“Witch Killer” Phillip Paul Escapes Washington Mental Institution

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Rob Taylor

Well, to be fair he wasn’t in the institution at the time. He was where you take any 220 lb killer who murdered a woman because voices told him she was a witch.

The state fair:

SPOKANE — A man court-ordered to Eastern State Hospital after being judged criminally insane walked away from a day trip to the Spokane County Fair shortly after noon Thursday.

Sources at the hospital located in Medical Lake said that Phillip Arnold Paul, 47, had been held at the facility after being arrested for a homicide. Spokane County criminal records show only that he has a history of escape and assault

Spokane Valley Police and members of the Spokane County Sheriffâ€™s Property Crimes Task Force flooded the fairgrounds around 2 p.m., looking for the suspect who reportedly was wearing a red windbreaker over a blue T-shirt and blue jeans.

Paul is a 5-foot-8, white male who weighs about 220 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes, and sports a goatee.

Needless to say, be on the lookout if you’re in the area. But how did this criminally insane killer escape? He just walked away from staff according to some reports. Worse there seems to be at least an hour when staff knew the dangerous patient was missing, but didn’t report it even though the man had a history of escape and assaulting people who tried to bring him in:

SPOKANE — A criminally insane killer who strangled a woman because voices told him she was a witch has walked away from an Eastern State Hospital field trip to the Spokane Interstate Fair and may be trying to hitchhike home to Sunnyside.

Deputies have been combing the fairgrounds and the area within several blocks of the sprawling complex in search of Phillip Paul, 47, a man with a history of escape and assault in Spokane County in addition to being found criminally insane in the wake of the 1987 strangulation killing of an elderly Granger woman.

Paul was on a field trip to the fair with a group of Eastern State HospitalÂ patients Thursday morning when he disappeared from the rest of his group. The rest of the patients from the group from Eastern State Hospital have been accounted for and taken from the fairgrounds.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office acknowledges they are “dismayed” with Eastern State’s Hospital reporting of Paul’s disappearance. While he was reported missing at 1:14 PM apparently Eastern may have known Paul was missing as early as 11:30 AM, more than an hour and a half before they notified authorities about his disappearance.

“It appears now there was a two hour lapse from the point he disappeared from his attendant to the sheriff’s office was notified of his escape and obviously that’s a concern to us,” Sgt. Reagan said. “We’re concerned that we were not aware that people of his criminal history were being brought to the fair for day trips. As a courtesy we would have liked to have been notified ahead of time.”

“Certainly as a matter of professional courtesy once he disappeared we feel the responsible thing would have been to have been immediately notified,” Reagan continued. “As soon as we were notified within 30 minutes we had saturated the fairgrounds with security people and Spokane Valley police officers.”

Indeed. All you Wiccans in Washington better hide your pentagrams.

With his history of escape, why was he at a state fair in the first place?

The Animal Rights Cult: Was Annie Le Killed Because She was Mean to Mice?

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Rob Taylor

The working theory that police have leaked to the media of the Annie Le murder is that there was no romantic involvement between the two and no sexual motive, but that it was “workplace violence” precipitated by a series emails in which suspect Raymond Clark complained that Le wasn’t following protocols for the treatment of lab mice:

Along with the defensive wounds and the flunked lie detector test, investigators looking into the murder of Yale student Annie Le focused on a lab technician named Raymond Clark because of e-mails about the care of laboratory mice.

In the e-mails, Clark is said to criticize Le for not adhering to the protocols for tending the mice kept in the basement as part of her lab’s ongoing experiments.

Le is said to have responded in a conciliatory tone, promising to keep to the protocols. Investigators wonder if Clark was not satisfied, if resentment suddenly flared to rage, if as crazy as it may seem this was a case of mice and murder.

The Annie Le murder had piqued my curiosity originally because I lived in the area for a while, in Middletown in fact where Ray Clark was living with his girlfriend. But this new development is even more curious because it coincides with something I have noticed on the Web, a dark anti-human undercurrent dressed up in the self-righteous sanctimony of environmentalism but which is in reality nihilism and misanthropy at it’s most basic. More and more I see animal rights activists voicing calls for violence against humans.

Just yesterday I was watching a commercial for the Barnes Varmint Grenade bullet uploaded on YouTube when I saw this comment:

I would shoot that moron who was shooting at those animals with thatï»¿ bullet.

An odd sentiment. Prairie dogs are rodents whose “towns” are responsible for the broken legs of many another animal. They are also fast breeding pests that need to be controlled or they will overwhelm an environment. The human instinct to hunt is nature’s way to control animals like prairie dogs, and is more a part of respecting the natural world than slapping a P.E.T.A bumper sticker on the Volvo your parents pay for. The cult of “animal rights” that P.E.T.A. represents, however, doesn’t respect nature or our place in it. The call for animals to have human rights is not a call to elevate our treatment of animals at all but an effort to dehumanize us and make us targets for their ultimate goal, human extinction.

The “animal rights” cult is anti-nature. These same people de-claw their cats, feed their dogs vegetarian foods and promote legislation that leads to both human and animal starvation. But more telling, these extremists kill thousands of animals themselves. P.E.T.A. in fact kills over 95% of the animals they take in every year, and uses the money they take in to supposedly care for these animals to fund domestic terror groups that have firebombed the home of scientists, threatened researchers with death and even killed ranched animals as a statement against our “cruelty.”

The animal rights movement is clearly disinterested in creating a “cruelty free” world, which even if it was possible would be antithetical to nature. What they are interested in is creating a world where morality is redefined to accept the nihilistic anti-humanism they have embraced as right. To the animal rights movement, people are not simply worth the same as animals, they are worth less. This is a powerful belief to adopt because it means that killing humans is not just acceptable to save animals, but it’s less reprehensible than any action you could take otherwise.

But this isn’t to say that Ray Clark was some rabid A.L.F. member. It is to show how pernicious this animal rights philosophy can become when we allow it to become mainstream. Understand that if the police theory is correct here, Ray Clark murdered a woman just days before her wedding day because she didn’t treat mice to his liking. Mice.

As a child I owned a cat who was quite sweet with me but was known to be vicious among my family (she was a scratcher). When the house next door to us burned down it became infested with field mice who sometime ventured into my family’s house. I think I was 6 or 7 the first time she brought me a mouse, laid on my pillow with it’s middle torn out. Soon she learned that we were throwing the carcasses out and we began finding mutilated mice hidden under throw rugs, in shoes and everywhere you wouldn’t want to find a mouse that looked like it was a hapless teen in a Friday the 13th movie.

I also had another cat who was a gentle and docile creature. He once broke a mouse’s back and began torturing the creature by “playing” with it. It was the only time this gentle giant of a cat ever did anything that could remotely considered mean by our standards. But it wasn’t cruel, and neither was my other cat slaughtering mice. It was simply nature, which is beyond human conception of morality. In nature mice were born to breed and die, often at the hands of predators including us. That we may kill them now in an attempt to cure cancer is irrelevant, we kill them all the time as nature intended. I learned that from owning cats.

Ray Clark, if the police theory of the crime is correct, learned that perceived mistreatment of these tiny rodents was sin enough to kill for. I would put forward he didn’t learn this from nature, and I would hate to see what he would have done to a cat he owned that joyously shredded some hapless mouse. Clark internalized the message we allow P.E.T.A. to mainstream into our schools and pop culture, that there is a moral equivalence between mistreating animals and killing a woman, that Annie Le’s life was no more valuable than the mice she was experiment on.

How many Clarks are out there even now, thinking that hunters, fishermen, trappers and scientists deserve to die for their “cruelty”? More importantly, when will we stop allowing the “animal rights” cult to create them?

The Truth about Arms Trafficking in Mexico

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Rob Taylor

The dishonest left is still falsely claiming Mexico’s cartels get all their guns from America. That’s crap. This video deals with, and debunks, the myth that American guns are fueling the violence in Mexico:

h/t Xavier’s Thoughts

Ending Drug Prohibition Won’t Remove the Drug Culture’s Criminal Element

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Rob Taylor

My crime compadre Trench emailed me this article because he knows I’m a sucker for a good doper story. Seems California’s medical marijuana industry has not created a safer environment for those that “need” pot to get their “medicine.” Far from it, gangs have simply moved into the quasi-legal marijuana dispensary business and brought their criminality with them:

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Thirty-one people were arrested during raids at 14 medical marijuana dispensaries in San Diego County, effectively shutting down the storefronts, authorities announced today.

The raids culminated a five-month state and federal undercover operation that targeted people illegally selling the drug at the so-called medical marijuana collaboratives, said District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis.

No medical marijuana patients were arrested in the undercover sting on Wednesday, Dumanis said.

“Let me be clear from the start. This investigation has nothing to do with legitimate medical marijuana patients or their caregivers,” Dumanis told reporters.

“The investigation to date shows these so-called businesses are not legal. They appear to be run by drug dealers who see an opening in the market in a way to make a fast buck.”

Twenty-three people were taken into custody in the city of San Diego, and eight in North County, authorities said.

Dumanis said most of those arrested will be prosecuted in state court, with two people charged in federal court.

An estimated 60 medical marijuana dispensaries are now operating in San Diego County, under the guise of helping people who are sick, Dumanis said.

“We’re not fooled and the public shouldn’t be fooled either,” the county’s top prosecutor said. “The state’s medical marijuana law and the

Attorney General’s written guidelines about medical marijuana do not allow the selling of marijuana for profit … to anyone.”

The state’s law allows patients who have doctor recommendations for marijuana to grow up to 24 plants or have someone grow them in their stead. That seems like a great plan to take the profit motive from pot dealing…but it didn’t.

Not to mention the fact that the whole medical marijuana thing is basically a scam, as alternative model turned wrestling diva turned S&M model turned soft-core web porner turned Internet neer-do-well Shelly Martinez proves in this video:

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Now that’s downward mobility! Martinez was at one time an employee with the WWE (until she was fired) and TNA (until she had a “contract dispute”) and has of late been appearing at porn conventions, selling dates with her on the Internet and appearing in a documentary where she claims that weed (snicker) saved her life. Yes, really.

The point being that legalizing medical marijuana didn’t drive out gang activity and it certainly didn’t do at least one pot smoker we know of any good. “But, Rob,” you’re about to say while desperately trying to get the disposable lighter you found on the street to work long enough to take your next bong hit, “if we just ended drug prohibition all the gangs would like, you know, have to get jobs and stuff. Like the Mafia after prohibition ended!”

Au contraire, mon petit stoner. The Mafia continued to be involved in various aspects of the alcohol industry from the union controlled shipping and distribution businesses to running nightclubs and bars. “Where’s your proof, square?” you cough out after finally getting the dirt encrusted DeJeep lighter to hold its flame long enough for you suck your artificial paradise from your commemorative Barack Obama bong.

I got your proof right here, hippy:

HOUSTON – The guy named Vinny with the Vandyke and Brooklyn accent looked out of place in the leafy Texas neighborhood of gated mansions.

That’s because this Vinny was Vincent Palermo – onetime Mafia star turned FBI informant – a guy who managed to vanish from the world of scungilli and Sinatra to recreate himself 1,400 miles away in the land of BBQ and the Texas two-step.

Palermo, with a new name, lives under a cloak created by the feds after testifying against the DeCavalcante clan, the Jersey-based Mafia family whose members believe they inspired “The Sopranos” TV show.

Of course, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Before he admitted taking part in four murders, extortion and a host of crimes, Palermo operated Wiggles, a strip club in Forest Hills, Queens.

The club was a kind of one-stop shop for drugs and prostitution, and then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani made it Public Enemy No. 1 in his drive to shut down sex clubs.

Today, Palermo controls the Penthouse Club and All-Star Men’s Club in Houston – strip joints city officials say are hotbeds of prostitution and drugs.

What’s that you say? The Mafia. Setting up shop in businesses that are on their face perfectly legal. Who would have told you pot smokers a thousand times that gangs simply don’t give up lucrative income streams because you get the law changed? Mark my words, the day pot is legalized and “Fun Time Shelly” sets up that weed cafe she’s always dreamed about is the day some Cholo grabs her by the tie-dye and tells you it’s time for your weekly “tax” and if you don’t pay you die.

In Jersey, where I’m from, stripping isn’t just legal, it’s encouraged. But One Percenter gangs still ran stables of girls they forced to dance at clubs and Newark was rumored to have clubs staffed with illegals forced into sexual slavery. I’ll reiterate that that was an industry that was legal. But it was also one that was full of people who often enough marginalized themselves. A legal drug industry will be no different.

In 2000 a One Percenter gang called The Breed were busted for rape and extortion of exotic dancers. The Breed forced the women to turn over their income and gang raped the women both as punishment and simply for fun. They did to bar owners in Long Branch, New Jersey what MS-13 will do to all legal pot shops if and when prohibition is repealed. Read and learn:

Members of a gang that prosecutors called ”the state’s pre-eminent outlaw motorcycle club” were arrested in raids early today and charged with extortion and the sexual assault of nude dancers at a juice bar in Long Branch.

The gang, the Breed, has controlled strip clubs, tattoo shops and other businesses with violence and terror, a federal indictment said.

[…]

Five of those named in the arrest warrants are being charged with extortion, a federal crime, stemming from the operation of the juice bar, the Stars and Bars, where members gathered. One of the club’s owners, a former gang member identified as David Snyder, was beaten and forced to sign over his business to other gang members after he tried to ”restrict sexual assaults on female dancers,” according to court papers.

The sexual assault charges were brought after four women who danced at the bar complained to the Howell Township police, John Kaye, the Monmouth County prosecutor, said. One woman said she had been chained to the floor for several days, forced to engage in oral sex with several men and beaten severely.

It should be noted that these are businesses that are legal, yet gangs were involved because of both the type of business (strip clubs and tattoo parlors) and the profit motive. Pot has a huge profit motive and, like strip clubs, a vulnerable population attached to it. Why would gangs leave that business alone if drugs were criminalized?

Look, I’m pro-sobriety but I’m neither for or against legalization. I am against legalization proponents making false claims about the benefits of legalization. The real benefits of legalization are overwhelmingly enjoyed by users like Martinez, and society still must shoulder the cost of an overburdened child welfare system, drug-induced poverty, and the various assaults, vandalism, and accidents that come along with drug use. Much the same as repealing alcohol prohibition didn’t stop drunken brawls, window breaking and traffic accidents legalizing drugs won’t stop those things either. And just as bars and people who work in them are in danger of being victimized by organized crime, so too will be the legal pot shops who will find gangs unamenable to the prospect of losing their cash cow.

The case for legalization is perhaps financial, as the recession stretches police forces too thin for many areas to concentrate on minor possession, and certainly there is a Libertarian argument for legalization. There is, however, no law and order argument for legalization. Users are not stable. People who aren’t stable are preyed upon (even you, Shelly Martinez) and eventually someone has to bail them out. Personally I’d support legalization if we still used drug use as evidence of unfit parenting, companies couldn’t be sued for not hiring users, and addicts who overdosed simply died in the gutter without eating up taxpayer money in the emergency room. But what legalization proponents want is for the rest of us to help maintain their fantasy world where there are no consequences for their actions. We will be responsible for keeping gang members from harming them. We will pay for their hospital bills. We will support their children if not them.

And we will deal with the criminal element they still support, while allowing them to pretend they have no moral culpability in those gangs’ continued existence.

Melissa Huckaby Deserves to Die

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Rob Taylor

Don’t let the tears fool you, this fiend is only upset because her crime against little Sandra Cantu was so hideous that prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. How hideous? The theory of the crime is that Melissa Huckaby kidnapped Cantu, drugged her and raped her with a foreign object before murdering her. It is also being said that Huckaby drugged (and perhaps raped) a 7-year-old and she drugged a 37-year-old man she was dating.

She’s an animal who prosecutors know needs to be put down:

STOCKTON — The Northern California woman charged with kidnapping, raping and murdering 8-year-old girl, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase, will face the death penalty.

Melissa Huckaby pleaded not guilty in June to murdering Sandra Cantu.

The 28-year-old former Sunday School teacher showed no emotion as San Joaquin County prosecutor Thomas Testa told the court Thursday of his office’s intention to seek the death penalty.

Sandra’s family also attended the hearing.

Also Thursday, Huckaby asked the judge for a new attorney and possible trial dates were being discussed.

Huckaby was arrested April 10, just days after Sandra Cantu’s body was found in a suitcase pulled from an irrigation pond near her home in a Tracy mobile home park.

Huckaby was a Sunday school teacher at her grandfather’s small church.

Authorities believe Sandra was killed in the church, which is next to the trailer park where both Huckaby and the girl’s family live.

Huckaby also pleaded not guilty to charges drugging a 7-year-old girl as well as a 37-year-old man, whom police believe she had dated.

Huckaby has been trying to work an insanity defense by “harming” herself in jail. These incidents all involve sitting around with blankets tied around her neck (but not trying to actually kill herself) and telling a guard she took some pills. Frankly since she’s a pervert I wouldn’t doubt she was just choking herself for fun, and pills as well as almost any other drug you can imagine flow through county lock-ups like water.

Let’s not forget, through her tears, who this person is. She’s a child rapist, a child murderer and a pervert/addict who drugged the man she was dating for kicks. If this was a man no one would be shedding a tear for him so don’t shed one for Melissa Huckaby either.