Will Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Be Expelled From Congress? We'll soon know

Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is in a heap of seaming legal trouble. 

Last fall, she was indicted for allegedly stealing $5 million in FEMA funds, with court records showing that Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother, Edwin McCormick, receiving the FEMA funds as part of a COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021. 

The $5 million was an overpayment of those FEMA funds, and the indictment alleges the defendants conspired to steal that money by routing it through multiple accounts.

The Miami Herald reported that Cherfilus-McCormick spent the money on a $109,000 three-carat yellow diamond ring, as well as $2.4 million to Cherfilus-McCormick's consulting company, $1.2 million to a bank account managed by relatives of Cherfilus-McCormick, $830K to a different bank account on which Cherfilus-McCormick is an authorized user, $334K to Nadege Leblanc, who is "accused of having coordinated straw-donor contributions to Cherfilus-McCormick," $190K to a bank account tied to Cherfilus-McCormick's brother's consulting company.

Other than that, she was thrifty with the money and Osama bin Laden went to Bibi Netanyahu's bar mitzvah.

Cherfilus-McCormick naturally played the good old race card in response to the allegations, calling her indictment "unjust" and telling CSPAN, "If this is what Congress is becoming, where they're always trying to intimidate you, scare tactics, especially attacking minorities, black and brown people, then we're going to have to keep fighting for the district."

At the end of January, Congressman Greg Steube said he planned to file a motion to expel Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress when the body returned to Washington. He called the charges "one of the most egregious abuses of public trust I have ever seen" and said, "Stealing $5 million in taxpayer disaster funds from FEMA of all places is beyond indefensible."

But at least she doesn't kick puppies and kittens, allegedly.

We'll soon find out if Cherfilus-McCormick will be expelled, because she faces a House Ethics hearing on Thursday.

This poses a problem for Democrats, including the execrable Hakeem Jeffries. He was asked about the congresswoman [which he cannot define] and whether or not Democrats will support expelling her, which I would wager they won't because they're also politicians.

Since 1789, only 21 members of Congress have been expelled, including 15 Senators and six House members. The last time a Congressman was expelled was Republican [and frequent Fox News' Greg Gutfeld! Show] George Santos in 2023. Prior to that, Ohio Democrat James Traficant was expelled in 2002.

Breakdown by Party:

Democrats: 19
All 17 Civil War-era expulsions (for supporting the Confederacy) were Democrats, as were the two modern House cases.

Republicans: 1

The only Republican expelled was Rep. George Santos (R-NY) in 2023.

Democratic-Republican Party: 1
Sen. William Blount (Democratic-Republican, TN) in 1797. (This was a predecessor party to the modern Democrats; the modern Republican Party did not exist until 1854.)

Are you surprised?

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Gavin Newsom's wife says pro-lifers are "pulling us back as a country"

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, is attacking pro-life Christians. She has criticized pro-life Christians and evangelicals as living in an “evangelical, conservative silo” that is “pulling us back as a country.”

What's the problem, Jenny, not enough dead babies?

Meanwhile, Newsom is arguing that the term “pro-life” should be redefined to mean government-funded social programs rather than protecting unborn children from abortion.

In a 2022 interview with journalist Elex Michaelson of a local Los Angeles station, Siebel Newsom promoted her documentary “Fair Play” on gender roles in the home and praised progressives for redefining the meaning of “pro-life.”

“I appreciate that so many people, so many progressives, are leaning into redefining what pro-life is really about, and that’s what we’re doing in California,” the unelected wife of Gavin Newsom said. “You know, pro-life is about prenatal care and universal preschool and universal after-school and universal healthcare and taking care of foster kids and feeding, you know, universal meals and childcare. Like, that’s pro-life. It’s not conception.”

She went on to criticize those she described as being on the far right, which includes anyone who didn't vote Democrat, and especially not for her husband.

“They’re living in this silo, this evangelical, conservative silo that, ultimately, is just pulling us back as a country to a time and a place where we don’t deserve to be, and we’re not going to be,” she said. “Because honestly, young women and fathers of daughters are awake now, and they’re woke, and they’re not going to let us go back.”

Siebel Newsom added that she has “so much hope because of that, and obviously California has a huge responsibility to lead.”

The clip resurfaced this week and drew fresh attention online as California continues to position itself as a leader in expanding abortion access through taxpayer funding. The state is also a leader in exfiltration of its wealthier residents who refuse to allow the state to steal their money.

Last month, at a bill-signing ceremony for Senate Bill 106, which provides $90 million in one-time emergency funds to Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses to kill more babies, Newsom scolded reporters for focusing questions on topics such as the state’s failed high-speed rail project and the governor’s planned trip to Munich rather than the legislation.

“We just find it incredulous that we have Planned Parenthood here, and women are 51% of the population,” she said. “And the majority of the questions, all of these questions, have really been about other issues. So, it’s just fascinating.”

Pro-life advocates have condemned the $90 million allocation as an effort to celebrate and subsidize abortion at a time when many Americans support greater protections for unborn children. 

Not every woman views the expansion of abortions as advancing women’s interests. Many women actually want to be a mother and see abortion as a legal right to murder the babies.

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Nazis founded Volkswagon, now do something for Israel

In a landmark deal that marries German engineering prowess with Israeli combat-proven technology, Volkswagen is in advanced negotiations to transform its Osnabrück vehicle plant into a production hub for the Iron Dome missile defense system, Israel’s defense system against incoming missiles launched by Hamas, Iran and other Islamic nations that call for the total annihilation of the Jewish state.

The partnership with Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems represents a strategic masterstroke, offering a lifeline to thousands of German workers while bolstering Western security at a time of unprecedented global volatility.

The move comes as Israel and the United States continue their high-stakes campaign to neutralize the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and its regional proxies. While the conflict has sparked intense debate within the German halls of power, most notably from President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who recently characterized the war as a “disastrous mistake,” the VW-Rafael tie-up signals a more pragmatic, security-first approach from Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government.

The Osnabrück plant, previously facing closure due to a sluggish transition to electric vehicles, is set to become a cornerstone of the European Sky Shield Initiative. By producing launchers, generators, and heavy-duty transport trucks for the Iron Dome, Volkswagen is pivoting from a struggling automotive market to a booming defense sector.

For Israel, the deal is a testament to the enduring strength of the Berlin-Jerusalem alliance. Rafael officials noted that Germany was chosen specifically for its status as one of Israel’s most reliable partners. The collaboration aims to save 2,300 high-skilled jobs that were previously at risk of redundancy, integrate “Battle-Proven” Technology into the European defense infrastructure, and strengthen Transatlantic Security by providing a localized supply chain for critical air defense components.

The industrial synergy stands in stark contrast to the pointed rhetoric from President Steinmeier, who on Tuesday warned of a “profound rupture” in ties with Washington. However, Chancellor Merz has remained focused on the broader strategic necessity of the mission. While expressing concern over regional stability and potential migration waves, Merz has affirmed that Germany shares the core goals of the U.S. and Israel: ending Tehran’s ballistic missile program and its support for global terrorism.

The transition at Osnabrück is expected to be seamless, requiring minimal new investment to convert existing assembly lines for defense hardware. Beyond the immediate economic boost, the partnership allows Germany to harness its excess industrial capacity to meet a €500 billion defense spending goal by 2030.

By choosing to produce the Iron Dome, a system credited with a 90% success rate in saving civilian lives, Volkswagen is not just saving a factory; it is participating in a vital effort to safeguard the democratic world.

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NATO reacts as Russia fires nearly 400 drones at Ukraine

Russia launched nearly 400 drones and dozens of missiles across Ukraine overnight Monday, triggering NATO to scramble fighter jets in neighboring countries, according to reports.

The massive aerial assault killed at least four people and injured more than two dozen, with strikes hitting multiple regions including Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv, The Associated Press reported, citing Ukrainian officials.

Poland and Romania both scrambled fighter jets as Russian strikes approached NATO airspace, East2West reported, with Warsaw placing air defenses on the "highest state of readiness," Poland’s operational command said.

"Due to the activity of long-range Russian air forces conducting strikes on Ukrainian territory, Polish and allied air forces have begun operating in our airspace," Poland’s operational command said, according to East2West.

What one sees in these episodes is not mere battlefield friction but something deeper: the grinding insistence of one power upon the sovereignty of another, and the nervous vigilance it provokes among those who share a border with the conflict.

Hours earlier, two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled in fellow NATO state Romania as Russian drones attacked Ukraine near the River Danube, the outlet reported. The Danube forms part of the border between Ukraine and Romania.

Ukrainian military leaders said Russian forces have intensified attacks along the roughly 750-mile front line, with hundreds of assaults reported in recent days.

The Institute for the Study of War said the escalation suggests Moscow’s long-anticipated spring-summer offensive is now underway, according to The Associated Press.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched nearly 400 drones. Ukrainian officials later said most were intercepted or disrupted, although some were able to hit their targets, according to East2West.

Russia also launched 23 cruise missiles and seven ballistic missiles at Ukraine during the night, hitting at least 10 locations across the country, according to the Ukrainian air force.

Ukrainian civilians have endured relentless barrages since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago. U.S.-brokered talks between Moscow and Kyiv over the past year have brought no respite, with Russia rejecting Ukraine’s ceasefire offer.

The latest strikes came after Ukraine hit Russia’s largest Baltic port, Primorsk, in a pinpoint attack a day earlier, leaving the key export hub in flames, East2West reported.

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambassador to London, Andrey Kelin, threatened "dire" consequences over what he said was Ukraine’s use of Storm Shadow missiles, which this month hit and damaged a microelectronics plant in Russia’s Bryansk region.

"The British, without whose participation the use of Storm Shadow missiles is simply impossible, decided to remind everyone of both Ukraine and themselves," he said. "However, any action has consequences. And for everyone involved in the tragedy in Bryansk, the consequences will be dire."

One cannot help but note the symmetry here, or rather the absence of it. When Ukrainian forces strike at Russian infrastructure, the response is often framed as escalation, as though the original invasion itself were not the originating sin of the entire tragedy. Yet when Russian barrages rain down on Ukrainian cities, the language turns clinical, technical, almost detached, as if describing a weather event rather than a sustained campaign against a civilian population.

This is the moral asymmetry that has defined so much of the Western commentary on this war: a reluctance to call things by their proper names, lest the clarity prove inconvenient.

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US sanction Canadian company for its ties to $100,000,000 Hezbollah financing network

A Canadian company has been sanctioned by the United States government over its connections to a $100-million network accused of funding Hezbollah.

The US Treasury Department announced sanctions on Vancouver-based Seven Seas for International Trading and Logistics on Friday, as part of a move that targeted 16 individuals and entities led by Hezbollah financier and former public investment official Alaa Hassan Hamieh (Alaa Hamieh).

The Treasury said Alaa Hamieh owns multiple Hezbollah-associated companies, including Lebanon-based Seven Seas SAL Offshore, Seven Seas Group S.A.R.L, and others.

Seven Seas for International Trading and Logistics is the Canadian branch of Alaa Hamieh’s similarly named Lebanese companies. Its co-founder and CEO is Lebanese-Qatari national Raoof Fadel.

Fadel is sanctioned on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list by the Office of Foreign Assets Control on account of his involvement with Hezbollah and the financing of Hezbollah.Seven Seas is sanctioned due to its association with Fadel and, thus, its connection to Hezbollah-related financial activity. All Seven Seas assets in the US are now frozen, and US persons and companies cannot do business with them.

Corporate records obtained by Global News show the sanctioned Seven Seas was registered in BC in 2022 and remains active. Its directors, Mohamad Wehbe and Ahmed Wehbe, have also been sanctioned by the US.

The company is not sanctioned in Canada.

BC’s Finance Ministry told the Canadian Press that it was not alerted to the situation before the US announcement, and officials are reaching out to federal counterparts.

“Any next steps from the province would be informed by that engagement with our federal partners,” it reportedly said.

Hezbollah is a designated terrorist entity in Canada as per the Criminal Code, and has been since December 2002.

The Treasury Department has sanctioned 40 Canadian companies and individuals. However, only seven are on the Specially Designated Global Terrorist list. One is Samidoun, which is accused of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Look, folks, this is what actual financial warfare against terror looks like, and it is long overdue. While Canada sits there twiddling its thumbs and pretending Hezbollah is just some harmless social club with a rocket hobby, the U.S. Treasury is out here dropping the hammer on a slick $100 million money-laundering machine that funneled cash straight to the Iranian-backed killers.Alaa Hamieh, the former Lebanese public investment hotshot turned Hezbollah bagman, did not exactly hide his genius-level scheme. He just spread it around the family tree like a bad genetic trait. Lebanon-based Seven Seas outfits, Polish shells, Slovenian telecom fronts, a little Qatari flair, and boom, there is the Vancouver branch quietly humming along in British Columbia since 2022. Nice and legal on paper, until Uncle Sam notices the cash flow is not exactly headed toward puppy shelters.

Enter Raoof Fadel, the Lebanese-Qatari national playing CEO of the Canadian operation. Sanctioned. Frozen. Done. The whole Seven Seas crew in Canada now finds its U.S. assets locked tighter than a Trudeau apology, and American companies are officially told to steer clear or else. The directors, the Wehbe boys, they are on the list too. Shocker.

And yet, back in the Great White North? Crickets. The company is still active up there. BC’s Finance Ministry had to learn about it from the Americans, like some kid who missed the group text. “We are reaching out to federal counterparts,” they said. Translation: “We had no idea, please do not make us actually do something uncomfortable.”

Hezbollah has been a designated terrorist entity in Canada since December 2002, for crying out loud. That is not new information. It is not a surprise. It is just inconvenient when the money trail leads to nice Vancouver addresses and polite corporate filings.

The U.S. has now sanctioned 40 Canadian-linked folks and firms in this space. Only a handful make the big Global Terrorist list. One of them is Samidoun, the outfit accused of playing footsie with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Pattern recognition, people. It is not that hard.

Meanwhile, the Treasury keeps doing the job that half the Western world would rather outsource. They are following the money, freezing the accounts, and reminding everyone that funding rocket attacks on civilians does not get a pass just because you wrapped it in a logistics company with a fancy nautical name.

Seven Seas. Adorable. More like Seven Seas of Hezbollah cash. And Canada still cannot quite bring itself to care until Washington makes it impossible to ignore. Business as usual in the land of endless “engagements with federal partners.”

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Both Air Canada pilots killed in LaGuardia crash identified

L. Antoine Forest, R. Mackenzie Gunther
 (Facebook/Antoine Forest; Seneca Polytechnic)

The Air Canada pilot and first officer (aka co-pilot) who were killed in the ground collision at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday have been identified as Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther.

The two pilots were flying an Air Canada Express CRJ-900 regional jet operated by Jazz Aviation, Air Canada's regional partner.

Jeannette Gagnier, the great aunt of Forest, told The Associated Press that he always wanted to be a pilot. The small city of Coteau-du-Lac in southwestern Quebec also identified Forest, saying in an online post that the pilot was originally from the community.

Gunther was identified as the first officer on the flight in an online obituary posted by Seneca Polytechnic, where the young pilot graduated from the Honours Bachelor of Aviation Technology program in 2023.

Gunther joined Jazz Aviation following graduation and began his professional flying career, according to the obituary.

“Seneca sends our deepest condolences to Mr. Gunther’s family and friends, and to his former colleagues and professors,” the obituary said. “He will be deeply missed.”

Some passengers aboard the flight have said that the pilots’ actions before the deadly impact likely saved the lives of those on board.

"Looking back on it, the pilot did the best thing he could,” passenger Jack Cabot said. “He hit the brakes as hard as he could, and he knew it was going to be at the cost of his own life."

Passenger Clément Lelièvre told The Associated Press that the pilots braked extremely hard just as the plane touched down, crediting their “incredible reflexes” with saving lives.

Investigators have yet to publicly confirm their identities.

The union representing the pilots on Monday released a statement calling the loss of the two pilots a “profound tragedy.”

“These pilots dedicated their careers to the safe transport of passengers, and we are all thinking of their families, loved ones, and colleagues at Jazz Aviation during this devastating time,” Capt. Jason Ambrosi, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), said.

Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau on Monday said he was “deeply saddened by the loss,” and cautioned that many details remain unclear as the investigation unfolds.

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DHS: "Venezuelan criminal illegal alien" busted after allegedly killing 18-year-old Chicago student

A 25-year-old Venezuelan national, Jose Medina-Medina ,who entered the United States illegally has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman. Gorman was reportedly walking with friends along the Tobey Prinz Beach pier, near campus, when a masked man opened fire, violently, and senselessly shooting her in the head. 

The young lady was pronounced dead at the scene.

In a statement to ABC7, Gorman’s family said that she had gone to the pier to look at the Northern Lights, emphasizing that “there was nothing reckless about her actions” at the time, suggesting further that this was a completely random attack.

“Sheridan was our daughter, our sister, and the heart of our family. She was full of life, full of kindness, and full of a love that she gave freely to everyone around her,” the family said in a statement.

Medina-Medina was arrested-arrested on Friday night and was scheduled to appear in court on Monday. This was delayed, however, as he has since been hospitalized for tuberculosis, according to prosecutors who spoke to the Chicago Tribune. At this point, no official motive has been identified for the crime.

In a statement released on Sunday, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer against Medina. The department noted that Medina had been released twice in 2023 under the Biden administration's policies, including a release following an arrest for shoplifting in Chicago.

“Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder,” said Lauren Bis, DHS acting assistant secretary, in the statement.

“We are calling on Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods,” she added.Responding to news of the arrest, the Gorman family issued a statement through ABC7, ultimately describing the tragedy as a “violent and preventable act.”

“We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime. When systems fail, whether through release decisions, lack of coordination, or unwillingness to act, the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And in our case, they are permanent.”

“This cannot be just another case that fades from public attention. Sheridan’s life mattered. What happened to her matters. And we will make sure she is not forgotten,” they continued.

Miss Gorman was an 18-year-old freshman at Loyola University Chicago, though originally from Yorktown, New York. A business major and active member of the Christian campus organization Cru, she was described by friends and family as a compassionate, joyful, and kind person who was deeply involved in her campus community despite only being in her first year. 

The fatal incident occurred around 1:15 a.m. at the Tobey Prinz Beach pier in Rogers Park while Gorman was walking with a group of friends, having gone to the lakefront specifically to try to view the Northern Lights. According to investigators, the masked man approached the group from behind a lighthouse and opened fire as they attempted to flee. Gorman was struck in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported among her friends.

A memorial and scholarship fund are being established in Gorman’s honor in her hometown of Yorktown.

This is the sort of story that should shame a nation. A young woman, full of promise and untouched by any recklessness or provocation, steps out on a clear night simply to witness a rare natural wonder, the Northern Lights dancing above Lake Michigan. In that innocent moment she is executed at point-blank range by a man who had no right to be in the country at all, a man released not once but twice by the very authorities charged with protecting American citizens.

The family’s grief is raw and dignified. They insist there was “nothing reckless about her actions,” as if even the faintest suggestion of fault must be extinguished before it can be whispered. They are right to do so. For this was not a tragic encounter between rival gang members or the unhappy result of some personal dispute. It was, by every available account, a random slaughter, the sort that occurs when the state has decided that its own laws on entry and removal are optional, when sanctuary policies matter more than the safety of its own people, and when the consequences of those decisions are borne not by politicians in their guarded offices but by freshmen walking along a pier.

Consider the sequence. The killer, a Venezuelan an illegal alien, had already been arrested for shoplifting in Chicago. Under the policies of the Biden administration he was released. Later he was encountered again and released once more. 

Now an American teenager lies dead, her skull shattered by his bullet, while he sits in hospital with tuberculosis, the court appearance postponed. The Department of Homeland Security has at last lodged a detainer, as though such paperwork could resurrect the dead or undo the years of deliberate negligence that placed the murderer on that pier in the first place.

The family sees it clearly. “We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime,” they say. “When systems fail, whether through release decisions, lack of coordination, or unwillingness to act, the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And in our case, they are permanent.”

There is a terrible eloquence in those words. Permanent. That is what open-border ideology and sanctuary-city dogma have delivered to Sheridan Gorman and her family: a permanent absence, a life cut short at eighteen, a future of studies and friendships and quiet Christian witness erased in a single act of casual savagery.

Politicians will speak of  “comprehensive reform” and “root causes” in the days ahead, as they always do. They will treat this as one more data point in an argument rather than as the human catastrophe it is. But the family will not let it fade. “This cannot be just another case that fades from public attention,” they declare. “Sheridan’s life mattered. What happened to her matters. And we will make sure she is not forgotten.”

They should not have to fight alone for that remembrance. The rest of us, those still fortunate enough to live under laws that are actually enforced, have a duty to ensure that Sheridan Gorman is not remembered merely as another statistic in the long ledger of migrant crime, but as the precise and foreseeable cost of a governing philosophy that values ideological purity over the elementary obligation to keep citizens safe in their own streets and on their own shores. 

A scholarship and a memorial in Yorktown will be established, small consolations for an irreparable loss. Yet the true memorial must be larger: a national reckoning with the reality that when a country stops controlling its borders, it stops controlling its fate, and the first to pay are the young, the innocent, and the hopeful, walking out one autumn night to see the lights in the sky.

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Abortion criminal serving life sentence is no longer serving for some reason

Philadelphia infant murderer who was serving a life sentence for his numerous crimes is no longer serving time. Kermit Gosnell is dead at the age of 85.

Gosnell was convicted in 2013 of murdering three babies born alive at his filthy clinic in West Philly and was serving many life sentences which he finally used up.

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokesperson Maria Bivens said Gosnell passed away on March 1st in a hospital outside the prison system. He had been incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution-Smithfield, roughly 60 miles south of Pittsburgh. 

A cause of death was not disclosed but he is now as dead as the babies he killed in the past.

The now deceased convicted infant killer's clinic had been known as the "house of horrors." The employees at the now defunct clinic testified that Gosnell frequently performed illegal abortions beyond the 24-week limit and he even killed babies who were born and still moving, crying or breathing, and that his assistants killed the newborns by "snipping" their spines, as he called it.

Beyond simple murder of at least three infants, Gosnell was also convicted of running a prescription pill operation out of the house of horrors.

"Gosnell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, including oxycodone, alprazolam, and codeine; distribution and aiding and abetting the distribution of oxycodone; and maintaining a place for the illegal distribution of controlled substances," the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said in July 2013.

"Gosnell went from writing several hundred prescriptions for controlled substances per month filled at pharmacies in 2008 to over 2,300 filled at pharmacies in January of 2010," it added. "Gosnell charged from $115.00 to $150.00, with a follow up visit fee of $50.00 and a $20 fee for refills of controlled substances for cash paying customers."

Conditions at his clinic became known during a 2010 investigation of prescription drug trafficking.

When investigators initially went to the clinic, they discovered a foul-smelling place with bottles and bags of fetuses, jars of body parts, bloodstained furniture and medical equipment that looked like it fell into a cesspool.

Gosnell did not testify at his 2013 trial, but his defense attorney argued that none of the fetuses were born alive and that any movements were posthumous twitching or spasms, according to the AP.

Well now he's gone but his memory lingers on. At least he won't be meeting any of his victims in heaven because that isn't where I believe he's going.

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