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A Plea Deal In The McKinney Assault Prosecution

We were all told by the media organizations that McKinney’s recent assault on a Capitol police officer was going to be investigated by a Grand Jury this past Monday. Where’s the Indictment you ask? Wonder no more! I have the answer!

A Grand Jury presentation on this matter would take less than an hour and result in a felony assault Indictment. Any second-year law student could get that indictment against McKinney. Since that did not happen I had to find out just what is going on. I have a special talent for that!

Gazing into my crystal ball I saw some hot and heavy negotiations between McKinney’s lawyers and the Justice department. Negotiations made because this suspect and her lawyers see the end of her career in Congress looming and are trying to head that off. McKinney’s lawyers are engaged in some major butt-licking right now in order to save their client’s ass. Oops! I meant seat (in Congress).

It is in fact a felony to strike a police officer but absent serious injuries a misdemeanor plea deal is what we can expect. No trial, no felony record and only token punishment such as probation, fine and public service would be the result. Of course I’d want to buy a ticket to see McKinney picking up trash with a work crew of convicted miscreants along the Beltway.

If McKinney insisted on playing hardball and standing trial she’d most certainly experience a felony conviction and be run out of Congress. I predict a much more subdued McKinney giving a more genuine apology inside a courtroom and agreeing to a plea deal while admitting the crime of misdemeanor assault.

The Winners of Wars Get To Write The History Books.

Such was the case of our Civil War and one of the most malignant presidents this country ever had. The president that made war against the Southern states was a tyrant that destroyed freedom, murdered women and children while sending thousands of Union soldiers to their deaths.

Did Abraham Lincoln really give a rat’s ass about Negro slaves? The real truth was his Emancipation Proclamation was enacted only to cripple the South’s economy to get a military advantage. His own writings make it clear Lincoln was not fond of giving slaves equal rights.

Had the South won that war they would have gotten simple independence from the North. The Southern states would have enjoyed the same form of government without meddling by people hundreds of miles away with different interests and goals. People could have simply voted with their feet when determining where they want to live.

John Wilks Booth was a patriot and a Southern hero. He killed a man who suspended the Constitution he swore to uphold, defend and protect. Lincoln deserved his fate.

I’m certainly not defending slavery, that was wrong, but it was not even a small part of the reason for that awful war. I believe that slavery would have ended soon because it was the right thing to do.

Hate, carpetbaggers and a need for the Klu Klux Klan to protect people from unchecked Black on White terrorism marred the post Civil War reconstruction.

It’s ironic that as the Blacks migrated to the North the first gun control laws were made to keep the newly freed slaves disarmed. That concept was bolstered by the Dred Scott decision from the Supreme Court that showed the North’s real attitude about the freed slaves.

We really only learned two things from that horrible war, might makes right, and the winners get to write the history books any way they want.

The Union was saved. I ask, saved for whom?

A LIFE NOW WASTED…

After Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi there was only one uplifting story from that entire disaster. It was the heroic story of a young New Orleans resident, a then, 20 year-old, Jabar Gibson. Gibson had to escape the rising floodwaters and saw a huge school district parking lot filled with what later became destroyed buses.

Gibson, a quick-witted lad took it upon himself to “borrow” a school bus, fill it with as many people he could and get them all safely to the Houston Astrodome. Necessity made use of the bus a lawful act even though he had no permission to do that. Gibson reacted swiftly, decisively and saved those lucky enough to find their way on the renegade bus.

Gibson seemed to do what FEMA, the state and local governments could not do. Gibson exercised leadership, took decisive action and brought needed and quick relief to as many as 70 victims of that disaster.

I knew his story was suitable for a movie of the week. I immediately went on a mission to find Gibson, get him to L.A. and work out a movie deal. With the help of someone in Houston I was able to accomplish that mission.

The courts record systems in Louisiana were down and my ability to do a background examination was hampered. Gibson did confess a stolen car, joy riding conviction. I did not expect he’d be a saint since he came from poverty and perhaps the most depressed school district in America.

Interest in making a film about Gibson came from Kelsey Grammer, Mike Farrell and Spike Lee. That all ended when Gibson, who had returned to New Orleans got himself arrested with drugs after a police chase on November 25th. Now nobody wanted Gibson’s image for more than a police booking photo. The hope for the financial rewards and a new life for Gibson as a result of a film were for all practical purposes ended.

Gibson got out of jail on bail pending that prosecution and then got himself in yet another jam on January 7th, when he was again arrested carrying 1.7 grams of cocaine, an undisclosed amount of heroin and a Tarus .357-caliber revolver by New Orleans narcotics detectives and federal agents.

Thursday a federal grand indicted Gibson for cocaine and heroin trafficking and possession of a gun while dealing drugs. Gibson made it big, but not in the way I’d hoped.

An Update:
On April 1, 2008 Gibson was released from federal prison. Let's hope he can behave himself and somehow salvage his life as an ex-convict and convicted felon.

Yet another update:
This worthless scumbag got himself in the jackpot again with the feds. Guns and crack netted this loser lots of years when he was sentenced yet again! So long asshole!

MINUTE ENTRY
BERRIGAN, J.
OCTOBER 27, 2010
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CRIMINAL ACTION
VERSUS NUMBER: 09-249
JABAR GIBSON SECTION: "C"
SENTENCING
APPEARANCES: Edward J. Rivera, Asst. U. S. Attorney
Valerie Jusselin, Counsel for Defendant
Jabar Gibson, Defendant
COURT REPORTER: Karen Ibos
COURTROOM DEPUTY: Kimberly County
Case called; all present and ready.
Deft sentenced to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for 120 months as to each of Counts
1 and 3 of the Indictment to run concurrently with each other and concurrently with the
sentences imposed in docket nos. 06cr114 and 05cr323, and 60 months as to Count 2 of the
indictment to be served consecutively to Counts 1 & 3.
Upon release from imprisonment, defendant shall be placed on supervised release for a term
of 8 years as to Count 1 and 3 years as to each of counts 2 and 3, all to be served
concurrently.
See J & C for special conditions, etc.
Deft remanded to U. S. Marshal.
Court adjourned.

Ralphs Supermarket Filthy Shopping Carts Part II

Click on the photograph to enlarge!

I said I’d give a progress report on the Ralphs Supermarket located at 910 Lincoln Blvd, Venice CA. I’ll let the picture I took today tell it all. It looks like they took two steps backwards and Ralphs has no interest in protecting their customers from the loathsome bacteria coating their shopping carts.

The bits of plastic and string you see are where the vagrants tie additional garbage pickings when they run out of room in the carts. That’s proof that the carts are in no way cleaned or sanitized before they are returned to service. I guess they need to be shamed into cleaning up!

Who would want to to the food intended for the family dinner table in these nasty shopping carts?

Here's the earlier story with video...

The End Of America As We Knew It…

As our lawmakers debate the alien mess, the stampede of unskilled illiterates illegally crossing our borders has greatly intensified. The logic is simple as a few million illegal aliens waive Mexican flags protesting action against them, the guest worker-amnesty program is sure to happen. American politicians have been intimidated into surrendering rather than deal with riots that will surely happen if any effort is made to secure the borders and deport these economic refugees.

Our health care system will quickly collapse. Social Security, which is in trouble anyway will receive its final deathblow. Low paying jobs for marginally skilled Americans will evaporate. Our schools facing the new burden of millions of additional children will never be able to cope. The prisons will have to let dangerous criminals out to roam the streets because they will have no room. Chaos, lawlessness and a major depression can be the only result.

Either our politicians can protect us from this or they can destroy our way of life. When the Senate returns history will be written. Perhaps the American experiment was destined to fail just like every government system that came before 1776.

Is The Duke University Witch Hunt Winding Down Yet?

Political correctness demands that today’s “victims” never have to exercise personal responsibility. Such is the case of the whore hired to service the lacrosse team’s off-campus party. Yes, I did mean to use that politically incorrect word. The facts seem to support that notion. Twanna Brawley is the standard for a phony hate-crime-rape allegation and it’s beginning to reproduce itself in old Durham town.

The past criminal conduct of the accusing whore is in fact what she is all about. They’ve made a folk hero out of the slut-for-hire in the community as they demonized the entire 47-member lacrosse team.

Grandstanding prosecutor, Mike Nifong has adopted this case to be his re-election campaign showpiece. Why should he pay for advertising when the media is so willing to give Nifong so much free face-time? Why would anyone want a prosecutor who prosecutes his cases in the media instead of a courtroom? Nifong’s barrage of statements about the team members were both libelous and outrageous.

One thing for sure the lads at the party are following strict legal advice by claming up during this which hunt. The DNA evidence speaks for itself along with the suspicious claims of the hooker.

As Sol Wachtler, the former New York State chief judge once said, district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that “by and large” they could get them to “indict a ham sandwich.” That’s sad but true, but to convict, proof beyond a reasonable doubt is the standard. Are we going see a huge waste of tax funds and the retirement money of the team member’s parents on a trial that goes nowhere?

Mike Nifong has painted himself so tightly into a corner he can only save face by forcing someone, anyone to stand trial for these allegations no matter how weak or fabricated they turn out to be. I just can’t envision Nifong doing the right thing at this juncture.

But Mr. Nifong, what about this report?

Update...

Britney Spears Is Under Investigation!

That headline conjures images of the Pop Princess wearing handcuffs and doing the “perp walk” with a police escort. It’s also a cheap way for sleazy news organizations to lure viewers and readers.

The L.A. County Department of Children and Family services sent social workers and Sheriff’s deputies to do a routine investigation of the circumstances or the skull fracture suffered by her seven month-old son, Sean.

A state law mandates that hospitals make notifications to the welfare agency anytime a child is injured under parental control prompted the investigation. The investigation proved once again that children are made of rubber or none of us would have ever become adults. No wrongdoing was discovered.

It’s got to be traumatic enough to deal with an injury to a child, get treatment and deal with the welfare bureaucrats. I can’t imagine what it must be like to deal with the speculation, innuendo and hype generated because Britney Spears is a Pop Princess. In the absence of criminal conduct this is really a non-story.

Tourism Industry Damage because of Terrorism Hysteria

We all take vacations to get away from stress, aggravation, and pettiness of our every day life. But if our vacations involve air travel, the programs of the TSA and FAA have taken the fun out of travel for too many people. The result is an industry damaged, perhaps beyond repair.

American news organizations have really aggravated the problem by frightening Americans through countless news stories about security holes in the air travel system. The TSA and FAA respond by annoying passengers with their silly and ineffective petty security procedures. Using highly visible pettiness and inconvenience tactics against passengers to create an illusion of security is the apparent mission of the TSA.

Searching the cargo of airplanes would go unnoticed by millions of passengers and that’s the reason it has never been a priority for the TSA. Airline security has evolved to mere showmanship. The TSA puts on a show for the passengers while squandering tax dollars.

I’m sorry I just can’t swallow a security program fueled by the sensitivities of political correctness rather than profiling potential terrorists. I loathe air travel anymore and so do many of my friends. Any excuse to avoid flying anywhere will do.

One thing for sure fear, lucrative government contract corruption and media brainwashing have taken its toll on the business of air travel. The more people travel, the more they will look to avoid it in the future.

The biggest hit tourism has taken is from international travelers. The USA now has the air travel system to avoid. Here is an article that reflects some of the the loss.

Drugs And Gun Added To Woes Of Swedish Ex-Con after that Malibu Ferrari Crash…

L.A. Sheriff’s deputies reportedly seized a gun, suspected cocaine, several computers as well as vehicles from the Bel-Air home of 44 year-old Stefan Eriksson.

ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency) is also engaged in a full-scale investigation of Eriksson over visa issues and the importation of the believed stolen exotic automobiles.

We can expect that the hard drives of Eriksson’s computers will be carefully examined for any and all evidence into his business affairs, lifestyle and sources of money that he had control over.

In addition we can anticipate that ATF will trace the gun found in Eriksson’s home to determine where and to who it was sold by any dealer and how it wound up in an alien, ex-con’s possession.

All the information eventually will be shared with European law enforcement agencies and Interpol for whatever interest they may have in Eriksson’s activities.

Here's the latest from the LA Times...

Is Katie Holmes Best Actress To Play Hero Policewoman Ann Leybourne?

Katie is my pick to play the real life Chicago hero policewoman in my feature film, COME FRIDAY.

Malibu Ferrari Enzo Crash Case Figure Arrested!

This never ending saga that began with the spectacular 162 MPH crash of a rare million-dollar Ferrari Enzo last February in Malibu CA has taken yet another wild turn.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Swedish ex-convict Stefan Eriksson, 44, at his Bel-Air home Saturday night. Detectives also served a yet to be determined number of search warrants on property under control of Eriksson.

L.A. Sheriff’s records show that Eriksson was arrested Saturday night in Bel Aire at 9:50 PM. The charges remain unclear but he’s being held without bail. In addition there’s a no bail, USIM Immigration hold on Eriksson should he be released from any local charges.

Eriksson was booked into the Men’s Central Jail just after 9:00 AM this morning. There is a court apperance set for April 11, 2006 @ 8:30 AM in Division 30 located at 210 w. Temple Street, Los Angeles.

An evening update from the L.A. Times...