Well, this'll set the Usual Suspects off bigtime

I haven't seen such a recklessly steered case since the McMartin family was sent to prison based on emotion and politics instead of logic, reason, and evidence. And now, finally, a Minnesota judge will mete out a little justice in the case of Derek Chauvin, the cop who is alleged to have purposely killed George Floyd.

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin says that the charges against him were "illegal" and that his trial was a "fraud." The now-imprisoned cop and his lawyer are calling for the verdict to be thrown out because of civil rights violations so severe that the trial became a "one-year-long due process violation."
We'll see.

I'll throw in that during that original mess I forgot the first rule: DO NOT TRUST THE MEDIA.    And I should have remembered on just about everything they put out, which was largely crap.  I haven't forgotten that since.  I still had, then, a certain trust that "On something like that, they wouldn't lie and leave important stuff out this badly!"; no more.

Yes, judges and prosecutors who break the law should pay the same price

they like to command the commoners to pay.  Especially, say, judges who help illegal aliens avoid ICE, and prosecutors who lie under oath and knowingly break the law.

Not to mention doing that for political reasons.

I'm about to go do something enjoyable, but before that

I'll point out that part of the damned problem is Republicans like DeWine who help create and continue this mess, and a bunch more.  Screw 'em all.

Now throw in prosecutors who make special exceptions to the law for people who're of a 'approved' race or religion and let them off on serious charges with little or no punishment.  Lots of people who need to become unemployed, or tree decorations, by the time this mess is done.

Yes, I know, I'm sure that'll upset someone.  If I'm not already on a list, I don't know why.

Worth reading

When a society begins to suppress intellectual and spiritual searching and dreaming — by punishing speech, regulating thought, discouraging questions, denying the existence of spiritual reality — it is not only a political decline, but a sign of deep unwellness.

Where populations lose respect for liberty of conscience, inquiry, and discourse, society becomes nasty and brutish. Truth-seeking, spiritual health, and peace are inexorably linked. Across formerly open, stable, safe western societies, censorship and repression have been rising as safety, cohesion, and quality of civic life decline.

We must resist cancel culture and speech codes for the following reasons:
Good reading follows.

Our own Rotherham, combined with massive fraud, and cops and prosecutors either corrupt or too incompetent to do their jobs.
For over a decade at this shingle, we've reported on the industrial-scale gang-rape afflicting almost every town up and down the spine of England, most recently on a special edition of The Mark Steyn Show. The stories are all different, and yet in their most salient aspect all the same: In every town the girls are doubly violated - sodomised by their Pakistani Muslim clan-rapists, and then further assaulted by a whitey-white officialdom that is, as a practical matter, on the same side as the rape-gangs. The politicians, the social workers, the media, the coppers, all of them. In a particularly brazen example, after our friend Samantha Smith made her debut appearance on the Steyn Show, the goons of West Mercia Constabulary came banging on her door the following morning to warn her about going on telly to talk about it. Of course, Samantha, having more courage than the entirety of the English police, immediately went back on telly to shove it up West Mercia's flabby arses:
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What would you do if you wanted to incentivise the exciting multiculti phenomenon of gang-rape? Well, you'd do exactly what the impeccably "progressive" Hennepin County Attorney, Mary Moriarty (pictured at top right), did. You'd do a "plea deal" with Mr Mohamed:

He was sentenced to three years in prison for the attack on the 15-year-old, but the sentence was stayed for five years, meaning he served no time in prison...

He was sentenced to 14 months in prison for the 2024 sexual assault, but that sentence was also stayed, meaning he avoided prison.
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How is it that a multiple gang-rapist walks free? As those of us who have engaged in the thankless task of trying to get American "prosecutors" to put career criminals behind bars well know, it all starts very butch - he's facing forty-seven felony charges each carrying a minimum sentence of twenty-nine years! - and then gets plea-dealed down to a couple of misdemeanours and an unpaid parking ticket. The County Attorney isn't talking, but her spokesperson - the usual pronoun-laden pajama boy - is defending the deal:

"Due to circumstances that cause difficulty in many criminal sexual conduct cases, these charges were the available and appropriate ones to secure a felony conviction," spokesperson Daniel Borgertpoepping told Fox 9.

Ooh, a "felony conviction"!!! That sounds scary!!!!!
A felony conviction should be scary.  But when asshats like this are running things, it means nothing.

And the Governor in charge of this, and these people, was picked for the Democrat Vice-President candidate.  God, what we dodged in this election.

The death of a crook which sparked rioting and arson and murder,

the state, and a bunch of officials, lied their asses off about.  People should go to jail for this.

I'm including the prosecutors who knew, and the police officials who lied, all of them.

Bad enough for a cop to play "I don't care if you're legal,

I'm, arresting you", worse for the idiot prosecutors to file charges.

And worse yet:
Williams has not received his gun back from CPD. And despite a court order from a judge, neither has Washington.
I'm pretty sure a judge has some way of making his displeasure known, and he should use it.

Awww, my heart weeps for them

"All I did was follow orders and screw people over because the AG wanted it done!"
Yeah, "I was following orders!" doesn't go over real well.  If you want to read it all, it's here.


The EffingBI needs cleaning out, and, if nothing else, the current Director needs to be charged for every time he's lied under oath.  That would put him away for a number of years.


Back to one of my least favorite subjects: our Professional Journalists who helped censor unhappy facts- for some people- about the Wuhan situation.  They and every bureaucrat and politician who tried to- in some cases did- ruin people for daring to speak truth and ask questions, well, I'll refrain from speaking of possible penalties, it might upset someone.

Also, speaking of said asshats, some are trying to set up for 'The Next Pandemic!'  Including that bitch Birx.

Speaking of people telling the truth,

in this case because 'showing off to hot girl',
Crowder posted thirteen minutes of Biase talking with his date on social media Thursday. Bragg, according to Biase, was “just stacking charges and rearranging things just to make it fit a case.” Biase also says, at various points in the video, what he thinks of the case against Trump: “Honestly, I think the case is nonsense.” “It’s a perversion of justice.” “It’s a travesty of justice.” “It’s a mockery of justice.” As if that weren’t enough, he adds that “the whole thing is disgusting,” and observes, “That’s why he [Trump] is surging in the polls.”
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Biase even went so far as to criticize another politically motivated Trump persecutor, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, for the likelihood that he will imprison Trump in a couple of weeks over his own flimsy case. “This guy is probably going to try to lock him up,” Biase said. “And there is going to be, it’s going to be ugly… They are so obsessed with getting him.”

When his date asked him who was so obsessed with getting Trump, he answered, “The Democrats … It affects his candidacy if he’s a convicted felon.” Biase didn’t think this would work: “Those felonies did nothing to stop Trump from running … In fact, they made him more relevant.”

So I don't lose track of these,

I'll post links here.
"You peasants don't need to know anything about these illegal aliens unless we decide to let you know", say the enemies of our civilization.

Our Professional Journalists have been contemptable assholes for a long time.


Carry whenever and wherever you legally can, because we don't know when or where.  Also,
Kurilla has been sounding similar alarms from CENTCOM. The forces under his command conducted 475 ground operations and 45 airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria last year—killing or capturing almost 1,000 of the group’s fighters. In a March statement, Kurilla affirmed that both ISIS and al Qaeda “remain committed to inflicting violence.” Although U.S. forces have kept ISIS from controlling large portions of Iraq and Syria, by Kurilla’s count, the group still has at least 5,000 fighters. Over the span of just two weeks in early 2024, ISIS conducted 275 attacks—its highest rate in years. Al Qaeda, meanwhile, continues to operate from Afghanistan and Yemen.
Remember when ISIS was small, and traveling in convoys in the open?  When they could've been wiped out fairly easily?  But Obama said "They're just the JV team" and let them get big?


I can't read it all, short version is "The Elites don't like people thinking for themselves.  And wish they could make us stop."


This you can read all of.  'Misinformation/disinformation' my ass.


Medical data crookery in the Netherlands, guess why.

Illegal alien, no drivers license, kills one man

and nearly kills others?  And he gets one friggin' year?

Is the DA being paid by Soros or somebody, or did he think this would get the Correct People to keep him in office?

In another situation, the Gov. of Colorado says the problems he and other idiots are helping along with their Sanctuary City/State crap aren't real.
Because acknowledging the problem would be bad for their public relations and their desire to let in lots of illegals to vote D.

Why would you trust ANYONE connected with the feds about, well, ANYTHING?

At this point, especially prosecutors.
After black-clad demonstrators protested Donald Trump's inauguration in an "Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Fascist Bloc" march on January 20, 2017, federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., charged more than 200 of them with rioting. While 21 defendants pleaded guilty, all of the other cases ended in acquittals, mistrials, or charges dismissed with prejudice. One reason for that fiasco, according to recently filed disciplinary charges, was the discovery that the federal prosecutor who oversaw the cases persistently withheld exculpatory evidence and repeatedly lied about it to judges and defense attorneys.
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According to Fox, Muyskens and Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Detective Greggory Pemberton edited the meeting footage in ways that bolstered the prosecution's case, and Muyskens covered up the extent of those edits. Fox says Muyskens also withheld Project Veritas videos of other DisruptJ20 meetings that would have been helpful to the defense, pretending that they did not exist. And she allegedly concealed the fact that Pemberton, in testimony to a grand jury, had erroneously identified one of the DisruptJ20 defendants as a woman who appears in the video of the planning meeting.
Yes, lots more here.

You just thought you heard screaming before

Donald Trump received a major legal victory Monday morning when U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the Biden administration’s classified documents case against him.

Cannon granted former President Trump's motion to dismiss the indictment against him, citing the unlawful appointment and funding of Special Counsel Jack Smith. The judge ruled that Smith's appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, leading to the dismissal of the superseding indictment. Additionally, the court found that Smith's use of a permanent, indefinite appropriation violated the Appropriations Clause, though it did not address the remedy for this violation.
Oh yes, the screaming is here.  And Occasional-Cortex will make another "I want this judge removed!" filing.

Of course, this part will either be dismissed or ignored by the above.
In April, Cannon unsealed a trove of new documents in the case, revealing that an FBI agent had testified that the General Services Administration (GSA) was in possession of Trump's boxes in Virginia before ordering Trump's team to retrieve them. These same boxes, which the GSA had held and then ordered Trump’s team to retrieve, ended up being the ones containing classified markings. This raised questions about whether the Biden administration had set up Trump.

In May, Smith’s team admitted to misleading Cannon and tampering with the evidence used to support his case against Trump.
Bold mine.
For which the bastard ought to be fired from the Do'J' and disbarred, personal opinion.  But Garland will take care of him.

A collection of stuff

Of course ATF agents get away with it.  Again.  What, we think they're subject to the law?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/06/another-totalitarian-force.php


I'd say that firearm needs a trip to the armorer
https://x.com/GunloverClub1/status/1802425374007238835


In Germany(also), the State doesn't want people being reminded of what politicians and other lower forms of life said.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/cologne-prosecutors-charge-twitter


The NYeffingTimes: "All the news that's fit to distort"
https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/2024/06/19/nyt-tries-to-take-down-georgetown-prof-who-revealed-extent-of-defensive-gun-uses/


"Here’s a little warning that cries out for some specifics:

Republican House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner has warned that the United States has hit its “highest level of a possible terrorist threat.”

Yeah, but from which terrorists, exactly?

ISIS?  Hamas?  Hezbollah?  Taliban?  Columbia students?  Antifa?  BLM?  Norks?  CAIR?  Red Army Faction? Muslim Students Association?  the Justice Department?

I’d like to know just whom I should be looking out for so I can make at least some preparations, instead of just adding a spare mag or two for the truck gun…"
https://www.kimdutoit.com/2024/06/18/but-from-where/

It's been busy.  Maybe more later

Yes, the left got what it wanted,

convictions for Trump.  That are sure to be reversed, when the crap the prosecutors and judge pulled are appealed.  But they don't care.

They also don't care about the damage they did to the justice system, particularly in New effing York.  

As someone said a few years ago, they'll start caring when someone uses their new rules against them.  But it'll be too late then.

Translation from NY Gov-speak:

"You other businesses haven't annoyed us like Trump has, so as long as you don't you don't have to worry about being prosecuted!  So please don't consider leaving."As Madame Althouse says: 

What is the "extraordinary, unusual circumstance"?

Being Donald Trump? If so, she's revealing that she believes the prosecutors went after the man, not the crime, an abhorrent abuse of power.

So, whatever she thinks, she can't mean to be saying that. What else is there?
I'd say there is nothing else except the "So would you other people please not pack up and leave this state?"

Which makes me wonder if, before they started this, they even considered the lessons other businesses would take from this?

And an idea someone had: "If his properties were over-stated in value, that could mean he over paid property taxes for the N number of years; that could mean  he can refile those state taxes with the NEW declared values and probably make MORE than he would lose from the fine."  Oh, wouldn't that become interesting quickly?

Contempt of Congress is only a crime

when Biden and his pet AG want it to be.

Before I go be productive(or something like that),

I present:
Once more, we don't hate the media enough.


That also seems to be the case with a bunch of our 'public health' bastards.
But you knew that.


'Prosecutorial Misconduct' just begins to cover this asshat in Georgia.  On multiple levels.


No link on this just comment: for some reason singer named Taylor Swift seems to be considered important news, especially who/what she's doing.  When you pull up a Brit news site and the lead article, more than once, is her showing up at her boyfriend's game...

The 'Justice' Department needs to be flushed out

with firehoses.  If these bastards are considered 'exceptional public servants with an unwavering commitment to justice', might as well get rid of everyone(except the ones who belong in cells themselves), make sure all the lawyers are disbarred, and start over.

And they wonder why people don't trust them...

Chicago. Where some of the cops are just as useless as the prosecutors

You really need to read all of this.  One excerpt:
Graham remained on the loose for months. Between the time officers released him minutes after the attack and the filing of murder charges in October, he had been arrested six more times, according to court records:
On July 9, for trespassing at a River North church. The case was dropped on August 22.
On August 4, for throwing a bottle of gin through an Evanston store window. The case was dropped on September 5.
On August 16, he was charged with pushing a 14-year-old girl in the chest, causing her to fall over a bench. Evanston police said he pulled the girl by her ankle, causing her to suffer scrapes to her arms and legs. He received a sentence of 18 days time served on September 5.
He was charged with four felony counts of aggravated battery to police officers on September 22. Evanston police accused him of biting one officer on the hand, biting another officer on the thigh, kicking a third officer in the groin, and hitting a fourth officer.

A few things, partly so I don't lose track of them

while I'm going in circles.First, more on the EffingBI:
"It would be a travesty if they've actually done the same thing again. The FBI was always designed to be completely apolitical."

Notably, Veltri is not just anti-Trump, according to the whistleblower, but was acting deputy assistant director of the bureau's Security Division, overseeing efforts to suspend agents' security clearances if they were deemed to be "right-wing radical."

Mayo Clinic: "How dare you think you actually have freedom of speech!"


Why so many didn't want the Jan. 6 tapes released: Because a bunch of them, especially some prosecutors and judges, deserve jail.  At the least.

Because they're corrupt, vile bastards.


My my, Fauci seems to have changed his mind about 'Get the shot or else!'  Speaking of someone who belongs in jail.


And one last thing just because I like it