On October 3, 2023, Senator Ted Cruz, ranking member of the committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, sent a letter to the TSA Administrator David Pekoske, requesting information about the Federal Air Marshal Service deployment of air marshals to the Southern border.
In this letter, Senator Cruz questioned why hundreds of air marshals have been used at the border and why they were “administering aid to illegal aliens”.
The letter goes on to highlight several incidents on flights within the past year and how the presence of air marshals could have had prevented the incidents from escalating.
It poses several interesting questions to the administrator, and I am looking forward to seeing how the administrator responds.
As a retired air marshal, I can’t stress enough how invaluable the presence of air marshals onboard an aircraft is. I know when I fly, I would feel more safe knowing that I have brothers and sisters covering my six while on vacation travel.
Air marshals are not trained to do what the Transportation Security Administration is making them do at the Southern border.
As indicated in the letter to the administrator, air marshals have been used to perform “administrative functions, conducting welfare checks, and escorting aliens to processing centers.”
Air marshals are highly skilled trained operators. The agency spends thousands of dollars training air marshals to deal with real time stressful situations.
This is your tax dollars at work, and you should demand better from your government.
As air marshals continue to be deployed to the Southern border, our skies continue to be vulnerable to another 9/11 style attack.
With an open border, the government is only inviting more trouble and our transportation system is at the weakest position I have seen it since I joined the service back in 2002.
This should be of concern to any American citizen who steps on an aircraft. This is you and your family’s safety. With an open border we bring new security challenges and air marshals should be deployed where they belong: the skies.
No Posthumous Pardon For Convicted Felon George Floyd
The legacy of convicted felon George Floyd. Photo courtesy of the nytimes.com
After an attempt by convicted felon George Floyd’s attorney to have his criminal record clear after his death, the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole has rejected the request.
At the heart of the request was an allegation that, according to Allison Mathis, the officer involved in Floyd’s case has been accused of using false evidence in multiple cases. Obviously this was a Hail Mary thrown hoping the board would bite. Nothing was mentioned about Floyd’s 2004 drug conviction or any alleged improprieties with that case.
Last October the board recommended issuing Floyd a pardon but then rescinded the decision a few months later without a reason.
I am sure that would have not been a popular decision among law abiding Texas citizens and it would have looked bad for Governor Abbott who is seeking re-election.
I am very pleased with the decision by the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. Just because someone is no longer alive it does not mean their crimes never happened.
George Floyd was not a saint despite the efforts by the liberal media to portrait him as such. Floyd had a violent criminal history the media refused to share with the public.
In 2009 he served a five-year prison sentence, as part of a deal, for a 2007 charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Before that, he had been convicted of several charges from theft with a firearm to drugs.
The 2020 George Floyd riots were destructive. Domestic subversive groups Black Lives Matter and Antifa went on a rampage of burning, looting, and destroying everything they could.
By the way, has anybody been convicted for these crimes?
Floyd’s death was a regrettable one. No human being deserves to die while on police custody, but that does not mean Floyd’s life of crime should be an afterthought or forgotten.
I believe the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole understood accountability for his crimes should remain in place.
As his family got handsomely rewarded for his death, bad police officers were held accountable, and millions of dollars in property damage still unaccounted for, this is a remainder that when one commits a crime, one is not the victim, but those harmed by those actions are.
Is not that the truth! Photo courtesy of teepublic.com
As advertising agencies want to bamboozle 75% of the population into believing the 15% of the population who gets arrested for 51.2% of the murders and non-negligent manslaughters in America are all about family values and above reproach, the reality on the ground is quite different.
If you watch network television, you understand you have been peppered with woke advertising. Companies and advertising agencies want you to believe 75% of Americans are irrelevant while propping false narratives about the other 15%.
The truth is that 15% of the United States population continues to commit the majority of crimes in America and there is no advertising that can cover that reality.
Of course, the media underreports every time a minority commits a violent crime as you can see by the lack of reporting on the alleged kidnapping and murder, by a black man, of a Memphis mother and the alleged shooting spree, by a 19-year-old black man.
Folks, we have to call this scum for who they are. These two are animals that should have never been allowed to roam the streets of a civilized society.
Thanks to our weak system of justice, Mrs. Fletcher’s alleged murderer was released early from prison and the alleged Memphis shooter was also released from prison after only serving 11 months of a 3-year sentence.
Of course, we get the same ridiculous statements from government officials, the typical ‘our thoughts and prayers’ spill, but no solutions to the problem.
Thoughts and prayers are not going to fix the crime problem that has skyrocketed in America since the instalment of Joe Biden in the White House.
As George Soros continues to finance the election campaigns of corrupt state attorney generals and prosecutors who refuse to follow the law, crime rates continue to go up as they release violent criminals back into our neighborhoods.
My fellow Americans enough is enough. When are we going to hold accountable these corrupt politicians? The time for action is now, the time for ‘thoughts and prayers’ are long gone.
These politicians and failed prosecutors need to be voted out of office, period.
Violent criminals do not have a place in our society, regardless of their race, color, or ethnicity.
Unfortunately, Soros prosecutors have been releasing these violent criminals to our streets, sometimes without even a charge.
Carrying on the agenda of subversive groups like Black Lives Matter and other so-called social justice entities, our justice system has turned into a revolving door of lawlessness. Police arrest these criminals only to see them back on the streets a few hours later.
Meanwhile, politicians refuse to rectify the problem. Only Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has shown some backbone by suspending Tampa’s prosecutor and Soros puppet, Andrew Warren, for refusing to follow the laws of the state of Florida.
We need more of that type of accountability if we are to survive the efforts of radical prosecutors and their lawless agenda.
As advertising companies and woke companies attempt to cover the reality with ridiculous television advertising that does not represent the reality in America or that of the majority of the 15% who gets arrested for committing the 51.2% of our country’s murders, they are not fooling anybody but themselves.
One thing Americans know how to do well is putting their money where their morals are. All these companies who want to pander to certain sectors of our population are in for a rude awakening.
As the economy continues to tighten, they will find out who has the real spending power in the United States, and not even the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) wokeness is going to save their businesses.
Inclusion by exclusion is not a winning formula, especially when you have to lie about it.
They are coming after you next! Photo courtesy of theglobepost.com
The home of the former President of The United States of America, Donald J. Trump, was raided by the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, on Tuesday, August 9, 2022.
This has never happened before in the history of this, once, great republic. The communists and left-wingers are celebrating as if this is something to brag about.
In fact, this is a sad day in America. Everyday Americans should be genuinely concerned as to the power exercised by the federal government. If they can do this to a former President of the United States, imagine what they can do to you.
Our federal law enforcement agencies have been infiltrated by communists and have been weaponized to eliminate any voices of dissent. This is not only limited to the FBI, but this also goes all over the federal spectrum, including the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Education, and Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, to name a few.
Ask yourself why the Internal Revenue Service would need to hire 87,000 new enforcement agents. Enforcement agents carry guns, they are not sitting at a desk going through tax receipts.
Why would they spend over $1 million dollars on ammunition? Why would the Democrat controlled Congress vote on an “Assault Weapons Ban,” but exempt all of these federal agencies from such a ban? But I digress.
The Biden administration and Democrat congressional leaders claimed they did not know anything about the raid. Seriously? There is no way in this world that Joe Biden or Chuck Schumer did not know about it.
The authorization to raid the home of a former president has to come from the highest levels of our government. If not, then the FBI is operating as a rogue agency with no accountability, and I find that hard to believe. I am sure the communists in charge are keeping them on a tight leash.
Claiming ignorance is normal for the Biden administration, but this one they will have an extremely hard time denying. For quite some time, they have been pressuring Attorney General, Merrick Garland, to produce something against President Trump.
The January 6th Committee has come up empty and they are desperate to find something they can use to charge President Trump and stop him from running in 2024.
The Democrats will do anything to hold on to power. They are so afraid of President Trump; they are willing to destroy this republic and the Constitution in the process.
To claim they did not know this raid was going to happen, is nothing more than lies from a government that is supposed to be working for us.
Folks, raiding the homes of opposition party members is the type of thing that happens in third world countries like Venezuela and Cuba.
Russia throws opponents and government critics in gulags and throws away the keys. In China, they send government critics to re-education camps or send them to work in factories in detrimental conditions.
Is this what we want for the United States? I do not, but I know the communists in charge of our government would not think twice about putting you or me inside a hole until we die.
Our government hates us, and they are at a point where they are not afraid of telling us. By weaponizing all these federal law enforcement agencies, our government has created a de facto private army, not to fight our country’s enemies, but to fight its citizens.
What happened to the former President of the United States is unacceptable, un-American, and those responsible for authorizing such action better have a really good reason.
Anything short of a federal indictment or an arrest will make this raid out to be nothing more than theater of the absurd and a political hit job.
As a retired federal agent, I am not only embarrassed, but saddened to see what has become of a profession that I once enjoyed been a part of.
I am sure you are probably as upset as I am about this third world behavior by our federal law enforcement apparatus but remember to keep a cool level head.
My target audience is smart and understands violence is not a way to make a point. Unlike Antifa and BLM, we do not burn things to the ground, we vote. We engage in intelligent conversation and meaningful debate.
The communists want us to react in a violent way so they can justify more government control over our lives. We must resist and engage intellectually, regardless of what happens.
Has United States finally crossed the Rubicon? I think so.
Brittney Grier after being found guilty of cannabis possession and smuggling. Photo courtesy of taketonews.com
Why is it every time an American breaks the law overseas, and it is found guilty for breaking those country’s laws, our government acts outraged?
Because our government thinks rich and famous Americans are above the law, not only in our country, but in other countries as well.
Basketball player Brittney Grier was convicted in a Russian court for possession of cannabis and smuggling. Grier was sentenced to 9 years in prison and the Biden administration finds the verdict “unacceptable.”
Unacceptable? This is the same Biden administration who, as reported, was willing to trade Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for this American citizen who broke the laws of a foreign country.
That would have been “unacceptable.” During the 1990’s and early 2000’s, Viktor Bout was responsible for the death of millions of human beings from Eastern Europe to the Middle East as he sold weapons to whomever was willing to pay the price.
Viktor Bout is currently serving a 25 year sentence in the United States for conspiring to kill Americans and Joe Biden wants to trade this international criminal for a petty drug smuggler who happened to get caught violating Russian law.
Only the corrupt Biden administration would be willing to suggest such a stupid trade.
As a Federal Air Marshal, I traveled the world, and understood that while working in foreign countries, I was not only representing the government of the United States, but still bound by the laws of such countries.
Having said that, I worked with many agents who thought they could act like idiots overseas and get away with it, so it does happen.
When you are overseas, your American passport is not a pass to do as you please, you still a “guest” and not exempt from that country’s laws.
Ms. Grier should have done her research, after all, she has been playing in Russia for quite some time, she should have known better.
Unacceptable is the fact the corrupt Biden administration things drug possession and smuggling into a foreign country is acceptable.
Ms. Grier athlete status does not exempt her from following the law.
Just because the United States has a dual justice system, one for the rich and one for the poor, it does not mean every country in the world has to follow this flawed system of justice.
