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Pornography being smuggled into Massachusetts is getting more and more bizarre, just as the FBI is mobilizing to wage war with the flesh-fetish industry.
In a recent span of two weeks, inspectors for U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Logan International Airport confiscated the following:
# A laptop computer containing films and photos of women performing sex acts involving dogs, horses and reptiles, taken off a passenger returning to Boston from Ireland;
# One hundred copies of a DVD depicting ``explicit'' sex with excrement, seized from a Federal Express package shipped to Rhode Island from the Netherlands.
It was intercepted in Worcester when the title ``Domina and Caviar'' raised a red flag.
All other louche loot winds up in the custody of U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan's office, where it is ultimately destroyed unless someone is willing to fight for the sordid contraband in court.
All other louche loot winds up in the custody of U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan's office, where it is vigorously wacked off to unless someone is willing to fight for the sordid contraband in court.
``In some instances,'' said Sullivan's spokeswoman, Samantha Martin, ``if the items are on a computer, the computer will be wiped clean, but they may want the computer back.''
The Washington Post reported this week that FBI headquarters has put out a call to agents to join a new national anti-obscenity squad targeting the ``manufacturers and purveyors'' of porn.
Gail Marcinkiewicz, spokeswoman for the FBI's Boston field office, concedes pornography is a tough foe. ``What may be considered obscene in Amish country,'' she said, ``may not be obscene in Los Angeles.''
The Anarchist Fighters had been linked to, among other things, the May Day bombing scheme of the year before and to radical groups (including what newspapers called the notorious “Galliani gang") around Lynn, Massachusetts, a place federal authorities then considered “the most dangerous spot in America,” according to a later investigator.
Police say after Hands on a Hardbody contestant Richard "Ricky" Vega, 24, broke into Kmart, then into the store's firearm glass case, he removed the trigger lock off the 12-gauge shotgun that he used to kill himself.
Longview Police Sgt. Carlos Samples said information wasn't immediately available on how Vega removed the lock.
"It actually had a trigger lock on it, and he was able to remove that trigger lock," he said.
Tom Crowley, public information officer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Dallas, said the locks are not designed to be taken off easily.
Vernon Orms, a sales clerk in the Longview Academy Sporting Goods hunting department, said trigger locks are difficult to remove and a special key or tool is required to open them.
"He probably had to knock that thing off with something," Orms said. "He could take a hammer and bust one off. Even the metal ones can be knocked off, if you have something hard enough to hit it with."
Brathwaite said Friday the company reported the shotgun theft to ATF.
Two contestants said Vega left the internationally popular contest Thursday around 6 a.m. and shortly before a scheduled 15-minute break for competitors. He walked across the street to Kmart, where a witness saw him send a trash can through the store's front door.
Gregg County Justice of the Peace Arthur Fort said Vega's body was lying between the front door and the jewelry counter. The sporting goods department, where firearms are kept, is located diagonally behind the jewelry section.
Fort emphasized he's not ordering an autopsy "because we know the cause of death. An autopsy is done to determine the cause of death," he said. The cause of death is suicide. He shot himself in front of witnesses. He had a single shot to the head by the shotgun."
In the wake of widespread lootings and home invasions in New Orleans, there have been reports of valiant men and women who defended themselves against opportunist, armed intruders and looters to protect what little they had, against the criminal thugs who had been released from the prisons.
The U.S. Constitutional Right to Bear Arms did its job! They thwarted off hardened criminals who were released from prison, roaming the streets robbing and pillaging! These men and women of valor protected their friends, family and neighbors when police were nowhere to be found!
The city of New Orleans has begun confiscating legally-owned firearms from its residents, stripping them of their right of self defense, as law-abiding citizens.
"Simply outrageous!", was the reaction from Erich Pratt, Director of Communications for Gun Owners of America.
"By what authority can the mayor order these confiscations?" Pratt said. "You can't legitimately suspend the God-given rights of American citizens who have committed no crimes.
"These confiscations will not make the people of New Orleans any safer. Privately owned firearms were the only thing that prevented good people from becoming victims in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when few policemen were to be found anywhere in the city."
"Unfortunately, we have yet to learn the lessons from previous dark episodes in our recent history," Pratt said. "We need to remember those lessons, such as the riots of Los Angeles more than a decade ago."
For several days in 1992, Los Angeles was in complete turmoil as stores were looted and burned. Motorists were dragged from their cars and beaten. As in New Orleans, police in L.A. were very slow in responding to the crisis. Many Guardsmen, after being mobilized to the affected areas, sat by and watched the violence because their rifles were low on ammunition.
"But not everybody in Los Angeles suffered," Pratt said. "In some of the hot spots, Korean merchants were able to successfully protect their stores with semi-automatic firearms. In areas where armed citizens banded together for self-protection, their businesses were spared while others -- which were left unprotected. -- burned to the ground."
Interestingly, press reports in the aftermath of the riots described how life-long gun control supporters were running to gun stores to buy an item they never thought they would need -- a gun.
Tragically, they were surprised (and outraged!) to learn there was a 15-day waiting period upon firearms.
"Will we never learn?" Pratt asked. "It is a fact that firearms save millions of lives every year. So if Mayor Ray Nagin really wanted to help the decent citizens of New Orleans, he would be issuing law abiding citizens firearms instead of taking them away. Nagin's actions will put people in further jeopardy -- and if one citizen dies in New Orleans because he was deprived of the ability to defend himself or his family, there will be blood on the Mayor's hands."
The question is: Mr. Mayor, if a mother or father dies because of your unconscionable confiscation: Will you take the responsibility to take care of the orphaned children and raise them as your own?
ABOUT LARRY AND ERICH PRATT.
Larry Pratt is founder and Executive Director of Gun Owners of America.
Gun Owners of America is a national gun lobby with over 300,000 members located at 8001 Forbes Place, Springfield, VA 22151 and at http://www.gunowners.org.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 8 - Waters were receding across this flood-beaten city today as police officers began confiscating weapons, including legally registered firearms, from civilians in preparation for a mass forced evacuation of the residents still living here.
No civilians in New Orleans will be allowed to carry pistols, shotguns or other firearms, said P. Edwin Compass III, the superintendent of police. "Only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons," he said.
But that order apparently does not apply to hundreds of security guards hired by businesses and some wealthy individuals to protect property. The guards, employees of private security companies like Blackwater, openly carry M-16's and other assault rifles. Mr. Compass said that he was aware of the private guards, but that the police had no plans to make them give up their weapons.
While armed looters roamed unchecked last week, the city is now calm. No arrests were made on Wednesday night or this morning, and the police received only 10 calls for service, a police spokesman said.
Officers will search houses in both dry and flooded neighborhoods, and no one will be allowed to stay, he said.
"I know the risks," said Renee de Pontchieux, as she sat on a stool outside Kajun's Pub in the working-class Bywater neighborhood east of downtown. "We used to think we lived in America - now we're not so sure. Why should we allow this government to chase us out and allow people from outside to rebuild our homes? We want to rebuild our homes."
The man, whom a police official described as emotionally disturbed, was taken into custody for questioning.
The building has a mix of apartments that residents said rent for $1,500 to $1,800 a month, as well as some apartments that rent to people in a supportive housing program for the mentally ill affiliated with the Federation Employment and Guidance Service Inc.
Lynn District Court Judge Albert Conlon denied the prosecution's request to hold Lopes on $100,000 cash bail at Tuesday's court hearing, and instead ordered Lopes held on $7,500.
Cr*******78: I bet none the Hollywood assholes are going all out to help people down South because they want maximum body count to embarass Bush. I bet they're all that sick.