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The Antifa Scum in Atlanta

Posted on | March 9, 2023 | Comments Off on The Antifa Scum in Atlanta

The “mostly peaceful” mob of Antifa who rioted Sunday at the site of a planned police training center in Atlanta were mostly out-of-state, including this habitual rioter from North Carolina:

Jamie Marsicano, who was booked under the name “James Marsicana,” is a 29-year-old law student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, according to the school’s website.
Marsicano — who identifies as a “white trans femme organizer” in online profiles — was arrested in June 2020 and charged with assault on a government official and resisting a public officer during the George Floyd protests in Charlotte. Those charges were later dropped.
Between June 2020 and September 2020, Marsicano was arrested five times, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office.

Y’know, I’m old enough to remember when drag queens in Atlanta were mainly about lip-syncing show tunes in gay bars, not fire-bombing police.

Accused terrorist Ehret Nottingham

This terrorism suspect is from Colorado:

Ehret Nottingham, 22, is a serial activist who has also taken a central role in pro-abortion and fair wage rallies.
In a interview in June 2020, while studying political science at Colorado State University, Nottingham said he ‘became an activist’ in 2018.
He described himself as a climate activist who was also involved in Black Lives Matter protests. He said he has a ‘whole lot of privilege and a whole lot of ability to affect the world’.
‘The role in my future that I hope to achieve is to be an advocate and the platform I have to make change,’ said Nottingham. He said he met ‘most of my activist friends’ through Instagram.

The ambition to “be an advocate” — where does it come from? Perhaps from the recognition that it’s better than working an actual job, doing something useful and productive to pay the bills.

Accused terrorist Mattia Luini

This terrorism suspect is from New York:

Mattia Luini, 30, and his fellow protesters are accused of carrying out Sunday’s “coordinated attack” on the under-construction Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, which saw cops pelted with Molotov cocktails and fireworks.
Luini, whose late father, Ivan Luini, helped popularize high-end plastic furniture in the US, was still stuck behind bars as of Tuesday afternoon, online court records showed.
His mother, Micaela Martegani, who is involved in the Big Apple’s art world, told The Post Tuesday that she’d only spoken to her son briefly since his arrest — and that he’d insisted the violent incident was “completely random.”
“We haven’t been able to talk in much detail. He doesn’t know much of what happened,” Martegani said.
Luini had said he was heading to Atlanta over the weekend only to attend a concert and “protest the development of the forest,” according to his mom.
Police, however, say he was among those who allegedly staged an attack to protest the $90 million development of the training center — dubbed “Cop City.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what Luini, who appears to have been raised in New York City, does for a living or if he still calls the Big Apple home.
His businessman father, Ivan, was president of the New York-based Kartell US — a high-end Italian furniture company that specialized in plastic design.
The elder Luini was killed in a small plane crash near the Colorado-Wyoming border back in 2006, the New York Times reported at the time.
Meanwhile, Luini’s mom is the founder and director of More Art — a nonprofit organization that helps create public art projects across the city.
Martegani told The Post on Tuesday she wasn’t sure if she would head to Atlanta to meet with her currently imprisoned son.
“He’s doing okay. I spoke to him recently but I’m not sure yet if I’m going to go down to Atlanta,” she said.
Cops have accused Luini and his fellow protesters of using the “cover of a peaceful protest” at the proposed training center to unleash havoc.
“They changed into black clothing, entered the construction area, and began to throw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police officers,” cops said. “The agitators destroyed multiple pieces of construction equipment by fire and vandalism.”

Degenerate offspring of wealthy capitalists — it’s an all-too-familiar tale in a nation where liberalism has become the religion of the elite.

All these Antifa vermin — the “white trans femme organizer” from North Carolina, the “privileged” climate activist from Colorado, the heir to a furniture fortune from New York — did not just show up in Atlanta coincidentally. Authorities in Georgia are investigating these “mostly peaceful protests” and the individuals involved in organizing them. If you suspect that there is a nationwide criminal conspiracy behind the “Stop Cop City” protests, you are certainly not alone in that suspicion.



 

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Category: Crime, Georgia, Terrorism

3 Cops Shot, Suspect Dead in L.A.

Posted on | March 9, 2023 | Comments Off on 3 Cops Shot, Suspect Dead in L.A.

This news broke overnight:

Three Los Angeles police officers were shot Wednesday evening and the suspected gunman was dead after an ensuing standoff, authorities said.
Officers had gone to Lincoln Heights, an older neighborhood of single-family homes, at around 4:30 p.m. and the shootings were reported about two hours later, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Norma Eisenman said.
The officers were hospitalized in stable condition, LAPD Chief Michel Moore tweeted Wednesday night.
Two were patrol officers and the third was a K9 unit officer, Eisenman said.
The LAPD said it began when officers spotted a parolee wanted for an unknown felony and tried to take him into custody, but he ran and hid in a shed.
According to the LAPD, K9 officers responded, found him and launched a “chemical agent” into the shed. The suspect then opened the shed door and began firing at officers, striking three.
Officers returned fire and backed out. It was unclear whether the suspect was hit, CBS Los Angeles reports.
SWAT officers were called and deployed a robot that saw the suspect wasn’t moving. SWAT officers then used a second robot to insert more gas into the shed before officers moved in. The Los Angeles Fire Department determined the suspect was dead.
At one point, the LAPD issued a citywide tactical alert, meaning officers from across the city are available to respond to the scene if needed. Officers, including SWAT team members, flooded into the area and sealed it off.
Some neighbors were evacuated from their homes by officers when the standoff was ongoing, CBS L.A. said, while other residents in the surrounding area were advised to stay inside and lock their doors.
“Everyday the men and women of the Los Angeles Police Department put themselves in harm’s way, tonight is a reminder that the danger is very real,” Mayor Karen Bass said at a news conference, CBS L.A. reported. “I’m relieved and grateful that these three brave officers are in stable condition, and are able to have a conversation with two of them when I checked in on them just now. I deeply appreciate their service and let them know that their city stands with them, and I very much look forward to their recovery.”

Why should police be putting their lives at risk when District Attorney George Gascón goes out of his way to turn criminals loose? What’s the point in arresting criminals, if the D.A. won’t put them in prison? A career prosecutor in the D.A.’s office won a jury verdict of $1.5 million after she sued Gascón for retaliating against her because of her criticisms of his policies. A dozen other similar lawsuits are pending, but the problem in Los Angeles and other major cities cannot be isolated to a few rogue “progressive” prosecutors. The problem is the people — if voters are so stupid and/or immoral as to elect someone like Gascón, they deserve whatever harmful consequences follow that election.



 

 

Category: California, Crime

In The Mailbox: 03.08.23

Posted on | March 9, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.08.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ken Burns Transitions Into A Bitter Lefty Lesbian, also, Triangle of Sadness
Twitchy: Tucker Carlson’s Ratings Vs. Other, Narrative-Guarding Cable Networks, Elon Musk Trolls Chuck U. Schumer Over Tucker Carlson, and Adam RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA Schiff Says Repetition Is How Tucker Carlson Spreads Lies
Louder With Crowder: TikTok starlet Dylan Mulvaney has a sad because, even after expensive surgery, no one is sliding into (sigh) “her” DMs, Watch: Turns out the cute chick from the AT&T commercials is a raging leftist and wants the world to know, and Jada Pinkett-Smith “insiders” claim when Chris Rock calls Will Smith a b*tch, he’s really obsessed with her
Vox Popoli: Nothing Left to Steal, The Beginning of the End, and Political Deep Fakes
Stoic Observations: How To Game The Race Game

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Lies The Ruling Class Tells Us, also, Tucker Carlson’s Naughty List
American Greatness: FBI Whistleblowers Say Threat Tags Were Used to Target Conservatives, FTC Demands All of Elon Musk’s Twitter Communications, Identity of All Journalists Granted Access to Company Records, and Biden FCC Nominee Withdraws Over Far-Left Rhetoric
American Thinker: Trump Is Leader of The GOP…and America, The Multi-Pronged Attack on Christianity, The Many Lies of the Housing Crisis Alarmists, and Should the GOP Adopt Ballot Harvesting?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: First victim of ‘sonic attacks’ in Cuba calls intel report on Havana Syndrome ‘shameful and ridiculous’, Reports from Cuba: Cuba: From the worst of socialism to the worst of capitalism, and As Biden tries to cozy up to communist Cuba, the Castro dictatorship strengthens its ties with Russia
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan and Michael Malice On The QAnon Shaman Revelations
Behind The Black: Watching the first launch attempt of Relativity’s Terran-1 rocket, ISRO successfully de-orbits defunct satellite, Cracks in Martian lava, and America’s blacklist culture: Survey finds almost half of America’s major corporations are eagerly willing to blacklist others
Cafe Hayek: On the Banana Republic Practice of Civil Asset Forfeiture
CDR Salamander: Nord Stream’s Tap on the Shoulder
Da Tech Guy: J6 Tapes, Weinstein, COVID and Epstein – it’s all the Same Issue for the Media/Deepstate/Left
Dana Loesch: Jill Biden Gives The “International Women Of Courage” Award To A Man
Don Surber: Rupert Murdoch Hates Fox News
First Street Journal: There are still a few customers without electricity in Kentucky
Gates Of Vienna: Biden Puts Muslim Brotherhood in Key Diplomatic and Intelligence Roles, also, Culture-Enriching Knife Rampage in Milan
The Geller Report: Newly Released Surveillance Footage Shows Capitol Police Ignored, Abandoned, No Communication, DELIBERATELY Left Unprepared
Glenn Reynolds: Stolen Youth – An Interview With Karol Markowicz & Bethany Mandel
Hogewash: The Dumbbell Nebula in IR, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and You Keep Using Those Words
Hollywood In Toto: Scream VI – If It Ain’t Broke, also, Carnival Row Goes Communist (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
The Lid: Forty Years Ago America Had A President With A Backbone: Reagan’s Evil Empire Speech, also, The Fentanyl Crisis: Delusional Leadership and the Lies They Perpetuate
Legal Insurrection: Highest Paid Security Guard for Rep. Cori Bush is Anti-Semitic Spiritual Guru, Media Outlet Semafor’s New Partner has Close Ties to the Chinese Communist Party, Report: DHS Running a Secret Program Gathering Domestic Intelligence, and “QAnon Shaman” Lawyer: Feds Withheld Exculpatory Video Shown On Tucker
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Brit’s view of the constitution of the United States of America (1)
Outkick: Browns Coach Kevin Stefanski Credits ‘Madden’ For Improved Game Management Skills, Bobby Burack Says Kendrick Perkins Is Privileged, Unhinged And Unintelligent, Deion Sanders Doesn’t Regret Telling Players To Hit The Bricks: ‘Who Respects 1-11?’, Draymond Green Is The Most Childish Player In The NBA, and John Skipper, The Man Who Ruined ESPN, Has Terrible Idea To Save The PAC-12
Power Line: Who’s Deceptive?, Are Americans Getting Happier?, and The Star Tribune throws stones
Shark Tank: DeSantis Holds Shocking “Exposing The Book Ban Hoax” Media Event
Shot In The Dark: Manufactured Crisis, also, “The Only Way Home Is Through Berlin”
The Political Hat: The Systemic Infiltration Of “DEI” At The University Of Missouri
This Ain’t Hell: Interesting Supreme rejection, Immigrant Bald Eagle killers allowed to skate by Feds, Kidnapped Americans: Sen. Graham proposes military action, and More trouble for Sean Murphy, as ‘stolen valor’ charges, injunction issued
Transterrestrial Musings: Relativity Space, Room-Temperature Superconductors, and American Fascism
Victory Girls: NTSB To Investigate Norfolk Southern, also, Goosebumps Books Getting Woke Edits Without Author Approval
Volokh Conspiracy: “The World’s First Robot Lawyer Has Been Practicing Law Without a License —”
Watts Up With That: Give up Beef and Dairy or the Global Climate Gets It, Bureaucracies Utterly Incapable of Making Reasonable Tradeoffs, and America’s Suppression of Fossil Fuels Is Courting a National Security Disaster
Weasel Zippers: Biden DNI Chief Slammed For Assessing “Violent Extremists” As Bigger Threat Than Fentanyl, Woke Virginia School Ignores Whites And Asians When Offering College Prep Classes, and This Video Tells A Different Story of What Happened On Jan 6
The Federalist: Here Are 5 Brands Celebrating Men In Costumes This Women’s History Month, Democrats’ Climate Lawfare Campaign Jeopardizes America’s Energy Future, ‘I Keep Forgetting Which Party He Belongs To’, A Lone Bureaucrat Denied Due Process And Unemployment Benefits To Massachusetts’ Unvaxxed, and Dear Mitch McConnell: You Were Not Elected To Do The Bidding Of Chuck Schumer And CNN
Mark Steyn: Suffer the Little Children, also, The Dirty Stinking Rotten Corrupt J6 Narrative

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In The Mailbox: 03.07.23

Posted on | March 8, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.07.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Soft Judges F***Up The Lives Of Multiple People”
EBL: Tummy Tuck Complications in Mexico, Tucker Calson releases 1/6 Videos or Why Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant, and Tár
Twitchy: Meathead Has Thoughts On Release Of J6 Video, Trans Activist Now A “Proud Criminal” For Shipping “Lifesaving Drugs” Across State Lines, and NBC – Gigi Sohn Withdraws From FCC Nomination Amid “Outright Homophobic” Campaign
Louder With Crowder: Shaq has Deion Sanders back, says Coach Prime was ‘spitting facts’ about kids who come from 2-parent homes, Tucker Carlson blasts insurrection “propaganda” of January 6 committee with damning new footage, and Crowder announces MugClub’s new home…powered by Rumble
Vox Popoli: Indian Programmers Can’t Program, They Loved Mammon More, The Abomination of Animation, Know Your E-Whores, and Capital Controls Come to America

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Ulcerative Colitis post
American Conservative: SPLC Connection To Alleged ‘Domestic Terrorism’, also, A Growing Tide of Election Transparency Wins
American Greatness: Chuck U. Schumer Calls on Fox News to Stop Tucker Carlson From Airing Any More Jan. 6 Footage, Los Angeles Jury Awards $1.5M to Prosecutor in Retaliation Lawsuit Against George Gascon, McCarthy’s Legislative Priorities Force Democrats into Tough Votes, and January 6th Footage Confirms ‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley was Peaceful the Entire Time
American Thinker: If Trump Had Prevailed in 2020, also, Thank You for Asking, Mr. President
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily State Lines News
Babalu Blog: Surprise! Cuba ranks among the worst ‘closed autocracies’ on planet earth, Reports from Cuba: Havana’s Infanta Street, where all the miseries of Cuba come together, Republican senators join Democrats in effort to lift sanctions on Cuba’s oppressive dictatorship, and Four members of Cuba’s national karate team defect in Mexico
BattleSwarm: Texas A&M’s DEI – Ditching or Faking?, also, Honest Trailers Slams Velma
Behind The Black: Flat-topped mesas in the icy northern lowland plains of Mars, ROK commits $38 million to support space startups, UK awards $1.9 million in development grants to universities and private companies, Fuel spill cleanup begins at Space Force telescope facility in Maui, Hawaii, and America’s blacklist culture: Republican in Florida proposes bill to regulate speech
Cafe Hayek: Statement of Commitment to Academic Freedom and to Intellectual Merit, also, More On American Workers’ Opportunity Costs, On Wages, and On the Harms of Protectionism
CDR Salamander: Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part XCVII
Da Tech Guy: Definitions Under the Fedora, The mauling of malls, My 28th Amendment to Give DC Representation, and Brandon Johnson, the elected official who still collects big checks from the Chicago Teachers Union, will be a disaster as Chicago’s mayor
Dana Loesch: Biden Promises To Raise Taxes While Sending Millions To Ukraine
Don Surber: The Left Boycotts Hershey Too
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer: using grammar to avoid telling the whole truth
Gates Of Vienna: Old And In The Way, “Germany is Now Communist”, Panzerlied (Green Woke Version), Annalena’s Private Halal Army, and Culture-Enriching Rapist Walks Free in Osnabrück
The Geller Report: New, Never Seen J6 Footage Shows January 6th Committee and Ray Epps LIED
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Jellyfish Galaxy, and Space Invaders
Hollywood In Toto: PEN America Honors Newly Woke Tina Fey, Ignores Her Comedy Betrayal, Jon Stewart Meets the Divisive Country He Helped Create, and Marlon Wayans: ‘No Apologies’ in Comedy
The Lid: Is Schumer’s Senate Speech About Tucker’s 1/6 Videos A First Amendment Violation?
Legal Insurrection: “What did that person do wrong other than be born with the wrong skin color?”, Study Finds Liberal Girls Are More Depressed, Lindsey Graham Wants to Use Military Against Mexican Drug Cartels, and Prof Claims Her Maximum-Security Prisoners are Better Students Than Today’s Undergrads
Nebraska Energy Observer: Never the twain shall meet, also, Reminiscere
Outkick: LeBron James Praises His Son Bronny While Hypocritically Ripping NBA Players For Slacking, Ohio State Fans Already Panicked On First Day Of Spring Ball As Star WR Marvin Harrison Jr. Returns Punts, Russell Westbrook Looks Like A Total Loser While Getting Kings Fans Kicked Out Of Arena, Ja Morant Gun Incident Reportedly Came After Grizzlies Held A Players-Only Meeting About Showing Better Discipline On The Road, and Charles Barkley Drops The Hammer On ESPN, Kendrick Perkins’ Race-Over-Everything Hot Takes
Power Line: Kamala Satire, Tucker Carlson’s Expose Blew a Rather Large Hole in Dems ‘Deadly Insurrection’ Story, and Assume Nothing
Shark Tank: DeSantis Doesn’t Support Blogger Registration Bill, also, Penguin Publishing Pushes The GayBCs For Kids In Response To Florida Anti-Grooming Law
Shot In The Dark: Other Than That Mrs. Lincoln, also, You Were Warned
The Political Hat: Health Equity And The Creep Of Wokeness
This Ain’t Hell: Army returning to “Be All You Can Be”, Former Army Soldier sentenced to 45 years for planning the killing of fellow service members, Gregory Charles Banks – Valor Vulture, and Russians blow up own plane, kill one
Transterrestrial Musings: Continued Good Riddance, Congratulations To Treacher, A New Stevie Nicks?, and Biden’s Latest Incompetent Appointment
Victory Girls: Fetterman Photos Are Proof Of Exploitation
Volokh Conspiracy: Appellate Court Vacates Order Aimed at Stopping Child from Calling Stepfather “Dad”
Watts Up With That: ExxonMobil Cans Algae (greenwash failure), Setting Senator Whitehouse Straight On Climate And Wildfires, and We’re Saved! Biden’s Army Sec. Christine Wormuth declares climate resiliency ‘a priority for me & our US Army’
Weasel Zippers: “Look At The Man, Look What He’s Doing”, Antifa Thugs Try To Burn Down Police Facility, Gavin Newsom Calls California The “Real Freedom State”, Walgreens Says It Won’t Distribute Abortion Pill In 20 States, and House Investigators Say AOC Broke Ethics Rules With “Tax The Rich” Met Gala Dress
The Federalist: Senate Republicans Cave To Dem Propaganda About J6 Tapes, New Mexico Sued For Charging $5,000 To Access Public Voter Data, Searching For Tucker Carlson’s Bombshell J6 Videos? YouTube Censors Will Direct You To Fake Fact Checks Instead, Leftists Don’t Mind NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Religious Talk Because He Puts Politics First, and Whistleblower: FBI Targeted Innocent Rally-Goers Just For Being In D.C. On Jan. 6 
Mark Steyn: The Hangout – and a Hanging, also, Rules for Thee, Not for Me

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News From Down Home: Another Antifa Riot, More Out-of-Towners Arrested

Posted on | March 7, 2023 | Comments Off on News From Down Home: Another Antifa Riot, More Out-of-Towners Arrested

Antifa terrorists set fire to construction equipment at the site of a planned Atlanta police training facility Sunday, hurling rocks and fireworks at officers who responded to the riot scene. And this vandal horde of commies is almost entirely composed of outsiders:

Atlanta police identified 23 suspects charged with domestic terrorism after allegedly launching an attack against the construction site for a police and fire training facility dubbed “Cop City.”
The Atlanta Police Department revealed that all but two of the arrestees are from out of state. Another two are from out of the country.
Dimitri LeNy is from France and Fredrique Robert-Paul is from Canada.
Three suspects – Ayla King, Alexis Paplai and Timothy Bilodeau – are from Massachusetts.
There are two from Arizona: Samuel Ward and Max Biederman. From New York, there are Mattia Luini and Priscilla Grim.
Another pair – Kayley Meissner and Grace Martin – are from Wisconsin.
Kamryn Pipes is from Louisiana. Maggie Gates is from Indiana. Ehret Nottingham is from Colorado. Victor Puertas is from Utah. Amin Chaoui is from Virginia. James Marsicano is from North Carolina. Emma Bogush is from Connecticut. Luke Harper is from Florida. Colin Dorsey is from Maine. And Zoe Larmey is from Tennessee.
The only suspects with Georgia addresses are Thomas Jurgens and Jack Beaman.

As everyone has noted, one of these terrorists, Thomas Webb Jurgens, 28, is an attorney working for the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that raises money from rich liberals by claiming that people whose only crime is to vote Republican are dangerous right-wing extremists. More reaction from officials in Georgia:

“What happened last night was not peaceful protest – it was violence. Plain and simple,” Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said in a statement Monday. “We will not tolerate this destruction of property, and we will seek to ensure that those who have engaged in this criminal behavior are held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” . . .
On an appearance on Fox News earlier Monday, Carr described those arrested as part of a “national network, an international group of people that are organized to come to our state to undermine a public safety training center.”
“This wasn’t about a public safety training center. This was about anarchy, and this was about an attempt to destabilize,” Atlanta Chief of Police Darin Schierbaum said Sunday night, telling reporters at the scene that both the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have joined the probe into the incident.

I’ve written about this story several times:

Thanks to the generosity of readers, I’ve got a little money left over from last week’s trip to CPAC, and if these commie clowns keep causing trouble down home, I may decide to make a shoe-leather excursion.



 

 

Category: Crime, Georgia, Terrorism

J6 Videos Shatter ‘Insurrection’ Narrative

Posted on | March 7, 2023 | Comments Off on J6 Videos Shatter ‘Insurrection’ Narrative

“We need a complete catalog of all of the feds who were there. Tell us who they were. Let’s watch the videos and let’s see what they did, because there’s some really strange behavior on those videos.”
— Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican

As Stephen Kruiser says, Tucker Carlson has begun the process of nuking the narrative from orbit (classic movie allusion) by releasing some of the thousands of hours of Capitol riot surveillance video that the Democrats on Nancy Pelosi’s J6 witch hunt committee tried to make sure the public would never see. Among other things, the video Tucker released Monday night showed that Officer Brian Sicknick, the Capitol policeman who Democrats claim was “murdered” by the protesters, was walking around just fine after the time of his supposedly fatal encounter with the pro-Trump crowd. And there was much more than that:

Newly revealed surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows two Capitol Police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, the behorned so-called “QAnon Shaman” who has come to symbolize the riot, through the halls of the Capitol and to the very door of the US Senate.
The footage aired on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show Monday night shows the officers closely following Chansley as he wanders the corridors of the Capitol, bare-chested and wearing face paint and a luxuriant fur hat with Viking horns.
“Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape,” says Carlson, who was granted exclusive access by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from that day inside and around the Capitol, which has never been seen before by the public.
“The tapes show the Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides.”
At one point, the officers are seen walking Chansley past seven other police officers milling around outside the Senate chamber, who barely give him a second look.
Then they escort him to various entrances of the chamber that appear to be locked. Eventually, they help him open a door, and he enters the chamber.
Chansley, a 33-year-old Navy veteran from Arizona, has been jailed for almost four years for “obstructing an official proceeding.”

(Actually, it’s been 26 months, not “almost four years.”)

In a jailhouse interview played by Carlson, he says: “The one very serious regret that I have [is] believing that when we were waved in by police officers, that it was acceptable.”
In a statement, the Capitol Police suggest that one of the officers with Chansley was trying to “de-escalate” the situation because he was outnumbered.
But that does not explain why Chansley, who was unarmed, was able to walk past seven more officers without being apprehended.
“Not one of them even tried to slow him down,” says Carlson.
He “understood that the Capitol Police were his allies. … If he was in the act of committing such a grave crime, why didn’t the officers standing right next to him place him under arrest?”

Just askin’ questions, you see. This was why Pelosi rejected Kevin McCarthty’s choices for the J6 committee and instead handpicked two noxious Trump-hating RINOs to be the “Republican” members of the committee: Pelosi couldn’t let anyone on the committee who would challenge the “violent insurrection” narrative that Democrats were using the committee to push. It was a Soviet-style show trial, not an “investigation,” and the media were in on the scam.

The New York Post is one of the few publications that questions the Democratic Party narrative nowadays, and it’s astonishing how such once-respected newspapers as the Washington Post and the New York Times have simply looked the other way, rather than trying to investigate the “strange behavior” to which Rep. Massey referred: Clearly there were plainclothes and/or undercover agents at the Capitol during the riot, and they appeared to be communicating with the uniformed cops in ways that seem suspicious. If, as Merrick Garland’s DOJ prosecutors have asserted, the rioters who entered the Capitol were guilty of serious crimes — “seditious conspiracy,” no less! — then why did police not arrest them?

Tonight, Tucker Carlson has promised another hour’s worth of J6 riot videos, and his ratings will probably be through the roof.



 

 

Category: Fox News

In The Mailbox: 03.06.23

Posted on | March 7, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Magical Thinking In The UK
EBL: MAGA CPAC, Broken City, The Death of Stalin, M3GAN, and Antifa Leftists causing mayhem and destruction in Georgia
Twitchy: Tucker’s J6 Videos From The Capitol Blow Holes In The Narrative, also, Challenging Russell Brand To Give Examples Of MSNBC Pushing Misinformation Ends Badly For MSNBC
Louder With Crowder: Patriot uses ‘Shopping Cart Theory’ to prove once and for all progressives stink at life, ‘Everyone called him a b*tch’, and Steven Crowder announces the return date for MugClub, the daily show
Vox Popoli: What Winning Looks Like, Convincing the Recalcitrant, Nothing But a Psyop, Sweden Heads Toward Bankruptcy, and “Outright Dangerous”
Stoic Observations: Why I Don’t Fear AI

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Disinformation and the Wuhan Lab Leak Thesis, Trump: ‘I Am Your Retribution’, and There is No Constitutional Right to Satanism
American Greatness: Georgia Bureau of Investigation Charges 23 Antifa Agitators With Domestic Terrorism Following Violent Clash With Police in Atlanta, Walmart Shutting Down All Portland Locations, and Life Among the Ruins
American Thinker: Trials and Tribulations, If Leftists Hate America So Much, Why Don’t They Leave?, and Tucker Carlson Calls Out the ‘Professional Christians’
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship’s ambassador confronted by exiles in Tampa restaurant, Reports from Cuba: Because the Cuban state doesn’t pay them, cart drivers stop picking up garbage, Cuban dictatorship bans women from marching on International Women’s Day, Lifestyles of the Rich and Communist: Capitalist excess at cigar festival in Havana, and Cuba comes to the defense of Nicaragua after UN condemnation for crimes against humanity
BattleSwarm: University of Texas Announces DEI Pause, also, Blackstone Defaults: Subprime Meltdown 2?
Behind The Black: A confused spiral galaxy, ISRO attempting controlled reentry of old satellite originally lacking in such plans, IBEX leaves safe mode and returns to full science operations, and A blacklist victory? Professor wins million dollar settlement for being blacklisted
Cafe Hayek: On Jobs and Economic Dynamism, Bad Economics, and An Open Letter to a Protectionist
CDR Salamander: March Maritime Melee on Midrats!, also, Retention: the Little Big Things
Chicago Boyz: ChicagoBoyz Miami Meetup – Tentative Agenda
Da Tech Guy: The Navy removes more benefits, I’m Not paying a 350% Premium Just to Tweak Hershey’s, and Trump Should Play the Media Like a Fiddle in His CPAC Speech
Dana Loesch: Biden Asks Congress For Money To Fight COVID Loan Fraud
Don Surber: Highlights Of The Week, Bill Maher’s Normality,
First Street Journal: The electricity is out in parts of the Bluegrass State, also, Killadelphia
Gates Of Vienna: Goin’ Where the Climate Suits my Clothes, Stop The Great Replacement!, VIA Con Dios… NOT, and We All Scream For Ice Cream!
The Geller Report: Twitter Files Release: Soros-Tied ‘State-Sponsored Blacklists’, NYC to Pay George Floyd Rioters MILLIONS, Because Cops Didn’t Wear Face Masks, and Here’s Your Russian Collusion
Glenn Reynolds: How I Was Wrong About COVID
Hogewash: Interesting Bike Handlebar Grips, Disney Cancels Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, An Irregular Dwarf, and Everything Proceeded As I Had Foreseen
Hollywood In Toto: Chris Rock’s ‘Outrage’ Shows Perks, Limits of Anger-based Stand-Up, Woke History of the World: Part II Flunks Satire 101, and Is Fox Nation Finding Its Voice?
The Lid: Bankruptcies Soar As America’s Absurd Debt Bubble Begins To Implode, also, Last Week Was A Good Week For America
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It Can’t Happen Here

Posted on | March 6, 2023 | 1 Comment

In a post about the new Netflix series Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet, Jeff Goldstein points out the essential difference between neo-Nazism and American conservatism, namely that conservatism has always emphasized individual liberty. Indeed, it might be said that the charter of conservatism can be found in the Constitution, where the Founders declare their intent to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” This is part of the reason why the conflation of conservatism with Nazism has always been false, the other reason — and this is not a trivial distinction — being that America is not Germany in the aftermath of World War I.

Anyone who has seriously studied the rise of the Third Reich has to understand this. The conditions that existed in Germany in the 1920s and ’30s were sui generis, a particular set of historical circumstances that never existed anywhere else at any other time. This is why neo-Nazism is always doomed to failure. The Hitler wannabees are wrong to believe they can replicate in America (or anywhere else) the astonishing events by which Hitler went from being a fringe figure to being the all-powerful leader of what was, in 1939, the world’s greatest military power.

Neo-Nazis are fools and, however dangerous their folly may be — no matter how many acts of criminal terrorism they may commit — there is no real possibility that they will organize a “Fourth Reich.”

Once you realize this, you recognize that left-wing rhetoric warning about the danger posed by the “far right” is as deluded as the hateful nonsense spewed by Jew-hating kooks. The lucrative hustle of the SPLC, sniffing out allegedly dangerous “extremism” everywhere, depends on the fallacy that such extremists are (or could be) the harbingers of a future genocidal dictatorship in America: “It could happen here!”

Well, actually, no it can’t if, by “it,” you mean Nazi Germany.

Some people seem unable to deal with more than one thought at the same time, and thus cannot reconcile two realities: (a) there are dangerous “far right” kooks in America, but (b) they’re not going to take over the country. The incessant fear-mongering of the SPLC — a scam, a hustle, a racket — is wildly out of proportion to the size of the actual threat posed by neo-Nazis and their ilk. As I recently pointed out, the Anti-Defamation League’s most recent report on extremist violence found that the number of deaths from such incidents has declined sharply, from 78 in 2016 to 25 in 2022. In a nation where there are more than 22,000 homicides annually, the “extremist” threat is a statistical blip.

The way the SPLC and other such “hate” hustlers are able to keep up the scare is by expanding their purview to include as threats various groups and individuals who have never advocated or engaged in violent activity. Go ask the Family Research Council where this tactic can lead — Floyd Lee Corkins showed up with a pistol at FRC headquarters after the SPLC named them as a “hate group” for their opposition to same-sex marriage.

To repeat: Some people can’t handle two thoughts simultaneously. People may advocate viewpoints that we disagree with — viewpoints which may, in some sense, be characterized as “hate” — without representing a threat of terroristic violence. This important distinction is frequently lost in discussions of “hate,” where it is used as a pretext for “deplatforming” people whose only crime is expressing opinions that offend liberals. There was never any reason to blame FRC for violence against homosexuals (or anyone else) but, in labeling them a “hate group,” the SPLC made this conservative 501(c)3 the target of actual violence by a deranged gay man. This business of conflating conservatism with “hate” is not accidental, of course. The SPLC did not make an innocent error; they are a partisan political organization, founded by a Democrat fundraiser, and dedicated to silencing opposition to the Democratic Party and its policy agenda. Every honest and intelligent person knows this.

Which brings us back to Web of Make Believe, the Netflix series whose co-executive producer is Ron Howard, and which is directed by Brian Knappenberger, who has an interesting history. He directed the 2012 documentary We Are Legion, celebrating the criminal hacker conspiracy known as “Anonymous.” You may remember those heady days circa 2011, when Anonymous committed various cybercrimes in defense of Julian Assange and Wikileaks, crimes that were celebrated as heroic by liberals at the time. Fast-forward five years, however, when the Democratic National Committee’s emails were allegedly “hacked,” and suddenly hacking was an outrage, a sinister Russian conspiracy to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. So hacking is good, if it is viewed as helping Democrats, but evil when it hurts Democrats.

Are you surprised, then, to learn that Episode Two of Web of Make Believe is aimed at accusing the “right wing” of fomenting conspiracy theories about the murder of Seth Rich? Then in Episode Three, as Jeff Goldstein explains at length, Knappenberger indulges in guilt-by-association between Trump supporters in general and the “Identity Evropa” group whose former spokeswoman is featured:

[The episode] connects white supremacy to conservatism, and depicts a rejection of conservatism as a concomitant Escape from Hate. All violence depicted is perpetrated by “the right”; images of Charlottesville are juxtaposed with images of January 6; the heroes are the leftwing doxxers who fight the haters, or the brave, diverse crowd who stand as a bulwark against rancid conservatism.
The protagonist — who during her online phase went by “Norah Fox” as a member of the group Identity Evropa, where she ultimately became a leader of the women’s arm, and later a popular recruiter — is herself a living metaphor for the episode’s narrative arc and heavy-handed message: she is redeemed by her rejection of the movement; and she is cleansed by engaging in a narrativized struggle session in which she is gently guided by the interviewer, with a gloss on both her redemption and on broader social issues of free speech (and why it must necessarily be policed and constrained) provided by several supporting players: a former FBI agent who bemoans the traditional “whiteness” and “maleness” of the agency; tech writer April Glaser; and New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz, this last of whom is promoted as the intellectual anchor and living conscience of the film, a role he seems to relish.

Can we take a moment to interrogate the idea that a journalist who writes about a subject (as Marantz has written about “Norah Fox”) thereby becomes an “expert” on whatever it is he’s writing about? Because I’ve written about a wide number of subjects over the years, and have never been contacted by documentary producers to pose as an “expert” on any of these topics. This sort of journalistic “expertise” seems only to be possessed by liberals, and is therefore off-limits to skeptical inquiry. You’re probably some kind of right-wing conspiracy theorist if you even call attention to the dubious nature of this kind of “expert” status.

Confronted with the tendentiousness (and obvious partisan bias) of such works as Web of Make Believe, we may classify it as propaganda. And guess who else engaged in propaganda? NAZIS, that’s who!

Godwin’s Law works both ways, you know.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

 

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