AMERICAN CANDIDATE FOR QUAN JUE

Natalie Lynn Webb deserves to be executed by dogs. According to the Daily Mail, this mother from hell charged adults, both men and women, to watch her rape her children while being naked.

NATALIE WEBB ACCUSED OF MOLESTING HER CHILDREN WHILE ADULTS WATCHED
By Sebastian Murdock

The Huffington Post
January 6, 2014

An Oklahoma mother faces serious charges after authorities say she sexually abused her children in the presence of other adults.

Natalie Lynn Webb, 30, was arrested in Elk City, Okla., and charged with sexual abuse of children under 12, and child neglect. Police said she abused three of her children from December 2012 to March 2013.

Webb is due in Beckham County Court Jan. 6 for a preliminary hearing, and is being held on a $2 million bond. Her four children now live with their grandparents.

A Dec. 18 police affidavit, obtained by The Huffington Post, contains accounts of repeated rapes, beatings and deplorable living conditions through interviews with Webb and her children.

Webb's 9-year-old son told investigators that his 8-year-old brother and two 3-year-old sisters were repeatedly raped by their mother as other men and women looked on, according to the document. The boy told police that he saw his sisters resist as their mother dragged them into a room, then he could hear his sisters screaming and crying. Police also wrote that the boy told
them he saw his mother using a foreign object in the abuse and that people may have paid his mother to watch the abuse.

One of Webb's 3-year-old daughters corroborated her brother's interview, telling investigators that it felt "nasty" when she was being molested, according to the affidavit. The 9-year-old said he also saw his brother being abused, but was able to avoid being sexually abused himself by running and hiding in a dumpster. In interviews with police, Webb denied sexually molesting her children.

Webb told authorities that she often took methamphetamine and sold it out of her house; the 9-year-old described seeing needles around the house.

"[The child] said these things would happen lots of times. He thinks when mom took the needles it would make her act different ... she would act weird and... her arm would have little dots where it was bleeding," the affidavit says.

Along with the allegations of sexual abuse, the children told investigators that they were often subjected to beatings and being thrown against a wall over and over again.

"[The 9-year-old] said his mom would not feed them and he would have to find stuff and cook it in the microwave or pop tarts and stuff," the affidavit reads. "If there was nothing [the children] would just scavenge the floor. On the floor they would find crumbs or cookies that were there from a week ago."

Webb admitted to authorities that she sometimes traded her food stamps for meth. During past interviews included in the affidavit, she demanded to take a polygraph test to prove that she had not sexually molested her children. In late November, Webb told officer Steve Bonds, of the Beckham County Sheriff's Office, that she did not want to talk with the polygraph examiner after the examiner told her she failed the test.

"Somebody hurt 'em," Webb said to Bonds. "I'm supposed to protect my kids."

"Natalie, you didn't," Bonds replied.

According to the affidavit, Webb has past felony convictions for child endangerment and possession of a controlled substance, along with misdemeanor convictions of unlawful possession of paraphernalia, bogus checks and unauthorized use of a credit card.

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ISRAEL’S FOREIGN MINISTER BELIEVES KERRY’S PEACE PROPOSALS BETTER THAN WHAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL DEMAND

The Israelis are really between a rock and a hard place. The international community is ready to pounce on Israel if it refuses to make suicidal concessions to the Palestinians. If Israel’s hardline foreign minister thinks Kerry is offering the best deal the Jewish state will be able to get, that is really saying something.

KERRY’S OFFER THE BEST WE’LL GET, SAYS ISRAELI FM
By Ryan Jones

Israel Today
January 6, 2014

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday suggested Israel get fully on board with US Secretary of State John Kerry’s current peace push, noting that the American’s proposals were the best Israel could expect from the international community.

Speaking at a gathering of Israeli ambassadors in Jerusalem, Lieberman said he appreciated Kerry’s serious approach to the question of Israeli security, as well as his support for Israel’s demand to be recognized as a Jewish state. Kerry’s most recent framework proposal allowed for Israel to maintain a military presence in the Jordan Valley for the foreseeable future, while trading the rest of the so-called “West Bank” for explicit recognition by the Palestinian Authority for “the Jewish state.”

“Any alternative proposals brought forward by the international community will suit us much less,” said the typically-hawkish foreign minister, who just months earlier insisted there was no hope of peace with the current Palestinian leadership.

That might still be the case, actually. Kerry’s proposals have been rejected out of hand by the Palestinian leadership and by the Arab League, though the American reported on Monday that he had obtained the backing of both Saudi Arabia and Jordan for a more vague proposal aimed at getting Israel and the Palestinians to reach a kind of interim agreement in the near future.

In the interim, Lieberman is keen to make his own amendments to any US-brokered deal. In particular, Lieberman insists there must be a small land and population swap included in the agreement. Under his vision, Israel would retain the large Jewish “settlement blocs” in Judea and Samaria, while the Palestinian Authority would gain sovereignty over the so-called “Triangle,” an area in the Lower Galilee populated primarily by Arabs.

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OOPS! PALESTINIAN ENVOY ACCIDENTALLY KILLS SELF, ILLEGAL ARSENAL UNCOVERED

The Palestinian embassy in the Czech Republic needs an arsenal to defend itself from ??? The real reason for having all those weapons is that old habits die hard with terrorists.

12 WEAPONS FOUND IN PALESTINIAN ENVOY’S MISSION: PRAGUE POLICE

AFP
January 5, 2013

Investigators have found 12 weapons inside the Palestinian mission in Prague where a New Year's day explosion fatally wounded its envoy, police said Sunday.

At the same time Prague police chief Martin Cervicek denied media speculation that an arsenal of more than 70 weapons had been kept at the embassy, but would not give details.

"I firmly protest against false information that police officers found about 70 weapons. This doesn't make sense," the website of Prague daily Dnes quoted him as saying.

Cervicek said the weapons including submachine guns and pistols would undergo DNA and ballistic tests, but that no further information would be made public before that has happened.

Jamal al-Jamal, the 56-year-old ambassador to the Czech Republic since October, died on January 1. Police later ruled out an assassination, instead advancing the theory that the blast was caused by an anti-theft device inside a safe Jamal was manipulating.

They also said unregistered weapons were found inside the mission in violation of diplomatic treaties.

The Czech police are pursuing their investigation into the blast with Palestinian officials sent to Prague.

Jamal will be repatriated on Monday, his daughter Rana, who lives in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, said.

She has cast doubt on the police theory of the cause of her father's death telling Dnes on Saturday, "What is certain is that it was not an accident".

Palestinian officials have given contradictory accounts of the explosion.

Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki has described the death as an "accident" caused by an old safe booby-trapped to explode if opened the wrong way. But a spokesman for the Palestinian embassy said the safe in question was new, often used, and contained "no built-in anti-theft system".

The ambassador's daughter said she was convinced the explosives were put inside the safe when the diplomatic mission was recently moved from a different address in the Czech capital.

"A political or other motive" could be behind her father's death, she said, without elaborating.

"I don't know and I won't mention anyone."

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GET OUT YOUR BARF BAGS

'Miraculous' San Quentin program rehabilitates cold blooded juvenile murderers

Bob Walsh says: This article its readers how wonderful, socially useful, and rehabilitated juvenile murderers are. This is clearly a warm-up to the new law which makes juvenile lifers eligible for a possible do-over on their sentencing. The Kid CAT group of juvenile murderers is “creating awareness together.” The principle pimp of this group is a criminal named Michael Nelson who, when he was 15, beat a man in the back of the head with a baseball bat so his accomplice could more easily slit his throat. A couple of Hollywood bleeding heart liberals really like the program, so it MUST be good, right? So, if you feel really into the concept of wholesale redemption of homicidal juvenile sociopaths enjoy the read. Just make sure you have your barf bag handy.

Let me add that it is obvious the participants in the Kid CAT program are con-wise and are playing their adoring supporters like a fiddle.

TEEN KILLERS -- SENTENCED FOR UP TO LIFE TERMS IN SAN QUENTIN PRISON – SPEAK OUT
By Aaron Kinney

Marin Independent Journal
January 4, 2014

MICHAEL NELSON doesn't look like a killer.

He is handsome and well-groomed. His voice is gentle, his demeanor polite. You wouldn't flinch if he approached you on a dark and empty sidewalk.

But when he was 15, Nelson sneaked up behind a middle-aged man and cracked his skull with a baseball bat. Then he watched a friend finish off the victim with a knife. Charged as an adult, Nelson pleaded guilty in 1998 to first-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years to life.

Fifteen years later, it's hard to reconcile such gruesome violence with the articulate 31-year-old man holding a discussion in a classroom at San Quentin State Prison, where Nelson leads a notable group of 16 inmates. The men are all "juvenile lifers," serving up to life in prison with the possibility of parole for murders committed while under the age of 18.

The group calls itself Kid CAT. "Kid" refers to the age when the men committed their crimes. "CAT" stands for "creating awareness together."

Even at a prison known for its rehabilitative programs, the men have drawn acclaim for their focus on self-improvement through education and counseling. Scott Budnick, a Hollywood producer and advocate for juvenile justice reform, is one of many people, from educators to politicians, who have met and lauded the group.

"To me they are proof in the flesh of why we should never throw our kids away," said Budnick, who visited Kid CAT in 2012.

The ostensible transformation of these men evokes two of the thorniest questions in the field of criminal justice: Do young criminals have a unique capacity for rehabilitation? And to what extent should society treat them differently from adults who commit similar crimes?

An influential body of psychological and neurological research suggests adolescents are less culpable than grown-ups. Teenagers are generally rash and suggestible, the thinking goes, and fail to anticipate consequences — once their brains fully develop, young people tend to mature out of violent or impulsive thoughts and behavior.

For that reason, reformers claim, teenage offenders who work to improve themselves in prison should receive ample opportunities to show they're worthy of re-entering society.

The argument is taking hold in California, where the punishment for 14- to 17-year-old killers ranges from life without parole in state prison to less than a decade in a juvenile facility. Gov. Jerry Brown has signed two laws since 2012 creating mechanisms for many adolescents sentenced to life with or without parole to reduce their terms.

But some Californians find these changes repellent. Christine Ward, leader of the nonprofit Crime Victims Action Alliance, which lobbied against both bills, asserts "the consequences of murder need to be severe," no matter the killer's age. She questions how many young offenders are truly rehabilitated and how many act the part to gain parole.

Phyllis Loya, 65, knows the devastation of losing a family member to violent crime. Her son, Pittsburg police Officer Larry Lasater, was shot and killed by an 18-year-old fleeing an armed robbery. His accomplice was 17.

"You can't excuse these terrible crimes by saying they're just kids," said Loya, of Bay Point. "My grandson has to live his life without a father to guide him, with only knowing his father through pictures and stories of others."

Atonement

Nelson and 10 other juvenile lifers founded Kid CAT in 2011 to support one another and perform acts of service inside and outside the notorious Marin County prison. The inmates run the program with the help of citizen volunteers and two San Quentin officials.

Most of the homicides committed by these young men were not as ghastly as Nelson's. Several of them pulled the trigger in gang-related shootings. One handed a gun to a friend, who shot a 16-year-old boy in the neck during a botched robbery.

The men say they take responsibility for their crimes, and admit they deserved to be punished. Now they are trying to give back, in ways small and large, to the society they so viciously harmed.

Their projects include a hygiene drive Nelson is planning for homeless children. The men aim to assemble backpacks filled with donated toiletries for distribution in San Francisco.

Most significantly, Kid CAT designed a 24-week curriculum that its members are teaching to more than 80 fellow inmates. The course encourages participants to delve into the origins of their criminal behavior. Kid CAT hopes one day to offer the course to Bay Area at-risk youths to shepherd them away from prison.

This and other projects may help demonstrate the men of Kid CAT's suitability for release — one of them, Inglewood native Gary Scott, left prison on parole in June — but the parole board isn't their only audience. Michael Tyler, just 17 when he fired eight bullets into the chest of a man who used drugs with his mother, said he yearns to demonstrate to the world that he isn't a cancer, but a person with something to contribute.

"I want to show I'm somebody that's redeemable," said Tyler, 34, "that wants to be considered human again."

A brutal crime

Michael Nelson tells his story. Kid CAT has gathered for a weekly meeting in a classroom off San Quentin's recreation yard, where shirtless inmates play basketball and lounge on picnic tables.

He grew up east of Los Angeles in Riverside. His father was in and out of prison, Nelson says, and his mother beat him routinely — more than once he awoke to the pain of her striking him.

When Nelson was 12, his mom started locking him out of the house at night. For several months, he says, he slept in the garage — surrounded by cages holding rats, tarantulas and a boa constrictor.

By 15, he was out of school and using crystal meth daily. Homeless, aimless, he was drawn into a bizarre murder scheme. Nelson's two friends, a 16-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, wanted a car so they could run away to Las Vegas. The group decided to kill a local man for his Cadillac.

Nelson, his girlfriend and the two other teens talked their way into the man's home. As his victim played a video game, Nelson smashed him three times in the head with an aluminum bat. The other boy took over, stabbing the man in the neck and throttling him with an electrical cord.

Nelson's eyes well up as he considers the pain he felt and inflicted on others, not just the victim and his loved ones, but Nelson's own family. For years he has grappled with the question of why he lashed out so savagely. He'd begun lying and stealing when he reached adolescence. But although he'd witnessed plenty of violence, he claims he had never committed any until that day in January 1998.

"The only way I can connect with what I did is that I had no value for human life," Nelson says. "I wasn't capable of valuing the lives of other people. I didn't value my own."

San Quentin's counseling programs, particularly the nonprofit Insight Prison Project's intense Victim Offender Education Group, have helped him understand the consequences of his crime. Now Kid CAT offers a modest chance for atonement.

"I don't think 'I'm sorry' is enough, and I don't think my actions will ever be enough," Nelson says. "But it's all that I have to give."

An evolving debate

The United States has long been one of the harshest countries in the world when it comes to punishing juvenile murderers, according to human rights groups, but the pendulum is now swinging in the other direction.

Since 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court has incorporated the notion of adolescents' reduced culpability into four major rulings, including Roper v. Simmons, which outlawed the death penalty for those who commit crimes under the age of 18.

Those decisions are reverberating throughout the country, including California, which has more juvenile offenders serving life without parole — 286 — than all but a handful of states. California has been tough on adolescent crime in other ways: In 2000 voters passed Proposition 21, which made it easier for youths to be tried in adult court.

In August 2012, however, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill giving most teenage offenders serving life without parole a chance to have their sentences reduced to 25 years to life. This September he signed SB 260, which provides some juveniles lifers an earlier shot at release and requires the parole board to give "great weight to the diminished culpability" of adolescent offenders.

Elizabeth Calvin, an advocate for Human Rights Watch, which sponsored both bills, acknowledges violent crime must be punished, but she argues the criminal justice system should reflect young people's ability to change.

"There's no question that murder is a horrible crime with a ripple effect of pain and suffering for everybody involved," said Calvin, who sought Kid CAT's input in crafting SB 260. "A lot of people think if you take a life, you lose your life. I just think, particularly when we're talking about young people, the analysis has to be deeper and more complex."

The California Board of Parole Hearings determines which lifers, having served their minimum term behind bars, are safe to be released from prison. Some members of Kid CAT will get earlier parole hearings under SB 260. Nelson will not; he has 10 years to wait before he is eligible. But he will likely have a better chance of earning parole.

For both juvenile and adult lifers the prospect of leaving prison alive is much less daunting today than it was a decade ago. Legal challenges have forced the board to loosen its grasp — 14 percent of lifer hearings resulted in a parole grant in 2012, up from 3 percent in 2002. Meanwhile, Gov. Brown has used his authority to overturn the board's approvals far less than his two predecessors — in just 19 percent of cases last year.

Still, freedom is far from certain for inmates serving life with parole, including the state's nearly 2,500 juvenile lifers. Most inmates serving Nelson's sentence of 25 to life never get out, says California corrections spokesman Bill Sessa.

That's OK with former Riverside County prosecutor Brian Sussman, who worked on Michael Nelson's case. Sussman says he believes in rehabilitation, but he puts more stock in consequences.

"You could be remorseful, you could be rehabilitated, but you put someone in the ground, and they're never coming back," he said. "Why do you get to make a comeback?"

Roots of violence

When Nelson finishes speaking at the Kid CAT meeting, Michelle Rochelle, a San Quentin secretary who helps the group, hands him a box of tissues. He wipes away his tears.

"Tissue means that it's not OK to cry," he teases.

Masculinity is a key topic in the group's curriculum — how children absorb twisted lessons about manhood. Like many inmates, the members of Kid CAT learned men are supposed to be tough and hard.

Vinh Nguyen, serving 29 to life for a fatal shooting in San Jose, grew up hearing that men in his culture should never show vulnerability.

"We shed blood before we shed tears," said Nguyen, 35, reciting an adage his Vietnamese elders ingrained in him.

Journal writing has helped Nguyen learn to express his feelings. He and the other men of Kid CAT are, to varying degrees, willing to expose themselves emotionally in a way that defies prison stereotypes.

At a June luncheon marking the completion of the group's curriculum, a Marin County filmmaker screened a trailer for an upcoming Kid CAT documentary. A crowd including inmates and prison officials watched the clips, in which several men of Kid CAT cried while recounting their crimes. Heidi Rummel, a University of Southern California law professor, said she was "blown away" by the experience.

"I heard men speaking very frankly and emotionally about their crimes, expressing remorse," said Rummel, a former prosecutor who now runs a program to assist lifers with parole hearings. "You don't see that at men's prisons in front of other men."

Kid CAT's chief sponsor is Lt. Sam Robinson, San Quentin's public information officer. Before assuming that post Robinson spent several years as sergeant in charge of the Adjustment Center, which houses the prisons's most dangerous, hardened inmates. The veteran corrections officer claims the men of Kid CAT are different.

"What they did was monstrous," Robinson said. "But they are not monsters."

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DESPERATE FOR WATER

The Unconventional Gazette
January 6, 2014

A Palestinian terrorist fleeing from Israeli border police was plodding through the Negev desert desperate for water when he saw something far off in the distance.

Hoping to find water, he hurried toward the mirage, only to find a very frail little old Jewish man standing at a small makeshift display rack selling neckties.

The Palestinian terrorist asked, "Do you have water?"

The Jewish man replied, "I have no water. Would you like to buy a tie? They are only 20 Shekels."

The Palestinian shouted hysterically, "Idiot pig of a Jew! I do not need any of your over-priced neckties - I spit on your ties. I need water!”

"Sorry, I have none - just ties - pure silk - and only 20 Shekels."

"Pahh! A curse on your ties! I should wrap one around your scrawny little Jew neck and choke the life out of you, but I must conserve my energy and find water!"

"Okay," said the little old Jewish man, “It does not matter that you do not want to buy a tie from me, or that you hate me, threaten my life, and call me an idiot pig of a Jew. I will show you that I am bigger than any of that. If you continue over that hill to the east for about two miles, you will find a restaurant. It has the finest food and all the ice-cold water you need. Go in peace."

Cursing him again, the desperate terrorist staggered away over the hill.

Several hours later the Palestinian terrorist crawled back all but dead and gasped, "They won't let me in without a tie!”

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HONOR BEFORE PROFITS

Kudos to Desert Tech for giving up a tidy sum of money to make sure that its high-powered precision rifles would not someday be used against American troops. It’s not often that you see a business putting honor before profits.

UTAH GUNMAKER TURNS DOWN $15M DEAL WITH PAKISTAN

Associated Press
January 5, 2014

A Utah-based gun manufacturer has turned down a $15 million deal to supply Pakistan with precision rifles, citing concerns they could eventually be used against U.S. troops.

Mike Davis, sales manager at Desert Tech, said the company was on a short list for a contract with Pakistan, but spurned the opportunity because of unrest in Pakistan and ethical concerns.

It was a difficult decision because of the amount of money involved, he said, and the sale of rifles to Pakistan would have been legal.

"We don't know that those guns would've went somewhere bad, but with the unrest we just ended up not feeling right about it," Davis told KTVX-TV.

The company, based in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley City, was founded in 2007 on the principle of keeping America and its allies safe, he added.

"As a business owner you always want to be successful, but I think ethically and morally you want to go about it the right way and stick behind your founding principles," Davis told KSL.

Weapons sales to allies such as Pakistan are nothing new but they can be complicated, especially in a country with an al-Qaida presence. The U.S. often targets al-Qaida, Taliban and their Pakistani supporters in the country's tribal regions.

"I've got to admire Desert Tech for potentially turning down what could have been a very lucrative contract in the interest of protecting American service members," said Col. Steven R. Watt of the Utah National Guard.

The rifles can change caliber within minutes and have the capacity to shoot as far as 3,000 yards.

Desert Tech, formerly known as Desert Tactical Arms, has had military contracts with other countries but declined to reveal specifics.

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SIX ARMED ATTACKERS DISGUISED AS COPS STORM MEXICAN PRISON

Five of the attackers were killed after they killed four inmates at Tuxpan Prison

Our penal system is constantly criticized by human rights organizations, but compared to Mexico and third-world countries, America’s prisons are more like luxury hotels.

NINE DEAD IN ATTACK ON TUXPAN PRISON IN GUERRERO STATE

Borderland Beat
January 4, 2013

The Attorney General of the State (PGJE) confirmed that an armed group early Friday attacked the Center for Rehabilitation of Tuxpan in Guerrero State, and 9 people, 4 inmates and 5 of the attackers, were killed. The attack occurred in the city of Iguala, about halfway between Mexico City and the Pacific Coast resorts of Acapulco.

Unofficial sources said the six armed attackers approached the prison disguised as Ministerial Police and told a guard at the gate that they were bringing in a prisoner after midnight. Once inside the prison, they went immediately to the area where the prisoners slept and opened fire on the sleeping inmates.

Four inmates were killed in the gunfire. The armed command then kidnapped a guard and held him hostage as they ran for the gate. They opened fire on the guard tower and gunfire was exchanged with the tower and other guards. Five of the attackers were killed in the shootout, while another attacker and a guard were injured.

The motive for the assault on the prison was unknown. Yahoo news reported that one of the dead inmates was a convicted cocaine dealer, another was a kidnapper and the two others were imprisoned for carrying illegal weapons.

In a statement Friday, the state prosecutors stated they had not ruled out the possibility of involvement by prison officials “by omission or participation”. Mexican prison authorities have a long history of colluding with criminals. Members of the country’s powerful drug cartels, meanwhile, have a long tradition of masquerading as law enforcement officials while doing some of their bloodiest business.

The attack came less than 2 months after the Mexican human rights commission issued a report on the deplorable conditions of the country’s penal system, noting that 65 of the 101 most crowded prisons were effectively under inmate control. That report emphasized that in 2012, in Mexican prisons, 261 inmates escaped and 174 were killed in riots, fights, and other acts of violence.

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