Booking Photo Nightmare

Tempe, AZ—In the last 24 hours police in this college town arrested 30 people from the underbelly of society. The charges included drugs, warrants, solicitation and aggravated mopery with intent to gawk.

Along with the boys, Mandi Ankle seen above represents the fair sex caught in the police dragnet. Is that the "Mandi" Barry Manalow was singing about a while back? I don't think so. I apologize in advance for giving my readers nightmares.

You Too Can Expose Government Gone Wild!

Chicago, IL—I was somewhat dismayed that the local news broadcasters are vanishing before our eyes. There are massive layoffs underway and investigative journalism projects are the first to go. The danger here is for an unchecked government gone wild. We all know when the cat’s away the mice will play.

As this is happening so-called citizen journalists are springing up everywhere. They are slowly filling the void. Equipment to produce, and distribute stories we can all use is cheap or even free. There is also lots of free newsgathering and technical advice all over the Internet.

The easiest way is to simply capture video and still pictures that tell the story and share it with your favorite bloggers like me. It helps to have both broadband Internet service and a $3.00 per month Skype account. This is what you need to send your video or audio recordings and photos.

Video and pictures alone are helpful but while you’re there be sure to get interviews from relevant newsmakers and witnesses. Don’t be afraid to ask questions!

Don’t just complain about problems when you can capture and publish the things that need attention.

Second City Cop has been a great site for Chicago cops to get to the bottom of rumors and spread news affecting the cop on the beat. They are however, really weak on putting up video or pictures. With all the cop readers running around with cell phone cameras an unstoppable army of reporters already exist.

For those willing to invest $200.00 in a tiny Flip Mino HD camera the video image is stunning.

The power to publish protects cops and other public employees better than any labor union can.

Simply advise your bloggers or news outlets of the story and upload your video. I know SCC and this blog know how to and will protect our contributors. They only requirement is that the information be factual.

There is information galore available on news gathering, shooting video and getting that story out into the sunlight.

YouTube just launched a new channel designed by the pros to help you capture, expose and stop GOVERNMENT GONE WILD. There are loads of how to videos for you right there!

www.Skype.com

$1 Billion In Free Money For California Taxpayers!

Taxpayers are in for $1 billion windfall just over the next five years. What’s the rub you ask? That’s what it will cost to deal with the appeals 682 inhabitants of Death Row.

If these convicts are simply resentenced to life without the possibility of parole taxpayers will save a bundle. We seem to forget that virtually every Death Row prisoner is indigent and we must pay for both the prosecution and defense legal fees.

Cash strapped Sacramento may find the death penalty is a luxury taxpayers can no longer afford. This is a quick fix that will send lawyers and defense investigators like me to the unemployment lines.

Freedom For O.J. Simpson?

Las Vegas, NV-- Okay, you forgot about the Juice didn’t you? You thought you’d heard the last when Judge Jackie Glass slammed a cell door closed on him for some nine to 33 years, didn’t you.

Well the there were some serious appeal issues surrounding that case where Simpson and some others went to get stolen property back. The problem was they called it armed robbery and kidnapping. But was it really?

Thugs, thieves and liars mistreating other thugs, thieves and liars just did not seem so serious. Judge Glass and a jury may well have gotten it all wrong. That’s why our judicial system allows for appeals.

Simpson had asked to remain free pending that appeal expected to take years and Judge Glass said, no.

On August 3, 2009 the Nevada Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the appeal of the order to deny bail.

Simpson’s co-defendant, Clarence "C.J." Stewart, is serving 7 1/2 to 27 years and has been granted a bail hearing too.

I can’t give an educated guess as to the outcome but usually they entertain the idea of bail at all may prove promising.

The same can be said about the convictions in light of Nevada case law. Simpson and Stewart may find freedom if the same court feels the convictions and punishment too extreme.

Yes folks, O.J. Simpson may be back soon. Just when you thought it was safe…

Obama Laments The Ouster Of Marxist Leader In Honduras

Honduras—Today there is one less Communist in power and Chairman Barack Obama is angry about it. Manuel Zelaya got the bum’s rush out of the Presidential palace by that country’s military. Zelaya is presently in exile after an apparent bloodless coup.

Why am I not surprised, Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are demanding that their Marxist friend be reinstated as President? It should be noted that their other Marxist pal Hugo Chavez is also whining about the much needed coup.

Usually these Communist bastards are on the wrong side of the firing squads, killing instead of being killed. It’s really too bad that Zelaya is still breathing. Maybe that can be remedied soon.

I hope to see the final solution to Communist and Socialist problem in my lifetime. That is total extermination of all of these rats and the poison they spread to enslave mankind.

Can you imagine Obama sending American troops into Honduras in order to restore a Marxist leader to power? I’d hope our troops would rather face a military prison before they obey an invasion order helping a Communist regime.

A good Communist is a dead Communist.

A Real Cowboy Has Passed—Joe Bowman April 12, 1925—June 28, 2009

For as long as I have been going to the larger gun shows I have know an old cowboy, showman, master of card tricks, gun slinger, straight shooter and spokesperson, Joe Bowman. Bowman knew how to handle his trademark six-guns.

Bowman was a one man exhibit who in recent years traveled with the Strum Ruger Gun Company wherever they would display their wares at various gun and firearms trade shows throughout the world.

Bowman would appear at the functions along with his cowgirl wife, Betty and dazzle everyone with his impromptu shows.

Bowman had just completed his last gig at the End of Trail Show in New Mexico. This morning Betty Bowman woke up in a hotel they stopped at on their way to their Houston, TX home. Betty was unable to wake her husband who apparently died peacefully in his sleep. Bowman was 84.

I shot this video of Joe at the May 2009 NRA Convention in Phoenix, AZ.

Supreme Court Rules We Are All Equal

Washington, DC—To the chagrin of Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor the current Supreme Court overturned her ruling that allowed discrimination against White firefighters because of race.

The so-called progressive trend to hire and promote lees qualified minorities simply because discrimination against White Americans was sanctioned by out-of-control Left Wing, whacko jurists should be over now.

Discrimination is ugly in any form and this ruling was long overdue.

Of course Comrade Barack Obama and his Marxists will stack the Supreme Court with justices that don’t care about our Bill of Rights or form of government. Given an opportunity the Marxists judicial appointees will destroy our way of life.

These Communists must be stopped at all cost.

Obama’s Fantasy Campaign Promise of a tax Break for 90% Of Americans Evaporates.

Washington, DC—Just as every conservative in America proclaimed, Chairman Barack Obama’s Promise of a tax break for 90% of Americans was a lie intended only to create false hope.

Now Obama’s propaganda minister, David Axelrod is letting the cat out of the bag. Obama can’t deliver.

Just as Hitler, Castro, Stalin, and Mussolini enjoyed wide popularity at first Obama will follow in their shoes. At some point Obama’s supporters will begin to despise him but by then it will be too late.

Thank God Americans have the Second Amendment, we will need it.

Our treasonous President will soon be the most despised in American history. The good thing is the police and military won’t prop up this would be dictator once the American people want him out.

TV Pitchman Billy Mays Found Dead By Wife

Tampa,FL—Overexposed TV pitchman Billy Mays was found dead by his wife Deborah Mays today. Mays was only 50 and beginning to enjoy fame as a reality TV star.

Autopsy results are pending but police seem to think the death was from natural causes.

Update: Mays was just on a US Airways flight that blew a tire during a hard landing. Maya reported being struck on the head during the mishap. Did Mays suffer a brain injury and death as a result? Stay tuned.

Michael Jackson’s Second Autopsy

Los Angeles, CA—King of Pop, Michael Jackson’s immediate family members obtained control over the pop star’s remains once the Coroner released them. The Jackson family is exercising their absolute to hire their own forensic pathologist to second guess the autopsy done yesterday.

The original autopsy would have involved a huge Y shaped incision to the torso enabling the removal and examination of every organ. The organs themselves are removed, weighed, and sections of them are sliced away for microscopic and toxicological examination.

The scull is opened and the brain is removed and sectioned as are the other organs. All of the organs including the brain are finally tossed into a large plastic bag. When the examination is completed the bag of sectioned organs is placed inside the torso cavity. The body is sewn shut with butcher’s string. The skull is reassembled and a large wad of cotton replaces the brain.

The second autopsy would most likely be conducted at the funeral home handling Jackson’s internment services. The second autopsy requires the body being reopened and the plastic bag is opened so new organ samples can be sectioned and saved for the same examinations as the first examination. The tissue samples will be removed to a proper laboratory. Generally there is no need to reopen the skull.

The body is closed again as in the first examination. Now the mortuary will prepare the body for normal embalming and viewing.

I suspect that there exists a video tape of one or both autopsies because of the importance of the findings. There will be lots of photographs at the least.

I don’t expect there to be any dispute between examiners as to manner and cause of death. Hopefully this will put most or all of the conspiracy theories to bed and Jacko won’t be regularly sighted walking the streets of Las Vegas like poor old Elvis.

A Doctor’s Oath Is To Cause No Harm

Los Angeles, CA—The final answers are not yet discovered or positive about the death of Michael Jackson. We do know Jackson has had ongoing and disabling issues with high powered narcotic pain killers.

Because of an ambitious sold out 50 concert tour in the UK the promoters demanded that Jackson have a round the clock physician protecting their huge investment.

Apparently Jackson was allowed to choose the doctor assuming this role. That doctor was Conrad Murray, MD. Tabloid rumors suggest that Murray had financial problems and jumped at the chance to tend to Jackson’s needs and reap the financial rewards.

It has been suggested that Murray injected Jackson with his final hotshot of Demerol. Was this therapeutic treatment or just done because of a sick man’s addiction and a medicine man’s greed? I suspect that the addicted Jackson would have never tolerated a physician that would abide by the Hippocratic Oath over Jackson’s chemical cravings.

Jackson’s family and indeed the world are waiting for those answers. Arrangements are being made for a second autopsy on the pop legend’s remains. You can’t rush toxicology results beyond the examiner’s capabilities and still maintain reliable results.

As for Dr. Murray, I suspect he is in for the legal nightmare of his life. Defending the administration of Demerol to an addict to do nothing more than feed an addiction is criminal. If that act results in death homicide related charges can’t be far away.

Dr. Murray needs a top notch criminal lawyer right now and a bail bondsman for the immediate future. If Murray has criminal culpability he will incur the wrath of the Jackson family, their lawyers and the millions of angry fans of the gloved one.

Update: Dr. Murray has reportedly retained Houston criminal lawyer, William M. Stradley to handle an expected prosecution.

More about the lawyer here.

Michael Jackson A Study In Paradox

Los Angeles, CA—With the premature death of pop legend Michael Jackson, I don’t know if He should be despised, pitied or loved.

No matter your opinion of Jackson’s dark side, he was a master of entertainment. He was as prolific as any entertainer that ever lived on this earth. He invented dance moves that defied gravity, made music that at one time or another was appealing and enjoyable no matter what your taste was.

Jackson’s work employed thousands over the years. Jackson was a major corporation that launched so many careers of otherwise incidental people.

Some say Jackson was an evil serial pedophile. If Jackson hurt children, thankfully it was not by torturing or killing them. Evil can only be measured by the mental state of the offender and we have little knowledge of just what Jackson’s real culpability was for his conduct.

Because of Jackson’s immense wealth he was a natural extortion target. You may hate Jackson’s abuse of Children but I hate the unindicted co-conspirators much more. Those are the parents that let their little boys sleep over with a man who wears more makeup than his sisters. Were they hoping for an opportunity for a $20 million hush money payout too?

If we do indeed have an afterlife and we are to be rewarded or punished for our deeds I’m sure our maker would mitigate punishment based on just what we are made of. Some humans have little impulse control while others never act on impulse. Some people commit mad acts that would never enter other’s minds.

Michael Jackson will be judged by his entire life and history, not just the last decade that’s been an unmitigated disaster.

The death and mourning of Michael Jackson is proving to be a huge event and no mater your opinion of him there will be no more live Jackson entertainment. That’s indeed sad. Because we’re blessed with technology Jackson’s works will live on indefinitely.

I prefer to remember Jackson for his work, good deeds and think of all the kids his employees were able to put through college because of that money machine, Michael Jackson.

As for Michael Jackson his addictions and pain are over.