Tag: Crime

A Thug On The Payroll

Daily Agitator

I read an article in the NY Times and then I heard a news bite on the tube about the story.

President Karzai’s younger half brother, long accused of links to the drugs trade, was embroiled in fresh controversy today after The New York Times reported that he had been on the CIA’s payroll for the last eight years.

Ahmad Wali Karzai had been paid by the agency for services including arranging contacts with the Taleban and helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force in the southern city of Kandahar where he lives, the newspaper said.

He was also paid for allowing the CIA, US special forces and the local militia, called the Kandahar Strike Force, to use a large compound outside the city — the former home of Mullah Omar, the Taleban’s founder — it said.

There seems to be a bit of a quandry in the news……I heard some of the pundits concerned that CIA may have a thug like this guy on their payroll……(thinking)……I ask who do you think would be on the CIA payroll?  Nun?  Or perhaps a priest or two?

Are you people stupid or just doing a few downers?…..Of course CIA has thugs like this a/hole on the payroll….how do you think they get things done in the shadowy world of espionage?  CIA has ALWAYS had thugs on its payroll; if you want someone whacked you do not call on a preacher to do it for you…please people pay attention….you cannot be as naive as these pundits seem to be…..

Now thanks to the NY Times, this guy will be looking over his shoulder for the next thug to step up and do his job….and there is a possibility that that guy will also be on the CIA payroll.  This guy’s brother, the pres of Afghanistan, might want to try and remember history a bit…..the pres of South Vietnam, Diem, was whacked by CIA thugs…they did not like his way of handling things in the country…..keep an eye on history…..my only suggestion for Karzai…..

How Big Was That Bra?

This story has probably made the rounds, but I just had to comment on it.

A 57-year-old Detroit woman avoided serious injury when the underwire on her bra deflected a bullet shot at her from next door, police said.

The woman, who lives on the West side of Detroit, saw a group of men breaking into a neighbour’s house on Tuesday morning. When the men spotted her, one of them fired a shot at her, a police spokesman said.

The bullet struck the underwire on the woman’s bra and that saved her from a more serious injury, police said.

My question is:  Just how large was that bra that the underwire could deflect a bullet?  Damn, that was some massive boobs!

Bye-Bye Blago

I guess I will jump on the bandwagon and post on the impeachment of our favorite gov Blago. With a vote of 59-0 the governor of Illinois was thrown from office and the new governor Pat Quinn has been sworn in.  Now my question is why was he impeached?  What did he do to warrant the impeachment?  What was his crime?  So far all I have gotten is he is unpopular and some even think he is an a/hole.  But if that is valid grounds for impeachment then the guys in Congress might want to tighten up a bit or they could be next on the people’s hit list.

Was Blago a jerk?  For sure.  But so are a wealth of politicians, but so far that is not a crime.  He has been accused of many things, but that is all they are at this time…accusations.  Will this clean up state government….yeah about as well as Duke Cunningham getting caught did…in other words…not much.

Have we heard the last of Blago?  Not a chance.  He is good fodder for the media.  He will be back.

Was There More Palin Trickery?

As reported by the AP:

An investigator and the Alaska State Troopers’ union say political interference delayed the drug arrest of the mother of the boyfriend of Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol.

The woman, Sherry Johnston, is the mother of Levi Johnston, who is the father of Bristol Palin’s newborn son, Tripp.

The investigator, Kyle Young, sent an e-mail message to the union, the Public Safety Employees Association, writing that the warrant for Ms. Johnston had been delayed because of the November general election. Ms. Johnston was arrested Dec. 18 on charges of selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin.

But Alaska’s public safety commissioner, Joseph A. Masters, and the troopers’ director, Col. Audie Holloway, said the case had been handled fairly.

Mr. Masters said neither Ms. Palin nor anyone else in the governor’s office knew the troopers were investigating Ms. Johnston until the warrant was served.

Mr. Masters said he then called Ms. Palin’s chief of staff, Mike Nizich, to alert him of a potential frenzy in the news media.

Shooting At Sex Shop

A man complaining that impotence tablets he bought did not work has shot and injured a saleswoman at a north Moscow sex shop, Russian media report.

He drew a pistol and shot the woman at least once in the heat of a row over tablets he had apparently bought the day before, a police source said.

He entered the shop on Angarskaya St at around 1800 (1500 GMT) on Wednesday, complaining the tablets he had bought “didn’t help” and demanding both a refund and compensation, an unnamed Moscow police source told Interfax news agency.

When the saleswoman refused his demands and an argument erupted, he produced the gun and shot her once before fleeing from the shop.

To Live And Die In Mississippi

This is an editorial from the South Mississippi Sun-Herald about the shooting death of a local high school football player.

It is a given that all of the facts surrounding the death of a George County football star, Billey Joe Johnson, must be known. We believe they will be known, and we have confidence that District Attorney Tony Lawrence and Mississippi Bureau of Investigation lead investigator Joel Wallace will aggressively seek and discover the facts in this matter, as it involves grave public concerns.

As Curley Clark, a leading figure with the state NAACP, told the Sun Herald, he is encouraged that both the black and white communities in George County “want to know the truth.”

Thus far there is much to commend about the manner in which the shocking and mysterious death of the George County teen has been handled by the principal parties with a stake in knowing what happened on the morning of Dec. 8 at an intersection in Lucedale when Johnson was stopped by George County Deputy Joe Sullivan.

Sullivan says that Johnson had run a red light at Church and Winter streets and then a four-way stop at Winter Street and Old Highway 63. According to Sullivan’s report of the incident, he radioed dispatch shortly after 5:34 a.m. that he had stopped the car. Then, he states in the report, Johnson got out of the vehicle and told him he was on his way home to see his sick mother.

The deputy says he took the license and asked Johnson to get back in the car. When Deputy Sullivan got back into his patrol car to call in the license information, he said he heard a gunshot and the sound of breaking glass.

He says he discovered Johnson on the ground “and the gun (a shotgun) he had in his hand fell on top of him. I called dispatch and advised them that the subject had just shot himself, to send some help.”

It is quite unfortunate that Deputy Sullivan’s car was not equipped with a dash-mounted camera that would have recorded the shooting and removed a great deal of the mystery that surrounds the fatal event. Only about half of the George County sheriff’s vehicles are equipped with dash cams. That should be rectified immediately, and all Coast police cars should be so equipped.

For friends and family of the star athlete, suicide is not to be believed. Johnson had rushed for more than 1,000 yards in each of his first three years at George County High School, and was being recruited by major football programs, including Alabama, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Southern Mississippi, LSU, Arkansas, Auburn and Oregon. The young man was said to be popular, with a great deal to live for. Following its own inquiry with friends and family, the NAACP said there was agreement that his death could not have been a suicide, as those closest to him said he was neither depressed nor suicidal.

The civil rights group said it would pay for a separate and independent autopsy of Johnson, apart from the one being conducted by the state.

The Johnson family has handled this tragedy with great dignity and thoughtfulness. Their justifiable concerns have been tempered with judicious words, and after meeting with District Attorney Lawrence on Monday, they said they came away “well-satisfied” with what they heard

As for the chief investigator, Joel Wallace, we came to think highly of his professional service during his dogged investigation into the brutal death of Jessie Lee Williams in the Harrison County Jail. We consider him among the very best in his field.

So, like others across South Mississippi, we await the facts, and the truth, about what happened on that early Monday morning, when a young man died in the pre-dawn on a Lucedale street.

Like the family, like the NAACP, like the whole region, we expect and anticipate that both the truth and justice will be obtained through a deliberate and dedicated process.

The editorial above represents the view of the Sun Herald editorial board: President-Publisher Ricky R. Mathews, Vice President and Executive Editor Stan Tiner, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Flora S. Point, Opinion Page Editor Marie Harris and Associate Editor Tony Biffle. Opinions expressed by columnists, cartoonists and letter writers on these pages are their own.

McCain: Invasion And Occupation Of The US Inner Cities

Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spoke to the National Urban League, a group “devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.” When an audience member asked him how he planned to reduce urban crime, McCain praised Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s efforts in New York Cirty before invoking the military’s tactics in Iraq as the model for crime-fighting:

MCCAIN: And some of those tactics — you mention the war in Iraq — are like that we use in the military. You go into neighborhoods, you clamp down, you provide a secure environment for the people that live there, and you make sure that the known criminals are kept under control. And you provide them with a stable environment and then they cooperate with law enforcement, etc, etc.

Now here is a really good idea–but I would expect something like this coming from a Republican.  Will they wear black and ask people for their papers?  Does any of that sound familiar?