who want to control everything in life. For your own good, of course.
There's not enough cherry trees and lampposts in DC for the politicians and bureaucrats both, the decorations will need to extend into the countryside.
Wednesday, October 05, 2016
Brought to you by the Clinton Crime Family and Eric Holder II
Hillary Clinton was never in any danger of prosecution for mishandling classified documents on her infamous homebrew email server, according to a book set to rock the election season.
The fix was in, thanks to Bill Clinton's plan to ambush Attorney General Loretta Lynch when their private jets were at the Phoenix airport at the same time.
The former president told his pilot to abort a takeoff, according to Ed Klein in his latest book, 'Guilty as Sin,' when a Secret Service agent told him Lynch was about to land.
'Don't take off!' Bill shouted.
...
'He knew it would be a huge embarrassment to Loretta when people found out that she had talked to the husband of a woman – the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party – who was under criminal investigation by the FBI,' the adviser explained to Klein.
'But he didn't give a damn. He wanted to intimidate Loretta and discredit Comey's investigation of Hillary's emails, which was giving Hillary's campaign agita.'
...
Ultimately, Klein reports, Lynch told the former president that there was no chance of his wife being indicted or prosecuted for exposing state secrets to hackers and foreign adversaries.
She made the same pledge to President Barack Obama and his key adviser Valerie Jarrett, even though the Department of Justice is nominally independent of the White House.
And from the slimy bastard Comey, of the rusted-out 'iron integrity',
And the easy-going Comey, whom many observers pegged for a principled good egg, turned into a pragmatist driven by, according to Klein, 'huge ambition and an instinct for political survival.'
Our Attorney General and EffingBI Director: "Screw the truth, screw justice, I'm protecting myself."
The fix was in, thanks to Bill Clinton's plan to ambush Attorney General Loretta Lynch when their private jets were at the Phoenix airport at the same time.
The former president told his pilot to abort a takeoff, according to Ed Klein in his latest book, 'Guilty as Sin,' when a Secret Service agent told him Lynch was about to land.
'Don't take off!' Bill shouted.
...
'He knew it would be a huge embarrassment to Loretta when people found out that she had talked to the husband of a woman – the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party – who was under criminal investigation by the FBI,' the adviser explained to Klein.
'But he didn't give a damn. He wanted to intimidate Loretta and discredit Comey's investigation of Hillary's emails, which was giving Hillary's campaign agita.'
...
Ultimately, Klein reports, Lynch told the former president that there was no chance of his wife being indicted or prosecuted for exposing state secrets to hackers and foreign adversaries.
She made the same pledge to President Barack Obama and his key adviser Valerie Jarrett, even though the Department of Justice is nominally independent of the White House.
And from the slimy bastard Comey, of the rusted-out 'iron integrity',
And the easy-going Comey, whom many observers pegged for a principled good egg, turned into a pragmatist driven by, according to Klein, 'huge ambition and an instinct for political survival.'
Our Attorney General and EffingBI Director: "Screw the truth, screw justice, I'm protecting myself."
Brought to you by the miserable little shits infesting the White House
A roadside bomb killed a U.S. service member on foot patrol Tuesday
in eastern Afghanistan as part of a mission to fight a growing Islamic
State affiliate, the U.S.-led coalition announced.
...
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said the service member died in a "combat situation," but refused to call it combat when asked by Fox News.
Cook later said the service member was receiving combat pay and would likely receive combat decorations for his actions, but that determination had not yet been made. An investigation into the incident is ongoing.
"The President said 'no American boots on the ground', so we certainly can't say he died in combat. As long as we insist it wasn't, we're good. Screw what the troops and the other peasants think."
...
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said the service member died in a "combat situation," but refused to call it combat when asked by Fox News.
Cook later said the service member was receiving combat pay and would likely receive combat decorations for his actions, but that determination had not yet been made. An investigation into the incident is ongoing.
"The President said 'no American boots on the ground', so we certainly can't say he died in combat. As long as we insist it wasn't, we're good. Screw what the troops and the other peasants think."
The glories of Socialist Venezuela
I'm sure someone will tell us how this is the fault of the US, somehow.
In the meantime, more people die.
In the meantime, more people die.
Civil rights victory, I think a big one
In a quintuple victory for Second Amendment rights, a federal judge last week overturned a ban on carrying handguns in public, a ban on so-called assault weapons, caliber restrictions for long guns, a $1,000 tax on handguns, and a requirement that all guns be registered with the government. "The individual right to armed self-defense in case of confrontation...cannot be regulated into oblivion," declared Ramona Manglona, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
That bolded line is why I say 'a big one'. That line is going to horrify and piss-off Schumer, and Obama, and Clinton and Bloomberg and a host of others.
More:
Adopting the historical analysis and logic that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit applied when it overturned an Illinois ban on carrying guns in 2012, Manglona concludes that "the Second Amendment, based on its plain language, the history described in Heller I, and common sense, must protect a right to armed self-defense in public." While "the right of armed self-defense, including in public, is subject to traditional limitations," she says, "it is not subject to elimination." Since the law enforced by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) "completely destroys that right," Manglona writes, "it is unconstitutional regardless of the level of scrutiny applied, and the Court must strike it down."
Ooh la la, I think I need a smoke and a drink.
"The Commonwealth has not shown through any evidence that its means fit its end," Manglona writes. "In fact, the evidence suggests that the banned attachments actually tend to make rifles easier to control and more accurate—making them safer to use. Because the Commonwealth's ban does not match its legitimate and important interest, the ban fails intermediate scrutiny and will be struck down."
...
The exorbitant CNMI tax on handguns, which raises the cost of the cheapest pistol by almost 700 percent, is also unusual. "The power to tax is not just the power to fund the government," Manglona observes. "It is the power to destroy." Because a $1,000 tax "comes close to destroying the Second Amendment right to acquire 'the quintessential self-defense weapon,'" she writes, "the Court will strike it down."
It's not all good news, she went along with the background-check and magazine-size limits
By contrast, she upheld the commonwealth's licensing requirement for gun buyers, mainly because it goes beyond federal law by "requiring background checks for all aspiring gun owners," and not just those who purchase their firearms from federally licensed dealers. She also upheld the commonwealth's ban on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, saying it probably would not have much impact on self-defense and might reduce deaths in mass shootings. Manglona in any case had little choice but to uphold that restriction, since the 9th Circuit last year approved an "identical ban" imposed by Sunnyvale, California.
but overall, this is a ruling that's going to make the gun bigots and hoplophobes have kittens. Purple ones with chartreuse spots.
That bolded line is why I say 'a big one'. That line is going to horrify and piss-off Schumer, and Obama, and Clinton and Bloomberg and a host of others.
More:
Adopting the historical analysis and logic that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit applied when it overturned an Illinois ban on carrying guns in 2012, Manglona concludes that "the Second Amendment, based on its plain language, the history described in Heller I, and common sense, must protect a right to armed self-defense in public." While "the right of armed self-defense, including in public, is subject to traditional limitations," she says, "it is not subject to elimination." Since the law enforced by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) "completely destroys that right," Manglona writes, "it is unconstitutional regardless of the level of scrutiny applied, and the Court must strike it down."
Ooh la la, I think I need a smoke and a drink.
"The Commonwealth has not shown through any evidence that its means fit its end," Manglona writes. "In fact, the evidence suggests that the banned attachments actually tend to make rifles easier to control and more accurate—making them safer to use. Because the Commonwealth's ban does not match its legitimate and important interest, the ban fails intermediate scrutiny and will be struck down."
...
The exorbitant CNMI tax on handguns, which raises the cost of the cheapest pistol by almost 700 percent, is also unusual. "The power to tax is not just the power to fund the government," Manglona observes. "It is the power to destroy." Because a $1,000 tax "comes close to destroying the Second Amendment right to acquire 'the quintessential self-defense weapon,'" she writes, "the Court will strike it down."
It's not all good news, she went along with the background-check and magazine-size limits
By contrast, she upheld the commonwealth's licensing requirement for gun buyers, mainly because it goes beyond federal law by "requiring background checks for all aspiring gun owners," and not just those who purchase their firearms from federally licensed dealers. She also upheld the commonwealth's ban on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, saying it probably would not have much impact on self-defense and might reduce deaths in mass shootings. Manglona in any case had little choice but to uphold that restriction, since the 9th Circuit last year approved an "identical ban" imposed by Sunnyvale, California.
but overall, this is a ruling that's going to make the gun bigots and hoplophobes have kittens. Purple ones with chartreuse spots.
Do not make yourself a target for the Clintons.
This has been a rule for
as long as we’ve known them. If you get in their sights, bad things happen to you. The latest case in point is Scott Adams, writer of the
Dilbert comic strip who has turned his thoughts to blogging about the
Trump phenomenon. According to Adams, because he has been writing things
favorable to Trump (something he would likely contest as he would claim
that he was merely describing what he was seeing based on his own
experience and training) he has seen his usual schedule of speaking
engagements dropped. This is rather similar to the usual practice of
late for universities to disinvite conservative speakers. Blogging on
the election the way he has, has cost him financially.
Think of her and her minions in the Oval Office, with the power to REALLY screw people for displeasing her.
Protect the Queen, no matter what. Business as usual at the 'Justice' Department.
The Obama administration is moving to dismiss charges against an arms dealer it had accused of selling weapons that were destined for Libyan rebels.
...The deal averts a trial that threatened to cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton’s private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi.
My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate, our rulers now make us accountable to them. Most Western governments hate me smoking, or eating the wrong kind of food, or hunting foxes, or drinking too much, and these are merely the surface disapprovals, the ones that provoke legislation or public campaigns. We also borrow too much money for our personal pleasures, and many of us are very bad parents. Ministers of state have been known to instruct us in elementary matters, such as the importance of reading stories to our children. Again, many of us have unsound views about people of other races, cultures, or religions, and the distribution of our friends does not always correspond, as governments think that it ought, to the cultural diversity of our society. We must face up to the grim fact that the rulers we elect are losing patience with us.
Think of her and her minions in the Oval Office, with the power to REALLY screw people for displeasing her.
Protect the Queen, no matter what. Business as usual at the 'Justice' Department.
The Obama administration is moving to dismiss charges against an arms dealer it had accused of selling weapons that were destined for Libyan rebels.
...The deal averts a trial that threatened to cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton’s private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi.
My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate, our rulers now make us accountable to them. Most Western governments hate me smoking, or eating the wrong kind of food, or hunting foxes, or drinking too much, and these are merely the surface disapprovals, the ones that provoke legislation or public campaigns. We also borrow too much money for our personal pleasures, and many of us are very bad parents. Ministers of state have been known to instruct us in elementary matters, such as the importance of reading stories to our children. Again, many of us have unsound views about people of other races, cultures, or religions, and the distribution of our friends does not always correspond, as governments think that it ought, to the cultural diversity of our society. We must face up to the grim fact that the rulers we elect are losing patience with us.
Well, Fecesbook has done it again,
and 'Download our stuff or else' is the response when I try to log on. Considering the crap I've found out about their stuff, not a chance.
Personally I'd say "When are you going to start ACTING like you believe this crap?",
but asking these questions of the weenie would be good. The first three are good:
Not everybody rolls over when the SJBs start screaming, and that's good.
And what are they shoving on your kids or grandkids in their school?
In a language class, as a joke...
I met with my dean the next afternoon. She told me the same thing my professor had: I had called myself handsome and this was unacceptable. My dean tried to make me agree that I would never do this again. I flat out refused. I laid into her about how upset I was about the situation and I said something along the lines of: “If you’re asking me to not be myself, then I guarantee I will end up back in your office again.”
We are doing the wrong thing and going after the wrong people in the name of fairness and justice, I told her. By the end of our conversation, she told me: “Even if I agree with you, I obviously couldn’t say anything…” I had the impression that she was too scared to challenge Columbia’s extreme politically correct culture.
This is a sick damned culture, and they want to bring it here. HAVE brought it here(not sure about the US, but there have been murders like this in Canada).
- How do you square your consistent use of private planes with your green activism?
- You’ve said, “The idea of pursuing material objects your whole life is absolutely soulless.” How do you explain that philosophy in light of your lavish lifestyle?
- Do you think your large carbon footprint is hurting the very cause you support?
Not everybody rolls over when the SJBs start screaming, and that's good.
And what are they shoving on your kids or grandkids in their school?
In a language class, as a joke...
I met with my dean the next afternoon. She told me the same thing my professor had: I had called myself handsome and this was unacceptable. My dean tried to make me agree that I would never do this again. I flat out refused. I laid into her about how upset I was about the situation and I said something along the lines of: “If you’re asking me to not be myself, then I guarantee I will end up back in your office again.”
We are doing the wrong thing and going after the wrong people in the name of fairness and justice, I told her. By the end of our conversation, she told me: “Even if I agree with you, I obviously couldn’t say anything…” I had the impression that she was too scared to challenge Columbia’s extreme politically correct culture.
This is a sick damned culture, and they want to bring it here. HAVE brought it here(not sure about the US, but there have been murders like this in Canada).
Tuesday, October 04, 2016
"The district attorney refused the council's request to file criminal charges against the officer, saying he wouldn't 'rehash the same evidence'. "
This translates to "He's a violent asshole, but he had a badge, and I don't want to upset the other cops by actually holding him responsible the way I would one of the commoners."
And at some point this miserable bastard will be wondering why people don't trust him.
And at some point this miserable bastard will be wondering why people don't trust him.
"Rules exist for a reason", but rules are for the peasants to follow
One of President Barack Obama’s political appointees at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) “burrowed” into a permanent career civil service job that a qualified disabled veteran probably should have received, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
That’s one of the 17 instances over the last five years in which Obama political appointees got permanent career civil service jobs at FDIC without prior approval from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which manages the federal civil service.
One of many.
GAO found 69 appointees across 30 agencies “burrowed” into full-time roles between 2010 and 2015.
Speaking of 'rules are for the commoners',
Both the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Government Ethics have refused to fully pursue an ethics investigation against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, and now-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, despite findings that DHS official Alejandro Mayorkas gave preferential visa treatment to a company founded by Rodham.
This is likely a breach of federal law.
That is a problem: anymore, doing what the cops tell you- sometimes not doing ANYTHING- can get you killed. And that the cops and their defenders always make excuses for it, is disgusting.
Latino crooks identified as 'white', I wonder why they might do that...
That’s one of the 17 instances over the last five years in which Obama political appointees got permanent career civil service jobs at FDIC without prior approval from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which manages the federal civil service.
One of many.
GAO found 69 appointees across 30 agencies “burrowed” into full-time roles between 2010 and 2015.
Speaking of 'rules are for the commoners',
Both the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Government Ethics have refused to fully pursue an ethics investigation against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, and now-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, despite findings that DHS official Alejandro Mayorkas gave preferential visa treatment to a company founded by Rodham.
This is likely a breach of federal law.
That is a problem: anymore, doing what the cops tell you- sometimes not doing ANYTHING- can get you killed. And that the cops and their defenders always make excuses for it, is disgusting.
Latino crooks identified as 'white', I wonder why they might do that...
And how friendly are your local cops with the feds?
Federal agents once persuaded police officers in southern California to use license-plate readers to gather information on gun show customers, according to a report posted at Wall Street Journal Sunday night.
Emails reviewed by the Journal revealed that agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2010 planned to get local law enforcement to use the devices to gather information on cars parked in parking lots at gun shows, including a well-known show in Del Mar.
And they're not happy with it being found out:
More than half of the pages provided by the agency were completely redacted, or blacked out; others have large sections redacted, apparently to keep secret how the surveillance was undertaken.
Emails reviewed by the Journal revealed that agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2010 planned to get local law enforcement to use the devices to gather information on cars parked in parking lots at gun shows, including a well-known show in Del Mar.
And they're not happy with it being found out:
More than half of the pages provided by the agency were completely redacted, or blacked out; others have large sections redacted, apparently to keep secret how the surveillance was undertaken.
A 14.5mm rifle?
That's gonna make a loud boom. And at 44 pounds, be a heavy sucker to move around.
Anybody who trusts Clinton is going to be real disappointed. Even if Sanders has sold himself out to claim 'All is Well!'
Ref this crap in Wisconsin:
Good on the Supremes for refusing to hear this appeal from the crime boss.
Said crime boss, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm belongs in a cell. Along with his minions in this.
The police and sheriff's offices who took part in these bullshit raids need to be fired. Their supervisors who approved the raids belong in jail.
Short version: "You stepped off the reservation, and you must be punished."
Justice Clarence Thomas, the second black man to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, is practically absent from the new National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Anita Hill, the woman who accused Thomas of sexual harassment, however, is given prominent billing in the museum.
Really? Sounds like it is to me.
The Duke Men’s Project, launched this month and hosted by the campus Women’s Center, offers a nine-week program for “male-identified” students that discusses male privilege, patriarchy, “the language of dominance,” rape culture, pornography, machismo and other topics.
The student newspaper’s editorial board endorsed the new program yesterday, insisting it was “not a reeducation camp being administered by an oppressed group in the service of the feminization of American society.”
In the continuing chronicles of "Trust the FBI? Why?",
It’s bad enough that FBI Director James Comey agreed to pass out immunity deals like candy to material witnesses and potential targets of his investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server.
But now we learn that some of them were immunized despite lying to Comey’s investigators.
Comey has taken part in putting people in prison for 'lying to federal investigators', but here they lie and get immunity. But it's all just normal procedure, he assures us.
And he's not a weasel. Weasels don't lie about what they are.
Anybody who trusts Clinton is going to be real disappointed. Even if Sanders has sold himself out to claim 'All is Well!'
Ref this crap in Wisconsin:
Good on the Supremes for refusing to hear this appeal from the crime boss.
Said crime boss, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm belongs in a cell. Along with his minions in this.
The police and sheriff's offices who took part in these bullshit raids need to be fired. Their supervisors who approved the raids belong in jail.
Short version: "You stepped off the reservation, and you must be punished."
Justice Clarence Thomas, the second black man to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, is practically absent from the new National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Anita Hill, the woman who accused Thomas of sexual harassment, however, is given prominent billing in the museum.
Really? Sounds like it is to me.
The Duke Men’s Project, launched this month and hosted by the campus Women’s Center, offers a nine-week program for “male-identified” students that discusses male privilege, patriarchy, “the language of dominance,” rape culture, pornography, machismo and other topics.
The student newspaper’s editorial board endorsed the new program yesterday, insisting it was “not a reeducation camp being administered by an oppressed group in the service of the feminization of American society.”
In the continuing chronicles of "Trust the FBI? Why?",
It’s bad enough that FBI Director James Comey agreed to pass out immunity deals like candy to material witnesses and potential targets of his investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server.
But now we learn that some of them were immunized despite lying to Comey’s investigators.
Comey has taken part in putting people in prison for 'lying to federal investigators', but here they lie and get immunity. But it's all just normal procedure, he assures us.
And he's not a weasel. Weasels don't lie about what they are.
Monday, October 03, 2016
Just in case anyone needed further proof that Lynch is Eric Holder II,
and Comey is a weasel,
House Republicans are demanding to know why Justice Department officials entered into a pair of "side agreement" with Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson — two of Hillary Clinton's top former aides who went on to become her personal attorneys during the FBI's email investigation — that allowed law enforcement agents to destroy their laptops after searching their hard drives for evidence.
Actually, they know why: because Lynch and Comey were making sure as much evidence as possible would go away.
If there was any doubt left that Lynch and Comey are both crooked...
House Republicans are demanding to know why Justice Department officials entered into a pair of "side agreement" with Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson — two of Hillary Clinton's top former aides who went on to become her personal attorneys during the FBI's email investigation — that allowed law enforcement agents to destroy their laptops after searching their hard drives for evidence.
Actually, they know why: because Lynch and Comey were making sure as much evidence as possible would go away.
If there was any doubt left that Lynch and Comey are both crooked...
Short version: most of those generals(and admirals) defer
to what Obama wishes, even when they know it's crap.
It won't end well.
Really, NPR? Nobody there knows enough history to catch this?
But neither the hapless NPR reporter nor the several anti-gun residents of Gonzales interviewed for the story know the actual origin of the phrase, or why its application to the ongoing national debate about gun control and the Second Amendment is entirely appropriate—and historically accurate.
They are blissfully unaware that “Come and take it” is a quote from King Leonidas I of Sparta. At the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, during the second Persian invasion of Greece, Leonidas replied to Xerxes’s demand that the Greeks surrender their arms, “molon labe”—come and take them.
And so are the editors. Or they know and don't care.
When you keep doing crap like this, it's no wonder people don't trust the cops or the courts.
It won't end well.
Really, NPR? Nobody there knows enough history to catch this?
But neither the hapless NPR reporter nor the several anti-gun residents of Gonzales interviewed for the story know the actual origin of the phrase, or why its application to the ongoing national debate about gun control and the Second Amendment is entirely appropriate—and historically accurate.
They are blissfully unaware that “Come and take it” is a quote from King Leonidas I of Sparta. At the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, during the second Persian invasion of Greece, Leonidas replied to Xerxes’s demand that the Greeks surrender their arms, “molon labe”—come and take them.
And so are the editors. Or they know and don't care.
When you keep doing crap like this, it's no wonder people don't trust the cops or the courts.
But just as Director Comey rightly objects to being regarded as a weasel,
I don’t much like being regarded as an idiot . . . which is what I’d have to be to swallow some of this stuff.
Join the club, guy. With the difference that most of us aren't hardwired to presume the FBI’s integrity after some of the crap they've been caught in, most recently this. And
There was no chance on God’s green earth that President Obama and his Justice Department were ever going to permit an indictment of Hillary Clinton. Jim Comey says he didn’t make his final decision to recommend against prosecution until after Mrs. Clinton was interviewed at the end of the investigation, and that he did not coordinate that decision with his Obama-administration superiors. If he says so, that’s good enough for me. But it doesn’t mean the director made his decision detached from the dismal reality of the situation. And whatever one’s armchair-quarterback view on how he should have handled it, that reality was not of his making.
sounds an awful lot like "Hey, he figured Justice wouldn't indict, so he recommended no prosecution, can't blame him for that." Yes, we can; it means he made the decision based on politics, not the law, and his being so pissy about being called on it is bullshit. That- again- makes this 'special rules for special people, so don't you peasants get the idea YOU'LL get the same breaks.' And coming from the head of the EffingBI, that means "Why trust them? 'Equal Justice' my ass."
Join the club, guy. With the difference that most of us aren't hardwired to presume the FBI’s integrity after some of the crap they've been caught in, most recently this. And
There was no chance on God’s green earth that President Obama and his Justice Department were ever going to permit an indictment of Hillary Clinton. Jim Comey says he didn’t make his final decision to recommend against prosecution until after Mrs. Clinton was interviewed at the end of the investigation, and that he did not coordinate that decision with his Obama-administration superiors. If he says so, that’s good enough for me. But it doesn’t mean the director made his decision detached from the dismal reality of the situation. And whatever one’s armchair-quarterback view on how he should have handled it, that reality was not of his making.
sounds an awful lot like "Hey, he figured Justice wouldn't indict, so he recommended no prosecution, can't blame him for that." Yes, we can; it means he made the decision based on politics, not the law, and his being so pissy about being called on it is bullshit. That- again- makes this 'special rules for special people, so don't you peasants get the idea YOU'LL get the same breaks.' And coming from the head of the EffingBI, that means "Why trust them? 'Equal Justice' my ass."
Yeah, Trump's an asshat so we really need Clinton in the Oval Office...
“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a
simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned
military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The
statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the
Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said
Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, “walking around”
freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the
United States. Clinton was upset about Assange’s previous 2010 records
releases, divulging secret U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan
in July and the war in Iraq just a month earlier in October, sources
said. At that time in 2010, Assange was relatively free and not living
cloistered in in the embassy of Ecuador in London. Prior to 2010,
Assange focused Wikileaks’ efforts on countries outside the United
States but now under Clinton and Obama, Assange was hammering America
with an unparalleled third sweeping Wikileaks document dump in five
months. Clinton was fuming, sources said, as each State Department cable
dispatched during the Obama administration was signed by her.
...
Immediately following the conclusion of the wild brainstorming session, one of Clinton’s top aides, State Department Director of Policy Planning Ann-Marie Slaughter, penned an email to Clinton, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and aides Huma Abebin and Jacob Sullivan at 10:29 a.m. entitled “an SP memo on possible legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks.”
Anybody think she'd have any moral problem with signing the order if she was President?
...
Immediately following the conclusion of the wild brainstorming session, one of Clinton’s top aides, State Department Director of Policy Planning Ann-Marie Slaughter, penned an email to Clinton, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and aides Huma Abebin and Jacob Sullivan at 10:29 a.m. entitled “an SP memo on possible legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks.”
Anybody think she'd have any moral problem with signing the order if she was President?
Sunday, October 02, 2016
In the Dark and Fascist State of New Jersey, of course
Proof that sometimes sending your kid to public school is child abuse.
When administration was made aware of the presentation, they reached out to the police, who showed up at Harvey’s doorstep and questioned him the same night, NJ.com reported.
In the presentation, Harvey, who claims to have never even been in detention, listed instances in which people having access to firearms helped them defend themselves and shared anti-gun control cartoons that poked fun at the dangers of gun-free zones.
Ultimately, the seemingly well-intentioned student — who told News 12 New Jersey he has “never been a violent person” — was cleared by law enforcement officers. However, school officials suspended him and mandated he go through a five-hour psychological evaluation before he can return to school.
Because bullshit. Because sorry excuses for officials are assholes. Because the teacher is a chickenshit who claimed she did not recall ever giving him the project.
When administration was made aware of the presentation, they reached out to the police, who showed up at Harvey’s doorstep and questioned him the same night, NJ.com reported.
In the presentation, Harvey, who claims to have never even been in detention, listed instances in which people having access to firearms helped them defend themselves and shared anti-gun control cartoons that poked fun at the dangers of gun-free zones.
Ultimately, the seemingly well-intentioned student — who told News 12 New Jersey he has “never been a violent person” — was cleared by law enforcement officers. However, school officials suspended him and mandated he go through a five-hour psychological evaluation before he can return to school.
Because bullshit. Because sorry excuses for officials are assholes. Because the teacher is a chickenshit who claimed she did not recall ever giving him the project.
"But having to prove intent makes it harder to get convictions!"
So does the rest of the Constitution, which is why every part of it has been under attack. After all, if they can jail you when you didn't even know there was a law, let alone intend to violate it, it's easier to control people.
...FBI Director James Comey differentiated her "extremely careless" handling of "very sensitive, highly classified information" from other cases involving "intentional and willful mishandling."
Not everyone gets the benefit of such distinctions. Consider the retiree on a snowmobile outing in Colorado who got lost in a blizzard and unwittingly crossed into a National Forest Wilderness Area; the Native Alaskan trapper who sold 10 sea otters to a buyer he mistakenly believed was also a Native Alaskan; and the 11-year-old Virginia girl who rescued a baby woodpecker from her cat.
The first two incidents resulted in misdemeanor and felony convictions, respectively, while the third led to a fine (later rescinded) and threats of prosecution. All three qualify as federal crimes, even though the perpetrators had no idea they were breaking the law.
The federal code contains something like 5,000 criminal statutes and describes an estimated 30,000 regulatory violations that can be treated as crimes. The fact that no one knows the precise numbers is itself a scandal, compounded by the fact that many of these provisions include minimal or no mens rea requirements, which ask prosecutors to demonstrate that an offender knew he was doing something wrong.
"But that means doing actual work! And actually proving things! That's hard!"
Sooner or later some bastard in Congress is going to propose ignoring the 4th and 5th Amendments 'in cases of great danger/security risk/importance', because having to actually obey the law gets in the way of convicting someone.
Yet Senate Democrats dismiss the proposed changes as "corporate protection." Their chief complaint is that requiring the government to prove a defendant knew he was breaking the law will make it harder to convict people.
No kidding. The same could be said of many safeguards widely supported by civil libertarians, including the presumption of innocence, the requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and the ban on double jeopardy.
Guilty people, including violent criminals, surely escape conviction because of these rules. Likewise, if Congress beefed up federal mens rea requirements, some white-collar malefactors and felonious fat cats probably would escape criminal punishment as a result. But that prospect should not deter Congress from doing what's right.
'Doing what's right' would've involved, to pick one, a REAL investigation into Fast & Furious(and the other gunrunning operations), and people being fired, and charged, and tried. We saw just what 'doing what's right' means to far too many in Congress: nothing.
...FBI Director James Comey differentiated her "extremely careless" handling of "very sensitive, highly classified information" from other cases involving "intentional and willful mishandling."
Not everyone gets the benefit of such distinctions. Consider the retiree on a snowmobile outing in Colorado who got lost in a blizzard and unwittingly crossed into a National Forest Wilderness Area; the Native Alaskan trapper who sold 10 sea otters to a buyer he mistakenly believed was also a Native Alaskan; and the 11-year-old Virginia girl who rescued a baby woodpecker from her cat.
The first two incidents resulted in misdemeanor and felony convictions, respectively, while the third led to a fine (later rescinded) and threats of prosecution. All three qualify as federal crimes, even though the perpetrators had no idea they were breaking the law.
The federal code contains something like 5,000 criminal statutes and describes an estimated 30,000 regulatory violations that can be treated as crimes. The fact that no one knows the precise numbers is itself a scandal, compounded by the fact that many of these provisions include minimal or no mens rea requirements, which ask prosecutors to demonstrate that an offender knew he was doing something wrong.
"But that means doing actual work! And actually proving things! That's hard!"
Sooner or later some bastard in Congress is going to propose ignoring the 4th and 5th Amendments 'in cases of great danger/security risk/importance', because having to actually obey the law gets in the way of convicting someone.
Yet Senate Democrats dismiss the proposed changes as "corporate protection." Their chief complaint is that requiring the government to prove a defendant knew he was breaking the law will make it harder to convict people.
No kidding. The same could be said of many safeguards widely supported by civil libertarians, including the presumption of innocence, the requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and the ban on double jeopardy.
Guilty people, including violent criminals, surely escape conviction because of these rules. Likewise, if Congress beefed up federal mens rea requirements, some white-collar malefactors and felonious fat cats probably would escape criminal punishment as a result. But that prospect should not deter Congress from doing what's right.
'Doing what's right' would've involved, to pick one, a REAL investigation into Fast & Furious(and the other gunrunning operations), and people being fired, and charged, and tried. We saw just what 'doing what's right' means to far too many in Congress: nothing.
How Director Weasel Comey acts
when it's pointed out he's a lying weasel:
Here Kim quotes Comey performing what students of ancient history will recognize as the Watergate variations:
I think the line is "If you want to know who rules you, see who you're not allowed to insult."
Here Kim quotes Comey performing what students of ancient history will recognize as the Watergate variations:
Mr. Comey suddenly sounded like a man with something to hide. “I don’t remember exactly, sitting here,” he said, in what can only be called the FBI version of “I don’t recall.” He then mumbled that “Having done many investigations myself, there’s always conflicting recollections of facts, some of which are central, some of which are peripheral. I don’t remember, sitting here, about that one.”Except when the EffingBI has been properly paid off.
Really? Only a few minutes before he had explained that the Justice Department was forced to issue immunity to Ms. Mills because she had asserted attorney-client privilege. Yet he couldn’t remember all the glaring evidence proving she had no such privilege? Usually, the FBI takes a dim view of witnesses who lie.
I think the line is "If you want to know who rules you, see who you're not allowed to insult."
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