Monthly Archives: March 2009

Oklahoma Man Gets Probation for Vicious Rape of Six-Year-Old Girl

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What happened to Jessica’s Law?

Muskogee – A child rapist has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to raping a six-year-old girl.

Forty-four-year-old Vincent Martin LeCompte was charged with felony first-degree rape. As part of a plea agreement, LeCompte was handed a 20-year suspended sentence.

“We feel that justice has been served,” Adair County Assistant District Attorney Shannon Otteson told the Muskogee Phoenix. “The defendant admitted what he did and will serve under very, very stringent rules and restrictions of probation.”

A.D.A. Shannon Otteson must have a different definition of justice than the rest of us. Admitting what he did doesn’t minimize his crime or put him on some mythical road to sex offender recovery. This isn’t an alcoholic taking his first step at an AA meeting, this is a forty-four year old man who raped a six-year-old. While he gets off with treatment she’s suffering:

Otteson says the victim had testified previously three times and that it was like being raped all over again. She says under the terms of his probation, LeCompte will be required to undergo sex offender treatment and he will be restricted on where he can live and work for the next 20 years.

Otteson was prosecuting the case because the District Attorney in Muskogee County had a conflict of interest with the defense attorney in the case.

Jerry Moore is the District Attorney for District 27, which covers Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah and Wagoner counties.

“We met with the family in this matter and the support group for this little girl,” Moore told NewsChannel 8 in an interview Friday. “They were all in favor of this particular sentence.”

The girl’s mother says her daughter is traumatized and is in counseling.

I’m sure the family were in favor, since they had little choice. But we’ll see in ten years how the victim feels about this guy never going to prison. Disgusting.

h/t Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner

“There’s Nothing Funny About a Clown in the Moonlight”

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The above quote from Lon Chaney was used in the preface of the essay Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns by Mark Dery which can be found in his book The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. It’s an interesting (if pretentious) read which makes some debatable points, but nicely illustrates the shift in American consciousness regarding our perceptions of clowns. Dery destroys his own thesis of clown phobia as both a “hysterical reaction” to pedophilia and a millennial exercise in scapegoating by pointing out that The Joker from the Batman comics is the quintessential psycho-killer clown. The Joker of course made his first appearance in 1940 in Batman number one, and was based on the character Conrad Veidt played in the 1920s silent gothic horror film The Man Who Laughs.

That movie was based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name, which I believe was written in the 1860s.  So the scary clown image is one that has been part of the Western psyche for over a hundred years and is not, as Dery argues, a post-modern construct of American society.

However, his essay does hint at the madness of those who would become clowns, and more importantly the history of The Fool who was often seen as intertwined with Death, as a source of both fear and loathing. The dark history of clowns makes those who would become them seem mad indeed, which brings us to our modern cult of clowns, Juggalos.

As I’ve said before, I don’t happen to believe Juggalos are any more prone to violence than any other sub-culture in which drug use is not only acceptable but encouraged. However I along with other bloggers who cover crime see that Juggalos tend to be involved in crimes which are unusually depraved and fit nicely within the modern mythology of clowns being degenerates in the literal sense.

Most recently a young Juggalo by the name of Orion Kent Mitchell Stoltman made the news when he was found to be responsible for the torturing and killing of the pet goats of the Linell family of Utah. On the night of October 31st, he and two juveniles stole the 12 inch high pygmy goats and took them to a nearby elementary school parking lot where they slowly and gleefully hacked and sawed away at the animals necks to decapitate them. The goats were clearly in agony for some time because a man who lived nearby thought he heard children crying 2:00am, went to investigate and saw the trio in the midst of the attack. Unless the man lived within a few feet of the scene this would indicate the attackers were taking their time with the goats rather than killing them swiftly, at least long enough for a man to get out of bed, get dressed and leave his house.

Dreamin’ Demon has the long version of the story and it is disturbing.

Orion Stoltman is just one more Juggalo who has made the crime blogs, but the Juggalo culture itself is full of Orions. Juggalos proudly flaunt their disdain of social norms as all sub-cultures do, but there is in their iconography a sort of beacon for degeneracy, a metaphysical call through the collective unconscious that targets the most inhuman of us. There is no convention or norm we hold dear that Juggalos will accept, whether it is sober living or humane treatment of animals, for the Juggalo believes he or she transcends the laws of America just as the Fool transcended the laws of nature in medieval passion plays. If there is a term to sum up the philosophy of the Juggalos it is this: Secular Antinomianism.

I often use the picture of a woman dressed as a clown holding a gun on posts about Juggalos and I credit the site Underground Juggalo. The woman is a winner of one of their many contests where readers send in their photos. Some of these contests are R-rated and include nudity. They also seemingly include underage girls. Since the author never bothers to post the age viewers are left uncertain as to what they are seeing, but I would be surprised if there were not several pictures on the site that are illegal in this country. Yet there they remain, defiant in the face of the law and morality, a tribute to the debasement of American culture. The Juggalo is the foot soldier of the cultural apocalypse, the modern day Vandal that is already sacking our cities and making sport with our daughters.

When considering the Juggalos I’m inclined to believe Lon Chaney was right. In the light of the moon the corruption of the soul of the clown is revealed. The greasepaint hides not a fondness for laughter or even a secret sadness, but a bitter hatred, an atrophied soul and resolute desire to make the rest of us suffer as those whose madness drives them to the take up the killer clown image suffer. When you are alone or with your loved ones there is nothing funny about a clown in moonlight.

Especially if that clown is a Juggalo.

Justice! Degenerates Responsible for Anna Nicole Smith’s Death Indicted!

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Degenerate Howard K. Stern who bears moral responsibility for the overdose of Anna Nicole Smith (as well as her son) along with two doctors have been indicted on fraud and drug charges according to GretaWire:

 Filing of the case by the Major Narcotics Division culminated an investigation involving the offices of the California State Attorney General and Los Angeles County District Attorney, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the California Medical Board and the California Department of Insurance.

Named in the complaint are doctors Sandeep Kapoor, 40 (dob 5-20-1968), and Khristine Eroshevich, 61 (dob 11-8-1947), and attorney Howard Kevin Stern, 40 (dob 11-29-1968). Arraignment dates for the defendants have not yet been scheduled. Bail was recommended at $20,000 for each defendant.

The conspiracy counts alleged that the three defendants conspired to furnish controlled substances to Smith from between June 5, 2004, and January 26, 2007.

Kapoor and Stern were charged with one count of unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance between June 9, 2004, and Sept. 22, 2006. Eroshevich and Stern were charged with unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance between June 5, 2004, and Jan. 26, 2007.

Stern and the two doctors should also be charged with depraved indifference homicide if you ask me. The greedy trio kept the mother doped up even though they must have known she had a drug problem and even after her son overdosed. It is clear to any observer Stern wanted her compliant and dependent, thus he procured drugs for her no doubt so he could get his hands on her late husbands cash.

From the Associated Press:

Documents obtained by The Associated Press after Smith’s death showed Eroshevich authorized all 11 prescription medications found in the model’s hotel room the day she died. Most of the drugs were prescribed in the name of Stern, her lawyer-turned-companion, and none were prescribed in Smith’s own name.

The quantity was staggering. More than 600 pills — including about 450 muscle relaxants — were missing from prescriptions that were no more than five weeks old. Ultimately, it was a syrup — the powerful sleeping aid chloral hydrate — blamed with tipping the balance in the toxic mix of drugs and causing her death.

Stern, who initially claimed he was the father of Smith’s infant daughter, Dannielynn, appeared distraught as he spoke last year at a memorial marking the one-year anniversary of Smith’s death.

“Few people who knew Anna might not realize how smart she actually was because unless she wanted you to know you didn’t know,” Stern said.

Stern, who came to the Bahamas with Smith during her pregnancy in 2006, gave up custody of Dannielynn in spring 2007 after DNA tests proved Smith’s ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was the father.

Dannielynn has been named the sole heir of her late mother’s estate, with Birkhead and Stern as co-trustees. Dannielynn could inherit millions of dollars if the estate wins an ongoing court fight over the oil fortune of Anna Nicole’s late second husband, J. Howard Marshall.

You don’t need to be Jessica Fletcher to figure this one out. Unfortunately according to the Associated Press Smith’s body was found on Amerindian tribal land and the investigation was handled by their tribal police originally. No offense but I suspect they might have missed some clues. And isn’t it weird that whenever Howard K. Stern travels to outside American legal jurisdiction somebody dies? I’m just asking questions.

When I was more inclined to frequent bars I met a lot of Howard K. Sterns. Mostly unemployed, these were people of, as my grandmother would say, low character who kept their meat hooks in some woman who was out of their league (and usually their meal ticket) by plying them with drugs and alcohol and playing on their emotional problems.  Even before her son died and an out of control Smith was becoming a money making train wreck humiliating herself in appearance after appearance while Stern looked shifty in the background I, and lot of people just like me could see what was going on and how this would end.

I’m just glad that he doesn’t have custody of Smith’s baby and now Smith can get some justice. Not enough, but at least it’s something.

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A Bear Market Rally Won’t Save the Economy

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I rolled out of bed in the early afternoon, since I’ve been up all night working on various Internet projects, to find the Fox Business talking heads excited about the Dow hitting 7000.

“Huzzah!” everyone exclaimed. “We’ve hit the bottom and the economy is back on track.!”

Uh. Not so fast. I don’t like to rain on people’s parades but get your umbrella:

Stocks went up today on several announcements that has made “smart” investors  move in to make a quick buck. Roughly half of them will be out of the market in no more than a month or two as they turn a profit then head for safer ground. The rally was led by G.E. (which surprisingly didn’t lose it’s AAA rating)  and some financial stocks as well as news from Apple that they will release a cheaper, smaller Ipod. Fox Business has a report on the rally.

But the two main factors in the rally were banks announcing they were profitable (led by Citigroup who pulled that stunt yesterday) although the elephant in the room is that those banks are in part profitable based on their quasi-nationalization payed for by you and me, and a rise in oil prices which won’t help the economy in the long run obviously.

Personally I’m suspicious of the bank announcements. I think they’re ginning the numbers to create a rally so they can sell of their worthless shares  to suckers before everyone realized Citi, Bank of America and JP Morgan are effectively insolvent and are being propped up with bailout money and happy thought. The Gods help us if there’s a bank run.

Also the Dow being at 7170 is still horrible. It still has dropped by more than half in less than a year, and the “incredible” gain it made today still leaves us with billions in wealth simply gone. We are still at all time lows and just yesterday Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman announced that 45% of the world’s wealth evaporated in the last year and a half. Think about that for a second. Trillions of dollars you and I thought were in the global economy are simply not there anymore, and the world’s financial activity is grinding to halt as a result.

The Washington Post ran an article recently claiming job losses will destroy any positive effect the stimulus would have had, Precious metal dealers are warning of a gold coin shortage and everyone is ignoring the$700 Trillion Elephant in the Room which is the derivatives contract that sends chills down the spines of every economist when someone mentions it.

Oil going up and the Democrats pushing more ethanol means you and I will be paying higher prices for food while the government’s hot printing presses will make the dollars we buy food with worth less. Investors see the writing on the wall and are trying to make quick cash while they can, but a Dow at 4000 by summer is a definite possibility. My personal prediction is the Dow will be at around the mid-to low 5000s.

So unless you’re a day trader get out of the market while it’s going up. Gold is a good place to put money but be sure you can take physical possession of it. Guns retain value in bad economies so if you live in a state that allows person to person sales (like South Carolina) buying a few extra unbannable guns (rifles and shotguns that are not semi-autos) to trade or pawn isn’t a bad idea. Silver and oil are good bets, as is farmland.

But whatever you do don’t let the talking heads convince you that you can sit back and let the government take care of things. Prepare yourself for the future. Put cash in the house, pay off debts and start stocking the pantry with long lasting foods now. This is a hedge against grocery inflation which will be hitting us hard in the next couple of years. Retail stores are in trouble so now is the time to get deals. Remember how your great grandparents lived and try to emulate them, because the rolling 2000s are not coming back in our lifetime, bear market rally notwithstanding.