3 Boxes of BS

Or Our Federal Government at Work Slacking off?

Really, folks — let’s think about our priorities here.
Federal agents have identified people in the country illegally, good.
They’ve processed the paperwork to start the deportation court proceedings, good.
Then the Obama Administration makes a decision to review those cases, Uh-Oh.

The Department of Homeland Security is systematically reviewing thousands of pending immigration cases and moving to dismiss those filed against suspected illegal immigrants who have no serious criminal records, according to several sources familiar with the efforts.

Every time I think the Obama Administration can’t do anything else to leave me dazed and confused, they prove me wrong.

Gonzalez said DHS attorneys are conducting the reviews on a case-by-case basis. However, he said they are following general guidelines that allow for the dismissal of cases for defendants who have been in the country for two or more years and have no felony convictions.

In some instances, defendants can have one misdemeanor conviction, but it cannot involve a DWI, family violence or sexual crime, Gonzalez said.

Given how often cases are plea bargained down, charges dismissed; this really doesn’t give me a warm and fuzzy sense of comfort.

Patterns of criminal behavior usually don’t just stop and change for the better so I’m a little concerned about such a generous criteria being used.

I wondered why the administration would do something like this, then I read these two paragraphs.

Gonzalez called the dismissals a necessary step in unclogging a massive backlog in the immigration court system. In June, there were more than 248,000 cases pending in immigration courts across the country, including about 23,000 in Texas, according to data compiled by researchers at Syracuse University.

In a June 30 memo, ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton outlined the agency’s priorities, saying it had the capacity to remove about 400,000 illegal immigrants annually — about 4 percent of the estimated illegal immigrant population in the country. The memo outlines priorities for the detention and removal system, putting criminals and threats to national security at the top of the list.

So instead of stepping up our ability to remove people who are in the country illegally, let’s put a cap on the number of people we deport each year….a paltry 4%????

I don’t see any other conclusion for this other then it is a step in the process to grant amnesty to illegal aliens.

Maybe the should take the time, energy and money being spend on BackScatter Vans and add a few more people to ICE or even change the law removing firearm licensing requirements and add those people to immigration control.

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On the evening of July 30, armed men entered the village of Ruvungi, in North Kivu Province.

“They told the population that they were just there for food and rest and that they shouldn’t worry,” said Will F. Cragin, the International Medical Corps’ program coordinator for North Kivu, who visited the village a week after their arrival.

“Then after dark another group came,” said Mr. Cragin, referring to between 200 and 400 armed men who witnesses described as spending days and nights looting Ruvungi and nearby villages.

The gun control crowd — those I call anti-rights advocates – are very big on the whole ‘give them what they want and don’t fight back’ idea.

I have notice they tend to say so from the safety of their  homes – protected by the firearms of their neighbors, the law enforcement and the military.

And what did those villagers get from following the anti’s advice?

A mob of Rwandan rebels gang-raped at least 150 women last month during a weekend raid on a community of villages in eastern Congo, United Nations and other humanitarian officials said Sunday.

“They began to systematically rape the population,” he said, adding, “Most women were raped by two to six men at a time.”

The attackers often took the victims into the bush or into their homes, raping them “in front of their children and their families,” Mr. Cragin said. “If a car passed, they would hide.”

Wonder why they would hide from a car, could it be they feared someone who would fight back?

When the thief is in the house, there isn’t time to run out, buy a firearm and learn to use it.
When the rapists are brutalizing your wife, daughter, friends and neighbors; there isn’t time to run out, buy a firearm and learn to use it.

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms should be protected instead being subjected of ridiculous restrictions (can you say Chicago and Washington D.C.?).

Because no one should have to be subjected to things like what happened in that village without the opportunity to fight back.

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There is an increase in problems at night with small gangs roaming around looking for the right prey…

Incidences of “wilding” have increased and people have talked about it on the controversial unofficial blog of the Chicago Police Department, (see More Wildings) www.secondcitycop.blogspot.com

Great blog/site if you’ve never read it.

Coming back to the John Hancock to pick up my car at around 9PM, I noticed several little bands of four to five juveniles walking around sizing up people as they walked down the streets. Luckily we were already in our car, but I could sense that these “gangsta wannabes” were up to no good.

Have you heard about the incidents of “wilding”?

Most people haven’t, even in Chicago — it isn’t getting much coverage.

Wouldn’t you like to have more then a little bitty can of pepper spray with you if approached by 4 or 5 “gansta wannabes” ?

Chicago police say they responded to a fight, the assault of a jogger, and a gang-related shooting all within about three hours Monday night along the lakefront between Fullerton and North Avenues.

Six teens and two adults were arrested.

Most people would, but seeing how this is Chicago — forget about it.

Too bad average citizens don’t have the same rights as the law enforcement officers do

Do you now need a .357 Magnum to walk down the Mag Mile? Maybe a compact .45 or a high-capacity 9MM “just to be on the safe side” is more what you should have. Even the police are telling each other that they better “carry large caliber” off-duty and not be caught unarmed.

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It started with a thug with a knife but I can’t even begin to figure out how many lives were impacted.

Here is video from a local station of what I’m talking about.

And it shines a on the Lies of the Antis — it’s not just property, it’s people’s lives that are being impacted.

One Woman

The incident began about 2 p.m. Wednesday when a woman called 911 to report that as she left the Sheraton Hotel parking lot in the 1500 block of Calhoun Street in Fort Worth, a man walked up to the driver’s side window of her Chevrolet pickup, reached inside and demanded her keys, a Fort Worth police news release stated.

The man showed the woman that he had a knife and grabbed her purse and keys. The woman got out of the truck, and the robber got in and drove away. She was not injured, the news release stated.

The City

Reyes said Browne had carjacked the pickup in Fort Worth on Wednesday and committed a violent robbery in Dallas early Thursday. In fact, Reyes said, he is suspected in a string of violent crimes.

Let’s see — if he hadn’t been stopped trying to steal the car, is it likely he would have committed a violent robbery on Thursday?

I don’t have details about who was robbed, but do you think it was someone who could afford to loose the money? I don’t.

How many lives did this crime impact?

Nope, again ‘reasonable gun control’ laws contribute not to decreasing crime but its increase.

Early on in the pursuit, one of the rear tires on Browne’s vehicle blew out, and the entire rim soon came off. However, he continued driving on the axle for the duration of the chase, carving a deep groove into the streets on which he drove.

How money out of people’s pocket will go to repair the damage caused by this thug instead of being used to keep libraries or swimming pools open?

How many lives did this crime impact?

The chase wound through Dallas in the middle of the afternoon — took about an hour to cover 15 miles from Arapaho Road to Love field.

It ran through residential and business areas, it even went by a hospital.

How many lives did this crime impact?

The Airport

This is where the ripple effect really starts adding up on a national level.

9 Flights on the tarmac delayed up to 20 minutes, planes forced to delay landing. Doesn’t sound so bad, right?

Except when you consider the business people who were trying to get home or to that important meeting they were flying toward. How many people’s plans were changed, how many thousands of dollars were lost due to the actions of one thug?

How many lives did this crime impact?

Thousands of dollars in sales, in salaries; in deals which fed families or put kids through school.

How many lives did this crime impact?

School is about to start — how many people missed taking their kids to doctor’s appointments or had to wait longer.

The Truth

The sequence started with a woman doing what the antis recommend — giving up a truck because it is only property.

Except that is really isn’t ‘just property’ now is it?

Subtitle — a lesson in Victim Selection Failure.

McKINNEY, Texas — A gunman who pulled into a suburban Dallas police station parking lot with a trailer loaded with explosives, set fire to his pickup truck, then started shooting at the building was apparently hoping for a massacre, police say

He was armed or as most of the reports say “heavily armed”

Investigators found an assault rifle, a shotgun and a handgun on Sharp.

Sharp may have intended to lure people from the police station so that he could shoot at them from a field across the street where he had taken position, Kowalski said. He also may have intended to kill them by blowing up the trailer, he said.

Or does the intent?

Weer’d Beard has been running a series of posts about violent deaths where the instrument of choice was not a firearm.

I decided not to send this one to him but post about it myself. My excuse is that it happened here; like on the roads I travel on. My wife works off of West Lancaster and Rosedale. We travel on 287 occasionally. I work north of down town, heck I was on the streets of down town last week for jury duty.

The story starts out grim — a man kidnaps and kills his ex-girlfriend’s mother.

Police had been searching for Robertson since College Station police alerted them that he was suspected of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend’s mother from a College Station Walmart and stabbing her.

The body of the mother, 59-year-old Anne Toliver, was later found in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 4000 block of Camp Bowie Boulevard.

Later, officers found Toliver’s body. She had been stabbed multiple times, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office.

Notice how he avoided the other cars and aimed directly at the police car — even when the cop tried to get out of the way?

Officer Kerry Gober was treated for injuries at a hospital and was released Sunday, police said.

Robertson remained hospitalized Monday under police guard. In addition to a capital murder charge, he faces a Tarrant County charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with Gober’s injuries.

I hope the police also charge Robertson with reckless endangerment for every car on the road and definitely for the 6 cars he passed while driving the wrong way. I believe if he had brandished a firearm at 6 people passing by he would have been charged, don’t you?

Violent thugs will find a way to be violent thugs; either with or without firearms. Making firearms harder to obtain and carry for everyone else only gives the advantage to the thugs. Really makes you wonder if that isn’t the goal of the gun controllers.

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Stealing a little of Weer’d Beard’s thunder (since he’s backlogged) I present you a story in his category of “Gun Death“.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas doctor accused of seeking revenge on a state medical board that repeatedly disciplined him was found guilty Monday of masterminding a homemade bomb attack that disfigured and partially blinded the board’s chairman.

This is bad enough….a homemade bomb that could have done more then injury the victim, it could have killed the victim or his family but as usual, there is more to the story.

Mann, a federal firearms dealer

Doesn’t say what class of dealer he was — so it could have been anything from a Curio and Relic up.

also was convicted of illegally possessing 98 grenades and a machine gun. He was acquitted of illegally possessing a shotgun.

Not only did he have 98 grenades — only 1 of which was used in the bomb but he had in his possession an actual machine gun!

Here is a case where firearms were not the weapon of choice.

Regardless of what the antis tell you, restricting firearm access will not reduce violence. Criminals will find a way.

Let’s focus on criminal control for a while and see if that works, how about it?

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