Three men are being held for a Palmview home invasion where an 11-year-old boy was shot defending his mother.
Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office deputies told Action 4 News that it happened off Minnesota Road and 8 Mile Line between Palmview and Mission around 12:30 a.m. Friday.
The homeowner said she and her 11-year-old son were in bed when she heard banging on the front main entrance door. She got up to check and she saw two Hispanic males men masks and armed with handguns walking towards her.
She quickly closed the bedroom door but one of the men tried to force it open. The masked man kept telling her to open the door and she would not open the door.
The woman told deputies that the home invaders shot through the door and hit her son on the left hip area. Her son had a 22 cal. Rifle and shot back at the alleged robbers.
The woman waited, opened the door, saw that the suspects were no longer there and called 911. Deputies found blood all over the floor and that the front door knocked down.
Paramedics took the 11-year-old to McAllen Medical Center where he's listed in stable condition.
But deputies told Action 4 News that a man with a gunshot wound to his neck ended up at the same hospital. Nice shooting, son!
Investigators said nothing was taken from the home and that the wounded suspect has to be taken to a San Antonio hospital for further treatment. He remains under guard. Criminal charges are expected to be filed against him, if he survives. Pray for sepsis ...
Deputies said Border Patrol agents detained two Mexican nationals who were found in the area. The two men are being questioned about the home invasion.
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials told Action 4 News that they have filed detainers against the two men.
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My late father-in-law did this as a 12 year old back in the late 1940's - using his trusty 22. Ended up with favorable coverage and a photo on the front page of the next morning's paper. Winged the guy, but always said he was ready to fire again.
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In England, this story would have been much different, of course:
1) The boy wouldn't have had a rifle available. Who knows how the story would have ended then.
2)If he had had a rifle, and used it, he would have been arrested, not the home invader. The mother, too. The home invader probably would have filed charges against them for grievous bodily harm.
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Rambler, Massachusetts would've been the same story as England.
Step One: No Marvin Gaye songs...
Tiger Woods is getting treatment at a top sex addiction program in Hattiesburg, Miss., sources have told RadarOnline.com exclusively. "Well, sports fans, I'm off to Hattiesburg to have my sex life rehabbed!"
"G'bye, Tiger! We'll miss you! Here's something to remember us by!"
"Wow! Nice undies! Maybe I should leave tomorrow...?"
The troubled golf great checked into Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services, sources say. The clinic, considered one of the top in the nation for sexual addiction, is directed by Dr. Patrick Carnes, who has pioneered treatment for sexually compulsive behavior. "He looks interested again, Doctor!"
"Nurse! Whack his pee-pee!"
"Owwww!"
"Okay, Trixie! Give 'em another shake!"
According to the Web site for the facility, patients usually spend about six weeks in treatment. Sex addicts receive a variety of treatments, including group therapy, "Whack all their pee-pees!"
"Owwww!"
"Owwww!"
"Owwww!"
"Owwww!"
"Owwww!"
cognitive behavior therapy and something called "shame reduction." "I'm so ashamed!"
"Being a horn dog is nothing to be ashamed of, Tiger! Think of it as a treatable condition. And get your hand out of your pants. You'll go crazy."
As RadarOnline.com has previously reported, Woods has not been seen publicly since his infamous car accident in the early morning hours after Thanksgiving after an alleged altercation with his wife Elin after she discovered he was having an affair. "Say! Ain't that Tiger Woods?"
"Naw. Tiger ain't got a cleft in his chin!"
Since the story first broke, Woods has been romantically linked to more than a dozen women. "Let's get nekkid!"
"Oh, Tiger! You're so romantic!"
"So let's get linked!"
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I bought a "Tiger's favorite 18 holes" DVD, and when I check it out? It's a damn GOLF DVD. WTF?
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We found out last year that Tiger Woods was no Tiger at all, no sir, he is a Tom Cat, always on the prowl.
(Bennett/Burton)
Been working like a dog gone crazy,
Been giving everything I've got,
I need something short and sweet to save me.
A little something that can hit the spot.
I've been living like a man in a prison.
I've been living like a monk in a cave.
I need a woman with a good position.
I start searching at the end of the day.
Pack it in and go to town
When the sun goes down.
And do the Tomcat prowl
When the sun goes down.
I've been punching out a clock since fifteen.
I've Been living on a working wage.
Ya keep paying me and I'll keep lifting.
I keep a-lifting 'til the end of the day.
Then pack it in and go to town
When the sun goes down.
Do the Moondog howl
When the sun goes down.
Do the Tomcat prowl
When the sun goes down.
Gotta find a way to ease that pressure.
Gotta find a way to ease that pain.
Gotta find myself some buried treasure.
Gotta find it before the sun comes up again.
It doesn't matter if you're sane or crazy.
It doesn't matter if you're weak or strong.
It doesn't matter if your past is hazy.
It doesn't matter, you can all come along.
Pack it in and go to town
When the sun goes down.
And do the Tomcat prowl when the sun goes down
(down down down - sun goes down)
Pack it in and go to town when the sun goes down
(sun goes down, yeah)
And do the Tomcat prowl when the sun goes down
Do the Moondog Howl when the sun goes down
Oh .. I'm howlin' baby!
#5
Honestly, I think it's rather nice that a guy can go to a place like this and work on his technique. Wish I could afford the tuition!
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Well, it was either the Rehab center or run for the Ted Kennedy Memorial Senate seat and hit bar in Massachusetts. A bit cold in Massachusetts this time of year.
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Alternative story with irony: Tiger Woods Checks Into Sex Addiction Clinic In Arizona With Plans For a Romantic Valentine's Day (Emphasis Added, UP....) Escape
#10
If they have someone who looks like Helen Thomas on the staff, I would say that the prognosis is good. If she were to get hands on in a filmy Kimmono for six weeks, Tiger might discover the value of abstinence.
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[Maghrebia] Thirty-four renowned Mauritanian religious and national figures this week signed a fatwa banning female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that remains widespread in some parts of the country.
The fatwa, whose authors convened in Nouakchott on Monday and Tuesday (January 11th-12th), states that FGM "has been proven by experts to be detrimental, immediately or subsequently. Hence, such a practice, as is performed domestically, is hereby prohibited, on account of the harm it gives rise to".
The authors cited the work of Islamic legal expert Ibn al-Hajj as support for their assertion that "[s]uch practices were not present in the Maghreb countries over the past centuries".
FGM is "not an instinctive habit, according to the Malkis; therefore, it was abandoned in northern and western regions of the country," added the authors, who were meeting in a seminar organised by the Forum of Islamic Thought. Mauritanian Islamic leaders, the association of ulema and government officials all took part in the event.
"The meeting was important. Lots of arrangements had to be made, since the topic is sensitive and vital," Dr. Sheikh Ould Zein Ould Imam, the forum's secretary general and professor of jurisprudence at the University of Nouakchott, told Magharebia in the capital on Thursday.
"There's no doubt that the fatwa will substantially curb [FGM], since it removes the religious mask such practices were hiding behind," the professor said. "We do need, however, a media campaign to highlight the fatwa, explain it and expound upon its religious and social significance."
Many of the women that Magharebia met in the capital on Thursday applauded the seminar's outcome.
"I believe that convening an Islamic seminar in Nouakchott these days to discuss [FGM] is a gigantic step, because it has smashed the religious taboo shrouding that phenomenon," said Alia, 24, a student. "Using religion to justify harm is nothing but systematic ideological terrorism."
"That workshop, which we all followed, has substantially contributed to containing a danger that threatens women in a socially conservative country like this one," she added.
Some women told Magharebia that the recent change was actually long overdue.
"Where were those imams for the past decades, when [FGM] killed dozens of girls each year?" asked Alia's friend Miriam, a 30-year-old housewife who was circumcised at an early age. "Were the imams and circumcision victims on two different planets? Personally speaking, I find no answer to those questions."
"All I am trying to say is that we needed that circumcision-prohibiting fatwa a long time ago," she added. "I was victimised by that brutal custom when I was seven, and it left an indelible psychological scar."
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[Bangla Daily Star] Three robbers were beaten to death by mob at Bitghar village of Nabinagar upazila in Brahmanbaria while they were taking preparation to commit a robbery early yesterday.
The dead were identified as Tiger Samad alias Saimma, 36, of Kaitala village under Nabinagar upazila, and Ellias and Mafiz alias Aziz of Chittagong.
Villagers and police sources said a gang of robbers led by Tiger Samad, accused in 12 cases, gathered at a house of Kaitala village with their guns to commit a robbery on the night.
Nabinagar police later went to the spot after nearby people informed them about the matter. Sensing danger, the robbers fired five rounds of bullet at police prompting the law enforcers to fire 13 blank shots.
Local people later chased the gang members who were fleeing from the scene after the exchange of gunfire.
The mob caught three of the robbers from nearby Bitghar village and gave them a good beating, killing them on the spot around 2:00am.
Police recovered a local gun (LG) and nine rounds of bullet from the scene and arrested a female robber.
The bodies were sent to Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital for autopsy.
Additional Superintendent of Police Md Osman Gani confirmed the incident. Police have been deployed in the area to control the situation.
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I've been to Brahmanbaria. Its strung out along the river. Has a big bazaar for selling Camels
( or is it Elephants, I forget).Anyway.. some animal with large bowels.
Has an Animals with large Bowels Fair every year.
Gets flooded now and then. Has three levels of sidewalks all on top of one another from the last time it rained.
Once had to walk 60 miles around the town because of the water covering everything ( like the rail line) for miles. My ticket by rail was worthless, the town full of rained out refugees, no food even if you had money, gangs with sticks and totally white( drowning does that to flesh) bodies of water buffalo legs up and rotting with the crows all over them.
A human dead body, all water white and drowned, laid outside the railroad yard gate leading into town. Somebody left it there for "pick up" by the local garbage business ( they actually had one?).
be sure and tell Tourism about the local color and quaint customs of Brahmanbaria.
Its a winner.
Angleton9: nice local color. BTW, buddy, pick one nym and stick with it. AoS.
[Bangla Daily Star] Villagers beat up nine persons, including a journalist, suspecting them as robbers in Ketua village Thursday night.
Locals said villagers beat up a group of youths who were returning home from a friend's house around 9:00pm.
Police rescued the victims and held them at Chandpur Model Police Station.
The detained were Shawkat Ali, a local correspondent of daily Banglabazar, Habibur Rahman, Arif, Kamrul Islam, Jitu, Fahim Akter Nijum, Saddam Hossain, Jahangir Hossain and Arif Hossain.
Abdur Rahim, sub-inspector of the police station, said police detained the youths to save them from mob beating.
"We identified the youths after talking to some of their acquaintances at the police station," he added.
Abdur Rahim added that the friends of the youths were beaten too, as they soon went to Ketua. Three of them were severely injured and are undergoing treatment at Chandpur General Hospital.
The detained were sent to jail under section 54.
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"Habibur Rahman, Arif, Kamrul Islam, Jitu, Fahim Akter Nijum, Saddam Hossain, Jahangir Hossain and Arif Hossain.".....sounds like a Moslem group doesnt it.? Passing through Ketua Village (after dark) on their way to the local Mosque( somewhere else)?
Ketua Village couldnt possibly be a Hindu village could it? And the police Chief is named Abdur Rahim? Uh huh. Not a Hindu name either. And the Moslem "friends" rushed right back to straighten things out with the residents of Ketua Village after seeing their buds at the jail with their faces looking like strawberry jam?
and the "detained" were sent to Jail under section 54? Uh huh. For their own protection presumably. Where they are sure to meet Big Mustapha( the Bint ) who will introduce them to HIS friend, Alice the Mustache in the cells.
Shake me down and roll me over and do it again.
Its fun being a laidback Moslem AND you can drink that sweet Palm Toddy and sing in the choir.
Now if they could just manage to manufacture Ballpoint Pens they could sell them in the Bazaar and buy a boat to go up river in.
HAITIAN cowered in fear today armed looters scavenged through their ruined capital filled with the stench of rotting corpses after the earthquake described by the UN as the worst disaster it had ever faced.
As US troops tried to unblock an aid logjam and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed to the disaster zone, the Haiti Government admitted it was no longer able to function properly.
And while international rescuers continued to work around the clock in tropical temperatures, their efforts were hampered by a lack of fuel and transport as the sense of despair set in among exhausted survivors.
"The streets smell of death," said Talulum Saint Fils, who sold her jewelry to pay for one-way bus tickets for her family out of Port-au-Prince.
"There is no assistance of any kind, and our children simply cannot live like animals."
The Haitian capital - insecure at the best of times - is now devoid of a functioning police force, bringing fears of a dystopian war of all against all in the wake of Tuesday's huge 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
"Men suddenly appeared with machetes to steal money," said Evelyne Buino, a young beautician, after a long night in a neighborhood not far from the ruined city center. "This is just the beginning."
Thousands of criminals were on the loose, having escaped from the city's collapsed jail, and there were widespread reports of robberies.
In the bustling Marche en Fer, or Iron Market, one of the poorest neighborhoods, teenage looters scuttled over the concrete debris and ignored piles of dead bodies on the street in their desperate bid to dig out supplies.
"People are hungry, thirsty. They are left on their own," said Leon Meleste.
"It is increasingly dangerous. The police doesn't exist, people are doing what they want."
"This is an historic disaster. We have never been confronted with such a disaster in the UN memory. It is like no other," Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said in Geneva.
In the town of Leogane, west of the capital, 80-90 percent of buildings were damaged or destroyed, and "No local government infrastructure remains," she said.
A vanguard of the 10,000 US troops being deployed to Haiti has taken control of the airport, clogged with tons of relief supplies, and has begun the first distribution of aid to quell the threat of violence.
Aid is also being distributed from the USS Carl Vinson, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier where 19 helicopters have been carrying out limited aid drops.
"We have lift, we have communications, we have some command and control, but we don't have much relief supplies to offer," said Rear Admiral Ted Branch aboard the carrier.
Ms Clinton said she will travel to Haiti to see the earthquake relief efforts first hand, deliver more supplies and meet Haitian President Rene Preval.
"We will also be conveying very directly and personally to the Haitian people our long-term, unwavering support, solidarity and sympathies to reinforce President Obama's message that they are not facing this crisis alone," said Ms Clinton.
The Haitian Government is operating out of a police station at the airport, where Mr Preval, looking exhausted with dark pockets under his eyes, said "the Government has lost its capacity to function properly, but it has not collapsed".
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The UN wasn't based in Aceh, nor was Sumatra effectively under UN colonial rule, Solomon. The UN as an organization was almost as heavily involved in Port-au-Prince as they are in Gaza City, and they lost a significant percentage of their colonial officials and local experts under the rubble of poorly-built concrete office buildings. Hell, Aceh didn't even have any huge urban areas, if I recall correctly.
The UN is an inefficient, parasitical organization at the best of times, but they'll be even more ineffective with their own organization in the country gutted. This is basically a nasty combination of the Boxing Day Tsunami, Katrina, and the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad.
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The (2004) earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing nearly 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (100 feet) high. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand were the hardest hit.
But nobody's coughing up for that one anymore...
Haiti's bad. But don't lie about it.
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I have a hard time understanding why we would even entertain sending Hilary (or any VIP) just to 'show support.' The diversion of precious resources to support this dog and pony show would be much better spent attending to the search and recovery of any still alive or getting food and water to the streets.
How many will this nonsense kill?
The Diplomad continues its string of reports on UN tsunami efforts in Asia. It seems that the UN is trying to take credit for US and Australian efforts:
A colleague came back from a meeting held by the local UN representative yesterday and reported that the UN rep had said that while it was a good thing that the Australians and Americans were running the air ops into tsunami-wrecked Aceh, for cultural and political reasons, those Australians and Americans really should go blue. In other words, they should switch into UN uniforms and give up their national ones.
Now you all know that The Diplomad is not a cynical or suspicious being, but there is something funny going on here . . . what could it be? Could it be a genuine concern for local cultural and political sensitivities that would be offended by the presence of Aussies and Yanks in their own military uniforms saving thousands of lives? Maybe . . . or, might it not be an odd coincidence that just after the infamous Mr. Anan (see prior posts) says the UN will be setting up air traffic control in Aceh, the UN wants to show that it has an ATC system operating? What better way than to continue in the UN tradition of taking credit for others work? And this just before Mr. Anan arrives in Indonesia on January 6.
In this part of the tsunami-wrecked Far Abroad, the UN is still nowhere to be seen where it counts, i.e., feeding and helping victims. The relief effort continues to be a US-Australia effort, with Singapore now in and coordinating closely with the US and Australia. Other countries are also signing up to be part of the US-Australia effort. Nobody wants to be coordinated by the UN. The local UN reps are getting desperate. Theyre calling for yet another meeting this afternoon; theyve flown in more UN big shots to lecture us all on coordination and the need to work together, i.e., let the UN take credit. With Kofi about to arrive for a big conference, the UNocrats are scrambling to show something, anything as a UN accomplishment. Dont be surprised if they claim that the USS Abraham Lincoln is under UN control and that President Lincoln was a strong supporter of the UN. . . .
More on The UNcredibles: WFP (World Food Program) has arrived in the capital with an assessment and coordination team. The following is no joke; no Diplomad attempt to be funny or clever: The [UN] team has spent the day and will likely spend a few more setting up their coordination and opcenter at a local five-star hotel. And their number one concern, even before phones, fax and copy machines? Arranging for the hotel to provide 24hr catering service. USAID folks already are cracking jokes about The UN Sheraton. Meanwhile, our military and civilians, working with the super Aussies, continue to keep the C-130 air bridge of supplies flowing and the choppers flying, and keep on saving lives and without 24hr catering services from any five-star hotel . . . . The contrast grows more stark every minute.
Imagine if lives really depended on what the UN does. Oh, they do.
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The un is great at setting up meetings but falls well short of action. Think of that crack of job they did in Rawanda with the French leading the way. Haiti reminds me of New Orleans: a lot of people WAITING to get helped. They don't know how to take care of themselves. Very sad.
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I guess this means all the 5-star hotels accommodations are gone - such a disaster!
As for Mrs Clinton. She, with her security requirements and the like are going down to the airport (probably closing down the airspace while she's there) just for a photo-op so she can be seen as 'personally delivering [a smattering of] much needed supplies' (while blocking several tons of other much needed supplies from landing).
Why doesn't she just stay out of the frigging way.
The print and broadcast media have swarmed into Haiti and now the news is filled with their perception of what isn't getting done. I would like to address some of these in order to bring some perspective to the wails from the media.
IT IS A DISASTER
When there is a disaster, people are at risk and people die. That's why it is called a disaster. We need to recognize that a great many people have died and many more are going to die despite our best efforts.
PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY
Most of the population of the Port-au-Prince area relied upon charitable aid from outside Haiti for part or all of their daily existence. Let' engage our brains and look at some numbers.
Assume that a million people in the PaP area have no food. That means that they need at least one meal today, and tomorrow, and so on. If a plane brings in enough supplies for ten thousand meals, that means that 990,000 people go hungry today and 1 million go hungry tomorrow.
Supplies have to be produced. If all the disaster relief storehouses are emptied, more must be manufactured, shipped and purchased. That takes time. And, let's not forget that millions of people elsewhere in the world also need those supplies and they were in line first.
In Haiti's climate, people need about 2 quarts of water per day. 2 million quarts of water every single day. Just where do the bottles for that water magically appear from? The water tankers?
PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED
Most of the people who were buried alive by the earthquake will die. There is no way to rescue all of them. If, somehow, every search and rescue team in the world had arrived just after the quake, most of those trapped would still die. Urban search and rescue takes time. Every building must be examined and searched carefully and safely. There are tens of thousands of buildings in ruins in the quake zone. It is and was never humanly possible to search even a fraction of them before people that are trapped die from lack of water or their injuries.
PEOPLE ARE INJURED
For every injured person you need several aid workers. If 100,000 Haitians are injured in Port-au-Prince, you would need 300,000 plus aid workers just to treat their injuries. The workers need places to work, places to sleep, food and water and medical supplies - all of which are in very short supply. And all of that material is needed on top of the needs of the people in the city.
MEDIA
The media in general have little understanding of logistics. Their food comes from a supermarket or a restaurant. They sleep in hotels. They cannot grasp the concept that in a DISASTER all of the necessities people need to survive must come from outside the area. They cannot understand that food does not come from the supermarket but through a long supply chain that stretches back to a farm somewhere.
Port-au-Prince has one airport, all of Haiti has one airport that can handle the large freight carrying planes. It is a bottleneck that cannot be changed. Until the port is safe to use, all the supplies are coming through the airport.
With the arrival of the United States military, some other options open up. Only the United States has the ability to move supplies to beaches, small landing strips and open areas. That said, it only changes the bottleneck from a very large one to a large one. Most media have no grasp of the amount of material a ship can carry when compared to even the largest plane. Only a working seaport will begin to make a dent in the human need that we see in the news.
Until we have Star Trek's transporters and food synthesizers, shipping and travel will take time and food must be grown, processed, packaged and shipped.
HOW TO HELP
The thousands of charities that work in Haiti or want to work in Haiti are all competing for your donations. Give to those you have given to in the past and trust. Give through their local branches. Ask if they need volunteers because if you can fill a slot locally, they might be able to free staff to assist in Haiti.
Pray for the people of Haiti, the aid workers and everyone who is working so hard to save those we can. And, pray also for those we cannot save.
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Saw the same reaction on a smaller scale here in Katrinaland. From the lack of any appreciation for perhaps the largest evacuation and largest rescue operation in US history to the emphasis on pointing out what didn't work. And the total inability of the local political institutions to actually DO anything - while insisting on their right to be informed and approve of anything others were doing in their place. The helplessness of the victims, who had been pretty much helpless before the disaster. The haplessness of the government, which had been pretty much hapless before the disaster. The breakdown of social order and the persecution of those who acted to restore it.
Whatever we (US and everyone else) do to help will be woefully insufficient, and no matter how hard we try we will be blamed for not doing enough. Yet we will try anyway. Over and over and over.
Some 5,700 US marines and soldiers are expected to join Haitian earthquake relief efforts this weekend. The UN says its peacekeeping force should be in command. The US says no.
The marines are about to hit the shores of Port-au-Prince -- an arrival that would almost certainly send shivers up spines anywhere else in Latin America. Perhaps they'd rather have the other budding superpowers run the show. You know, Iran and Venezuela?
They speak French in Haiti. In one sense it is not part of Latin America, even if the other part of the island is. /pedant
But amid the Haitian earthquake relief effort -- in a country that has no military of its own and has hosted an international peacekeeping force since 2004 -- the arrival is unlikely to cause many ripples among locals.
Yet the dispatch of some 2,200 marines -- as well as 3,500 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division -- is raising some command and assignment questions. When the troops arrive, perhaps this weekend, who will be in charge, given that the Haitian government is almost disintegrated and the 9,000-strong UN peacekeeping force, MINUSTAH, is dealing with its own losses? Is this a trick question?
Will the 5,500 US military personnel be part of an international, or an American, security effort? It might be, if the UN ever gets anything substantial in place before everyone dies of starvation.
Who's the boss?
"It's fully desirable that all these forces should be coordinated with the UN MINUSTAH commander there," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday. Pound sand, Ban. Your motivations are as clear as The One's administration is murky, and you can't even handle the Norks or Lebanese or the Iranians. Stand over there and try not to get in the way again like you always do.
US officials, on the other hand, say that while the US may "coordinate" with the peacekeeping operation's leadership, US troops will be under American command. Let your blue-helmeted ones come and get take it from us. We only let Brit or Aussie generals command our troops in these situations.
"We'll be under US command supporting a UN mission on behalf of the Haitian government and the Haitian people," said State Department spokesman Philip Crowley, when asked Thursday to clarify the command structure for what is expected to be a three-month deployment of US forces.
Learning from the tsunami You mean the learnings of W's administration?
The command question may cause some initial confusion, but it is likely to be quickly ironed out -- especially given the recent experience the US has in dispatching the military to disaster zones, say US security and international relief experts.
"We sent 8,000 marines to Indonesia after the tsunami, and that intervention stands out as one of the best examples of use of the US military in a disaster," says Lawrence Korb, a former assistant secretary of defense who is now an analyst at the Center for American Progress in Washington.
Not only did the Marines accomplish significant humanitarian objectives, Mr. Korb notes, but America's image in Indonesia -- the world's largest Muslim country -- shot up as a result. "The use of the military in this way really undermines the Al Qaeda narrative," he says. Can't have a repeat of that in Haiti or the UN might look more like the posh bystander club it has become. It's a fair point though: our prompt, smart response in Indonesia did us a lot of good. Wouldn't hurt to be prompt and smart again in Haiti, particularly if the UN is its usual feckless self.
Haiti: a country without a government
The Haiti case is different, however, in part because the Haitian government is so weak, and in some estimations practically nonexistent, after the earthquake. So what changed from before the earthquake?
President René Préval is alive, but the Parliament and several ministry buildings collapsed, taking the lives of as-yet uncertain numbers of legislators and government officials. Now they'll never find the money they were planning on absconding with.
The US says it is coordinating with the Haitian government -- by which it appears to mean a little-seen President Préval -- but acknowledges that in the short-term there will be little government to deal with. Kindly put.
"There's no question that the Haitian Government is challenged," the State Department's Mr. Crowley says. "They have received a very serious blow." But he adds that the US objective is "not only to provide lifesaving support to the Haitian people but to rebuild the capacity of the Haitian Government." I wouldn't do that. Throw those bums out, too. Oh I don't know, depends on who is the 'capacity' we're talking about ...
Help wanted, calling Cuba? Anybody there? Hello? Hello?
The US needs to remember that it is part of an international effort, something Korb says the US sometimes forgets. In the case of Haiti, "We'll be the first among equals, because of our size and proximity and our capabilities," he says, "but we shouldn't limit our approach to just what we can do." Also a fair statement, but we should be working with Brazil, not Cuba, as our main partner. Brazil after all had the largest contingent in the UN peace-keeping force in Haiti.
In that vein, Korb offers a stupidheretofore untried politically daring proposition: The US should consider tapping the expertise of neighboring Cuba to help address Haiti's needs. I guess with a name like "Korb" you're probably an idiot of some kind. ;-)
And Cuba can volunteer their services all it wants. We shouldn't have to ask. And if Haiti's government is only "challenged", why are we having to speak for them?
"We should stop and think that Cuba right next door has some of the best doctors in the world," he says. "We should see about flying them in." Better yet, have Fidel row them over. Cuba has some of the worst docs in the world. They're poorly trained. It's not their fault, they'd like to be better, but they don't have what it takes in Cuba to train them.
At the same time, the US must be careful not to run roughshod over historical sensitivities in the region about US military interventions. Right now I don't think anyone cares. Unless they are trying to make a job for themselves. Either you want our help or you don't. Our help comes through and via the US armed forces. Live with it.
"We're not taking over Haiti," said Crowley. "We are helping to stabilize Haiti. We're helping to provide them lifesaving support and material, and we're going to be there over the long term to help Haiti rebuild." Who wants Haiti other than the Haitians? STFU and get to work, pansy. If this had been 1930 we'd be done by now and you'd be hanging from a rope. We have to help them rebuild or else we'll have a half-million Haitian boat people headed for Miami.
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Going parochial early are we? My, that didn't take long. Ok "United Nations" oil for food relief squalor merchants, if you're in charge, TAKE CHARGE! You've done so well in other garden spots in the past. Keep in mind however, the world's media, such as it is, is covering this one closely. So mind the graft, drugs, stealing, rape and pillage of the indig please. Somehow I must have completely forgotten how the UN's Air Force sent in Combat Contol Teams, generators, light sets, medical pers, and re-opened the airport.
Divvy the damn thing up into 'sectors' like Berlin and get the job done, and get the hell out while we can still get the stink off.
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It's Vinson, not Vincent. Got there Thursday night, I think, with extra helicopters it picked up on the way. Not clear to me it has a battle group - was en route to San Diego home port (where it would presumably take its position as replacement in that group) after just being commissioned, IIUC.
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Glenmore, the Carl Vinson was commissioned in 1982. It was apparently in dock for a long-term refit - sounds like almost four years in Norfolk?
Hopefully it's fully up to speed - they were working on deck re-certification last month.
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Deck recert will affect the fixed wing assets, but not the helos. When stationed @ PAX RIVER our group Strike Aircraft Test Directorate would send a couple of a/c equipped with all sorts of telemetry and a contingent of engineers to re calibrate the ACLS and Mode 1, among other things, to a CV leaving the yards. No impact on rotary wing ops.
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I'd second that about Cuban-trained doctors. Made that mistake ONCE, never again. I'd trust the local voodoo healers over a Cuban-trained doctor any day of the week.
Besides, that Korb guy obviously doesn't know a thing about how the Haitians and Cubans feel about each other if he made those dumb statements. See the real world for a change, pal, and get out of the "think tank".
Early last spring, Capt. James Ware was preparing his crew aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) for a humanitarian assistance mission in Haiti, the first stop during a four-month swing through the region.
Ware is overseeing final preparations Jan. 15 to return to Haiti for a more pressing mission: providing life-saving medical care to victims of a devastating earthquake that killed tens of thousands and left untold thousands more injured.
Comfort will leave its home port here early Jan. 16 and is expected to arrive in Haiti by Jan. 21, delivering a full spectrum of medical and surgical services aboard one of the country's largest trauma facilities.
"This is a moment when we feel we can have a huge impact," along with other military medical providers already on the ground, as well as those from nongovernmental organizations and the international community, Ware said. "Our hope is to work with those individuals, side by side, to truly help the people of Haiti."
Comfort will deliver immense capability to the mission. The hulking hospital ship - three football fields long and one wide has 250 hospital beds and a 550-person medical team that includes trauma surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, head and neck surgeons, eye surgeons and obstetricians and gynecologists.
The team also will include medical professionals from the Navy, Army, Air Force and U.S. Public Health Service, as well as nongovernmental organizations.
Ware said he expects his staff to initially see about 500 patients a day when it arrives in Haiti, working up to 750 or more, and to conduct 20 to 25 surgical procedures a day.
But his big focus Jan. 15 was on getting the ship manned, equipped and provisioned for the mission ahead. A massive logistical effort was under way to load the food, water and medical supplies the crew - most from the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., but also from its sister hospitals in Portsmouth, Va., and San Diego, Calif., - will need.
Two cranes worked simultaneously, hoisting palletized loads of bottled water, packaged meals and other supplies to Comfort's upper decks. Meanwhile, a long line of tractor trailers that began arriving last night idled nearby, waiting to offload their supplies. Engine roars mingled with the ever-present "beep-beep-beep" of forklifts scurrying in almost every direction alongside the vessel.
Comfort initially will carry enough food and water to sustain its crew 550 medical specialists and 250 mariners and staff to provide security, communications and other shipboard support and the patients who will fill its 250 hospital beds for up to 60 days, Ware said.
In addition, the ship has enough medical supplies aboard to support a 60-day combat casualty care mission, he said.
Ware said he's confident he'll have everything he needs on board to proceed directly to Haiti without having to stop anywhere else en route to pick up additional crew or supplies.
"We have pushed forward on this end to make sure we have the right personnel," he said. "We have looked all the way down to the very lowest seaman on board to determine whether they have the exact skills sets we need from an operating technician to a surgeon to a blood-bank specialist.
"And we have identified 99 percent of those individuals," he continued. "So [the] plan is to leave tomorrow, and we will be moving as quickly as possible to get to Port-au-Prince Harbor."
As much as 70 percent of the crew already has experience aboard Comfort, or its sister ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) in San Diego, Ware said. In addition to on board training sessions conducted every 12 weeks, many participated in Continuing Promise 2009, Comfort's most recent humanitarian assistance mission through Latin America and the Caribbean.
During that mission, Comfort treated almost 100,000 patients, including tens of thousands in Haiti alone.
The visit provided important lessons to the Comfort crew it will apply during its disaster response mission, he said, but also fostered relationships that will help in its upcoming mission.
"They are waiting for us to come," Ware said, citing numerous phone calls and e-mails he has received from people he's already worked with in Haiti. "And I think those [relationships] will really pay off not for us, but for the people of Haiti."
Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Olivero, department head for Comfort's operating room, is preparing for a mission he expects to be heavy in head injuries, crushing injuries, amputations and other trauma cases. His crew will exercise various trauma scenarios once it's all onboard and under way, to be sure it's ready to hit the ground running when it arrives.
Olivero remembers the gratification of Continuing Promise 2009, when "a busy day for us was a good day, because we were helping many people."
He expects to be even busier during this mission, too, but acknowledged the circumstances will be a lot tougher to deal with.
"It is going to be good to help people, but the reason you are busy is not what you want it to be," he said.
Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Lesley Prasad, one of just 50 permanently assigned crew members aboard Comfort, said it feels great seeing the hospital ship provide such a desperately needed service to relieve suffering in Haiti. It's kept him and his fellow crew members buzzing nonstop for the past four days "on full steam" to prepare so they're ready to hit the ground running.
"I feel really good about this," he said, pausing as he ordered last-minute medical supplies for the mission. "We are the best qualified crew medically, [and we're] ready to help these people in Haiti," he said. "To be able to have such a vital role in the effort, it's awesome."
WASHINGTON (AFP) US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she will travel to Haiti on Saturday to see earthquake relief efforts first hand, deliver supplies and meet Haitian President Rene Preval.
Clinton, who cut short her tour of the Asia-Pacific region this past week, told reporters in Washington on Friday that she made the decision after consulting with US President Barack Obama.
"I will be taking supplies with me... I will also be meeting President Preval," said Clinton who will be travelling with US Agency for International Development (USAID) Coordinator Rajiv Shah and other officials. "We will be meeting with President Preval and other members of the Haitian government along with the members of the US government team on the ground including our civilian and military leaders," the chief US diplomat said.
As long as she doesn't interfere with search and rescue.
"We will also be conveying very directly and personally to the Haitian people our long-term, unwavering support, solidarity and sympathies to reinforce President Obama's message that they are not facing this crisis alone," she added. "I will also be able to see first hand the ongoing efforts and deployment of US government personnel and resources for maximum impact to support the vital lifesaving relief and recovery efforts."
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I hope she doesn't have to dodge sniper fire.
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From what I heard last night, the plan is that she never leaves the airport perimeter. Shake some hands, photo op, outta here.
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Dear God! haven't the poor Haitians suffered enough?
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tu3031, she'll only goes as far as the last Glade plug-in in the air-conditioned terminal. There's no need for her to smell all that ickky poo-poo stuff.
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Hey, if the UN Special Envoy is too busy to visit his satrapy, at least his wife can do a bungie-jump into the wreckage for a photo-op. It's not like it's an off-season Senate special election or anything important, right?
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Maybe she can take all the damned reporters and their staffs with her when she leaves. All the reporters do is suck up resources and space that could be used for real workers.
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...and the victims. But the media stars never seem to realize that.
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#5 Hey, if the UN Special Envoy is too busy to visit his satrapy, at least his wife can do a bungie-jump into the wreckage for a photo-op. It's not like it's an off-season Senate special election or anything important, right?
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Submitted for your consideration: Interesting to note in these reports are their stating that the earthquake weapons test conducted by the US Navy this week in the Caribbean that destroyed Haiti was most probably based upon the same type of Tesla technology held responsible for the catastrophic January17, 1995, 6.8 magnitude earthquake that laid to waste the Japanese city of Kobe, and which the mysterious Aum Shinrikyo cult had warned 9 days prior was going to occur, and as we can read:
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Actually, some of the Aum Shinrikyo activities really are unnerving if you look into them. I got the general feeling that that organization started as a joint USSR/Nork front, and the Russians lost interest in it after 1991 (or ostensibly lost interest) while the Norks kept running it.
Some of the stuff AS did out in the Australian Outback was pretty trippy.
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Excerpt: what has disturbed investigators the most is that the Chinese hackers quite likely had inside help. The possibility of a mole within the Indian establishment helping a foreign adversary is staring investigators in the face.
And the technology being used is preoccupying the Indian sleuths no end. The espionage attempt was highly evolved and well-researched. The mail was routed through several multi-proxy servers thus obliterating the trail.
The hacking spyware itself was embedded in a PDF document. And the trojan was programmed to carry out an array of functions, including downloading files, accessing emails and passwords and also accessing the desktop from a remote location.
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The question not being asked is whether any U.S. govât contractor working on TSP-like project might not have had a security breach, perhaps in the form of a worker who sold info about Googleâs systems.
Or perhaps whether Google has had foreign nationals in its employ who sold them out.
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and this comment:
The other tell-tale came not from Google but from Adobe, and I think that itâs been ignored and understated. Adobe was hit as well, and may also have been key to the intrusion process. Again, they arenât saying much â but their newer products have potential back doors in them, and the PDF file format has become so ubiquitous in business that virtually everybody in the business world has multiple PDF files on their computers at any time.
Letâs speculate and imagine for a second that the search warrant system which allows all governments to request user information requires submission of a warrant in the form of a PDF fileâ¦
It also means that the (most likely spoofed) origin addresses and destination addresses used in the communication of the messages that contained the hacking code passed through the telephone switches that NSA has a line splitter on.
As news has come out, it is not limited to Google. And it focuses on human rights activists.
What I find interesting is that the companies mentioned are likely to have as employees in the US a number of Chinese nationals, some of whom who might be seen by the Chinese government as supporters of human rights movements in China. No data, just a hunch about those on H1-B visas and others who might have gained US citizenship. And who have friends and relatives in China.
But then again, it might be one of those situations with a motive of âbecause we canâ.
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"The IP addresses in question are ⦠six IP addresses apart from each other," iDefense said in its statement. "Considering this proximity, it is possible that the two attacks are one and the same, and that the organizations targeted in the [recent] Silicon Valley attacks have been compromised since July."
The quote is total nonsense. What difference does being on the same network segment make from one VM to another?
Unless the VM was compromised.
Theo de Raadt has been warning for three years the underlying x86 hardware makes Virtual machine ( VM )compromises easy and nearly undetectable and impossible to prevent.
The security issue may well be the Google attack but a far more serous underlying issue is the compromise of VMs going undetected for months, as de Raadt said they could.
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Apparently Charles has gone beyond drinking the Kool-Aid and is in fact, actually insane. It's sad really, but in the end, if he joins those against America, then he is just as much an enemy as they are.
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Charles Johnson has done some massive sort of flip-flop? Is he getting paid off or what ? You wonder what would make him all of sudden just start doing some Schitzoid trip to the Left.
His LGF used to be fun. But insanity is boring...you can always tell when someone has become insane..they start having intellectual bad breath and picking their nose while they ramble on about what is happening to their "precious bodily fluids".
Charles has gone thoroughly Charlie. It IS sad, someone hand him a towel and get some air freshener.
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Danny Glover? Didnt he play Uncle Remus in song of the South?
No? He played somebody somewhere. His best line was "I'm not really a member of the US State Depart, I am just an actor who plays one to get publicity".
Or maybe he actually believes his own stuff. Anything is possible in Hollywood. (You look FABulous, dahling! Ummm kiss-kiss.)
remind me to get my foreign policy tips from the "beautiful people."
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Glover is just another "celebrity" who gives unsolicited "advice/thoughts/mental ramblings" to bolster his own sense of self importance.
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How ever loony Charles gets we cannot forget his efforts on Rathergate. While not the only one involved in bringing down that scam it was his "flashing memo" that highlighted as nothing else could the attempted fraud.
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If you follow the link and read Charles' posting he is pointing out that "Glovers a pretty hardcore Hollywood leftist; hangs out with Hugo Chavez, visits Cuba, talks a lot about American misdeeds in Central America" , and is trying to politicize the disaster.
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Actually Charles had much less to do with exposing Rathergate than publicizing it. Other people actually did the heavy lifting. Goog it if you doubt.
Charles has gone off the rails. His traffic is down big time. He cannot stand people posting that he disagrees with. It's a shame to see him drop so far so fast into a quagmire of his own making. Maybe it was some bad acid that caused him to act like this. his credibilty is now zero both with the left and right
There is a site for LGF "post-graduates"
if you are interested in visiting a site that retains the flavour of LGF without Charles dictatorial antics.
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/
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Thanks for the link Mike. I used to really like LGF, until he became a global warming lunatic. Charles has completely gone off the rails.
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In all honest, after reading what Danny Glover actually said, it's a bit unclear what he meant. It could be interpreted as blaming climate change but could also be interpreted as a lack of leadership and hard decisions by those in charge.
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Actually it was pretty good weather for Worcester this time of year. Temps hit 40 during the day and didn't break freezing till 8 or 9, no breeze, all in all downright balmy.
If I'd known this was on I would have been 76 as I live only 15 miles from WPI.
In workplaces where you have to be a union member to work, there are a lot of people who can't stomach the union leadership. Union leadership in just about every field has very little in common with rank-and-file.
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Tuesday weather from the NWS: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37.
I've got a big family and a larger extended one. A lotta union members. Firefighter, IBEW, teachers union, Teamster, plumber, carpenter, an iron worker and probably some I forget. And they're all voting Brown.
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Coakley's husband is a retired Cambridge Policeman. They endorsed Scott Brown.
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Yes, some famous guy would say they're acting "stupidly"...
In dig at Coakley, Cambridge Police Patrol Officers union endorses Republican Brown in Senate race
Cambridge .In a dig at U.S. Senate candidate Martha Coakley's Cambridge Police ties -- Democrat Coakley's husband is a retired Cambridge police officer-- the Cambridge Police Patrol Officers Association endorsed her Republican opponent, Scott Brown.
"Ms. Coakley along with some of her campaign workers have talked publicly about how her husband is a retired Cambridge Police Officer, giving appearances that she is being endorsed by the Cambridge Police," the endorsement reads in part.
The move to endorse Coakley might have another subtext entirely. After President Obama said Cambridge "acted stupidly" in the summer arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, a few officers said they would never vote for Obama again. Obama, who's shoring up sagging support in more than a few Democratic races around the country, will be joining Coakley Sunday on the campaign trail.
The endorsement appears on the Massachusetts Municipal Police Coalition Web site:
The 212 member Cambridge Police Patrol Officers Association voted to endorse State Senator Scott Brown for United States Senator in next Tuesday's election against Attorney General Martha Coakley. CPSOA's President released the following letter today:
All Members,
Members of our Association have inquired and requested that we endorse Scott Brown in the upcoming election against Martha Coakley. Ms. Coakley along with some of her campaign workers have talked publicly about how her husband is a retired Cambridge Police Officer, giving appearances that she is being endorsed by the Cambridge Police. This may be an innocent insinuation but most do take this as our giving her our support and endorsement. Yesterday, the CPPOA Executive Board voted to endorse State Senator Scott Brown in the upcoming election for US Senate. In an 11 to 2 vote, the Executive Board voted overwhelmingly in favor of the endorsement. We do not endorse anyone who advocates changes in the health care that take away any bargaining rights or increases our cost along with our contributions. Senator Brown does not support the Comprehensive Healthcare Reform Bill and promises to be the 41st vote to ensure its defeat. The current leadership at the state house, as we all know and have seen over the past two years, have an agenda to dismantle all of our hard earned bargained benefits and they will continue to dismantle these until there is a complete change from the top down. Martha Coakley is part of this Massachusetts leadership and she will continue with this agenda, only now it will be at the capital level and we need to stop it. So today, we the members of the Cambridge Police Patrol Officers Association endorse Scott Brown for the senate seat vacated by Senator Kennedy.
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I enjoyed working in Cambridge even though I got thrown out of the MIT Pub. The Cambridge Brewing Company was my favorite eatery. The Cambridge Police were always polite.
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"New York gets rid of one of its worst welfare cheats, and Dubai finds new tenants to fill its vacant towers," they said, describing the U.N. headquarters as a "pain in the butt" which "pays no taxes and annoys hard-working New Yorkers with its sloth, pretensions and cavalier disregard for traffic laws."
[Iran Press TV Latest] Israeli authorities have arrested a man with a cult of over 17 women with whom they believe he has fathered up to two dozen children.
Goel Ratzon -- Hebrew for savior -- reportedly ran his household according to a "rulebook," composed of severe restrictions and financial penalties for the women, who strangely turned out to be deeply committed to him. Some of them, dressed in conservative Orthodox clothes, even bore tattoos of Ratzon's name and face.
An Israeli television documentary last year featured Ratzon with a bundle of women, several of whom claimed to be married to Ratzon and threatened to kill themselves if anyone ever tried to harm their "messiah."
"No women shall marry nor shall any woman attack another, either verbally or physically," read the first rule in Ratzon's rulebook, setting strict financial punishments for any disobedience. Other rules in the book banned conversation anywhere but the living room and stopped the women from asking Ratzon questions.
"No woman shall sit idle when there are dishes to be washed, cleaning to be done, children to look after," said another Ratzon commandment.
His army of children, estimated to exceed 40 in number, all had names that were variations on his, Goel, according to the TV program.
Ratzon was put under police surveillance following a complaint filed by one of the women who accused the self-claimed "perfect man" and dainty of abuse. Police arrested him this week in a raid on his house in Tel Aviv but ordered a media blackout on the issue.
Ratzon, not formally charged yet, is now being held in a detention facility in Tel Aviv awaiting a court appearance and might face charges of enslavement, sexual abuse, rape and extortion.
His appointed lawyer said his client denied any sexual crimes had been committed.
"The women consented willingly to relations ... He may be different, but he's not a criminal," Shlomtzion Gabai told Israeli Radio, saying around 30 women and 60 children were involved with him.
Ratzon reportedly had at least three apartments, all of which were dark, overcrowded and filthy. His children have been handed over to the authorities and some of the women have been let free.
"He would dictate what they could and could not do, limit their movements and impose sanctions and various punishments, including the use of violence if they refused to obey," said a police statement.
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Orthodox Jews with self-inflicted tattoos? Somebody didn't get the memo on the whole Deut. 4:9,15 thing.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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