Holland Tulip Time Organizer Thomas Westerlund Found Guilty of Child Pornography and Child Molestation

Guess that’s one way to bring Dutch culture to the US…

In our little Bible Belt of western Michigan, there lives a serpent in the garden. A good Christian man, known and loved by many, former organizer of Holland’s happy little Tulip Festival, is in reality a predatory pedophile of the first water. Thomas Westerlund, kindly avuncular, avid sailboat enthusiast, Grand Haven Township resident sits like a spider atop a web of child pornography. Back on March 25, the feast of the Annunciation of Our Lady, to be precise, Westerlund responded to a charge of providing alcohol to a juvenile male.

The story unfolds that Zeeland police, after searching Westerlund’s home, vehicle, sailboat and Tulip Time offices, uncovered a nasty mess of pictures, DVDs, CDs, and Internet porn downloaded on various hard drives. This wasn’t just a case of finding one Barely Legal magazine. Westerlund has apparently made a thorough job of amassing a wealth of child porn. And child porn isn’t the end of it; Westerlund faces child molestation charges as well. This is not a case of misunderstanding, planting evidence or questionable guilt.

I’d read about Mr. Tulip Time when the story first came out. Now I read that Westerlund is demanding that ‘evidence collected in the search be thrown out due to faulty search warrants’. Apparently, probable cause wasn’t given. If that isn’t a case of perverting justice for one’s own end, I don’t know what is. Does it matter how the material was obtained? I’m very glad that it was obtained; I don’t care if it was obtained by a burglar or a breaking and entering. This man is a menace to society and to our children. Does he have civil liberties and should they supersede the multitude of children he has poisoned? I’m not in favor of vigilante justice, but it sure is tempting.

I’ll put it out there; I’m setting out to bring this guy down. I’ll be a one-woman crusade if necessary. My goal is to get persons like this incarcerated with no chance for parole. It’s not about hatred, it’s about safety. Pedophilia is toxic. It’s like a contagious disease; it spreads. It threatens the core of our being.

Cop punches restrained woman in the face 4 times

“To serve and protect.” Nothing like beating up a middle aged woman.

From the video captured by two Millville Police car dashboard cameras, emerge two very different versions of what happened in the pre-dawn hours of February 3, 2008.

The just-released video (see left) is at the center of a lawsuit in which Sheila Stevenson, 42, claims she became the victim of excessive force, after then-Millville Police Officer Carlo Drogo pulled her over for illegally riding her bicycle on a sidewalk.

In the course of trying to handcuff Stevenson, the video shows Drogo as he sprays himself in the face with pepper spray and she appears to push him. Drogo then appears to knock Stevenson to the ground to subdue her. Drogo is seen, seemingly doubled over in pain, as other officers arrive.

“I am not doing nothing,” Stevenson screamed on the video.

“Put your hands behind your back,” one of the other officers ordered.

“Can you not do this? I’m not doing nothing! I’m not doing nothing,” she wailed.

Seconds later, Drogo approaches Stevenson again and appears to punch her four times.

“Why are you hitting me? You’re hitting me! Why are you hitting me?” Stevenson cried out. “Why did you hit me and I’m handcuffed?”

Stevenson was eventually led away by officers and put into a police cruiser. She was later convicted of resisting arrest.

Stevenson’s civil suit, filed in Cumberland County Superior Court in December, names Drogo, other Millville Police officers and the city of Millville as defendants.

READ: Stevenson’s Civil Suit Complaint

Stevenson’s lawyer would not comment on the case, nor would Millville’s Police chief, citing pending litigation.

Drogo resigned from the police department in October for undisclosed reasons. He would not talk with NBC 10 News on-camera, but issued a statement in which he stood by his actions and called Stevenson’s allegations a distortion of the facts.

READ: Drogo’s Statement to NBC10

Drogo also insisted the arrest was lawful and described Stevenson’s lawsuit as frivolous.

Meanwhile, there’s now a warrant out for Stevenson’s arrest on drug possession charges, stemming from her encounter with police that was caught on camera.

Heather Locklear Arrested After “Concerned Citizen” Calls CHP

Fame, fortune, drugs and failure. Why can’t white people ever stay out of trouble?

Former Melrose Place cougar Heather Locklear picked the wrong place for a meltdown this weekend.

The small-screen star was arrested around 5 p.m. Saturday after California Highway Patrol officers found her parked car blocking traffic in Montecito, Calif., a tony enclave near Santa Barbara.

According to the incident report, a “concerned citizen” called police after witnessing Locklear, 47, “driving forwards and backwards over a pair of sunglasses and revving her engine” in a parking lot.

The witness then came upon Locklear again on the road.

“The citizen became concerned when Ms. Locklear exited her vehicle and stumbled into the traffic lane…the citizen called 911 and reported the entire incident to CHP Ventura Dispatch.”

When officers arrived Locklear appeared disoriented, per the report, and after giving her a sobriety test they determined she was not suffering the side effects of a booze binge.

“Although obvious impairment was exhibited during the tests, alcohol was ruled out as a factor,” the CHP said in a statement. Locklear was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence and taken to the Santa Barbara CHP office.

“She was evaluated by a drug recognition expert, who concluded Ms. Locklear was under the influence of a controlled substance, and could not safely operate a motor vehicle,” CHP said in a statement.

Locklear’s publicist declined to comment on the arrest.

The former Spin City fixture was booked at the Santa Barbara County Jail. She was released at 11 p.m. Saturday on $5,000 bail.

In June, Locklear checked into a rehab center in Arizona for anxiety and depression. She returned home after one month at the Sierra Tucson treatment facilty

White teen charged with killing family after break up with girlfriend

Why are young white males so prone to violence? He’ll have plenty of new girlfriends in jail….

EASLEY, S.C. – A teenager who had recently moved back home after breaking up with his live-in girlfriend is accused of gunning down and killing four family members, stunning friends and neighbors.

Nathaniel Dickson, 18, was arrested Saturday night at a home in Belton about 20 miles from where the bodies of his father, stepmother, stepsister and younger brother were found, authorities said.

Those who knew Dickson grappled with how the quiet teen who loved video games and sports now was charged with four counts of murder.

“I can’t put my finger on what happened,” said Melissa Funk, whose 16-year-old son, Robbie, was good friends with both the suspect and the youngest victim. “It’s not what I’ve known him to be.”

Authorities would not discuss a possible motive.

“I’m going to have this case tried in the courtroom, not out on the streets,” Anderson County Sheriff David Crenshaw said Sunday.

The suspect’s mother, Patricia Dickson, screamed and cried as he appeared before a county magistrate on a closed-circuit television for a brief hearing Sunday night, the Anderson Independent-Mail reported.

The teen remained motionless as the judge read him his rights and said a higher-level judge would hear any request for bail. He did not have an attorney at the hearing.

Dickson’s father was found shot early Saturday in the yard of his one-story house in a wooded neighborhood just outside of Easley.

Samuel Andrew Dickson Jr., 46, died as paramedics arrived. Officers then went inside and found the bodies of his wife, Martiza Hurtado Dickson, 46; Melissa Giliam Salazar, 19; and Taylor Dickson, 14. All had been shot to death.

One victim was found behind a clothes dryer, apparently trying to hide when slain. Authorities refuse to say how many times the victims were shot or release other details.

Dickson is the only suspect, and more charges could be filed against him, the sheriff said.

Dickson graduated from high school last year and moved in with his girlfriend, working a series of fast-food and restaurant jobs. The two broke up, and Dickson moved back in with his parents about two weeks ago, said Funk, who wasn’t sure whether he had a current job.

Neighbors said the family was quiet and kept to itself. Joyce Allen’s husband worked with Samuel Dickson, who went by Andy. The elder Dickson was an electrician with Vulcan Materials, a company that provides sand, gravel and crushed stone for construction.

Dickson didn’t say much at work, keeping to himself. Most of Allen’s memories are of him with his sons.

“He was crazy, crazy, crazy about those kids,” Allen said. “I’d see him running up and down the road, taking them to ball games.”

Taylor Dickson had just made one of the junior varsity baseball teams at Wren High School.

Neighbors said Martiza Dickson was a native of Colombia and worked as a translator. Melissa Salazar was attending a nearby technical college, Funk said.

Naked White Man Goes on a Rampage

I’m sure theres a perfectly logical explanation for this…..

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A hotel and grocery store are assessing the damage after a naked man ran amok and allegedly did thousands of dollars’ worth of damage.

West Lampeter Township police said they were dispatched to the Willow Valley Resort, and later Darrenkamp’s Market, on Friday amid reports of a nude man on a rampage.

Some office space at the resort was trashed, and a forklift was driven into an interior wall, also damaging an overhead sewer pipe, authorities said.

Police said the suspect, whom they identified as Nicholas Hadzick, 28, of Freeland, then crossed the street and entered Darrenkamp’s in the Willow Valley Shopping Center, causing more destruction.

Joe Darrenkamp, company president, said Hadzick threw chairs and tossed a 300-pound pizza oven to the floor, as well as three scales, valued at about $7,000 each. Also damaged was a $90,000 meat-wrapping machine, several soda coolers and the windshield of a delivery truck.

The incident was captured on the market’s surveillance cameras, Darrenkamp said. He estimated the cost of the damage at about $40,000.

Police charged Hadzick, who had been a guest at the resort, with risking a catastrophe, criminal mischief, open lewdness, public drunkenness and related counts. He was being held on $200,000 bail.

Telephone messages left at three phone listings for a Nicholas Hadzick in the Freeland area were not returned.

Michael Donovan charged with kidnapping Shannon Matthews

Business as usual.

A 39-year-old man has been charged with kidnapping and falsely imprisoning schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.

Michael Donovan, a former computer programmer who now lives on disability benefits, will appear in Dewsbury Magistrates Court this morning charged with snatching the nine-year-old on February 19.

	Mick Donovan is led away from Halifax magistrates’ court

Mr Donovan, formerly known as Paul Drake, is an uncle of Shannon’s stepfather Craig Meehan.

Peter Mann, Head of CPS West and North Yorkshire Complex Case Unit, said: “Having carefully considered all of the material supplied by West Yorkshire Police, we have made the decision that there is sufficient evidence and have authorised that Michael Donovan be charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment.

“We will continue to keep this case under constant review as it develops.”

It has also emerged that Shannon was kept unaware of the massive search for her as she was held captive in a dingy flat for 24 days.

Although there was a television in the premises, the nine-year-old was prevented from watching news programmes.

A senior police source told The Daily Telegraph: “We believe she was kept totally incommunicado. There was a TV in there, but we suspect she wasn’t allowed to watch any news.”

The source also disclosed how police had feared Shannon could have been in imminent danger before officers broke down the door and found her hidden in the base of a divan bed on Friday.

The disclosures came as Sir Norman Bettison, the chief constable of West Yorkshire police, hit back at those criticising his force over claims that officers ignored leads regarding Shannon’s whereabouts. He described them as “fantasists”.

Instead he singled out for praise the two officers who found her, said he was “immensely satisfied and immensely proud” of his investigative team and dismissed accusations of a lack of professionalism.

Shannon remained in police care as two female detectives gently tried to coax more information from her about her ordeal.

	Shannon Matthews’s mother Karen returns home yesterday

Sir Norman said the three-week long investigation involved searching 3,000 houses and interviewing 6,000 people, mostly within a mile radius of Dewsbury Moor, West Yorks.

He said officers had received 2,000 calls from the public “with just a hook in there about a weirdo, paedophile, living at X or living at Y”.

He said the “painstaking investigation” to find Shannon reached its conclusion when “the jigsaw pieces came together” last Thursday, throwing up the address of Michael Donovan, Shannon’s stepfather’s uncle.

Two officers, Det Cons Paul Kettlewell and Nick Townsend, both members of the force’s homicide and major inquiry team, visited his house in Batley Carr, Dewsbury, a mile from Shannon’s house, but there was no reply.

They began questioning neighbours who told them for the first time they had heard child’s footsteps in the flat and, keeping it under surveillance, asked for back-up before smashing the door in.

Sir Norman rounded on critics who claim police were given Mr Donovan’s name early in the investigation and ignored it.

He said: “People who might have said, that have been quoted as having given the police the whole jigsaw, the box lid, are fantasising.”

	Telegraph TV: Police chief defends professionalism of his force in hunt for Shannon Matthews

He said Shannon was “safe and well and in the place where she is the safest at the moment”. She is being questioned in a child-friendly interview suite and questions are being kept to a maximum of two hours a day.

Her mother, Karen, 32, who has only been able to glimpse her through a one-way mirror, said: “I can’t wait to have my daughter back.”

She said that when she saw Shannon she was in “scraggy clothes” and her hair had not been brushed.

She said: “It was very hard not to be able to talk to her. When I first saw Shannon again I was overwhelmed – I just couldn’t stop crying.”

Iraq war 5th anniversary Poll : 7 out of 10 Iraqis want White terrorists out

After 5 years of terrorist occupation, no less. Would white people accept a a brutal foreign occupation of their countries ?

LONDON (AFP) – More than two-thirds of Iraqis believe US-led coalition forces should leave, according to a poll conducted for British television ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

The ORB/Channel 4 News survey suggested that 70 percent thought multinational forces should withdraw.

Yet some 40 percent of the 4,000 people surveyed said they wanted the United States to play a bigger role in rebuilding Iraq and 36 percent wanted more British involvement.

Overall, the wide-ranging poll painted a mixed picture of Iraqi attitudes, contrasting their bleak daily existence with a surprisingly positive attitude about the future.

It threw up stark statistics on the human cost of war, which began on March 20, 2003, its effect on infrastructure and daily life, plus the bloody sectarian violence that erupted in the aftermath of the invasion.

A quarter of those surveyed said they had lost a family member to murder. In Baghdad, that figure rose to nearly half (45 percent).

Some 81 percent had suffered power cuts and 43 percent had experienced drinking water shortages. In the last month, more than a quarter (28 percent) had been short of food.

Opinions varied on progress towards democracy.

Less than a quarter (23 percent) thought military action would prove to have been in Iraq’s long-term interests but 55 percent were optimistic about the future — although 48 percent of the minority Sunni were not.

Some 45 percent said they were satisfied with the pace of change, compared with 40 percent who were not; and just over two-thirds (68 percent) predicted Iraq would “one day be peaceful and normal.”

Four out of five people said their own area was already trouble-free.

- ORB and its local partner IIACSS interviewed 4,000 Iraqis in person between February 24 and March 5.

Spitzer call girl reportedly identified

Just another example of how white culture destroys young woman. Tragic, really. 

NEW YORK – The call girl at the center of the prostitution scandal that prompted Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign in disgrace has been identified as a 22-year-old aspiring musician who struggled in a broken home as a child.

The New York Times reported that the real name of the woman — identified as “Kristen” in court papers alleging that Spitzer paid thousands of dollars for her services — is Ashley Alexandra Dupre.

Don D. Buchwald, a New York lawyer, confirmed to The Associated Press that he represents Dupre, but he wouldn’t comment further.

Law enforcement officials have said Spitzer had a Feb. 13 tryst with Kristen and paid her $4,300, according to court papers. Spitzer said Wednesday that he’s resigning.

Dupre briefly spoke to the Times about the Spitzer scandal but didn’t offer details on her involvement in it.

“I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” Dupre told the Times. “This has been a very difficult time. It’s complicated.”

Dupre told the newspaper she had slept very little since the allegations against Spitzer were revealed, and she declined to comment when asked by the Times when she first met him and how many times they had been together.

She told the Times she was worried about paying her rent in a ninth-floor Manhattan apartment since her boyfriend recently left her. She said she was considering moving back in with her family in New Jersey.

A man who answered the phone at her mother’s home in New Jersey and identified himself as Dupre’s brother told The Associated Press he had no idea why Dupre would agree to be interviewed in the scandal.

“She’s just trying to get through this,” he said. “We are all trying to be supportive of her.”

Dupre’s MySpace page provides a window into her life as she went from a broken home in New Jersey to a music career in the city.

“I have been alone,” she wrote. “I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music.”

In an Aug. 30 blog posting on MySpace, she wrote: “The past few months have been a roller coaster with so called friends, lovers, and family … but its something you have to deal with and confront in order to move on …”

“What destroys me strengthens me” is the slogan next to a photograph of her. The photos show her at various places, including in a bikini on a boat in a tropical locale. The number of hits to the page soared by the tens of thousands after the story broke, and many recent postings to her page ridiculed her.

Dupre describes her favorite musical artists as Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera and Frank Sinatra, among many others.

Her Web site boasts a recording of a song, “What We Want.”

“I know what you want, you got what I want,” she sings. “I know what you need. Can you handle me?”

Records show she lives in Manhattan a luxury rental skyscraper called The Chelsea Landmark, where a gaggle of reporters and TV trucks quickly gathered Wednesday night. Rents there start at $3500 a month for a small studio, neighbors said. The 35-story building opened less than a year ago.

The apartments feature imported Italian tiles, 9-foot ceilings and floor-to-ceiling corner windows. The building has a gym with a whirlpool and yoga and Pilates studios.

Dupre apparently appeared in federal court Monday as a witness in the case against four people accused of operating the Emperors Club VIP prostitution ring.

White woman lived for months with dead partner

 Creepy

VIENNA (Reuters) – A 66-year-old Austrian woman lived for almost a year with the corpse of her 85-year-old partner, APA news agency said Wednesday.

Police found the remains of the man in the couple’s small vacation cottage in the eastern village of St Andrae am Zicksee Tuesday, swaddled in blankets with the dwelling reeking of decomposition odors.

The woman had told a local doctor and neighbors who tried to contact the man since last March that he was abroad. APA said police were looking into whether the woman concealed his death in order to collect his pension payments.

The dead man was separated from his wife, who had also tried to contact him, APA said.

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