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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Weirdo Charged With Defacing WWII Memorial

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That’s a photo Melissa Farris posted to Facebook five years ago, when she was 36 years old. Farris is reportedly from Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

She was arrested this week on federal charges after she vandalized the World War II memorial in D.C., pouring soap bubbles in the fountain and spray painting “Clean Hands Dirty $” on a wall of the memorial.

In a social media post, Farris claimed the motive of her vandalism was “to push my whistleblower case into the courtroom.” A quick scan of her social media revealed that, during the COVID pandemic, Farris undertook to renovate an old school bus to live “off-grid.” A few days before being charged for vandalizing the memorial, Farris had been ticketed for illegal camping after she parked the bus a few blocks from the memorial. As soon as I read the news report stating that Farris is 41 years old, my first thought was, “Man, that’s been a hard 41 years.”

Those images are from a video Farris posted to Facebook on Friday, basically confessing to her crime. And like I said, it’s been a hard 41 years. What sort of substances has she been abusing? Meth? Alcohol? Anything she can get her hands on? Can we all just agree that she’s been negligent in terms of her skin-care routine? However bad she looked with her nose piercing and pink hair as a plump 35-year-old, it was much better than her scrawny wrinkled 41-year-old face. And also, she’s crazy.

At some point after driving her blue “Forevertime” bus to D.C., Farris stood in front of the White House panhandling for “weed.”

Doesn’t she have family in Kentucky who care about her? One must assume that Farris has somehow become estranged and alienated from her family, which theory would explain a lot about her behavior. One incentive to live a respectable sort of life — sober, working, keeping regular habits — is to maintain good relationships with others. If you start doing drugs, dyeing your hair weird colors and living “off-grid,” you’re not likely to be on friendly terms with those of your relatives and neighbors who do live respectably. Instead, you’ll be associating with other similarly alienated types, who encourage your disreputable behavior. After this pattern continues a while, bad things will happen.

How does someone become “homeless,” after all? Contemplating the problem of homelessness, many Americans who live “paycheck to paycheck” are tempted to think that we are just one misfortune away from being in such a situation ourselves. However, when we investigate the actual circumstances of the homeless, we discover that it is not mere bad luck that explains the problem. The vast majority of the homeless population are either mentally ill or addicted to drugs, or both. Many of them are, in fact, habitual criminals who ended up on the streets after being released from prison, and couldn’t find anyone — not their parents, not their siblings — willing to take them in. Bad behavior causes broken relationships, and this is the real “moral of the story” for the rest of us, if we don’t want to end up on the streets. We ought to live in such a way as to endear ourselves to others: “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable,” as Ben Franklin said. That means doing basic things, like getting up in the morning and going to work. It means things like being honest, sober and respectful of others, avoiding wrath and envy.

Something I’ve told my kids is, don’t hang around trash. You are a decent person from a good family, therefore certainly you should be able to find friendship among respectable people. My own father used to scold me in my youth about associating with hoodlums and ne’er-do-wells. Although some of those hoodlum buddies actually grew up to be respectable folks, with the benefit of hindsight, I have a deep appreciation for my father’s wisdom in this matter. Everybody wants to have friends, and friendship is necessary in life, but rebellious youth will choose other rebels as their companions, and this usually leads to trouble.

Most of us are capable of learning from these experiences — which is why some of us erstwhile hoodlums eventually become respectable — but others are more persistent in the pattern of bad behavior and bad associations, and that’s how Melissa Farris ended up in D.C., crazy as hell, making national news for vandalizing the WWII Memorial.

CRAZY PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS!



 

Let’s Talk About Things That Never Happen, According to Mainstream Media

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Say hello to April Bradford, whose name you will never hear mentioned on CNN. Miss Bradford, formerly a teacher in Floyd County, Kentucky, is an excellent reminder of why this blog exists, and therefore also a reminder that you should hit the freaking tip jar, but I digress . . .

Why am I here? What am I doing? Don’t worry, I’m not suffering an existential crisis. It’s just that sometimes it helps to remind myself (and also the readers) of why this blog exists, i.e., media bias.

If there were no bias in the media, there would be no need for me to call attention to stories that most Americans are never going to hear about, mainly because of the partisan obsession with identity politics. Because (a) the Democratic Party is organized on the basis of appealing to Designated Victim Groups, and (b) most so-called “journalists” in America are actually “Democratic operatives with bylines,” therefore (c) consideration of when a crime constitutes a news story of national importance depends upon whether Certain People are the victims or perpetrators of the crime. You have perhaps heard of Coulter’ Law: “The longer it takes the news media to identify a mass shooter in the United States, the less likely it is to be a white male.”

Do you suffer from irrational fear — which is what “phobia” means — or are you consumed by hate? Are your politics a function of mere prejudice? Dear reader, are you a RAAAAACIST? No matter how often Democrats make such accusations against their critics and opponents, we ought to resist the temptation to plead guilty, to apologize and grovel and offer explanations or excuses. You don’t even have to give those bastards a denial. Remember: You have the right to remain silent.

Why will you never hear April Bradford’s name mentioned on CNN? Because she is something that the liberal media wishes us to believe is non-existent. April Bradford is a lesbian child molester:

A former Floyd County educator was sentenced Thursday to three-and-a-half years in prison for crimes involving the sexual assault of minors while she was their coach and teacher, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced.
April Bradford, 51, of Weeksbury, pleaded guilty on November 30 to eight counts of sodomy third degree and 11 counts of sex abuse first degree, a news release from Coleman said. Coleman’s office prosecuted the case.
As part of her guilty plea, Bradford admitted to sexually abusing two minors between 1997 and 2007, both of whom she held a position of authority over as their coach and teacher during the victims’ middle and high school years.
“The offenders who exploit children inflict painful damage that lasts long beyond the time of their crimes. We in law enforcement must continue adapting to protect our young people from these predators,” said Coleman.
Bradford was suspended as assistant principal of South Floyd Elementary School when the abuse allegations came to light in 2022.
In addition to her prison sentence, Bradford will be a lifetime sex-offender registrant under the Kentucky sex offender registry, which includes five years of post-incarceration supervision by the Department of Corrections. A condition of the plea was a 10-year interpersonal protective order against Bradford for the benefit of the victims.
Survivors of Bradford’s abuse read statements at the sentencing:
“April Bradford was a terrible influence on my life and caused more damage than good,” said Mary Prater. “She deceived me, my family, our school and everyone in the community. I can stand today with my head held high knowing that God gave me and Jessica the strength to grow up and make it stop.”
Prater and Jessica Hensley recently told the Herald-Leader they are frustrated more hasn’t been done to address teachers who prey on students.
“Ever since I realized what my interactions with April truly were, I had a burning desire to come forward. I constantly worried about the generation of girls that were following me,” said Hensley’s sentencing statement. “This legal journey has been mentally difficult, but I am grateful.”
Coleman said he was grateful to Prater and Hensley for using their “powerful stories to ensure justice was done,” according to the sentencing announcement.
A September 2022 investigation by the Herald-Leader highlighted the problem of teacher sexual misconduct in Kentucky. The newspaper obtained 194 cases of teachers who voluntarily surrendered or had their license revoked or suspended from 2016 to 2021. Of those, 118 — 61% — lost their license due to sexual misconduct.
House Bill 275 in the 2024 General Assembly, filed by House Education Committee Chairman James Tipton, R-Taylorsville, would strengthen a school’s ability to prevent child sexual abuse by adult staff. It increases reporting requirements for teachers, making it more difficult for teachers who had previously been accused of sexual misconduct to move from school to school.
Under the bill, any prior allegation of sexual misconduct would be kept in the teacher’s file unless it was proven false — then it would be removed. Teachers would also have to undergo training on appropriate boundaries between teachers and students. Both Prater and Hensley previously said the legislation is overdue.
The current bill has been approved by the Kentucky House of Representatives but has not yet been addressed in the Senate. A similar bill was proposed in 2023 but did not pass.

Dana Pico remarks on “justice” for this sex offender:

Perhaps just 3½ years for a lesbian in lady jail isn’t really “address(ing) teachers who prey on students”? . . .
Under Miss Bradford’s original charges, she faced a possible 265 years in prison, yet her attorney managed to negotiate it down to 3½. Simply one conviction on a Class B felony yields a maximum sentence of 20 years, which would seem to seem to be appropriate. As it is, Miss Bradford will be only 54 or 55 years old when she gets out, plenty of time left to enjoy life as best she can.

Really, think of what sentence the court might impose on a male teacher charged with molesting two girls, including one whose abuse began in middle school. Do you really think the sentence for such an offender would be a mere 3½ years? But never mind that . . .

Here’s what I said about this case in December:

Years ago, I realized that the media deal with what we are now supposed to call “the LGBTQ community” not as reporters, but as public-relations agents. Their overriding concern is to ensure that the public receives only favorable information about gay people. Even when the news about gay people is very negative — and hey, the AIDS epidemic was kind of a bummer — the coverage is designed to encourage sympathy for gay people, who are portrayed as Just Like You and Me (Only Better).

And as I said when gay activists Dale Zulock and Zachary Jacoby Zulock were arrested for pimping out their two adopted sons, “the media want us to believe that there is no such thing as a gay pedophile.”

Because gay people are presumed to be constituents of the Democratic Party, there is a see-no-evil stance toward gay people in the media. Therefore crimes like this never get national coverage, but are treated as strictly local news. But if a gay person claims to be the victim of a crime? Well, Jussie Smollett could not be reached for comment.

This is not about hating gay people. It’s about hating the media, in particular, liberal journalists who think of themselves as paragons of moral virtue, even while they engage in shameful dishonesty.

Hating the media is the raison d’être of this blog and, as always, the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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Time to tune up your banjos, IYKWIMAITYD:

A Kentucky lawmaker introduced a bill Tuesday to decriminalize sex between first cousins.
Republican Kentucky state Rep. Nick Wilson sponsored House Bill 269 to redefine sex with a first cousin so it would no longer qualify as an act of incest, according to the Kentucky State Assembly’s website.
The bill removes “first cousin from the list of familial relationships” defined as unlawful incest in Kentucky, the website explained. Incest would also be downgraded from a Class C felony to a Class D “unless it is committed with a person who is less than twelve years of age.”
Kentucky law currently states that a person is guilty of incest if they have sex with any person known to be “his or her parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, great-grandparent, great-grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, brother, sister, first cousin, ancestor, or descendent,” according to Newsweek.
Wilson’s bill has been widely criticized on social media.

Kentucky blogger Dana Pico could not be reached for comment.



 

Lesbian Teacher Sentenced to Prison for Sexually Molesting Two Teenage Girls

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That’s a headline you’ll never see in any mainstream media publication. There is no such thing as a gay pedophile, so far as the media are concerned, and on those occasions when minors are abused in such circumstances, journalists are obliged to conceal the most obvious facts.

Longtime blog buddy Dana Pico calls attention to how the case of April Bradford was reported in the Lexington Herald-Leader:

Former Floyd County administrator pleads guilty to sexual contact involving students
A former Floyd County teacher, administrator and coach plead guilty Thursday to multiple charges involving sexual contact with students from 1997 to 2007.
April Bradford, 51, of Weeksbury, plead guilty to eight counts of sodomy third degree and 11 counts of sexual abuse first degree.
Bradford admitted she sexually abused two students while she was a teacher and coach during the students’ middle and high school years.
Bradford will serve three and a half years in prison, according to Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office, which prosecuted the case against Bradford.

Dana points out that, first of all, the Herald-Leader did not include a mugshot of Bradford, and furthermore, they omitted the original charges, which would have sent her to prison for at least 10 years, instead of the three-and-half she got in the plea deal. More importantly, however, they did not mention that the two students Bradford molested were female.

The Herald-Leader omitted this information despite the fact that the two victims were interviewed by local TV news:

Thursday, the women who came forward about the abuse shared their experience, saying “justice was served.”
Jessica Hensley and Mary Prater stood to the side of the courtroom as Bradford made her plea, waiting to hear the word “guilty,” saying it finally allows them to feel heard.
“It’s just a huge win for us. It’s been a long time coming,” said Hensley. “The community seems somewhat divided. You know, people are always hesitant or they refuse to believe when someone like April really puts out this persona.”
The two say they suffered in silence for years and now feel relief and assurance in knowing their nightmare is over- and so is the potential nightmare for another young student.
“And that was the one comment that kept coming up to us is, ‘Why did they wait so long?’ And it’s very important for survivors of trauma- any kind of trauma, but especially sexual abuse- it takes a while to process and there’s a lot of guilt and shame that comes with that. And sometimes it may take 20 years, but that’s okay. If you want to speak on your trauma, speak on it. Because it is healing,” said Hensley. . . .
They say they will continue to share their stories to help other victims feel the world is safe to tell their own.
“Because we don’t want it to happen anybody else. No other child should suffer and go through what we went through,” said Prater. “They don’t deserve it and neither did we.”

Years ago, I realized that the media deal with what we are now supposed to call “the LGBTQ community” not as reporters, but as public-relations agents. Their overriding concern is to ensure that the public receives only favorable information about gay people. Even when the news about gay people is very negative — and hey, the AIDS epidemic was kind of a bummer — the coverage is designed to encourage sympathy for gay people, who are portrayed as Just Like You and Me (Only Better).

So here you have a story about a lesbian teacher who molested two girls over a span of 10 years. In at least one case, the molestation began when the victim was just in middle school. This is rather heinous, and the LGBTQ Publicity Agents at the Lexington Herald-Leader therefore hit upon the clever idea of omitting the gender of the victims, so that readers would have no idea that the case involved homosexual behavior.

For the record, I have no idea whether gay people are more or less likely than heterosexuals to commit such crimes, and would be skeptical of any social science “research” on the question, whatever it showed. My point is that journalists ought not to be in the business of suppressing facts.



 

Election Results HQ: The Check Engine Light Is Flashing for ‘Bidenomics’ UPDATE: Dem Reelected Ky. Governor UPDATE: Dems Hold Virginia Senate

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UPDATE 8:50 p.m. ET: The networks just called the Kentucky election. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear holds off GOP challenger Daniel Cameron.

UPDATE 9:15 p.m. ET: The networks have also called Ohio’s abortion rights referendum, which appears set to pass with about 57%. By the way, I’m watching election coverage on CNN (so you don’t have to) and, oh, they’re just so happy happy happy tonight.

UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET: It appears Democrats will maintain control of the state Senate and, in fact, Republicans may lose control of the House of Delegates. In Mississippi, GOP Gov. Tate Reeves looks like he’ll defeat Democratic challenger Brandon Presley, second cousin of Elvis.

*** PREVIOUSLY (5:15 p.m. ET) ***

Tonight there will be election results in Kentucky, Virginia, New Jersey, Mississippi, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The most closely watched contest will be the governor’s race in Kentucky, where the Trump-backed Republican challenger, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, had a late poll surge and is now tied with Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. What could explain this huge change — Cameron has gained 15 points in a matter of weeks, according to the Emerson College poll — in a race that Beshear had been leading by double digits? My first guess would be the Gaza war, which probably doesn’t make a lot of real-world difference to Kentucky voters, but has sowed discord in Democratic Party ranks.

On the other hand, based on past experience, when you see a massive swing in the polls in such a race, the explanation is usually that the surging candidate got a huge boost from a TV ad blitz. A really effective attack ad, run in saturation, can destroy a vulnerable candidate, and my guess is that the GOP waited until October to unleash it’s hardest-hitting attack on Beshear, pouring in a few million dollars worth of ads that have tied the incumbent Democrat to Joe Biden’s disastrous policies.

Democrats have spent the past three days wringing their hands in anguish over the New York Times/Sienna College poll:

“I am concerned,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in an interview. “I was concerned before these numbers. I am concerned by the inexplicable credibility that Donald Trump seems to have despite all of the indictments, the lies, the incredible wrongdoing.”
New York Times-Siena College polls found Biden trailing Trump in five of the six most competitive battleground states: Trump led Biden by 10 percentage points in Nevada, six in Georgia, five in Arizona and Michigan and four in Pennsylvania. Biden led Trump by two in Wisconsin. In 2020, Biden defeated Trump in all six of those states, though generally by very narrow margins.
Of particular concern to Biden allies are indications that his support among Black voters, who were critical to his victory in 2020, may be softening. . . .

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) If black voters expected anything good from Joe Biden, they have been as disappointed as anyone else foolish enough to think “Bidenomics” would work. The basic truth is, good policy is good politics, and however much anyone may have hated Donald Trump personally, his economic policies were far better than Biden’s. So now the check engine light is flashing for Democrats, and they may be planning to rerun the “Torricelli Gambit” for 2024, but in the meantime, there will be election results tonight.

UPDATE 6:30 p.m. ET: Early results from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 5,415 (54.6%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 4,496 (45.4%)

Polls are still open in Western Kentucky (in the Central time zone) and these numbers represent just 1% of the expected total.

UPDATE 7:25 p.m. ET: Now 27% reporting from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 174,054 (43.4%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 227,201 (56.6%)

Doesn’t look good right now for Cameron.

UPDATE 7:45 p.m. ET: A ballot measure in Ohio would amend the state constitution to guarantee the legality of abortion:

YES ………. 125,686 (70.6%)
NO ……….. 52,409 (29.4%)

That’s with just 5% of the vote counted.

UPDATE 8 p.m. ET: The situation in Virginia is this: Republicans came into today’s election holding the House of Delegates with a four-seat margin, 52-48, while Democrats held the state Senate by a four-seat margin, 22-18. With Gov. Glenn Youngkin, GOP could consolidate their control by flipping the Senate and holding the House. So far, everything is still too close to call. Now 55% reporting from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 375,589 (46.9%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 424,213 (53.0%)

The Democrat incumbent maintains a 50,000-vote lead.

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET: Now 65% reporting from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 457,011 (48.0%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 495,398 (52.0%)

Beshear’s lead is now less than 40,000 votes.

With 22% of the vote on the Ohio abortion-rights referendum:

YES ………. 551,815 (63.4%)
NO ……….. 320,788 (36.6%)

UPDATE 8:40 p.m. ET: Remember Susanna “HotWifeExperience” Gibson, the Democratic candidate who got caught selling sexy videos on the Internet? Well, she’s currently leading her Republican opponent by about 150 votes with 66% of the vote counted in House District 57.



 

Police Officer Survives Shootout

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If you should ever happen to be in Louisville, Kentucky, allow me to offer this advice: Avoid the intersection of S. 40th Street and W. Kentucky Street. As a matter of fact, you might want to avoid being anywhere near that neighborhood. But frankly, you’d do best to stay far, far away from Louisville, a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

Last week, in the wee hours of the morning, Officer Brandon Haley was patrolling the dangerous streets of Louisville when he encountered a vehicle with no lights. He attempted to catch up with the vehicle:

The vehicle was traveling westbound on Kentucky Street and turned south on 40th Street where the vehicle came to rest on the sidewalk. . . . Officer Haley exited his vehicle and advised that two subjects were running. As Officer Haley ran towards the vehicle, several subjects began shooting from a house on the west side of 40th Street. Officer Haley was immediately struck and fell to the ground and returned fire.
While still being shot at, Officer Haley ran to the opposite side of the street where he was met by Officer [Colin] Billotto. As Officer Billotto began assessing Officer Haley’s injuries, the subject or subjects began shooting at officers again. Officer Billotto returned fire and dragged Officer Haley to a safer position.
Officer Billotto immediately began to relay information to responding officers while rendering aid to Officer Haley. Officer Haley was placed in a police car and transported to University Hospital with life-threatening injuries. Numerous officers responded, including LMPD’s Hostage Negotiation Team, as well as SWAT. Over the course of the next several hours, five persons of interest were taken into custody and multiple guns and narcotics were seized at the scene.

Officer Haley survived his wounds. On Wednesday, Louisville police released bodycam video of the shootout, which I can’t embed here because YouTube has classified it as too violent and graphic. While no suspects have yet been charged with shooting Officer Haley, police did make multiple arrests at the scene:

Officers received a search warrant to search the house on South 40th and found various illegal drugs and nine guns — two of which were reported stolen. According to police reports, officers tried to get Dominique Thompson Jr., 27, and Quantez Porter, 28, resisted coming out of the home.
Residents told LMPD a person was hiding in their backyard. Officers found Jemond Groves, 21, hiding and a gun in a pile of brush nearby. After checking the gun, it was determined it was reported stolen.
Thompson is charged with drug trafficking, gun possession by a convicted felon and resisting arrest. Porter’s charges are drug trafficking, gun possession and resisting arrest. Groves is charged with gun possession by a convicted felon and trespassing, since he was found in another yard, and wasn’t asked to come over. A fourth man,Jaquan Ranson, was also arrested [and] faces similar charges.

In other words, while we don’t know who shot the cop, we do know that a search warrant found nine guns, two of them stolen, and two convicted felons. But am I the only one who suspects that a search warrant of any home in that neighborhood would yield similar results? The whole area is crawling with armed felons, and you’d have difficulty finding a law-abiding citizen anywhere within a five-block radius of the intersection of S. 40th Street and W. Kentucky Street. It’s Mos Eisley, in real life.

The last Republican mayor of Louisville left office in 1969.



 

Louisville Bank Shooter: Trump-Hater Livestreamed His Murder Spree

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Today I was trying to get together my tax forms while the news was breaking about the shooting at a bank in Louisville and, as usual when such incidents happen, was wondering: “One of ours or one of theirs?” While most mass shootings have no real political angle, everybody has become accustomed to the blame game surrounding such incidents, and my hunch (once it was reported that the target was a bank) was this had to be one of theirs, because Republicans generally like banks.

We don’t know the motive yet, but . . .

The suspect in a Monday morning massacre at a Louisville bank has been identified as a 23-year-old former varsity hoops star and finance grad-turned-banker who livestreamed the horrific attack.
Louisville Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel identified the suspect as Connor Sturgeon, who worked at Old National Bank’s downtown Louisville branch.
Gwinn-Villaroel said Sturgeon was livestreaming as he opened fire at about 8:38 a.m. in the Old National Bank Building, which houses the bank and a variety of other businesses, killing four people and injuring nine more, including two police officers. Sturgeon was killed after exchanging gunfire with officers, she said, but it’s unclear if he was killed by police or by self-inflicted gunshots. . . .
Two now-defunct Twitter accounts that appear to belong to Sturgeon included tagged photos of him on the athletics track and the basketball court as a 6’5’’ junior on Floyd Central’s basketball team. More recently, he hosted a basketball-focused podcast with two buddies and tweeted about the NBA in between posts in support of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, as well as some criticism of police violence and of then-President Donald Trump.
Citing sources, local network WAVE3 reported that Sturgeon was fired from Old National Bank last week.

Sturgeon’s friends say he suffered multiple concussions while playing sports, and wondered if that might have had something to do with his descent into murderous madness. And speaking of mentally damaged people, Joe Biden quickly issued a statement:

How many more Americans must die before Republicans in Congress will act to protect our communities? It’s long past time that we require safe storage of firearms. Require background checks for all gun sales. Eliminate gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability. We can and must do these things now.
A strong majority of Americans want lawmakers to act on commonsense gun safety reforms. Instead, from Florida to North Carolina to the U.S. House of Representatives, we’ve watched Republican officials double down on dangerous bills that make our schools, places of worship, and communities less safe. It’s unconscionable, it’s reckless, and too many Americans are paying with their lives.

You see how this works? Regardless of the fact that the killer was clearly a Democrat, still Joe Biden must always blame Republicans.



 

 

Jewish Candidate for Louisville Mayor Survives BLM Assassination Attempt

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Less than a week ago, writing about a fringe black “liberation” group, I warned that “there is no guarantee that the next radical gesture will end so harmlessly,” and an intended target literally dodged a bullet this week:

Police have arrested a suspect they say was responsible for the attempted murder of Louisville Democratic mayoral candidate Craig Greenburg.
Quintez Brown, 21, was taken into custody Monday. He has been charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment. . . .
His arraignment happened Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. where he pleaded not guilty. . . .
Brown is a well-known activist and organized youth protests during the social justice movements of the summer of 2020. He often wrote opinion columns about race relations in the Courier-Journal.
He was also the subject of a missing person investigation last June. Brown had gone missing in late June 2021, leading to a citywide search. He was eventually found, and his family had asked for privacy while they focused on his mental, physical and spiritual health.
Brown recently announced that he was planning to run for Metro Council’s District 5 seat. . . .
Greenberg said he and his staff were at a campaign office for a meeting when he said a man walked into the office. Upon greeting the man, later identified as Brown, that’s when Greenberg said he allegedly pulled out a gun, pointed it at him and fired.
A staff member, he said, was able to close the door on Brown and the team was able to barricade themselves inside until police arrived.
Police said Brown was stopped about a half-mile from the Story Avenue campaign office where they allege he was carrying a drawstring bag, containing a 9mm gun and additional magazines. . . .
Louisville Metro Police Chief Erika Shields didn’t have immediate answers but said the department would investigate any possible motive.
“Mr. Greenberg is Jewish, so there’s that, we don’t know if it’s tied to the candidates or is political or if we are dealing with someone with mental issues or is venomous,” she said. “We are looking at this from all angles.”

“Mr. Greenberg is Jewish, so there’s that” — yeah, if the suspect in the shooting of a Jewish politician had been a white Trump supporter, it would be 24/7 on CNN, but instead it’s just local news in Kentucky, because it was a Black Lives Matter activist.

The Daily Beast actually has a good article about Brown’s descent into murderous madness. As of 8 p.m. ET, Brown’s Twitter account was still online, and you could see him quoting various black radicals, including Kwame Nkrumah, founder of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. In other words, Brown traveled down a radical path similar to Augustus Romain Jr. (Gazi Kodzo”) of the Black Hammer Organization. There is a profound irony that, four years ago, Brown took part in a gun-control march in Washington, D.C., and was interviewed on MSNBC:

Speaking with Joy Reid’s AM Joy show during the march, Brown, issuing his remarks towards then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, he said “we are here we want, we want common sense gun reform. And if you’re not going to give us that, then we’re going to get everyone out here to vote and we’re going to vote you out of office. So if you want to keep your job, then you know give us what we — not what we want but what we need, what humans need.”
“We need a common sense government reform, get rid of assault rifles,” said Brown at the time.

Trying to murder Jews — is that “common sense gun reform”?

Oh, I almost forgot this bonus: During Tuesday’s court hearing, Brown’s attorney told the judge he believes there are some “serious mental issues at play here.” Repeat after me: Crazy People Are Dangerous.