Guatemalan Immigrant Kept 33 Illegal Aliens in Her Illinois Home

Posted on | March 31, 2019 | Comments Off on Guatemalan Immigrant Kept 33 Illegal Aliens in Her Illinois Home

A woman has been arrested and accused of keeping 33 immigrants in her Illinois home, allegedly forcing them to work and pay her hundreds of dollars for rent, childcare and transportation, in addition to the thousands of dollars she said they owed her because she helped them get into the United States, federal court documents state.
FBI investigators raided the home of Concepcion Malinek, 49, of Cicero, Illinois, this week and discovered 19 adults and 14 children living in her home, according to a criminal complaint prepared by an FBI agent. All of them are believed to be Guatemalan citizens.
She faces two counts of forced labor.
Malinek allegedly threatened the migrants with “immigration consequences,” the complaint says, if they shared what was going on inside the house with anyone else. The legal status of the immigrants was unclear.
A judge on Thursday ordered that Malinek remain in custody without bond until her trial, according to the court docket. She’s currently being held at the Kendall County Public Safety Center in Yorkville, Illinois.
Malinek is a dual citizen of both the US and Guatemala, according to Department of Justice spokesman Joseph Fitzpatrick. She faces a maximum of 40 years in prison — 20 for each count.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

Category: Crime, Illinois, Immigration

‘Creepy Uncle Joe’ Gets Busted by #MeToo (Hint: She’s a Bernie Supporter)

Posted on | March 30, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Creepy Uncle Joe’ Gets Busted by #MeToo (Hint: She’s a Bernie Supporter)

After years of inappropriate public contact with women and girls, Joe Biden has finally been called out by a fellow Democrat:

Lucy Flores, a former Nevada Assemblywoman and 2014 Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor has accused former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriately touching her in 2014.
In a riveting piece published today at The Cut, Flores detailed what she says happened to her during a campaign rally just a few days before the election in 2014:

I found my way to the holding room for the speakers, where everyone was chatting, taking photos, and getting ready to speak to the hundreds of voters in the audience. Just before the speeches, we were ushered to the side of the stage where we were lined up by order of introduction. As I was taking deep breaths and preparing myself to make my case to the crowd, I felt two hands on my shoulders. I froze. “Why is the vice-president of the United States touching me?”
I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, “I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual f*ck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?” He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head.

Greg at Twitchy makes an important point:

We should mention, however, that Lucy Flores, is a huge backer of Bernie Sanders. Shouldn’t that have made it into the article, at the very least as an editor’s note? She bragged in 2016 of Sanders picking her to be on the board of Our Revolution, a 501(c)(4) that bills itself as “The next step for Bernie Sanders’ movement is Our Revolution, which will fight to transform America and advance the progressive agenda that we believe in”

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Of course, the obvious political motive of Biden’s accuser does not mean that his “Creepy Uncle Joe” act isn’t genuinely offensive. But why is it that this behavior, which conservatives have been pointing out for years, seemed to go unnoticed by Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) until a fellow Democrat called out Biden? Doesn’t this prove the extent to which the feminist movement is simply a propaganda operation subservient to the partisan interests of Democrats?

Category: Joe Biden, Scandal, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 03.29.19

Posted on | March 30, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Got links? FMJRA links are due tomorrow at noon; Rule 5 links by midnight.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Alaska Purchase
Twitchy: Federal Judge In CA Rules State’s 10-Round Limit On Magazines Unconstitutional – AG Becerra, Mother Jones Hardest Hit
Louder With Crowder: Celebrities Pledge To Boycott GA Over Pro-Life Bill
According To Hoyt: Envy & The Crab Bucket – A Blast From The Past
Vox Popoli: Demolishing The Atheist Myths

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Thinker: The Democrat Leninist Revolution Is Here
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Schadenfreudelicious Friday
Babalu Blog: Google Signs Deal With Castro To bring faster Internet To Cuba (Sort Of), also, Cardinal Mindszenty, Anti-Communist Hero
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 29
Camp Of The Saints:
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday – Andrew W. Marshall
Da Tech Guy: Lenten Reflections – The Trap of Facts, also, Opening Day Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Was Mueller Taxpayer Funded Oppo Research?
Dustbury: You Can’t Do This With Velcro
First Street Journal:
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Muslim “Refugee” In Hungary Found To Have Beheaded 20 People For ISIS, also, Obama Tells Genocidal Jew-Hater Tlaib “I’m Proud Of You”
Hogewash: Don’t Know Much About History, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day (With Vintage Johnny Atsign!)
Hollywood In Toto: Is Unplanned The Movie Hollywood Fears Most?
Joe For America: Democrat Pols Dump POW/MIA Flags For Pride Flags Outside Their DC Offices
JustOneMinute: Brexit Remains On The Drawing Board
Legal Insurrection: Rahm Emanuel Blames Trump For Smollett Hate Crime Hoax, also, Stacey Abrams Rejects Biden’s Offer Of VP Slot – “I’m Just As Capable Of Becoming President”
The PanAm Post: Bolsonaro Battles To Privatize Major Electric Utility Electrobras
Power Line: Long Overdue Action On EMP, also, A Primer On “Ventriloquist Journalism”
Shot In The Dark: Their Own Slimy Petard
STUMP: NYC Shenanigans – Slush Funds Ain’t What They Used To Be
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The World Of LSD
This Ain’t Hell: Today Is Vietnam War Veterans Day, also, Should Schiff Resign?
Victory Girls: Border Breaking Point – Homeland Security Asks To Deport Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Volokh Conspiracy: District Court Permanently Enjoins CA Magazine Confiscation Law
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex Convinced “Far-Right” Conspiracy Is Ruining Her, also, Democrats’ Offices Swap POW/MIA Flags For Transgender Pride Flags On Vietnam War Veterans Day
Megan McArdle: Leave V. Remain Caricatures Have Only Added To Brexit’s Messiness
Mark Steyn: A New Theme Tune For CNN

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Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

The Dutch Trump Is Awesome

Posted on | March 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

Nowadays, whenever you see the media label a politician “far-right,” you figure he must be awesome, and this rule appears to be valid in the case of Thierry Baudet, a Dutch politician who is being compared to Donald Trump after his Forum for Democracy (FvD) party won provincial elections. This makes Baudet’s party a potential threat to Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s liberal VVD party. Baudet is anti-EU, anti-immigration and a climate-change skeptic. He speaks brutal truth:

Thanks to a sophisticated social media operation and regular appearances on popular TV talks shows, Baudet and his party have managed to reach a large audience.
Two days before the election, the campaign shifted focus to migration after a Turkish-born man was arrested following a shooting in Utrecht in which three people were killed. Baudet was swift in his response, blaming the government’s migration policy for the attack just hours after the shooting. At the time of his remarks, all other parties had suspended campaigning in memory of those who lost their lives.
“We are being destroyed by the people who are supposed to be protecting us,” Baudet told supporters after his election win. “Successive Rutte governments have left our borders wide open, letting in hundreds of thousands of people with cultures completely different to ours.”

This is simply a fact, a truth that nobody is supposed to mention because it’s now “far-right” to speak the truth — including the truth about women:

In an interview in 2017, Baudet said “women generally excel less in a lot of occupations and have fewer ambitions,” adding that they are “often also more interested in just more family-like things.” Three years earlier, he wrote in an op-ed that women “do not want you to respect their no, to respect their resistance. The reality is that women want to be overwhelmed, dominated, yes; want to be overpowered.”

To employ a marketplace analogy, when it comes to sex, women are the supply and men are the demand and, in negotiating the transaction, the woman does not wish to seem too eager to close the deal. Her show of reluctance is an attempt to bid up the price, as it were, but courtesy requires men to pretend we don’t understand this. Nor are men allowed (at least publicly) to discuss strategy vis-a-vis female sexuality. Women are insulted by the suggestion that any man could be sufficiently shrewd to understand the psychology of sex well enough to win the game. Knowing this, of course, the shrewd player learns to act as if he’s not really playing, but rather just spontaneously doing what comes natural — a method actor, so to speak, cast in the role of the lovable brute.

Baudet bluntly analyzes the “nice guy” problem:

Aardige jongens halen het slechtste in jonge vrouwen naar boven. In weerwil van het dominante discours over het ‘zwakke’ geslacht is geen diersoort zo wreed als de jonge vrouw. Misschien is het evolutionair te verklaren – dat vrouwen een sterke spermadonor zoeken voor de voortplanting; dat het voortbestaan van de soort van een dergelijk afweermechanisme afhankelijk is.

Translation:

Nice guys bring out the worst in young women. In spite of the dominant discourse on the ‘weak’ sex, no animal species is as cruel as the young woman. Perhaps it can be explained evolutionally — that women seek a strong sperm donor for reproduction; that the survival of the species depends on such a defense mechanism.

Well, is he wrong about this? Women are generally unaware of their own cruelty. Having it within her power to make a boy spectacularly happy — ecstatic, euphoric, giddy with happiness — the teenage girl instead finds it more advantageous to deny him that pleasure and, to the adult who understands this as a matter of incentives, the romantic cat-and-mouse game is amusing to watch. Having both sons and daughters, I see both sides of the struggle. It’s rather too easy for a grown man to forget the misery a girl can inflict on a lovestruck boy, and it’s even possible to be deceived by feminist nonsense about women’s perpetual victimhood.

Life ultimately sorts people out as winners or losers, and while female losers have an entire political movement devoted to their grievances, the plight of the male loser is mocked to scorn. God forbid anyone should give a young man advice on how to win, which was the controversy Thierry Baudet was addressing in that 2014 column about the furor surrounding Swiss pickup artist Julien Blanc.

Anyway, this guy Baudet might soon become somebody important, and it’s nice to see that truth still counts for something in politics.

Category: Netherlands

Face-Eating Cannibal Killer

Posted on | March 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

Florida? Yes, of course, it’s Florida:

The young American cannibal Austin Harrouff, 22, will go on trial for murder on November 4, reports WPTV in Palm Beach, Florida.
Harrouff, as you will recall, was arrested in August 2016 when he was discovered biting off the face of 59-year-old John Stevens III, after having killed him.
Harrouff was removing the victim’s flesh with his teeth, according to police. It took several officers, a police dog and a stun gun to pry the determined cannibal from the body. Stevens’ wife, 53-year-old Michelle Mishcon, was found dead in the couple’s garage.
Harrouff also allegedly attacked a neighbor who managed to call 911 before being airlifted to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery for his injuries.
This wasn’t the first time that Florida police have been called to a face-eating scene. In 2012, Miami resident Rudy Eugene became known as the “Causeway Cannibal” after he was arrested for orally removing most of the flesh from the face of a homeless man who survived the attack.
Authorities initially said the Causeway Cannibal was tripping on bath salts at the tie, but drug tests revealed him to be clean and sober.
Similarly, when Harrouff was arrested, Marin County Sheriff William Snyder blamed it on drugs: “When we see a case like this, when someone is biting off pieces of somebody’s face, could it be flakka, the answer is it absolutely could be a flakka case.”
Flakka, technically known as Alpha PVP, is described by the National Institute on Drug Abuse as “chemically similar to other synthetic cathinone drugs popularly called ‘bath salts’” which can cause “hyperstimulation, paranoia, and hallucinations that can lead to violent aggression and self-injury.”
But it turns out that Harrouff wasn’t on flakka after all, according to toxicology reports obtained by People magazine.
Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychologist . . . concluded that Harrouff believed he was “half-dog, half-man” at the time of the brutal attack.

In case I haven’t reminded you lately, crazy people are dangerous.

Category: Crime, Florida

‘Henry Greenberg’ and the Deep State Conspiracy Against Donald Trump

Posted on | March 29, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Henry Greenberg’ and the Deep State Conspiracy Against Donald Trump

Michael Caputo, a longtime Trump associate whose life was wrecked by the Mueller investigation, called attention to an important fact this morning in an appearance on the Fox News Channel:

Caputo said that a man identifying himself as a Russian-American named “Henry Greenberg” called him one day from Miami, “offering information [on Hillary Clinton] to the Trump campaign.”
“I deflected the call to Roger Stone,” Caputo recalled, noting that at the time he knew Greenberg to be a convicted criminal with questionable ties.
Caputo said he found out that Greenberg is or was an FBI informant, and claimed his real identity is a Gennady Vasilievich Vostretsov, a Russian national with a violent criminal history.
One of Stone’s attorneys, Grant Smith, claimed in a 2018 letter to the House Intelligence Committee that Greenberg a.k.a. Vostretsov was trying to “entrap” Stone and “compromise the Trump effort.”

This has been public knowledge since last June:

Caputo said in a letter he sent to the House Intelligence Committee on [June 15] that the man, 59-year-old Gennadiy Vasilievich Vostretsov, had reached out to him in late May 2016 through his business partner in Miami, a Russian national named Sergey Petrushin. Vostretsov introduced himself as “Henry Greenberg” and said he had information about Clinton he wanted to provide the Trump campaign.
Caputo put him in touch with Roger Stone, who was serving as a senior adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump and lived in South Florida. Stone met with “Greenberg” but later told Caputo that he had tried to sell information on Clinton, but he declined and thought “Greenberg” was “a nut,” according to the letter.
According to text messages reviewed by the Washington Post, Caputo wrote to Stone: “How crazy is the Russian?” Stone replied that “Greenberg” wanted “big” money. “Waste of time,” he texted Caputo.
Caputo said he forgot about this interaction until several weeks ago, when the Special Counsel asked him about a May 29, 2016, text message he sent to Stone asking if “Greenberg” had contacted him. Caputo said he was suspicious about how much the Special Counsel knew about the “Greenberg” approach and ordered his own investigation of him.
“After my [Office of Special Counsel] interview, I deployed the crowdfunding resources of CaputoLegalFund.com to investigate Henry Greenberg in the United States and Russia,” Caputo said in a statement on Sunday. “We discovered very quickly that this shady character has a long career as an FBI informant.”
Caputo found that “Greenberg” was really Vostretsov and had also assumed the names Henry Oknyansky and Gennady Arzhanik. He learned that Vostretsov had a long history of criminal activity in Russia, served ten years in prison, he first arrived in the U.S. in 1994, was soon after charged with assault with a deadly weapon, and served time in U.S. prisons for that and other charges.

Ask yourself a couple of questions:

Was it a coincidence that an FBI informant contacted Caputo in May 2016 offering to sell information on Clinton?
Why did Mueller’s investigators know to ask questions about this guy?

Isn’t it obvious — aren’t we justified in surmising — that Vostretsov was part of an effort by the FBI to lure Trump’s associates into a trap? And if we are correct in this logical inference, isn’t it therefore apparent that federal agents were targeting the Trump campaign even before the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation was officially begun in late July 2016? This is the clearest clue we have that the so-called “Deep State” conspiracy against Trump had begun operating months before the date claimed by ex-FBI director James Comey. Whether or not Comey knew what was going on with Vostretsov, if Caputo’s version of the story is correct, it seems highly unlikely that a known FBI informant would have been independently trying to contact the Trump campaign.

Especially we should consider this bit of information important in light of the fact that Natalia Veselnitskaya, the central figure in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, was evidently in cahoots with Fusion GPS, the Clinton-connected firm which commissioned the Steele dossier. Is it possible that the same people who were pushing Veselnitskaya toward the Trump campaign were also involved in the earlier “Greenberg” ruse? And doesn’t this suggest that someone inside the FBI may have been working with Fusion GPS personnel or other Clinton operatives to do a “sting” on the Trump campaign? Well, I don’t know the answers to these questions, but I hope Senate Republicans will start trying to connect these dots, because this thing reeks to high heaven.

Category: Corruption, Crime, Donald Trump, Russia

Joe Biden and White Self-Hatred

Posted on | March 29, 2019 | Comments Off on Joe Biden and White Self-Hatred

In 1991, Sen. Joe Biden was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who permitted the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas to become a “high-tech lynching.” Among other things, this squalid episode had the effect of causing young Andrew Breitbart to begin questioning the liberal beliefs he had grown up with. (See, for example, Larry O’Connor’s column from last October, “The Kavanaugh effect: The next Andrew Breitbart is watching.”) What Biden and his fellow Democrats did to Thomas was so clearly wrong, and so obviously motivated by political hatred, that it was henceforth impossible for Democrats to appeal to a sense of decorum or bipartisanship without being seen as hypocrites. If there were one incident in his life for which Biden owes America an apology, this was it, but the politics of the Democratic Party have changed to such an extent that Biden is now apologizing for the wrong reasons:

During a recent struggle session over his role in the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Supreme Court hearings of 1991, prospective presidential candidate Joe Biden declared that the United States had a centuries-old embedded cultural problem with permissive violence against women. “It’s an English jurisprudential culture,” Biden explained this week, “a white man’s culture. It’s got to change.”
“English jurisprudential culture” is, of course, the foundation of American governance and our Constitutional rights. It’s unlikely any culture in history has brought more freedom and prosperity to more of humankind. . . .
Those who demand acts of contrition over “English jurisprudential culture,” seem to have a problem with ideals of blind justice and due process that stop us from sacrificing people to the whims of an aggrieved mob. Biden’s transgression against progressivism, as far as I can tell, was affirming to Thomas during the Hill hearings that, “from the beginning and at this moment, until the end, the presumption [of innocence] is with you.” It wasn’t true.
Though it’s quite puzzling why the former vice president laments the “white” cultural evils of American jurisprudence when mentioning his role in the Thomas Supreme Court hearings. Perhaps confessing racial guilt is merely a form of ritual self-flagellation these days. Then again, it was Biden, with the assistance of a bunch of other white men, helped smear a black man with an impeccable record and no corroborating evidence of wrongdoing simply because he held the wrong kind of views.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

This kind of “ritual self-flagellation” by white men has become normalized on the Left, where feminists assert the inherent superiority of women and “heterosexual white male” is an epithet. The most obvious response to being demonized in this way is simply for white men to avoid leftists, and you can see by 2016 exit polls (white males favoring Trump over Clinton by a 2-to-1 margin) that this is how most have reacted.

However, a Democrat politician like Biden can’t escape the necessity of trying to appeal to the voter base of a party ideologically organized around anti-white and anti-male hatred. So he must now grovel apologetically and denounce “white man’s culture” in hope of securing his party’s presidential nomination. And he doesn’t seem to consider how politics often works like Newton’s Third Law of Motion. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, and it can be predicted that most young white men, watching Biden’s “ritual self-flagellation,” will respond by saying, “Hell, no.” It is one thing for a wealthy old white politician to abase himself and plead for mercy from the Democrat voter base, but your average young white guy doesn’t feel the need to apologize.

Democrats never seem to anticipate the consequences of pandering to the Left, and blame Republicans for the evidence of “racism” and “sexism” which Democrats themselves have helped to inspire. The more Democrats double-down on identity politics and Cultural Marxism, the more they will alienate the majority of Americans, but because the liberal media are always willing to make excuses for Democrats, to rationalize their failures by scapegoating Republicans — “Orange Man Bad!” — there is no hope that this trend will ever be corrected.

The kind of dangerous violent reaction we saw recently in Christchurch is, to a great extent, a result of soi-disant “conservatives” refusing to stand up against the Left’s identity-politics game. If conservatives are afraid to call things by their right name, we risk becoming complicit in the normalization of the Left’s bizarre worldview.