Category: Criminal Justice

Well, another day, another unhinged Democrat decides to shoot up completely innocent people.  Nice work Matt Dowd. You successfully radicalized another whack job!  Dowd, as you may recall, was terminated from his job as a propagandist on MSNBC not long ago.  He thought Charlie Kirk deserved to die based on his beliefs. 

The bullets fired and unspent had anti-ICE messages on them. Similar to Charlie Kirk’s killer’s bullets.  Dowd you are doing great!  Let’s all come together and turn down the rhetoric, huh?  It doesn’t matter that the shooter likely has no connections to Matt Dowd, all that matters is Dowd and his ilk on the far left made ICE agents out to be the Gestapo or Nazis, and as a result, innocent people are being threatened and shot at.  For the sake of journalism, a trait Dowd will never be accused of having, this whacko had such a bad aim that he shot detainees not ICE agents. Wild plot twist there.  Hell, Dowd can’t even get folks to shoot the targeted folks he calls Nazi’s. 

Sure, I understand that Matt Dowd didn’t fire the bullet nor was he at the scene, but in my opinion, he is just as guilty as the shooter.  The statements he made for years on MSNBC, along with this fellow “journalists,” have caused folks to become radicalized.  Your hateful rhetoric about the President, Republicans in general, folks who hold different beliefs then you, folks who practice organized religion, and the everyday working man.  As a result, the whackos (they exist on both sides) have taken up arms and are using them. 

Now Dowd and his ilk want to use the “thoughts and prayers” and “let’s come together as a country and turn the temperature down” to try to take the moral high ground.  Dowd, you have blood on your hands!  You wanted this, and you got it.  There are now innocent people just working at their jobs being shot at by your disciples!

Let me address the whack jobs here for a minute.  President Trump quite literally ran on this, he said he was going to deport the folks here illegally, especially the criminals.  It’s a breath of fresh air seeing an elected actually do what he promised!  This should not have come as a surprise to anyone with an IQ north of single digits.  Mayors and governors not allowing the feds to do their jobs are seeing the National Guard deployed there.  It’s about safety, not deporting the guy who mows your lawn every other week! 

We will continue to call every shooter a Matt Dowd disciple, even though he is off the air. He wanted this, and he will get what he deserves.  Innocent people should never be gunned down, but in Dowd’s twisted fantasy land, he wanted this.

The Chief

Matt Dowd is a former talking head on MSNBC, a very large network that reaches millions each day.  He is a hateful, evil person who masquerades as a commentator.  Dowd has zero redeeming qualities in life. The only, and I literally mean only thing, he has going for himself is he was Former President Bush’s Chief Strategist for the 2004 election.  He since shed his Republican label and became Independent, he then re-registered as a Democrat.  However, at MSNBC, “former Republican” is a title that gets you job security as no actual Republican would want to work at that network.

Dowd would spew his verbal sewage daily about Trump/Republicans in general.  In the case of Trump or other electeds, while I disagree with the things that are said about them, I guess it’s the First Amendment, right?  Honest criticism, I’m ok with, but in the case of Dowd, it was pure hate speech. Yes, I believe Dowd is evil.  He made statements about someone who was not elected. 

I am not sure the exact timeline of events, but it has been odd watching the change at cable news networks.  It used to be actual news, now it is quite literally politics and mass shooting coverage on a continuous loop.  Commentary has been added and name calling has taken a front seat.  Republicans have been called; Hitler, rapists, racists, Fascists, dumb, stupid, idiots.  It has expanded to include things that are flat out false like Republicans taking away Social Security, health care, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, work from home, free vaccines, etc.  The problem is none of those are true.

To be clear, I know Matt Dowd didn’t fire the gun, but his constant inflammatory statements caused someone to.  Here is the actual trash spewed by Dowd after the shooting went down.

During his appearance on Katy Tur Reports, Dowd suggested that Kirk’s rhetoric may have contributed to the violence that claimed his life. Kirk, 31, had a history of rightwing provocation an d Christian nationalism, and frequently espoused bigoted rhetoric about Islam, women , LGBTQ+ communities and people of color.

“Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions,” Dowd said, adding: “You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place.”

Dowd also speculated about the circumstances of the shooting, saying: “We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration. So we have no idea about this.”

So, his opinions warranted someone to murder him?  Really Dowd?  Maybe it was a celebratory bullet that was shot?  How does your brain even come up with this trash?  You obviously do not have a functioning brain.  Imagine if he was reporting on a rape investigation?  Dowd(probably): I’ve got to see a photo of what the victim was wearing as she may have wanted it or brought it on herself.

Dowd issued this statement after MSNBC terminated him, to their credit they did so immediately and yanked him off the air.

Writing on Bluesky, he said: “My thoughts & prayers are w/ the family and friends of Charlie Kirk. On an earlier appearance on MSNBC I was asked a question on the environment we are in. I apologize for my tone and words.

Let me be clear, I in no way intended for my comments to blame Kirk for this horrendous attack. Let us all come together and condemn violence of any kind.”

That last sentence, yikes.  His comments were intended to stir up hate, and evil on this earthly plane.  He is only sorry that he got fired.  He is trying desperately to save face; no major network will touch this guy for a long while.  He and his comments are all over the internet and social media.  Make no mistake Dowd and his ilk have been saying and doing this type of thing for about 20 years. This murder is the fruit of their labor.  As I have chronicled in other blog posts, how many political shootings need to happen before this rhetoric is changed?  Heck, a deranged whacko fired a bullet at the local ABC10 affiliate in Sacramento because he thought someone at that office was responsible for cancelling Jimmy Kimmel!  Oh, and the shooter had a note essentially naming Kash Patel and Pam Bondi as targets too.  Notice how Dowd stirred up the hornets’ nest and is now doing the “we need to come together as a country” BS?  Violence is terrible. The shooter is evil. Stop spending time trying to figure out if he is a Republican, Democrat or Independent. Stop the rhetoric and the shootings likely subside.

You see Dowd and his ilk didn’t fire the bullet, but as mentioned above, they stirred up the hornets’ nest.  We have too many people who are mentally whacked in this country, and sadly with easy access to firearms, this will continue to occur.  We have people who watch way too much tv; specifically, political type shows/news.  These folks are also in deep corners of the internet where conspiracies and flat out untruths are being told as gospel.  These folks become radicalized and then you get; January 6^th, political assassinations, mass shootings, and Charlie Kirk being killed.  The really sad thing is some folks cheered Kirk’s death, others took to social media and lost their jobs over what they said.  Celebrating someone’s death who isn’t Putin, Hitler, the Ayatollah or Castro is just plain wrong.

One day I hope this all changes for the better, but I do not see it happening.

The Chief

If this is America, I am happy I have no wife or kids.  It was Friday and the news of the day was Charlie Kirk’s killer was caught.  I was on a shuttle to the rental car lot in Seattle when this news broke.

The ensuing “autopsy on the fly” as I call it left me speechless.  This is something news agencies and political groups have become famous for lately.  I call it “trying to justify a wrong.”

I communicate with my friend group mostly through WhatsApp, here is a sampling of messages that were coming through.  Mind you I do not subscribe to hivemind, so friends of varying backgrounds are in these chats.

#1 The killer’s parents were MAGA… so he must have been a Republican!

 False, and this is a horrible jumping to conclusions.  Turns out the kid had become radicalized on the internet/news media and took action.  He is not a Republican or MAGA.  Sadly, he brought unwanted attention to his family. I can guarantee you that they are/were being looked at as accomplices to the crime.

#2 The killer’s roommate was a male to female trans lover.

True, but really how is this relevant?  Sure, there was a “Charlie Kirk hates this person’s lifestyle component” but it doesn’t mean the roommate had anything to do with it. 

#3 Kirk trafficked in hate speech, and he deserved it.

 Again, unnecessary commentary.  If you don’t like his views/beliefs change the channel. Last time I had cable, there was a ton of channels to watch, surely something else would pique your interest.

#4 Utah’s universities are deeply conservative

 Whether this is true or not again, I’m not seeing relevance here.  Texas is a red state; Austin is very blue. 

The point of this blog is simple.  Check out the mental gymnastics done here to try to place blame on an ideology rather than the shooter themselves.  Folks, does it really matter if Charlie Kirk was killed by a; Republican, Democrat, Independent, straight, gay, trans, male, female, non-binary, etc.?  It doesn’t.  A wife is without her husband; she is now tasked with raising 2 children aged 1 and 3.  These children could very well grow with hate in their hearts when they find out their dad was murdered simply for having an opinion that differed from the garbage spewed on tv and the internet.

Nowadays, it’s more important to be first than to be right.  What happened to Charlie Kirk should scare everyone. The subsequent media reaction should as well.  The killer was a radicalized Leftist.  His roommate being trans just made him collateral damage.  The text exchange confirms it.  The roommate/lover didn’t care much for Kirk nor his views yet was furious when he heard his roommate/lover killed him.  This is the correct response.  Unfortunately, the killer’s family, friends, and acquaintances are getting a full proctology exam.  No stone will be unturned here and there will be more arrests; mark my words.  The old man who claimed to have shot Kirk was just arrested because when authorities detained him and searched his phone they found images on underage naked children. 

Folks, does it really matter the personal life/beliefs of the person who pulled the trigger?  It doesn’t.  It won’t bring back Kirk, and now a family is more known for their son being a killer than anything else.

Sad all around.

The Chief

Today had to have been painful for the families of the four students killed by Kohberger, even more painful for the two survivors.  The families are going through a constant hell, get togethers with empty seats, personalities missing from parties, weddings/birthdays/milestones never to be celebrated.  Sure, they got their day in court today, to face the monster who killed their loved ones/friends.  He sat there stone faced, not a care in the world.  Sure, the speakers could beat him up verbally and call him all the names they wanted, but it doesn’t and won’t matter.  Kohberger got exactly what he wanted out of this whole ordeal.

He will die famous in the small town of Moscow, Idaho.

Sure, he will be spending his remaining years in a supermax outside of Moscow, but still, everyone in the US knows who Bryan Kohberger is.  Similar to Charles Manson, The East Area Rapist, the Unabomber, Whitey Bulger; these folks get/got to die famous. 

What’s my point?  No one will remember who I am outside of close family and friends when I leave this earthly plane.  The entire USA knows who Bryan Kohberger is.

From the day of the quadruple murders to the media circus that followed, to the day of his arrest, he got what he wanted.  Everyone was glued to the TV, who done it?  Why?  How come?  Who could be so evil?  Was there a serial killer on the loose?  Believe me when I say this Kohberger may have been on the run, but he was likely watching the coverage of his murders.  It was calculated and planned out, he was studying criminology or something at Washington State University, I say or something because I do not care about him.  He wanted attention because he is a sociopath; he knew after committing this heinous crime that he would be featured on; Nancy Grace, Greta Van Susteren, and Ashleigh Banfield (newsnation) nightly for weeks on end.  Even though those news hosts claim not to care about him, they covered him extensively for the last 3 years. (This the old news axiom, if it bleeds, it leads.)

His pretrial hearing was insane, the motions to dismiss or disregard evidence that was damning was just a pivot.  He had made up several conspiracies about how a friend of the deceased actually killed them not him.  It was all a ruse, just a way to keep him in the news.  He loved this, he was likely watching from his jail holding cell in county lock up each night.  Oh yeah, they get cable tv and access to the internet via iPad type devices…. Paid for by Wiliam’s tax dollars! (Idaho taxpayers) .

If he wanted fame and notoriety, why did he take the plea deal?

Isn’t it obvious?  Idaho has the death penalty, oh and by the way they actually use it, unlike the Peoples Republic of California.  Oh, and Idaho has the firing squad, good luck saying that’s cruel and unusual punishment like lethal injection.  Also, unlike lethal injection, with the firing squad you won’t see a botched execution, they will just shoot you again!  So, Kohberger needed to take the plea, no one wants to exhaust their appeals and know death is around the corner.  Plus, it was unlikely Kohberger had any appeals that would be heard.

But taking a plea means no appeals, so what was the point in sparing his own life?

Correct, he cannot appeal his sentence, he spared his own life so he can continue to use the media while in jail.  Look for Kohberger to run a drill by writing letters to local papers/journalists throughout the area to tell his story.  You have large markets like Boise, smaller markets like, Spokane and Pullman, and very small markets like Moscow or Nampa.  He only needs one to write back to him.  Remember he never spoke at his sentencing hearing nor during the trial, it’s a total mystery as to; how, when, why and what for.  He can and will attempt to spill the “tea” by promising to tell all about his murders and the motive in exchange for something.  Likely to have his commissary account (food) loaded with money etc.  You have to remember jail is no fun, but he gets 3 warm meals a day, a bed, and access to cable and internet in his room.  All that is missing is better food, and the attention that will come from the media! 

But he cannot get out?  Right?

Well yes and no.  Sure, life without parole is the sentence (X4 actually, plus ten years) but things can change.  They never found the murder weapon, and they have no motive for the killings…. Think the Innocence Project could take this one up at some point?  Look in my home state, convicted double murderer Scott Petersen might get a new trial because the Innocence Project took up his case.  Political risk is a thing as well; Idaho might be dark red right now but who knows what could happen in 15-20 years?  Get a little bluer?  Look at the Menendez brothers in California, it’s looking more and more like they will walk free here someday under some sort of “compassionate release program.”  (Blogger note: it appears one brother’s health took a fatal turn so that might be driving the release of him.)  The Menendez brothers got life without parole, as did quite a few others who are having their sentences re-visited.  Kohberger could one day walk free.  Likely?  Maybe not, but it could happen.  Far better chance than being on death row.

The plea deal was a joke, brought by a weak-kneed prosecutor.

While I will admit most of this evidence was circumstantial, they did have DNA and lots of cell phone pings around the scene of the murder in the weeks leading up to it.  In a small town like Moscow, you need to pursue the death penalty.  The “we didn’t want to put the families through a trial and years of appeals” is BS.  If you believe this plea deal was about saving money for the state, you are gullible.  This was a Scott Adams (aka Dilbert creator) special…. The prosecutor took the weasel way out.  His crying during his statement during the sentencing hearing was for the camera folks, he could and should have gone for the jugular but he refused.  He never even let the families of the deceased know.

The judge didn’t have to accept the plea deal either

This is a little-known fact, judges can; accept, deny, or enhance any plea deal.  He chose not to.  Then he, like the prosecutor, choked up for the camera to put on a show during the sentencing hearing. 

In closing Kohberger got what he wanted. He got life in prison, hopefully a fellow prisoner will “Epstein” him.  But we have not heard the end from him yet. He will make attempts to tell his story to local reporters, or national ones for that matter.  He will try to get his case looked at by the Innocence Project, anything to keep his name in the news.  He will torment the families of the deceased for decades.  In a just world Kohberger would have been sentenced to death, and the deed done within a decade.  The scum wiped from this earth.  A deterrent for all who seek to be like him.  Commit this crime in Idaho, we will remove you from earth, quickly.  But no.  He got what he wanted.  The families, friends, and people of Idaho now get to pay for this man’s food, shelter, and healthcare for life, oh, include cable and internet as well.  Oh, and perhaps most ironically, they will be paying the prison guards to keep him safe from other prisoners who will be trying to kill him.

Even worse, he got to sit in on hours of victim impact statements from families trying to make him cry. Kohberger is evil. He wanted this.  He loved every minute of it.  He sat there stoic, emotionless, and with no emotion.  He loved every minute of it.  He knew Van Susteren, Grace, and Banfield would be showing it on tv nightly.  He got what he wanted.  The lawyer from the local firm Dewey, Screwem, and Howe told me the best thing to have done would have been to not show up. An empty courtroom would have sunk Kohberger. He wanted folks to cry and pour out statements about the folks he killed. The people that he snuffed-out were going to do big things, but for him.  Kohberger got his rocks off on the pain that he caused.  He loved every minute of it. He uttered 3 whole words during the entire hearing.  When the judge asked if he wanted to speak, he said “I respectfully decline.”  It was a charade for him; he got what he wanted.

He gets to die famous… doesn’t seem very just to me.

By The Chief

One of the holy grails of conspiracy theorists and disillusioned conservatives is who were Epstein’s clients and was he a Massad agent?

The second question seems to be “yes”, as I hear nobody disputing that Israel was a sponsor of his “pleasure island”. In fact, I think portions of our government were in on it too.

As for the client list, that is a bit richer. For years we have heard that not only is there a list, but each sexual encounter was video taped and carefully catalogued. Jeffrey Epstein was running a “honey trap” and a blackmail operation. Whether and to what extent the information was used to shape government policy and manipulate corporations, and government interests is not known.

Now, after campaigning on it, Trump and his minions now says there is no list! WTF? This is totally not credible. Trump got scammed on Covid in his first term and this is a scam that won’t go away. This Epstein issue is toxic and will erode his support in ways that the Democrats have been unable to do.

If Epstein had no clients, then there would be no victims, and no crimes. Thus, his assistant, Ghislaine Maxwell should be released from jail ASAP.

This is the flaw in the Trump Administration’s new claims that there is no list. They have the conviction of Maxwell, but she is now innocent!? Sorry, but the court and jury said evidence existed, hence a guilty verdict, then but there’s none now!? Are we to believe now that Hillary wiped the list with bleach and a battery-operated drill?

Help me out. We have a list of victims and criminal masterminds but no perpetrators.

Then there is the issue of Epstein’s murder. The proof of suicide, like the guy on the grassy knoll, seems to be cut from the video at exactly the critical moment of truth. The timecodes on the cell video are broken. Did the Swamp Rats, flip Trump again? Something stinks in this whole thing.

I really want some folks to go to jail, get divorced by their wives, and have their reputations destroyed. After what happened to the young girls who were victimized, such might be a downpayment on the justice they deserve.

The truth is that whoever releases a list first, it will be up to everyone else to decide if it’s valid and complete or not. Setting the narrative will be the benchmark in the court of public opinion.

Allan Dershowitz claims there never was a client list, but he knows the names that have been redacted in previously released documents. Dershowitz maintains that federal judges in the southern district of New York are blocking the release of information.

The alternate way of doing this is to follow the money and trace Epstein’s financial transactions.

This is why the whole record needs to be on the record. I don’t think Bill Gates and Prince Andrew should be the only guys on the hook. The amount of justice being obstructed fuels the speculation that Epstein ran a lucrative operation. He certainly rubbed shoulders with the rich and powerful and did “favors” for them.

Is the public argument now whether Epstein kept a spreadsheet or rolodex of names or just knew who was writing checks to him for pimping out young girls. I wonder if we are parsing words. Clearly there are lists, partial or otherwise.

I have talked about this before but since it’s back in the news, it’s time to take another whack at Jim Cooper.

For those that think they can find everything on the Internet, I have some bad news; namely, people pay good money to have unfavorable things purged from the Internet. This includes deleting pages and purging or altering search engine results. Thus, you won’t find the following: in his first run for Sacramento County Sheriff, candidate Jim Cooper pledged to fix the department’s budget shortfall by installing traffic cameras like he had done as an Elk Grove City Councilman. Yep, Cooper said that traffic cameras should be used to fully fund the Sheriff’s budget. Thankfully Scott Jones won and kept Sacramento County from becoming a police state.

Flash forward about a decade. Cooper is now Sheriff and in charge of the department’s budget. Local station KCRA ran this article about the department.

Red light cameras in Sacramento are no longer in operation after the sheriff’s office pulled the plug on the program due to financial reasons.

Why Sacramento put the brakes on its red light camera system and how drivers are reacting

Wait, What? Cameras pulled for fiscal reasons? Jim how can this be?

Maybe if Cooper had actually attended all his MBA classes and done the homework instead of letting his study group carry him across the finish line, maybe then he might have a clue about economics…

As it turns out, it costs money to run a traffic camera program and the county was losing its fiscal butt.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office managed the program. Sheriff’s office spokesperson Amar Gandhi told KCRA 3 the program was meant to be cost-neutral, but it cost the department $898,000 per year, which was higher than the money generated from violation tickets.

The next sentence in the story is no surprise:

On Thursday, the sheriff’s office could not provide a specific number of tickets given or a total revenue amount from tickets given.

Yep, Jim, it’s not free money. In typical government fashion, they don’t know how many tickets were issued or how much revenue was collected. Also note that the Sheriff’s Department was administering the program. This is curious. Usually, these programs are farmed out to a third-party vendor, and they give a cut (or percentage if you prefer) of whatever they collect to the county. Sounds like it would be hard under such an arrangement to lose almost a million dollars a year. Clearly more cameras are needed not less. If only the right people were in charge…

KCRA goes on to report that the department had operated 23 cameras. Let’s do the math. That means for each camera, the county lost $39,044. Oh, each ticket issued by a Cooper Cam was a fine of $480. That means if each camera issued 81 more tickets (just over one more a week), then the program would be in the black; except that so many folks had their hands in the till that this doesn’t work in reality.

The story then ends lamenting the public harm that will result because the Cooper cams are no longer in operation.

KCRA concludes their article with:

People driving around the county will still see the cameras in place for right now. The sheriff’s office said it is up to the company that was contracted to install them to take them down. It is unclear when that will happen.

So, the county didn’t own the cameras, or run the day-to-day operations but got a percentage of each ticket issued and still lost about a million dollars? How? Wanna bet a person related to a Steinburg or Pelosi or other Democrat crime family owns the Cooper cam company or is a beneficiary thereof.