90 Miles From Tyranny

Friday, December 16, 2016

Mexican immigrant married American woman so he could get a Green Card then 'murdered her with the help of his real wife'

Francisco Valdivia and Rosalina Lopez are accused of murdering Cecelia Bravo
Bravo has been missing since June, but her body has not been found
Authorities claim Valdivia married Bravo so he could get legal permission to stay in the US
The motive is believed to be connected to the relationship between the three

A bigamist accused of killing his second wife with the help of his first has been charged with murder months after the victim disappeared.

The body of Cecelia Bravo Cabrera has yet to be found, but investigators say they have evidence implicating Mexican couple Francisco Valdivia, 37, and Rosalina Lopez, 39.

Authorities claim Valdivia, of Visalia in central California, married Cabrera so he could get legal permission to remain in the US.

Valdivia and Lopez, who married in Mexico in 2007, were arrested on Tuesday. Cabrera has been missing since June 9, when she was seen leaving a casino with Valdivia. He had just finished a 90-day sentence for cultivating marijuana when he was arrested.

Police discovered a number of sites where Valdivia was growing marijuana while investigating his wife's disappearance.

The motive is unclear, but is said to be connected to the relationship between the two suspects, who arrived in the US illegally, and their victim.

Mother-of-four Cabrera, who was very active on social media until her disappearance, knew her marriage to Valdivia was a sham, but investigators believe he and Lopez threatened her if she ended the...

Former Used, Abused And Discarded Disney IT Workers Claim Discrimination In Lawsuit

ORLANDO (CBSMiami/AP) — A group of information technology workers laid off by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts claims they were victims of discrimination.

The say they were forced to train their replacements from India before they were fired.

On Monday, the 30 former IT workers filed a suit against the companyin an Orlando federal court. They’re seeking punitive damages.

The lawsuit contends that 250 IT workers in Florida were told they would need to train their replacements before they were fired at the end of 2014. Each replacement worker was of Indian origin, and was either brought from overseas or working outside the United States, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit also alleges violations of the Older Worker Benefit Protection Act, which protects workers from age discrimination.

Disney managers were “being curt and unprofessional toward plaintiffs but treating the foreign replacements with special treatment,” the lawsuit said. “Plaintiffs were subjected to disparate treatment by defendant solely based on...

The street outside the empty embassy in Belgrave Square, London, was closed off as it filled with protestors and Islamic leaders chanting loudly and calling for America to be punished over Aleppo.

The demonstration became an alternative to an official rally calling for an end to the bloodshed in Syria outside Downing Street.

During the speeches which lasted almost an hour the crowd chanted Allahu Akbar 'God is the greatest' and cheered for those calling for a global caliphate.

A poet invited to talk shouted: "We need a Caliph who will clean up these streets. Who will smack up armies and who will back beef [fighting].

"Backhand your missiles back to your land, that’s the plan.

"World domination at hand. We can expand and take out these fools."

The crowd largely segregated into men and women with many of the women wearing Islamic clothing. According to website Breitbart one protester appeared to be waving a Taliban flag, while others were handed placards made by Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, which calls for the reestablishment of a caliphate.

It is unclear who...

Enrique Zamarripa, the grieving father of Dallas police Officer Patrick Zamarripa who was killed in the attack on Dallas police this past summer, has filed a 43-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Texas.

Zamarripa blames Black Lives Matter for the deadly ambush on his son, and is suing to prove his case. In addition to the now notorious protest group, Zamarripa has named several other individuals and organizations.

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The case is going to be easy. While Black Limes Matter may be a relatively young organization, the Nation of Islam, Reverend Al Sharpton, the New Black Panthers Party and activist DeRay McKesson all have experience with litigation.

Zamarripa is undeterred. He’s seeking $550 million in damages.

CIA refuses to hand over so-called proof of Russian hacking to help Trump

The absolutely incredible claim from the Central Intelligence Agency that Russian hackers somehow put Donald Trump over the top in the election is falling apart.

Both the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which oversees all the U.S. intelligence agencies, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reject the CIA’s analysis.

And now Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) just said on Fox News Channel a few minutes ago that the Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to hand over whatever evidence it may have about Russian wrongdoing.

“It’s almost as if people in the intelligence community are carrying out a disinformation campaign against the president-elect of the United States. It’s absolutely disgraceful.”

King, by the way, is a member of the Homeland Security Committee and chairman of the Sub-Committee on (Counterterrorism and Intelligence). He also serves on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Could it be the CIA — which employs more than a few Trump haters — doesn’t actually have any evidence? If they have proof they should...

Somali Refugees in the U.S. - Terrorists have families too.

A lot has been said about the terrorist attack perpetrated by a Somali refugee in Ohio last Month. President-elect Trump visited Ohio State University last week, telling crowds afterwards at a rally in Des Moines that the attack was "a tragic reminder" of the need to take a hard line on immigration. I have a couple of things to add on the subject (including an overview of the Somali refugee community in the U.S at the end of this blog post). But first, a brief recount of what we know.

On November 28, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 20-year-old (or maybe 18; it's unclear) Somali national, drove his car into a group of students at Ohio State University then started stabbing people before he was shot by a police officer.

Artan was born in Somalia, he moved to Islamabad, Pakistan, with his family in 2007. In 2014, he, his mother and six siblings were admitted to the United States as refugees. In 2015, he became a permanent resident of the U.S. (green card holder). Some say his father works and lives in Dubai, others claim he never left Somalia. What is certain is that his father did not come to the United States.

Abdul Razak Ali Artan was enrolled at Columbus State Community for two years then started at Ohio State University in August 2016. In an interview for an Ohio State campus publication, he complained about American misconceptions about Islam and explained how his biggest struggle on his first day on campus was finding a place to pray. He missed Columbus State, where prayer rooms were available, adding: "we Muslims have to pray five times a day". He also spoke about how much he enjoyed life in Pakistan, and denounced Western misconceptions about this country.

First, and as my colleague Dan Cadman asked, why did we accept the Somali refugee and his family "rather than leaving them in Pakistan"?

By United Nations standards, resettlement to a third country is to be considered only "in situations where it is impossible for a person to go back home or remain in the host country." (Emphasis added.) Moreover, refugees in need of resettlement are the ones who are the most vulnerable, such as victims of torture or...