http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/thugs/ en-us Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:23:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285442/posts Trieu Duong was killed Thursday afternoon during a robbery at his Fairfield jewelry store. Edward Morsby III was arrested in Virginia and charged with capital murder Perry Cauthen was arrested in southwest Birmingham and charged with capital murder Trieu Duong and his family arrived in the U.S. on the most American of days. It was the Fourth of July. In 1976. And that made it their adopted nation's bicentennial, and a perfect time to embark on the American Dream. The Birmingham News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285442/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:23:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284000/posts Slaying an afterthought to LR robbery, police say Teens’ accounts of killing differ in affidavit BY JACOB QUINN SANDERS ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE All that the four teenage boys wanted to do, Little Rock police say, was rob the old man and scare him a little. Killing him, police said, was an afterthought. According to an arrest warrant affidavit unsealed Wednesday, the four boys, who ranged in age from 14 to 16, met Tuesday afternoon at the corner of Eddy Lane and Lark Place in a quiet, older neighborhood just south of Base Line Road, just to hang out. One asked if... ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284000/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:56:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283480/posts Three suspects appeared in a Little Rock courtroom this morning and pleaded not guilty to murder charges in a burglary-turned-shooting Tuesday afternoon that left a homeowner dead. The three juveniles are all charged as adults in the killing of Maurice Clark, 67, at his home at 4 Lark Place, just south of Baseline Road. They're identified as: Thomas Stacy Caffery, 17 Craig Deshaun Woods, 15 Mashawn Kendrick, 14 Bonds for each of the teens, who are all from Little Rock, were set at one-million-dollars. They are also charged with theft of property and fleeing. According to police reports read in... KARK (AR NBC affiliate) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283480/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:14:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283483/posts Police Seek Fourth Teen in LR Burglary-Homicide Reported by: KARK 4 News Wednesday, Jul 1, 2009 @10:30am CST Little Rock Police are looking for local teen they're calling a person of interest in Tuesday's residential break-in that left a homeowner dead. The suspect is identified as Antonio Demetrius Terry, 16, of Little Rock. He is named in police reports read in court this morning when three other suspects were arraigned in the case. Maurice Clark, 67, was shot when the suspects broke into his home. Thomas Stacy Caffery, 17, Craig Deshaun Woods, 15, and Mashawn Kendrick, 14, all pleaded not... KARK (AR NBC affiliate) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283483/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:15:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281389/posts Wichita, KS (Lifenews.com) -- An abortion advocate attacked the national headquarters of the pro-life group Operation Rescue on Friday. The attack saw someone attempt to disabled the pro-life organization's security system. LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281389/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:05:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276173/posts Skyscrapercity.com has an interesting thread. It was warned that the Baseej regime thugs would mark homes of suspected rebels with paint. People were tried to be warned to remove it ASAP. CNN has a night time video (the audio is more telling and shocking) of probably these marked homes being stormed by govt. thugs. VIDEO Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276173/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:26:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276139/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thR-lVuztIY uTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276139/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:30:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273148/posts SEIU is now targeting Nevada Senator John Ensign in an attempt to break Republican ranks against the stimulus bill. Not content with trying to convince the public and its member of how the stimulus bill would benefit them, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger (shown in SEIU photo from Flickr) claims in a press release about their efforts,“The extreme right wing of the Republican leadership seem so stuck in the divisive politics of the past that they didn’t get the memo of change American voters delivered in 2008,” said SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger. “They talk a big game about working together to... The Virginian Federalist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273148/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:12:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272216/posts liberals are learning to hate Rep. Michelle Bachmann as much as they hate people like Dick Cheney. And for good reason. While calling the Obama administration a “gangster government” might sound like overheated hyperbole, when General Motors car dealers are arranging sit downs through their Congressman with the Obama administration to negotiate keeping their business arrangements with the recently-taken-over General Motors, it’s hard not to see gangsterism in that. Video at link KXMC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272216/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:17:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272194/posts TEHRAN, Iran - Shots were fired Monday at a rally by pro-reform presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, apparently by pro-government militia. An AP photographer said militia fired at the opposition protesters, killing at least on person. "There has been sporadic shooting out there ... I can see people running here," added a reporter of Iran's English-language Press TV. MSNBC.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272194/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:47:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272183/posts AP PHOTOGRAPHER SEES PRO-GOVERNMENT MILITIA FIRE AT OPPOSITION PROTESTERS, KILLING AT LEAST 1. I work in a newsroom this just came across the wires.. Waiting for more info.. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272183/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:30:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270884/posts "My grandfather paid for Carlisle Chevrolet from his labors. My father paid my grandmother for Carlisle Chevrolet through his efforts. It took me nearly 20 years to pay my parents for Carlisle Chevrolet. It took GM and Chrysler a mere 24 hours to take Carlisle Chevrolet from me." BREITBART http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270884/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:52:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254721/posts Birmingham police beating video: Five officers fired Posted by Carol Robinson - The Birmingham News May 20, 2009 9:08 AM Five Birmingham police officers have been fired for a January 2008 beating of an already-unconscious suspect with fists, feet and a billy club, a battering caught on videotape until a police officer turned off the patrol car camera, city and police officials said today. Authorities believe the video, [see the full chase here: http://videos.al.com/birmingham-news/2009/05/birmingham_police_beating_vide_1.html] taken after a high-speed chase by several area law enforcement agencies ended when the fleeing suspect's van flipped, has been seen by numerous Birmingham officers and... The Birmingham (AL) News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254721/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 15:45:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244643/posts One participant in negotiations said that the administration's tactic was to present what one described as a "madman theory of the presidency" in which the President is someone to be feared because he was willing to do anything to get his way. The person said this threat was taken very seriously by his firm. businessinsider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244643/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 17:32:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244219/posts Barack Obama's decision to paint the hedge funds in the Chrysler case as anti-American obstructionists is prompting death threats against them. That's at least what their lead laywer Thomas Lauria is saying, reports The Detroit News. He said in court that the threats have been turned over to the FBI. We assume Lauria is being honest -- you don't say this stuff in court and turn it over to the FBI if it's rubbish -- though we'll note that Lauria is being pretty provocative in his attempt to win the war of public opinion in the Chrysler case. He's of... Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244219/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 01:31:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2243018/posts (Obama) received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia (while at Occidental, through Fulbright) Via court ordered release of information. Also see links to be posted at post #2. Alan Peters/Antimullah http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2243018/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2009 02:39:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237725/posts Taliban Islamic radicals have attacked a community of Christians, executing two of them following a rally that protested Muslim graffiti in their neighborhood that ordered them to accept Islam or die, according to an international Christian organization. The attack in Pakistan follows only by days an expansion of the territory occupied by the Islamic Taliban members. The report from International Christian Concern said it happened in Taseer Town in Karachi. The organization, which reaches out to persecuted Christians around the world, said it was told by Asif Stephen, a Christian politician, that the Christians protesting the Islamic slogans say: "We... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237725/posts#comment Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:23:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236220/posts The movement got off to a slow start. “We’ve been on strike for three weeks but at first no one paid any attention at all,” he said. “It was only when some of the guys started cutting the electricity and gas that things got moving.” The militants armed with a map showing the substations and keys to the locks can shut down power to thousands of homes in a few minutes. Last Thursday 66,500 EdF customers lost their electricity supply, some for several hours. In Douai, northern France, two patients in intensive care had to be moved when a hospital... http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236220/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:19:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232300/posts Republican Norm Coleman used a quick George Bush -esque move to dodge an egg thrown at him outside his Minnesota home. Coleman told police that he heard a thumping on his door Tuesday night and walked outside to investigate. Upon seeing Coleman, a man yelled “I [expletive] can't stand what you represent” and threw an egg at him. “He said something, some little obscenity, and then he threw another one,” Coleman told the St. Paul Pioneer Press . “I kind of ducked. A George Bush move.” “I ran after him, but I didn't get him.” politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232300/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:18:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226479/posts Teens held in rape of 89-year-old woman PORT RICHEY -- Two teens charged with beating and raping an 89-year-old woman and then trying to smother her with a pillow are being held without bail in the Pasco County Juvenile Detention Center. Carlos Fernandez, 15, of 7151 Tudor Lane in Port Richey, and Luis Reyes Jr., 14, of 11230 Areca Drive in Port Richey, face charges of burglary to a residence, grand theft auto, attempted first-degree murder and sexual battery. Pasco Sheriff Bob White has recommended they be charged as adults, though the final decision lies with prosecutors. The Sheriff's Office... Tampa Bay Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226479/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:52:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223669/posts Cowards killed Marcus Luttrell's dog, Dasy. *snip* One of suspects remains at large — there is a warrant for his arrest. Have you seen Michael Edmonds? If you have any information about his whereabouts, please call the Texas Rangers in Huntsville, Texas at: (936) 435-0152 and ask for Sgt. Steven Jeter. FNC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223669/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 23:07:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2220710/posts 2 brothers fatally shot 15 years, 2 blocks apart As he lay dying in ’94, 1st bade 2nd goodbye BY JACOB QUINN SANDERS ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE As Toboris Molden lay dying from a gunshot wound on a February night 15 years ago, he took care to say goodbye to his grandmother, his mother and his two younger brothers. The youngest brother was Anthony Jackson, named for his father and just a year old at the time. On Wednesday, their mother again grieved the loss of a son. This time it was Jackson, who was 16. Little Rock police found him and... Arkansas Democrat Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2220710/posts#comment Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:21:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216636/posts Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts did not "tell us the truth" during his 2005 confirmation hearings, suggesting Roberts misled senators into believing he was more moderate than he really was. According to Politico.com, Reid complained about Roberts during a discussion hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "Roberts didn't tell us the truth. At least (Samuel) Alito told us who he was," Reid said, according to the article. "But we're stuck with those two young men, and we'll try to change by having some moderates in the federal courts system as time... Fox News / Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216636/posts#comment Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:01:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214466/posts From the Web site of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, a notice of a gathering from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight (Wednesday, March 25) at the Uhuru House at 7911 MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland: "Uphold the Resistance of the African Community as Represented by Brother Lovelle Mixon Gather at 6pm at the Uhuru House 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland 6:30 March to Eastmont Town Center Rally & Return to the Uhuru House Just like the resistance of Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser, enslaved Africans once vilified and today considered heroes, African people in Oakland have a right to struggle against... Oakland Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214466/posts#comment Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:42:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213348/posts A state security report that's causing an uproar among conservatives has led to an apology from the head of Missouri's Public Safety Department. The 8-page report was produced by the Missouri Information Analysis Center. It was designed to be a training document for law enforcement on how to identify homegrown threats. But considerable backlash from conservatives has prompted an apology from the state. The report, entitled "The Modern Militia Movement," paints right wing groups as a potential domestic security threat. But how those groups are defined is what has caused the uproar. "It seems like it's an attack on a... KY3 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213348/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:41:02 GMT