Showing posts with label Purchase. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Purchase. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

DHS and Local Police Purchase Shooting Target Pictures of Pregnant Women, Children, and the Elderly

No more hesitation targets depict gun wielding pregnant women, children, and the elderly

By Alex Thomas
theintelhub.com
February 20, 2013

In a shocking display of what may be on the horizon, a company that provides realistic shooting targets for the Department of Homeland Security and local law enforcement has produced a line of targets that includes gun wielding pregnant women, children, and the elderly.

The targets are intended to give officers experience in dealing with the need to use deadly force against someone who they usually wouldn’t even consider hurting.

Law Enforcement Targets, Inc, the company who is providing these realistic targets, has seen widespread criticism after multiple original reports went viral across the internet.

In an official response to Reason.com regarding their line of “No Hesitation” shooting targets, the company had this to say:

“The subjects in NMH targets were chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training.

I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty).

This hesitation time may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing their lives in these same situations.

The goal of NMH is to break that stereotype on the range, regardless of how slim the chances are of encountering a real life scenario that involves a child, pregnant woman, etc. If that initial hesitation time can be cut down due to range experience, the officer and community are better served.”

DHS Contracts

In the last two years and, more specifically, in the last ten months we have seen the Department of Homeland Security purchase upwards of 2 billion rounds of ammunition which they have, in turn, claimed was for solely for training purposes.

Although it is absurd to believe that billions of rounds of ammo are needed strictly for training, the above shooting targets at least give the American people a look into what homeland security is actually training for, especially when you consider that they have awarded Law Enforcement Targets Inc. with 2 million dollars worth of contracts.

A follow up report by Paul Joseph Watson revealed this stunning fact: (you can also view the official contract numbers here)

Following concerns that the issue could be linked with Homeland Security’s purchase of around 2 billion bullets over the last year, which many fear is linked to preparations for domestic disorder, it has now emerged that Law Enforcement Training Inc. has racked up contracts worth almost $ 2 million dollars with the DHS over the last three years.

The vast majority of those contracts were for “training aids” and “paperboard,” according to the USASpending.gov website, which lists numerous different contracts each in the region of $ 150,000 and $ 180,000 dollars stretching back to early 2010 and running through to July 2012.

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A customer who called Law Enforcement Inc. yesterday told Infowars that the company informed him the targets were, “strictly for Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies.”

Law Enforcement Request Shooting Targets

Immediately after the original reports on these horrific shooting targets were published, the usual corporate shills and sock puppet attackers went to work claiming that law enforcement would never order these and that this is a conspiracy theory hoax.

Sadly, the facts couldn’t be farther from the truth.

In a call published on YouTube by Blaine Cooper, a representative of the company admitted that law enforcement had requested the targets and then went on to explain them away as if they simply weren’t a big deal.

“Unfortunately our world is made up of people, pregnant or otherwise, that are gun owners not for the right reasons,” adding that the targets were to “train police officers”.

Conclusion: The evidence (and the above report is simply one out of hundreds) has become so overwhelming that it is impossible to ignore the fact that elements of the government are indeed preparing to take on the American people.

View a screenshot of the targets on the companies website.

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DHS and Local Police Purchase Shooting Target Pictures of Pregnant Women, Children, and the Elderly

Friday, February 15, 2013

Jesse Jackson Jr Charged With Stealing $750,000 In Campaign Cash Used To Purchase "Fur Capes And Parkas" And Much More

And so the surreal criminal saga of former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (“JJJR”, “Junior” or just “Jackson”) has ended. Jackson, 47, a prominent Chicagoan son of the civil-rights leader of the same name for the handful of people who are unaware, was a national co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and an advocate of traditional Democratic Party constituencies. He disappeared in June, and it was later revealed that he was being treated at the Mayo Clinic for bipolar disorder and gastrointestinal issues, although now it appears kleptomania may have been one of the afflictions treated too. He returned to his Washington home in September but went back to the clinic the next month. As Bloomberg summarizes, “he pushed to maintain government support for the poor, including welfare, assistance for heating bills and the Head Start early education program.” He certainly was very generous with other people’s money.

So generous, in fact, that hours ago he was charged with “misusing“, also known as stealing, some $ 750,000 in campaign funds for purchases including a $ 43,350 gold Rolex watch, $ 5,150 for fur capes and parkas, $ 9,588 worth of “children’s furniture”, Michael Jackson and Bruce Lee memorabilia and much more.

At the same time Jackson’s wife, Sandra Stevens Jackson, was charged in a separate case with filing false tax returns. She faces a maximum penalty of three years in prison. Junior’s charge has a maximum term of five years in prison. More importantly, he is sorry (to be caught, we can only surmise): “I want to offer my sincerest apologies to my family, my friends and all of my supporters for my errors in judgment and while my journey is not yet complete, it is my hope that I am remembered for the things that I did right.”

We hope Jackson’s career-ender is a shining beacon of light what happens when the “misuse” of other people’s money is finally exposed, especially, as the case may be, when once it finally all runs out.

From Bloomberg:

No court dates have been set.

 

William Miller, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen in Washington, declined to comment on the charges.

 

Jackson’s wife will plead guilty to one count of tax fraud, her lawyers, Dan Webb and Tom Kirsch of Winston & Strawn LLP, said in a statement.

 

“Ms. Jackson has accepted responsibility for her conduct, is deeply sorry for her actions, and looks forward to putting this matter behind her and her family,” according to the statement.

Jackson, who ended a career of almost 17 years in the U.S. Congress by resigning in November, won a special election for a vacant House seat in 1995 and began serving on Dec. 12 of that year. He subsequently never garnered less than 81 percent of the general-election vote in his district on Chicago’s South Side until last year when he won a 10th House term with 63 percent.

 

His wife resigned her Chicago alderman seat last month.

 

Jackson was a national co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and an advocate of traditional Democratic Party constituencies. He pushed to maintain government support for the poor, including welfare, assistance for heating bills and the Head Start early education program.

 

Jackson was caught up in the scandal surrounding former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s attempts to sell an appointment to Obama’s former Senate seat. Identified in court papers as “Senate Candidate 5” who was willing to raise money for the governor’s re-election, Jackson denied the allegations and said he wasn’t a target in the federal probe.

 

Blagojevich was convicted in June 2011 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

 

Educated at the elite Washington prep school St. Albans, Jackson graduated from North Carolina A&T State University in 1987. He earned a master’s degree in theology from Chicago Theological Seminary and a law degree from University of Illinois College of Law.

And since everyone only wants to know just what “memorabilia” and other trinkets he spent $ 750,000 of taxpayer money on, here is the list from the conspiracy charge:

  • $ 43,350 gold-plated Rolex;
  • $ 9,587.64 worth of children’s furniture;
  • $ 5,150 worth of fur capes and parkas
  • $ 1,553 porcelain collector’s items

And then this:

Full complaint below


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Jesse Jackson Jr Charged With Stealing $750,000 In Campaign Cash Used To Purchase "Fur Capes And Parkas" And Much More