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Hi ter is the perfect character to courier cocaine to a president who uses and a military base has no TSA or DEA surveilance like normal airports have.
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] A 76-year-old man convicted of killing a teenager in a Northwest Side forest preserve in 1972 has been paroled.
Ray Larsen is the latest inmate serving an indefinite prison term — a so-called "C-number" inmate — the Illinois Prisoner Review Board has ordered released, a list that also includes a double ax-murderer.
Larsen had been serving a sentence of 100 to 300 years in prison after confessing he killed 16-year-old Frank Casolari in the Schiller Woods Forest Preserve near O’Hare Airport on May 17, 1972.
He was paroled May 13, according to state corrections records, which also show his last name spelled "Larson."
At the time of the killing, Larsen was 27 and on furlough from the Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet, where he was doing time for robbery. He was in a program that allowed inmates with good prison records to visit their families and was supposed to be spending a three-day weekend with his grandmother.
Casolari was fishing in the forest preserve when he was shot to death and his body buried.
In prison, Larsen was classified with a C-number — the prison identification that was given in Illinois to convicts sentenced before 1978, when the state did away with indeterminate sentences that gave a range for a prison term rather than a set number of years.
Today, those who are convicted of first-degree murder in Illinois are required to serve their full sentences without the possibility of parole.
But killers, like Larsen, who were convicted before the law was changed in 1978 can get repeated shots at parole. Under the law as it stood when they were sentenced, they are entitled to a parole hearing at least every five years.
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The kid got the death penalty. No due process, no appeal.
[Breitbart] Tensions are rising in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas as federal forces work to arrest the governor who claims to have prosecutorial immunity. The governor claims the arrest warrant is political in nature and ordered by Mexico’s president. The tension has led to some talk about Mexico’s federal government pushing to assume control of Tamaulipas and fully remove the elected government.
This week, Mexican federal authorities obtained an arrest warrant against Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca on money laundering and organized crime charges, Breitbart Texas reported. However, in Mexico various politicians have prosecutorial immunity or “fuero.” This led to some controversy as Mexico’s Federal Senate voted to remove Cabeza de Vaca’s “fuero.” The Tamaulipas Congress voted to keep the fuero leading to conflict between the state and federal governments. Cabeza de Vaca’s allies claim the arrest warrant is illegal in nature since it violates the politician’s immunity.
In Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, state police forces and their special forces teams surrounded the governor’s mansion in an apparent show of force in the event federal forces try to serve the warrant.
Additionally, the Tamaulipas Congress requested an investigation and prosecution of the federal judge who issued the warrant against Cabeza de Vaca, as well as other’s who may try to enforce it. On Friday afternoon, the Tamaulipas Congress filed suit with Mexico’s Supreme Court against the nation’s Attorney General’s Office and the judge who issued the arrest warrant against Cabeza de Vaca. In a prepared statement, the state congress claimed that it is a constitutional matter as they claim the governor does have immunity and can not be prosecuted.
On their side, Mexico’s government issued an immigration alert to keep Cabeza de Vaca from fleeing the country and as previously reported by Breitbart Texas, froze the politician’s bank accounts as well as the accounts of some of his relatives and allies. Mexico’s President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador revealed the contents of a letter that his government received from the FBI pointing to a preliminary investigation tied to money laundering.
The tension between the state and the federal government rose to the point where Mexican Senator Ricardo Monreal, the same senator who first announced the warrant against Cabeza de Vaca, called for the federation to assume control of Tamaulipas and remove the elected government.
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Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca Cow Head?
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A bit of history adapted from Wikipedia: a shepherd named Martin Alhaja helped Spanish Christians win a decisive battle against their Moorish oppressors in 1212 by marking an unguarded mountain pass with a cow skull. The Christians used this pass to attack and gain a major victory over the Moors. Alhaja and his descendants were ennobled with the title Cabeza de Vaca
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Fuero, huh? Oh, I get it. That's like if you're Hillary Clinton or Hunter Biden they don't come after you, right?
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[MSN] Samoa's Opposition leader says the outgoing administration is refusing to step aside and the country is facing a "bloodless coup".
Samoa's Head of State Tuimaleali'ifano Va'aleto'a Sualauvi II announced late on Saturday night the scheduled swearing-in on Monday would be suspended "until such time as to be announced and for reasons that I will make known in due course". Samoa's Supreme Court later overturned this proclamation.
Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, FAST Party leader and Prime Minister in waiting, is suspicious of the incumbent prime minister.
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[Just The News] A Georgia superior court judge ruled Friday that absentee ballots in the 2020 presidential election can be unsealed — a win for petitioners in case allowing them to go to where the ballots are stored in Fulton County.
Henry County Superior Judge Brian Amero said in the ruling that he’ll issue an order soon to lay out the process for the scanning and inspection of the ballots, which will be done by county workers while petitioners and their experts observe, according to the Epoch Times.
A group of voters filed a petition last year asking for a forensic inspection of mail-in ballots — alleged such abnormalities as an abnormally high total of them for the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, and the Republican incumbent, Donald Trump.
Amero allowed the petitioners in March access to scanned images of the ballots, but attorneys for the petitioners argued in court that the resolution was too low to perform proper analysis and needed to see them first hand, The Times also reports.
Forensics expert David Sawyer told the court that he had identified a discrepancy in the number of ballot batches received from the Dominion Voting Systems software, compared to the number Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office listed as having been examined in an audit.
[ConservativeTreehouse] The people on the ground in Windham, New Hampshire, are doing an excellent job holding the election officials and auditors accountable to the people during this forensic ballot audit. The audit started because the tabulating machines (Dominion hardware and software) did not accurately count the votes from the physical ballots.
During the first small audit (recount) it was discovered that Republican votes were undercounted and Democrat candidates were overcounted. This anomaly was discovered during a hand recount of the ballots as compared to the electronic tabulation results. After the first set of tabulation results were discovered to be inaccurate the state authorized a full forensic audit. The full audit is ongoing, here’s the update:
Yesterday it was reported the second hand recount matched the first, which means the machine tabulation of those ballots was wrong. The auditors wondered if folded ballots generated the problem. The test of folded -vs- unfolded ballots (counted by same machine) showed a high number of errors. That would mean the tabulation machines across all of New Hampshire may have this problem.
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Well then, unfold them, and lets see what the results "could have been" any discussion of the results should be held in the presence of this man....
[MSN] The Senate’s longest-serving oligarch Democrat, long assumed to be on the cusp of retirement, is leaning toward giving it another go.
Sen. Patrick Leahy ...Democrat Senator-for-Life from Vermont, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, source of more leaks than a plumber could keep up with... (D-Vt.), who has served since 1975 and is in the line of presidential succession, is asking colleagues to support his potential campaign for a ninth term, according to Democratic senators who have spoken to him. The 81-year-old has also indicated to them that he believes he’s "the only Democrat that can win the seat," said a person briefed on the conversations. Given that Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... is an independent who caucuses with Democrats, Leahy’s the only Democrat ever elected to the Senate from Vermont.
If reelected, Leahy could take the record for Senate longevity in a chamber famous for its octogenarians. He's not the oldest senator — four others are older than he is — but he experienced a health scare earlier this year that prompted anxiety among his fellow wardheelers.
In an interview, Leahy said he hadn’t really thought about running again. He held a fundraiser this week for his reelection and raised more than $300,000 in the first quarter of the year. Leahy said he and his wife, Marcelle, typically decide by December before the election year whether he should seek another term.
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Patrick my Son, You need to stop and smell the roses along the way of Life, in your case, Dear Brother, the Lilies are but a short time ahead in your Road of Life, not too far away.
I would suggest you take the exit, that has been so graciously provided by the Lord Almighty, and retire to your home. Amen
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Amen P2K. Representatives get two six year terms, so does the Senate, and the President gets two 4 year.
Also move voting to first Tuesday of Dec., end congressional business then and the new congress does not convene until the second week of January. No more lame duck bullshit from the party that lost congress.
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^-- and the President loses the power to Pardon or issue non-emergency executive orders until the next congress convenes - unless he was re-elected.
And since we are fantasying... Everyone must re-register, in person, with photo-ID and proof of citizenship, every 4 years. And Voter-ID to vote.
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Some of this can be done indirectly. If Congress fails to pass separate appropriations for each Department and Agency by 30 September for the next fiscal year, all members are barred from elected or appointed federal offices for a period no less than 10 years. That would have a tendency to focus their attention to one of their primary jobs.
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Move the Elections to April 16th and require a contributory tax return and voter ID to vote. Problem solved only citizens who actually pay for it get to vote.
[FOXNEWS] Reform-minded activists in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, vow to move forward after a bill that would have dramatically reduced, and in some cases eliminated, enhanced sentences for crimes committed while using a gun failed to advance through the legislature Thursday.
"AB 1509 was held in the Appropriations committee and will not move forward this year," Greg Fidell, policy manager of Initiate Justice, wrote on Twitter. "This is very painful - but we will be back stronger next year."
The state politicians who backed the Anti-Racism Sentencing Reform Act claim the existing law, which allows prosecutors to seek additional time behind bars, is racist — 89% of the roughly 40,000 inmates serving gun enhancement sentences in California are people of color, according to figures from Restore Justice. Could be because 12 percent of the population commits 55 percent of violent crime. Whites, Asians,and White Hispanics (who're white) have crime rates comparable to (white) Europeans. Treat the disease, relieve the symptom.
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But not for those who seek to defend themselves against the Dem mob.
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I would agree unless the Firearm is used or displayed as part of the crime.
Because a few police have been caught trying to overcharge citizens for having a firearm in the car, while being stopped for a traffic citation.
Because it makes it a Felony arrest and not a traffic court ticket. Officers with more Felony Arrests and convictions acquire "brownie" points for promotions.
[FRONTPAGEMAG] Actions have consequences. Pro-crime policies work.
And electing leftists who call themselves progressives and promise to protect criminals from being locked up in the name of criminal justice reform while regulating and taxing the businesses they prey on more than ever has inevitable consequences.
Progressives in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in recent years have strengthened property rights—to other people’s property. Shoplifting has essentially been decriminalized, and retailers that apprehend thieves can be sued. The result: Another Walgreens store in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... , the seventh this year, is closing after its shelves were cleared by looters.
"All of us knew it was coming," longtime customer Sebastian Luke told the San Francisco Chronicle. "Whenever we go in there, they always have problems with shoplifters."
Mr. Luke has been posting photos of the shoplifting sprees. "I feel sorry for the clerks, they are regularly being verbally assaulted," he said. "The clerks say there is nothing they can do. They say Walgreens’ policy is to not get involved. They don’t want anyone getting injured or getting sued, so the guys just keep coming in and taking whatever they want."
Several retailers in the state have been sued by people caught shoplifting who claimed to be victims of racial profiling. Businesses understandably fear bad publicity and hefty payouts that may exceed their losses from the theft.
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From our annals of the decivilization of the Western world
[FOXNEWS] Washington state congressional candidate Matt Larkin is running on a tough-on-crime platform based on supporting law enforcement in an effort to "make crime illegal again" amid skyrocketing crime and failed liberal leadership in Seattle.
Larkin, a Republican who lost his bid for Washington state attorney general to the incumbent Democrat in 2020, plans to challenge sitting Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier for the seat representing the 8th District of Washington.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Larkin said that skyrocketing violent mostly peaceful crime, rising homelessness and the growing number of assaults on coppers motivated him to jump into the race.
"There is an astounding failure of left-wing prosecutors to pursue charges against criminals and it makes us all unsafe. They refuse to prosecute crime, and I’m running on a platform to make crime illegal again," Larkin told Fox News.
"I can only pray we don’t see another ’summer of love,’" said the congressional hopeful.
[DAILYWIRE] Voting machines in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, caused concern this week when registered Republicans and independent voters were seeing Democrat-labeled ballots on primary day.
Eyewitness News reported Tuesday that they had "received numerous calls from concerned citizens reporting issues with voting machines improperly labeling Republican ballots as Democrat."
"Because it’s a primary, Democrats and Republicans or independent non-partisans, have a different ballot," explained Carl Romanelli, a judge with Luzerne County Board of Elections. "When you got into the ballot marking devices, the header on all of the ballots indicates that it’s a Democratic ballot, but then when you proceed to the actual ballot itself, it is the proper ballot for the voter’s party. And when the ballot is printed, it shows that it is in fact the proper ballot."
Bob Morgan, Director of Elections in Luzerne County, released a statement noting that the issue was caused by a "coding error." He later emphasized that the problem was not caused by the county and that they are working with voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems to figure out what went wrong. Prolly because all those unemployed Democrats Journalists have "learned to code"?
"Due to a coding error the Republican primary ballot in today’s Municipal Primary election contains an error in the header when displayed on the viewing screen," Morgan said in a statement. "This error occurred during vendor programming of the device and appears on Republican ballots countywide. The ballot correctly shows Republican candidates, however, the header of the ballot says ’Democrat.'"
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^Absolutely. I've worked under any number of "Directors" whose only job was to see product shipped on time. Period. Lots of folks made shit tons of money. Some had to flee the country. That was back in the 90's. Good times.
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A coding error... in something as simple as printing one of two headers on a ballot. That does not inspire confidence.
CrazyFool makes good points about Acceptance Tests and Quality Assurance. Incompetence, or signs of more sinister changes done at the last minute?
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One has to consider the constraints of QA. The question is always "What are the defects we are willing to live with?" It's always been interesting to watch a long logged "Show Stopper" ticket evolve to "Fix In Revision".
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Time to move the equipment to Pennsylvania, and end any confusion about "Free and Fair elections" and the consequences of not providing one.
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Dominion: we tested our voting system extensively
Imaginary reporter: how many Republican selected candidate ballots did you test with?
Dominion: thousands and we successfully flipped them to Democrat candidates. Next question please.
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What were/are the reasons for not counting ballots the way ballots are counted in Canada? I've never found a discussion on this topic. Voting machines have always seemed to serve but one purpose - lining someone's pockets. Their secondary purpose - election fraud - has moved to the fore.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Tensions are rising in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas as federal forces work to arrest the governor who claims to have prosecutorial immunity. The governor claims the arrest warrant is political in nature and ordered by Mexico’s president. The tension has led to some talk about Mexico’s federal government pushing to assume control of Tamaulipas and fully remove the elected government.
...The 
[FOXNEWS] Reform-minded activists in 
