[American Thinker] As we wait to see what our commie-fascist ruling class has planned for us next, this might be a good time to pull out Gregory H. Stanton's "Ten Stages of Genocide" as a helpful reminder for keeping track of how things are "progressing" (pun intended). Stanton, an academic and the founder of Genocide Watch, organized a sobering list of red-flag actions undertaken by governments over the last century on their way to committing mass murder. See if any of them rings any bells with how supposedly "free" governments are behaving today.
(1) Classification: Governments begin dividing people into "us" versus "them."
Hillary Clinton calls Trump voters "deplorables." Barack Obama disparages freedom-minded Americans as racists and rubes who "cling to guns or religion." Joe Biden says America is plagued by "white supremacy." Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley believes that the military must tackle "white rage." Attorney General Garland thinks parents who object to government schools indoctrinating their children with racial Marxism and hyper-sexualized curricula are "domestic terrorists." Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters and looters are lauded as civil rights heroes, while Trump voters who protest for election integrity are denounced as "insurrectionists," hunted down by the regime enforcers at the FBI, and left rotting behind bars with little in the way of due process. Those who object to governments' totalitarian plans to spend hundreds of trillions of dollars and take control over free markets in order to combat the weather are ridiculed as "climate deniers." Those who believe governments' authoritarian reactions to the China Virus have been more harmful to humanity's well-being than the virus, itself, are demonized as "selfish," "ignorant," and "anti-science" villains. And now, even after denying that they would ever institutionalize "vaccine passports" as requirements for travel outside the home, governments are, in fact, remaking their nations into "papers, please" police states.
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It is truly becoming US vs. Them.
I have seen families where the Kids are picking Social and Political agendas over Family and refusing Grand Parents any access to see their Grand-kids.
It is almost always the Liberal Kids doing the refusing.
It seems conservatives parents are FAR FAR more understanding and tolerant of their kids, than these Liberal social media trained Kids are of their parents.
I am starting to seriously wonder if in another generation their offspring, will be turning their parents in for citizen re-Education and training ?
#2
Future Red Guards. Been there, done that, comrades.
On 5 August 1966, a group of high school girls forced the school's Vice Principal to bang a dustbin lid and shout: "I am an advocate of the capitalist way. I am a counter-revolutionary revisionist. I deserve to be beaten."
The punishment was organised by first-year girls, eager to demonstrate their revolutionary fervour. The teacher was struck from all sides with sticks and chair legs. Others kicked her.
[National Review] t Bloomberg, Allison Schrager hopes that our current supply-chain issues serve to alter Americans’ behavior. "Suddenly," Schrager writes, "Americans can’t spend like they used to. Store shelves are emptying, and it can take months to find a car, refrigerator or sofa. If this continues, we may need to learn to do without — and, horrors, live more like the Europeans. That actually might not be a bad thing."
Counterpoint: Yes, it would.
I don’t want to live in Europe, or to "live more like the Europeans do." This is not because I am inflexibly "anti-European." There are many wonderful things about Europe, and I will happily wax lyrical about them when asked. But, having spent a great deal of time in both places, I can assure you that it is considerably easier to live in America than it is to live in Europe, and that one of the main reasons for that — beyond Americans’ being so stonkingly rich — is that Americans are far, far more demanding of their marketplaces. For Americans to look at their temporarily broken supply-chain system and to conclude, "Oh well, I suppose it is for the best, let’s leave it there," would be both profoundly out of character and profoundly destructive to our way of life. We do not, under any circumstances, need to "learn to do without."
It is fashionable in certain circles to deride American "consumerism" as being in some way gauche. Indeed, Schrager herself comes close to this when she complains that Americans have a bad habit of buying "stuff we don’t really need." But this is an argument that makes sense only if we accept that other people — be they academics, politicians, or columnists for Bloomberg — are in a better position to determine what constitutes "stuff we don’t really need" than are individual American citizens. In a free market, there is no such thing as "need"; there is demand, and there is supply. Schrager praises America’s tendency to "come up with new products and better ways of doing things," but she implicitly narrows her praise to those "products" and "things" of which she personally approves, as if there exists a list somewhere at Harvard on which the iPhone has been marked "Worthy" and Hot Pockets have been marked "Uncouth." Certainly, I am baffled by the way in which many Americans choose to spend their money, just as I am baffled by people who have musical or gastronomical tastes that are completely at odds with my own. But it’s a free country, and providing that they aren’t hurting anyone, the private choices of other American consumers are precisely none of my business. You have a buyer and a seller? Good luck to you.
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Some people forget all too easily, there were fundamental reasons we broke off from Europe over two hundred years ago. Got to remember they dragged us into their wars twice in the last century.
[Powerlineblog] The jury is out in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, but the verdict is in on one point: Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, the lead prosecutor, is a dope. Some would say that was already apparent from his performance in the case, but today, during his closing argument, he pointed an AR-15 into the crowded courtroom gallery with his finger on the trigger. Unbelievable:
Liberals on Twitter are saying it was OK for Binger to violate every known rule of firearm safety because he was told the gun was unloaded. Have they not heard about Alec Baldwin? The most basic rules of firearm safety are 1) you treat every gun as a loaded gun, 2) you never, ever point a gun at anyone you don’t intend to shoot, and 3) you don’t put your finger inside the trigger guard until you are ready to shoot. Binger broke all of them.
Actually, the instinct against pointing a gun at another human being is so strong in a normal person that it would take a real effort of will to do it. But Binger apparently is oblivious to the most basic principles of safety. The world is a safer place with a gun in Kyle Rittenhouse’s hands than in Thomas Binger’s.
#3
This idiot prosecutor is trying to put Gun Violence in trial. The defendant was carrying a gun -- ergo he "provoked" a bipolar, off-his-meds, serial child rapist who had directly threatened to "get you alone and fucking kill you," as well as "cut your fucking heart out."
But guns are evil. Guns provoke. KR is Mr. Gun Violence and must be locked up for life.
So that we may make America safe for bipolar violent child rapists and violent maniacs who try to strangle and kill their families and burn the house down. And safe for violent foot soldiers of the "People's Revolution."
Because white 17 year-old lifeguards bearing guns and fire extinguishers are the source of all the arson and violence and terror afflicting our cities. Because gunz. And rayciss. Your Honor, the Prosecution rests.
If I'd been in the jury box I'd have have stood up and demanded that the guards immediately disarm this moronic asshole who clearly hasn't the faintest clue as to how to safely handle a weapon
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The face of the juror in the top left seems to show some concern. The rest of them appear to be oblivious.
Isn't district attorney essentially a law enforcement type of a gig? You'd think the guy would know better but all throughout this trial he has shown himself to be a big jerk and a total idiot. He should be prosecuted himself for malfeasance in a public office.
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Ignorance is a job qualification in this instance.
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So are we to understand from that 2nd photo that several jurors' faces have now been publicized?
Won't be hard to ID them now w facial recognition software. Heaven help those poor people. Heaven help us all
"The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer. He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor-- indeed, he should do so. But, while he may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones. It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one."
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Or was the point to instill bias Panic and Fear in the Jury?
So tin eared, its the only explanation.
I don't care if he checked battery and showed everyone clear, the booger picker does not go on the bang switch.
And where is our Safety Officer, with a firm and sturdy, "Hey Asshole!"?
#12
The prosecutor has been trying to tank this to a mistrial since his lead witness reversed his testimony. The defense made a motion for mistrial at that point, but the judge didn't want to because 'it would give undue advantage to the state on retrial' (IIRC).
Binger's been steadily pushing the envelope, hoping for a do-over.
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NO info whether or not Binger is a Federal attorney.
Friend of mine who used to be a cop once told me that simply pointing a firearm at someone is an "assault" which numerous laws and previous cases have dealt with.
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What is a "federal" attorney? One employed by the federal gummint? One admitted to practice in federal courts?
This is from the AVVO Legal Advice forum:
Attorneys are licensed to practice law by one or more states. Attorneys cannot appear in any court, state or federal, without being admitted to that court. Admission is not automatic -- an attorney must apply for admission and pay an application processing fee and/or admission fee. The application process can include submitting a questionnaire under penalty of perjury, providing multiple references, submitting to background checks including fingerprinting, sending law school transcripts, and more. Attorneys must be sworn in to practice before that court.
Usually, state courts will admit attorneys who pass the bar exam of the same state and meet all the other requirements. Some courts will admit an attorney licensed in certain other states without requiring them to pass another bar exam. California does not admit any attorney who has not passed the California Bar Exam.
Courts also admit out-of-state attorneys for one specific case. This is called a pro hac vice admission. It usually requires an attorney within the state to sponsor the out-of-state attorney plus payment of a fee.
Note some states, including California, allow attorneys to practice law in-house for one particular employer, often a large corporation, without having to pass another bar exam.
Attorneys can appear before federal agencies anywhere on the same basis anyone else can. However, attorneys are still held to the requirements of an attorney with respect to their clients.
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[Red State] What can be said about Kamala Harris? Printable, I mean.
This hapless pretender simply cannot get out of her own way. Every time she opens her mouth; every cringeworthy staged event; every time she busts out a creepy Pepé Le Pew French accent in France, and every time she lets loose one of her ridiculous trademark cackles at the most inappropriate times, Kamala Harris proves again that she is the most ineffectual vice president in modern history — if not of all time.
As RedState reported on Sunday when even CNN — AKA: "The Most Trusted Names in News" — runs an unfavorable exposé on Harris, one wonders — this one, anyway — what’s up with that? When is the next shoe going to drop and what will that next shoe be?
Regardless of what that second shoe might be, the real question seems to be whether Harris will even survive her vice presidency, as suggested by my colleague Joe Cunningham on Monday.
And as RedState’s Brandon Morse reported on Monday, the panicky excuses from the Kamala apologists continue to pile up at a fever pitch. Because you see, none of this is Kamala’s fault, America. Zero.
#3
She's greasing the skids for Big Mike's political sled. Her incompetence is not by accident. She's literally the worst VP in US history -- worse than Agnew.
Fearless prediction: Da Wookie will be ensconced in the WH one way or another well before Nov 2024.
If the Biden people know this is the plan, they certainly also know their high paying appointments and jobs are at risk. This could be the internal administration problem with Kams.
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/\ When I saw Brennan and nearly the entire intelligence community (IC) attacking Trump and his alleged 'Russian' connection, I was convinced the Klingon's and their FBI night soil carrying enforcers were ultimately in charge of the Deep State.
After Trump left office, the IC went strangely silent on the allegations. Now that the Trump-Russian hoax has been revealed, no one from the IC has stepped forward to correct the record.
The goal of the Deep State was Trump's removal, regardless of the cost.
#9
Harris is an adrift 3rd party now, she was chosen as a useful idiot/race symbol for the Biden Puppet Show but her flaws are now legion. Obama 3.0 and the Kalorama Kompond Central Committee are the architects of the rush to Marxist government and the ever deepening infestation into the key organs of governmental power. Bidet/Jill and the kleptocrats of the grifting Bidet family are seeing the sweet ride ending soon, and the Cackle-Jackal is now viewed as a liability by both sides. The end of the window for this radical change has always been the looming 2022 elections and the risk of loss of the House and Senate. If the races were tighter, they might have felt comfortable with the 5-7% cheating edge they displayed in 2020. But we saw in Virginia and other places that after seeing the size of the public distaste for the Marxist shift they were hesitant to expose their ramped up election cheating tools for down ballot races. So McAuliff was cast adrift and thrown the lifeline to some sinecure in DC.
--- BUT, remember that behind Champ, ValJar, Brennan and the rest of the Marxist coup team, looms the real force-majeure, the Chinese Communist Party! Their money, tech infiltration, and flat out subversive revolutionary skill, under girds the whole effort to destroy the main enemy by any means short of kinetic force. And so far, they are still invisible to the idiot masses in all of blue and some of red-state America. This struggle is existential for the last best hop of Western Civilization...
#16
What NoMoreBS said. The CCP has infiltrated and the Grifter-In-Chief and those around him are taking marching orders from the CCP. Some in Congress are following a similar script. Time to flush the toilet in 2022 and 2024.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Red State] What can be said about Kamala Harris? Printable, I mean.
