The Gathering Darkness

Posted on | December 21, 2018 | Comments Off on The Gathering Darkness

Adam Piggott calls the above photo “the end game of homosexuality.”

It shows an 11-year-old boy earlier this month performing in drag at a Brooklyn gay bar where adult men threw money at the child. Let us consult this young celebrity’s official online biography:

Desmond [Napoles] was born in June 2007, during NYC Pride Week, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan. As he tells it, this means that he “is a member of the Village People by default”. He has also claimed that he “came out of the closet when he was born”. . . .
Desmond’s parents allowed him to inherently progress, explore, and choose his tastes in clothing, toys, and activities on his own. He had developed his gender identity as non-conforming, or gender fluid, as a young child. . . .
His mother likens her support of Desmond’s interests and activities as being similar to that of a mother who supports her son’s interest in sports. Both scenarios are unconditional acts of love for their children and recognition of their child as an individual.

To quote the Church Lady: “Isn’t that special?”

If you wish to know how we got here, go back to the 2003 Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which declared state laws against sodomy to be unconstitutional. In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia four times called attention to the majority’s invocation of an “emerging awareness” of sexual liberty as the basis for its ruling. Well, who could predict where this Emerging Awareness Doctrine might lead?

In 2011, Matt Barber described a trend toward “Sexual Anarchy” with activists seeking to normalize pedophila. And the “end game” of this trend, as Adam Piggott observes, is a logical extension of the claim that homosexuals are “born that way.” If it is true that some children are genetically programmed to be homosexual or transgender, why shouldn’t parents emulate Desmond’s mother and support their “interests and activities” in a spirit of “unconditional love”?

As Jack at Sigma Frame says, this results in a defiled condition. Because Jack seeks to make a specifically Christian contribution to the “manosphere,” I will share this: Recently I found myself talking to a minister of the gospel and expressed my concern about the inroads that corruption have made in the church, with activists demanding the ordination of women and acceptance of homosexuality. The minister replied that, as we approach the End Times, no denomination will be able to withstand this diabolic trend. There will be no “safe” (i.e., orthodox or conservative) Christian institutions, but only scattered individual Christians who still cling to the old rugged cross. And I’m reminded of the long-ago words of R.L. Dabney:

“The fantastical project of yesterday, which was mentioned only to be ridiculed, is to-day the audacious reform, and will be tomorrow the accomplished fact.”

Dabney was a Presbyterian theologian who served as Stonewall Jackson’s chief of staff, and I suppose it’s “hate speech” to quote him, but isn’t every expression of common sense “hate speech” now?

UPDATE: NeoWayland in the comments recommends Lauren Chen’s take:

It’s “hate speech”! How dare you disapprove?

Category: Gays

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | December 21, 2018 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

Thank Thee for time to pause,
Commercial though’t sadly be,
To humbly gather for the cause,
Forgiving here before the tree.

Thugged my girl of Spring even,
There before the burger joint,
That wretched jerk, my brother Steven,
Whom I absolve at this here point.

I suppose his Summer days of fun,
He had, while there at work I toiled,
Should burn more as a blazing sun,
While his savings that tramp spoiled.

She dumped him as a habit bad,
When all of his cash was gone,
How then can I now be sad?
Destiny has its bit of fun.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Teacher Pronounces Education Secretary DeVos ‘Completely Under-Qualified’

Posted on | December 21, 2018 | Comments Off on Teacher Pronounces Education Secretary DeVos ‘Completely Under-Qualified’

Hannah Parisa Siboyeh (from her Facebook page).

In a video posted to YouTube in February 2017, Hannah Siboyeh provided “a list of reasons why I believe that Betsy DeVos is completely under-qualified to be” U.S. Secretary of Education. Siboyeh at that time was 23, a college student who was also working as a substitute teacher at Labay Middle School in Houston, Texas. Flash forward to September 2018, and Ms. Siboyeh made headlines:

A former Cypress-Fairbanks [Independent School District] employee appeared in court [Sept. 10] after she admitted to losing her virginity to a 15-year-old boy who previously attended a middle school in the district, court records show.
Hannah Parisa Siboyeh, 24, was identified at the time of her arrest as a paraprofessional at Labay Middle School, where the boy previously attended. She was booked into Harris County Jail last week on a charge of an improper relationship with a student and posted her $10,000 bond.
Her hearing Monday determined the conditions of her bond, which includes staying away from the boy or his family. She is required to stay more than 200 feet away of any child care facility, school or home where the boy resides, documents show.
During the investigation, Siboyeh reportedly told investigators that her relationship with the boy was “one mistake after another.” She said she lost her virginity to the boy in the summer of 2017, adding that they had sex at the boy’s house, a local park and a Palace Inn at 8920 West Road in Houston.
“She admitted that she loved [the boy] with all of her heart,” the charging document states.
In a prepared statement, Cy-Fair ISD said Siboyeh worked as a substitute teacher in the district in January 2014 and later as a paraprofessional.
She has since been removed from her position, the district said. . . .
Police initially received information about the relationship from an assistant principal in the district in April 2018. The principal said an anonymous tipster told her about the sexual relationship involving the employee and the boy.
The tipster later told police that they had been visiting boy’s house when they saw the boy and Siboyeh lying in bed together, adding that “weird noises would be coming from the room,” the charging document states. The tipster also noticed them sharing photos with eac hother on Snapchat.
Police spoke to more witnesses, who confirmed the employee and student were in a “boyfriend and girlfriend” type of relationship, documents show.

On her Facebook page, Ms. Siboyeh indicated she and the boy were “soulmates always.” Well, isn’t that sweet? But I suppose she won’t be commenting further of Secretary DeVos’s qualifications.

Category: Crime, Education, Texas

Samuel Little: FBI Says Serial Killer Murdered at Least 34 Women

Posted on | December 21, 2018 | Comments Off on Samuel Little: FBI Says Serial Killer Murdered at Least 34 Women

Samuel Little in a mug shot from the 1980s (left) and more recently (right).

After I posted my earlier Violence Against Women updates, my brother Kirby called to tell me about Samuel Little, who authorities believe may be the most prolific serial killer ever apprehended. Little, now 78 years old, is serving a life sentence for murdering three women in Los Angeles in the late 1980s. He has reportedly confessed to 90 murders, and the FBI says their Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) has confirmed 34 of those. The FBI’s announcement is interesting:

Little’s run-ins with the law date back to 1956, and there are clear signs of a dark, violent streak among his many shoplifting, fraud, drug, solicitation, and breaking and entering charges. But law enforcement has only recently begun unraveling the true extent of his crimes.
Little was arrested at a Kentucky homeless shelter in September 2012 and extradited to California, where he was wanted on a narcotics charge. Once Little was in custody, Los Angeles Police Department detectives obtained a DNA match to Little on the victims in three unsolved homicides from 1987 and 1989 and charged him with three counts of murder. For these crimes, Little was convicted and sentenced in 2014 to three consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole.
In all three cases, the women had been beaten and then strangled, their bodies dumped in an alley, a dumpster, and a garage. . . .
In the early 1980s, Little had also been charged with killing women in Mississippi and Florida but escaped indictment in Mississippi and conviction in Florida. He had, however, served time for assaulting a woman in Missouri and for the assault and false imprisonment of a woman in San Diego.
When Los Angeles got the DNA hit on Little, they asked the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) to work up a full background on him. The FBI found an alarming pattern and compelling links to many more murders.
ViCAP reached out to the Texas Rangers with one clear connection. “We found a case out of Odessa, Texas, that sounded very much like him, and we could place him passing through the area around the same time,” said ViCAP Crime Analyst Christina Palazzolo, who worked on the cases with Department of Justice Senior Policy Advisory and ViCAP Liaison Angela Williamson. “We sent that lead out to the Texas Rangers, who were eager to follow up on the long-cold case.” . . .
In total, Little confessed to 90 killings, and Palazzolo and Williamson have been working to match up evidence to as many confessions as they can. Thus far, the team has confirmed 34 killings with many more pending confirmation. There are still a number of Little’s confessions that remain uncorroborated. . . .
From the time Little dropped out of high school and left his Ohio home in the late 1950s, he lived a nomadic life. Palazzolo and Williamson said he would shoplift and steal in a city or town to gather the money to buy alcohol and drugs, but never stayed in one place for long. He would drive from New Jersey to California in a matter of days, reports Palazzolo, and when he had his many run-ins with police, they often just wanted to shoo him out of town. . . .
“The biggest lesson in this case is the power of information sharing,” said Kevin Fitzsimmons, ViCAP’s Supervisory Crime Analyst. “These connections all started in our database of violent crime.” . . .
“A Jane Doe who turned up dead in an alley in New Orleans may look like an isolated event,” stressed Fitzsimmons. “But when entered into the ViCAP database and examined with other mysterious deaths or missing persons, patterns emerge. That is the value of ViCAP.”

Think back to the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995, one of the first high-profile cases involving DNA evidence and an all-black jury refused to convict him, a verdict that everyone at that time saw was fraught with racial significance. Nowadays, television programs have familiarized the public with DNA evidence, and it is unlikely that a case like Simpson’s would end in an acquittal now, without regard to race. What the Samuel Little case shows, however, is that for many years our law enforcement system did not deal effectively with violent black criminals. As the FBI notes, nearly all of Little’s victims were “marginalized and vulnerable women who were often involved in prostitution and addicted to drugs. Their bodies sometimes went unidentified and their deaths uninvestigated.” Nevertheless, when Little was charged in two homicides — killing a mentally disabled woman in Florida and a prostitute in Mississippi — authorities were unable to convict him.

When people talk about racism in relation to criminal justice, they often fail to understand how this cuts both ways. Unfortunately, our system seems to view some victims as more valuable than others, and the black criminal who preys upon black victims (which was the case in most of Little’s crimes) is less likely to do serious prison time than any criminal (whatever their race) who targets white victims. Black-on-black crime is not taken as seriously as it should be — certainly, the national media can’t be bothered to pay attention to the rampant violence in cities like Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans and Chicago — and this involves a form racism that liberals seldom think about. Because they don’t want to depict black people as prone to criminality, the media unwittingly contribute to a situation in which innocent black people suffer disproportionately from violent crime and nobody seems to care.

It is not racist to take seriously the problem of violent crime in the black community. What is racist is to take for granted that our nation’s major cities will always be dangerous places, that there is nothing we can do to reduce the menace of crime. As the Samuel Little case demonstrates, law enforcement has developed technologies and methodologies that make it harder for criminals to get away with serious crimes. If you’ve ever watched The First 48 on the A & E network, you know that homicide detectives now often solve murders with help from surveillance cameras and data retrieved from cell phones. Most states now routinely take DNA samples from convicted criminals, and this DNA evidence becomes part of a national databank that can be used to solve crimes. Fingerprints are also part of a national databank, and it is thus far less likely that a criminal can get away with a serious crime because of a lack of evidence.

What the Samuel Little case also highlights is how much crime in our society is perpetrated by repeat offenders. Little was arrested over and over for crimes like burglary, theft and narcotics, and yet in the course of a decades-long criminal career, served only about 10 years in prison. As the FBI notes, most times, police “just wanted to shoo him out of town,” and so he went from town to town, dead bodies piling up in his wake.

In 2017, according to the FBI, 15,129 Americans were the victims of homicide and 51.8% of these victims were black. Overall, less than 62% of homicides were “cleared” by arrests, which means that nearly 40% of killers are getting away with murder. This is not because murderers are criminal masterminds, but because so many U.S. homicides occur in urban neighborhoods where police are overwhelmed by the enormous amount of violent crime, much of which involves drug-dealing gangs:

The issue of murder clearance rates is in the spotlight as Chicago officials struggle to solve gun violence that’s plaguing the city. But the nation’s third-largest city, which only cleared 26 percent of its homicides in 2016, is just one among many big cities struggling to quickly solve gun crimes, according to FBI data and crime experts. . . .
In big cities such as Baltimore, Chicago and New Orleans — which cleared less than 28 percent of its homicide cases in 2016 — the fracturing of gangs has added a difficult dimension for detectives as they try to glean information from the streets. . . .
In Memphis, Tennessee . . . the city saw its homicide clearance fall to 38 percent in 2016. . . .
Detroit, which [in 2016] had the third-worst per capita homicide rate in the nation, managed to clear less than 15 percent of homicides in 2016, down from about 35 percent the prior year.

Many U.S. cities have backlogs of hundreds of unsolved “cold-case” murders, which means thousands of murderers are running loose in America. If that doesn’t bother you, it should. Just because an unsolved drive-by shooting happened on Chicago’s South Side doesn’t mean the killer is going to stay in Chicago, and no one is safe anywhere as long as so many killers are allowed to escape justice.

Finally, what do feminists have to say about Samuel Little? Nothing. You can hear the crickets chirping. “Intersectionality” means that feminists only care about violence against women when the perpetrators are “privileged” white males, so Jessica Valenti and her feminist comrades have nothing to say about this man who killed dozens of women.

Category: Media Bias, Racism, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 12.20.18

Posted on | December 20, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.20.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Secretary Of Defense Mattis Resigns
Twitchy: Talcum X Has A Take On The Border Wall GoFundMe, And It’s Predictably Insane
Louder With Crowder: President Trump Assures Rush Limbaugh He’s Getting Wall Funding Or Else

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: The Rise In Suicide & An Epidemic Of Loneliness, also, Reading Is Fashionable Again
American Thinker: Sullivan’s Travails
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Venezuela News
BattleSwarm: The Islamic State – Not Quite Dead
CDR Salamander: Program Management Poster Child Of The Decade
Da Tech Guy: Interviews With Immigrants – Joy From Nigeria, also, The Perpetually Offended Have Inherited The Earth
Don Surber: Don’t Freak Out About The Wall
Dustbury: Filling Out The New World Order Form
The Geller Report: Graphic Video Shows Decapitation Of Female Tourists In Morocco – Terrorists Arrested, also, CNN Reporter Of The Year Canned By Der Spiegel For Writing #FakeNews On A Grand Scale
Hogewash: The Life & Death Of A Planetary System, also, Seen On The Twitterz
Hollywood In Toto: Critics Slam Clint Eastwood’s Mule As Racist, also, Bumblebee Makes Transformers Great Again
Joe For America: Big Win for 2A – Boulder, Colorado Gun Owners Quietly Refuse To Comply
JustOneMinute: All He Was Saying, Was “Give Peace A Chance”
Legal Insurrection: Trump Won’t Sign Funding Bill Over Border Security Concerns, also, Court Reveals Minion Of Stacy’s Crazy Cousin John Gave Buzzfeed The Steele Dossier
The PanAm Post: Lessons Of The Spanish Civil War – Ideological & Practical Mistakes Of Anarchists
Power Line: WaPo Magnifies Sullivan’s False Claim About Flynn, also, On Gender, Reality Intrudes
Shot In The Dark: Challenge Accepted
STUMP: Divestment & ESG Follies – Mandating Women On Corporate Boards
The Political Hat: Twelve Posts Of Christmas, Days Seven & Eight
This Ain’t Hell: GAO – Navy Training, Certification Improve, also, Veteran Starts GoFundMe For Wall, Donations Flooding In
Victory Girls: Claas Relotius, CNN’s Reporter Of The Year, Sacked For Peddling #FakeNews For Years
Weasel Zippers: UCLA Prof Argues There’s Too Many White Firefighters Out There, also, Texas City Featured In Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” Sequel Lost MIllions Of Dollars On Green Energy Gamble
Mark Steyn: If I Knew You Were Coming For Me, I’d’ve Baked A Cake (Round Two)

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Category: Linkagery

Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | December 20, 2018 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

Convicted sex trafficker William Maurice Saddler.

News from North Carolina:

A Wilson man convicted of human trafficking has been ordered to pay close to half a million dollars to his victim.
U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan ordered William Maurice Saddler, 36, of Wilson, to pay $477,618.20 in restitution. This is the largest amount ever ordered in the Eastern District under the trafficking restitution statute, according to Robert J. Higdon, Jr., U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
The case involved a 15-year-old victim whom Saddler prostituted at migrant camps near Wilson. Saddler got the victim addicted to crack cocaine, coerced her and forced her to continue prostituting and kept all the money derived from her forced prostitution.
Saddler also introduced the victim to two other pimps, Bobby Ray Williams Jr. and Kenneth Corvon Ward, who also prostituted her with the assistance of two females, Temeeka Honey and Yadyra Brown. Williams, Ward, Honey, and Brown all were previously convicted and sentenced in related cases.
A federal jury in New Bern convicted Saddler of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and of a minor.
On June 7, Flanagan sentenced Saddler to 480 months’ imprisonment followed by a lifetime of supervised release. At the government’s request, and after further proceedings, Flanagan has now ordered Saddler to pay the substantial restitution amount to the victim. . . .
“Saddler’s crimes were unbelievably heinous,” Higdon said. “For years, he exploited and traumatized a child to satiate his greed and others’ sexual desires. No more. His 40-year sentence ensures that he cannot hurt other children, and his nearly half-million dollar restitution order is a small step on the victim’s path to recovery.”

Feminists claim to care about “violence against women,” but they never pay attention to sex-trafficking cases like this, for some reason. Readers can consult our Violence Against Women archives and see if they discern a pattern to these cases:

Ramon Raudel Campos Murillo, 40, is an associate of MS-13 and is sought by ICE as a fugitive charged with sex trafficking.
Timothy Bernard White, 22, was arrested in Orlando and charged with trafficking a 17-year-old girl.
Michael Quinones, 29, and Emilie Camacho-Gomez, 29, were charged with sex trafficking in Connecticut.
Abdul Karim Bangura Jr., 22, and Christian Don’Tae Hood, 26, were convicted of sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl in Virginia.
Raymorris Asencio, 32, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking a 16-year-old girl.
Johnell Carter, 22, of Wichita, Kansas, was convicted of sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman.

Stories like this are not only ignored by feminists, but are treated by the media as strictly “local news.” You’re never going to see CNN report about these criminals who traffick teenage girls, for some reason.

Category: Violence Against Women

Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | December 20, 2018 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

Convicted sex trafficker Johnell Carter.

News from Kansas:

A Wichita man has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking a teenage girl, officials said.
Johnell Carter, 22, of Wichita, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of sex trafficking, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a release.
On the first count, Carter admitted in his plea agreement to using force — including punching and biting — to make an 18-year-old woman to perform commercial sex acts at Wichita hotels, which he advertised online. On the second count, Carter admitted to recruiting a 15-year-old girl for prostitution then pimping her out through online ads.
Federal prosecutors said in an indictment that the girl told them that she was pimped out by Carter and his girlfriend, Jazmin Manuel. . . .
Prosecutors alleged that Manuel took the girl to San Antonio, where she had been advertised on Backpage and had sex with men. Manuel has been charged with sex trafficking of a child.
In connection to the case, co-defendant Christian L. Dixon, 28, pleaded guilty in November to one count of carrying a firearm during a crime of violence. He admitted in the plea deal to driving prostitutes to meet with customers, obtaining drugs and robbing a customer at gunpoint.
Carter, Dixon and Manuel were allegedly paid by about 50 men who had sex with the girl, prosecutors previously said.
Kansas Department of Corrections records show Johnell E. Carter has previous convictions in Sedgwick County of robbery, aggravated burglary and criminal threat.

Feminists haven’t noticed this crime, for some reason.

Category: Violence Against Women