The judge let them off because they were simple.
[FoxNews] Outrage erupted in Missouri after two Amish brothers earlier this month were given just five years of probation in a plea agreement after allegedly admitting to child molestation of their underage relative.
That was fast.
Aaron C.M. Schwartz, 22, and Petie C.M. Schwartz, 18, both members of the Amish community in Seymour, Mo., now have allegedly broken the terms of their agreement "by having contact with the victim of the crime, after signing the sex offender supervision agreement that prohibited contact with the victim."
Webster County Prosecuting Attorney Ben Berkstresser asked a judge on Thursday to revoke their probation, the Springfield News-Leader reported. A hearing is scheduled for early October.
Two Webster County residents, Tiffany Hill and Mel Pleasant, have since created the Child Advocacy Against Pedophilia and called for the resignations of both Berkstresser and Judge Michael O. Hendrickson, arguing that they allowed the two Amish brothers to return to the same home where the victim resides, making it impossible for them to avoid contact, KNWA reported.
Both men accepted an agreement earlier this month to avoid prison time by pleading guilty to child molestation charges. They were each initially charged in June to six counts of statutory rape and one count of incest.
Under the terms of the agreement, a 15-year prison sentence would be deferred, as long as each brother completed a sex offender treatment program in the next year, completed 100 hours of community service, and paid $250 to the Law Enforcement Restitution Fund. They were also ordered to write an apology letter to the Amish community in Seymour within 30 days.
A doctor’s call to a Missouri Children’s Division hotline on June 6 initially prompted the investigation carried out by the Webster County Sheriff's Office. The doctor reported that the brothers had sex with a 13-year-old female relative, who had given birth in recent weeks.
It would be easy enough to run DNA tests on the baby and all four of the brothers to see which one will be responsible for child support for the next eighteen years.
#4
"Every dude in the county of Webster
Is probably not a molester."
"Let's schedule a raising,"
Says Ripley, eyes blazing,
"And nuke it." "Yeah, that'd be best, sir."
[Newt clip here]
Of course the bright side is that other aliens never get up to this stuff.
[BREITBART] Over 3,100 people have been shot in Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway... ’s (D) reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... thus far in 2020.The Chicago Tribune reports the exact number of shooting victims at 3,132, and that includes the fatally maimed as well as those who survived.
The Tribune reports the number of homicides January 1, 2020, through September 28, 2020, at 576, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... reported fewer than 500 for all of 2019.
Breitbart News reported at least 49 people were shot over the past weekend alone, at least seven fatally. Nearly 40 were shot, including six fatally, the weekend prior, and at least 50 were shot, 11 fatally, the weekend before that.
Homicides in Dem0crat-controlled St. Louis are surging too. In fact, on September 21, 2020, Breitbart News reported murders in Mayor Lyda Krewson’s (D) St. Louis are on pace to reach a level not seen in 50 years.
Moreover, Breitbart News reported that Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... ’s (D) New York City surpassed 1,000 shootings for the year before August 2020 was over. The New York Post reported NYPD data indicating there were 1,004 shootings in NYC as of August 30, 2020. There were 537 shootings by that same time in 2019.
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The #GlassFire, which began overnight Sunday, has already destroyed 80 residences and spread to more than 42,000 acres, authorities say. pic.twitter.com/UQZK0R3128
Napa Valley, California. Under the same hashtag, this interesting tweet:
This is a sobering graphic from @sfchronicle showing how much of Sonoma and Napa have burned in the last 5 years. Our house is just west of the “S” in Santa Rosa on this map. #GlassFirepic.twitter.com/HGKFuXV72C
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I do wonder the cause of so many fires. How many were "natural causes", how many due to "human error", and how many are actually arson?
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Youngest son's in Healdsburg working on opening a new hotel :-(
North of Santa Rosa, at least
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Couple weeks back, took the latest Flight Simulator for a flight around Napa Valley. One of the simulator's features is Real Time Weather.
Now, the simulator didn't show the actual fire (in a way, thank goodness), but it did show the 'smoke' as ground fog and clouds, and there was some interesting turbulence and wind effects I didn't encounter flying about over West Kansas in High Wind Conditions (50+ gusts).
Interesting, to say the least, the sheer amount of the simulated smoke. Landing was...interesting.
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New York State has been averaging about 1000 new cases per day and about 10 deaths per day since 1 Sept. Active cases down about 70% from the peak in June.
Florida has been averaging about 3000 new cases per day and about 100 deaths per day in that period. Their active cases have decreased by about 30% from the peak in late August.
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Aren't the fines in London/UK, like, thousands of pounds? Sick.
[MAIL] Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) cops have been trained to use data-mining firm Palantir's controversial law enforcement tool to list the names, addresses, phone numbers, license plates, friendships, romances and jobs of anyone who comes into contact with police - including their associates.
More than half of all LAPD cops - around 5,000 officers - have accounts with Palantir, one of the biggest surveillance companies in the world, which both firms claim helps the force keep the public safe on the city's streets.
However, newly released documents obtained by Buzzfeed News through a FOIA request reveal that the surveillance is far from limited to people arrested, convicted or suspected of criminal activity.
Training documents for the 'Intermediate Course' and 'Advanced Course' show how cops are taught to use the powerful law enforcement tool Palantir Gotham to collect and store detailed information on anyone at all they encounter, from witnesses or victims of crimes to someone simply living in the area a crime took place.
The system then indiscriminately stores intricate details such as tattoos, scars, romances and associates on people including those who are innocent and completely unrelated to any crime.
As well as being invasive, critics warn the system reinforces racism in law enforcement, with data suggesting when cops use it to predict future criminal activity, they over-target black and brown communities.
This comes at a time when protests are building nationwide demanding an end to police brutality and racism in the wake of multiple 'murders' of black men and women by white cops across America. I was introduced to Palantir many years ago. It's a great analytic tool.
#1
Just "contact-tracing" writ large. The CV religionists, at least, should have no problem with it.
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Any one still wonder why so many of us:
DO NOT USE Social Media,
Post under alias names / Handles,
Use Anonymous Email sites for blogger addresses,
Use tools like MadMac (mac ID changer)
Use TOR with a VPN connection,
and etc...
[FoxNews] A grand jury in Texas decided Monday to take no action against a volunteer security guard who shot a gunman dead inside his Fort Worth-area church last December.
Jack Wilson, head of the volunteer security team at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, killed a man who first opened fire among a more than 260-person congregation on Dec. 29, 2019.
Security camera footage and a live stream of the Sunday service showed the shooter, Keith Thomas Kinnunen, enter the church wearing a disguise, including a wig and a fake beard, before standing up in his pew during communion and firing two fatal shots. He killed 67-year-old Richard White, another security volunteer, and 64-year-old Anton “Tony” Wallace, a server.
Kinnunen was then seen on video making his way toward the front of the congregation, before Wilson, securing a clear range of fire, fired a single shot from across the room, fatally striking him in the head.
A Tarrant County grand jury decided Monday not to indict Wilson on criminal charges.
Texas law allows a person witnessing someone else placing others at risk of serious injury or death to act with deadly force to protect others, Tim Rodgers, a prosecutor with the Tarrant County district attorney’s office, said in a statement Monday.
I would have gone with acknowledges the right to do so, but never mind.
UK, Canada impose sanctions on Belarusian President Lukashenko, his son and 6 other government officials following disputed presidential election, crackdown on protestershttps://t.co/gjszByQ3s0
[PatriotPost] Back in June 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) initiated Operation Mega Flex, an effort by President Donald Trump to crack down on dangerous and counterfeit goods pouring into the U.S. from China. It’s estimated that roughly 700,000 small packages from China arrive daily. Like most attacks, China's ops are 4/5ths under the water
[RedState] The fallout from COVID closures continues unabated.
On Tuesday the Disney corporation announced they would be laying off 28,000 employees, about 67% of whom are part-time employees. Disney’s greatest financial struggle has been in their California theme parks. Nearly every other Disney property in the world has reopened (many with curbed attendance caps). California Governor Gavin Newsom retains one-man control over every aspect of life and work in the state and yet refuses to offer one of the largest and most influential job providers in California any guidelines they can be working toward in order to reopen.
Josh D’Amaro, Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, sent an email to Disney employees Tuesday afternoon explaining that with no hope for opening the Anaheim park in sight, some tough changes would have to be made.
#3
Since Disney can't reopen in CA, I'd suggest moving the whole kit & caboodle elsewhere; join Tesla in TX, whatever - just GTFO while there's anything of value left.
#4
Amazes me why any self-respecting business would remain in California. I suppose it is because they are politically well-connected there. A state with a GDP in the top 10 or 20 in the world, IIRC, being destroyed from within.
#7
Crazy Fool, first we have to amend the 13th adornment to exempt "Green New Deal Employees" form it. Not slaves for heaven's sake but individuals who are helping us not use all those greenhouse gas producing machines!
BOSTON (AP) — Seventeen years after it was born with the help of CIA seed money, the data-mining outfit Palantir Technologies is finally going public in the biggest Wall Street tech offering since Slack and Uber last year.
Never profitable and dogged by ethical objections for assisting in the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown, Palantir has forged ahead with a direct listing of its stock, which is set to begin trading Wednesday morning. In its stock offering, the company isn’t selling newly minted shares to raise money; it’s simply listing existing shares for public trading.
The low-key strategy may not generate the enthusiasm many technology offerings do. But it’s in character for a secretive company long reliant on spies, cops and the military as customers — and whose founders are holding onto voting control of the company.
The big question for both investors and company management: Can Palantir successfully transition from a business built on the costly handholding of government customers to serving corporate customers at scale? The company is a hybrid provider of software and consulting services that often embeds its own engineers with clients.
Analysts say its future depends on selling multinationals on its tools for gathering disparate data from an ever-expanding data universe and using artificial-intelligence technology to find previously undetectable patterns. Those can theoretically guide strategic decisions and identify new markets much as they have aided in tracking terrorists and sorting military intelligence.
The company sets itself apart from most U.S. technology providers, and just moved its headquarters to Denver from Silicon Valley. Palantir colors itself patriotic and belittles other tech firms that won’t unquestionably support U.S. dominance in war-fighting and intelligence.
"Our software is used to target terrorists and to keep soldiers safe," CEO Alex Karp wrote in a letter accompanying Palantir’s offering prospectus. While Karp acknowledged the ethical challenge of building software that "enables more effective surveillance by the state," Palantir’s prospectus touts its work helping U.S. soldiers counter roadside bombings and fight the Islamic State group.
But investors also have to reckon with the Peter Thiel factor.
The iconoclastic entrepreneur and PayPal co-founder endorsed President Donald Trump in 2016, worked on his transition team and holds the largest chunk of Palantir stock. Thiel already exerts tremendous power from the board of Facebook, which dominates global media and seeks to create a digital currency.
#1
Never profitable and dogged by ethical objections for assisting in the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown...
Now if it had been used to doxx conservatives and get them fired it would be "A-Okay" from the writer's viewpoint?
And the founders would be the subject of fawning profiles, complete with photos of them with upraised chins and folded arms, as they gaze determinedly toward the glorious socialist future.
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.
[BREITBART] Over 3,100 people have been shot in Mayor 
[PatriotPost] Back in June 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) initiated Operation Mega Flex, an effort by President Donald Trump to crack down on dangerous and counterfeit goods pouring into the U.S. from China. It’s estimated that roughly 700,000 small packages from China arrive daily.
BOSTON (AP) — Seventeen years after it was born with the help of CIA seed money, the data-mining outfit Palantir Technologies is finally going public in the biggest Wall Street tech offering since Slack and Uber last year.
