Author: kingsjester

64 year old Christian Conservative husband, father, and grandfather who has been writing since April 2010.

Brainwashed or Stupid? Protesters Battle ICE at Chicago ICE Facility

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Here are my thoughts for this Saturday morning.

Yesterday, masked protesters got violent with ICE agents outside of an ICE Facility in the Broadview area of Chicago.

Needless to say, the ICE agents took care of these misguided individuals and taught them that rubber bullets and trained federal agents can actually cause you pain if the situation demands it.

These protesters believe everything that the Far Left influencers on TikTok and the organizers who actually pay some of them to do stuff like this tells them.

They believe that ICE is actually grabbing illegals who aren’t violent and deporting them.

They actually are grabbing those who are dangerous to our country and getting them out of here. And, in the view of most Americans, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, and it is long overdue.

I read a shocking news story yesterday that ICE apprehended the Superintendent of the Des Moines Iowa Public School System.

He was actually an illegal alien who came into the country on a Visa in 1999 to study at St John’s University, dropped out, and got under the radar as his Visa expired in 2004.

How he got to be the Superintendent of a public school system needs to be investigated as well because somebody has a screw loose or is rotten to the core or both.

The Democrat Elite has ratcheted up the deportation of illegals as some sort of fascist activity when it is the exact opposite.

Remember, these are the same people who are now calling the Christian activist Charlie Kirk a fascist.

In their brainwashed and propagandized minds, they are calling good evil and evil good while Satan and his demons stand beside them laughing uncontrollably.

Until these political minions who, as President Ronald Reagan said about Democrats, know so much that isn’t so, realize that they are puppets in a grand scheme to change America into a mob-ruled totalitarian nation, they will continue to stand against making America better.

They are intentionally harming the future of their children and grandchildren because, as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said and Venezuela and other countries have found out,

“The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

Until He Comes,

KJ

For God and Country: A Day to Remember Charlie Kirk

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Today at State Farm Arena in Glendale, AZ, over 100,000 people, including the President and Vice-President of the United States of America and several dignitaries, will come together to honor and remember the life of Conservative Activist/Evangelist Charlie Clark.

Struck down by an assassin’s bullet in the prime of his life at only 31 years old, Charlie not only leaves behind his beautiful wife Erika and their two precious children, he leaves behind a legacy of honesty, intelligence, patriotism, and faith.

Charlie’s passion was debating young people, answering their questions about politics and faith in an honest and impactful way.

He went straight into the lion’s den, holding events in colleges and universities where Far Left professors were teaching young people that traditional American faith and values were divisive, narrow-minded, and passé.

Charlie invited everyone to ask questions of him and answered their questions clearly, thoughtfully, and fairly.

When a student came up and tried to give him a gotcha question, Charlie smiled and turned the tables on them in a polite manner that they probably had never seen before from their Far Left propagandizing professors.

Charlie amazed people with his knowledge and his debating skills.

Having dropped out of college to pursue his dream of turning around the pervasive ideology that had invaded college campuses, Charlie surprised both students and professors by his expansive knowledge of history and his own Christian faith.

Like Rush Limbaugh before him, Charlie Kirk became an enemy of those who want to change America into something that it was never meant to be, changing our Constitutional Republic into a Democratic Socialist totalitarian government in which individual rights are supplemented to the will of the State.

That is the reason that a propagandized and brainwashed individual, egged on by others unknown to us at this time, shot and killed Charlie on that faithful day, one day before the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in American history.

Since then, those same forces who have attempted to propagandize our young people against America, have been loud and vocal, making up lies against Charlie and posting them on social media in a fervent attempt to destroy his legacy.

They are losing their battle, as millions of Americans will be watching the memorial service today for Charlie Kirk, having sworn to the Lord above and in their own hearts to carry on the fight of Charlie Kirk for God and Country, as they proudly proclaim…

“I AM CHARLIE KIRK!”

Until He Comes,

KJ

Why Did President Trump Call Ilhan Omar “SCUM”? Well…

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Yesterday on social media, President Trump issued the following statement,

“Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence. 70% of the population lives in extreme Poverty, and widespread Food Insecurity.

“Somalia is consistently ranked among the World’s Most Corrupt Countries, including Bribery, Embezzlement, and a Dysfunctional Government. All of this, and Ilhan Omar tells us how to run America! P.S. Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship??? What SCUM we have in our Country, telling us what to do, and how to do it.

“Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

What prompted him to attack Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar?

Well, it was the following words that she spoke after the assassination of conservative activist / evangelist Charlie Kirk, the most impactful public assassination of a well-known American leader since Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

“Omar said in an interview on CNN, “It’s one thing to care about his life because obviously so many people loved him, including his children and wife. But I am not going to sit here and be judged for not wanting to honor any legacy this man has left behind. That should be in the dustbin of history, and we should hopefully move on and forget the hate that he spewed every single day.”

“There are a lot of people who are out there talking about him just wanting to have a civil debate. These people are full of s***, and it’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness.”

“When we say we want a country that’s united, it starts with all of us and all of our actions and we’re not seeing that on the other side of the aisle right now,”

“There are a lot of people who are out there talking about him just wanting to have a civil debate. These people are full of s***, and it’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness.”(Courtesy Newsweek.com)

Charlie Kirk was very involved in the re-election of President Trump. He was very close to the whole Trump family for 10 years. In fact, Don Jr. told his Dad that he could see that his Dad felt like Charlie was another son.

I don’t blame President Trump for attacking her.

Omar is everything that the president said she was and more. Like the rest of the “Squad”, she hates America and average Americans.

She hates us because her political ideology disguised as a faith tells her so.

Omar did indeed marry her cousin so that he could come to this country and there’s nothing she won’t do or say to maintain her political power.

She has no idea how many people that Charlie Kirk led to Jesus christ, nor does she care.

She has no idea how many college kids that Charlie Kirk convinced that they can and should think for themselves and make the right choices in life.

Self-absorbed politicians like her and AOC know that a man like Charlie Kirk, who had that much influence over America’s young people, stands in the way of their propagandizing and brainwashing them to follow them in the cause of Democratic Socialism which, if accepted by the majority of Americans, (which I don’t believe it ever will be) will lead to a totalitarian government ruling our individual lives from cradle to grave.

All the false claims being made by the Democrats who are now sounding off in the aftermath of this tragic assassination are a deflection of their own racial animus and downright hatred of the American way of life.

This hatred that we are seeing from them is not only political. It is demonic.

They have no sense of decorum and their lust for political power and absolute control.

All Charlie Kirk wanted was to be able to debate cultural issues in a civil manner and to show the folly of those who’ve been led down a dark path individual please well introducing college kids to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Omar and all of her fellow travelers are calling good evil and evil good. The majority of Americans are not fooled by them.

Charlie Kirk’s good works will continue thanks to the resolve of his beautiful wife and those who believe in his cause.

Thank God.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Sunday Morning Thoughts- What Happened to My Memphis?

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I have some thoughts this morning about the National Guard coming to my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

I’m 66 years old.

I have seen a lot of turbulence and trouble in the Bluff City over those years.

I can remember being 9 years old watching the Lone Ranger on my parents’ blonde wood black and white console TV, wondering if the rollie pollies that I’d put in a pill bottle on the top of it were going to survive, when all of the sudden a Civil Defense sign came up and a voice told all National Guard members to come to the Armory immediately.

My mother was already at home in Midtown Memphis, having returned from work at Sears Crosstown, which was basically down the street, but my dad had to come about 15 miles to make it home.

Those were anxious hours.

As time marched on, I was part of the busing generation beginning in 9th grade as black and white students were bused to schools that they were reticent to attend with a lot of the white students leaving their homeschools to go to private schools that their parents placed them in out of fear.

Back in the day, those of us who were in school at that time learned that we weren’t so different from one another. We all had parents who expected us to behave and to achieve.

Over the years, I have watched Memphis, formerly known as the City of Good Abode, become anything but with violence growing, carjacking, assaults, robbery, and murders happening every night and even in broad daylight.

I left Memphis for DeSoto County Mississippi 25 years ago after the “yutes” on the block set up their basketball goal right at my driveway giving my former wife and I dirty looks as we came in from work, later breaking into our house and robbing us.

Since then, the crime in Memphis has gotten worse and worse with every succeeding city administration as individual criminals and gangs took over the former annual winner of the City Beautiful Competition as crime spread out to the suburbs. Been out

The current mayor even invited the gangs to City Hall for tea or something… probably to receive his payoffs.

President Trump has decided to send in the National Guard this week to try to help get the city back under control from all this chaos.

Good luck.

First, he’s going to have to overcome the corruption in both the county and city administrations and even the school board.

Y’know, Elvis Presley would not recognize the town that he used to ride through on his Harley with his girlfriend on the back.

The rest of us who grew up there don’t either.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Charlie Kirk and Memphis

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It has been a rough week for law-abiding Christian Americans.

A young man who pulled himself up by his bootstraps and went out on a mission to provide diversity of thought and the hope and love of a relationship with Jesus Christ on America’s college campuses in order to stop the brainwashing that he saw happening all around him was killed by an assassin’s bullet, the assassin himself being brought to that point by the violent rhetoric of the modern Democratic Party.

What did the Democrats believe was going to happen when Barack Hussein Obama began to purposely divide Americans by race and thought?

This is all on them.

The violence in our major cities can be directly linked to the dissolution of the family unit and the brainwashing of our children and grandchildren in our educational system to believe that men can be women, right is wrong, it’s cool if you go to a concert where they are praising Satan, and everybody must think the same way and worship the central government.

Speaking of our major cities, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, will soon be hosting the National Guard thanks to President Trump.

Violence and corruption have gotten out of control in the Bluff City, with Memphis climbing to the top of a poll ranking #1 as the city experiencing the most violent crimes in the United States of America.

The Memphis  City Mayor, the City Council, the Shelby County Mayor, and the Shelby County Sheriff all insist that crime is down 25%.

They have also resisted the bringing in of help from the Trump administration, shouting from the depths of City Hall that all they need is more money.

If that was the case, considering all the money that has been given to the former “City of Good Abode,” then Memphis would be Disney World with free lollipops for everybody.

Instead, Memphis citizens stay in their homes at night while politicians and FedEx executives come into town for meetings in bulletproof sedans.

Innocent citizens are being forced off of the interstates and assaulted by thugs with guns shooting into their cars. A young man I watched grow up was going to get his children in the middle of Memphis on Interstate 240 when somebody forced him off the road firing into his car and then shooting him in the shoulder through the car. He will be alright because the car slowed down the bullet.

The local CBS affiliate took a poll yesterday asking if the citizens wanted the National Guard there.

The last time I looked at it, 84% of the citizens of Memphis want the National Guard to come in and help clean up a once beautiful and safe city.

It says a lot that the citizens want the crime cleaned up, but the Democratic politicians, including Congressman Steve Cohen, do not.

It also speaks volumes that the Mayor of Memphis, Paul Young, invited gang leaders up to City Hall for a meeting while refusing help from the Trump Administration.

There is too much crime and violence in America that is the direct result of failed political strategy and the removal of the Faith of Our Fathers from our educational system.

America’s educational system has been purposely changed from an educational tool into a political weapon.

We must Make America Great Again.

Until He Comes,

Kj

9/11 and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

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Today is the 24th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack ever perpetrated on American soil. Approximately 3,000 Americans lost their lives today as Saudi Arabian pilots, believing it to be the will of Allah, flew planes into buildings in New York and Washington DC, killing innocent men, women, and children. There would have been more Americans murdered if Brave Americans had not taken over a fourth plane and flew it into the ground.

As we remember that evil today, we find ourselves surrounded by the evil created here at home.

Political propaganda meant to enrage people to commit acts of violence against those who believe differently than they do has lead to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a young Christian man who traveled from college to college for the purpose of inspiring debate about the important issues of our time and to spread the Word of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ideas and concepts that are true and right, such as the traditional faith and values of our country, have been proclaimed as evil by those who have spread their political propaganda in our schools and throughout the Legacy Media.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated yesterday because he dared to tell college students that they could think for themselves.

He dared to tell them that there was such a thing as right and wrong and that God loves them.

What we are witnessing as Americans are the consequences of allowing people seduced by evil to convince Americans that wrong is right and right is wrong, patriotism is passe, and man is his own God.

Americans, these murders, assassinations, assaults, robberies, and debauchery we are witnessing as a nation are not a result of people with “psychiatric issues.” What we are witnessing is a war between “princes and principalities.””

Just like Charlie kirk, we need to be brave and fearless. We need to speak out for what is right, to share the love of God, and to be proud to be Americans.

We must fight this spiritual warfare with spiritual warfare.

Good will triumph over Evil.

The Bible tells us so.

Until He Comes,

KJ

VP JD Vance Shuts Down Infamous Internet Troll

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By now, you have no doubt heard about the blowing up of a speedboat carrying lethal narcotics to the United States of America in the waters of the Caribbean outside Venezuela by the US Navy in an operation carried out by Marines.

The individuals aboard that speedboat were Narco-terrorists, members of The Notorious Tren De Aragua, the same bunch of animals who have been taking over apartment buildings in America and peddling their misery.

An interesting conversation concerning that attack by our Best and Brightest happened on the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, known as X, formerly known as Twitter.

The conversation happened yesterday between United States Vice President JD Vance and Brian Krassenstein of the infamous social media troll brothers, Eddie and Brian Krassenstein.

Please excuse the profanity,.

However, it is my belief that the vice-president speaks for the majority of average Americans.

So, who are Eddie and Brian Krassenstein?

Per The Daily Beast…

“…The Krassensteins began hawking dubious investment advice—way back in 2003—on a pair of internet forums, selling ads to online money-making operations that included a number of apparent scams, including some run by people later convicted on charges ranging from fraud to capital murder.

According to prosecutors, the services the Krassensteins promoted on their websites duped thousands of “investors” into funding Ponzi scheme-type scams and even resulted in some downloading a virus that emptied their accounts on an anonymous online-payment platform used by the Krassensteins themselves

,,,In late 2016, federal agents showed up at the Fort Myers, Florida, homes of brothers Brian and Edward Krassenstein, seizing computers and financial records, and hauling off with “at least 20 to 30 bundles of stuff.” At the time, the story was just a notable blip on local media’s crime blotter. But in the two years since, the Krassensteins have become more than a pair of local businessmen. They’re now prominent members of the online anti-Trump “resistance.”

On May 23rd, 2019, The Daily Beast reported that

“Twitter has permanently banned prominent anti-Trump brothers Brian and Ed Krassenstein, alleging that two of the biggest stars of #Resistance Twitter had broken the site’s rules about operating fake accounts and purchasing fake interactions with their accounts.

“The Twitter Rules apply to everyone,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. “Operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions are strictly prohibited. Engaging in these behaviors will result in permanent suspension from the service.”

The suspensions are a major loss for the Krassensteins, who had used their massive Twitter followers and ability to quickly respond to tweets from Donald Trump to make themselves internet celebrities. Ed Krassenstein had roughly 925,000 followers before he was banned, while Brian Krassenstein had more than 697,000.

The brothers appeared to be unusually good at getting attention on Twitter. While the Twitter statement doesn’t explain what the Krassensteins allegedly did to illicitly promote their accounts, “fake interactions” could engage buying bots to retweet their posts, or buying fake followers to inflate their profiles on the site.”

Of course, the brothers denied all of this and continue to deny all of this to this very day.

Brian Krassenstein was allowed to return to X in 2022.

The Krassensteins are a prime example of how much corruption there is behind the scenes in social media.

That corruption is found not only on X but on Facebook as well, as wannabe fiction writers post stories about popular sports celebritys or entertainers that never even happened.

These are the same people who, if you met them or saw them on television or heard them on radio or a podcast on a talk program, would think that they only lie when their lips are moving

These disreputable individuals have gravitated to the anonymity of social media as a way to try to convince the gullible that they are telling the truth.

On a positive note, social media also gives those who are unjustly attacked a forum through which to answer back.

I find it reprehensible when I read the posts of those who are supporting the murderous butchers of Tren De Aragua and the crime infestation of our major cities, which is spreading to Suburban and Rural America.

But I digress…

Be careful what you believe on social media.

In a lot of cases, the self-proclaimed pundits who inhabit it have all of the moral integrity of a used car salesman plying their trade on a dirty lot.

I stand with the actions of President Donald J Trump and Vice-President JD Vance.

MAGA

Until He Comes,

KJ

The Difference Between Average Americans and the Democrat Elite

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Like most average Americans who follow the news of the day, I have been watching with mouth wide open and jaw dropped as the Far Left Democrat politicians, whom I have dubbed the Democrat Elite, continue to double down on stupid, championing political strategy and policies aimed at changing America from a Constitutional Republic to a Socialist Paradise.

It got me thinking about some of the obvious differences between the self-proclaimed “Smartest People in the Room” and Americans who actually have to work for a living.

The first difference is probably the most obvious.

The Democrat Elite care more about illegal aliens than they do about average Americans. This is no secret. They view those who have already broken our law as Angelic visitors whose vote will bring them back to the “Promised Land.”

The second difference was revealed to the entire world this week as Health and Human Services Director Robert F Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee.

That difference being, that the self-proclaimed protectors of our children care more about the gigantic pharmaceutical companies than they do about the actual health of our precious ones.

If you watched any of those committee members going after Bobby Kennedy like he was a free filet mignon from one of their pharmaceutical lobbyists, you saw a bunch of greedy politicians who get hundreds of thousands of dollars from these companies determined to keep that money flowing.

The third difference that has come to the attention of average Americans, is how the Democrat Elite have all these wonderful and marvelous ideas for enhancing the lives of those who live on society’s fringe and how they couldn’t give a rat’s rear about Americans living, working, and loving their country.

During the Presidential Administration of the dementia-riddled zombie known as Joe Biden, the Democrat Elite spent our money on plans and programs like transvestite comic books for foreign countries and training centers in cities like Chicago teaching illegals who cannot speak or read English to drive semi trucks,

Another difference is the fact that those who are supposed to be working for us in the Democrat Elite have been working for themselves, enriching themselves through insider trading, real estate deals, and out of control lobbyists.

Average Americans can’t do that. It is all they can do to live paycheck-to-paycheck because of the poor stewardship of the Biden Administration in those behind it.

Things are starting to get better under President Trump. However, it will take a while for him and those working in his administration  to undo all the economic damage.

Finally, the one thing that really sticks out to me as a difference is the fact that the majority of average Americans believe in God and the majority of those who believe in a higher power are Christians who have been raised to believe in traditional American faith and values.

These Democrat Elite believe that THEY are the Higher Power, sitting on a modern Mount Olympus on Capitol Hill, able to foist their beliefs on the American people, even if it is Satan and his demons whispering in their ears.

I could go into a rant about the Hollywood/”Popular Music” Chapter of the Democrat Elite and their wearing of satanic jewelry and their practice of satanic live performances.

However, that would make this opinion piece way too long.

As evidenced in the 2024 presidential election, the Democrat Elite has completely lost touch with average Americans and their wants and needs for those whom they send to Capitol Hill to actually work FOR them instead of AGAINST them in this day-to-day struggle we call life.

Average Americans don’t want Democratic Socialism, AKA Communism. They want the opportunity for self achievement, achieving and living the American Dream.

For that to happen, unnecessary regulations and taxes have to be eliminated and our major cities that are suffering because crime is out of control have to be cleaned up by whatever means necessary, including sending in the National Guard, as President Trump has been doing.

All average Americans ask is to be left alone by big government and allowed to live their lives and raise their children and grandchildren as they see fit.

For that to happen, the Democrat Elites actually have to come down from Mount Olympus and start serving their constituents instead of trying to run their lives.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Sunday Morning Thoughts: It’s Football Time in America!

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As the days grow shorter and cooler, praise the Lord, American males from Little League to the NFL have been hitting the field to practice for the upcoming season.

Now is the time to see what they’ve learned.

Friday night, my wife and I attended a high school football game in DeSoto County, Mississippi.

Our grandson is a member of the band. He plays trumpet. Our family is very proud of him. While that is a big deal in itself, it is a bigger deal for our family and our grandson, especially because he is 80% hearing impaired.

While it may appear that I am digressing from the subject matter, why I brought this up will soon become clear.

Athletic participation while growing up by both genders remains a great way for kids to get used to winning and losing in this game called life.

It also helps them to reach their potential in their journey toward individual achievement.

I’ve always loved both Little League and high school football.

These are kids and teenagers out there working hard for no pay except the Love of the Game and the fun of participating in a sport.

While I did not participate in playing football because of my size of 5’4″ as a 17-yr old asthmatic Senior (I grew after I graduated), I was a gym rat who would climb the ladder of Halle Stadium in Memphis, TN with a camera and reel-to-reel video tape recorder in order to capture the home football games so that the coaches could review what went right and what went wrong in team meetings.

Sitting at that game Friday night and cheering for the team made me realize some things.

Even being inundated with all this technology that I believe can be a distraction for them, given the opportunity, teenagers are still social animals who enjoy the fun of  being with one another,

We were sitting on steel bleachers next to the Pep Squad, a bunch of young girls in matching outfits who would dance to the band and cheer with the cheerleaders while the Dance Team was behind the far end zone leading the raucous student section in cheers.

All these kids, including the ones running around the bleachers visiting with each other and joining in on all the festivities, and their parents, grandparents and friends, were having the time of their lives, cheering on these young boys giving their all for something that they believed in.

These individuals were not playing the game for money. They were playing it for the joy of the sport and to see if they could be the best they could be individually and as a team.

I guess that is why I enjoy these games so much. For the most part, especially in the small towns and suburbs outside of a big city like Memphis, high school football has not become corrupted like college football and the NFL have been.

There are no overpaid underperforming professional football players, nor are there male cheerleaders in tights prancing around like one of the girls in their dance routines.

These are high school students participating in an event that they will hold dear to their hearts for the rest of their lives.

Watching the fun that the girls in the Pep Squad were having as they went through their routines and cheers and listening to their giggles as they were next to my wife and me Friday night, made me realize that there are still young people being raised right in this country and that there were still kids that got out from behind their PlayStations and out of their mom’s basement to have fun with each other.

In other words, there are still kids being raised right and experiencing the joy of friendship, achievement, and growing up in this great country.

We need to celebrate and cherish these kids and the parents who have raised them more.

Their joy and their achievements give us  hope for the future.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Federal Judge Orders New Trial for Ex-MPD Officers Convicted in Tyre Nichols Case

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Just like every major city in the United States of America, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, has had its share of corruption. going back to the days of the notorious Boss Crump.

Within my lifetime, Memphians have borne witness to the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the infamous Ford family of municipal and state politicians whose  corruption carries on to this day.

I’m pretty sure that’s why Harold Ford Jr. got the heck out of Dodge and moved up to the Northeast.

In September 2018, Chamber of Commerce President Phil Trenary was on South Front Street near G.E. Patterson, coming home from running in a race held in Downtown Memphis when someone in a white truck drove up and shot him. The suspects then took off.

He had previously been CEO of Pinnacle Airlines and was a tireless advocate for Memphis.

Two men were later arrested and tried on lesser charges than murder, and given 25 and 35 years respectively, with time served, which knocked off 5 years.

Their story was that they were looking for somebody to rob. In the trial, the Defense argued that one of the men was mentally impaired because of alcohol and cocaine in his mother’s bloodstream.

The question remains to this day: What are the odds that they would choose the President and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce?

What started me thinking about the subject of corruption was the news that came out late this week concerning the former Memphis Police Officers found guilty of the murder of Tyree Nichols.

Per WashingtonExaminer.com,

“A federal judge on Thursday granted three former Memphis Police Department officers  convicted for their roles in the death of Tyre Nichols a new trial due to concerns about judicial bias.

Nichols’s death while in MPD custody in Tennessee sparked nationwide protests and calls for police reform in 2023 due to accusations that he was unfairly targeted and treated by law enforcement during a traffic stop.

The case took a new turn this week when Chief United States District Judge Sheryl Lipman granted Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith a new trial because of concerns that Judge Mark Norris, who oversaw the previous trial in which the three men were convicted last October, was biased against the officers and the MPD.

Norris recused himself from the case days before the officers’ sentencing, leading Lipman to take over proceedings in June.

Lipman said she believed Norris made rulings that were “sound, fair, and grounded firmly in the law.” However, “the appearance of judicial bias against the MPD created “an unconstitutional probability of bias” requiring a new trial, she wrote.

“Justice must not only be done but must manifestly be seen to be done,” she said in the ruling, arguing that the perception of bias could undermine public confidence in the verdict.

The concerns about the appearance of bias against the MPD stem from an incident involving one of Norris’s law clerks who had assisted the judge during the Nichols trial.

After the clerk was attacked in a separate shooting, Norris met with federal prosecutors and an FBI special agent about the incident, and alleged during that encounter that “at least one” of the MPD officers charged in the Nichols case was also involved in targeting his clerk.

During the May 2025 meeting, the judge also said that the MPD was “infiltrated to the top with gang members,” an assistant U.S. attorney present at the meeting said, according to court documents.”

Mark Norris is known as a very honest man and a very fair and smart judge.

Sheryl Lipman is a Chief US District Judge appointed by former President Barack Hussein Obama.

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

If gangs have indeed infiltrated the Memphis Police Department from top to bottom and if the shooting of Judge Norris’s Clerk was done to intimidate the judge to drop the case or to recuse himself as he did, then this case screams for the FBI to look into it.

Given the crime rate in the outrageous number of homicides, carjacking, assaults, and robberies in Memphis, which are now moving like a crippling fog spreading to the suburbs including those across Mississippi State Line, I believe that Memphis needs a Clean Sweep Operation such as was just ordered by President Trump and carried out by the National Guard.

Just like other Democrat-run cities, the Memphis mayor and his administration have gotten in front of the cameras and said they would not cooperate with such an operation.

Perhaps, it’s not just the Memphis Police Department that the gangs have possibly infiltrated.

Just like every law-abiding average American, Memphians deserve to be able to enjoy the city that their tax money pays for without fear.

Until He Comes,

KJ