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 Five people, tadalafil claiming to be anarchists, clinic have been arrested in Cleveland for trying to blow up a four-lane bridge across the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
The public was never in danger from the devices,according to Fox News. The explosive devices were inoperable and controlled by an undercover FBI agent. Charges were against the suspects were filed Tuesday morning in Cleveland.
Douglas Wright, 26, Brandon Baxter, 20, and Anthony Hayne, 35, were arrested Monday and charged with conspiracy and attempted use of explosive material to damage physical property affecting interstate commerce, according to WEWS-NewsNet5 in Cleveland. Two other men, Connor Stevens, 20, and Joshua Stafford, 23, were also arrested, but not charged, the station reported.-[source]
 What happened to Marissa Alexander sure sounds alot like ‘standing your ground’: her abusive husband came after her, choked her, and when she finally broke free, she grabbed a gun fired a single warning shot into ceiling … so why is she set to serve 20 years in jail?
Well, we imagine her prosecutor Angela Corey, who’s also charging George Zimmerman, has the unfulfilling answers. The Florida Times Union‘s Charles Broward reported on April 21, “A judge denied [Alexander] immunity in a Stand Your Ground hearing. And after a jury found her guilty, she faces a mandatory term of 20 years in prison.” Yes, there’s the rage-inducing fact that Zimmerman who allegedly pursued and killed Trayvon Martin was allowed to walk free that night while Alexander is going to spend 20 years of her life in prison for a single warning shot. But it’s also complex in that, those seeking justice for Trayvon Martin may have to side with a prosecutor who give denies Alexander’s (and the NAACP’s) plea for a “stand your ground” ruling, like the one that was initially afforded to Zimmerman.-[source]
 The murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December of 2010 was the precipitating factor that led to the first news story concerning the now infamous Fast and Furious scandal involving the ATF, visit web the DOJ, sickness and their scheme to send American guns to Mexican drug cartels.
As that story has developed it has become clear that the government agencies involved in the scandal, find including the FBI, were keenly interested in hiding certain information concerning Agent Terry’s death, the most obvious being that one of the guns found at the murder scene was identified by whistleblower agents as a Fast and Furious gun and that this gun somehow mysteriously disappeared and never made it to the lab for analysis.
New information that has become available within the last 24 hours indicates another major reason the FBI in particular sought to keep the facts concerning Agent Terry’s death a secret.
According to a major investigative report published on April 21 in the Los Angeles Times, the FBI was able to convince a major Mexican drug cartel kingpin to serve as an informant.
And citizen investigative reporter Mike Vanderboegh stated today that this drug kingpin is the one the FBI was attempting to protect when evidence was hidden in Brian Terry’s murder.
Vanderboegh was the one who first broke the Fast and Furious story in December of 2010.-[source]
 The family of Jabin Bogan, the Irving truck driver jailed in Mexico, is growing more anxious about his welfare as the days pass.
“I want my son home! Please, let my child go,” pleaded his mother, Aletha Smith, at a rally she helped organize at Victory Park Saturday afternoon hoping to convince Mexican authorities to free her son. “He has done nothing wrong!”
For nearly two weeks, Bogan, 27, has been confined to the Villa Aldama federal prison in the state of Veracruz. U.S. Embassy officials in Mexico said the Mexican government has charged him with smuggling after he was stopped driving an 18-wheeler loaded with 268,000 rounds of military ammunition.
Bogan’s boss, Dennis Mekenye at Demco Express in Euless, has said that Bogan got lost and simply made a wrong turn into Mexico. Mekenye has supplied News 8 with work orders showing the ammunition was on its way legally to an Arizona store.
“It was an honest mistake,” Mekenye said. “He missed an exit and found himself in Mexico with those ammo and bullets.”
He said Bogan found himself at the Bridge of The Americas in El Paso and was unable to make a U-turn. GPS coordinates show Bogan was in Mexico — likely at the border crossing — for only a few minutes before authorities stopped him and searched the truck.
“He made one wrong turn, and we don’t even know if he’s coming home or not,” said Bogan’s long-time girlfriend Tonya Davis. She said their six-year-old son, Jakobe, is anxious to hug his father and play football with him again.
“I want him to be home,” Jakobe added.
Mexican authorities worry that the ammunition in Bogan’s truck was destined for the assault rifles of the drug cartels. Richard Roper, a former U.S. Attorney, said Mexico is especially concerned about gun-runners.
“Mexico is very, very sensitive about the issues of guns traveling south into Mexico,” he said. “It’s a completely different system, and that is one of the issues this truck driver will face.”
The U.S. Embassy said officials have visited with Bogan and remain in contact with his family. But the trucker’s mother wants more to be done.
If convicted, Bogan could face up to 35 years in prison.
“I want my son home,” Aletha Smith said through tears. “I want my son home back here on the U.S. soil — back in his mother’s arms.”-[source]
Yesterday afternoon, sale the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms released firearms tracing data to the press from Mexico between the years 2007-2011 during a roundtable discussion and presentation given by ATF Special Agent John Hageman. The data was released at ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. Reporters were allowed to bring pen and paper, but were prohibited from bringing computers or recording devices. When we arrived, despite prohibiting the use of computers, ATF gave us a flashdrive.
“70%”
That’s the percentage of guns traced in Mexico to United States sources or Federal Firearms Licensees [gun dealers] according to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.
In September 2009, the Mexican government provided ATF with “electronic files containing firearms identifiers and recovery data. The electronic files contained information that initiated over 43,000 firearms traces, excluding duplicates, with most having recovery years ranging from CY 2007 to 2009,” according to information given to the press.
The majority of the sales linked back to the U.S. according to this trace data, actually come from government to government sales, not from normal sales made in American gun shops. Despite this fact, anti-gun groups and members of Congress use this misleading data to push for more gun control and regulations on retail stores.-[source]
ATF yesterday released a report on firearms submitted by the government of Mexico for tracing since 2007. One screaming headline referred to the “Vast Majority of Mexican Crime Guns Originate in U.S. New ATF Trace Data Reveals.” If you have been following the issue of Mexican gun traces on this blog, prescription you will realize the truth is a rapidly shrinking “Vast Majority” and the so-called “flood” of guns going into Mexico moves at glacier-like speed.
The mainstream media has consistently falsely claimed that 90 percent of all firearms recovered in Mexico come from the United States. The “90 percent myth” stems from a misstatement by then-ATF Deputy Director Billy Hoover during congressional testimony in 2009. The myth spread like wildfire and the smoke from that firestorm still obscures the facts. We have put the lie to the 90 percent myth in past blog posts. A report by the independent research group STRATFOR has shown that it is erroneous and grossly misleading to say the majority of firearms recovered in Mexico came from the United States. In fact, only 12 percent of the firearms misused in Mexico were originally sold at retail in the United States.
In 2009, a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed that only about 80 percent of firearms recovered in Mexico and submitted for tracing were originally sold at retail in the United States, not the 90 percent the media keeps reporting.
But it shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that many of the firearms recovered and traced come from the United States. That is because U.S. law requires markings on firearms precisely so they can be traced by law enforcement through commerce. It is sort of like tracing the VIN number on cars on a Ford dealership lot and be surprised to learn that most are Fords. What the 90 percent myth does not account for, and the media turns a blind eye to, and what yesterday’s ATF report does not shed light on, is the fact that you know nothing about the firearms recovered in Mexico but were never traced — like the firearms that the 150,000 or so Mexican soldiers took with them when they defected to go work for the drug cartels over the past several years.
Logically, Mexican officials wouldn’t bother to trace the U.S.-made firearms they know belonged to the Mexican government or law enforcement, the results of which would be highly embarrassing to Mexican officials. Nor does yesterday’s report account for guns that have been smuggled into Mexico from South and Central America.-[source]
 The U.S. campaign of drone strikes to kill militants in other countries is legal under international law, President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser insisted on Monday in a rare public admission and justification of the controversial tactic.
John Brennan’s speech, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan, was remarkable in that U.S. officials in public rarely discuss the drone program, which has for years been considered a covert CIA operation.
The bin Laden commando raid and drone strikes have severely strained U.S. relations with Pakistan. But the frayed ties have not stopped the United States from pursuing militants with the unmanned aircraft that can be remotely piloted from hundreds or thousands of miles away.-[source]
There has been a shooting at ITT Technical Institute in west Phoenix. At least one person is wounded.
It happened about 8:30 p.m. at the college, located at 95th Ave and McDowell.
Police are actively looking for the gunman on campus. Dozens of officers are at the scene and the police helicopter is in the air.
Approximately 200 or so students were on campus at the time of the shooting and were locked down. They were permitted to exit the building about 9:30 p.m.
Witness Meagan Burns reported hearing a woman screaming in the parking lot saying, “I got shot, I got shot!”
The victim was transported to St. Joseph’s Hospital. His or her condition is unknown.
There is no information on a suspect description as of yet.-[source]
“The border is not a fence or a line in the dirt…
it is a third country that joins Mexico and the United States.”
Quote by David Aguilar, rx Chief Border Patrol Agent under the Obama-Napolitano regime.
The above statement made by Obama’s head Border Patrol agent set off a firestorm of controversy and anger from everyone except those encamped in the midst of the radical left and guaranteed Mr. Anguilar a permanent seat at the current administrations round table that has been graced with the likes of Tony Rezko, click James Meeks, there Sam Graham-Felsen, Van Jones and others. Given the U. S. Border Patrol’s already tenebrous mission statement, coming from controversial characters like Aguilar, Napotitano and even the President himself, one can’t help but question what is the true course of action we are pursuing on the Mexican border. In the next paragraphs I will leave innuendo and commentary behind and stick to documented facts. You and your imagination can do the rest.
Since February 21, 2012 until today, April 20, 2012, in a 12 mile stretch at the international boundary starting at Naco, Arizona and going west to the San Pedro River there have been no less than 10 drive-through loads of narcotics breaching the new steel fence that is 13 feet high. This same fence is the one that many thought would be a cure-all solution to our current smuggling problem.
One of the first drive-throughs traversed the bottom of a mesquite infested wash where whole crews of Mexican outlaws felled trees and bridged arroyos creating a road through the wilderness north to highway 92 some 3 miles distant. By drive-through I mean Mexican Cartel agents cutting truck size holes in the metal barrier facilitating the passing of whole truck loads of dope headed north to parts unknown.
The last three of these ten loads of narcotics, which average 1000 to 1500 pounds per load, passed through a freshly cut hole on Sunday night April 15, 2012. All ten loads negotiated the supposed sealed border within one mile of each other and all were less than one half mile from a Border Patrol camera that is on top of a tower 85 feet in the air. At that distance these cameras costing in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to install and maintain can easily read a license plate on a car or see the expression on a man’s face.
All ten of these truck loads of dope passed through a cattle ranch owned by a family who has made their living raising cattle on this same property going back to the late 1800’s. At the east end of the ranch lies the border town of Naco whose main industry is the Naco Border Patrol Station which boasts somewhere in the vicinity of 400 agents. The ranch owners long ago cooperated with the Border Patrol and welcomed the installation of four of these mega expensive ultra high tech cameras which are supposedly monitored 24/7 at the Naco Border Patrol station a short distance away.
When questioned by the rancher the Border Patrol’s excuse for this breach of security was that “no agents were available to respond.” The fact is that they had all been sent to the northern boundaries, wherever that is, of Aguilar’s imaginary Third Kingdom.-[source]
 One of the occupational hazards of being a burglar in the greater Jacksonville, malady North Carolina area is that you have a fair chance of selecting the home of someone who works at Camp Lejeune. That means that the occupants are trained to do two things: chew bubblegum and kick ass. And they’re usually all out of bubblegum. Looks like Maurice Skinner and Diego Everette chose poorly and came up snake eyes when they picked a burglary target over the weekend . . .
As jdnews.com reports, capsule the leathernecks in question came home at 2:00 am Sunday to find, site well, insurgents in their apartment…-[source]
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