[IsraelTimes] Brother John Muhammad acknowledges ’urgent need to combat antisemitism’ but expresses concerns over free speech and ’loose’ definitions
Days after a synagogue in St. Petersburg, Florida, was forced to evacuate services following a bomb threat, the local city council met to discuss a resolution about antisemitism. The resolution was about whether to endorse a definition of antisemitism that its authors and local advocates both say can be a useful first step in fighting hatred of Jews.
Notably refusing to cast a vote: a controversial council member and member of the Nation of Islam who voiced multiple objections to the definition, questioned Jewish community leaders about who constitutes a Jew and left the chambers so that he would be marked absent during the vote.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Who would have thought that revelations that the entire thing was an FBI-conceived and -driven plot would affect subsequent trial outcomes?
William Null, twin brother Michael Null and Eric Molitor were found not guilty
The Nulls and Molitor were accused of supporting the plan by participating in military-style drills and traveling to see Whitmer´s vacation home
Adam Fox and Barry Croft were convicted of a kidnapping conspiracy last year
William Null, twin brother Michael Null, 41, and Eric Molitor, 39, were found not guilty of providing support for a terrorist act and a weapon charge. The scheme portrayed as an example of homegrown terrorism on the eve of the 2020 presidential election.
They were the last of 14 men to face charges in state or federal court. Nine others have been convicted.
The Nulls and Molitor were accused of supporting leaders of the kidnap plan by participating in military-style drills and traveling to see Whitmer´s vacation home in northern Michigan.
There were gasps in the courtroom Friday morning as the jury foreperson announced not guilty verdicts, first for the brothers and then Molitor. Deliberations began Thursday morning and lasted a few more hours Friday.
The key players, Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., were convicted of a kidnapping conspiracy last year in a different court. Croft Jr. 47, received the longest sentence of the four co-conspirators, just one day after his ally Adam Fox was sentenced to 16 years behind bars.
In the latest trial, the jury heard 14 days of testimony in Antrim County, the location of Whitmer´s lakeside property, 185 miles (297 kilometers) north of the state Capitol.
State Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office handled the trial.
Authorities have said an attack on Whitmer began to simmer at a regional summit of anti-government extremists in Dublin, Ohio, in the summer 2020. Fox, Croft and William Null were in attendance while an FBI informant also inside the gathering secretly recorded profanity-laced screeds threatening violence against public officials.
How many of those profanity-laced screeds were actually uttered by FBI agents provocateur trying — and succeeding — to get innocent bystanders in trouble? What about the usual places we wander on the internet? We’ve gotten boiler room screeds from Russia and the Ukraine, after all.
The disgust was also fueled by government-imposed restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to recordings, text messages and social media posts introduced as evidence at trial.
Lots of that going around.
Molitor and William Null testified in their own defense, admitting they had attended gun drills and taken rides to check Whitmer´s property. But William Null said he and his brother broke away when talk turned to getting explosives. Molitor said Fox was 'incredibly dumb' and wouldn´t pull off a kidnapping.
Informants and undercover FBI agents were inside the group for months before arrests were made in October 2020. Whitmer was not physically harmed.
Nine men were previously convicted in state or federal court, either through guilty pleas or at three other trials, while two others were acquitted.
After the plot was thwarted, Whitmer blamed then-President Donald Trump, saying he had given 'comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division.' Out of office, Trump called the kidnapping plan a 'fake deal' in 2022.]
Fox and Croft were convicted at a second trial in August, months after a different jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan, couldn't reach a verdict but acquitted two other men. Croft, a trucker from Bear, Delaware, will be sentenced Wednesday.
Fox and Croft in 2020 met with like-minded provocateurs at a summit in Ohio, trained with weapons in Michigan and Wisconsin and took a ride to 'put eyes' on Whitmer's vacation home with night-vision goggles, according to evidence.
'People need to stop with the misplaced anger and place the anger where it should go, and that's against our tyrannical ... government,' Fox declared that spring, boiling over COVID-19 restrictions and perceived threats to gun ownership.
Whitmer wasn't physically harmed. The FBI, which was secretly embedded in the group, broke things up by fall.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Not many, but determined to be heard.
Protesters shouted 'close the border' as the 'Squad' member tried to address the press outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, where migrants are housed
'Close the border! Close the border! Respect the constitution AOC! I am your constituent!' one man shouted into a megaphone
[MSN] While talking about the economy during his speech at the Prince George’s Community College in Maryland on Thursday, September 15, Biden said, "We’ve seen record lows in unemployment particularly — and I’ve focused on this my whole career — particularly for African Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, the workers without high school diplomas."
Understandably, this remark, made during the televised speech, rained heavy criticism on the 80-year-old President, with some even going so far as to call him a racist, according to the New York Post. However, it turns out this is another one of Biden's humiliating gaffes, where he mistakenly says something very wrong.
According to the official transcript of the speech, released by the White House, Biden was supposed to say "and" before saying "the workers without high school diplomas." By making that small mistake, Biden appeared to infer minority workers do not have high school diplomas, instead of saying that the workers without high school diplomas are also seeing record lows in unemployment along with minority workers.
Adding the "and," Biden's speech would read, "... particularly for African Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, and the workers without high school diplomas."
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Federal prosecutors are seeking an order that would prevent Donald Trump from making “inflammatory” and “intimidating” comments about witnesses, lawyers and other people involved in the criminal case charging the former president with scheming to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team said in a motion filed Friday that such a “narrow, well-defined” order was necessary to preserve the integrity of the case and to avoid prejudicing potential jurors.
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Now I want to see a master class on payback, Ken...
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I note that the NBC report doesn't mention that they never showed he did anything. All the witnesses said in sworn testimony, 'nope, didn't happen that way.'
The end of the Bush family power (Paxton's nemesis was the last remaining Bush to run for office).
I'm kinda glad, wasn't terribly impressed by the Bush group, and don't think we need dynasties.
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^ You explained it. I never understood the intra-party animus
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