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Chauvin Trial: Witness & Jury Intimidation, Cranked Up to 11

Apr 19, 2021 Miguel.GFZ 3 comments

Andrew Branca offers his insight.

Give us guilty, on all counts, even on counts not actually being argued in this trial, or we burn it all down generally, and target defense witnesses and, by implication, the trial jurors specifically.

Good luck with that, America.

Frankly, at this point it’s absolutely apparent that Derek Chauvin can receive nothing like a fair trial in this case.  When I write that, by the way, I’m defining “fair trial” as one involving a process we’d want for ourselves or a loved one, or even a friend or neighbor.

No one would want to be on trial, or have anyone they cared about on trial, in a courthouse surrounded by a violent, raging mob, being exhorted to further violence by government officials, with militant factions of political groups terrorizing the witness for the defense, and by extension the jury itself.

Yet that is what’s been offered to Derek Chauvin as “justice.”

LIVE Chauvin Trial Day 15:  Witness & Jury Intimidation, Cranked Up to 11

Go read the whole thing

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Florida Legislature 2021: Down to the last days.

Apr 19, 2021 Miguel.GFZ 0 comments

Eleven of them including today.

Tomorrow is the last day for regularly scheduled committee meetings and only two Pro Gun Bills are scheduled: CS/CS/HB 259 – Safety of Religious Institutions and SB 1884 – Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition Regulation with both in the Senate’s Rules committee to be discussed.

My very small optimist side says we may see Safety of Religious Institutions approved but not to expect anything else. The ample Realist/Pessimist facet says we will be shafted once more this year and the only saving grace is none of the seriously crappy Anti Gun Bills have a chance in hell to com out of the bottom of whatever drawer they are languishing right now.  Basically “Yay! Happy Birthday, you are still alive but with debts and a family that hates you.”

I want to be wrong for once.

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When will DeSantis sign HB 1 – Combating Public Disorder Bill?

Apr 19, 2021 Miguel.GFZ 1 comment

With the Chauvin verdict coming at any time and preparations already made to “peacefully protest” no matter the outcome, I figure the Governor will sign the bill into law sooner than later to keep people from doing felonious crap. Specially with all the exaggeration published in the Media and  even amplified by the ACLU, maybe a couple of “Air Jordan Activists” may think twice about relocating the inventory of a store to their private stock.

I suck at predictions, but I believe that we may see the Governor do his thing today. Tomorrow at the latest.

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Florida ACLU is having a hissy fit about DeSantis’ HB 1 – Combating Public Disorder Bill.

Apr 19, 2021 Miguel.GFZ 8 comments

If you follow the rest of the tweets, you’d think the Florida Legislature wants to shut down minorities peacefully redressing complains to the government.  They issued a statement explaining in a bit more detail why they are opposing the bill, but I don’t know what they read. Here is the bill in its final form awaiting for the Governor to sign. You can compare what the ACLU says and what the bill says on your own, but I will give you my IANAL analysis anyway.

HB1 is designed to chill and criminalize Floridians for exercising their First Amendment right to protest.

OK, please do explain and point out the relevant sections.

By redefining “rioting,”

First strike: There is no new definition of riot anywhere in the bill. And Florida already has a section on its statutes (chapter 870) relating with affrays and riots.

 the bill grants police officers broad discretion in deciding who could be arrested and charged with a third-degree felony at a protest and fails to provide protection for people who have not engaged in any disorderly and violent conduct.

Again, very wrong. Here is the text in the bill (bold are mine):

(2) A person commits a riot if he or she willfully participates in a violent public disturbance involving an  assembly of three or more persons, acting with a common intent to assist each other in violent and disorderly conduct, resulting in:
 (a) Injury to another person;
(b) Damage to property; or
(c) Imminent danger of injury to another person or damage to property.

Although mistakes may and will happen, the bill does not target people who truthfully engaged in a peaceful march but the assorted asses that are looting the Foot Locker, trying to set fire to vehicles and/or businesses and attacking people having dinner.

In Florida, a felony charge strips people of their voting rights.

A felony conviction strips a citizen of his/her voting rights. These people are supposed to be lawyers.

This bill would also hinder local governments from determining how to allocate law enforcement resources to address critical needs in their local communities. It allows the Governor, with the Cabinet, to usurp control of a city budget and amend it to their liking at the appeal of any county commissioner or state attorney, regardless of whether local elected officials approve of changes made in the budget.

“ZOMG! DeSantis is not gonna let local governments pave the roads or fund school lunches for poor kids being starved by Eeeevil Republicans!”  But what the bill actually says is:

If the tentative budget of a municipality contains a funding reduction to the operating budget of the municipal law enforcement agency, the state attorney for the judicial circuit in which the municipality is located,

That part of the bill is narrowly defined to cover a reduction in the operating budget for Law enforcement and Judicial offices. And the kicker is that it is not just a member of the Executive descending from Tallahassee and intervening, it actually establishes a process where it is an elected member of the community who disagrees with the deduction, has to appeal via a petition to the Administrative Commission of the Executive Office of the Governor and with a bunch of details described in the bill to get things started. It is not just a sweeping take over of the operating budget of the municipality as the press release is trying to “suggest.”

It would also shield violent counter-protesters from civil liability for killing a peaceful protester or demonstrator with their vehicle,

Not such thing in the bill. The ACLU is making it sound (how unusual) as if the bill would allow you to run over “peaceful protesters” on purpose. I would like to remind the ACLU that at a minimum, that would be vehicular manslaughter and more than likely just plain old murder.  And we already have in the books a law protecting people from civil liability in case of self-defense, but somehow I doubt the ACLU suddenly forgot about it.

 and make pulling down a Confederate flag a punishable offense for up to 15 years in prison.

And once more, no such thing in the bill (it looks like a recurring thing, doesn’t it? By design perhaps?) The only passage somewhat in the same region of their imagination is this one:

It is unlawful for any person to willfully and maliciously destroy or demolish any memorial or historic property, or willfully and maliciously pull down a memorial or historic property, unless authorized by the owner of the memorial or historic property. A person who violates this section commits a felony of the second degree.

A felony on the second degree does carry up to 15 years in prison.  Snatching a Confederate flag out of the back of somebody’s truck is at best a petty theft charge and only if the cops bother with the arrest.

And of course, they need to close with a Liberal application of the Race Card.

“HB 1 is racist, unconstitutional, and anti-democratic, plain and simple. The bill was purposely designed to embolden the disparate police treatment we have seen over and over again directed towards Black and brown people who are exercising their constitutional right to protest. It was introduced as a political stunt after a year of historic protest, in which millions of Americans joined together to call for an end to the disparate killings of Black people at the hands of police. It is no coincidence that these bills were introduced by politicians who harshly criticized these calls for racial justice and police accountability.”

Holy crap! That has to had maxed out the Race Card, with so much bull.

Here is where I wonder why the Florida ACLU apparently decided to be “less than accurate” about this bill, but it would just be a filler for more post space. Let me say that it it is later revealed that they are fully engaged in seeing that Governor DeSantis is not re-elected and that affected their creative writing vis a vis press releases, I would not be surprised

 

 

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Justice in the United States is dead. We are fully in the era of mob rule.

Apr 19, 2021 J. Kb 4 comments

Jonathan Pentland is/was a drill sergeant with the US Army at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

He got into a confrontation with a young black man in front of his house.

I do not know what lead up to the confrontation, there is no video of it and the media has not reported on it.

The video of the last few minutes of the confrontation went viral with the explicit purpose of shaming Pentland.

We have no context to this whatsoever.  I’m not even going to presume what happened in the 15 minutes before this.

The internet rage mob decided that it saw everything that needed to be seen and concluded that this was a racist white man attacking a black man for being in his neighborhood.

In the week since this incident occurred, he has been thoroughly doxxed.

The local sheriff gave a horrendously prejudicial public statement on this:

 

Keep in mind, Assault and Battery in the 3rd Degree is a misdemeanor punishable by at most, a $500 fine and 30 days in jail.  The sheriff’s statement made this sound much worse than what we saw on the video.

According to the Post and Courier, that’s not enough to satiate the mob.

SC protesters want more charges against White soldier who shoved Black man but none coming

Protesters moved from a Columbia neighborhood where a White Fort Jackson sergeant was caught on video berating and shoving a Black man, to the S.C. Statehouse grounds where they called for prosecutors to issue more charges.

A spokeswoman in his office told The Post and Courier on April 15 that race did not appear to be a factor in the confrontation. Pentland, who has been suspended from duty, did not utter a racial slur during the video, and no witnesses have reported him using one.

[Fifth Circuit Solicitor Byron] Gipson said, because the White man’s actions were not more violent in the video, “It’s not a first degree assault.”

Gipson did not rule out the possibility of more charges pending a further review of the case.

Several people calling Gipson’s office requested prosecutors charge Pentland with “unlawful restraint,” but the state does not have that charge.

I get the feeling that Gipson will be forced to relent to the mob and overcharge Pentland.

The newly woke US Army has thrown in under the bus.

 

Victory starts with the US Army publicly denouncing one of its own drill sergeants over 140 seconds of out-of-context cellphone video footage?

I doubt it.

Black Lives Matter had a full-on protest in this residential community.

 

It is now being reported that the Pentland family has gone into hiding.

Family of Jonathan Pentland moved after protesters attack home following video of soldier accosting Black man

The family of a drill sergeant under investigation for allegedly assaulting a Black man have been moved from their home for their safety, following protesters gathering outside the residence.

The Richland County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that the family had been relocated in a tweet on Thursday, writing: “The protests at the Pentland home have become violent. The family was removed after it was vandalised.

Good job sheriff for making things worse with his statement.

Now, there are some rumors and whispers as to what might have precipitated this event.

 

So it may have been – again, these are just rumors – the victim was a known individual with a criminal history of doing bad things in the neighborhood.

But this context is entirely irrelevant to the situation.  The Army relieved him of duty, the sheriff prejudiced the jury against him, this man’s life has been ruined, his family is in hiding, his property has been damaged, and the mob is protesting outside of his house.

The sheriff and military seem to care more about appeasing the mob than the law.

Justice in the US is dead.  Mob rule is the state of things.  If the mob wants you ruined over a viral video, they will get the powers that be to ruin you because the powers that be are more worried about the mob than justice or the law.

We are now a failed state.

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Dr. Fauci is never going away. With America suffering from COVID fatigue, Fauci is going to be brought in on guns.

Apr 19, 2021 J. Kb 8 comments

Oh shit.

Everything that Fauci has said to us so far has been a lie.

First we were told not to wear masks, because he didn’t want us hording them away from medical staff that needed them.

Then he told us that a old piece of bedsheet over our faces would stop the virus.

Now he says that you have to wear a mask even though you’ve been vaccinated, and you are about as likely to get COIVD after vaccination and spread the virus as you are to get his by lightning.

This man argued with Senator Jim Jordan that liberty is irrelevant as long as there is some infinitesimally small chance of dying from a virus.

This is the same Dr. Fauci that praised Governor Cuomo for doing a good job and warned that Texas and Florida were making mistakes .

Everything Fauci has said or done about COVID from the beginning was a lie and was wrong.

Americans are getting COVID fatigue but the Fauci fanbios don’t want him to go away.

And why not choose him?  He’s popular with the Left.  They love him.  Haiving opinions contrary to Fauci’s will get you banned from Twitter and Facebook.

So now he’s going to opine on guns.  Guns are going to be his next health crisis that requires the dihonest inpetitue of Dr. Fauci to bumblefuck while our freedoms evaporaite.

 

 

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