Feds Arrest Illegal Aliens Who Ran Mexican Drug Gang in North Carolina

Posted on | February 18, 2019 | Comments Off on Feds Arrest Illegal Aliens Who Ran Mexican Drug Gang in North Carolina

News we can expect CNN to ignore:

Six illegal immigrants with ties to a Mexican drug cartel — a rival of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, whose notorious leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was convicted last week— were arrested in an elaborate drug trafficking operation in North Carolina, according to reports.
The massive drug operation included transporting large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine across state lines — for instance, from Texas to Georgia and North Carolina, WSOC reported.
The feds identified the suspects as Oscar Rangel-Gutierrez, Regulo Rangel-Gutierrez, Francisco Garcia-Martinez, Rodolfo Martinez, Raul Rangel-Gutierrez and Rigoberto Rangel-Gutierrez.
“Members of the investigative team believe — based on wire intercepts, surveillance and other facts discovered from the investigation — that Oscar and Regulo transport illicit proceeds, derived from the sales of narcotics, when they travel from Myrtle Beach to Charlotte,” according to federal court documents, as WMBF reported.

Nothing to see here. Move along, people.

Category: Crime, Immigration, North Carolina

Lynching America: Jussie Smollett and the Prejudice of Anti-Trump Hatred

Posted on | February 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

“The media have summoned into existence a Hate-Hoax Industrial Complex that keeps manufacturing fake ‘incidents’ …”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Jan. 28

Americans nowadays consider “racist” the worst thing you could call someone, but I’m old enough to remember a time and place where quite the opposite was true. There is an 11-letter hyphenated compound that, in the South in the old days, was perhaps the foulest insult imaginable. The French phrase Amis des Noirs might be the most acceptable euphemistic substitute to describe white people who exhibited unusual sympathy toward African-Americans, an attitude considered philanthropic in 18th-century France, but less so in the Deep South circa 1964.

Have I ever mentioned that I’m from Georgia, and that when I was in second grade, Lester Maddox was elected our governor? So whenever I hear some allegedly clever liberal speak of “racism” or “white supremacy” in America now, it offends me because it insults my intelligence.

Buddy, I know what real racism looks like, and this ain’t it, OK?

Pete Da Tech Guy actually uses that 11-letter hyphenated compound while invoking To Kill a Mockingbird as an analogy for the liberal prejudices we’ve seen in the Jussie Smollett case. Tom Robinson was wrongly convicted “not only because the accusations fit [the jury’s] existing prejudices but they understand that to suggest in public that they believe a black man instead of a white woman might mark them as outside of their community beliefs and norms.” To say the least.

The profound racial prejudice once typical of the Deep South is quite nearly unknown in America today, but has been replaced among liberals by a partisan political prejudice, the belief that “racism” (or some other species of “hate”) is the only reason anyone votes Republican. The relevant “community” in this case are the Democrats and their media allies, whose “beliefs and norms” are offended whenever a Republican wins an election. Consider this news item:

Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker told reporters Sunday that he would withhold judgment on the alleged attack on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett after calling the incident “an attempted modern-day lynching” when it was first reported last month.
“I’m gonna withhold until all the information actually comes out from on-the-record sources,” the senator from New Jersey said after meeting with voters in Rochester, N.H. “We know in America that bigoted and biased attacks are on the rise in a serious way, and we actually even know in this country that since 9/11, the majority of the terrorist attacks on our soil have been right-wing terrorist attacks — the majority of them white supremacist attacks.”
Booker cited the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue this past October as well as the June 2015 shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C.

According to the FBI, more hate crimes have been reported in recent years, however (a) this does not mean “bigoted and biased attacks” have actually increased, nor is it correct to conclude that (b) attacks by “right-wing terrorists” or “white supremacists” are a majority of such crimes. Many incidents that might not have been reported as “hate crimes” in previous years are now being reported because of heightened attention to such crimes, and the category “hate crime” includes a lot of different offenses committed by different people for different reasons.

Go look at the actual FBI statistics for 2017, the most recent year available, and you’ll find that 21% of reported hate crimes (1,359) were committed by black people, and 9% (454) were committed by Hispanics. Whatever sort of “hate” motivated these offenders, I doubt their crimes can be described as “right-wing terrorist attacks.” In terms of motive, of the 7,175 hate-crime incidents reported by the FBI for 2017, more than 10% (741) were classified as “anti-white,” 13% (938) were “anti-Jewish.” There were 1,130 hate-crime incidents (16%) motivated by “sexual orientation” (including 32 “anti-heterosexual” hate crimes) and another 165 incidents (2.3%) motivated by gender or “gender identity,” including 22 “anti-male” hate crimes. My point is that not everything counted as a “hate crime” reflects what Senator Booker intends to suggest, i.e., that such crimes are “on the rise” because of President Trump.

What appears to have happened in the Jussie Smollett case is an effort to inflame and exploit prejudice against Trump voters — a vicious and deliberate slander against 62.9 million Americans:

Four below zero — that’s how cold it was at 2 a.m. in Chicago on Jan. 29, when actor Jussie Smollett claims he was the victim of a racist, homophobic hate crime perpetrated by two white Trump supporters. There were many reasons to be skeptical of Smollett’s story, but the fact that Chicago was experiencing a “polar vortex” of arctic cold was high on the list of doubts. Even if you could believe that two right-wingers would be stalking a not-very-famous actor in downtown Chicago, waiting for a chance to attack him on his way back from a wee-hours trip to a sandwich shop, why would they be doing this in -4°F weather?
Smollett’s story never made sense, and it came completely unraveled last week after Chicago police apprehended two of the Empire actor’s friends when they flew into O’Hare Airport, returning from a trip to Nigeria. According to reports by Chicago’s WBBM-TV and other outlets, brothers Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo and Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo were paid $3,500 by Smollett to stage the fake hate crime. Police have not yet filed any charges or given an official explanation of exactly what happened, and Smollett’s attorneys issued a statement Saturday asserting his innocence, but there is now every reason to believe that the whole thing was a complete hoax. If this proves to be the case, will any of the liberals who rushed to exploit Smollett’s tale face any consequences for smearing Trump supporters? . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.

Category: American Spectator, Chicago, Crime, Media Bias, Racism

Rule Five Sunday: Post-Valentine’s Day Pinup

Posted on | February 17, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Hope everyone had a fun & happy Valentine’s Day. Today’s appetizer is courtesy of @kbdabear on Twitter.

Looks like somebody wants more sweets.

First out of the box is Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #531, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Friday Hot Stuff and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL starts out with Hot Lincoln Babes, followed by National Cheddar Day, Happy Valentines Day, Cupid, A Whole New World, Cat Lives Matter (Game of Thrones), Gilly Is Coming, Game Of Thrones Pinups, Game Of Thrones Reunion We Want To See, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Gloomy Sunday.

A View From The Beach offers Shameless’ Emmy Rossum, Maryland to Reward Anglers, I Credit Global Warming, Happy Valentine’s Day, Some Retail Russiagate, The End of An Era, Terrible Choices Tuesday, Bay News Today, Throwing Out Some Red Meat for the Crowd, She’s a Black Magic Woman, Nipple Still Imprisoned in New Hampshire and Bearly Any Russiagate

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Daniela Rush, his Vintage Babe is Christie Brinkley, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Got Milk? At Dustbury, it’s Logan Browning and Annika Beck.

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Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | February 17, 2019 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

Skylar Williams was a student at Madison High School in Mansfield, Ohio, when she started dating Ty’rell Pounds, who was four years older than her. Their relationshiip was “toxic,” one of Skylar’s former teachers, Laurie Dean, told Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS-TV: “She dated him in high school, and I can remember students telling her then, ‘You should not be with him,’ and if only she listened.” Skylar had a baby with Pounds, but she broke up with him and had a protection order against him. She was attending the Mansfield campus of Ohio State University when Pounds abducted her at gunpoint shortly before 2 a.m. Monday. Pounds was driving a stolen car and headed south.

About four hours later, in Gallatin County, Kentucky, a man saw the couple at a gas station and said Skylar looked at him and mouthed the words: “Help me.” He went outside, called 911 and grabbed his pistol. When the couple exited the gas station, the man told Pounds to stop, but he put Skylar in the car and drove away, headed south on I-71. Police were soon in a high-speed pursuit and did a “pit” maneuver at the Crestwood exit. Pounds fatally shot Skylar inside the car, and then a Kentucky State Police trooper opened fire, killing Pounds.

Although the heartbreaking story of Skylar Williams’s death was widely reported in Ohio, national media have ignored this crime. Feminists, who so often talk about “toxic masculinity” as a factor in “violence against women,” have said nothing about this case, for some reason.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

Category: Ohio, Violence Against Women

FMJRA 2.0: Holiday In The Sun

Posted on | February 17, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Holiday In The Sun

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Report: Nigerian Brothers ‘Flipped,’ Help Cops in Jussie Smollett ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax

Posted on | February 16, 2019 | Comments Off on Report: Nigerian Brothers ‘Flipped,’ Help Cops in Jussie Smollett ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax

Gateway Pundit notes that the local CWB Chicago news site has produced outstanding coverage of the Jussie Smollett story. Their latest report indicates that Nigerian brothers Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo and Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo were released by cops Friday after two days of interrogation because they are cooperating with the investigation, which is now focused directly at Smollett himself:

CWBChicago has learned that federal investigators sat in as Chicago police interrogated the Osundario brothers for two days after the men were taken into custody at O’Hare airport on Wednesday evening. The Osundiros flew into the airport minutes earlier, returning from a trip to Nigeria that began hours after Smollett reported being attacked.
The brothers, who have a relationship with Smollett and served as extras on his TV show, saw their status with police evolve from “potential persons of interest” to “potential suspects” to being “unable to leave” custody because investigators had “probable cause that they were involved in a crime” to being set free in the course of 48 hours.

Smollett has reportedly “lawyered up,” hiring big-name defense attorney Michael Monico, and signs indicate Jussie’s in big trouble:

Federal investigators have been looking into the origins of a hate letter that was mailed to Smollett from the southwest suburbs about a week before he reported being attacked. The mailing, which contained a white powder that reportedly turned out to be Tylenol, mentioned Smollett by name and included anti-black and anti-gay slurs as well as a stick figure bound in a noose. Its return address was “MAGA,” a reference to President Donald Trump’s 2016 “Make America Great Again” slogan. Many of the elements of the letter were reflected in the details of the attack that Smollett gave to police.
The actor has been outspoken about his displeasure with Trump, most recently telling Good Morning America that he believed that his opposition to Trump may have been a motivating factor for his purported attackers.
“I come really, really hard against 45,” he said. “I come really, really hard against his administration and I don’t hold my tongue.” . . .
Standing outside Area Central Police Headquarters Friday night, the Osundairo brothers’ lawyer dropped hints that the road ahead may be rough for Smollett.
“My guys are walking home. They are not charged,” Gloria Schmidt said before indicating that the Osundairos had information about the Smollett case that was shared with police after some “coordination.”
And, she pointed out, “I’m not part of Jussie’s defense.”

Do I need to connect all the dots to draw you a picture here? That “hate letter” was sent through the U.S. Postal Service, and I’m sure there’s a federal law that could make that a felony. Everything we’ve learned so far points toward Smollett attempting to stage a hoax that would make it seem he was attacked by Trump supporters. and you can bet money the Chicago FBI is under heavy pressure to solve this case. You see, this is not just a Chicago police case. Maybe the cops (or their Democrat bosses at City Hall) don’t want to bring any charges against Jussie, but because this was investigated by the feds as a potential “hate crime,” it’s not up to Chicago P.D. Lying to an FBI agent? You can go to prison for that. Obstruction of justice in a federal investigation? Witness tampering? Attempting to destroy evidence? Yeah, the feds have lots of ways to send you to prison, if they want to, and I’m thinking our new Attorney General William Barr might want to see maximum prosecution in a case like this.

“O, what a tangled web we weave . . .”

Category: Chicago, Crime

Aurora Massacre: Convicted Felon Kills Five After Being Fired From Job

Posted on | February 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

We can expect the media to quickly forget this story:

The gunman who killed five people and injured five police officers at a factory in Aurora, Ill., had been laid off and was “way too stressed out,” his mother said.
Gary Martin, 45, was shot dead by police while rampaging through Henry Pratt Co., a manufacturing plant in the suburbs of Chicago. He killed five people and wounded five police officers. His mother Felicia Martin told WGNTV: “My heart goes out to all the victims and their families.”
Martin was convicted in Mississippi in 1995 of felony aggravated assault and was imprisoned. The Sun-Times reported that the charge stemmed from his stabbing a woman in 1994. He was convicted of lesser offenses In Illinois, including illegally altering car speakers and squealing his tires. He was also sued by a landlord.
ABC 7 reported that Martin “was told Friday he was being fired from the company where he had worked for about 15 years as an assembler” and opened fire during his termination meeting, continuing to shoot throughout the plant. Martin’s family told local reporters that he was laid off.

The usual suspects make the usual irrelevant arguments:

The rote denunciations of “gun violence,” blaming “the gun lobby” and demanding that Congress “take action,” obscure the reality that it is already against the law for felons to have firearms, and the NRA is completely OK with such laws. We don’t know how Martin got the firearm he used in Friday’s massacre, but if he had been caught with a gun at any time prior to this shooting, he would have been sent to prison under Illinois law (720 ILCS 5/24-1.1), “a Class 3 felony, with a mandatory minimum 2 year prison sentence.”

When a mass shooting like this takes place, CNN goes into 24/7 coverage mode in the hope that the gunman will be a MAGA-hat-wearing Trump supporter or a “far-right white nationalist” of some kind. Because the Aurora massacre was committed by a black man, however, we can expect this crime to be quickly forgotten by the anti-Trump media machine.