Monthly Archive for February, 2012

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Animal rights nut solicits hitman on Facebook

Published on February 24, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Eat Meat and Facebook. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Meredith 'I have no soul' Lowell

Animal rights activist ‘set up Facebook account to appeal for hit man to kill stranger wearing a fur coat’:

27-year-old Meredith Lowell of Cleveland Heights, Ohio has been charged with allegedly trying to solicit a hitman on Facebook. Not for anyone in particular but any random person that happens to be wearing fur.

Investigators say that Howell set up a Facebook page under the assumed name of Anne Lowery to solicit someone to kill a random stranger that was wearing fur because Lowell is an animal rights ‘activist’. I believe this makes her an animal rights terrorist but I digress.

Allegedly she wanted the random stranger killed so she could then distribute fliers about the ‘evils’ of wearing fur and eating meat at the scene of the murder. She is said to have asked the hitman to kill someone 14 or older but a 12-year-old would do in a pinch.

Since you’re reading this here you can guess that the hitman that contacted her was an FBI agent.

Lowell allegedly claimed she wanted to be arrested at the site of the impending murder in part so she could get out of her parents house where her family eats meat and wear leather, fur and wool. That’s right kids, 27 and living at home. No word on if she occupied the basement.

What I want to know is why do the more stupid among us seem to think that there is a cadre of hitmen that roll Facebook looking for gigs?

Let us also not forget there is no such thing as anonymity on the internet. As soon as you post something illegal like this on any website law enforcement will be able to find you.

Village Voice Media calls the kettle black

Published on February 24, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Backpage and Prostitution and Human Trafficking. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

Hassan Mayo

Hassan Mayo allegedly sold woman to another pimp for $400:

The article I linked to is from Westword which is the Denver arm of the Village Voice Media propaganda machine. In it they detail the human trafficking atrocities committed by one Hassan Mayo.

Mayo recently pleaded guilty to trafficking and was sentenced to 16 years. His most heinous offense was selling a woman to another pimp for $400 after he didn’t get his $600 asking price. Police got to Mayo when the woman he sold was busted during a sting that was conducted through, you guessed it, the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com. That’s even noted in the Westword article. What gets me is the ‘disclaimer’ that Westword included after mention that tidbit.

Backpage.com supports the prosecution of individuals who misuse the site for illegal activity.

They say this for two reasons. The first one is because it’s good PR, if there is such a thing. The second is becuase they already have the money they made from the ad by the time the pimp is arrested. I seriously doubt that money is given back or even donated after one of them turns out to be used for illegal activity.

So since backpage and VVM make money off these ads for illegal services, i.e. the sex trafficking of women and children, doesn’t that make them pimps by proxy? So they’re all for prosecuting someone who makes money from prostitution except themselves. Then it’s a ‘free speech’ issue all of a sudden.

Notice what they don’t support is removing the adult section of backpage. That would go much further in slowing human trafficking in this country than prosecuting the odd pimp that’s caught through backpage. But if they did that they’re dying medium would collapse. Village Voice Media is allowing the trafficking of women and children on backpage just so they can sell a few newspapers basically stating that the women and kids who are trafficked on their sites aren’t worth the cost of a paper.

Backpage crime post #197
Prostitution/Human Trafficking post #784

Six Degrees of Dio: Blue Oyster Cult

Published on February 20, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Six Degrees of Dio. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Before they were reduced to a joke about cowbells on Saturday Night Live Blue Oyster Cult was one of the premiere hard rock bands of the U.S. They were to the U.S. what Black Sabbath was to the U.K. As matter of fact Blue Oyster Cult was the very first concert I attended in Atlantic City during the Summer of 1982. (Get off my damn lawn.)

However our route from BOC to Dio takes a more modern route as bassist Rudy Sarzo played with them in 2008 and as IO mentioned before Rudy also played in Dio. What’s that you say? You don’t believe Rudy was in BOC. Neither did I at first until I found this video.

Now here’s a more traditional BOC with my favorite song of theirs ‘Joan Crawford’…

Lace her up and get her ready for the track

Published on February 20, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Backpage and Prostitution and Human Trafficking. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Marvell Culp Jr.

No bond set for Cordova man in sex trafficking case:

23-year-old Marvell Antonio Culp Jr. of Cordova, Tennessee has been ordered held without bond for allegedly trafficking a 15-year-old runaway girl on the Village Voice Media owned Backpage.com. What did Culp do that deserved being held without bond? I’ll let the article from the Memphis Commercial Appeal do the talking as I would only butcher it. So I hope the Commercial Appeal will indulge me in going a little over fair use…

A Cordova man required the young women to take two showers a day, to brush their teeth three times daily, to clean the motel room each morning and to hand copy his written rules that included the pledge “I will be the best ho I can be.”

The FBI agent who testified to that Friday added that if Marvell Antonio Culp Jr. had to tell them twice, the result would be “a swim and meet Newport.”

Translation, the agent said: a hot shower and cigarette burns.

The teenage girl told authorities she was taken to a motel on Lamar where Culp ordered an 18-year-old woman with him to dress her in lingerie and take a photograph of her that was posted at Backpage.com under the escort section.

“He said ‘lace her up’ and ‘get her ready for the track,’” FBI special agent Jaime Corman testified in the 90-minute detention hearing. “Culp made her walk the prostitution track on Lamar and told her not to come back with less than $300. He gave her four condoms and watched her from a car and followed her on her ‘dates.’

Federal prosecutor Steve Parker introduced a list of Culp’s written rules the women were required to follow. Parker said the rules were verified by an expert to be in Culp’s handwriting.

Rule number three read, “I will make as much money as I can for Daddy Tonio to invest in our family.”

Culp initially was charged with state offenses and was held in the Shelby County Jail where he made some 70 telephone calls, including some on which he is heard making threats against the girl, agent Corman said.

“He said if he had a gun he’d have homicide on his mind,” said the FBI agent who listened to the tapes. “He said if he did (get a gun), he’d be ‘pow-pow.’ He also said if they let him out (of jail) he’d be gone.”

This is not some isolated incident either. This is going on every day in just about every city in this country. This is nothing more than slavery and the last time I checked that was abolished by the Constitution around 150 years ago. Culp is just one of the many new slave holders.

Of course there wouldn’t be as many as these teenage victims if it wasn’t for that bastion of free speech, backpage. Again this shows that there so-called screening process is almost non-existent. And while they’re busy defending the trafficking of women and children as their first amendment rights they’re completely ignoring the 13th Amendment.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

If there was any justice in this world not only would these pimps be subject to slavery as a punishment for their crimes but so would the powers that be at Village Voice Media. I would settle for the VVM big wigs getting laced up and walking the track of the prison yard.

Backpage crime post #196
Prostitution/Human Trafficking post #783

DC Comics The New 52: Week 23

Published on February 20, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Comics. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Outside of Green Lantern Corps it was another ‘meh’ week. However there is one title I want to talk about that was less than ‘meh’ and of course it’s Red Hood and the Outlaws.

As I’ve said before I’ve been a fan of the Jason Todd character since the Death in the Family days. My favorite DC Animated movie is Batman: Under the Red Hood. Red Hood should be the bent cracked mirror version of Batman, crossing the line that Batman never dared to cross. Instead DC has him chasing ghosts and demons like he’s a hooded Freddy Jones and Starfire and Arsenal are his Scooby and Shaggy.

This month’s issue dealt with how Jason met Starfire. The issue should have been called Starfire Damage Control because it felt like they were trying to retool her image from the disastrous first issue. So instead of being a self-entitled space slut they now have her as a cross between a self-help guru and Memento. Sorry DC but you can’t un-ring the bell.

The only thing that could possibly save Red Hood and the Outlaws is another reboot.

Comic of the Week: Green Lantern Corps #6

Published on February 20, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Comics. 0 Comments Tags: , .

This is what comics should be like. Kicking ass and taking names. Complete with a sort of ‘holy shit’ moment that will have ramifications on a major character for a long time to come.

As if this character didn’t already have this issue.

Louisiana Dumbfish law thrown back

Published on February 19, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Dumbfish and Law. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Give me that fish!

Judge throws out La. Facebook ban on sex offenders:

Last summer the state of Louisiana passed a law that would ban sex offenders from social networking sites if their crimes involved children. I call it the Dumbfish law because there is so many ways to circumvent such a ban only an idiot would be caught by this law. Much akin to a dumb fish jumping into a fisherman’s boat. Now that law has been thrown out by a federal court.

A federal judge ruled that the law was too broad and could keep sex offenders from even using Louisiana’s state website. The ACLU, representing two sex offenders naturally, argued that sex offenders could be kept off any site that required a user login and password.

I’m here to help the state of Louisiana to get a new law passed. The solution is simple really. Talk to the legislature of North Carolina. North Carolina invented the Dumbfish law. As a matter of fact here in the Tarheel State it’s illegal for any sex offender to be on nay social networking site and as far as my memory serves me it has withstood legal challenges. Not to mention that North Carolina has caught its fair share of Dumbfish in its net with this law.

But as I’ve said before while the law may catch the occasional dumb registered sex offender it does nothing to help catch the ones who aren’t registered, the ones who haven’t been caught yet. What we really need is laws that give these creeps real time in prison and not the joke sentences that they’re currently receiving.

The further adventures of Author Z

Published on February 19, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Crime News. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Maybe if I complain more about the other book my book will become better.

I originally posted about Authors X and Z here. Long story short both authors wrote books on the same crime that were released at roughly the same time. Book X went on to be a hit. Book Z did not. Then Author Z recently took to the web to bitch about how bad he thinks Book X is. Follow me so far? If not brush up on your algebra. Now Author Z’s whining is no longer contained to just the internet.

You see Author X is in talks to have Book X made into a movie. Author Z has recently been published in a major metropolitan newspaper saying that Movie X would be insensitive to the victims and their families. The thing is he could be right if the movie’s makers decided to skew some things to make it more ‘Hollywood’. You know what I mean, the type of movie that would say “based on Book X” but really has not much to do with the actual story.

Again this sounds like to me that Author Z is using the possibility of Movie X to promote his own book and that he’s not concerned at all about the victims or their families feelings. To me that’s more insensitive to any movie that could be possibly made.

My question is if Hollywood wanted to make Book Z into a movie would he then turn down the money saying it would be insensitive or would he step over the victims and their families on the way to the bank?

Florida man claims he was entrapped in craigslist pedo sting

Published on February 19, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Prostitution and Human Trafficking. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , .

David Lashley

Man arrested in child-sex sting says he was entrapped:

Recently the Gainesville Police Department and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office conducted a joint sting for sexual predators on craigslist called Operation Tail Feather. In it the police posted an ad on craigslist pretending to be a 37-year-old woman who was looking for a man to ‘teach’ her 11-year-old daughter about sex. The ad itself was entitled “Looking for a man to help in the family fun area”. For the uninitiated ‘family fun’ is code for having sex with kids. Or child rape as I prefer to call it.

One of the men arrested in this sting was 48-year-old David Lashley of Lake City, Florida. That’s him up there looking like a middle aged New Jersey housewife in a mu-mu. He claims that he was entrapped by police. Check out his explanation…

Lashley said the woman with whom he believed he was corresponding said that she had a child and mentioned teaching her about sex but that he thought she meant explaining sex to the child.

Yes, because most mothers turn to strange men from craigslist to explain the birds and the bees to their daughter.

Not to mention you can’t really claim entrapment when police allegedly have exchanges between Lashley and the ‘woman’ that contain explicit terms on what he would like to have done to the girl.

I have a bigger concern that these claims of entrapment. As I’ve said before if police are arresting people with these kinds of ads than there are people out there who are actually either peddling their children on craigslist and people who are buying children from their parents for the sake of raping them. Both of which show that craigslist is not even close to cleaning up its act.

Since the ad mentioned ‘w4m’ I would imagine it was the casual encounters section or the personals section, both of which are unmoderated by craigslist. Craigslist may take pride in itself for shutting down the erotic services section but children are still being trafficked on their site and will continue to be until they start moderating the sections that require it.

And for all you armchair legal experts out there this isn’t entrapment.

Craigslist crime post #1549
Predators post #274

We get letters: the facts…ie…DNA!

Published on February 19, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Mail and West Memphis 3. 12 Comments Tags: , , .

Damien Echols (The facts are what I tell you they are. The blue glasses compel you.)

I received the following e-mail in regards to my many posts on the West Memphis 3…

i do hope your point is just that…to ‘poke society in the eye w/ a stick’ and that you don’t believe that rhetoric!? that would make some kind of sense. i have followed the WM3 from day 1! it has nothing to do with ‘the movies’ as opposed to the facts…ie…DNA! i do hope that i am correct, in that, you are just playing ‘devil’s advocate’. i am giving you the benefit of the doubt!

Nope, you are not correct. I believe every word that I say about them. All three of them were rightfully convicted and only because prosecutors flinched in the face of Hollywood are they now free.

And again DNA is not the smoking gun that the West Memphis 3 movement would have you think it is. Try looking up the phrase secondary transfer sometime.

One of my blogging gurus once told me ‘be controversial but be true to yourself’. I state the things that too many on the internet are too afraid to say and one of those things is I believe that the West Memphis 3 are guilty 100%.