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I’m going to be at Friday’s downtown Chicago Gun Rights Rally. I hope some of my old friends, new friends and blog visitors will stop by and say hello. This is our chance to let Mayor Daley know he is out-of-step with the law of the land.

This is also a kick off for obtaining conceald weapon legislation in Illinois. Read more about that here.

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CBS2 Is the Breaking News Today

Chicago—Did the CBS2 News department’s expose’ of an NBC5 reporter’s presence at the home of a news maker place a prominent, Emmy Award winning reporter in a false light? Was CBS2 reckless or even malicious in airing a story that aside from not being newsworthy would defame and destroy the career of a reporter for a competing station?

The biggest question I have about this entire mess is: What would motivate any reporter to demolish an ongoing news investigation of another correspondent’s work?

I can only find one word to describe this CBS2 effort, ugly. What was the justification for this really dubious story they turned into something with a sordid and salacious slant?

It looks like a Cook County Circuit Court Jury will be deciding what CBS2 and the other named individuals did wrong and how much they should be punished. A lawsuit was filed late today seeking unspecified damages on behalf of eleven-year veteran WMAQ-TV reporter, Amy Jacobson by her lawyer, Kathleen T. Zellner.

Aside from CBS, named in Jacobson’s Complaint are, Joe Ahern President and General Manager of WBBM-TV Chicago, CBS 2 Vice President and News Director Carol Fowler, anchor Rob Johnson, reporter Mike Puccinelli, Northwestern University Journalism Professor Michele Weldon and Tracy Reardon.

It was nearly a year ago when Jacobson was working on the story of Lisa Stebic, the still missing Plainfield, IL mother of two children. Lisa Stebic’s marriage had gone sour and her husband, Craig Stebic; a private investigator is a "Person of Interest" (God, how I hate that term!) in an act of presumed foul play.

Police and the missing woman’s relatives say Craig Stebic had the motive, means and opportunity to kill his wife and dispose of her body. As a private investigator Stebic should have sufficient skills to murder and cover the crime avoiding detection. Of course no adequate evidence has surfaced to qualify as Probable Cause to allow anyone’s arrest and trial for any crime.

Craig Stebic obtained a lawyer and invoked his absolute right not to answer police questions. Neither cops, nor their agents can ask Stebic anything at all or risk being sued. Anything Stebic says to them will never see the inside of a courtroom unless Stebic initiates the contact, is re-advised of his rights and waives them first.

Jacobson was not restricted by any law from getting Stebic to talk. Jacobson was on a mission to get to the heart of this story she was assigned to tell. Jacobson undertook a personal safety risk to do her job.

These kinds of cases are solved only if investigators or anyone can keep the suspects talking. Apparently Stebic was still talking, at least to Jacobson until the moment CBS2 aired their story.

Had Craig Stebic gotten caught in a lie or made any confession the threshold of probable cause may have been crossed and an arrest of a murder suspect facilitated.

Perhaps Lisa Stebic’s remains may have been found and grieving family members got some closure or at least the satisfaction that Lisa Stebic’s children are not being raised by her killer. Such a discovery by Jacobson would have served both WMAQ’s viewers and justice well.

Jacobson’s investigation was suddenly exposed by competing WBBM-TV’s news reports. Those reports seemed to leave an impression with many viewers that there was some sort of an affair or romance between the married reporter and Craig Stebic. That impression was never supported by any facts.

Despite the fact that Jacobson violated no rules, laws (civil or criminal) CBS2 apparently destroyed Jacobson’s successful career.

I’ve wondered how this mess would have played out if Jacobson been a man under the same circumstances? I’m doubt CBS2 would have gotten themselves into this legal quagmire.

The early part of any lawsuit is always a major investigation. Records, emails, Internet service provider data and telephone bills are subpoenaed for an exhausting examination. People are interviewed and after everything possible is done the discovery process ends with the depositions of all involved being taken.

Lawyers for Jacobson will have the most fun taking the depositions of this group of defendants. Some of those folks may know their way around a newsroom but submitting to the depositions will be every bit as much fun as being waterboarded by their inquisitors.

Most reporters and news directors for some unknown reason don’t do well at depositions. Perhaps it’s because they are used to be asking the questions and not accustomed to answering them.

CBS2 was contacted and so far they have declined comment.

Here’s an unedited and unfiltered copy of the complaint filed in court today:

2016 Olympics In Chicago? Surely You Jest!

Chicago—These days Chicago can’t hold any public event without having Black on Black murders and shootings imported into these events from the ghetto.

Chicago’s gun laws only work to keep the law-abiding disarmed. The morale of Chicago’s undermanned and inadequate police department has never been lower. They would never be able to keep up with the tremendous crowds or the vast network of criminals preying on them.

Proper policing can only work as a partnership between citizens and police. Today there is no such partnership in Chicago. The law-abiding are unarmed and hiding in their bathtubs from the bullets because Liberal gun control never works.

Chicago’s corrupt politicians and bureaucrats can be counted on to play the extortion game against every business trying to get a piece of the huge financial windfall that comes with this event.

Holding the 2016 Olympics in Chicago will bring a violent crime bloodbath along with a huge public corruption crime wave that will begin right on the Fifth Floor of City Hall.

The Olympic Committee and the taxpayers of Chicago should say no thanks to having the games in Chicago.

I borrowed the clever homicide chalk graphic with the Olympic Torch from my friends at secondcitycop.com.

55 MPH Sucks As a National Speed Limit

Leave it to a pretend Republican to be an auto insurance company shill and try to shove that hated 55 MPH speed limit down our throats. The real issue was that local governments hated losing the massive revenue generated by traffic citations not really involving traffic safety.

With the new unmanned photo technology just think of the billions in salary hikes, improved benefits and better than ever getaways for conferences our politicians and bureaucrats can enjoy. That while we enter another great depression over oil speculators and the government assisted mortgage lenders that have created an incredible mess.

Our insurance companies never once reduced rates in the 21 years of the since repealed 55 speed limit despite their assertions that accidents and deaths were reduced. These companies are in the business of taking us for all they can after government ties us down for them to rob us with mandatory insurance laws. Trust me, before mandatory insurance laws the best bargain was uninsured coverage you must buy today anyway. They rape us worse than ever.

This was never about saving fuel but about the prostitution in the sacred halls of Congress. More money to steal and more cash for re-election campaigns.

This is where Americans need to storm the capitol and call for the hanging of scum like Senator John Warner.

If they are from the government they are here to rob you. Thank God for the Heller Decision maybe we can stop them someday.

Celebrating the Fourth of July

The cause of Liberty was improved somewhat by the reaffirmation of Americans gun-rights by the Supreme Court.

Other than that things are dismal. We have more people in our prisons than any other nation on earth. Far too many are there for victimless crimes and offenses like Martha Stewart’s misleading some FBI agent. Gun collectors are still facing prison for some really non-dangerous highly technical violations of obscure gun laws.

I have a serious sense of doom as the forces of the Far Left have hijacked both political parties and given us two really pathetic and unqualified candidates to lead our nation. This as we are dealing with what may be the largest bank failure disaster since the Great Depression and as soaring oil prices along with the falling dollar can only bring civil unrest in our cities.

Instead of having social unrest over worthy issues the turmoi will be over demands for an unlimited nanny. In the past Americans would fight over out-of-control taxation, random searching of Americans at government checkpoints and government’s unwanted involvement in every aspect of our lives. Those days of fighting for liberty and freedom are apparently over.

It may be a good idea to see if some of us can get dual citizenship and a second passport from the few non-Socialist countries left of our parents or grandparents. America may never be the, land of the free and home of the brave again in our lifetime.

Why do Americans bother to celebrate a holiday wrapped around the freedom they have rejected long ago?

The Supreme Court Says Criminals Need Not Register Their Guns In America.

That has been the law of the land since 1968. I’ve had the gun rights haters tell me I was crazy when I’ve asserted America’s felons and ex-convicts are exempt from any form of firearm registration schemes. Registration laws are only government harassment tools to victimize law-abiding gun owners and invade their privacy.

Gun registration is both an expensive and meaningless exercise especially since gun sellers at every level are required to keep records under existing federal law. Why in the world do state and local government need to duplicate what already exists under federal law?

There are in fact two Supreme Court cases that have held requiring felons to register their guns violates their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. The strongest most often cited case is Haynes v. United States, 390 U.S. 85 (1968)

U.S. Supreme Court Haynes v. United States, 390 U.S. 85 (1968)
No. 236 Argued October 11, 1967 Decided January 29, 1968
Syllabus
Petitioner was charged by information with violating 26 U.S.C. § 5851 (part of the National Firearms Act, an interrelated statutory system for the taxation of certain classes of firearms used principally by persons engaged in unlawful activities) by knowingly possessing a defined firearm which had not been registered as required by 26 U.S.C. § 5841. Section 5841 obligates the possessor of a defined firearm to register the weapon, unless he made it or acquired it by transfer or importation, and the Act's requirements as to transfers, makings and importations "were complied with." Section 5851 declares unlawful the possession of such firearm which has "at any time" been transferred or made in violation of the Act, or which "has not been registered as required by section 5841." Additionally, § 5851 provides that "possession shall be deemed sufficient evidence to authorize conviction, unless the defendant explains such possession to the satisfaction of the jury." Petitioner moved before trial to dismiss the charge, sufficiently asserting that § 5851 violated his privilege against self-incrimination guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. The motion was denied, petitioner pleaded guilty, and his conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals.

Held:
1. Congress, subject to constitutional limitations, has authority to regulate the manufacture, transfer, and possession of firearms, and may tax unlawful activities. Pp. 390 U. S. 90, 390 U. S. 98.

2. Petitioner's conviction under § 5851 for possession of an unregistered firearm is not properly distinguishable from a conviction under § 5841 for failure to register possession of a firearm, and both offenses must be deemed subject to any constitutional deficiencies arising under the Fifth Amendment from the obligation to register. Pp. 390 U. S. 90-95.

3. A proper claim of the privilege against self-incrimination provides a full defense to prosecutions either for failure to register under § 5841 or for possession of an unregistered firearm under § 5851. Pp. 390 U. S. 95-100.

4. Restrictions upon the use by federal and state authorities of information obtained as a consequence of the registration requirement,

suggested by the Government, is not appropriate. Marchetti v. United States, ante, p. 390 U. S. 39, and Grosso v. United States, ante, p. 390 U. S. 62. Pp. 390 U. S. 99-100.

5. Since any proceeding in the District Court upon a remand must inevitably result in the reversal of petitioner's conviction, it would be neither just nor appropriate to require such needless action, and accordingly the judgment is reversed. Pp. 390 U. S. 100-101. 372 F.2d 651, reversed.

What’s in the future for Paul Huebl And His Blog?

Please, tell me just what you’d like to see more of at Crime, Guns and Videotape.

This blog began during a dark period for me. I was suffering from a temporary, seven month loss of nearly all my hearing. Doing my normal routine was impossible. The blog became the only outlet I had but frankly it has been fun. Thankfully my hearing returned and my blog stayed.

I was a late comer to this somewhat new way of sharing news and opinion. It’s nothing less than a technology miracle that with modest costs I can mix words with pictures, audio and video.

I believe content is King and I want so much to find time to bring my visitors much more. I want to be able to give you more of what you want from me. I have to guess just what that may be. I also am without funding from this site to gather more content. Creativity for me is a must or I’d have few readers at all. I’ve seen many a decent blog with tiny readership and meaningless crap blogs with amazing readership.

Blog promotion seems to be an art I’ve not yet mastered. I’d love nothing more than to just be generating exactly what my visitors want and make a living at the same time. Only a small percentage of bloggers have made the big time.

TV news and newspapers are dying a slow death of a thousand cuts. The viewers and readers are vanishing. Gone from the usual media customers are the audience of the 18 through 35 demographics. Their former viewers and readers are here in cyberspace.

If I had my way, I’d be reporting to you wherever news happens. I’d go to Iraq, Afghanistan or anyplace where news is unfolding and history is being made. I want to show you those things that seem to get too much filtering by mainstream or old media.

I want to bring you more original video so my visitors can see just what I see. I want to be able to bring you more behind the scenes information from major crimes, government’s missteps and those ordinary people in extraordinary events.

I want to expose more heroes and villains but am limited too often by geography and funding.

As for the question I posed in the headline of this story, I don’t have a clue what the future holds. I’m flying by the seat of my pants.

A Dog’s Life Just Got Better Thanks to Leona Helmsley

New York—Some will say the old broad was loose as a goose. Others will say that the so-called Queen of Mean was a greedy tax cheat. One thing for sure she loved man’s best friend.

Aside from leaving $12 million bucks to her own mutt, Trouble, she has left somewhere between $5 or 8 Billion dollars for the benefit of dogs. Some are outraged she did not take care of the Red Cross, the poor in America or something far more worthy. I say, “Good for Helmsley”!

Dogs improve the lives of humans in so many ways. I believe that our loyal four legged friends prevent thousands of suicides of otherwise lonely seniors. Dogs also prevent untold violent and property crimes every day and they save human lives as rescue animals. What would the blind and disabled do without help dogs?

If our dogs get subsidized veterinary care so they have a better life and the dog pounds of America become doggie hotels like the human ones Helmsley ran that’s okay by me.

Price of Gas Was Too Much For These Two

Read why here.

Chicago Policemen At Disturbance Call Murdered By Woman

019 District—Officer Richard Francis, 60 Belmont Avenue officer with 27 years on the job was apparently shot dead by a woman who snatched the officer’s own service pistol. The woman was also shot by another officer. Both the officer who later died and the female suspect were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. The woman was in critical condition.

Crimefile grieves with the family of police hero Richard Francis who gave his life in the service of the citizens of Chicago

Officers please be careful and always follow your training.

Read more about that here.

WLS-TV report here.

More here.

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Why Are The Border Jumper's Rights People Angry?

Houston, TX.-- Shot-gunner of The Year, Joe Horn, 62 was cleared of any criminal conduct by a Harris County Grand Jury. Mr. Horn saw his neighbor’s home being burglarized by two burglars who were also illegal aliens. Horn called 911 and did not let some poorly trained civilian call taker miles away give him what may have been bad advice. I say that because only two rats were killed and no innocent people.

I’m, not sure just why the border jumper's rights folks got involved in this unless that think illegal aliens have the right to victimize Americans after they sneak across our borders. I guess in the end that’s just how they feel.

Horn violated an important law of survival, that of conflict avoidance. There are only so many rats you can confront even with a shotgun before they kill you first. It took guts to do what Horn did. I see no crime even if anyone has shotgun wounds in their back. This involved multiple offenders and the lone Joe Horn had no way of knowing just how many burglars there were of how great the threat.

When a substantial portion of the American population supports home invading burglars over a senior citizen trying to stop them it’s easy to see why this country has so much serious crime.

Some have called Horn’s actions a Hate Crime. There was hatred all right, hatred of criminals invading homes.

Today the calls are for a FBI investigation into the violation of civil rights of the dead rats. Horn was no public official acting under color of law. Horn was just a desperate man demanding his right to be safe from criminals.

Had this happened in Chicago the politicians would be demanding the death penalty for Joe Horn. I bet horn’s Pasadena, TX neighborhood is safer these days then even Mayor Daley’s. Perhaps it’s time to turn the tables more often on predatory rats like the late Diego Ortiz, 30, and Hernando Riascos Torres, 38.

I hope the word gets out that burglary is very dangerous and a really poor choice of an occupation.

Obama Is Clear And Present Danger To Gun Owners And All Americans

Fairfax, VA—The NRA plans to participate in our upcoming Presidential election in a big way. With unlimited funds from billionaire George Soros funding every Leftwing, crackpot politician the NRA will help level the playing field with a $40 million-dollar war chest.

We had a significant victory with last week’s Heller decision but there is much more to be done. One or two changes on the Supreme Court may lead to the end of the Second Amendment.

The greatest threat to American’s right to protect their families is Barack Hussein Obama. He voted for every draconian gun ban he could and is on the record as supporting a ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns. Today however he claims to have a more moderate opinion. Only a total fool would accept Obama’s new position.

Obama’s loyalty is to the corrupt Chicago Democratic Mob, terrorists, bombers and crooks that helped make him the candidate he is today. Americans must see through Obama’s public relations smokescreen and reject this exceptionally unqualified and dangerous candidate.