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‘Insurrection’? Most Capitol Rioters Probably Won’t Face Prison Time

Posted on | March 31, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Insurrection’? Most Capitol Rioters Probably Won’t Face Prison Time

This should have been obvious from the start: Trespassing and disobeying police commands are the only charges likely to stick against most of the Trump supporters involved in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Most of them just got swept up in the excitement of the moment and certainly were not part of an “anti-government” conspiracy. This reality was obscured by a lot of prosecutorial bluster and media hype:

Americans outraged by the storming of Capitol Hill are in for a jarring reality check: Many of those who invaded the halls of Congress on Jan. 6 are likely to get little or no jail time. …
In recent days, judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys have all indicated that they expect few of these “MAGA tourists” to face harsh sentences.
There are two main reasons: Although prosecutors have loaded up their charging documents with language about the existential threat of the insurrection to the republic, the actions of many of the individual rioters often boiled down to trespassing. And judges have wrestled with how aggressively to lump those cases in with those of the more sinister suspects. . . .
The prospect of dozens of Jan. 6 rioters cutting deals for minor sentences could be hard to explain for the Biden administration, which has characterized the Capitol Hill mob as a uniquely dangerous threat. … Justice Department prosecutors sent expectations sky-high in early statements and court filings, describing elaborate plots to murder lawmakers — descriptions prosecutors have tempered as new details emerged.

(Hat-tip: Hot Air via Instapundit.)

Joy Pullman at The Federalist points out that the FBI has been missing a lot of terrorists while it has been devoting such enormous efforts to investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot:

For that investigation, USA Today says, “agents in all but one of the FBI’s 56 field offices have been drafted to track down” people who attended the Capitol protest that day, the vast majority of whom peacefully protested. “Investigators who typically work cases involving the trafficking of drugs, child pornography and sex have taken calls from rioter’s angry ex-wives and former girlfriends and employers turned tipsters.”
Meanwhile, the FBI and other investigators appear to be hiding the truth about the one death that occurred in connection with this havoc that hasn’t yet been definitively proven to be an accident, besides the rioter a police officer shot to death.
It also appears the FBI is using its police power to prosecute people in connection with the Capitol riot who participated in no violence, including one who never went inside the Capitol nor harmed any person or public property, according to Julie Kelly’s reporting of court documents. His true crime appears to be belonging to a group in which some members believe, according to the federal indictment, that “the federal government has been co-opted by a cabal of elites actively trying to strip American citizens of their rights.”

Read the whole thing.




 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 03.30.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 31, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.30.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Overlord Manatee is good with children. At least this one.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Rapist, Turned Loose, Offends Again
EBL: Pre-Easter Bunnies
Twitchy: Kathy Griffin Raging Because Covington Catholic “Darlings” Are Still Suing Her For Smearing Them Is Just Delicious
Louder With Crowder: CA Public School Teachers Return To In-Person Teaching – But Only For Illegals
Vox Popoli: Black Privilege, also, The Bubble Pops
Stoic Observations: An Uppity Answer 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: First, Do Harm
American Conservative: Re-Platforming America’s Deplatformed
American Greatness: The Trump-Hate Coalition Is Crumbling, also, Media Fawns As Fauci Promotes Child Abuse
American Power: Victim-Blaming DC Mayor Bowser Dragged For Sharing “Preventing Auto Thefts” Video While Remaining Mum On Murder Of Carjacked Uber Eats Driver
American Thinker: Bottom Line – Democrats Are Afraid Of You
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Travelogue Day 3
Babalu Blog: Communist Cuba’s New Ration Book Allows One Bar Of Soap Per Person Every 42 Days
BattleSwarm: DeSantis Continues To Crush It
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, Congressional Democrats Taking Aim At SpaceX & Starship Testing
Cafe Hayek: It’s Not Journalism, It’s Fear-Mongering
CDR Salamander: On Suez – You Can’t Buy Training Like This
Da Tech Guy: Thanks, Larry McMurtry! also, Report From Louisiana – Downsizing
Don Surber: Most Capitol Protesters Won’t Be Jailed. Media Angry.
First Street Journal: Ve Need To See Your Papers! also, Fighting Fascist Governors
The Geller Report: Head of Spanish Islamic Agency Arrested Over Terrorism Financing, also, Democrats File Lawsuit Against Georgia Election Integrity Law
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Mergers & Acquisitions
Hollywood In Toto: SNL Goes From Subversive To Serving The Corporate Elites, also, Woke Media Hits New, Embarassing Low
The Lid: Jim Crow Relic? Democrats Used Filibuster 327 Times Last Year – GOP Only Once
Legal Insurrection: SOCOM’s Chief Of Diversity & Inclusion Under Fire For Social Media Posts, also, Georgetown Students Demand Abolition Of Campus Police As Crime Surges In DC
Nebraska Energy Observer: Satan – Happy Dance
Outkick: President Biden Won’t Throw Out First Pitch At Mets-Nationals Season Opener, also, Nearly Half Of Americans Changed Sports Viewing Habits Because Of Social Justice Nonsense
Power Line: Biden Hits The Dishonesty Jackpot With Claims About Georgia Voting Law, also, An Ex-President Strikes Back
Shark Tank: DeSantis Nixes Vaccine Passports
Shot In The Dark: Birthday Greetings
The Political Hat: Nevada Bad Bills – The ERA On Steroids, Election Fraudapalooza, and Property Tax Grab
This Ain’t Hell: Carlo Dobrich, The American Legion’s Navy SEAL Sex Instructor, also, SOCOM Diversity & Inclusion Chief Reassigned, Investigation Opened
Transterrestrial Musings: Continuing To Learn
Victory Girls: Scott Adams Vs. Naomi Wolf On Vaccine Passports
Volokh Conspiracy: First Appellate Court Ruling On CDC Eviction Moratorium Goes Against The Feds
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris Is Nuts, also, $1 Trillion In New Taxes Coming Soon
The Federalist: An FBI So Corrupt It Lets Mass Shooters Rampage Needs To Go, also, Gov. DeSantis Vows To Ban “Vaccine Passports”, Slams Them As “Totally Unacceptable”
Mark Steyn: Teach Me Tonight, also, Hostages Of The Cult

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In The Mailbox: 03.30.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 30, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.30.21 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Still true after all these years.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: SWATting – Will Cops Ever Learn?
EBL: George Segal, RIP
Twitchy: Chelsea Handler Reminds How Vapid She Really Is With This Stupid Take On The Chauvin Trial
Louder With Crowder: Graphic Footage Of Deadly Crash After Two Girls Hijack Uber Eats Driver
Vox Popoli: White America Begins To Secede, also, Pushing Vaccine Passports
Stoic Observations: The Real Steely Dan

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Right Kind Of Realignment
American Greatness: Is Racism Moral Now? also, The Pathetic Genesis Of A Fake News Story
American Power: Tucker Rips Stumbling, Bumbling Biden Press Conference
American Thinker: The Democrats’ War On Black Americans, also, The January 6 Prosecutions Hit A Speed Bump
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Dictatorship’s Spanish Spy Ring Uncovered, also, The Socialist Roots Of Fascism
BattleSwarm: Blue Alert In Mexia, also, Cop Shooter Shoots Himself
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, More Data – Lockdowns Did Nothing To Slow COVID
Cafe Hayek: Ten Problems With Freedom
CDR Salamander: Focus, DOD, Focus – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: GOP Senators Knock Down Walls Of Biden’s Border Potemkin Village, also, No Inflation? Not Buying It
Don Surber: NYT’s Expert On Middle East Smacked Down, also, Biden’s Border Cruelty
First Street Journal: It’s Time To Stop Printing Newspapers, also, The Silliness Of Earth Hour
The Geller Report: Biden’s Humanitarian Disaster At The Border, also, Head Of CCP Details Plan To Defeat United States, Including Manipulating Elections
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, A Large Galaxy & Its Satellite
Hollywood In Toto: How Scorsese’s Cape Fear Did More Than Trump The Original, also, Could Colbert Survive His “Racist” Asian Jokes today?
The Lid: Biden Team Wants Volunteers To Help With Border Crisis
Legal Insurrection: The AP Steps Up To Help Flailing Biden Administration, also, Red China Weaponizes SJWs & Black Lives Matter In Its Covert War Against The U.S. 
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Palm Sunday
Outkick: LA Lifeguards Make Up To $400,000 A Year, also, NBA Ratings Continue Pre-Pandemic Nosedive
Power Line: Judge Ho Tells It Like It Is, also, Today In Campus Crazy
Shark Tank: Who Really Commissioned The Latest Fried/DeSantis Poll?
Shot In The Dark: Learning To Punch
The Political Hat: Senator Cotton Vs. Critical Race Theory In The Military
This Ain’t Hell: Woke-ism In The Military (also Part Deux), also, Donald Lidy – Phony Navy SEAL
Transterrestrial Musings: The Aztec Gods
Victory Girls: Biden Stumbles, Fumbles, & Bumbles As America Burns
Volokh Conspiracy: PA Voters Can Approve Amendment To Limit Governor’s Emergency Powers
Weasel Zippers: Famous Woke Philosopher Signed Petition To Legalize Sex With Children, also, Rose City Antifa Attacks Cars At Random As Police Passively Stand By 
The Federalist: CNN Describes Horrific Murder Of Uber Eats Driver As “Accident”, also, Loudoun County Diversity Council – “We Can & We Will Silence The Opposition”
Mark Steyn: Brokeback Mountain, also, The Hundred Years Ago Show

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Category: Linkagery

Trump-Hating BLM Activist Charged for Attacking Asian Women in Seattle

Posted on | March 29, 2021 | Comments Off on Trump-Hating BLM Activist Charged for Attacking Asian Women in Seattle

News that doesn’t fit the preferred media narrative:

A Black Lives Matter activist and fervent Democrat Party supporter is accused of committing anti-Asian hate crimes in Seattle.
King County prosecutors charged 51-year-old Christopher Allen Hamner, of SeaTac, Wash., with a felony hate crime for targeting multiple Asian victims on two separate occasions in March. Hamner, who is mixed-race, is accused of threatening women and children of Asian background as young as five years old with racial slurs.
On March 16, Hamner allegedly harassed a woman while she was in her car with two children, ages five and 10.
Pamela Cole, the victim, alleged in a Facebook post that Hamner yelled, “F— you, Asian bitch!” She says he jumped out of his vehicle and started “punching his fist together” before throwing projectiles at her car. She called the police.
Three days later on March 19, Hamner allegedly cut off two Asian women with his sedan near a supermarket, blocked traffic in the middle of the road and screamed similar profanities at them. Hamner then got out of his car, charged at the victims who were driving together and launched an object at them, the probable cause affidavit cites. Jenny Wong, one of the victims, posted photos and video of her encounter with Hamner on Instagram.
The Seattle Police Department arrested Hamner on Thursday. His bail is set at $75,000. He is being held at the King County Correctional Facility for the felony hate crime charge plus three additional counts of malicious harassment.
The videos and accusations against Hamner have been surprising for some given his reputation as a staunch BLM and racial-justice activist in the Seattle-area.
In June 2020, Hamner participated in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), where BLM and Antifa extremists seized six blocks of city property. He recorded video of himself in the zone where he was holding an anti-Donald Trump and anti-police sign.
His social media is filled with posts expressing hatred of Donald Trump and Republicans.

Don’t expect to see this reported on CNN.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)




 

Category: Crime, Racism, Washington State

Rule 5 Sunday: Oksana Rykova

Posted on | March 28, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Oksana Rykova

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Those of you who are regular readers of the New York Post’s Page Six have probably seen Ms. Rykova before, usually in connection with Baywatch actor David Charvet. The Canadian model, fitness trainer, and businesswoman splits her time between LA and Miami, and has an Instagram (of course).
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Chilling on the dock

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1302, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Road Trip Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Orfeo Ed Euridice, Wokapocalypse, La Damnation De Faust, Iphegenie En Tauride, Annabelle Attanasio, Elektra, Tricia Takanawa, Idormeneo, Diane Lane, Don Giovanni, Passover Mashup, MAGA Passover, Der Fliegende Hollander, and George Segal’s Women.

A View From The Beach: From New South Wales – Casey Boonstra, Boys will Be Boys and Girls Will be Girls, Fish Pic Friday – Kenzie Rhea, Cities Win and Oysters Lose in Virginia’s High Court, Seven Bridges Road, VA Government Bans Single Use Plastic, Your Wednesday Wetness, Happy Puppy Day!,
Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Betty Brosmer.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Force Majeure

Posted on | March 28, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Force Majeure

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Kentucky Cops Shoot a White Guy
The Political Hat
Underground Truth Network
WLVRNS!
357 Magnum
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Lilly Bakamoto
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

The ‘Extremist’ Boomerang
357 Magnum
EBL

Miami Beach Mayor: ‘If You’re Coming Here to Go Crazy, Go Somewhere Else’
Rotten Chestnuts
EBL

Atlanta: The Backstory Emerges
Dark Brightness
First Street Journal
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: We’re An American Band
A View From The Beach
EBL

An R-Rated Time Capsule From 1982
357 Magnum
EBL

Beach Lives Matter? Black Leaders Say Miami’s Curfew Is RAAAAACIST!
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.22.21
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Boulder: 10 Dead, Including Police Officer; Suspect in Custody, Not Yet Identified
Bacon Time
A View From The Beach
EBL

Syrian Immigrant Ahmad Al-Issa Identified as Boulder Gunman
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.23.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 03.25.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 03.26.21 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

More Bisexual Tumblrina Craziness (and Other Random Insanity Updates)
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.26.21 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending March 26:

  1.  EBL (16)
  2.  357 Magnum (10)
  3.  A View From The Beach (8)
  4.  Proof Positive (6)

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Category: FMJRA Award

The Murder of Mohammad Anwar

Posted on | March 28, 2021 | Comments Off on The Murder of Mohammad Anwar

The word “tragedy” is often used by the media to describe deaths that aren’t really tragic, but the murder of an Uber Eats driver in Washington, D.C., last week certainly deserves that description. Mohammad Anwar, 66, was a grandfather, a native of Pakistan whose family described him as “a hardworking immigrant who came to the U.S. in 2014 to build a better life for himself and his family.” His killers were subhuman scum:

An Uber Eats delivery driver, described by relatives as a hardworking Pakistani immigrant grandfather, was killed in a crash after officials said he was carjacked by two teenage girls in Washington, D.C.
The 13-year-old and 15-year-old, who have not been identified because they are minors, allegedly used a stun gun on the driver on Tuesday, causing him to crash his car, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
When responders arrived at the scene, about a block from Nationals Park, they found the victim suffering from life-threatening injuries, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Mohammad Anwar, 66, of Springfield, Virginia, was identified by his family as the victim, NBC Washington reported. He was working for Uber Eats at the time of the assault, according to relatives and Uber.

The description of the fatal incident in this NBC News account doesn’t adequately explain the horror of what was captured on cellphone video by an eyewitness who started recording as Anwar was attempting to prevent the teenage girls from stealing the car. Anwar was at the driver’s side door of the vehicle, holding onto the wheel, when the carjackers sped off with him hanging out the side of the door. They swerved left, evidently trying to ram him into a lightpole, and then turned right around a corner. The vehicle disappears from sight in the video, then a loud crash is heard. The witness runs down the street and, when he turns the corner, we see the car toppled onto its left side, the two teenage carjackers scrambling out while Anwar’s apparently lifeless body lies on the sidewalk.

Question: Was this a “hate crime”? The two teenage criminals were black, and had no doubt carjacked many other victims before they committed this crime in broad daylight. Were they targeting their victims on a racial basis? There has been a nationwide spree of carjacking in America over the past year, and there is a discernible pattern to these crimes. Almost all the perpetrators are black, and the victims . . .

Well, maybe they’re chosen at random. But maybe not.

At any rate we know who is responsible for this crime wave:

The District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department created a task force [in February] to address a rise in carjackings and auto thefts. . . .
The D.C. department assigned a dedicated group of detectives who specialize in robberies and violent crimes to its new team. The District of Columbia has been hit hard by carjackers this past year. Police data shows that between March and mid-October 2020, carjackings and attempted carjackings rose to 193 from 89 during the same period in 2019 — a 117% increase.
In the past few months, those numbers have surged.
Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 21, 2020, there were 11 cases, according to police spokesperson Alaina Gertz. In that same period this year, there have been 71 — a 545% increase.

Did I mention that D.C. has strict gun-control laws? Isn’t it obvious why Democrats favor gun-control laws? They want to disarm law-abiding citizens, to make it safer for criminals to attack them.




 

Category: Crime, Racism

Joe Biden’s Potemkin ‘Press Conference’

Posted on | March 27, 2021 | Comments Off on Joe Biden’s Potemkin ‘Press Conference’

Let us be clear: What Joe Biden did Thursday was a superficial simulacrum of an actual press conference, a performance stage-managed as carefully as a Wagner opera, intended for the sole purpose of creating the illusion that the elderly fool is not yet completely senile.

White House aides supplied Biden with a photo guide to the reporters, with certain reporters marked by numbers apparently indicating the planned order of pre-screened questions. Certainly, the journalists in the White House press corps are aware, as Conrad Black says, that “the whole occasion was a long-prepared set-up” — and apparently they’re OK with that, because the media was full of praise for Biden’s performance.

Of Biden’s “senior moments” Thursday, Tucker Carlson said:

You’ve heard the term “pregnant pause?” Joe Biden’s pauses were third-trimester quintuplets. These pauses were ready to burst.

Watch the clip:

“So the best way to get something done … if you, if you hold it near and dear to you that you, uh, um, like to be able to … well anyway … I’m … we’re gonna get a lot done.”

We could talk about the lies and smears Biden delivered, like claiming that Georgia’s new election-integrity law is worse than Jim Crow. And I’m like, “Are you freaking kidding me?” I’m a native of Georgia but, fortunately, was only in kindergarten and first grade when federal civil-rights legislation ended de jure segregation. That was roughly a decade after the Supreme Courty’s 1954 Brown v. Board ruling, so the great drama of the civil-rights era was basically over by the time I started second grade. The significance of it all was invisible to most of us kids at the time because our parents excluded us from whatever grown-up conversations they were having about these controversies. But the historical reality of Jim Crow — what it actually was — cannot be revised for the political benefit of Democrats. No honest person claims requiring that voters show ID before casting their ballot is worse than Jim Crow, but Joe Biden is not now, nor has he ever been, an honest person.

As Curtis Houck says at Newsbusters, it was a media “clown show.”

Dominic Green summarizes the pathetic spectacle:

The sorry theatrical display of Biden’s first press conference is an accurate image of what has happened to American democracy. A carefully limited number of carefully selected journalists asked carefully vetted questions. A carefully chosen president read carefully written answers off his cue cards, and carefully avoided taking any questions from Fox or Newsmax.
The White House is no longer the home of democracy. It’s a reality TV series in a care home. Biden mused about how the country has lost its way, about how it used to be so much better, but he seemed fatalistically feeble, as if it was all too much and all too late, and he has already given up. As if the nation is in its twilight years.
‘We’ve got so much more to do,’ he said, as he continually does. But he also ad-libbed, ‘I’ve never been able to plan three-and-a-half, four years ahead.’
How funny. How sadly reflective of the senility of American democracy that he thought that was a smart answer. How shamefully embarrassing for the compliant, complicit media that not one of his questioners bothered to ask whether an inability to plan for the future was what the American people need in their president — especially a 78-year-old who says he expects to run, if that is really the word, in 2024, when he will be 82.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)




 

Category: Joe Biden
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