CALIFORNIA – The former mayor of Bell, California, was too stupid and uneducated to know his $100,000 salary for the part-time city job was illegal, his lawyer argued today.

Oscar Hernandez is illiterate, has no high school degree and didn’t even finish elementary school, defense attorney Stanley Friedmand told jurors.

Hernandez and five former members of the Bell City Council are on trial, accused of stealing $1.3million in exorbitant pay from the working-class city of 35,000.

All six elected officials drew salaries of up to $100,000 for serving on boards that seldom met and accomplished little. (more…)

Today the Defense and Prosecution will be back in court to discuss the various motions filed by both the Defense and the Prosecution:

While there are many aspects to be determined, the key question before the court is will Martin family attorney, Benjamin Crump, be deposed and held to account?

Here are some *possible* Links to the Hearing:

• WFTV https://www.wftv.com/s/news/trayvonmartin/
• Click Orlando https://www.clickorlando.com/news/trayvo … index.html
• Orlando Sentinel (Fox 35 live stream) https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/loc … on-martin/
• WESH https://www.wesh.com/news/central-florid … index.html
• cfnews https://www.cfnews13.com/content/news/cf … artin.html
• MyfoxOrlando https://www.myfoxorlando.com/category/23 … von-martin
• CNN https://edition.cnn.com/US/
• TruTV/InSession link: https://www.superusvoxtv.com/index.php/speciality/tru-tv

Hat Tip Rumpole for the list.

Here are some considerations in advance. (more…)

Theater of the Absurd

You just can’t make this stuff up.

The attorney, the civil attorney Benjamin Crump, the Martin family hired to pursue financial justice against various interests in the Trayvon Martin shooting is now fighting to stop his deposition about the circumstances surrounding the very witness, “DeeDee” (W8) that he identified to create the arrest affidavit that frames the entire cause for financial justice, vis-a-vi arrest/trial, which lead to the civil claims he desires, and are contained in the probable cause affidavit.

Talk about ridiculous circular logic.

Subsequently, the attorney representing and attempting to hide Benjamin Crump, now argues the defense is not asserting any affirmations of contradictions between the initial phone interview with Crump and DeeDee (ABC March 19th Broadcast), and the statement she gave to the State of Florida in her affidavit April 2nd [page 4 footnote #7].

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The Department of Homeland Security has ordered and is storing billions of rounds of ammunition.   Recently they ordered a series of practice targets called “No More Hesitation“.  The purpose of shooting lifelike targets is to condition a person to shoot a real person without hesitation.  They have ordered over $2,000,000.00 dollars worth of these and similar targets.   Ask yourself why they would want these?

Here is the company responding to a phone call inquiry: (more…)

The Daily Mail has a good roundup of the last moments of Chris Dorner here.   Additionally, it does appear the “intent” was to burn him out of the cabin from the sounds and directions of the SWAT team around the building.  (video below)  But is that really an issue?

Given the fact fugitive Dorner was firing at them, it does not appear they had any option other than to engage with force to stop being shot at.   Hence the flaw in comparing this event to Waco when the FBI/ATF had the option to wait.  Am I missing something?

[…] According to one report, furious SWAT  officers shouted ‘burn that f****** house down!’ before the cabin went up in  flames. (more…)

Sometimes we find articles, insight, or perspectives that directly align with, solidify and confirm previous deep vetted research and presentations.   Such is the case with this:

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“they’re inside the wire” is a military term for what happens when the enemy has crossed your defensive positions.  It is also one of the most frightening of radio calls anyone engaged in combat can hear;  For it immediately elevates the fight to live or die considerations.    Such is the proclamation for this writing.

First the back story.  In September of 2010, before we assembled our Last Refuge of patriots, I wrote an article -a warning of sorts- for constitutional patriots assembled at iOTW about the danger of Karl Rove:

Karl was president of the National College Republicans and has been entrenched with the concentric circles of the Decipticons since his high school/college days, trying to work his entire career into the middle where the sandwiches have no crust, waiters pour bottled water table side, and thin suave fellas place a linen napkin atop your lap for you.

He was a rough, modest kid outsider who wanted in. Desperately wanted in, so he sought approval at every corner. He mastered all things politic. He studied books, attended speeches, joined campaigns and would cross the country without sleep just to enter the room before the cigar smoke cleared and catch a glimpse or snippet of the Decepticon meeting. (more…)

Lots of folks are praising Lindsey Graham for his stance about Benghazi.   However, it is prudent to remember he has been a face of manipulated optical opposition before.  I don’t trust Graham, and this could well be just another decepticon angle to keep the patriots away from the gates as they look back yelling “we got this”.   They don’t want you, me, or anyone, looking over the wall or beyond the gate.

WASHINGTON DC – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on CBS News’ Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer on Sunday where he pledged to try to block the nominations of both Chuck Hagel and John Brennan in an effort to get more information about the 2012 attack on an American consulate in Benghazi out of President Barack Obama.

Graham told Schieffer that he thought it was unfortunate that Obama did not place a personal call to officials in the Libyan government on the evening of September 11, 2012, when an American consulate in Libya was overrun by militants. (more…)

“In God We Trust, In All Others We Question/Research”

(HatTip CajunKelly) Why is there a difference between the bullet hole (count and location) still shot photographs printed in the media, and the video at the scene? Clearly there is a visible difference. Look at the left side tailgate (example). Why would there be MORE bullet holes in the video, than in the printed/published photographs?

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Ask yourself this question:  why would they need to use “drones”?    Think.   They are being operated over U.S. airspace.   There is no risk to the aviation asset being attacked, so why wouldn’t traditional search planes with FLIR be used?    Know what the real agenda is here…. the real goal…..  get you comfy (numb) with Drone Surveillance stories.

Also they just issued a $1,000,000 reward.   CALIFORNIA – Police plan to use spy drones in the hunt for a Rambo-style ex-soldier and policeman who has murdered three people and vowed to kill again.

They believe burly, heavily-armed Christopher Dorner is holed-up in the wilderness of California’s snow-capped San Bernardino mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles.

The burnt-out shell of his pick-up truck was discovered in the nearby resort of Big Bear, where residents and tourists have been warned to stay indoors as the search continues.

Yesterday, as a task force of 125 officers, some riding Snowcats in the rugged terrain, continued their search, it was revealed that Dorner has become the first human target for remotely-controlled airborne drones on US soil. (more…)