Here is your ticket out:
"Flush with donations, Massachusetts Bail Fund pays to free defendants across the state — many facing serious charges; Fund wants to "free them all," but law enforcement officials fear for public safety" by Andrea Estes Globe Staff, July 19, 2020
WEST BOYLSTON — If only he’d had $1,100, Joel Rodriguez could have been a free man. Instead, the 31-year-old sat in the Worcester County House of Correction awaiting trial on assault and harassment charges — working out, reading the Bible, trying to tame the rage that got him locked up in the first place.
So when the man from the Massachusetts Bail Fund showed up at the jail on the evening of July 6 to post bail for Rodriguez and four other prisoners, it felt like divine intervention.
“Hallelujah!” he shouted before he fished his belongings from the plastic storage container where jailers had kept them. “They saved my life, basically.”
Scenes like that are playing out across the country as private charities including the Bail Fund ride a tidal wave of donations since the killing of George Floyd set off massive demonstrations against racial injustice in law enforcement. Within two weeks of Floyd’s death as a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck, Minnesota’s largest bail fund had received more than $31 million in donations so that protesters who were arrested could be bailed out, according to news reports.
Where is that money coming from?
The Massachusetts Bail Fund has not released its fund-raising totals, but leaders of the charity say on their website that the “incredible generosity” of donors has allowed them to increase the amount of bail they can pay. As recently as January, the group, which has just one paid employee, paid no more than $500, but last week it posted $85,000 bail to free a single prisoner.
The Massachusetts Bail Fund opposes cash bail on principle, arguing that it discriminates against the poor by keeping them locked up until their day in court and interfering with their ability to work or prepare for that trial. The only purpose of bail, they point out, should be to make sure defendants show up for trial — and the people they bail out overwhelmingly do, but its sudden prosperity has led the Bail Fund into controversial territory as many of the prisoners they have bailed out face increasingly serious, often violent, charges, and some have long criminal records.
Well, if you want to sow chaos on city streets, that's the way to do it.
Donors who rushed to support bail funds after the Floyd death likely thought they were helping to bail out jailed protesters, who typically face bail of up to a few hundred dollars. The fund bailed out scores of protesters arrested during the Boston demonstrations, but it has set free many facing more serious charges as well. Rodriguez, for example, had been in jail for nine months before his release, serving time for assaulting and harassing several victims, according to court records. Now he’s out on bail for additional domestic violence charges, which he described to the Globe as “problems of love.”
That is something batterer would say, and the Globe is taking his side!
The day after the fund bailed out Rodriguez, it put up $85,000 to free Karmau Cotton-Landers, 25, who is accused of shooting someone in the daytime on Boston Common in early April. When he was arrested, officers found a loaded firearm and ammunition in his Puma camouflage backpack, Boston police said.
On the day after Cotton-Landers was freed, the fund bailed out someone who had been arrested on looting charges hours after the May 31 demonstration in Boston. Darren McFadden also has an extensive criminal history including 60 cases in Suffolk County and a three-year prison sentence for robbing someone at knifepoint. The Bail Fund paid McFadden’s $2,500 bail on larceny and breaking and entering charges.
This is not about altrui$m and righting wrongs, this is to $erve the very agenda I mentioned above. It's about creating the conditions of chaos that will allow a further lockdown of the population as we morph into a military-style police state based on medical fascism.
That all happened in three days. Other defendants recently freed by the Bail Fund include Walker Browning, accused of robbing five women, two at knifepoint; David Privette, facing charges of holding up a gas station at gunpoint; and Otis Walker, who had been held since late 2018 on three counts of child rape. These three were being held on bails ranging from $5,000 to $50,000.
OOOOOOH!
Atara Rich-Shea, the fund’s unpaid executive director, declined to comment on the group’s increasing activities, saying she objected to the Globe’s attempt to interview people the fund had bailed. The Globe visited the Worcester jail after learning the Bail Fund would be freeing five prisoners that afternoon and asked to speak to the men as they left. Rich-Shea said the arrangement “ambushed the people whose bail we were posting,” although Rodriguez was enthusiastic about talking to a reporter.
It's not always that way:
"A day after two teenagers were shot and killed inside a Wildwood Street apartment, a group of people gathered by the front stoop Monday, listening to music on the residential street near the border of Dorchester and Mattapan. They politely declined to speak with a reporter. As of Monday evening, police had not made any arrests in the deaths of the teenagers, ages 16 and 17. They had not disclosed their names or the circumstances of the shootings, except that officers found them injured but alive Sunday afternoon. They were taken to local hospitals with gunshot wounds and later died, police said. Their deaths were part of a violent weekend in Boston. “Sunday was a violent day in Boston,” Boston Police Superintendent-in-Chief Gregory Long said at a news conference Monday. Police have not made any arrests in two stabbings on Saturday that left three people injured, one person near Egleston Square and two others in East Boston....."
This is as Trump threatens to send US forces to more cities and as Mayor Walsh rips the Trump administration for sending federal agents to respond to protests in Portland.
The Globe wants to call the county sheriff and says that hope is a powerful weapon against the violence that plagues their communities. All it will take is a triumph of the will.
It's a tale of two cities, one racist, another striving to change and increase affordable housing (never mind the stink next door) with a convenience store right down the streets. Just be careful when you go out, at least in Lowell.
Also see:
ACLU accuses Boston police of violating rights with ‘Operation Clean Sweep’ arrests
How do you know the ACLU is a worthless agitator?
We have the loss of freedom and liberty all around us with onerous and increasing tyranny, and they are silent.
Have they filed any court cases on behalf of churches?
At least you don't have to pay to make bail.
The Bail Fund’s website makes it clear it will help any defendant post bail, no matter the severity of the charges or their criminal record:
“THE MASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND IS A CHARGE NEUTRAL BAIL FUND; WE POST BAIL REGARDLESS OF COURT HISTORY, CHARGE, OR CIRCUMSTANCES. Our only limitation is access to funds and staffing.”
For the fund and its supporters, a principle is at stake. If a prosecutor believes a defendant is too dangerous to release, they argue, the prosecutor should ask a judge to declare him or her dangerous and held indefinitely. Setting a high bail, they argue, is both unfair to the poor and ineffective at preventing crime.
I'm NOT FOR THAT as we ENCROACH upon the former East German-Soviet realm!
“Why would paying a certain amount of bail make them any less dangerous?” asked David Rangaviz, a lawyer for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, an organization that represents poor defendants, but victims rights advocates and some in law enforcement say the fund is enabling the release of potentially dangerous people with few or no court-ordered conditions to protect the public.
“It is a total injustice,” said Boston Police Commissioner William Gross, referring to the release of defendants charged with crimes of violence. “I’ll get criticized, but not by the folks in the neighborhoods. They are the victims of crime and they feel left out.”
Freeing them, he said, sends the message to those inclined to commit crimes that there are no consequences.
That's the one the bankers got.
“We have seen an uptick in violence,” Gross said. “I have no doubt that some of the violence is attributable to” people out on bail.
“I would never deny anyone the opportunity to be bailed, but ... what about the victims? We keep forgetting about the victims. They have constitutional rights too — to walk down the street, to be secure in their homes.”
The Globe usually does.
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Every defendant is innocent until proven guilty. It’s a cornerstone of the American justice system. So bail, which defendants pay in exchange for freedom while awaiting trial, is not supposed to be punishment. It’s meant as a deposit to ensure that the defendant will return for trial instead of fleeing. If they show up, they get their money back.
It's been warped from rehabilitation to punishment as the society has become more sadistic, and I think everyone knows it's a two-tiered ju$tu$ $y$tem now.
In reality, cash bail — an amount that a defendant can pay to leave jail while awaiting trial — is weighted heavily against people who are least able to pay, sometimes forcing them to remain behind bars for weeks or even months before trial, and people who remain in jail while awaiting trial are more likely to be convicted than if they’d been free, according to a 2018 study in American Economic Review. That’s a big part of the reason that states including California and New Jersey have sharply reduced the use of cash bail.
Even some prosecutors agree that the bail system is unfair, especially the deliberate use of high bail to keep defendants behind bars. If prosecutors believe someone is too dangerous to be released, they can ask the judge to hold him or her indefinitely without bail, something Bristol District Attorney Tom Quinn said he routinely does. At a dangerousness hearing, the prosecutor must convince the judge that the defendant poses too great a risk to be released.
“The cash bail system is an arbitrary approach that negatively impacts the poor and disadvantaged,” he said. “The fairer approach is to hold someone without bail, if appropriate, or release them on conditions.”
I'm glad I don't live in his county!
However, current law makes some prosecutors reluctant to ask for a dangerousness hearing since it imposes a strict timetable for a speedy trial that can be difficult to meet. Quinn has been lobbying to change the law so that jails can hold prisoners for up to one year of pretrial detention, but, for now, it’s much easier for district attorneys to seek high bail on people they consider high risk and avoid the timetable.
Justice delayed truly is justice denied.
Groups such as the Massachusetts Bail Fund, with its “Free Them All” slogan, have waged a low-key battle against the bail system for years, freeing jailed defendants in counties across the state. Rich-Shea told the state Senate last year that the fund has posted about $1 million in bail for more than 4,000 people since 2013. Most were held on low bail.
The death of Floyd on May 25 suddenly linked bail funds to one of the largest protest movements in modern US history. On social media, the Massachusetts Bail Fund encouraged potential donors to think of their group as a way to fight racism in law enforcement.
“Anytime we post a bail, protest or otherwise, we are pushing back against a system of racialized social control and violence,” tweeted the Massachusetts Bail Fund on June 8. “The $$ we & the bailfundnetwork community has received these past three weeks shows how many of you support this pushback.”
What do you think we have going on now with COVID, no matter what your skin?
The fund has bailed many people arrested during protests, including most, if not all, of the 53 arrested in the unrest after the May 31 demonstration in Boston.
The fund paid the $5,000 bail for Chana Harris, 35, who was arrested hours after the protest for being in a car from which 10 shots were allegedly fired at Boston officers. A gun was found at her feet and she was charged with carrying a firearm without a license.
The Bail Fund also freed many people jailed for reasons that had nothing to do with the demonstrations.
Rodriguez had nine pending criminal cases out of East Brookfield District Court when he was locked up in November. All involved domestic abuse, and multiple accusers, according to court records. He pleaded guilty in May and was sentenced to nine months. With good behavior, he was eligible for release on July 4; however, he had two other outstanding cases, out of Worcester District Court, involving similar charges. Bail on those cases was $1,100.
Those women must be pissing their pants right now.
He's out!
Had the Bail Fund not covered the $1,100 bail on July 6, he would likely have remained in jail until the cases went to trial — scheduled for September.
Rangaviz, the lawyer for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, said incarceration is generally not helpful to anyone — often costing them their jobs and disrupting relationships.
“It actually increases the likelihood that the detained person will commit a crime in the future,” he said, but Colby Bruno, senior legal counsel for the Victim Rights Law Center, believes dangerous criminals should be held as long as possible.
That's the kind of logic you get from these people who are pushing agendas and are unaffected by their own actions.
Wait until they start filling up the jails, schools, and malls, with half the country who will COVID dissenters when it comes to the masks, distancing, and shots.
That is what this all about, and releasing criminals to create chaos is a further avenue to a much harder martial law.
“It’s entirely different to bail someone involved in protests versus someone who lost their rights because they are being charged with really serious crimes,” she said. ”These are not good citizens and this is a get-out-of-jail-free card that does not factor in the safety of the victims.” but there’s at least one recently freed prisoner who said he plans to make the most of the second chance the Bail Fund gave him.
“I’m not doing anything illegal,” said Rodriguez as he left the Worcester County House of Correction. “This is hell, or purgatory ... I made good use of my time and I’m pretty sure I’m not coming back.”
In his mind, assaulting and harassing women is not illegal!
Poor fella was in hell, Jerry!
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The Founding Fathers would be lost in today's America:
"Founding Fathers increasingly viewed through modern lens in time of racial reckoning" by Brian MacQuarrie Globe Staff, July 15, 2020
Toppling statues of Confederate generals and leaders — century-old symbols of brutal white dominance — feels long overdue for many Americans. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis plunged the country into civil war to maintain the institution of slavery, but statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have been toppled in Oregon. A bust of Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who crushed the Confederacy, came down in San Francisco, and a statue of Abraham Lincoln standing over a newly freed slave will be removed from Park Square in Boston.
We know what they are doing. It's an attempt to erase historical and cultural memory and values so that new ones can be freshly installed going forward. It's a big leap that is called a Cultural Revolution. They did this kind of thing in China back in the 1960s, and it didn't work out too good.
Targeting Confederate symbols is one step, but a national groundswell for racial justice also has brought renewed scrutiny to Founding Fathers such as Jefferson and Washington, American icons who created a government of soaring democratic ideals but denied those rights to the Black people they and others held in bondage.
“The Revolution had very little regard for the lives of Africans and Native Americans,” said Miranda ADEkoje, a Roxbury woman who is completing a play on Crispus Attucks, a Black and Native American man who was killed by British troops at the Boston Massacre in 1770. “White supremacy is just weaved into the fabric of this country. Not recognizing the humanity of everyone, especially those whose skins were not white, is so ingrained,” she said.
It was, not so much now. Cites are -- or were -- more cosmopolitan than ever, their have been set sides and aid programs to close gaps. We are not perfect in any way, but we are past what they call white supremacy and now liver under the $upremacy joo can not name.
The debate about the contradictions between the Declaration of Independence and the nation’s legacy of discrimination is not new. The Founders’ links to slavery have been acknowledged in many US classrooms for decades, if not deeply explored, and Jefferson’s radical words that “all men are created equal” have long carried an asterisk.
It’s a complicated question of historical legacy, and a painful one for Black people and others who have been marginalized in the national dialogue. Should the Founders be judged by their contemporaries or by current standards? Why were the statues of them erected, and what do they mean? Is it better to learn from the past instead of erasing it?
Should you be cutting them down while asking those questions they made possible for you to ask?
As for the past, you learn from it, you don't "unlearn" it. Unlearning something is a polite term for brainwashing.
Besides, why do the Blacks (although most protesters are white) want to tear down the symbols that emphasize their complaint and cause?
It's the same with the Red$kins thing. The removal of the name and logo diminish the attention on the cause.
“I think people confuse the past with history. The past is over and done with. History is about truth, or trying to find the truth,” said Catherine Allgor, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, founded in 1791. “The questions change all the time, which is why people write history over and over again.”
Some history is not allowed to be rewritten.
Ancient Greeks and Romans often pulled down statues as a form of protest, she said, and during the American Revolution, statues of King George III were toppled from their pedestals. “Maybe the answer is we don’t put up statues to people,” Allgor said.
Robert Allison, a Suffolk University professor of American history, said any judgment on the Founders needs to consider the broad picture and the daring, aspirational nature of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, milestones in human history.
“The Founders are always fair game for reassessment — it’s what historians do,” Allison said, “but that is not what is happening now. We are watching a concerted effort to remove history, not to reinterpret it.”
Jefferson, the main author of the Declaration, was “a flawed human being,” Allison said, “but we also know he said these things, and it forces us to try to believe them.”
Who isn't flawed?
The words of Martin Luther King Jr. are instructive, Allison said. The great civil rights leader described the Declaration as “a promissory note” for the rights of all Americans, although King added that the country had defaulted on that note for citizens of color.
“You can’t really understand how far you have come, or where you are going, unless you understand where you have been,” Allison said.
They always leave out King's antiwar criticism of the government and the massive doses of violence it uses to solve its problems.
Understanding, if not reconciling, the flaws and contradictions of the Founders has always been challenging. Instead of tearing down statues, Allison proposed erecting new ones.
“Where are the statues of Lewis Hayden, Harriet Hayden, and Prince Hall?” he asked, referring to Black abolitionists who lived in Boston. ”Why haven’t we put up more monuments to those who have stood up? That’s been the missing step. It’s a lot easier to take something down than to put something up.”
Cruise missiles have been launched.
Whoooooooooosh!
Otherwise, he mused, “the only statue we’re going to be left with is the giant pear in Everett Square” in Dorchester.
“It does seem we have reached a moment where we want to remove historical figures because they do not live up to our high standards,” Allison said. “The Founders understood their own failings.”
The more time that goes by, the more I realize how tremendous they were.
Comparing virtues and vices from different eras also is difficult, perhaps more so when academic interest in American history is declining. Fewer college students are interested in the subject, looking instead toward majors with better job prospects, Allison said, and in public schools, instruction in American history has dwindled.
If you don't know where you came from, you don't know who you are or where you are going.
What they did teach us was distortion anyway. I never saw the name Rothschild in them once.
Even the term Founding Fathers is being reassessed.
Nathaniel Sheidley, president of the organization that oversees the Old State House and Old South Meeting House, said that the term, long confined to the small group of white, propertied statesmen who created the United States, needs to be expanded.
“There were plenty of people who felt themselves on the outside looking in,” said Sheidley, whose organization, Revolutionary Spaces, commissioned ADEkoje’s play on Attucks. In their sweat and struggle, they were founders, too, he said.
“We should scrutinize those held up as the great shapers of our story and judge them as they were, but the most helpful thing is to add more voices,” Sheidley said.
Revolutionary Spaces had expected to amplify those voices this year — the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre — but then COVID-19 intervened.
Awwwww.
“We intended to build our programming around the Massacre, and to use the Massacre as an invitation to reflect on the intersection of race, citizenship, and memory,” Sheidley said.
“We planned to use the figure of Crispus Attucks as a lens, a figure that is spot-on with the questions we’re grappling with today,” he added. “What was he fighting for when he was standing on King Street that night, and how does he speak to us today?”
See jwho is controlling the narrative of our history?
The May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police brought new, searing relevance to ADEkoje’s play about Attucks, a two-person piece titled “I Am This Place.”
It was also used as a cover trigger for the wider agenda when the same thing was continuously happening in the country and not much was said -- nor is there any protest regarding the black-on-black murder.
“Suddenly, the first figure to fall in the Boston Massacre was trending on Twitter,” ADEkoje said of the references to Attucks following Floyd’s death. “The play is almost painfully significant, this idea of protest and the militarization of police.”
The play will be presented at the Old South Meeting House at a date to be determined by safety and other logistics. In the interim, questions about monuments, statues, and the realities of America’s past will continue.
For ADEkoje, that means putting the Revolutionary leaders in frank context rather than trying to erase them, and judging the bad with the good.
“Put these figures in a Museum of Painful History,” ADEkoje said. “What will we put back in place of these statues? Fill that space with a balm of equity and empowerment.”
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Let's all hope we have a history to argue about after COVID.
Here is the book on Trump:
"The book manuscript being drafted by President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen alleges that Trump has made racist comments about his predecessor Barack Obama and the late South African leader Nelson Mandela, according to court filings made public Monday night that contend Cohen was sent back to prison this month as retaliation for seeking to publish his memoir before November’s election. The lawsuit seeks Cohen’s immediate release from federal custody. He was rearrested July 9, less than two months after he was approved to serve the remainder of his sentence on home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic. His attorneys allege that Cohen’s First Amendment rights were violated when he was detained at the federal courthouse in Manhattan during a meeting with probation officers, who had asked him to sign a gag order prohibiting him from speaking to the media or publishing a book while serving the rest of his sentence. Cohen’s suit names Attorney General William Barr and Federal Bureau of Prisons officials, in their official capacities. On Tuesday, the case was assigned to a US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in the Southern District of New York, but an initial hearing may take place....."
Hellerstein is strategically situated to squash 9/11 Truth, Epstein, and any other uncomfortable cases that come before him.
Related:
"Federal officers’ actions at protests in Oregon’s largest city, hailed by President Donald Trump but done without local consent, are raising the prospect of a constitutional crisis — one that could escalate as weeks of demonstrations find renewed focus in clashes with camouflaged, unidentified agents outside Portland’s U.S. courthouse. Demonstrators crowded in front of the U.S. federal courthouse and the city’s Justice Center late Monday night, before authorities cleared them out as the loud sound and light of flash bang grenades filled the sky. State and local authorities, who didn’t ask for federal help, are awaiting a ruling in a lawsuit filed late last week. State Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said in court papers that masked federal officers have arrested people on the street, far from the courthouse, with no probable cause and whisked them away in unmarked cars. Constitutional law experts said federal officers’ actions in the progressive city are a “red flag” in what could become a test case of states’ rights as the Trump administration expands federal policing. “The idea that there’s a threat to a federal courthouse and the federal authorities are going to swoop in and do whatever they want to do without any cooperation and coordination with state and local authorities is extraordinary outside the context of a civil war,” said Michael Dorf, a professor of constitutional law at Cornell University. “It is a standard move of authoritarians to use the pretext of quelling violence to bring in force, thereby prompting a violent response and then bootstrapping the initial use of force in the first place,” Dorf said....."
Although I oppose the Marxist anarchists who will be bailed out, I agree there. The tactics will eventually be used against all. When they came for the $ociali$ts, etc, and the events are being orchestrated for that very reason. The racial protesters are pawns if not worse.
"St. Louis’ top prosecutor on Monday charged a husband and wife with felony unlawful use of a weapon for displaying guns during a racial injustice protest outside their mansion. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are white, are both personal injury attorneys in their 60s. Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner told The Associated Press that their actions risked creating a violent situation during an otherwise nonviolent protest last month. “It is illegal to wave weapons in a threatening manner — that is unlawful in the city of St. Louis,” Gardner said. An attorney for the couple, Joel Schwartz, in a statement called the decision to charge “disheartening as I unequivocally believe no crime was committed.” Gardner is recommending a diversion program such as community service rather than jail time if the McCloskeys are convicted....."
Whole world is upside down, proving we are living in Satanic times.
It's illegal to defend yourself from the lawless mob now, and yet the media whines:
"A police corporal accused of shooting three photojournalists with rubber pellets while they covered protests in Detroit against police brutality was charged with felony assault, prosecutors said Monday. Detroit Police Corporal Daniel Debono, 32, faces multiple counts of felonious assault for allegedly firing rubber pellets at the three photojournalists during a May protest, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. Shortly after midnight on May 31 in downtown Detroit, MLive.com photojournalist Nicole Hester, 30, and two independent photojournalists, Seth Herald, 28, and Matthew Hatcher, 29, encountered Debono and two other officers. Each of the photojournalists was wearing press credentials, identified themselves as news media and raised their hands as they asked to cross the street, Worthy said. Debono, dressed in riot gear, struck all three with rubber pellets that inflicted bruises and other injuries....."
Looking to get rid of the men (and women) in blue, too, so their thugs can roam the street and enforce mob rule.
Where it all began:
"As a large, peaceful protest against police brutality and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement marched through downtown Seattle on Sunday afternoon, police said a separate, bat-wielding group showed up and began vandalizing businesses and injuring officers with fireworks. At least a dozen Seattle police officers were hurt, with one requiring treatment at a hospital, while the violent group of demonstrators also caused “a significant amount of property damage to government buildings and private businesses,” the Seattle Police Department said in a news release. Two protesters were arrested. Tara Lee, a spokesperson for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), told The Washington Post that the governor’s office would be “monitoring” the events in Seattle....."
King Inslee is finally “aware of the developments and actively monitoring the situation.”
That must make Seattle feel safer as Trump’s thin, orange line is sparking alarm in cities (as it should).
Then, when you turn on the TV:
"As Trump Pushes Into Portland, His Campaign Ads Turn Darker" by Maggie Haberman, Nick Corasaniti and Annie Karni, New York Times | July 21, 2020
Darker ads, NYT?
What are you trying to imply?
As President Trump deploys federal agents to Portland, Ore., and threatens to dispatch more to other cities, his re-election campaign is spending millions of dollars on several ominous television ads that promote fear and dovetail with his political message of “law and order.”
The influx of agents in Portland has led to scenes of confrontations and chaos that Mr. Trump and his White House aides have pointed to as they try to burnish a false narrative about Democratic elected officials allowing dangerous protesters to create widespread bedlam.
Well, the New York Times should know all about false narratives after Mueller, Afghanistan, and now regarding the alleged vaccine theft by Russia and China -- though government officials did not say they had evidence that such manipulation had occurred, however (translation: the report is war-mongering crap).
The Trump campaign is driving home that message with a new ad that tries to tie its dark portrayal of Democratic-led cities to Mr. Trump’s main rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr. — with exaggerated images intended to persuade viewers that lawless anarchy would prevail if Mr. Biden won the presidency. The ad simulates a break-in at the home of an older woman and ends with her being attacked while she waits on hold for a 911 call, as shadowy, dark intruders flicker in the background.
So far, the campaign has spent almost $20 million over the last 20 days on that ad and two other similar ones, more than Mr. Biden has spent on his total television budget in the same time frame, and a relatively large sum for this stage of the race. Though the ads predate the federal actions in Portland, they convey a common theme of lawlessness under Democratic leadership.
If the shoe fits!
I mean, they kneeled down and and tacitly approved of them!
The focus of the Trump administration in recent days has been on Portland, where there have been nightly protests for weeks denouncing systemic racism in policing. In the last few days, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Marshals, traveling in unmarked cars, have swooped protesters off the street without explaining why, in some cases detaining them and in other cases letting them go because they were not actually suspects. The protests have increased in size since the arrival of federal officials.
We are not close to the Soviet Union now; we ARE the former SOVIET UNION NOW!
Mr. Trump’s deployment of federal law enforcement is highly unusual: He is acting in spite of local opposition — city leaders are not asking for help — and his actions go beyond emergency steps taken by some past American leaders like President George H.W. Bush, who sent troops to quell Los Angeles in 1992 at the request of California officials.
The president has said he might next deploy federal agents to Chicago, and has listed other cities where similar enforcement could take place, including New York but also Philadelphia and Detroit, urban centers in two battleground states. White House officials said the deployments had grown out of meetings among administration officials after protests in Washington, D.C., in late May and early June.
Hey, if Democrat public officials can lockdown red electoral states, then Trump is only fighting back.
The White House has defended the recent measures. The most recent ad from the Trump campaign, depicting the break-in at a woman’s home, has a singular goal: terrifying the viewer into believing that claim.
How dare he, COVID PRE$$!!!
The same pre$$ that sold non-existent WMD to you, remember!?
The spot hews to Mr. Trump’s long-held preference for messages that promote fear and division.
I'm SICK of the POT-HOLLERING KETTLE PRE$$ and their self-projections!
Protests around the country have been largely peaceful, with spikes of conflict usually arising in clashes with law enforcement. While polls show that a majority of voters support the Black Lives Matter movement, Mr. Trump and some of his advisers are counting on a backlash, so far nonexistent, with white voters in the fall that will boost the president’s numbers.
Look at them rewrite history!
Related:
"A majority of Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement and a record 69 percent say black people and other minorities are not treated as equal to white people in the criminal justice system, but the public generally opposes calls to shift some police funding to social services or remove statues of Confederate generals or presidents who enslaved people, a Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. These findings underscore the mixed fallout after the brutal killing of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police in May. There is increased public scrutiny of police treatment of black Americans, but less unity on broader questions about how to address the country’s treatment of black Americans since its founding. Stark divisions exist between different racial groups and among varied political identities, not surprisingly given the high profile that President Trump has taken in fanning opposition to Black Lives Matter protesters. The share of Americans saying that black people and other minorities do not receive equal treatment in the criminal justice system has risen by 15 percentage points from 2014 — and this year marks the first time a majority of whites has held this view....."
Oh, the American people are against a better path forward for America, according to the despicable scum and cretin John Kasich, who is comparing himself to John Lewis now.
“Clearly what they’re looking to do here is scare the living hell out of seniors,” said Pia Carusone, a Democratic ad maker, but, she said, the new Trump ad falls short in the realm of believability. “You’re making the assumption that the voter that you’re hoping to convince is going to relate and think that this could happen, and then you have to make the leap to blame Biden or the Democrats or whoever, and I think it fails that first test.”
What is not in the realm of believability is anything the New York Times reports, as they claim Trump has failed the leadership test.
Stuart Stevens, a Republican strategist who now works with the anti-Trump group known as the Lincoln Project, said Mr. Trump’s team was focusing on an issue that doesn’t rank at the top of voter concerns. “I’d bet a lot that the actress they hired for this is more worried about Covid-19 than a phony threat about cops,” Mr. Stevens said......
That's it, show's over, and he's wrong. The people care more about their own safety than some invisible enemy whose symptoms are mild if not nonexistent.
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Even in video games, politics and race divide
They are being infused with politically correct propaganda that doesn't allow them to breathe.
Never mind that he was intoxicated, and thankfully Trump doesn't drink.
"Antifeminist identified as suspect in killing of son of federal judge in N.J." by Nicole Hong and William K. Rashbaum New York Times, July 21, 2020
A lawyer who was a self-described antifeminist was identified by federal authorities as the gunman who shot into the New Jersey home of a federal judge, killing her son and wounding her husband.
New York State Police found the lawyer’s body in upstate New York, near the town of Liberty, on Monday morning, hours after the shooting late Sunday afternoon at the home of the judge, Esther Salas of US District Court in New Jersey. The authorities believe that the lawyer died from a self-inflected gunshot wound, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the matter.
Federal authorities said the lawyer was Roy Den Hollander, who in 2015 brought a lawsuit before Salas that challenged the male-only military draft.
This incident is already stinking.
The class action lawsuit accused the Selective Service System, the independent government agency that maintains a database of Americans eligible for a potential draft, of violating women’s equal protection rights by requiring only men to register with the service. Salas ruled that the lawsuit could proceed, and the case is ongoing.
Den Hollander had also sued nightclubs for offering ladies’ night discounts and Columbia University for offering courses on women’s studies.
As part of the investigation into the lawyer’s death, police found a package that was addressed to Salas, according to another law enforcement official briefed on the matter.
“There’s a pretty good level of confidence he’s the guy,” the official said.
Yeah, that solves this case!
Federal and local authorities had been carrying out an intense search Monday for the gunman, canvassing the neighborhood while looking for witnesses and surveillance video, according to law enforcement officials.
Authorities believe that somebody dressed in a FedEx uniform was in the neighborhood around the time of the shooting, but it could not be determined if that person was the gunman, one of the officials said.
Don't the trust the truck!
In an interview, Carlos Salas described an account of the shooting that he said was provided to him by federal authorities. Esther Salas presided over a wide range of cases. Last week, she was assigned to oversee a class-action lawsuit filed by a group of investors against Deutsche Bank, contending that the firm failed to flag questionable transactions that were made from the account of financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in August while in jail awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
I'm sorry, what was that?
She would have been looking into the money in the Epstein case, huh?
Hmmmm.
In 2014, she sentenced two married stars of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” television show to prison time after the couple pleaded guilty to fraud charges. In 2016, she also sentenced a heroin supplier for the Grape Street Crips Gang to 15 years in prison. Salas, 51, is the first Hispanic woman to serve as a federal judge in New Jersey. President Barack Obama nominated her to the US District Court for New Jersey in 2010.....
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Related:
Alleged Salas Family Assailant Previously Worked for US/Israeli Intelligence-Linked Firm
No kidding?!
"Federal investigators are examining whether a suspect in the ambush shooting of US Judge Esther Salas’ family in New Jersey also killed a fellow men’s rights lawyer in California, a law enforcement official said. The federal agents are trying to determine whether Roy Den Hollander, who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the day after an attack that killed the judge’s son and wounded her husband, had any role in the killing earlier this month of Marc Angelucci. Angelucci, like Den Hollander, was involved in lawsuits alleging gender discrimination against men. He was shot to death July 11 at his home in San Bernardino County. The official cautioned the investigation was in its early stages and federal officials were working with local homicide detectives. In both cases, the suspect appeared to pose as a delivery driver, the official said. Investigators are also examining Den Hollander’s financial and travel records, as well as misogynistic screeds he posted online, said the official, who could not discuss an ongoing investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Den Hollander, 72, described himself as an “anti-feminist” attorney."
That's the best they could come up with for a cover story, and talk about total obfuscation!
Looks like a HIT JOB to PROTECT certain information, and that is why we have a ZOG.
Also see:
Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics
Abortion IS racist!
"The Walt Disney Co. said in an internal memo Monday that it had cut ties with a top ABC News executive after an investigation backed complaints that she had made racist remarks in the workplace. The executive, Barbara Fedida, 52, had worked at ABC for most of her roughly two-decade career, save for a five-year stint as the head of talent development at CBS News from 2006 to 2011. As the senior vice president of talent relations and business affairs at ABC News, she had a hand in selecting on-air talent for programs like “Good Morning America,” “ABC World News Tonight With David Muir,” and “Nightline.” Last month HuffPost reported that Fedida had made insensitive statements, including racist comments, at work. During a salary negotiation with “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts, who is Black, Fedida said the company was not asking her to “pick cotton,” according to the article."
At least she didn't get physical:
"Jide Zeitlin, the chief executive of Tapestry and one of only four Black chief executives in the Fortune 500, resigned on Tuesday. The unexpected move came after the company’s board was made aware of a misconduct allegation involving Mr. Zeitlin and hired a law firm to investigate, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Though Tapestry, which owns Coach and Kate Spade, announced that Mr. Zeitlin was stepping down for “personal reasons,” he later acknowledged in a statement that the exit was related to a past relationship. “In the past month, a woman I photographed and had a relationship with more than 10 years ago reached out to various media organizations to express her concerns about what had occurred,” Mr. Zeitlin said in the statement. “I felt compelled to resign today because I do not want to create a distraction for Tapestry, a company I care deeply about.” The Wall Street Journal reported on the statement earlier Tuesday."
They are now going after Tucker and Hannity, to the point of encouraging violence.
UPDATES:
"A 23-year-old University of Connecticut student who is accused of killing two men and committing numerous other crimes while leading authorities on a six-day search, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and other charges. Peter Manfredonia, who is being held in lieu of a $7 million bond, waived his right to a probable cause hearing on the murder charge during a hearing in Superior Court. He is due back before a judge on October 2. He elected to have a jury trial. Manfredonia also is charged with criminal attempt to commit murder, assault, home invasion, kidnapping with a firearm, robbery, larceny, stealing a firearm and assault on an elderly person. Additional charges are expected. The murder charge stems from the death of Ted DeMers, of Willington, who police said was killed with a Samauri sword outside his home on May 22. It’s not clear why Manfredonia was in DeMers’ neighborhood, but a female acquaintance of Manfredonia’s who lives near DeMers’ home told police she stopped seeing him after learning on March 18 that he had hacked into her social media accounts, police said. She had considered getting a restraining order against Manfredonia, police said. According to state police, the University of Connecticut senior then went to another man’s home, held him hostage for about 24 hours, stole his guns and truck and drove about 70 miles southwest to Derby. On May 24, police found Manfredonia’s high school friend, Nicholas Eisele, 23, shot to death in his Derby home. Authorities believe Manfredonia killed him and then forced Eisele’s girlfriend into her car and fled the state. Manfredonia was captured on May 27 in Maryland....."
"A 78-year-old man was allegedly drunk behind the wheel for the fifth time Saturday night in Quincy when he crashed his car into a 72-year-old man in a wheelchair, killing him, police said Monday. In a statement, Quincy police identified the suspect as David Bowering. His lawyer didn’t immediately return voice and e-mail messages seeking comment....."
He had a valid license.
