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Operation Bennett Trifecta Kudos — Kudos to the Chester Police Department, Pennsylvania State Police Troop K Vice Unit, and the Delaware County Criminal Investigation Division for busting up a long-running cocaine ring in the city’s Ruth L. Bennett Homes housing project.
Fifteen were arrested and city life got just a little bit better.
The investigation was named Operation Bennett Trifecta.
A list of those arrested can be found here.
Bill Cosby Charged Says Biz Journal — The Philadelphia Business Journal has just reported that Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman has charged disgraced celebrity Bill Cosby with aggravated indecent assault for a 2004 incident in which he allegedly sexually attacked Andrea Constand at his Cheltenham home after drugging her with wine and pills. Ms. Constand was then the director of operations for Temple University’s women’s basketball team.
The charge is a first degree felony which means that if convicted the Cos theoretically faces a 20 year sentence in a state prison.
This is a racial thing. If Cosby was a white guy like Bill Clinton, his wife would be running for president and he’d still be going hey, hey, hey.
Kathleen Kane And Media Failure — Kathleen Kane is an historic figure. She is the first woman and the first Democrat to be elected Pennsylvania’s attorney general. She is also the first Pennsylvania attorney general to have her law license suspended.
Truly a unique legacy.
The law license suspension came after she was charged with multiple counts of obstructing administration of law and official oppression, along with perjury and false swearing relating to leaks from the grand jury investigation the Jerry Sandusky child abuse matter. She had been implying that then Gov. Tom Corbett had handled it inappropriately, something for which Corbett has since been conclusively exonerated it should be noted.
Leaking grand jury information is a big no-no in our judicial system and rightfully so, but it’s not as though that was the only questionable thing she did in her short career as the person responsible for enforcing Pennsylvania’s laws. She refused to refused to defend Pennsylvania’s gay-marriage prohibition in court declaring it unconstitutional — a declaration that was not in her purview to make — and shut down a corruption investigation into Philadelphia politicians which was subsequently re-opened by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams who managed to obtain several guilty pleas.
With all this grief falling on her head, our princess fought back. She said it was all a conspiracy by powerful men who spent their days sending pornography and racist jokes to each other via email. Quick quiz: did any of you gentle readers ever send or receive something a tad inappropriate via email? Of course not. However, it now appears that Ms. Kane certainly received them herself and her twin sister, Ellen Granahan, who heads her child predator unit, not only got them but passed them on.
So what was this woman thinking when she made her counter-charges and hurt the lives of others who were just trying to do their jobs? How can a person of such character end up with such a powerful and important job?
Well, she was sort of pretty and that’s not to be discounted, but so is Sarah Palin.
The real reason is that Ms. Kane’s claims and character were never questioned by the media gate-keepers who we trust to do such things. Maybe they were afraid of being called sexist. Maybe they actually supported her philosophy that traditions are foolish and government is the greater good. Maybe both. Regardless, they took her at her word when she said that she cared, and would look out for children and the little guy, and fight corruption.
It should be noted that the same thing dynamics were in play with Barack Obama and are in play with Hillary Clinton.
That should make us all afraid.
Bob Small sent me a note regarding comments made by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee this morning (Nov. 29) on CNN’s “State of the Union” concerning Friday’s shootings at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.
“What he did is domestic terrorism, and what he did is absolutely abominable, especially to us in the pro-life movement, because there’s nothing about any of us that would condone or in any way look the other way on something like this,” Huckabee said.
Megadittos Governor. No decent person can defend this sickness.
We are still not quite willing to give the incident the T label until more information comes out as we may find that the shooter, 57-year-old Richard Dear, might fall into the “I hear voices” category rather than someone with a religious or political agenda.
It has been learned to the dismay of some that Dear, an ugly bearded man, identified himself as a woman on his voter registration form and did not affiliate with a political party.
He also has a long history of violence and petty violations.
It seems wiser to have the taxonomy of evil categorize “terrorism” as something requiring more planning than whim else just about every act of violence could be labeled such.
And the police have been careful about speculating about Dear’s motive.
Regardless, Dear is scum and as he was taken alive we will soon learn his motives and the amount of thought he put into the attack.
And here’s a quite inappropriate but rather important question for those of us concerned about the integrity of the voting process to ask: Was Dear, who identified himself as a female voter, allowed to vote?
Kudos to Chester, Pa. as it has made Answers.com’s list of the top 10 places to avoid in the U.S.
Also, making the list is Camden, N.J. so if you live in the Philadelphia area there are two places to avoid that are but a short drive away.
Michigan is the top state with three places to avoid as Saginaw, Flint and, everybody’s favorite, Detroit, have placements.
The Springfield Police and the Citizens Crime Commission are offering a $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the man who robbed the Rite Aid store at 176 Saxer Ave., Springfield, Pa.
The crime occurred at 8:20 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 15.
The thief displayed a black handgun and forced the employees into the office where he took an undetermined amount of cash and fled.
He is described as black, in his 20s about 5-6 and with a long goatee or beard. He had an athletic build, was wearing a light-colored button-down shirt, olive cargo pants, a yellow camouflage-patterned buck hat and had a black bag over his shoulder.
Anyone with information should contact Springfield Township Detective Robert Nutley at 610-544-5506.
A 21-year-old twisted soul named Dylann Roof last night, June 17, reportedly murdered nine persons during a prayer service at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C.
Roof is white and the people he killed were black.
“We believe this is a hate crime; that is how we are investigating it,” said Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen, in what might have been the dumbest quote ever made by a law enforcement official.
Mullen’s politically correct statement demeans evil. It wasn’t name calling that Roof is alleged to have done but cold blooded mass murder of kind people.
In Mullen’s defense, he probably had other things on his mind when he said it but what happened last night is no different that what ISIS does routinely in the Mideast. You want to call what they do “hate crime”? The phrasing of Pope Francis is far better. What happened at the Emanuel AME Church was not a “hate crime” but Satanic barbarism.
Racism appears to be Roof’s motive but don’t consider the victims black or Roof white. The victims are persons as is Roof. Roof is one who has (allegedly) chosen evil.
Skin color is meaningless. The only people to whom it matters are those who want to manipulate others for their own gain.
Forgive the fudging i.e “allegedly” regarding Roof but we remember initially misidentifying the shooter from Sandy Hook.
Michael Cottone has published an article in the Tennessee Law Review describing how literally no one now can keep the centuries-old principle ignorantia legis neminem excusat 
i.e. ignorance of the law excuses no one.
He noted that it was a great thing in its day when laws were few and based on a commonly understood morality.
Today, however, with the advent of “regulatory crime”, which are laws written to enforce administrative schemes and called “public welfare offenses”, literally nobody can know what all the laws are.
He cited as an example a guy who got lost on a snowmobile during a blizzard and ended up on federal land where snowmobiling was illegal. Rather than be cut slack he was prosecuted. That sort of thing does not happen in a just society.
Traditionally one needed intent to become a criminal.
“Tellingly, no exact count of the number of federal statutes that impose criminal sanctions has ever been given, but estimates from the last fifteen years range from 3,600 to approximately 4,500,” Cottone said.
Cottone notes that Congress, according to one study, enacts 60 new criminal statues a year and this does not include new regulations that carry a criminal penalty.
“Our criminal justice system fails to be “understandable” so as to comport with the internal morality of law—especially because of the highly technical nature of regulations,” he wrote.
Reforms are needed desperately.
Abuse of the legal process is by definition unjust and those entrusted to uphold it yet abuse it will face an inevitable backlash.
Cottone’s article can be found as a pdf download at this link.
Former Maryland State Police head Marcus Brown is the man Gov. Tom Wolf wants to run the Pennsylvania State Police and it is not sitting well with the rank and file.
Brown, 50, has chosen to wear the organization’s uniform despite never having been graduated from the State Police Academy. This is a big cultural taboo. That he has chosen to wear it shows a lack of understanding of the organization he has been picked to lead, which is a strike against him but would leave him with two more. That he is insisting on wearing it, however, shows pointless arrogance and ought to be enough to disqualify him.
Among the reasons Wolf has picked Brown is his “commitment to diversity”. The Pennsylvania State Police has had an affirmative action program for blacks and women for decades. We’d find it more comforting if Wolf’s primary goal was safe streets and highways.
Chalk this under the category that there is a lot of sick stuff out there you just don’t think goes on. Trucker Kevin Kimmel was sitting in his rig at the Pilot Flying J Travel Center in Providence Forge, Va. and saw a frightened young girl looking out the window of an RV with black drapes.
Other activity led to further suspicion and he called 911. Authorities found an Iowa couple — Aldair Hodza and Laura Sorenson — and the girl, who was actually age 20. She showed signs of being tortured with puncture wounds on the tops of her feet consistent with nails being hammered into her flesh and numerous burns on her abdomen, groin and back consistent with being struck and stamped with a hot metal key.
Hodza and Ms. Sorenson are facing federal charges of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, according to CBS Richmond affiliate WTVR.
Kimmel said he is the father and grandfather of daughters and wasn’t going to let things pass.