At least they have admitted that they have a problem. How Can This Be Real? | ZeroHedge
The Home Office in the United Kingdom is now handing asylum seekers a nine-page booklet and posters spelling out that rape is illegal, sex with children is a crime, women are equal to men, and you cannot mutilate girls' genitals.
What could possibly go wrong?
There are few links to X, and even the media in the UK is flabbergasted. Well, some of the media.
That B of A is doing stuff like this makes me very mad. Fines are not enough. Executives need to be tried for crimes. US hits Bank of America with $1.2 billion fine over money laundering | AP News
The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday that it’s imposing $1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws.
They were apparently providing support to Iran, and Russia, as well as helping with Chinese money laundering.
Treasury said Bank of America also reached an $11.6 million settlement with the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control over “apparent violations of numerous sanctions programs, including on Iran, Russia, narcotics, and global terrorism.”
Executives should not get a pass on aiding global terrorism.
Click thru for details. (Hat tip to ParlerNews.)
John R. Lott Jr. at The Federalist: New Trump Admin Stats Prove Good Guys With Guns Save Lives
The federal government consistently downplays evidence that armed, law-abiding citizens can stop public mass-casualty attacks.
That would mostly be the FBI, The Bureau of Justice Statistics, the ATF, ... In other words, the Deep State that wants citizens disarmed.
Those who manipulate crime data can shape the political debate. The Trump administration has reversed some serious data manipulation that occurred during the Biden administration when it comes to crime.
He starts out the recent CDC decision to republish, and somewhat correct, data on armed self-defense. (See my post from Sunday.)
But the FBI is also part of the problem.
The FBI has also had its own data problems. The FBI defines an active shooter as someone actively killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. The category can include an incident in which a gunman shoots at a single person and misses, as well as a mass public shooting. But it excludes shootings tied to other crimes, such as robberies or fights over drug turf.
I have seen politicized data firsthand. Until January 2021, I served at the U.S. Department of Justice as senior adviser for research and statistics in the Office of Justice Programs, where part of my job involved evaluating the FBI’s active shooter reports. During my time at DOJ, I found that the FBI had missed or misidentified many cases in which armed civilians stopped attacks.
Click thru for the rest. (Hat tip to Crime Prevention Research Center)
Now He is charged. The fact that he was shot by an ICE agent is just icing on the cake. Austin man shot by ICE agent charged with assault, resisting arrest
Federal prosecutors have charged the Austin man an ICE agent shot earlier this month with a single count of resisting and assaulting a federal officer, according to court documents.
I'm sure that the Left will be protesting something about this.
He knew he was going to be detained, so he fled.
Garces Perez disregarded the officers’ commands to exit the vehicle and he fled the scene. As he pulled away from the scene, his driver’s side mirror hit one of the officers in the torso, according to the criminal complaint.
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If you wrote this into a fictional story, people would say you were being ridiculous. But it really happened. From Not the Bee: Pennsylvania cops say wife shot husband during argument over gun safety to prove her point
He would leave his 9mm pistol laying around, so she shot him to teach him a lesson. Or something.
Unfortunately, it was the last lesson her husband was ever going to learn.
She is facing charges of criminal homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.
On the plus side, the gun has finally been stored far away from the children … in the evidence locker.
I fully expect the Clancy Brigade to explain to all of us how this wasn't her fault in about 3 minutes, though it might not get the national attention Clancy got.
This is getting to be a worrisome trend. Vivian Savella killed: Mother accused of killing 4-year-old girl amid custody battle in Houston, police and attorney say - ABC7 Los Angeles
The whole murder/failed-suicide thing is too common. I usually see it about ex-husbands, ex-girlfriends, ex-whatever. But I may need to start looking for stories about parents and their children.
I think suicide is a bad idea, but if you are bent on killing yourself, go ahead. Leave you ex and your kids out of it.
The family's attorney said in a statement that her dad trusted the courts, followed every order, and waited for the process to work.
Sources close to the family told ABC Houston affiliate KTRK that a family court judge had just granted custody of Vivian to her father, and she was supposed to be turned over to him Tuesday night.
There is a story there, but since it took place in family court, we will probably never know what it was. I know two men, who received custody of their kids from a court, though I only knew one of the ex-wives who lost custody. She was batshit crazy. And I do know other fathers who got custody of their sons, when those sons were teenagers and rebelling against their mothers.
I think what I am saying is that it isn't common for a father to get custody of a young child.
This took place in Houston, though I hold out little hope that even in Houston she will see anything close to Justice.
A history lesson from 90 Miles From Tyranny. September 29, 1982: The Chicago Tylenol Murders Begin
A 12-year-old girl named Mary Kellerman dies in the suburbs of Chicago after taking an Extra-Strength Tylenol, becoming the first of six people in the area to soon turn up dead after taking that same medication. Investigators later found cyanide in the capsules.
No one was ever convicted of these crimes.
I have seen this reenacted on at least one procedural, cop show. Except Hollywood, in the times before MeToo and COVID, loved a happy ending, which meant the bad guy being brought to justice of some kind.
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A liberal journalist (but I repeat myself) who said Trump's anti-crime initiative was all propaganda, and that it would probably make things worse, is unable to understand how things got so much better. Liberal journalist SHOCKED that DC crime has plummeted for some strange reason 🤔
Matthew Yglesias, a New York Times opinion writer, is shocked to discover the CVS near is home in DC has stopped locking the cabinets they installed during the Biden years. He can't understand how this came about, but it is a great improvement in his standard of living.
Over the past two years, D.C. has been thoroughly cleaned, with multiple restoration projects and law enforcement on the streets. The liberal media spent months wailing about this, even arguing that the deployment of the National Guard was akin to Hitler deploying S.S. troops to take over the capital.
Because they don't care about truth. They really don't care about crime, unless it impacts them, by making their trip to the drug store that much more inconvenient. They only care about Orange Man Bad.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 27, 2026
Click thru for the post on X that started this, though I expect it will be deleted, which is (I'm guessing) why Andy Ngo took that screenshot. Also several of the more spicy reactions to his complete lack of understanding of cause and effect.
From CWB Chicago: Apple Watches, TVs and laundry detergent: Chicago freight train thefts fuel $200 million national problem - CWB Chicago
Freight trains passing through Chicago have increasingly become moving targets for thieves who board railcars, sometimes while they are moving, force open shipping containers and haul away cargo ranging from large-screen televisions and laptops to air conditioners and laundry detergent.
It is a problem that has been growing, and because Chicago is a rail crossroads, it is a big problem. (Chicago does not have the larges railcar switching yard, but it has several yards, and several freight lines that converge on the region. And at times, freight trains move slowly.
The article starts with a mention of the crime from 2015, and then moves to 2 years ago.
In August 2024, Chicago police arrested four men accused of stealing 39 big-screen Roku televisions worth $12,441 from a Norfolk Southern railcar near 63rd Street and South Wentworth Avenue. According to a police report, a CPD camera operator saw the men loading the televisions into a pickup truck at a gas station next to the tracks.
There are more incidents, including one from this year.
Crime does pay in a place like Chicago, because while some people are caught, not all are.
I'm not optimistic on that point. But at least he will face a trial. ‘Can’t Just Kill People Because You Wear a Badge’: Florida Cop Who Killed Black Airman Running Out of Options as Judge Denies Self-Defense Claim
The former Florida sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed U.S. Airman Roger Fortson has resorted to several tactics over the past two years to either delay or dismiss the manslaughter charges against him.
But a Florida judge denied Eddie Duran’s latest attempt to get the case dismissed on Sept. 11., putting him on track to face a jury later this month for killing the 23-year-old Black man.
Duran went to U.S. Airman Roger Fortson's apartment in the middle of the night. There was a distrubance in the apartment below Fortson's apartment, but in addition to not being able to read maps, it seems cops also have trouble with floor numbers.
Duran pounded on the door, and screamed about being police, but he was not standing in a place where Forston could see him through the peephole, because no one can scream "police" except the police or something. Fortson answered the door armed. The gun was pointed at the ground, and he never threatened Duran. Duran shot an killed him within a couple of seconds. Why? Because he is a cop, and your 2nd Amendment right to armed in his presence is moot. Or something.
Since May 3, 2024, Meka Fortson has driven from Georgia to Florida for every hearing in the Okaloosa County courtroom where her son died, just seconds after he opened his front door with a gun pointed downward at his side.
Meka Fortson told Atlanta Black Star in a June interview that a judge denied Duran’s trial 17 times since prosecutors charged him with manslaughter on Aug. 23, 2024.
“You want all this time, but you killed Roger so fast,” she said in the most recent interview.
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It is expensive to care for old people. But hey, at least they will kill you for free. Our 83-year-old Christian grandmother was euthanised against her will under Canada's assisted dying system - she died covered in blood with her hands clasped in prayer | Daily Mail Online
This is a long article, and you should read all of it, but here is the main point. She was not able to consent. Yet they took her consent.
In a cognitive test, designed to ascertain whether she was sound of mind enough to consent to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Stegemann ‘got every question wrong’, believing her two living siblings to be dead, according to Kranendonk.
So after she failed that test, they came back with another test. Except they didn't have any way to judge the answers.
As opposed to questions such as who the prime minister was, or that day's date, the grandmother was asked personal questions, like how many siblings she had.
‘But none of that is in her records. They would not know if the information was correct, or not,’ Kranendonk says.
Even so, Stegemann got the answers wrong.
She said she had no siblings, despite having 13.
So She failed cognitive tests, and yet they still deemed her cognitively fit to consent to being killed.
That sounds to me like they decided to kill her no matter what.
The hat tip goes to Not The Bee and More disturbing details emerge about Canadian grandma who was reportedly "suicided" against her will
The family fought to keep the elderly Mrs. Stegemann alive for a long time, and then, while they were out of town, their grandmother apparently came back into her right mind long enough to tell doctors it was okay to kill her. She was so lucid, in fact, that authorities didn't even need to have her granddaughter present, despite the fact that she had power of attorney!
I miss living in a civilized society.
It seems to be in the news lately. Walmart stabbing suspect found not guilty by reason of insanity
This happend in 2025, so you're forgiven if you have forgotten the details. Here is a refresher from Fox News. Armed Marine veteran stops Michigan Walmart stabbing suspect
The man, identified by family as Derrick Perry, is seen in the video pointing a firearm at the suspect in the store’s parking lot in Traverse City as he and other bystanders shout "drop the knife!" Perry is a Marine veteran, the New York Post reported, citing his family.
And because Heroes should be remembered, here is a post from Benny Johnson, calling out the Hero, Derrick Perry.
This is Derrick Perry.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 27, 2025
The man who helped put an end to a mass stabbing inside a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan.
He held the attacker at gunpoint until police arrived.
Hero. pic.twitter.com/GX3gCDAjOX
Those are the details from last summer. Back to the current situation.
A man accused of stabbing 11 people at a Grand Traverse County Walmart last summer has been found not guilty by reason of insanity, according to the Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office.
You can click thru for the details.
Traverse City, Michigan, is in the northwest portion of the lower peninsula, on Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. It is about a 255 mile drive northwest of Detroit.
Since the case is now, apparently, closed, CCTV and bodycam footage has been released.
This video is from both Midwest Safety and The Interrogation Files. Bodycam Released in Walmart Mass Stabbing. The video is 27 minutes, so plan accordingly.
My post on the initial incident: Armed Citizen Stops Mass Stabbing. That includes a link to a Colion Noir video on the incident.
The Other McCain reminded us that Crazy People Are Dangerous
How can it be with all those lovely gun-control laws? Watch: Man fights off gunman in London corner shop
A shopper wrestled his gun-wielding attacker to the ground in a corner shop in north London.
CCTV footage showed Ali Unlu wrestle with Mustafa Bolat, 29, who fired at least one shot in his direction at a convenience store in Wood Green.
The defender is Ali Unlu, and the attacker is Mustafa Bolat. London is not the same as it was. Well, there are some things that all progressive cities have in common.
At the Old Bailey, Bolat admitted possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, but was cleared by a jury of attempted murder and possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
The hat tip for all of this goes to Active Self Protection. See the video, which is about 10 minutes, for a breakdown of the CCTV video.
This is the Active Self Protection video British Shop Keeper Fights Off ARMED Man
I miss living in a civilized society. From CWB Chicago: Couple robbed police dispatcher while she was trapped in car wreckage, prosecutors say - CWB Chicago
A veteran Chicago police dispatcher was pinned inside her wrecked car, with nine broken ribs and two fractured vertebrae, when a man climbed into the back seat and stole her driver’s license and credit cards, prosecutors say. The man’s girlfriend then got into the front seat and began patting the injured victim’s waistline, apparently looking for more valuables.
Cops caught the pair, but the judge released them back into the city. Keeping depraved criminals in jail is unfair, according the State of Illinois.
Judge Luciano Panici Jr. denied prosecutors’ request to detain Nelson while the case proceeds and instead released him on electronic monitoring. Prosecutors did not file a detention petition in Vann’s case.
Chicago used to be a wonderful city. Not anymore.
Or is that a question we are not allowed to ask? Gunmen fire more than 70 shots, killing 1, injuring 6 in Humboldt Park on Sunday afternoon - CWB Chicago
Humboldt Park is one of the 77 neighborhoods community areas of Chicago. It is on the West Side, and was heavily Puerto Rican in the 1970s, and 1980s. I have no idea what the demographics are today.
Six people were standing outside when two vehicles pulled up, and multiple gunmen got out and began shooting, police said. A 30-year-old woman driving nearby was struck by gunfire and crashed into a CTA bus, according to CPD.
I don't think that this will make the national news, but I've been wrong before.
Police recovered "dozens" of shell casings, mostly from rifle-caliber bullets.
The shooting took place on Saturday the 13th. Police determined that a vehicle left at the scene was also used in a drive-by shooting on Thursday.
When this kind of thing happened when Al Capone was running The Outfit, it was a national scandal. Now it's just Tuesday. Or Saturday.
So much for the gated community idea. Also, don't "confront" thieves, in order to speak harshly to them. Thieves open fire on homeowner in Havre de Grace gated community
The incident happened at Bulle Rock, a high-end residential community built around a golf course. Havre de Grace police say a number of suspects entered the neighborhood to steal vehicles.
Remind me again, how do gated communities work?
Havre de Grace, Maryland is about a 35 mile drive northeast of Baltimore. It is located on the mouth of the Susquehanna River, where that river pours into the Chesapeake Bay.
They stole a "Dodge Charger-type vehicle." Was it a Charger, or a Challenger, or something else? They were attempting to steal a RAM pickup.
The owner of the pickup truck was still awake at 2 a.m. Saturday when his alarm system sent him a notification. After spotting the suspects on his security cameras, he ran outside to confront them.
They left, but they fired shots at the truck owner, his house, and several vehilces while they were leaving.
"The individuals were clearly prepared to conduct some sort of criminal activity," [Major Joseph Alton of the Havre de Grace Police Department] said. "Clearly bold in regard to they were willing to shoot at somebody over a vehicle theft. Again, not the average guy is willing to take a shot at another person over a vehicle theft."
I would say Major Alton hasn't been paying attention to reality in quite some time. Maybe the crime in Havre de Grace is sedate, but crime in blue cities is out of control, and people will shoot you over next-to-nothing.
So he kept his truck, and didn't get shot. That 2nd part was mostly a matter of luck. Luck is not a strategy, not when the downside is being shot, having someone in your house, or a neighbor's house, shot. Your righteous indignation doesn't make you bulletproof.
This story is from The Other McCain. LARRY KRASNER IS COOKED! Philly D.A. Could Face Federal Charges
NEVER LIE TO THE JUDGE! On any list of “Things a Lawyer Should Never Do,” lying to the judge must always be No. 1. Let me summarize this complex story as briefly as possible: With financial backing from George Soros, Larry Krasner became Philadelphia’s District Attorney in 2018, and immediately instituted a policy of leniency, which he sought to make retroactive by cooperating with the Innocence Project to overturn previous convictions.
Because there is nothing that the Left loves more than to turn violent criminals free.
I'm no monster, and innocent people should not be in prison. That isn't what was going on here.
There is one particular case, that is causing Krasner problems. It is the case of Dennis Johnson, who was convicted of murdering Kenyatta Smith in a convenience store in 2007.
The DA was eager to see the conviction overturned, but when the judge in the case started holding hearings on the matter, panic set in. Krasner apparently pressured staffers to lie to the judge, to the point where Judge Paul S. Diamond referred the matter to the US Attorney's office, saying that the DA might have committed conspiracy or obstruction of Justice. Krasner and Matthew Stiegler (a supervisor in the DA's office) can no longer work on Dennis Johnson's case, as per Judge Diamond.
It isn't clear (to me) why Stiegler was included in that restriction, but I have not researched every detail about this case. Yet.
Ace of Spades has a good rundown here. I am not a lawyer, and understand that Larry Krasner is “presumed innocent,” yadda yadda yadda, but based on my four decades of experience as a journalist, it is my opinion that Krasner is guilty — GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!
Click thru for the meme (you have to page down) and more details. OK, it isn't exactly a meme. It is a frame from an old, and once venerated comic, Doonesbury. (The author of the comic, seems to have a severe case of TDS these days. I'm afraid it might be terminal.)
The Price of Liberty brings us the news. How desperate will the hoplophobes and hoploclasts become?
A hoplophobe is a person who fears guns (or at least claims to). A hoploclast is one who hates guns. At least guns in the possession of anyone except a government, badged employee or a on-duty, serving combat-related person serving in the military.
The news is presented in a graphic. Click thru. Murder and non-negligent homicide is down 18.1%, robbery is down 18.5%, and aggravated assault is down 7.2%. This is based on the FBI crime reports from 2024 and 2025. This is during an age when gun sales, if not record-setting, are measured in the millions, every year. There are approximately 20 million concealed carry license holders nationwide, and 29 states have adopted Constitutional Carry.
This is all very good news. It is also difficult for people to believe, in a time when a news story about two or three people being gunned down by a madman is broadcast to all Fifty States within a half-hour (“Bottom of the hour” news alerts) or an hour (the next regular reading of the news).
We are left with the impression that violence, gun and other violence, is exploding at a phenomenal rate. We hear about these killings faster, more frequently, and often phrased in a way to push the hoploclastic agenda. But this is not the case, according to various government agencies.
And since this information is not likely to be told to anyone by the national media, I intend to spread it far and wide.
At least it was over something important. </sarcasm>. Argument over green chile enchiladas ends in deadly shooting | KRQE News 13
He shot his cousin, several times, over an argument about enchiladas. Wut?
Police said Ervin Gutierrez, 22, and Nathaniel Cavazos, 25, were at an an apartment, drinking at dinner and got into a fight over the heat of the green chile on enchiladas they were eating. After the fight, Gutierrez, 22, pulled out a handgun and shot Cavazos several times, killing him.
Gutierrez is charged with one count of murder.
I miss living in a civilized society. OK, so it has been stuck in drafts for a few days. It is still worth thinking about.
What about all those lovely gun control laws? Two Arrested, Two Outstanding in Violent Brampton Home Invasion and Shooting | Peel Regional Police
Investigators from the Central Robbery Bureau have arrested and charged two individuals in connection with a violent home invasion in Brampton that left two victims with gunshot wounds.
The home invasion took place in June, and the arrests took place in July. I'm not sure why the police in The Region of Peel, in Ontario decided to produce a press release on Friday the 5th. They are asking for additional information. Surveillance video shows 3 people, and only 2 have been arrested, so that may be the reason for the release. It just seems odd that they would not have asked the public for information sooner than 3 months after the fact.
The Region of Peel is a suburb of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada.
The two people who have been arrested, one 18 years old, and one 16 years old, are charged as follows:
- Attempted Murder Using Firearm
- Aggravated Assault
- Robbery
- Disguise with Intent
- Discharge Firearm with Intent
- Unauthorized Possession of Firearm
- Possession of Property Obtained by Crime
- Fail to Comply with Sentence or Disposition (YCJA)
If you're unlucky enough to live in Canada and to have three armed individuals enter your home at 4:30 AM, you are screwed. While it is my understanding that Canada is trying to revamp its self-defense laws, for the most part you are not allowed to do anything except be a victim.
So how did the criminals have guns in the presence of gun control? Did being disarmed (for their own safety) help the two people who were shot in any way?
