Left wing activists did a July fourth noise protest outside an ICE detention center where they shot off fireworks. One of them went rogue and left the main group and vandalized the facility with spray paint. Police were called, and this man and the officer had a shootout. The officer was shot, but not killed.
The Trump administration successfully charged the activist group with terrorism and gave them lengthy prison sentences.
The group’s ideology was used to claim that they were all terrorists, even though it looks like one guy got into a shootout and there wasn’t an actual plan to shoot anyone.
Most of the group is guilty of trespassing and illegally shooting off fireworks. Some harbored the shooter on the run. One guy was convicted of terrorism charges and he wasn’t even there; he was convicted of terrorism because he had left wing material in his vehicle. Lengthy terrorism convictions in response to these actions are acts of tyranny. I’ve advocated prosecuting protestors who regularly cross the line into illegal activity, but, they should be prosecuted for what they have actually done, not Trumped up terrorism charges.
The prosecutors overcharged under directives from the Trump administration.
Some of the left break the world into oppressors and the oppressed, and when they see a group as a member of the oppressed, members of that group can rape, burn, steal, and kill…and neither punishment nor concern is warranted.
We’ve got to be able to have fair, reasonable ways to tax the super wealthy without demonizing them.
The wealthy pay a lot, however, due to how incredibly much they have, and inequality, they still don’t pay their fair share. The goal of taxation is to pay for government in the least harmful way possible, not to liquidate the rich. Fair taxation and reasonable welfare policy is good. Class warfare is evil. A society that taxes in order to end billionaires, or that uses rhetoric that endangers the wealthy, will be a violent and repressive society–either because the masses will turn authoritarian and violent, or because the wealthy will out of fear.
A big Mexican Cartel Boss was killed by Mexico with intel help from the US. Afterwards, violence escalated around Mexico. The cartel’s forces are almost as well equipped and trained as the Mexican military. The cartel is attacking the Mexican military around the country and creating chaos.
Young person was standing there holding a loudspeaker, probably ignoring orders to back up, when ICE grabbed him and pulled him away. Another young man with a loudspeaker ran toward his kidnapped comrade, where ICE shot him point blank in the face with some sort of non-lethal weapon. He has serious eye damage and may be blind in one eye. DHS then lied about the severity of the wound. DHS also claimed that they were rioters, although the video made it look like they were standing there talking into loudspeakers when DHS grabbed one of them.
“Trump may have pardoned Cole last year as part of the sweeping clemency that he gave to Jan. 6 offenders on his first day back in office.
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Trump’s proclamation commuted the sentences of 14 individuals and also granted “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.” This immediately covered roughly 1,500 people, including hundreds of defendants who were charged with assaulting or resisting law enforcement officers.
Lawyers for Cole did not respond to a question about whether they intend to argue that Cole is entitled to a pardon if convicted. But there are several legal and factual points that are worth zeroing in on if they pursue that strategy.
For starters, it does not matter whether Trump specifically intended to pardon the person who planted the pipe bombs. Under the law, it is the text of the pardon that matters — not the subjective intention of the president or the DOJ’s interpretation of it.
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Cheerleaders of the sweeping Jan. 6 pardon did not bat an eye when Trump knowingly freed people like Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio — leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, respectively, who were convicted at trial of a seditious conspiracy to prevent the transfer of power to Joe Biden. And they have remained silent as some of the people that Trump pardoned have gone on to commit more alleged crimes — a predictable development given the empirical evidence on recidivism rates among convicted felons. Some of these crimes have been explicitly political in nature, including threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
For all that’s happened in the last year, Trump’s Jan. 6 pardon remains one of his most stunning acts since he returned to office.”
The overwhelming share of shootings in the US are from arguments. They aren’t from people committing a crime, or people murdering for revenge, they are from heated arguments, and in the moment of escalation, someone shoots someone else.
Wealthy areas have much less shootings, but even between neighborhoods with similar socio-demographics, there are some with high shootings and some with low shootings.
Experiments that involve cleaning up vacant lots in neighborhoods, and teaching men how to respond to provocation, have found drastic reductions in violence.
“Bray also addressed threats of violence against many of his own members received after signaling they don’t support remapping the state ahead of next year’s midterm election.
“It’s unsettling for all of our members and people across the state to endure that,” he said of the dozen or so elected Indiana Republicans who have faced threats of pipe bombings, swattings and unsolicited deliveries of Domino’s pizza.”