{"id":5804,"date":"2017-10-18T21:53:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T04:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:55:18","slug":"the-way-things-work-in-vegas-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=5804","title":{"rendered":"The Way Things Work in Vegas . . . Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Our first installment<\/a> ended with a lengthy excerpt from Tom Conley, a former civilian police captain, senior-level commissioned officer in the United States Navy Reserve, and certified U.S. Department of Defense counter-terrorism instructor, posted at the \u201cSecurity\u201d magazine Web site on Oct. 13<\/em> ( https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/blogs\/14-security-blog\/post\/88391-the-las-vegas-massacre-the-anatomy-of-a-catastrophic-security-failure<\/a> .)<\/em><\/p>\n

WHO IS MR. CAMPOS\u2019 NEW BOOKING AGENT?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Conley\u2019s analysis<\/a> can hardly have been music to the ears of casino executives still waiting for the process servers to start showing up with “negligence and liability” filings following the infamous October First massacre of concert-goers by a gunman firing from his 32nd-floor suite, there.<\/p>\n

Those lawsuits are coming, whether they’re justified or not.<\/p>\n

But if there was nothing to hide, presumably concerns could have been calmed by making wounded security guard Jesus Campos promptly available to the press to \u201cstraighten everything out\u201d about how long it took for police to be called. Instead, after having scheduled a number of media appearances, Mr. Campos . . . disappeared.<\/p>\n

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By Oct. 16, the headline at http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/10\/16\/mandalay-bay-security-guard-center-changing-timeline-disappeared\/<\/a> was: \u201cReport — Mandalay Bay Security Guard at center of Las Vegas Attack Timeline Has Disappeared:<\/p>\n

\u201cFox 5 reports that Jesus Campos missed a scheduled press conference on Thursday of last week, and Fox News reports that he is still nowhere to be found,\u201d AWR Hawkins wrote for Breitbart.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly reports said Campos was shot by the Las Vegas attacker after the attack on concertgoers began. But on October 10, Breitbart News reported that the timeline changed and that Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Campos was actually shot by the attacker six minutes before shots rang out during Jason Aldean\u2019s music set.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn October 12, Breitbart News reported that a second Mandalay Bay employee also took fire from the attacker before guns were turned on concertgoers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCBS News reports that the second employee — maintenance man Stephen Schuck — witnessed the shooting of Campos and radioed \u2018hotel dispatchers to call police.\u2019 He told the dispatcher, \u2018a gunman had opened fire with a rifle inside\u2019 the hotel. Schuck said he was checking a \u2018jammed door\u2019 when a wounded Campos approached and warned him to find cover.<\/p>\n

\u201cSchuck said, \u2018As soon as I started to go to a door to my left the rounds started coming down the hallway. I could feel them pass right behind my head.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cCampos allegedly agreed to speak amid the tensions raised over the changing time frame. He was going to tell his story in his own words on the very day that he disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ELLEN DEGENERES . . . BECAUSE CAPTAIN KANGAROO WAS NOT AVAILABLE? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Campos and Schuck finally turned up Wednesday, Oct. 18 on the Ellen DeGeneres daytime talk show, where they faced no tough questions \u2013 probably by prior agreement — about the timeline, about how long it took for anyone else to respond to the 32nd floor \u2013 about who actually employs Mr. Campos, what \u201csecurity\u201d training he has . . . or (God forbid) about his immigration status.<\/p>\n

For by this time, of course, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2017\/10\/17\/reconciling-the-confusion-jesus-jose-campos-missing-is-campos-an-illegal-alien\/<\/a> was pointing out: \u201cIf Jesus \u2018Jose\u2019 Campos is . . . an illegal alien almost all of the challenging and conflicting reports from law enforcement, Mandalay Bay and the FBI begin to reconcile. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about how dramatically the national conversation could shift if the FBI and Department of Homeland Security had to admit the security of thousands of people in Las Vegas was compromised by non-secure hiring practices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would also explain why Campos was unarmed; he would not pass a state or federal background check to carry a firearm. Was Jose Campos in fear of his status being discovered? Did this delay or impede his action on Sunday night October 1st? . . . <\/p>\n

\u201cThe larger hotel and hospitality industry is fraught with illegal aliens,\u201d the folks at the Conservative Treehouse continued. \u201cImagine if this event forced major corporate hotel chains to check or re-verify employment eligibility of their employees. It would be chaos in that industry; they would lose thousands of employees. . . . Additionally, Las Vegas would not want visitors to know their security was contingent upon illegal alien \u2018security\u2019 workers; and the liability for the Mandalay Bay Massacre increases accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting that Ellen Degeneres -\u2013 speaking virtually as Mr. Campos\u2019 agent, asserting on his behalf that he was not going to speak to anyone else about this incident after showing up for her single, safe, \u201cno tough questions\u201d interview -\u2013 raised none of these issues.<\/p>\n

(Tucker Carlson and Mark Steyn on the very odd Ellen DeGeneres “interview”: see https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/it-was-clearly-managed-tucker-questions-ellen-campos-interview-talks-las-vegas-conspiracies.html<\/a> . . . or . . . http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/mark_steyn_youre_entitled_to_be_a_conspiracy_nut_on_the_vegas_massacre.html<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

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I have no idea what Mr. Campos\u2019 immigration status may be. But the hotel-casinos of Las Vegas do indeed employ thousands and thousands of illegal alien maids, bus boys, kitchen help -\u2013 whose main union, the Culinary, even bragged last Fall about busing their non-English-speaking members to early-voting locations before election day, so they could vote against Donald Trump: . . . (see https:\/\/lasvegassun.com\/news\/2016\/oct\/29\/unions-flex-muscle-in-nevadas-high-stakes-senate-r\/<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

There are obviously quite a few things the big Vegas casinos would just as soon not see brought up in the public debate,<\/p>\n

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SPECIFICALLY . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did I say the Las Vegas Metro police Department effectively works for the big casinos?<\/p>\n

If you doubt this, Check out a local Las Vegas attorney named Bob Nersesian, author of the book “Beat The Players,” talking at http:\/\/blackjackforumonline.com\/content\/Nersesian.htm<\/a> about his work representing \u201cadvantage players\u201d in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAdvantage players\u201d are not cheats. Cheating — marking cards, substituting weighted dice, stuff like that — is illegal in Nevada. But Nevada courts and state gaming (Nevada\u2019s euphemism for \u201cgambling\u201d) regulators have ruled on multiple occasions that \u201cadvantage\u201d play -\u2013 card-counting in blackjack, for example — is perfectly legal. If you can keep track of the ratio of face cards versus low-number cards that have been dealt out of a deck or \u201cshoe,\u201d thus improving your betting odds as the game goes along, that\u2019s legal.<\/p>\n

Since the casinos are private enterprises, if casino employees don\u2019t \u201clike the way you\u2019re playing\u201d (that is to say, in a legal manner that improves your chances of winning) they are free to tap you on the shoulder and ask you to leave.<\/p>\n

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What it is NOT legal for them to do is to have a swarm of half-a-dozen security personnel tackle you to the floor as you make for the exit, and then drag you into a back room to be photographed, roughed up, threatened, and detained against your will.<\/p>\n

But they do. My friend Mr. Nersesian has shown me the surveillance videos. In color.<\/p>\n

And if a perfectly legal card-counter is subjected to that kind of treatment, and he calls Metro Police to ask to have his \u201ccasino security\u201d kidnappers arrested, what do you suppose Las Vegas Metro Police do, every time? They threaten to arrest . . . the card player who\u2019s been kidnapped, on charges of \u201cdisturbing the peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

They NEVER arrest the law-violating casino employees. In fact, on at least one occasion where attorney Nersesian got to the scene quickly enough to intervene, Metro police arrested . . . the kidnap victim\u2019s attorney, Bob Nersesian.<\/p>\n

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The casinos wield huge power in Las Vegas, comprising the tax base that provides a huge chunk of the Metropolitan Police Department budget. Is it any wonder one phone call can get a nervous and flustered Sheriff Lombardo to call a \u201cNo questions\u201d press conference to \u201cchange the timeline\u201d and explain away an inconvenient \u201csix-minute gap\u201d?<\/p>\n

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(What\u2019s that? But the police wouldn\u2019t actually conceal evidence? Funny how, when two Metro officers gunned down Erik Scott in broad daylight just outside a local Costco store, the ONLY surveillance camera that turned out \u201cnot to be working\u201d that day was the one that might have shown that shoot-down — https:\/\/statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/22\/the-erik-scott-case-update-23-video-that-wont-disappear\/<\/a> .) You might also want to look up the deaths at the hands of Metropolitan police of Charles Bush, Henry Rowe, John Perrin, Orlando Barlow and Stanley Gibson — all unarmed.<\/p>\n

No charges. And Metro has been telling us for years they \u201ccan\u2019t afford\u201d body cameras that might show us what all these killings really looked like. (Heck, they couldn\u2019t even \u201cget around to\u201d the forensic tests on the clothing of homeless guy Henry Rowe and his stalker, Metro Officer George \u201cGregg\u201d Pease, which they initially promised would confirm or refute the officer\u2019s bizarre account of why he had to slit Rowe’s throat after stalking him to his isolated campsite.)<\/p>\n

As for the independence of the FBI\u2019s Special-agent-in charge in Las Vegas:<\/p>\n

\u201cMGM Mirage Inc. has hired the former deputy director of the FBI to oversee security at its hotel-casinos as the gambling giant expands its operations into the Far East and possibly other countries,\u201d the Las Vegas Sun reported on Jan. 25, 2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cBruce J. Gebhardt, 56, who also was special agent in charge of FBI offices in San Francisco and Phoenix, was named senior vice president of global security in November, MGM Mirage executives confirmed. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n

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While C. David Shepherd, a former FBI special agent, spent seven years as \u201cexecutive director of security\u201d for Sheldon Adelson\u2019s Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino.<\/p>\n

See, if you “play your cards” right. . . .<\/p>\n

(Adelson, by the way, now wholly owns the only big daily left in Las Vegas, the Review-Journal, which promptly got rid of its most popular human-interest columnist, John L. Smith, by telling him he could no longer write about either Adelson OR Mirage magnate Steve Wynn as soon as the casino mogul took over. ( https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=3050<\/a> .) That would be the Review-Journal that\u2019s running headlines this week ridiculing \u201choaxsters\u201d who imagine they see \u201cconspiracies\u201d in the investigation of the October First shooting.<\/p>\n

THEY DESERVE ALL THE SKEPTICISM THEY CAN GET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of which -\u2013 thanks in large part to all this weird dodging and weaving — there are now plenty. See, for example, \u201cSurvivor who insisted there was more than one shooter dies suddenly: . . . ( http:\/\/www.freedomsphoenix.com\/News\/227460-2017-10-18-vegas-survivor-who-died-suddenly-had-planned-group-to-expose.htm<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

Do I believe there was a second shooter — when reports of a second set of shots could easily be explained by echoes off the slab sides of the nearby Luxor and Excalibur hotels? And that the young lady who wanted to look into that was \u201csnuffed\u201d by the same people who got rid of Seth Rich and Vince Foster?<\/p>\n

Do I believe shooter Paddock (even though he did work six years for the IRS, which would certainly show an inclination toward criminal behavior) was some kind of money-laundering CIA agent, or patsy?<\/p>\n

These things remain unlikely, though I can\u2019t quite say \u201cimpossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

(And if you think the local Vegas TV and radio stations do much more than \u201crip-and-read\u201d the stories condensed from the Review-Bordello -\u2013 I\u2019m sorry, the Review-Journal -\u2013 by the Associated Press, I\u2019ve got a ranchita I can let you have down in Canyon De Los Muertos<\/em> on VERY reasonable terms. . . .)<\/p>\n

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I will say this, though: a government establishment that expected us to swallow a loathsome fabric of lies like the Warren Commission Report (\u201cand then, out of nowhere, this terminally ill strip club owner with absolutely NO traceable ties to organized crime popped up to shoot down our patsy -\u2013 er, I mean, our suspect\u201d) cobbled together by fired assassin-in-chief and leading witness intimidator Allen Dulles . . . that expects us to believe the BATF and FBI guys who attacked and subsequently murdered all the women and children at Waco were \u201cheroes\u201d . . . that expects us to believe we need to let \u201cGreen\u201d communists cripple our economy to \u201cfight catastrophic man-made global warming\u201d . . . fully deserves every last bit of skepticism and ridicule we can dredge up, for at least the next hundred years.<\/p>\n

— V.S.<\/em><\/p>\n

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(Our first installment ended with a lengthy excerpt from Tom Conley, a former civilian police captain, senior-level commissioned officer in the United States Navy Reserve, and certified U.S. Department of Defense counter-terrorism instructor, posted at the \u201cSecurity\u201d magazine Web site on Oct. 13 ( https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/blogs\/14-security-blog\/post\/88391-the-las-vegas-massacre-the-anatomy-of-a-catastrophic-security-failure .) WHO IS MR. CAMPOS\u2019 NEW BOOKING AGENT? Mr. Conley\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,52,15,46,22,34,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-town","category-crime","category-immigration","category-law-enforcement","category-media","category-nevada","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pWqFl-1vC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5846,"href":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}