High School EMT Trainee Spends 13 Days In Jail For Having A Pocket Knife In The Trunk Of His Car

Just when you think you've seen it all, they come up with new ways to surprise you.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/18...dream-because/

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Jordan Wiser, a student at Ashtabula County Technical School in Jefferson, is finishing up his senior year from home after school officials searched his car in December and found the folding knife and an Airsoft gun. School officials called police, who charged him with illegal conveyance of a weapon onto a school ground based on the three-inch knife. “I declined to allow them to search myself or my car and that I wanted to talk to my lawyer or my father,” Wiser told FoxNews.com. “They told me it wasn’t an option.” Wiser, an EMT trainee who hopes to become both a police officer and a soldier, spent 13 days in the Ashtabula County Jail following the incident. The knife, which Wiser said is part of his first responder's kit and can be used for slicing an accident victim's seatbelt, was found tucked inside his EMT medical vest in the trunk of the car. The Airsoft gun, which fires non-lethal pellets, was not illegal and was used by Wiser in a shooting club he belongs to, he said. School officials told FoxNews.com that possession of the pocket knife was a violation of the school’s zero tolerance policy for bringing weapons on campus and that based on a message he posted on an online forum, they had probable cause to search Wiser and his car. They also insisted Wiser consented to the search.

Question: Is it time to put actual thinking adults in charge of public schools? Or should we continue the present course of kids being suspended for making 'finger guns' or drawing a picture of a soldier with a gun? If they can't tell the difference between a gang member with a knife hidden on him and this, what's the point?

UPDATE: Read the incredible statements by the prosecutor who put this kid in jail for 13 days.  Originally Wiser was held on a bond of HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.  For a pocket knife locked in the trunk of a car. 

HuffPo did an interview in which they say this: 

On Dec. 12, 2013, administrators at A-Tech approached Wiser after someone allegedly tipped them off about videos Wiser had uploaded to YouTube.

The YouTube account in question appears to include reviews of video games and merchandise, demonstrations on home defense tactics and an interview with a local police officer.

I've had a look at Jordan Wiser's YouTube page. It's full of EMT training videos, police officer related videos, game reviews, and obvious airsoft competition videos. Whoever watched that stuff and felt like they had to 'warn' the school officials about this kid like he was somebody dangerous should come forward and get the full mockery they deserve.

Why is that person allowed to remain anonymous? Do they think ALL EMT's, police & soldiers are dangerous people that can't be trusted?

The fact this kid was open about the fact he wanted to be an EMT & a police officer after serving a stint in the Army, and was MAKING VIDEOS in which he he showed what EMT's and police officers do on the job, stuff that sometimes involves using FIREARMS and KNIVES,  obviously made him a dangerous weirdo that authorities needed to thoroughly investigate.  To protect the public, of course.  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/10/jordan-wiser_n_4921266.html

"We charge [people] with everything that we feel they are guilty of, and in this case, he is guilty of a felony," Harold Specht, the chief assistant prosecutor at the Ashtabula County prosecutor's office, told HuffPost. 

Specht said the charge is related only to the knife found inside Wiser's vehicle. The teen is not facing charges for possession of the stun gun or the Airsoft guns. 

"I was in jail for almost 13 days," Wiser said. "The first bond hearing I went to was on December 15. The judge ordered me [to be] held on a half million-dollar bond, pending a psychological evaluation. I did that and passed. They found I was not suicidal, homicidal or a threat to anybody. My attorney brought it up in front of a different judge, who let me out on a $50,000 bond and an ankle monitor. I was released from jail on Christmas Eve."

The Biggest Threat To The

Tea Party ISN'T The IRS

The reason the Tea Party had it's influence cut drastically from 2010 to 2012 WASN'T just the IRS going after Tea Party groups.

It was also the political 'business-as-usual' establishment tricking Tea Party donors into giving them their money.

The Tea Party sprang up so quick before the 2010 mid term elections that the political establishment never had a chance to 'catch the wave' so to speak and get their hands on any of that cash.

Long time political establishment leeches watched that huge wave of Tea Party cash pass them by in 2010.

These permanent political operatives told themselves there was NO WAY they were going to miss getting their hands on a big chunk of that Tea Party cash the next time around.

You know what they did? They went out & founded dozens of FAKE TEA PARTY groups & tricked people in giving them their donations.

 So you see, by 2012, they had solved the 'problem'. This last election cycle, they 'caught the wave' and made sure that millions of those Tea Party dollars ended up in their pockets.

MILLIONS of dollars that could have gone to Tea Party candidates & causes instead went right into the same old political machine.

Blogger and investigative reporter Lee Stranahan has been doing God's Work on this, exposing how long time political establishment types have siphoned off millions of donated dollars from the Tea Party.

Thanks to Stranahan's legwork, we now know of several fake Tea Party groups, including one called TeaParty.net,  that took in more than $3.4 million in donations and handed out just $137,000 in contributions to political candidates - several of whom weren't Tea Party candidates at all but were instead GOP establishment politicians like Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn. 

Right now, these political tricksters are priming themselves to pull in a big haul of Tea Party money in the 2014 and 2016 election cycles.  And they are NOT HAPPY that somebody has blown the whistle and pulled back the curtain on them so America's Conservatives can see what's been going on.  

You think Hillary can't win in 2016 and the Democrats will be forced to give up the Senate? Guess again.  If millions of dollars that people think they're giving to Tea Party & Conservative groups gets sucked down the political establishment black hole again in the next two election cycles, we'll end up with the same outcome we got in 2012.  

Just Over A Week Ago, 

Secretary of State John Kerry Was Insisting The Biggest

Threat Facing The 

International Community Was...

Global Warming

Top.....men! 

After having been in charge of State for a year, it looks like Kerry has finally gotten around to initiating his very first department-wide policy change.  

In his first department-wide policy guidance statement since taking office a year ago, he told his 70,000 staff: "The environment has been one of the central causes of my life." 

"Protecting our environment and meeting the challenge of global climate change is a critical mission for me as our country's top diplomat," Kerry said in the letter issued on Friday to all 275 US embassies and across the State Department.

"It's also a critical mission for all of you: our brave men and women on the frontlines of direct diplomacy," he added in the document seen by AFP. 

He urged all "chiefs of mission to make climate change a priority for all relevant personnel and to promote concerted action at posts and in host countries to address this problem."

10 years from now, after global warming/climate change/whatever the heck they're calling it next week has been debunked so thoroughly even the die-hardest #AGWFRAUD cultist has started keeping his views to himself, anybody think John Kerry will still be describing reducing CO2 emissions as a critical mission? 

Of course he won't. He'll just never bring it up again. 

But note what he's doing here: as the world becomes increasingly unstable due to the withdrawal of American influence overseas, he's going to have our entire 70,000 strong State Department spending a big chunk of it's time focusing on a non-existant threat.  

As Obama's gone about creating a power vacuum by pulling back and retreating, the Putin's of the world have begun stepping up to fill the void left behind.  The world's bad actors have realized they have at least a three year window to redraw the world's geopolitical lines more to their liking before America has a shot at new, stronger leadership.  

And John Kerry continues to cluelessly demonstrate exactly why America needs new leadership.  

How A Criminal Conspiracy 

Between Lawyers & Environmental 
Activists Defrauded Chevron

Through A $16 Billion Judgment 

This case has been making it's way through the courts for a number of years.  

The short version: A group of lawyers and environmental activists claimed they had proof supplied by expert witnesses that proved that Chevron's oil drilling and related activity in Ecuador had caused catastrophic damage to the environment going back to the 1970's.  In 2011 an Ecuadoran court found in the plaintiff's favor and awarded them $16 billion in damages.  For the past 3 years the lawyers have sought to have the judgment enforced in the US and tried to compel Chevron to hand over billions of dollars to them. 

Chevron responded to the court's ruling by launching a case of it's own in which it contended that the lawyers & activists suing them had conspired together to present fraudulent evidence, fake expert witnesses, and used bribery in order to obtain that $16 billion judgment. 

Here's how the New York Times reported the original $9 billion judgement against Chevron back in 2011 [The judgment was later increased to $16 billion]

Today US District Judge Lewis Kaplan [Southern District of New York] released his ruling in which he lays out in stunning detail how Chevron proved it's case that it was indeed a victim of an organized fraud.  Kaplan's ruling is over 500 pages long, but he sums up his findings in a 5 page introduction that makes for incredible reading.  

Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US District Court, Southern District of NY

The entire ruling can be found here. 

The money quote: 

Click on the picture to see it full size

There is no doubt whatsoever that more than few people are headed for jail if even 1/2 what Judge Kaplan lays out in detail is true.  And lawyer Steven Donziger, as the chief architect of this huge fraud, would certainly be one of the first targets for an indictment. 

Attorney Steven Donziger, whom Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan states led a 
criminal conspiracy to defraud Chevron of billions of dollars. 

 This isn't the biggest environmental damages award ever made - the BP Oil spill's $20 billion is larger - but sure could be the biggest attempt at fraud ever proven in court.  

Nobody should defend an oil company when does it something wrong or causes real damage, such as in the case of the BP Oil Spill or the Exxon Valdez disaster.  But this case where greedy opportunists decided to manufacture a disaster where there wasn't one should give people pause and end the knee-jerk bias that an oil company is always guilty as charged. 

EXTREME SECT MEMBER LEADS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FOR 

TEXAS SENATE SEAT

How embarrassing for the Democratic Party in Texas. As the Texas Tribune showed the other day, right now in the race for the US Senate seat held by John Cornyn, the leading Democratic challenger is....Kesha Rogers.

http://www.texastribune.org/20...

"In the Democratic primary, the candidate who has been on the ballot the most times,Kesha Rogers, leads the best-financed candidate, David Alameel, 35 percent to 27 percent."

Who is Kesha Rogers, you ask?

She's a committed member of the Lyndon LaRouche cult, a fact her Wiki bio makes very plain:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...

"Lakesha (Kesha) Rogers (born December 9, 1976) is an American political activist in the Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, and former candidate for Texas's 22nd congressional district.[2]Rogers, an African American, is a follower of Lyndon LaRouche and his LaRouche movement. She has called for the impeachment of U.S. President Barack Obama."

Kesha Rogers with eccentric Lyndon LaRouche

In case you don't know who Lyndon LaRouche is, he's a perennial Democratic candidate for President who is a committed Marxist and a crackpot conspiracy theorist. Members of his movement are often mistaken for Conservatives since they view themselves as a revolutionaries in direct opposition to the present Democratic party leadership because it isn't extreme enough in it's Leftist views.

Remember when 'Tea Party Conservatives' were supposedly showing off protest signs where President Barack Obama sported a Hitler mustache?

Kesha Rogers proudly posing with her inflammatory 'Obama = Hitler' sign at a Tea Party rally

That was actually due to LaRouche cultists like Kesha Rogers infiltrating Tea Party protests.

You can read more about LaRouche's extreme views here:

http://www.publiceye.org/larou...

Inside Higher Ed. columnist Scott McLemee wrote a detailed article about the LaRouche Youth Movement when it first began to assert itself on college campuses back in 2007:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee132

With it's hero worship of a political crackpot & it's strange views about subjects like economics & foreign policy, the movement has always been quite small and at the current time only has around 1,000 members.

It's quite telling that at the present time a committed member of a crackpot extremist's sect running as a Democrat has managed to get out in front of the race for a U.S. Senate seat here in Texas.

I think it's clear most Democratic voters in Texas don't really know who Kesha Rogers is, what she believes, or about her ties to the LaRouche sect. It will be interesting to see how long she's able to maintain her current lead. If she manages to actually win the primary, the Texas Democratic Party will be forced to publicly state it will give her no help or funds for her campaign since she isn't really a Democrat.

The Texas Democratic Party has been in this awkward position before: Rogers actually won the primary to fill Tom DeLay's old seat a few years ago, as Dave Weigel at Slate notes here.

A Possible Democratic Disaster In Texas

UK GUARDIAN NEGLECTS TO MENTION TERROR SUSPECT WAS COLUMNIST FOR THEM

A former Guantamano Bay detainee in the War on Terror who found fame as a columnist for the UK Guardian is back in jail after being implicated in terror offenses in the Syrian civil war.

Moazzam Begg was implicated with 3 others by British security services for 'suspicion of facilitating terrorism overseas'.

The former Guantánamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, who became a vocal campaigner against the alleged excesses of the war on terror, is back in detention after being arrested for alleged terrorism offences linked to Syria.

Supporters of Begg, 45, claimed his arrest at his Birmingham home was politically motivated and aimed at halting his work trying to expose injustices committed by the west. Begg was arrested on Tuesday morning on suspicion of attending a training camp in Syria and facilitating terrorism there.

Red State's Erick Erickson noted on Twitter that nowhere in it's reporting did The Guardian acknowledge that Begg was a regular columnist for the newspaper for years, from 2007 to 2012.

Columnist for the Guardian gets arrested on terror charges. Guardian doesn't mention the guy is a columnist for them http://t.co/cYWWVA6Fso

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 26, 2014

Although the news report makes several references to Begg's 'writing/s' on various subjects, such as the Syrian civil war, the War on Terror, and his experiences during his detention at Gitmo, it never states these writings appeared in The Guardian itself over a period of five years as part of Begg's regular columns.

As Erickson noted, Begg's columnist page still appears on The Guardian's own website:

Or was. Started in 2007. Last posted column is 2012. http://t.co/OmcSJbFqNT

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 26, 2014

                                             Moazzam Begg's columnist page

The Guardian report passes along Begg's claim that British security services had no problem with his travels & activities in Syria in 2012, but then has to admit that in 2013 authorities seized Begg's passport and forbid him from traveling out of the country due those selfsame Syria activities.

Perhaps for some reason as yet undisclosed The Guardian decided not to call it's reader's attention to the fact this terrorism suspect is a former Guardian columnist on terrorism related issues?

The LA Times Changes It's Tune From

"There Is No Doctor Boycott 
Of The ACA!" 

to

"Wow, In A Completely Unexpected Development, A Lot Of Patients Discovering Their Dr. Isn't In Covered CA's Network Despite Being Told They Were!"

This is the great thing about Progressives lying to people and making false promises in order to get them to do what they want them to do:

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WAIT.  Time cures most illusions.  Especially illusions spun by Liberals.

EXPERIENCE will teach people to stop listening to Progressives.  

Shot: Another ObamaCare Myth Exposed - The California Doctor 'Boycott'

Chaser: ObamaCare Enrollees Hit Snag At Doctor's Offices

Hey, Michael Hiltzik, meed Chad Terhune.  Chad, this is Michael.  You guys should get together and compare notes or something.

Of course, Chad Terhune at the LA Times tries to put a benevolent spin on this fiasco by talking about 'outdated provider lists'.  

Well excuse me. ObamaCare has been in the works for 3 years.  Covered CA. has had 3 years to update it's provider lists and since the ACA 'went live' back in October, they've another 4 months to update their provider list and make it accurate. 

There is absolutely no excuse for a person showing up at a doctor's office after having been told a Dr. is on that provider list and then finding out differently at this late stage.  

It's not 'faulty information'.  Covered CA. has been deliberately lying to it's customers for months about which Dr.'s are in their provider network. 


The excuses being made simply do not add up.  Expect to see this issue gain traction as thousands more Californians who thought they had access to a doctor discover otherwise.  

Of course, it won't take long for the standard PC rejoinder to having been misled to become: 

"Oh hey, so the Dr. we told you was in the network isn't really in there. So what? Just go find another one already.  Jesus, what's the matter with you??!!" 

No admission of having lied to people, just a 'suck it up, buttercup!' and an attempt to move on to the next item on their agenda.  

When enough people are pissed off at what's been done to them, expect to watch the Left melt down as the 'progress' they think they've been making gets halted and then rolled right back over them in the next couple of years.