Dubbed Operation Triple Beam, the goal of the operation was to combat the crime and violence associated with gang activity in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area. The two-week operation represents the commitment of law enforcement to reduce violent crime through multi-agency gang enforcement operations.

More than 40 law enforcement officers from the U.S. Marshals Service, the Tulsa Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and other federal, state, and local agencies combined resources that served as a force-multiplier to bring the most violent gang members to justice and remove deadly guns and drugs from the streets of Tulsa.

“This operation is a great example of multiple law enforcement agencies working together to reduce violent crime,” said Acting Marshal Allbery. “As a result of this initiative, many known violent-gang members were taken off the street, and the proactive nature of this mission was paramount in stopping gang activity before it occurred. The amount of guns, drugs, and other contraband that was seized highlights the operation’s compounded success. The citizens of Tulsa are truly safer as the result of this operation thanks to the officers, deputies, and agents involved.”

This operation employed a systematic and sustained approach to reduce violent gang crime. It illustrates the U.S. Marshals Service’s overarching gang enforcement strategy, which aims to join anti-gang resources from federal, state, and local partners, utilizing each agency’s expertise to remove violent gangs and gang members.

“Anyone who reads the newspaper or watches television news can tell you that there has been a significant absence of gang-related shootings and violence in the past two weeks,” said Police Chief Jordan. “This reduction can be directly attributed to the aggressive efforts of the agents, officers, and deputies involved in Operation Triple Beam. This has been an outstanding example of how coordinated efforts between federal and local law enforcement can have a positive effect on our community. We look forward to participating in similar operations in the future.”

Operation Triple Beam yielded substantial results. Authorities seized 46 firearms, $15,000 in U.S. currency, 167.5 grams of crack cocaine, and 2077.51 grams of marijuana.

The operation also resulted in the following significant arrests:

• Christopher “Quartertop” Price, a Hoover Crip gang member, who was wanted for shooting with intent to kill and on federal charges of marijuana trafficking. He also is a person of interest in several unsolved homicides and shootings over the last several years.
• Miguel “Spider” Lopez, who was wanted for delivery of a controlled drug. Lopez is considered the leader of the South Land Wicked gang, a splinter group of the Sureños gang.
• Marquis Craven, who was wanted for possession of a firearm by a felon. A member of the 4Duece gang, Craven had been released from federal prison just months earlier and is still on federal probation.
• Marquis “Pig” Smith, a 55 Hoover Crip gang member, who was wanted on two counts of shooting with intent to kill. During the arrest, Smith attempted to flee from officers by running into a home. Officers not only arrested Smith, but were able to serve a search warrant on the house, which resulted in the recovery of five handguns, eight long guns, more than two pounds of marijuana, scales, $200 in counterfeit currency, and $99 in U.S. currency.
• Operation Triple Beam officers gathered information in the unsolved homicide of Hoover Crip gang member, Shawn “4Years” Hatcher. With this information, Tulsa Police Homicide detectives were able to issue first degree murder warrants for Colin Profit and Kadrian Daniel, both of whom are affiliated with the Hoover Crips gang main rival, the 47 Green Team. Within 72 hours of the warrants being issued, Operation Triple Beam officers arrested both Profit and Daniels, who was found to be in possession of a loaded .357 caliber revolver at the time of his arrest.
• Operation Triple Beam officers investigated a shooting between Juarito and Sureño gang members who were fighting while driving on a congested highway in Tulsa. Investigators located a .380 handgun on the side of the road that was used in the shooting. Eric Hernandez, Juan Hernandez, Xavier Coronado, and Jose Rivera, all of whom are Juarito gang member associates, were arrested for the shooting.

“This operation is an example of the best the Marshals Service has to offer when it comes to fostering cooperation among our law enforcement partners in the fight against violent crime,” said T. Michael Earp, USMS Assistant Director for Investigative Operations. “Operation Triple Beam will serve as a nationwide model for similar initiatives designed to tackle gang-related violence and take back our communities. I commend all of the participants for a job well done.”

Participating agencies included the ATF, the U.S. Secret Service, the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office, the Broken Arrow Police Department, the Rogers County Sheriff’s Office, the Claremore Police Department, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. In addition, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma and the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office provided critical assistance to the operation. ]]> http://www.conservativechristiannews.com/wordpress/2010/08/25/operation-targets-gang-violence/feed/ 0 http://www.conservativechristiannews.com/wordpress/2010/08/23/day-gardner-of-national-black-pro-life-union-to-join-glenn-beck-august-28th-rally/ http://www.conservativechristiannews.com/wordpress/2010/08/23/day-gardner-of-national-black-pro-life-union-to-join-glenn-beck-august-28th-rally/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:39:04 +0000 admin http://www.conservativechristiannews.com/wordpress/?p=474

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 /Christian Newswire/ — On the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington, Glenn Beck will lead a rally called “Restoring Honor” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the very same place where the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech.

I wouldn’t miss it for the world, said Day Gardner, President of the National Black Pro-Life Union. America is spiraling down into an abyss of debt, joblessness and economic turmoil. We are seeing the institution of marriage attacked, schools pushing sex education to children as young as five years old and a great push to continue the brutal killing of unborn children–even as modern technology proves the humanity of the child.

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Nationwide Egg Recall

URGENT Nationwide Egg Recall
Eggs in Their Shells May Put Consumers at Risk for Salmonella

What is the Problem?
An outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) that has sickened hundreds of people across the country has led to a recall of shell eggs.

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• FoodSafety.gov
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• Additional Background on Salmonella Outbreak in Shell Eggs
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Activists Score Major First Amendment and Pro-Life Victory in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 /Christian Newswire/ — The City of Washington, D.C. reverses their position and will allow prayer and free speech activities on the public sidewalk leading up to Planned Parenthood.

Photo: Pat Mahoney just prior to his arrest on

June 8

For the past several months, Washington D.C. police officers have been threatening peaceful pro-life activists with arrest for simple praying and counseling on the public sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood.

Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, was arrested on June 8 for simply praying and reading from the Bible on that public sidewalk.

However, late this week, Rev. Mahoney was told by Washington, D.C. police officials that the City had reversed their position and will allow prayer and free speech activities on the public sidewalk.

Their decision came on the eve of a project called “A Time to Stand,” in which pro-life activists from around the country were coming to challenge the ban on free speech and were willing to risk arrest for public prayer.

Hundreds of activists will still gather in front of Planned Parenthood on Saturday, August 14, at 10:00 A.M. to pray, worship and counsel on the public sidewalk and embrace the First Amendment and religious freedom.

Planned Parenthood is located at 1108 16th Street NW in Washington D.C.

The activists would also like to thank the American Center for Law and Justice who was representing them and did an incredible job of fighting for the truth.

Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, states,

“We thank God for this important victory for free speech, public prayer and the First Amendment. The City of Washington, D.C. got it right when they reversed their tragic decision to arrest American citizens for simply praying on a public sidewalk.

“It would have been unthinkable for our nation’s capital to ban and prohibit prayer on a public sidewalk, just blocks from the White House, to protect abortion and Planned Parenthood.

“There is a word of caution however. If we did not stand for our rights and go to jail; if we did not mount an aggressive legal effort and if we did not invite people do come from around the country to pray on the public sidewalk even under the threat of arrest, that sidewalk would still be closed to the First Amendment.

“This struggle reminds us all of the famous quote from Thomas Jefferson in which he said, ‘Eternal Vigilance is the price of liberty.’ We must recognize that our rights, freedoms and liberties must be constantly defended.

“Finally, this episode shows the lack of integrity and commitment that Planned Parenthood has to the First Amendment and the truth. They constantly lied about the nature of that sidewalk saying it was ‘private’ when they knew it was public. It should remind every American if an organization has no respect for the dignity and sanctity of life why would they respect the dignity of free speech?”

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Human Embryo at 9 weeks Original Photo by Ed Uthman, MD

“It gives me unbelievable joy,” said Brian Fisher, president of Media Revolution Ministries, the home of Online for Life. “I would have been thrilled if we’d saved even one life since going ‘live’ on May 21st. But to reach 7 vulnerable women, change their minds about abortion, and save their babies tells me that God is opening the floodgates!”

The grassroots, donor-supported non-profit uses breakthrough Internet strategies to intercept pregnant women and direct them to a hometown pregnancy resource center for a free sonogram.

“When an abortion-minded woman sees her baby, extended research indicates there is a 90 percent probability she will change her mind and choose life,” Fisher said.

The outreach literally breaks the stranglehold the lavishly financed abortion industry has on Internet search results. There are millions of abortion-related Internet searches monthly. Almost all return only links to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

Online for Life now ensures that messages from allied pro-life resource centers appear prominently in abortion-search results. It also provides its partner centers with a confidential website so abortion-minded women can link directly from the search results to schedule an appointment for a sonogram.

Because all activity leading up to the appointment is conducted on the Internet, Online for Life can track everything from the number of times a pro-life message appears in abortion-search results to the number of contacts made with its partner centers.

The centers also update the outreach regularly on how many appointments are made as a result of the search-result message, how many sonograms are performed, and ultimately how many lives are saved.

“It is absolutely crucial that we maintain complete transparency and accountability. We want to assure our supporters that every cent we receive is verifiably saving innocent human lives,” Fisher said.

Fisher and Tim Kachuriak developed Online for Life in conjunction with KMA Direct Communications, a Kingdom-directed multi-channel donor relations agency based in Plano, Texas. Online for Life is an outreach of Media Revolution Ministries, a tax-exempt 501(c) (3) corporation.

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Nancy Pelosi: Helping Us to Remember to Celebrate Ramadan

“The holy month of Ramadan is a period of spirituality, reflection and rejoicing for Muslims here and around the world. It is a time to honor the traditions of the Muslim faith, and an opportunity for all Americans to celebrate the tradition of pluralism, tolerance, diversity, and religious freedom embedded in the very fabric of our Constitution and our history.

“In the weeks to come, let us each reaffirm our commitment to the core values of all faiths: advancing justice and pursuing peace; giving to charity and working toward the common good; and treating others with dignity and respect.

“To all who observe Ramadan, may this month bring joy, wisdom, and countless blessings to you and your families. Ramadan Mubarak.”

Source: Office of the Speaker of the House

What Can Be Done About Unjust Judges? Is a Grand Jury the Answer?

Constitution and Supreme Court Precedent Allow for Citizens’ Action

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 /Christian Newswire/ — Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch and Judicial Watch, has announced new legal actions in the Elena Kagan scandal. “Prior to confirmation, Freedom Watch and Declaration Alliance filed a complaint before the Supreme Court, to have Elena Kagan disbarred for falsifying a report as Associate Counsel in the Clinton White House that resulted in the inhumane killing of very late term unborn infants. Her conspiracy to defraud the Supreme Court, in order to defy the expressed will of the American people banning partial birth abortion, made our nation needlessly complicit in these heinous acts. Kagan’s actions rise to the level of criminality,” Klayman said.

Freedom Watch and Declaration Alliance, with Kagan’s reckless confirmation to the Supreme Court, will therefore also seek her impeachment. But this punishment is insufficient to right the wrongs of Justice Kagan’s criminality.

We the people have been providentially provided legal recourse to address the criminal conduct of persons themselves entrusted to dispense justice. In the Supreme Court case of United States v. Williams, 504 U.S. 36 (1992), Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, confirmed that the American grand jury is neither part of the judicial, executive nor legislative branches of government, but instead belongs to the people. It is in effect a fourth branch of government “governed” and administered to directly by and on behalf of the American people, and its authority emanates from the Bill of Rights.

Thus, citizens have the unbridled right to empanel their own grand juries and present “True Bills” of indictment to a court, which is then required to commence a criminal proceeding. Our Founding Fathers presciently thereby created a “buffer” the people may rely upon for justice, when public officials, including judges, criminally violate the law.

“Here, Justice Elena Kagan not only falsified evidence, thereby obstructing justice, but her fraud resulted in the barbaric deaths of unborn late term infants, in a heinous manner the American people had properly legislated as unlawful. She should be indicted and tried in a court of law for her crimes. As the Obama Justice Department will not seek an indictment, it is left to ordinary Americans to seek justice. And, if after an indictment is obtained, the lower courts refuse to institute a criminal proceeding, then Freedom Watch and Declaration Alliance will appeal this case all the way to the same Supreme Court where Justice Kagan now sits. Pursuant to the Williams case we will, ironically, have the Supreme Court order — as it is required to do under its own case precedent — that the district court commence a criminal proceeding against one of its own,” stated Klayman.

Background: www.declarationalliance.org/kagan.php

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Richard Viguerie: Renowned Conservative Leader

MANASSAS, Va., Aug. 10 /Christian Newswire/ — Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, issued the following statement, regarding the Republican primary results in Colorado and Connecticut:

“In Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary elections in Colorado and Connecticut, the voters favored candidates who are unfettered to Washington Republicans.

“If elected in November, Ken Buck and Linda McMahon will increase the members of the small government constitutional caucus in the U.S. Senate.

“Republican primary voters are continuing to move the Republican Party significantly to the right. The 2011-12 Congress is likely to be the most conservative ever.

“Thanks to President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Reid, the conservative movement has been re-launched stronger than even in the Reagan years.”

Richard A. Viguerie pioneered political direct mail and has been called “one of the creators of the modern conservative movement” (The Nation magazine) and one of the “conservatives of the century” (Washington Times). He is the author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause.

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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10 /Christian Newswire/ — The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) joins reasonable people everywhere who were dismayed that Proposition 8, which defines marriage in California as between a man and a woman, was overturned and declared unconstitutional by a federal judge on Aug 4, 2010. Judge Vaughn Walker’s opinion within which this ruling is made provides an extensive analysis of the issue. The ethicists of the NCBC think, however, that the opinion is irreparably flawed in that it never addresses head-on what constitutes the reality of marriage. Furthermore, the opinion commits itself to a false understanding of unjust discrimination and of the ever important concepts of sexuality and gender.

In opposition to Judge Walker’s opinion, we argue first that marriage is a complementary union ordered to procreation. This is a distinctive reality that can only be realized by heterosexual couples. Marriage refers to this distinctive reality; it cannot refer to relationships that cannot be procreative. Second, we argue that assessing whether a law manifests unjust discrimination requires looking at the reasons or intent behind the law. Every law has certain effects on certain groups and not others, even homicide laws have specific effects only on murderers and not others. That a law has a particular effect only on one group of persons does not itself make for an unjustly discriminatory law. One has to look at the reasons or intent behind the law. Insofar as Prop 8 is informed by what truly constitutes a marriage, it does not specifically target homosexuals. It is therefore, not unjustly discriminatory. Third, we address what seems to be a key argument in the ruling, namely, that changing the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples will change the social meaning of homosexuality and make it more widely acceptable. We think this is the center-piece of the opinion in that it is generated in reply to why domestic partnerships are not sufficient even though they afford a “couple” all of the legal rights and privileges of a marriage. This “social meaning argument” amounts to cognitive engineering; it aims to reorder society and declare that homosexual acts are morally pristine.

Finally, in our commentary on the opinion we address Judge Walker’s misunderstanding of what it is to say that marriage is a complementary union ordered to procreation. The opinion treats the inherent procreative potential of heterosexual intercourse as an accident, as something that is not distinctive, or as something that does not indicate a specific kind of relationship. We believe, given the text of the ruling, that a fundamental misunderstanding of what marriage is, its nature, is what leads to the false conclusions drawn.

The NCBC analysis may be read in full at www.ncbcenter.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=482&storyid1277=120&ncs1277=3

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