Another 'What Were They Thinking'...The Smell-Good Edition

Over the course of my law-enforcement career I made plenty of driving under the influence arrests. In a few instances, the offender tried to mask the odor of alcoholic beverage on their person and in their vehicle by using copious amounts of cologne/perfume.

Patrick Butler of Rock Hill, South Carolina used a more extreme tactic.

While on patrol in that city, officers observed a vehicle jerk to the left after nearly striking a curb and decided to trail the car. Observing several lane violations, officers activated the overhead emergency lights and initiated a stop of Butler's vehicle. As they approached, Butler was observed to hold a spray-can to his mouth and administer several doses.

Butler, grabbing the only masking agent in his car, had sprayed his mouth full of Axe Body Spray.

When officers inquired as to why he had performed the act, Butler replied that he had been spraying himself "...from head to toe." Butler admitted to having consumed two beers and a shot of whiskey, later testing .13% blood-alcohol content. He was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.

                                                                    Patrick Butler

ANTIFA are the new Brownshirts

What exactly is ANTIFA?

It is an acronym for ‘Anti-Fascist’, and the group’s aim is to eliminate fascism in the United States. CNN claims this group’s roots can be traced to Nazi Germany as part of the opposition movement against Hitler and, if you follow current events, you know that ANTIFA associates President Trump with Adolph Hitler. For the life of me, though, I don’t see that connection. 

At all. Not even close.

CNN is right in one aspect; ANTIFA does have at least one connection to pre-WW II Nazi Germany, though it isn’t one they intended. If you follow history, you know who the Brownshirts were: Adolph Hitler’s Sturmabteilung, or SA, whose methods of violence and intimidation greatly aided the Nazi despot’s rise to power. They were a paramilitary group that marched in parades in support of Hitler, protected Nazi party meetings and violently attacked anyone who opposed him. They were the first Stormtroopers.

Gee, that sounds pretty familiar, doesn’t it?

I can see more similarity between ANTIFA and the SA than I can between Hitler and President Trump. All I have to do is watch coverage of any event in which a Conservative group assembles and there they are, dressed in whatever black clothing they may possess with bandanas around their faces. Lately, this alleged ‘peaceful’ ANTIFA group has been filmed wearing an assortment of protective headgear, ranging from motorcycle helmets to baseball helmets. I’ve watched them chase down and assault people whom these ANTIFA members believed to be Trump supporters and beat them to the ground. I’ve watched them spray peacefully-gathered supporters of Trump with pepper spray and throw bottles filled with urine at them. They oppose anyone with a Conservative point of view to the extent that they will make a college or public venue too dangerous for a speech by anyone who is even remotely connected with conservatism.

Yet they endorse free speech, right? Free, that is, as long as the speaker is in line with ANTIFA’s skewed view of American politics and perceived injustices in our social landscape.

America’s neo-Nazis and white supremacists and their violence and hatred cannot be tolerated; neither can we tolerate ANTIFA’s actions. 

Both ends of the spectrum are more alike than they know.

Another 'What Were They Thinking?', the Fishing in Florida Edition

It wasn't the kind of 'bite' the man was hoping to have.

While fishing off the St. Augustine pier, an unidentified man became the target of a cursing, drunken woman who was swimming naked, according to the St. John's County Sheriff's Office.

During the unusual encounter the woman, identified as 22-year-old Alexandria Turner, swam up to the man's fishing line while cursing him, bit the line in two and swam off with the line's rigging. The man called deputies and pointed out the still-swimming Turner, explaining that he'd rented the pole and was concerned he would have to pay for the loss of the pole's lure.

Deputies coaxed the intoxicated woman from the water but Turner refused to accompany them to the pier office, instead cursing the deputies while shouting "I'M (expletive) NAKED!" Turner was arrested and jailed on suspicion of public intoxication and resisting arrest without violence.

It remains unknown if the fishing lure was recovered.

                                                                  Alexandria Turner

Don't Like History? Liberals Say 'Change It!'

Some 'progressive' movie critics, in an effort to show the world they are champions of political-correctness, are complaining that the film 'Dunkirk' has no significant female or minority roles.

The Battle of Dunkirk is a World War II historical event that occurred May 26 through June 4, 1940; it involved the evacuation of British forces from the beaches of that French village while under nearly constant air and ground attack by Nazi Germany.

Minorities and women, at that time in history, had no significant involvement in combat action, yet these handful of movie reviewers would have history re-written to reflect them as central characters in this battle, regardless of facts.

When history has to be changed in order to assuage the feelings of a handful of malcontents, we will have started down a very dark and dangerous path from which there is no return.

I am truly living in a world I don't understand.

Another 'What Were They Thinking?'

There’s no question that social media has contributed to much of society’s ills; for Ohioan John Mogan, his infatuation with Facebook, along with Mogan’s penchant for facial and neck tattoos, earned him a prison term for bank robbery.

Mogan, assisted by his girlfriend Ashley Duboe, decided it would be a great idea to rob a bank in Ashville, a little village twenty miles south of Columbus. While Duboe waited behind the wheel of their getaway car, the hoodie-wearing Mogan walked into the bank and handed the teller a note demanding money. Mogan and Duboe made a clean getaway with a wad of cash.

While assuming they would have eventually been arrested, thanks to Mogan’s numerous and distinctive facial inkings, the pair made law enforcement’s job much easier by then posting several photos of Mogan with a cash ‘sandwich’, which he referred to as his 'McStack', on his Facebook page.

Duboe and Mogan were convicted of bank robbery and are both currently incarcerated in the Ohio penal system

George Kelly Barnes: One of America's Infamous Criminals

Today is the anniversary of George Kelly Barnes' birth...and death.

Born on this date in 1895 in Memphis, Tennessee, Barnes attended Central High School. He would become a petty criminal, running bootleg liquor during the Prohibition Era, until his arrest and conviction for the crime; Barnes spent three years in prison, by all accounts a 'model' prisoner which earned him an early release.

It was after his first stint of incarceration that Barnes would become infamous, a man who would eventually become one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted men in America. Barnes, while fleeing federal authorities, dropped his last name and became George Kelly.

George 'Machine Gun' Kelly.

Kelly and his wife Kathryn, who bought Kelly his first Thompson sub-machine gun, kidnapped Oklahoma oil tycoon Charles Urschel, eventually collecting a $200,000 ransom. Urschel, however, proved to be smarter than his captors; after his release, Urschel was able to recount various details while being held, blindfolded, such as background noises and sounds, and made it a point to leave as many fingerprints as he could in the small house his kidnappers had used in which to hide. Urschel's quick thinking led to a massive amount of evidence that pointed the FBI to Kelly and his wife.

George Kelly was convicted in 1933 of kidnapping in a trial that had historic significance: it was the first federal trial during which in-court filming was permitted. Kelly and his wife both received life sentences for the crime, which was also the first time the newly-passed Lindbergh Law, making kidnapping a federal offense, was utilized.

After twenty-one years of incarceration, George 'Machine Gun' Kelly Barnes died in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary of a heart attack on his 58th birthday. He is buried in Cottonwood, Texas.

Where Is The Outrage From 'Black Lives Matter' ?

NYPD Patrol Officer Miosotis Familia was just doing her job.

She wasn't abusing the public, wasn't harassing citizens in the Bronx; the 48-year-old Familia was doing paperwork while sitting in one of the department's mobile command posts, a vehicle that had been placed in an area where crime had markedly increased over the last year.

She was there to protect the public from people like ex-convict Alexander Bonds.

The former Attica State Prison inmate, who served eight years on a robbery charge, had railed on social media late last year, alleging police abuse of blacks and prison guards raping and murdering inmates. "I'm not playing, Mr. Officer. I don't care about 100 police watching this," Bonds, who was black, stated in a video. "It's time people wisen up."

Police caught up to Bonds a block away from the scene where he'd walked up to Familia and shot her in the head; Bonds, still in possession of the murder weapon, was in turn shot and killed by officers.

Miosotis Familia was a black/hispanic police officer. She was brutally executed without warning.

So where is the outcry from Black Lives Matter? Didn't Familia's life count? Isn't her death at the hands of another worthy of protests, demonstrations or even a statement from Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton?

Silence.

No press releases or television appearances are forthcoming, the same as in January's shooting of Orlando Police Sergeant Debra Clayton. Clayton was shot three times at close range just outside a Wal Mart store by Markeith Lloyd, who was wanted for murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Both Clayton and Lloyd were black.

Therein lies the issue. Both black criminals murdered black police officers.

To the BLM movement, African-American lives only matter if their killers are of a different race.

                                                         Officer Miosotis Familia