The FBI conducted weekend raids in three states and arrested eight people tied to a Michigan-based militia group that authorities say was conspiring to kill police officers.
WASHINGTON -- Nine suspects tied to a militia in the Midwest are charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral in the hopes of killing more law enforcement people, federal prosecutors said Monday.
U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said agents moved on the group because the Hutaree members were planning a violent reconnaissance mission sometime in April -- just a few days away.
Members of the group called Hutaree are charged in the case, including their leader, David Brian Stone, also known as "Captain Hutaree."
Once other officers gathered for a slain officer's funeral, the group planned to detonate homemade bombs at the funeral, killing more, according to newly unsealed court papers.
The indictment includes charges of seditious conspiracy, possessing a firearm during a crime of violence, teaching the use of explosives, and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction -- homemade bombs.
The indictment charges members of the group conspired "to levy war against the United States, (and) to oppose by force the authority of the government of the United States."
The charges follow FBI raids over the weekend on locations in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.
According to investigators, the purportedly Christian Hutaree militia view local, state, and federal law enforcement personnel as a "brotherhood" and an enemy, and planned to attack them as part of an armed struggle against the U.S. government.
Eight suspects have been arrested by the FBI, and one more is being sought. Of the eight captured, seven are due in court later Monday.
Andrew Arena, head of the FBI's field office in Detroit, said the case "is an example of radical and extremist fringe groups which can be found throughout our society. The FBI takes such extremist groups seriously, especially those who would target innocent citizens and the law enforcement officers who protect the citizens of the United States."
Q: How do they ever get such strange beliefs from the Bible?
A: Identity followers believe that white Anglo-Saxons - not Jews - are the real Biblical ''Chosen People;'' that Jews are descendants of a sexual union between Eve and Satan; that the white race is superior to others, and that Blacks and other nonwhite races are ''mud people'' on the same level as animals, and therefore have no souls.
A: The Identity Church movement promotes the view that Christianity, when properly understood, supports anti-Semitic and racist beliefs and extremist violence. In actuality, of course, the Identity version of Christianity completely distorts traditional Christian teachings.
A: This system of beliefs is called Christian Identity, and adherence to it is probably the single greatest common denominator among all the various fragmented factions of the radical right wing in America. It is practices by the neo-Nazis of the Aryan Nations, by the leaders of the Militia of Montana, and by remnants of the Ku Klux Klan in the South.
A: these groups are like the gracekilling Pharisees who sincerely thought they were pleasing God when they killed Christ. Recall Paul got saved out of this group.
Most Identity believers agree on five basic premises: 1) White people (Aryans) are the Israelites of the Old Testament. 2) The Jews are literal descendants of Satan. 3) Adam and Eve were not, as mainstream Christianity teaches, the first people. They were the first white people. 4) All non-Whites (blacks, Asians, Middle Easteners, etc.) are descendants of pre-Adamic races and make up an entirely different species than Caucasians. 5) Armageddon, which be will a race war between whites and non-whites, is fast approaching. Source: http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c106.html
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A convicted sex offender charged with murdering one California teenager and under investigation for another killing violated his parole by moving too close to a school but was allowed to remain free, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
Had John Albert Gardner III been returned to prison in 2007 he would have been evaluated for commitment to a state mental hospital as a sexually violent predator. He also would have qualified for wearing an electronic tracking device for the rest of his life.
"It was just an incompetent decision that didn't protect public safety," said state Sen. George Runner, who wrote Jessica's Law, the sex offender law approved by voters in 2006.
"And now we have, what, two victims and who knows what else is out there?" he said.
The parole records show state officials found Gardner illegally living within a half-mile of a school in September 2007 and decided to keep him on parole. The records show at least five later violations, the last on Sept. 8, 2008, just 18 days before Gardner was let go from parole supervision and his location-tracking GPS bracelet removed from his ankle.
Each time, the decision was "COP:" Continue on Parole.
"All the indications were there saying that this was a very serious situation," said Nancy Kincaid, spokeswoman for the state Department of Mental Health. "A very serious evaluation would have been followed all the way through."
Gardner's attorney, Michael John Popkins, did not return a telephone message. He is under a court-ordered gag order not to talk about the case.
Gardner, 30, served five years in prison and three years of parole after pleading guilty in 2000 to molesting a 13-year-old neighbor girl.
He pleaded not guilty last week to murdering Chelsea King, 17, whose presumed body was found March 2 buried in a park near her hometown of Poway north of San Diego.
He also is charged with assaulting a woman in the same park in December, and is a suspect but has not been charged in the disappearance of 14-year-old Amber Dubois as she walked to school in Escondido in early 2009.
Her skeletal remains were found Saturday on an Indian reservation.
"There was nothing to indicate then that he would do this, or allegedly do this," said Oscar Hidalgo, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. "I guess one can always look back, but we don't have the luxury."
In fact, Gardner was considered to be a low- or moderate-risk sex offender, based on the assessment in use at the time, Hidalgo said.
He wasn't sent back to prison in September 2007 because he corrected the residency violation by moving away from a college campus that had a day care center, Hidalgo said.
He had six other technical violations — one more than shown in the records obtained by the AP, Hidalgo said.
Four involved letting the battery on his ankle bracelet run low, one for missing a meeting with his parole officer, and one for alleged marijuana possession that couldn't be substantiated.
"These are considered minor. Quite frankly if we were to blanket the system of parolees with minor offenses, we would ... overwhelm the system. We'd close the system down," Hidalgo said.
Laura Ahearn, executive director of New York-based Parents for Megan's Law and The Crime Victims Center, said parole agents missed a chance to possibly put Gardner away for years.
"A technical violation is an opportunity to take sexual predators off the street. Most would be looking for that opportunity," she said. "He could have been confined, and this may never have happened."
If officials ruled that Gardner violated his parole, they could have sent him back to prison, though most serve only about four extra months behind bars. However, the new prison term would have extended his parole supervision.
The violation also would have put Gardner under the jurisdiction of Jessica's Law and permitted lifetime electronic monitoring. In addition, it would have permitted Gardner's evaluation as a sexually violent predator, potentially keeping him locked up in a state mental health hospital for years.
Gardner couldn't be committed to a state mental hospital after the 2000 case because the law then required at least two victims. Jessica's Law now allows evaluations after just one.
Kincaid, the mental health spokeswoman, said Gardner might have been committed for having an underlying mental disorder and a likelihood that he would reoffend. However, the law involving commitment generally requires that the victim be a stranger. In this case, his victim was a neighbor who had known and trusted him for a year.
Gardner's 2000 probation report included comments from a psychiatrist who concluded he had "significant predatory traits" and should be kept in prison for as long as possible.
Kincaid said it was unclear from the records if the traits would qualify him as a sexually violent predator under the law.
The AP independently obtained computer-generated portions of Gardner's parole record after the corrections department reported it had routinely destroyed its paper field notes a year after Gardner was released from parole.
The department disclosed Tuesday that portions of the file were transferred to Gardner's central file.
Source: http://law.rightpundits.com/?p=993
Date: Nov 29, 2009
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Source 2: http://blatheringsblog.com/?p=4642
Police are searching for Maurice Clemmons, “Person of Interest” after four Washington Police Officers, shot and killed in a Parkland coffee-shop as they were preparing for their shift, were ambushed and murdered. The four officers, Sergeant Mark Renninger, Ronald Owens, Tina Griswold, and Greg Richards all died at the scene.
The officers were all original members of the Lakewood Police Department. Between the four officers nine children were left behind. Read more about this tragic story, see pictures of the fallen officers, and see a video news report below.
Authorities are reporting that the killer may have been wounded by one of the slain officers who was able to fire shots at the suspect before he died. Police Spokesman Ed Troyer stated the following:
“There is evidence that a Lakewood Police officer fired off some shots, and we hope that he hit him,” said Troyer. “If he’s hit, that means that he’s injured somewhere with a gunshot wound.”
Troyer said local hospitals have been contacted in case the suspect seeks medical attention.
Maurice Clemmons has been identified as a “Person of Interest” in the slayings. Clemmons has a lengthy criminal history in Arkansas and was in jail in Washington until approximately six days ago. It is also being reported that Clemmons was sentenced to 95 years behind bars in Arkansas but then governor Mike Huckabee commuted the sentence after nine years.
The Lakewood Police Chief, Chief Bret Farrar, issued the following statement:
“This is a very difficult time for our families and our officers. The families will have many challenges ahead of them and we ask that their privacy be respected. Please keep our families and Lakewood Police in your prayers,”
The suspect walked into the coffee shop and acted as if he were going to order coffee when he then turned and opened fire. Two of the officers were immediately killed while sitting at their table, one officer was killed as they stood up to respond to the attacker and the fourth officer was killed after fighting with the suspect. None of the other patrons at the location were injured, and no one was robbed. It appears that the only motive the suspect had was to kill police officers. The suspect is described as a black male between 25 and 35, rough face and hair, wearing a black coat, jeans
A $10,000 reward has been offered leading to the arrest of the suspect. Searches in the area are being conducted and tracking dogs have been brought to the area in an effort to locate the suspect. The video below is from a local television station:
Thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Washington State Police Community during this difficult time. There have now been 8 officers killed in the line of duty in the past 18 months in Washington State. Pictures of these four Washington Police Officers, shot and killed in the line of duty, are above. Maurice Clemmons “Person of Interest” in this case is being sought for questioning by authorities in connection with the shootings. Anyone with information is urged to contact any Washington State police department. Obviously Maurice Clemmons is considered armed and extremely dangerous.
Blathering's Text:
here’s a statement on huckabee’s website which seems to blame the legal systems in arkansas and washington for the release of willie horton er, violent maurice clemmons:
“He was recommended for and received a commutation of his original sentence from 1990, this commutation made him parole eligible and he was then paroled by the parole board once they determined he met the conditions at that time. He was arrested later for parole violation and taken back to prison to serve his full term, but prosecutors dropped the charges that would have held him.”
well governor… it seems to me that the legal systems in both states may have failed a bit to protect its citizens but you were a part of that failure but opening the door to this violent beast in the first place.
frankly, its pretty hard to rape children or kill, in cold blood, policemen in washington state if your locked up in prison in arkansas.
Those interested in supporting the families of the slain officers are welcome to make a donation through the Lakewood Police Independent Guild (LPIG) Benevolent Fund online at http://lpig.us or send a check to:
Lakewood Police Independent Guild (LPIG) Benevolent Fund
PO Box 99579, Lakewood, WA 98499
In addition, all Forza coffee locations are accepting donations for the families of Lakewood's fallen four officers. Many of the shops baristas are also donating all of Monday's days tips to the LPIG.
Cash or checks can be made out to the Lakewood Police Independent Guild (LPIG).
Those with information on the crime should call the Pierce County Sheriff's Department at 866-977-2362.
SEATTLE -- The man police said gunned down four Lakewood police officers Sunday had been exhibiting bizarre behavior during an arrest in May, police documents said.
Clemmons was charged earlier this year with assaulting a police officer and raping a child, and investigators in the sex case said he was motivated by visions that he was Jesus Christ and that the world was on the verge of the apocalypse.
Documents related to those charges indicated that Clemmons had a volatile personality. In one instance, he is accused of gathering his wife and young relatives and forcing them to undress. Following May's charges, Clemmons was ordered to receive a mental health evaluation On Oct. 19. KIRO 7's partner, the News Tribune, obtained a copy of that report, which said Clemmons threatened to kill jail workers, saying, "I'll kill all you bitches," and described hallucinations in which he saw people drinking blood and eating babies.
The report said at the time of his arrest, Clemmons made "religiously-themed comments, told the officer President Obama and Lebron James are his brothers, Oprah is his sister and referred to himself as 'the beast.'"
Two psychologists concluded Clemmons was dangerous, and likely to commit future criminal acts jeopardizing public safety, but he was deemed competent to stand trial and not a candidate for voluntary commitment.
Clemmons was released after posting a combined bail of $190,000 for the two charges.
Police said they aren't sure what prompted Clemmons to shoot the four officers, who were in uniform and working on paperwork at the coffee shop just two blocks outside their jurisdiction on Sunday.
"The only motive that we have is he decided he was going to go kill police officers," Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said. He said Clemmons talked the night before the shooting about killing a group of cops and watching the news.
Clemmons was shot dead by a Seattle police officer who found Clemmons outside a stolen car on a Rainer Valley street early Tuesday.
Copyright 2009 by KIROTV.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Get Stoked Notes: can I thank God this liberal didn't get elected in 08? Would he have been any better than the Osama bin Obama we got?
Ohio police charged a convicted sexual predator with 5 counts of aggravated murder hours after four more bodies were taken from the man's backyard and a skull was removed from his basement.
Anthony Sowell, 50, also was charged Tuesday with rape, felonious assault and kidnapping, Cleveland police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said.
The gruesome new discovery comes after 6 bodies were found last week in the Sowell's house, bringing the total number discovered there to 10. Authorities do not know whether the skull belongs to an eleventh victim.
Sowell will be arraigned Wednesday.
Cadaver dogs unsuccessfully searched Sowell's backyard throughout the day, but found the remains while using a backhoe to dig up portions of the yard, Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said Tuesday night.
"It appears that this man had an insatiable appetite that he had to fill," McGrath said.
He couldn't say specifically where in the backyard the bodies were discovered or if any of them were decapitated, but said the skull was found wrapped in a paper bag in a bucket in Sowell's basement.
The police chief said he hopes the coroner’s office will be able to identify the gender of the victims by Wednesday morning.
Police will be working throughout the night, McGrath said, adding that they will be searching walls and ceilings of the house on Wednesday.
"We will do everything to confirm there is nothing else there," he said.
The county's sheriff's office routinely checked on Sowell because he was a registered sexual predator. The most recent visit was Sept. 22, according to McGrath.
Sowell is reportedly not fully cooperating with police and has asked for a lawyer.
Sowell did, however, give authorities information that led them back to his house, a high-ranking authority on the scene told Fox 8 in Cleveland.
FoxNews.com's Michelle Maskaly and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
BLACK ON BLACK CRIME DESTROYING SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS!!!
BLACK JURY NULLIFICATION IS IT SAFE TO KEEP ALLOWING THIS TO EFFECT LOCAL COURTS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD???
The jury system was established because it was felt that a panel of informed citizens, drawn at random from the community, and serving for too short a time to be corrupted, would be more likely to render a just verdict by judging both evidence and the law. Jury nullificationis the process whereby ajuryin a criminal case nullifies a law by acquitting a defendant regardless of the weight of evidence against him or her."Widely, it is any rendering of averdictby a trialjurywhich acquits a criminaldefendantdespite that defendant's violation of theletter of the law—that is, of an official rule, and especially a legislative enactment.Strictly speaking, a jury verdict which rules contrary to the letter of the law pertains only to the particular case before it is guilty of Jury nullification. Today a Jury who responds to public opinion rather than law are getting more and more frequent. Sadly their decisions in fact have the effect of writing legislation.
History & Development in the USA: Jury nullification appeared in the pre-Civil War era when juries sometimes refused to convict for violations of theFugitive Slave Act. During the 20th century, especially in theCivil Rights Movement, several all-white juries acquitted white defendants accused of murdering blacks. In the 21st century, many discussions of jury nullification center around drug laws that some consider unjust either in principle or because they are seen to discriminate against certain groups.
Problem: legal scholars claim jury nullification effects 3–4% of all jury trials who get caught up in following current public opinions or being P.C. result in the recent rise inhung juries. The only people profiting are lawyers as the effect on local neighborhoods is devastating. This evidences juries have begun to consider cases based on their own views about the validity or fairness of the laws themselves that are being judged.
Worst Case Example: TheO. J. Simpson murder casehas been described as the most publicizedcriminal trialinAmericanhistory,in whichO. J. Simpson, former NFLAmerican footballstar andactor, was brought to trial for the 1994 murder of his ex-wifeNicole Brown Simpsonand her friendRonald Goldman. Simpson was acquitted in 1995after a lengthy trial—the longest jury trial in California history. Why was Simpson able to skirt justice? A: Simpson hired a high-profile defense team led byJohnnie CochranandF. Lee Bailey.Los Angeles Countybelieved it had a solid prosecution case, but Cochran was able to persuade the jurors that there was reasonable doubt about theDNAevidence (then a relatively new type of evidence in trials) -including that the blood-sample evidence had allegedly been mishandled by lab scientists and technicians - and about the circumstances surrounding other exhibits.Cochran and the defense team also alleged other misconduct by theLos Angeles Police Department. Simpson's celebrity and the lengthy televised trial riveted national attention on the so-called "Trial of the Century". By the end of the criminal trial, national surveys showed dramatic differences between most blacks and most whites in terms of their assessment of Simpson's guilt.
Police Attacked They Try to Save Dying G20 Protester
Police officers came under attack while they tried to help a dying man at the G20 protests in London's financial district Wednesday night.
The victim was found by a member of the public unconscious in the street near the Bank of England just before 7:30 p.m.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said officers arrived on the scene to help and had to move the casualty away for urgent treatment after bottles were thrown at them by protesters.
The man was eventually pronounced dead at the hospital. According to one protester at the scene he was in his 30s. Ninety people were arrested during a first day of protests marking the summit.
The Met Police spokesman said: “A member of the public went to a police officer on a cordon in Birchin Lane, junction with Cornhill to say that there was a man who had collapsed round the corner.
WATCH COP LAND A NON PC FILM DEALING WITH THESE ISSUES
(CNN) -- A suspect has been arrested in the 1990 abduction and attempted murder of an 8-year-old Texas girl, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Houston, Texas, office said. The victim, Jennifer Schuett, is now 27. She recently shared her story with CNN in hopes of someday bringing her attacker to justice.
Schuett fought tears as she spoke at a news conference in Dickinson, Texas. "This event in my life 19 years ago was a tragic one," she said. "I want you to know I am OK. I am not a victim but instead victorious."
She continued, "I hope that my case will remain as a reminder to all victims of violent crime to never give up hope ... With determination and by using your voice to speak out, you are capable of anything."
Dennis Earl Bradford, a welder, was arrested 6:50 a.m. Tuesday in Little Rock, Arkansas, authorities said. He was on his way to work, and his wife was in the car with him.
DNA and other forensic testing led to him, authorities said. His DNA profile was in the FBI database due to a conviction in Arkansas.
Dunlap thanked CNN for publicizing the story and said investigators "received lots of tips and good reaction." But advances in forensic testing led directly to the arrest, she said.
Schuett was abducted from her bedroom, raped and left for dead August 10,1990. She spoke with CNN two weeks ago.
CNN normally does not identify victims of sexual assaults. But Schuett decided to go public with her story -- and her name -- to increase the chances of finding and prosecuting her attacker.
"It's not about me anymore," she told CNN in September. "It's about all the little girls that go to sleep at night. I know there are so many girls out there who have been raped and hurt. You have to fight back."
"I remember everything; I've always wanted to remember everything so I can find the person that did this," Schuett said. "If I had blocked this out of my memory, the investigation wouldn't have come this far. I'm a fighter."
Schuett says she was alone in her bed when a man crept in through a window. She remembers waking up in a stranger's arms as he carried her across a dark parking lot.
She said he told her he was an undercover cop and knew her family.
He drove her through the streets of Dickinson, Texas, pulling into a mechanic's shop next to her elementary school.
"Watch the moon. The moon will change colors, and that is when your mom will come to get you," she recalled him saying. "Oh, it looks like she is not coming."
Schuett said he drove her to an overgrown field next to the school and sexually assaulted her.
She passed out. When she regained consciousness, she was lying naked on top of an ant hill with her throat slashed from ear to ear, and her voice box torn.
She was found at 6 p.m. on a hot August day after lying in the field for nearly 12 hours. She was rushed to a hospital in critical condition.
"Three days after the attack, I started giving a description. The doctors told me I would never be able to talk again, but I proved them all wrong," Schuett said. She believes she got her voice back so she could tell her story.
Houston FBI Special Agent Richard Rennison is one of the lead investigators in the case, along with Dickinson police Detective Tim Cromie.
Both men were discussing the case when Rennison received a memo from the FBI's Child Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD) team seeking child abduction cases that had gone cold and could be retested for DNA evidence. Schuett's was one of the cases selected.
Rennison, who has 10 years of experience in child abduction cases, said he has never seen a case like Schuett's.
"This is the only one that I can think of that the victim has suffered some traumatic injuries and survived," he said, "The main reason the CARD team picked this case was because she was alive. In cases of child abduction, it is rare that the child is recovered alive. Frequently, you recover a body. And most times, you never find them."
The investigators found evidence collected 19 years ago, which was retested. It included the underwear and pajamas Schuett was wearing, as well as a man's underwear and T-shirt, which were found in the field where Schuett was left for dead.
The clothes were tested in 1990, but the sample wasn't large enough for conclusive results. But now, modern techniques allow DNA to be isolated from a single human cell. They were still awaiting the results when CNN featured Schuett's story in late September.
SAFE SCHOOL ZCAR OBAMA APPOINTEE LAUDED NAMBLA FIGURE By: Mark Tapscott WASHINGTON EXAMINER.COM Editorial Page Editor Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-appointee-lauded-NAMBLA-figure-63115112.html 10/5/2009 9:22 AM
Date 10/01/09 12:40 PM EDT
Kevin Jennings, President Obama's Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug FreeSchools at the U.S. Department of Education, is in hot water this week for having failed to report that a 15-year-old sophomore student in his school had told him of having sex with an older man.
But failure to report what appeared to be a case of statuatory rape of a child may be the least of Jennings' worries. Lori Roman of Regular Folks United points to statements by Jennings a decade or more ago when he praised Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.
Roman provides damning details and links here. She also notes that Jennings wrote the forward "to a book called Queering Elementary Education. And another fellow you may have heard of wrote one of the endorsements on the book jacket—Bill Ayers." Ayers, of course, is the Weather Underground bomber from the 1960s who is just an "acquaintance" of Obama.
Every presidential administration ends up with scandals inspired by controversial appointees, but typically those tend to revolve around financial improprieties, conflicts of interest, or some other form of white-collar misconduct. For Obama, the scandals seem to be develping in a pattern of disclosures revolving around radical left ideology that raises questions about their fitness for any job in government. And that in turn raises the inevitable question: Is nobody minding the White House personnel store?
UPDATE: Who was Harry Hay?
Folks at Media Matters are agitated by the above post and others pointing out Jennings' praise of Harry Hay and the latter's link to NAMBLA. Hay was not an employee or official of NAMBLA, but was during his later years, according to his entry on Wikipedia, a frequent defender of the group, including this 1983 statement: "[I]f the parents and friends of gays are truly friends of gays, they would know from their gay kids that the relationship with an older man is precisely what thirteen-, fourteen-, and fifteen-year-old kids need more than anything else in the world." MM has a point - Jennings praise of Hay was not specifically in the context of the latter's support of NAMBLA. Readers will decide for themselves whether it is appropriate for an individual who publicly praised an advocate of pedophilia to be appointed Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for Safe and Drug-Free Schools.
Q: Who is NAMBLA? "Support Group for Intergenerational Relationships"
A: Wiki note: The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a New York City and San Francisco-based unincorporated organization in the United States that advocates the liberalization of laws against sexual relations between adult and minor males - resolving to "end the oppression of men and boys who have freely chosen mutually consenting relationships". Since 1995, public criticism and law enforcement infiltration have heavily impaired the organization. NAMBLA describes itself as a "support group for intergenerational relationships," and uses the slogan "sexual freedom for all." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMBLA 10/5/2009 9:02 AM.
Q: What Are They Doing?
A: Founded national gay pride marches: "NAMBLA walks with me" a 1986 gay pride march in Los Angeles.
A; Their Last Public Meeting: passed a resolution saying: "(1) The North American Man/Boy Love Association calls for the abolition of age-of-consent and all other laws which prevent men and boys from freely enjoying their bodies. (2) We call for the release of all men and boys imprisoned by such laws." This policy was still in NAMBLA's "official position papers" in 1996.
A: organized the first gay march on Washington in 1979. In addition to forming several working committees, the conference was responsible for drafting the basic organizing principles of the march ("the five demands" Flyer for March on Washington [see p. 23]). Originally, the Gay Youth Caucus had won approval for its proposal demanding "Full Rights for Gay Youth, including revision of the age of consent laws."
A: In 1980 a group called the "Lesbian Caucus – Lesbian & Gay Pride March Committee" distributed a hand-out urging women to split from the annual New York City Gay Pride March because the organizing committee had supposedly been dominated by NAMBLA and its supporters.
Q: Are They as Harmless as They Claim? A: In December 1977, police raided a house in the Boston suburb of Revere. Twenty-four men were arrested and indicted on over 100 felony counts of the statutory rape of boys aged eight to fifteen. Suffolk County District Attorney Garrett Byrne found that the men used drugs and video games to lure the boys into a house, where they photographed them as they engaged in sexual activity. A: The men were members of a "sex ring", and said that the arrest was only "the tip of the iceberg." The arrests sparked intense media coverage, and local newspapers published the photographs and personal information of the accused men. The men were members of a "sex ring", and said that the arrest was only "the tip of the iceberg." A: According to Roy Radow, a NAMBLA principal and one of the many NAMBLA members being sued by the parents of Jeffrey Curley in Curley v. NAMBLA (for allegedly encouraging the rape and murder of their son), NAMBLA has opposed corporal punishment, rape, and kidnapping, and has declared that sexual exploitation is grounds for expulsion from the group.
A: A "sex ring" of underage boys brought intense media scrutiny in Boston in the closing weeks of 1977, and police raided the Toronto-area gay newspaper The Body Politic for publishing an article by Gerald Hannon titled "Men Loving Boys Loving Men" did the subject of adult-minor sex garner enough attention to prompt the formation of a group like NAMBLA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMBLA 10/5/2009 9:02 AM.
Q: What Was this Big Problem for NAMBLA?
A: The arrests sparked intense media coverage, and local newspapers published the photographs and personal information of the accused men. NAMBLA members have been charged with and convicted of sexual offenses against children.
A: Larry Frisoli an opposing attorney charged NAMBLA is a "training ground" for adults who wish to seduce children, in which men exchange strategies on how to find and groom child sex partners.’’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMBLA 10/5/2009 9:02 AM.
A: Curley v. NAMBLA was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 2000, by Barbara and Robert Curley against the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). Their 10-year-old son, Jeffrey Curley, was the victim of a 1997 murder by two men, Salvatore Sicari and Charles Jaynes. The men took Jeffrey to the Boston Public Library and accessed NAMBLA's website. At least one of the men, Jaynes, later attempted to sexually assault Curley. When the boy fought back, Jaynes gagged him with a gasoline-soaked rag and eventually killed him. Jaynes then sexually assaulted his corpse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curley_v._NAMBLA 10/5/2009 9:14 AM.
Q: Who is Defending NAMBLA?
A: In April 2005, the wrongful death cases was still being considered by a Massachusetts federal court, with the American Civil Liberties Union assisting the defendants on the grounds that the suit violated their First Amendment rights to free speech.
A: The American Civil Liberties Union stepped in to defend NAMBLA as a free speech matter and won a dismissal based on the fact that NAMBLA is organized as an unincorporated association, not a corporation. [John Reinstein, the director of the ACLU Massachusetts.]
Q: What are Unintended Consequences for the United States Federal Government to Hire anyone Who Defends in any way the amazing existence of a group like NAMBLA?
A: High School Student Elizabeth Smart: I Was Raped Daily SALT LAKE CITY – Taking the stand for the first time since she was snatched from her girlhood bedroom seven years ago, Elizabeth Smart testified Thursday that her captor raped her three or four times a day, kept her tied up with a cable around her leg, and threatened to kill her if she tried to escape. http://www.thefoxnation.com/elizabeth-smart/2009/10/01/elizabeth-smart-i-was-raped-daily 10/5/2009 9:20 AM.
A: Read the case language for yourself at: http://www.thecpac.com/Curleys-v-NAMBLA.html 10/5/2009 10:12 AM. The Curley family’s research developed 19 counts against Obama’s friends at NAMBLA.
A: Legal delays are preventing this family from getting their day in court. We know the ACLU developed tactics now being used by rich mob type clients. One problem are in the way some of the individuals being sued have homeowners insurance they are tapping to pay attorneys. As an aside don’t insurers have waiver clauses that prevent paying for felons legal fees. If I remember from contract law 101 no contract is legal if it includes illegal activities.
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Obama Junta Safe School Zsar NAMBLA Defender, Jerry Stokes 2009-10-05 http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUjE9taMWseFZGh0Z3piYjdfMzJjZHF6eHpoYg&hl=en
Medical Examiner: Body Found Is Missing Yale Graduate Student
A body found stuffed in the wall of a Yale university building has been indentified as missing graduate student Annie Le, New Haven police said Monday.
Authorities, who have ruled Le's death a homicide, said they do not believe the 24-year-old bride-to-be was a random target.
Le was last seen on surveillance video Tuesday entering the five-story laboratory building in Yale's medical complex, where she worked as a graduate pharmacology student.
Police told the Associated Press Monday that the killing of the person whose body was found in the wall was "not a random act" — and said they don't believe that anyone else on the campus is in danger.
Authorities on Saturday also found bloody clothes above floor tiles in the basement of the building, which police sources say likely belonged to the killer.
Yale President Richard Levin offered support to Le's family and her fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The couple was to marry Sunday in Syosset, N.Y., on Long Island's north shore.
"The family and fiance and friends now must suffer the additional ordeal of waiting for the body to be positively identified," Levin said.
The university has also planned an evening prayer vigil for Le at 8 p.m. Monday on Yale's main campus. An e-mail sent to the Yale community invites participants to "bring a candle and join us in solidarity," the Yale Daily News reported.
In an e-mail statement sent to FOXNews.com, Yale's vice president Linda Lorimar said the university was taking extra security precautions — including added security personnel and a new bicycle patrol — to ensure students' safety.
Police on Monday would not say if they have any suspects. They previously have said Widawsky is not a suspect and is assisting with the investigation. New Haven Assistant Police Chief Peter Reichard said police recovered "a large amount" of physical evidence, but he would not discuss what that included.
Last winter, Le, of Placerville, Calif., wrote a magazine article about how to stay safe around Yale's campus. The article, titled "Crime and Safety in New Haven," was published in February in a magazine produced by the university's medical school. It compares higher instances of robbery in New Haven with cities that house other Ivy League schools and includes an interview with Yale Police Chief James Perrotti, who offers advice such as "pay attention to where you are" and "avoid portraying yourself as a potential victim."
"In short, New Haven is a city and all cities have their perils," Le concludes. "But with a little street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic."
Le was reported missing last Tuesday. Surveillance video shows her arriving at around 10 a.m., but police could find no video of Le leaving, despite some 75 surveillance cameras operating around the complex. Her ID, money, credit cards and purse were found in her third-floor office.
More than 100 local, state and federal police had been searching the building for days, using blueprints to uncover any place where evidence or Le's body could be hidden.
On Sunday morning, a state police van drove down a ramp into the building's basement area. Authorities also sifted through garbage at a Hartford incinerator Sunday, looking through trash that was taken from the building in the days since Le went missing.
Le's disappearance weighed heavily on Yale students, who prayed for her safe return Sunday at The University Church on Yale's campus.
"It has brought up a lot of fears for people," the Rev. Ian Buckner Oliver said just before he gave the Sunday morning sermon. "It has brought up a lot of worry and concern for her and for all our safety."
Bjorn Cooley, a 20-year-old Yale student from Oregon, said he heard the news that a body had been found while studying in his room Sunday night.
"Before they found the body, I still had hope she had just disappeared," Cooley said. "I was looking for some sort of quasi-happy ending to this whole thing."
Stoked note crime fighting: there is irony in the fact that this young woman just completed an assignment in her local student press giving advice about keeping out of crime stats. Did her article waken a local predator???
Truth Justice & the American Way? Does it Still Exist
