Thanks to Belch we have the video of a UK vandal getting what for.
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USF student to plead guilty:
26-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was picked up when him and a cohort were caught near a South Carolina military base with explosives. He was facing life in prison but the plea that he is going to cut wll reduce hiis sentence to 15 years.
Documents Mohamed signed today include an admission he created a video showing Muslim suicide bombers how to rig up a remote control car to detonate a charge. Mohamed later posted that video on the video sharing website Youtube.com
He said he did this so “martyrdoms” and suiciders” could “save themselves so they could continue to fight the invaders.”
The paperwork Mohamed signed Friday also says he considers members of the U.S. military in Arab countries to be invaders.
So what does that make him? Anyway I’m not too thrilled that the federal government is making deals with basement terrorists. I call them that because it’s pretty obvious they live in mom’s basement.
I also wonder how long his video stayed up on YouTube.
Halifax cops arrest two teens in videotaped beating:
I had this nasty post about the Halifax Regional Police all ready to go because of this article. I had a great ending tagline and everything. Then they had to go and do their job and ruin a post for me. Oh well. The result is better than my post anyway.
In response to the videotaped beating in Dartmouth the HRP have arrested a 16 and a 17-year-old involved in the beating. Because of Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act the names of the suspects can not be released.
The article also mentions that the man who took the footage of the beating was put off by some of the racist comments that were made about the video. I guess he never read YouTube comments before.
YouTube-The Short Bus of the Internet.
Marine sacked for YouTube puppy horror:
A few months ago a story was circulating about a US Marine serving in Iraq who threw a puppy off of a cliff and posted the video to YouTube. I didn’t post the story here because I wanted to know if it was a hoax or not before posting anything about it. Like most of you I completely forgot about the story and I saw this headline. Unfortunately it was not a hoax.
Lance Corporal David Motari, I guess he was the puppy flinger, has been booted from the corps. Sergeant Crismarvin Banez Encarnacion, who I’m guessing was the cameraman, received non-judicial punishment, which I hope means cleaning out latrines for the rest of his term.
I am not going to post the video because I found it too disturbing but if you’re one of those freaks that really needs to see it you can find it here.
Court Makes Pranksters Apologize On YouTube As Punishment:
I’m sure by now you’ve all heard the story of the Florida dumbasses who got caught playing ‘Fire in the Hole. FITH is basically throeing a full drink at the cashier at a drive thru window. These two dimwits did it and posted it to YouTube which of course led to their arrest.
As part of their sentencing a judge ordered them to make a new video in order to discourage other dumbasses from doing this. Here is that video.
Does that look like punishment to you? Does it even remotely look like it would discourage anyone from doing anything?
If they really wanted to discourage kids from doing this they’d post a video of the two suspects being repeatedly pelted with 64oz. cups filled with ice cubes and grape soda.
Adult Store Customers Filmed For YouTube:
This really isn’t about crime per se but it involves YouTube and it kind of pisses me off.
A group of busybodies in Vacaville, California are videotaping customers of the Secrets Lingerie Boutique with the threat of posting the videos to YouTube. The group is being led by a youth pastor by the name of Jim White. The article doesn’t say what church or religion he is affiliated with. Secrets sells lingerie and adult videos. That’s it. No sleazy booths, no peep shows, no people cruising . Just underwear and porn. However Pastor White makes it out to be some Times Square type sleaze palace.
Youth pastor Jim White said the protesters gather to film shoppers entering the store because they think Secrets “is a shop that is profiting from pornography and other materials that we feel are degrading to people and exploitative.”
He makes it sound like they’re doing human trafficking from this store. City council disagrees…
The Vacaville City Council passed a law last week that bans adult businesses. According to a city representative, Secrets is not breaking any laws.
Personally this sounds like some stuck up folks with a NIMBY problem more concerned with their property values rather than family values. If I shopped there I would walk right up to their cameras and dare them to put me on YouTube.
Also notice that they’re picking on a lingerie store and not a crackhouse. Basically all they’re doing is giving Secrets free publicity.
Thanks to LiLO for the tip.
Airliner bomb plot was really a Youtube protest stunt, accused claims:
27-year-old Abdulla Ahmed Ali of east London is on trial for terrorism in the UK. He is accused of threatening to blow up passenger planes.
His defense is that he was trying to make an Al-Qaeda style video for YouTube to draw attention to what he thinks are problems with the UK’s foreign policy. He says that suicide attacks are actually against Islam.
“We also thought we should make threats and demands. Basically we wanted to get the message across that British foreign policy is not in the interests of the people of Afghanistan and Iraq and not in the interests of the British people.
“Only Tony Blair is now making millions of pounds and the people with the oil.”
Mr Ali said the idea was to copy the style of Islamic terrorists.
He said the “martyrdom videos” made by six of the accused including Ali, were really “propaganda videos.”
“In the style of al-Qa’eda militants we wanted to put the blame on foreign policy and make demands that they have to change foreign policy.
“People only seem to get involved if you affect them in some way.”
He said the “documentary” would also include clips of deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine along with statements by politicians and would be edited together by a friend on his computer.
The men wanted to attract “mass media attention” by putting the documentary on Youtube, he said.
Before everyone gets their panties in a wad he also admits to wanting to set off a “non-lethal” bomb inside Parliament.
He said the bombs would be small enough to cause a “large bang and some smoke” and added: “We never did intend to murder or injure anyone.
Even a non-lethal bomb could have cause considerable loss of life and limb in teh ensuing chaos. Terrorist? Maybe not. Dumbass? You betcha.
YouTube helps catch Craigslist theft suspect:
Over at my blog craigscrimelist I posted about businessman Wayne Reavis whose home business was robbed after he placed some ads on craigslist.
One of the suspects, 18-year-old Henry Gill, was caught after the Rohnert Park, California police posted Reavis’ surveillance footage to YouTube.
To see more stories about crime and how it relates to craigslist you can check out one of my other blogs craigscrimelist.
YouTube, take down terrorism recruiting videos - now:
This is a statement from Senator Joe Lieberman about his request to Google/YouTube to remove terrorist related videos. God help me I agree with him. Especially this part…
Google’s defense is that it is protecting free speech. But, in my opinion, videos produced by terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda that are committed to attacking America and killing Americans are not protected by the First Amendment and should not be tolerated.
Google must begin by enforcing YouTube’s own community standards for posting videos - standards that disallow “graphic or gratuitous violence” or the posting of “videos showing … bomb making.” Furthermore, Google should change its policy to ban videos obviously produced by terrorist organizations.
People are quick to cry censorship but that’s not the case. Sen Lieberman is not forcing Google to remove these videos, he’s asking them to enforce their own terms of service. What also gets me is that Google keeps crying first amendment but if the terrorists had their way there would be no first or any other amendments. Not to mention the fact that Google doesn’t let that pesky freedom of speech thing apply in some of the other countries they do business in. You’d think that Google would have no problem fulfilling Sen. Lieberman’s request.
YouTube rappers reach deal to avoid jail time:
Two wannabe rappers from Missouri pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace after they posted a YouTube video showing themselves threatening police officers by name in their rap.
Kenneth D. Black, 20, and Benjamin D. Stevens, 21, were originally charged with felony charges of making a terrorist threat as well, conspiracies to commit second-degree assault, and forcible rape. Wait a second, forcible rape? How do they get forcible rape from a bad rap video on YouTube?
Stevens got 90 days suspended with two years probation. Black got 30 days suspended with two years probation.
Both were ordered to write letters of apology to the police officers.
