MS-13 Gang Terrorizes Town in N.Y.

Posted on | October 17, 2016 | 3 Comments

For nearly two decades, MS-13, a gang with roots in Los Angeles and El Salvador, has been terrorizing [Brentwood, N.Y.], the authorities say, especially its young people. Since 2009, its members have been accused of at least 14 murders, court and police records show.
Tensions simmer here because some residents say they believe an increase in Central American migrants to town has led to the increase in gang violence. According to 2014 census figures compiled by Queens College, Brentwood’s population is 68 percent Latino or Hispanic, with more than 17,000 residents claiming to be from El Salvador.
MS-13 was formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s by immigrants from El Salvador escaping civil war. The abbreviation stands for Mara Salvatrucha, which roughly translates to “Salvadoran street posse.”
The authorities say the gang has been in Suffolk County since around 1998, and is organized in cliques bearing names like the Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas. Leaders gather to discuss their lines of business — extortion, prostitution, robbery, drug dealing — and to authorize the killings of chavalas, or members of rival gangs like the Bloods and the Crips, court papers say.

Cameron Gray notes that the national media have largely ignored the epidemic of violence in Brentwood, once a tranquil Long Island suburb:

A wave of brutal murders of black and Hispanic teens has gripped the town, and those who live there fear for the lives of their children, as well as their own.
Over two weeks in September, authorities found the bodies of Nisa Mickens, 15, and her best friend, Kayla Cuevas, 16, as well as Oscar Acosta, 19, and Miguel Garcia-Moran, 15. All four deaths are said to be at the hands of Hispanic gangs, and most likely MS-13.

Teenage girls kidnapped and murdered:

BRENTWOOD, Long Island — A teenage girl was found dead Tuesday night and on Wednesday a second body was found matching the description of her missing friend who was allegedly abducted after the teen was beaten to death, police say.
Nisa Mickens, 15, was found dead Tuesday night on the side of Stahley Street, just outside of the gate of Loretta Park Elementary School, and a passing motorist called the sighting into 911. The victim had at least 10 significant injuries that led police to believe she had been beaten to death and may have been struck by a vehicle, investigators say.
Mickens and her friend, 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas, were walking in the area when Mickens’ family say they believe gang members tried to kidnap Cuevas. Investigators say Mickens appeared to try fighting off the kidnappers, but was killed, her body left alongside the road.

If these teenagers had been killed by white cops, instead of being killed by Salvadoran gangsters, CNN would be providing round-the-clock coverage of the nationwide race riots. But not all murders are created equal, and some dead teenagers simply don’t matter to the liberal media.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Category: Crime, Immigration, Media Bias

Rule 5 Sunday: J Is For Joan Jett

Posted on | October 16, 2016 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not going to deny it – while I have great lust in my heart for Debbie Harry, and appreciation for a number of other musically-inclined ladies, there is no doubt that the hardest-rocking woman since Elvis was the King is Joan Marie Larkin, better known as Joan Jett. I mean, what’s not to like about somebody who quit taking guitar lessons because her teacher kept trying to teach her folk songs? So this week’s appetizer is a shot of the Godmother of Punk in her early days with the Runaways.

As usual, this post is chock-full of links to pics generally described as Not Safe For Work. The management is not responsible for whatever horrible fates befall you should you be indiscreet with your clicking.

Joan Jett: the early years

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off this week with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns, followed by Goodstuff with Kelly Hu, Animal Magnetism with Rule Five 911 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and The Last Tradition with Leah Francis and Gigi Hadid.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Nancy O’Dell, Sexy Burkas (banned on Amazon), Talulah Riley, Kellyanne Conway punching back twice as hard, Tape Leaker Campbell Brown, Susannah York, Cassie Jaye and The Red Pill, and Vintage Hollywood Halloween.

A View from the Beach submits A Disney Princess, Caitlin O’Connor, What Does a 100 lb Catfish Eat?, From Russia With Love, Another Great Idea I Forgot to Patent, ‘Client 9’ Gets Girl in Trouble, Ariel Winter Flashes, Then Bashes, Monday Paint Job, Beltway Battle, and “When the Rain Begins to Fall” for our enjoyment this week.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your weekly coffee creamer, a Fall Foliage Monday Motivationer, Tuesday Titillation’s Going Blind, Humpday In The Park With Georgia, Falconsword Fursday Close Shave, Latent Lingerie, and a Weekender in Red.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Daisy Lea, his Vintage Babe is Tina Louise, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Marina and the Diamonds with Harris Faulkner.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Rock & Roll Is Now ‘Rape Culture’

Posted on | October 16, 2016 | Comments Off on Rock & Roll Is Now ‘Rape Culture’

A few years ago, I saw a story (I could find a link, but don’t want to bother right now) about how groups like Led Zeppelin more or less habitually had sex with teenage groupies back in the 1970s. Given the rock-n-roll outlaw attitude — a cultural leftover of the Sexual Revolution back in hippie days, “the Summer of Love” and all that — no one could dispute that many teenage girls were eager to say they had been with Jimmy Page or whatever other rock icon they could get backstage to meet.

Flash-forward to the 21st century, when most Baby Boomers like me are already grandparents, and our hindsight reflection on that era of drugs, sex and rock-and-roll is blurred by more than the after-effects of whatever hallucinogenic substances we ingested back in the day. There are feminists who would tell you that all those rock icons were sexual predators, and that all those teenage groupies were victims.

Whatever. Feminists now agree with every fundamentalist tent-revival preacher that rock-and-roll is evil, and it is a well-known fact that Jimmy Page sold his soul to Satan and — let’s just get right down to it, OK? — America has been going straight to Hell ever since Elvis Presley started singing that Wicked Negro Devil Music, inciting girls to ungodly carnal lust with all those savage jungle voodoo rhythms and gyrating dances.

So it seems 21st-century feminism has brought us full circle to Eisenhower-era prudery, except everybody’s gay now, and heterosexuality is now the dreaded menace to America’s Youth. Such were the thoughts that inspired my most recent Medium essay:

Talia Borodin, now 37, has decided that an incident that occurred when she was 20 was rape. Far be it from me to dispute her right to tell her own story, and to share her own beliefs. What troubles me about her story, and about the current feminist “rape culture” discourse in general, is that it essentially exempts women from responsibility for their own sexual behavior.
Ms. Borodin describes a situation in which she was alone with a “cute boy” and they “fool around.” He was wearing only boxer shorts, and Ms. Borodin was evidently naked. Despite her insistence — she “vocalized it many times” — that she only wanted to “fool around,” he attempted to have sexual intercourse with her. She yelled at him to stop and he stopped.
The question is what we are supposed to learn from Ms. Borodin’s story. What is the didactic purpose? And this is a question that applies to feminist “rape culture” discourse in general. Is the purpose (a) to help prevent rape, or (b) to demonize heterosexual males, per se? . . .

Please read the whole thing, and if this makes me an accessory to “rape culture,” you can blame it on those savage jungle voodoo rhythms.

Category: Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Aces High

Posted on | October 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Tuesday: Birthday Edition
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

Boomerang: NBC Suspends ‘Today’ Host Billy Bush Because …
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Now That the Election Is Over…
The Political Hat
A View from the Beach
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Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Function Creep
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach
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In The Mailbox: 10.10.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Learning Not to Argue
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

‘My Inherent Feminine Wisdom’: Witchcraft and Academic Feminism
Batshit Crazy News

High-Priced Humiliation
inversionsuicide
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Batshit Crazy News

Meet Caroline Contillo (@spacecrone), the ‘Buddhist Witch’ Who Destroyed @devincf
Hollywood Elsewhere
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Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 10.11.16
Proof Positive

Never Trust a ‘Male Feminist’ (And Relevant Thoughts About @JayaSaxena)
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

Outrage After Emails Show Top Clinton Campaign Aides Insulting Catholics
Regular Right Guy
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Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 10.12.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
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When It Rains, It Pours
The Lonely Conservative
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In The Mailbox: 10.13.16
A View from the Beach
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In The Mailbox: 10.14.16
Proof Positive
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‘You Have Misled the Jury’

Posted on | October 15, 2016 | Comments Off on ‘You Have Misled the Jury’

The three-day Walker v. Kimberlin lawsuit trial ended Friday. Although the jury reportedly found that Kimberlin had committed falsehoods, this was insufficient to find in Walker’s favor. Kimberlin “won” the case, but not before the judge lectured the “Speedway Bomber” in a conference that the jury did not hear, but which was transcribed by John Hoge:

Don’t tell me what to do. OK? You have made the fact of the bombing case admissible because you have misled the jury by saying you were never prosecuted, convicted, or sentenced for any crime that he blogged about. And one of the primary crimes he blogged about initially, the reason he refers to you as a terrorist has to do with this bombing. I kept it out because I felt that, potentially, it was more inflammatory that it was probative, although, frankly, I felt that probative because I felt that it explained why, as you say, he’s obsessed with you. That’s a fairly unusual crime. But in trying to be fair, I kept it out. You took the stand and told the jury, basically, you had never been convicted, as I say, you’d never been sentenced, never spent time. In addition to which, you volunteered in your statement to the jury when you’re describing yourself for your background that you committed or you had some trouble or you did some things wrong when you were a juvenile. But that’s sort of all, and you referenced the perjury, that’s sort of all behind you. So you leave the jury with the impression that as a young kid you made a false statement and did your time and there’s nothing else there, which also I think is potentially misleading. . . .

You can read more about the trial at Hogewash. This verdict in this case, more than four years after I first started covering the Brett Kimberlin saga, is a Pyrrhic “victory” for the convicted bomber.

As the pro se defendant, Kimberlin was forced to spend countless hours preparing motions, etc., in effect being compelled to repay the hours of legal effort that Walker and others (including myself) had expended in our defense when Kimberlin filed state and federal lawsuits against us in 2013. And what, we may ask, has Kimberlin gained during all these years of court proceedings? Nothing of value, and certainly nothing that would compensate for the many thousands of hours he must have spent on his pro se pettifoggery. If we assume that he spent at least 20 hours week working on his various lawsuits, both as plaintiff and defendant, over a period of more than three years, then his legal work has amounted to more than 3,000 hours. This is a low-end estimate, as any observer might suspect that Kimberlin has done almost nothing else except pursue such pro se pettifoggery the past three years. And why?

“For three consecutive summers, 1974 through 1976, they took vacations of a week or longer in Disney World, Mexico, and Hawaii. Sandi couldn’t get time off from work, so on these summer trips it was just the two of them — Brett and Jessica.
“Eyebrows levitated. A drug-dealing colleague had memories of conversations with Kimberlin that struck him as odd: ‘We’d see a girl, who was pubescent or prepubescent, and Brett would get this smile and say, “Hey, what do you think? Isn’t she great?” It made me very uncomfortable.’ Another recalled Kimberlin introducing Jessica as ‘my girlfriend,’ and if irony was intended, it was too subtle to register. To a coworker . . . Sandi confided that Kimberlin was ‘grooming Jessica to be his wife.’ To another, Sandi explained that although Kimberlin’s relationship with Jessica was chaste, he intended ‘to wait for her and would marry her.’”
— Mark Singer, Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, Page 78

In July 2012, after I had spent six weeks covering the Kimberlin saga, the question of motive had begun bothering me. Why was Kimberlin pursuing what appeared to be a personal vendetta against Aaron Walker? And why did Kimberlin (and his various associates, including Neal Rauhauser) lash out against anyone who called attention to Walker’s plight? People who became aware of the case as a result of “Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day” were proposing different theories to explain Kimberlin’s actions, but all of those theories were insufficient or factually flawed.

At that time, I was being harassed on Twitter by numerous troll accounts, making all sort of defamatory accusations against me, and my friends were being subjected to similar online harassment, and why? Stepping back from the swirling madness — as I was unpacking boxes, having relocated my family to the “Undisclosed Location” — I had time to contemplate what this was really all about. Then I published a relatively brief post entitled, “When ‘Jessica’ Was 10, 11, 12,” which quoted Mark Singer’s Kimberlin biography Citizen K. Singer used the pseudonym “Jessica” for Sandi Barton’s daughter Debbie, and I summarized the reporting that Joe Gelarden of the Indianapolis Star had done in 1981:

[Debbie Barton] was 10 years old when Kimberlin, 20 at the time, entered her life in 1974, and she was 14 when her grandmother, 65-year-old Julia Scyphers, was murdered — a crime that remains officially unsolved to this day.
[Debbie Barton] had an older sister who, according to Singer’s account, seems to have objected to Kimberlin’s weird interest in the younger Barton girl. It may have been the older sister who expressed concern to Mrs. Scyphers. As Gelarden reported, Mrs. Scyphers “violently objected” to the strange relationship between her daughter, her granddaughters and Kimberlin, a notorious drug smuggler. Mrs. Scyphers had the two girls move in with her, forbade them to see Kimberlin and, reportedly, Kimberlin became so despondent over this separation from the youngest Barton girl that he threatened suicide.
Then on the morning of July 29, 1978, a man shot Julia Scyphers dead, in a crime that investigators believed was a murder for hire.
Nobody ever said Kimberlin himself shot her, but his conflict with Mrs. Scyphers over the Barton girl made him the only person with a motive to wish her dead and he soon came under suspicion by detectives. A few weeks later, a weeklong series of bombings struck the small Indiana town and, when Kimberlin was apprehended for those otherwise unexplained explosions, police believed they understood the connection: The bombings had been a ill-conceived effort by Kimberlin to distract police whom he knew to be investigating the Scyphers murder.

What seemed to be happening in 2012, it occurred to me, was a continuation of the same pattern. Since his conviction on federal charges in 1981, Kimberlin had undertaken extraordinary efforts to depict himself as the victim of an unjust prosecution. At first, Mark Singer had been deceived by Kimberlin, but eventually recognized the truth, and it is a matter of record that Brett Kimberlin sought to prevent Singer’s book Citizen K from being introduced as evidence in court.

Everything that was happening in 2012, I concluded, went back to Kimberlin’s attempt to conceal the nature of his interest in Debbie Barton. This in turn had made him a suspect in the death of Julia Scyphers which, detectives told Joe Gelarden at the time, was what they believed had inspired the “Speedway Bomber” to commit the acts of violent terrorism for which he was convicted in federal court.

So I published “When ‘Jessica’ Was 10, 11, 12” and, whenever the Twitter trolls popped up (“participating in targeted abuse”), I would just tweet quotes from that with a link to the post, and guess what? The harassment ceased, at least in that particular form. You see, what I had deduced was that the troll attacks, intended to discredit me by defamation, had the effect of drawing attention to my Twitter account and, if I responded by using this to highlight the very information that Kimberlin wished to suppress, this would defeat the purpose of the troll attacks.

Later, I was targeted by different harassment tactics, but the fact that the Twitter troll-swarm tactic could be stopped by brandishing the story of Debbie Barton and Julia Scyphers seemed to confirm my hunch about what led to this controversy. Kimberlin had spent years convincing his “progressive” supporters that his federal convictions were the result of wrongful prosecution. Yet the people who contributed to Kimberlin’s 501(c)3 non-profits had obviously never researched the question of what inspired “The Speedway Bomber.” And then, in 2010, Kimberlin made the mistake of targeting Andrew Breitbart:

Using two popular leftist blogs, the 56-year-old from Bethesda, Md., has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from the public and left-leaning foundations by promising to put conservatives he disagrees with in jail, often with offers of large rewards. So far — without success — he has called for the arrest of Karl Rove, Andrew Breitbart, Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue, Massey Energy Chairman Don Blankenship and other high-profile public figures.
A review of tax filings for Kimberlin’s blogs, “Velvet Revolution” and “Justice Through Music,” raises troubling questions about whether his “nonprofit” operations are dedicated to public activism — or are just a new facade for a longtime con artist.

Those questions led Mandy Nagy to write an October 2010 article at Breitbart.com, “Progressives Embrace Convicted Terrorist,” and thus set in motion a series of events — including Kimberlin’s threat to file lawsuits — which has played out over the past five years. Kimberlin evidently saw the exposure of his criminal past as a threat to his non-profit, tax-exempt livelihood, and it seemed that Kimberlin especially disliked any attention to the Debbie Barton/Julia Scyphers element of the story as reported by Joe Gelarden and Mark Singer. If Kimberlin was hoping to airbrush out of existence certain unflattering facts about himself, his hopes were in vain. Although some online materials have disappeared, and the numerous legal wranglings that Kimberlin has gone through during the past few years have produced mixed results, there is still an abundance of available information about Kimberlin’s criminal history and, the courts have been consistent in finding that it is entirely legal (not defamation, harassment, etc.) to cite the known facts. Truth always defeats the liar.

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Feminist @samanthapfield Wants to Remind You: Pat Robertson Was Right

Posted on | October 15, 2016 | Comments Off on Feminist @samanthapfield Wants to Remind You: Pat Robertson Was Right

“I’m a liberal, pro-choice feminist with socialist-considering-Marxism political tendencies. I think the Democratic party isn’t liberal enough. I’m almost of the opinion that capitalism (at least in its current cis-hetero-white-supremacist-patriarchal incarnation) is evil.”
— Samantha Couchoud Field, March 25, 2015

“One of the events that helped me heal from my toxic religious upbringing was discovering feminism for myself. . . . I encountered feminism as affirming, powerful, and truth-filled.”
— Samantha Couchoud Field, Sept. 26, 2016

“Every year I think more and more about the Witch and what she’s come to mean to me. The women who were drowned, burned, tortured, murdered, slaughtered . . . they were my mothers and sisters. They were the women who dared, who questioned, who argued. . . . I am proud of every woman who dares to follow this path.”
— Samantha Couchoud Field, Oct. 8, 2016

In March 2014, Samantha Couchoud Field made headlines by writing about how she was allegedly raped by her boyfriend while attending Pensacola Christian College (PCC), where she says the administration blamed her and protected her rapist. By the time she publicly made this claim, however, it was nearly five years since Field left PCC (where she graduated in 2009 with an education degree) and she had subsequently gotten her master’s degree in English from Liberty University in 2012 before starting her personal blog in January 2013. One of her first posts there (“How Purity Culture Taught Me to Be Abused”) described her ex-boyfriend, a PCC student, as “handsome, charismatic, an excellent musician, talented, popular, and respected.” They began dating in February 2008 and became engaged in August 2008, but Field says he was “emotionally, verbally, physically, and sexually abusive”:

There was no consent. He knew there was no consent, that I did not want to have sex with him, at all. He just didn’t care. . . .
I didn’t realize he raped me until years later. . . .
I also loathed our physical relationship. Everything he asked me to do made me feel degraded and dirty and hardly anything felt good. . . . But, I figured I was just one of those women where sex would be a sacrifice for my husband.

She says her fiance “also raped at least one other woman while we were engaged,” and then dumped her two months before their planned wedding, blaming her because she “was not ‘submissive’ enough.”

Field is “now married to the most amazing, loving, gentle, tender man” (“Tall, red-headed, the swimmer’s physique”). She and the husband she calls “Handsome” are into BDSM “kinky” sex; she describes herself as a submissive “bottom,” so I guess now she is “submissive enough.”

Field calls herself “bisexual” and is an activist with the Gay Christian Network. She is now attending United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, a bastion of “ecumenical” liberalism in Minnesota, “so that I can get the stinking cesspool that is Liberty University off my resume.”

“Witchcraft IS the sin of rebellion. I rebel.”

She is 29 years old, so we cannot dismiss Samantha Field’s advocacy of witchcraft as a “youthful indiscretion.” She has now publicly dedicated herself to feminism, abortion, bisexuality, BDSM. socialism, and witchcraft, “the sin of rebellion.” Gosh, this sounds familiar . . .

“[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
— Pat Robertson, 1992

Well, she’s not a lesbian . . . yet. However, now that Mrs. Field is into bisexuality and witchcraft, we may suspect her marriage to “Handsome” Mr. Field won’t have a “happily ever after” ending.

“Ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5) was the false promise of Satan’s original lie. https://t.co/t77KB9H1NI pic.twitter.com/xkCzVSBGDR

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) July 4, 2016