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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | July 30, 2019 | 3 Comments

Karl ‘Evie’ Amati in 2015, after sex-change surgery in Thailand.

Karl Booth Amati grew up in privileged circumstances, the son of two senior labor-union representatives, and graduated from prestigious Shenton College in the suburbs of Perth, Australia, with top grades in 2009. Amati moved across the country to Sydney where, through family connections, he obtained a job at the headquarters of CPSU, the government employees union in Australia. Two years later, in June 2012, Karl posted on Facebook that he had “wanted to be a girl for a while now and wants to act more publicly feminine.” Shortly thereafter, Karl began taking hormones, calling himself “Evie,” and eventually traveled to Thailand for sex-change surgery. There were post-surgical complications, and Karl/“Evie” began suffering “excruciating pain,” his/“her” attorney later explained in court, saying Amati “began to experience visions, hallucinations and suicidal and homicidal ideation.” In January 2016, Amati had a date with a woman he/“she” had met via Tinder, but that went badly, with Karl/“Evie” feeling that his/“her” date found him/“her” “unattractive … on the basis she was transgender.” Amati had been drinking vodka and taking drugs, including marijuana and the hallucinogen MDA, and on Facebook in the wee hours of the morning declared: “Humans are only able to destroy to hate so that is what I shall do.” About 20 minutes later, Amati walked into a convenience store, carrying an ax and with a long knife in his/“her” back pocket. Amati used the ax to attack two customers in the store, inflicting severe injuries, then left the store, later attacking a homeless man on the street.

 

At trial, Amati’s attorney argued that he/“she” should be acquitted on the basis of his/“her” mental illness, but the jury rejected that defense and convicted the ax-wielding tranny of felony offenses that carried a minimum prison sentence of 20 years. However, the judge sentenced Amati to a term that could set the attempted murderer back on the streets in less than five years. Amati has not been a model prisoner:

Convicted axe attacker Evie Amati, who was jailed over an axe attack at a 7-Eleven, has been involved in a prison fight because other inmates want her moved to a male jail.
Amati’s involvement in a prison fight emerged during an appeal against her “manifestly inadequate” sentence for attempting to murder three people with an axe in January 2017.
The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal heard that Amati’s maximum nine-year and minimum four-and-a-half year sentence was “so manifestly inadequate that it is an affront to the administration of justice”.
Crown barrister Maria Cinque told the CCA that nine years was inappropriate for just one of the three attacks, on victim Ben Rimmer whose face Amati split, fracturing his nasal bone, eye socket and cheekbones.
News.com.au has learned that Amati, who underwent gender reassignment surgery in Thailand in 2014, had been involved in fights at the all-female Mary Wade Women’s Correctional Centre since her 2018 trial.
During the appeal against Amati’s short sentence, it emerged that she and a female inmate became involved in a fight after the inmate told Amati she should be in a male prison. . . .
Before the late-night attack, Amati had been on a failed Tinder date and ingested a cocktail of drugs with alcohol.
She’d bought the axe months before and tested it on a couch, and on the night of the attacks heard a voice telling her to “kill and maim … and start the rise of hell on Earth”.
Sentenced in January this year, Amati faced a maximum 75 years in prison with a minimum term of 20 years. . . .
Maria Cinque for the Crown told the CCA last week Amati’s sentence showed “a disconnection”.
“The non-parole period [four-and-a-half years] is only six months more than the indicative (minimum) sentence for the first offence,” she said.
Amati’s barrister, Peter Lange, told the court the sentencing judge had taken into account several unusual features, including the interplay of gender dysphoria, a depressive illness and drug-taking.

Translation: “Your honor, my client is a violent lunatic, and therefore you can’t impose the same sentence you would on a sane criminal.”



 

Category: Australia, Crime, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 07.29.19

Posted on | July 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: UK to Mandate That Phones/Dishwashers/etc. Be Too Expensive for the Average Person
EBL: You Know What Rat-Infested Baltimore Needs?
Twitchy: Woman Who Exposed Baltimore In Video Series Notes That Confederate Statues Were Removed Overnight
Louder With Crowder: Dear Race-Baiting Leftists – Only Racists See Racism Everywhere

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: We’re Back, Baby, also, Podcast #116 – The Search For A Good Hooker
American Greatness: Democrats’ Attack Machine Revs Up Against Ratcliffe
American Power: “Complete Chaos” At Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
American Thinker: If Mueller Wasn’t In Charge, Who Was?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuba Was A Modern, Thriving Country In 1958 Before Socialism Destroyed It
BattleSwarm: Trump Vs. Baltimore, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: Lifestyles Of The Modern Rich & Famous?
CDR Salamander: No Summer Break For NATO – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Literacy Is Power, also, Baltimore Needs More Republicans – So Do Detroit & Chicago
Don Surber: Miss Dowd Is Next At The Guillotine
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Something More For Her Wallet
First Street Journal: Baltimore Sun Says Trump’s Comments On Rats & Filth Are Mean. Baltimore Sun Also  Says – City Is Full of Rats & Filth
The Geller Report: Child Killed In Frankfurt After Being Pushed From Train Platform With Mom By Migrant, also, Muslims Threaten To Blow Up Indian Rail Station If Hindus Pass Through
Hogewash: A Starbursting Galaxy, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Seven Reasons The Woke Left Turned On Quentin Tarantino
Joe For America: Mad Maxine Waters Has A Vile Message For Trump Supporters
JustOneMinute: Hacking The Next Election
Legal Insurrection: Democrats Accuse Trump Of Racism To Deflect From Malfeasance & Neglect In Baltimore, also, Student Accused Of Trying To Chain College Republicans In Classroom Won’t Face Charges
Michelle Malkin: Open Borders Churches Hide Human Trafficking Behind The Cross
The PanAm Post: The “New” FARC, also, Brazil’s Deficit Falls 14% Under Bolsonaro Compared To 2018
Power Line: Four Pinocchios For The Washington Post, also, Trump As “Crazy Eddie”
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Breaks With Trump, Will Vote Against Budget
Shot In The Dark: Kicking & Screaming
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: The Waterdogs & Your Tax Dollars At Work, also, Pentagon Funds OK’d For Border Wall
Victory Girls: Kids Still In Cages, But Nancy’s Going To Africa!
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Ginsburg On Justices Gorsuch & Kavanaugh
Weasel Zippers: Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooter Was Italian/Iranian Who Hated White People, also, Bernie Sanders Likens Baltimore To Third World City, Flips Out When Trump Quotes Him
Mark Steyn: Nightmare Alley, also, A Bushel & A Peck Of Heart And Soul

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‘Avenge the Patriotic Gore That Flecked the Streets of Baltimore’

Posted on | July 29, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Avenge the Patriotic Gore That Flecked the Streets of Baltimore’

During the Civil War, the Lincoln administration suppressed civil liberties in Maryland, where anti-war “Copperhead” Democrats were a majority. Both freedom of the press and the right of habeas corpus were denied to Lincoln’s opponents in Maryland and in April 1861, less than a week after the surrender of Fort Sumter, there was a riot in the streets of Baltimore. Hundreds of anti-war Democrats confronted the 6th Massachusetts regiment, which marched through the city to transfer between railroad lines on their way to Washington, D.C. Attacked by the mob — throwing bricks and firing pistols — the troops opened fire.

Four soldiers and 12 civilians were killed. Among the wounded was a recent Georgetown graduate, Francis X. Ward, whose friend and former classmate James Ryder Randall, a Baltimore native, was inspired to write a poem urging Marylanders to resist the “despot” Lincoln:

The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door,
Maryland!
Avenge the patriotic gore
That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen of yore,
Maryland! My Maryland!

Set to the same tune as “O, Christmas Tree,” Randall’s poem eventually became the Maryland state song. A lot has changed about Baltimore in the intervening decades, but the city is still run by Democrats who have an especial hatred for Republican presidents. John Hoge reminds us that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s father Tom D’Alessandro was mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959. In 1948, Mayor D’Alessandro dedicated a memorial to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in Baltimore: “Today . . . we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions.”

Well, a Republican president has some thoughts about Baltimore:

Noting that Rep. Elijah Cummings, a top House Democrat and leader of the impeachment caucus, represents the crime-ridden mess that is Baltimore, President Trump launched an attack that is being called “racist” by Democrats, but which is the first time in my memory a top Republican has called attention to how Democrat-run cities are a nightmare. The war of words over Baltimore is not one that Trump can lose, simply because the facts are indisputable.



 

Category: Democrats, History, Maryland

Red Pill: Celebrity Pastor Josh Harris Divorces Wife, Renounces Christianity

Posted on | July 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

Normally, I ignore church scandals, but the apostasy of Josh Harris hurts at a personal level. My wife and I began homeschooling our children in 1996, and so we were — indirectly, but in a real way — part of the same Christian community that produced Josh. When we lived in Gaithersburg, my wife and daughter attended a weekend women’s conference at Covenant Life Church, where he was youth minister before becoming senior pastor, replacing C.J. Mahaney. Some commentary about Josh’s apostasy suggests that it was somehow a predictable sequel of the child-abuse scandal that hit Mahaney’s Sovereign Grace Ministries in 2011. However, I was more reminded of the downfall of Doug Phillips, an eminent figure in Christian homeschooling who was destroyed by a 2014 sex scandal. Christian leaders who make themselves national spokesmen for an ethos of sexual purity are, necessarily, forfeiting their privacy and exposing themselves to destruction if they stray from the narrow path. Paula Bolyard summarizes feelings I share:

Many Christians (homeschoolers, in particular) are familiar with the Harris family — Josh’s mother and father, Gregg and Sono Harris, were pioneers in the Christian homeschooling movement of the ’80s and ’90s and Josh’s book advocating the view that dating should be avoided in favor of a courtship model sold more than a million copies . . . Many of us were understandably shocked and disappointed by Harris’ apostasy (the Greek word means simply a defection or revolt). An individual whom many of us admired and learned from has chosen to forsake Christ and embrace the world — he’s denounced the faith of his childhood, one that he has embraced very publicly over the last two decades. . . .
Besides being a warning about dangers of Evangelicalism Inc.’s celebrity culture, these incidents also serve as a warning about how Satan prowls about like a roaring lion “seeking whom he may devour.” Make no mistake: The prince of this world revels over each and every one of these stories.

Indeed. This son of eminent church leaders, a bestselling author whose message made his name familiar to millions of young Christians, must surely have been a target of Satan’s most fiendish demons, who now dance in delight at his downfall. We have been warned that the kingdom of God shall not come “except there come a falling away first,” and that we “be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled” by such apostasies.

What happened to Josh Harris? Honestly, I don’t know. He quit the pulpit in 2015, and by 2017 was promoting himself as a consultant offering businesses “branding and content strategy.” He announced his separation from his wife in sensitive blue-pill language (they “will continue our life together as friends . . . to create a generous and supportive future for each other and for our three amazing children”). We don’t know what we don’t know, but we may speculate that his wife — who had fallen in love with him when he was a evangelical superstar — lost interest in her husband once he ceased to be a celebrity. The Mahaney scandal must have inflicted collateral damage on Josh’s reputation and status as a leader, and what is the church to such a Christian celebrity except a source of status, an adoring audience for his performances? Necessarily, the celebrity pastor’s wife becomes part of the performance, playing the role of Perfect Christian Wife, and what happens when the show is over? What happens when the pastor leaves the pulpit and there is no longer an audience for this performance?

Maybe Josh Harris could learn something from Rollo Tomassi, but as I say, we don’t know what we don’t know. In his Instagram apostasy announcement, Josh Harris went out of his way to apologize to “the LGBTQ+ community.” My hunch is that this was not a coincidence, but I’ll avoid sharing my other hunches about the significance of this.

There are probably many lessons to be learned here, but I’ll skip the didactic approach and simply mourn Josh Harris’s apostasy.



 

Category: Religion

Rule 5 Sunday: Victoria Baldessara

Posted on | July 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It’s Canadian Teen Drama Starlet Week here at Rule 5 Sunday, which is why we’re wishing Victoria Baldessara of The Next Step happy birthday. She’s been a regular on the show for six seasons, playing a member of a competition school dance troupe, with all the drama that entails. Baldessara has also participated in the show’s concert tours. I guess it’s pretty popular; Wikipee claims it’s been renewed for 78 more seasons, but that’s probably a typo. Here she is, looking very mature in a white bikini.

A seaside view

Ninety Miles From Tyranny has Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #692, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Socialism Sucks Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon. This week’s slice from Bacon Time is Rule Five Daisy Dukes.

EBL’s herd this week includes Astronaut Wives, Thieving Tiana Lowe, Ice Cream Day, Time For Mars!, Fool On The Hill, Jerry Nadler, Tiger Women, Sharmila Nicollet, and Jessica Brown Findlay.

A View from the beach offers a nice selection: From Pandora’s Box, Priscilla Quintana, Florida Refugee Caught in Maryland, Fish Pic Friday, Is Taylor Swift the New Queen Maker?, Just Another Wet Shirt Wednesday, Almost a Good Enough Reason to Go to Baltimore, Ugly Duckling Glues Self to Road in Climate Protest, A Good Question, Over My Pampered Ass, It Seems Like a Radical Solution, You Will Be Made to Conform and Steaming Through Russiagate

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Lana Turner, and at Dustbury, it’s Chelsea McGehee and Kriti Sanon.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Kryptonite

Posted on | July 27, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Kryptonite

— compiled by Wombat-socho

‘Oikophobia’ and #NeverTrump: How Can We ‘Secure the Blessings of Liberty’?
Bacon Time
Dark Brightness
Amerika
357 Magnum
EBL

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

Saying ‘Thank You’ to David Atkins
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Floating
A View From The Beach
EBL

Forgotten History for a Sunday in July
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.22.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Ourselves and Our Posterity’
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.24.19 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Mueller Hearing a Democrat Debacle
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.24.19 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

The Mifsud Mystery
EBL

Jonathan ‘Jessica’ Yaniv and How Transgenderism Destroys ‘Rights’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.25.19
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Brain-Eating Amoeba’
EBL

Meet the Women Who Ruined Twitter
EBL

Gang of Black Teenagers Mercilessly Beat White Tourist at D.C. Hilton Hotel
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.26.19
Dark Brightness
Proof Positive
A View from The Beach
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending July 27:

  1.  EBL (17)
  2.  A View From The Beach (8)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery!

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In The Mailbox: 07.26.19

Posted on | July 27, 2019 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Deadline to submit links for the FMJRA is noon tomorrow; for Rule 5 Sunday, midnight.


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OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Chuck The Wonder Dog
EBL: Once Upon A Time In Pedowood
Twitchy: Alyssa Milano Rails Against Pro-Lifers’ “Bullshit” While Sticking Up For Actual Convicted Child Murderers
Louder With Crowder: “Jessica” Yaniv Tried Showing Young Girls Pornography, also, Sabo Strikes Again
According To Hoyt: Today I Got The Libertarian Up
Vox Popoli: Neon Revolt Sums Up The Devil Mouse, also, Stop Whining About Wikipedia, Conservatives

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Covenants Without The Sword
American Power: Orioles Beat Angels In 16 Innings, Outfielder Gets The Save
American Thinker: Do You Understand That Democrats Will Destroy America?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Socialism Sucks Friday
Babalu Blog: Cardinal Jaime Ortega Dies On Anniversary Of Cuban “Revolution”
BattleSwarm: Mueller’s Testimony – A Roundup, also, LinkSwarm For July 26
Camp of the Saints: Mueller The Drooler & Other Observations
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: POTUS “Rapping” On The Culture Door, also, Punking The Nutroots On #MuellerMadness
Don Surber: Twump Hurts CNN’s Feewings
Dustbury: Not A Wildcat In The Bunch
First Street Journal: Tulsi’s Tears, also, Math Are Hard
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Owned By/Colluding With Terrorist Sponsor Qatar? also, Louis Farrakhan Falsely Claims Talmud Permits Sex Crimes
Hogewash: Another Day Older & Deeper In Debt, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Geraghty’s Between Two Scorpions Knows What Scares You
Joe For America: Should Rashida Tlaib Be Evaluated By Mental Health Professionals?
JustOneMinute: The Eternal Sunshine Of The Impeachment Mind
Legal Insurrection: SCOTUS Rules In Favor Of Wall Funding, also, Democrats Begin “Impeachment Investigation”, Seek Grand Jury Info
The PanAm Post: Argentinian Cultural Leaders Back Reelection For Macri
Power Line: Tulsi Sues Google, also, Just Married…And Divorced
Shark Tank: Senate Democrats Introduce Progressive Carbon Tax
Shot In The Dark: The Intersectional Minstrel Show
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Economics & Politics Of Race
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Local Head Of POW/MIA Group Under Fire
Victory Girls: Democrats Still Grasping For Impeachment Ring After Mueller Hearings
Volokh Conspiracy: Judge Rejects Nicholas Sandmann’s Claim Against The WaPo
Weasel Zippers: Bill DeBlasio – “Trump Will Not be Welcome Back In NYC” After Presidency, also, Trump Breaks Guatemala
Megan McArdle: Farewell To Mark Kleiman


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Gang of Black Teenagers Mercilessly Beat White Tourist at D.C. Hilton Hotel

Posted on | July 26, 2019 | 2 Comments

Is this a “hate crime”?

Police are hunting for 14 teenagers caught on video brutally beating a tourist outside a renowned hotel in Washington, DC.
Disturbing surveillance footage recorded at the entrance to the Washington Hilton Hotel at around 1am on July 14 shows the group of girls and boys believed to be around 13-14 years old attacking the man as he lies defenseless on the ground.
The video was released by the Metropolitan Police Department on Wednesday.
Authorities have asked for the public’s help in identifying the assailants.
The video shows the gang of teens exchanging a few words with the man before one of the boys punches him, knocking him backwards.
The rest of the group joins in and they proceed to kick and punch the man repeatedly.

 

To me, what’s most shocking about the video is that the Hilton is a posh hotel in the affluent Northwest section of D.C., off Connecticut Avenue a few blocks from Dupont Circle. Why was this gang of teenagers loitering around the entrance to the hotel in the first place? And what were those “few words” exchanged between the tourist and his assailants that preceded the beating? But we are supposed to shrug our shoulders and not spend too much time thinking about this frightening scene in terms of what it might symbolize about our society.



 

Category: Crime
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