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Sheriff Lee Baca is, for those with the knowledge and history of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs, nothing short of a breath of fresh air! “Oh what does John J. Nazarian know?” Lots, I met Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess a few times when I was a teenager, and I met him again as an adult at the memorial and funeral for Deputy Arthur E. Pelino. Art was murdered after an altercation with an alleged mentally ill subject March 19, 1978 (Art was my advisor along with Bob Warford at the old Newhall station and several hours after Art was murdered I picked up his body from the coroner’s office and took him to the Pierce Brothers Mortuary in Eagle Rock and it was there that I embalmed and prepared him for his funeral).

Peter J. Pitchess was one of the most powerful law enforcement figures in the world in his day. He came from the J.Edgar Hoover school of law enforcement, no body in there right mind would ever take on Pitches or for that matter J. Edgar Hoover. Both Peter J. Pitchess and J.Edgar Hoover were cut from the same cloth. They knew how to control anyone and anything that was a threat to their reign, and these two guys both “reigned” and some may have described the administrations as a reign of terror, I call it genius, pure genius. Pitchess from 1958 to 1982 was the sheriff of Los Angeles County, please keep in mind that he had served 12 years with the F.B.I. under guess who? J.Edgar Hoover was the Director of the F.B.I. from 1935 to 1972, look at the time these two legends in law enforcement spent in the “saddle.” Nobody would dare or wanted to be on the bad side of these two men. All that I have to say is “perfect,” there will never be another law officer like Pitchess or Hoover, well at least not till after the revolution.

Now we find the one person who is nothing less than a breath of fresh air, Lee D. Baca. Baca joined the department in 1965 and was sworn in as the Sheriff of Los Angeles County in 1998, I and a few friends had breakfast with Sheriff Baca the morning of his swearing in as “The Sheriff” at the Armenian memorial. Say what you will about the current controversy as to the care of prisoners or as they are referenced today as “inmates.” Modern law enforcement and the expectations of society makes the job of a sheriff or chief of police (particularly in our multi-cultural cities and counties) tough at times and why do you ask? Demographics is the word that comes to my mind, Los Angeles has slowly and continues to be a residence of third world types. Baca has bent over backwards to make his department accessible to all who wish to express themselves, is as they say in Yiddish, a ‘mensch’, a person of integrity and honor.

Sheriff Baca is responsible for 9000 sworn personnel and 700 reserve deputies, wait it gets tougher, he also has 7600 civilians. Can you even begin to imagine the havoc a group like this can cause? Also keep in mind that the old days when you had to be just short of a saint to become a L.A. Deputy is gone. Departments in the modern days of law enforcement are to make policing a mirror of the communities they police and to some degree that too is a problem few want to discuss. Sheriff Baca has made changes to this department that few would have had the strength or confidence to make, Lee Baca made those changes when no one else would.

Sheriff Baca is responsible for thousands of prisoners and perhaps some of the worst scum of the earth that is available for critiquing, think about it. Nothing will ever be perfect in the county jail and no one is going to make it work perfect. Funnier yet is that when many of these prisoners were on the street they did nothing but create havoc what it must be like to keep thousands of them penned up! In short Lee Baca will overcome these issues that are being drummed on in the media like “the sky is falling.” It almost seems to me that the issues are more political and socio-economic issues than one of failure of Sheriff Baca’s administration or his abilities. For myself and DesperateExes.com we support Sheriff Lee Baca and always will, great Sheriffs are hard to find!

Closing thought, in Maricopa County, Arizona none of these complaints would make a blip on the radar…why, you ask? simple the citizens in that county support law and order and tend to be elderly and retired, and Sheriff Joe knows how to keep the bad guys in check, “socio-economic.”

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Jared Lee Loughner Mug Shot

Yesterday, January 13, 2011, the “black bag” was found and turned over to the police in Tucson Arizona yesterday that contained among other things the diary of Jared Lee Loughner alleged assassin of Federal Court Judge John M Roll and Gabriel Zimmerman a federal employee working for U. S. Congress woman, Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords. Loughner is also charged with the attempted assassination of Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords a member of the U. S. Congress and the attempted murder of Pamela Simon and Ron Barber, both employees of the U. S. government engaged in performance of official duties.These charges were described by Tony M. Taylor Jr. Special Agent for the FBI in a sworn statement attached to the criminal complaint filed with the federal court on Sunday, January 9, 2011.

People who know Loughner have said if anyone wants to know who “the real” Jared Lee Loughner they have only to read his diary of “lucid dreaming”. I began to check up on what this means because of a news reference to the movie “Inception” that Ken had watched just a week ago.

I found several definitions that sated: “Lucid dreaming is dreams in which the sleeper is aware that he or she is dreaming and can actively participate in and often manipulate the imaginary experiences in the dream environment. Lucid dreaming is a form of dream in which the conscious mind takes control over the contents of the dream. The phenomenon of being both conscious enough to recognize and being aware that one is dreaming and is then able to control the dream events.”

WOW talking about an insanity defense, some who have read the diary have said that Loughner had began to delve further and further into lucid dreaming in the past few years. Some suggest he perhaps was not sure if he was aware of being awake when he opened fire in that parking lot last Saturday, January 8, 2011 or if he thought he was dreaming.

Judy C. Clarke was asked by the Arizona Public Defender’s office to take over the case because she is known as “”patron saint of criminal defense attorneys”. Clarke has more experience than anyone in federal and state courts representing defendants who are unpopular nationally because their alleged crimes are especially depraved or heinous.

Ms. Clarke has taken on some of the most high profile cases of infamous killers such as Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the “Unabomber”, whose devices over 20 years killed three people and injured 23 more; Eric Rudolph, known as the “Olympic Park Bomber”; as an adviser in court to 9/11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui (though technically he represented himself at his 2006 trial); and to Susan Smith, convicted in 1995 in the drowning deaths of her two children. Clarke is a fierce opponent of the death penalty and when she was able to get a jury to spare the life of Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith South Carolina law makers were so enraged that they changed the state laws as to not allow any defense attorney to appear with a Pro Hac Vice status in the state. Shortly after the law was passed Clarke returned the $85,000.00 she received from the state to defend Smith.

Clarke is known to be brilliant, energetic and tries to maintain a low profile by staying out of the public eye and not granting any interviews.

Judy Clarke and her team, Mark Francis Fleming, Reuben Camper Cahn and Jon M Sands, made their first appearance of behalf of Jared Lee Loughner at his first formal court appearance in Phoenix on Tuesday, January 11, 2011. Once the court officially appointed her and her team to represent Laoughner her first petition, which was granted, was that no Arizona judge should preside over the trial because of the alleged assassination of a sitting federal judge in Arizona. Clarke and her team are based in San Diego California. Loughner next appearance in court for a preliminary hearing is Monday, January 24, 2011, at 1:30 P. M.

So based on the defense of insane based on a diary that outlines what all admits are crazy entries about Loughner being drawn deeper and deeper into lucid dreaming, can Clarke succeed in getting a jury to spare the life of Loughner?

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January 14, 2011
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Death Panel Governor Jan Brewer

Once again I am going to say I am a moderate independent more often splitting my vote and researching the candidates.

I heard on the news the other day that the GOP has resurrected the “Death Panel” slogan, so any of us getting older or sick need to be very scared, very very scared that the government is going to decide who can live and who will die and most of us will be put in the “will die” column. The GOP intends to save us by defunding health care over the next few years. Well except that part insurance companies want, the mandatory pay or “purchase” will be a boom for the insurance companies. The GOP uses smoke and mirrors but make no mistake when it comes to their final decision it will be for the insurance companies and that bottom line buck.

Why can’t the Democrats get a catchy slogan like that for the one liners needed and stay on topic and ram this down the GOP throats??? The GOP is so much better at these catchy slogans then the democrats are. They are easy to understand even if not true and they are scarier than hell.

I have some suggestions. Every time a Democrat speaks about health care and what it is and isn’t, bring up the fact that only one state that has a “REAL DEATH PANEL”, and that is Republican John McCain’s state ran by GOP governor Jan Brewer..ARIZONA She has decided to create a death panel and to declare “transplants” as elective surgery and has pulled the plug literally on patients waiting for transplants that need help paying for them or the co-pay the private insurance companies will not pay. We are talking the elderly, young parents and the worse young children.

The Republican governor, Jan Brewer did an elimination of transplants to save $800,000 and by doing so makes Arizona the only state to do so in the past two years, according to a report from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit health-care researcher in Menlo Park, California.

What the governor calls Cadillac care, optional service, we’re talking a life-or-death decision,” Anna Tovar, state representative from Tolleson Arizona said noting that her insurance paid for a life saving bone marrow transplant two years ago, which poor Arizonians won’t get.

Arizona’s health-care costs were increased by a 2000 ballot measure designed to use money from a tobacco-lawsuit settlement to expand coverage for the poor, according to John Kavanagh, a Republican who chairs the appropriations committee in the state House of Representatives. Ah where did that money go?

Of the 185 million dollars given to governor Jan Brewer as stimulus funds went for real necessary things like; $2 million went to study the use of algae as fuel, more of the millions went for a new roof on the coliseum, which is the home of the revenue-generating state fair, several million went to fill pot holes on streets. About $30 million seems to be in cyber space still waiting for an explanation.

Britain’s Channel 4 reports on a recent encounter with Gov. Brewer regarding the matter:

Reporter: “How many people have to die before you are prepared to reverse your decision on the transplant operations?” seemed like an obvious question.

Governor Brewer: “That was unfair”

A state paid aid, paid with tax payers money, promptly came to her rescue and said “Next question please”.

The governor says to call Washington D. C. to get her more stimulus money which is ironic since she blasted the original funds, and then took them and spent them. Brewer is also against the new health care passed by Congress in 2009.

Then you have the newest elected congressman very anti what has been termed “Obama Care”, GOP Congressman Andy Harris from Maryland a doctor working at John Hopkins wants to know how quick does insurance which pays for him and his family being a new representative kick in for his government provided insurance. When told it was 28 days he threw a fit saying, well anyone that gets a new job gets insurance with that job on day one… Ah yea that government health care that they get courtesy of the American Tax Payers. .By the way Congressman how is that COBRA option working out for you?

I suggest you call your U. S. Congress person or U. S. Senator with a couple of questions: 1. Do you have a Living Will? 2. Do you have a medical directive? Do you have a medical proxy? Does your doctor know you are an organ donor? How about the wives and kids do they have all of that? Then the BIG question, did you discuss this with your doctors so they know what you want?

I had to have a lawyer do my three; a Living Will, Medical Directive and Medical Proxy. When I see a new doctor they scan it and put it in my file. Wouldn’t it be nice if Medicare allowed them to spend 15 or 30 minutes with me to discuss what I want and why I want it and to make sure I understand what the things I have listed will or will not do?

So Congress Person and/or Senator, does your doctor know what you want so you stay in control of your medical care? If they do did we the taxpayer by proving you that government run insurance pay for you to have that discussion? If the answer is yes, then why should I be denied that same dialogue with my doctor just because Medicare will not pay for that extra time?

Do the K. I. S. S. (Keep it Simple Stupid so I can understand and relate easily to the discussions on this) democrats: 1. Point to the GOP ran state of Arizona about real death panels, and point out if for members of congress and their families have these discussions with their doctors and is it on our buck?

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Next week I will give my thoughts on who the members of Congress and Senate really listens to and it is not us the voters.

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January 2, 2011
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Ruben Valdovinos Cortes in happier days in his adopted homeland

On October 2, 2010 at 4 A.M. at the General Hospital in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico a friend and a son as well as a brother died of AIDS. He never got to see his 28th birthday. The story is one of the saddest that I have been involved with, and the pain I am feeling is just terrible and the only outlet I have is to tell Ruben’s story here on my blog. It is times like this that I understand that I do have a great deal of compassion I sometimes wonder if I have much anymore. For at this time I am in a state of emotional pain and devastation, and I am pleased to have these feelings. My concern, is that as I have grown older I do feel the pain of others at times, but I also feel numb to the stupidity and anguish of some of what I see and read about, both in my work as well as what I read and see in the news. These feelings of pain and anguish are normal and healthy, and most of all a process of healing, even for me.

There is a Marion County Sheriff, Salem, Oregon that should be very very proud of himself, good “police work!” Approximately 18 months ago, it was a deputy who sealed… …I had the authority to enforce the law, there was the “letter” of the law and there was the “spirit” of the law. … ….I always sided on the thought “give a break” when I could. Why do you ask? Easy, “there but by the grace of God go I.” Or, was it all the coppers who cut John J. Nazarian a break way back when I was a real “ADAM HENRY”…

…Ruben [Valdovinos Cortes] had been in the United States most of his 28 years, coming from Mexico as a child with no choice at the age of 4 (some of these kids never return to Mexico, hell some don’t even speak Spanish, the US is all they know). Attended school and graduated Mendota High School, Fresno County, California (I can remember sending Ruben money for his cap and gown, it was just the thing to do). Ruben had all the same dreams that every teenager who graduates has, onward to bigger and better things! He applied for his green card through the Catholic Charities in Fresno, California, reaching for the Dream… …All was on target and the months turned into years and one day a letter comes, the letter denied Ruben further access for a green card, his blood test came back “HIV POSITIVE”. …but he had lived here since he was 4 or 5, did that not mean anything? Graduated from school and worked hard and paid taxes, and did more to take care of his brothers and sisters than many fathers do. God Bless America, America the Beautiful, the land of plenty…well for some anyway.

Typical of Ruben, he was upset but set his goals to going back to work and seeing if in time things would change…they did in early 2009… …It would almost seem Ruben’s future was written in whatever pain and grief one life’s could be written….was it all just written in some book that this would be the trail Ruben would have to follow, was this just a sick celestial gag? He would be sent off to Arizona and be held in Federal Detention… …however some of his medical needs were being met and he was dealing with the issues at hand, he was relatively healthy and alive! But his situation soon changed….

…. Ruben tried to find work any place he could and a place to live and to just live a life in a place that was as foreign to him as it was home for his mother.. …One positive was that Ruben had learned Spanish…can you imagine if he had not spoken Spanish?

…well do not feel too bad, they do the very same things to their own people…even someone who is forced to return to his “homeland,” after living almost his entire life in what seemed like his country, the good ol’ U.S. of A. Ruben would become so sick that he would search out his mother. Funny, is it not, when we cry out it is always for the ones you hope can help, help she did in her own way. Ruben’s mother lives in her extremely humble cinder block shack with tin shutters and no running water hot or cold, and… …When I saw him I knew it was not going to be good. Ruben had a look I had seen hundreds of times, yes I said HUNDREDS of times in San Francisco and in Los Angeles. …Why am I such a SOB, there is one little clue! It is a look that we saw in documentaries of concentration camps, the bony structure of the face and the sunken eyes of the survivors. Ruben was dying and I…

…Understand this, and hear my pain, had a deputy sheriff in Salem, Oregon showed a little compassion and… …Ruben could have lived many more years. And if this miserable rat trap called Mexico could show a little compassion for its own people, perhaps Ruben could have seen a few more birthdays in his “new” country, after all he was one of its “sons” returning to his “home” compliments of the United States. Ruben Valdovinos Cortes died in Nogales, Mexico on October 2, 2010 at 4 AM, alone, in a place that was as foreign to him as it would be for you or me.

There is so much anger in my body at what happened to Ruben that I cannot clearly express it, my language is tame compared to what I want to scream towards the heavens. Ahhhh but what the hell, now we get to deal with a Mexican Mortuary… …none of these protections are available to protect the people of Mexico from the vultures in the funeral business that they must deal with, like Funerales Y Crematorio – J.G. Noriega, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. …I had my sons pay these ridiculous fees, knowing we were getting screwed to the wall…what else could I do….

Ruben Valdovinos Cortes in happier days in his adopted homeland

…And just as I paid for Ruben’s cap and gown for his graduation from high school, I am now paying for his body to be cremated so that he can be placed with his grandmother’s remains in some far away place in Mexico. I have asked for some of his ashes to be kept here in my home…as it seems he has as much right to spend eternity here with us as in Mexico. One of the most painful things for me now is the thought, could I have done more? …I will always have these thoughts.

My final thoughts: I, John J. Nazarian hold the Marion County Sheriff’s Department, Salem, Oregon, The United States of America as well as Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos responsible for the death of Ruben Valdovinos Cortes. Many of you will have opinions as to my findings on the short life and the death of Ruben. Simple, real simple, all I have to say is tread lightly if you disagree with me, and if you agree with me I still have lots more tears to shed.

To the read the complete article of two countries failing in a moral responsibility to this young man you can read the full article at Desperate Exes.com.

http://desperateexes.com/2010/10/06/ruben-valdovinos-cortes-october-24-1982-october-2-2010/.

©John J. Nazarian
October 7, 2010
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