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Police present CSI: Peters Township as part of citizen’s academy – Observer-Reporter
Imagine youre a police officer investigating a case of troublemaking at Simmons Farm in Peters Township.
Apples are smashed all over the ground. Critters from the petting zoo have been set loose. Its a mess.
Then you receive a call a man is down in an East McMurray Road office building. His wife has checked on him after she couldnt reach him, and shes not sure if hes breathing. She also had seen a man fleeing from the back of the building.
Thats the scenario presented by Officer Gary Orosz during the May 30 session of Peters Townships first offering of its Citizens Police Academy. The six-week program, which runs through June 13, addresses a variety of law-enforcement topics, including crime scene investigation.
To simulate the scene of the crime at the office, the police departments community room was full of potential clues: a wooden facsimile of a handgun on a couch, with an empty bottle of Don Julio next to it; a table representing a desk with chairs and computer equipment knocked down; a gasoline can with papers strewn nearby; a toilet seat on a chair with a window frame above; and a mannequin, complete with a red spot representing blood next to its head.
As academy participants perused the various items, medics entered the room to tend to the victim, stretcher and all.
Orosz and fellow Officer Pat Mazzotta proceeded to discuss the situation with participants, who offered suggestions about how to go about processing the scene by considering various clues.
Maybe a footprint on the toilet seat, ventured Annie Ritacco.
With a nod and a smile, Orosz acknowledged a key piece of evidence, as the perpetrator in his scenario, indeed, climbed on the seat before heading out the window. And he explained how something like that once helped him solve a burglary after he couldnt pull any fingerprints at the scene.
Just for the heck of it, to see if a shoeprint would show up, I used black fingerprint powder, he said. I dusted the top of that toilet seat, and there was a perfect tennis shoe print.
He brought the prime suspect into his office for an interview, and while the suspect was seated, he readjusted his foot to reveal the bottom of his shoe. Orosz, in turn, showed him a photo of the toilet-seat shoeprint, along with a file folder full of fingerprints.
I said, What do you think is going to happen when I send them to the crime lab? These will be matching fingerprints, Orosz recalled, with the clincher: They werent even his.
He said, All right. I did it.
Thats pretty much what happened in the Citizens Police Academy scenario, after the perpetrator drank tequila, shot the victim and then tried to torch the place, before the arrival of the wife caused him to flee.
During the session, participants had the opportunity for some hands-on techniques such as dusting for fingerprints and using tape to lift them from various items at the scene.
As for starting his scenario at Simmons Farm, Orosz explained the relevance by evoking memories of a 1995 double-murder trial that resulted in acquittal.
Look at the O.J. case, Orosz said about tactics that worked toward Simpsons 1995 acquittal, because the cops walked through blood. You dont have a choice. You dont know if theres a killer still in there. They had to clear that. They had to check on the bodies. They didnt have a choice but to walk through things.
The defense lawyers used that to their advantage, claiming:
You guys ruined that crime scene. It was a sloppy job by police. Everybody ruined it.
Thats why I gave the example of being at the farm, Orosz said, and walking through smashed apples and who knows what was on your boots.
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Coulter Slams Hillary, Obama & Others for Their Hypocrisy on … – Fox News Insider
Following President Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, many politicians, pundits and celebrities decried withdrawing from the pact.
Ann Coulter joined Tucker Carlson tonight to discuss the "awesome hypocrisy" of some of these reactions.
Billionaires Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Bill Gates called Trump's decision dangerous, yet they all own private jets.
Leonardo DiCaprio said leaving the pact "threatens the livability" of our planet, but he flew back and forth to Cannes, France, in a private jet... to accept a climate award.
Hillary Clinton called it a "historic mistake," yet she took a private jet just 20 miles from Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket for a fundraiser.
Meantime, former President Barack Obama has taken more than his fair of private jets and helicopters since leaving the White House, but he still criticized Trump for pulling out of the agreement.
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Coulter said all these people may talk a big game global warming, but their actions go to show that they either don't believe in it or they simply don't care.
"If you tell us that CO2 emissions are destroying the world and you're flying a private jet, it's obviously not about CO2 emissions for you," Tucker said. "What is it really about?"
Coulter argued that for many liberals climate activism is their "religion," and that's why they're so upset at Trump for his decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement.
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Coulter on Kathy Griffin: Victims Are the Biggest Bullies in the Country Now – Breitbart News
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Friday on his Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight, host Tucker Carlson had author Ann Coulter weigh in on Kathy Griffins emotional press conference where the comedian accused President Donald Trump and his family of trying to ruin her life after she posed for a picture holding a fake decapitated head of the president.
Coulter slammed the victimhood mentality of liberals, saying victims have become the biggest bullies in the United States.
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Victimhood is like a magical elixir that makes any kind of behavior possible, justifies any kind of overreach or cruelty. Its like the perfect tool, Carlson said.
That was the theme of my book, Guilty, how victims had turned themselves into the aggressors and thereby wonder around creating other victims, Coulter replied. Victims are the biggest bullies in the country now.
I dont think its an attack for Trump just to comment that his ten-year-old son had seen that disgusting image that wasnt funny and wasnt interesting and oh, she was just so smug and thought it was so funny, she later added.
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En Marche: Macron’s France and the European Union – OUPblog (blog)
On the evening of 7 May, Emmanuel Macron walked, almost marched, slowly across the courtyard of the Louvre to make his first speech as the President elect of the French Fifth Republic. He did so not, as others would have done, to the music of the Marseillaise but to the final movement of Beethovens Ninth Symphony the Ode to Joy, the anthem of the European Union. It was, wrote Natalie Nougayrde in the Guardian, the most meaningful, inspiring symbol Macron could choose.
The gesture, and the speeches which have followed, have been ringing endorsements of the Union and all that it stands for: tolerance, trans-national justice, open borders, free trade, increased opportunities, personal economic, cultural and political for all. In a word: internationalism. Since his election Macron has been speaking not only to and for a large sector of the French people; he has been speaking for and to both Europe and as he made clear the world. Europe and the world, he declared, are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the Enlightenment. His victory is the latest in series of defeats for the populist parties of the far right in Europe.
This is a reason to rejoice, but it is no cause for complacency. Brexit has not, as many hoped it might, been overturned, and Donald Trump has yet to be impeached. Marine Le Pen lost massively; but she still made substantial gains. Geert Wilders, the populist, with the dyed blond quiff, won fewer votes than expected in the Netherlands in March; but he is still better placed that he was before the elections. So too are a handful of other smaller parties with similar views. The Alternative for Germany has not been doing well in past few months, but neither has it disappeared. With Viktor Orbn firmly entrenched in Hungary, and elections due in Italy before next spring in which, according to recent polls, the Five-Star Movement could win over 32% of the vote placing it ahead of any of the major parties Europe is still in urgent need of defense.
The EU is the outcome of a long, slow process which took its modern form in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the term international was coined by Jeremy Bentham in 1789 of the possibility of an international rule of law, and of the trans-national agencies and courts to uphold it.
The problem with international law, however, is that, by its very nature, it demands at a least a re-evaluation, if not an outright rejection, of what has been ever since the seventeenth century one of the foundations of the modern state: sovereignty. The power of the sovereign be it a monarch or a popular assembly wrote Thomas Hobbes is to prescribe the Rules of discerning Good and Evil and therefore in him is the Legislative Power. It was crucial, that that power should be what he called incommunicable and inseparable, by which he meant that it could not be divided nor shared with any other sovereign. This is the legal basis on which the modern nation state, constructed along what has come to be known as the Westphalian model, has been based. But while indivisibility operates well enough within individual states, it cannot, as another Englishman, the great jurist Henry Sumner Maine, wrote in 1888, belong to International Law. International law is based upon treaties, and the power to enforce those treaties can only ever be divided up among the nations which agree to abide by them. (The example Maine gave, paradoxically in the light of Brexit, was the British relationship with the Indian princely states.) Without divided sovereignty no international law can exist. It is one of the basic marks of western civilization.
European Union Law is an inter-national law, and it governs what all the member states share in common and, like all international law it assumes priority over any conflicting laws enacted by individual member states. The penal code, family and labor laws, the laws governing succession, inheritance and marriage, property and taxation indeed all those laws which govern the daily life of the citizens of Europe are all matters for domestic not EU law, so long as they conform to EU and international norms. Of course, dividing sovereignty inevitably means relinquishing some part of it, most contentiously, in the case of the EU, the right to close your borders against those with whom you are dividing it. But as the Greeks discovered at Salamis in 480 BCE, and Europeans have discovered time and time again over the centuries ever since, cooperation generally brings far more benefits that it does losses.
To be willing to divide sovereignty in this way, however, demands that you trust in and are prepared to work with those with whom you divide it, and this means sharing their same basic political, social, ethical and legal values. The European project, which Macron described as our civilization and our common enterprises and our hopes is nothing if not a grand exercise in sharing: sovereignty, administrative responsibilities, educational and cultural goals, citizenship and of course each others populations. And that, in turn, means trusting in what it can achieve. So far, for all its difficulties it has not let us down. The continent has been at peace now for over seventy years the longest period in its entire history. For all the populist talk of forgotten ones, for all the justifiable fear of terrorism, its peoples live better, safer, more just and more equitable lives than they have ever done. Of course the EU is in need of reform. The power of the parliament, needs to be extended, and so, too, does the reach of the ECJ. European citizenship needs to be more clearly defined and strengthened. The Euro-zone requires a proper common budget something already on Macrons agenda. Military dependence on an unpredictable United States should be reduced and the long dormant plan for a European Defense Force revived. Above all perhaps the nature of the European project, its demands and its benefits, need to be better explained. A massive ignorance as to what Europe is has already robbed future generations of one European nation of a brighter future. Everything should now be done to prevent any of the others from going the same way.
The forces of populism and obscurantism may have been defeated; but they have not been annihilated. At the moment it would seem to be up to France to lead the way. En marche!
Featured image credit: Emmanuel Macron at Sommet co franco-chinois by Pablo Tupin-Noriega. CC0 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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