Monsters Among Us

[Vashta Nerada]

TAMPA, Fla. -- Manuel Pardo was a decorated Florida police officer before he was fired for lying and turned to life as a vigilante, slaying nine people during a three-month crime spree.

Pardo contended that he was doing the world a favor by killing them.
"I am a soldier, I accomplished my mission and I humbly ask you to give me the glory of ending my life and not send me to spend the rest of my days in state prison," the then-31-year-old Pardo told jurors at his 1988 trial.

"I think that anyone who would get up and ask a jury sentence him to death is insane," lawyer Ronald Guralnick said recently.

Pardo, a former Boy Scout and Navy veteran, began his law enforcement career in the 1970s with the Florida Highway Patrol, graduating at the top of his class at the academy. But he was fired from that agency in 1979 for falsifying traffic tickets.
He was then hired by the police department in Sweetwater, a small city in Miami-Dade County.

In 1981, Pardo was one of four Sweetwater officers charged with brutality, but the cases were dismissed.

He was fired four years later after he flew to the Bahamas to testify at the trial of a Sweetwater colleague who was accused of drug smuggling.
Pardo lied, telling the court they were international undercover agents.

Then over a 92-day period in early 1986, Pardo committed a series of robberies, killing six men and three women. He took photos of the victims and recounted some details in his diary, which was found along with newspaper clippings about the murders. Pardo was linked to the killings after using credit cards stolen from the victims.

He had become fascinated with Adolf Hitler, collecting Nazi memorabilia. His dog, a Doberman pinscher, had a swastika tattoo.

"He was very cold," retired prosecutor David Waksman told the Herald recently. "He was doing robberies and went home and slept like a baby. He was proud of what he did."

One victim was a confidential informant who sold Pardo guns. Others were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Over Guralnick's objections, Pardo insisted on testifying at his trial, telling jurors that he enjoyed killing people and wished he could have murdered more.

"They're parasites and they're leeches, and they have no right to be alive," he said in court. "Somebody had to kill these people."

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So it is we are a nation without a race and after 100 years as an English prisoner camp the instinct of the animal still prevails.  Proudly we hail in our deeds, even as a nation or as a community refusing to address our inequities to unite for a common cause after stripping the land of the races provided by nature in the most violent of ways.

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So it is we are a nation without a race and after 100 years as an English prisoner camp the instinct of the animal still prevails.  Proudly we hail in our deeds, even as a nation or as a community refusing to address our inequities to unite for a common cause after stripping the land of the races provided by nature in the most violent of ways.

Lay off the BBC man...wow.

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It seems to be in line for Oklahoma to impeach another governor and bring the law and order to the area that is proclaimed as the "jewel of Tulsa" by providing the greatest necessity needed in the area.

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It seems to be in line for Oklahoma to impeach another governor and bring the law and order to the area that is proclaimed as the "jewel of Tulsa" by providing the greatest necessity needed in the area.

Bulldozers.  See earlier posts regarding Cat D10 and D11 models.

[Vashta Nerada]

A D.C. police officer was convicted Thursday of killing his mistress outside a Hillcrest Heights community center, then driving their daughter to a nearby apartment complex and leaving her in a hot SUV to die.
Jurors in Prince George's County Circuit Court deliberated for less than two hours before convicting Richmond Phillips, 40, of two counts of first-degree murder and related charges.
Prosecutors had accused the married, undercover vice officer of fatally shooting 20-year-old Wynetta Wright in May 2011 because he did not want to acknowledge his child or pay her child support.
After killing Wynetta Wright, prosecutors said, Phillips drove the woman's SUV to a nearby apartment complex, leaving 11-month-old Jaylin in the vehicle to die in the heat.
Phillips faces life in prison without parole.