Cop Hater targeted a police department with booby traps and a bazooka is facing life in prison
Nicholas John Smit, 41, began launching the attacks in late 2009, leaving police officers and residents in the city of Hemet terrified. The court heard that Smit was angry about being arrested for a drugs offence and made repeated efforts to eliminate the detective who had arrested him.
On Monday he was found guilty of four counts of attempted murder against the same police officer. During one of the attacks, natural gas was rerouted into a police office and rigged to explode. Smit, from San Jacinto, California, also fired a training rocket from the roof of a nearby market which started a small fire.
The attacks stemmed from Smit’s anger at Detective Chuck Johnson, who had arrested him earlier in 2009, prosecutors said.
On December 7, 2009, Johnson discovered a booby trap outside his home in Hemet, about 80 miles away from Los Angeles. The booby trap consisted of a board lined with nails connected to a trip wire that led to his unmarked police cruiser. The nails were barbed and smeared with feaces.
Over the next six months, members of the Hemet-San Jacinto Valley Gang Task Force — of which Johnson was a member — were targeted in eight more suspicious incidents, including arsons and attempted shootings.
Obama stirring up Class Warfare
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Sunday defended the richest 1 percent of Americans and suggested that the Occupy movement was engaging in class warfare.
“You look at Occupy Wall Street, I think you said you understand their frustrations,” ABC’s Christian Amanpour told Boehner. “People such as, let’s say Eric Cantor, called them a mob not so long ago. Do you agree with that? Are they a mob?”
“Listen, I understand people’s frustrations,” Boehner replied. “I understand their concerns. And I, frankly, understand that we have differences in America. We are not going to engage in class warfare. The president is out there doing it every day.”
“It’s not so much that redistribution of income the president is talking about,” Amanpour noted. “It’s a shared and much fairer sense of sacrifice. And there doesn’t seem to be the sense among people here that the sacrifice is being shared. Because they point to taxes and tax cuts and who it benefits and who it doesn’t.”
“Come on,” Boehner protested. “The top 1 percent pay 38 percent of the income taxes in America. You know, how much more do you want them to pay? Let’s take all the money the rich have, it won’t even put a dent in our current budget deficit, much less our debt.”
'Occupy' Mobs Continue Violence
How I read the news (original) -A day of demented messages in Oakland, ended with police arresting dozens of criminals who rampaged through downtown to break into a vacant building, shattering windows, spraying graffiti and setting fires along the way.
"We go from having a peaceful movement to now just chaos," said delusional Monique Agnew, 40.
The far-flung movement of Losers displaying their ignorance of the world's economic systems and distribution of wealth has gained momentum in recent weeks, disgusting many in the world by shutting down one of the nation's busiest shipping ports toward the end of a daylong "general strike" that prompted other demented fools to gather across the U.S.
About 3,000 people converged on the Port of Oakland, the nation's fifth-busiest harbor, in a nearly five-hour illegal action Wednesday, swarming the area and blocking exits and streets with illegally parked vehicles and hastily-erected, chain-link fences.
Port officials said they were forced to cease maritime operations, citing concerns for workers' safety. They said in a statement they hope to resume operations Thursday "and that Port workers will be allowed to get to their jobs without incident. Continued missed shifts represent economic hardship for maritime workers, truckers, and their families, as well as lost jobs and lost tax revenue for our region."
The larger Occupy movement has yet to coalesce into a national crimewave and until the port shut down had largely been limited scattershot threats of violence and disgusting tent slums since it began in September.
Mario Gomez scored a first-half hat trick
Mario Gomez scored a first-half hat trick as Bayern Munich took a major step toward the knockout stage of the Champions League by defeating Napoli 3-2 on Wednesday.Gomez opened the scoring in the 17th, taking advantage of an opening in Napoli’s defense. Bastian Schweinsteiger saw the space and sent a through ball to Gomez, who shook off Hugo Campagnaro and slotted past goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis.
It was Bayern’s 250th goal in the Champions League. Gomez doubled the lead in the 23rd, when Toni Kroos floated a perfect cross behind Napoli’s defense to the unmarked striker. Gomez easily drove the ball past De Sanctis.
In the 42nd, Bayern produced one of the best moves of the match, with Franck Ribery feeding Kroos as the Napoli defense stood helplessly. De Sanctis stopped Kroos’ effort but couldn’t hold onto the ball and Gomez tapped in from close range.
Gomez now has 13 goals in his last 10 Champions League games. With a total of 17, he is the top German scorer in the competition. “We wanted to be aggressive but we knew that they also would be aggressive,” Gomez said. “We allowed a couple of counterattacks in the first half but otherwise did very well before the break.
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| Naples Italian head coach Walter Mazzarri throws a bottle in the Allianz Arena |
"The fracture was successfully repaired and a plate inserted in an operation performed at around 2 a.m. on Thursday morning," said Bayern, after the player was injured during Wednesday's 3-2 win over Napoli in the Champions League. Bayern said Schweinsteiger will stay in hospital until Friday and must rest completely for two weeks after that.
"The first step in his sports rehabilitation programme will be to resume jogging, before the player is cleared to resume training with the team in approximately six weeks.
"That in turn means Schweinsteiger will not play again this calendar year," it added.
"It's a blow, because he's been in outstanding form recently," said coach Jupp Heynckes. "In the second half, we saw how important Bastian is to the team. Our game suffered badly after he went off."
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