DNA Leads Police to Serial Rape Suspect

Posted on | April 4, 2019 | Comments Off on DNA Leads Police to Serial Rape Suspect

Police arrested a South Carolina man on Tuesday who allegedly raped a dozen women and spent more than two decades on the loose.
Investigators said DNA evidence led to the arrest of 52-year-old Gregory Frye, who allegedly raped 12 women throughout Spartanburg County, South Carolina, which is about 90 miles north of Columbia.
The attacks occurred between 1995 and 2003 and investigators said the suspect targeted one of the women twice, according to the Spartanburg Police Department. The victims, described as white women between the ages of 14 and 51, were attacked in various apartment complexes in Spartanburg County, according to police. . . .
Officers said they zeroed in on the suspect last week while reviewing several cold cases.
The sheriff’s office and the Spartanburg City Police Department said investigators tried to approach the cases from a different perspective, focusing on new technologies and forensic evidence.
“Investigators from both agencies worked tirelessly reviewing all of the old cases, re-interviewing victims, identifying potential family members of possible suspects, collecting new DNA samples, and sending that evidence to the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) for analysis,” the department said in a statement. “We received notification from SLED last week that through their analysis, a suspect with a matching DNA profile had been identified.”
Frye was arrested on Tuesday on charges of burglary, kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct.

Feminists haven’t mentioned this story, for some reason.

Category: Violence Against Women

‘Seventeen Hours by Air’

Posted on | April 4, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Seventeen Hours by Air’

In 2013, authorities in West Virginia served a search warrant on the residence of Kevin Burrows and discovered “thousands of child pornography images,” but the suspect could not be found. Burrows, then 62, “abandoned his employment and family after learning a warrant had been issued for his arrest” and officials said he might “have returned to Australia, where he was born.” It took years to find Burrows:

A 68-year-old Australian man wanted in Berkeley County, W.Va., since 2013 on child pornography charges was returned to the U.S. last week and is to be arraigned in federal court in Martinsburg on Thursday.
Kevin Burrows became a U.S. citizen and resided in Hedgesville, W.Va., before fleeing. He was returned from Australia by the U.S. Marshals Service Mountain State Fugitive Task Force and booked at the jail on March 29, according to the U.S. Marshals Service and jail records.
The Australian attorney general ordered his surrender to the U.S. on March 4, according to the U.S. Marshals task force. . . .
The Merimbula News reported that Burrows, of Millingandi, Australia, consented to extradition in a Feb. 23, 2018, appearance in Batemans Bay Local Court in New South Wales.
The newspaper said Burrows had been in custody since his arrest under a provisional warrant on Nov. 6, 2017, at a retirement village in the Far South Coast community, more than 350 miles from Melbourne.
Melbourne is more than 10,000 miles from Martinsburg.
J.C. Raffety, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of West Virginia, said Tuesday that Australia, “to date, is the farthest point from which the Northern District of West Virginia has ever returned a prisoner.”
“Seventeen hours by air,” Raffety said of the flight that deputy marshals took to reach the continent in the south Pacific Ocean.

Pursuing a child-pornography suspect more than 10,000 miles away serves to demonstrate how serious officials are about such crimes. In a press release, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell said that Burrows “now knows the arm of justice, extended by the extraordinary professionals at the U.S. Marshals Service, is more than ten thousand miles long.”

Why is it that suspects like Burrows always seem to have thousands of illegal images of children? Where do these images come from, and how do the suspects obtain them? You can read the story of how federal officials busted Roger Loughry in 2008 as part of an online bulletin board (BBS) called “The Cache” and get a clue. Much of the child pornography exchanged on that network was produced in Ukraine where, from the late 1990s until 2004, a Kiev-based modeling agency served as a front for an operation that victimized more than 1,500 girls ages 8 to 16. That Ukrainian operation was shut down under pressure from U.S. federal authorities during the Bush administration, and it has not escaped my notice that some people — including people with suspicious connections to Ukraine — have seemed to harbor a fanatical animus against Republicans ever since. But maybe that’s just a coincidence . . .

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 04.04.19

Posted on | April 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #579
357 Magnum: Rosa Georgievna Shanina
EBL: Democrats, Be Careful What You Wish For
Twitchy: Byron York Sheds New Light On The Relationship Between Trump & Mueller, And It’s Not What The Democrats Were Expecting
Louder With Crowder: UK Installs Knife Surrender Bin To Curb Knife Crime – Criminals Steal All The Knives

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Order
American Power: Questions Of Violence Linger After Murder of Rapper Nipsey Hustle, also, Bernie Sanders Raised $18 Million In The First Six Weeks of His Campaign
American Thinker: Are The Dems About To Step In A Big Steaming Pile of Covfefe?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Daily Medieval Savages News
Babalu Blog: Venezuela Before & After Socialism, also, Irina Vilarino Announces Run For Congress In FL-26
BattleSwarm: All Waco Bike Charges Dropped, also, Ben Shapiro On Joe Rogan
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXXII, also, So, The PLAN Is Studying The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal?
Da Tech Guy: The US Congress Is A Den Of Iniquity, also, Lenten Reflections – Locks & Passwords
Don Surber: Why John McCain Still Stinks, also, “Welcome To The World, Joe. Having A Good Time?”
Dustbury: For You, Mom
First Street Journal: Medicare For All?
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Working Behind The Scenes For Release Of Top Muslim Brotherhood Leader, also, The Case For Prosecuting Hillary, Obama, And Other Russiagate Co-Conspirators
Hogewash: Opposition Research & Joe Biden, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Liberal Comedy Central Celebrates Its Diversity, also, Enemies Inspiration Says Film’s Timing Is Perfect
Joe For America: Occasional Cortex Hit With Another FEC Complaint
JustOneMinute: I’ll Take the Crazy Old White Guy, also, Send Better Paranoia
Legal Insurrection: And Then There Were Seven – More Women Coming Forward With Complaints About Creepy Joe Biden, also, American Press More Concerned About Avocado Shortage Than Invasion of Illegals
Michelle Malkin: Nancy Pelosi’s Perv Problem
The PanAm Post: While Venezuelans Struggle For Survival, Maduro Threatens Guiado
Power Line: Why Should The Partisan SPLC Be Tax-Exempt? also, Estrada’s Revenge
Shot In The Dark: When Making Plans For The Next Three Nights
STUMP: Everything Old Is New Again – Universal Basic Income
The Political Hat: Scientific Reproducibility – Same Sex Marriage & The 2D Waifu, also, Whiteness – Racist Felt, Racist Lack of Reparations, Racist Lack Of White Privilege Acknowledgement
This Ain’t Hell: A Muslim Soldier Complains Her CSM Ordered Her To Remove Her Hijab, also, Scary Black Rifles
Victory Girls: Joe Biden’s Ukraine Problem Is The Real Scandal
Volokh Conspiracy: What Bucklew Doesn’t Say, also, Do You Wish The FBI Had Shut Down “Lock Her Up” As Hate Speech?
Weasel Zippers: Farrakhan Claims Jesus Didn’t Die On the Cross, Identifies The Messiah, also, Democrats Block Disaster Relief Bill Over Funds For Puerto Rico
Megan McArdle: The Irish Border is Illogical, Just Like Brexit
Mark Steyn: When Perfumed Hair Comes Undone, also, Lickspittles In Lockstep

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Category: Linkagery

‘I’m Reluctant to Comment on Another Person’s Sexuality, But …’

Posted on | April 4, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘I’m Reluctant to Comment on Another Person’s Sexuality, But …’

That headline from the Washington Times reports a remarkable interview that Mayor Pete Buttigieg gave Kirsten Power, in which the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said:

“I’m reluctant to comment on another person’s faith, but I would say it is hard to look at this president’s actions and believe that they’re the actions of somebody who believes in God. . . . I just don’t understand how you can be as worshipful of your own self as he is and be prepared to humble yourself before God. I’ve never seen him humble himself before anyone. And the exaltation of yourself, especially a self that’s about wealth and power, could not be more at odds with at least my understanding of the teachings of the Christian faith.”

Ann Althouse calls this “an interesting look at his idea of reluctance,” and indeed, such a comment contains many layers of irony. As true as it is that an egotistical celebration of “wealth and power” contradicts “the teachings of the Christian faith,” that faith has other teachings toward which the South Bend mayor has been rather less observant.

Turn with me, brothers and sisters, to the first chapter of the Apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans, beginning with verse 18:

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.”

Paul goes on to describe the sins of pagan Rome under the reign of the Emperor Nero, saying that “even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind” (verse 28) an ungodly attitude which manifested itself in “vile affections” (verse 26).

This text describes how the idolatrous Romans “became vain in their imaginations” (verse 21) and with what consequences: “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” (verse 22).

Now, it is not my purpose here to defend President Trump from his critics, for certainly he is capable of defending himself. Rather, I ask whether Mayor Buttigieg exemplifies that willingness “to humble yourself before God,” a failure for which he condemns the president.

Having often contemplated the text of Romans 1:18-32, and having studied also the biography of the Emperor Nero, it has often seemed to me that the Apostle Paul — who wrote that epistle while at Corinth, and thus almost certainly had no knowledge of the wickedness transpiring in the imperial court — must have written in the spirit of prophecy.

Of Nero’s hideous decadence, the historian Cassius Dio says: “He came to believe that anything that it was in his power to do was right, and gave heed to those whose words were inspired by fear or flattery, as if they were utterly sincere in what they said.” Among his many other depraved cruelties, Nero ordered his own mother murdered, divorced his first wife, Octavia, and then ordered her execution, and kicked to death his second wife while she was pregnant. After that, Nero became infatuated with a teenage boy named Sporus, had him castrated, and “used him in every way like a wife.” Anyone familiar with Romans 1:18-32 must see that the Apostle Paul’s catalog of “unrighteousness” manifested as “vile affections” could be read as a condemnation of Nero, and some have speculated that this may have inspired Paul’s subsequent execution.

How this is relevant to Buttigieg’s criticism of Trump, atheists are as free as any Christian to form their own opinion. It seems to me, at least, quite shocking that Buttigieg should claim authority to lecture others about “the teachings of the Christian faith,” and I think that most other Christians will share my astonishment at this. Furthermore, it is interesting that Kirsten Powers should be the amanuensis through which Buttigieg’s theological sermon is delivered. As Betsy Rothstein of the Daily Caller points out, Powers once dated Anthony Weiner and so her judgment about men and morality is rather suspect. Powers seems impressed with Buttigieg’s $7 million first-quarter fundraising total, but in fact Buttigieg and the other 2020 Democrat hopefuls are not doing very well by historic standards. At this point in 2008, the three top Democrats — Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards — had raised a combined $66 million, whereas the top four Democrats in this cycle — Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke and Buttigieg — have raised a combined total of less than $47 million.

Category: Democrats, Gays, Religion

Stupid Is as Stupid Does

Posted on | April 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Stupid Is as Stupid Does

An incredibly stupid woman committed an incredibly stupid crime last week in Oklahoma City, spray-painting neo-Nazi graffiti (a swastika and “1488”) on the state Democratic Party headquarters and the offices of the Chickasaw Nation. She made no effort to disguise herself and was caught on video:

Was this a real “hate crime,” or is this incredibly stupid woman a Democrat perpetrating a hoax? My bet is on the latter, and I likewise suspect that the arson at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee was a hoax perpetrated by a leftist. We will wait and see, however. One thing is certain — no intelligent person would do such a thing. We’re living in the 21st century, video cameras are everywhere and, no matter your motive, it is foolish to imagine that you could get away with this.

Category: Crime, Oklahoma

Democrats Are Self-Destructing

Posted on | April 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrats Are Self-Destructing

One of the things I can’t understand about #NeverTrump Republicans is how they fail to see the strategic wisdom of rallying in support of our unusually divisive President. The likes of Rick Wilson are so emotionally overwhelmed by their bourgeois revulsion toward Trump’s uncouth ways that they can’t step back and view the situation objectively. Democrats have been so discombobulated by their inability to beat Trump that they are committing unforced errors which make it increasingly likely Trump will be re-elected next year. Given that Ruth Bader Ginsburg probably won’t be alive in 2024, Trump’s re-election could mean a six-vote conservative majority on the Supreme Court, to say nothing of the other possible accomplishments in rolling back the liberal Welfare State regime. All this success for the Right is within reach, you see, because Trump in 2016 proved to be a candidate that Democrats couldn’t figure out a way to stop, and as president, he has continued to sow confusion in the ranks of his enemies. No matter how offensive he may be to the delicate sensibilities of Rick Wilson, et al., Trump nonetheless has an uncanny ability to throw the Democrats into disarray.

Consider the way identity politics intensified on the Left after Trump’s election. Jesse Singal calls attention to how the Democratic primary campaign has become a cannibalism festival, as exemplified by a feminist’s column at Slate that includes this remarkable passage:

After Democrats failed to win what looked like an easy general election for the country’s first major-party female presidential nominee in 2016, some progressives worried that Democratic voters would be too spooked — or too sexist — to nominate a woman again. Maybe Dems would be safer, some wondered, with a nice progressive white guy. But for many liberals, a return to the old pattern of putting forward white men in the mold of the disproportionate majority of American politicians would be a capitulation to American voters’ worst biases. In an era of rising white nationalism, escalating attacks on immigrants and reproductive justice, and a surge of women running for political office, a run-of-the-mill white male candidate doesn’t seem like the right face for the future of the Democratic Party.

The subject of that column is Pete Buttigieg, the gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who has surged in a recent Iowa poll.

Having seen Buttigieg speak during my trip to South Carolina, I can attest to his formidable political skills, and he has even drawn notice from Rush Limbaugh. It’s possible that Buttigieg would prove a difficult opponent for Trump, but the Slate writer Christina Cauterucci argues that it’s wrong for a white male to be the Democrat nominee and also, Buttigieg might not be gay enough for her:

From what I’ve seen, Buttigieg doesn’t seem terribly sold on the idea of gayness as a cultural framework, formative identity, or anything more than a category of sexual and romantic behavior. When he came out in a 2015 essay four years into his tenure as mayor, it was with some reluctance. “I’m not used to viewing this as anyone else’s business,” he wrote. “Being gay has had no bearing on my job performance in business, in the military, or in my current role as mayor.” . . .
To me, a queer woman, it seems hard to argue that the presidential run of this apotheosis of respectability politics is a major win for diversity. Buttigieg’s perception of queer sexuality as a not-sinful but ultimately unimportant distinction — “like having brown hair,” his coming-out essay said — doesn’t make him less gay. It does, however, put some distance between him and the queer communities he’s getting credit for being the first to represent. And if I’m being cynical (or just honest), it probably makes him more electable.

You see? “To me, a queer woman” — identity is everything on the Left, and the Trump presidency has pushed Democrats even further into the embrace of this madness than they were in 2016. This is why feminist vultures are now feasting on the corpse of Joe Biden’s reputation. Democrats are the anti-white, anti-male, anti-heterosexual party, and the newly-elected black lesbian mayor of Chicago is their future.

If you are a white heterosexual male, Democrats want you dead, a message they keep amplifying louder with each passing day.

Do they really think this message of hatred will win them back Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa? If so, then Trump has succeeded in driving Democrats into the abyss of insanity.

“Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen . . .”

Category: Democrats, Racism

Self-Esteem and Other Deadly Evils

Posted on | April 3, 2019 | 4 Comments

‘Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to take Him at His Word.
Just to rest upon His promise,
Just to know, “Thus saith the Lord!”

Many years ago, I spoke at a national Christian home-schooling conference and my speech was more political than religious, addressing the issues of liberty involved in educational freedom. During the Q-and-A afterwards, I was asked: “How does your faith affect your political views?” Having not anticipated such a question, I was silent for a moment before answering: “I think it’s about that ‘Thou shalt not steal’ thing.”

From there, I went on to explain how the fiscal action of the Welfare State amounts to theft on a grand scale, taking money from the people who earned it and giving it to other people who didn’t. This is immoral, and our participation in this immoral system corrupts us. The government school system is a huge part of this corruption. Whereas the Bible commands parents to teach their children, Americans have outsourced this duty to government, and the education of our nation’s children is entrusted to bureaucrats whose loyalty is to the system that employs them, rather than to the parents whose children are being taught.

Perhaps I rambled on for 10 minutes in that vein, but my point is how that question made me think of something simple: “Thou shalt not steal.”

That’s not my rule. That’s God’s rule.

Part of what has gone so badly wrong in our educational system over the past half-century is that the ideology of self-esteem has completely suffused itself into the curriculum and pedagogy. Quite the opposite attitude inspired my old-fashioned teachers, who frequently punished as impudence my own excessive “self-esteem.” Back in the day, children were expected to be silent and obedient, and I was loud and disruptive, and my teachers were united in a determination to suppress my exuberance by the most direct and forcible measures.

None of my teachers gave a damn about my “self-esteem,” or else I would not have been paddled so regularly, and sent out into the hallway to write 500 times: “I will not talk in class,” etc. However much I resented this harsh treatment at the time, in retrospect I am grateful to have been among the last generation of American children who were taught with old-fashioned discipline, before the cult of self-esteem took hold in teachers’ colleges and utterly ruined our educational system.

“Self-esteem” is an ideology that values emotion over reason, and tells people that our feelings are more important than facts. Furthermore, the cult of self-esteem tends toward a denial of mankind’s sinful nature and thereby fosters atheism or, when self-esteem ideology seeps into religious teaching, results in an antinomian tendency that turns Christianity into a sort of gooey, effeminate, feel-good emotionalism.

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” — Christian belief begins with the confession that we are sinners, helpless without God’s grace, and in need of the atonement of Christ. If we don’t believe that our sin condemns us, we have no need of a Saviour, and thus the suffering and death of Jesus was in vain, nor are we dependent on God’s continued mercy. You see how the cult of self-esteem, which tells us we are naturally good people, and therefore deserve to feel good about ourselves, is antithetical to Christian belief. “Self-esteem” begets a neo-Gnosticism that can be found everywhere now in popular culture, as in Star Wars where Luke Skywalker, on his final run at the Death Star, hears the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi: “Luke, trust your feelings.”

What happens when people ignore God’s law and trust their feelings?

The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest and bloodiest battle in all human history. The Soviets lost nearly half a million men killed in this epic battle, while losses in the Axis army (including not only Germans, but also troops from Italy, Hungary and Romania) amounted to nearly 800,000 killed, wounded and captured. All of this bloodshed between two totalitarian armies resulted from the godless evil that arises when nations reject divine law and trust instead in human ideologies.

What inspired this lengthy examination of moral theology was something to which Mark Tapscott called attention: Christian evangelist Ravi Zacharias was speaking at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014, and a young man asked this question:

“Why are you so afraid of subjective moral reasoning? Do you think we all are just going to start raping and pillaging just because we don’t have a book telling us what to do?”

Do you perceive the “self-esteem” required to ask such a question? When we know what happened in history — there are still people alive who survived the Battle of Stalingrad — we know very well what atrocities are possible if “we don’t have a book telling us what to do.” However, Christians don’t think of the Bible as merely a book, but rather an expression of the mind of God. As wretched sinners, we understand that our own “subjective moral reasoning” is infinitely inferior to the perfection of the Creator of the universe, which is why the old hymn speaks with pleasure of trusting His judgment: “Thus saith the Lord!”

It is a sinful sort of “self-esteem” that makes people think they don’t need the Word of God, but are qualified to substitute their own preferences — their “subjective moral reasoning” — for divine law. In this sense, they impudently assert their authority to stand in judgment of God.

A sinful people, full of such “self-esteem,” will endorse a government that disregards God’s law (e.g., “Thou shalt not steal”) and will also soon do away with “Thou shalt not kill.” Had that young man at the University of Pennsylvania read The Black Book of Communism? Does he know how many millions of people were murdered by Marxist-Leninist regimes in the 20th century? We recoil in horror to think of the bloodshed at Stalingrad, where the two armies lost in a single battle about twice as many men killed as the U.S. lost during the entire war. But even that dreadful death toll was a drop in the bucket compared to the tens of millions who died under Stalin’s dictatorship, and the even larger number killed by Mao’s murderous regime in China.

Answering the young man’s question at Penn, Ravi Zacarias made mention of this bloody history and said: “We killed more people in the 20th century than in the previous 19 put together.” Watch:

As horrible as the 20th century was, my fear is that we are headed toward even greater evils in the 21st century, simply because so many young people are so puffed-up with “self-esteem.”