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Jul 24 2023

68-Year-Old Woman Beaten by Looters Then Fired

A 68-year-old white woman was beaten black and blue by blacks when she attempted to stop them from shoplifting from her employer Lowe’s. What do you suppose happened next? She was fired, of course.

From Georgia:

According to the Rincon Police Department, three people entered the store June 25 and loaded up a shopping cart with about $2,000 worth of items.

Police said as the group was trying to leave without paying a 68-year-old employee named Donna Hansbrough tried to stop them and grabbed their cart.

But that’s when one of the thieves hit her in the face three times.

This left her with a swollen black eye and no job after 13 years of service. Confronting thieves instead of letting them help themselves is a violation of policy.

When moonbats bark about “social justice,” they are calling for more of this. They figure it will be Donna Hansbrough who gets hurt and not them. They don’t have the character to stand up for civilization even when it is safe, much less to face down entitled savages.

Social justice.

On a tip from Varla.

Jul 21 2023

New York City Will Pay $13 Million to BLM Rioters

Democrats are following through on their promise to fundamentally transform America. They do this by punishing good behavior and rewarding bad behavior, including some of the very worst — even rioting:

New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020.

By “demonstrations,” the AP means riots; otherwise, the arrests would not have been necessary. Rioters being “beaten” means they resisted arrest so some degree of force was required to temporarily stop them from stealing and vandalizing in honor of the career criminal George Floyd.

With certain exceptions, people arrested or subjected to force by NYPD officers at those events will each be eligible for $9,950 in compensation, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs.

Not bad pay for breaking a few windows, stealing a TV set, and maybe setting fire to someone’s livelihood.

Needless to say, the next time the liberal establishment finds it expedient to seize on a preposterous pretext like Floyd’s fentanyl overdose to whip up the Democrat base into mass rioting, there will be even less effort to contain the mayhem.

The agreement, one of several stemming from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, allows the city to avoid a trial that could be both expensive and politically fraught.

That is, the media would have exploited the trial to glorify criminals and demonize those who do not want to pay them even more.

[A]ttorneys for the city maintained that police were responding to a chaotic and unprecedented situation, pointing to some unruly protests in which police vehicles were set on fire and officers pelted with rocks…

Sorry, racist oppressors. Unlike disputing leftist ideology on social media, throwing rocks at you and setting your vehicles on fire fall under the liberal conception of free speech. Seriously, moonbats are citing the First Amendment to justify a second wave of Black Lives Matter looting.

[M]any other cities across the U.S. are negotiating their own settlements with protesters who spilled into the streets to decry [law & order] after Floyd’s death…

For example, Philthadelphia has already shelled out $9.25 million to race rioters.

The money is expropriated from the same law-abiding citizens the rioters victimize. In Liberalese, this is called “justice.”

Sneers Wylie Stecklow, skeevy shyster for the rioters in New York,

“While the arc of the moral universe is indeed long, sometimes it needs reform to bend towards justice.”

It won’t take much more “reform” before American cities are indistinguishable from Mogadishu.

Democrat dominance literally means rule by criminals, as Joe Biden so aptly personifies.

On tips from Mr. Freemarket, Varla, Wiggins, and ABC of the ANC.

Jul 20 2023

Woke Activist Allegedly Killed by Illegal Alien Felon Ex

Careful now, starry-eyed liberal idealists. Moonbattery can be hazardous to your health:

Emma Shafer, 24, of Springfield [Illinois], was found dead late Tuesday evening after she was allegedly stabbed in her home in the 1000 block of South Eighth Street.

Her woke credentials were impeccable:

Shafer served as an activist and community organizer for several local organizations, including the Faith Coalition for the Common Good, where she was a community and digital organizer.

The faith entailed involved Unitarianism. Other Illinois community organizers include Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama.

She also worked as a committee clerk for the Illinois House of Representatives, a shelter worker at Contact Ministries, a community development intern with Downtown Springfield Inc. and an intern with U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth’s office.

She also volunteered for the Sierra Club Sangamon Valley Group, where she had recently been appointed a membership chair and the Resistor Sisterhood, where she served on their racial equity task force and Leadership Council.

An arrest warrant has been issued for her former boyfriend Gabriel P. Calixto a.k.a. Gabriel Calixto Pichardo, who was running loose despite having pled guilty to kidnapping in 2018, and despite being an illegal alien — excuse me, I meant to say a “Dreamer,” whose DACA status expired more than 4 years ago.

The senseless death serves as a reminder that woke activists are not immune from the dangers they work to inflict on the rest of us.

On a tip from Woodlandcamo.

Jul 20 2023

Purge Law Inflicts Catch and Release on Illinois

Catch and release has worked so well at the border and in New York City that Democrat-dominated Illinois is adopting the policy:

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law passed following the death of George Floyd that was intended to end cash bail for most criminal defendants.

At first it seemed sanity might intervene…

The SAFE-T Act was approved by the state General Assembly in January 2021 but was halted at the eleventh hour after a Kankakee County judge ruled the ending of cash bail to be unconstitutional.

But as usual in Illinois, moonbattery prevailed:

The lower court ruling was sent to the state Supreme Court, which overturned it in a 5-2 decision.

Obese plutocrat Governor J. B. Pritzker approves of the decision. Anarchotyranny means the same tyrant who would not allow more than two people to ride on a boat during Covid hysteria wants actual criminals to run loose wreaking havoc.

The dementedly pro-criminal SAFE-T Act has been called the “Purge Law,” in reference to the movies/TV series about crime being made legal for 12 hours once a year to keep the population down. Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau calls it “the most dangerous law I’ve ever seen.” In addition to establishing a revolving door for dangerous criminals, other aspects include…

…limiting when defendants can be deemed flight risks, allowing defendants under electronic monitoring to leave home for 48 hours before they can be charged with escape, and preventing police from arresting non-violent trespassers…

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul barks that “The SAFE-T Act was intended to address pervasive inequalities in the criminal justice system.”

That’s the purpose the criminal justice system serves, where Democrats have consolidated control: addressing “pervasive inequalities” rather than securing public safety.

After cash bail is ended on September 18, Democrats will boast of having reduced the incarcerated population. This will win votes from their base in places like the South Side of Chicago. The city has succumbed to the Democrat Death Spiral, having driven out enough sane people to guarantee ever more radical left-wing rule. The entire state looks ready to follow it down the drain.

On a tip from Franco.

Jul 12 2023

California to Introduce Race-Based Sentencing

Our racially tiered justice system is becoming official. In California, white convicts will soon be sentenced to longer prison terms than blacks, entirely due to the racial favoritism of our moonbat rulers:

A Democrat-backed bill making its way through the California Legislature would require judges in the state to consider a convicted criminal’s race when determining how long to sentence them to prison.

Assembly Member Reggie Jones-Sawyer, the Democratic chair of the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee, quietly introduced Bill 852 in February.

Despite equality before the law being a bedrock principle of American civilization, the outrageous legislation passed. The left-wing senate can be expected to move it along to the left-wing governor to sign it into law.

The bill would add a section to the Penal Code of California requiring courts, whenever they have the authority to determine a prison sentence, to “rectify” alleged racial bias in the criminal justice system by taking into account how historically persecuted minorities are affected differently than others.

In other words, less time for blacks, more time for whites, because liberals worship blacks and despise whites. There may have been similar laws for Aryans and Jews under the Third Reich.

What would have been called Apartheid in South Africa is known as “racial justice” in the USA, precisely because it is anything but just. To every injury liberals inflict on us, they feel compelled to add insult with a lie.

Criminals of Color have a friend in Reggie Jones-Sawyer.

On a tip from Franco.

Jul 04 2023

Awarded $1 Million for Burnt BLM Banner

For an idea of how far we have come from equality before the law, turn to the partisan propagandists of coercively financed NPR:

A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 million to a Black church in downtown Washington, D.C. that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest.

That same year, Black Lives Matter rioters inflicted $billions in damages. The mountains of money that corporations and woke idiots shoveled at them might be used to make restitution — if BLM did not occupy a very different tier of our justice system than the Proud Boys.

Superior Court Associated Judge Neal A. Kravitz also barred the extremist group and its leaders from coming near the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church or making threats or defamatory remarks against the church or its pastor for five years.

A political group is not allowed to make “defamatory remarks” against a public figure because he preaches the ruling establishment’s ideology. How did they manage to repeal the First Amendment without anyone noticing?

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Jun 30 2023

Expanded Free College for Criminals

Freeloaders suffered a setback today when the Supreme Court struck down Joe Biden’s unilateral student debt cancelation, which would have forced working people to pick up the tab for their moonbat overlords’ overpriced credentials. But all is not doom and gloom for Democrat voters. To the many benefits of being a criminal in a country run by the Party of Criminals, we can now add expanded free college:

Thousands of prisoners throughout the United States get their college degrees behind bars, most of them paid for by the federal Pell Grant program, which offers the neediest undergraduates tuition aid that they don’t have to repay.

That program is about to expand exponentially next month, giving about 30,000 more students behind bars some $130 million in financial aid per year.

The new rules, which overturn a 1994 ban on Pell Grants for prisoners, begin to address decades of policy during the “tough on crime” 1970s-2000 that brought about mass incarceration and stark racial disparities in the nation’s 1.9 million prison population.

Because punishing criminals creates “racial disparities,” we now reward them instead.

On tips from Franco, Steve T, Anonymous, Blackjack, and KirklesWorth.

Jun 16 2023

Privileged Go Around and Out the Revolving Door

The reason Jordan Neely was running loose, terrorizing subway passengers after 42 arrests in the past 10 years, is that we have a revolving door system of justice. At least it works that way for those with preferred characteristics, like Florida’s Frederick Howard:

Since 1986, the 58-year-old has spent nearly 36 years in and out of prison for various crimes including aggravated assault, armed robbery, battery on a first responder and more.

His latest charge is attempted sexual battery at the Stayable Suites along Orange Blossom Trail. Investigators said that’s where he tried to rape an 18-year-old in her hotel room on Monday.

Howard was released from jail a week ago after he spent 33 days in jail for a carjacking but was released because the Orange County State Attorney failed to file formal charges in the case. …

By law, if the State Attorney doesn’t file charges 30 days after an arrest, that person is entitled to be released.

The State Attorney in question is Monique Worrell, a young Woman of Color who took power with help from George Soros — like Alvin Bragg (New York) George Gascon (Los Angeles), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia), Chesa Boudin (San Francisco), Kim Gardner (St Louis), Marilyn Mosby (Baltimore), et al.

Any questions on why charges weren’t filed?

It isn’t a revolving door for everybody. Hero Marine Daniel Penny, who was indicted for being white, won’t get loose from the jaws of the System soon.

The liberals who have been methodically destroying American civilization often bark about “privilege.” Here’s what privilege actually looks like in what’s left of our society:

On a tip from Lyle.

Jun 10 2023

Open Thread

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws. - Edward Snowden

Jun 06 2023

Transsexual Felon Awarded Half $Million

They don’t make social justice jackpots in Minnesota like they do in New York. Being a woman of color who was late for work 47 times is worth $11.25 million in NYC. But a guy calling himself Christina Lusk was only able to collect $495,000 for being a cross-dressing felon in Minnesota, despite transsexuals occupying the top tier of the liberal caste system:

A Minnesota transgender inmate is being moved to a women’s prison and will receive a vaginoplasty as well as $495,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit against the state Department of Corrections. …

Lusk, who was arrested in 2018 and is serving a sentence until 2024 for a felony drug offense, sued the Minnesota DOC last year in part because it deferred Lusk’s request for a vaginoplasty, or “bottom surgery.”

In addition to sex-change surgery, taxpayers owe Lusk half a $million also because other criminals made fun of him for being a freak, instead of revering him as the rest of us are expected to do.

“Inmates would heckle her, heckle her roommates… call her ‘it,’ that sort of thing,” Gender Justice legal director Jess Braverman said, according to FOX 9. “And then there were staff who would say things to her, such as, ‘You know, you’re a man in a men’s prison. I’m not going to treat you like a woman. I’m not going to use your proper name and pronouns.’”

No doubt this qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment — unlike the punishment inflicted on women in women’s prisons who are locked up with male perverts.

In January, the Minnesota DOC joined 10 other states and the District of Columbia in establishing a policy by which inmates can be transferred to facilities that match their gender identity.

Women are getting raped and even impregnated due to these psychotic policies. A progressive might argue they deserve it for being TERFs who insensitively refuse to acknowledge that their rapists are women too.

On a tip from Franco.

May 27 2023

Fart Spray Induces Panic

Good thing Alejandro Mayorkas and Merrick Garland are on the job. The domestic terrorism they squeak about is on the rise. A recent attack at Caney Creek High School north of Houston was so terrifying, it left authorities with no other option but to panic hysterically:

Following an investigation, police arrested David Navarrete-Arce, 17, and Diego Flores, 18, on May 12, charging them with possession of a prohibited weapon – a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, according to reporting by The Courier of Montgomery County.

The “weapon” in question is a stink spray called Hensgaukt Fart Spray, marketed online as a gag toy of the type teenagers tend to find amusing. The smell so alarmed authorities, the school was evacuated twice. Some students were taken out on stretchers. A can of the stink spray was confiscated by a teacher on the day of the first evacuation, but apparently dots were left unconnected.

Meanwhile,

Roughly 30 tons of ammonium nitrate disappeared in mid-April while being moved [by train] from Wyoming to California, prompting explosives manufacturer Dyno Nobel to inform federal authorities. More than a month after material vanished during the nearly two-week trip, officials have yet to find cargo, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

No worries; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is sure to get to the bottom of it, as with all the other transportation debacles that have been in the news since he took office.

Ammonium nitrate is a chemical often used in agricultural fertilizer but can also be implemented in explosives, as it was in the deadly 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, according to the federal government.

Also, the border is wide open, with invaders crossing illegally at a rate of millions per year, including terrorists from places like Afghanistan. Majorkas and Garland are too focused on the fabricated threat of white supremacists to do anything about it, assuming they would know where to start.

Terrorists will have no problem instilling panic in the coming years.

On tips from Wiggins and Varla.

May 15 2023

Equity Applied to Fines

A truly totalitarian ideology like moonbattery can be applied to everything — even fines for civil infractions:

[New York] City Councilmember Justin Brannan … is proposing the creation of a pilot program to implement a day-fine system for civil offenses.

The concept was tried in Staten Island back in the 1980s.

“First, the court sentences the offender to a certain number of day-fine units (e.g., 15, 60, 120 units) according to the gravity of the offense, but without regard to his or her means,” explained the Vera Institute of Justice’s Judith Greene in a 1990 report assessing the efficacy of Staten Island’s program. “Then the value of each unit is set at a share of the offender’s daily income (hence the name ‘day fine’), and the total fine amount is determined by simple multiplication.”

Why settle for justice when you can have social justice?

Inevitably, reparations ideology will be applied. If blacks deserve to be paid vast fortunes for being black, surely they deserve to pay lower fines.

Next after that, the principle will be applied to prison sentences — if it isn’t already. How else to achieve equity?

From there, our moonbat overlords will apply it to the cost of housing, food, and all other goods and services. If you have less, then you should pay less. It follows that if you have nothing, then everything should be free. An advantage of this approach is that since there would be no point working, we would all have more free time.

On a tip from Wiggins.

May 12 2023

Daniel Penny Charged for Protecting Subway Passengers

Do not expect justice or personal safety where leftism prevails. Daniel Penny is in police custody after protecting other subway passengers from psychotic derelict Jordan Neely.

Like liberal demigod George Floyd, Neely died while being restrained, which was necessary because he was a sociopathic lowlife and a threat to those around him.

If found guilty on the second-degree manslaughter charge, Penny could be rewarded for his heroism with 15 years in prison.

As noted at Daily Caller,

While Penny’s action were deemed vigilante by some, others – including those who were on the train with Neely, believe that Penny acted heroically. A 66-year-old subway passenger who witnessed the incident told the New York Post that she thanked Penny for stepping in, adding the Marine only did so when things got “out of hand.”

But because Penny is white and Neely was black, liberals demand the Derek Chauvin treatment. Pro-criminal Soros-appointed DA Alvin Bragg is only too happy to oblige.

A sane jury would most likely find Penny innocent. However, this is playing out in the city that elected Eric Adams mayor.

The message to the public is clear. Under liberal rule, the criminals are in charge. Lift a finger to protect yourself or others and the authorities will crush you. Be passive. Cower in fear.

On tips from Ed McAninch, Wiggins, and ABC of the ANC.

May 06 2023

Open Thread

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed. - Camille Paglia

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