Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal
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Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have secured a historic agreement with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele that will allow the U.S. to deport violent criminals—regardless of nationality—to serve their sentences in El Salvador’s high-security mega-prison. This bold initiative will cut prison costs, reduce overcrowding, and enhance public safety by removing dangerous criminals from U.S. soil.
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A criminal complaint against an Iranian agent and two U.S. citizens charged with plotting to assassinate Donald Trump and other enemies of the Iranian regime was unsealed Friday. //

jester6
a day ago edited
Just skimmed the indictment. The alleged illegal activities go back over a year. The alleged conspirators have been in communication with FBI informants, have been surveilled and maybe even searched using sneak and peak warrants for most of 2024.

There have been rumors about foreign assassin teams for a few months, but pundits in the MSM have been dismissing them as "unsubstantiated" and "without evidence."

So for those keeping score, the DOJ (via Jack Smith) can drop a boatload of unsubstantiated material detrimental to Trump shortly before the election. But the same DOJ needs to keep an indictment of potential assassins under until a few days after the election. //

DonttreaDonme
a day ago
Is it interesting that the secret serviceleft gaping holes in protection of Trump while knowing these threats existed? It seems interesting.

Unfortunately, the policies Harris championed are already taking root in other parts of the country, with the same results. What's happening is devastating on so many levels, but perhaps the most devastating impact is the loss of humanity. Addicts and mentally ill people are left to their own devices, to suffer and be victimized and assaulted - and likely die - on the streets, and everyday citizens are looked at by politicians as acceptable collateral damage on the path to radical societal change. Hopefully, these stories can reach enough middle-of-the-road voters to make a difference.

America's homeowners are allowed to claim just one home as their primary residence: the one they live in the majority of the year, according to federally backed lender Freddie Mac. Yet Schiff alternately declared both California and Maryland homes as “principal” on multiple mortgage and election forms dating to 2003 and reviewed by Just the News. //

Those conflicting sworn statements provided the California congressman with both financial and political benefits over the years, primarily lower mortgage interest rates, tax advantages, and the ability to run for election in a California House district. //

The pattern was first detected by Sacramento-based real estate investigator Christine Bish, who also is running for Congress as a Republican this year. She filed an ethics complaint against Schiff in Congress.

Bish alleges in her complaint: "Depending on tax history and statements or misstatements made, Adam Schiff may also be guilty of tax fraud." //

U SAID IT
an hour ago
A Trump DOJ can still take up a case.
That would be poetic justice.
Gee, that would be a shame for shifty to have to resign a senate seat he sooo longed for. //

NavyVet
2 hours ago edited
AG Garland, here's a slam-dunk case for you!

Oh, never mind, Schiff is a democrat and, as we all know, you never prosecute democrats, no matter how brazen their criminality, no matter how flagrant their fraud, no matter how clear-cut the case is against them, do you?

According to Real Clear Investigations, which discovered the change, the new data represents a reversal from a 2.1 percent decrase to a 4.5 percent increase.

When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.

But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.

For context, 2022 would be the second most recent year on record as 2024 data is not compiled yet. But if the FBI's data in that year was so off, why should anyone believe their 2023 data, which claims a three percent decrease in violent crime? Will that data be revised in the coming future as well? I think we can take a pretty guess at that one. //

It also couldn't be ignored that around 40 percent of police departments were no longer even sharing crime data with the FBI. That left the bureau increasingly relying on a questionable system of estimation to produce its published crime rates. //

The next thing someone may be wondering is if these revisions are normal. To put it simply, they aren't. Carl Moody, a professor at William and Mary College, looked into past years and found that no revisions happened between 2004 and 2015 while 2016 to 2020 saw only minute changes of less than one percent. It wasn't until Biden and Harris took office that the FBI started producing these massive revisions for 2021 and 2022 (and no doubt, eventually, 2023).

The property management firm managing several buildings in Aurora, Colorado, that have been taken over by members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, is speaking out. The company has taken to X to provide a full description of how the buildings were invaded and taken over by the illegal alien gangsters, how the tenants fled, how people were threatened and assaulted, and how the local government reacted.

Cbz Management @CbzManagement
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Gangs have taken control of several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado.

In an attempt to discredit this fact for political purposes and avoid governmental accountability, some have spread false information about our situation. Let’s set the record straight...🧵

3:32 PM · Oct 11, 2024 //

But in this case, the decision was made in January 2021, when Joe Biden signed executive orders largely undoing Donald Trump's border policies and effectively throwing the border open. There was illegal immigration before that, but the Harris/Biden administration's policies have allowed it to explode.

This mess in Aurora, Colorado, is just one of the outcomes of that catastrophically bad decision. And the root cause can be laid squarely at the feet of Joe Biden and Kamala "Border Czar" Harris.

A third assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump was thwarted at the last minute Saturday when local cops stopped a man armed with guns and fake passes outside his rally at Coachella Valley, the local sheriff said.

The suspect was caught about a mile from the rally venue with a phony-entry pass, according to police. He was also carrying a loaded shotgun, handgun and high capacity magazine.

“We probably stopped another assassination attempt,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said.

The suspect, identified as Vem Miller, was intercepted by police at a checkpoint about a half-mile from the rally entrance. He was carrying a fake phony [sic] press and VIP passes. //

UPDATED [5:52 p.m. EST]: The NY Post (linked above) has updated its report, adding additional details, including the circumstances of the car being searched:

The suspect — identified as 49-year-old Las Vegas resident Vem Miller — was caught at a checkpoint about a quarter-mile from the rally with fake VIP passes to the rally and fake press passes — as well as unregistered weapons, including a loaded shotgun, a handgun and a high-capacity magazine, according to the Riverside County sheriff’s office.

Miller did not have a valid ID when he was stopped at the rally checkpoint, and was detained after police searched his vehicle and found the weapons, law enforcement sources told The Post.

anon-x7j0
3 hours ago edited
So let’s review….the license plate on his car was fake. The officer also found several passports with different names on them inside the car. How do you even obtain passports with different names? I have a passport and there is a fairly rigorous process to obtain one. He has an handgun with an additional clip with ammo? No mention of whether or not he had a license to carry a gun in California. And what name was the gun license in with all his fake passports? And with all this damning evidence, the FBI immediately comes out and states it wasn’t an assassination attempt and he is released on $5,000 bail? And it was the local sheriffs department that arrested him. Curious that there is absolutely no comment from the Secret Service. Was this guy on their bad guy list to watch for? This whole episode stinks to high heaven and fuels the deep state conspiracy theories. And confirms that the FBI will need a deep cleaning from top to bottom when Trump is sworn in. //

Tech in RL
3 hours ago
If this guy were supposedly from a right wing organization, the MSM would be shouting these stories from the rooftops. That means they don’t know what he is, but they don’t want to admit another assassination attemp was thwarted. The guy went through security at a Trump rally with a weapon. Why else would he be going there? Denying this was another assassination attempt is foolhardy and shouldn’t be ruled out that quickly. The guy is obviously going to deny it because he doesn’t want to be charged with it, so any statements he makes should be disregarded as to motive.

Many of the cybercriminals in this community have stolen tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency, and can easily afford to bribe police officers. KrebsOnSecurity would expect to see more of this in the future as young, crypto-rich cybercriminals seek to corrupt people in authority to their advantage.

Brandon Morse @TheBrandonMorse
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Trump advocates for “one rough hour of policing” to teach criminals that committing crimes is dangerous again.
I’m all in on this idea.

12:19 PM · Sep 30, 2024 //

Cacao88
8 hours ago
So to clarify the left's position: days of violent city and business destruction by antifa and blm is ok, but one hour of enforced law and order is too much. //

anon-t3h4 anon-cdoc
4 hours ago
"....as a Christian..." I believe a parallel would be Jesus taking a whip to the money lenders in the temple'''?

I don't think Pres Trump was advocating anything more than enforcing the law vigorously. The left interprets it as Kyrstallnacht? Because he used the word "rough"? Why didn't they throw in racist/sexist/xenophobic, etc?

Enforce the law. Prosecute the criminals. Jail and significant fines. That would be pretty "rough" for most criminals....

to bad the judges and prosecutors would let them all skate.

so sad. //

oldgimpy&cranky
7 hours ago
You still don't get it: they have NO INTEREST IN "Curbing Crime". Zero, Zilch, ZIp, Nada, Nil, Nul.

I don't know how I can make that statement more plain, nor convincing.. They don't SUFFER the crime, and it keeps their base cowed and agitated. Gullible fools cry to their overlords and vote for them and their legislation.

Violent crime is up, not down, under Kamala Harris — but as usual, the Fake News isn't telling the whole story 

Violent crime hasn't "dropped," as the Fake News insists. 

When Kamala took office, the FBI changed how it collects crime data. As a result, they're missing data from nearly a third of the nation's law enforcement agencies — including from many of the most violent cities, such as Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, and New Orleans. //

A much more accurate picture emerges using data from the DOJ's National Crime Victimization Survey, which shows crime rates remain WAY UP under Kamala — throwing a dagger straight through the heart of claims to the contrary by Democrats and their Fake News allies.

FACT: Violent crime is up 37% between 2020 and last year.

• Rape is up 42%.
• Robbery is up 63%.
• Assault is up 34%.
• Violent crime (excluding simple assault) is up 55%.
• Domestic violence is up 32%.
• Stranger violence is up 61%.
• Violent crime (with an injury) is up 10%.
• Violent crime (with a weapon) is up 56%.
• Motor vehicle theft is up 42%.

The CDC, FBI, and legacy media are conspiring to “debunk” the truth that armed, law-abiding citizens prevent crime and stop mass shootings. //

The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), which I run, has found many more missed cases and is keeping an updated list.

Overall, the CPRC estimates that law-abiding citizens with guns have stopped over 35 percent of active shootings over the last decade and 39.6 percent in the last five years. This figure is eight times higher than the four percent estimate made by the FBI. //

In places where law-abiding citizens are allowed to carry firearms, we estimate that armed civilians stopped 51 percent of active shootings over the past decade. Over the last five years, that figure was 53.1 percent.

ReporterMcCabe @ReporterMcCabe
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Shock video: Bad actors attempt to smash their way into a @DCFGuns store in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the retailer's multi-layered security thwarts them.
10:22 PM · Sep 2, 2024

“They used minors to do it, and frankly, it's pretty clever,” Oltmann said. “They hit five stores in less than two weeks.”

If they are arrested, the minors are sent to the juvenile system and emerge with clean records upon their 18th birthday, he said.

Oltmann said the modus operandi is to have two stolen cars driven by adults, with underage confederates. The thieves use one car to smash through the windows or entryways to the store. Then, the minors rush in and grab whatever they can until they make their escape in the second car.

As of publication, Oltmann said he still has not spoken with law enforcement leadership about the two incidents.

“They hit the West store, and here's the bad part: it took 73 minutes for a police officer to roll up on scene from a robbery from a gun store,” he said.

The show host said he believes the people who hit his stores were connected to the Venezuelan gangs who took over apartment buildings in Aurora.

Yet there is no question that California voters were deceived. Ten years later, the state is looking to roll back Proposition 47. //

Harris’s most consequential act in California leadership was her contribution to passing of Proposition 47 in 2014. The law is widely credited with the social collapse of once lovely cities like San Francisco.

Passed with nearly 60% voter support, the initiative reclassified many felonies as misdemeanors, such as, most notoriously, theft of under $950, including repeat offenses. This shift created the now familiar spectacle of thieves leisurely walking into stores and picking up $949 of merchandise — and then doing it again and again, in the plain view of bored security guards.

Proposition 47 decriminalized drug possession, taking away the instrument that allowed law enforcement to pressure addicts to enter rehabs. //

The measure required resentencing of prisoners previously convicted of felonies if under Prop 47 those felonies were reclassified as misdemeanors. What followed was the early release of many so-called justice-involved individuals.

That trend was picked up in 2016 by Proposition 57 that emptied out California prisons further via early parole. The two propositions created the notorious prison to homelessness pipeline of the former inmates, poorly prepared for challenges of everyday life, pouring into the homeless encampments. //

Although it goes without saying that not all of the unhoused are former inmates, California’s homeless population is growing. As reported in 2023, half of the nation’s homeless now live here.

A group of up to 12 migrant boys or young men have been linked to roughly 10 robberies in Central Park, Chell said.

Police are investigating whether the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has been enlisting young boys to commit robberies such as the wave of Central Park muggings, a senior law enforcement official previously told The Post.

The problem is out of control. No one knows how many separate crimes there are, including the Department of Justice. Researchers have tried counting, with one 2019 effort identifying at least 5,199 statutory crimes. Regulatory crimes are orders of magnitude greater, with estimates of the number of regulatory crimes ranging from 100,000 to 300,000 separate offenses.

This is inconsistent with basic ideas of self-government and the intentions of those who framed the Constitution. Laws with criminal consequences should be carefully considered by the legislative branch, not pushed through by unelected bureaucrats who are not accountable to the people. //

Congress can seize the opportunity and pass some simple and commonsense reforms that would further reduce the power of the administrative state and its appetite for passing criminal laws.

Congress should begin by requiring the executive agencies to simply catalog their regulations that have criminal consequences. After all, if a federal agency does not know if something is a criminal offense, how can the people be expected to? If a “mens rea” requirement is not already in the law, Congress should make all criminal regulations have a “willful” requirement to prevent citizens from being prosecuted for actions they did not even know they took. For new laws, agencies should be required to state the applicable mental state.

Atrox
3 hours ago
I'm sure there are differing views on this but I always say, EVERYTHING is a win for the left. Vigilantism is a byproduct of their soft on crime policies and it's something they want. The more it happens, they can complain about how "something needs to be done"!!! ....

mopani Atrox
a few minutes ago
This is the desired result. The progressive left response to vigilante justice will be the suspension of civil rights, because violence. Two guesses when civil rights as we know them will be reinstated, and the first guess doesn't count. //

Random US Citizen
4 hours ago
Indeed. This is exactly what happened on the frontier in the early days of America. If there was no sheriff to be found, citizens might take it upon themselves to hang a horse thief. Because they were--like these folks in NYC--a mob, sometimes the wrong person wound up at the end of a rope. The arrival of civilization, in the form of law enforcement, courts, and jails was--for most--a welcome thing.

Here we see the opposite effect. The decline and fall, as it were. The courts are no longer working to decide the guilt of accused, they are now firmly on the side of the criminals. Law enforcement, whether willingly or no, is no longer able to enforce the law. Bereft of the protection of the society that they are a part of, citizens are resorting to vigilantism again.

You can expect this to get significantly worse unless these places reverse direction.

My advice: invest in lead. //

Douglas Proudfoot
4 hours ago
As every Montana 8th grade graduate knows, the absence of law and order gives rise to vigilantes. In Fall, 1863, a gang of Road Agents murdered perhaps 100 people in the gold fields of Montana. In January, 1864, vigilantes hung 25 of them. The outlaw leader, Henry Plummer, was the elected sheriff of Bannack, MT. Vigilantes hung him too.

Something as big, complex, and interactive as a major city, if it is going to be livable, requires predictability and control. The citizens of our cities have to know that every morning they will be able to go to work unimpeded, to do their jobs, to go home again; they have to know that their children are safe walking or riding the bus to school, that they can go to a store without worrying about a flash mob showing up to loot the place. //

And while I am and always will be an advocate of minimal government, this is one of the government's few truly legitimate roles: To protect the liberty and property of the citizens. In that, the government of these cities has failed. //

the blame can only be placed on the elected officials in those cities, the ones who make policy - and, yes, on the voters who elected them.

In 1919, in his poem "The Second Coming," W.B. Yeats wrote:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

But, as the late Paul Harvey pointed out, we shouldn't be able to imagine this kind of thing; as he said, "If you could understand this, we'd have to worry about you."

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is one of those organizations that sounds good on paper, but you quickly find out that in the real world, it's another bureaucratic tool that could easily be used for political prosecution.

Lo and behold, it issued a warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes committed in Gaza for war crimes committed against the citizens of Gaza, which fall under the Palestinian Authority, a group that gives the ICC authority to prosecute. //

For one, the ICC is a purely bureaucratic entity with no real oversight. What's to stop it from utilizing its "legal authority" to issue warrants against people for their own political interests? How do we know this warrant against Netanyahu isn't one already?

The Netanyahu warrant already shows that the ICC doesn't seem to understand the nature of war, especially when that war is being fought against a terrorist organization that uses its own people as human shields. Of course, citizens have died...Hamas saw to it. Moreover, it's not like Israel can just choose not to wage this war. Hamas made it clear that the complete destruction of Israel and the death of the Jewish people is its highest priority. Israel is forced to wage this war. //

The ICC should be something that no country ever agrees to recognize because, in the end, the ICC is a direct attack on the sovereignty of a country. If the ICC says a citizen of a country needs to be arrested then the country will have no choice but to give up their own citizen to the ICC, even if the country in question doesn't recognize that their citizen has done anything wrong. //

Because we all know how authority works. A little ceding here, a little authority there, and soon the authority in question is far more powerful than anyone ever intended it to be.