Donald Trump Struck Down In Court

The Orangutan In Chief has only been in office for a week, and has already had one of his executive orders overturned in federal court. Judge Ann Donnelly of New York overturned Donald Trump's recent orders to deny entrance into the United States to anyone from Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria. Trump was not concerned about his violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which does not allow discrimination of any immigrant or perspective immigrant based on country of origin or religion. He just created and edict and let it fly. Hundreds of people from those countries were detained at airports until Judge Donnelly set them free. She also reminded those in the courtroom to let her know if those affected were still being detained after her ruling. The stay is temporary, so more court action is sure to follow. Wouldn't it be nice if the United States had a sitting president who was familiar with law?

What Kept The Etan Patz Jury From Guilty Verdict?

Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in the Soho neighborhood in New York, in 1979. He was only six years old. He has never been found, and there have not been many viable leads or suspects over the years. In 2010, a basement was dug up in search of remains, but none were found. There have been age progressed pictures, and another suspect, Jose Ramos, the significant other of a babysitter sometimes used by Etan's family, was successfully sued in civil court by the Patz's in a wrongful death suit. There was never enough evidence to charge him in criminal court.

In 2012, an emotionally unstable man named Pedro Hernandez told law enforcement that he had killed a child. Members of his church supported that story, stating that he had repeated his account of having killed a child since the early 1980's. As for the remains, Hernandez claimed he had put the body in the trash. He was finally arrested, and his case went to trial. Aside from a haphazard confession, seven hours of which were not recorded, there was no evidence. Hernandez did not even get the name of the child he allegedly killed, and because there were no remains, against which to compare dental records or DNA for a positive identification, jurors would have had to make not only the leap that Hernandez actually did the deed, but that the victim was truly Etan Patz. Suppose Hernandez actually killed someone, but it wasn't Etan? Would Etan get justice? Or would a killer still be free to commit another murder?

The trial ended in a hung jury, and the judge finally declared a mistrial. There was one juror who did not agree that guilt should be determined in an American court with no evidence. It is a bit disturbing that only one juror would hold out, resisting the social pressure to convict without evidence, but thankfully, at least one person was willing to demand that the judicial system work the way it was designed to work. Coercion of a mentally ill suspect for hours on end by police is not likely to result in reliable information. And why would seven hours of such a conversation not have been recorded, so as to be available to a jury, later on? Could the seven hours possibly have been erased in order to preserve the ability of involved police officers to lie their asses off and get the wrong man convicted, thereby closing the case? With so many open and loose ends here, that seems like a distinct possibility. The only other supporting "evidence" the prosecution had were a few disorganized statements from Hernandez's former churchmates, claiming that he had "said he killed someone." Great. If he had really made such statements; and he actually may have; why in bloody hell didn't these church people go to the police back in the eighties, when Hernandez told them these things? Not that the statements are evidence, mind you. In the real world, third hand information is called "hearsay".

Hernandez is still in jail, waiting for the mumbo jumbo experts who engineered this mockery of a resolution to a missing persons case to decide when and if they want to retry the case. He is scheduled for a status hearing on June 10, 2015. Hopefully, if the case is tried again, there will at least be evidence and compelling testimony which will lead to the location of Etan Patz, and allow his family closure. 

May 25 Is National Missing Childrens' Day

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan declared May 25 National Missing Childrens' Day, to remind everyone that Etan Patz, who disappeared en route from his home to the school bus in New York, had not been found after disappearing in 1979. There are many unresolved missing persons cases involving children, and before Etan Patz's case, no one wanted to give these cases much publicity or notice. It was all too easy to pretend these things never happen, and that most American neighborhoods are "safe". Even today, it is often a formidable task to convince our media to air stories about missing children or keep their pictures in circulation until they are found.

The husband of a Kansas congresswoman even stated, after a child was abandoned by a teacher, four miles away from school, in Frankfort Kansas during a school activity, that it was a "good thing" that the child was left in a rural area, and not in her native Washington DC. His reasoning was that "those things don't happen in the country". The child's mother informed him that in Washington DC, there are cameras, eyewitnesses who care more about missing children than the pensions of dumbass teachers who "lose" them, and cell phone signals. In Northeast Kansas, a missing child cannot depend on those things. Also, the child's mother asked the husband of her representative if he had heard of more bodies being dumped in plain sight in urban areas post mortem, or "in the country", where evidence is harder to find?

White Man Yellow

Here's one of the reasons I don't care much for Christianity. Historically, the murder of adherents to religions that have been collectively labeled "Witchcraft" by zealous and hypocritical Christians has been accepted, and encouraged. Even in the advent of laws changing, so as to allow injunctions against murder to include lethal violence against victims other than White Christians, the laws are often selectively applied in order to continue to marginalize certain minorities.

Last month, a New York man named Carlos Alberto Amerillo beat his girlfriend and her daughter to death with a hammer, then called the police to let them know he had "assassinated two witches". He actually met law enforcement with a bible in hand. No real problem there, just two witches dead. He'll pay the price in the judicial system, but get rewarded in heaven by jesus, right?

Amerillo is probably mentally ill, but there are churches who actually teach their congregations to believe that there is a god who conveniently does not value the life of any person who is not associated in some type of conformity to the christian religion. Mix that type of intolerance with mental illness, and violence is often the result.

As a result of Amerillo's violent attempts to please god, a seven year old girl, the grandchild of his deceased girlfriend, is now an orphan.

Convicted Killer Howard Marnell Is About To Go Free

Should Howard Marnell, convicted of the 1982 murder of Sandra Olrich, be handed a "get out of jail free" card by the parole board? Apparently, he has exhibited enough "good behavior" in prison, after the exceptionally violent murder of his sister-in-law, which is technically domestic violence, for New York to take seriously his request for parole from his sentence of fifteen years to life. He says he has learned to "control his rage", and that he has matured. Control his rage? Sandra Olrich was only twenty years old in 1982. What could she possibly have done to incite that much rage from anyone? Howard Marnell is the type of criminal who should stay behind bars for the rest of his life.

 

Child Support Deadbeat Dad Arrested Overseas

Robert Sands owes over a million dollars in child support. Robert Sands didn't think he should have to pay. Neither did anyone who enabled him. Robert Sands had a "papers please" moment in the Philippines, and now he is back in America. He's only looking at about four years behind bars, though. Health and Human Services has a new website to help with things like turning in, or locating a child support scofflaw. Just to make it easier for those who would be tempted to ignore the laws and not report deadbeat dads, ( lets not pretend that Robert Sands was completely without enablers) the form for turning them in is right here.
 

Another bit of trivia concerning child support is that most child support obligees (the persons who are owed the money) are women, and most child support obligors (the persons who owe the money and occasionally become deadbeats) are men. Historically, state and federal government agencies in the United States have made fewer efforts to assist in collection of child support than they have made for the collection of unpaid parking tickets.
 

Publishing The Names And Addresses Of Gun Owners

A newspaper called the Journal News, in New York, has published the names and addresses of many of the Westchester and Rockland County gun owners in their paper. Readers were stunned to see this, and many people do not understand what the Journal News is trying to accomplish. The Second Amendment gives citizens in the United States the right to bear arms, and if a gun owner is on a public list of citizens who have purchased weapons legally, it naturally follows that the gun in question is owned legally. That said, why should anyone care if their neighbors own weapons or not? If the Journal News is trying to embarrass gun owners, they should save their ink. What they've actually done is inform the burglers, violent thugs, and the local Boogeyman about which houses are not armed, and made the occupants in those houses easy victims.

On a related note, there is a petition circulating the internet to garner signatures favoring the deportation of the CNN anchor, Piers Morgan. Piers Morgan will certainly have to do more than fill the air with words in order to be deported, but it might be effective, instead, to boycott the products advertised on CNN while Piers Morgan is voicing his silly and inexperienced opinion.

 

This is a homemade spud gun.

 

Pedro Hernandez, Norma Hernandez, And The Etan Patz Case

As many of us have known since May 25, 1979, six year old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York on that morning. As everyone involved in the case has known, there have been no clues, and Etan has never been found. But, very recently, after some digging was done in a nearby basement in an attempt to find evidence connected to Etan Patz, someone who claims to know all about the whole matter appeared from seemingly nowhere....ok, New Jersey......to tell us all what happened to Etan. A man named Pedro Hernandez says he killed Etan. Ok; if this is true, perhaps Etan's family can get some closure and hopefully, find peace. There is; however, one more person who claims to have known these facts for the past thirty-three years......Pedro's sister, Norma Hernandez.

The press, along with Norma, herself, seem to want to spin this as if Norma had gone to the police the minute she heard Etan Patz was missing, and heard that her brother was involved, and begged and pleaded with them to listen to her. She claims that she spoke up, over the years, and that her "testimony" was ignored. Yet, police in both New Jersey, where Pedro Hernandez quietly moved after not going to police with his story, and investigators in New York, insist that they have not heard the testimony from Norma Hernandez. She also claims that when she communicated her tip, she was asked by police if she was "angry" with her brother, and if that was why she was giving them the infomation. Here's the problem with that: some of the best tips given to law enforcement are from angry people. Seriously....never commit a crime and leave a witness, accessory, or an accessory after the fact angry with you; they can send you up the river later on in life. Every police officer worth his salt knows this. It is unlikely that Norma's information was discounted because of any friction between her and her brother. Also, while technology in 1979 was limited in terms of finding evidence and linking it to a suspect via DNA, thirty-three years have elasped. Norma Hernandez could easily have reiterated her testimony over the years, especially as she noticed differences in the way law enforcement treats missing child cases. She has had every day of every year in a thirty-three year span to do this. She could also have gone to the FBI, not only at the beginning of this nightmare, but at any time since May 25, 1979.

Norma Hernandez also sat on the information she knew, concerning the Etan Patz case, in 2004, when Jose Ramos, who had never been charged with that crime was sued in civil court for wrongful death. If police could not take a statement from her, Ramos's attorney would certainly have enjoyed introducing her information. She could have cleared this whole matter up in 2004. She didn't.

Stan and Julie Patz have not been quiet about their desire to know what happened to their son over the years. Could Norma Hernandez not see this? Why didn't she write them a letter, or contact the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children? There are many people who could have listened to her story, taken her statement, and investigated. Why did Norma wait until police in New York and the FBI started looking at other possible suspects and digging up basements in the SoHo neighborhood, where she and her brother used to work and where Etan went missing? She obviously knew Etan would not be found in the basement that was being excavated. Was she worried that another basement or hidden spot might yield clues that would bring law enforcement and the Patz's closer to the truth? Was she scared that if her brother's DNA was found on anything having to do with Etan, that he would testify that she was the person who knew about this, along with him? It is abundantly clear that we have not heard the whole story here. Could Norma Hernandez be more than just a reluctant accessory after the fact, as she would have us believe? It's just a question.

Another Cold Case For Terri Horman

It's Monday again. Already. And it's time for me to tell Terri Horman, stepmother of Kyron Horman and defacto kidnapping suspect, who will not cooperate with authorities and help find her stepson, about a cold case that baffled authorities but was solved either by painstaking detective work, statements made by witnesses, or just good, old fashioned luck. Here's a recent story; it's about a kiddie-porn perp. His name is  Eric Antwan Bell, and he apparently began his life of crime sometime in 2007. It came to the attention of law enforcement in Florida that he was using adult prostitutes (who sound like accomplices to me) to lure underage girls into his home. Then he would molest them, and film this activity. He made his living by selling this footage on the internet. But when victims helped police put together a profile, with a name and face.......something other than Santana, which he used as an anonymous moniker...........he fled. But he had connections to New York and New Jersey, and probably several other places up and down the East Coast, and since his trade involved selling kiddie porn online, he left an electronic trail. His pattern of abuse followed by victims' statements also spoke for itself. He was finally caught in New Jersey earlier this month, where he had moved and established residency.

So what do things like this have to do with people like you, Terri? Oh......I don't know. Perhaps nothing. But; if Kyron's kidnapper and any accomplices use the internet, or leave any type of personal or electronic trail anywhere, and everyone does-it's the nature of existance on this plane, details will eventually work their way into the open. The sooner Kyron comes home, the better it will be for everyone, including the person who took him.

                                                                    Eric Antwan Bell

                                                                         Kyron Horman

Another Cold Case Solved

Here's a kitty who went missing in Colorado five years ago and was found last week in New York! No one knows how she got across the country, or what she's been doing for five years, but someone found her and took her to an animal shelter, where her microchip was read, and her Colorado owners were located.

                                                                                Willow
                                                                 Isn't she a pretty kitty?