Home invasion robbers pose as Obamacare activists
This man is wearing scrubs, but he’s not a doctor.
He was part of a ring of violent thugs who posed as Obamacare supporters to pull off a terrifying home invasion robbery.
Newsday reports (hat tip – The Anchoress):
They were well-dressed when they knocked on the door of a Huntington home last month and said they had information about President Barack Obama’s health care plan.
That’s how they got inside to commit a violent home invasion on Aug. 29, a Suffolk prosecutor said Monday.
Benjamin Thompson had a stethoscope around his neck and Natalie Desir carried a clipboard with pamphlets, Assistant District Attorney Glenn Kurtzrock said after their arraignments in Riverhead.
A woman who lives at the house answered the door and said she would take one of the pamphlets. That’s when Thompson, 31, of Brooklyn and Desir, 26, of Nyack forced their way inside, Kurtzrock said.
He gave the following account:
Another man, Vance Jackson, had been hiding outside and also forced his way into the home. Jackson, 46, of Yonkers took the woman’s boyfriend upstairs and shot him in the neck, chased him downstairs and shot him several more times.
Thompson shot the female resident in the foot while she was sitting next to her 2-year-old daughter and also pistol-whipped the woman’s mother, injuring her head.
The three fled with about $4,000 in cash in a getaway car driven by Theodore Briggs, 40, of the Bronx. A fifth suspect who was outside is still at large.
Thompson had been previously convicted of attempted robbery and rape. Jackson’s rap sheet included robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.
The Daily News reports that the “two hatched the home invasion plan while waiting to meet with their parole officers in the Bronx.”
Imagine the national uproar that would be occurring right now if these home invaders had posed as Tea Party activists.
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I think Jimmah Carter is correct, most black thugs think they have a green light to be as bad as they wanna be now that we have our first Black thug in chief.
Just another ACORN employee being creative.
You have to admit, it’s difficult to tell one thug from another.
Thug thizzlin’.
The home owner is just a racist, that’s all.
That was just George Bush in blackface.
Bush did it.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
So they nearly killed two innocent people, injured another, and made off with $4,000 dollars.
Sounds like a fair pre-view of Obamacare to me!
Aw, heck no…there’s no racism going on here! /sarc
It is also racist to show the suspects picture if he is black.
This is why I had no intention of opening my door to a census taker.
I have noticed in everyday life that blacks now have a much bigger chip on their shoulder and feel like they are entitled to get in your face, rob, rape and murder. Thats why I just got a CCW permit.
What’s the different between a fake Obamacare activist and A real one?
A fake Obamacare Activist will get thrown in jail if he’s caught taking your money
A real one will throw you in jail if he catches you keeping your money
I am so confused. There is no way that these thugs had guns since Long Island has draconian gun laws. What makes it even harder to believe is that they were from the Bronx where Bloomberg will have you do a year in the joint for even thinking about a gun. I think that we need to have some illustrious NY congresscritters propose some new laws on guns-on top of the 1,364 laws that are on the books now.
Question – What’s the difference between a Race Baiter and Islamofacsists?
Answer – Not much. Same playbook…you must submit!
Really? Please provide a link to that quote. This doesn’t sound like the Carter I know. For one thing, it is an accurate and honest statement. For another, this quote below found on the NRO Corner appears to be far more representative of Mr. Carter:
I’ve attended one Townhell in Atl, GA. and there was one lady walking around in scrubs claiming to be a Doctor (dermatologist) with the nastiest Walmart shoes I’ve ever seen on an MD. Docs usually don’t walk around in Scrubs outside of the Operating room or hospital. Because they cut out tonsils and cut off limbs they usually make lots of $$$ and wear very nice clothes not a pair of $25 scrubs.
Come-on idiots – if you are going to pose as a Dr. then at least you can dress the part. The goodwill has suits on the rack for $10.
Robbers, ObamaCare activists – is there any difference?
Isn’t by definition Obamacare a home invasion all by itself? Seems to me this guy is just getting a head start.
Looks like a typical ACORN-type break-in job, this time utilizing the latest in “voter registration” tactics.
Being the paranoid Knucledragging Charter Member-honorary-of the Vaaaast Right Wing Conspiracy-and getting older- I do not answer the door with out my friends at the standby: a pistol in my pocket and two Dobermans, well trained Dobermans, at my back. To prove I am not racist those Dobermans are mostly black-some tan-and the pistol is hard chrome, a value neutral color.
These home invasions are terrifying-ObamaCare, Service People, whatever the scam but at least once they did serve the greater good: One “guns are dangerous-just be careful and call the police” neighbor is now a certified NRA Card Carrying gun nut. Odd how that works.
At least they were not idle? Will they be on parole in time to be census takers?
He was just trying to answer that age old question: “Is there a doctor in the house?!”
With the way things are in general with respect to crime, when the doorbell rings I always answer the door with a 9mm handgun loaded with a fifteen round magazine in my hand at the ready behind my back. If anyone comes to my door to with intentions of harming my family I will shoot them as many times as it takes to stop them. I will never hesitate because if I do they will kill me and my family. Everyone should have one to two equalizer handguns at the ready for protection in their home and know how to use them. Get the Glaser Safety Slugs. The advertisement says they: “…reduce the possibility of over penetration through the intended target. They provide for an added margin of safety. A missed round is much more likely to break up on an interior wall and dump its energy rather than proceeding unabated into an adjoining room.”
Apparently he was angry that Talyor Swift beat out Beyonce.
Rogue : that was really dumb. May I use it?
But the story does raise another question: why did not New York’s strict gun laws stop the bad guys from carrying guns? Is all not peaches and cream in transfat free New York?
Do we know that they’re not Obamacare supporters?
It’s nice in the suburbs, even the mad-dog robbers are well-dressed.
Robbers using theater as a ruse to gain entry and steal stuff. This is the first time this has ever happened, correct?
Wait until 2010 when the census has begun. Do you suppose criminals will present themselves as census takers and commit crimes? Do you suppose criminals might use their children during Halloween to do home invasion robberies?
Caution should be the watch word when anyone comes to your door.
Further, but not to diminish what happened, because it was certainly heinous. Who heeps $4K in cash in their home and how were the perpertraitors captured? The criminals were from a different part of NY and somehow they knew where to go? Was there a level of familiarity? Don’t know just asking questions.
[Note: Full disclosure. I have about $1,300 in foldable money and a 3/4 full 5 gallon water bottle of change in my home. Maybe $4K is not unusual.]
I do wonder if there is not some connection between what appears to be an increased level of outbursts by blacks (Kanye, Williams…) and the stoking of racial tensions by the Left. I think that Obama is anything but a “post-racial” president. He’s fomenting civil war in America.
Robbers or just ahead of their time…
Maybe they were just getting a head start on taking hard working people’s money… They are just beating the Gov’t to it..
How is this different from what Obama is doing to taxpayers?
That was his audition for home security czar.
Eveybody seems to be gettin’ in on the game these days.
and that’s the end result. These radicals are stuck on stupid, lazy, and don’t have anything productive to bring to the table.
I’ sorry they didnt knock on my door.
Community organizing at its best.
Never answering another door to someone I don’t know.
Paging Fox News, Glenn Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity, and Greta.
could this be another police/fbi statistic that pat buchanan was talking about in his great and gutsy piece on a “race dialogue”. who’d a thunk! imagine one race (white) makes up 65% of the population, one race (black) makes up 15% of the population, and one race (latino) makes up 15% of the population (legal and not). all anyone has to do is look up the roles of your state prison inmate population to see that those 3 races are fairly evenly split in inmate proportions. to those who flunked math, that means blacks and latinos are more than 4 times as likely to be in prison as whites. let’s have a discussion about that, president oburfuehrer. ask bill cosby if you are confused.
Well, not as many, now that ACORN is out…
Why? Are you virtually casing the joint?
OK. Carter is right. It’s all of us that made these folks commit this crime.
Sorry everyone.
People who are prepared for when/if atms, debit/credit cards and the other electronic money options cease to work.
naw they were just part of the that civilian force just as well armed and just as well trained….they try that in some states and they’d leave in a body bag…I look out the window and peep hole, I didn’t call them or don’t recognize them I don’t answer the door, they break in well…
Really? Doesnt seem to me that theyre the ONLY ones with chips on their shoulders.
Do you feel good clinging to your gun?
We’re not a race, dumbass.
Latinos are White, Black, mestizo, etc etc.
Maybe a few years of college would help remove the chip on your shoulder
The Daily News reports that the “two hatched the home invasion plan
while waiting to meet with their parole officersafter visiting the office of ACORN in the Bronx.”That’s more like it.
We know that, but La Raza says otherwise.
Is that where you got yours?
Siyabonga.
Hamba Kahle.
LOL
I wonder if you would have axed the invaders the same ques-tee-on.
(channeling SNL Steve Martin with European accent) “I blame myself!”
Absolutely! No DRM here, dumbness is in the public domain. And Thomas says I have nothing to contribute. Ha!
No Shambhala we are not a race but I wish you would be more careful with the WE business. This coco (coconut to to white guys with the chip on your shoulders clinging to your God and Guns) went from a Mexican to “Credit to your Race” to Chicano to Latino so damn fast I fell off my cowboy boots. Pitiful I tell you, pitiful.
But here is a hint Shambhala: Clinging (a pejorative a best) to our guns to protect home and hearth, hunting or any other reason is NOT HAVING A CHIP ON OUR SHOULDER. Telling Obama and collectivist of all stripes NO is not racist nor is that having a chip on our shoulders. I may be mestizo but I drive a Towne Car and Ford F-150, live in a Tudor style house and have a Japanese TV made in Korea. American stuff. All rifles, pistols, revolvers and shotguns I bitterly cling to are American made thank you.
And despite the Mexican-”Credit to your Race” -Chicano -Latino Politically Correct phrase of the day all I can say is: ¡Mi casa es MI casa!
I’m surprised scum like these butt wipes make it to jail sometimes.
Winning elections have consequences did not the ZERO tell us?
We have a race war starting folks, be prepared. It’s going to be very, very ugly before it gets better.
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The thugs got $4000. In a one time event.
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President Obama (PBUH) and the IRS will get a lot more–every year–from every taxpayer when their policies “kick in” soon.
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However, the “perps” won’t go to jail–only the taxpayers (aka victims) will if they don’t pay when the King and his minions start bleeding the taxpayers.
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John Bibb
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Yet another reason to never open your door when a Democrat comes calling.
You know, I have never used the “n” word in conversation, or even in my mind when thinking of a black person. I have actually gone out of my way to try to be extra understanding and supportive of their real or imagined feelings of slights or discrimination. However, since the great uniter was elected, my beliefs for less government, my love of America and freedom seem to mean to them that I am a racist. I am not a racist, but their behavior and attitude is starting to make me think, “What the heck, if they are just going to keep treating me like this, why even try anymore?”
I am being PUSHED into racism… and then what?
Well, what word would you prefer for your racial designation? “Spanish-Mayan hybrid” is too awkward.
Don’t worry. We’ll win because we have technological superiority.
I have noticed this with some Blacks. With Obama they are not even pretending to hide race in daily life. They may not say “racist” they will use some other phrase like “why you hatin’ on me” which is about equivalent to racism.
There’s a difference?
For Shambhala I will not speak but I always liked “Running Dog of Capitalist Imperialism“-”Hate filled Right Wing Nut Case” is a bit forward don’t you think?
In college I had a perpetually mad skinny white liberal call me a race traitor. If he wasn’t such a wimpy looking little sissy I might have gotten upset. But I started really laughing at the sissy and that really got him upset. I was going to refer to myself as a “Spanish-Mayan hybrid” but I was afraid people would think I was a Prius!
You can call me AzN for short although I am not short.
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If there is going to be a race war please: Don’t shoot at the old guy with the NRA hat and support hose, please!
…only if you’re wielding them in a threatening manor!
Watch the MSM ignore this one completely.
What happened to my other comments on this thread?
GSP
“You better suck that lip in, you might trip over a land mine.”
I don’t cling to my gun. My revolvers rest conveniently in holsters under my outer clothing. /ignoring snide tone of post
You’ll note that happened in New York. In Oklahoma or [insert favorite "Shall Issue" state here], the home invaders would most likely have learned all about the health care system we have hear. That, or their families would have learned about the funerary services available.
ECS
Ack! “…have HERE.” Too tired. Going home.
ECS
I can’t wait for the schizophrenic media here to have seizures. Many blacks that were given home loans have lost their houses and are moving in droves into my neighborhood sucking up all of the section 8 housing. They look angry as they walk their pit bulls around. I went to the grocery store not too long ago, a group of black men were sitting in their car in the handicap space with the most awful rap music blaring, you could hear it for a few blocks, a sight you would never have seen where I live just 2 years ago.
The gay neighborhood is 2 blocks west of me. There is no way that this is not going to get good. I remember about a year ago, there was a gay couple robbed by two black men at a gay pride party in the park, I think they were hit in the head with bats. The news was pretty low key about it, even though the gay community was screaming hate crime. I do not believe the hate crime add on was given. Poor media, they are not going to know which side to be on.
Greet ACORN workers with a loaded gun in hand and politely ask them to leave. Answer courtesy with courtesy and violence with more effective violence. It is not racist to defend yourself.
Apparently we have a new troll.
I also have a renewed respect for AzN
I think I’ve been allowed to post on this board for about a year. I don’t read all the threads or all the comments.
I do believe this is the first time I have seen Shambhala, and also the first time I have seen any poster call another poster a “dumba$$.”
What a shame. I some major philosophical differences with a lot of posters, and some of my discussions here debated / have taken on an underlying heated tone, as politics do. I have never been called that name. In fact I’m not sure I’ve been called any names.
My thought processes have been challenged, I’ve met a strawmen and ad hominems, and also lobbed a few in response, but I don’t remember anybody ever resorting to such a playground mentality so fast, especially over something so insignificant.
Same here JD. Actually I always respected AZN’s comments, and now like him even better.
As to the wise Shambhala, your angered tone in your calling Cheapseat a dumba$$, does not fit well with your Buddhist beliefs. Shouldn’t peace, love and forgiveness guide your way? Besides when did Latino come to not mean anyone of Hispanic heritage? Most of us know that that may include, Spaniard, African, North and South American Indian and Caucasian blood. The statement was not a condemnation toward Hispanics, but a statement of fact that a disproportionate percentage of the population of Blacks and (insert your own definition of anyone of Hispanic origins) in this country are in prison. I would say that it is safe to state that almost all are there for only one reason; they committed a crime and were caught and sentanced. Not because their skin is black or brown.
Back to the thread: I would not let any supposed activist of any kind, no matter their race or political persuasion, in my house. In this day and age it pays to be cautious and safe rather then trusting and screwed. I will cling to my guns. Actually, I will hold them in a proper defensive grip allowing for maximum and efficient rate of fire.
*The sooner All You become non-hyphenated Americans the sooner racism will go away.*
My home is My castle. Activists can read the No Trespassing sign that is posted in English at the entrance to my property. In this day and age it is better to err in favor of caution than to become a statistic.
The occasional troll sneaks in here every now and then. Name calling is not discussion. It is an indicator of a lack of character and a schoolyard mentality that is the last resort of folks that cannot conduct an adult discussion. If I do not respond to a post here it is probably due to my sense of civility.
In my opinion there is no such thing as a hate crime. There are only criminal acts that are covered by Statutes that are on the books already. Murder is murder. Rape is rape. Theft is theft. Trespassing is trespassing.
The signage at the entrance reads No Trespassing not Enter at Your Own Risk. Whatever firearms that are in my home are my business and whatever firearm I carry concealed is covered by my State issued permit.