Press refuses again to check and report the facts, this time in BART shooting

The crescent memorial to Flight 93 would have been stopped long ago if the media was willing to check and report simple facts like the Mecca-orientation of the giant crescent. The same thing happens whenever the facts of a case are not congenial to our left-wing elites.

Another extreme example is now taking place in Oakland California, where inflammatory reports of police criminality in the New Year’s Day shooting of Oscar Grant are held up by the Oakland street mob as justication for last week’s murder of four police officers. Even after this massacre of Oakland police, the press still refuses to publish dramatic exculpatory evidence in the Oscar Grant case.

Video proof that Oscar Grant swung his own arm up onto his own back AFTER he was shot by BART officer Johannes Mehserle

Oscar Grant was lying face down on the ground when he was shot in the back by BART officer Johannes Mehserle, who seems to have thought he was firing his newly issued Taser. (Fellow officer Tony Pirone told investigators that Mehserle said he was going to Tase Grant, then warned him to get clear just before firing.)

If Mehserle did experience Taser confusion then he is not guilty of ANY crime. This is what the DA asserted in an earlier California case of Taser confusion:

Wyatt explained that without the intent of criminal negligence, criminal charges against Noriega could not be sustained.

“The required aggravation … did not occur in this case,” he said.

Criminal negligence is based on foreseeable consequences. If Mehserle thought he was firing his Taser, he can only be liable for the foreseeable consequences of firing his Taser, not his gun. The shooting at that point is just an accident, and the only person who is responsible for creating the dangerous situation in which that accident occurred is Oscar Grant, with his reckless and criminal decision to fight with the police for 30 seconds.

Alameda District Attorney Tom Orloff set aside the Noriega precedent on the grounds that:

… both of Grant’s hands were behind his back, a position hands are commonly placed in by police officers in order to handcuff individuals, when the shot was fired into his body.

Orloff somehow decided that the fact that Grant’s hands seemed to be in a compliance position made the shooting “an intentional act” that calls for a charge of murder.

This makes little sense. We already know that Mehserle intended to pull the trigger. His claim is that he thought he was pulling the trigger on his Taser, a point which is unaffected by the position of Grant’s hands. Nevertheless, this is the weak reed upon which Orloff decided to hang murder charges, and it turns out to be verifiably false. Grant’s hands were NOT both on his back when the shot was fired, as can be seen when the video is slowed down.

Here is an animation of the fatal second:

 

37;05 – 37;29 of KTVU’s highlighted cell phone video of the shooting, slowed to 1/2 second a frame. Red circle (added) shows the first appearance of officer Mehserle’s muzzle flash.

At the start of the animation (after the black frame), Officer Pirone (kneeling on Grant’s shoulder and neck) has just gotten control of Grant’s right hand, pulling it up behind Grant’s back. As the action starts, Pirone lets go and draws back (presumably in response to Mehserle’s Taser warning). Look at the spot where Pirone’s arm pulls back behind his own body. From about this same spot in the image, Grant’s left arm then appears, as Grant starts to swing his own arm up towards his own back. One frame after Grant’s left arm first appears (1/15th of a second later), Mehserle’s muzzle-flash first appears (red circle). Then Grant finishes swinging his own arm up onto his own back.

Here is a frame grab of the fatal instant (37;17):

 

When Mehserle’s muzzle flash first appears (red circle) Grant has just started to swing his own left arm (circled in blue) around behind his own back (presumably in a belated attempt to avoid getting Tased).

Grant’s left hand was NEVER under either officer’s control, after they both fought for 30 seconds to get control of it, with Mehserle telling Pirone from the beginning that he thought Grant was “going for his waistband”. Thus Mehserle was certainly justified in trying to Tase Grant, and the clear evidence that he WAS trying to Tase Grant makes this almost certainly an accidental shooting, in which case Mehserle is innocent of ANY crime.

Alec Rawls (the author of these blobgurst posts) has been trying for six weeks to get Bay Area print and television news to let the public know about about this video proof that Orloff’s stated grounds for charging officer Mehserle with murder is FALSE. This isn’t just news. It vitiates the state’s own accusations of criminal behavior, now being used to justify acts of war against the Oakland Police, yet despite repeated outreach to most of the reporters who have been covering this story, the local press still won’t report it.

The press also refuses to fact-check Pirone’s claim that the video shows Grant kneeing him multiple times in the groin

Oakland is also inflamed by another portion of the Oscar Grant video, about a minute and a half before the shooting, where Officer Pirone knocks Grant to the ground with a forearm to his head. KTVU interviewed two law professors who both interpreted the blow as an unprovoked criminal assault. Professor Peter Keane, of UC Hastings was the most emphatic:

That officer is committing a crime. … There’s no question in my mind that that’s vivid powerful evidence that he committed a vicious physical assault, unprovoked, upon a citizen, for absolutely no reason.

UC Boalt Professor Franklin Zimring added an important qualification, but unless the public learns that the qualification does in fact apply, the effect is the same:

Unless there’s something more that we don’t see, then the degree of force that was use, and the way it was used, are not justified.

Officer Pirone’s lawyer Bill Rapoport told the press that a frame by frame analysis of the video shows that Pirone was responding to multiple knees to the groin by Grant, but again, our biased media is refusing to fact-check and reported on the accuracy of this easy to verify claim. All they have to do is slow down the video and take a look. Immediately before Pirone strikes Grant, Grant can be seen driving his knees up above 90° into Pirone’s groin. Here is a frame grab of one of the knees:

 

9;05 from KTVU’s raw cell phone video. Surrounding frames show the denim “7” shape in this frame to be Oscar Grant’s right knee, coming up above 90° as Grant tries to knee Pirone in the groin. Full segment here:

 

The accusations of criminal assault by Pirone are FALSE. He was defending himself against a criminal assault, as anyone can verify just by looking.

KTVU actually slowed the video down for professors Keane and Zimring, but obviously not enough. All KTVU has to do to verify the accuracy of Pirone’s claims is open up their laptop again and slow the video down a bit more, but they have yet to report this video proof that Pirone was defending himself against a vicious assault by Oscar Grant.

If prosecutors claimed that frame by frame analysis showed some previously undetected evidence of police criminality, the frame by frame video would be prime time news for a week. Since it proves Pirone’s innocence, the press is not interested. Even with the murder of four policemen being justified as retaliation for the alleged criminal behavior of Mehserle and Pirone, the entire bay area media remains silent.

So let’s us break the story. The innocence of Pirone and the almost certain innocence of Mehserle are major unreported news. Shout it at the top of your blogs!

If we can break this story, not only might we save some lives in blue, but we can direct the resulting attention to other explosive facts that the media refuses to examine and report, like the terrorist memorial mosque now being built on the Flight 93 crash site.

The Mecca-orientation of the giant crescent makes it a mihrab, the central feature around which every mosque is built. They call it a broken circle now, but the unbroken part of the circle, what symbolically remains standing in the wake of 9/11, remains exactly as it was in the original Crescent of Embrace design. It is still a giant Islamic shaped crescent, still pointing to Mecca.

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FOX News Promotes Stripping

I just saw an interview on FOX News that was unbelievable. A young woman who was a former financial analyst was being interviewed about her new career as a stripper. What was particularly emphasized was how much money she was making and how well she was treated. The clear message was that stripping is a viable option for young women. I was appalled.

 

Paul Krugman Is Obviously A Racist

(Cross-posted from America Needs Me)

Because that’s what anyone who criticizes President Obama is, right?

Krugman suffered from perhaps the second or third worst case of Bush Derangement Syndrome at the New York Times during the past eight years. That’s a very relative scale, however. The mildest case over there would have been enough to require hospitalization in the real world.

It is, of course, heresy to scrutinize Barack Obama in the Opinion section of the New York Times. Krugman must have some sort of immunity because he has a Nobel Prize and street cred as a full-blown left-of-Castro progressive. How long he’ll be allowed to question the purest-intentioned and smartest of all presidents in the history of politics EVER remains to be seen.

Right now he’s not playing nice at all.

It’s as if the president were determined to confirm the growing perception that he and his economic team are out of touch

This isn’t one of us bitter-clinger blogger crazies stating the obvious now, it’s one of the faithful. Still, the Thoughtful President responded with his now familiar “I know you are but what am I?” pout:

at a press conference, the president, with a slight note of irritation in his voice, invited Krugman (pronounced with an “oo,” not an “uh” sound) to offer a better plan for fixing the banking system.

Rather than thoughtfully explaining his ideas and proposals, Obama now regularly resorts to “You got any better ideas?” It is, to use an old political science label, completely chickens**t.

The president and his people seem unwilling, or unable, to accept the fact that they are in charge now. Their policies are going to have to stand on their own merits all the while facing criticism. The fact that Obama had to face so little of it during the campaign is beginning to show. He is more likely to have a snit than actually explain himself.

The “I don’t have to explain my plans because you haven’t offered any alternate plans” charade he keeps engaging in is more reminiscent of a sleep-deprived fourth grader than brilliant, serious world leader.

Again, this can all be filed under “Not Ready For The Gig”. The fairytale, free pass campaign is over and the administration has to function on this planet now. All but the most hardcore Obamabots will eventually begin to notice if the president, his press secretary and others can only respond with snotty, childish remarks.

And they should be very worried that there’s already been a honeymoon wrecking defector at the New York Times.

Is Jenin a Hotbed of “Moderates”? Ask Wafa Younis, Hero and Humanitarian.

They had not engaged in any rock or bomb throwing nor had they marched with ominously covered faces chanting “Death to the Jews, Death to America.” Instead, some time last week, thirteen young Palestinians, ages 11-18, members of the “Strings of Freedom” orchestra, conducted by Wafa Younis, played music for elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors in Holon. They came armed, not with guns, but with musical instruments.

By yesterday, Palestinian authorities on the allegedly “moderate” West Bank, in the Jenin Refugee camp, had disbanded the orchestra and accused Wafa Younis of inappropriately involving the children in a dangerous “political issue.”

Younis is an Israeli Arab. This means that she is also a “Palestinian,” but, like 1. 2 million other such “Palestinians,” she is an Israeli citizen who is not voluntarily leaving Israel for either the West Bank or Gaza. For her “crime,” Younis was barred from the refugee camp. The apartment where she conducted her little orchestra is now boarded up…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

Just How Dumb Does Obama Think We Are?

“We came through a period where people borrowed too much and we let our financial system take on much too much risk.” -Tim Geithner.

Geithner continued, “And the consequences of those choices, made over years, were a huge boom. And that boom, the air is now coming out of that and that’s causing enormous damage.”

If this is the logic that this Administration is using to run this Country then our only hope is prayer for a swift end to their reign of terror.

As a consequence of borrowing too much? What in the heck do they think they are doing to correcting this? They are borrowing against yours and your’ kids and your grandkids future income tax. They are borrowing from China and other nations via selling bonds. So they are doing the same thing that allegedly caused the problem in order to solve the problem???

The current problems were caused by greed. People dishonestly inflated the value of a portfolio and then sold it to others for a quick profit. Democrats in Congress forced financial institutions to make loans to high risk clients. Then the financial institutions “bundled” these and sold them to investors who were looking for quick profits. Eventually the “assets” became over inflated. Then the law of diminishing returns took over.

Investor’s found themselves short of liquidity. Major players withdrew funding (Soros) and caused the markets to dry up. People quit investing and held on to what was once their disposable income.

With what the Fed is now pouring into bailouts, they could pay off all taxpayers debts a couple of times over.

A wise man once said, “Only an idiot would make the same mistake twice and expect a different result.”

Also see: Geithner: Government is the Answer to Solve Financial Crisis

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What is the feasibility of suing the Congress as a whole and each representative and senator individually for violating the United States Constitution?

Mark “Snooper” Harvey has an interesting idea:

The other day, I had an idea and in the hopes that it would not die alone, I decided to actually go and see if it was a good idea. That’s the funny thing about ideas. You never know if it is good or not unless you seek council.

My idea was this. Seeing that the anti-Americanists have managed to subvert the judiciary in this nation to the extent that more unconstitutional laws have been passed than constitutional ones, I was wondering if we could use the courts to reverse that trend. One never knows.

So, I went to my attorney that I have used for years for many things and made an appointment for one of those 30-minute free consultations. I presented my idea/desire to my attorney and that 30-minute free consultation lasted more than two hours.

I went armed with facts and data. I took my notes. I took my laptop with the “go anywhere” internet card just in case. I also had everything downloaded onto a zip drive and left it with the firm and they were eager and happy to have the data.

My idea was this. What is the feasibility of suing the congress as a whole and each representative and senator individually for violating the United States Constitution? (Continue reading on The Snooper Report >>)

What do you all think about this?

Our Eternal Struggle

Last month, I gave a speech at Temple Judea in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. I described my interaction with the audience HERE. The Jewish Press has just published a part of the actual speech which I would now like to share with my PJM readers.

Who would ever have believed that Jews would be in such danger again? That Israel and Zionism would become such dirty words in the world, despised by western intellectuals and Islamist mobs alike?

Who would ever have predicted that the United Nations would remain ineffective in all things except one: the legitimization of Jew-hatred? And that so many members of international human rights organizations and the mainstream western media would join Muslim leaders to accuse Israel of running an apartheid Nazi state bent on genocide?

Who would ever have thought that the Islamic jihad against Jews, which long preceded the establishment of the state of Israel, would still be going strong – a jihad that began during Muhammad’s reign when he slaughtered the Jewish tribes of Arabia?

Who would ever have suggested that the largest refugee story in the Middle East – 750,000-800,000 Jews expelled from Arab countries – would be forgotten and replaced with a Palestinian-only persecution narrative that would seize the imagination of the world? That Israel, which absorbed its refugees at its own expense, would be demonized and that Palestinian leaders, including terrorists who devote themselves to the destruction of Israel, would be glamorized as righteous and noble victims?

Who would ever have dreamed that Israel would be condemned for trying to defend its civilians? Or that Israel would reap hatred for exercising restraint in its treatment of Palestinian civilians? Or that Israel’s terrorist enemies would be praised for hiding behind their own women and children or would themselves be counted as civilians (even as they fire rockets at Israel) because they craftily choose to dress as such?

Who would ever have imagined that such Big Lies would be championed by western intellectuals, academics, journalists, students – not a few of them Jews and even Israelis?

Orwell would laugh. Or cry…Continue reading on The Jewish Press >>

www.Wednesday: Online Profile Management, and “TMI”

More and more folks are searching for employment online these days, and posting their résumés online. As we have discussed previously, it is important to have a well-managed online profile, so that when potential employers and clients search for information about you online, you will like what they see.

However, is it possible to give too much information?

Yes, says, Job-Hunt.org’s Susan P. Joyce, who recommends that for a “cyber-safe” online résumé, you need to give “minimal contact information [which] makes it harder for your identity to be stolen or for your employer to discover your job search…[and a] modified employment history, particularly for the current job, minimiz[ing] potential risk to existing employment.” This includes deleting your name, address, phone number, and the name of your employer. For more information, see Your CyberSafe Résumé.

For more information about online job hunting, see The Riley Guide: Prepare Your Resume for Email and Online Posting

Also, here are some great resources available online for those who may have either been recently downsized, who may be graduating and looking for career-related work, or who may be wanting to change careers:

• Roll Call Jobs – Jobs in the D.C. Area
• ConservativesJobs.com – Run by the Leadership Institute (Also on Twitter, @TheRightJobs)
• Republicans Helping Republicans – A listing of private sector and government jobs as well as training, internship, and volunteer opportunities

 

Social Networking vs. Social Marketing

I’ve been noticing a trend lately, mostly among online marketers, to make the term “social networking” synonymous with “social marketing.” While it’s true that these two often overlap, they are very different activities, with different goals.

Networking involves actually building a network – of colleagues, contacts, and potential clients. Networking is an individual activity, and more “personal” (in the professional sense). It is not uncommon to network with people who have absolutely nothing to offer you at this time – simply because they are contacts of your contacts.

Marketing, however, involves promoting or advocating for your business, your service, or your cause. Part of an effective marketing strategy might be to judiciously promote your product, service, or cause to select members your well-developed network. Whether online or offline, if you do this too often (particularly without reciprocation within the network), you’re going to find your “network” diminishing, as people get grow weary of constantly being hit with a sales pitch. And notice, that in order to promote your product to your network, you need to have already developed the said network.

Let me repeat that last part: In order to promote your product to your network, you need to have already developed the said network.

What is happening all too often, instead, is that marketing professionals are discovering online social media outlets, and viewing them as “free advertising space.” They’ll jump onto Twitter or Facebook with no existing friends, no followers, no contacts, no followees, no prior history, no “networking” activity at all, and announce that they are there to promote their new splog (”spam blog“) – a website with no value to anyone who isn’t specifically looking for whatever they’re trying to sell.

This is the online equivalent of attending a local Bible study, or lodge meeting, or Thursday Happy Hour for the first time, and walking in with a stack of life insurance brochures and applications. How well would that be received? How effective would that be? Not very. And you might be asked to leave. But if you’ve made the effort to get to know the folks there over time, it’s likely that you’ll know who may or may not need and be interested in buying your product; they are more likely to trust you and at least listen to your spiel.

The same holds true online – if you start trying to sell to members of a social networking group before you build your network, you’re likely to be rejected as a “spammer.” However, if you first build the network, then very carefully market in a way that is not obnoxious, you’re more likely to have good success.

Also see: Harte Marketing & Communications – The Four Faces of Social Media (Hat-Tip Kristen Turley, APR @Kristen_Okla)

And Like Sheep They Were Led to Slaughter…

Judas goats:

A Judas goat is a trained goat used at a slaughterhouse and in general animal herding. The Judas goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared. Judas goats are also used to lead other animals to specific pens and on to trucks. – Wikipedia

First the Obama Administration has Dodd place some additional language into a Bill that allows AIG’s execs to get paid their huge bonuses, knowing that the public will object. Then Obama claims ignorance (while laughing), and now as a result of the language of the stimulus Bill the administration is pushing for additional powers to take over and control private businesses. And like everything else this Administration does, this must be done quickly to prevent a failure of apocalyptic proportions.

I smell something rotten, but it seems most of the voting public still thinks Obama is the best thing since sliced bread. Legislation has been written and passed in record time. Congress, which normally moves at a snail’s pace, has been like a race car on steroids. Bills that are reams thick. Bills that no one has read. When has this Administration had time to sit and write these Bills?

A person might wonder if these Bills were written long before Inauguration Day, possibly around Bill Ayers’ kitchen table, or maybe George Soros’.

Perhaps it is time for the brakes to be applied. Geithner is experimenting not only with the financial system of the U.S. but with the future of freedom. This is a man who can’t even fill out his taxes with the help of Turbotax.

Also see: Washington Post Article

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Even More “Truther” Stupidity

Once again, it’s time to expose “truthers” for the liars and morons they are. I will focus on WTC 7, although I do have one question for Rosie O’Donnell and anyone who agrees with her claim that fire can’t melt steel: If fire can’t melt steel, then why do they fireproof it?

Anyway, going back to my 12/14/07 article, we have plenty of the REAL facts about the WTC 7 collapse.

While it is true that WTC 7 was NOT hit by a plane, it DID suffer impact damage. As we see from Brent Blanchard’s 8/8/06 Implosionworld.com article,WTC 7 was hit by debris from the collapsing North Tower and was hit by tons of debris falling from a fairly significant height, causing significant structural damage, combined with the fact that it caught fire.

            Furthermore, Loose Change claims that all the buildings around WTC 7 were undamaged, while WTC 7 collapsed into a little pile in 6 seconds. This is, of course, a lie. In point of fact, the nearby Verizon building was badly damaged by the collapsing north tower and Fiterman Hall suffered such severe damage that it had to be demolished. In addition, the collapse was NOT sudden and actually took about 18 seconds (source).

            Oh, and as we see here the fires in WTC 7 were NOT small and, as this site indicates, the damage to WTC 7 was NOT minimal- a 20-story hole in a 47-story building is pretty severe damage.

            As I pointed out in my last article, “truthers” have been comparing the 2/9/09 CCTV tower fire in Beijing to WTC 7, while ignoring these two details: 1) The fire in Beijing was fought (source), and 2) The CCTV tower did NOT suffer SEVERE  structural damage before catching fire, unlike WTC 7.

Last but not least, “truthers” like to use the famous “pull it “ quote in an effort to prove that Silverstein demolished WTC 7 deliberately.  Their “proof” is a quote taken from a 2002 PBS documentary, and the full quote is provided here from wtc7liesgooglepages: “’I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, ‘We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.’ And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse.’”

Even  the 9/11 “Truth” Movement acknowledges that Silverstein was talking to the fire department ( reference).

This, of course, shows another problem with the “truther” claims. As we see here,  Silverstein had insured WTC 7 against terrorism, which given the history of the World Trade Center, was not surprising.  After the 1993 WTC bombing only a complete idiot, or a “truther”  ( oh, wait, there’s no difference between the two) would NOT have done so.

In addition, after the attacks, Silverstein filed a claim, which again, is not surprising ( source).

Getting back to the PBS interview and the 9/11 “Truth” Movements claim that Silverstein admitted to having WTC 7 demolished on national television, here’s a little hint for the 9/11 “Truth” Movement: If Silverstein had deliberately had WTC 7 demolished after taking out insurance, as you claim he did, that would be a little thing we call insurance fraud.    Why would ANYONE admit to insurance fraud on national television?  The dumbest person on the face of the earth wouldn’t be THAT stupid- heck, even “truthers” aren’t THAT dumb.

 

 

 

Dept. of Fun

Oh – we have to check with them if we want to switch from Tag to Freeze Tag. My playtime has been fully Centralized now.

 

For more fun, visit www.DiversityLane.com.

 

Right Photoshop: Bailout Failure

This Right Photoshop shows the Barack Obama and his failed bail out strategy.

 

The Second American Revolution

Thomas Paine, author of “Common Sense,” returns to modern times to pleas for a second revolution to take back America, Now!