ICE Cold Corruption In Arizona

In late August, 2012, the investigation and questions concerning the ATF's debacle known as Operation Fast and Furious was still ongoing. Katie Pavlich's book had been on the shelves for months. Representative Darryl Issa was still jockeying to get at least in camera access to communiques involving Eric Holder, Barack Obama, and Janet Napolitano. Those communication records are still sealed under "executive privilege" that amounts to Obama pleading the Fifth Amendment on behalf of his corrupt lackey, Holder.

From what we know about Operation Fast and Furious, we can see it was doomed to fail in its publicized mission from the start. No means of tacking the weapons was used. No artistic tampering by armorers was conducted to insure the weapons would fail after some limited use. Both of these tactics are ones that have been employed, successfully, in the past in order to track illicit weapons to criminals and terrorists. This makes it more than obvious that the program was designed with other intentions in mind.

Those intentions led to the murder of Brian Terry, over three hundred innocent Mexican civilians, and wounding (if not killing) a number of US Border Patrol agents, Arizona State Police, and county deputy sheriffs in Arizona.

On August 31, 2012, Stella Peterson and her son, Anthony, were arrested for human trafficking. Stella admitted to knowing that her son, a thirty year old man, used her home to harbor illegal immigrants.

Human Trafficking in Naco, Douglas, Palominas, and other border towns is not uncommon among people prone to other criminal activities, such as identity theft. What makes this case one of note is that Stella Peterson is an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. ICE is subordinate to the Department of Homeland Security just like the US Border Patrol.

This spawned a corruption investigation. It was rather high profile in local and state level news. However, it received barely a blip on Fox news and no mention on any other mainstream media news outlet. Obviously, somebody decided this story of corruption was to be buried just as Fast and Furious received little to no mainstream media attention.

The Naco-Douglas area corridor is known for the traffic of sex slaves. These young girls, some as young as ten years old, are drugged and brought across the border to be sold into prostitution. Many times, families are forced to trade their daughters in payment to a coyote to help another family member cross the dangerous "devil's highway" over the Coronado Mountains and through Arizona.

The predators and merchants of human misery don't stop at the border. That is just their entry point. From that point, they continue to Nevada, Colorado, Illinois, Nebraska, and Canada. They move drugs. They facilitate invading terrorists. They bring in unregistered, illegal guns for use by organized criminals in the US. They herd people as though they are cattle. Those people are marked for sex slavery or indentured work in sweatshops.

The trafficking is not singular in direction, either. US citizens are coerced, duped, or outright abducted and smuggled through Mexico to become sex slaved in other countries.

Then we have a woman who works for one of the key federal agencies responsible for combating these atrocities found, initially, to be complacent in these acts. Further corruption investigations indicated she may have been complicit in them. She may have directly supported her son and his fellow criminals in these activities.

The actions taken by ICE were to place her on paid administrative leave until the investigation was complete. That means she gets a paycheck without having to do a second's work. This occurred in mid September 2012.

That is where the available information ends. There is no closure. Furthermore, some individuals with access to further information have strongly implied further corruption. To date, no trial has taken place. Allegedly, Stella Peterson may have admitted to other acts, including facilitating sex slavery. Other allegations are that the Assistant US Attorney at the time, under Eric Holder, dropped all charges then transferred to another region. 

If Stella and Anthony Peterson were found not-guilty, why was it not publicized?
If they were tried and found guilty, why was it not publicized?
If they plead down charges with a guilty plea for lesser crimes, why was it not publicized?
If authorities dropped charges, why?
Did Stella get immunity for turning evidence against "bigger fish"?
Is she still on paid administrative leave? If so, why?

She should have been fired. She betrayed the public trust and should not be allowed to work in a position of public trust ever again.

Answers to these questions as well as requests for further information have, so far, received silence in response.


The full original article with additional commentary is posted at P-G Matuszak's Mental Aikido.

From The Mouth of Matuszak: 23 Gun Grabbing Executive Orders

Surrounded by children being used as brainwashed political pawns in a disgusting display, Obama took the stage to issue his twenty-three latest imperial decrees. Moments before, those poor, misguided, abused, and programmed children were chanting "Barack Hussein Obama" in a scene reminiscent of Hitler's use of kids chanting his name and "Sieg Heil" just before he announced he would disarm and imprison all Jews. 

"Weapons designed for use in a war have no place in a movie theater. Ronald Reagan supported a ban on the manufacture of military style assault weapons" (paraphrasing) Barack Hussein Obama Jr.

Reagan made his remarks in regards to opposing lifting the ban on the production and sale of machine guns and anti-tank rocket launchers to private citizens.

"Municipalities have had to cut budgets. There aren't enough police. We need to put more police on the streets." (paraphrasing) Barack Hussein Obama Jr.

Due to your messed up fiscal and economic policies, municipalities are going bankrupt. Unions with their ridiculous pension plans that do not require those public servants to invest, partially, in their own retirement funds are among the largest contributing factors. The people are taxed enough already. You cannot get blood from a stone.

Which do you want, Barry, police who work without pay or prosperous municipalities? Right now, you cannot afford both. Police "without pay" are average, armed citizens watching their own property as well as their neighbor's. That requires you not infringing on the Second Amendment.

"If America worked harder to keep guns out of hands of criminals, who use them for harm." (Paraphrasing) Barack Hussein Obama Jr.

Criminals are just like you, Barry. Just as you don't care about the US Constitution, they do not care about the law.

"This will be difficult. Pundits will warn of a tyrannic assault on liberty. Not just because its true, but because they want to block common sense reform. The only way we'll change is if we get them to change their rhetoric to say 'this time we need to do things to protect our kids'. It will only happen if people rise up and demand it, especially in districts that support [the Second Amendment]. We need to examine out hearts [not our heads,where reason, logic, and common sense reside]. The American people, parents, teachers, hunters, and Americans stand up and say 'Enough!', then change will come. That is what it will take to revoke and repeal the Second Amendment" (Paraphrasing) Barack Hussein Obama Jr.

His self-contradicting rhetoric violates every law of logic imaginable while invoking a strong desire to regurgitate. 

The price-tag for Obama's twenty-three imperial decrees is, at least, a half billion dollars. For those who need to see the zeros, that's $500,000,000.00+ dollars. Add that to the deficit spending he already demands along with his demands that congress increase his credit limit.

Mr. Obama, I have a question for you. Your salary is only $400,000.00 a year. You are $499,600,000.00 short. We have no federal budget. Our country is broke. These are your hair brained ideas. You should cover the expenses out of your own pocket. How are you going to pay for this? (Wait, this proposes that Obama set an example and give up his salary just like he expects other individual citizens who make over $250k a year to do.)

The twenty-three executive orders issued mostly expand the information available in background check databases, to include violations of HIPAA laws. That's right, the provided information will include medical records and health histories. While a condition that causes severe diminished mental capacity should limit weapon ownership, it should require a judge to issue a order that removes those rights from the afflicted individuals.

A healthcare professional should not be the judge and law enforcement official who decides who should or should not be allowed to keep their gods-given and constitutionally protected rights.

Let's role play this one out:

"How severe is the pain in your knee, sir? One is a mild annoyance, ten is you are willing to shoot yourself to stop it."

"In that case, it's a seven."

"Is this a prior injury from, say, your time in Iraq?"

"Yes, it's a prior injury that is acting up."

"So, you were in Iraq?"

"Yes."

"Do you own a gun?"

"That's none of your business."

"Client is an injured war vet with a combative and non-compliant attitude who should have his guns illegally seized by the tyrants' goons."

"Doctor is a liberal douche canoe who I am now firing as I call my lawyer to file suit against the violations of HIPAA law, the 4th Amendment, the Privacy Act of 1974, and malpractice."

Obama's rhetoric is a call for the people to rise up and force their Senators, Congressmen, and Governors to support the repeal of the Second Amendment, or a change to it. However, it is just rhetoric. He acknowledged that legislation must originate in Congress. Then he points his fingers at those Senators and Representatives who support the Second Amendment, its true purpose and meaning, and its long-standing historic tradition. He honestly believes that enough people will rise up and say "Enough! Please take away all the guns, including mine!"

Barry then demands universal background checks. The irony here is that most lawfully purchased weapons are done by people who have favorable background checks. Even those who purchase a weapon through a private, person to person transaction (not one from a gun dealer) involve two personnel who already own guns that required those initial background checks. These checks do nothing to hinder black market sales. They do nothing in regards to weapons that are stolen to be used in later crimes.

Having passed even more in depth background checks, they don't bother me. They are a just a time wasting annoyance. They are not a deterrent or a hindrance.

It isn't going to happen.

The irony here is that there is a larger call to allow school workers to have concealed carry permits and special situational training so they can better respond to sick monsters like Adam Lanza. Thousands of teachers have requested such training.

More districts and municipalities are requesting armed guards at schools.

Those "gun free zone" signs on so many school doors and fences are just invitations for predators. They know that nobody is armed and able to protect the kids.

So, here's the new deal. The next time we have a school shooting, start placing blame where blame should be blamed.

Blame the shooter. That's the monster who wants to prey upon children.

Blame the idiots who created the cornucopia for the predators, the idiots who created  the "gun free zones".

Blame the teachers and administrators who were not armed. They intentionally failed to provide for the safety and security of the children. They were willing enablers who assisted the shooters.

Remember, folks, all it takes for evil to exist is for otherwise good people to sit back and do nothing. If we do not have individuals in the schools responsible enough to arm and train themselves to be able to provide reasonable protections and proactive, life saving responses to an armed predator; then those who failed to do so should be held accountable for their breach of trust.

The socialists who run our schools believe they own our kids from the second they arrive at school until they arrive home. They feel they can tag them with RFID chips like our kids like they are pets or cattle. Well, they are not yours. They are ours. We entrust you with their lives while in your schools. Do the responsible thing and protect them like they are your own.

You want to do something for the kids? So do I. I demand that you protect them instead of disarming those who would do just that.

Article appears courtesy of P-G Matuszak's Mental Aikido. Reprinted with permission. All Rights Reserved.

MLK’s Arsenal & The Racist Roots of Gun Control in the US

Martin Luther King, Jr., known for peaceful resistance, at the same time recognized the importance of gun ownership for self defense. King understood the risks involved in being an outspoken civil rights leader, living in Jim Crow era Alabama, and took measures to protect himself, his family and others around him.

King was a gun owner. In fact, he had a few guns, one visitor to the King family home described King’s supply of weapons as an “armory.”

Additionally, William Worthy, a journalist who covered the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, reported that he almost sat on a loaded gun while visiting King’s parsonage.

King had also applied for a concealed carry permit, but was turned down. According to John M. Snyder:

“At one time, King applied for a permit to carry a concealed handgun, but was denied. He was concerned for his personal safety, just as are a lot of law abiding American citizens. “

Even though King’s house had just been bombed, his application for the concealed carry permit was still rejected. Few people in the US needed a permit to carry more than Reverend King did in 1956, but since the local police had some discretion in their decision making, King, who no doubt met the requirements of the law, was rejected nonetheless. This was the norm when the applicant was black.

An example of discriminatory gun legislation, via Examiner.Com:

“This Reconstruction Era law in Louisiana is a perfect example:

No negro who is not in the military service shall be allowed to carry fire arms, or any kind of weapons, within the parish, without the special written permission of his employers, approved and endorsed by the nearest and most convenient chief of patrol.”

Kurt Hofmann writing for Examiner.Com elaborates on the racism behind these laws:

“UCLA Constitutional law professor Adam Winkler, hardly likely to be mistaken for a fervent gun rights advocate, readily acknowledges bigotry as the father of “gun control,” as he explained in an interview with the Wall Street Journal:

In his research for ‘Gunfight,’ Winkler also noted a close intersection between guns and racism. ‘It was a constant pressure among white racists to keep guns out of the hands of African Americans, because they would rise up and revolt.’ he said. ‘The KKK began as a gun control organization. Before the Civil War, blacks were never allowed to own guns. During the Civil War, blacks kept guns for the first time, either they served in the Union army and they were allowed to keep their guns, or they buy guns on the open market where for the first time there’s hundreds of thousands of guns flooding the marketplace after the war ends. So they arm up because they know who they’re dealing with in the South.’”

Another example is Tennessee’s “Army and Navy Law” of 1879:

“Among these laws, the forerunners of so called ‘Saturday Night Special’ legislation, was Tennessee’s “Army and Navy” law (1879), which prohibited the sale of any “belt or pocket pistols, or revolvers, or any other kind of pistols, except army or navy pistol” models, among the most expensive, and largest, handguns of the day. (Such as the Colt Model 1960 Army, Model 1851 Navy, and Model 1861 Navy percussion cap revolvers, or Model 1873 Single Action Army revolver.) The law thus prohibited small two shot derringers and low caliber rimfire revolvers, the handguns that most Blacks could afford.”

Because laws could not explicitly prohibit gun ownership by blacks, due to the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1875, more subtle methods were employed in order to keep blacks disarmed.

In the case of the Gun Control Act of 1968, one provision of the law was a ban on the importation of small, inexpensive handguns. It didn’t apply to domestically manufactured firearms, but at the time that market was served almost exclusively by imports. As noted by Roy Innis, of the Congress of Racial Equality, this law had the same malicious intent as its Reconstruction Era predecessor:

“To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you’re putting a money test on getting a gun. It’s racism in its worst form.”

Former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley had some views on the subject:

“Outside the suburbs in the city, we have control, but what the hell, in the suburbs, there are — you go out to all around our suburbs and you’ve got people out there, especially the non white, are buying guns right and left. Shotguns and rifles and pistols and everything else. There’s no registration. … There’s no, and you know, they’ve had trouble with this national gun law, but after the president’s assassination, someone ought to do something.”

For a more in depth study on discriminatory gun legislation, read The Racist Roots of Gun Control by Clayton E. Cramer.

Cramer’s analysis, and this excerpt on the history of gun control, globally, both demonstrate that gun control isn’t about controlling guns. It’s about controlling people.

Aurora Century Theater Repoening

Aurora Century Theater is reopening.

Thursday doors will reopen for a private ceremony.

Victims, families of victims, and first responders were invited to the special event.

On Friday, the theater will be fully reopened, after having been remodeled.

Cinemark spent millions of dollars on the remodel and complete modernization of the theater.

Flooding in Indonesia Leaves 4 Dead

Flooding has struck Jakarta as well as other areas of Indonesia.

Four people have been killed by the waters, and at least twenty thousand were forced to evacuate low lying areas.

Some areas are reporting flooding of close to seven feet.

Downtown Jakarta itself has around two feet of water, in the streets, making travel near impossible.

Rains continue to fall, showing no signs of ending soon.

Bombings Renewed in Iraq

During Wednesday and Thursday fifty-seven people were killed in Iraq, in a series of car and suicide bombings.

Hundreds more were injured.

Thursday's attacks focused on Shiites, as Sunni terrorists continue to try and bring sectarian strife.

On Wednesday, the attacks had been focused against Kurdish targets, including the party's headquarters.

It was the bloodiest day, for Iraq, in over a month.

The two deadly days came after nearly two weeks of calm.

6 Hostages Killed in Algeria

Algerian military forces tried to shoot their way into ending a hostage situation, on Thursday.

Since Wednesday, they had been surrounding a gas field that an Al Qaeda group captured.

According to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb they had managed to capture forty-one foreign workers, and were holding them hostage. 

AQIM had put themselves on TV showing hostages with explosive belts, and the group warned Algerian soldiers not to enter the facility.

The decision to force a conclusion was made by Algerian command, anyways, and the results are still coming in.

At least six of the hostages and eight of their captors were killed in the gunfire. Twenty-five hostages are said to have escaped, while AQIM claims to still have seven hostages. Those numbers leave three unaccounted for.

Several news sources had said that thirty-five of the hostages had been killed, but that would not be possible with the amount confirmed to have escaped.

Decorated Army Veteran and Wife Killed by Robber

Two people were killed when they walked in on their home being robbed.

It happened about noon MST in Colorado Springs, on Monday.

Staff Sgt. David C. Dunlap, thirty-seven, and his wife Whitney Dunlap, thirty-five were found dead Monday afternoon.

Colorado Springs police are investigating the double homicide.

According to authorities, neither had a concealed weapons license.

Dunlap had served in the Army for over ten years, and had been transferred to Fort Carson, in November.

His military honors include: Iraqi Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, Valorous Unit Award, Meritorious Service Medal, and Army Commendation Medal.

Afghanistan Spy Headquarters Attacked

Six suicide bombers attempted an assault on Afghanistan's spy agency's headquarters, in Kabul, on Wednesday.

One of the men managed to blow his vest, killing two people and wounding thirty others.

Security forces shot and killed the other five, before they could cause any damage.

According to authorities the men also had rifles and grenades.

A search of their vehicle found that it was packed with explosives.

The explosives are being investigated, as they are a liquid type which NDS has never seen before.

Series of Car Bombs Strikes Idlib, Syria

A series of car bombs struck government buildings in and around Idlib, Syria, on Wednesday.

At least twenty-four people were killed in three explosions.

Officials say that they defused two other bombs, which had been planted.

All of the devices targeted government buildings and most of the dead were government workers or troops.

Over sixty thousand people have died in the twenty-two month long conflict.