Kelvin Hernandez Mexican Cartels Lure American Teens as Killers LAREDO, Tex. — When he was finally caught, Rosalio Reta told detectives here that he had felt a thrill each time he killed. It was like being Superman or James Bond, he said. Gabriela Maldonado, whose son Gabriel Cardona became an assassin for a Mexican drug cartel as a teenager. “I like what I do,” he told the police in a videotaped confession.
US Marshals The movie US Marshals written by Kenneth Chisholm, holds a lot of criminal activity pertaining to rogue cops and framed murderers. The movie starts when a prisoner transport plane carrying Deputy Sam Gerard, and as a police escort crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan helps him rescue some trapped prisoners and then escapes himself. Soon after Gerard and his team begin pursuing Sheridan while he searches for the truth behind his incrimination. Gerard abruptly finds out that Sheridan is no mere criminal and begins to get more and more suspicious about what lies ahead of him. At the end of the movie Gerard put his evidence together and learns that Sheridan is an ex CIA operative accused of selling secrets to China.
Running head: Infiltrating the Mongols “Infiltrating the Mongols Motorcycle Gang” Gabriel A. Chavarria Bert Ouderkirk AJS 275 11/19/07 Abstract Special Agent William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a passion for motorcycles and a dislike for paperwork. Then one day when a “confidential informant” contacted his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando Valley chapter of the Mongols Motorcycle Gang. Queen quickly seized this opportunity, not realizing that he was beginning the most extensive undercover operation inside an outlaw motorcycle gang in the history of the ATF. This paper gives various details as to what took place during the span of this two and a half year operation which uncovered the Mongols Motorcycle Club as an organized crime group and yielded 53 convictions of its members. Infiltrating the Mongols Modern “outlaw motorcycle gangs” (OMG’s) are just as sophisticated, organized and dangerous as traditional Mafia families.
Much of Frank Lucas’s childhood life explains his motivation for living a life of crime. When he was 12 years old he witnessed the death of his cousin by the KKK for looking at a Caucasian woman in Greensboro, North Carolina (American Gangster True Story). Being young he was committing petty crimes until he engaged in a fight with his employer. He fled to New York where he drifted through petty crimes and pool hustling until gangster Bumpy Johnson took him under his wing. After Johnson’s death, Lucas broke the monopoly that the Italian mafia held in New York.
Thesis: Edward Snowden is a whistleblower, he is interested in the general welfare of the people and is willing to sacrifice his privileged life in the US for the protection of rights and safety of US citizens. Edward Snowden is a twenty-nine-year-old NSA(National Security Agency) contractor through the Oahu office in Hawaii. He discovered and began collecting top-secret documents regarding domestic surveillance practices the NSA had been performing. He fled to Hong Kong and began printing documents that he had leaked to them conveying spying practices against citizens of the US. The government reacted by charging Snowden under the Espionage Act, he is also seen as a heroic whistleblower looking out for his country.
This investigation is important in its historical context because the FBI’s involvement during the Civil Rights Movement can either defend or suspect the actions of civil rights activists and leaders. The FBI’s motivation was to infiltrate information on individuals who were suspected to be involved in crimes associated with communism. Dr. Martin Luther King had been highly suspected of communist relations and was kept under surveillance by the FBI under the director’s, J. Edgar Hoover, orders (Lovegrove, 120). This caused a controversy in believing whether King was a true civil rights activist or if the Bureau was really protecting civil rights. Much of the FBI’s attention was placed on black communities and activist leaders (O’Reilly, 261).
“The dust, the fear, the high threat level, the isolation-all of that was the surge the soldiers knew . . . Here, Cummings had another thought: ‘This place is a complete shithole’“ (Finkel 148-149). The frustration of the soldiers develops further as the conditions continue to be unbearable and now deadly.
Hale. John Wright doesn’t seem to be a happy fellow. Not much is said about this character, however; an overwhelming feeling of hatred and meanness radiates from him. Its as if he stiffens the very air he stood in. this very discontent feeling would further add to the very isolation the Glaspell is trying to portray.
The long-term unstable society and the cold war made them have the sense of lost. They began to suspect the democracy of their country. Facing this kind of frustration, their choices were not decadence, depression, but resistance. They disbelieved their government, hated the Vietnam War, but they were still patriotic. Although the Counterculture Movement had many negative factors, such as decadent, crackers, vulgar and mysterious, which caused a bad effect on the youth, behind the decadent lifestyle, they had the motivated and raging dreams.
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