Mexican National Pleads Guilty to Capital Murder of 10-Year-Old Girl but Will Not Face Death Penalty

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A man who recently plead guilty to the murder of a 10-year-old girl will not face the death penalty but will spend his life behind bars. According to the Tyler Morning Telegraph the man was related to his young victim through marriage. The Associated Press referred to him as a “Mexican national.”

In a statement Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putman expressed his frustration with the criminal not facing the death penalty. The man in this case was determined to be intellectually disabled and Putman said the Supreme Court has ruled that capital murder defendants who are deemed to be intellectually disabled cannot be executed. . .

Today, August 22 2019, Gustavo Garcia-Zavala entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to Life In Prison Without Parole.

This result is a direct consequence of recent action taken by the United States Supreme Court. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that the State cannot execute an Intellectually Disabled capital murder defendant, regardless of how severe or heinous the crime.

The Court’s ruling left victims’ families devastated and communities outraged. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals instituted standards that allowed a jury to apply common sense when deciding if a capital murder defendant was Intellectually Disabled.

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Beto Staff Kicks out Conservative Reporter to ‘Protect Black Students’

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The flailing 2020 presidential campaign of former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) claimed Wednesday that a staffer ejected Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak from a speech at Benedict College, a historically black college, to protect black students.

In a statement Wednesday, O’Rourke’s press secretary, Aleigha Cavalier, attempted to defend against the growing controversy stemming from Pollak’s removal, claiming that while the candidate “believes in the right to a free press,” Breitbart News “walks the line between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech.”

“Given this particular Breitbart employee’s previous hateful reporting and the sensitivity of the topics being discussed with students at an HBCU, a campaign staffer made the call to ask him to leave to ensure that the students attending the event felt comfortable and safe while sharing their experiences as young people of color,” the statement added.

A Breitbart spokesperson hit back shortly after the O’Rourke campaign’s statement: “The false accusation that Breitbart is racist, or that its award-winning reporter — an Orthodox Jew, married to a black woman who serves in the military — is either racist or would make anyone at a black university uncomfortable is absurd. The irony of Mr. O’Rourke — who has stated himself that he is the beneficiary of ‘white privilege’ — purporting to decide for black students who should be banned from events that are open to the press, or what they should feel, is not lost on us.” (Read more from “Beto Staff Kicks out Conservative Reporter to ‘Protect Black Students'” HERE)

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Women’s Rape Shelter Faces Death Threats for Rejecting Transgender “Women”

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Canada’s oldest rape crisis shelter is facing death threats and vandalism over their policy of not including transgender women. . .

“A follow up to the dead rat that was nailed to our door recently… this morning we found this writing scrawled across the windows of our storefront space that we use for support and training groups,” the account tweeted, adding “misogyny” in a hashtag.

The photos show writing with the death threat, “KILL TERFS,” and “TRANS POWER.” The word “TERF” is an acronym used by transgender activists and allies as a pejorative for “transgender exclusionary radical feminist.” It is used against feminists who do not follow the demands of the transgender lobby, especially those which put women at risk or under threat. . .

The center offers its services to women who were born female in accordance with the feminism that guides their mission. In March, the Vancouver City Council pulled funding from the group because of pressure from transgender activists.

The shelter decried the decision, saying in a statement that the council was committing to “discrimination against women in the name of inclusion.”

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Washington Couple Sue Seattle for Releasing Violent Criminal Who Savagely Beat Them

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Who is standing for people like the Richardsons, a couple who were nearly beaten to death by someone let out by Seattle-area law enforcement despite a 25-year rap sheet of violence? The drug traffickers, career gun felons, and street thugs have the weight of the entire corporate, media, political, and entertainment industries plus Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and every phony “conservative” think tank – not to mention Soros and the Left – advocating on their behalf. How come nobody ever advocates policies on behalf of people like James and Melanie Richardson?

The Richardsons were walking around downtown Seattle on the fateful August 24 almost exactly three years ago, waiting for the start of a Seattle Mariners game. Suddenly, they were stalked by 25-year felon Nail Mulazim Muied, who was let out of prison just 24 hours earlier. According to KIRO7, Muied then beat both of them with a baseball bat, shattering James’ jaw and causing internal bleeding in Melanie.

Now they are suing Seattle and King County for not locking up this demon despite a 25-year rap sheet that included violent offenses. The local media report notes that the lawsuit seeks damages for surgeries and years of rehabilitation. KIRO7 also noted in the report that Muied is known as a mental health threat to local law enforcement, but the lawsuit alleges that this fact was ignored by authorities.

Evidently, Seattle is not just weak on criminal aliens but weak on all criminals, period. Which means it is tough on peaceful, law-abiding victims like the Richardsons. From a quick glance at Muied’s criminal record, I see 72 criminal charges stemming from arrests that occurred between July 1, 2000, and August 24, 2016. However, according to the KIRO7 news report, based on the documents, the criminal record goes back 25 years to when Muied, now 41 years old, was a minor.

According to court records, Muied was arrested just three months prior to this incident on May 18, 2016, on two counts of theft. He was charged again with assault on July 22, just one month before the incident. Throughout this time, he barely served any time behind bars. Going back further, he was charged with use of a deadly weapon on January 11 of that year. Theft, assault, criminal trespassing, and disorderly conduct were the hallmarks of his arrest and court records dating back to 2000. Amid the endless guilty verdicts, I can’t find a time when he was sentenced to more than one year of prison time.

One would think that after the Richardsons had to suffer this much at the hands of Muied and after he has shown an irredeemably violent proclivity along with mental illness, King County would finally take him off the streets. He was sentenced to eight years in April 2017, but thanks to the endless jailbreak programs, he will be out in a little more than two years from now. According to records obtained from the Washington Department of Corrections’ website, Muied was booked into the Washington State Penitentiary on April 25, 2017, and is scheduled for release on October 23, 2021. Just 4.5 years for nearly beating two people to death after a 25-year career of endless arrests for violent crimes harming other citizens!

This is the big lie nobody in the political class wants to admit. For every one person they can claim is over-sentenced, there are hundreds of people like this who are violent as can be, yet escape justice and are released to brutally victimize innocent people. In June, CR reported that King County released a man convicted of raping a disabled woman after he served just nine months in prison. The Mexican national, Francisco Carranza-Ramirez, allegedly went straight to the victim’s home and almost killed her.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, out of state prisoners released in 2016 after serving time for a violent offense, the average offender served less than three years. The report further found that “ninety-six percent of violent offenders released in 2016, including 70% of those sentenced for murder or non-negligent manslaughter, served less than 20 years before initial release from state prison” and “state prisoners serving time for property, drug, or public-order offenses served less than two years before initial release.”

Since 2016, the momentum for endless jailbreak and weak-on-crime initiatives has only accelerated rapidly.

Yet we never see politicians or Kim Kardashian giving a platform and legal aid to these victims, just like we never see them empathize with victims of illegal aliens, but only with the criminals. Instead, they claim that we lock too many people up for nothing, when in fact we barely lock up the most violent criminals. And those are the ones who have been in the system over the past decade or two. The ones going in now barely serve any time, because the momentum against incarceration among the political class has already swung all the way in the direction of the jailbreak movement, even though proponents are acting as if this is still the 1990s. They are maniacally pushing prison population reduction at all costs with no regard for public safety.

When was the last time you saw a single politician in either party stand for victims of crime? If this movement is really about rehabilitating “first-time, non-violent, low-level” offenders, then they should have no problem shaking hands with those of us who still care about public safety and working on legislation actually addressing the serious loopholes allowing repeat violent offenders to escape justice. (For more from the author of “Washington Couple Sue Seattle for Releasing Violent Criminal Who Savagely Beat Them” please click HERE)

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Mormons Ban Guns

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has just updated its policy on firearms, moving from a recommendation that lethal weapons, including guns, were considered “inappropriate” on church property to an outright prohibition of them.

The new policy clarifies that “churches are dedicated for the worship of God and as havens from the cares and concerns of the world. With the exception of current law enforcement officers, the carrying of lethal weapons on Church property, concealed or otherwise, is prohibited.”

This marks the latest in a series of small steps the church has taken away from the Republican Party, either by tweaking its own policies or by simply upholding its usual position to the right of center, while members of the GOP swing ever further to the right.

Consider the new firearms policy. Latter-day Saints have long had an understanding that guns were fine outside of worship. I’ve been in a ward where boys were taken to a shooting range as a youth activity. I’ve heard church members talk about using their guns to protect their food storage in the event of a cataclysmic event. And I’ve known plenty of Mormons who like to hunt.

The difference is that all these things happened outside of the consecrated property of the church itself. Then, in July 2018, a church member in Nevada entered his ward’s chapel with a gun, sat quietly through sacrament meeting and then killed a fellow member. (Read more from “Mormons Ban Guns” HERE)

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These High Blood Pressure Drugs May Protect Against Parkinson’s, Dementia, Huntington’s

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In several recent studies, scientists have found that common high blood pressure drugs may help protect the brain and prevent chronic brain diseases.

For example, researchers from the University of Cambridge found that a prescribed high blood pressure drug felodipine may help prevent Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. . .

The researchers tested the drug on mice and found that the drug was effective to reduce the risk of Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease. . .

In another study, researchers from the University of Leipzig in Germany shows that several high blood pressure drugs are linked to lower dementia risk.

The drugs include angiotensin II receptor blockers, ACE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, calcium channel blockers, and beta-blockers. (Read more from “These High Blood Pressure Drugs May Protect Against Parkinson’s, Dementia, Huntington’s” HERE)

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Court Orders State to Pay for Sex Offender’s Trans Surgery; Governor Refuses

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Citing constitutional protections against inflicting “cruel and unusual punishments” on criminals, a panel of three judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the State of Idaho must pay for the male-to-female gender reassignment surgery of an inmate sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy. In response, Republican Gov. Brad Little vowed to make sure taxpayer money is not diverted to the sex offender’s surgery, particularly because the treating physician and multiple mental health professionals maintain that it is not medically necessary.

The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution states that “[e]xcessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted” on criminals. That amendment, a three-judge panel ruled Friday, requires the State of Idaho to pay for the $20,000 to $30,0000 sex reassignment surgery for Adree Edmo, a biological male convicted of sexually abusing a 15-year-old at the age of 22 and who claims to identify as a female.

Edmo began serving time in a male prison in 2012. In 2017, Edmo sued the state, claiming the state’s refusal to pay for the controversial and costly surgery was “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Last December, Federal District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sided with Edmo, ruling that the state should fund the surgery, a ruling the state appealed. On Friday, the panel agreed with Winmill, concluding that prison officials were “deliberately indifferent to Edmo’s gender dysphoria, in violation of the Eighth Amendment,” as reported by Boise State Public Radio. Prison officials, the panel wrote, have not provided for what the judges say are Edmo’s “medical needs” due to the “extreme suffering” caused by gender dysphoria.

Edmo, who is due for release in early 2021, has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person identifies as the opposite of his or her biogical sex. NPR notes that Edmo reportedly twice attempted “self-castration.” (Read more from “Court Orders State to Pay for Sex Offender’s Trans Surgery; Governor Refuses” HERE)

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Alyssa Milano: My Life Would Lack Its ‘Great Joys’ If I Hadn’t Aborted Two Children. This Pastor Has the Perfect Response.

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A pastor who is the father of two young children came up with a scintillating response after actress Alyssa Milano stated that if she hadn’t had two abortions in 1993, her life would be “completely lacking all its great joys.”

Jarrid Wilson, an associate pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, tweeted a picture of himself, his wife, and their two young sons, and stated, “Everyone should post a picture of their kids and use the hashtag #greatjoys.”

Milano had said on her podcast, “Sorry Not Sorry,” “In 1993, I had two abortions. I was in love for the first time in the breathless way you can only be in love when you are young. It was huge — overwhelming even. It filled every part of living. It was a joyful and exciting and powerful time in my life.” After getting pregnant, she said, she was “not equipped to be a mother and so I chose to have an abortion. I chose. It was my choice. And it was absolutely the right choice for me.”

She continued, “A few months later I found out I was pregnant again. Once again I made the right decision to end the pregnancy.” Then, the clincher: “I would not have my children — my beautiful, perfect, loving, kind and inquisitive children — who have a mother who was so very, very ready for them. Fifteen years after that first love had fizzled, my life would be completely lacking all its great joys. I would never had been free to be myself — and that’s what this fight is all about: freedom.”

Wilson told FaithWire, “I don’t know Alyssa Milano personally, but I’m praying she really thinks about the totality of what she’s saying on public platforms, especially in regards to situations that encompass the reality of life and death … Children are our future, and a blessing from God, not a burden that so many people — specifically people who are only focused on their own achievement and goals — make them out to be … I believe our world needs to stop treating them that way. Whether she wants to admit it or not, she now has two children in heaven whom she will never experience the joy of parenting.” (Read more from “Alyssa Milano: My Life Would Lack Its ‘Great Joys’ If I Hadn’t Aborted Two Children. This Pastor Has the Perfect Response.” HERE)

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Lawsuit: Public School District Allowed an Illegal Alien Now Accused of Child Molestation to Volunteer Despite Red Flags

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Despite multiple red flags on a 2013 background check, public school officials in Charlotte, N.C., gave an illegal immigrant access to hundreds of young children. Now he’s on trial for child molestation, and his alleged victim’s parents are suing the school district.

In March 2018, Ricardo Mata was arrested by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on charges of indecent liberties with a child after he was accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl.

Federal immigration authorities later revealed that Mata is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who now faces deportation at the conclusion of his current trial. ICE issued a detainer for him after he was arrested in 2018.

“On March 17, 2018, officers assigned to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office 287(g) program lodged a detainer on Ricardo Luis Mata-Borjas, 52, a citizen and national of Venezuela, illegally present in the U.S., at the Mecklenburg County Jail after his arrest by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police for indecent liberties with a child and lewd and lascivious acts,” an ICE statement said.

A month later in April, then-Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) superintendent Clayton Wilcox tried to assure the parents and the public that Mata had been properly vetted, saying that the accused child molester “passed the background checks because he had no prior criminal charges.” Wilcox announced his resignation the following July.

However, public documents show and the child’s parents’ lawsuit alleges that Mata’s 2013 background check for the school system turned up at least two incidents in which he was suspected of molesting children on top of two felony arrests and a criminal assault conviction overturned on appeal, according to a report at the Charlotte Observer.

Before 2013, the report adds, public officials apparently never ran a background check on the illegal alien, despite the fact that by that time his after-school “PlaySpanish” foreign language program took place at as many as 15 CMS schools.

In the two previous instances of alleged molestation, Mata was accused of the “forcible fondling” of a six-year-old girl in 2009 and another elementary school student in 2013, though neither investigation produced criminal charges.

The parents accusing Mata of child molestation in this case say that their daughter, who attended PlaySpanish from kindergarten to first grade, was repeatedly molested several times on school grounds during supposed safety drills where the lights were turned off and students were told to hide and be quiet.

The Observer notes that Mata notified CMS of the exercises, but the fact that an after-school volunteer was doing security drills with the lights off somehow didn’t strike anyone as alarming at the time.

“I’m shocked. I’m dismayed. I’m incredibly furious,” the father of the alleged 2017 victim told the Observer. “The red flags were out there, and nobody did anything.”

Mata has denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty to the child molestation charges in April of this year. (For more from the author of “Lawsuit: Public School District Allowed an Illegal Alien Now Accused of Child Molestation to Volunteer Despite Red Flags” please click HERE)

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University Caught Discriminating Against Conservatives

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The University of Kentucky has apologized for a series of internal emails that revealed that their staffers conspired to block the formation of a Young America’s Foundation chapter.

According to a press release from the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), officials at the University of Kentucky allegedly conspired to block the formation of a chapter of the YAF. In a series of emails that were obtained via a public records request, two University of Kentucky staffers mocked the conservative group for its values.

“They are going to be mad they waited forever and I denied them whoops,” one email from Caitlyn Walsh, the assistant director of student organizations and activities read. “Oh jesus tap dancing christ,” another staffer said in an email response to one of the student group’s values, which was written into the organization’s constitution.

University of Kentucky spokesperson Jay Blanton apologized for the behavior of the staffers in a statement to The College Fix. Blanton claims that the conservative student organization was approved by the university after they submitted all the proper paperwork.

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