Jodi Arias: “Death is the ultimate freedom” & Update

Dramatic murderess waxes eloquent

Convicted murderess Jodi Arias, 32, says in a post conviction interview that she prefers the death penalty to life in prison. In a statement worthy of a theatrical presentation, she grabbed the spotlight — hopefully for the final time – with,“I believe death is the ultimate freedom.”

Arias confessed to the grisly June 4, 2008 killing of her former boyfriend Travis Alexander, 30, in the bathroom of his Mesa, Arizona home. He was found five days later, having been shot in the forehead and stabbed 27 times, with his throat slit from ear to ear.

She was found guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday afternoon in a sensational, sordid trial that has continued over four months, during which she and her legal team besmirched the reputation of the murder victim.

Arias admitted lying repeatedly before and after her arrest. She initially denied involvement in the brutal murder. She then blamed the killing on masked intruders. Ultimately, she claimed to have killed Alexander in self-defense. The jury, which unanimously agreed the crime was premeditated, will reconvene today to decide on the sentence — life in prison or the death penalty.

Troy Hayden of Phoenix’ Fox News KSAZ 10 conducted this interview with Jodi Arias 20 minutes after her conviction in the four month trial.  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has placed her on suicide watch in the jail.

Thursday, May 9, 2013:  

The penalty phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial scheduled to take place in the courtroom of Judge Sherry Stephens was canceled today. It will resume May 15.  No reason was given for the delay.

When the proceedings resume, Arias’ sentencing can be viewed as it takes place here courtesy of HLN TV. The decision to impose the death penalty must be unanimous.

Two sheriffs: A study in contrasts — Arpaio wins

Govt. endorsed snitching raises vast potential for abuse

If you only paid attention to the liberal media’s depiction of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you’d think the professional lawman had neither a concept of legal parameters nor possessed what is clearly a sterling law enforcement career. In fact, Republican Arpaio is widely respected among the law-abiding citizens who have reelected him to an unprecedented five 4-year terms.

It’s harebrained Democrat Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw people need to worry about.

“We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he’s gonna shoot him,” Bradshaw said. “What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’ ”

In fact, his idea of preemptive law enforcement carried such sway with the Florida state legislature, that House and Senate budget leaders have ponied up $1 million for a new violence prevention unit — aimed at thwarting such acts from occurring on his turf. The amount is not quite the $3 million Bradshaw was seeking to launch “prevention intervention” units featuring fifteen specially trained deputies, mental health professionals and caseworkers. The teams will respond to citizen phone calls to a 24-hour informant hotline where residents can report neighbors, friends or family members they believe are engaging in suspicious activities or fear they could harm themselves or others. 

That works for Senate budget chief Joe Negron, who helped push through the funding. He said he met with Bradshaw about the program and “got assurances from the sheriff that this is going to be done in a way that respects people’s autonomy and privacy, and that he makes sure to protect against people making false claims,” according to this report in the Palm Beach Post.

Think of the myriad ways that such spy-like reporting ”in the name of safety” could play out, with pettiness and retribution ruining lives and reputations. Someone needs to remind Sheriff Bradshaw that this is America 2013, not Germany in the 1930′s.

The goal of this preposterous overreach is crime prevention. Bradshaw says he wants to make sure law enforcement knows about potential powder kegs before tragedies occur. The $1 million funding provision has rightly provoked concerns among mental health providers and legal experts about the balance between civil liberties, privacy and protecting the public.

Bradshaw says, “As Sheriff, I am committed to making our neighborhoods in Palm Beach County safe for everyone.” 

He neglects to mention that in order to accomplish his goal he will deliberately trample the rights of the citizens who put him in office.

Immigration: Addressing the harsh realities

Bi-partisan acknowledgment that the nation’s legal immigration system is also in need of repair

Earlier this week, as the nation was still reeling, trying to absorb the grisly aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings, Ann Coulter wrote a cogent column titled: The  problem isn’t just illegal immigration, it’s legal immigration, too. Coulter’s fact-filled commentary is our “Weekend reading guaranteed to make you smarter” recommendation.

Bob Beckel, ubitquitous liberal commentator and co-host of ‘The Five,’ appeared to catch his co-hosts off guard as he echoed similar thoughts. Beckel advocated for the temporary ending of student visas for foreign Muslim students as a means of combating homegrown terror.

Kolbe: Include same-sex foreign partners in amnesty

It was bound to happen

Amnesty. Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Whatever the incarnation, the numbers are not static. In addition to rolling out the red carpet to at least 25 million illegally in our country, are the issues of birthright citizenship and chain migration — affording relatives the ability to coattail. Criminality is as problematic as the exorbitant costs involved in providing education and social service benefits to those who disregard our laws. All developed nations have immigration laws. Without them sovereignty and national identity are destabilized, security is lost and a perpetual string of problems follow. Here at Seeing Red AZ, we’ve addressed these issues over the years.

But, just when you’ve thought you’ve heard it all, out from under a political rock comes Jim Kolbe. Formerly a Congressman who represented a chunk of southern Arizona, Kolbe was long at the center of controversy. An odd, loosey-goosey Democrat-endorsing Republican, he was one of only four GOP members of Congress who voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act a decade ago and was rated 100% by NARAL, a national pro-abortion group. On issues dealing with illegal immigration he scored an abysmal 0% by FAIR, disdaining a fence and voting to alert illegals to Minutemen reporting their presence on the border.

As a U.S. Rep., he was the center of a federal probe into a camping trip with two teenage boys, both former congressional pages, who accused him of “acting inappropriately.” Though long rumored to be “closeted,” he voted in support of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, riling The Advocate, a national homosexual magazine, that threatened to out him in retaliation.  Ultimately, Kolbe filed for divorce from his wife and acknowledged his long-time Panamanian male “partner.”

Which fast-forwards us to Monday. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kolbe implored, “Our laws should not separate American citizens from their loved ones for such unacceptably long periods of time,” as he advocated for expansion of the 844-page amnesty bill to allow homosexual Americans to bring their foreign-born, same sex lovers to the United States. He complained the process was arduous and expensive. “While the bill you are considering is an excellent starting point for reform, I submit to you that it is still incomplete,” Kolbe chided committee members. “Families like mine are left behind as part of this proposal. Equally important, U.S. businesses and our economy suffer because of the omission of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families from the bill introduced last week,” he pleaded.

Count on it. The number of sub-groups demanding to be included will be never-ending.

Remaining Boston bombing suspect caught

Religion of Peace update

Police have announced Boston Marathon murder suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is in custody. His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, was killed in a furious attempt to escape police. During a long night of violence Thursday into Friday, the brothers killed MIT police officer Sean Collier, 26, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle, in which at least 200 rounds were fired, authorities said. WCVB News 5 video here.

The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and family members as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers who had lived in Dagestan, which neighbors Chechnya in southern Russia. They had been in the U.S. for about a decade. They self identified as Islamic.

Read the complete my way report here.

This You Tube page provided by BuzzFeed, linked to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is packed with videos about Islam and includes a playlist called “terrorists.”

Boston.com provides the harsh realities of the marathon carnage wrought by these supporters of jihad.

Illegals receive billions: Obama demands “fair share”

Foreign nationals exploit IRS loophole: Additional Child Tax Credit

Yesterday, April 18, marked the 108th day of 2013, or Tax Freedom Day — as calculated by the Tax Foundation.  That is the day, four months into the year, when Americans have finally earned enough income to pay the tab for all federal, state, and local taxes for 2013. In the simplest of terms, that means you”ve been working from New Year’s Eve until mid-April just to pay your taxes. With that hard fact in mind, watch this infuriating video to see how how billions of those tax dollars are being squandered, with the full knowledge of the Obama administration.

NBC Eyewitness News 13 investigative reporter Bob Segall in Indiana –1700 miles northeast of the Mexican border — examines a massive IRS tax loophole, providing over $4 billion per year in tax credits to millions of illegal aliens. In many cases recipients of American taxpayers’ misused monies have never set foot in the United States.  The device is known as the Additional Child Tax Credit. Segall spent three months looking into this scheme.

One Spanish-speaking thief admitted through an interpreter that his address is being used to file tax returns for numerous children, including multiple nieces and nephews who reside in Mexico. “If the opportunity is there and they give it why not take advantage of it?”  The IRS is aware of the magnitude of this fraud yet has done nothing to rectify it. In fact, the IRS website considerately provides ten tips on how to apply. The application forms are easily downloadable.

Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says report after report sent from his office has been ignored by the IRS. Here he is in 2009 reporting on more IRS deceit.

This is how redistributionist Obama addresses the topic:

$ Billions in loophole-filled amnesty scheme for invaders, families

More good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do

In his revealing, must-read 2-page report, The Daily Caller’s Neil Munro details the “Many loopholes hidden in the immigration bill” being shepherded by Arizonans John McCain and Jeff Flake, doing Obama’s work in collusion with the Gang of 8 gangsters. McCain admits it’s “not that much different from what we tried to do in 2007.”

Munro’s exposé comes as the reality of the ongoing criminality of those who will be granted green cards that are precursors to legal status is showcased by yesterday’s arrest of a Mexican man attempting to smuggle 79 counterfeit credit cards into Arizona. Leonardo Daniel Robles Castro, 23, of Hermosillo, Sonora is in custody after border agents found the contraband while conducting a routine inspection of a tourist bus in Nogales, AZ.

Yep.  The criminal invader is a “tourist.”

The criminal/tourist will be referred to Janet Napolitano’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security. Look for Robles Castro to be sent home on our dime and reenter the United States in time to be granted amnesty by way of the new legislation being shepherded by Arizonan Sens.  McCain and Flake, both hard at work assisting Obama’s scheme to ensure expanded Democrat voter rolls while guaranteeing the demise of the Republican Party.

Give McCain and Flake a call. Ask them why we need to underwrite with billions of citizen taxpayer dollars, competition for scarce jobs and university admissions. Flake’s contact info is here. McCain’s is here. We pay their salaries.  They should be happy to hear from us.

And speaking of Homeland INsecurity chieftain Napolitano:  In the wake of the bloody carnage that devastated so many lives at the Boston Marathon, why hasn’t the Obama regime’s U.S. Department of Homeland Security — headed by Arizona’s former governor — seen fit to put up an alert on the National Terrorism Advisory System page? Americans visiting the site are advised “there are no current alerts” and “there are no expired alerts.”

Obviously, everything is swell.

Explosions, chaos at Boston marathon

Fox News is reporting that at least three people are dead and more than 130 injured – including up to 10 with amputated limbs — after two explosions rocked the area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. One of the dead is an 8-year-old child.

More here including live coverage of this unthinkable disaster perpetrated by cowards.

Gosnell murder trial: Where’s the media?

Infanticide trial ignored: ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC have given zero coverage

Kirsten Powers, a self identified liberal, rightly says, “This clearly should be national news. Liberals want government regulation of every single thing — air, water, animals, (inaudible), banks, you name it” — and, she admits, “I put myself in that category. But they have this one little area where they say ‘no government regulation.’ It doesn’t make any sense, and I think we need to examine that.”

Power’s USA Today column, “We’ve forgotten what belongs on Page One,” deserves your attention.

The gruesome details in Conor Friedersdorf’s Atlantic article, “Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Trial Should Be a Major News Story,” do not make for easy reading, but they will educate regarding the horrors of the abortion industry. Gosnell, 72, regularly and illegally delivered live, viable third-trimester babies and murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors, referring to this practice as “ensuring fetal demise.”

He is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of babies who were born alive and murdered, as well as a 41-year-old mother who died after a botched abortion in his clinic.

In 2011, Seeing Red AZ marked the 38^th anniversary of Roe v. Wade with this post about abortionist Kermit Gosnell, including his joking about one of the babies he brutally murdered being “so large he could walk me to the bus stop.” 

The Grand Jury Report filed by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in the Court of Common Pleas in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania Criminal Trial Division, can be read here. 

McCain: Knife restrictions, mental evaluations next?

What would McCain consider as next step in ”curbing violence?”

As John McCain aims to restrict Second Amendment rights in the wake of the Newtown shooting tragedy, the Obama regime is buying up billions of rounds of bullets, to guard against law abiding citizens being able to possess firearms that function.

Yet the most recent attack that seriously wounded at least 14 people — two remain in critical condition — was carried out by a knife wielding perpetrator.

The brutal stabbing occurred on the Lone Star Community College campus in Cypress, Texas. Many of the victims were stabbed in the face and neck. The assailant used a razor type knife and told authorities he had fantasized since childhood about stabbing people to death.

Will this vicious act signal the implementation of registration and restriction of knives? Will department stores be required to perform cursory mental health evaluations before knives could be purchased? Some reports indicated the slasher used a box-cutter or “exacto” knife. Could the burden for checking purchasers fall on the orange-aproned Home Depot clerks? Who will monitor on-line purchases of cutlery sets?

This past weekend in Goodyear, Arizona, a 64-year-old man — a constituent of Sen. John McCain’s — savagely attacked and fatally stabbed his wife and grown son in their home. In the heavily publicized Jodi Arias murder trial taking place in McCain’s home state –just 7 miles from his palatial high-rise condo, one of the weapons she used to kill Travis Alexander was — you guessed it: A knife.

In a joint appearance with Chuck Schumer on Face the Nation, McCain — echoing Obama’s press secretary Jay Carney — told Bob Schieffer that he didn’t understand why some Republicans want to filibuster the gun control bill being pushed by Harry Reid, Schumer, and Obama. The loopy, Democrat colluder, McCain believes Harry Reid’s pledge to Republicans that they can offer amendments. Reid also has a bridge to sell.

The Democrats Rapid Response Team makes use of McCain in a video to bolster Obama’s restrictive measures: