Thursday, December 24, 2009
WHITE POWDER
A Novel of the CIA and the Secret War in Laos
Larry Lambert's new book is an adventurous novel about the actions of the CIA, U.S. Army Special Forces officers, and Army Security Agency communicators in the early to mid-sixties, in Laos. A confusing time for America when we were trying to tell the world we weren't involved in Laos, while at the same time doing everything possible to combat the Communist assisted drug trade - even to assisting drug involved "friends." It was a time when one "couldn't tell the players, without a program," and the United States was having a hard time telling good guys from bad. That can happen when nobody wears uniforms, but everyone has guns.
Beautiful women, strange Intelligence agents, gun fights and love. The book has everything.
Soon available on Amazon. I suggest you buy a copy. Or two.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The Danes
I think the Danish police must be really good people. I like the way they handle protestors.
COPENHAGEN — Danish police fired pepper spray and beat protesters with batons outside the U.N. climate conference on Wednesday, as disputes inside left major issues unresolved just two days before world leaders hope to sign a historic agreement to fight global warming.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Gun Ownership
People who refuse to arm themselves, still want someone else to protect them. They think the police should drop what they’re doing at a moment’s notice to run to their aid. Don’t they know that donuts get stale and coffee cold when abandoned? If they had the decency to arm themselves, officers would not be forced to take their lives in their hands to rush over and save the ass of police hating anti-gun nuts.
Having had vast experience with this sort of citizen, I know they want their neighbors to drop what they’re doing to come to their aid. Right. The non-gun owners are more often than not the sorts who will do nothing to assist anyone in their neighborhood, but seem more than willing to accept help for themselves. They are the type of people who would view a sign like the one displayed at left in a poor light. They think they are the only ones allowed an opinion, an opinion that they can force on everyone they meet. That their gun-owning neighbors also have rights.
A word for those who want to have guns but are afraid/will not use them. Store the weapon in a bath of Vaseline.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Why it was done.
Article for Imternational Association of Asian Crime Investigators Newsletter 11/98
Why Devote Money and Manpower to Asian Involved Investigations
or
“Hell boy, in ten years they’ll be just like us - Americans.”
“Estimates of the annual number of illegal Chinese migrants vary from 10,000 to 100,000. The latest estimate -- conducted by the Interagency Working Group that was established to monitor illegal immigration by Chinese -- suggest smugglers bring in up to 50,000 Chinese per year.”[1]
The key word, other than the astonishing numbers mentioned, is illegal[2]. They are illegally entered aliens. Police officers and Federal Agents involved in Law Enforcement exist to enforce the law. It often seems otherwise, especially when an officer or agent is told “That’s somebody else’s job.” Cops often hear “Aliens? Call Immigration,” or “That’s what the F.B.I. is supposed to do.” We’re all supposed to do it, boys and girls; we’re in law enforcement. The majority of victims of Asian committed crime are Asian. “Protect and Serve,” means everybody, not just a black, white or Hispanic electorate. It even includes the criminals themselves; illegal aliens, gamblers, pimps, hookers, lawyers.[3] Everybody!
Not all, or even most, criminal activity involving ethnic Asians is committed by illegal entrants into the Unites States. Legal immigrants, refugees, ethnic Asians born in the United States and/or any and every variation thereof can be found in the criminal fraternity.[4] Asian criminals target their own communities as well as involve themselves in National and International networking, for illegal purpose. Ignoring these subjects because of their ability to stay out of the headlines and, generally, off television is short sighted and downright stupid.
Chinese, Vietnamese, Lao, Cambodian, Japanese, etc.: No criminal group(s) has ever been more misunderstood. Language is a - perhaps the - major problem. Few cops speak Asian languages. Fewer still speak multiple dialects of any of these languages. Many Asian language speaking officers - not all, by any means - are American born, second, or third, generation, ethnic Asians. Many of them are of families who have made every effort possible to “fit in,” and “become American.” This has included a failure to study the native language of their parents, their linguistic abilities being limited to learning at home, from family and neighbors. The farther from the formal source of study, the more mistakes creep into a spoken language.[5] Not many officers are trained to speak Asian languages. It is expensive to send someone to a good language school.[6]
Some officers, having no language training, seem afraid to associate with people who speak a language they don’t. This may be what leads some idiotic policemen[7] to make statements like “They speak English, they just pretend not to,” and the ever popular “Talk about stupid; he don’t even speak English,” when the subject they speak of tries very hard to engage them in conversation, in broken, poorly pronounced English.[8] Lack of language skills can cripple an investigation, especially when trying to listen to someone on a wire, when no one in your agency speaks the needed language. Bringing in interpreters can be, and often is, a risky business; an inept or crooked interpreter can ruin your case.
Good reason, say some administrators, to stay away from alien crimes and cultures in general, and Asian crime in particular. Wrong, wrong, wrong: Go back to the “Protect and Serve,” part. There are members of this Association who have devoted their lives to Serving and Protecting in Asian communities throughout the world, many of them in the direct face of opposition from their administrations. These are the cops that need this publication and this Association to remain a viable, growing, active tool in criminal investigations. Not all police administrators are anti-Asian. Not all cops are short sighted and chauvinistic. The people who started this network[9] had the right idea; help each other get the job done. The Annual Asian Organized Crime Conference is filled with cops from all over the world who want to do just that, get the job done. Most of them are there with the assistance of their administrators.
Triads, Yakuza, street gangs, and family businesses specializing in crime are the reasons we do this. Crime is a virus. Left untended it will continue to grow[10]. We can never stop crime entirely. But we can try like hell. Support the I.A.A.C.I. and this publication. Send in photos of your bad guys[11] and flyers on your wanted subjects. We neither need nor want confidential information, just that needed to improve the quality of members’ investigations.
Jack Willoughby
Lieutenant, N.O.P.D. (Ret.)
Scottsboro, AL.
November 1998
911 Words
[1] Ko-lin Chin, HUMAN SNAKES, Illegal Chinese Immigrants in the United States, A Final Report Submitted to the National Science Foundation for the Research Project Entitled “Illegal Chinese Immigrants in the United States”, March 25, 1997, page 8
Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, A Merriam-Webster ®, Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A., G. & C. MERRIAM COMPANY
[8] What this does mean, is that the subject under discussion usually speaks at least one more language than the idiot.
Oops!
A need for alternate transportation now exists.
"WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration is investigating after they say an outdated version of their standard operating procedures manual was posted on the Internet. Who gets more scrutiny in line? What countries' passports are singled out? Who's exempt from screening? The answers to those questions and more were posted online for everybody to see.
The document dated May 28, 2008, is considered sensitive security information. It details who gets special treatment, and what to do with people who balk at the checkpoint.
Documents note that passengers from Cuba, North Korea, Libya and a number of other countries must undergo additional screening.
"You don't want discrimination against a certain country or against a certain population group or a certain group of people but if you don't profile, then I think you're missing the boat. You're not being realistic," Bob Boswellin, a passenger told WTTG in Washington, D.C.
It offers examples of identification documents that screeners accept, including congressional, federal air marshal and CIA ID cards; and it explains that diplomatic pouches and certain foreign dignitaries with law enforcement escorts are not subjected to any screening at all. It said certain methods of verifying identification documents aren't used on all travelers during peak travel crushes."
I have now downloaded a copy of the TSA Manual. I must assume that every terrorist and college student in the universe has also done this. Will someone be punished – like maybe hung naked from the landing gear of a Piper Cub? I rather doubt it. Flying however, has now become more dangerous by a large margin. This will be explained away one of two ways by the democratic administration: • An innocent mistake made by an SIEU member - or - • It's Bush's fault.
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