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Chicago War Deaths

The lamestream media told you:

“CHICAGO (CBS) — 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer; Total Is About Double The U.S. Troop Death Toll In Iraq

“An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.

“In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 125 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.

According to the Defense Department, 65 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period.

In the same time period, an estimated 247 people were shot and wounded in the city.”
You can see the maps yourself.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

In a story almost without precedent, CBS identified Chicago’s high murder rate as almost totally gang related and geographically isolated. In modern America, that would mean these are war deaths in the War on Some Drugs, and not “gun deaths” as the media likes to frame the argument, to vilify firearms and create public fear.

With surprising candor, CBS announced, “Gang and gun violence continue to be the dominating threat on our streets," according to a police e-mail to CBS. "Up to 60 percent of the shootings are gang related. More than 90 percent of the offenders have criminal histories and up to 80 percent of the victims have criminal histories."

It’s unclear how the police concluded that only 60% of these crimes are gang related, when 90% of the shooters have criminal records and 80% of the victims do too. It’s also a fairly typical police distortion to suggest gun violence is the dominant threat “on our streets” when these gangland rubouts happen “on their streets,” and normal citizens generally only get to see it on the news from the “bad” neighborhoods. Look at the maps. Comparing Chicago’s rubout rate to the wars against Islamofascists is just bad reporting, from the town that has virtually banned guns (unlike Iraq and Afghanistan) and spawned Barack Obama.

Traffic Stop Surprise

The lamestream media told you:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, "America's Toughest Sheriff," has been pulling over motorists for traffic violations, and then interrogating them to determine if the passengers are undocumented migrant workers. His efforts have led to the identification and deportation of countless migrants from the county's streets, driving cars with improper equipment or in violation of traffic laws.

Immigrant advocates protest the efforts, saying it amounts to racial profiling, is an unfair discrimination against immigrants, outside the Sheriff's authority, and frightens people legally in the country.

Unfortunately for the protesters, federal authorities recently cited Sheriff Joe's campaign as exemplary and a model for other agencies to copy.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

A driver was pulled over in Guadalupe, a virtually Mexican shanty town in the southern suburbs of Phoenix, for driving at night with only a single headlight. On questioning, the driver had no proof of insurance and no proof of vehicle registration in the vehicle, in addition to the broken headlight violation.

The driver complained bitterly, and publicly, claimed unfair treatment, suggested she should have been let off with only a warning, and said it was retaliation against her, and that the sheriff is racially profiling people of color, despite the dangerous broken headlamp. She asked the deputy on the scene why he works for someone "who harrasses people with brown skin."

The driver was the mayor of Guadalupe, Rebecca Jimenez. She said she'd like to end the 30-year contract with the Sheriff for providing police services (the town has no police of its own). Sheriff Joe with typical candor said he would be glad to get out of there because, "Nobody wants it."
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/116355

Tags: Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Anti-gun Promo Blackfires

The lamestream media told you:

Gun deaths and gun violence are a national scourge that must be met with strict common-sense gun laws, to prevent rampant violence in society. Everyone is affected, so everyone must be subject to controls.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

In an effort to prove the "news" myth paraphrased above, The Baltimore Sun, which features standard anti-gun-rights bias in its reporting, published an interactive map of homicides in the Baltimore area.

Unfortunately for its inventors, the map only confirms what rights advocates have been declaring for decades -- it's not a gun problem, it's a demographic problem -- with social, economic and geographic components the political community refuses to admit. If they did, the fundamentally demographic nature of the enigma would emerge, and despite the horrifying facts, they would risk being called bad names.

The maps say it all. The data sets here are for all of 2007, Baltimore area, all forms of homicide (blue is choking, green is blunt force, red is shooting, black is stabbing, white is undetermined).

And don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger, blame the newspaper for letting the dirty little secret out -- it's not a gun or murder problem, it's a demographic problem.

These Baltimore Sun maps show a terrible problem but do not clarify who the murderers are.

Baltimore Sun map of PEOPLE murdered, 2007:

Baltimore Sun map of BLACKS murdered, 2007:

Baltimore Sun map of WHITES murdered, 2007:

"The lack of diversity is blatant and appalling," said one unidentified observer. Another suggested the results could reflect the city's makeup, but whites outnumber blacks there by more than two to one (3.5MM to 1.6MM). You can pick your own data and see the Baltimore Sun's results, for time periods, races, ages, homicide types, genders and more. Play with the map yourself, it's fun.

CORRECTION:

In those Baltimore Sun maps I posted of murders by race, I stupidly quoted the population of the state instead of the population of Baltimore. D'oh! The ratio is different, but the anomaly of blacks killed to whites killed is still a stunning rebuke of the widely promoted myth that "gun violence," is the core issue, instead of the "untouchable" demographic and socioeconomic problem. Thanks to Phil Lee in Arizona for spotting the error.       

Maryland White 3,573,922; Maryland Black 1,656,615 (2007 Est); Baltimore County White 541,197; Black 192,446 (2007 Est); Baltimore City White 205,982; Non-White 445,172 (2000). All figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Sun

Advanced Degree Druggies

The lamestream media told you:

At least seventy-five students at San Diego State University were arrested on a combination of drug, weapon and other charges in a sting that had been planned for months. Agents made 130 illegal drug buys without even attending classes before descending on the students with warrants.

Seized in the raids were more than four pounds of cocaine, 350 Ecstasy pills, pot, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil, meth, prescription drugs and more. A fraternity house had been used as an organized distribution center, with emailed product notices and discounts promoted.   

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Drugs may not be as bad for you as government reports claim, with breaking news that a massive San Diego State University drug bust included a student about to receive a difficult criminal-justice law degree. Another was about to get a Masters Degree in Homeland Security, a field of study that didn't exist until recently, funded and encouraged by the relatively new federal Dept. of Homeland Security.

The wisdom of having government encourage degrees to fuel its operations was not addressed. The ethics of schools taking government funds to create government degree programs was not addressed. The irony of criminal-justice students earning money through drug sales went unnoticed in "news" reports.

"Supply may have been interrupted by the federal raids," says Counterintuitive Man in an unscheduled interview, "but the countless students who for years used the supplies are simply going to look elsewhere for their goods," he said, with typical candor.

"The idea that ruining this fraternity and revoking its revenue stream will stop pot smokers from smoking pot, or dancers from popping Ecstasy could only be believed by an imbecile," he said. "Hey, this is San Diego, on the Mexican border. You can buy almost anything here, by the ton. Closing one fraternity does nothing, but it does make nice nightly news reports where federal agents can strut around as if they've accomplished something."

He did suggest that students are probably somewhat nervous, as they smoke and pop their remaining stashes while seeking out new suppliers. Later reports suggested a half dozen fraternities were involved, but made no mention of every other college in the nation, because "officials" didn't give them anything to say.

In other news, federal agents busted an Arizona gun dealer for selling hundreds of weapons to drug gods in Mexico involved in the U.S.-managed drug war. That war has left 2,500, mostly Mexican drug entrepreneurs, dead, according to the report. There was no news on when the war might be declared a victory and an armistice sought, or declared a defeat and abandoned entirely.

In still other news, a Marine battalion stationed within 20 yards of sprawling poppy fields in Afghanistan leave the vegetables untouched and their farmers unharmed, as a strict matter of policy. According to the commanders in the beautifully illustrated story, this is the only source of revenue for the poor farmers, and disturbing it would merely turn the people against the U.S. forces needlessly. The Taliban reportedly rakes in $100 million annually from the crops, which represent 33% of the nation's gross domestic product, according to the Associated Press.

Prices for government-banned drugs remained stable on world markets despite the reports.

Tags: drugs, San Diego State University

Decades of Trial

The lamestream media told you:

"Jury starts deliberating today in 1984 Tempe murder case." Robert Ortloff is accused of bludgeoning and strangling the woman before burning the body. The case rests heavily on testimony of a "famous jailhouse snitch," a former Atlanta prosecutor.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial..."

Tags: Robert Ortloff

National Biometric ID

The lamestream media told you:
"The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of people's physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the U.S. and abroad," reports Ellen Nakashima for The Washington Post.

"Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled secure basement here," she writes. Soon the system will be able to spot "criminals and terrorists" and presumably anyone else by iris patterns, face shape, scars, and by your walking stride and speech patterns.

"Bigger. Faster. Better. That's the bottom line," says T.E. Bush III of the FBI Criminal Justice Info Services Division, of the system based in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The article doesn't say it, but tiny Clarksburg, WV (16K pop.), is where the FBI "NICS" gun background check computer is housed. That system (a set of buildings on a sprawling "campus") was designed to be able to check any American from a single location.

It was built with $250 million a year for four years by former AG Janet Reno, under the guise of controlling gun sales. Although the pressure was on to "do something" about guns, the real reason appeared to be to finally fund a massive citizen tracker for the FBI (with more than $1 billion casually added recently in the  NICS "Improvement" Act).

These reasons for the most massive real-time computer ID system ever conceived were ignored in public discussions, government press releases and "news" reports. The AP has still not connected the dots.

The Uninvited Ombudsman however, who didn't even have that title at the time, sounded a faintly heard alarm that the NICS "gun" system was actually the framework for centralized FBI computer control of the entire population.

It makes perfect sense from a bureaucratic mindset, if you overlook the totalitarian potential. Eventually, if the NICS system says nix to you, you won't be able to use your bank account, board aircraft or do anything that requires a card swipe. RFID chips will eliminate the need to even swipe a card since you'll just be read at a distance as you pass by (and if you can't be read a flag will go up).

Think of the convenience. You won't even have to stop at cash registers (take a photo of those quaint devices while you still can), since all products can have RFID printed on the labels with metallic ink (replacing olden manual bar codes). All your purchases and bank info will be scanned by sensors at the exit, your status will be checked, and off you go. Very efficient -- why would an honest person object to this brave new world... order.

According to the Post, employers can voluntarily register their workers in the system to keep an eye on them. "It is drawing criticism from those who worry that people's bodies will become de facto ID cards," Nakashima writes. Sarah Brady could not be reached for comment.

The Uninvited Ombudsman may have been wrong in claiming the system could track any U.S. citizen because, according to the Post, it can also track anyone "abroad," implying the entire planet.

Tags: FBI, NICS

Robot Warriors Coming

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The U.S. armed forces are monitoring the successful development of a robotic exoskeleton that allows a soldier to effortlessly lift huge loads and exert tremendous energy without tiring. The next step, also under development, makes the system freestanding, to mimic a soldier's actions by remote control. This allows the human to remain in a protected area while the robot takes the risks and does the fighting. A police version is not currently mentioned. Take a look.

Tags: robots

Hate Crimes Blossom

The lamestream media told you:
Hate crimes are increasing at an alarming rate nationwide, according to the Associated Press in a report carried by most major lamestream news outlets.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Authorities nationwide are classifying an increasing amount of criminal activity as "hate crimes," a recently invented category of offense.

Basically, hate crime is a type of "thought crime," where a defendant's attitudes are somehow determined by authorities, to either charge that a crime has been committed, or to increase the penalty for an otherwise plain crime like armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder.

Proposed in George Orwell's novel "1984," thought crime was believed to be the scary but impossible creation of a novelist. The increasing number of hate crimes being charged challenges that assumption and has alarmed right-wing alarmists.

Left-wing "civil-rights advocates" however generally support the policies, claiming their side is the victim of bad mental attitudes more often than others. Hate crimes are frequently charged in cases involving sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, sexual perversion, disability, race, ethnicity, nationality, weight, height and age, supporting their claim.

Wikipedia says hate crime is "relatively new." It then attempts to trace it back to treatment of Indians in America in the 16th Century, in what appears to be an effort to clothe the newish concept in legitimacy, and downplay its nature as a new tool of "thought police," also predicted in Orwell's novel.

The term may have been first introduced by the Justice Dept. in 1985, when it announced it was compiling "hate-crime statistics." According to the infoplease website, "The media picked up on the term and quickly began to write about an epidemic before these statistics had even been gathered."

The media reported this week that hate crimes are increasing at an alarming rate, without question. The idea that a serious crime is less of a crime because you were thinking the approved way disturbs many observers.

Tags: hate crime

America Funds Mexico

The lamestream media told you:
President Bush is seeking $500 million to give to Mexico to help fight that country's war on drugs. "We all grasped the historic nature of the moment," said Asst. U.S. Secy. of State Thomas Shannon, on learning of the plan to cooperate with Mexico on a grand scale. Mexico is, "a country long suspicious of U.S. meddling in its affairs," according to Chris Hawley, a reporter editorializing in a front page "news" story for The Arizona Republic.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
A close look at a proposed Mexican aid package reveals that President Bush is seeking $500 million of U.S. taxpayers' hard-earned money to give away to U.S. companies, not Mexico, and boost the firms' bottom lines. Mexico and the dubious "war on drugs" (which delivers drugs at steep markups to every city in America without exception), only provides cover for the tax giveaway, according to critics.

$208 million will go to build eight U.S. helicopters and two U.S. surveillance planes, which will be given to Mexican authorities to use. Mexicans get no money in the deal -- that goes to the companies making the aircraft and their employees and suppliers. According to experts, a $208-million-dollar order is a good thing for a company.

$63 million will buy U.S. X-ray machines, ion scanners and other high tech devices. $28 million will go to computer companies for hardware and software. $23 million is going to satellite communications gear. An undisclosed amount is going towards weapons for Mexican officials who say they are "outgunned" by gangs who buy guns illegally in America (and get away with it). Companies not getting orders are envious and would like to get in on the war-on-drugs sale.

Why reporters failed to note that the president's foreign aid goes to American firms was unclear at press time. The firms getting the money have filed no complaints.

Tags: Mexico, war on drugs

3,000 FBI Violations

The lamestream media told you:
"The Senate was told today that FBI agents may have broken the law as many as 3,000 times since 2003, while spying on U.S. citizens without authority, the AP reports in late-breaking news from a Senate hearing room.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Citizens are being urged to start demanding new laws to control out-of-control government agents, by following the model set by the highly effective posse comitatus law, the Uninvited Ombudsman said in a public statement.

"Government-control laws typically say, 'It shall be illegal for anyone to do X,"' he said in an unannounced press conference. "So everyone does 'X' and nothing happens, or maybe a hearing is held. Wouldn't you like to be under such toothless laws?"

"The reason posse comitatus has been so effective in preventing the military from enforcing civilian law, is that instead of saying, 'don't do this,' it says, 'Whoever does that shall go to prison for two years and be fined up the gazoo.' It makes them all afraid to be the one taking the illegal action. We need more of those laws with teeth and no more that fecklessly say it's not proper to do something, but which includes no consequences. It is easy language to add, and would help bring the country back."

Congressional staffers who write the laws legislators sign without reading them could not be reached for comment.

Tags: FBI, justice system, comitatus