I HAVE BEEN BESTOWED A GREAT HONOR

                                                           

Dear Howie,

On behalf of the Texas Narcotic Officers Association (TNOA), I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations on the renaming of our State Officer of the Year Award in your honor as the Howard "Howie" Katz Award. This recognition is a testament to your visionary leadership and lifelong commitment to the law enforcement community in Texas.

Your contributions to TNOA and the fight against narcotics have left a lasting legacy, and it is only fitting that this award, which honors excellence in our field, bears your name.

Please find the attached official letter for your reference. Once again, congratulations on this well-deserved honor.

With great respect and admiration,

David Ponce

President

Texas Narcotic Officers Association

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are honored to announce that the State Officer of the Year Award has been officially renamed the Howard "Howie" Katz Award in recognition of Howie Katz’s visionary leadership and invaluable contributions to the foundation and success of TNOA.

In 1970, Howie Katz, a former California law enforcement officer and Life Member of the California Narcotic Officers Association (CNOA), recognized the need for a statewide organization for narcotic officers in Texas. After accepting a teaching position at Sam Houston State University (SHSU) in Huntsville, Texas, in 1969, Katz approached Dr. George Killinger, head of the Criminal Justice Department at SHSU, who enthusiastically supported the idea. Dr. Killinger provided critical resources, including funding for outreach calls and meals for attendees at the first organizational meeting, which was held at SHSU.

Despite early resistance, Katz’s perseverance led him to Col. Wilson Speir, the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), who immediately embraced the concept. With DPS backing, the idea gained momentum, and at the first meeting, Elmer Terrell, head of DPS’s Narcotics Division, was elected as TNOA’s first president. TNOA officially received its state charter in 1970, marking the beginning of a legacy of collaboration, professionalism, and excellence among narcotics officers in Texas.

Renaming this award in Howie Katz’s honor ensures that his name will forever be associated with the highest standards of professionalism, integrity, and commitment to the fight against narcotics in Texas. The Howard "Howie" Katz Award will be presented annually to an officer who embodies these principles and has made a significant impact in our field.

Additionally, we want to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Howie Katz, who will be celebrating his 98th birthday on March 1st. His dedication to law enforcement and his lasting impact on TNOA serve as an inspiration to us all.

Please join us in celebrating Howie Katz’s remarkable legacy and this well-deserved recognition.

MONDAY WAS HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

Thanks to the foresight of my father, I am a Holocaust survivor

 

By Howie Katz

1943: Off they go to their probable deaths in the Nazi gas chambers of Auschwitz 

 

 

2023: Off they go to their probable deaths in the Hamas tunnels of Gaza

 

 

Today was Holocaust Remembrance Day. Six million Jews were murdered or starved to death by the Nazis during World War II.

The extermination of Europe's Jews was referred to as the 'final solution' by the Nazis and planned by Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich.

 

 

Heinrich Himmler (L) and Reinhard Heydrich planned the extermination of Europe's Jews, known as the 'final solution'

 

Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933. By 1936 the Nazi persecution of Germany's Jews was in full swing. Unlike most German Jews who believed their persecution was just a passing phase, my father saw the handwriting on the wall.

My father found a sponsor in the (department store) Macy family who sponsored us which enabled us to come to America.

Today much of the world hates Israel and the Jews. Most of the Europeans would just as soon forget the Holocaust. Ireland's schweinehund of a president took the Holocaust Remembrance occasion to castigate the Jews for the way they have fought Hamas in Gaza

Following are just a few pictures for remembering the Holocaust:

 

  This photo shows a German soldier shooting a Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, sometime between 1941 and 1943.

A German in a military uniform shoots at a Jewish woman after a mass execution in Mizocz, Ukraine. 

 

American soldiers silently inspect some of the rail trucks loaded with dead which were found on the rail siding at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, on May 3, 1945.

Bodies lie piled against the walls of a crematory room in a German concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. 

 

Three U.S. soldiers look at bodies stuffed into an oven in a crematorium in April of 1945.

 

This heap of ashes and bones is the debris from one day's killing of inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar in Germany, shown on April 25, 1945 

 

General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other American officers in the Ohrdruf concentration camp, shortly after the liberation of the camp in April of 1945.

 

American soldiers walk by row after row of corpses lying on the ground beside barracks at the Nazi concentration camp at Nordhausen, Germany, on April 17, 1945.

 

Liberating soldiers of Lt. General George S. Patton's 3rd Army, XX Corps, are shown at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945   

 

General Patch's 12th Armored Division, forging their way towards the Austrian border, uncovered horrors at a German prison camp at Schwabmunchen, southwest of Munich.

 

These dead victims of the Germans were removed from the Lambach concentration camp in Austria, on May 6, 1945, by German soldiers under orders of U.S. Army troops.

 

Some of the skeleton-like human remains found by men of the Third Armored Division, U.S. First Army, at the German concentration camp at Nordhausen on April 25, 1945

 

Lt. Col. Ed Seiller of Louisville, Kentucky, stands amid a pile of Holocaust victims as he speaks to 200 German civilians who were forced to see the grim conditions at the Landsberg concentration camp, on May 15, 1945.

 

Dead bodies piled up in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945.    

 

A pile of bodies left to rot in the Bergen-Belsen camp, in Bergen, Germany, found on April 20, 1945  

 

Piles of the dead at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 30, 1945. Some 100,000 people are estimated to have died in this one camp alone.

 

 

Thanks to my beloved father's foresight, I am not in one of the above photographs. Thanks to my father's foresight, I was able to write this piece. Thanks to my father's foresight, I've had the privilege of living in America since 1936.

 

And above all, thanks to my father's foresight, I am a Holocaust survivor.

ONE OF TRUMP'S FIRST EXECUTIVE ORDERS APPROVED ATTACKS ON THE POLICE

By Howie Katz

President Trump holds up executive order pardoning some 1,500 supporters convicted of the January 6 storming of the capitol that resulted in injuring 174 cops

On January 6, 2021, a rioting mob of hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the capitol in an attempt to keep him in power by preventing a joint session of congress from counting the electoral votes that would have declared Biden the winner.

Trump insisted that the storming was a peaceful demonstration by his supporters. That 'peaceful demonstration' resulted in injuring 174 capitol and D.C. cops.

Following a meticulous investigation, some 1,500 rioters were imprisoned after being tried and convicted of the capitol attacks.

 

 

A capitol police officer is attacked by a January 6 rioter 

 

 Another January 6 rioter is pictured attacking a cop

 

One of Trump's first acts as president on Monday was the issuing of an executive order pardoning all the rioters convicted of the January 6 storming of the capitol. By doing so, in effect he approved of the attacks on the capitol and D.C. cops.

Cops throughout the country should consider the pardons not just an affront to the 174 injured cops, but as a slap in the face of all the police.

Many of those convicted did not personally attack any police officers but they did participate in what can best be described as an insurrection and deserved to be jailed. 

The January 6 pardons are as bad as Biden's pardon of son Hunter, if not worse. In this instance, shame, shame on President Trump.

MICHELLE OBAMA MUST BE ASHAMED OF AMERICA AGAIN

By Howie Katz

 

Former First Lady Michelle Obama speaks at a campaign rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on October 26, 2024. 

 

 

In 2009, Michelle Obama said she was ashamed of America until Barack became president.

 

On Monday, she refused to accompany Barack to Trumps inauguration.

 

Obama joined fellow former president Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinto at Trump’s inauguration. Michelle Obama refused to attend. 

 

The overwhelming defeat of Kamala Harris must have made Michelle ashamed of America again.

By refusing to attend Trump's inauguration, Michelle, who could have been elected president had she chosen to run, showed herself to be a no-class person.

CHINESE MAN ADVISED TO CHANGE HIS NAME