Divemedic

The UN weighs in

With all of the atrocities that have happened in the world in the last two years, the United Nations has decided that George Zimmerman is the target of their scrutiny. Yesterday, the UN issued a demand that the Obama Administration do something about Zimmerman.

What is more disturbing is the cherry picking that our own government does:

According to the 2011 US Department of Justice Hate Crime Statistics,
71.9 per cent of the total number of victims of hate crimes reported to
the nation’s law enforcement agencies were victims of an offender’s
anti-black bias.

You know why?

Because this is not considered a hate crime, neither is this, or this, neither is this,
this isn’t either.

The UN article DOES go on to say:

 In a 2012 survey, the local non-governmental organization Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
found that at least 136 unarmed African Americans were killed by
police, security guards and self-appointed vigilantes over the course of
a single year.

  To insinuate that this shooting was somehow related to the cops being racist, and not the fact that he was a violent criminal that was shot while attacking police.

Fuck the UN

By Divemedic, ago

More hating on Zimmerman

Shellie Zimmerman wants a divorce, and the press is all over it. I can’t blame her. Her husband’s life is ruined, and anyone that is associated with him has no future, either. The press will keep him under the microscope and will ensure that anything he does is fully documented. After all, the linked story even attempts to make hay out of the fact that he was pulled over twice for speeding, and I guess that somehow proves that he is not a nice person.

What do I take out of this story? His wife, who is divorcing him, doesn’t have many nice things to say about him. So what? How many ex-wives have nice things to say about their ex-husbands? The article states that she alleges that the marriage is “irretrievably broken” but fails to mention that this phrase is required in Florida divorce cases. A divorce will not be granted by the state of Florida, unless one of the following conditions is met:

  • The marriage is irretrievably broken
  • One of the parties is mentally incapacitated. 

 The thing here is that the press and the anti-gun establishment (I am being redundant, here) will not be happy unless this man’s life is destroyed. They take great pleasure in any misfortune that befalls anyone that defends themselves from a violent predator.

She wants a life insurance policy on George, naming her as the beneficiary. Why? Because she knows that he will likely be killed as soon as the New Black Panther Party, or some other similar organization, finds out where he is. A suspicious person would suspect that she might even tell them his location, once the policy is in place.

The rest of the divorce is pretty standard stuff: division of assets, restriction on selling or disposing of assets while the divorce is pending, etc. Of course, she will also have to split the marital debts, as well. I am guessing that they are both insolvent.

Either way, the behavior here of the press and the people out to persecute him is despicable.

By Divemedic, ago

Close call

On Monday, I decided to spend the afternoon at Universal Studios. As usual, I was carrying a weapon. In this case, I was carrying a S&W M&P Shield, a 9mm handgun, in an inside the waistband holster on my right side. We arrived at Universal around 2 in the afternoon, and left at about 8 o’clock.We decided to stop at a Hibachi grill that is directly across the street from the Universal parking garage, a place called Kobe Steakhouse. We left there at about 10:00.

Being September in Central Florida, it has been rather hot and humid as of late, and so I decided to stop at the Walgreen’s pharmacy next door for some Gatorade. I checked out and left. While we were there, I noticed some rather unsavory characters entering the store. Here is a picture of one of them:

I would have been more suspicious, but I was recently told that wearing a hoodie and hiding your face when it is 85 degrees outside with 85% humidity is a fashion statement, so I just left. It turns out that those two men robbed the place and pistol whipped the clerk.

 I missed becoming the next nationally known racist by a minute or two. The best way to survive a gunfight is not to be in one, and that was a close call.

By Divemedic, ago

Experience

Recently, I posted about the 18 year old woman that is being charged with Lewd and Lascivious behavior for having sexual relations with an underaged girl. This week, the Washington Post ran an editorial that takes the position that we should revisit that law. The Conservatives are up in arms about it, but I think it is valid that we take a look at laws periodically, to make sure that they still accomplish what they are intended to.

After all, the purpose of the law is to make sure that adults are not victimizing children, and I fully support that. After all, we cannot have teachers and family members using their advanced intellect and maturity to prey upon children. Where I think the law needs to be looked at, especially in Florida, is that the child’s promiscuity, or the accused adult’s belief that the child was of age, cannot be used as a defense.

For example: You meet a woman at a bar. The bar clearly has a sign at the door that reads “No one under 18 admitted.” There is a bar employee checking ID at the door. A woman buys the two of you a drink, and you see the bartender card her when she buys it. You wind up leaving the bar with her, and things escalate to the point where she spends the night at your apartment, where you have sex. Later, it turns out that the girl was 15 years old, and was using a fake ID.

Under Florida law, you cannot even mention that fact in your defense. Why is that? The law in Florida says:

794.021 Ignorance or belief as to victim’s age no defense.—When,
in this chapter, the criminality of conduct depends upon the victim’s
being below a certain specified age, ignorance of the age is no defense.
Neither shall misrepresentation of age by such person nor a bona fide
belief that such person is over the specified age be a defense.

Far fetched? That is what happened to Morris Williams, a case that I have blogged in the past. This girl:

Was only 13 years old in this picture, a picture that she used on her MySpace page in 2008 to claim that she was a 19 year old divorced woman. She doesn’t look 13, does she? Williams had sex with her, and he went to jail. he wasn’t the first. A year earlier, another man was sent to jail for having sex with the same girl.

This is where we need to have a conversation: The purpose of the law is to protect the innocent from being preyed upon by the more experienced. What the law fails to address is what happens when the one doing the preying with all the experience is the child…

By Divemedic, ago

Seatbelts

A friend of mine worked an accident in Polk county over the weekend. Here is the news report of the accident. What I want you to note is that this was a T-bone collision of two vehicles, with the truck that ran the red light striking the Beetle on the driver’s door. The truck flipped over and came to rest on its wheels. Of the 6 occupants of the two vehicles, three of them were wearing seat belts, but the three children not wearing restraints, two ten year olds and an eight year old, were the worst off. The two ten year olds were dead, and the eight year old is probably not going to live.

The message here is wear your seatbelts. Make your passengers wear them.

By Divemedic, ago

More job problems for paramedics

Here is an update to the problems with paramedic employment that I have been posting about for the last few weeks.

My girlfriend works for a large ambulance company. One of the things this company does, is provide first aid personnel to local venues that need EMS personnel standing by. One of these venues is very popular amongst the EMS personnel, as the job entails standing around and watching events the people normally pay large amounts of money to attend, and it beats riding around all night in an ambulance, tending to homeless drug abusers.

Anyway, my girlfriend has been assigned working events at this venue for the past year. Last month, her employer decided that you needed to attend a special training session if you want to keep working at this venue. Her employer claims that the 4 hour class must be taken without pay. They claim that they can do this, because the class isn’t mandatory- you don’t have to take it if you don’t want to, but they will just reassign you to the ambulance division.

I told her it is illegal, but the job market is so tight right now, she is going to take the class without pay rather than risk rocking the boat and losing her job.

That is what it is like to be a paramedic in Florida.

By Divemedic, ago

Probation

So I posted here about the three 15 year old black kids that beat and robbed a 13 year old white kid on a school bus in Gulfport, Florida because he refused to buy marijuana from them. The three 15 year olds broke the 13 year old kid’s arm

The three pled guilty to aggravated battery and robbery in an apparent plea deal and were sentenced to probation, community service, anger management classes, a curfew, and must wear an ankle monitor for 60 days.

We know that probation does nothing: at least one of the three black teens that killed the baseball player in Oklahoma was on probation, and even went to his scheduled appointment with his probation officer a few minutes after the murder.

By Divemedic, ago