I know David’s covered this one, but I have a angle I think worth discussing.
TAUNTON — Michelle Carter, the Plainville woman who urged her high school boyfriend to kill himself through a series of texts and phone calls, was responsible for his death, according to a judge who today found her guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the landmark case.
So the judge feels that the woman is guilty for inciting violence. Granted, violence against oneself, but still, there is a responsibility for the death. Okay, let’s take that at face value for the moment, and compare that to other incitements we’ve seen recently.
The civility and decorum of political debate has devolved since the election of Donald Trump at a breathtaking clip.
I know Republicans who are afraid to say they are Republicans and support Donald Trump. Over disagreements about the proper role of government, Republicans are regularly called racists, homophobes, Islamaphobes and sexists.
Today, Democrats regularly impugn the motivations, decency, and even the humanity of their political opponents.
Just a week and a half ago, Kathy Griffin reenacted a beheading of our president.
This week in a Shakespeare play in New York, liberals publicly reenacted yet another assassination of President Trump.
Members of Congress have been screamed at, insulted, and run off the road by angry Democrats.
The so-called peaceful “women’s” rally in Washington included musings of blowing up the White House by star guest speaker, Madonna.
Trump headquarters in North Carolina was firebombed during the primary, and let’s not forget that Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine’s own son was arrested for violence at a Trump rally.
Of course there are hundreds more incidents, with a hat tip to John Hawkins here’s just 20 of them.
If the woman in Massachusetts is ultimately responsible for the death caused by the messages that she was sending, does that mean that the Democrats quoted in Hawkins article are also responsible for the violence resulting from the messages that they are sending?
I will say this again….If you had any doubts as to whether or not advertising works, doubt no longer. In the end, that’s what this is. A reaction to an advertising campaign. An advertising campaign disguised as news. You simply cannot have 24 hour media coverage that is essentially a call to arms to depose a sitting president and not have people react accordingly.
In the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts killing a person while driving too drunk to find a bridge is apparently legal, but sending a text message is a felony, so saith Judge Lawrence Moniz from Daily Wire:
[Michelle Carter]instructs [Conrad] Roy to get back in the truck knowing of all the feelings he has exchanged with her; his ambiguities, his fears, his concerns. This court finds that by instructing Mr. Roy to get back in the truck constitutes wanton and reckless conduct by Ms. Carter, creating a situation where there is a high degree of likelihood that substantial harm would result to Mr. Roy.
Ms Carter was not in a position of authority over the late Conrad Roy. She had no authority to instruct Roy in anything, and Roy had utterly no duty to obey Carter’s so-called instructions. Maybe Roy got back in the truck because he rather be dead than have a ghoul such as Carter for a girl friend.
If you don’t like suicide, then don’t commit it. Given the democrat ghouls like Mrs. Pelosi, and Jim Devine, I’d think they would be nervous about criminalizing ghoulish behavior.
Look I recognize this Comey thing is a rather well beaten and deceased equine, but I’d like to try a little thought experiment. Let’s see you can work this one out for yourselves.
We are being told that the Russians were successful in getting through our security and were able thereby to manipulate our electoral system. It’s so bad we’re being told, that they won’t even tell us how bad it is.
When did this happen? 2016.
And who was in charge in 2016 of Security? Whose responsibility was that security? So what they’re saying, the Democrats and James Comey… Is that they failed utterly to perform their job.
So at the outset it appears that it was the Democrats ….and James Comey Rice, Clapper, Etc who failed this country completely in terms of keeping the place secure from outside interference.
And that’s the best-case scenario. I haven’t gotten to the best part yet.
The best part is that since this whole thing didn’t become an issue until such time as Hillary Clinton lost the election it would appear that all these people that are screaming bloody murder about interference from Russia in favor of Trump, were willing to suborn such interference so long as it helped Hillary Clinton.
While we’re on THAT subject, the number of connections between the Russians and the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton herself along with John Podesta and a number of others makes the whole idea of the Russians favoring Donald Trump in the presidential election laughable on its face.
So what happened here at the very least is a miserable failure on the part of the Democrats and their fellow Travelers in keeping our electoral system secure from outside interference. At worst, and more likely, they #arranged that outside interference. There is no other option. And that’s the real big story here. The rest of it is smokescreen. And that’s becoming increasingly clear on a daily basis.
Memo to Bobby Mueller: Welcome to the kitchen. The political web site, Hill, thinks it lives in some alternative universe, a/k/a Media La-Le Land, were liberals are free to attack, but somehow conservatives must refrain from responding:
President Trump’s legal team and political allies have launched a preemptive strike against special counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump’s backers are furious about a story that appeared Wednesday in the Washington Post, in which five anonymous sources alleged that the president is the target of an obstruction of justice investigation for allegedly trying to bury an FBI probe into his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
So either Robert Mueller, personally or through one of the henchmen he personally hired, leaks like a rusty bucket to the liberal media, but somehow the response to Mueller’s leaks is labelled preemptive. The Department of Justice must make Mueller obey the laws, to which keeps what is secret, secret, or fire him.
Meanwhile, is anybody investigating Mr. and Mrs. Clinton’s obstruction of justice, in getting the DOJ to direct the FBI to clear Mrs. Clinton for her reckless disregard of national security?
The left is revealed in the events of yesterday in Washington. At least, it is in the Foreign Press. The Daily Mail for example.
The gunman who was killed by cops after opening fire on a Republican congressional baseball practice on Wednesday, the president’s 71st birthday, was a Trump-hating Democrat and Bernie Sanders supporter with a long history of violence.
If you had any doubts as to whether or not advertising works, doubt no longer. In the end, that’s what this is. A reaction to an advertising campaign. An advertising campaign disguised as news. You simply cannot have 24 hour media coverage that is essentially a call to arms to depose a sitting president and not have people react accordingly.
And look, this campaign has been going on an awful lot longer than Trumps been in the White House. Look closely at the writings of hate coming out of this man.
“In response to letter writer Roddy D. Riggs calling me ignorant and making up facts, I say: Look up ‘Causes of the Great Depression,’ on Wikipedia. Income inequality is on the list. This theory was held by economists Waddill Catchings, William Trufant, Rexford Tugwell, Adolph Berle and John Kenneth Galbraith and influenced Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It held that the economy produced more goods than consumers could purchase because the consumers didn’t have enough income. In the productive 1920s, the mechanization of industry caused layoffs and unemployment started a steady rise but the rich got richer.
If the rich paid their fair share of taxes today, we wouldn’t be in this predicament. We need to vote all Republicans out of Congress. We need to demand Congress add 10 or more brackets to the existing tax code. We need 20 brackets to $20 million, and a 60 percent top marginal rate.
We can get our country back if we all vote the right way.”
(James Hodgkinson — letter to the editor of the Belleville News-Democrat, July 8, 2012)
Hat tip to Billy Beck who says “ideas have consequences”.
One of his readers response..”yeah, especially when you don’t use your own…”
Yeah well it’s not like you and I both haven’t been predicting this for some time now Billy.
Over at Q&O, Bruce says in part;
So now Bernie supporters are shooting Congressmen and the left has two reactions:
1: Don’t forget this guy spoke at an event put on by David Duke (so it’s tacitly ok #punchnazis).2:Gun control, gun control, gun control … oh, and more gun control.
Is anyone addressing the rabid hate the left has been spouting since January, 20th?
Well, of course not. That would be like taking responsibility or something. Maybe even correctly identifying the situation.
And did you notice Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe whose first response was that 93 million Americans were affected by gun violence every day? At that rate there wouldn’t be any Americans at all, by next Tuesday. This is rather strikingly like the homeless nonsense that came up during the 90s.
But as I say I wouldn’t expect the left to actually identify the real problem. That would cause them to become engaged in self-assessment. That is something they dare not do.
Addendum: (DavidL)
It matters not if the left and media own up to James Hodgkinson. They already own him. The linked Daily Mail article includes a video from 2009 where Hodghinson is shown spouting Occupy Wall Street rhetoric. Hodgkinson was a Bernie Sanders volunteer. In short, the late Mrs. Hodgkingson is the poster child, albeit a dead one, for left wing rabid hatred.
Toxic Masculinity illustrated, male who goes by the name of Lucy Elizabeth Smith, demonstrates how to a rude obnoxious jerk, a/k/a toxic male, from the gentle lady to the North with the snarky website, Small Dead Animals (vulgarity).
Mr. Smith may wear his hair in a ponytail, but he sure needs an anger management class, or two.
As a United States Senator, Bernie Sanders’ job is to protect his constituents in this life, and leave the questions of the existence, or lack therefor, and the nature of any afterlife to the theologians, or so you would think, video:
United States Constitution, Article VI, Section 3.:
… but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
If Senator Sanders believes in what he professes, to be Jewish, and his beliefs are right, he, nor anybody else, any need to worry about any afterlife. Senator Sanders by both his questions to and assertions about fitness for office of Mr. Vought has applied an unconstitutional religious test for office. Sanders is not fit to hold public office, and should resign, or be expelled from the Senate.
As Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton was a national security disaster. Whether due to reasons of bone dumb ignorance or total apathy to security, Mrs. Clinton was unable or unwilling to protect our national security. Yet James Comey bent over backwards to deny that Mrs. Clinton was guilty of criminal behavior.
Aside, the moonbats have lost Chris Matthews, from Washington Examiner:
Liberal MSNBC host Chris Matthews said Thursday the accusation that President Trump directly colluded with Russia to interfere in the U.S. election “came apart” following former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony in front of Congress.
What was the only secret the professional bureaucracy was able or willing to protect? The fact that the FBI never had a criminal investigation into Donald Trump. So on one hand Comey tried to make a guilty Mrs. Clinton appear innocent and an innocent Donald Trump appear guilty. What we have here is attempted coup to oust the lawfully elected President of the United States.
Well, I have.
?Terrorist: We want to kill you in the name of Allah because we’re good Muslims!
Liberal: No, you’re not. That’s not what you believe.
Terrorist: Yes, it is.
Liberal: No, no…you’re oppressed and probably upset about global warming.
The abject cluelessness of the left never ceases to amaze me.
I have often made reference to the fact that these United States could never have been assembled with Islam or any of them pantheistic religions, or for that matter atheism, as its philosophical foundation.
Let’s take a moment to examine this further.
“Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the ‘equality of souls before God.’ This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights…”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
And, again…..
Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
First, this Echoes my point about where the idea of equality before God came from. Secondly we need to consider that Friedrich Nietzsche was both the son and the grandson of men of the cloth. Obviously, he never grew out of his rebellious phase.
These quotes and a good many others I didn’t bother putting in here,are the fruit of the purely scientific, purely humanist point of view. Can you imagine an America being founded with this as its philosophical Foundation? I can’t.
Where do these points resonate?, Well, this is the guy whose Works Adolf Hitler gave to both Mussolini and Stalin.
Frankly I don’t anticipate that any generalized statement isn’t going to be shot down on one point or another particularly where the concepts we are discussing are concerned. Coming up with a unified theory of cultures religion and politics is I believe an impossible task.
Now let’s examine the words of somebody that lived with the direct result of that philosophy…
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When we present man as an automaton of reflexes, as a mind-machine, as a bundle of instincts, as a pawn of drives and reactions, as a mere product of instinct, heredity and environment, we feed the nihilism to which modern man is, in any case, prone.
I became acquainted with the last stage of that corruption in my second concentration camp, Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment; or as the Nazi liked to say, ‘of Blood and Soil.’ I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some Ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.”
-Viktor Frankl
For me, the inescapable conclusion in looking at those quotes is that there are some things that science is not good for, having no answers….That humanism Lacks a certain Humanity and that intellectualism is in many ways like the believers in global warming… Forget about them knowing the answers, because they don’t even have the questions yet.
Within the bounds of pure logic and pure science, and pure reason, there is nothing whatsoever to say that one morality driven by culture or by an individual is superior to another.
Is that really the direction that we want to be going in?
Just as the Sun came up this morning, and garbage stinks, Algore, b/k/a former Vice President, Albert Gore, expressed, well feigned, shock that President Donald Trump withdrew* from the United States from the Paris Accords, from Politico:
Former Vice President Al Gore on Sunday called President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Paris climate agreement a “reckless” choice that “undermines America’s standing in the world,” but he said American business leaders and governors will move forward and reduce carbon emissions without Trump.
[…]
[ Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt]”This is a decision that was right for this country from a jobs perspective, an economy perspective, and an environmental perspective,” Pruitt said, adding: “Paris represents a bad deal for this country.”
Gore, though, said the decision made little sense, given that the emission targets for each country are voluntary, and that he had thought it was possible that Trump would not go through with pulling out of the pact.
So to decipher Algore Speak, although the Paris targets were all voluntary, and the financial burden fell chiefly on the United States; the former Vice President of the United States stated that it made little sense to withdraw from Paris. We pay, the other signatories only promise, but Algore thinks that is a good deal Well maybe it is a good deal in Paris, but not in Pittsburgh.
Moreover, Paris imposed a massive economic burden on the United State but projected to produce no significant environmental results. The projected net reduction in global temperature is less than the United Nations deems worthy of tracking.
[*] Given that the Paris Accorded never received congressional approval, and the President lacks any constitutional authority to unilaterally enact binding international law, was the United States ever bound by the terms of Paris?
Only the Lord knows what the Reverend Al Sharpton’s native language is, but is sure not English, as in the King’s English, from New York Post:
WASHINGTON – The Rev. Al Sharpton said Sunday there’s nothing funny about comedian Bill Maher using the N-word.
[…]
Maher used the N-word during an interview Friday with Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.).
“I’ve got to get to Nebraska more,” Maher told the politician.
“You are welcome,” Sasse said. “We’d love to have you work in the fields with us.”
“Work in the fields?! Senator, I’m a house, n—-r,” Maher said.
The comment sparked laughs and groans from the audience.
It is maybe a bad joke, a poor joke or lame joke. However it was a joke. The proof is that some people in audience laughed. People laughed. It was funny. Therefore it was a joke. Heck is liberal political commentators, posing as comedians, such a Bill Mahar or Kathy Griffin didn’t tell bad jokes, they would not have any material.
Me and former Speaker Tablecloth, b/k/a Mrs. Pelosi, do share a common trait To wit, neither one of us are Catholic. I have never been, and Mrs. Pelosi only pretends to be when it suits her political whims. Mrs. Pelosi cites the Pope as an authority on global warming, when he is no more a scientist than Bill Nye, but ignores the head of the Roman Catholic Church when the Pope speaks out against abortion. video:
Reax and hat tip, Steve Hayward, Power Line:
By invoking Pope Francis on climate change, Nancy Pelosi unwittingly confirms that the climate mania is indeed a matter of religious fanaticism, especially since she exhibits medieval ignorance about the subject by confusing greenhouse gases with “the air we breathe.” Or maybe the sainted Ms. Pelosi doesn’t exhale poisonous carbon dioxide with every breath? However crude and boorish Trump may seem at times, it becomes clear why he won when you consider what he is up against:
Alas, poor Mrs. Pelosi, too stupid to even read the proper talking points.
From the woman formerly known as “The Smartest Woman in the World” more drunken stupidity, via Fox News:
Hillary Clinton came out swinging Wednesday, ripping Russia for her November loss to President Trump and accusing the White House of colluding with Moscow in weaponizing technology to bring her campaign down.
Clinton linked Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections to Trump and said she hoped investigators would be able to unmask a plot to interfere in the U.S. elections.
I am sure, Vlad, Vladimir Putin, told Mrs. Clinton to keep our national secrets in a home brewed computer she set up in her bathroom.
Say what you will about Kathy Griffin.
I find her actions exemplary.
No, seriously, in the sense that this is precisely what we’ve come to expect from moonbats…. Constantly going off the deep end in support of a far leftist political agenda, and then feigning shock and amazement, when they get called on it.
It’s predictable consistently.
The reason it’s gotten to that point is very simple. They get called on it so seldom.
I’ve been arguing for years that going after this nonsense more aggressively is the path we should be taking as a culture.
But I don’t expect it anytime soon.
One more thing. Recently I cited Colin Kaepernick and his inability to get a job in the NFL to be an example of how the culture is more powerful than the government.
I would cite this situation as another such example.
As with Kaepernick, the kind of blowback that she got on this outrage is precisely how it’s supposed to work. Freedom of speech in terms of governmental retribution is a given. Isolation from retribution from society is another matter however. There are consequences for speech. Regardless of whether the government is constitutionally enabled to react. As such, I consider the government governmental reaction to it to be over the top and probably counterproductive, to say nothing of questionable constitutionality.
As for Griffin herself, she just ended her career. And rightly so.
