Divemedic

Criminals

Jaremy Smith at 22 years old was convicted of armed robbery and hostage taking for which he received a twelve year sentence. On December 1, 2023, he was released after serving less than 10 years and placed on Supervised release.

Less than 4 months later, on March 15, he sat on the side of the road with a flat tire. When a New Mexico state trooper stopped to offer his assistance, Smith asked for a ride into town. When the trooper agreed, Smith shot him in the back of the head, ran around to the driver’s side, shot the trooper twice more, then dumped the officer’s body on the side of the road and drove off in the stolen patrol vehicle.

The broken down car that he had been driving? The stranded vehicle turned out to be owned by a South Carolina paramedic who was found shot to death in Dillon County, South Carolina, also on March 15. She had been reported missing several days earlier.

During his arrest, Smith was shot several times, and emergency surgery was performed. Since his discharge from the hospital, he has been held in jail awaiting trial. His attorney filed a motion asking for a continuance due to Smith being in a “tremendous amount of pain.” He has also complained that they aren’t giving him anything stronger than Tylenol to treat the pain.

You know what? I don’t give a shit. He is seen on video murdering the cop. The trial should last about 20 minutes longer than it takes to play the video, then they should toss a rope over the nearest tree limb and hang his ass, just like they used to do. I am usually opposed to the death penalty because I don’t trust prosecutors to present all of the evidence, even when they know that the accused is not guilty.

He killed two people and would have killed more, if the cops hadn’t caught up to him. Fuck this guy.

What really pisses me off about this is that he was released before the end of his sentence for “good behavior.” News reports show that in 2014, Smith, then 23, escaped from the Marion County, South Carolina, jail after he and another inmate overpowered two detention officers. The inmates handcuffed one guard and beat the other. The inmates then stacked up chairs in the recreation area and one lifted the other up and over the recreation yard wall. Officials say the jail staff then called for help and EMS to treat the injured officer, and when the gates were opened for deputies and EMS to come inside, Smith ran out of the gated area. Deputies tracked and captured him about two hours later. How in the world is that good behavior?

By Divemedic, ago

Hurricane Preps

One of the things about working in emergency services is that you have to prepare for storms before everyone else, because you will be at work as the storm approaches. As of this morning, we here at Sector Ocho are under a Tropical storm watch. In this area, we likely won’t get much in the way of wind, but there is going to be large amounts of rain to deal with. It will likely rain for two or three days. With that in mind:

We began the 72 hour checklist at 5 pm this afternoon.

  • All outdoor furniture inside. In fact, I need to get everything that high winds will blow around easily into the garage. “It isn’t THAT the wind is blowing, it is WHAT the wind is blowing”
  • 5 gal Water cans retrieved and filled.
  • My Powerwalls this morning informed me that, due to approaching bad weather and the possibility of power loss, they are charging to 100% and will remain there until the storm passes. Electric power is handled.
  • I need to cut the grass this morning. Lots of rain will both make it impossible to mow a wet yard, but will also make the grass grow like there is no tomorrow.
  • I have two Bar-B-Que bombs (propane tanks) that need filling. Both cars already have fuel.

That will be it until tomorrow, when I will carry out the 24 hour checklist.

  • Stock up on Poptarts and chips for snacking
  • Prepare to buy Publix Subs (We like to have food for the storm that doesn’t need electricity or other heat for preparation and is easy and quick to eat, even in the dark.) Even though we will have power, it’s now a tradition.

Anyhow, lots to do today.

By Divemedic, ago

More on Carly Gregg

Some people are defending the 15 year old who murdered her mother and shot her stepfather, so I wanted to outline the case for more clarity.

The girl had been using drugs and hiding that life from her mother by using burner phones. She had a very high IQ and was adept at getting away with what she was doing. Until her mother caught on.

What happened next is not in dispute, as it was caught on the home’s security cameras and cell phone messages. She got a gun and shot her mother. Afterwards, Carly asked one of her friends “Have you ever seen a dead body? My mom is in there.”

Then she sent a text to her step father from her mother’s phone that read: ““When will you be home honey?” then shot him when he walked in the door. He was fortunately able to wrestle the gun away from her before she could shoot him again. She then fled the home, and hid the security camera in the refrigerator on the way out.

During the investigation that followed, police found her journal, in which she had written things like: “You don’t need family” and “It’s okay to be evil.”

Gregg was offered a plea deal of 40 years in prison, but turned it down. Instead, her legal team pursued an insanity defense, which was unsuccessful. The court heard from psychiatrist Dr Andrew Clark, who said he believes Gregg ‘blacked out’ for up to 90 minutes on the day of the alleged offence, but also accepted that someone in Gregg’s position would have a motive to ‘fake’ a mental illness. Dr Clark told the court Gregg reported to him that she’d had ‘auditory hallucinations’ for years prior to the alleged crime, but the voices in her head had never ‘commanded’ her to do anything.

Her own psychiatrist testified that she didn’t have serious mental health issues before the killings.

However, the fact that she had tried to cover up her crimes by tampering with evidence caused the court to not believe that she was insane. (This is called evidence of guilt. In order to be considered incompetent for trial, the defense has to show that the person didn’t know that what they did was wrong. Obviously, tampering with evidence to hide the crime shows that the person knew that what they did was wrong.)

Interesting to me was the fact that she was taking Lexapro and Zoloft, which are both mood stabilizers that have been connected to other teenaged murderers and spree killers. I wonder of the drugs are causing the murderous behavior or not.

When police first began the investigation, the stepfather was the prime suspect until police took a look at the security cameras.

Sources:

Who is Carly Gregg and why did she get life in prison?

Carly Gregg’s Giggles Turn Into Sobs After Being Found Guilty Of Murdering Mother

Outrageous courtroom behavior of ‘killer’ Mississippi girl Carly Gregg, 15, who shot her mom dead

Carly Gregg’s stepfather takes the stand: What we learned from him about the teen murder suspect

By Divemedic, ago

More on Avalanche of Funding

I reported last week that the Harris campaign was collecting and spending tons of money. This is important, because the candidate that spends the most generally wins the election. The American public is being blasted by Harris ads 24/7- on social media, on television, and on the news.

Now we hear that the Harris campaign is outspending Trump 10 to 1. That’s right, for every dollar the Trump campaign is spending on advertising, HOTUS is spending ten. The most money being spent is on Meta (Facebook) and Alphabet (Google), who not coincidentally are also two of her largest donors. I’m sure she is getting a reduced rate as well.

On top of the Federal government being one of her largest donors (Facebook, the Feds, Google, Microsoft, and University of California are her five largest), the Feds are also soaking up Trump’s campaign money. Trump’s legal fees have accounted for a sixth of his budget so far, giving him less to spend on advertising.

All of this adds up to her spending three times what Trump did in August, yet still ended the month with more funds than she had at the beginning of the month. Most of her spending is scheduled to be spent in October.

Every single metric is pointing to a huge landslide for Harris. Combine that with the margin of cheat, and we will likely see a blue wave that not only hands the Whitehouse to the Democrats, but both houses of Congress as well. That is bad news for everyone.

We are looking at the end of the Republic. There is no other answer. That’s why you see Musk being investigated in at least three different criminal probes, Mike Lindell is being investigated, and other Trump allies are being alleged to have been involved with child sex trafficking. The message is clear- support Trump and gain yourself a peck of legal troubles from the FBI and perhaps even some jail time.

If we are to see history rhyme, the Battle of Actium is next, followed by the dissolution of the Senate and the beginning of the Empire, the fragmentation of the nation, and the collapse of the fragments. Four years after Actium, the Emperor and the Senate were technically co-equal branches of government. In practice, the authority of the imperial Senate was nothing more than as kissers who were seeking prestige rather than actual authority. 

I don’t think that Harris is anything more than a figurehead that will usher in economic turmoil that will cause people to scream for a strong, intelligent leader to come in and save us all. Harris is merely a puppet that allows them to garner support from their base- a black woman. Remember when I said that Newsome couldn’t be the Democratic candidate because he is a white man? Remember when I also pointed out that it would have to be a black woman? I will admit that I didn’t see that black woman as being Harris. I thought for sure it would be Big Mike.

So I said in September of ’23 that Biden would be jettisoned in August of ’24 and replaced by a black woman. I just picked the wrong black woman. I just didn’t think that Harris would be the one that they picked to be the face of whoever is pulling the strings.

On the plus side, we are about to witness the largest collapse of a nation that has yet occurred in history. I fear that we are also about to see the birth of the most powerful dictatorship in world history, but only after a bloodbath of a civil war whose death toll will be unprecedented.

By Divemedic, ago

She Lost So Much

A 15 year old was recently convicted and sentenced to two life sentences plus 10 years in prison after she shot and killed her mother and shot her step father before hiding the security camera that documented her crimes.

The defense told the jury that the murderer had suffered enough, since she was now an orphan after her mother was killed. They also tried the “not guilty by reason of insanity” that I don’t think should be a defense. You killed someone in cold blood? There is only one way to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.

On the other hand, I also don’t trust the state in death penalty cases, because I know that prosecutors lie, and cops swear to it. I hope she enjoys her time in prison.

By Divemedic, ago

Election Fraud Prosecution

Arizona continues to prosecute people who claimed that Arizona’s 2020 election was fraudulent, even though Arizona’s Supreme court has ruled that 28,000 illegal immigrants were permitted to vote in previous Federal elections. For reference, Trump lost Arizona by less than 10,500 votes.

The court also ruled that the illegals could vote in state, but not Federal, elections in 2024. However, the illegals are getting full Federal ballots anyway:

The ruling came after a “coding oversight” in state software prompted the swing state’s Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to insist that he would send out ballots to those affected anyway.

The supposed “coding error” saw as many as 100,000 ballots being sent to illegals, who cannot legally vote in Federal elections, but will anyhow. Isn’t it odd that these “errors” always benefit the Democrats? It’s becoming more and more plain that our elections are rigged in favor of the left. I have said this before, and I reiterate it now: Our nation has already had its last free and fair elections. We are in the post-republic phase of the American experiment.

By Divemedic, ago

Day Off

I called in sick to work today. Spent most of the day sick and sleeping. Not seriously ill, just an annoying respiratory infection, one that seems to be making the rounds through the ED staff. We had six nurses call in sick yesterday with it.

Hopefully, I will be on my feet tomorrow.

By Divemedic, ago