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Stories of Self Defense & 2A News Guns Save Lives Weekly News Update Police – Shooting of 1 Year Old in NYC Was Likely Gang Related, Father Had Extensive Arrest Record Sep 03, 2013 06:08 am | Dan Cannon According to the New York Post, the killing of a one year old boy in Brooklyn was likely gang related. Witnesses say the shooting originated out of a “beef” the boy’s father and suspected shooter had. The 21 year old father, according to the same article has an extensive arrest record. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg […] comments | read more      Elementary School to Raffle Off Rifle to Raise Field Trip Money Sep 02, 2013 12:45 pm | Dan Cannon One North Carolina elementary school is taking an unconventional and, according to some controversial, approach to raising funds for class field trips. The school is currently auctioning off a muzzle loading rifle (similar to the one pictured) donated by a member of a local hunting organization, Delta Waterfowl. Of course, the move is raising some […] comments | read more      Colorado Governor Voices Support for Anti-Gun Senators Being Recalled Sep 02, 2013 09:18 am | Dan Cannon According to Coloradopols.com, the following is a letter from Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper issued through the Democratic National Convention. The letter shows the governor joining New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in throwing his support behind John Morse and Angela Giron, the two Colorado state senators who are in the process of being recalled for […] comments | read more      Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds New Open Carry Law Sep 01, 2013 03:11 pm | Dan Cannon Good news out of Mississippi! You might remember when we reported that a random judge in the state filed an injunction on the new law, clarifying open carry in Mississippi, and prevented it from becoming law. Well, the state’s Supreme Court has now spoken and upheld the new law. See the NRA-ILA press release below. […] comments | read more      [Video] Georgia Liquor Store Owner Shoots 1 of 2 Armed Robbers Aug 31, 2013 03:30 pm | Dan Cannon Helena, a small town in Georgia with a population of ~2,800, was the scene of a defensive gun use last Monday. According to 13WMAZ, around 4pm, 2 armed men entered the Helena Package Store. At least one of the men was armed. The store owner drew a handgun and opened fire. One of the would […] comments | read more      [Video] Gun Control Rally is Overwhelmed by Pro Gun Supporters Who Take Over Podium Aug 31, 2013 10:32 am | Dan Cannon You know, we keep hearing about how 90% of the country supports expanded background checks, and a majority support new gun control. However, whenever it comes to actually taking action, those alleged supporters are nowhere to be found. Often, participants at anti-gun rallies are outnumbered by organizers and the media. A rally in support of […] comments | read more      BREAKING: ATF Guts NFA Trusts, Wants to Require CLEO Sign-off For Every Person Listed on Trust Aug 30, 2013 02:53 pm | Dan Cannon With yesterday’s executive actions by the president, and rumors floating around about the ATF’s new recommendations for the acquisition of NFA items (short barreled rifles/shotguns, silencers, machine guns, etc), we knew something like this was coming. However, what everyone expected was for the ATF to remove the ability of Revokable Living Trusts and Corporations to […] comments | read more      BREAKING: Obama Orders 2 More Anti-Gun Executive Actions, Will Affect Numerous Gun Owners Aug 29, 2013 11:15 am | Dan Cannon Just days after promising a group a mayors more executive action on gun control, President Obama has made good on his threat. According to the Washington Times, the president has ordered two executive actions. 1) Banning the re-importation of military surplus firearms to private entities This effectively cuts off a source of quality, inexpensive firearms […] comments | read more      BREAKING: Springfield Issues Safety Recall for XDS-9 and XDS-45 Pistols Aug 28, 2013 06:30 pm | Dan Cannon Just days after Smith and Wesson issued a safety warning on their Shield line of pistols, Springfield Armory has issued a voluntary recall on their XDS 9mm and .45ACP pistols. Find the safety release from Springfield below. You can also view their original announcement on their website. Begin Press Release Springfield Armory® is initiating this […] comments | read more      Two LA Deputies Suspended After Getting Drunk, Arguing With Each Other and Firing Guns Into Air Aug 28, 2013 05:10 pm | Dan Cannon Many anti-gunners would have it so that only law enforcement officers could have guns. Stories like the following one illustrate why that’s problematic (and not meant to be an insult to the majority of officers who do a good job handling their responsibilities on a daily basis). Apparently, two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies were […] comments | read more       follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2013 GunsSaveLives.net, All rights reserved.  You signed up on our website to be notified when the new forum launched  Our mailing address is:  GunsSaveLives.net 2126 East Victory Dr St 138 Savannah, GA 31401 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser

Is this a great country or what?

 

So, Jesse Jackson, Jr. 17 year veteran of the US Congress, suddenly gets a "mood disorder" (about the same time he learned he was to be indicted) and is going to prison for 2.5 years. Because his "mood disorder" was so severe, he has become disabled and will receive $8700 per month as a disability payment as well as $45000 a year from his congressional pension, a total of about $150K per year.

 

Is this a great country or what?

 

By the way, I have had a rather substantial "mood disorder disability" ever since Obama got elected in 2008. I have not committed any felonies, have not been convicted and sentenced to prison and I don't get squat - other than a higher and higher tax bill every year and the privilege of watching our federal deficit grow every day of the year.

 

Jesse Jackson Jr. to Grab $8,700 Per Month in Disability, Plus Pension In Prison

 

FED UP YET?

The Clinton Body Bags

The Clinton Body Bags:

Wow, I had forgotten how many there really were.....good to refresh our memory once in awhile.

 

I have always read Bill was a womanizing, good ole boy, idiot.  But

Hillary on the other hand,  she was shrewd, hateful and deadly if need

be.   Read the following and draw your own conclusions.

 

Some of these I remember from 'those days'....How quickly we forget...

 

THE CLINTON BODY BAGS!

 

Just a quick refresher course lest we forget what has happened to many

"friends" of the Clinton's .

 

1- James McDougal - Clintons convicted Whitewater partner died of an

apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key

witness in Ken Starr's investigation.

 

2 - Mary Mahoney - A former White House intern was murdered July 1997

at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown .. The murder happened just

after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the

White House.

 

3 - Vince Foster - Former White House councilor, and colleague of

Hillary Clinton at Little Rock 's Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound

to the head, ruled a suicide.

 

4 - Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported

to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the

investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's

skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was

being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal

with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few

days later the air Traffic controller commited suicide.

 

5 - C. Victor Raiser, II - Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund

raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992.

 

6 - Paul Tulley - Democratic National Committee Political Director

found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock , September 1992. Described

by Clinton as a "dear friend and trusted advisor".

 

7 - Ed Willey - Clinton fundraiser, found dead November 1993 deep in

the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed

Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill

Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was

involved in several Clinton fund raising events.

 

8 - Jerry Parks - Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in

Little Rock .. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection

outside Little Rock Park 's son said his father was building a dossier

on Clinton He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he

died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.

 

9 - James Bunch - Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he

had a "Black Book" of people which contained names of influential

people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas

 

10 - James Wilson - Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging

suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater..

 

11 - Kathy Ferguson - Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was

found dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head.

It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases,

as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along

with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit Kathy Ferguson was a

possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.

 

12 - Bill Shelton - Arkansas State Trooper and fiancee of Kathy

Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancee, he was found

dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave

site of his fiancee.

 

13 - Gandy Baugh - Attorney for Clinton 's friend Dan Lassater, died by

jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a

convicted drug distributor.

 

14 - Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was

related to the Barry Seal, Mena , Arkansas , airport drug smuggling case.

He died of three gunshot wounds.

 

15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he

was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of

the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.

 

16 - Paula Grober - Clinton 's speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978

until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one car accident.

 

17 - Danny Casolaro - Investigative reporter. Investigating Mena

Airport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists,

apparently, in the middle of his investigation.

 

18 - Paul Wilcher - Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport

with Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise" was found dead on a

toilet June 22, 1993, in his Washington DC apartment. Had delivered a

report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.

 

19 - Jon Parnell Walker - Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust

Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington , Virginia apartment

balcony August 15, 1993. He was investigating the Morgan Guaranty

scandal.

 

20 - Barbara Wise - Commerce Department staffer. Worked closely with

Ron Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown. DiedNovember 29,

1996. Her bruised, nude body was found locked in her office at the

Department of Commerce.

 

21 - Charles Meissner - Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John

Huang special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small

plane crash.

 

22 - Dr. Stanley Heard - Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health

Care Advisory Committee died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small

plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton 's advisory

council personally treated Clinton 's mother, stepfather and brother.

 

23 - Barry Seal - Drug running TWA pilot out of Mena Arkansas , death

was no accident.

 

24 - Johnny Lawhorn, Jr. - Mechanic, found a check made out to Bill

Clinton in the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. He was found

dead after his car had hit a utility pole.

 

25 - Stanley Huggins - Investigated Madison Guaranty. His death was a

purported suicide and his report was never released.

 

26 - Hershell Friday - Attorney and Clinton fundraiser diedMarch 1,

1994, when his plane exploded.

 

27 - Kevin Ives & Don Henry - Known as "The boys on the track" case.

Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport

drug operation. A controversial case, the initial report of death said,

due to falling asleep on railroad tracks. Later reports claim the 2

boys had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many linked to

the case died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury.

 

THE FOLLOWING PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE:

 

28 - Keith Coney - Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a

truck, 7/88.

 

29 - Keith McMaskle - Died, stabbed 113 times, Nov, 1988

 

30 - Gregory Collins - Died from a gunshot wound January 1989.

 

31 - Jeff Rhodes - He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash

dump in April 1989.

 

3 2 - James Milan - Found decapitated. However, the Coroner ruled his

death was due to natural causes".

 

33 - Jordan Kettleson - Was found shot to death in the front seat of

his pickup truck in June 1990.

 

34 - Richard Winters - A suspect in the Ives/Henry deaths. He was

killed in a set-up robbery July 1989.

 

THE FOLLOWING CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE DEAD:

 

36 - Major William S. Barkley, Jr.

 

37 - Captain Scott J . Reynolds

 

38 - Sgt. Brian Hanley

 

39 - Sgt. Tim Sabel

 

40 - Major General William Robertson

 

41 - Col. William Densberger

 

42 - Col. Robert Kelly

 

43 - Spec. Gary Rhodes

 

44 - Steve Willis

 

45 - Robert Williams

 

46 - Conway LeBleu

 

47 - Todd McKeehan

 

Quite an impressive list!

 

HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT ...SURELY YOU JEST!!

Regarding Syria: Keep Your Eyes on Iran!

September 2, 2013 at 7:00 pm / by Julie Klose 

About Julie Klose Virginia PolitiChick Julie Klose is a wife, mother, teacher and blogger who is passionate about Christian conservative values in the political world. She has a degree in elementary education and has been… 

Recently, I was able to attend a legislative briefing hosted by the Endowment for Middle East Truth. The guests of the briefing were former U.S. Ambassador John Bolton and Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen. 

Both of these experts on the Islamic Middle East gave some great insights into the situation in Iran, specifically regarding the new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and the continuing Iranian Nuclear Program. 

They also addressed the new crisis in Syria. Both men agreed that the situation in Syria cannot be properly addressed without understanding that there is a much bigger picture–and it starts with Tehran and the Islamic regime. Bolton stated, “If you define the problem in Syria, you are defining it much too narrowly. The problem is with Iran and that is what this Administration has never understood.” Perhaps there was some optimism with the hope that the newly elected (and more “moderate”) Iranian President Rouhani would bring some much-needed fundamental changes to Iran. However, according to Michael Ledeen nothing has changed and Rouhani has the same objective as past leaders. 

Furthermore, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is the final authority of the regime and he is still in power. “It doesn’t matter who the person (President) is,” Ledeen said.  “It is dealing with the system and the regime. The regime has certain core principles and they believe in those core principles. Their policy is to destroy the west, above all the United States.” Rouhani has been committed to these policies from the beginning, even before he was elected. He served as chief nuclear negotiator from 2003-2005 and has been committed all along to their nuclear program. 

There has also been a false sense of hope regarding the sanctions and Iran’s nuclear program. The sanctions have directly affected the economic situation in the country but have also negatively impacted the people in Iran who are against the regime. And according to Bolton, Iran will have resources to continue the nuclear program even throughout the on-going sanctions. Rouhani has created the image that Iran has been cooperative with the International Atomic Energy Agency. This perhaps is to help dial back the sanctions. Bolton doesn’t believe the sanctions have been effective but if the sanctions are to begin to be dialed back he believes it will be almost impossible to get them back up again. As is, we have Iran fully committed to their nuclear program and the procurement of nuclear weapons under President Rouhani. However, we also have a situation in Syria under Bashar al-Assad with the accusation of the use of chemical weapons on his own people. 

What’s the connection? According to both Ledeen and Bolton both are intrinsically tied together. Ledeen states, “If Assad falls, it’s a terrible blow to Iran just as if Khamenei falls it’s the end of Assad. Iran is the key to international terror.” The actions taken against Syria by the United States will be a reflection to Iran as to how we will oppose them. A weak response will send the message that Syria may be able to continue chemical weapons with minimal cost. It will also send the message to Iran that they will be able to continue their nuclear program and Rouhani will likely be committed to gaining more relief from sanctions and strengthening the regime in Tehran. So how should the United States respond to Syria? Bolton does not feel that we should get involved in Syria and “it is not in an American interest to use force”. However, both Ledeen and Bolton firmly stated that if the U.S. does respond with military action, a weak response would only confirm to both regimes that they can continue their policy of terror on their own people as well as on the western world. “If you want to strike a blow at Assad”, Ledeen remarked, “strike it in Tehran and the best way to strike it is to threaten the regime and the best way to threaten the regime is to support the Iranian opposition.” Bolton also stated, “The problem with Syria is not about Syria. It is about Iran and as long as the regime stays in Iran we are going to have problems in Syria and Lebanon and lots of other places.” According to Ledeen and Bolton, any response to Syria must first be carefully calculated with regards to Iran. 

Read more at http://politichicks.tv/column/regarding-syria-keep-eyes-iran/#QSupmk7jHbfuIkzs.99

Borderland Beat

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Questions about Leyzaola's rise in Tijuana Posted: 03 Sep 2013 02:41 AM PDT El Diario.mx  (8-31-2013) By Ignacio Alvarado Alvarez Special report for El Diario-Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat Lt. Col. (Retired) Julian Leyzaola Perez is the chief of police in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. He was previously the chief of police in Tijuana, where he earned a reputation for a no-nonsense approach to law enforcement. His terms ends this year in October, and he and the current mayor, "Teto" Murguia have asked the city to pay for bodyguards to protect them after they leave office. Leyzaola is given credit for the decrease in violence in Cd. Juarez, although skeptics attribute the decrease to the fact that the Sinaloa cartel won the war against the Juarez cartel for control of the city.--un vato      Tijuana-- The man seated in front of the table in the bar came back from death on at least one occasion. He knew it when he felt the air pumping from the old oxygen machine stuck on his face, deformed by the blows, and listened to the two military men who were torturing him fighting among themselves because they thought he had died on them. Jaime Avila Flores had driven his patrol vehicle to the military installations of the 28th Infantry Battalion after he delivered his morning briefing at 8:00 on Tuesday morning, March 31, 2009. Gustavo Huerta Martinez [foto below left], a former Army captain who acted as director of operations at the Secretariat of Municipal Public Security, ordered him to go to the military base where, he said, some people from Mexico City wanted to interview him. He arrived with his patrol partner a little before10:00, but was denied access. He had to call another former military officer working as a police commander to get them to let him in. That confusion calmed him down a little. It made him think they had called him to ask him for some kind of analysis about the city. In a few minutes, however, he found out that after 22 years as a police officer his instinct had betrayed him.  "I never suspected a thing. I was a real idiot", he says he thought when a military officer dressed as a civilian met him and led him towards a racquet ball court some distance from the central offices, "a big shoe box", where there was a soldier waiting, who he saw was more nervous than he was. The soldier ordered him to walk to the farthest corner of the rectangle and he followed with a roll of toilet paper in his hands, from which he tore pieces to place against his eyes before blindfolding him. "It's better for you not to see anything," he told him. He waited for a long time for the arrival of the people from the capital. It was the three individuals that two hours later would resuscitate him. The former captain who laid the trap for him was acting on orders of his boss, the secretary of public security Julian Leyzaola Perez, a retired lieutenant colonel originally from Sinaloa who in less than a decade had run the state penitentiary and the Baja California police academy. The two of them initiated a restructuring of the agency in March that year, replacing almost all of the existing commanders with officers educated in the military. He fired 600 policemen and arrested 160 of them, accusing them of corruption.    After that, Leyzaola initiated an exercise of force never seen before.  He not only reduced the crime statistics, he whipped members of the narco cells. His public actions seemed to be dominated more by bitterness and contempt than by the law. He became a street judge and jury. One night in 2009, television cameras caught him striking the cadaver of an alleged gunman who was killed during a confrontation. "Whoever wants a confrontation,  well, he can have a confrontation and that's where he will end up. That's the operating strategy", he would explain months after that attack. Leyzaola and Huerta now direct public safety in Juarez City, where they have repeated the same harvest of  applause and crosses they left in Tijuana. But their reputation as murderers and torturers began the month that Avila and 24 other area commanders were illegally detained at the military base and subjected to torture for days, with the intent of constructing a success story in the war against organized crime that Felipe Calderon would use as an example. "It was evident that nobody was going to talk to me", recounts Avila, now physically diminished by torn ligaments in his knees, badly healed ribs and the partial deafness left from the blows and the asphyxiation. Almost 50 years old, these days he works as a carpenter in a small neighborhood work shop. There are many ways to lose your life. His, the one they left him with, is completely different from the one he forged for two decades. That morning, he arrived at the battalion facilities wearing the uniform that identified him as district chief of La Presa, and before noon, he he was on the floor, without his equipment harness, with his ankles, knees, hands and the upper part of his head tied together with cloth bandages.  "There is something stronger than a few blows, than a few broken ribs, something that, without it, you cannot get up off the ground. And they know how to do it very well. Imagine that position. Imagine yourself blindfolded. What's happening? What immediately came to mind were the dead bodies I had found around the edges of Tijuana.  This is how I would find them!, their hands tied, their heads wrapped in bandages, tied up in the same way I was tied up. I can't believe this is happening to me! I said: Is it the Army doing this, or is it the bad guys? I could no longer tell who was who. What I was starting to understand is that the two sides are the bad guys. In my head, I was telling myself: I'm screwed. They're going to dump me, tortured, shot in the head, and they will place a poster on me that says I was with the mafia. But it's them!." Tijuana in 2008 was listed among the most violent cities in the country. It was not a typical violence, outside the norm for that and other cradles of drug trafficking, like Nuevo Laredo, Juarez or Culiacan. The common characteristic in this handful of municipalities was the new way, multiplied and brutal, that they dumped the cadavers. And in each of these cities, the zenith was reached when the federal forces came in.  Tijuana reached it in October that year, with 62 murders in one week. Victims were found hanging from bridges, dissolved in acid, mutilated, piled up in vacant lots and garbage dumps. Local authorities attributed this to the confrontation between two local groups, one led by Fernando Sanchez Arellano, "El Ingeniero", and another led by Teodoro Garcia Simental, "El Teo."  Unlike Sinaloa, Chihuahua or Tamaulipas, Baja California has only five municipalities (counties). In addition, all of them were governed by PAN officials, like the rest of the state.  The same institutional corruption existed there that existed throughout the country, the kind of collusion that allows organized crime activities. But (the city was) politically aligned with the Calderon government. In 2007, the commander of the II Military Region, Sergio Aponte Polito, pointed this out, even giving names and last names, after the State government disregarded his formal accusations.  The general was replaced at the request of the governor, Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan, with another man more in line with the cabinet's plans. Immediately upon taking over, General Alfonso Duarte Mujica installed a de facto  single police force under his command, one in which the civilian state and federal forces were practically brushed aside the moment that Leyzaola was also appointed Secretary of Public Safety. The lieutenant colonel prepared the way. Or something similar. Before assuming the position as Secretary, he worked as the operations director in the same agency. He was the second in command to Alberto Capella, the previous director of the Citizen Safety Council, who  alleged drug traffickers tried to kill at his home, as soon as the news spread that he would be the next municipal police chief. Capella entrenched himself and returned fire.  He was the prototype of courage and honesty, but that did him no good. Leyzaola was contemptuous of him as chief, while the city was horrified with each new criminal incident. The mayor, Jorge Ramos, decided to fire him in December, 2008, and, with Leyzaola in charge, used the nest three months to institute the changes and consolidate agreements, not only with (Gen.) Duarte, but also with the local political and business groups. The events started with a precise order from the new Secretary.   "From the minute that Leyzaola took office as Secretary of (Public) Safety, he ordered us to personally deliver to him any person caught with drugs or weapons. 'Bring them to me and I'll take them to the military base', he told us. That became the style; all the people that we caught with weapons and drugs, we took to him, and he would deliver them to the military. You would never hear from them again." Jorge Sanchez Reyes remembers when he was Chief of Special Operations, a sort of elite group organized by Leyzaola with 70 men that he himself chose from among several precincts. Sanchez and his men were always dressed in black combat uniforms and ski masks. Orders were issued each day by Leyzaola personally. Or by radio, when necessary. The group was created to confront criminals, although id the Tijuana of mass murders this never happened.  On the contrary, Sanchez would get instructions to deploy his men to a certain point in the city, then they would find out that there were gunfights, or "mantas"  and hanging bodies would appear, on the opposite side of the city. "Have you ever carried a cadaver? It's unbelievable, but it feels as if they weigh twice as much. Now, imagine hanging three or five bodies from a bridge. That requires participation by at least 15 individuals and at least 20 minutes if, in addition, you hang a message up. That gives you something to think about, right?" Previous to the arrests of the group of 25 commanders, the detentions of police officers began  between October and November  of 2008. Everything on orders from Leyzaola. Sanchez claims that none of the chiefs that they took away had ties to the large criminal organizations. In fact, the ones that remained were the same ones they had always suspected. An today they are still there, nobody bothers them." The detentions and torture at the 28th Infantry Battalion buildings were concealed by the military and civilian state authorities. The Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH: Comision Mexicana de Defensa y Promocion de los Drechos Humanos) requested information from the Baja California public information access system regarding detentions of civilians and police officers during 2009. The response was that there were no records on that , much less regarding the operation of detention centers in the City of Tijuana. But 10% of the Federal detentions reported in Mexico happen in Baja California, according to the CMDPDH itself. Sanchez was one of the victims rendered invisible by the system. The personal phone of the Group Commander of Special Operations rang the morning of March 21, 2009. "Sanchez, you won't believe this: they just released me from the (military) base. Can you send a patrol vehicle to pick me up?" The man who called him was in charge of the weapons locker, but before that, he was one of his subordinates within the tactical group. That's how they knew each other. He found him in bare feet and very injured. When he picked him up, the officer told him that two other fellow officers were still inside, beaten worse than he. Sanchez asked him if he wanted to press charges, and the answer was "No."  On the contrary, the police officers tortured  throughout (the month of) were virtually ambushed by the highest ranking officials. Prior to the arrest of each one of them, the military tortured two civilians, identified as Luis Enrique Carrillo Osorio and Jesus Raymundo Sotelo Gonzalez. The first one was an ex-municipal police agent. He was arrested on the 19th of that month, and, according to the reports, he was in possession of a 9mm pistol, 40 grams of crystal and a vehicle that had been reported as stolen. His arrest led to the arrest of Sotelo Gonzalez the next day, and, a day later, to the beginning of the arrests of 25 commanders and deputy commanders in the Public Safety Secretariat, all accused of belonging to a criminal organization.  That was established in a petition for intervention filed last January with the Interamerican Commission for Human Rights (CIDH: Comision Interamericana de Drechos Humanos) by the CMDPDH in conjunction with the Citizen Commission for Human Rights in the Northeast (CCDH; Comision Ciudadana de Derechos Humanos del Noroeste). They were all picked up the same way: Leyzaola and Huerta would call them and then force them to go to the base, telling them that the SIEDO had issued an order to compel their appearance. Not one of them was shown the document. Inside the military installations, on the other hand, they were subjected to asphyxiation with plastic bags or water containers; they suffered blows that left them crippled for life; they received electric shocks; they were threatened with death, humiliated; they were kept without food or water for days, their hands tied and their eyes covered with adhesive tape and bandages. Sanchez had attended a meeting with the mayor and other municipal officials -- among them Leyzaola -- that Friday morning, March 27. When the meeting ended, Leyzaola asked him to stay behind. Alone in the meeting room, the Secretary slapped the wooden table.  "Goddamn, Sanchez! I just got a call from General Duarte; (ordering me) to take you to the base, that somebody already talked about you, a so-called Maximinio", he told him. Sanchez says he knew Maximinio by name only. He tried to resist. Leyzaola told him to go peacefully or the soldiers would go for him at his house. "If you're not guilty of anything, there's nothing to be afraid of", Sanchez says he (Leyzaola) told him. Two guards took his weapons and got him into Leyzaola's white, heavily armored  Suburban. "They took me to the base. They open the gate for all of his convoy. We step down. He tells me; Come on, you follow me! Then the two of us, now by ourselves, walked inside the building. I was more or less familiar with that military building. That's where I did my military service. I'm from here, from Tijuana. So I recognized the room that they were taking me to; one of those rooms there are in military posts, with a racquetball court, a closed room from which two hooded soldiers come out. Leyzaola says, 'Here he is'. And they answer, 'Bring him this way.' That's the last place I saw Leyzaola. He left and I went in.  When I enter, I see a police officer tied to a chair, blindfolded. It was 9:00 a.m., more or less. There was nothing else. One of the soldiers approaches me and asks my name. I told him my name. Then he tells me, 'Place your hands over here behind you.' When I place my hands, he handcuffs me. I ask him, Hey, what's going on? He tells, 'No, nothing. Wait.' Then he takes toilet paper and covers my mouth and blindfolds me. Then he tells me, 'Sit down.'  Sanchez loses track of time. Hours go by. Nobody speaks. Only the sound of a ball bouncing is heard and the sound of a toy, "like a wind-up toy soldier." The voices return. He hears them come in with more police officers. They ask them their names. He recognizes them: they are all commanders. He feels its nighttime when he hears the sound of a Hummer. They take them out with two other officers and put them into the vehicle. They drive without leaving the base, towards another location, another building. They still have their eyes covered, but his hears things.  "It's as if you hear better when you're scared," he explains. They take him by himself to the new room.  They order him to remove his shoes and lie down on the floor. He hears the sound of adhesive tape being unrolled. They use that to tie him down and somebody sits on his knees. They ask him what he does on the police force.  He tells him he's the Chief of Special Operations. Maximinio accuses you of taking money from the narcos, they tell him. He asks to be brought face to face with him, because that accusation is false. "While that is happening, you hear the sound  of plastic. And suddenly... it's a bag. I couldn't see it, but well, it's a bag. And, well, it sticks to you, immediately. And they punch you on the stomach to take your breath out. No, well, you feel that you are losing your life.  You feel you are suffocating. And just when you're on the verge of death, they take it off and tell you: 'Let's see, fucker, now you're going to tell me!' But what do you want me to tell you, if that's not true. And again... They did this to me about three times. They tell me, 'Well, forget about that, just tell us which cops are with the mafia.' Well, what can I tell you? You investigate them! What do you want me to tell you? And they tell me: 'Well. let's see, you move patrol vehicles so they can commit crimes.' I tell them: No, that's not true. Ask the Secretary (Leyzaola), he's the one who tells me where to go, where to work. I work under his orders." Then I hear Leyzaola's voice. "I heard when he tells the one interrogating me: 'Ask him about the ones in November.' In other words, look, Leyzaola told them! And I thought: Oh, hell, he's here."   Sanchez and another 12 fellow officers who were subjected to torture at the military base obtained a ruling that absolved them in August of 2010. These are the 13 officers who always refused to admit the accusations made against them. The other 12 regained their freedom in October of 2012. They were the first ones arrested and the ones most subjected to torture. The ones who agreed to sign the accusations made against them. Of the 25 total, four were able to get reinstated with the agency. The majority of the remaining 21 want the same thing and have a lawsuit pending against City Hall.  The National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH: Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos) requested that they be paid damages. They had salaries between 15 and 20 thousand pesos ($1,115.00 to $1,538.00) per month, plus benefits. Today, they survive by working as fruit stand vendors and selling second-hand goods; as mechanics, construction workers or carpenters. Two of them are cab drivers, like Sanchez. They all lost their homes and their international visas, they got criminal records for their ties with a criminal organization. Their life, such as they had, was taken from them. But there were at least 60 other police officers who will not have the opportunity to fight for what was taken from them. While the 25 were being held, word went out that they would murder a policeman each day, until the group was freed. "Who knows whether it was the government itself," muses Sanchez. Because, looking at it coldly, who told them that? We did not have ties to crime. And then they started a slaughter of police officers who-- at least the ones I knew-- kept a low profile, they were good cops. None of them was the kind that you more or less suspected were going bad. It was people who, when we learned of it, we would ask ourselves; Well, why did they kill this guy? That's why today we have realized that it was all planned, that it was a strategy of collaboration between the three levels of government, among the businessmen and politicians. If they had not been in agreement, we would not have been arrested. There is no other logic that allows an analysis of what took place." Early in 2008, Jaime Berumen Borrayo was the chief of the Sanchez Taboada Police Precinct. During 25 years of service, he had never faced members of drug trafficking cells, until the night that he arrested four of them. They threatened to make him into pozole (hominy), the term they use to describe the dissolution of a body in an oil drum full of acid. The four were arrested for driving a stolen vehicle and being suspects in four assaults. But a judge freed them after one month. It was like releasing the hunting dogs. That same day at dawn they went to the police officer's house to kill him.  The four of them came, accompanied by another five hooded persons, all carrying weapons. One of the ones that Berumen had arrested shot him point blank with a pistol. He fired at his face. Berumen instinctively covered up and the bullet was diverted after breaking his arm. His children and wife came out of their rooms. They pointed their weapons at their heads. There was yelling and crying, but that intervention ultimately saved his life. The assassins left.  Berumen was incapacitated and asked to be transferred to the shops where patrol vehicles were repaired. But he had just returned to work when he was notified that he was suspended. They told him he was suspected of collecting (money) from the "tienditas" where drugs were sold, and that that was the reason they tried to kill him. He decides to defend himself through the courts and he wins. They reinstate him, and then Leyzaola calls for him. Before ordering his arrest, he tells him he does not agree with his reinstatement, that he has a godfather in the city council, but that it will not do him any good there. He got to the military post the morning of March 24. Berumen was the one who identified two of the three torturers, although only by their nicknames: "El Matute" and "El Tortas."  The others implicated in the plot appear on the petition that the CMDPDH and the CCDH filed with the Interamerican Commission  for Human Rights. In addition to Leyzaola and Huerta, they mention the commanding general of the Second Military Zone, Alfonso Duarte Mujica; the representatives of the Federal Public Ministry, Antonio Zepeda Leon, Humberto Velasquez Villalvo and Cesar Adame. Also Lt. Fernando Coaxin Hernandez, Director of Sanitation in the military base, who was responsible for resuscitating the torture victims.  The level of participation to savage a handful of police officers against whom no criminal ties were proven changed the perception that they themselves had about crime up to the day of their arrest. Berumen lost the hearing on his right side and suffers from lumbago. He didn't see Leyzaola, but after the first torture session he became aware that lurking in the shadows, inside the room, was the Secretary of Public Safety: "They brought me a laptop so I could look at the cops; they wanted me to point them out. I know he was there; it was his computer." It all made him rethink the previous months, in 2008.  "When they were torturing me and I almost died, they told me to stop acting stupid, because nobody knew that hey were holding me in the military post, that if they went too far and we died, they were going to dump us on Blvd 2000 and leave a poster on us that said we were with organized crime." Half of the 25 policemen received the same threat. And it made several of them think that the people committing massacres in the city were not only gunmen from one or another organization, but also the military. The mention of the 2000 Blvd. made their blood run cold: that was the favorite location to display bodies torn up from blows and gunshots.  The CNDH ruled that there are sufficient elements of proof to pay damages to the 25 former police officers, but also to take judicial and administrative action against those responsible for the violations. Last November, then, it sent a recommendation along these lines to the Tijuana city government, now governed by the PRI. The response from the local government was issued on April 29. The sindicature and the judicial area declared that Julian Leyzaola and Gustavo Huerta were obligated to appear before municipal authorities or they would be disqualified for life from holding any public office. Neither of them made an appearance. An official skirmish, more than anything else.  "In fact, such a resolution lacks jurisdictional effect. Leyzaola as well as Huerta can work wherever they want, except in Tijuana, if the threat is ever carried out," explains Raul Ramirez Baena, a staunch persecutor of offenses committed by military and former military in Baja California, who founded and heads the CCDH. "But the ending is not so bad; it's another stripe on the tiger, and that adds to the reputation of torturers that they both have."   The criminalization without proof, the arrest and torture of the 25  police officers, Ramirez says, had in fact a manipulative effect. Because the violence in Tijuana was contained not by the efficient work of soldiers and municipal police led by Leyzaola, but because after the arrest of El Teo, agreements unexpectedly occurred between authorities, cartels and businessmen. "What we have is a pax romana. Nothing more. Everything is in reality a great tale".

Violence down in Sonora state; 4 die Posted: 02 Sep 2013 09:00 PM PDT By Chris Covert Rantburg.com While violence has gone down overall in the Mexican state of Sonora, in some municipalities murders have increased as much as 94 percent, according to Mexican news reports. A new report posted Monday on the website of El Imparcialnews daily said that intentional homicides statewide are down from  2012 going from 338 to 284 between January and July, a reduction of almost 16 percent. The report came from information provided by the Sonora stateProcuraduria General de Justicia de Estado or attorney general's office. Although the overall rate has gone down, murder  in key municipalities have soared, including Cajeme and Hermosillo, while Nogales and Navojoa have registered a modest year over year decline. Cajeme's intentional homicide rate went to 94 percent with 97 murders in the first half of 2013 with 97 against 50 the same period last year. Similarly, in Hermosillo, the state capital of Sonora murders have risen 31 percent going from  48 in 2012 to 63. A total of four individuals have been killed in drug and gang violence in Sonora state. One man was shot to death and another was wounded in a shooting in Magdalena municipality Sunday.  Juceth Montero Ruiz, 27 was shot to death and Iber Montero Ruiz was shot and wounded aboard this Jeep Cherokee in Villa Trento colony as they were traveling aboard a Jeep Cherokee SUV  near the intersection of Calle Alberto Bello and Carretera Internacional.  Armed suspects traveling aboard a GM brand SUV fired on the pair, then apparently fled the scene.  Police later found the SUV, which had been hit by small arms fire. A man was shot to death in Pueblo Yaqui Sunday.  Eduardo Castro Leyva, 27, was found in Heros de 47 colony wounded with packages of drugs said to be marijuana.  A handgun was also found nearby.  He later died at a hospital in Ciudad Obregon.  News report say the victim was a known criminal who had served time in prison for carjacking. A man in his teens was found apparently beaten to death in Pueblo Yaqui.  Jorge Alberto Mendivil Ibarra, 19, has been kidnapped last Saturday by armed suspects who forced him into a vehicle before speeding away.  The victim was found near the intersection of Calle 500 and Carretera Internacional in Valle del Yaqui.  Mendivil Ibarra had a prior criminal problem involving cattle rustling. A man in his 30s was shot to death while trying to stop a burglary at his home in Esperanza Friday.  Mario Alberto Castro Leyva, 30 came home with his wife to find two men leaving his residence on Ampliacion Alameda.  When he tried to stop them, one of the men shot  Castro Leyva in his chest and then fled aboard a bicycle. A man was shot and wounded In Caborca municipality Sunday.  Daniel Romero Martinez, 38 was shot in he backyard of his residence in San Rafael colony where several armed suspects dismounted from a Nissan Xterra and shot him using a handgun and a rifle. Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com His latest work of non-fiction, The Wounded Eagle: Volume 2 went on sale Sunday at Amazon.com and Smashwords.com

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a well-educated man, with a B.A. in Sociology from Morehouse College, a B. Div. from Crozer Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston University (despite having been found to have plagiarized portions of his dissertation). If Dr. King were alive today, he would be weeping at the willful […] Read more of this post

Churches burning ... Christians dying ... and Barack Hussein Obama does...NOTHING!

Grassfire Update: The horrifying state of affairs in Egypt right now demands a strong, unwavering response from America. The Muslim Brotherhood's aggressive targeting of Coptic Christians, whom radical Islamists blame for President Mohamed Morsi's removal, must be stopped. In fact, growing numbers of these violent extremists are now absurdly claiming that Christians have "declared war against Islam and Muslims." So why aren't western officials -- specifically the President of the United States -- publicly condemning the Muslim Brotherhood for their murderous attackByand violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt? Grassfire's own LibertyNEWS may have the answer.   According to their report, Obama's shaky family tree reveals the President's relational ties to the Muslim Brotherhood through his half-brother Malik Obama. Malik reportedly is a member of the Islamic Da'wa Organization -- an arm of the Sudanese government led by President Omar al-Bashir, who himself is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Malik Obama is also deeply involved and considered to be the architect of the Muslim Brotherhood's shady international investment operation. Could it be that President Obama's non-response to this crisis is due to his family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood? + + Demand The Obama Administration Condemn       The Muslim Brotherhood's Violence Against       Christians in Egypt You can take action now to help stop the "ethnic cleansing" of Christians in Egypt. A national petition has been launched demanding President Obama publicly condemn the actions of the Muslim Brotherhood and their reign of terror against Coptic Christians. If you have not yet signed this important petition, do so now by clicking here. This grassroots petition will be rushed to the White House and key leaders in Congress demanding a strong, public response from Washington, D.C. It also calls for legislative action to stop any and all federal government aid to the Muslim Brotherhood. Click here to add your name to this important petition that will be hand-delivered to key leaders on Capitol Hill. Joseph, Obama's silence and refusal to speak up during these heinous attacks is emboldening radical Islamists to escalate their violence against Christians in the region and beyond. Send a message to Washington, D.C., by going here and signing the national "Oppose Muslim Extremism" petition. Demand that President Obama publicly condemn the violence, while ensuring that no U.S. money flows to the Muslim Brotherhood. Thank you, in advance, for taking action. The Grassfire Team P.S. After signing, please forward this email to your family and friends. Urge them to join you in signing the "Oppose Muslim Extremism" petition by clicking here. For breaking news and analysis on the deadly attacks on Christians by radical Islamists in Egypt, visit and bookmark LibertyNEWS. +   +  +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +  +  +   +   +   +   +   +