Tag Archive: Self-Defense

on April 22, 2015 in World News

If a Clinton were to marry a Bush, the US could cancel elections

If a Clinton were to marry a Bush, the US could cancel elections With apologies to their respective spouses, if Jeb Bush’s son, George P. Bush, had married Chelsea Clinton, Americans could have spared themselves the spectacle of Election 2016 and saved billions of dollars. All that the USA needs now is for a young Clinton to pair up with a junior Bush. Should the union produce an heir, a single line of monarchy would be established. This is the reality of the USA’s broken politics in 2015. A country pretty much established in opposition to hereditary elites now has… View Article

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on April 22, 2015 in World News

Vienna Convention Is Part of Criminal Court Routine in Immigrant-Rich Queens

Vienna Convention Is Part of Criminal Court Routine in Immigrant-Rich Queens In a windowless fluorescent haze, in the depths of Criminal Court in Queens, a defendant making his first appearance before a judge hears a long, numbing list of forms changing hands. “24030, 25020, 71031,” a prosecutor says as each piece of paper is dropped into the defendant’s file. First, though, comes what sounds like a far more consequential exchange: “The people serve the Vienna Convention Notice,” the prosecutor informs the court. Only in Queens, a borough that is home to nearly 1.1 million immigrants, the city’s international airport and… View Article

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on April 22, 2015 in World News

Illegal immigrant accused of raping 10-year-old girl in Kenner

Illegal immigrant accused of raping 10-year-old girl in Kenner A man living in Kenner has been charged with three counts of aggravated rape against a 10-year-old girl after the victim was seen in a video claiming they “made love,” police said. The mother of the girl found the cell phone video on Thursday, April 16, 2015. It was recorded by her daughter. On it, the victim alleged that she and her mother’s boyfriend had “made love” three times. After confronting her daughter, police said the 10-year-old victim told her mother it happened in their bedroom. 25-year-old Hermes Rivera admitted to… View Article

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on April 22, 2015 in World News

Police kill more whites than blacks, but minority deaths generate more outrage

Rev. Jamal Bryant leads a rally outside of the Baltimore Police Department’s Western District station during a march and vigil for Freddie Gray on Tuesday in Baltimore. Mr. Gray died from spinal injuries a week after he was arreste Police kill more whites than blacks, but minority deaths generate more outrage Analysis contradicts widespread views about racial targets http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/police-kill-more-whites-than-blacks-but-minority-d/

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on April 22, 2015 in World News

“Fed Up” Colorado Man, 38, Busted For Killing His Computer In Cold Blood

“Fed Up” Colorado Man, 38, Busted For Killing His Computer In Cold Blood A Colorado man who has been “fighting with his computer for the last several months” unloaded a volley of shots into his Dell tormentor, resulting in the death of the computer and him being cited for discharging a firearm, cops report. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, officers responding last night to a 911 call about shots fired discovered that a “fed up” Lucas Hinch took his computer into a back alley and “fired 8 shots into the computer with a handgun, effectively disabling it.” Hinch,… View Article

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on April 22, 2015 in World News

FBI Corruption May Have Led to Execution of 14 Innocent People

FBI Corruption May Have Led to Execution of 14 Innocent People The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far … The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed… View Article

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on April 22, 2015 in World News

State Lets Police Take Teenagers Away From Parents If They Are Left Home Alone

State Lets Police Take Teenagers Away From Parents If They Are Left Home Alone A new Illinois law is threatening parents who leave their children home alone if they are 13-years-old or younger. The new Illinois law states that parents who leave 13-year-olds home are guilty of neglect, and subject to arrest, as well as their children being taken away by police. The new law states that “any minor under the age of 14 years whose parent or other person responsible for the minor’s welfare leaves the minor without supervision for an unreasonable period of time without regard for the… View Article

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