- Posted by Christopher Estep on November 23, 2008
I’ve been in the military, I’ve watched a lot of TV & movies, I’ve held numerous jobs, and so on. I have a pretty good notion of what “disobeying orders” is. Apparently, I’m alone in Georgia because when I saw this headline:
I immediately had this image of deputies shooting someone for failing to pick up litter, refusal to “step out of the car, ma’am” or shooting him in the back for the old, “stop in the name of the law!” line.
Let’s follow what happened, shall we?
Around 11p.m. , residents from the McIntosh Estates Subdivision located Southeast of Peachtree City called 911 to report a suspicious car in their neighborhood.
When officers arrived quickly found the car and asked the driver to step outside.
This must be where they shot him, right? Because they gave him an order and he didn’t obey.
When the unidentified man exited the car, he garnished a weapon.
He did what?? He garnished a weapon? That’s kind of an unexpected thing to do. Was it something like this?
I realize that it’s rather odd to dress up a knife after exiting a car, but is it really any reason to shoot him? I bet they told him to stop garnishing that knife because someone could cut themselves if they didn’t see the knife behind all that parsley and mint.
According to Coweta County Investigators, the deputies ordered the man several times to drop his weapon. Instead the man turned his weapon, pointing at the deputies.
Ok, I understand that technically pointing a knife at an officer is wrong, even if it’s been garnished. But let’s get real. Who’s going to be afraid of a garnished weapon? Apparently the deputies in Coweta County, Georgia are:
The deputies then fired their guns striking, killing the suspect.
Or maybe they just don’t like parsley.
But what about the anti-cop part? Well, I did skip over the first paragraph to make the above commentary of the illiteracy of the NBC 11-Alive reporter.
Coweta County deputies fatally injured a man Saturday night. After, he failed to obey orders to drop his gun.
It sheds a new light on it, doesn’t it? But channel 11 would rather have a sensational headline that makes it appear that the cops did something wrong.
- Posted by Christopher Estep on September 18, 2008
Over the past couple of years, a few people close to me have been struggling with the notion that another close person has been running an escort service. A myriad of excuses are given, such as "I'm just setting up dates" and "We only put people together, what they do is their business". Of course, the fact that it's prostitution (from the girl's position) and pimping (from by the so-called service) is the elephant in the room that nobody wants to acknowledge.
So, is it just a dating service? Is it something that only the girl and her "date" set up? Or is it prostitution, plain and simple? A young woman from Tennessee recently had it reinforced what it's all about:
Brittney Mayhew came to Atlanta hoping to make some big money as a female escort.
The 18-year-old from the Nashville area arrived by bus last week, hoping to make $5,000 a week for rendezvous with “lonely men,” she said.
Wow, $5,000 a week just for going on dates? Could she really be that lucky? Are people really willing to spend major amounts of cash just to spend some innocent time with a young woman because they're lonely? I'm sorry, I didn't say that right. I mean "lonely".
Though a Web site, she met a woman who promised Mayhew wads of cash for going out on dates with men.
Wow, money for going on dates. Isn't that fabulous? And to think, people actually pay services like lavalife and match.com to find people for dates. Who knew that you should be getting paid for the dates, not paying someone else?
Mayhew arrived in Atlanta on Sept. 8. Over the next three days, she met with three men — one of those meetings included sexual interaction, she said — before deciding that she wanted to leave.
The news didn’t sit well with her handler, who wanted her to make more money, she said. In a fit of anger, the woman tossed Mayhew’s phone off the 20th-floor balcony of the Hyatt [on Peachtree St. in downtown Atlanta]. It landed in the hotel pool, she said.
Mayhew left the room to call the police, and when she returned, the woman was gone. So were Mayhew’s bags and $700 that she had earned from her escort work.
Her handler? She's a pimp! What do they call dope dealers, undocumented pharmacists?
Let's call things what they are. Mayhew was a prostitute. She got paid for sex. The unnamed woman is a pimp. She arranges for people to get together, knowing the intent is to have sex. And yet, everyone pretends that it's not what it is.
These flesh peddlers entice young woman (and some not so young) with promises of fast and easy cash. And through it all, these (literal) whore-mongers skate by undeterred by claiming the transactions are "dates" and the whores are "models" and that all they are doing is arranging contacts with these so-called models. And yet they claim on their own advertisements and websites that they offer a "real GFE" or "girl friend experience" which is common slang for sex with pretended affection.
We have laws that cover these crimes, yet they go largely unenforced. GA Code § 16-6-11 says that pimping includes whenever someone:
Directs or transports another person to a place when he or she knows or should know that the direction or transportation is for the purpose of prostitution;
Receives money or other thing of value from a prostitute, without lawful consideration, knowing it was earned in whole or in part from prostitution
Aids or abets, counsels, or commands another in the commission of prostitution or aids or assists in prostitution where the proceeds or profits derived therefrom are to be divided on a pro rata basis.
Also, § 16-6-12. Pandering
A person commits the offense of pandering when he or she solicits a person to perform an act of prostitution in his or her own behalf or in behalf of a third person or when he or she knowingly assembles persons at a fixed place for the purpose of being solicited by others to perform an act of prostitution.
Each offense is punishable (as a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature) by up to $5,000 fine and/or up to a year in jail. That's for each offense. Further, the pimp's name is to be published in the newspaper exposing him or her to the world. If any of these crimes happened within 1000 feet of a church, school, daycare, or youth recreational center, tack on a mandatory $2,500.
But that's not all. These crimes are not committed in a vacuum.
Are the cell phones they use in the person's actual name or an alias? That's wire fraud.
Are they using a credit card with a false name? Most likely, there's identity fraud taking place.
What about the money? Do you really think that taxes are being paid? That's income tax fraud on the federal and state level.
And since the money is going unreported, is the pimp receiving medicaid? Welfare? Unemployment? WIC?
If the mail is used even for invoices for credit cards or other transactions, that's mail fraud and using the internet also brings in various federal crimes.
I've been threatened in the past for even broaching this topic, which is why I (legally) carry a firearm whenever possible. So tell me, if it's just an innocent dating service, why would I be threatened with bodily harm?
A few pertinent questions. If it's just a dating service:
- who pays $700 just for a "date"?
- why do the girls get arrested and why do you send someone to bail them out?
- why not use your real name?
- why threaten someone for mentioning it?
- why do you get a commission for every "date"?
We can close our eyes and pretend it's something other than it is, but the fact remains that these scumbags are defrauding society through tax evasion while selling the bodies of young women like common whores.
These people need to be stopped.
- Posted by Christopher on August 17, 2008
Once again, the AJC has chosen to use its headlines to cast police activity in a negative light:
Looks like a real travesty, doesn’t it? When you read that, what’s your first assumption? You assume that the article is about how the police shot an innocent bystander who just happened to be at the scene of the crime.
A silent alarm was tripped, and when the responding officer arrived, the boy fled on foot toward a minivan registered to his mother, Bolton said. After a brief tussle, the youth allegedly jumped into the vehicle, threw it into reverse and nearly hit a second officer who had just arrived.
The second officer’s patrol car was hit, and the first officer fired at the teen, hitting him “more than once,” Bolton said. The boy was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston and is expected to recover from his wounds.
In other words, officers shot a burglary suspect who was trying to murder them. But you won’t read that in the main stream media, will you?
- Posted by Christopher Estep on July 26, 2008
Since this happened nearby, I just had to post it. Besides, how can you not stop and stare at white trash fighting at a Waffle House?
This is relevant because he pled guilty and got the usual anger management, community service, etc.
Stop and stare, everyone! It’s a train wreck!
- Posted by Christopher Estep on June 19, 2008
Only yesterday, Cold Cash Jefferson announced that he was running for reelection. And today:
The sister of indicted Democratic Rep. William Jefferson pleaded guilty to concealing a crime on Wednesday, the fourth relative of the Louisiana lawmaker to become entangled in the family's legal troubles.
Oooooops!!!
Federal prosecutors in New Orleans recently charged … three other relatives with conspiring to steal more than $600,000 from organizations they set up to help at-risk and disadvantaged youth.
Remember folks, the democrats just want to think of the children. Honest.
Brenda Jefferson, also known as Brenda Foster, performed clerical work for the nonprofits run by her relatives.
If your name is ever followed by “also known as…” you might as well start learning how to dig with a spoon because you’re going to jail!
According to prosecutors, she has admitted to receiving $90,000 in payments from the organizations.
$90,000? Where have I seen that figure before….
Democratic Rep. William Jefferson, who faces bribery charges over $90,000 found in his freezer, said on Tuesday that he plans to seek re-election.
Congressman's sister pleads guilty in scheme | Politics | Reuters
- Posted by Christopher Estep on June 18, 2008
Following up with a story I blogged about a year ago, Cylenthia Clark has finally owned up to her child abuse and has admitted in court that beating a child is bad, even if you’re the one supposed to report people who do the very same thing:
An official with the Department of Family and Children's Services (DFCS) pleaded guilty Tuesday to a child cruelty charge and received 10 years probation.
The case against Cylenthia Clark unfolded in February 2007 when her then 8-year-old daughter showed up at school with bruises. Clark, an assistant director with Fulton County DFCS, was arrested three weeks later after an investigation by Fayette County DFCS.
The investigation revealed that Clark used a belt to punish her daughter for an incident in which the girl got into a fight with a boy at her daycare center, and also hit one of the staff members in the face. Authorities said the girl claimed her mother struck her more than 30 times.
The guilty plea came after the start of Clark's trial in Fayette County Superior Court. During his opening statements, defense attorney Manny Arora told jurors that Clark's daughter took behavior-controlling medication and had been removed from school on occasion due to behavioral problems. He said Clark only hit the girl five to 10 times.
I’m guessing that Clark took the plea deal after all of the jurors spat out their water and said simultaneously, “did he say ‘only’ five to 10 times?!”. The turning point in the trial came when one juror blurted out, “Can we just convict her now? I need to blow my nose.”
11Alive.com | Atlanta, GA | Former DFCS Official Admits Child Cruelty
- Posted by Christopher Estep on June 3, 2008
Prominent British anti-gun activist Pat Regan was found dead in her home, having been stabbed to death, allegedly by her grandson. This is just such a tragedy… why, if only she’d had some way of defending herself!!
Anti-gun activist stabbed to death : Stop The ACLU
- Posted by Christopher Estep on May 22, 2008
Can you tell the difference between these two items and what they are used for?
That's right, one is a chainsaw and one is an axe, specifically a chopping axe. Do you know how they are different? Of course you do! One is for sawing (with the chain), hence the term "chainsaw" and the other is for (drum roll) chopping. Apparently, these two very different activities are lost to Marcus Garner of the AJC who wrote the following:
A man who chopped his friend to pieces with a chain saw was found guilty of the crime Wednesday by a Fulton County jury.
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The defendant kidnapped Robbins, tortured him and hacked him into 10 pieces with a chain saw, Edwards said.
Either this was the most bizarre murder in Georgia history or Garner is an idiot.
Man who chopped friend with chain saw to serve life | ajc.com
- Posted by Christopher Estep on May 20, 2008
I've been reading comments on weblogs all over and whenever someone has an opinion about Kennedy's illness similar to my own, they are decried with, "we should be above that" and "we are conservatives and Christians so we shouldn't do that".
I respectfully disagree and gave my opinions over on Michelle Malkin's blog and reproduce that comment here, because I think it is very illustrative of what makes us different from liberals at a very basic level:
We are conservatives, yes. And many of us are indeed Christians, yes. It is because we are conservatives and many are Christians that we do react to this news different than those who are not jumping on the “..I would never wish this on anyone…” bandwagon.
I am a conservative, so I’m not a hypocrite. I don’t pretend I think one thing and then say another.
I am a conservative, so I believe in moral absolutes. A bad man is still a bad man, even if he gets a disease. Bad things happening to bad men is good.
I am a conservative, so I don’t eulogize criminals. It’s another assault on their victims.
I am a Christian, so I know that God is also not warm and fuzzy all of the time. If you believe He is, you should read about Ninevah, Sodom & Gomorrah, Jericho, and Noah & the Flood.
So please, stop with the self-righteous “we should be better than this” talk.
I would feel bad for Kerry, Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, and even Jimmy Carter.
I am a conservative, so I will not feel bad for Ted Kennedy simply because he’s a politician when I wouldn’t feel bad for Sirhan Sirhan. Their crimes are different, but their victims are still just as dead.
I am a conservative, so I believe all should be held to the same standard. Period.