Re Justin M. Ruhge: Thank you. I recently spent seven weeks in Cottage Hospital with deadly Sepsis. I came out of it with the greatest respect for the frontline health workers in Santa Barbara. We have amazing people in Santa Barbara working long, long hours here to save lives and make hospital stays more positive - from the doctors to the RNs to the clean up people. And then we have these elected officials like Laura Capps who carries on as though she and her parasitic bunch of guaranteed vote unionists have given so much to Santa Barbara that there is no financial reward good enough for them. And no demolition of our streets good enough for the Next Door lobbyists who want more, more, more affordable housing and bicycle lanes to the beach so they can sit on their sun washed asses and write nasty things on Reddit or Next Door about anyone who criticizes their mistress Laura and Co. When was the last time any of them worked a brutal twelve hour shift and saved lives? When did they change a bed pan with a smile? When did they do anything but manipulate for more for themselves?
Our healthcare system can be good and can save lives. Your experience was a good one with a happy ending and I am glad. However, remember that these same doctors have pushed the horrendous covid injections with very few exceptions. My doctor of 25 years wont even see me anymore because I questioned the wisdom of getting booster shots after recovering from covid. So much good did the primary two shots. Getting those shots was the biggest mistake I ever made and it was passionately urged by my now ex doctor and might I say total piece of shit IMHO. In the future some Dr might help me with my heart problems or blood clots brought on by the covid shots. The biggest problem with our healthcare is that the patient is no longer the customer and has given up all agency. The insurance company or Medicare or Medicaid is the customer and that is where your healthcare decisions are made.
I hear you, in fact my feelings about the medical-industrial-complex were very negative when I went into Cottage. But the healthcare people I dealt with at Cottage completely renewed my faith. I sent you an email about our Primary Dr. who we really like. I'm not Covid vaxed, btw, and have never gotten any flack from him.
so glad to hear you beat it! sepsis is a tough one…have you tried Ivermectin (Nobel Priz winning miracle drug)…I’m no doctor, but understand that Sepsis is usually caused by bacterial infections but may be the result of other infections such as viruses, parasites or fungi… “While primarily known as an antiparasitic drug, ivermectin has shown some antibacterial activity. However, it is important to note that its use for bacterial infections is not a standard treatment and further research is needed.” I’ve been taking Ivermectin since 2020. Be in good health, we need You
Aw, that means so much to me, DL, thank you! Ivermectin is great and I have taken it for other things. But I had Septic shock and (yuck, don't keep reading this if you get queasy) Flesh Eating Bacteria from a ruptured hernia I didn't know I had. The only way to keep me from dying or losing limbs was surgery, and the surgeon was amazing. I was in an induced coma for four days and my husband was told I had a 50/50 chance. They were all amazed I came through so well, no damage. One dr told me it was as though I fell out a fifth floor window, hit the sidewalk, got up and walked away.
Wow! Tough Cookie…like I said, I think your an old soul, and we all chose to be here in this momentous time…we’re near the end of the movie, and your gonna love the way it unfolds…
I missed the original post, but I'm guessing someone started a boycott of Mollies Deli because she is advertising on the SB Current??
That's plain nuts and just a crappy example of the dark side of social media. 50% of the country voted differently than any of us did. What, we're not going to teach their kids? Put the fire out on their house? Go to Church with them?
We change things in politics by the way we vote. Not where we eat.
Thanks for the recap from a busy week Jim. Especially of note; “Public Employee Benefits Breaking the Taxpayer Bank” was on the money and was echoed this morning by Bill Macfayden in Noozehawk. It would seem 2 SB City Employees made off with $800k in parting gifts heading out the door. And then to top it off, City Officials are unable to comment or inform their citizens as to why.
What a sham, pay off employees in the form of hush money and then go radio silent as to the details. Looks and feels like a cover up to me, why has our District Attorney not taken action on this fleecing of public funds?
We are a tipping point with public employees and the only remedy seems to be increasing taxes and decreasing services. People have had enough!
I recall the story of the fireman's boot. Hung on a hook each night the boots told the story of life in selfless public service. Each scuff told a tale of self sacrifice and unselfish devotion to serving the public. Tearfully, I then remembered the story of the plumber's boot and then I thought of the roofer's boot then of the carpenter's boot of the butcher's boot and then my eyes dried. Of all honorable pursuits it is those employed by the government that seem most prone to self aggrandizement. Most recently the county supervisors claim to even think about work while on the toilet. This certainly justifies a 50% raise don't you think?
And yet Santa Barbara voted for every bond, tax increase, fee increase or other government funding scheme on the ballot. This is necessary to keep police, fire and 911 service operational don't you know. Are the Democrats in this town naive or recipients of government benefits or government employees or employees of the college or employed by some NGO scheme to save the world with someone else's money? Apparently two thirds of ouy county and state are either receiving material benefits from the government or else are believing the spew that basic services will end without further bloating government. I understand the votes of those on the payroll, but those naive voters that believe the chicken little stories dusted off each election to scare voters into approving more revenue for government are unbelievably naive for believing such spew.
The concentrated Isla Vista/UCSB vote remains a local game changer in many of our local elections. Government additionally is our biggest local employer, thus the source of most campaign energies.
I seldom, if ever, post public comments or replies. I don’t engage in social media. I don’t know how I began receiving the SB Current articles, but, I mostly appreciate the articles and posts reflecting conservative views. Sadly, very sadly, I was taken aback by Mr. Ruhge’s comments about the “bane” of civil service unions. To confirm why I took his comments to heart, I checked Dictionary.com to see the definition of the word he used, “bane.” “A person or thing that ruins or spoils.” Wow!
Since being gainfully employed, I have been a member of 3 unions. Over the past 38 years, and counting, I have worn the uniform of a public (civil) servant. My unions negotiated for fair and competitive salaries and benefits, just as, I assume, your advocates negotiated for your salary and benefits.
I don’t complain about what I’ve seen and heard working as a public servant over the course of the last 4 decades. I’m grateful, proud, and feel rewarded for having been given the privilege to serve the community where I grew up.
I’m thankful that a modest pension awaits me and may help sustain my family and me into retirement.
I respect and admire that you have worked as an aerospace engineer. Surely, you attained that position due to extensive education and training, and deserve the salary and benefits that you enjoy.
Considering the civil service pension that I will one day enjoy, I suspect that you have more money in your wallet, than I will ever have in my bank account.
I encourage you not to paint your ideological canvas with such a broad brush.
Pension? Who gets pensions? My pension is what I have saved and I was never a member of any union. Unions corrupt the free market supply-demand balance which demands that compensation match the supply of skilled labor. Unions corrupt the process, limit supply and force members to pay for activism they may not ideologically support. Unions are truly a bane and fit the definition perfectly, thanks for looking it up. I understand your posture though, it comes in an envelope each month.
No mention of the taxpayers who take from their own resources to provide you with your employment and lifetime benefits, Marty?
No mention your government employee unions now sit on both sides of the bargaining table, after learning how to game elections of the very people your unions now bargain with? I am unmoved by your iterations of the benefits you have obtained by this inherently self-serving and corrupt system, with nary a thank you or even recognition who in fact is providing you these benefits.
Clue: it was not your beloved "unions" who provided your stated benefits, but in fact it has aways been the tax payers - and your taxpayer bosses are not happy with their return on their mandatory investments in your own well-being. Nothing personal here, you may well be among the many competent and qualified "public servants" that any form of limited government requires.
But today this entire public employment sector structure demands a complete overhaul. Nothing will prevent this from happening, and this is where you can help the process by broadening your understanding about the full dynamics that have kept this unsustainable system in place: the willingness of taxpayers to continue to support what unionized public employment has become today.
Early this morning I read Jim Buckley's Letters to the Editor and these
comments caught my eye and I quote from same ..........
"The biggest problem the Democrats have is they believe their own press releases, which are now totally devoid from reality. As set out in detail in this very article. This detachment from reality shows up even here, when Democrat ideologues hurl patent invective against their own cartoon versions of MAGA, Trump supporters, Fox TV viewers and/or Orangeman cult members. They seem to relish in the spew, for the spew's sake. AND May Democrats continue down their own self-inflicted path of destruction. The country has now moved well beyond the railings of their inauthentic ravings."
I provide you with our CALI Leaders "RAVINGS" that "Wisdom Is A Butterfly .. Not A Bird of Prey"
I think this guy is Certifiably CRAZY and I use GAVI'S Own Words "Point Made I Hope"
The most dangerously rogue judges in the U.S. are those sitting in District Court seats. They can act alone and it's hideously expensive and time-consuming to appeal their often highly-partisan decisions. Less than 1% of all decisions spewing forth from federal courts make it to the Supremes for final review. For a Democrat Party with little going for it at the moment, taking the judicial route to randomly block the Trump agenda mandated by the electorate is the only arrow left in its quiver. As we've discovered in the last two decades, our court system does respond to political pressure. The winds are at Trump's back right now. Schumer's acquiescence to the Republican continuing spending resolution is evidence of that. I think most of these lawfare roadblocks eventually will be swept aside.
Well said, but Methinks the most dangerous rogue judges are sitting on the Supreme Court…we got lucky, imagine if HRC installed: [2+] SUPREME Court Justices, 200+ judges, rogue elements expanded inside DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, WH, STATE, …….removal 2nd amendment, border etc. ……… America for sale: China, Russia, Iran, Syria…….ISIS & AL Q expansion…….expansion surv of domestic citizens…….modify/change voter rules and regulations allow illegals+ballot harvesting w/ SC backed liberal-social opinion………sell off of military to highest bidder to fight internal long-standing wars……..and on & on…
For those of us that pay the astronomical amount for property taxes, we should be up in arms. The salary that we are paying to those government employees is absurd. The fact that they can give themselves raises is ridiculous and a disgraceful.
Don't over look how many government employee union contracts guarantee automatic COLA.
When inflation is gouging non-government employees and no one is getting raises, government employees do get an automatic backdoor"raise" by contract, that keeps up with inflation. Even when this last round of inflation was created by Democrat policies themselves - printing more money than the economy could absorb.
But government employees getting automatic COLA could truthfully claim ....what inflation?... since their union contracts let them ride this recent bout of inflation with nary a pause in their own personal spending. It should come as no surprise government employees do love their unions.
Marty, looking at Transparent California... You put your life on the line for us, thank you. This is a very big difference from other government employees we (I'm) talking about.
😆. Thank you for your “clue.” I feel enlightened, now.
Walk in my boots, on a dark graveyard shift, not knowing what human tragedy, ugliness, or danger is around the next corner. Oh. And do that while you abandon your own family on nights, weekends, holidays, kids’ sporting events, etcetera. As I said, I’m not complaining. I’m proud, and grateful.
Hey. I don’t like high taxes, either. Just like I don’t like paying high prices for auto body repair, a plumber changing out a water heater, or a doctor giving me life-maintaining or life-saving medical care. But, I pay for the service I need.
I guess we just have to agree to disagree. We obviously see life through our own biased lenses.
Marty Ensign, Transparent California shows taxpayers have already thanked you for your ten years of service. One assumes you knew what the job entailed when you signed up for it. Just like roofers, and others in high risk occupations.
I appreciate your service Deputy Ensign. This is nothing personal. I too served on weekends, holidays, missing family events for over 40 years, saving those critically injured. The difference being representation…I had none, other than myself. The contention is the rigged game of how collective bargaining works in the public sector, built in COLA etc. During contract negotiations in the public sphere, both parties are sitting on the same side of the table. All along while the Democratic machine is complacent in outrageous employee salaries while getting political cover in return. Yes, a self fulfilling prophecy, leaving the rest of us on the hook.
This is crazy. They are raiding dorm rooms and arresting people who are LEGALLY here because they are anti war. And you people support this? What is wrong with y'all? I thought you stood for freedom.
Arrested because they are on a university campus instigating violence.
Even if you believe Israel is wrong or the Palestine’s are wrong doesn’t give you the right to go to a public campus which is paid by us, the tax payers and cause violence
What a bunch of bullshit. The ones being arrested were peaceful. They committed no crime. They were not violent. Your last sentence is true, but it's irrelevant to my comment and to what is happening. What crime did Mahmoud Khalil commit? When was Dr. Rasha Alawieh 'violent'?
Re Justin M. Ruhge: Thank you. I recently spent seven weeks in Cottage Hospital with deadly Sepsis. I came out of it with the greatest respect for the frontline health workers in Santa Barbara. We have amazing people in Santa Barbara working long, long hours here to save lives and make hospital stays more positive - from the doctors to the RNs to the clean up people. And then we have these elected officials like Laura Capps who carries on as though she and her parasitic bunch of guaranteed vote unionists have given so much to Santa Barbara that there is no financial reward good enough for them. And no demolition of our streets good enough for the Next Door lobbyists who want more, more, more affordable housing and bicycle lanes to the beach so they can sit on their sun washed asses and write nasty things on Reddit or Next Door about anyone who criticizes their mistress Laura and Co. When was the last time any of them worked a brutal twelve hour shift and saved lives? When did they change a bed pan with a smile? When did they do anything but manipulate for more for themselves?
Our healthcare system can be good and can save lives. Your experience was a good one with a happy ending and I am glad. However, remember that these same doctors have pushed the horrendous covid injections with very few exceptions. My doctor of 25 years wont even see me anymore because I questioned the wisdom of getting booster shots after recovering from covid. So much good did the primary two shots. Getting those shots was the biggest mistake I ever made and it was passionately urged by my now ex doctor and might I say total piece of shit IMHO. In the future some Dr might help me with my heart problems or blood clots brought on by the covid shots. The biggest problem with our healthcare is that the patient is no longer the customer and has given up all agency. The insurance company or Medicare or Medicaid is the customer and that is where your healthcare decisions are made.
I hear you, in fact my feelings about the medical-industrial-complex were very negative when I went into Cottage. But the healthcare people I dealt with at Cottage completely renewed my faith. I sent you an email about our Primary Dr. who we really like. I'm not Covid vaxed, btw, and have never gotten any flack from him.
Sure glad you're now ok kiddo.
Thank you, Earl!
so glad to hear you beat it! sepsis is a tough one…have you tried Ivermectin (Nobel Priz winning miracle drug)…I’m no doctor, but understand that Sepsis is usually caused by bacterial infections but may be the result of other infections such as viruses, parasites or fungi… “While primarily known as an antiparasitic drug, ivermectin has shown some antibacterial activity. However, it is important to note that its use for bacterial infections is not a standard treatment and further research is needed.” I’ve been taking Ivermectin since 2020. Be in good health, we need You
Aw, that means so much to me, DL, thank you! Ivermectin is great and I have taken it for other things. But I had Septic shock and (yuck, don't keep reading this if you get queasy) Flesh Eating Bacteria from a ruptured hernia I didn't know I had. The only way to keep me from dying or losing limbs was surgery, and the surgeon was amazing. I was in an induced coma for four days and my husband was told I had a 50/50 chance. They were all amazed I came through so well, no damage. One dr told me it was as though I fell out a fifth floor window, hit the sidewalk, got up and walked away.
Wow! Tough Cookie…like I said, I think your an old soul, and we all chose to be here in this momentous time…we’re near the end of the movie, and your gonna love the way it unfolds…
What makes a movie GOOD?
GREAT actors?
Enjoy The Show!
I missed the original post, but I'm guessing someone started a boycott of Mollies Deli because she is advertising on the SB Current??
That's plain nuts and just a crappy example of the dark side of social media. 50% of the country voted differently than any of us did. What, we're not going to teach their kids? Put the fire out on their house? Go to Church with them?
We change things in politics by the way we vote. Not where we eat.
Thanks for the recap from a busy week Jim. Especially of note; “Public Employee Benefits Breaking the Taxpayer Bank” was on the money and was echoed this morning by Bill Macfayden in Noozehawk. It would seem 2 SB City Employees made off with $800k in parting gifts heading out the door. And then to top it off, City Officials are unable to comment or inform their citizens as to why.
What a sham, pay off employees in the form of hush money and then go radio silent as to the details. Looks and feels like a cover up to me, why has our District Attorney not taken action on this fleecing of public funds?
We are a tipping point with public employees and the only remedy seems to be increasing taxes and decreasing services. People have had enough!
Thanks for the review of the insanity surrounding us "normal" thinkers.
I recall the story of the fireman's boot. Hung on a hook each night the boots told the story of life in selfless public service. Each scuff told a tale of self sacrifice and unselfish devotion to serving the public. Tearfully, I then remembered the story of the plumber's boot and then I thought of the roofer's boot then of the carpenter's boot of the butcher's boot and then my eyes dried. Of all honorable pursuits it is those employed by the government that seem most prone to self aggrandizement. Most recently the county supervisors claim to even think about work while on the toilet. This certainly justifies a 50% raise don't you think?
And yet Santa Barbara voted for every bond, tax increase, fee increase or other government funding scheme on the ballot. This is necessary to keep police, fire and 911 service operational don't you know. Are the Democrats in this town naive or recipients of government benefits or government employees or employees of the college or employed by some NGO scheme to save the world with someone else's money? Apparently two thirds of ouy county and state are either receiving material benefits from the government or else are believing the spew that basic services will end without further bloating government. I understand the votes of those on the payroll, but those naive voters that believe the chicken little stories dusted off each election to scare voters into approving more revenue for government are unbelievably naive for believing such spew.
The concentrated Isla Vista/UCSB vote remains a local game changer in many of our local elections. Government additionally is our biggest local employer, thus the source of most campaign energies.
"And yet Santa Barbara voted for every bond, tax increase, fee increase or other government funding scheme on the ballot."
So who's to blame? The stupid voters!
I seldom, if ever, post public comments or replies. I don’t engage in social media. I don’t know how I began receiving the SB Current articles, but, I mostly appreciate the articles and posts reflecting conservative views. Sadly, very sadly, I was taken aback by Mr. Ruhge’s comments about the “bane” of civil service unions. To confirm why I took his comments to heart, I checked Dictionary.com to see the definition of the word he used, “bane.” “A person or thing that ruins or spoils.” Wow!
Since being gainfully employed, I have been a member of 3 unions. Over the past 38 years, and counting, I have worn the uniform of a public (civil) servant. My unions negotiated for fair and competitive salaries and benefits, just as, I assume, your advocates negotiated for your salary and benefits.
I don’t complain about what I’ve seen and heard working as a public servant over the course of the last 4 decades. I’m grateful, proud, and feel rewarded for having been given the privilege to serve the community where I grew up.
I’m thankful that a modest pension awaits me and may help sustain my family and me into retirement.
I respect and admire that you have worked as an aerospace engineer. Surely, you attained that position due to extensive education and training, and deserve the salary and benefits that you enjoy.
Considering the civil service pension that I will one day enjoy, I suspect that you have more money in your wallet, than I will ever have in my bank account.
I encourage you not to paint your ideological canvas with such a broad brush.
Pension? Who gets pensions? My pension is what I have saved and I was never a member of any union. Unions corrupt the free market supply-demand balance which demands that compensation match the supply of skilled labor. Unions corrupt the process, limit supply and force members to pay for activism they may not ideologically support. Unions are truly a bane and fit the definition perfectly, thanks for looking it up. I understand your posture though, it comes in an envelope each month.
No mention of the taxpayers who take from their own resources to provide you with your employment and lifetime benefits, Marty?
No mention your government employee unions now sit on both sides of the bargaining table, after learning how to game elections of the very people your unions now bargain with? I am unmoved by your iterations of the benefits you have obtained by this inherently self-serving and corrupt system, with nary a thank you or even recognition who in fact is providing you these benefits.
Clue: it was not your beloved "unions" who provided your stated benefits, but in fact it has aways been the tax payers - and your taxpayer bosses are not happy with their return on their mandatory investments in your own well-being. Nothing personal here, you may well be among the many competent and qualified "public servants" that any form of limited government requires.
But today this entire public employment sector structure demands a complete overhaul. Nothing will prevent this from happening, and this is where you can help the process by broadening your understanding about the full dynamics that have kept this unsustainable system in place: the willingness of taxpayers to continue to support what unionized public employment has become today.
Excellnt JL - right on!
I like the conservative fundamentals, everyone should accept it. We must get away from the extremes, which are dangerous for the country.
Early this morning I read Jim Buckley's Letters to the Editor and these
comments caught my eye and I quote from same ..........
"The biggest problem the Democrats have is they believe their own press releases, which are now totally devoid from reality. As set out in detail in this very article. This detachment from reality shows up even here, when Democrat ideologues hurl patent invective against their own cartoon versions of MAGA, Trump supporters, Fox TV viewers and/or Orangeman cult members. They seem to relish in the spew, for the spew's sake. AND May Democrats continue down their own self-inflicted path of destruction. The country has now moved well beyond the railings of their inauthentic ravings."
I provide you with our CALI Leaders "RAVINGS" that "Wisdom Is A Butterfly .. Not A Bird of Prey"
I think this guy is Certifiably CRAZY and I use GAVI'S Own Words "Point Made I Hope"
https://x.com/SteveHiltonShow/status/1902771775718740251
Any "Predator Birds" In Santa Barbara & CALI May We All Ask?
Howard Walther Member of A Military Family
Deport them
The most dangerously rogue judges in the U.S. are those sitting in District Court seats. They can act alone and it's hideously expensive and time-consuming to appeal their often highly-partisan decisions. Less than 1% of all decisions spewing forth from federal courts make it to the Supremes for final review. For a Democrat Party with little going for it at the moment, taking the judicial route to randomly block the Trump agenda mandated by the electorate is the only arrow left in its quiver. As we've discovered in the last two decades, our court system does respond to political pressure. The winds are at Trump's back right now. Schumer's acquiescence to the Republican continuing spending resolution is evidence of that. I think most of these lawfare roadblocks eventually will be swept aside.
Well said, but Methinks the most dangerous rogue judges are sitting on the Supreme Court…we got lucky, imagine if HRC installed: [2+] SUPREME Court Justices, 200+ judges, rogue elements expanded inside DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, WH, STATE, …….removal 2nd amendment, border etc. ……… America for sale: China, Russia, Iran, Syria…….ISIS & AL Q expansion…….expansion surv of domestic citizens…….modify/change voter rules and regulations allow illegals+ballot harvesting w/ SC backed liberal-social opinion………sell off of military to highest bidder to fight internal long-standing wars……..and on & on…
For those of us that pay the astronomical amount for property taxes, we should be up in arms. The salary that we are paying to those government employees is absurd. The fact that they can give themselves raises is ridiculous and a disgraceful.
Don't over look how many government employee union contracts guarantee automatic COLA.
When inflation is gouging non-government employees and no one is getting raises, government employees do get an automatic backdoor"raise" by contract, that keeps up with inflation. Even when this last round of inflation was created by Democrat policies themselves - printing more money than the economy could absorb.
But government employees getting automatic COLA could truthfully claim ....what inflation?... since their union contracts let them ride this recent bout of inflation with nary a pause in their own personal spending. It should come as no surprise government employees do love their unions.
Wow! Haters are gonna hate.
Well, shut my mouth.
I should have maintained my aversion to posting public comments.
Good day.
Marty, looking at Transparent California... You put your life on the line for us, thank you. This is a very big difference from other government employees we (I'm) talking about.
😆. Thank you for your “clue.” I feel enlightened, now.
Walk in my boots, on a dark graveyard shift, not knowing what human tragedy, ugliness, or danger is around the next corner. Oh. And do that while you abandon your own family on nights, weekends, holidays, kids’ sporting events, etcetera. As I said, I’m not complaining. I’m proud, and grateful.
Hey. I don’t like high taxes, either. Just like I don’t like paying high prices for auto body repair, a plumber changing out a water heater, or a doctor giving me life-maintaining or life-saving medical care. But, I pay for the service I need.
I guess we just have to agree to disagree. We obviously see life through our own biased lenses.
Good day.
Marty Ensign, Transparent California shows taxpayers have already thanked you for your ten years of service. One assumes you knew what the job entailed when you signed up for it. Just like roofers, and others in high risk occupations.
I appreciate your service Deputy Ensign. This is nothing personal. I too served on weekends, holidays, missing family events for over 40 years, saving those critically injured. The difference being representation…I had none, other than myself. The contention is the rigged game of how collective bargaining works in the public sector, built in COLA etc. During contract negotiations in the public sphere, both parties are sitting on the same side of the table. All along while the Democratic machine is complacent in outrageous employee salaries while getting political cover in return. Yes, a self fulfilling prophecy, leaving the rest of us on the hook.
You have a very high opinion of yourself.
J Livingston, thank you for having common sense.
This is crazy. They are raiding dorm rooms and arresting people who are LEGALLY here because they are anti war. And you people support this? What is wrong with y'all? I thought you stood for freedom.
Arrested because they are on a university campus instigating violence.
Even if you believe Israel is wrong or the Palestine’s are wrong doesn’t give you the right to go to a public campus which is paid by us, the tax payers and cause violence
What a bunch of bullshit. The ones being arrested were peaceful. They committed no crime. They were not violent. Your last sentence is true, but it's irrelevant to my comment and to what is happening. What crime did Mahmoud Khalil commit? When was Dr. Rasha Alawieh 'violent'?