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How Obama And His Media Successfully Used “No Soap Radio”

Obama Liberal Media Weapons Gladiator SC How Obama and his media Successfully used “No Soap Radio”

Speaking with characteristic clarity, Ronald Reagan summed up talking to liberals saying: “It isn’t that Liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” The Great Communicator’s point was that in “Liberal-speak,” making sense is not important; how you feel about something and how your words make others feel is the desired end result. Barack Obama has a perfect understanding of this feature of the liberal psyche. He has reintroduced “No soap radio” to unsuspecting dupes trying to be relevant.

Obama uses it to herd stupid people into thinking whatever he says makes sense, and the media makes believe it does to complete the con. This past election cycle, Obama often moved his lips, knowing that only his “know nothing” supporters ever thought he made sense. Nevertheless to them, “making sense” is never relevant. They had and continue to have no idea they were and still are the butt of a cruel “joke” whose fake punch line might as well be “No soap radio.”

If a “joke” with this supposed punchline makes no sense to you, it’s because you think rather than emote, so Obama doesn’t care about you anyway. “No soap, radio” as a cruel prank has been around since the 1940’s. To pull it off, there must be a story teller (Obama) and a second conspirator (the media) to “laugh” at the bogus “punchline.” The storyteller relates a brief story that is presented as the body of a joke, then delivers the punch line “No soap radio” (which of course has no relation whatsoever to the body of the “joke.”) The conspirator “laughs”; and to appear to “understand” the “joke,” the dupe laughs as well.

In reality, there is no joke; but the dupe is so eager to appear “hip cool – down with the brotha” that he/she laughs. For Obama’s voters it becomes, “It sounded ‘funny’”; and the guy on television thinks it makes sense, so it must be a great “joke.”  When Obama serves up his next idiotic pile of gibberish, the media lights the “applaud” sign; and the process is repeated.  The dupes feel superior, as if they are laughing at an inside joke only the “in crowd” understands.

These people never admit they don’t know what Obama is talking about. They just move to the next trough. To them, that’s all that matters. This is why they will be so hard to defeat.

Biden On Guns: ‘The President Is Going To Act; There Are Executive Orders’

Not exactly what we were hoping for, but I am not surprised…

Just Don’t Tell Them You’re From Chicago!

Chicago SC Just don’t tell them you’re from Chicago!

My heart is broken, deeply broken.  Is there no one in Illinois who has the moral compunction to stand up to the corruption known as Chicago?  Will any Illinois person of honor come forward to put a stop to what is going on?    When I received an anonymous E-mail about the Land of Lincoln–where our governors make our license plates–I couldn’t laugh anymore.  You see, there always has been a perverse sort of gallows humor, perhaps even misplaced sense of pride associated with Chicago.  When I tell people here in Florida that I’m from near Chicago, I sense that I have assumed a different status in their eyes.  One guy even stepped back, suddenly refusing to interrupt me anymore!

As the current all-Democrat Illinois legislature tried every way possible to pass a series of unconstitutional gun bans last week, three sitting lawmakers were facing criminal charges.  All Democrats from Chicago, they include taking a gun on a plane, bribery, and bank fraud.

Incredibly, during the last six months, 292 people were killed (a charge of manslaughter) or murdered in Chicago while only 221 were killed in Iraq! How ironic that the American city with the nation’s most oppressive gun laws boasts more killings than a hot war zone in which ALL combatants carry guns.

Illinois is noted for having the greatest number of imprisoned governors-FOUR-past or present!  Gov. Otto Kerner, Democrat, was sent up on 17 felony charges; Gov. Dan Walker,(D) went up for bank fraud; George Ryan (Rep) gets out this year after doing time for felony fraud and racketeering;  and Rod Blagojevich, who President Barack Obama said he only met with “infrequently” continues his stretch for 18 counts of political misconduct!

Operation Cookie Jar, a public schools sting, netted numerous arrests of school officials.  “Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country,” says my anonymous E mail.  Jesse Jackson, Jr. just resigned from Congress because of continuing allegations about improper expenditures of campaign funds!  A 2012 University of Illinois, Chicago campus report states: “The Chicago area already has the most public corruption convictions of any federal jurisdiction nationwide with more than 1,500 convictions in the Illinois Northern District.” And our state pension fund is financially the most precarious in the country with an unfunded liability of over $96 BILLION; yet the in-session legislature does nothing.

I remember walking with my grandmother through her beautiful flower gardens.  I can still taste the delicious homegrown tomatoes my uncle gave us.  I remember my father traveling once a month to Chicago to meet with other judges to do something about the election shenanigans after Mayor Daley Sr’s involvement in the “questionable” ascendancy of John F. Kennedy to the Presidency.  I’ll never forget seeing the walls of flames shoot up every night during the 1960s riots’ “Days of Rage.”

Illinois is a beautiful state with kind, lovely people, both rich and poor.  They do not deserve what is going on.  My daughter and her husband will have four sons in Illinois colleges and universities next year. They should not have to face the embarrassment I now do when I tell people I’m from Illinois!

Teacher Suspended, Stomps American Flag

A South Carolina teacher has been suspended after he allegedly threw the American flag on the ground and stomped on it in front of his honors English class. He reportedly told students the flag was “only a piece of cloth” and didn’t “mean anything.”

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Junk Laws

Congress Junk Laws

We have junk food, junk mail, and junk bonds.

Now, thanks to our dysfunctional and devious Congress, we have junk laws like the “Taxpayer Relief Act.”

Junk laws are really nothing new. The people we send to Washington to represent us have been passing legislation larded with pork or special privileges for their friends in business, agriculture, and labor since the country was born.

Insiders have always known how this cynical bipartisan game is played. But now, thanks to the failure of Congress to deal with the government debt crisis it in large part created, the average American is starting to become aware of these junk bills.

Even the liberal media were outraged by what went on when Congress passed the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012″ — which, ironically, raised the taxes of every working American by 2 percent by returning the Social Security tax to its usual 6.2 percent level.

The “Fiscal Cliff Bill” did virtually nothing to solve the federal government’s money problems or create a single job. But it was junked up with nearly $70 billion of pure pork — including tax credits for the owners of NASCAR racetracks, wind turbine makers, Hollywood moviemakers, and rum-makers in Puerto Rico.

While President Obama was promising to raise taxes on the rich but really shafting the working poor, congressional folk were so busy loading up the “Fiscal Cliff Bill” with presents for their friends that they forgot to pass the relief bill to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Members of Congress are grandmasters of deceit and dishonesty. Taking maximum advantage of every crisis or disaster that comes along, they attach their favorite pieces of pork to dishonestly- named bills such as the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012″ and the “Affordable Healthcare Act.”

Members know these big, important super-bills have to pass to avert a crisis, so they junk them up with their $200 million “Bridges to Nowhere” and their $59 million tax credits for the algae-growing industry.

A perfect example of how Congress gets its junk bills passed has to with the way it funds FEMA. Congress always underfunds the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Why?

Because Congress knows that each year, there will always be a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy that FEMA will need billions of federal dollars to address.

And when FEMA comes asking for emergency funding, members of Congress will clean out their closets and throw every piece of junk legislation they have into the relief bill, which they know will automatically pass without scrutiny.

Another reason we get junk laws is that few members of Congress actually read these monster bills before they vote for them. Nancy Pelosi’s career quote is going to be her comment on the healthcare bill: “But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.”

Law-making is not supposed to work that way. There’s a rule in Congress that a bill has to be posted for 48 hours before it can be voted on. But that rule has become a joke.

Just watch C-SPAN the next time a vote is being taken in the House. You’ll probably hear someone say something like: “Under suspension of the rule, we’ll now vote.”

What arcane parliamentary rule are they talking about? The 48-hour rule. No wonder Congress is always finding out after they vote what they just voted for. If members of Congress don’t read the damn bill, they shouldn’t vote on it.

I’m getting real tired of people saying “My guy’s a good guy, and your guy’s a bad guy.” They’re all acting like bad guys.

We need to start holding every member of Congress accountable. And we need more up-and-down votes in Congress so that the next important piece of legislation doesn’t become another “Fiscal Cliff Junk Bill.”

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TV Anchor Delivers Blistering Fact-Check Of Piers Morgan’s Anti-Gun Claims

After Morgan’s very public, on-air spat with radio host Alex Jones, Ben Swann, a local Fox anchor for WXIX-TV in Cincinnati, offered up a fascinating fact-check of some of the stats that the British CNN host has been using. Morgan will surely find the results unpalatable.

Preserving Liberties And Protecting Schoolchildren

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(Editor’s note: this article originally appeared at ThoughtfulWomen.org)

I am currently an elected school-board trustee of the tenth largest school district in California. I have served as trustee since December of 2006, and I am currently clerk of the board and have previously served as president and vice president. Our governing board has responsibility for more than 51,000 students and 3,900 employees on 55 campuses in seven cities.

My father and uncle were Air Force generals, so I grew up in a household of gun owners. My father hunted game all over the American South; and while serving as a diplomat, he hunted wild boar in Italy and, with my brother, hunted big game in the Amazon basin of South America. In our house, when I was growing up, hunting rifles and shotguns were kept in a locked case; but my father also kept a personal handgun in our home for our protection. At age 16, I was taught by a firearms professional to shoot a pistol. I am a life member of National Rifle Association and a family member of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, but I evaluate each firearms proposal on its merits.

On Dec. 14, 2012, a mentally-disturbed young man in Newtown, Connecticut murdered his mother and removed her weapons from their home. He then went to Sandy Hook Elementary School and proceeded on his evil course: He pulled the trigger time after time, slaughtering 20 first graders and six adults. This was the greatest tragedy in an elementary school in American history and one of the greatest single tragedies in American history. As the mother of two daughters (one of whom has been a schoolteacher in three states) and grandmother of five grandchildren, I know and share the strength of the love we have for our children and how highly we regard our teachers.

Americans have seen terrorists hijack airplanes to hold planes and passengers for ransom. We have seen, on Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked airplanes turned into guided missiles aimed at our office buildings. To guard against this, we now have armed federal marshals and armed pilots on various passenger flights. My son-in-law is a pilot for a major passenger airline and is federally authorized to be armed in the plane’s cockpit.

But most of our public schools are gun-free zones, and people who would do evil are aware of this. Why should evildoers have a sense of comfort and unchecked power when they go on a school campus?

Wouldn’t it be better if they were wondering: Is there someone here who might stop me in my tracks before I can carry out my self-glorifying destruction?

It is a shame that we live in a time when such puffed-up viciousness is in the news. Self-absorbed people filled with spite and malevolence sometimes start attacking other people. Such twisted massacres are unpredictable and not easy to fathom. But we can learn about such self-glorifying destruction from Milton on the rebellion in Heaven and in the novels of Dostoevsky.

Strong local communities and strong families can help parents bring up decent children. We need social respect for authority based on wisdom, experience, and expertise. We need a society that upholds self-help, self-discipline, and the work ethic and does not celebrate antisocial deeds and the violent enemies of normal life. We need widespread recognition of the values taught by religion and ethical philosophy.

But even in a strong, healthy society, evil will sometimes rear its head. Sometimes evil people will obtain weapons – as in this case, when a young man killed his own mother and stole her legal weapons.

Sadly, I am only too aware of threats to children in schools. In our school district, we have sheriff’s deputies who carry weapons at various schools. Our superintendent and security administrator are reviewing our options for the future. Just after New Year’s, I was at a firing range in Orange County. One-fifth of the newly interested women who were there for instruction were teachers. At the same time, I have received communications from some constituents – teachers and parents – who are concerned about an expansion of the carrying of arms on campuses. My constituents deserve to have a careful consideration of all options in these difficult times.

I am a strong believer in the Second Amendment. The war for American independence began when “embattled farmers” fired shots “heard round the world.” The British colonial rulers tried to confiscate the guns of people living in and around Boston. George Washington and the American Revolutionary army were familiar with firearms and owned guns. Our constitutional Republic came after the war was won by an experienced armed citizenry. The Founders knew that we as individuals have the right to protect ourselves with appropriate tools for the job.

At the same time, I am an elected leader of a local school district. We have 15 thousand school districts in the United States. Families often can move from one district to another district they like better. By doing different things in different districts, political leaders are able to try out new policies and match policies to the preferences of voters. But a uniform solution imposed on every school in the country would get rid of the advantages and dynamism of competitive federalism. Some people have advocated a one-size-fits-all policy of disarmament or a one-size-fits-all policy of armed guards (or armed teachers or parents) in every school. Such uniformity is wrongheaded and unwise. It makes more sense to change federal and state policies to allow local districts the latitude to apply a variety of local solutions.

We must recognize that though we strive to raise decent children in our families and neighborhoods, some few will still go astray. We must protect innocent people as best we can against renegades and marauders. We must preserve our rights and try local solutions, not sweeping utopian schemes. Only in this way will we preserve the families and friends that we love and the liberties we cherish.

Anna Bryson 150x150 Preserving Liberties And Protecting SchoolchildrenAnna Bryson lives in Laguna Niguel, California and is an elected trustee of the Capistrano Unified School District in south Orange County. The views expressed here are her own and do not represent official views of the school district.

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Islam ‘Helped To Shape’ CIA Nominee John Brennan’s World View

As a college student in the 1970s, John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee for CIA director, traveled in Indonesia where — he recalled in a speech in New York in 2010 — “despite my long hair, my earring and my obvious American appearance, I was welcomed throughout that country, in a way that is a reflection of the tremendous warmth of Islamic cultures and societies.”

Benghazi Blood On Obama’s Hands

There were two investigative reports published regarding the attack on the Benghazi consulate and CIA annex on September 11. One was entitled the “Benghazi Accountability Report” and was produced by the Obama administration; the other was titled“Flashing Red: A Special Report On The Terrorist Attack At Benghazi” and was produced by the Senate.

Obama’s report, as was expected, was a sham that didn’t find anyone accountable; didn’t explain why Obama blamed a “protest turned violent” on an anti-Muslim YouTube video that no one actually saw; didn’t explain why Obama failed to send any real help to protect the four Americans who were murdered by terrorists; didn’t explain why it took the eight man “security” team (who were actually CIA operatives to keep a lid on whatever Obama was hiding in Benghazi) eight hours to travel from Tripoli to Benghazi, a flight that takes about an hour; and didn’t reveal what exactly Barack Hussein Obama was hiding in Benghazi.

The Senate’s “Flashing Red” report blows apart Barack Obama’s whole charade of a “protest turned violent” because of an anti-Muslim video and shows that he left four Americans flapping in the wind with an American flag covered in blood.  We will discuss this in our next video.

A Question For The Cold Case Posse

Sheriff Arpaio Reilly Zullo swearing in CCP A Question For The Cold Case Posse

On January 15, at 6:30 PM, Investigator Mike Zullo of the Cold Case Posse has been scheduled to give a presentation to a joint meeting of the Surprise Tea Party and the Sun City West Tea Party. Zullo will, according to the Sun City West Tea Party website, be speaking about issues from the 1950s that have a striking similarity to current events such as Agenda 21, World Government, etc. Specifically, he will be speaking about the Bricker Amendment and the Connally Reservation.

Prior to my being sworn into the Cold Case Posse by Sheriff Arpaio on April 17, 2012, I provided information regarding the Connally Reservation and the Bricker Amendment and the abuse of treaty laws to Investigator Zullo in February and early March of 2012.  In addition, I provided the name of Frank E. Holman, former President of the American Bar Association from 1948-1949, and the location of Mr. Holman’s personal papers currently warehoused at the former Sandpoint Naval Air Station in Seattle, WA. Mr. Holman was a Member of the Special Committee for the Organization of the Nations for Peace and Law in 1944 and 1945. Mr. Holman was also a member of the Special Committee for Peace and Law Through United Nations in 1946 and 1947. Mr. Holman was a Rhodes Scholar and the Senior Partner in the Seattle law firm of Holman, Mickelwait, Marion, Black & Perkins. The firm in 2006 became Perkins Coie and now represents President Barack Hussein Obama II.

Originally a supporter of the United Nations, Mr. Holman soon became an outspoken opponent of the United Nations and worked tirelessly at his own expense for 10 years to expose the socialist and internationalist agenda to transform America into a socialist state through international agreements, conventions, and treaties associated with the United Nations. The agenda to transform America through treaty law was best expressed by the Communist Party USA in the April 1945 issue of their official journal, Political Affairs:

Great popular support and enthusiasm for the [creation of the United Nations and] United Nations policies should be built up, well organized and fully articulate. But it is also necessary to do more than that. The opposition must be rendered so impotent that it will be unable to gather any significant support in the Senate against the U.N. Charter and the treaties which will follow. (my emphasis)

In 1952, in an address to the American Bar Association, Mr. John Foster Dulles, before he became Secretary of State, issued the following warning to the delegates:

The treaty-making power is an extraordinary power liable to abuse. Treaties make international law and also make domestic law. Under our Constitution treaties become the supreme law of the land. They are indeed more supreme than ordinary laws for congressional laws are invalid if they do not conform to the Constitution, whereas treaty laws can override the Constitution. Treaties for example, can take powers away from the Congress and give them to the President: they can take powers from the State and give them to the Federal government or to some international body and they can cut across the rights given the people by the constitutional Bill of Rights.

As a result of these warnings, Mr. Holman pushed forward with the need for a Constitutional Amendment which would, at a minimum, prevent a treaty or other international agreement that conflicts with any provision of the Constitution from being of any force or effect. Mr. Holman’s efforts, with the help of the American Bar Association, lead to the proposed Bricker Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was submitted by Senator John Bricker along with sixty-three other Senators, as Senate Joint Resolution 1, in the 83rd Congress, 1st Session. The text of the Article is as follows:

1.) A provision of a treaty which conflicts with this Constitution shall not be of any force or effect.

2.) A treaty shall become effective as internal law in the United States only through legislation which would be valid in the absence of treaty.

3.) Congress shall have power to regulate all executive and other agreements with any foreign power or international organization. All such agreements shall be subject to the limitations imposed on treaties by this article.

4.) The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

5.) this article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.

The Eisenhower administration (Republican Party) and the previous Truman administration (Democrat Party) worked feverishly to defeat the Bricker Amendment. As a result, the Bricker Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was defeated by 1 vote.

As a result of this vote, America, nearly six decades later, is now facing the prospect of a U.N. Small Arms Treaty that may lead to civilian disarmament in America. We also have President Obama, who under the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 21, is considered eligible to be President. Have you ever wondered why no court in the land has ever allowed discovery regarding President Obama’s eligibility? Look to treaty laws and other international conventions and agreements that the United States is obligated to follow with the United Nations. Agenda 21?  Look no further than the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights from December 1948. Everyone has the right to national healthcare; a clean, green environment; and the ability to freely migrate from country to country. Yes, even illegal immigrants from Mexico have the human right to come to the United States if they feel they are being persecuted in their homeland. Open borders are a direct result of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

All of the sovereignty-robbing treaty encroachments on our domestic law that the United States currently faces can be traced back to our entry into the United Nations treaty of 1945.

Some would argue that international treaties can’t override the Constitution. In fact, in 1957, the Supreme Court in Reid v. Covert stated it has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty. That being said, it becomes clear that our elected officials are not following the rule of law and are imposing international treaties on America, and changing domestic law, all contrary to our Constitution. United Nations Agenda 21 is a glaring example of how the Constitution is being ignored by elected officials and trumped by an international agreement.

With the United Nations came the formation of the World Court. According to Mr. Holman, in a 1961 speech to the Suffolk Law School Alumni Association he stated:

The World Court is in no way bound or guided by any definite rules or principles of law. It is entirely free to make up its own rules and render any judgment it members can agree on, as influenced by each judge’s own particular legal concepts, and one may add, as influenced by his national pride or interest — and there is no appeal. It is against this heterogeneous court, largely made up of foreigners– a lawless court, because there are no established rules to govern its deliberations–that the Connally Reservation is designed to protect our American freedoms, both as individuals and as a nation.

The Connally Reservation was introduced in the Senate by Senator Connally of Texas and was passed by the Senate by a vote of 51 to 12 on August 2, 1946. In essence, it avoided the absolute adherence of the United States to the compulsory jurisdiction of the World Court. The United States was free to determine whether a matter was domestic and not under the jurisdiction of the World Court. The Connally Reservation is the key to keeping the World Court out of American affairs. Look for continued efforts to seek the repeal of the Connally Reservation by socialists and internationalists.

I provided much of the preceding information to Mike Zullo and the Cold Case Posse in late February and early March of 2012. Since then, I have done what I could to get the information about the dangers of treaty laws and our sovereignty-robbing entanglement with the United Nations disseminated to the public. On one occasion, on March 17, 2012,  I had the rare opportunity to interview Mr. John Stormer on radio KFNX, thanks to A Call to Rights host Mr. Steve Kates. Mr. Stormer wrote the now famous 1964 book None Dare Call it Treason. On the air, Mr. Stormer confirmed my observations that I now offer here in this article. For those who have a copy of the DVD Agenda, Grinding America Down, Mr. Stormer is featured in the film making several observations about the socialist plan for America.

My question for Investigator Mike Zullo and the Cold Case Posse is this:

Why didn’t you prominently publicize the Holman information about the Connally Reservation, the Bricker Amendment, and Treaty Law abuse  prior to the November 6, 2012 election?

In my opinion, you were in a prime position to expose this information with major impact prior to the election. You had the opportunity to show how America is being transformed into a socialist nation through international agreements and treaties. You had the very key to the process that socialists and internationalists are using to transform America. The public has for decades questioned the unseen mechanism that is transforming America. The abuse of Article VI of the Constitution and the unlawful utilization of international treaty laws by officials in government is the answer. Following the rule of man, instead of the rule of law, has altered our Constitutional Republic.

While I applaud Investigator Zullo for now bringing this information forward, and I would encourage people to attend the presentation on January 15, in my opinion, this information should have been prominently presented on a continual basis many months prior to the November 6, 2012 election.  The Certificate of Live Birth investigation findings, along with Mr. Holman’s information about the dangers of treaty laws, the Connally Reservation, and the Bricker Amendment, should have been presented together.  Had there been a sense of urgency to expose this additional information, it could have possibly saved us from an extension of the ongoing national crisis of the past four years.

I have always given credit to the good Lord for the idea to request Sheriff Joe Arpaio to criminally investigate the Obama Certificate of Live Birth. The good Lord also provided me with a 58 year old book I discovered on a dusty shelf that contained the name of Frank Holman on two pages within the book. Until the book was discovered, I had never heard of Mr. Holman.  It didn’t happen by accident.

Frank E. Holman was a defender of the U.S. Constitution and American sovereignty. He continuously warned America about the dangers of treaty laws and the United Nations. He was a true American Patriot, and he believed in the following words of Thomas Jefferson:

In questions of power, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

Brian Reilly

Sun City West, Arizona

 

Source Information:

Selected Speeches and Articles

By Frank E. Holman, Past President of the American Bar Association

1961

Story of the Bricker Amendment

By Frank E. Holman

1954

The Life and Career of a Western Lawyer 1886-1961

By Frank E. Holman

1963

None Dare Call it Treason

By John Stormer

1964

But We Were Born Free

By Elmer Davis

1954

The resources listed above may be available for sale on the out of print book website:

www.alibris.com

 

Brian Reilly is an Arizona political activist who currently is on the board of Waking Up America, a pro-Constitution Christian group. He is a former board member of the Surprise Tea Party and the Sun City West Tea Party. While he was with the Surprise Tea Party, Reilly developed and initiated the plan to request Sheriff Joe Arpaio to criminally investigate the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth. From April 17, 2012 to June 30, 2012, Reilly was a sworn member of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Posse.