Via Weasel Zippers – WISCONSIN – Mobsters making offers that can’t be refused typically do so in the bluntest possible language, but SEIU leaders in Wisconsin are running a close second.
Gov. Scott Walker’s landmark reforms — including guaranteeing workers the right not to be forced to pay dues to a union they don’t want to join — is costing SEIU thousands of members.
The 8,385 members SEIU has lost since the reforms became law are solid evidence that before Walker came along the union depended upon force, rather than consent, to keep the dues revenue stream flowing.
The Tea Party is an existential threat to the establishment Republicans.
RUSH LIMBAUGH – “That is a serious charge. That is a very, very serious charge, that the Republican establishment is aligned with Obama and is okay with Obama using the IRS to investigate [i.e., illegitimately break the kneecaps of] the Tea Party. But it’s believable, because we know the Republican establishment, the political class in Washington, is spreading the word that they are not gonna criticize Hillary, it isn’t gonna happen, and we shouldn’t, either.”
A journalist working for a Venezuelan news outlet captured these images during the protests in Caracas, Venezuela, on February 12. The footage shows different scenes during the protests and it reflects the confusion that surrounded the events. At one point, men in uniforms start shooting at people out of camera view while people throw stones at the men in uniform. Strong noises of shots can be heard, along with shouts from the crowd. The next scene shows bloody images of one of the three people who died during the protests, although CNN has not been able to verify that the events happened in the order in which they are edited and cannot verify who caused the death. CNN reached out to the Venezuelan government to get reaction and is waiting for an answer. Viewer discretion is advised due to the images in this video. WATCH VIDEO HERE
When you peel back the concentric layers around progressively driven racial story lines what you find is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
As with almost every aspect of life whatever inherent truths you deny, you are doomed to revisit. Yesterday we outlined the latest media-avoided conversation surrounding yet another racially inspired knock out assault.
Knowing that a single blow to the head can lead to death, as was evidenced recently in the “knock out murder” trial of Jesse Smithers, these awkward, horrific and continually repeating examples are not a game.
They are, for all intents and purposes, attempted homicides.
Capital Murder as generally defined is: “the unlawful killing of another person, with malice of forethought and specific intent to kill“. Remove any of the three essential elements [(1) Unlawful, (2) malice, (3) specific intent] and you have the various degrees of homicide charges.
Remove ‘specific intent’ and you have “Murder 2” unintentional killing. Add in the removal of ‘malice of forethought’ and you have “manslaughter”. Remove ‘unlawful‘ and you end up with “justifiable homicide”.
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What you witness in this attack is (1) unlawful and (2) with malice of forethought. The unknown variable is ‘specific intent’. Does the attacker intend to kill the victim ?
Generally, at least in this example, I would surmise no – but one could easily argue, perhaps.
I’ll be writing up some thoughts on how the media is presenting this again.
The issues are far more complex than can be summarized in a six to eight hundred word synopsis.
There are serious issues represented in how Chris Cuomo and the larger media are continuing to advance a historically flawed narrative surrounding the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. When the trial evidence was presented (poorly in my opinion) and then the jury verdict was announced, a decision by the media was needed. Would they admit their former false presentations, or would they double down on their false media narrative.
It is now clear the media is wantonly doubling down on their falsehoods.
It is also clear the reason they can get away with it is because Mark O’Mara played a white-guilt apologist role in keeping the “why” out of the sunlight.
As the only person who interviewed hundreds of students in/around Krop Senior High School, and having invested thousands of hours in research to the people and motivation’s behind the story, we will attempt clarification.
VERY FEW, almost no-one, at Krop Senior High School knew Trayvon Martin. When you understand why that is, you begin to understand how totally false the entire construct of the shooting storyline, as presented by the media, actually is.
The STAND YOUR GROUND statute was NOT used in either the Zimmerman or Dunn trials. Period.
Let me repeat. The STAND YOUR GROUND statute was NOT used in either the Zimmerman or Dunn trials. Period.
Repetition is needed because literally every single media pundit talking about either trial says, as if it were true, that Stand Your Ground was a factor in the self-defense claims of George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn. However, for media and politicians they can never let facts get in the way of their propaganda.
FLORIDA – Critics of Florida’s Stand-Your-Ground law are using the verdict in the murder trial of Michael Dunn to showcase their argument that state laws should be changed.
Dunn was convicted on three counts of second-degree attempted murder, but the jury could not reach a verdict on first- or-second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis after about 30 hours of deliberations.
“It’s a sloppy bill. It needs to be narrowly tailored and judges need more discretion,” U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat, said Sunday.
“When the law started, the intention was very good: If you break into my house, I’m going to deal with you. But when you extend [that premise]…. there are problems.” (more…)
The media are squirming and contorting like a pretzel on this one. After almost two years of media denial that random racially motivated “knock out assaults” on white people are factual, this Massachusetts example stands out as painful for the media’s desire to avoid.
In this example specifically what you see is BLACK RAGE against two white people who are representative of North East “crackers”. Seemingly well doing, wealthy, well presented, yuppie young white couple.
The imagery of this well-to-do young white couple in front of this young black man is too much for him to bear. The presence of this image in his life hits a central nerve and an autonomic, almost uncontrollable instinct is activated. He immediately channels his inner “Durango”.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —Cambridge police are on the lookout for an assault suspect after he allegedly punched two people in the head on a Massachusetts Avenue sidewalk and took another swing at a third.
A worker at a furniture store in Cambridge, told NewsCenter 5 he tended to two people Saturday at the store. The first, a tourist, said a tall, young man walked up behind him at the intersection of Mass Ave. and Dana Street and swung underneath his umbrella to punch him in the face. He suffered a bruise.
The second victim had just left the store with his girlfriend when the suspect rushed him from behind and punched him in the side of the head. That attack, caught on the store’s surveillance camera and obtained exclusively by NewsCenter 5, shows the suspect swinging at the victim and then walking away in the direction of Harvard Square. (more…)
“Reporters Without Borders”, a watchdog organization headquartered in Paris, France and known by its French acronym, “RSF”, has published its annual “World Press Freedom Index”.
Liberty Blitzkrieg brings to our attention that in the great march FORWARD!, the US was a front runner in the stakes for greatest loss of press freedom in year over year results – slipping an impressive 13 slots from #33 last year to #46 on the 2014 world ranking, after Romania but before Haiti.
There were some “non-surprises”, such as North Korea and Eritrea remaining at the back of the pack, but also some pleasant surprises with tiny Belize clocking in at an impressive #29, hanging out in the “free press” band with Australia at #28.
Clearly, much work remains to be done before the US can be satisfied that the people’s work is completed and it can comfortably hang in the 100’s with its pals in the middle east and Africa. Maybe that will provide the necessary incentive to Dirty Harry in the Senate to get working on that innertubes kill switch. In the meantime, those pesky bloggers keep bringing up stuff like Benghazi, or Warrantless Wiretaps, or the ever expanding use of technology to spy on and monitor its own citizens.
The 2014 World Press Freedom Index spotlights the negative impact of conflicts on freedom of information and its protagonists. The ranking of some countries has also been affected by a tendency to interpret national security needs in an overly broad and abusive manner to the detriment of the right to inform and be informed. This trend constitutes a growing threat worldwide and is even endangering freedom of information in countries regarded as democracies. Finland tops the index for the fourth year running, closely followed by Netherlands and Norway, like last year. At the other end of the index, the last three positions are again held by Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, three countries where freedom of information is non-existent.
The Alarming Case of Justin Carter, Facebook “Terrorist”
[…] When speech is a crime, thought is a crime, because when punishing speech the authorities are actually punishing what they think — or want jurors to think — was meant by the speech. Even when acting in good faith, people misinterpret. Since no one reads minds, it is a good thing the First Amendment protects our speech.
Unfortunately the First Amendment, like the rest of the Constitution, has been under siege recently. Otherwise any speech that does not represent a clear and present danger to other people’s safety would be protected.
Punishable speech is one area where liberty skates on thin of ice. Despite the obvious need for security, “terroristic threat” is another:
According to the indictment, Carter’s statement met two of the necessities required by state law: His words were uttered “with the intent to place the public or a substantial group of the public in fear of serious bodily injury,” or uttered “with the intent to cause impairment or interruption of public communications, public transportation, public water, gas, or power supply or other public service.”
Too bad Justin couldn’t have loaned the authorities his sense of humor, because that would never pass the laugh test. (read the entire article)
Gov. Scott Walker’s landmark reforms — including guaranteeing workers the right not to be forced to pay dues to a union they don’t want to join — is costing SEIU thousands of members.
