SEPTEMBER 11--A black West Virginia woman was sexually assaulted, stabbed, and tortured while being held captive by her white abductors, one of whom told her, "That's what we do to niggers around here." The 23-year-old victim was freed Saturday after cops responded to the home of Frankie Brewster for a "welfare check on a female that was reportedly being held against her will." When cops arrived, Brewster claimed she was the only one home, but then the victim limped to the door and said, "Help me." According to six harrowing criminal complaints, the woman, who apparently had been held for more than a week, had four stab wounds in her left leg, bruised eyes, and had been repeatedly sexually assaulted and humiliated. The woman told police that she was forced to lick Brewster's "toes, vagina, and anal cavity." Brewster's son Bobby forced the woman to eat dog and rat feces, according to one complaint filed in Logan County Magistrate Court. The victim, who is now hospitalized, was raped at knifepoint, choked with a cable cord, and had her hair pulled and cut during the ordeal. Police, who have arrested six defendants for their roles in the abduction and attack, are looking for other suspects who may have lured the victim to Brewster's home. The arrestees are seen in the below mug shots. Pictured clockwise from the upper left are Frankie Brewster, 49; Bobby Brewster, 24; Danny Combs, 20; George Messer, 27; Alisha Burton, 22; and Karen Burton, 46.
Or another Tawana Brawley/Duke lacrosse team - to be determined. 6 Arrested in West Virginia After Woman Abused, Held Captive in House for a Week
LOGAN, W.Va. A woman was sexually abused, beaten and humiliated while being held captive in a home for at least a week, sheriff's officials said Monday after making six arrests and calling the FBI to investigate it as a possible hate crime. Those arrested, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, are white. The family that preys together stays together?
The victim, a Charleston woman who was being treated at a hospital Monday, is black.
"The things that were done to this woman are just indescribable," Logan County sheriff's Sgt. Sonya Porter said.
Deputies found the 23-year-old victim Saturday after going to the home in Big Creek, about 35 miles southwest of Charleston, to investigate an anonymous tip. One of the suspects, Frankie Brewster, was sitting on the front porch and told deputies she was alone, but moments later the victim limped toward the door, her arms outstretched, saying "help me," the sheriff's department said in a news release.
Besides being sexually assaulted, the victim was stabbed four times in the left leg and beaten, Porter said. Both of her eyes were black and blue. Deputies said the woman's wounds were inflicted at least a week ago.
During her capture, the victim was forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from the toilet, according to the criminal complaint filed in magistrate court. The woman also was choked with a cable cord and her hair cut, it alleges.
One of those arrested, Karen Burton, is accused of cutting the woman's ankle with a knife. She used the N-word in telling the woman she was victimized because she is black, according to the criminal complaint.
Deputies say the woman was also doused with hot water while being sexually assaulted. "We have called the feds," Chief Deputy V.K. Dingess with the Logan County Sheriff's Department said Monday. "They may pick this up as a hate crime." Gee, ya think? (assuming it happened this way.)
Saudi Arabia has called off a camel beauty contest scheduled for later this month in the face of the mystery deaths of thousands of the animals that are a national icon in the desert kingdom. The provincial governor for the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Khaled al-Faisal bin Abdel Aziz, took the decision in the face of the mounting death toll in a national herd estimated at 862,000 animals in 2005, the Al-Watan daily reported on Monday. In Saudi Arabia, camels are often referred to by the Arabic word mazaen (beauties) and can fetch more than one million riyals (200,000 euros) a head. The paper said that Agriculture Minister Fahd bin Abdul Rahman Balghnaim was not ruling out a criminal dimension to the deaths, which the Saudi media have described as a national tragedy.
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CHINA has allegedly tried to hack into highly classified government computer networks in Australia and New Zealand as part of a broader international operation to glean military secrets from Western nations.
The Howard Government yesterday would neither confirm nor deny that its agencies, including the Defence Department, had been subject to cyber attack from China, but government sources acknowledge that thwarting such assaults is a continuous challenge. "It's a serious problem, it's ongoing and it's real," one senior government source said.
Western intelligence experts say that China has also targeted the US, Canada, Germany and Japan as part of its global intelligence-gathering effort.
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark yesterday confirmed that foreign intelligence agencies had tried to hack into government computer networks, but said they had not compromised top-secret data banks. "The assurance I've been given by intelligence agencies is that no classified information has been at risk at all," Miss Clark said. "We have very smart people to provide protection every time an attack is tried. Obviously we learn from that.
"What I can stress is that absolutely no classified information has ever been penetrated by these attacks."
While Miss Clark knew which countries were involved, she would not name them, saying her Government had not spoken to the nations concerned about the problem. "That's not the way intelligence matters are handled," she said.
The Financial Times reported last week that Beijing had hacked into the Pentagon's computer network earlier this year - a claim strenuously denied by Beijing.
The alleged cyber attack on the Pentagon came only days after China's intelligence services were accused of hacking into German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office and three other German government ministries.
Miss Clark acknowledged on Monday that several governments had recently experienced attacks on their computer networks. "It's not something unique to us, it's something that every country is experiencing," she said.
Earlier, Warren Tucker, head of the New Zealand intelligence agency, the Security Intelligence Service, confirmed that foreign governments had hacked into New Zealand government computer systems.
The Dominion Post newspaper quoted Dr Tucker as saying government departments' websites had been attacked, information stolen and hard-to-detect software had been installed which could be used to take control of computer systems. There was evidence foreign governments were responsible for the attacks, he said, but did not name the countries concerned.
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock is sufficiently concerned about cyber attacks to be spending more than $70 million to improve the e-security of government and private computer networks.
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Sure, but as with any infrastructure the more advanced country will be more vulnerable than the more primitive one which relies on such systems less.
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China desires mil bases down there - also, it has quietly formally asked the USA to divide the Pacific into differentiated spheres of influence-control.
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"also, it has quietly formally asked the USA to divide the Pacific into differentiated spheres of influence-control"
I hope the US told them to FOAD, Joe.
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If America can't come up with some sort of server-melting trojan horse we deserve to get hacked. Every time China noses at our cyber-doorstep another Beijing mainframe should slag down.
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Sure two can play this game, but why tip your hand?
I worked a few years ago with a really sharp software program manager who had previously been with one of the govt. focused systems integrators. He'd been running teams developing industrial strength hack/crack tools for telecom and Internet infrastructure penetration and disruption. He described many of the applications as being "one time use only". You could think of them as being zero day exploits that have never seen the light of day.
The social networking site Facebook from afar can look a lot like college, with cliques and the familiar range of personalities. In another imitation of college life, the Facebook campus is wrestling with the contentious issue of speech codes. Facebook is airhead-heaven. At least political forums promote discussion on issues other than Brittany's cellulite.
The latest concern centers on a group with a crude title denouncing Islam that had more than 750 members at last count. While the group takes pains to say it has nothing against Muslims, who can be and usually are peaceful and respectful, it asserts at the start: The Quran contains many lies and threats. Islam is false, no god exists, and someone should say that loud and clear. And who decides what is false? Once again, "islamophobia" is allowed to be a greater evil than Islamofascism. I only regret I was unaware of the banned website while it operated; I would have invited the youth to come here.
In the month or so since the group was created, the reaction has been building across Facebook. As of the weekend, more than 58,000 Facebook members had joined a group that said that unless the anti-Islam group was removed, we r quitting Facebook.
Facebook declined to comment on Friday on the subject of hate speech or on what steps had been taken.
What is clear is that for a day or so last week, the site was made inaccessible. The organizer of the anti-Islam site, a man who said in an e-mail message that his legal name is Variable, wrote, Facebook briefly deleted my account, and I assumed they did so because of the group, but they reinstated the account and told me that it was a mistake of some sort.
He said he disagreed that his site was trafficking in hate speech. The custom of protecting freedom of speech allows people to address belief systems in the harshest of terms, he wrote, adding that his groups sentiment is a peaceful one; atheism is a belief system that few will die for, because there is no reward.
He noted that a search on Facebook finds a multitude of sites attacking him personally, which qualifies as hate speech, unlike his site, which concerns itself with abstract ideas.
One of the officers of the petition-drive group, Essma Bargewee, who said in an e-mail message that she is 20 years old and studying business at Montclair State University in New Jersey, said she joined and invited some friends and posted at a few other groups in Facebook. Next morning I came and was expecting 15 or something to join but found hundreds, she wrote. As you have seen we ended up with thousands of both Muslims and non-Muslims defending our idea.
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I'm undecided about this one. I don't want to see discussion groups like that one banned. However, I think that people should learn to make their arguments without saying "Fuck this," "Fuck that," or "Fuck Islam." Last week after the NSO concert at the Capitol, I spent an embarrassing fifteen minutes at a bus stop next to a group of people whose vocabulary was 33% "fuck" and 16% "shit". I think we can argue forcefully and honorably without being uncultured.
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Really. Can't these kids learn to say "A curse on their mustaches!" like a reasonable person?
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HAMTRAMCK -- Michigan's most diverse city is wading into the emotional national debate about what role local police should play in enforcing federal immigration laws.
As Congress mulls what to do with those illegally in the country, Hamtramck officials are preparing an ordinance to forbid police and other city officials from asking anyone about their immigration status unless it's relevant to investigations or during arrest bookings. In other words: please obstruct justice.
Supporters say Hamtramck, which is so diverse 26 languages are spoken in its schools, is no stranger to culture clashes and the law would provide a safeguard for immigrants wary about cooperating with police if they fear deportation or harassment.
"We don't want (local public officials) to go beyond their call of duty to carry out responsibilities of federal immigration officials," said Anthony Mosko, of the Detroit faith-based organization Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength. "There's no way to know that just by looking at somebody if they are documented or undocumented."
Such logic outrages foes who say police are sworn to enforce all laws. The proposal, which council members could consider next month, is modeled after an ordinance Detroit adopted in May and is similar to ones in Los Angeles and Chicago. But it goes against a national trend of municipalities teaming with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to allow cops to identify and report undocumented residents.
"If a police officer snatches someone who is an immigrant from the Mideast or some country that we have known terrorists coming from and they have no papers or documentation, (they) should ascertain who this person is and if they are here legally," said Fred Timpner, director of the Michigan Association of Police.
I always thought that was part of law enforcement. If I get pulled over for speeding, the officer runs my plates and my license, just in case.
It's an issue that has resonance in Metro Detroit, where the number of foreign-born residents has spiked 60,000 to 387,000 in the past six years, according to federal statistics...
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Re. standard checks: it makes sense to check any offender for wants and warrants. And it is a good idea to co-operate when stopped for speeding, because it can be upped to a criminal offense like "reckless driving." I don't fit profiles, but I was checked every time I was caught for a moving violation.
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We have a compact. Regardless of our color, race or creed, We, unlike nearly all other countries and peoples in history, pledge ourselves to a document that calls to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. If your loyalty is to your blood, clan, or creed, seek opportunity elsewhere.
UMc-8861: I'll go out on a limb and suggest that the person that posted the pic of the kitten is thinking the local officials and cops in Hamtramack are pussies. You'll see alot more of this in the future as muslim enclaves grow in size. What...you never heard of the "no-go" areas that plague Europe?
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While it may be plausible for the left to construct an argument, however implausible, to keep Mexican illegals here, how in the world can they make an argument for not deporting illegal muzzies? The violation of immigration laws is the LEAST compelling reason to ship these ragheads back where they came from. To hell with the 'rule of law', how 'bout the 'rule of sanity'?
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Spoke w/ Dear ol' Mom living in Battle Creek yesterday: seems the Detroit area suffered another job loss blow the other day with VW pulling out. She was talking about the general economic maliase Michigan is drowning in. Glad I left when I did.
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Cats are no pussies (female cats nothwithstnding)! Even a cute-looking cat may be a fierce, clawed warrior (unless claws're clipped, but sharp teeth are still available).
Image of lemmigs going over a cliff would have been more appropiate.
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Saudi Arabia has called off a camel beauty contest scheduled for later this month in the face of the mystery deaths of thousands of the animals that are a national icon in the desert kingdom. The provincial governor for the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Khaled al-Faisal bin Abdel Aziz, took the decision in the face of the mounting death toll in a national herd estimated at 862,000 animals in 2005, the Al-Watan daily reported on Monday. In Saudi Arabia, camels are often referred to by the Arabic word mazaen (beauties) and can fetch more than one million riyals (200,000 euros) a head. The paper said that Agriculture Minister Fahd bin Abdul Rahman Balghnaim was not ruling out a criminal dimension to the deaths, which the Saudi media have described as a national tragedy.
CHINA has allegedly tried to hack into highly classified government computer networks in Australia and New Zealand as part of a broader international operation to glean military secrets from Western nations.
While Miss Clark knew which countries were involved, she would not name them, saying her Government had not spoken to the nations concerned about the problem. "That's not the way intelligence matters are handled," she said.
HAMTRAMCK -- Michigan's most diverse city is wading into the emotional national debate about what role local police should play in enforcing federal immigration laws.
