At the time of this writing it is 1:10 am in Kiev. Reports now claim 18 civilian opposition protestors have been shot dead by police. The government appears to have fire-bombed the Headquarters of the opposition movement. Things are spiraling toward slaughter:
At least 20 killed and more than a thousand wounded #Euromaidan protesters as of now. Hospitals in #Kyiv are packed
— Myroslava Petsa (@myroslavapetsa) February 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/PzFeed/statuses/435918573786382336
(Salon.Com) Since Florida cannot defend black life against white fear, the question now is: How should black people respond?
How much more are black people in this country supposed to take?
On Saturday, a Florida jury failed to convict Michael Dunn for the callous murder of Jordan Davis. Though he was convicted of three counts of attempted murder and also on a gun charge, a mistrial was declared for the first-degree murder charge. He will face substantial jail time – perhaps up to 75 years on the four charges for which he was found guilty.
Prosecutor Angela Corey has also publicly declared her intent to seek retrial on the murder conviction. However, she is the same prosecutor who oversaw the Zimmerman murder trial and failed to get a conviction. (more…)
(Via Daily Caller) A student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada was forced to issue a formal apology for emailing a picture of President Obama kicking open a door–all because some students thought the image was somehow racist.
The image was actually an edited .gif, and was shown by Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show” last fall. It humorously suggests that the president may be fed up with press conferences.
McGill student Brian Farnan, vice president of the university’s student government, sent out an email with the .gif and the harmless caption, “Honestly midterms get out of here,” according to Legal Insurrection.
What happened next is almost unbelievable: (more…)
Northern and central Virginia local papers are reporting on a very bizarre case involving the disappearance and death of a Virginia reserve police officer, Captain Kevin Quick, who served in the Waynesboro, Va Police Dept.
Kevin Quick was en route to visit the mother of his 4 month old infant daughter in an apartment complex near Barracks Road in Charlottesville, Va when he disappeared. Police have been able to trace the movements of his vehicle, a silver Toyota 4Runner, in a bizarre pattern through central Virginia, up to Manassas in northern Virginia, and then back down again to Louisa County in central Virginia, where it was used as a getaway vehicle in a robbery attempt.
As with almost every aspect of life whatever inherent truths you deny, you are doomed to revisit. Yesterday we outlined the latest media-avoided conversation surrounding yet another racially inspired knock out assault.
Knowing that a single blow to the head can lead to death, as was evidenced recently in the “knock out murder” trial of Jesse Smithers, these awkward, horrific and continually repeating examples are not a game.
They are, for all intents and purposes, attempted homicides.
Capital Murder as generally defined is: “the unlawful killing of another person, with malice of forethought and specific intent to kill“. Remove any of the three essential elements [(1) Unlawful, (2) malice, (3) specific intent] and you have the various degrees of homicide charges.
Remove ‘specific intent’ and you have “Murder 2” unintentional killing. Add in the removal of ‘malice of forethought’ and you have “manslaughter”. Remove ‘unlawful‘ and you end up with “justifiable homicide”.
What you witness in this attack is (1) unlawful and (2) with malice of forethought. The unknown variable is ‘specific intent’. Does the attacker intend to kill the victim ?
Generally, at least in this example, I would surmise no – but one could easily argue, perhaps.
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” http://t.co/IRGCWqpuJu
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) February 11, 2014
The race to replace disgraced former mayor Bob Filner between Democrat David Alvarez and Republican candidate Kevin Faulconer, both former city council members and local government colleagues, ended with a decisive victory for Faulconer.
Faulconer promises to work to heal a city that is reeling from the second resignation of a Mayor in a decade, winning February’s special election in a decisive victory which will allow him to remain in office for the remainder of the disgraced former Mayor’s term, which ends in 2016 (coincidentally).
I’ll be writing up some thoughts on how the media is presenting this again.
The issues are far more complex than can be summarized in a six to eight hundred word synopsis.
There are serious issues represented in how Chris Cuomo and the larger media are continuing to advance a historically flawed narrative surrounding the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. When the trial evidence was presented (poorly in my opinion) and then the jury verdict was announced, a decision by the media was needed. Would they admit their former false presentations, or would they double down on their false media narrative.
It is now clear the media is wantonly doubling down on their falsehoods.
It is also clear the reason they can get away with it is because Mark O’Mara played a white-guilt apologist role in keeping the “why” out of the sunlight.
As the only person who interviewed hundreds of students in/around Krop Senior High School, and having invested thousands of hours in research to the people and motivation’s behind the story, we will attempt clarification.
VERY FEW, almost no-one, at Krop Senior High School knew Trayvon Martin. When you understand why that is, you begin to understand how totally false the entire construct of the shooting storyline, as presented by the media, actually is.
The STAND YOUR GROUND statute was NOT used in either the Zimmerman or Dunn trials. Period.
Let me repeat. The STAND YOUR GROUND statute was NOT used in either the Zimmerman or Dunn trials. Period.
Repetition is needed because literally every single media pundit talking about either trial says, as if it were true, that Stand Your Ground was a factor in the self-defense claims of George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn. However, for media and politicians they can never let facts get in the way of their propaganda.
FLORIDA – Critics of Florida’s Stand-Your-Ground law are using the verdict in the murder trial of Michael Dunn to showcase their argument that state laws should be changed.
Dunn was convicted on three counts of second-degree attempted murder, but the jury could not reach a verdict on first- or-second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis after about 30 hours of deliberations.
“It’s a sloppy bill. It needs to be narrowly tailored and judges need more discretion,” U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat, said Sunday.
“When the law started, the intention was very good: If you break into my house, I’m going to deal with you. But when you extend [that premise]…. there are problems.” (more…)