Man indicted in mysterious Mississippi burning death of Jessica Chambers

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

(CNN For 14 months, a town of 500 in northwest Mississippi grappled with the mysterious burning death of one of its daughters, Jessica Chambers, a 19-year-old who left her mother’s house in pajama pants, reportedly to clean her car. She never returned.

When police found her later the night of December 6, 2014, not far from her mother’s Courtland home, her car was on fire and Chambers had burns over 98% of her body. She said something to a firefighter — authorities wouldn’t say what — before she was rushed to a hospital, where she died the next day.
Courtland and Panola County residents didn’t get all their answers Wednesday, but they learned that a man being held in Louisiana in connection with another homicide victim was indicted this week in Chambers’ death.

Quinton Tellis, 27, faces a capital murder charge in her slaying, said John Champion, district attorney for Mississippi’s 17th Circuit Court. The charge is capital murder because her death occurred during the commission of another crime, third-degree arson, he said.
Champion added he was “very, very confident” that there would be no additional charges or suspects.
“We do feel like, at this point, that he acted alone in this case,” he said.
Capital murder opens the door for a death penalty case, but Champion said he isn’t sure whether he will pursue it. That decision will come “down the road” after he consults with the Chambers family, Champion said.
Longtime mystery
Until Wednesday, investigators had released few details about how the former high school cheerleader and her car ended up severely burned in a wooded area near Courtland.
That could be because authorities had ascertained so little about her death until late last year. Champion explained how police interviewed about 150 people, and each agreed to cooperate, he said. That’s odd in a case such as this, according to the prosecutor.
On four occasions, Champion said he thought the case had been solved, but he was wrong. Investigators received no information from their street sources, he said, and though authorities chased leads as far-flung as Tennessee, Iowa and eastern Mississippi, nothing panned out until they started taking a close look at cell phone and other data evidence.
Tellis had been a suspect early during the investigation, the prosecutor said, but he did not become investigators’ focus until the fall.
“Things started to match up for us, and that’s when we began to take a second look at Mr. Tellis,” Champion said, adding that forensic evidence will be integral to driving the prosecution.

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Indictment: Louisiana victim tortured to death

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

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REPORT: Meing Chen-Hsiao of Taiwan was stabbed over 30 times in her Monroe, Louisiana apartment before she gave her debit card PIN number to her killer, police said.

They say that killer is one known to Mississippians as being the suspect in one of the most notorious homicides in recent years.

Quinton Tellis, also accused in the Panola County burning death of Jessica Chambers, is accused of torturing Hsiao to death on her own bedroom floor. He was indicted in the Mississippi homicide as he sat in jail in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, in February, and in the Louisiana homicide as he sat in jail in DeSoto County, Mississippi.

“After gaining possession of the debit card, he brutally murdered her by repeatedly stabbing her and letting her body rot and decompose until being discovered,” the indictment reads. The grisly homicide allegedly took place on July 29, and her body was found August 8. As authorities worked her death scene, Tellis was celebrating his wedding to his girlfriend, Chikita Jackson.

But while they weren’t immediately connected, police knew Tellis knew Hsiao because they were seen on Wal-Mart security video, and a neighbor also provided a license plate number of a man who gave her a creepy feeling. She told police that man, whom she later identified as Tellis, had been to Hsiao’s apartment on July 27 and 28. She had heard them arguing.

Hsiao’s apartment lights, which burned at night, burned continuously through the days between July 29 and August 8. Hsiao’s bicycle never moved. Hsiao had friends and neighbors nearby, but her family was in Taiwan. It was 10 days before her body was found inside her own apartment.

Someone had made an attempt to clean the crime scene, the indictment states. Police say that means there’s no DNA to tie Tellis to the crime scene, but authorities hold the data trail and witness statements were enough to indict him in the brutal homicide. There were other things too, such as a receipt for $.07 at a local gas station, paid with Hsiao’s card, found in Tellis’ bedroom.

Search warrants for phone and bank records showed calls to Hsiao’s bank from Tellis’ phone on the day she died, and GPS records showed that Tellis “more than likely was inside (Hsiao’s) apartment.”

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NYT: What the Americans Drawn to ISIS Had in Common

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

Maybe they are all Muslims?

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* What, oh, what could be the subtle factors driving residents of the U.S. to enlist in ISIS? The New York Times offers a study of the diverse factors behind would-be ISIS terrorists.

* There’s a wrong assumption in the title of the article. I wonder how many ‘Americans’ drawn to ISIS think of themselves as such?

* The islamic world and the Christian world have been in conflict for over one thousand years. Given that reality why would any sane Western leader allow for the mass immigration of muslims into their nations?

* Even without the terrorism issue, I can think of many reasons not to want Muslims in our country. As group, they’re unassimilable, backward, and difficult to get along with. Many European countries have learned that the hard way. I most certainly don’t want Muslims in my country.

However, our “War on Terror” seems to have indiscriminately slaughtered a huge number of Muslim civilians, for no particular reason. I think if China invaded America and accidentally killed 1 million Americans, Americans would be slightly annoyed. It wouldn’t surprise me if some American troops overseas journeyed back home to fight back against Chinese forces.

Fareed Zakaria had a special called “Why they hate us” on CNN. He seemed to be completely oblivious to all the Muslim deaths from post-2001 wars. He’s not alone. Most Americans, especially our leaders, seem totally oblivious to this.

One final point. You see a lot of people here (such as Peter Frost) talking about the atrocities of Muslim immigrants (crime, sexual violence, Rotherham grooming, terrorism). While I see those as legitimate issues, I noticed there’s little (if any) discussion here on those 1.3 million deaths. The average person here seems not to lose much sleep over the mass slaughter their government is committing overseas. I’ve actually seen more discussion here on Ta Nehisi Coates than this issue.

I think if there were a little more self-awareness on this topic, a lot of problems could’ve been avoided. If Muslim immigration were stopped (or even reversed), that would be very helpful too.

* Right! That explains the murderous rampages in France and Belgium too! And the rapes in Germany! And the terror attacks in Bali! And the Philippines and Malaysia and Nigeria and everywhere else the Islamic world is next to anything else.

* thankfully the original report from fordham law tells us how many of them were muslim: all but one:

Case by Case – ISIS Prosecutions in the United States

you really gotta wonder if that one is the guy named joshua goldberg (pg. 11 of report)!

* Let’s say the Chinese overthrew the American government due to its historical racism against blacks. Then installed black leaders into power and gave them lots of guns . Then those black leaders ethnically cleansed whites and killed lots of them. Then whites retaliates and killed huge numbers of blacks. As this was happening, Chinese soldiers also killed lots of whites. Some of those whites were fighters, but many were just random civilians.

The Chinese could respond to that by pointing out Americans are racist, gun-crazy, and bizarre. It’s not really their fault that any of that happened. If they had to kill Americans, Americans deserved it.

Then Chinese produced a film called “Chinese Sniper.” The film glorified a Chinese soldier who shot lots of white American resistance fighters. Would you like the film?

Arabs and Muslims may be backward, violent, and oppressive. It doesn’t change the fact that our government totally destroyed a functioning country and turned it into hell.

* No Sunni and Shia don’t get along and if forced to mix will kill each other. This is a historical fact. This is why Iraq is segregated along ethnic and religious lines. Saddam kept them from murdering each other with a brutal police force. Afghanistan is also broken up along ethnic and sectarian lines and killing one another is their favorite pastime. Syria was similarly segregated and run by a religious/secular minority.

The only reason why Iran hasn’t invaded Iraq is because they already made Southern Iraq a Persian province. Iraq now a is a rump state composed of a crippled Sunni middle.

And thanks for neglecting the religious aspect that drives it all. Heaven forbid we mention the Koran commands to wage jihad until the entire world is Islamic or how it’s a express train to heaven for believers or it’s viewing of unbelievers as so much worthless scum with no value whatsoever except as a natural resource.

I just wonder how this aspect can be so neglected when it so heavily factors into Islam terrorism.

* But buried in the report is the information that 75% were “second-generation Americans.” (This is ambiguous. The report doesn’t define “second-generation,” but I’m guessing that it means children of people who came here from foreign countries, not the children of people whose parents came here. It also doesn’t say whether this is 75% of citizens or 75% of the total.)

By counting the faces in the NYT article, I’d estimate that 20-30 were either black or non-ME/Asian white. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there is a much higher correlation between immigration and ME/Asian background than between immigration and African or white background. So, I’m guessing that almost all the Middle-Eastern/Asian ISIS supporters were either recent migrants or the children of recent immigrants.

Hey, that gives me a great idea! How about a moratorium on immigration from Muslim countries!!

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WP: How not to handle a Donald Trump controversy, in 5 easy steps

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

Aaron Blake writes for the Washington Post:

The problem with the original tweet wasn’t that the use of a six-pointed star is inherently anti-Semitic. The problem was what else was contained in the tweet with the six-pointed star — the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” — and that the star was overlaid on top of a bunch of money. This brings to bear some of the most well-established stereotypes and racist beliefs about Jewish people and money.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, “One of the most damaging and lasting anti-Semitic myths involves the relationship between Jews and money. … Stereotypes about Jews hoarding money, rich media moguls exerting undue influence, and a disproportionate amount of wealth and control in the hands of the Jewish community are not only false, but are also dangerous.” The former head of the ADL, Abraham Foxman, even wrote a whole book about all this, called “Jews and Money: The Story of a Stereotype.”

Just how prevalent these stereotypes are can be hard to say with certainty, since people don’t like to admit their prejudices. But a 2011 poll conducted by the ADL showed 19 percent of Americans say it’s “probably true” that “Jews have too much control/influence on Wall Street.”

And the idea that Trump’s campaign is unfamiliar with this stereotype strains credulity. Even during the 2016 campaign, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has praised Trump for rejecting money from the “Jewish community” — citing its “control” of politics in America.

And then there’s the fact that the Clinton six-pointed-star image originated on a racist forum. There is a reason for that. The Trump campaign might not have plucked it from this forum — it says it found it on Twitter — or realized that the image might be deemed offensive, but it’s reasonable to assume it was created with some form of anti-Semitism in mind, given the content of the forum. It would be far too big a coincidence otherwise.

The “Frozen” defense is strawman politics, plain and simple. And it looks like it.

2) You would not jump into a delayed double-down

This story broke on a Saturday of a holiday weekend and just as easily could have petered out before people got back to work three days later, on the Tuesday after the Fourth of July. The campaign quickly deleted the tweet and replaced the star with a red circle — apparently acknowledging its fault. Reporters seeking comment on the flap, as usual, came up empty.

Then came the morning of the Fourth of July, and Trump decided to finally respond — on his Twitter feed, naturally.

Suddenly, Trump’s campaign was no longer accepting that this was a mistake and moving on. It was doubling down. Conflicting Signal No. 1.

3) You would not dismiss the potential for offense (hey — they got one!)

At the center of this controversy is Trump’s social media director, Dan Scavino. After Trump re-ignited the controversy the morning of the Fourth, Scavino issued his own statement that night — which explained where it came from and appeared to acknowledge the potentially offensive nature of the image.

Fair enough. The campaign maintained that the tweet wasn’t meant to offend — but basically suggested that it might offend and acknowledged that it was a poor choice. Hence the deletion.

4) You would not say that this thing your campaign deleted to avoid offending people should never have been deleted

Or not. Trump on Wednesday night basically threw his social media director under the bus.

“I said: ‘You shouldn’t have taken it down.’ You know, they took the star down,” Trump said in Cincinnati, according to The Post’s Jenna Johnson. “I said: ‘Too bad. You should have left it up.’ I would have rather defended it — just leave it up and say: No, that’s not a Star of David. That’s just a star.”

Aaron Blake complains that Trump’s original tweet “most well-established stereotypes and racist beliefs about Jewish people and money.”

Stereotypes are generally true. Jews are disproportionately successful with money and with wielding influence, including in politics. So in one sentence, Aaron Blake is saying that yes, stereotypes about Jews and money are generally true, but it is racist to believe the truth. Yeah, got it.

How is calling a belief “racist” a powerful argument? There are only two honorable forms of argument — to contest facts or logic. Name-calling is not honorable argument.

Aaron Blake quotes the ADL: “One of the most damaging and lasting anti-Semitic myths involves the relationship between Jews and money.”

So there is no out of the normal relationship between Jews and money? Jews are not more economically successful and influential than other groups? The ADL calls the facts of life a “myth” and “damaging.” How can truth be damaging? Only if it gets in the way of a con job. Then the truth is damaging to con artists.

ADL: “Stereotypes about Jews hoarding money, rich media moguls exerting undue influence, and a disproportionate amount of wealth and control in the hands of the Jewish community are not only false, but are also dangerous.”

So one man’s hoarding is another man’s saving. Jews do tend to be better than non-Jews at managing money. I don’t see why pointing out this fact of life is dangerous. Compared to their share of the population, Jews do have a disproportionate amount of wealth and power.

The ADL stands for lying to the goyim. Apparently, in the view of the ADL, only by lying to the goyim can Jews be safe.

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Obama Administration Joint Effort With Corporations Can Resettle Refugees Limitlessly

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

Daily Caller: The White House announced last week that it is launching a “Call to Action” asking private businesses to help with the resettlement of refugees. This could be done without regard to the government cap of 85,000 total refugees, including 10,000 Syrian refugees, in 2016.

Fifteen founding corporations have teamed up with the Obama administration on the effort. These are: Accenture, Airbnb, Chobani, Coursera, Goldman Sachs, Google, HP, IBM, JPMorgan Chase & Co., LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mastercard, UPS, TripAdvisor, and Western Union. The Call to Action initiative is not only to help refugees in the United States, but all over the world.

In Europe for example, Mastercard “worked with Mercy Corps to distribute prepaid debit cards to eligible refugees traveling through Serbia. Approximately $75,000 was distributed to nearly 400 families and individuals.” The three main facets of this private partnership program are: “education,” “employment,” and “enablement.” Education includes “facilitating refugee children and young adults’ education by ensuring that refugee students can access schools of all levels.” The employment facet includes “increasing employment opportunities for refugees.”

Through those two parts of the initiative refugees can be settled in the United States without limit as they wouldn’t fall under the purview of the government cap on refugee resettlement. Through work and education visas refugees would not actually be considered as refugees for their immigration status. One of the companies already partnered with the Obama administration, Chobani, currently has a work force in the United States that is roughly 30 percent resettled refugees. A White House fact sheet states 66 percent of refugees are of working age.

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