BZ
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“End of Watch” — for the nation
I attended a Sunday showing of the new David Ayer film, “END OF WATCH.”
At its conclusion, I couldn’t help but make some linkages and indulge in a tad bit of introspection.
First, “End of Watch” is not “Training Day.”
I would recommend EOW to everyone looking for a remarkably accurate portrayal of police work in a big city rife with gangs, violence, mixed races and endless challenges for law enforcement. It does an excellent job of displaying the best and the worst of humanity. It does an excellent job of illustrating how the current young mixed generation of cops deal with the concepts of evil, sacrifice, history, courage, violence, reality, insanity, family, support, camaraderie, cliques, teams, and a greater awareness and sense of self. And, moreover, how they are the video, social media, explicit, unabashed, put-everything-out-there generation — with little concern for the concomitant consequences.
That said, I wanted to investigate the making of the film. America Ferrera has an interesting insight in this article. As in: the neighborhoods were true and correct. As were a bulk of the “actors” in the “background.” I won’t event speculate as to the amounts of cash that had to flow for the movie company to work unimpeded in L.A.
And that made me think further:
Perhaps there is an actual coming “end of watch” for our nation as well. Further: the reasons are so clearly illustrated in this film.
There are not only individual persons but gangs and neighborhoods and communities and areas and subdivisions and cities and states reliant but upon the continual flow of local, state and federal cash. Welfare cash. Free cash. Cash undeserved but still proffered.
As in:
But: how did we get there? And what will we do now? And how can we rid ourselves of this denigrating and corrupting plague?
And how did these two disparate persons/races manage to not only survive but — until the de nou mas — thrive?
How did we get here?
How did we get our cops to battle death edicts called in from foreign countries?
How did we allow MS13 “Big Evil” to exist in our suburbs in the first place?
Why do we or should we pit our civilian cops against militaristic cults, groups, gangs, unions, units or brigades from foreign military groups?
In one car: two Glock 17 pistols, six magazines, and one shotgun with six shells?
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a proverbial setup for failure.
Open borders. Versus closed borders.
Right vs wrong.
How did we get here?
And a final question:
Would your dead grandparents recognize this current country?
BZ
Harry Reid then: More taxes released; Romney’s a felon! Harry Reid now: Romney is galling!
From CNN:
(CNN)– Sen. Harry Reid said nothing of his earlier claims that Mitt Romney had not paid taxes over a ten-year span in a Friday statement joining Democrats in responding to Romney’s release of tax-related documents on Friday.
The Nevada Democrat and Senate majority leader called Romney’s accounting “galling” and said the documentation “reveals that Mitt Romney manipulated one of the only two years of tax returns he’s seen fit to show the American people – and then only to ‘conform’ with his public statements.”
Though Romney:
- In 2011, the Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in mostly investment income.
- The Romneys’ effective tax rate for 2011 was 14.1%.
- The Romneys donated $4,020,772 to charity in 2011, amounting to nearly 30% of their income.
- The Romneys claimed a deduction for $2.25 million of those charitable contributions.
- The Romneys’ generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor’s statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years.
So according to Reid and the Demorats, Leftists, Religion Left and DEM/MSM, Romney is a tax cheat and a manipulator because he didn’t release enough documents or because he gave them what they wanted. Romeny can’t win either way.
Say, this wouldn’t be any kind of a purposeful election-time ploy, would it — ?
BZ
P.S.
Harry Reid, where are your tax records? What’s been your source of millionaire’s income?
OBAMA LIED — AGAIN: “Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people”
From the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 6 million Americans — significantly more than first estimated— will face a tax penalty under President Barack Obama’s health overhaul for not getting insurance, congressional analysts said Wednesday. Most would be in the middle class.
The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact for the administration, a reminder of what critics see as broken promises.
“An inconvenient fact.” Translated: LIE.
The numbers from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office are 50 percent higher than a previous projection by the same office in 2010, shortly after the law passed. The earlier estimate found 4 million people would be affected in 2016, when the penalty is fully in effect.
That’s still only a sliver of the population, given that more than 150 million people currently are covered by employer plans. Nonetheless, in his first campaign for the White House, Obama pledged not to raise taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 a year and couples making less than $250,000.
And the budget office analysis found that nearly 80 percent of those who’ll face the penalty would be making up to or less than five times the federal poverty level. Currently that would work out to $55,850 or less for an individual and $115,250 or less for a family of four.
Average penalty: about $1,200 in 2016.
So, Joe Middle Class GOWP: how’s that Obama vote working out for you?
BZ
Obama and the PC World: KILLING our First Amendment
Here is a photograph:
What is this? It is: “Just after midnight Saturday morning, authorities descended on the Cerritos home of the man believed to be the filmmaker behind the anti-Muslim movie that has sparked protests and rioting in the Muslim world.”
What is this? It is: The look of our very cherished First Amendment being abrogated.
Whereas — at first glance — you would believe that these First Amendment abrogators are members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the truth is actually up a level.
This man — not a particularly ethical or wise or insightful man — is a Coptic Christian. I suspect he created the video because his kind has been historically slaughtered in the Middle East at the behest of violent Muslims. And I suspect he’d had enough. Which resulted in his video. He managed to escape from Egypt and took his history with him.
On the other hand, he’d somehow come into contact with the federal law enforcement system in terms of various financial fraud counts. And let there be no mistake: evidently convicted.
Therefore, he was on “federal probation.”
From the UKDailyMail.com:
- Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55 was escorted to the sheriff’s station in Cerritos for interview over alleged probation violation
- Nakoula made inflammatory film ‘Innocence of Muslims’, sparking deadly protests across world and leading to the death of U.S. ambassador in Libya
- In 2010 he was convicted of $800,000 worth of bank fraud
- Suspected of using the alias Sam Bassil during film production but released on condition he didn’t access the internet or use aliases
- Nakoula has reportedly denied involvement in the film
After arriving at his home just after midnight deputies escorted Nakoula to an awaiting car and he was taken to the station where he was questioned over his involvement in the film production which has been blamed for the mass protests across the Middle East which resulted in the death of four American citizens on Wednesday.
Convicted of $800,000 worth of bank fraud in 2010, Nakoula, who is suspected of using the alias Sam Bassil during the production of the controversial film was released on the condition that he did not access the internet or use aliases.
And here are the details. The details you won’t read quite so conveniently in the DEM/MSM.
Federal probation is predominantly ineffective and gives human PO employee placeholders a point with which to make a paycheck with little if any actual action.
I know this on two levels: First, having worked for two federal law enforcement entities, and Second, having currently seen and experienced the complete and total incompetence of the federal probation system.
Most recently, a deputy with my department was savaged — and his wife and two children — in a rural community by a white male on federal probation. He played loud music, smoked dope, sped on local roads, told my deputy he knew he was a cop and would take him down, threatened his wife and children, and wholly did what he wished when he wished. Further, he posted his own behaviors and photographs on various social media networks. To include the photographs of dope and tattoos and gangs and crimes.
With nary a peep from his federal probation officer.
Further, let me add the obvious: the offender had a black female PO, and my deputy was a white male. You cannot tell me that the indifference of the offender’s PO didn’t include race, on two levels: her white probationer, and the problems of a white male complainant. Further: a white male complainant as a LEO, having the temerity to challenge her veracity.
Two white males contesting each other: sounds like “no problem” to a black female PO.
Therefore, I know the massive inefficacy of the federal probationary system. It simply reeks.
With that in mind, I would submit that the LASO was contacted by local federal authorities and asked to coordinate the detention of Nakoula. On the pretext of a potential federal probationary violation. Because federal authorities don’t do anything without a warrant or political support. There is no such general concept as a “fresh arrest.”
That said, LASO knew that Nakoula was a hot point. They didn’t want to be the agency responsible for the death of the man if assaulted in their detention. They didn’t want Nakoula killed whilst in their custody. Hence the large force.
Therefore the midnight extraction and the large number of LASO deputies present.
Two points federally:
– Nakoula was targeted for a very PUBLIC extraction because they wanted his name and address and point of contact to be in the public domain;
– They wanted him to be the focus of Islamic hate, and not Mr Obama.
By running the man into the public media, they made him an eliminational target 24/7.
It’s all bullshit.
Because there were multiple agendas going on here.
The LASO acquiesced to the midnight heist because they believed they were assisting the feds with a potentially-violent situation
The district AUSA got a call in the middle of the night telling him to put a lid on it. “Threatened,” would be more likely. “Just handle it,” is what he would have been told.
The federal government wanted to take the film down on YouTube. Google, oddly enough, resisted this force.
In this case, Google was completely correct.
Now you know the truth.
BZ