Rosie O’Donnell does not Rural groundwater Interior Department orders speak on behalf of grab gets federal relaxing of sage grouse American people court hearing habitat restrictions PAGE 2 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 Volume 19, Issue 24 August 16-22, 2017 lasvegastribune.com ISIS claims credit for Barcelona van attack By Pilar Suarez rested. It was still not clear how and Andrés González many attackers had been involved. Christian Science Monitor Witnesses said the white van zig- A van mowed through crowds of zagged at high speed down Las tourists on Barcelona’s most fa- Ramblas, a busy avenue thronged mous avenue on Thursday, killing with tourists, knocking down pe- about a dozen people in an attack destrians. that was claimed by Islamic State Islamic State’s Amaq news (ISIS). agency said: “The perpetrators of The head of the Spanish region the Barcelona attack are soldiers of of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, the Islamic State and carried out the said at least 80 people had been operation in response to calls for taken to hospital and around 12 had targeting coalition states” – a refer- died. ence to a US-led coalition against He said two people had been ar- the Sunni militant group. The claim could not immedi- ately be verified. My Point If the involvement of Islamist militants is confirmed, it would be of View In the deadliest attack in Spain since March 2004, more than 12 people were killed and dozens injured when the latest in a string of attacks in (See Barcelona, Page 6) By Rolando Larraz a van sped down a pedestrian walkway in one of Barcelona’s busiest tourist hubs on Thursday. I was very happy when I read that President Trump is thinking of Trump defends ‘beautiful’ Confederate statues pardoning former Maricopa County (Phoenix) Sheriff Joe Arpaio who By Max Greenwood was found guilty by a federal The Hill Clinton appointee judge and may President Trump lamented the loss of Con- be facing time in jail for following federate statues and monuments on Thursday in the law and ignoring the capricious a series of tweets likely to fuel the controversy order of a liberal judge. surrounding his handling of violence at a white It is the least President Trump supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the can do for a man that has served weekend. the people of Maricopa County to Trump said it was “sad” that the “history and the best of his ability and followed culture” of the United States is “being ripped the law to the end of his career. apart” by the removal of Confederate statues and “I am seriously considering a monuments after ripping two GOP senators ear- pardon for Sheriff Arpaio,” the lier in the morning over their criticism of his president said Sunday, during a remarks this week blaming white supremacists conversation with Fox News. “He and counterprotesters alike for Saturday’s vio- has done a lot in the fight against lence. illegal immigration. He’s a great It was a defiant move by a president who has American patriot and I hate to see come under fierce criticism, even from mem- what has happened to him.” bers of his own party, for not placing enough I agree with the president and if blame on white supremacists who marched I could get close to him I would en- through the Virginia college town on Saturday. courage him to do so because Joe Yet in defending the Confederate statues, Arpaio does not deserve to be Trump could be seeking to consolidate support treated like a criminal for having within at least a portion of his base, which has done his job as well as he did. See Confederate Statues, Page 3) Six years after a federal judge, G. Murray Snow, in December Welcome to ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ ...again and again 2011, ordered Arpaio’s deputies to stop holding individuals solely on By Thomas Mitchell revelations. Battles that never happened. Heroes the belief they were in the country In 1983, while working as the The book made the terms who became traitors.” illegally, Sheriff Arpaio was found city editor of the Shreveport Jour- “Newspeak” and “doublethink” a In another piece posted here in guilty of disobeying the judge’s or- nal, I penned a soft feature tied to part of the political lexicon — long 2013, I asked whether Orwell was der. the 35th anniversary of the original before Fort Hood was merely work- a satirist or a prophet. Ironically, two weeks after the publication of George Orwell’s place violence. Name your own Walter Cronkite in a foreword to most famous Sheriff in America classic dystopian novel “Nineteen examples. the 1983 paperback edition of was found guilty by a Bill Clinton Eighty-Four.” “George Orwell respected lan- “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” has Liberal Judge, another member of I observed in that piece that guage and railed against its abuse,” claimed the book failed as proph- the federal bench ruled that police Orwell’s book was about a totali- I wrote in 1983. “He was particu- ecy only because it has served so in Arizona can immediately start tarian dystopia in which BIG larly offended by the propaganda — well as a warning — a warning enforcing the most contentious sec- BROTHER WAS WATCHING some of which he helped to write against manipulation and power tion of the state’s immigration law, YOU, suggesting this was like the for the BBC in World War II. He grabbing and the loss of privacy in marking the first time officers can infrared camera equipped drones or saw firsthand the way the press was the name of state security. carry out a requirement that they, huge network of cybersnooping tricked and subverted for political And Cronkite couldn’t resist while enforcing other laws, can computers, long before the NSA purposes in the Spanish Civil War. (See Nineteen Eighty-Four, Page 3) question the immigration status of those suspected of being in the country illegally. The Nevada Supreme Court continues its silence It is about time that law enforce- By Rolando Larraz with five ethics violations by the in bad checks, we secured a copy ment officers can be allowed to do Las Vegas Tribune Nevada Commission on Judicial of the arrest warrant to back up our their job without being concerned Part eight of a series Discipline, and the daily newspa- story. with the security of their jobs be- One thing that unites every one per came out with the story ten days Lisa Ann Mayo also represents cause they enforce the laws that are at Las Vegas Tribune is that we do later. City Councilman Stavros Anthony on the books in all jurisdictions. not believe in fake news; we do not Every article we publish, every that now, after just eight weeks post I am really tired of seeing how lie and we do not use phantom story we write is written with plenty winning reelection, has decided to the law is implemented and used as sources or imaginary confidential of proof and with the backing of become a candidate for Congress. it is convenient to the Democrat sources; everything we write is real, court documents because we be- The newspaper has discarded the politicians to help them to get votes is credible, and on many occasions lieve in the truth and nothing but notion that maybe DeRiso’s “politi- and win elections at the expense of we publish stories before the daily the truth. cal connections” in District Court the safety of the citizens that are newspaper does. When we wrote about Judge or in City Hall are covering for her here legally. Just recently we published a Kephart’s campaign manager, Lisa because if they were to “protect” People talk about the illegals not story about District Court Judge Mayo De Riso, having an arrest Lisa Ann Mayo, or her husband, being criminals and that they don’t William Kephart being charged warrant for writing over $3,000.00 SCOTT HOLPER (See Holper, Page 5) deserve to be treated as such, but the same can be said about the per- FROM THE DESK OF GORDON MARTINES son who walks in to his home and finds his or her partner in bed with someone else that is not even pay- LVMPD does not abide by the Oath of Honor ing part of the mortgage, and kills By Gordon Martines an elderly couple, and various other paper, with photos included, of this cide Bureau, and then eventually, the intruder; that person was never Just recently another mid-level theft related incidents, not men- alleged distinguished employee after working so diligently, to be- a murderer... until that fatal day and supervisor has fallen off the perch. tioned in the newspaper. that has risen so quickly through the coming the Commander of the pres- is now truthfully a murderer and Lt. James Tom Melton, the SWAT I am quite surprised that the ranks, from corrections officer, in tigious elite Special Weapons and can be called a murderer. team leader and Commander, has LVMPD police administration the Clark County Jail, to sergeant, Tactics unit. Does anyone see On July 12, 2017 Las Vegas Tri- disgraced every employee with his would allow the Review-Journal to in the Narcotics interdiction unit, maybe a political appointment (See My Point of View, Page 2) alleged indictment for Fraud toward publish such a spread in their news- to sergeant in the Robbery/Homi- (See From the Desk, Page 4) Page 2 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / August 16-22, 2017 Rosie O’Donnell does not speak on behalf of American people Las Vegas Tribune Staff Korea, Kim Jong Un, by apologiz- President Donald is a moron; don’t hind to attempt to undermine his During last year’s heated elec- ing in a “friendly” message.