Juan David Ortiz, 35, served his country in the Navy as a corpsman for eight years before he joined the U.S. Border Patrol where he became an intelligence supervisor. Ortiz is a husband and a father. He is also a murderer. In September of 2018, Ortiz began abducting sex workers on the streets of San Bernardo Avenue in Laredo, Texas and driving them beyond the city limits where he shot them in the head. In all, Ortiz murdered three women and one transgender individual with a female persona. Only because a fifth victim managed to escape was Ortiz caught before he could find more victims. Angered by the failure of local authorities to crackdown on crime, his goal was to cleanse the streets of Laredo. Ortiz now faces the death penalty upon conviction. His story is shocking and frightening, especially since he is a trusted authority figure. The psychology of this murderer is not, however, unique. Understanding men like Ortiz shines a light on why they do what they do and how predators are able to able to garner the trust of others.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is no stranger to confrontation and controversy. After all, he began his gubernatorial career with a highly contentiousness war on public unions that nearly cost him his governorship after enough signatures were collected to trigger a recall election. It was, however, thanks to Walker’s efforts to strip public employees of their right to engage in collective bargaining and the fierce opposition to it that allowed Scott Walker to become a national figure. Despite stripping Americans of their rights and enraging a significant number of Wisconsin voters, Walker’s political prospects were buoyed by the fact that a great number of people feel public employees are overcompensated with too little accountability, especially when compared to that of many private sector employees. Having lost the 2018 Election, Walker and his Republican cohorts in the State legislator have chosen to strip the new governor of the powers Walker coveted in order to push his agenda. State Senators also moved to embed Republican operatives into the State government by approving 82 of Walker’s appointees civil posts in one day, among other moves.
CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill For Israel Slight, Undermines Free Speech, Free Press, And Free Society12/3/2018 CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta had his White House press pass temporally revoked after essentially getting into a verbal brawl with the US President that involved in a minor physical encounter with a White House aide. Despite Acosta’s overly confrontational and aggressive approach to questioning, CNN stood by its journalist, the freedom of the Press, and equal treatment under the law by suing the Trump Administration, which resulted in the reinstatement of Acosta’s press pass. Weeks later, during a meeting at the United Nations on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, CNN political contributor Marc Lamont Hill made the following statements: "...we must advocate and promote non-violence,… we cannot endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing… free Palestine from the river to the sea...." After his statements sparked controversy, Hill apologized and clarified the meaning of his words. CNN fired him.
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