From the “Everything I needed to know I learned from Star Trek” department:
“The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank.” — LCDR Montgomery Scott, “A Taste of Armageddon.”
Category Archives: Crime
Bad causes attract bad people * Updated! *
As we predicted on June 22nd, Joel Searby has scrubbed his internet profile. His Twitter account has been deleted, and his personal website has been reset to “Private”. This “Husband, Father, Friend. Renewer, Reformer, Dreamer,” is in some seriously deep doo-doo.
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As we noted three years ago, The Lincoln Project, an organization of anti-Trump “Republicans” which had been doing everything they could to hamper our 45th President, was then distancing itself from and denying any real knowledge about co-founder John Weaver. Many publicly mused about how co-founders George Conway, Steve Schmidt, Reed Galen, Jennifer Horn and Rick Wilson could not have known about Mr Weaver’s activities. Twenty-one young men, including one who claims that things began when he was just 14, have accused Mr Weaver of sending unwanted sexually provocative messages, sometimes including solicitations for sex, often in exchange for the promise of career help, to which Mr Weaver admitted once caught.
And yes, of course Mr Weaver was married to a woman at the time. Bad causes attract bad people. Continue reading
Philly advocates for prostitutes want the johns arrested, but not the hookers
It has always struck me as odd that something which is completely legal to do for free can be illegal to do for money, but such is prostitution and the buying of sex. But an OpEd in Tuesday’s Philadelphia Inquirer raised a point that I suspect the authors didn’t realize:
Want to eradicate the sex trade in Kensington, Mayor Parker? Arrest the people buying sex.
Traffickers and sex buyers perpetuate sexual exploitation and keep the commercial sex trade alive. Philadelphia police should arrest them instead of those who are already exploited.
by Shea Rhodes, Mary DeFusco, and Ann Marie Jones | Tuesday, June 18, 2024 | 5:00 AM EDT
As experts in sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, and systems of prostitution, we disagree with Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s recent decision to empower the Philadelphia police to make arrests for prostitution in Kensington.
People in prostitution should not be arrested or charged with prostitution offenses. The practice of prosecuting people in prostitution perpetuates a harmful ideology that they are criminals, rather than people who are being exploited.
Traffickers and sex buyers perpetuate sexual exploitation and keep the commercial sex trade alive. Police should arrest them instead.
Parker’s decision will also create additional barriers for victims attempting to exit “the life” of sexual exploitation. Criminal convictions serve as an additional hurdle for survivors to seek meaningful employment, housing opportunities, immigration opportunities, federal student loans, and more.
If it looks like a coverup, and smells like a coverup, . . . .
Robert Edmond Davis, photo via Steve Keeley of Fox 29 News.
As we have previously reported, Robert Davis, 20, the killer of Josh Kruger, was expected to plead guilty in exchange for a 15-to-30-year prison sentence. Yesterday, he did just that:
Man sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for murder of Josh Kruger
Robert Davis, 20, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and related offenses, and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison.
by Robert Moran | Monday, June 10, 2024 | 8:55 PM EDT
A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for the October fatal shooting of local journalist and advocate Josh Kruger, court records show.
The negotiated guilty plea for third-degree murder and related offenses was expected from Robert Davis, who killed the 39-year-old Kruger on Oct. 2. Continue reading
The inclusion of bias in news articles is subtle, but you have to be aware of it
This site has expressed some amusement at The Philadelphia Inquirer referring to gangs as “street groups.” It began when we were reliably informed by The Philadelphia Inquirer that there are no gangs in the city, just “cliques of young men affiliated with certain neighborhoods and families,” who sometimes had “beefs” with other cliques, so we must replace the term “gang-bangers” with “cliques of young men” or “clique beefers”. District Attorney Larry Krasner and his office seem to prefer the term “rival street groups“. Continue reading
I blame the COVID shutdowns
Justice delayed is justice denied; how many times have we heard that phrase? Well, justice delayed sometimes means death for a victim who was not originally killed.
Man kills stepdaughter, 16, in Acton he was previously accused of raping then kills self, police say
Maybe not that much of a heap o’ trouble for five Philly ‘teens’
The WordPress software that this site uses has an interesting feature when it comes to generating the url code for the headlines, one that enables a sequential series. And thus the working headline for this article is “You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!”, which I have used several times in the past. The screen is showing me that this would be the 22nd article using that title. Due to the way the software works, as long as I post it under that headline, the url remains the same, even if I change the headline subsequently, which is why there are some headlines “You in a heap o’ trouble, girl!” that have the boy in the url. 
And so it is with this one, because I wonder just how big that heap o’ trouble is for five juvenile delinquents in the City of Brotherly Love. Continue reading
You in a heap o’ trouble, boy! "Believe me, son, you will not do well in prison." -- Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Once again, the media wrote the story in a way to not specify that the victims were boys, but there was no way to hide the truth due to the nature of the allegations! Continue reading
Are barbed wire and lock-picking tools the usual things that peaceful protesters have and use? Just who is paying for these obviously organized professional agitators?
At least this time, the University of Pennsylvania didn’t waste any time! Continue reading