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Thursday, April 15. 2021

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Our internet pal David Warren is recovering from a stroke, heart attack, and bypass surgery

Who Is Freer These Days?

Rand Paul Calls Fauci a 'Petty Tyrant,' Urges Americans to 'Go About Your Lives'

Nate Silver Accuses Dr. Fauci of Gaslighting on COVID Transmission

Teacher’s ‘come at me’ rant caught on video by Reopen California Schools group

California Public School Teachers Being Told to Hide Critical Race Materials From Parents

CEOs’ Surrender To The Mobocrats On The Left Will End Poorly

No Charges Against Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt: DOJ

John Durham scrutinizes Steele dossier source through Brookings Institution subpoena

The Georgetown Affair: New Levels Of Progressive Reality Denial

BBC diversity chief says Idris Elba's TV detective Luther 'isn't black enough to be real' because 'he doesn't have any black friends and doesn't eat any Caribbean food'

Students support voting bill...then learn it's actually Georgia's law

Did the cop who shot Daunte Wright experience "slip and capture?"

The border is even worse than you think

Guatemala: We have no idea what Biden and Harris are talking about

Israel: A “VERY BEAUTIFUL” ATTACK

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Rand Paul continues to fight for liberty. Impressive.

Say what you want about libertarians but when push comes to shove with our freedoms, who among the GOP is fighting even close to as hard as Rand Paul?

#1 Jeff Brokaw (Link) on 2021-04-15 07:44 (Reply)

Slips and captures is why you train...so you don’t make stupid moves like confusing a Glock with a Taser. The department that let a poorly officer on the streets should pay heavily.

#2 DblTap on 2021-04-15 08:36 (Reply)

Seems like a department policy that doesn't require cross-draw of a taser instead of allowing the pistol and taser holsters on the dominant hand side of the gun belt is defective and dangerous policy that's going to figure in both the civil suit for damages and the criminal trial.

The Brooklyn Center PD has just made cross-draw mandatory yesterday.

#2.1 Sal D. on 2021-04-15 11:28 (Reply)

Effective high pressure/stress training is expensive. Shooting someone by accident is REALLY expensive.

#2.1.1 DblTap on 2021-04-15 11:33 (Reply)

John Durham??? Who is John Durham? Is he still relevant? What difference does it make now what he decides. This is no longer a "rescue" this is the recovery of the dead body of our republic. Good job John Durham!

#3 OneGuy on 2021-04-15 09:13 (Reply)

Odd that we still don't know the name of the cop who shot Ashli Babbitt when we knew the name of the cop who shot Daunte Wright almost immediately. I'm sure that there are plenty of people at the DoJ who know his name and therefore the NYT and WaPo and CNN know his name, yet it's somehow something the public doesn't need to know - or, more accurately, it's something the public needs to not know - and why is that? What's the big secret they're hiding? Curious, isn't it?

#4 Jerryskids on 2021-04-15 09:15 (Reply)

They want to protect him (an innocent man, darn that ol' constitutional presumption of innocence) from stalkers or worse, you know, people like you.

#4.1 Sal D. on 2021-04-15 12:36 (Reply)

A presumption of innocence before the law is not the same thing as actually being innocent. Consider: if a woman knows she has been raped by the man down the street, is she required to regard him as innocent, and even if he is not prosecuted or even acquitted for lack of evidence, treat him as entirely safe?

You might also notice which side of the political spectrum the stalkers and threateners are actually coming from. Fringe nutcases from the right say all sorts of vile things online. Those from the left actually show up at your house.

#4.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2021-04-15 14:21 (Reply)

Most likely, doxxing and online harassment of the officer or his family is the reason for wanting his name be made public.

So I'm connecting that kind of extra-judicial punishment with a warning about the presumption of innocence. We wait until conviction until we punish in our judicial system; it seems prudent to keep that in mind before someone posts the officer's kids names and schools on the internet.

As to your example, the woman should personally treat him as a rapist, but as a matter of constitutional law and the public, the man is, until trial and conviction, innocent of the crime of rape. That said, a woman who has been raped should, and should be encouraged to file rape charges against her attacker, who may be arrested, tried as a felon after a preliminary hearing and denied bail, all without offending the presumption of innocence.

The way you pose the question makes for a difficult answer because the concept of "innocence" in the constitutional sense does not mean exactly the same thing as "innocence" in the factual, or historical sense. Certainly the woman knows, but the public cannot know for sure. Calling a man "guilty" and punishing before proof of guilt overcomes the presumption of innocence is what the "Me Too" movement is all about, and I don't think we disagree that is an effective way to ruin lives by accusation only.

#4.1.1.1 Sal D. on 2021-04-15 15:42 (Reply)

re No Charges Against Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt: DOJ

Sent a link to this story to my wife yesterday. She said this about the capitol police officer, "He was just doing his job."

End of discussion. Nothing to see here. Everyone move along.

This is the action of ruling masters, not public servants. There is no transparency here, only an anonymous pronouncement from a faceless bureaucracy.

#5 feeblemind on 2021-04-15 09:36 (Reply)

The DOJ just discusses federal civil rights (18 U.S.C. Section 242). What happened re old fashion state (D.C) murder/manslaughter charges?

#5.1 OldCurmudgeon on 2021-04-15 10:00 (Reply)

kinda right, kinda wrong.

the DOJ also enforces federal and DC local law through the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.

#5.1.1 Sal D. on 2021-04-15 11:07 (Reply)

Not really. Ashli is the poster girl for play stupid games win stupid prizes. I have exactly the same amount of sympathy for her that I do for people that resist arrest and get plugged....minimal.

#5.2 DblTap on 2021-04-15 12:30 (Reply)

That's 'kinda' true but it begs the question. Where is the 'justice' fore her and her family? Where is the responsibility of our government to the people. There are procedures in a case like this and no where in those procedures is 'sweeping under a rug'. For better or for worse this had to be done in public for the 'wounds to heal and it wasn't done correctly and will always be a black spot on our government and the capitol police. By their action this shooting stays open. They cannot legally end it this way it is just on hold. Perhaps the next administration will insist on a trial because it WAS homicide and therefore requiresthe proper procedures.

#5.2.1 OneGuy on 2021-04-16 10:37 (Reply)

Things don't always turn out the way you want them to go. The cop didn't commit a crime, so grow up, deal with it.

#5.2.1.1 Sal D. on 2021-04-16 11:47 (Reply)

Democrats Introducing Legislation To Pack Supreme Court With 4 New Justices

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrats-introducing-legislation-to-pack-supreme-court-with-4-new-justices-report-says

#6 feeblemind on 2021-04-15 09:41 (Reply)

WE ARE THE RESISTANCE: No, YOU are the HUNS.

Rand Paul Calls Fauci a 'Petty Tyrant,' Urges Americans to 'Go About Your Lives': I am.

The Georgetown Affair: New Levels Of Progressive Reality Denial: The word "progressive" always reminds me of "cancer"...which it is...

Re #4Jerryskids: As I keep saying, I don't KNOW if the media isare a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dem Party, or it it's the other way round, but it's OBVIOUS that they are in CAHOOTS.

#7 Sam L. on 2021-04-15 10:34 (Reply)

Iran desk explosion. Hmm. Spin up centrifuges to 85 billion rpms. Raid Storage R Us and get tons of hard copy secret stuff. Slip in a von Stauffenberg desk. Iran is fighting well out of its league. Guns 'n ammo to Hezbollah? Easy stuff. Good sandhill propaganda. Capture a US Navy patrol boat? No problem. Outsmart Israeli intelligence? You need a bigger boat.

#8 SgtBob (Link) on 2021-04-15 14:23 (Reply)

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