Los Angeles—You’re there as the joys or horrors of history unfolds before your eyes.     You must tell the story before the truth is lost forever.     By default you are the reporter!   I saw another amazing movie last night on STARZ, Marie Colvin, the late war correspondent’s biopic.     The star was none other than my next wife in my next life, Rosamund Pike.     Marie Colvin was a woman driven to place herself in harms way to cover the cruelty and suffering of war. Her life and story was an inspiration to the cast of that current blockbuster film, Civil War. Colvin was an award wining but tortured soul, who was wounded and later killed covering the Mideast wars.       She was a chain smoker that self-medicated her PTSD with copious amounts of alcohol.     War is Hell and war correspondents are needed but,    today’s news people have been too often repositioned as influencers and political propaganda peddl...

Chicago, IL— I don’t care where you live in the world, sooner or later your town is going to experience war or a serious uprising.    Today, there’s no dispute that the police are simply unable to respond in time to stop any major crime in progress. A gun or guns does not make you smarter, taller or braver.    Your weapons only give you a fighting chance to survive. There are no guarantees.   Like it or not you are the first responder when violence visits you and your loved ones.    Unfortunately, most Americans are totally unprepared to face any significant threat.   Every family member of suitable age and discretion should be trained in the use of various firearms.    Having plenty of guns but little ammunition is a losing proposition.    Professional training is by far the best.    When it comes to safety and conflict avoidance, everyone should become anal retentive.    You should avoid purchasi...

Washington DC—We are a very divided nation and according to world history we must have unavoidable periodic wars since the beginning of time. We never learned from our mistakes and politicians never quit trying to become tyrants. I thought this movie was going to come with political views, and then it would be easy to choose a side to support.    That however, was not the case.     But we did have two separate groups intent    on killing each other This Alex Garland film is from the points of view of two unlikely female combat print photographers played by Kristen Dunst along with her unintended, young, novice sidekick, played by Cailee Spaeny.    Essentially the film shows constant danger, the inability to determine the good combatants from the bad ones.    In other words, you didn’t know who was going to kill you.    One of the things that happens during war is prisoners are somehow brought out of every prison and they o...

Chicago, IL— When a thug kills anyone at all and no matter how cruel or depraved the crime, usually there’s no civil suit by the victim’s families.     Thugs are almost never insured nor indemnified by a business or government agency.     No tort or civil rights lawyer will touch that case because they’d only obtain a worthless and uncollectible judgment.     The victim’s families get absolutely nothing.   Should this be a sketchy case of a cop justifiably and necessarily killing a street thug, the cop is indemnified by the government.    That makes any judgments easily collectible.    When a police shooting happens, suddenly the shyster “civil rights” lawyers come out from under their rocks and sign the dead thug’s family up for representation.    Then the lawyers run out and immediately stir up all the media generated cop hate they can.   Of course the family of a dead thug must agree to their lawyer’s demands for 4...

Hudson, WI—This was a justifiable homicide, and the other moves made by the defendant, Nicolae Miu were totally lawful and necessary.     Make no mistake the witnesses that testified against the accused man provably lied under oath.     However, the accused defendant,     Nicolae Miu lied to the police.     Lying to the police is not a crime here but perjury under oath is a felony.     The jury chose to punish the defendant and they had no power over any possible perjury charges for the states witnesses.    The Defense Lawyer here, obviously never prepared Nicolae Miu for his testimony.    He should have made sure the jury was aware that a man in this medical condition does not have to fight fairly defending himself.    Even if he is facing one of these clowns, separately, he may sill use deadly force to terminate the attack.    There is a serious degree of ineffective assistance of counsel here bu...

McNary County, Tennessee—Hollywood made four films about the heroic Tennessee sheriff, Buford Pusser.    A museum was built in his memory.    He shot and killed at least one woman who allegedly tried to murder him in connection with his investigations of gambling, moonshine, drugs and prostitution. Buford’s wife, Pauline was apparently shot to death in August 1967. Buford also suffered a gunshot wound.    Buford claimed that he was ambushed while responding to a call.    He said that he brought his wife along in his patrol car as he responded.    I think most cops, like me would frown at the idea of bringing your wife or girlfriend on a call for police service. Let me make it clear that I was never involved in any investigation of Sheriff Pusser’s various events.  I met their daughter, Dwana when she was 25.    She was selling quite handsome and expensive Colt Python revolvers that commemorated her father and his Walking T...

Chicago, IL—It was late in 1967.     I was just nineteen years-old.     I lied about my age and was hired by the Cook County Sheriffs Police when the background investigator failed do the math for my birth year.     After training, I was assigned to the prisoner, transportation and fugitive warrants division.     Captain James “Packy” Walsh was the boss.     For some reason on that day, I had no partner and was the odd man out.     I was sitting in the squad room wondering what I’m going to do that day. It was a general policy that prisoners were simply not transported by a single officer.     Sergeant Conway approached me and said that they need me to transport a prisoner as a courtesy to the United States Marshall’s Office.    They had nobody available to transport a prisoner from the federal tier of the Cook county Jail to the Dirksen Federal building for a court appearance.    The Metropolitan ...