mayor.
I don’t blame police officers for making ‘individual’ decisions to not give chase to suspects anymore. But it should never be a policy. If you’re a criminal looking for a safe place to commit crimes, visit the City of Wellford. It might even be a gun free zone.
One last observation. It’s appalling when people misuse Christian lingo. Watch and listen to how she utilizes a phony Christian distraction device. Usually when folks like this respond angrily with “God bless you” and “Halleluiah,” their really cursing profanities at you. But only the Lord knows this ladies heart.
I encourage you to read the below article, and listen to the longer version video as well. Reporter Chris Cato did a good job.
http://www2.wspa.com/spa/news/local/article/mayors_memo_may_handcuff_police_officers/26918/
Nov 12, 2009
Private Investigator Hosts Event for US Marines San Diego Dec 6th
In this world there are too many sayers, and not enough doers. Joseph A. Travers of NCIC and the CIA Investigations academy is a doer.
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The National Christian Information Center, Inc www.NcicInc.com , in cooperation with Capo Beach Calvary www.capocalvary.com and The United States Marines Camp Pendleton School of Infantry is hosting "Praise and Bar-B-Que 2009."
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Appearing will be Praise Band 'Under the Influence' and a 'Special Guest'. All Marines in attendance will receive a free customized Marine Corps Bible and a Bar-B-Que lunch. A donation of $20.00 pays for one bible and bar-b-que lunch. If you wish to donate please visit the PayPal link at www.NcicInc.com
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NCIC & Cabo Event for the US Marines San Diego Calif
ARMY JAG shares his Fort Hood experience
Note from moderator. I’ve been in shootings before, and a shootout where the suspect was reloading his handgun only to return more gunfire. However I had a gun to defend myself. I could not imagine being in the ARMY (unarmed) while one of your own goes on an Jihad killing spree. The below accounts is from an ARMY JAG. Two of my attorney clients were also JAG’s; one in the NAVY and the other in the ARMY. JAG’s make great attorneys in the private sector. Below are the observations of a JAG that witnessed this Jihad first hand.
ARMY JAG shares his Fort Hood experience
Since I don't know when I'll sleep (its 4 am now) I'll write what happened (the abbreviated version.....the long one is already part of the investigation with more to come). I'll not write about any part of the investigation that I've learned about since (as a witness I know more than I should since inevitably my JAG brothers and sisters are deeply involved in the investigation). Don't assume that most of the current media accounts are very accurate. They're not. They'll improve with time. Only those of us who were there really know what went down. But as they collate our statements they'll get it right. I did my SRP last week (Soldier Readiness Processing) but you're supposed to come back a week later to have them look at the smallpox vaccination site (it's this big itchy growth on your shoulder).
I am probably alive because I pulled a ---------- and entered the wrong building first (the main SRP building). The Medical SRP building is off to the side. Realizing my mistake I left the main building and walked down the sidewalk to the medical SRP building. As I'm walking up to it the gunshots start. Slow and methodical. But continuous. Two ambulatory wounded came out.
Then two soldiers dragging a third who was covered in blood. Hearing the shots but not seeing the shooter, along with a couple other soldiers I stood in the street and yelled at everyone who came running that it was clear but to "RUN!". I kept motioning people fast. About 6-10 minutes later (the shooting continuous), two cops ran up. One male, one female. We pointed in the direction of the shots. They headed that way (the medical SRP building was about 50 meters away). Then a lot more gunfire.
A couple minutes later a balding man in ACU's came around the building carrying a pistol and holding it tactically. He started shooting at us and we all dived back to the cars behind us. I don't think he hit the couple other guys who were there. I did see the bullet holes later in the cars. First I went behind a tire and then looked under the body of the car.
I've been trained how to respond to gunfire...but with my own weapon. To have no weapon I don't know how to explain what that felt like. I hadn't run away and stayed because I had thought about the consequences or anything like that. I wasn't thinking anything through. Please understand, there was no intention. I was just staying there because I didn't think about running. It never occurred to me that he might shoot me. Until he started shooting in my direction and I realized I was unarmed. Then the female cop comes around the corner. He shoots her.
(According to the news accounts she got a round into him. I believe it, I just didn't see it. He didn't go down.)
She goes down. He starts reloading. He's fiddling with his mags. Weirdly he hasn't dropped the one that was in his weapon. He's holding the fresh one and the old one (you do that on the range when time is not of the essence but in combat you would just let the old mag go). I see the male cop around the left corner of the building (I'm about 15-20 meters from the shooter.) I yell at the cop, "He's reloading, he's reloading. Shoot him! Shoot him!)
You have to understand, everything was quiet at this point. The cop appears to hear me and comes around the corner and shoots the shooter. He goes down. The cop kicks his weapon further away. I sprint up to the downed female cop. Another captain (I think he was with me behind the cars) comes up as well. She's bleeding profusely out of her thigh. We take our belts off and tourniquet her just like we've been trained (I hope we did it right...we didn't have any CLS (combat lifesaver) bags with their awesome tourniquets on us, so we worked with what we had).
Meanwhile, in the most bizarre moment of the day, a photographer was standing over us taking pictures. I suppose I'll be seeing those tomorrow. Then a soldier came up and identified himself as a medic. I then realized her weapon was lying there unsecured (and on "fire"). I stood over it and when I saw a cop yelled for him to come over and secure her weapon (I would have done so but I was worried someone would mistake me for a bad guy). I then went over to the shooter. He was unconscious.
A Lt Colonel was there and had secured his primary weapon for the time being. He also had a revolver. I couldn't believe he was one of ours. I didn't want to believe it. Then I saw his name and rank and realized this wasn't just some specialist with mental issues. At this point there was a guy there from CID and I asked him if he knew he was the shooter and had him secured. He said he did.
I then went over the slaughter house. The medical SRP building. No human should ever have to see what that looked like. And I won't tell you. Just believe me. Please. There was nothing to be done there. Someone then said there was someone critically wounded around the corner. I ran around (while seeing this floor to ceiling window that someone had jumped through movie style) and saw a large African-American soldier lying on his back with two or three soldiers attending.
I ran up and identified two entrance wounds on the right side of his stomach, one exit wound on the left side and one head wound. He was not bleeding externally from the stomach wounds (though almost certainly internally) but was bleeding from the head wound. A soldier was using a shirt to try and stop the head bleeding. He was conscious so I began talking to him to keep him so.
He was 42, from North Carolina , he was named something Jr., his son was named something III and he had a daughter as well. His children lived with him. He was divorced. I told him the blubber on his stomach saved his life. He smiled.
A young soldier in civvies showed up and identified himself as a combat medic. We debated whether to put him on the back of a pickup truck. A doctor (well, an audiologist) showed up and said you can't move him, he has a head wound. We finally sat tight. I went back to the slaughterhouse. They weren't letting anyone in there. Not even medics.
Finally, after about 45 minutes had elapsed some cops showed up in tactical vests. Someone said the TBI building was unsecured. They headed into there. All of a sudden a couple more shots were fired. People shouted there was a second shooter. A half hour later the SWAT showed up. There was no second shooter. That had been an impetuous cop apparently. But that confused things for a while. Meanwhile I went back to the shooter. The female cop had been taken away. A medic was pumping plasma into the shooter.
I'm not proud of this but I went up to her and said "this is the shooter, is there anyone else who needs attention...do them first". She indicated everyone else living was attended to. I still hadn't seen any EMTs or ambulances. I had so much blood on me that people kept asking me if I was ok. But that was all other people's blood. Eventually (an hour and a half to two hours after the shootings) they started landing choppers. They took out the big African American guy and the shooter. I guess the ambulatory wounded were all at the SRP building. Everyone else in my area was dead.
I suppose the emergency responders were told there were multiple shooters. I heard that was the delay with the choppers (they were all civilian helicopters). They needed a secure LZ. But other than the initial cops who did everything right, I didn’t' see a lot of them for a while. I did see many a soldier rush out to help their fellows/sisters. There was one female soldier, I don’t' know her name or rank but I would recognize her anywhere who was everywhere helping people. A couple people, mainly civilians, were hysterical, but only a couple.
One civilian freaked out when I tried to comfort her when she saw my uniform. I guess she had seen the shooter up close. A lot of soldiers were rushing out to help even when we thought there was another gunman out there. This Army is not broken no matter what the pundits say. Not the Army I saw.
And then they kept me for a long time to come. Oh, and perhaps the most surreal thing, at 1500 (the end of the workday on Thursdays) when the bugle sounded we all came to attention and saluted the flag. In the middle of it all. This is what I saw. It can't have been real. But this is my small corner of what happened.
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Lt. Col. Ralph Peters Tells the Truth
Brigitte Gabriel Warns of the Political Correctness of the Leadership in Police & Military
Nov 10, 2009
DC Sniper & Terrorist John Muhammad to be Executed Tonight
State of Virginia, (HC News)
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It was seven years ago in Washington D.C. when a serial killer gained world attention. He was first named the D.C. Sniper, then later the D.C. Beltway Sniper. This serial killer was an equal opportunity destroyer as he cowardly shot men, women and children from different races.
I remember this specifically because at that time I was in D.C. and Maryland for a speaking engagement. I saw firsthand the effects and tolls this had on this community. I later shared my experiences as a quest on talk radio (I have a brief audio of that interview on my PowerPoint presentation entitled ‘The Trends and Updates of Islamic Terrorism within America.’)
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The sniper then began killing more innocent citizens in the State of Maryland. But the sniper made his fatal mistake by moving south into the State of Virginia to kill even more. I say a fatal mistake because Virginia has the death penalty for terrorists like this.
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Thru the police investigation it was determined that the sniper was actually two snipers working in concert with each other. However thanks to a truck driver the suspects and their vehicle were spotted. Both John Allen Muhammad and his accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo were finally arrested. These two terrorists were convicted by two jury panels. Malvo got life in prison and Muhammad was given the death penalty by lethal injection.
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Muhammad’s attorney tried to overturn his sentence of death. However the United States Supreme Court just refused to hear their appeal. Therefore because of the actions of Muhammad, tonight at 9:00PM (EST) the State of Virginia will turn on their drip-line, hence executing Muhammad to death by lethal injection. The only problem I see with tonight’s execution, is Muhammad will feel no pain, as did those many many innocent victims.
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I have two closing points: One on gun rights vs. gun restrictions. Two on the truth about Islamic terrorism within our Nation.
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Had the snipers remained in D.C., their causality rate would have been much higher, because then D.C was a known gun free zone. The only thing that gun free zones and gun restrictions do is kill innocent citizens. Think about this… even the recent terrorist attack at Fort Hood ARMY base was a gun free zone. But that terrorist still broke their ridiculous gun laws..
John Allen Muhammad was not born with his last name. His birth name was John Allen Williams. Williams later converted to the religion of Islam. It was discovered that Muhammad was a confirmed Islamic terrorist that hated America and planned out a Jihad against America. He is suspected to have shot and killed many others across the United States of America.
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Just like ARMY General George Casey, most chiefs of police or elected sheriffs are so pathetic and politically correct, that they will not tell the people the truth about Islamic extremism.
Nov 5, 2009
URGENT Defend the Edmondson Police Family Code 3
(HC News)
Note by Bill Rhetts: I have made some investigative follow-ups on this story, and I am convinced that the below accounts given by Mrs. Edmondson are 100% factual and accurate. I have also personally spoken with Sgt Chris Edmondson. He is a humble stand up guy, and frankly America needs more like him. Please sacrifice a few Christmas presents and donate online below, or send a check to Sgt Edmondsons defense fund. I promise you, I will. Tell the masses about this family's need. His trial is soon._____________________________
My name is Rhonda Edmondson and my husband is Sgt. Chris Edmondson, an 18-year veteran of the Raton, New Mexico Police Department.
I’ve sent you a photo of our family. It was taken just last Christmas.
That’s Chris holding our son, Aidin.
Aidin is four -- and so proud that his Daddy is “a police man who helps people.”
But if bureaucrats here in New Mexico have their way, Chris won’t be able to hold our little boy again for two years.
Because the New Mexico Attorney General is trying to throw Chris in jail. Even though my husband is an innocent man!
Please, let me explain.
Chris is a decorated officer who has received the Gallantry Star, the Lifesaver Award, dozens of written commendations, and even helped capture one of America’s “Most Wanted” criminals.
Less then, two years ago, 4:15am, November 18, 2007, Chris and two other officers received a call for police to investigate a fight at a nearby house.
When they arrived, they found a 25-year old man named Jesse Saenz acting strangely.
Saenz was on all fours, yelling and screaming, and pulling up grass and throwing it. Before that, he had been slamming a chain link fence against cars in the driveway. Officer Leonard Baca started to escort Saenz to the patrol car. And that’s when things got ugly.
Saenz began fighting the officers -- who immediately handcuffed him. But Saenz became so violent that they couldn’t get him into the patrol car. Saenz was wearing sharp-pointed boots and began kicking violently.
Chris and the other officers tried to pull them off his feet -- but couldn’t get close enough without getting kicked. As the senior officer, Chris finally ordered the officers to “bump” Saenz with a taser gun. The taser had absolutely no effect on Saenz. He kept yelling and kicking.
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As Chris told me later, Saenz was “wildly out of control.” Chris ordered the officers to taser Saenz again. But it still had no effect as he kept kicking and screaming at them.
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Finally Chris managed to get the boots off Saenz and push him into the back seat of the squad car.Amazingly, Saenz still managed to kick Officer Dominguez on the wrist, breaking his watch and injuring his wrist.
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As they neared the station, Saenz finally stopped struggling. Officer Baca thought he had passed out. But when they opened the door, they realized that Saenz wasn’t breathing. An emergency crew performed CPR. But Saenz died on the way to the hospital. Chris was devastated.
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But he knows he did everything he could to protect his officers from a violent and dangerous suspect. New Mexico police regulations clearly state that officers are authorized to use tasers on “violent persons under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.”
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An autopsy revealed that Jesse Saenz had high levels of cocaine , nemzoylecgonine, cocaethylene and hydroxzione in his blood. That explains why he was acting so wildly. It even concluded that Saenz most likely died due to “cocaine intoxication.”
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But Jesse Saenz’s family didn’t agree. They accused Chris and the other officers of being “racist cops” who tasered Jesse Saenz because he was Hispanic...
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...even though Officer Dominguez and Officer Baca are Hispanic themselves!
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They painted their car windows with messages like "Justice for Jesse," "RIP Jesse” and “I'm Mexican, am I next?" They held memorial events and parades. And eventually the powerful Saenz family got what they wanted: Chris, Officer Dominguez, and Officer Baca have all been indicted for the involuntary manslaughter of Jesse Saenz.
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All three of them have been placed on administrative leave. And if convicted, they will all be sent to prison. Sent to prison just for doing their jobs!
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Chris and I are still in shock. And our lives will never be the same. Last year after many prayers we had decided to adopt a little girl and boy.
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But after Chris was indicted, we were told we are no longer allowed to adopt them. Even worse, we don’t feel safe here in our own town.
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The Saenz family has been very vocal about their hate for the police -- Officer Dominguez and Officer Baca’s children were even threatened at school. So Chris and I don’t even go into town anymore unless we’re armed. I’m doing my best to stay strong for Chris and Aidin, but it’s hard to do when I’m so scared myself. Especially when I think about the trial.
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I’m worried that the Saenz family has the deck stacked against us. For instance, there were other witnesses who saw Jesse Saenz out of control the night of his arrest – but they were allegedly threatened by the Saenz family and refuse to come forward.
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Even worse, NO interviews with the medics who treated Saenz were ever conducted. NO interviews with the Emergency Room doctors and nurses were held. And Jesse Saenz’s past medical records have NEVER been examined.
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I feel so hopeless... scared... and angry.
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Is this the thanks my husband gets for risking his life as a police officer for the past 18 years?
All he’s ever done is try to keep the people of New Mexico safe and protected. Now I don’t know what will happen. Will Chris be torn away from Aidin and me? Will he be sent to a prison here in New Mexico, where the inmates despise cops? And if Chris survives the trial, how on earth will we ever pay our legal bills?
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So far I have only one hope.
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You see, The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund has offered to help Chris -- and I can
honestly tell you that these patriots are the best friend a police officer could ever have.
When I called the Chairman of LELDF, he and his Board Members, including former Attorney General Ed Meese and former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights William Bradford Reynolds, said they would do whatever they could to help us.
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Now they are trying to raise money on Chris’ behalf -- to pay for attorneys, expert witnesses, and legal research.
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I truly believe that God is sending Chris and me a lifeline through LELDF. They are the only light at the end of the tunnel for us right now.Chris and I aren’t wealthy people.
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Our friends and neighbors even held a spaghetti dinner fundraiser to try to raise money for the trial. But we are still short by more than $100,000.
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And that’s why I’m about to ask you the hardest question I’ve ever asked anyone in my life.
Could you send a contribution today to LELDF to help Chris and the other officers?
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I know it’s a bold request. But I’m so frightened for Chris -- I will do whatever I can to help him.As his wife, I’ve got to try. The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF) is a non-profit organization so your gift is tax-deductible.
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Any amount -- $25, $50, $75, $100, $250, or even $500 -- will help. Just your $25 could be the difference between Chris coming home to me and Aidin...
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... or going to prison for a “crime” he didn’t commit.
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Please, if you have just a few dollars you can spare today -- will you help my husband and these other brave officers?
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The state of New Mexico has unlimited funds to stack the deck against Chris in court. But Chris and I can rely only on the generous hearts of people like you.
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Thank you for reading my letter.
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I will never be able to put into words how much your support means to us.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Rhonda Edmondson
P.S. If what my husband did was manslaughter than sooner or later every good police officer in this country will be behind bars just for doing their jobs!
Nov 3, 2009
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Oct 31, 2009
The Pathway to Citizenship by Mike Morrell
by Mike Morrell, Candidate for the 63rd Assembly District
October 30, 2009
[Publisher's Note: We are pleased to present this original commentary from longtime FlashReport friend Mike Morrell - Flash]
We hear today that the United States houses between fifteen and twenty-five million illegal immigrants. An estimated 32% of these individuals live in California, as our state offers assistance up to $11.2 billion annually. In light of the staggering fiscal and social problems inherent in these figures, what position should we Republicans take?
Certainly, we recall that ours is a nation of immigrants. From the Eastern seaboard Lady Liberty calls, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Truly, America is unlike any other nation, with neither racial nor ancestral borders to define us. Yet our founders determined a set of immovable principles, both political and moral, and these became the "ties that bind." These principles found clear expression in our early writings.
The Declaration of Independence describes a process of ideological (rather than genealogical) nation-making. For Americans, the first principle was "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights."
The second principle was government by consent, which exists to ensure the safe exercise of these rights. To the modern world, the American experiment of equality and consent presented a novel method for making citizens.
The Founders believed that a people's ability to become citizens would not depend upon their race, gender, or national origin, but rather upon their belief in human equality and their commitment to principles of American government. Do not come, they thought, if you deny the God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That word "happiness" signified the good life, or living virtuously. A man could not understand happiness after living too long under despotism, or becoming accustomed to vices of fraud, deceit or crime. Content under tyranny externally, or dominated by the "tyranny of the passions" internally, some strangers lacked the humane self-assertion and noble self-restraint needed to maintain liberty and government by consent. Our founding generation could not overlook the absence of such virtues - are you and I willing to risk falling short?
Today, we speak highly of "respect" to promote a free and decent society. The founders envisioned the same goals, but reserved their respect for those who exhibited honesty, truth, gratitude, industriousness, assertion and love of fellow men and women. This attitude built on the centuries-old ideas of Plato's Statesman, which asserted that the proper virtues must be woven into the souls of all citizens if they hoped to achieve a free and just society. Similarly, with vastly different backgrounds, but fortified with common virtues and shared purpose, people from a multitude of countries could be bound together as citizens in every era of our history.
As Lincoln, in studying this condition of strangers on our shores, noted: "If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence, they find that those old men say that " We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration – and so they are.
That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world."
To this sentiment should we return as we continue the debate over immigration.
Americans on both sides of the aisle believe in equality. Today, then, how do we answer those on the Left who argue for open border policies? First, we must examine the motives of those who push for a "quick" pathway to citizenship.
Recent polling and statistics from American Spectator and other publications suggest that the majority of children (born to American citizens between 1981 and 2000) grew up with conservative homes and religious backgrounds.
Over the next decade, this will represent a Republican voter base five million stronger than that of the Democrats.
Are we surprised when our opponents champion the right to vote for those here illegally? After years of legislation for Planned Parenthood and similar agendas, the liberals have finally run up against what are to them disconcerting demographic trends.
Second, as Americans, we can not afford to stoop to these political games as the integrity of our national character hangs in the balance. Instead, let our first objective be to restore our commitment to the political principles of the American Founding, and to return to the notion that a loyalty to those principles is an essential part of making new citizens. Only then can we uphold uniform rules of naturalization, and secure our nation for ourselves and for future generations.
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Mike Morrell, a longtime friend of the FlashReport, is a business man from Southern California. He is a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 63rd Assembly District in San Bernardino County. He has been married to Joanie for 31 years and together they have 3 children.
You can contact Mr. Morrell, via the FR, here.
Don’t forget about the luncheon for Mike below.
Date: Friday, November 20th, 2009 @ 11:30 AM -1:30 PM
Where: Mill Creek Cattle Co. Restaurant
1874 Mentone Blvd., Mentone, CA 92359
http://hi-caliber.blogspot.com/2009/10/luncheon-for-mike-morrell-at-mill-creek.html
Oct 29, 2009
Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs
With the current increase of compromises and lack of courage in leadership; its time to re-resurrect this article. I’ve had the privileges of meeting Lt Col. Dave Grossman in an environment as a police officer, and later in the private sector. He' a hero and a patriot.
Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs
By Lt Colonel (Ret) Dave Grossman, author of "On Killing."
Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for? - William J. Bennett - in a lecture to the United States Naval Academy November 24, 1997.
One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me:
"Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident." This is true. Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per year. What this means is that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another. Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering number, perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But there are almost 300 million Americans, which means that the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably less than one in a hundred on any given year. Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent citizens is considerably less than two million.
Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends of the situation:
We may well be in the most violent times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin's egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful.? For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators.
"Then there are the wolves," the old war veteran said, "and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy." Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep.
There is no safety in denial.
"Then there are sheepdogs," he went on, "and I'm a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf." If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.
Let me expand on this old soldier's excellent model of the sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids' schools.
But many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer in their kid's school. Our children are thousands of times more likely to be killed or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but the sheep's only response to the possibility of violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial.
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, "Baa."
Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big, tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances they would not have had the time of day for a police officer. They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop. When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the officers had to physically peel those clinging, sobbing kids off of them. This is how the little lambs feel about their sheepdog when the wolf is at the door.
Look at what happened after September 11, 2001 when the wolf pounded hard on the door. Remember how America, more than ever before, felt differently about their law enforcement officers and military personnel? Remember how many times you heard the word hero?
Understand that there is nothing morally superior about being a sheepdog; it is just what you choose to be. Also understand that a sheepdog is a funny critter: He is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night, and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young sheepdogs yearn for a righteous battle. The old sheepdogs are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound of the guns when needed right along with the young ones.
Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day.
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, "Thank God I wasn't on one of those planes." The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, "Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference."
When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there. You want to be able to make a difference.
There is nothing morally superior about the sheepdog, the warrior, but he does have one real advantage. Only one. And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an environment that destroys 98 percent of the population. There was research conducted a few years ago with individuals convicted of violent crimes. These cons were in prison for serious, predatory crimes of violence: assaults, murders and killing law enforcement officers. The vast majority said that they specifically targeted victims by body language: slumped walk, passive behavior and lack of awareness. They chose their victims like big cats do in Africa, when they select one out of the herd that is least able to protect
itself.
Some people may be destined to be sheep and others might be genetically primed to be wolves or sheepdogs. But I believe that most people can choose which one they want to be, and I'm proud to say that more and more Americans are choosing to become sheepdogs.
Seven months after the attack on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was honored in his hometown of Cranbury, New Jersey. Todd, as you recall, was the man on Flight 93 over Pennsylvania who called on his cell phone to alert an operator from United Airlines about the hijacking. When he learned of the other three passenger planes that had been used as weapons, Todd dropped his phone and uttered the words, "Let's roll," which authorities believe was a signal to the other passengers to confront the terrorist hijackers. In one hour, a transformation occurred among the passengers - athletes, business people and parents. -- from sheep to sheepdogs and together they fought the wolves, ultimately saving an unknown number of lives on the ground.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. - Edmund Burke
Here is the point I like to emphasize, especially to the thousands of police officers and soldiers I speak to each year. In nature the sheep, real sheep, are born as sheep. Sheepdogs are born that way, and so are wolves. They didn't have a choice. But you are not a critter. As a human being, you can be whatever you want to be. It is a conscious, moral
decision.
If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and that is okay, but you must understand the price you pay. When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to die if there is not a sheepdog there to protect you. If you want to be a wolf, you can be one, but the sheepdogs are going to hunt you down and you will never have rest, safety, trust or love. But if you want to be a sheepdog and walk the warrior's path, then you must make a conscious and moral decision every day to dedicate, equip and prepare yourself to thrive in that toxic, corrosive moment when the wolf comes knocking at the door.
For example, many officers carry their weapons in church.? They are well concealed in ankle holsters, shoulder holsters or inside-the-belt holsters tucked into the small of their backs.? Anytime you go to some form of religious service, there is a very good chance that a police officer in your congregation is carrying. You will never know if there is such an individual in your place of worship, until the wolf appears to massacre you and your loved ones.
I was training a group of police officers in Texas, and during the break, one officer asked his friend if he carried his weapon in church.
The other cop replied, "I will never be caught without my gun in church." I asked why he felt so strongly about this, and he told me about a cop he knew who was at a church massacre in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1999. In that incident, a mentally deranged individual came into the church and opened fire, gunning down fourteen people. He said that officer believed he could have saved every life that day if he had been carrying his gun. His own son was shot, and all he could do was throw himself on the boy's body and wait to die. That cop looked me in the eye and said, "Do you have any idea how hard it would be to live with yourself after that?"
Some individuals would be horrified if they knew this police officer was carrying a weapon in church. They might call him paranoid and would probably scorn him. Yet these same individuals would be enraged and would call for "heads to roll" if they found out that the airbags in their cars were defective, or that the fire extinguisher and fire sprinklers in their kids' school did not work. They can accept the fact that fires and traffic accidents can happen and that there must be safeguards against them.
Their only response to the wolf, though, is denial, and all too often their response to the sheepdog is scorn and disdain. But the sheepdog quietly asks himself, "Do you have an idea how hard it would be to live with yourself if your loved ones attacked and killed, and you had to stand there helplessly because you were unprepared for that day?"
It is denial that turns people into sheep. Sheep are psychologically destroyed by combat because their only defense is denial, which is counterproductive and destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and horror when the wolf shows up.
Denial kills you twice. It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you are not physically prepared: you didn't bring your gun, you didn't train. Your only defense was wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy.
Denial kills you a second time because even if you do physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by your fear helplessness and horror at your moment of truth.
Gavin de Becker puts it like this in Fear Less, his superb post-9/11 book, which should be required reading for anyone trying to come to terms with our current world situation: "...denial can be seductive, but it has an insidious side effect. For all the peace of mind deniers think they get by saying it isn't so, the fall they take when faced with new violence is all the more unsettling."
Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level.
And so the warrior must strive to confront denial in all aspects of his life, and prepare himself for the day when evil comes. If you are warrior who is legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come today. No one can be "on" 24/7, for a lifetime.
Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take a deep breath, and say this to yourself...
"Baa."
This business of being a sheep or a sheep dog is not a yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing, either-or choice. It is a matter of degrees, a continuum. On one end is an abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or the other. Most of us live somewhere in between.
Since 9-11 almost everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started taking their job more seriously. The degree to which you move up that continuum, away from sheephood and denial, is the degree to which you and your loved ones will survive, physically and psychologically at your moment of truth.
Note by Bill Rhetts, CFI, TLO: Lt Colonel Grossman is the owner of the "Killology Research Group...." The psychological cost of learning to kill.
Also availible is his newest book "On Combat." http://www.killology.com/
Additional Intel: Below is an audio of one of thousands of Lt Col. Grossmans speaking engagements. This is ‘part one’ of the ‘Bullet Proof Mind.’ Not just police officers, but more now than ever, citizens need to ready themselves for combat and self-defense.
The Bullet Proof Mind: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman Part 1
