Category Archives: crime
Civil Disobedience Not What It Used To Be
Civil Disobedience isn’t about fighting for your rights by enduring police dogs and fire hoses anymore.
Last year Antifa thug Gage Halupowski got six years for bashing Adam Kelly in the head during a protest riot. And this year it was Shelley Luther who went to the slammer for opening her hair salon.
Civil Disobedience
The Dallas Morning News reports a judge fined the hair stylist $7,000 and locked her up for a week for re-opening her salon on April 24 in violation of a stay-at-home order.
But the Texas Supreme Court ordered her release the next day.
Meanwhile 77-year-old Carl Manske wasn’t so lucky. His license was revoked for re-opening his Michigan barbershop. So Operation Haircut protesters plan to cut hair in his support on the Statehouse lawn May 20. Governor Gretchen Whitmer says the protest will spread the virus.
Due Process for Me but not for Thee
Vice President Biden gutted due process for college students accused of sexual assault. While serving under President Obama he helped change Title IX rules so that accused offenders were considered guilty until proven innocent.
But along comes President Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVoss. And on Wednesday she brought colleges back to the Magna Carta era by restoring due process to Title IX.
Biden says that’s “wrong.” And he promises to “put a quick end to it January 2021.”
And its not just an academic thing for him. Here’s what he had to say about the Brett Kavanaugh hearings:
Start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts.”
But no such presumption for Tara Reade.
On Friday, Biden said in a statement that Reade’s claims “aren’t true,” adding that “this never happened.”
Newsweek
Not Just Hair Sniffing for Joe Biden Anymore
It’s not just hair sniffing anymore. Tara Reade, a former Joe Biden senate staffer, has accused Biden of sexual assault. Uh oh! As President Obama’s point man reforming campus “rape culture” Biden helped gut due process rights for those accused of sexual assault.
Biden’s rhetoric has also employed a de facto presumption of guilt. On a 2017 conference call with campus accusers’-rights activists, Biden offered a simple message to those who alleged that they had been sexually assaulted: “I believe you.”
KC Johnson, City Journal
And during Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing Joe had this to say:
For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real
Robby Soave, Reason
Plenty of FBI Abuse to go Around In IG Report
Eli Lake at Bloomberg thinks the FBI is lucky, in a weird sort of way. That’s because the IG report shows the FBI abuse wasn’t just aimed at the Trump Campaign. The IG also found 39 other defective FISA applications.
In the twisted politics of the Trump Era, some of bureau’s defenders might actually view this report as good news: It shows that the investigation of the Trump campaign was not necessarily politically motivated. The bureau made the same kinds of mistakes with suspects who were not connected to the Trump campaign.
Jeff Bezos iPhone Hack by Saudi Prince Mystery
The WSJ (paywall) reports that an outfit named FTI Consulting thinks Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hacked Jeff Bezos iPhone. The firm has “medium to high confidense” that the prince did the deed through a WhatsApp account.
Saudi officials call the allegation absurd.
