Illegal immigration sparks 'race war' in cities, prisons, schools
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By Joel L. Swerdlow Photographs by Karen Kasmauski
Record waves of immigration deliver teens from around the world to a rocky shore—high school in the U.S.A.
By Joel L. Swerdlow Photographs by Karen Kasmauski
Record waves of immigration deliver teens from around the world to a rocky shore—high school in the U.S.A.
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012...of-1st-degree-murder-for-killing-jamiel-shaw/
Gang Member Convicted Of 1st-Degree Murder For Killing Jamiel Shaw
May 9, 2012 4:00 PM
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A gang member was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday for gunning down a standout Los Angeles High School football player who was about 40 steps from his home when he was shot.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Pedro Espinoza, 23, who killed 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr. on March 2, 2008. A penalty phase of trial will be held for jurors to recommend whether Espinoza should be sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jurors reached their verdict after deliberating four hours.
The jury found true the special-circumstance allegation that Shaw’s killing was carried out to further the activities of a criminal street gang, along with the allegation that Espinoza personally and intentionally discharged a handgun.
Prosecutors said Shaw was gunned down while walking home carrying a Spider-Man backpack, the red color of which made Espinoza perceive Shaw as a gang rival.
“We are here today because on March 2nd, 2008, he chose to take the life of Jamiel Shaw II,” Deputy District Attorney Allyson Ostrowski told jurors during a closing argument, noting that the last thing the teenager heard before being shot in the abdomen and then in the head was the classic gang challenge, “Where are you from?”
“It was a cold-blooded murder. It was an execution,” the prosecutor said.
But one of Espinoza’s attorneys, Csaba Palfi, countered, “I would describe this case to you as weak because of the inconsistencies.” He accused the prosecution of ignoring “a lot of facts” and said of his client, “Just because he’s a gang member doesn’t mean he did it.”
“There’s no charge for being a gang member. There’s no charge for standing up for your gang,” Palfi said, urging jurors to give his client “a fair trial.”
“I submit to you there is more than ample doubt in this case, ample doubt, and it’s reasonable,” the defense attorney told the panel.
Jamiel Shaw Sr. and his wife, Anita, unsuccessfully sued the county after their son’s slaying, alleging that Espinoza was a “dangerous felon and an immigration violator” who should have been turned over to immigration authorities rather than being freed from jail two days before the shooting. He had been serving time for assault with a deadly weapon.
The Shaws also mounted an unsuccessful petition drive aimed at getting a law passed that would enable police to arrest undocumented-immigrant gang members and hand them over to federal authorities.
Gang Member Convicted Of 1st-Degree Murder For Killing Jamiel Shaw
May 9, 2012 4:00 PM
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A gang member was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday for gunning down a standout Los Angeles High School football player who was about 40 steps from his home when he was shot.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Pedro Espinoza, 23, who killed 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr. on March 2, 2008. A penalty phase of trial will be held for jurors to recommend whether Espinoza should be sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jurors reached their verdict after deliberating four hours.
The jury found true the special-circumstance allegation that Shaw’s killing was carried out to further the activities of a criminal street gang, along with the allegation that Espinoza personally and intentionally discharged a handgun.
Prosecutors said Shaw was gunned down while walking home carrying a Spider-Man backpack, the red color of which made Espinoza perceive Shaw as a gang rival.
“We are here today because on March 2nd, 2008, he chose to take the life of Jamiel Shaw II,” Deputy District Attorney Allyson Ostrowski told jurors during a closing argument, noting that the last thing the teenager heard before being shot in the abdomen and then in the head was the classic gang challenge, “Where are you from?”
“It was a cold-blooded murder. It was an execution,” the prosecutor said.
But one of Espinoza’s attorneys, Csaba Palfi, countered, “I would describe this case to you as weak because of the inconsistencies.” He accused the prosecution of ignoring “a lot of facts” and said of his client, “Just because he’s a gang member doesn’t mean he did it.”
“There’s no charge for being a gang member. There’s no charge for standing up for your gang,” Palfi said, urging jurors to give his client “a fair trial.”
“I submit to you there is more than ample doubt in this case, ample doubt, and it’s reasonable,” the defense attorney told the panel.
Jamiel Shaw Sr. and his wife, Anita, unsuccessfully sued the county after their son’s slaying, alleging that Espinoza was a “dangerous felon and an immigration violator” who should have been turned over to immigration authorities rather than being freed from jail two days before the shooting. He had been serving time for assault with a deadly weapon.
The Shaws also mounted an unsuccessful petition drive aimed at getting a law passed that would enable police to arrest undocumented-immigrant gang members and hand them over to federal authorities.
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/05/...or-sending-caller-back-who-was-then-murdered/
911 Operator Fired For Sending Caller Back Who Was Then Murdered
May 16, 2012 7:47 PM
DENVER (CBS4) – CBS4 has learned about new details in the case of a Denver 911 operator who was fired for sending an emergency caller back into the direction where he was in danger.
Last month Jimma Pal Reat was murdered after a suspected road rage incident. Pal Reat was fleeing his pursuers into Lakewood when he called 911. The dispatcher told Pal Reat he should return to Denver to file a police report. He did, but was murdered moments before police arrived.
Denver 911 records say that operator had been verbally reprimanded less than two months before the shooting.
The city fired the operator on Tuesday. On Wednesday the emergency department detailed exactly what went wrong that night.
“This event was so egregious, so serious; obviously we don’t start with a verbal reprimand,” Denver 911 Director Carl Simpson said.
Simpson says he had plenty of cause for firing the dispatcher that handled the call.
Jimma Pal Reat (credit: Denver Police Department)
Denver 911 received a frantic call just after 4 a.m. on April 1. A group of Hispanic men attacked the car Pal Reat was in, throwing bottles and breaking a window. The caller also said he had been injured in the attack.
Denver 911 says under their policy that was enough to have a city officer and an ambulance respond out of city limits. Instead, the dispatcher demanded the car return to Denver. It led to the same suspects in a stolen Jeep opening fire on the group they had previously attacked.
The termination letter to the dispatcher says, “Your failure to address the medical concerns of your caller in your quest to make sure the caller was in Denver is unacceptable by any standard.”
“It’s a terrible call. It’s the worst call that we’ll have in 2012,” Simpson said.
Emergency response says dispatch had enough information in the first 30 seconds of the call to respond. But the dispatcher waited more than seven minutes to do anything.
The termination letter goes on to say, “The overall failure to adhere to policy and procedure resulted in a tragic ending.”
Pal Reat’s family has been asking for the firing for months. They say Denver officials still have more work to do.
“We’re not satisfied yet. We’re not 100 percent satisfied until the killer is brought to justice,” Pal Reat’s brother Changkuoth Pal said.
Denver police say they have no new information on the homicide and no suspects or persons of interest.
Emergency response says the dispatcher may still appeal to get his job back, but they did not release his name because of the ongoing murder investigation.
911 Operator Fired For Sending Caller Back Who Was Then Murdered
May 16, 2012 7:47 PM
DENVER (CBS4) – CBS4 has learned about new details in the case of a Denver 911 operator who was fired for sending an emergency caller back into the direction where he was in danger.
Last month Jimma Pal Reat was murdered after a suspected road rage incident. Pal Reat was fleeing his pursuers into Lakewood when he called 911. The dispatcher told Pal Reat he should return to Denver to file a police report. He did, but was murdered moments before police arrived.
Denver 911 records say that operator had been verbally reprimanded less than two months before the shooting.
The city fired the operator on Tuesday. On Wednesday the emergency department detailed exactly what went wrong that night.
“This event was so egregious, so serious; obviously we don’t start with a verbal reprimand,” Denver 911 Director Carl Simpson said.
Simpson says he had plenty of cause for firing the dispatcher that handled the call.
Jimma Pal Reat (credit: Denver Police Department)
Denver 911 received a frantic call just after 4 a.m. on April 1. A group of Hispanic men attacked the car Pal Reat was in, throwing bottles and breaking a window. The caller also said he had been injured in the attack.
Denver 911 says under their policy that was enough to have a city officer and an ambulance respond out of city limits. Instead, the dispatcher demanded the car return to Denver. It led to the same suspects in a stolen Jeep opening fire on the group they had previously attacked.
The termination letter to the dispatcher says, “Your failure to address the medical concerns of your caller in your quest to make sure the caller was in Denver is unacceptable by any standard.”
“It’s a terrible call. It’s the worst call that we’ll have in 2012,” Simpson said.
Emergency response says dispatch had enough information in the first 30 seconds of the call to respond. But the dispatcher waited more than seven minutes to do anything.
The termination letter goes on to say, “The overall failure to adhere to policy and procedure resulted in a tragic ending.”
Pal Reat’s family has been asking for the firing for months. They say Denver officials still have more work to do.
“We’re not satisfied yet. We’re not 100 percent satisfied until the killer is brought to justice,” Pal Reat’s brother Changkuoth Pal said.
Denver police say they have no new information on the homicide and no suspects or persons of interest.
Emergency response says the dispatcher may still appeal to get his job back, but they did not release his name because of the ongoing murder investigation.
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-jamiel-shaw-trial-begins,0,4084363.story
Jury Recommends Death Penalty in Jamiel Shaw Murder
KTLA News
11:02 p.m. PDT, May 23, 2012
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Jurors have recommended death for Pedro Espinoza, the gang member convicted of murdering high school football star Jamiel Shaw.
Espinoza, 23, will be formally sentenced on Sept. 21.
On May 9, the same jury convicted Espinoza of the first-degree murder with the special circumstance that it was a gang killing.
Jury Recommends Death Penalty in Jamiel Shaw Murder
KTLA News
11:02 p.m. PDT, May 23, 2012
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Jurors have recommended death for Pedro Espinoza, the gang member convicted of murdering high school football star Jamiel Shaw.
Espinoza, 23, will be formally sentenced on Sept. 21.
On May 9, the same jury convicted Espinoza of the first-degree murder with the special circumstance that it was a gang killing.
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Watts use to be all black. Now, the blacks and Hispanics live in that neigborhood and it's obvious that they do not mix well.
A 1-year-old boy was shot dead by a teenage gunman on a bicycle while his father cradled him on a Los Angeles sidewalk.
The father, believed to be in his 20s, was holding his young son on a street near 105th and Hickory streets in the Watts section when the attacker opened fire about 7:50 p.m. local time Monday.
Police say the boy was taken to the hospital, but emergency surgery failed to save him and he died at 11:00 p.m., the Los Angeles Times reported. The father also sustained injuries, but is in stable condition.
Authorities are investigating gang rivalry as a possible cause of the shooting. Police said the Watts area has suffered a spate of fatal Latino and African-American gang shootings over the last year.
The attacker in the incident was described as black, police said, and the victims were Latino.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/0...d-in-father-arms-on-sidewalk/?test=latestnews
"Truth is NOT racism"-Glenn Beck
"The presence of the negro is the real problem"-President Theodore Roosevelt
"Reading NNN could save your life"-Ranger
A 1-year-old boy was shot dead by a teenage gunman on a bicycle while his father cradled him on a Los Angeles sidewalk.
The father, believed to be in his 20s, was holding his young son on a street near 105th and Hickory streets in the Watts section when the attacker opened fire about 7:50 p.m. local time Monday.
Police say the boy was taken to the hospital, but emergency surgery failed to save him and he died at 11:00 p.m., the Los Angeles Times reported. The father also sustained injuries, but is in stable condition.
Authorities are investigating gang rivalry as a possible cause of the shooting. Police said the Watts area has suffered a spate of fatal Latino and African-American gang shootings over the last year.
The attacker in the incident was described as black, police said, and the victims were Latino.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/0...d-in-father-arms-on-sidewalk/?test=latestnews
"Truth is NOT racism"-Glenn Beck
"The presence of the negro is the real problem"-President Theodore Roosevelt
"Reading NNN could save your life"-Ranger
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012...al-video-of-apparent-beating-on-interstate-5/ (video at link 3 spics vs 1 nog)
Officials To Discuss Viral Video Of Apparent Beating On Interstate 5
June 20, 2012 6:33 AM
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Authorities Wednesday are expected to speak out about a viral video of an apparent beating along Interstate 5.
The video captured on a smartphone was reportedly taken on June 12 along Interstate 5 outside of downtown Los Angeles. It was uploaded by user “ghostsofmany” to LiveLeak Monday and, so far, has more than 130,000 views.
A driver shot the two-minute video after approaching three men who had been riding in an older-model Volkswagen and a black motorist who had been driving a Honda.
The video initially shows the driver of the Honda and one of the other men taunting each other and exchanging expletives before engaging in a fist fight.
A third man wearing a black t-shirt, who was one of the passengers in the Volkswagen, later helps throw the victim to the ground.
The three men can be seen scuffling on the roadway until the two men from the Volkswagen kick the victim six times in the head before returning to their vehicle.
The suspects are heard saying, “Let’s go!” before driving away in the Volkswagen with California license plate number 3UGW962.
It was unclear what the fight was about or if the video might have been staged.
Officials To Discuss Viral Video Of Apparent Beating On Interstate 5
June 20, 2012 6:33 AM
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Authorities Wednesday are expected to speak out about a viral video of an apparent beating along Interstate 5.
The video captured on a smartphone was reportedly taken on June 12 along Interstate 5 outside of downtown Los Angeles. It was uploaded by user “ghostsofmany” to LiveLeak Monday and, so far, has more than 130,000 views.
A driver shot the two-minute video after approaching three men who had been riding in an older-model Volkswagen and a black motorist who had been driving a Honda.
The video initially shows the driver of the Honda and one of the other men taunting each other and exchanging expletives before engaging in a fist fight.
A third man wearing a black t-shirt, who was one of the passengers in the Volkswagen, later helps throw the victim to the ground.
The three men can be seen scuffling on the roadway until the two men from the Volkswagen kick the victim six times in the head before returning to their vehicle.
The suspects are heard saying, “Let’s go!” before driving away in the Volkswagen with California license plate number 3UGW962.
It was unclear what the fight was about or if the video might have been staged.
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/06/21/suspects-in-5-freeway-beating-surrender-to-authorities/
Suspects In 5 Freeway Beating Surrender To Authorities
June 21, 2012 8:40 AM
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Two men who were captured on tape assaulting another driver on the 5 Freeway outside of downtown Los Angeles were in custody on Thursday.
KNX 1070′s John Brooks reports David Mendez, 21, and Edras Ramirez, 27, turned themselves in to the California Highway Patrol on Wednesday evening, according to CHP officials.
Mendez and Ramirez were wanted in connection with the apparent road-rage beating on June 12 of another man, Jerry Patterson, on the Golden State (5) Freeway near downtown Los Angeles, an altercation that was caught on camera.
They were both arrested and booked into the Men’s Central Jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
An arraignment is set for Friday.
Patterson said the incident began when he accidentally cut off a car on the 710 Freeway in Long Beach. The suspects then followed and blocked his car where the fight took place in Boyle Heights.
Authorities have not decided whether charges are warranted against Patterson, and the case remains under investigation, according to the CHP.
Suspects In 5 Freeway Beating Surrender To Authorities
June 21, 2012 8:40 AM
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Two men who were captured on tape assaulting another driver on the 5 Freeway outside of downtown Los Angeles were in custody on Thursday.
KNX 1070′s John Brooks reports David Mendez, 21, and Edras Ramirez, 27, turned themselves in to the California Highway Patrol on Wednesday evening, according to CHP officials.
Mendez and Ramirez were wanted in connection with the apparent road-rage beating on June 12 of another man, Jerry Patterson, on the Golden State (5) Freeway near downtown Los Angeles, an altercation that was caught on camera.
They were both arrested and booked into the Men’s Central Jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
An arraignment is set for Friday.
Patterson said the incident began when he accidentally cut off a car on the 710 Freeway in Long Beach. The suspects then followed and blocked his car where the fight took place in Boyle Heights.
Authorities have not decided whether charges are warranted against Patterson, and the case remains under investigation, according to the CHP.
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-road-rage-on-5-freeway,0,1697461,full.story
Road Rage Victim Arrested on Warrant in Similar Incident
6:18 a.m. PDT, June 22, 2012
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- The victim of a brutal road rage beating on the 5 Freeway is due in court on Friday, but not as a victim.
Jerry Patterson, 49, is accused of causing another incident, also caught on tape, which has landed him in jail on an outstanding warrant.
Long Beach Police confirmed to KTLA that on May 25, officers responded to a hit-and-run collision at Corona Avenue and the Toledo.
"The driver fled after the collision and was followed by a witness to the 200 block of La Verne," said Nancy Pratt of the Long Beach Police Department.
"The witness made contact with the driver," Pratt said. "The driver assaulted the witness. Long Beach police arrested the driver for DUI, hit and run and battery,"
The motorist, identified as Patterson, was booked on suspicion of DUI, hit and run and assault.
He was taken into custody on Thursday on a warrant for failing to appear at a court hearing on the case.
James Poole, the witness in the Long Beach incident, recognized Patterson when he saw him on TV portrayed as a victim in the 5 Freeway incident.
Poole told KTLA that he followed Patterson on May 25 after he saw him commit a hit and run. Patterson then allegedly assaulted Poole.
"All of a sudden I felt this blow to the head," Poole said in an interview.
Meantime, two men seen on cell phone video beating Patterson on the 5 Freeway are in custody, while a third is wanted for questioning.
Police say David Mendez, 21, and Edras Ramirez, 27, turned themselves in at around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
They have both been booked for assault with a deadly weapon, and are scheduled to be arraigned on Friday.
Road Rage Victim Arrested on Warrant in Similar Incident
6:18 a.m. PDT, June 22, 2012
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- The victim of a brutal road rage beating on the 5 Freeway is due in court on Friday, but not as a victim.
Jerry Patterson, 49, is accused of causing another incident, also caught on tape, which has landed him in jail on an outstanding warrant.
Long Beach Police confirmed to KTLA that on May 25, officers responded to a hit-and-run collision at Corona Avenue and the Toledo.
"The driver fled after the collision and was followed by a witness to the 200 block of La Verne," said Nancy Pratt of the Long Beach Police Department.
"The witness made contact with the driver," Pratt said. "The driver assaulted the witness. Long Beach police arrested the driver for DUI, hit and run and battery,"
The motorist, identified as Patterson, was booked on suspicion of DUI, hit and run and assault.
He was taken into custody on Thursday on a warrant for failing to appear at a court hearing on the case.
James Poole, the witness in the Long Beach incident, recognized Patterson when he saw him on TV portrayed as a victim in the 5 Freeway incident.
Poole told KTLA that he followed Patterson on May 25 after he saw him commit a hit and run. Patterson then allegedly assaulted Poole.
"All of a sudden I felt this blow to the head," Poole said in an interview.
Meantime, two men seen on cell phone video beating Patterson on the 5 Freeway are in custody, while a third is wanted for questioning.
Police say David Mendez, 21, and Edras Ramirez, 27, turned themselves in at around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
They have both been booked for assault with a deadly weapon, and are scheduled to be arraigned on Friday.
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/06/22/2-dorchester-men-convicted-of-killing-14-year-old-boy/
2 Dorchester Men Sentenced To Life For Killing 14-Year-Old Boy
June 22, 2012 11:20 AM
Nicholas Fomby-Davis, 14, was killed in 2010.
BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Two Dorchester gang members have been sentenced to life in prison without parole for holding down and killing an innocent 14-year-old boy out riding a motorized scooter.
Joshua Fernandes and Crisostomo Lopes were sentenced Friday following their conviction Thursday on charges including first-degree murder for the May 2010 killing of eighth-grader Nicholas Fomby-Davis.
Prosecutors say Fernandes and Lopes may have been angry because Fomby-Davis and his brother had brushed past them on the scooter earlier.
Police say Lopes pulled the boy off the scooter and held him down while Fernandes, 16 at the time, shot the victim four times. Fomby-Davis had no gang connections and no history of trouble with the law.
The slaying was witnessed by an off-duty police officer. Defense attorneys questioned the evidence and said their clients were not involved.
2 Dorchester Men Sentenced To Life For Killing 14-Year-Old Boy
June 22, 2012 11:20 AM
Nicholas Fomby-Davis, 14, was killed in 2010.
BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Two Dorchester gang members have been sentenced to life in prison without parole for holding down and killing an innocent 14-year-old boy out riding a motorized scooter.
Joshua Fernandes and Crisostomo Lopes were sentenced Friday following their conviction Thursday on charges including first-degree murder for the May 2010 killing of eighth-grader Nicholas Fomby-Davis.
Prosecutors say Fernandes and Lopes may have been angry because Fomby-Davis and his brother had brushed past them on the scooter earlier.
Police say Lopes pulled the boy off the scooter and held him down while Fernandes, 16 at the time, shot the victim four times. Fomby-Davis had no gang connections and no history of trouble with the law.
The slaying was witnessed by an off-duty police officer. Defense attorneys questioned the evidence and said their clients were not involved.
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/06...r-dies-after-being-taken-off-of-life-support/
Bus Driver Beaten Into Coma Following Fender Bender Dies After Being Taken Off Of Life Support
June 23, 2012 9:00 PM
NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) — A school bus driver who was in a coma after being beaten by an angry motorist, died on Friday night.
Juan DelValle was taken off of life support shortly after 6:00PM.
DelValle’s bus accidentally side-swiped a parked car, sending the owner into a punching and knocking rage that sent DelValle to the ground, with his head hitting the pavement. Doctors said he has permanent brain damage and his family could take him off life support later this week.
A surveillance video captured the entire incident, in which the driver of the car punched DelValle and sent him flying into the pavement.
DelValle was planning to retire from driving the school bus at the end of this school year. His family is waiting until after an autopsy is complete, to plan a funeral.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/school_bus_horror_Fwe8f65i4Dp8kSlwf63KmI
MISHAP MAYHEM : Cops bust Joey Scott (top) yesterday after he allegedly bashed Juan Delvalle (inset, right), the driver of this bus, which clipped the mirror of Scott’s car.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/school_bus_horror_Fwe8f65i4Dp8kSlwf63KmI#ixzz1ykT0reRg
Bus Driver Beaten Into Coma Following Fender Bender Dies After Being Taken Off Of Life Support
June 23, 2012 9:00 PM
NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) — A school bus driver who was in a coma after being beaten by an angry motorist, died on Friday night.
Juan DelValle was taken off of life support shortly after 6:00PM.
DelValle’s bus accidentally side-swiped a parked car, sending the owner into a punching and knocking rage that sent DelValle to the ground, with his head hitting the pavement. Doctors said he has permanent brain damage and his family could take him off life support later this week.
A surveillance video captured the entire incident, in which the driver of the car punched DelValle and sent him flying into the pavement.
DelValle was planning to retire from driving the school bus at the end of this school year. His family is waiting until after an autopsy is complete, to plan a funeral.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/school_bus_horror_Fwe8f65i4Dp8kSlwf63KmI
MISHAP MAYHEM : Cops bust Joey Scott (top) yesterday after he allegedly bashed Juan Delvalle (inset, right), the driver of this bus, which clipped the mirror of Scott’s car.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/school_bus_horror_Fwe8f65i4Dp8kSlwf63KmI#ixzz1ykT0reRg
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://www.click2houston.com/news/S...ath/-/1735978/15239564/-/1fenylz/-/index.html
Spanish language dispute blamed for stabbing death
Published On: Jun 25 2012 07:33:48 PM CDT
HOUSTON -
A Houston man is accused of stabbing a man to death who reportedly objected to him speaking Spanish.
According to court documents, on June 15, Aundra Jackson stabbed Ernest Salazar outside a northeast Houston home.
A witness told police that the men were drinking and smoking marijuana outside a home on Peyton Street when a dispute erupted over the language being spoken, according to an arrest warrant filed in the case.
Jackson, 41, began speaking Spanish and Salazar "got irritated," telling him that "he didn't know Spanish and that Jackson didn't have to speak Spanish to him just because he was a Mexican," the court document states.
A witness told police that Jackson placed a blunt, a marijuana-filled cigar, and a lighter atop the hood of the car and walked to the passenger side, when Salazar grabbed the blunt and lighter.
Police said the two again squared off and Jackson reportedly swung his arm at Salazar's neck and hit him.
A witness ran inside the home to call 911, and when he returned he saw Salazar bleeding from his neck and was saying that he couldn't feel his arms. Jackson had run off.
Jackson told police that he ran from the scene because he has a criminal record, and threw the knife out his car as he was driving, the arrest warrant states.
Spanish language dispute blamed for stabbing death
Published On: Jun 25 2012 07:33:48 PM CDT
HOUSTON -
A Houston man is accused of stabbing a man to death who reportedly objected to him speaking Spanish.
According to court documents, on June 15, Aundra Jackson stabbed Ernest Salazar outside a northeast Houston home.
A witness told police that the men were drinking and smoking marijuana outside a home on Peyton Street when a dispute erupted over the language being spoken, according to an arrest warrant filed in the case.
Jackson, 41, began speaking Spanish and Salazar "got irritated," telling him that "he didn't know Spanish and that Jackson didn't have to speak Spanish to him just because he was a Mexican," the court document states.
A witness told police that Jackson placed a blunt, a marijuana-filled cigar, and a lighter atop the hood of the car and walked to the passenger side, when Salazar grabbed the blunt and lighter.
Police said the two again squared off and Jackson reportedly swung his arm at Salazar's neck and hit him.
A witness ran inside the home to call 911, and when he returned he saw Salazar bleeding from his neck and was saying that he couldn't feel his arms. Jackson had run off.
Jackson told police that he ran from the scene because he has a criminal record, and threw the knife out his car as he was driving, the arrest warrant states.
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...pect-in-fatal-shooting-of-1-year-old-boy.html
15-year-old accused in shooting death of 1-year-old boy
June 28, 2012 | 5:59 pm
Los Angeles police have charged a reputed teenage gang member with murder, accusing him of firing into a crowd in Watts earlier this month, killing a 1-year-old boy while his father cradled him in his arms, authorities said Thursday.
The 15-year-old boy, identified as Donald Ray Dokins, is a suspected Fudgetown Mafia Crip gang member. Prosecutors charged Dokins as an adult with one count each of first degree murder and attempted murder.
Dokins was taken into custody Wednesday after LAPD detectives obtained information linking him to the June 4 shooting that killed Angel Mauro Cortez Nava and wounded his father, Mauro Cortez, according to court documents and law enforcement sources familiar with the case.
Dokins was identified as a suspect within days of Angel's death, according to the June 13 search warrant affidavit.
In addition to that slaying, the teen is believed to be "a suspect in previous murders," according to the court papers. LAPD Criminal-Gang Homicide detectives did not elaborate in the affidavit on details of those crimes or possible victims.
Detectives describe Dokins as a member of a clique within the Fudgetown gang call T.Funk Ridaz, which communicated through Facebook, the search warrant states. One of the electronic photos gleaned from the suspect's Facebook page shows him wearing a hat with the T.Funk Ridaz moniker. Another shows him throwing gang signs.
The shooting sparked outrage in South Los Angeles, and political and civic leaders offered $100,000 in reward money.
The boy's father, Mauro Cortez, and several other people in their extended family were gathered around a car outside their home in the 10500 block of Hickory Street. As the group was talking, an assailant wearing a gray shirt rode by on a bicycle and fired multiple times into the crowd.
A bullet hit the little boy in the stomach as he was cradled by Cortez, who was hit in the left shoulder, according the court documents. A short time before the shooting, Cortez been wearing a purple shirt, the color identified with the neighborhood gang, Barrio Grape Street, who are rivals with the Fudgetown Mafia Crip gang.
But LAPD officials were adament that Cortez is not a gang member and believe the shirt did not play a direct role in the shooting.
Friends and family said Cortez, the baby's father, is an immigrant from Jalisco, Mexico, who did odd jobs. He was living with a family on the street who took him in three years ago as their adopted son.
15-year-old accused in shooting death of 1-year-old boy
June 28, 2012 | 5:59 pm
Los Angeles police have charged a reputed teenage gang member with murder, accusing him of firing into a crowd in Watts earlier this month, killing a 1-year-old boy while his father cradled him in his arms, authorities said Thursday.
The 15-year-old boy, identified as Donald Ray Dokins, is a suspected Fudgetown Mafia Crip gang member. Prosecutors charged Dokins as an adult with one count each of first degree murder and attempted murder.
Dokins was taken into custody Wednesday after LAPD detectives obtained information linking him to the June 4 shooting that killed Angel Mauro Cortez Nava and wounded his father, Mauro Cortez, according to court documents and law enforcement sources familiar with the case.
Dokins was identified as a suspect within days of Angel's death, according to the June 13 search warrant affidavit.
In addition to that slaying, the teen is believed to be "a suspect in previous murders," according to the court papers. LAPD Criminal-Gang Homicide detectives did not elaborate in the affidavit on details of those crimes or possible victims.
Detectives describe Dokins as a member of a clique within the Fudgetown gang call T.Funk Ridaz, which communicated through Facebook, the search warrant states. One of the electronic photos gleaned from the suspect's Facebook page shows him wearing a hat with the T.Funk Ridaz moniker. Another shows him throwing gang signs.
The shooting sparked outrage in South Los Angeles, and political and civic leaders offered $100,000 in reward money.
The boy's father, Mauro Cortez, and several other people in their extended family were gathered around a car outside their home in the 10500 block of Hickory Street. As the group was talking, an assailant wearing a gray shirt rode by on a bicycle and fired multiple times into the crowd.
A bullet hit the little boy in the stomach as he was cradled by Cortez, who was hit in the left shoulder, according the court documents. A short time before the shooting, Cortez been wearing a purple shirt, the color identified with the neighborhood gang, Barrio Grape Street, who are rivals with the Fudgetown Mafia Crip gang.
But LAPD officials were adament that Cortez is not a gang member and believe the shirt did not play a direct role in the shooting.
Friends and family said Cortez, the baby's father, is an immigrant from Jalisco, Mexico, who did odd jobs. He was living with a family on the street who took him in three years ago as their adopted son.
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
RE: ABOVE POST
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/06/29/teen-accused-in-shooting-death-of-toddler-to-be-arraigned/ (video at link wit da low rent auntie)
Boy, 15, Appears In Court On Murder Charges In Toddler’s Death
June 29, 2012 5:30 PM
COMPTON (CBS) — A 15-year-old boy charged in the shooting death of a 14-month-old toddler appeared before a judge on Friday for the first time.
About two dozen friends and family members of Donald Ray Dokins filled the Compton courthouse in support of the teen who did not enter a plea on charges of murder and attempted murder.
The victim, identified as 14-month-old Angel Cortez, was fatally shot on June 4 while in his father’s arms. His father was also shot but survived.
It’s alleged that Dokins rode by on his bike and seeing the father wear a purple shirt, colors of a rival gang, opened fire, according to authorities.
After an outcry from the community, police arrested Dokins, who prosecutors say, is a known gang member.
Relatives of Dokins, however, told CBS2′s Joy Benedict that they are saddened by the death of Angel but insist that it was at the hands of another. They say Dokins is not a gang member and was at home on the night of the murder.
“He’s not no gang member. He is a Christian. If you want to call Christianity a gang, then he is. He a Christian. He from a Christian gang. He is a family oriented little boy, educated, liked to go to school, loved children, would never do anything like this,” said Dokin’s aunt, Tahiti Perkins.
Bail for the teen, who is being tried as an adult, was set at $3 million. If convicted, he could face multiple life sentences.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/06/29/teen-accused-in-shooting-death-of-toddler-to-be-arraigned/ (video at link wit da low rent auntie)
Boy, 15, Appears In Court On Murder Charges In Toddler’s Death
June 29, 2012 5:30 PM
COMPTON (CBS) — A 15-year-old boy charged in the shooting death of a 14-month-old toddler appeared before a judge on Friday for the first time.
About two dozen friends and family members of Donald Ray Dokins filled the Compton courthouse in support of the teen who did not enter a plea on charges of murder and attempted murder.
The victim, identified as 14-month-old Angel Cortez, was fatally shot on June 4 while in his father’s arms. His father was also shot but survived.
It’s alleged that Dokins rode by on his bike and seeing the father wear a purple shirt, colors of a rival gang, opened fire, according to authorities.
After an outcry from the community, police arrested Dokins, who prosecutors say, is a known gang member.
Relatives of Dokins, however, told CBS2′s Joy Benedict that they are saddened by the death of Angel but insist that it was at the hands of another. They say Dokins is not a gang member and was at home on the night of the murder.
“He’s not no gang member. He is a Christian. If you want to call Christianity a gang, then he is. He a Christian. He from a Christian gang. He is a family oriented little boy, educated, liked to go to school, loved children, would never do anything like this,” said Dokin’s aunt, Tahiti Perkins.
Bail for the teen, who is being tried as an adult, was set at $3 million. If convicted, he could face multiple life sentences.
Smedley Butler
Senior Reporter
NO free society can afford to have so many enemies of the Public commons Free Ranging and preying on US. We have to pay for a massive court system which is for "Full Employment Of Lieyer's"
The Regimes Massive prison system, and loss freedom with out any peace and security to enjoy the public commons by working class Whites is tyranny IMO.
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The Untouchables
by Gary North
The word "untouchable" means something different in India than it does in the West. In India, no one wants to be an untouchable. In the West, achieving the status of untouchable is the supreme organizational goal.
In India, untouchable status means that you cannot move up. In the West, it means that you can't be pulled down.
In every Western nation, certain institutions are untouchable. Anyone challenging them is regarded as a revolutionary, a kook, or a self-promoter looking for publicity.
Untouchable status means that the organization gets a free ride in society. Its mistakes are overlooked. Its deviations from established standards are overlooked. It is immune from the usual criticisms that all other institutions are subjected to.
The Communist Party in the Soviet Union had this status. So did the Politburo.
These organizations are at the center of the social order. They are immune from politics, because they are the basis of power. The famous Powers That Be, whose interests are linked to the success of these institutions, have such influence that they can bring socially effective pressure against those who go on the attack against these organizations.
It is considered unthinkable that society could function without an untouchable institution. The organization is so deeply ingrained in the thinking of the intelligentsia that leaders are literally unable to imagine how society could exist without it.
There can be obscure bureaucracies that are never criticized in print. This is because they have so little influence that almost no one knows of their existence. This is not what I mean. I am speaking here of powerful agencies with large constituencies. They have few enemies. They are not subject to budget cuts. There are no rival constituencies that would be happy to see them shut down.
Yet at some point in a nation's history, society and politics did without every presently untouchable organization. It was not only not untouchable, it did not exist.
There are two such organizations in the West today: the public school system and the central bank.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The first famous proponent of compulsory education in the West was Martin Luther. Scottish Calvinists passed a law in 1616. Compulsory attendance and tax funding of poor parents were made mandatory thirty years later in Massachusetts. But the law was not enforced widely for two centuries. Then Unitarians gained control over Massachusetts politics. Congregational churches were disestablished in Massachusetts in 1833. The statewide public school system began four years later. A new established priesthood replaced the older one.
It is no more possible for the average American to imagine America without tax-funded schools and compulsory attendance than the average resident of Massachusetts in 1650 could imagine a holy commonwealth without tax-funded churches and compulsory attendance. Yet such a world came when a majority of people finally changed their minds.
The Powers That Be do not send their children into compulsory tax-funded schools. At least 140 years ago, they created a separate school system in the Northeast, modeled along the lines of the private schools – called public – in England. Their children have never mixed with the common people.
So, those at the top buy their children's way out. They make sure that the youth of the masses spend a dozen years in the propaganda mills whose curricula materials are designed or at least certified by professors at Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Stanford, and the other Ivy League universities. The means of social control are in their hands, but their children are not under the authority of this system. What North leaves out is that the doctrines the teachers are indoctrinated with are set by jews.
It is the same throughout Europe. The power elite maintains control through the compulsory school systems which their wealth allows them to escape.
It is possible to criticize the public schools' methodologies and pedagogies. Reform fads come and go like mayflies. But the following do not go: (1) tax funding, (2) compulsory attendance, (3) falling test scores, (4) increased percentage of budgets for administration, (5) teacher certification by accredited universities, (6) rising violence, (7) student boredom, (8) increased drug use, (9) and the sacred religion of football.
Similarly, the established churches of the West were subjected to reforms from the inside. New theologies came and went. New preaching styles came and went. What did not go was bureaucratization. The best book on American church practices is The Churching of America. The authors show that tax funding and political favoritism undermined established churches. When the funding and the favors ceased, they could no longer compete.
The mark of untouchable status is the phrase, "Without [x], it would not be possible to. . . ." Yes, it would. And, sooner or later, it will.
CENTRAL BANKING
There are more critics of central banking today than there were in 2007. There were more in 2007 than there were in 1997. And so it goes, decade by decade. There is growing criticism, but not in high places.
The twentieth century was the century of central banking. Almost every nation had a central bank in 1999. Monaco didn't, but it is one large private gambling casino. It does not need a central bank.
Central banking is untouchable. Except for Austrian School economists and fiat money Greenbackers, no one calls for the abolition of central banks. To get involved in opposition to central banking is like applying for membership in the Black Helicopters Society. (Note: do not search Google for "YouTube" and "black helicopters." Do not view these videos, especially the ones run on local TV news programs. If you talk about these videos, people may conclude that you oppose the Federal Reserve.)
Here are three places where you will not see criticism of the Federal Reserve System as the enforcer and the insurer of the cartel of large commercial banks: (1) college-level textbooks on economics, (2) financial media outlets, (3) Congress.
Congress legally is in charge of the FED. Yet it has yet to audit the FED, with a comprehensive audit of the gold holdings. It does not set policy for the FED. "Where is the government's gold?" "In our vaults." "How do we know?" "Trust, but don't verify."
The Board of Governors of the FED is the only governmental agency that is legally independent of the government, and is praised by the nation's opinion leaders for this independence. That is to say, the FED is the most anti-democratic agency in the country. It is not just that politics has no control over it. This is operationally true of most of the federal government, day to day. It is that, as a matter of principle, those who proclaim democracy as a religion of social healing are on the side of an agency that supposedly regulates the nation's central economic institutions – commercial banks – which is itself controlled by the largest banks.
The foxes guard the henhouse. The largest banks were bailed out. Bernanke promised the banks $16 trillion worth of back-up in 2008. Yet in the Senate, only independent Senator Bernie Sanders bothered to look into this. He is the source of the story.
Here is an institution whose publicly appointed agents are paid by the government, yet whose 12 regional banks are privately owned, and no one in Congress knows by whom. These 12 regional banks have the power of civil governments, yet they are immune from civil government. No Congressman or local politician dares call for public representation on their boards. There is no other institution like this in the nation. Yet this is the third incarnation of the American central bank.
Andrew Jackson saw fit to fight the Second Bank of the U.S. in 1832. He won politically. The government refused to re-charter it in 1836. Yet in every textbook that discusses this battle, Jackson is criticized for this action. He is treated as an economic ignoramus. He was a gold standard ideologue as no President ever has been, yet he is dismissed as a fiat money representative of indebted farmers.
When an institution that was self-consciously established to violate the official religion of the civilization – democracy – and the priests and acolytes of this religion praise it to high heaven, you can be sure of this: its origin was not in high heaven.
Read The Creature from Jekyll Island.
CONGRESSIONAL CRITICS OF THE FED
The Federal Reserve System has enemies today. This is due almost entirely to Congressman Ron Paul. His tireless criticism of the FED began from the week he was sworn in back in April of 1976. He wanted to see the FED abolished before he was elected to Congress. He still does. But he is still alone in Congress on this issue.
There have been a few critics of the FED in Congress. They did not have national constituencies. They were not elected for their views on the FED.
One of them was Howard Buffett of Omaha, who had served several terms from 1942 to 1952. He was a gold standard man. He was a free market proponent. He did not persuade Congress. He did not even persuade his son.
There were two other Congressional critics of the FED in 1943, when Buffett was sworn in. These two critics were Greenbackers. The Greenback movement began in the 1870s. These people have always been on the fringes of American politics. They are advocates of pure fiat money issued by the federal government. They got their name from the green paper bills issued by the Union in the Civil War. They oppose the gold standard. They oppose banks. They oppose the FED.
One FED critic was a Texas Congressman, Wright Patman. He really hated the FED. He was a Greenbacker. He wanted Congress to control money, issuing greenbacks on its own authority, and paying no interest on the national debt held by a commercial bank. He was thrown out of his position as chairman of the House Banking Committee in 1975. He died in office almost exactly when Ron Paul was sworn in. Patman had served since 1925. He became legendary for a question directed to Arthur Burns, FED chairman under Nixon. "Can you give me any reason why you should not be in the penitentiary?"
During World War II, Patman and Congressman Jerry Voorhis of California inflicted the greatest wound ever suffered by the FED. They got a law passed that forced the FED to pay back most of the interest paid to the FED by the U.S. Treasury. The Treasury since 1914 had been paying interest to the FED's privately owned banks, despite the fact that the FED bought these IOUs with fiat money. This rip-off had been the greatest cash cow in American history from 1914 until World War II. Wikipedia comments in its article on Voorhis.
Voorhis advocated the purchase by the Federal Government of the stock in the Federal Reserve Banks, which was held by the member banks, as a way of financing government expenditures and briefly got President Roosevelt to support the measure until the President's advisers caused Roosevelt to change his mind. Voorhis later allied with future House Banking Committee chairman Wright Patman to force Federal Reserve Banks to pay most of the interest they earned on federal securities to the U.S. Government, rather than to the bank stockholders.
This was one of the most important political triumphs of economic logic over crony capitalism in America's history. Yet the story is unknown. There is no monograph on how Patman and Voorhis pulled it off. There is dead silence on this event in the history books.
Voorhis was a Greenbacker who wrote a book on this: Out of Debt, Out of Danger. Richard Nixon defeated him in the 1946 election, when Republicans regained control over Congress.
With the overthrow of Patman in 1975, the Establishment believed that it had silenced the last Congressional critic of the FED. Then, a year later, Ron Paul showed up.
The best laid plans of mice and men. . . .
WHEN QE3 TURNS INTO MASS INFLATION
At some point, the FED will once again expand the monetary base. At some point, commercial banks will start lending. If they don't, then America's businesses will never escape from the turndown that has produced over 8% official unemployment. This is the weakest recovery in the post-World War II era. The FED's ad hoc hyperinflation of the monetary base has not led to anything like a recovery. It has pushed on a string.
It can goose the economy at any time. It can adopt a new rule that all excess reserves held by the FED will be subject to a 5% fee per annum. Banks overnight would pull back their reserves and start lending. The M-1 multiplier would skyrocket, and hyperinflation would rear its ugly head. The FED knows this, so it does not do it. It is muddling through. All it needs to do is sit tight. Ron Paul will soon retire.
A recession looms, despite Bernanke's assurances to the contrary. The fiscal cliff looms on January 1: the expiration of Bush's tax cuts. The prospect of an annual deficit approaching $2 trillion looms. Social Security is running a deficit. Asia may stop buying Treasury debt. Then what?
Inflate or die.
Bernanke's term as chairman ends on the last day of January 2014. If he can tough it out until then, he gets the money monkey off his back. He can go back into the shadows. He can stay on the Board of Governors, or he can return to Princeton's tenured safety.
At some point, his successor must decide: hyperinflation, or Great Recession III, or Great Depression II.
Mass inflation (20% to 25%) will be a defeat for the FED. But either hyperinflation or Great Depression II will be an even worse defeat. Yet these are the choices.
The FED will try to play the boom/bust game one more time. This has worked for 60 years. But the annual deficit was not $1.2 trillion. Social Security was not in deficit mode. The Baby Boomers were not retiring. Foreign central banks were not holding 40% of the public debt.
Bernanke's successor will not have the wiggle room Bernanke has enjoyed: almost $2 trillion in purchases of government debt, 2008-2011, but with almost stable consumer prices.
CONCLUSION
Over the next decade, central banks will have their respective moments of truth. They will be called upon to bail out the West's economies, from Eastern Europe to China. The deeply confessional religion of fiat money as the creator of wealth and the guarantor of stability will suffer from events that do not conform to the confession. As surely as the voters of Massachusetts in 1833 abandoned two centuries of established churches, so will voters decide that West's central banks are liabilities.
It may take two decades to unseat them, but they will be unseated. Religions that fail to deliver the goods always are.
Then it will be the public schools' turn.
July 21, 2012
Gary North [send him mail] is the author of Mises on Money. Visit http://www.garynorth.com. He is also the author of a free 20-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible.
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1172.html
The Regimes Massive prison system, and loss freedom with out any peace and security to enjoy the public commons by working class Whites is tyranny IMO.
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The Untouchables
by Gary North
The word "untouchable" means something different in India than it does in the West. In India, no one wants to be an untouchable. In the West, achieving the status of untouchable is the supreme organizational goal.
In India, untouchable status means that you cannot move up. In the West, it means that you can't be pulled down.
In every Western nation, certain institutions are untouchable. Anyone challenging them is regarded as a revolutionary, a kook, or a self-promoter looking for publicity.
Untouchable status means that the organization gets a free ride in society. Its mistakes are overlooked. Its deviations from established standards are overlooked. It is immune from the usual criticisms that all other institutions are subjected to.
The Communist Party in the Soviet Union had this status. So did the Politburo.
These organizations are at the center of the social order. They are immune from politics, because they are the basis of power. The famous Powers That Be, whose interests are linked to the success of these institutions, have such influence that they can bring socially effective pressure against those who go on the attack against these organizations.
It is considered unthinkable that society could function without an untouchable institution. The organization is so deeply ingrained in the thinking of the intelligentsia that leaders are literally unable to imagine how society could exist without it.
There can be obscure bureaucracies that are never criticized in print. This is because they have so little influence that almost no one knows of their existence. This is not what I mean. I am speaking here of powerful agencies with large constituencies. They have few enemies. They are not subject to budget cuts. There are no rival constituencies that would be happy to see them shut down.
Yet at some point in a nation's history, society and politics did without every presently untouchable organization. It was not only not untouchable, it did not exist.
There are two such organizations in the West today: the public school system and the central bank.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The first famous proponent of compulsory education in the West was Martin Luther. Scottish Calvinists passed a law in 1616. Compulsory attendance and tax funding of poor parents were made mandatory thirty years later in Massachusetts. But the law was not enforced widely for two centuries. Then Unitarians gained control over Massachusetts politics. Congregational churches were disestablished in Massachusetts in 1833. The statewide public school system began four years later. A new established priesthood replaced the older one.
It is no more possible for the average American to imagine America without tax-funded schools and compulsory attendance than the average resident of Massachusetts in 1650 could imagine a holy commonwealth without tax-funded churches and compulsory attendance. Yet such a world came when a majority of people finally changed their minds.
The Powers That Be do not send their children into compulsory tax-funded schools. At least 140 years ago, they created a separate school system in the Northeast, modeled along the lines of the private schools – called public – in England. Their children have never mixed with the common people.
So, those at the top buy their children's way out. They make sure that the youth of the masses spend a dozen years in the propaganda mills whose curricula materials are designed or at least certified by professors at Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Stanford, and the other Ivy League universities. The means of social control are in their hands, but their children are not under the authority of this system. What North leaves out is that the doctrines the teachers are indoctrinated with are set by jews.
It is the same throughout Europe. The power elite maintains control through the compulsory school systems which their wealth allows them to escape.
It is possible to criticize the public schools' methodologies and pedagogies. Reform fads come and go like mayflies. But the following do not go: (1) tax funding, (2) compulsory attendance, (3) falling test scores, (4) increased percentage of budgets for administration, (5) teacher certification by accredited universities, (6) rising violence, (7) student boredom, (8) increased drug use, (9) and the sacred religion of football.
Similarly, the established churches of the West were subjected to reforms from the inside. New theologies came and went. New preaching styles came and went. What did not go was bureaucratization. The best book on American church practices is The Churching of America. The authors show that tax funding and political favoritism undermined established churches. When the funding and the favors ceased, they could no longer compete.
The mark of untouchable status is the phrase, "Without [x], it would not be possible to. . . ." Yes, it would. And, sooner or later, it will.
CENTRAL BANKING
There are more critics of central banking today than there were in 2007. There were more in 2007 than there were in 1997. And so it goes, decade by decade. There is growing criticism, but not in high places.
The twentieth century was the century of central banking. Almost every nation had a central bank in 1999. Monaco didn't, but it is one large private gambling casino. It does not need a central bank.
Central banking is untouchable. Except for Austrian School economists and fiat money Greenbackers, no one calls for the abolition of central banks. To get involved in opposition to central banking is like applying for membership in the Black Helicopters Society. (Note: do not search Google for "YouTube" and "black helicopters." Do not view these videos, especially the ones run on local TV news programs. If you talk about these videos, people may conclude that you oppose the Federal Reserve.)
Here are three places where you will not see criticism of the Federal Reserve System as the enforcer and the insurer of the cartel of large commercial banks: (1) college-level textbooks on economics, (2) financial media outlets, (3) Congress.
Congress legally is in charge of the FED. Yet it has yet to audit the FED, with a comprehensive audit of the gold holdings. It does not set policy for the FED. "Where is the government's gold?" "In our vaults." "How do we know?" "Trust, but don't verify."
The Board of Governors of the FED is the only governmental agency that is legally independent of the government, and is praised by the nation's opinion leaders for this independence. That is to say, the FED is the most anti-democratic agency in the country. It is not just that politics has no control over it. This is operationally true of most of the federal government, day to day. It is that, as a matter of principle, those who proclaim democracy as a religion of social healing are on the side of an agency that supposedly regulates the nation's central economic institutions – commercial banks – which is itself controlled by the largest banks.
The foxes guard the henhouse. The largest banks were bailed out. Bernanke promised the banks $16 trillion worth of back-up in 2008. Yet in the Senate, only independent Senator Bernie Sanders bothered to look into this. He is the source of the story.
Here is an institution whose publicly appointed agents are paid by the government, yet whose 12 regional banks are privately owned, and no one in Congress knows by whom. These 12 regional banks have the power of civil governments, yet they are immune from civil government. No Congressman or local politician dares call for public representation on their boards. There is no other institution like this in the nation. Yet this is the third incarnation of the American central bank.
Andrew Jackson saw fit to fight the Second Bank of the U.S. in 1832. He won politically. The government refused to re-charter it in 1836. Yet in every textbook that discusses this battle, Jackson is criticized for this action. He is treated as an economic ignoramus. He was a gold standard ideologue as no President ever has been, yet he is dismissed as a fiat money representative of indebted farmers.
When an institution that was self-consciously established to violate the official religion of the civilization – democracy – and the priests and acolytes of this religion praise it to high heaven, you can be sure of this: its origin was not in high heaven.
Read The Creature from Jekyll Island.
CONGRESSIONAL CRITICS OF THE FED
The Federal Reserve System has enemies today. This is due almost entirely to Congressman Ron Paul. His tireless criticism of the FED began from the week he was sworn in back in April of 1976. He wanted to see the FED abolished before he was elected to Congress. He still does. But he is still alone in Congress on this issue.
There have been a few critics of the FED in Congress. They did not have national constituencies. They were not elected for their views on the FED.
One of them was Howard Buffett of Omaha, who had served several terms from 1942 to 1952. He was a gold standard man. He was a free market proponent. He did not persuade Congress. He did not even persuade his son.
There were two other Congressional critics of the FED in 1943, when Buffett was sworn in. These two critics were Greenbackers. The Greenback movement began in the 1870s. These people have always been on the fringes of American politics. They are advocates of pure fiat money issued by the federal government. They got their name from the green paper bills issued by the Union in the Civil War. They oppose the gold standard. They oppose banks. They oppose the FED.
One FED critic was a Texas Congressman, Wright Patman. He really hated the FED. He was a Greenbacker. He wanted Congress to control money, issuing greenbacks on its own authority, and paying no interest on the national debt held by a commercial bank. He was thrown out of his position as chairman of the House Banking Committee in 1975. He died in office almost exactly when Ron Paul was sworn in. Patman had served since 1925. He became legendary for a question directed to Arthur Burns, FED chairman under Nixon. "Can you give me any reason why you should not be in the penitentiary?"
During World War II, Patman and Congressman Jerry Voorhis of California inflicted the greatest wound ever suffered by the FED. They got a law passed that forced the FED to pay back most of the interest paid to the FED by the U.S. Treasury. The Treasury since 1914 had been paying interest to the FED's privately owned banks, despite the fact that the FED bought these IOUs with fiat money. This rip-off had been the greatest cash cow in American history from 1914 until World War II. Wikipedia comments in its article on Voorhis.
Voorhis advocated the purchase by the Federal Government of the stock in the Federal Reserve Banks, which was held by the member banks, as a way of financing government expenditures and briefly got President Roosevelt to support the measure until the President's advisers caused Roosevelt to change his mind. Voorhis later allied with future House Banking Committee chairman Wright Patman to force Federal Reserve Banks to pay most of the interest they earned on federal securities to the U.S. Government, rather than to the bank stockholders.
This was one of the most important political triumphs of economic logic over crony capitalism in America's history. Yet the story is unknown. There is no monograph on how Patman and Voorhis pulled it off. There is dead silence on this event in the history books.
Voorhis was a Greenbacker who wrote a book on this: Out of Debt, Out of Danger. Richard Nixon defeated him in the 1946 election, when Republicans regained control over Congress.
With the overthrow of Patman in 1975, the Establishment believed that it had silenced the last Congressional critic of the FED. Then, a year later, Ron Paul showed up.
The best laid plans of mice and men. . . .
WHEN QE3 TURNS INTO MASS INFLATION
At some point, the FED will once again expand the monetary base. At some point, commercial banks will start lending. If they don't, then America's businesses will never escape from the turndown that has produced over 8% official unemployment. This is the weakest recovery in the post-World War II era. The FED's ad hoc hyperinflation of the monetary base has not led to anything like a recovery. It has pushed on a string.
It can goose the economy at any time. It can adopt a new rule that all excess reserves held by the FED will be subject to a 5% fee per annum. Banks overnight would pull back their reserves and start lending. The M-1 multiplier would skyrocket, and hyperinflation would rear its ugly head. The FED knows this, so it does not do it. It is muddling through. All it needs to do is sit tight. Ron Paul will soon retire.
A recession looms, despite Bernanke's assurances to the contrary. The fiscal cliff looms on January 1: the expiration of Bush's tax cuts. The prospect of an annual deficit approaching $2 trillion looms. Social Security is running a deficit. Asia may stop buying Treasury debt. Then what?
Inflate or die.
Bernanke's term as chairman ends on the last day of January 2014. If he can tough it out until then, he gets the money monkey off his back. He can go back into the shadows. He can stay on the Board of Governors, or he can return to Princeton's tenured safety.
At some point, his successor must decide: hyperinflation, or Great Recession III, or Great Depression II.
Mass inflation (20% to 25%) will be a defeat for the FED. But either hyperinflation or Great Depression II will be an even worse defeat. Yet these are the choices.
The FED will try to play the boom/bust game one more time. This has worked for 60 years. But the annual deficit was not $1.2 trillion. Social Security was not in deficit mode. The Baby Boomers were not retiring. Foreign central banks were not holding 40% of the public debt.
Bernanke's successor will not have the wiggle room Bernanke has enjoyed: almost $2 trillion in purchases of government debt, 2008-2011, but with almost stable consumer prices.
CONCLUSION
Over the next decade, central banks will have their respective moments of truth. They will be called upon to bail out the West's economies, from Eastern Europe to China. The deeply confessional religion of fiat money as the creator of wealth and the guarantor of stability will suffer from events that do not conform to the confession. As surely as the voters of Massachusetts in 1833 abandoned two centuries of established churches, so will voters decide that West's central banks are liabilities.
It may take two decades to unseat them, but they will be unseated. Religions that fail to deliver the goods always are.
Then it will be the public schools' turn.
July 21, 2012
Gary North [send him mail] is the author of Mises on Money. Visit http://www.garynorth.com. He is also the author of a free 20-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible.
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1172.html
voiceofreason
Senior News Editor since 2011
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012...-black-latino-students-at-victorville-school/ (video at link)
Riots Break Out Between Black, Latino Students At Victorville School
September 28, 2012 12:15 AM
VICTORVILLE (CBSLA.com) — Students at a high school in Victorville said violent fights have been breaking out between African-Americans and Latinos for the past two days.
Rafael Muñoz said a group of people started the fights at Silverado High on Wednesday, which have poured out into the streets.
“One person started fighting, then the other would jump in. And continuously jump in and (it) ended up to be mob fighting. (I) got pepper sprayed by the security,” he said.
Cellphone video caught one brawl, which spilled into 14-year-old Jeremy Buenrostro’s lawn.
“They busted my lip. Well, they broke my tooth. And then I have some knots on the back of my head,” he said.
Monica Rodriguez, who asked the school for extra security and complained to police, said the riots are a recurring problem.
“The cops are nowhere to be seen. We’ve been calling them. They took forever. 911 placed people on hold. It was ridiculous,” said Rodriguez.
Linda Rodriguez, 60, said she was punched in the face when she tried to break up a fight.
“I come out and my grandson, his mouth is bleeding. My granddaughter… she wears glasses and she has a cut right here and a bump where they hit her,” she said.
The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department deployed cruisers and a helicopter on Thursday to assist with the disturbance on campus.
Riots Break Out Between Black, Latino Students At Victorville School
September 28, 2012 12:15 AM
VICTORVILLE (CBSLA.com) — Students at a high school in Victorville said violent fights have been breaking out between African-Americans and Latinos for the past two days.
Rafael Muñoz said a group of people started the fights at Silverado High on Wednesday, which have poured out into the streets.
“One person started fighting, then the other would jump in. And continuously jump in and (it) ended up to be mob fighting. (I) got pepper sprayed by the security,” he said.
Cellphone video caught one brawl, which spilled into 14-year-old Jeremy Buenrostro’s lawn.
“They busted my lip. Well, they broke my tooth. And then I have some knots on the back of my head,” he said.
Monica Rodriguez, who asked the school for extra security and complained to police, said the riots are a recurring problem.
“The cops are nowhere to be seen. We’ve been calling them. They took forever. 911 placed people on hold. It was ridiculous,” said Rodriguez.
Linda Rodriguez, 60, said she was punched in the face when she tried to break up a fight.
“I come out and my grandson, his mouth is bleeding. My granddaughter… she wears glasses and she has a cut right here and a bump where they hit her,” she said.
The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department deployed cruisers and a helicopter on Thursday to assist with the disturbance on campus.
vorlos
Junior News Editor
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1103-jamiel-shaw-20121104,0,7958481.story
Pedro Espinoza reacts to receiving the death penalty for the fatal shooting of Jamiel Shaw
Los Angeles Times
Pedro Espinoza took pride in his gang affiliation.
The 18th Street gang member, with slick black hair and tattoos on his neck and arms, once bragged to a parole supervisor that he aspired to land on death row for his allegiance, prosecutors said.
On Friday afternoon, Espinoza was granted his wish.
The 23-year-old was sentenced to death for the 2008 murder of Jamiel Shaw II, a standout football prospect for Los Angeles High School who was killed as he walked home from a friend's house.
Espinoza sat silent and stone-faced as Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald Rose handed down the sentence, showing no reaction.
Some of Shaw's family members wore red to the courtroom — the color that fueled Espinoza's violence — and fought tears during the nearly three-hour hearing. "It'll be OK. This is going our way," one family member said, comforting a relative during a midday recess.
The sentence comes nearly five months after a jury found Espinoza guilty of fatally shooting Shaw, a star high school running back who was expected to field scholarship offers from colleges across the country.
Prosecutors say Espinoza spotted Shaw's red Spider-Man backpack and assumed he was a member of the Rolling 20s, a rival gang. He approached Shaw on the street, just feet from the student's home, and shot him once in the abdomen before walking up to him and shooting him again — this time in the head, execution-style.
Espinoza's attorney argued that his client had not received a fair trial and that his own defense efforts had been inadequate, an assertion that Rose rejected.
"It's not uncommon for attorneys to attempt to fall on their swords in order to save their client's life," Rose said, denying the defense's motion for a mistrial.
On nearly half a dozen instances, Espinoza's lawyer Csaba Palfi was delayed by requests for discussion by his client, who flipped through a large legal folder to double-check court papers as the judge read off the facts of the case.
"The defendant is a very intelligent individual, who through his refusal to cooperate with his own attorneys has tried to establish that his attorneys are incompetent," Rose said to Palfi. "But this was a complex case that, frankly, was very difficult for the defense due to the overwhelming evidence of their client's guilt."
Palfi argued that giving Espinoza the death penalty would do nothing to address the larger problem of gang violence.
"We can kill him," Palfi appealed to the judge, pausing to take a sip of water. "But it's not going to ... fix anything."
Shaw's family members told the judge that they were torn on whether they would be able to forgive his killer. In a statement read by an aunt, Shaw's 13-year-old brother asked Espinoza how he could justify the killing. Shaw's mother, fighting tears, said she is not sure her Christian faith is strong enough to allow her to forgive her son's murderer.
In the final victim impact statement, the slain student's father made it clear that, for him, forgiveness is not an option.
"He needs the death penalty, to sit on death row for the rest of his life until he dies," the father said, angrily pointing a finger at Espinoza. "And from that day on, he can rot in hell."
That prompted a broad smile from Espinoza, who turned to face Jamiel Shaw Sr. and defiantly smirked at him until the victim's father had returned to his seat in the audience.
Espinoza showed no remorse after the judge's ruling, which included a concurrent 25-years-to-life sentence.
When the judge informed Espinoza that he would have to pay $7,500 in restitution to the Shaw family, the defendant turned to his lawyer and — loudly and profanely — said he had no intention of paying.
"I hate him, just thinking about him..." Shaw's father said to reporters after the verdict. "Forgiveness is the last thing on my mind."
But as the Shaw family held a triumphant news conference, Espinoza's relatives left the courtroom in silence. Family members walked out arm-in-arm, largely unnoticed, their eyes red with tears.
Pedro Espinoza reacts to receiving the death penalty for the fatal shooting of Jamiel Shaw
Los Angeles Times
Pedro Espinoza took pride in his gang affiliation.
The 18th Street gang member, with slick black hair and tattoos on his neck and arms, once bragged to a parole supervisor that he aspired to land on death row for his allegiance, prosecutors said.
On Friday afternoon, Espinoza was granted his wish.
The 23-year-old was sentenced to death for the 2008 murder of Jamiel Shaw II, a standout football prospect for Los Angeles High School who was killed as he walked home from a friend's house.
Espinoza sat silent and stone-faced as Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald Rose handed down the sentence, showing no reaction.
Some of Shaw's family members wore red to the courtroom — the color that fueled Espinoza's violence — and fought tears during the nearly three-hour hearing. "It'll be OK. This is going our way," one family member said, comforting a relative during a midday recess.
The sentence comes nearly five months after a jury found Espinoza guilty of fatally shooting Shaw, a star high school running back who was expected to field scholarship offers from colleges across the country.
Prosecutors say Espinoza spotted Shaw's red Spider-Man backpack and assumed he was a member of the Rolling 20s, a rival gang. He approached Shaw on the street, just feet from the student's home, and shot him once in the abdomen before walking up to him and shooting him again — this time in the head, execution-style.
Espinoza's attorney argued that his client had not received a fair trial and that his own defense efforts had been inadequate, an assertion that Rose rejected.
"It's not uncommon for attorneys to attempt to fall on their swords in order to save their client's life," Rose said, denying the defense's motion for a mistrial.
On nearly half a dozen instances, Espinoza's lawyer Csaba Palfi was delayed by requests for discussion by his client, who flipped through a large legal folder to double-check court papers as the judge read off the facts of the case.
"The defendant is a very intelligent individual, who through his refusal to cooperate with his own attorneys has tried to establish that his attorneys are incompetent," Rose said to Palfi. "But this was a complex case that, frankly, was very difficult for the defense due to the overwhelming evidence of their client's guilt."
Palfi argued that giving Espinoza the death penalty would do nothing to address the larger problem of gang violence.
"We can kill him," Palfi appealed to the judge, pausing to take a sip of water. "But it's not going to ... fix anything."
Shaw's family members told the judge that they were torn on whether they would be able to forgive his killer. In a statement read by an aunt, Shaw's 13-year-old brother asked Espinoza how he could justify the killing. Shaw's mother, fighting tears, said she is not sure her Christian faith is strong enough to allow her to forgive her son's murderer.
In the final victim impact statement, the slain student's father made it clear that, for him, forgiveness is not an option.
"He needs the death penalty, to sit on death row for the rest of his life until he dies," the father said, angrily pointing a finger at Espinoza. "And from that day on, he can rot in hell."
That prompted a broad smile from Espinoza, who turned to face Jamiel Shaw Sr. and defiantly smirked at him until the victim's father had returned to his seat in the audience.
Espinoza showed no remorse after the judge's ruling, which included a concurrent 25-years-to-life sentence.
When the judge informed Espinoza that he would have to pay $7,500 in restitution to the Shaw family, the defendant turned to his lawyer and — loudly and profanely — said he had no intention of paying.
"I hate him, just thinking about him..." Shaw's father said to reporters after the verdict. "Forgiveness is the last thing on my mind."
But as the Shaw family held a triumphant news conference, Espinoza's relatives left the courtroom in silence. Family members walked out arm-in-arm, largely unnoticed, their eyes red with tears.