[HotAir] Ever since the murder of Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar by two underage girls, questions have remained over how they should be punished. At one point, the possibility was raised that they might get off with little more than a slap on the wrist due to their age and various “sentencing reform” efforts intended to keep juveniles out of jail. The final result wasn’t quite as bad as it might have been, however, and now plea deals have been reached with both girls and sentences have been imposed. The younger of the two, who is now 14, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and will be held in juvenile detention until she turns 21. (The Hill)
While I suppose this is better than just cutting them loose, it still seems a bit generous, doesn’t it? The younger girl had all additional charges for carjacking, robbery, and aggravated assault dropped. The older girl, who pleaded guilty to felony murder, similarly had all of her other charges dropped and will also be kept in detention until she turns 21.
What happens after that? Looking over the applicable laws for D.C. when dealing with juvenile offenders, it would appear that they will simply be released with their records being sealed, though there may be some parole involved. Is that really “justice” in this case? What happened to Mohammad Anwar, a legal immigrant who was just trying to earn a living through the gig economy, was something straight out of a horror movie.
We can talk about rehabilitation versus incarceration until we’re blue in the face, but it’s a heavy lift to claim that we’re just talking about “two children” here. Those girls didn’t just decide to drop their chalk and walk away from their hopscotch game one day and go after Anwar. They showed up with a taser and were prepared to execute a clinical carjacking. They had clearly already fallen under the influence of a gang. Their names and records are unavailable, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that this was far from the first violent crime they had engaged in.
And what’s going to happen when they are released? They will have few prospects for jobs with this hanging over their heads, but they will probably have achieved hero status among their peers. If they return to their old ways, the only difference will be that they will wind up in adult court after the next time they try to carjack someone.
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[GenesiusTimes] President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that his administration would step up efforts to get Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 with a new program that would go "door to door, literally knocking on doors," urging people to get the shots.
He unveiled the new uniforms the vaccine informants would be wearing: black suits with red coronavirus armbands and a black whip.
During his remarks the president said that "We need to go community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oft times, door to door, literally knocking on doors" to encourage the vaccination for a disease so bad that you have to be tested to know if you have it.
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it may be satire in this article, I don't think so in real life.
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I'm keeping plenty of fireworks handy for these assholes. I'm open to suggestions as to how I get M-80's and quarter sticks.
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I suspect that like all Democrat policies this will hit minorities hardest.
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Given the management and administrative incompetence of this administration, I predict they won't come even close to pulling this off. The logistics of such a massive operation would challenge even a seasoned CEO...which there don't appear to be any of in the current administration.
Bureaucracies are very good at ukases but pretty poor at universal implementation. Of course, maybe selective implementation is what we need to be afraid of.
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Genesius snags me before coffee, though this is prediction more than satire.
Uniforms to mold the authority and recruitment of the Karengroup.
*to be absolutely clear, this is a really bad idea. Like, city bred affluent politician idea bad.
People, who I may or may not know have been vax'd and/or already infected, will be going door to door purposefully looking for those who who have not been vax's and/or have antibodies, who may have come across someone sick or is a non-symptom carrier, and then, according to the experts the wu flue can linger outdoors and infect the pets, passing that potential infection along their route.
Kind of like driving down the road, dragging a chain, in a Red Flag Warning, right?
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Then that is no different than asking if client is a smoker, client gets cancer, insurer has a test for tobacco use, and if positive, then whatever penalties.
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If it is that serious, they should be in nothing short of a moisture impermeable suite and rebreather.
According to Sturgis Theory, maximum contact with people who are not following protocols is literally murder, right? Isn't that what the Sammyknockers would be doing?
Time must be of the essence if such a drastic measure is necessary for the Federal Gov to, maybe even illegally, go for such a move, then how many proven vax'd need to be hired to beat the brush? Which neighborhoods get focused on, the vulnerable poor? The safe Middle Class? The Rich Enclaves? In a save who is most important as fast as possible, would it not be best to do that order in reverse, Rich Privilege, perhaps even White Privilege is it? According to CRT should they not start in the poorest minority neighborhoods first?
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Seem to recall a law against this sort of thing. Called HIPAA. During the shooting in the 'Stans, they couldn't release the names of the wounded, because it might affect their later insurability (like they weren't going to have USAA and VA, for what that's worth).
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I predict they won't come even close to pulling this off.
That's not the goal - the goal, like lockdowns and mask mandates, is to get people used do such door-to-door patrols. Now its the Vaccine, next looking for racist firearms or racist flags...
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That's not the goal - the goal, like lockdowns and mask mandates, is to get people used do such door-to-door patrols. Now its the Vaccine, next looking for racist firearms or racist flags.
Exactly. Even if you believe that the Federal Government's noble and honorable intentions to get everyone vax'd is above reproach, this would still be the final result.
And guess which of the three neighborhoods will be getting the Sammyknockers? Probably even a point system for the dossier considering your response.
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M. Murcek, in 30 minutes I could put together an outline which would make your toenails curl, starting with the Sammyknockers would not be government employees, but subcontracts of US Census Bureau.
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Ebbomonger, our late dog was quicker, got 'em on the approach. (She missed daughter's sleazy suiters important bits - fortunately for my finances- but did tear is trousers.)
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Not being an official government org, maybe they tell you they are recording, for accuracy and safety...being public access, maybe they don't, for a more candid experience. After that, its all scorecard baby, even if the Sammyknocker isn't answered...a No Soliciting Sign, tut tut.
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My point being though, the reasoning for the operation is in direct contradiction to the instructions of the experts and policy makers and should be called out as such.
Reco from Rantburg’s own Besoeker. Link goes to the Amazon Kindle page so you can download the free sample chapters, dear Reader.
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Admiral Jim Stockdale was a navy pilot who, in 1965 was shot down during the Vietnam War. After parachuting into enemy territory, he was taken prisponer. Over the next seven and a half years, he was severely beaten and tortured by his captors, until he was released in 1973. During his time in captivity and despite his continued mistreatment by the North Vietnamese, Stockdale survived while he watched other men die. During an interview with author Jim Collins, when Stockdale was asked his thoughts on who didn't make it out of the camps, he said "it was the optimists - they died of broken hearts."
Although having a level of optimism is important, facing the facts of your reality matters even more. If you're focused on only a positive outcome, you may find it impossible to cope should a less favorable one arise. When I was on the president's protective detail, I was optimistic that my security plan was strong enough to deter any assassination attempt, but I certainly wasn't arrogant or delusional enough to think it could never happen. I accepted the possibility which in turn, kept my mind sharp and open to finding solutions to unexpected problems and unforeseen threats. As an agent responsible for the lives of my protectees, my colleagues, the public, and myself, I knew it was better to wear clear glasses and see things as they truly were rather than rose colored ones that gave me a skewed version of the truth.
Your ability to accept a situation - the real situation - will ultimately help you overcome it. This means that when unplanned shit happens, and it will, you must forgo the I can't believe this is happening to me attitude, and instead adopt the mindset of This is happening to me. This is my reality. So now what?
[Creators.com] Judge Napolitano reveals the Deep State.
In March 2017, I received a tip from a friend in the intelligence community that the British Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ — the United Kingdom's domestic and foreign spies — had been asked by the CIA to spy on candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 U.S presidential election campaign. He elaborated that Trump's claim that "someone tapped my wires" was essentially true. The tip was potentially explosive, so I ran it past two other friends in the intelligence community, and they confirmed it.
When I went public with this, all hell broke loose in my professional life. The British spies denied spying on Trump, who by now was the president of the United States. Former Obama administration folks denied asking the Brits to do this and denied that it was done. Wait. The Government lied?
I was accused of fabricating this so as to make Trump look good. The prime minister of the U.K. had one of her deputies call my bosses at Fox and demand that I recant what I had said or be fired. Fox asked me to lay low for 10 days, which I did, but Fox backed me when I explained the verifications conducted by my sources. And the compliant media...well, you know.
During one of my meetings with my sources, they told me that the National Security Administration, America's 60,000-person strong domestic spy apparatus, was listening to our conversations and monitoring our texts and emails.
It is utterly terrifying to realize that your daily communications are being scrutinized by the government without probable cause and without a search warrant, both of which are required by the Fourth Amendment. It gives you pause before communicating; pause that churns the stomach; pause that is profoundly un-American.
Last week, my Fox colleague Tucker Carlson had a similar experience when an NSA whistleblower revealed to him that the NSA was monitoring his communications. Do go read the whole thing - who initiated NSA spying, the backlash from the deep state here and abroad, and the unconstitutionality of it all.
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"Judge" Nap is a never Trump idiot. By extension that makes him a deep state tool.
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Nap expected to be nominated for the SCOTUS. Quit laughing you there in the back! He's trying to piggyback on Carlson to shaking his tiny fists and yelling: "I'm Relevant!"
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When was the last time Uk had a female PM? Careless typing or pure BS.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the situation in Afghanistan had a tendency to swiftly deteriorate and said Moscow was ready to defend its regional allies if necessary.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told Emomali Rakhmon, the president of Tajikistan, that Moscow would help the impoverished former Soviet republic contend with the fallout from NATO's exit from neighbouring Afghanistan if needed.
Rakhmon has ordered the mobilisation of 20,000 military reservists to bolster his country's border with Afghanistan after more than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the frontier in response to Taliban militant advances.
Lavrov, speaking on Wednesday during a visit to Laos, said Russia was ready to use its military base in Tajikistan, one of its biggest abroad, to ensure the security of its allies in the region, part of the former Soviet Union and an area where Moscow tries to retain influence.
"We are closely watching what is happening in Afghanistan where the situation has a tendency to swiftly deteriorate including against the backdrop of the hasty exit of American and other NATO troops," said Lavrov.
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Russians have an interest in interdicting the drug trade. Maybe someone could interest them in a Poppy Rust(tm), something like Roundup only for a specific weed.
Direct translation via Google Translate. Edited.
IA REGNUM continues to investigate the traces of Hitler's aggression and genocide on the territory of modern Russia. Our new step on this path is a series of essays on concentration, labor, transfer camps on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within its current borders.
[NotTheBee] This 1963 Congressional report on how the Communist Party wanted to take over America is so relevant for today that it's unreal.
If you've never seen the 1963 report on Communist Party goals (especially regarding their objective to take over the United States), I think you'll find it of interest. Lots of things on this list that feel very familiar today! pic.twitter.com/Qnm9FnaU9z
— James Lindsay, uncitable (@ConceptualJames) July 5, 2021
[Just The News] For months now, President Biden and key Democrats have waged endless battle against state laws designed to improve the integrity of elections, ones that make voting easier and cheating harder.
From the start, the mission was complicated since its message ran smack into strong American sentiments in the court of public opinion: Polling shows three quarters of Americans support integrity measures like voter ID that Biden called "Jim Crow in the 21st century."
Now the Democrat train has run into a similar harsh reality in the courts of law, where justices and judges alike have concluded integrity measures aren't unconstitutional if they aren't designed to suppress based on race or skin color or socio-economic status.
The latest blow to the Jim Crow 2.0 argument was delivered Wednesday, when a federal judge refused to issue a preliminary injunction blocking Georgia's new election integrity law.
Georgia has been the Democrats' ground zero, the first state to enact comprehensive voting reform after the contested November 2020 elections. From activist Stacy Abrams to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Peach State law has come under withering assault from the left.
To win the injunction, the left-leaning Coalition for Good Governance needed to show they had a high likelihood of succeeding. But U.S. District Judge J.P. Boule batted down their main constitutional argument.
"The Court is not persuaded by Plaintiffs' argument for a bright line exception to Purcell because they have alleged First Amendment harm. Plaintiffs have not provided authority, nor is the Court aware of any, that would support this interpretation of the law," Boulee ruled in an 11-page ruling.
The judge also concluded he was disinclined to "change the law in the ninth inning" when Georgia has runoff elections for seats in the Georgia state House planned for later this month.
"The risk of disrupting the administration of an ongoing election ... outweigh the alleged harm to plaintiffs at this time," he noted.
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There's something rotten in ...Bangkok. The ChiComm vaccines.are.not.working. Frontline healthcare workers are popping positive w/Da Rona AFTER 2 jabs of ChiComVac. Now the stupid Thai govt (totally in bed w/ChiComms) are - how you say - conflicted on what do with 1.5 million doses of Pfizer the USG is donating. They risk embarrassing the PRC if they give it to frontline medical folks as that's admitting ChiComVac is poop. The few rational officials said the Pfizer stuff has to go to the medical people first so they can care for the sick. To say the average Thai person is outraged is an understatement. The PRC has all but forbidden any other vaccine from being administered in Thailand.
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It occurs to me that the virus doesn't have to be all that transmissible if you get it from the vaccine. This would explain why places like Laos and Cambodia didn't even have a significant number of cases until the vaccines went around. And why there are now spikes there and also in Vietnam and Thailand.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the situation in Afghanistan had a tendency to swiftly deteriorate and said Moscow was ready to defend its regional allies if necessary.
