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No Lower Form of Human Scum Exists: @TheRickWilson Engaged in Blackmail?

Posted on | September 17, 2020 | Comments Off on No Lower Form of Human Scum Exists: @TheRickWilson Engaged in Blackmail?

 

Whenever some “alt-right” type accuses Republicans of being “controlled opposition,” my instinct is to dismiss this as paranoia. But then I remember that, for years, Rick Wilson claimed to be a Republican and now insists, along with the rest of the #NeverTrump crowd, that his unlimited support for Democrats is testimony to his “principles.”

Ace of Spades calls attention to a tweet by Wilson in which he rather transparently threatens Ben Domenech of The Federalist with an “oppo file” he describes as “hideous and vivid” in its details.

Let me share some advice: Never make threats.

If you’ve genuinely got the goods on somebody, either publish it or don’t.

Never threaten to publish dirt about somebody, because that makes it look more like blackmail than journalism. Of course, this business of treating journalists as public figures, subject to gossipy reporting about their personal lives, is a consequence of “cancel culture.” And notice this difference between Wilson and Domenech — Wilson is a longtime political consultant, someone who earned his living on the payroll of campaigns, whereas to my knowledge Domenech has always been an independent conservative journalist, rather than a campaign operative.

Domenech is obviously very close to powerful Republicans, but he is not (and, to my knowledge, never has been) on a campaign payroll. So if Domenech is “fair game” for the kind of “oppo file” smear that Wilson is threatening, then what political journalist is not fair game? Are we now supposed to “vet” journalists as we would a candidate? Because let me tell you that (a) journalists are generally a hard-drinking crowd, and (b) what journalists do when they’re drunk . . .

Well, finish that sentence however you wish. Suffice it to say that there is a pile of potential #MeToo stories lying around in the world of journalism, just waiting for someone to strike a match. You may have noticed the #MeToo campaign kind of lost its momentum once the subject of sexual misbehavior by journalists started making headlines.

Are Republican campaign operatives more scrupulous than journalists? Based on my own years of close observation, I’d say the answer is no.

Rick Wilson ought to consider whether he is scandal-proof, and whether some of his #NeverTrump allies might be vulnerable.

At any rate, anyone who ever had a high opinion of Rick Wilson needs to contemplate their own poor judgment. He’s vile scum.




 

Category: Scandal

Trump Getting 50% of the Catholic Vote

Posted on | September 17, 2020 | 1 Comment

The abortion issue is hurting Biden:

Catholic voters have an opportunity in November to help elect only the second Catholic president in U.S. history in former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, but already the more devout followers are lining up behind President Trump.
Gone are the days when nearly 80% of Catholic voters united to push Irish-Catholic Democrat John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. Catholic voters today are split on the 2020 candidates, even though Mr. Biden is a lifelong Mass-attending Catholic, and Mr. Trump is a Presbyterian.
A Pew Research Center poll released last month found that 50% of registered Catholic voters plan to vote for Mr. Trump, while 49% back Mr. Biden.
“The Catholic vote is not a monolithic vote in America,” said Brian Burch, president of the conservative CatholicVote. “We’ve moved away from that kind of tribal, if-he’s-a-Catholic-therefore-I-trust-him view. There are other reasons inside our own church for that as well. It’s not enough to merely say you’re Catholic.”
While Mr. Biden is known for his regular church attendance — he and his wife Jill Biden worship at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Greenville, Delaware — polls show his supporters within the church tend to be less fastidious in their Sunday habits.
“The more you go to Mass and the more you self-describe as following the church’s teachings, the more likely you are to be voting for Trump,” said EWTN executive editor Matthew Bunson. “If you go to Mass less often and disagree with key teachings, you’re more likely to support Biden.”
About 18% of Catholics say they accept all the church’s teachings, versus 38% who say they accept most of them, and 29% who say they do not accept some key teachings, according to a February EWTN News/RealClearOpinion poll.
“Among Catholics who do practice the faith in a substantive way, yes, there’s been a dramatic shift over the last several decades away from the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party, and I think it’s been especially pronounced under President Trump,” Mr. Burch said.
He cited not only the abortion issue, on which Mr. Trump has been widely described as the most pro-life president ever, but his appeals to “this notion of the importance of place, of country, of patriotism, of family, of meaningful work,” as well as his political grit in the face of opposition.
“His policies are demonstrative proof of his pro-life credentials, but more important, and I increasingly hear this from Catholics, are his fortitude and courage,” Mr. Burch said. “Many Republican administrations in the past have paid lip service to the issue, and while they might be sympathetic to our cause, when things got difficult, they abandoned ship.”
Both camps are making plays for Catholic voters, and for good reason: Not only do they make up 22% of the U.S. electorate, but in nine of the last 10 presidential elections, Catholics voted with the winner, Mr. Bunson said.

Most Americans who identify as “Catholic” are what might be called cultural Catholics — usually people of Irish, Italian or Polish ancestry — who don’t regularly attend services and certainly don’t practice Catholic teachings, or otherwise they’d have six or eight kids. The fact that self-identified Catholic women do not, on average, have significantly more children than other American women tells you all you need to know about the decline of faith. If religious belief does not manifest itself as a behavioral difference from non-believers, then the salt has lost its savour.

To be pro-life is not merely to be anti-abortion. Catholic teaching explicitly condemns artificial contraception, and it is therefore to be expected that self-described Catholics would have far more numerous offspring than non-Catholics. The self-evident failure of Catholics in America to “practice what they preach” is at least as much of a scandal as pedophile priests, and these two scandals are not unrelated. Both are evidence of institutional corruption and being “conformed to this world.”




 

Category: Catholics, Donald Trump, Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 09.16.20

Posted on | September 16, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1111
357 Magnum: The Moral Of The Story Is…
EBL: Milwaukee Trump Supporter Arrested For Defending His Own Home
Twitchy: Newt Gingrich Names Person Who’s “A Major Cause Of The Violence We’re Seeing” On Fox News And Then Things Get Weird
Louder With Crowder: Honey Badger McEnany Levels Press Corps For Not Asking About Peace Deals
Vox Popoli: “We Could Have More Unrest”, also, That Tells Us A LOT About You, Dave
Stoic Observations: Forty Virtues

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Time To Stop Coddling Saudi Arabia Is Now
American Greatness: Fox Outnumbered Hosts Cut Off Newt Gingrich After He Links George Soros To Antifa/#BLM Riots
American Thinker: Western Wildfires Due To Arson & Stupidity, Not Climate Change
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Biden Likens Trump To Fidel Castro On Florida Visit (But Jill Biden Made A Tourism Ad For The Castro Regime)
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan – “Biden Has Dementia”
Cafe Hayek: “Is” Never Implies “Ought”
Da Tech Guy: A Massachusetts Senate Game Changer? also, Five One-Liners Under Other Bloggers’ Fedoras
Don Surber: Sen. Tom Cotton Proposes Undoing What Biden Did For Red China, also, Minneapolis Defunded Police – Violent Crime Rose 55%
First Street Journal: PA’s Governor Wolf Wants To Reinstate Unconstitutional Restrictions He’d Already Suspended
The Geller Report: CBS Used Photos From Phoenix “Latinos For Trump” Event To Cover For Empty Biden Event, also, Red Chinese Organization Funding #BLM-Linked Org
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Looks Like Self-Defense To Me
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Grovels To Woke Mob, Stands Tall Against Conservative Complaints, also, Run Hide Fight Packs Gritty Girl Power Without Woke Theatrics
JustOneMinute: Plenty Of Blame To Go Around
The Lid: Trump Didn’t Downplay Corona-Chan’s Seriousness – But The Democrats Did
Legal Insurrection: NeverTrump Awokening – Orange Man Bad, But Trojan Horse Man Worse, also, Trump Drops The Hammer On CDC’s Attempt To Continue “Critical Race Theory” Despite Presidential Ban
The PanAm Post: Ticking Time Bomb In Venezuela – Gasoline Shortage Worsens & Pandemic Spikes
Power Line: America’s Most Pathetic Government Body? also, NFL Player Bucks Teammates By Honoring Vet, Not Drive-by Shooter
Shark Tank: Ft. Lauderdale’s Democrat Mayor Under Fire For Mismanaging Growing Water Crisis
Shot In The Dark: A Democracy, If We Can Keep It
STUMP: Quick Note On Actuarial Outpost & New Mortality Video
The Political Hat: Abolishing The United States
This Ain’t Hell: Korean War Vet Gives Away $8B Fortune To Die (Relatively) Poor, also, Stolen Valor In A Prop 21 Ad
Victory Girls: Liberal Media Defends Foreign Agent AJ+
Volokh Conspiracy: New Survey On Public Ignorance About The Holocaust
Weasel Zippers: Biden Endorses Man Who Once Called Women “Breeders” And Blogged About 4-Year-Old Girls In Thongs, also, Philly #BLM Organizer – “We Do Not Win If We Rely On An Election”
The Federalist: Up To 95% Of 2020 Riots Linked To #BLM, also, Democrats Are Complicit In The Killing Of Our Police
Mark Steyn: Tal Bachman – Finding Jessica, also, Middle East Peace From President Hitler

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Mandatory ‘Struggle Sessions’ in Arizona

Posted on | September 16, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Robert Shibley, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), calls attention to how “critical race theory” indoctrination is made mandatory at universities:

Teaching about anti-racism in a state university Intro to Communications class is one thing. Telling students they have to do “inner work” on their beliefs as college classwork sounds a lot more like thought reform than education. Maybe this isn’t what it looks like, but if you can’t make a grammar school kid say the Pledge of Allegiance during World War II, there’s no way a professor can mandate psychological therapy for his or her adult students.

In other words, making this kind of indoctrination mandatory — and Introduction to Communications is a required class for all freshmen at Arizona State University — violates the constitutional rights of students.

Ask yourself what educational purpose is intended by requiring students to make a commitment to “doing the inner work of anti-racism”? We might suppose that Arizona State would never have admitted these students if their scholastic achievement was deficient. So it may be assumed that these are reasonably intelligent young people who have completed a state-approved high school curriculum. Unless Arizona schools are demonstrably failing in terms of teaching “anti-racism,” how does requiring this assignment in a freshman communications class constitute an academic necessity? What need is there for this?

Without any evidence of a general need for this “inner work,” then, we may assume that this indoctrination is intended to serve the political agenda of ASU’s faculty and administration. What is that agenda?

Cultural revolution:

A struggle session was a form of public humiliation and torture that was used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at various times in the Mao era, particularly years immediately before and after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and during the Cultural Revolution. The aim of a struggle session was to shape public opinion and humiliate, persecute, or execute political rivals and those deemed class enemies.
In general, the victim of a struggle session was forced to admit various crimes before a crowd of people who would verbally and physically abuse the victim until he or she confessed. Struggle sessions were often held at the workplace of the accused, but they were sometimes conducted in sports stadiums where large crowds would gather if the target was well-known.

The purpose of mandatory “anti-racism” training is to humiliate white people, to destroy their self-esteem by requiring them to confess their guilt of “racism” and denounce themselves as oppressors.

There is another obvious purpose in making these “struggle sessions” mandatory for all freshman. It allows the faculty to identify any potential dissenter in the student body. Any freshman who complains about these “anti-racism” lessons will become a target for destruction. Outspoken conservatives on campus are systematically downgraded by their professors and denied opportunities for grants, internships, etc. All campus benefits are exclusively reserved for those students favored by the liberal faculty and administration; conservative students are subjected to harassment, and excluded from graduate programs.

Confronted with a program of political coercion, most students will voluntarily comply — they are sheep, and will do as they are told. The only hope for conservative students to make it through university is to keep their mouths shut and stay under the radar, to avoid any overt expression of their political beliefs so as not to get “profiled.”




 

Category: Arizona, Education

Liberals Outraged by Million-Dollar Bail for Lancaster #BlackLivesMatter Rioters

Posted on | September 16, 2020 | 5 Comments

 

Actually wrote up an item for The American Spectator yesterday in which I quoted Pennsylvania’s Democratic lieutenant governor:

The $1 million bail quickly came under fire from Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and a local advocacy group, with Fetterman calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” and an infringement on the protesters’ Eighth Amendment right against excessive bail….
“It’s self-evidently unconstitutional,” Fetterman said. “Whatever the merit of the underlying charges, what is absolutely indefensible is a million dollar bail for those charges.” …
City police did not request the bail amount, said Lt. Bill Hickey, the public information officer for the bureau. The District Attorney’s office did not provide any input regarding bail, spokesperson Brett Hambright said in an email.
The protesters are charged with several felony offenses, which are considered in the judge’s equation when deciding bail, as well as the input of police.
“The crimes that these defendants are facing include serious felony offenses,” Hickey said in an email. “This is not a new or unheard of practice and falls within the rules of criminal procedure.”

What I did not expect was that liberals everywhere — who have lately been trying to avoid the suspicion that they’re pro-riot, because that might not be good for Joe Biden’s campaign — would join in the outrage over this. Guess which rioter is getting the most media sympathy?

The father of Kathryn Patterson, 20, an undergraduate student at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, said she was acting as a medic, as she has at other protests in the recent past.
Chip Patterson called Kathryn Patterson’s $1 million bail, set by a magisterial district justice, “obscene.”
“Everything that I know so far, which is not a lot, indicates that Kat is not guilty of those charges. But then again, we’ll have to wait and see,” said Chip Patterson, who lives in Mercersburg, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Lancaster.
He said he has not been able to reach his daughter since her arrest.
“I cannot tell you how long this night has been,” he said Tuesday afternoon. “I think regardless of what these people did or didn’t do, the bail amount is just outrageous and clearly against the Eighth Amendment,” which addresses bail.

Unless I am mistaken, this is the same Chip Patterson who is the head of the English department at prestigious Mercersburg Academy. Perhaps it’s not considered scandalous among the faculty there for a kid to grow up to become a Marxist revolutionary, but Ms. Patterson’s dad seems rather eager to avoid that implication of his daughter’s arrest. Oh, she was merely acting in a humanitarian role as a “medic” to tend the wounds of injured protesters — the Florence Nightingale of Antifa, as it were.

Meanwhile, the president of Franklin & Marshall College, Barbara Altmann, issued a statement via her Instagram page:

Dear Students:
Our community is hurting. We are all processing and trying to contextualize the death of Ricardo Mun?oz in Lancaster city this past weekend. Regardless of the ultimate outcome of this investigation, we all mourn the loss of the life of Mr. Mun?oz. For many, this is a reminder of the deeply challenged relationship between BIPOC and law enforcement. We are shaken as a campus and city. We find ourselves asking questions and trying to understand the moment. These are questions we all should grapple with.
On a community-level, we are also processing the impact that the past few nights of activism have had on a member of our own family. As you are likely aware, F&M student Kat Patterson was arrested Sunday night at the protests. We have read the allegations against her, as reported in the LNP. We stand by our students’ constitutional right to protest. And affirm a presumption of innocence. Senior staff has been in close contact with the family and will continue to do so as we focus on her well-being. Thank you, students, for creating a GoFundMe page to assist Kat and her family; many of us in our community will be contributing.
F&M’s senior staff will continue to work with students, faculty and professional staff, on campus and studying remotely, to support and encourage programs, courses and workshops on these social justice issues. We recognize that many are feeling unsafe, including within our own community. This must change. We encourage everyone to be part of this effort and support one another. We have all been heartened by the persistent and dedicated activism demonstrated by our community, especially by you — our students. Thank you for that. Together, we know we will persevere to a better tomorrow.

Let us assume that the Lancaster police had reasons to arrest Ms. Patterson and charge her with multiple felonies. While I suppose it is possible that this was a case of mistaken identity or something, isn’t it more likely that the cops have video evidence of which “mostly peaceful protesters” engaged in felonious acts of vandalism and arson? We cannot rule out the possibility that the cops just started grabbing whatever anarchist scumbags they could catch, more or less randomly, and that thus the Florence Nightingale of Antifa was mistakenly arrested. But this is 2020, and even in a small town like Lancaster, cops have access to digital surveillance technology that would enable them to prove which particular scumbags committed which specific crimes. Therefore, if cops arrested Ms. Patterson, chances are pretty good they can prove she was doing more than handing out bandaids to injured protesters.

However, we must “affirm the presumption of innocence,” as Barbara Altmann says, which I suppose also should be extended to Ms. Patterson’s personal life, no matter what our common-sense hunch might be. For some reason, commenters yesterday kept suggesting that Ms. Patterson is a fan of British television programs, IYKWIMAITYD.




 

Category: Crime, Pennsylvania

In The Mailbox: 09.15.20 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 16, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.15.20 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Affordable Bail Works As Long As You Ignore The Data
EBL: #BLM, Antifa, & Their Comrades Are Starting Fires In The Pacific Northwest
Twitchy: Miami Restaurant Unhappy With Kamala Harris’ Visit As Customers Threaten Boycott
Louder With Crowder: High School Football Players Suspended For Flying American Flags. On 9/11.
Vox Popoli: How DID They Miss That? also, NFL Ratings Plummet
Free Speech Radio: Silicon Valley’s Planned Coup

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Book Review – The Poor Man’s Guide To Financial Freedom
American Conservative: Trump Connects The Generals & The Military-Industrial Complex
American Greatness: Rasmussen Poll Says #BLM Riots Turning People In Riot Zones To Trump Voters, also, Kamala Harris Promotes “Harris Administration” Plans At Campaign Event
American Power: Hard Times For High Times
American Thinker: Roger Goodell & Wokeness Have Ensured The Decline Of The NFL
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Big Effing Deal News
Babalu Blog: Fake News Busted – Bay Of Pigs Vets Did Indeed Give Trump An Award
BattleSwarm: Two Heroes, also, Nvidia To Buy ARM?
Cafe Hayek: Making The Case For a Policy Of Unilateral Free Trade
CDR Salamander: USAF To USN – “New Fighter? We Already Got One! It’s Very Nice!”
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Phase 3, also, The Real Mideast Deal
Don Surber: ISIS In Compton, also, 90% Of Wildfires Set By Humans
First Street Journal: Rights Delayed Are Rights Denied
The Geller Report: Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) Calls For Disarming Police, Banning Tear Gas, also, Twitter Suspends Account Of Red Chinese Scientist Who Alleges Corona-chan Was Created In Wuhan Lab
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Biden Voters vs. Trump Voters
Hollywood In Toto: Woke Anti-Trump MCU Stars Silent On Disney-Red China Ties, also, How The Indie Film Chess Match Ran Afoul Of Hollywood Groupthink
JustOneMinute: Also Kind Of A Big Deal
The Lid: Trump Was Right About The BIG Comeback Of The Economy
Legal Insurrection: Joe Rogan Offers To Moderate 4-Hour Trump-Biden Debate – Trump Agrees! also, Kamala Lets The Truth Slip
The PanAm Post: Guaido’s New Pact – Solution For Venezuela Or For Interim Government?
Power Line: A Day Brightener, also, A Historic Day
Shark Tank: Frankel Supports Ban Of Laura Loomer’s “Lois Frankel Loves Black Lives Matter” Ad
Shot In The Dark: Ain’t S**t Indeed
The Political Hat: The State Is Revolting Against The People, And Criminals Are Their Vanguard, also, Woke Political Commissars For Law School
This Ain’t Hell: Come On, You Apes! also, In Other News Water Is Wet
Victory Girls: Peace Deal Leads To Palestinian Tantrum
Volokh Conspiracy: San Fran Has Basic Income Program For Pregnant Women – But Women Of Wrong Races Need Not Apply
Weasel Zippers: Antifa Rioter In Lancaster PA Gets Rubber Bullet Right To The Nads, also, Leaked DHS Emails Show Antifa Is In Fact An Organized Group
The Federalist: It Votes For Biden Or Else It Gets The Riots Again, also, Here’s Why Joe Rogan Would Be An Excellent Debate Moderator
Mark Steyn: Feasting On Blood, also, Harry Potter & The Philosopher Stoned

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In The Mailbox 09.15.20 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Due to illness and travel this past weekend, this coming Rule 5 Sunday will be a fully loaded Double Scoop Special.
There won’t be a catch-up FMJRA. Sorry.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: A Petition For Fair & Verifiable Elections
357 Magnum: Climate Change? Try Environmental Insanity
Bacon Time: Wanna See My Big One?
EBL: #BLM Starts Riots In Lancaster PA Over Officer-Involved Shooting
Twitchy: Vox Attacks Ludwig Van’s Glorious Fifth, Demonstrating Their Complete Lack Of Yarbles*
Louder With Crowder: BLM Rioter Attacks Police Car, Gets Tossed Like Noodle Salad
Vox Popoli: Learn To Spot The Lie, also, Facebook Is Color Revolution Confirmed

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Mystery Edition
American Conservative: In Turkey, Even Dead Christians Aren’t Safe
American Greatness: The Great & Powerful Biden
American Power: California Is Toast
American Thinker: How Cultural Marxism Is Grinding Christianity Down, also, How Detroit’s Police Chief Saved His City From #BLM
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Joe Biden Looks The Other Way, Ignores Racism Of Cuba’s Socialist Regime
BattleSwarm: Image Search At The Ministry Of Truth, also, BidenWatch For September 14
Cafe Hayek: Heaven Protect Us From The Muscular
CDR Salamander: Shipyards & The Maritime Industrial Base, also, Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXXVI
Da Tech Guy: Quick Under The Fedora Thoughts, also, Update On The Continuing Illinois Exodus
Don Surber: How Trump Brought Peace, also, Taking Back The House With A Glock & Stilettos
First Street Journal: ME Public School Teacher Uses Class For Blatantly Political Message, School Says Reaction Is Unfair
The Geller Report: Massive Latinos For Trump Caravan In Miami – Media Blackout, also, Portland Jail Releases Arsonist Who Set Fire With Molotov Cocktail – He Sets Six More
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, NGC 1805
Hollywood In Toto: Broken Hearts Gallery Proves Rom-Coms Aren’t Dead Yet, also, MovieMaker Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About Cuties
JustOneMinute: Kind Of A Big Deal – One
The Lid: The Oslo Accords – A Peace Deal That Never Was, also, Slow Joe Forgets Norks Have Nukes
Legal Insurrection: Two LA County Deputies Shot, #BLM Chants “We Hope They Die” Outside Hospital, also, Mike Bloomberg Wants To Buy Florida For Biden For $100 Million
Michelle Malkin: Americans Against Unconstitutional Mask Mandates
The PanAm Post: Why Are The Traditional Political Class & Mainstream Media Attacking Trump?
Power Line: A City In Decline, also, Fire Fanaticism
Shark Tank: Cammack Scores Trump Endorsement In FL-3, Democrat Opponent Calls Her A Liar
Shot In The Dark: Exuberance, Rational Or Otherwise
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Were COVID-19 Deaths Grossly Overcounted?
The Political Hat: RIP Henry G. Stern, also, Not The People’s Revolution Against The State, But The State’s Revolution Against The People
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Presents SGM Thomas Payne With His Medal Of Honor, also, Coup Porn
Victory Girls: Pence Dumps QAnon Fundraiser Hosts
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Finds PA’s Shutdown Order Unconstitutional
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Says Trump’s Peace Deals Are Just “Distractions” From Coronavirus, also, Data Reveals Where Majority Of Biden’s Donations Came From, And It’s Bad News For Dems
The Federalist: Michelle Obama Is Complicit In Netflix Child Porn Film Cuties, also, Fauci Spills The Beans – A Vaccine Won’t End COVID-19 Restrictions
Mark Steyn: The Eyes Of Orson Welles, also, Body & Soul

*Not the original post title. Unfortunately.

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Sorority Sister Turned BLM Radical? Kappa Delta Arrested in Lancaster Riot

Posted on | September 15, 2020 | 5 Comments

 

During the anti-police riots Sunday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (“Cop Shoots Knife-Wielding Maniac, Lancaster Riots After BLM Lies”), police arrested eight people, including Kathryn Patterson, 20, who was “charged with felony arson, felony vandalism, felony riot, failure to disperse and other protest-related charges.” It turns out that Patterson is a junior at Franklin and Marshall College, a private liberal arts college in Lancaster where the annual cost of attendance is $75,801, including room and board. She’s also a Kappa Delta sorority member and an “ally” (whatever that means) of the college Black Student Union:

On Sunday 09/13/2020 Lancaster PD shot and killed Ricardo Munoz. During the protest that evening Lancaster PD detained Kathryn Patterson. Kat is a student at Franklin and Marshall College where she is an ally of BSU, a medic for Green Dreamz and a member of Kappa Delta Sorority.
Kat was providing medical attention to injured demonstrators and has now been wrongfully accused of crimes she could not possibly commit.
We as members of the Black Student Union and Kappa Delta Sorority, have created this fund to raise money for Kat’s bail and any legal fees that she may have incurred while being wrongfully detained.

The Kappa Delta chapter page says this:

Monday morning, our Eta Lambda sister Kat Patterson was protesting the wrongful murder of Ricardo Munoz in downtown Lancaster. Kat was working as a medic to help protestors, and was wrongfully arrested on excessive charges. The Black Student Union of Franklin & Marshall College has set up a Go Fund Me page that will go solely to Kat’s bail.

The idea that a Kappa Delta sorority girl at a pricey liberal-arts college would be running around with BLM and Antifa, rioting because cops shot a knife-wielding lunatic, rather boggles my mind. Just last week, Kat Patterson was profiled on her sorority’s Instagram page:

I decided to join KD because I wanted to surround myself with strong, passionate, like-minded women. Not only have I met some of the most supportive and intelligent people in my life, but I have also had the opportunity to grow exponentially as a person because of what KD has pushed me to accomplish. Every day, the women in KD inspire me to pursue my dreams and change the world, and I love them for that.

Kappa Delta: “Pursue your dreams! Change the world! Go to prison!”

UPDATE: According to police, Patterson is currently being “held at Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $1,000,000 bail.” This tactic of imposing a million-dollar bail was credited with preventing a repeat of the riot Monday night — this ain’t Portland, where they turn the rioters loose as soon as they get arrested. Of course, once they go in front of a judge, their lawyers will get their bail reduced, but at least they’ll spend a couple of nights in jail. Oh, by the way, here’s her mug shot:

 

Photographing a sorority girl without her makeup — what a crime!

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Our favorite Kappa Delta sister and most of her Communist comrades were released from jail Thursday after the judge reduced their bail. Lesson learned?




 

Category: Crime, Education, Pennsylvania
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