An accused serial killer allegedly confessed to killing 49 women and intended to murder one more to make it an even 50, a prosecutor told jurors today during opening arguments of his trial. Robert William Pickton, 56, has been charged with 26 counts of first-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty to the first six counts in what is expected to be the most macabre and lengthy murder trial in Canadian history.
Hundreds of people began lining up before dawn outside the small courthouse in the Vancouver suburb of New Westminster, vying for the 50 seats in the courtroom to hear opening statements.
A judge warned jurors to expect testimony "as bad as a horror movie" during the trial. Pickton is charged with murdering the women, most of whom vanished from Vancouver's impoverished Downtown Eastside neighborhood in the 1990s.
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If convicted on more than 14 charges, Pickton would become the worst serial killer in Canadian history, after Marc Lepine who gunned down 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnic in Montreal in 1989 before shooting himself.
Not to be picky, but Lepine doesn't qualify as a serial killer. He's a mass murderer.
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Health officials then issued a tainted-meat advisory to neighbors who may have bought pork from the Pickton farm, concerned the meat may have contained human remains.
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Brick Top: You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. Sol: Would someone mind telling me, who are you? Brick Top: And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
Brick Top: Get your tongue out of my arse there Gary. Dogs do that. You're not a dog are ya Gary? Gary: No Mr. Poford, I'm not. Brick Top: Well you got every aspect of a dog. Except loyalty.
[Errol zaps Gary] Turkish: [Voice over] Brick Top's favorite means of dispatch involves a stun gun, a plastic bag, a roll of tape, and a pack of hungry pigs. Brick Top: You're a devilish little cunt there Liam. But I got no time for grassers. Feed 'em to the pigs Errol. What the fuck are you two looking at?
-- "Snatch". Great British gangster movie - make it a point to watch it if you haven't already.
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According to internet sources, the "Canadians" current leading mass killer was "Marc Lepine," who had 14 murders to his credit. Actually, that killer was a Muslim, who was born as "Gamil Gharbi" to an Algerian salesman who hated women. He changed his name in order to make French Canadians think he was one of them.
Was William Picton converted to Islam? Just a theory, but perhaps he was trying to undo the shame of his family pork business by venting the Quran's murder prescriptions against pork-eating women. The number "50" - (Mohammed) Picton's planned kills - is important to Muslim moon-god worshippers. That was the number of times that Allah demanded prostrating prayer, from the carpet grinders. The number was reduced to 5 times per day after Mohammed made his supposed "night journey" to heaven and hell.
California murderer, Juan Coron (Jon al-Coron?) - 34 body count - might also have been a convert. GWOT rule #1: blame Muslims for everything, until it is proven conclusively that they are blameless.
Far fetched? So was the Theory of Relativity in 1904.
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Marc Lepine = Gamil Gharbi. But I don't think one can make the same association for William Pickton. In the US, the worst serial murder episodes were the Zebra Murders committed by the Nation of Islam adherents. While the official body count was 15 and 4 NoI muslims convicted, the unoffical deaths are in the hundreds and a lot of the NoI murderes got away because of the racially charged atmosphere of the early 1970's that no politician wanted to touch.
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I predicted yesterday that leftists would soon be crawling out of the woodwork to defend the Muslim-owned mattress company. Sure enough:
E-mail to soldier spurs outrage Military supporters bombard West Allis company with messages; fears for safety arise
What began as a brief e-mail exchange between a U.S. soldier in Iraq and a Wisconsin-based online retailer has erupted into an international incident that has pitted military supporters against free speech advocates and threatens to shut down the local company.
Bargain Suppliers of West Allis said its discount-mats.com Web site had to be taken down Monday to address the thousands of e-mails it's received since news of the exchange - in which an employee voiced opposition to the war in Iraq - began circulating on the Internet last week.
Vice president Sajid Nasir said the employee is being "held accountable." But he said the incendiary and threatening nature of some of the e-mails - and voicemails left at the West Allis home that co-owner Faisal Khetani shares with his parents - have shaken the family.
"It's really getting out of control," said Nasir, who described the messages as "angry and vulgar." "Our main concern is for the safety of the family. That's more important than the business," he said.
Repeated attempts to reach the Khetanis were unsuccessful.
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"We're monitoring the situation, in case somebody decides to retaliate," Capt. Tom Kukowski said.
Are you monitoring the local mosque? If not, why not?
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01/23/2007 5:38 Comments ||
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For those wishing to contact the owner of this mattress company directly may do so by mailing or calling tham at the following addresses. Please do not threaten the owner, as apprently his employee made the comment. Let's rationally convince him to supply our troops at wholesale or better.
Registrant:
Faisal Khetani
PO Box 270693
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53227
United States
Registered through: Teknon Domains
Domain Name: DISCOUNT-MATS.COM
Created on: 23-Mar-05
Expires on: 23-Mar-08
Last Updated on: 03-Mar-06
Administrative Contact:
Khetani, Faisal sportsfitness@gmail.com
3259 S.106th Street
West Allis, Wisconsin 53227
United States
(414) 543-9634
Technical Contact:
Khetani, Faisal sportsfitness@gmail.com
3259 S.106th Street
West Allis, Wisconsin 53227
United States
(414) 543-9634
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01/23/2007 8:18 Comments ||
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I am warmed by the reaction to this provocative statement. I wish even more people had responded with threats and intimidation. The time is fast approaching when we on the side of freedom and the American way will have to unite against the leftists and the elitists to preserve our way of life against their communal, what's yours is mine, enforced behavior.
We are the only country in the world that accepts immigrants from anywhere without ever having a chance to approve such practices. Even now, our Congress works against the will of most of the citizens by attempting to ignore the law to build a fence on our southern border. Without our consent, our Social Security has been given to foreigners. Without our consent, foreign immigrants have been allowed into various corners of our nation, and even brought here on our dollar. It's time for this crap to stop. It's time for the people to decide who gets to be an American, not the vote seeking political scum.
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Free speech means the ability to come down on this Muzzie shitbag like a ton of bricks. Now that he and his attitude, which I'm sure is the prevalent one for all Muz scum residing here, despite his pitiful denials, is well known, I sincerely hope he's hounded out of business and out of Wisconsin.
Posted by: BA ||
01/23/2007 11:39 Comments ||
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wxjames: no, we don't need anyone responding with threats and intimidation. We need people responding (reasonably) respectfully as to why the guy is wrong. AC and Fred have offered examples. The business owner needs to discipline his employee and ensure that regardless of his opinion on the war (which he has a right to have), our military people are treated with respect they have earned and deserve.
And let's put a sock on the 'raghead' nonsense: we're better than that.
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01/23/2007 14:56 Comments ||
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As I said in another comment, I Google Earthed the address and it is a house. So did he fire his wife, son, daughter?
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As I nunderstand it, the "business owner" is 23 years old.
The SGT in Iraq has a right to be disgusted, and the originator of the reply to the SGT dsesrves to be criticized.
With that said, the broader response appears to be wildly out of proportion. I suspect that the folly of the ill-advised reply to the SGT has well been absorbed by the immigrants (of whatever generation) responsible for the incident. It is probbaly now time to move on.
But - it would be shades of poetic justice if the Muslim community in that area suddenly falls under the microscope - and jihadi cockroaches and illegal immigants are found amongst the group, and dealt with.
Federal officials said Tuesday they arrested more than 750 illegal immigrants over the past week in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in what they described as one of the biggest such sweeps in U.S. history. The weeklong series of raids in the five-county region targeted illegal immigrants who had previously been deported for crimes or had ignored final deportation orders. The sweep netted illegal immigrants from 14 countries in all, including Mexico, Honduras, Ukraine, India, Japan, Poland and Trinidad. Of the 761 people arrested, more than 450 have already been deported, Kice said.
The raids netted 338 illegal immigrants who were arrested at their homes and apartments and 423 who were identified in area jails since Jan. 17. Those already jailed will be transferred to federal custody when they finish serving their state sentences, said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The raids were a major push within Operation Return to Sender, a crackdown that has resulted in 13,000 arrests nationwide since June. Immigration officials have also identified 3,000 inmates in state and local jails who will be deported. Officials estimate 600,000 illegal immigrants who have ignored deportation orders are still at large, Kice said.
The operation targets those illegal immigrants who go into hiding after skipping their deportation proceedings and criminals who have re-entered the United States after being previously deported for crimes committed in this country.
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So was this just on one block, or are they intentionally going slow? Because I've only been to LA once, and I bet I could find more illegals over the course of a week.
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01/23/2007 18:22 Comments ||
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761 down. 750,000 to go.
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You could better this any morning in the valley just going to the Home Depot and Lowes oparking lots.
In the highly-acclaimed movie "The Queen," theater patrons see Queen Elizabeth, played by actress Helen Mirren, express her faith in God after the death of Princess Diana. But in the version of the movie shown as in-flight entertainment on some airlines, only lip readers get the message.
Every reference to God in the movie is censored - replaced by a beep.
At least two airlines, Delta and New Zealand Air, have shown passengers the censored version of the film, prompting complaints.
Eric Johnston, an attorney with the nonprofit Southeastern Law Institute in Birmingham, compared the censoring of God in the in-flight movie to businesses' not using the word "Christmas" during the holidays. Airlines, like some retail businesses, have a diverse body of customers and don't want to offend anyone, he said. "But I don't agree with that at all," he said. "If the movie industry can use the word `God,' then certainly the airlines can use it."
A spokeswoman for Atlanta-based Delta said the airline had no choice because Miramax Films, distributor of "The Queen" shipped to airlines only the censored version of the movie. "That was the only version available to us, and so that's what we showed," said spokeswoman Katie Connell.
New Zealand Air, which showed the same version of the film on its jets, apologized earlier this month after passengers complained, and said it would replace the movie with a version in which "God" isn't censored. A passenger complained to New Zealand Air officials after a London flight on which the censored version of "The Queen" was followed by a showing of the movie "The Departed," in which swearing was not censored. I am not religious at all we are truly through the looking glass when the rule becomes that the name of the Lord shall ONLY be taken in vain. What's wrong with these people?
(Bleep) these (bleep)ing Miramax(bleep)'s (bleep)ing (bleep)(bleep)s to (bleep). And the horses they rode in on, too.
New Zealand Air spokeswoman Pam Wong told The New Zealand Herald that the distributor had shipped them the wrong version of "The Queen."
City Council here agreed Monday to let its safety committee investigate if the city can create local ordinances to crack down on illegal immigration. At the same time, the city Police Department and the Warren County Sheriff's Office announced they may seek federal immigration training for their officers.
The moves come after a Mason resident was stabbed to death outside a Mason bar by at least one illegal immigrant. It was first homicide since 2000 in this outer suburb of Cincinnati.
Barnhill's father, William Barnhill, helped found Citizens for Legal Communities, a Warren County group seeking to strengthen local immigration enforcement. The group's primary concern is the increase in violent crime it says illegal immigrants bring to the community - and the lack of enforcement power for local authorities. Monday night, the group asked council to consider creating several immigration ordinances including:
Making it illegal to harbor, rent or lease residential properties and hotel space for use as an accommodation for an illegal immigrant.
Requiring employers to use a federal online system to verify that workers are eligible for public benefits.
Requiring illegal immigrants who are criminally charged to repay court costs incurred for indigent defense or interpreters.
The group also encouraged council members to petition state legislators for immigration reform. It wants local law enforcement to have authority to prosecute illegal immigrants.
There appears to be a growing trend in communities across the country to enact or consider local laws to deter immigrants from living or working there. The practice has spurred several lawsuits by the American Civil Liberties Union and immigrant groups.
In neighboring Butler County, Sheriff Richard Jones last month announced ten of his deputies will be the first in the Midwest to receive training from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The training would allow deputies to enforce federal immigration laws - something the ACLU and the Butler County Community Alliance worry will spur racial profiling.
Warren County Sheriff Tom Ariss and Mason Police Chief Ron Ferrell said they want to follow Jones' lead.
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I'm no lawyer, but it strikes me that immigration is under the jurisdiction of the Federal government - one of those rare areas actually given it in the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, (the Congress shall have power ... To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization".) I expect local attempts to usurp this power will be successfully challenged in the courts.
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successfully challenged, but the pent-up anger at the grassroots level will only grow with more inaction at the Federal level. Some congressional heads need to roll, and the President forced to crack down
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/23/2007 8:13 Comments ||
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There will be no crackdown on illegals. The Republicans want cheap labor for their cronies, and the Democrats want to make them all citizens, after which they will all vote Democrat. It's a lose-lose situation, and I see the feds using their power to keep local communities from doing anything about it.
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Yup. Either the Feds can stop ignoring the problem and enforce the law, or vigilantism will break out. And that will get ugly quick, it always does.
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This may be the way to finally shut down the ACLU and all it's MeCHA type cronies for good. That's 2-3 communities in Ohio, and several here in metro Atlanta (not even "Redneck" Georgia) have done the same.
Glenmore, you would be right if the locals try and arrest them JUST for being here illegally. But, there are SO many other crimes going on with these criminals that ARE a "local issue." Thus, their ordinance to go after those that rent or lease properties to illegals, to those who employ illegals, etc. Thus, they're going after apartment complexes, employers, etc., instead of the illegal immigrant him/herself.
Posted by: BA ||
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It's happening everywhere. Denver being the sanctuary city encouraging illegals drives me nuts. The Immigrants want Freedom, the Illegal Aliens want to Freeload. (This I believe was well said by SPOD in an earlier post.)
The sooner this is realized and acted upon the better. I'm afraid that it will be too late.
Help us obi wan kenobi.....
Actually, I hope that Tom Tancredo can bring this issue to the table to hopefully make a difference.
Posted by: Jan ||
01/23/2007 12:07 Comments ||
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Hazelton, PA (home of a Hershey chocolate factory where one of my best friends is the quality control engineer) is in court over this very issue right now. Every time an illegal commits a crime, another community becomes activated -- and the illegals are nicely split between those who just want to make a living and those who are running amuck.
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off topic sorry; but TW you reminded me of those cute hershey kiss shaped street lights while driving through Hershey PA. Very cute. The kids loved them. ;)
Posted by: Jan ||
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That's ok, Jan. I've noticed that any mention of Tabby's job or company causes an immediate sidetrack of the conversation. Chocolate'll do that!
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"Vigilantism may break out" > TV NEWS INTERVIEWEES > *"Our elected leaders care about their wealth and power, not protecting America or winning a war"; "I'm buying lots of guns and survival equipment"; " Americans want to win this war but our politicians doesn't, and they don't want to tell us why they don't".
AS SAID TIMES BEFORE, WORSE TO WORSE THE LEFTIES BIGGEST JUSTIFICATION FOR SOCIALISM AND TOTALITARIANISM ARE THEMSELVES. Winston Churchill [paraphrased]> THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE, DILIGENCE, AND PERSEVERANCE.
NET POSTERS > "EVIL Never Stops". Socialism > status quo > but guess what, NOT EVEN MANY SOCIALISTS WANT TO LIVE UNDER SOCIALISM!
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Yeah, right, it's probably published by the AMA to get more patients.
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Note the source: BBC. It's just part of a campaign to get the EUros to be docile little sheep who won't cause trouble for their EUrocrat betters. Thank God for the 2nd amendment.
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"It is particularly difficult to define if someone is cynical and measure what impact this has on their likelihood to develop disease. As the authors of this study acknowledge, psychological factors such as stress can often lead to unhealthy behaviours, including smoking, eating an unhealthy diet and physical inactivity -all of which are established risk factors for heart disease."
So cynicism might have nothing to do with it at all?
Jeez. And they wonder why I'm cynical...
Few were surprised in this Black Sea coast city when a local youth confessed over the weekend to the shooting death of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the latest incident to darken Turkey's international reputation. Arrested Saturday on an overnight train, 17-year-old high school dropout and amateur soccer player Ogun Samast turned out to be from Pelitli, a suburb of Trabzon. "I said my prayers and then I shot [Mr. Dink]," Ogun reportedly told interrogators. "I feel no remorse. He said Turkish blood was dirty blood."
It was here, last February, that a 16-year-old boy fatally shot an Italian priest in the local Catholic church. It was also here, in May 2005, that four students distributing leaflets about prison conditions narrowly escaped death at the hands of a 2,000-strong lynch mob.
Nationalism always has been a fundamental ingredient of Turkish society. As a political movement, it has traditionally been strongest in the towns south of the 13,000-foot-high mountains dividing Trabzon from the bleak Anatolian interior. Now, Trabzon has become a leading center of militant Turkish nationalism, and locals said the phenomenon could spiral out of control.
"What you have here is a headless monster, a nursery for potential assassins," said Omer Faruk Altuntas, a lawyer and local head of a small left-wing party. "You may not like its policies, but at least the MHP controls its followers," agreed Mehmet Akcelep, referring to Turkey's biggest extreme nationalist party, the National Movement Party. "But Samast and hundreds of others like him aren't party people; they're free particles."
Locals say the sources of what one Turkish commentator has labeled "banal fascism" in Trabzon are partially economic. Surrounding villages used to be prosperous; then the hazelnut market collapsed and farmers fled to the city in the tens of thousands. Ogun's district of Pelitli is made up of former villagers forced out of their homes by floods and landslides. Youth unemployment is high and most teenagers while away their time in one of two Internet cafes, or playing soccer.
Those grievances have been stoked by the belief that Trabzon has suffered more than its share of casualties in Turkey's 25-year war against Kurdish separatists. The May 2005 mob attack on four students occurred in an atmosphere of national hysteria triggered by an attempt by two Kurdish teenagers to burn the Turkish flag. Turkey's top general called the flag-burners "so-called citizens."
Critics of developments in Trabzon blame all local authorities, but reserve their harshest words for the press. "Three or four times, they've pretty much invited people to take out their guns and start shooting," said retired teacher Nuri Topal. The lynch mob formed after local television stations ran news flashes saying the students were separatists.
In most Anatolian towns, few people watch local television or read local newspapers. In Trabzon, both are immensely popular and influential, mainly because of the town's obsessive relationship with soccer. The only non-Istanbul club ever to win Turkey's soccer league, Trabzonspor is a central part of the city's identity. The club has long been rumored to be close to local mafia groups enriched by Trabzon's key position in Black Sea human-trafficking networks. Many think its influence on local society is negative, too. "Trabzonspor and its supporters associations have become a semiofficial channel for nationalist thought," said local human rights activist Gultekin Yucesan.
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