[Townhall] I don't pretend to know if Derek Chauvin is guilty in the objective sense – Judge Mom, a conservative who sent a lot of people to jail as a prosecutor before doing it from the bench, made a convincing argument to me for a murder conviction soon after the incident – but I do know one thing. This trial was a travesty, a kangaroo court, and as a country, we should be ashamed of ourselves. Judge Mom is the author's mom, I suppose.
This is not to argue whether he is innocent or guilty. I don't know. There were arguments both ways, and compelling evidence for both points of view. There was powerful evidence for his guilt. Say what you want about that videotape, but it's solid evidence. And there was powerful evidence for his innocence – George Floyd was clearly in mid-overdose and, after all, fentanyl does have the side effect of killing you. That's solid evidence too. This was no slam-dunk. A fair trial required careful thought and sober deliberations. And it required a process where neutral citizens could act as jurors to sort it out try to find the truth based on the evidence and the law, and only that. It required a process free of fear and intimidation. But let's not pretend we got that here. It's Kurt. Don't miss the rest of it.
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Appeasement and intimidation always, always, get more of the same, and more of it as the tactics is used by others. All we have done is allow far too great a punishment, if any is warranted, and told law enforcement to watch their back everytime you encounter a POC suspect and are considering an arrest. How does this frame future enforcement, and how does this set the attitude of the growing number of tribal savages in our inner cities? In what fairy-tale does this end well?
#7
Black murder rate goes up once again as police take a hands off approach in "urban" areas. Ought to good for at least another 1000 black on black murders/year. Other races and their businesses leave, because "racism".
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Itbwill get to the point where a white police officer will refuse to arrest, pursue or even challenge a POC. Yes, poor black people will suffer the most as they are victimized by other blacks. But all police officers have one primary goal every day: self preservation. This includes not being arrested for doing something. Ifvthey do nothing, they can't be charged.
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What I find interesting is the blacks I've seen interviewed that think there is a genocide against them by cops/white supremicists. When there reality is those cops are trying to stop blacks from killing each other.
I remember a lot of areas regretting their defund the police movements because of crime spikes, but they seem to have gone silent now.
"Three cheers for our Woke volunteers
Who stoke white supremacist fears!
Though shot full of holes
They'll show up at the polls
For a couple of hundred more years."
[NYPOST] In an eye-opener of a demonstration, Black Lives Matters activists on Tuesday evening besieged diners at Maya Taqueria in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, screaming, "Stay the f—k outta New York."
"We don’t want you here," one ringleader shouted from atop a table in the outdoor dining area, leading the mob in a call-and-response of "We don’t want your f—ing money! We don’t want your f—ing taqueria, owned by f—ing white men!"
What’s the ideology here? It certainly has nothing to do with policing, the Chauvin verdict, nor even the supposed menace of "systemic racism." At best, it seems like crackpot black nationalism — and a deranged claim that the whole city belongs to the mob.
Then again, sometimes it seemed like a straight holdup or at least a protection racket, as one woman switched her chant from "We don’t want your f—ing taqueria" to "Tip 30 percent!" — and the whole crowd then marched off down Vanderbilt Avenue chanting, "Tip 30 percent!"
The eatery’s been open more than a decade, to rave reviews from at least some locals. Owner Daniel Nassar recently told ChowNow that his staff all relied on the "neighborhood staple" to survive during the pandemic: "There’s employees that need their paychecks on a weekly basis to support their families."
But the protesters didn’t care: They saw a few white people and went lunatic. And this was just a less genteel version of the now-years-old phenomenon wherein BLMers barge into restaurants and lecture about racism, etc.
The slogan "Black lives matter" is something Americans support. But the second-favorite phrase, "All cops are bastards," tells you this movement’s "ideals" quickly boil down to ignorant hatred.
And actions of activists like that Brooklyn mob suggest that, for all too many of them, the whole thing is little more than an excuse for incoherent hate and rage.
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The BLM founder has raised over $90 million, with which she has gone on a house-buying binge in 5 different upscale locales.
"Dr." Ibram X. Kendi at Boston University has taken in tens of millions of dollars. He and the author of "White Fragility" rent themselves out as consultants for $20,000 for a half hour talk.
Kaepernick has signed contracts totaling about $7 million.
This has nothing to do with justice. This is a scam. Extortion, a shakedown
[IsraelTimes] Amassing high-grade fissile material is only the first step toward an atomic weapon, and Tehran’s latest violation of the JCPOA does not substantially change the timeline
Most of that time would be needed not to produce the 90 percent enriched uranium needed for a weapon, but the other components of such a device, notably the detonator, which the Israeli military believes would take some 21 months to design and construct.
Iran’s enrichment of uranium to 60 percent represents not only the latest in a series of escalating violations of the 2015 nuclear accord, but the closest the Islamic Theocratic Republic has ever come to producing weapons-grade fissile material.
For countries that oppose a nuclear Iran, it is a worrying development, bringing Tehran one step closer to a bomb. But it is also just one step, and not the final one, toward that goal.
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Just buy the necessary parts from Pakistain or NKor. Easy peasy!
#2
They’re not working with plutonium. It doesn’t take fancy parts or a lot of time to make an uranium gun bomb like the Hiroshima weapon. The US didn’t even bother to test it. It’s not as efficient as an implosion device, but they don’t care. It won’t take much to do Israel or establish MAD.
#3
1. With respect to a nuclear explosive device, a crucial step is the delivery. Iran has missiles but getting a bomb compact enough to be carried on a missile may be difficult. Also as Israel improves its anti missile capability, Israel could shoot the missile down. They could obviously use a plane but that would be less difficult to shoot down.
2. They could build a dirty bomb, i.e. a radioactive dispersal device, right now.
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