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-Lurid Crime Tales-
They have their own system of justice
[TruthTent] California Inmate Beat To Death 2 Child Molesters With A Cane In Prison: After a California inmate beat two convicted child molesters to death with a walking cane, he decided to speak out about what went down behind bars. His words should serve as a warning.

Jonathan Watson, a 41-year-old California inmate, attacked David Bobb, 48, and Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, NBC Los Angeles reported. Both men were taken to the hospital with head wounds after being bludgeoned with a cane. Watson unashamedly admitted to their murders after Bobb died en route and Luis-Conti was pronounced dead three days later.

Both David Bobb and Graham De Luis-Conti were serving life sentences in prison for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years old, according to NBC Miami. Watson was 10 years into a life sentence for first-degree murder and discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury or death. Although Watson was a criminal himself, the crimes committed by Bobb and Luis-Conti didn’t sit well with the lifer.

Although a DOC spokesperson declined to comment on the incident, citing an ongoing investigation, Watson publicly confessed to beating the two convicted child molesters to death and gave an exclusive, detailed report about what went down to Mercury News. In a letter to the news organization, Watson first explained that he was given a lower-level security classification, leading to his transfer to the Corcoran prison. There, he was placed in dorm-style living rather than the single-person cell he had been in before.

Just six days after the transfer, Watson realized this wasn’t a good environment for him and requested to be moved after “a child molester” was housed in his pod. Watson said he told corrections officials he was close to getting violent and an attack was imminent if he wasn’t transferred, but he said his warnings fell on deaf ears. Only one week after being placed in the dorm-style prison, he snapped, beating two men to death, using another inmate’s cane.

Jonathan Watson wrote that he was detained for the killings and gave prison officials a full confession. Rather than show remorse, however, he hinted that “he may try to kill again if he is housed with child molesters in the future,” Mercury News reported. Not many would fault him for what he said:

“Being a lifer, I’m in a unique position where I sometimes have access to these people and I have so little to lose,” Watson wrote. “And trust me, we get it, these people are every parents’ worst nightmare. These families spend years carefully and articulately planning how to give their children every opportunity that they never had, and one monster comes along and changes that child’s trajectory forever.”

Jonathan Watson isn’t the only criminal to feel this way. As Robert Hood, a retired prison warden who was in charge of a federal Supermax prison in Colorado, said, “the person at the bottom of the totem pole” — even among drug dealers, murders, burglars, and worse — “is the sex offender.” These are the lowest of the low, and perhaps that’s why we all feel a sense of satisfaction when they receive the punishment they truly deserve in the form of good old fashioned prison justice.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Being a lifer, I’m in a unique position...

His words lead me to believe he is adequately reformed now and doesn't need to serve the rest of his sentence. We however need him outside, ASAP. Maybe as school guard.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/17/2022 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2 

Some would say ....
Parole him and buy him a bus ticket to DC.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/17/2022 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  So, a truly humane justice system would just execute kiddie diddlers quickly rather than make them look over their shoulders until justice finally comes.

OTOH, it's probably a great pressure relief valve for the rest of the inmates.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/17/2022 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  ..well, Jonathan Watson felt relief.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/17/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Both David Bobb and Graham De Luis-Conti were serving life sentences


And so they did.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/17/2022 9:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Nearly 200 years ago Stendahl wrote that in a certain type of bourgeois society the only distinction which could be genuinely earned was the death penalty. I guess being an advanced society we will have to make do with Life(r).
Posted by: Cesare || 09/17/2022 10:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Good to know that California does have the death penalty for child molesters, even if the state has officially outsourced it to prison inmates.
Posted by: Tom || 09/17/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Californians Adjust to New Life in Texas (video)
[Babylon Bee] This couple left California due to the cost of living, crime, taxes, etc. etc. etc. But now they're not so sure they can get used to living in Texas!
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/17/2022 09:36 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not satire.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/17/2022 11:11 Comments || Top||


US Army's Recruiting Crisis Worsens As Test Scores Drop, Disqualifications Rates Surge
[ZeroHedge] The US Army has a major recruiting problem and can't find enough young people who meet the basic requirements to enlist, according to Army Times.

Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais, second in command for Army Training and Doctrine Command, sounded off Thursday about the troubling developments. She highlighted disqualification rates for potential recruits jumped from 30-40% (pre-Covid) to a whopping 70% this year due to obesity, low test scores, and/or drug use.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/17/2022 07:53 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, they get to see alot of disabled people left over from the last fracas that the PTB got involved in, and you can tell that the "deciders" are just iching to get another one going.
I myself would advise against it, I'm sorry to say.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/17/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe the recruiters should go over the the Group W bench and try their luck with the mother rapers and father stabbers. And maybe even the father rapers. That's not such a big deal now in the New Woke Army.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/17/2022 10:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh, I don't know.
There's a 2M reserve of folks that force marched thru jungle, swamp and desert with limited rations to get here.

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/17/2022 11:43 Comments || Top||

#4  How many 'military family' candidates have a relative that left early because of Woke bovine excrement and/or being passed over for promotion do to the sin of being 'born white'? It doesn't have to be 'True' it only has to be an 'understanding' malaise poisoning a traditional recruiting pool.
Posted by: magpie || 09/17/2022 13:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Ref #4: There have been race and gender driven promotion quotas in the Army for decades. You need not sit on a promotion board to know they exist, you only have to casually follow the careers of some of those promoted. It's a small fraternity. Assignment and senior service school selection follow a similar process.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/17/2022 14:18 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ How else would Darth Lunch have gotten to where he is today?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/17/2022 14:49 Comments || Top||


Britain
BBC Boasts it Got Vaccine Injured Support Group With 250,000 Members Removed From Facebook
[Daily Skeptic] The BBC has boasted that it triggered the removal of a Facebook vaccine injury support group with over 250,000 members.

The BBC has seen several groups, one with hundreds of thousands of members, in which the [carrot] emoji appears in place of the word ’vaccine’. Facebook’s algorithms tend to focus on words rather than images. The groups are being used to share unverified claims of people being either injured or killed by vaccines.

Once the BBC alerted Facebook’s parent company, Meta, the groups were removed.

"We have removed this group for violating our harmful misinformation policies and will review any other similar content in line with this policy. We continue to work closely with public health experts and the U.K. Government to further tackle Covid vaccine misinformation," the firm said in a statement.

However, the groups have since reappeared in our searches.

One group we saw has been around for three years but rebranded itself to focus on vaccine stories, from being a group for sharing "banter, bets and funny videos" in August 2022.

The rules of the very large group state: "Use code words for everything." It adds: "Do not use the c word, v word or b word ever" (Covid, vaccine, booster). It was created more than a year ago and has more than 250,000 members.

Marc Owen-Jones, a disinformation researcher, and associate professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, was invited to join it.

"It was people giving accounts of relatives who had died shortly after having the COVID-19 vaccine", he said. "But instead of using the words ’COVID-19’ or ’vaccine’, they were using emojis of carrots.

"Initially I was a little confused. And then it clicked — that it was being used as a way of evading, or apparently evading, Facebook’s fake news detection algorithms."

I wonder if Parliament’s champion of the vaccine injured Sir Christopher Chope has anything to say about this? He is just about to launch a new All Party Parliamentary Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Damage.

The BBC helpfully explains that the ONS stated the risk of fatal vaccine injury last year — thus implying these people must all be wrong, or at least ought not to be allowed to talk to one another.

In 2021 data from the Office for National Statistics suggested that there was a one in 5 million risk of dying from the Covid vaccine, compared with a risk of 35,000 deaths per five million of dying from Covid itself, if unvaccinated.

Even if we assume, for the sake of argument, these figures are correct, they are not broken down by age and only cover deaths not injuries. A recent study by Dr. Peter Doshi and colleagues found that in the vaccine trials the vaccines were more likely to cause serious injury than prevent it. A recent paper from Oxford, Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities similarly found that in young adults aged 18-30 the vaccines were 18-98 times more likely to cause serious injury than prevent it. The BBC and Facebook, on the other hand, don’t believe that these injuries exist, or at least that the injured should be allowed to speak to one another and seek mutual support.

Is that why these people pay their licence fee — so the BBC can go round banning their support groups?

Facebook says it removes content which claims vaccines are more dangerous than the disease they protect against. But what if that’s what the evidence shows? Will it remove peer-reviewed scientific studies that go against its policy?

"And yet it moves..."

Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hooray for the BBC searching out and destroying the little people.

Imagine if they did the same to the powerful instead. My, when the mainstream media turned their coats we lost a powerful ally.
Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342 || 09/17/2022 5:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Like NPR, but worse. If they weren't subsidized by force taxes, they wouldn't survive.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/17/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Marc Owen-Jones, a disinformation researcher, and associate professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, was invited to join it.

Spy or Agent works, though Grand Inquisitor has a ring to it.

It does beg the question though...if it were a secretive group not wanting to gain attention, why would whoever need a rat to expose a private group 'sharing lies'?

I mean, you have four batty women sitting in the corner during Bingo sharing bullshit stories why do you need the very Qatari traditional named Marc Owen-Jones to bust that up, unless Neighborhood Jonny's penis really is L shaped because he really was caught bucking a prostitute on the beer joint's billiards table?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/17/2022 10:47 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China: Balancing a Floundering Russia and Angry Americans - Peter Zeihan
Things aren't looking great for Beijing.

Weeks of military posturing and a range of indirect-to-direct military threats against Taiwan following United States Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei were meant to remind the world who's boss. It would seem...not China.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced yesterday (the video below was recorded yesterday, so please forgive any anachronous turns of phrases) that the US government would be halting sales of airframes and related technology to Beijing for the foreseeable future, as a direct response to Chinese agitation. While the Chinese have responded with some economic measures of their own, it is worth noting that there is precious little in the way of meaningful replacements for what they were seeking to buy from Boeing. This follows previous US de facto bans on high-end silicon chip technology (including manufacturing tech and equipment) making their way to China. (Two points to mention during upcoming holidays if there's a lull in conversation: for all the folks in your life who are committed to a view that China is poised to take over the world--they are utterly dependent on the US for a whole host of critical technologies and inputs into their supply chains, not to mention the facilitation of their global trade networks. And that the Biden administration has struggled to put as much effort into anything as it has into making Donald Trump's dream of using US trade policy to cudgel China into reality, tweets and all.)

Expect the Europeans to follow the Americans' lead.

It's not entirely doom and gloom for the Chinese, though. At a summit earlier this week Russian president Vladimir Putin signaled he was ready to cave to a number of long-standing Chinese demands as the Ukraine war continues to go oh so very badly for Moscow. With little end in sight for European and American sanctions against the Russian economy, China is in the catbird seat with regard to Russia. We'll see how long they'll be able to use that to their advantage, however, and their broader strategic position continues to look grim...
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/17/2022 09:27 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Thought-provoking. The next Zeihen video YouTube cued up for me was from 2015: Kern County Energy Summit: Keynote Speaker Peter Zeihan.

Also thought-provoking. I hope he turns out to be right.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/17/2022 16:19 Comments || Top||


Europe
What Does The Right's Historic Victory In Sweden Mean For Europe?
[ZeroHedge]
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/17/2022 07:51 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I notice the other parties will continue to block the majority (20%) because they were too far to the right.

Perhaps a lesson for our deep state, except the right can hardly be blamed if they have no power.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/17/2022 11:33 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Biden Reportedly Pressuring FBI to 'Cook Up' White Supremacy Cases
[Townhall] The Biden administration has asserted one of the top security threats facing the nation comes from domestic extremists. Supporting such a claim, however, requires cases, but rank-and-file FBI agents are saying the threat is way overblown.

According to The Washington Times, current and former FBI agents say the bureau is getting pressured to come up with domestic terror cases and find white supremacists in order to meet internal quotas.

"The demand for White supremacy" coming from FBI headquarters "vastly outstrips the supply of White supremacy," said one agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We have more people assigned to investigate White supremacists than we can actually find."

The claim comes as President Biden hosted a United We Stand summit at the White House on Thursday where he announced a new initiative on "hate-motivated violence."

"We remain in the battle for the soul of our nation," Biden said. "We’re going to use every federal resource available to help communities counter hate-fueled violence, build resilience, and foster greater national unity."

Earlier this year the Justice Department created a special unit to counter the threats of domestic terrorism.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/17/2022 03:47 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's just anti-white hate. Nothing more, nothing less.

Notice how they scream about fascist law enforcement - right up until they're in control. Then suddenly they use these "fascist" tools to oppress their political opponents.
Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342 || 09/17/2022 5:40 Comments || Top||


#3  "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/17/2022 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  If there was one FBI Director with a pair of Patriotic balls they would reply to Biden with the case files related to the FBI wiretapping of Trump.
Posted by: Airandee || 09/17/2022 8:03 Comments || Top||

#5  We’ll see more of the Patriot Front soon.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/17/2022 11:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Biden calling for a "War on Hate'?

Seems ironic.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/17/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Career management and assignments by woke/political/racial biased leadership have created a bifurcated path for selected agents to key positions and field offices. A few years in this environment and the quality, traditional junior agents will determine that the case diet is unpalatable and will find ways to go elsewhere before their youth/prospects are spent hitting the unwritten walls. Thus an agency slowly morphs into the political/selective justice tool that serves the Deep State. My sense is that the EFFBEYE is fairly far along that path by now. The rot at the DoJ is the blueprint for how this works.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/17/2022 15:18 Comments || Top||



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  400 militants of ISIS deployed to north of Afghanistan - CSTO
Fri 2022-09-16
  Tajikistan is trying to seize the territory of Kyrgyzstan
Thu 2022-09-15
  1 Tajikistan border guard killed after Kyrgyz, Tajik border guards exchange fire due to border dispute
Wed 2022-09-14
  Commander of Russia's 137th Guards Airborne Regiment died
Tue 2022-09-13
  Azerbaijan shelling Armenian positions, initiating offensive actions
Mon 2022-09-12
  Ew! Brazil Returnee Excretes 92 Wraps Of Cocaine At Nigerian Airport
Sun 2022-09-11
  9-11 and 21 Years later, do we have ALL the facts yet?
Sat 2022-09-10
  Senior executive of Daesh/ISIS terror group captured in Turkey
Fri 2022-09-09
  Most senior Russian General since WW-II captured.
Thu 2022-09-08
  Queen Elizabeth II dead at 96
Wed 2022-09-07
  Scores of Nigeria Jihadists Drown Fleeing Air Strikes: Sources
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  Arizona troopers discover 46 pounds of fentanyl pills during traffic stop
Mon 2022-09-05
  West Bank: Shooting at Israeli soldiers' bus leaves seven wounded; 3 miscreants all one family
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  At least 33 people have been killed following an attack on a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
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  Explosion at oil refinery in Iran’s Abadan


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