Marine Hero Arrested Over Unbelievable Firearm Technicality

oped: ahhh Chris Christie became the Easter Bunny...good for him!



By: Wilmot Proviso 

A decorated military hero whose friend grabbed his gun during a fight with police could have faced three years in prison because the legal firearm wasn’t registered in the state he was visiting, according to WABC-TV.
Thankfully, WUSA-TV reports that his sentence was commuted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at the last moment.
Marine veteran Sgt. Hisashi Pompey was visiting New Jersey six years ago with a firearm legally registered in Virginia, the station reported. During a visit to a Fort Lee nightclub, a friend got into a fight and then grabbed Pompey’s gun from its holster.

After a confrontation with police, the friend was arrested. So, too, was Pompey — based on the fact that New Jersey law doesn’t recognize Virginia weapon registrations.
Even worse, the offense carried a mandatory three-year prison sentence. New Jersey politicians claimed that this was part of an initiative to curb gang violence, but the Garden State remains reliably liberal, even with a Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
However, as WUSA-TV points out, the law changed after Pompey’s arrest. According to the Washington Times, the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004 was amended to allow military police to carry their weapons. Also, in 2014, a clarification was made in New Jersey’s Graves Act — the legislation that Pompey was sentenced under — which would not have subjected Pompey to a mandatory jail sentence.

That clarification stated that in cases like Pompey’s, where the weapon could be legally carried in other states, “imprisonment is neither necessary nor appropriate to serve the interests of justice and protect public safety.” WUSA says the change was made in part because of Pompey’s situation.
Both of these changes mean he might not have even been arrested under the same circumstances today — and he certainly wouldn’t have been preparing to go to jail.
“We’re all humans, humans make mistakes,” Pompey, who has a wife and three children, told WABC-TV.
The veteran had already been away from his family when he served three tours with the military police in Iraq and Afghanistan, for which he received medals for bravery. Pompey had been preparing to go to jail next week after he was convicted and his final appeal failed.

“Only help I am asking for is from the governor, that’s the only one, everyone from judges to lawyers say the only person who will help me now is the governor,” he said before Christie’s commutation came through.
“I’m not a troublemaker. I don’t cause trouble. I don’t do anything bad, it was just a common mistake that I made.”
Before the commutation was announced, Pompey’s attorney, Evan Nappen, said his client deserved it.
“This is a man who has done two tours in Afghanistan, a tour in Iraq. The only hope is for Governor Christie to exercise his power of pardon. Governor Christie in the past has stepped up and helped worthy individuals and it’s my hope and prayer that he does the same for Sergeant Pompey.”

According to WUSA-TV, Gov. Christie issued a commutation of Pompey’s sentence late Friday night.
A commutation means that while the crime will still stay on Sgt. Pompey’s record, he won’t serve any time in prison.

Today I signed the commutation order for former Marine Sergeant Hisashi Pompey. pic.twitter.com/4rXl6r2Epu

— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) April 14, 2017

Christie can still give Pompey a full pardon, which would totally erase the incident from the sergeant’s record. 

Sgt. Pompey’s family, who are spending the Easter weekend in New Jersey, haven’t officially commented on the case. However, WUSA anchor Bruce Johnson talked to the family, and said that they were “just so incredibly grateful to everybody who responded, who called the governor’s office.”
As Easter presents go, it certainly beats those chocolate-and-fondant eggs.
H/T Breitbart

Weird: North Korean Government Sends Coded Messages Over Shortwave Radio

 

oped: What do they mean? Beats the hell outta me...all I know is Kim is bat shit crazy...akin to a 8 cylinder firing on 4! 

by:Wilmot Proviso 

An encrypted broadcast from North Korea on a so-called “numbers station” on shortwave radio has many convinced that Kim Jong Un’s regime is planning a massive test to mark North Korean founder Kim Il Sung’s 105th birthday.
“The North’s propaganda station Radio Pyongyang began broadcasting the messages at 1:15 a.m. (Seoul time), calling out a series of pages and numbers, such as No. 69 on page 823, No. 92 on page 467 and No. 100 on page 957, before repeating them one more time,” South Korea’s Yonhap reported.
“(I’m) giving review works in elementary information technology lessons of the remote education university for No. 27 expedition agents,” one of the messages said.

Numbers broadcasts, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, are shortwave broadcasts — typically by a government or a military organization — disseminating encrypted material to operatives. A sample of one of these eerie broadcasts famously provided the title for the album “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” by the band Wilco.
While the encrypted message is audible to anyone who tunes in, a special pad is necessary to decode the message. Without the pad, no amount of cryptographic analysis should be able to break the code.
Most shortwave numbers stations, however, do not use established radio stations to broadcast their message. Radio Pyongyang is a notable exception.

While the station stopped broadcasting such messages in 2000 as a result of negotiations with South Korea, the broadcasts resumed in June of 2016.
Kim Il Sung’s birthday, as The New York Times reports, is often when North Korea demonstrates its latest advances. In recent days, many have speculated this might mean a sixth nuclear test to mark the occasion on Saturday.
Such a test would, indeed, send a message far more chilling than any cryptic messages on a late-night radio station — which is why one can only hope the message was the encrypted sound of Kim Jong Un coming to his senses.
H/T The Daily Caller

Chinese Planes Are Cancelling Flights to Pyongyang

by:Ben Marquis 

Whether North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un realizes it or not, the situation is looking pretty grim for him and his communist regime, as even their sole major ally, China, has grown weary of Kim’s activities.
The Wall Street Journal reported that all flights on China’s flagship carrier China Airlines between Beijing and the North Korean capital of Pyongyang have been “temporarily suspended,” a likely euphemism for “we’re scared Trump is going to finally put Kim in his place and don’t want our citizens to get hurt.”
A booking operator for Air China said that notice of the flight suspensions was issued Friday and that flights between the two cities probably wouldn’t resume before the end of May.

Regular flights between Beijing and Pyongyang began in 2008 and typically occur three times per week, though flights have been cancelled previously for various reasons.
It is worth noting that while Air China is the only Chinese carrier to service direct flights between the mainland and the peninsula, North Korea’s state-run Air Koryo operates direct flights to several Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and the border city of Dandong.
Though initial reports stated that the flights had been cancelled altogether, Reuters reported that Air China made it clear the flights had only been temporarily suspended due to lack of ticket sales and would eventually resume at an unspecified date.

But, as we all know, Air China will say whatever the Chinese Communist government wants, and blaming poor ticket sales is a perfectly reasonable cover for a government that’s scared Trump will finally do what is necessary to take out Kim once and for all.
“Air China did not stop operation of the Beijing to Pyongyang route, but temporarily canceled some flights based on the situation of ticket sales,” a spokesperson for Air China said.
The spokesperson added that flights would likely resume as needed whenever ticket sales improved.
What do you want to bet that “whenever ticket sales improve” will be once the U.S. has settled matters on the peninsula?

But even if Air China is being truthful about ticket sales, that in itself is a measure of just how worried the Chinese are that KJU’s regime (and his own days) are ticking down quickly.
According to a report from the U.K. Daily Star, there are increasing fears that a military confrontation is on the verge of occurring.
In fact, mere hours before the announcement from Air China, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi publicly cautioned that war could break out on the Korean peninsula “at any moment.”

During a news conference Yi stated that drastic action would likely be required to halt the “irreversible route” the world seemed to be heading toward, adding, “If a war occurs, the result is a situation in which everybody loses and there can be no winner.”
That announcement makes perfect sense in light of the U.S.’ overdue strong rhetoric coming from a Trump administration bent on avoiding the massive mistakes the Obama White House made. Secretary Mattis himself has said that North Korea must change its behavior, with an implied “or else” indicated by the U.S. military build up in the region.

It is thought that the North Korean dictator could be planning another major test of his nuclear missile program this weekend, which could draw a military response from both China and U.S. military assets positioned strategically in the region.

US MOAB bomb death toll has risen to 94 an Afghan official said Saturday

 

by: RAHIM FAIEZ

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military has risen to 94, an Afghan official said Saturday.

Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar, said the number of Islamic State group dead was up from the 36 reported a day earlier. A Ministry of Defense official had said Friday the number of dead could rise as officials assessed the bomb site in Achin district.

"Fortunately there is no report of civilians being killed in the attack," Khogyani said.

The increased death toll in Nangarhar was announced as officials in southern Helmand province reported at least 11 civilians were killed and one wounded in two roadside bomb blasts overnight.

The U.S. attack on a tunnel complex in remote eastern Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border killed at least four IS group leaders, Khogyani said. He said a clearance operation to assess the site of the attack was continuing. 

The strike using the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB, was carried out Thursday against an Islamic State group tunnel complex carved into the mountains that Afghan forces had tried to assault repeatedly in recent weeks in fierce fighting in Nangarhar province.

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Saturday criticized both the Afghan and U.S. governments for the attack in Nangarhar. Addressing a gathering in capital Kabul, Karzai said that allowing the U.S. to carry out the bombing was "treason" and an insult to Afghanistan.

Current President Ashraf Ghani's office said Friday there was "close coordination" between the U.S. military and the Afghan government on the operation, and they were careful to prevent any civilian casualties.

The U.S. estimates 600-800 IS fighters are in Afghanistan, mostly in Nangarhar. The U.S. has concentrated on fighting them while also supporting Afghan forces against the Taliban. The U.S. has more than 8,000 US troops in Afghanistan, training local forces and conducting counterterrorism operations. 

In Helmand province, at least 11 civilians were killed and one wounded in two roadside bomb blasts late Friday evening, said Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor.

"All victims of the attack were innocent civilians including women and children," said Zwak. The 11 died in a blast in Nawa district when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. Another person was wounded when a second bomb exploded in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand, he said.

Also on Saturday, Khogyani said a district leader and three others were wounded when their vehicle was targeted by a bomb. One of the wounded was Ghalib Mujahid, Bati Kot district chief, he said.

"The district chief and others are out of danger and are not in life-threatening condition," he said.

Last November, Mujahid was attacked by a sticky bomb attached to the vehicle and he was wounded and his driver was killed.

Lawsuit Reveals Chiquita Bananas Funding Terror Death Squads

   


by: Tim Brown 

Chiquita Bananas had a jingle I memorized from television commercials as a child.  Now, a lawsuit is exposing former Chiquita Banana Company executives for funding terror death squads in Columbia.
The lawsuit was filed on March 11 in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against former CEO of Chiquita Cyrus Freidheim and manager Charles Keiser.
The plaintiffs are identified only as John, Jane and Minor Does and are represented by Leslie Kroeger of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll.

"This case arises as a result of the actions of Chiquita Brands International, Inc., and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Chiquita”), in funding, arming, and otherwise supporting terrorist organizations in Colombia in their campaign of terror against the civilian population of the Urabá region, in order to maintain its profitable control of Colombia’s banana growing regions," reads the complaint.  "Plaintiffs are family members of trade unionists, banana workers, political organizers, social activists, and others targeted and killed by terrorists, most notably the paramilitary organization United Self-Defense Groups of Colombia (Autodefensorias Unidas de Colombia, or AUC), between 1995 and 2004."
"In order to produce bananas in an environment free from labor opposition and social disturbances, Chiquita, the Defendants Cyrus Freidheim and Charles Keiser, and other non-party individuals funded, armed, and otherwise supported the AUC," the complaint continues.  "The deaths of Plaintiffs’ relatives were a direct, foreseeable, and intended result of Chiquita’s illegal and tortious support of terrorist organizations.

"Chiquita, Mr. Freidheim and Mr. Keiser, and non-parties’ actions violated not only Colombian law and U.S. law, but also customary international law prohibiting crimes against humanity, extrajudicial killing, torture, war crimes, and other abuses," the complaint added.
The 155-page complaint claims that Chiquita made monthly payments to the AUC that totaled more than $1.7 million.
According to the plaintiffs, the payments were reviewed and approved by company executives, including those named in the lawsuit.
“Chiquita’s assistance helped the paramilitaries to consolidate as a decisive actor in the political, military, and social terrain of the banana region,” the complaint reads. “In exchange for its financial support to the AUC, Chiquita was able to operate in an environment in which labor and community opposition to their operations and policies was suppressed.”

Chiquita has already pleaded guilty in federal court of violating anti-terrorist laws in 2007. 

The US designated the AUC as a terrorist organization in 2001, but the plaintiffs state that the company continued to fund them, even at the insistence of the company's outside counsel.
“By arming and financing the AUC, Chiquita intended to benefit from the AUC’s systematic killings of civilians,” the complaint reads. “After its agreement with Chiquita, the AUC understood that one goal of its campaign of terror was to prevent work stoppages on banana plantations. … the AUC undertook an extensive campaign of murdering civilians in order to break the back of the unions.”
Among some of the violence the AUC committed, which were detailed in the complaint:

• a husband pulled from his motorbike, tortured and dismembered;
• a mother executed in front of her family;
• a daughter raped at her murdered father’s funeral

It also lists forced evictions and assaults of surviving family members by the AUC.

Courthouse News reports that this is not the first time that families have sought justice against Chiquita.

For the last decade, another class action suit filed by EarthRights International against Chiquita has winded through the federal courts.  Last For the last decade, another class action suit filed by EarthRights International against Chiquita has winded through the federal courts.  Last November, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra of West Palm Beach rejected the banana company’s request to hear the case in Colombia, citing security risks to the plaintiffs. Earlier last year, Marra ruled another lawsuit against former Chiquita executives could move forward.

BREAKING ALERT! North Korea Just Ordered Evacuation Of Their Capital City A “MAJOR EVENT” Looms

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the evacuation of almost 600,000 residents from the capital, Pyongyang, according to South Korean media. 



The deportations of nearly a quarter of Pyongyang’s residents come as North Korea readies its sixth nuclear test – and a potential military strike by the US in response.
From Info Wars

“Among those who were chosen by authorities to move are people whose relatives defected to South Korea, had been jailed in a prison camp, used drugs or counterfeit money, and produced, distributed or sold pirated films from the South,” reported the Korea Joongang Daily.
This implies that Jong-un wants to people in the capital who are less likely to aid foreign troops during an invasion.
“Population control was the pretext of the latest order,” said an anonymous insider. “But in reality, the purpose is to ‘purify’ the North Korean capital and allow only the loyal elite class to live there.”
That said, population control could be a factor if North Korea, which has lost millions to famine over the past few decades, considers Pyongyang a national redoubt.
The conflict in North Korea is deepening by the day; on Wednesday Infowars reported that China warned it will “react strongly” to the rogue nation’s nuclear threats.
North Korea may test an nuclear weapon on April 15 – the birthday of its founding president Kim Il Sung – as an act of defiance against the US strike group anchored off the Korean peninsula.
“The North Korean nuclear test scare comes just a few weeks after Japan began staging mass evacuation drills after Kim Jong-un test fired missiles and conducted rocket engine tests on intercontinental missiles,” reported The Sun. “The first exercise of its kind saw civilians young and old scrambling for cover as air-raid sirens wailed away.”
The Japanese government is already releasing public emergency measures in case of nuclear war.

Source: http://eheadlines.com

Judge Andrew Napolitano: ‘Skeptical’ That FBI Is Investigating Carter Page

by:Jeff Neukom 

"If it is true ..." 

Fox News Channel’s Andrew Napolitano cast doubt on a Washington Post report Thursday that claimed the FBI had obtained a FISA warrant to monitor the communications of Carter Page, a former Trump adviser who has been suspected of having contact with Russian officials.
“I’m skeptical of it for a couple of reasons,” Napolitano said. “If it is true or partially true, President Trump is confronted yet again third or fourth time in his presidency with intelligence leaks intended to embarrass, humiliate or manipulate him.”
The Post reported that the FBI obtained a secret court order last summer that gave the bureau permission to monitor Page’s communications based on a “probable cause” that Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power.

Napolitano explained the reason for his doubt, saying, “the FISA court does not issue warrants for individuals,” adding that Page may be caught up as a pawn in a broader investigation.
“That’s the way the intelligence community works,” said the former Superior Court judge. “They don’t want to reveal who they are looking for. If they are looking for Carter Page, they will not tell anyone they’re looking for him, not even the court.”
Page, a self-described oil industry consultant and U.S. Naval Academy midshipman, largely stayed out of the spotlight in his role as an adviser on Trump’s team. That is, until he left the campaign in September 2016 due to stories that “kept coming out based on the dodgy dossier,” Page said.

Page’s suspected connection to Russia, largely based on alleged meetings and communications with Russian officials, has been a talking point for a number of lawmakers and pundits. Allegations that Page worked with the Russians to interfere in the 2016 election were lambasted by Page as a “fake narrative.”
“Absolutely not,” he told Fox News Chief Intelligence Correspondent Catherine Herridge in March. “I did nothing that could even possibly be viewed as helping them in any way.”
Speaking with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Page denied reports that he’d met with a litany of Russian officials, including Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak and Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin. He called the reports a “joke” that is “beyond words.”

“I’m not going to deny that I talked to him [Kislyak],” Page said, maintaining that he’d never met with the ambassador outside of June’s Republican National Convention. “I will say that I never met him anywhere outside of Cleveland. Let’s just say that much.”

According to The Post, Page has not been accused of any crimes, though it remains uncertain if the Justice Department will seek charges against him for a role in meddling with the election.
Napolitano, for his part, is no stranger to controversial claims. Last month, he made several on-air statements advancing the White House narrative that former president Barack Obama spearheaded surveillance of Trump Team conversations.
Napolitano in March said on Fox & Friends that he spoke with three intelligence sources who said Obama “went outside the chain of command” to conduct secret surveillance on Trump.

Specifically, the judge said Obama went through Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, GCHQ, to remove any possibility of “American fingerprints” on the operation.
GCHQ denied the claim, with one spokesperson saying “no part of this story is true.” Napolitano, however, held his ground during during his first appearance on America’s Newsroom after a brief suspension.
“The American public needs to know more about this rather than less because a lot of the government surveillance authorities will expire in the Fall and there’ll be a great debate on how much authority we want the government to have to surveil us, and the more the American public knows the more informed there and Congress’s decisions will be,” he told Fox’s Bill Hemmer.

North Korea panics, wants Obama back!

A North Korean official told the Associated Press Friday that dictator Kim Jong Un and his cronies are longing for former President Barack Obama’s soft administration — and that President Donald Trump is too hard on them.
Need anymore proof that Obama’s foreign policy was too weak and Trump is returning strength to America?
Vice Minister Han Song Ryol said Pyongyang has determined the Trump administration is “more vicious and more aggressive” than that of Obama.

Obama’s “lead from behind policy” allowed North Korea to act in any way they wanted. He never asked China to intervene or threatening preemptive strikes when North Korea violated nuclear policy… both things that Trump has done in less than 100 days in office.
And it has Kim Jong Un practically pulling his hair out.
Ryol added that North Korea will keep building up its nuclear arsenal in “quality and quantity” and said Pyongyang is ready to go to war if that’s what Trump wants.

He attempted to blame North Korea’s fear of the U.S. military build-up on Trump’s tweets, saying they are increasing tensions.
But Trump is utilizing the social platform to publicly call other nations to enforce U.N. sanctions on Pyongyang for launching multiple nuclear tests.
Trump posted a tweet Tuesday in which he said the North is “looking for trouble” and reiterated his call for more pressure from Beijing, North Korea’s economic lifeline, to clamp down on trade and strengthen its enforcement of U.N. sanctions to persuade Pyongyang to denuclearize.
Trump has threatened that if Beijing isn’t willing to do more to squeeze the North, the U.S. might take the matter into its own hands.

Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington go back to President Harry Truman and the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. But the heat has been rising rapidly since Trump took office in January.
This year’s joint war games between the U.S. and South Korean military are the biggest so far — a sign to Kim Jong Un that the United States is well prepared to defend ourselves and allies.
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier has been diverted back to the waters off Korea after heading for Australia, and U.S. satellite imagery suggests the North could conduct another underground nuclear test at any time. Pyongyang recently tested a ballistic missile and claims it is close to perfecting an intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear warhead that could attack the U.S. mainland.
Many experts believe that at its current pace of testing, North Korea could reach that potentially game-changing milestone within a few years — under Trump’s watch as president. Despite reports that Washington is considering military action if the North goes ahead with another nuclear test, Han did not rule out the possibility of a test in the near future.

“That is something that our headquarters decides,” he said during the 40-minute interview in Pyongyang, which is now gearing up for a major holiday — and possibly a big military parade — on Saturday. “At a time and at a place where the headquarters deems necessary, it will take place.”
The North conducted two such tests last year alone. The first was of what it claims to have been a hydrogen bomb and the second was its most powerful ever. Expectations are high the North may put its newest missiles on display during Saturday’s parade.
The annual U.S.-South Korea military exercises have consistently infuriated the North, which views them as rehearsals for an invasion. Washington and Seoul deny that, but reports that exercises have included “decapitation strikes” aimed at the North’s leadership have fanned Pyongyang’s anger.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.  

Source: https://thehornnews.com

It’s Time to Prosecute Obama Operatives who are Actively Trying to Undermine the Trump Administration

oped: The whole damn Obama Administration including all players involved George Soros et al  should be prosecuted under 18 USC 1965 (RICO) as well as 18 USC 2384 (Seditious Conspiracy) 18 USC Chapter115 (TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE)



by: Erik Rush 

So, I was listening to an excellent local political analyst whom we are fortunate to have in our area and who occasionally does radio work, guest-hosting for local talk shows and such. He happens to be a Harvard MBA and former corporate CEO, and is also another East Coast transplant to the region (such as myself). This may be part of the reason I identify with his perspective.
This gentleman was discussing ongoing national political developments with a local radio talk-show host, and I found what he articulated to be insightful (as I usually do); indeed, this guy would be an asset to any presidential administration because he is not only sharp as a tack, but has the ability to be objective even in the face of hyperbolic opponents and, more importantly, hyperbolic members of his own political constituency. On this occasion, there were some opinions he had that I found singularly gratifying to hear.

The gist of this person’s conversation with the radio host centered around his opinion that it would behoove the Trump administration to aggressively and even ruthlessly pursue the prosecution of those former Obama administration operatives who materially participated in the clandestine surveillance of Trump’s campaign last year, those who are engaged in the sabotage of the new administration and those progressive ideologues in positions of power who continue to support the radical Obama-era agenda, even to the point of breaking the law. An example of this would be the mayors of sanctuary cities who, instead of falling into line with immigration law, have chosen to become activists in the cause of sanctuary cities.
“So it’s not just me,” I thought, concerning the propriety of the Trump administration aggressively prosecuting this potpourri of radical operatives, particularly when one considers the fact that these people and organizations have acted subversively and, in some cases, with criminal intent.

As I said last week in this space, second-guessing President Trump as regards his strategies is likely to prove to be folly, because the man is a very savvy operator with a keen insight into human behavior. However, I suspect that there are elements of over-caution on the administration’s part that manifest in a certain tentativeness vis-à-vis addressing this issue. Part of this may be concern over the administration being perceived as attempting to sully the Obama legacy. Such action will probably remain impossible in the foreseeable future due to Obama’s ethnicity and underlying popular sympathies and trepidation in this area. Another aspect of the administration’s deportment may have to do with decorum; the tradition of administrations excusing the shortfalls of previous administrations is a matter of course.
That said, by way of comparison, we’ve never had a former president or administration that crafted a shadow administration and political infrastructure to continue its work once the chief executive had left office and which shamelessly worked to undermine the objectives of the new administration. Neither have we ever seen office holders of an opposition party and kindred activists acting illegally and in concert to the same ends.

This being the case, like our aforementioned local analyst, at this juncture, I believe that aggressive action – which would certainly be framed as draconian by the opposition – is most assuredly in order at this point.
When the state of Arizona passed a law requiring state and local police to investigate the immigration status of anyone they reasonably suspected of being an illegal immigrant, the Obama administration sued that state on the grounds that the law was unconstitutional. As we know, this premise was bunk, since Arizona’s law mirrored established federal statutes. Obama couldn’t criminally prosecute Arizona’s governor or anyone else, because their actions fell within the law.

In the case of activist sanctuary-city mayors who have poised themselves to fight Trump administration measures against sanctuary-city practices, these individuals are indeed breaking the law. While I am sure that jailing the mayors of these cities – even if the measure was interpreted as symbolic – would be about as controversial as it gets, it would reflect the Trump administration’s adherence to the rule of law, and it would demonstrate that the administration has no intention of supplanting the rule of law with subjective and destructive notions of political correctness.
In the case of Obama’s former National Security Adviser Susan Rice having allegedly “unmasked” private citizens during the course of the Obama administration’s investigation into the Trump campaign, her actions and evident subterfuge and those of other Obama operatives should be investigated and those responsible prosecuted by the current administration to the fullest extent of the law. In my view, this is the only sensible thing to do in light of the current political climate. If such a venture were to become a cavalcade of prosecutions and perp-walking former Obama Cabinet members on the nightly news, so be it.

The establishment press, far-left activists, liberal politicos and their dullard followers are going to frame everything the Trump camp does as illegal, unconstitutional, racist and omniphobic no matter what face the administration attempts to put on its agenda – so why not capitalize on the situation?
In so doing, Trump might not wind up with the vociferous support of conservatives who remain reticent in validating his conservative measures to date because he’s not a USDA-approved Grade A conservative, but I’d wager that the preponderance of Americans who voted for him would be unlikely to complain.

Attn: POTUS the time has come...release the X-Files

Dear Donald Trump/POTUS

In the spirit of JFK...we are now in the 21st Century...whats the real scoop on UFO's, Areas 51 and 52 the Blue Book real files etal?
We the People can handle the truth...we are no longer in the 1950's {naive}we are more sophisticated... well most of us are...excluding the dumbed down looney left progressives...all they know and think is rebel, protest,whine and cry and demand free stuff!

How about the government move to a new era of real and true honesty with We The People who's tax money supports all of the government programs...y'all seem to forget that you work for us not the other way around...you must answer to the people like it or not! 

Therefore in the spirit of JFK who demanded the same 10 days before his assassination...let's open this book once and for all...Release the files already I got's to know...gettin' older~ in the golden years...I hate unfinished business...get the drift el Presidente' ? Show us your Andy Jackson side...be bold be tough tell your nay sayers to stuff it in Andrew Jackson style!

Defector: NK Dictator Plans to Become “King of Korean Peninsula”

by:V Saxena 

A North Korean defector who reportedly used to work for dictator Kim Jong Un claimed that the megalomaniacal despot’s end goal was to unite North and South Korea under his “own terms,” presumably with himself at the helm as a king or emperor.
“History has proved that the North Korean state will never give up its nuclear capability and their final goal is the unification of Korea on their own terms,” the defector told Britain’s ITV News.
It was unclear whether this was a goal conceived by Kim or simply passed on to him by his father, Kim Jong Il, though it ultimately didn’t matter, since the young dictator shows many of the same signs of megalomania as his predecessor.

In a profile published shortly after his death in 2011, for instance, Scientific American described the late Kim Jong Il as “sadistic, antisocial, paranoid, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal.” His son is the same, if not even worse.
“Compared to his father, Kim Jong Un is more aggressive with advancing the North’s nuclear program and ignoring international concerns,” Army Gen. Vincent Brooks, commander of the United States Forces in Korea, noted last year in written responses to questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee, according to Reuters.
Brooks also reportedly described the disturbed dictator as more “risk-tolerant, arrogant and impulsive” than his already disturbingly megalomaniacal father, who himself had just been a chip off the old block of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung. 



So disturbed and maniacal was Kim Il Sung, according to Ra Jong-yil, the former head of South Korea’s national intelligence service, that he ordered his aides to kill his son, Kim Jong Il, if he ever tried to dismantle the country’s sordid style of governance, according to The U.K. Telegraph.
The point is that Kim Jong Un is, as Scientific American put it, a “sadistic, antisocial, paranoid, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal” megalomaniac who cannot be changed. This psychopathy has been bred in his genes, meaning the only way to repair North Korea is to remove him from power. Unfortunately, that could well take military action.
These are the facts.
H/T U.K. Daily Express

New Reports Say Famed Navy SEAL Unit Among Forces Gathering In Korea

 

by: Jack Davis  

As tensions with North Korea ratchet higher, new reports have surfaced that America’s SEAL Team Six has arrived on the Korean Peninsula for training drills.
Although Navy officials downplayed reports in March that the elite unit, which was responsible for the takedown of Osama bin Laden, was participating in South Korean training exercises, media reports continue to mention the SEALs are participating in drills designed to simulate an attack on the top leaders of North Korea, including dictator Kim Jong-Un.

US NAVY SEALS TRAIN TO TAKE OUT KIM… https://t.co/PdIsxQ7wJH

— Jeff M (@EightOneECHO) April 12, 2017

American military officials would only say that “ground, air, naval and special operations” are working with South Korean counterparts in “several joint and combined field training operations” involving up to 17,000 troops.
“There are variety of Special Operations Forces participating in Foal Eagle, as they do in most regional exercises,” Commander Gary Ross said, referencing annual training exercises conducted in South Korea.

Sailors conduct flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) flight deck.https://t.co/gco27nnsxF pic.twitter.com/CYf5zBeWCw

— U.S. Forces Japan (@USForcesJapan) April 12, 2017

This week, the Carl Vinson strike group, led by the aircraft carrier of the same name, moved toward Korean waters. The battle group includes two guided-missile destroyers and a guided-missile cruiser.
The American fleet is being augmented by ships from Japan’s defense force, which is sending “several destroyers” into Korean waters.
The U.S. has also deployed its The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, which is designed to block North Korean missiles from penetrating South Korea’s air defenses.
Tensions are high due to an increase in bellicose rhetoric from North Korea as well as the approach of April 15, which is the anniversary of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung’s birth and is often marked by displays of weapons. In recent weeks, North Korean has threatened to launch ballistic missiles and also to detonate a nuclear warhead.

As military forces gather in Korea, President Donald Trump has stepped up his responses to North Korean threats and enlisted the help of Chinese leaders to rein in North Korea.

North Korea is looking for trouble. If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! U.S.A.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2017

I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2017

Trump talked Tuesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, with whom he met last weekend, in an effort to seek a diplomatic solution to end the threat posed by North Korea.

Facts Point to Obama as the REAL Russian Puppet

oped: Ya think? hello: http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2013/02/barry-barack-obama-is-new-anthony.html

by: Wilmot Proviso 

In an op-ed for the New York Post, National Review’s Rich Lowry declared that there really was a Russian puppet in the White House — and his name was Barack Obama.
In the Monday piece, Lowry wrote that “circumstantial evidence is mounting that the Kremlin succeeded in infiltrating the U.S. government at the highest levels,” but that it was done during the Obama administration.
“He re-set with Russia shortly after its clash with Georgia in 2008,” Lowry wrote. “He concluded the New START agreement with Moscow that reduced our nuclear forces but not theirs. When candidate Mitt Romney warned about Russia in the 2012 campaign, Obama rejected him as a Cold War relic.

“The president then went on to forge an agreement with Russia’s ally Iran to allow it to preserve its nuclear program. During the red-line fiasco, he eagerly grasped a lifeline from Russia at the price of accepting its intervention in Syria. He never budged on giving Ukraine ‘lethal’ weapons to defend itself from Russian attack,” Lowry continued.
“Finally, Obama cut U.S. defense spending and cracked down on fossil fuels — a policy that Russia welcomes, since its economy is dependent on high oil prices.”
And the chickens have now come home to roost, Lowry argued.

“The cost of Obama’s orientation toward Russia became clearer over the last two weeks. When he pulled up short from enforcing his red line, an agreement with the Russians to remove Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons became the fig leaf to cover his retreat,” Lowry said. “Even if Obama eventually got tougher on Russia — imposing sanctions after the Ukraine invasion and sending contingents of U.S. troops to countries near Russia — he never entirely shed his reflex toward accommodation.”
Lowry is 100 percent right. The Democrats’ neo-John Bircher hysteria over Russia may have reached a fever pitch now, but that’s mostly because it’s a convenient excuse as to why they lost the presidential election.

For all the Democrat talk about President Donald Trump being a Kremlin puppet, it’s worth pointing out that the president did something Obama never would: strike back at Russia’s client state of Syria after Assad used chemical weapons.
And what necessitated that? Barack Obama’s policy of accommodation, bordering on appeasement, to Russia and its allies.

There was a Kremlin puppet in the White House. Thankfully, term limits forced him to leave.


H/T Fox News