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1776 > 1984
The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.
The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide
Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
I'm more concerned that it's the default career option for people who first join the military, realize that it doesn't give them what they were looking for, and turn to policing as a better option to get it.
It seems to me that the thing that they are looking for is some combination of a power trip / ego boost and the ability to intimidate and control others.
One guy dies of a drug overdose and millions riot, regardless if the accused was found guilty or innocent, and they riot.
Millions die of a phony vaccine / genetically engineered virus, bull$#@! wars, starvation, genocide, and they put their hands out and demand welfare.
1776 > 1984
The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.
The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide
Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled
Ordinarily, I would have thought that most people of good will would be happy that this case is a de facto repudiation of Israeli sourced police/occupation tactics.
Or do I hope too much?
True that a broken clock can be right twice a day.
But hypocrisy drip was tad bit too much when a guy on whose watch these things happened talks about "justice":
Lawyer representing family of Miriam Carey, Conn. mom killed in U.S. Capitol car chase, arrested, report says
Oct 19, 2013
(CBS) NEW YORK - Eric Sanders, the lawyer who is representing the family of Miriam Carey, the Stamford, Conn. mother who led authorities on a chaotic car chase from the White House to the U.S. Capitol before being killed by authorities earlier this month, has been arrested for failing to pay court settlements against him, the New York Post reports.
Daughter of Pastor who called Obama a 'puppet of bankers' arrested
Son of civil rights leader who criticized Obama arrested
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...et-prosecuted&
MAGA Allies: 'Bully Israel with undeclared nukes steals land'
Dangerous conspiracy theories on Right claim MAGA fake frontgroup
Poll: Should US apologize for financing radicalization of Afghan children in 80s?
Obama-Clinton Years: A Violent Chapter in World History
Trump: If (Neocon) Adelson Backs Rubio "He'll Have Total Control" Over Him
Delta variant, death of 9 Chinese engineers in terror attack led to airport chaos & quick Kabul fall?
Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11
Pfizer Macht Frei!
Openly Straight Man, Danke, Awarded Top Rated Influencer. Community Standards Enforcer.
Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!
Short Income Tax Video
The Income Tax Is An Excise, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes
The Federalist Papers, No. 15:
Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.
The verdict isn't the problem so much as the verdict in conjunction with the fact that the trial was not fair. There should have been a change in venue, the jury should have been sequestered, and expert witnesses (and by extension jurors) shouldn't have been intimidated. It is very possible that a reasonable jury would have come to the same conclusion, but without certain safeguards this trial was the modern day equivalent of throwing a virgin into a volcano as a sacrifice to the angry gods.
Give me a dozen expert witnesses and I'll give you a dozen different answers. Fentanyl, an opioid, can specifically cause the respiratory muscles to to not function, resulting in a cessation of breathing. Floyd said that he couldn't breathe before he was even pinned to the ground. That is not an insignificant detail. I'm not emotionally invested in this case in the sense that I favor one party over the other for this incident, but it does raise some doubt as to the cause of death if Floyd did indeed decide to ingest a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl in order to hide the evidence of its possession. It could also be that Chauvin's actions were a contributory factor.All I've heard from the Chauvin defenders is "Well...Floyd had drugs in his system."
My problem with this case is that there is much more at stake than the fate of Chauvin.
"I shall bring justice to Westeros. Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that."
-Stannis Baratheon
"I shall bring justice to Westeros. Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that."
-Stannis Baratheon
I agree that the jury should have been sequestered, but with the level of pre-trial publicity prior to jury selection I doubt that really meant anything. I don't think change of venue is meaningful in this case unless you mean outside the U.S. This simply was not a localized crime. Where could Sirhan Sirhan find a jury that hadn't already read about the Robert F. Kennedy assasination? As for expert witness intimitation, which expert witnesses are you thinking about? Because I saw no evidence of that.
Yeah....but the defense didn't bring foward one. The defense did a good job cross examining the state's experts. But they never when beyond "fentynal can kill you" to "the reason why we don't think the chest and neck compression wasn't the major contributing factor do Floyd's death was..."Give me a dozen expert witnesses and I'll give you a dozen different answers.
The autopsy did not reveal pills in Floyd's stomach, so that rules out the "Floyd ingested a large dose of fentynal." And the uphill battle for the defense was that they had to rule out Chauvin's actions as a major contributing factor. Yes Floyd said "I can't breath" before being put on the ground. Yes that is significant. But then you get to "Why would you put your knee on the neck of someone that just told you I can't breath?" I saw the defense try to push the idea that a "prone position" isn't inherently dangerous. The defense mentioned multiple scenarios of people being put in prone positions. But none of those were "prone positions with your knee on the neck and chest."Fentanyl, an opioid, can specifically cause the respiratory muscles to to not function, resulting in a cessation of breathing. Floyd said that he couldn't breathe before he was even pinned to the ground. That is not an insignificant detail. I'm not emotionally invested in this case in the sense that I favor one party over the other for this incident, but it does raise some doubt as to the cause of death if Floyd did indeed decide to ingest a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl in order to hide the evidence of its possession. It could also be that Chauvin's actions were a contributory factor.
Okay.My problem with this case is that there is much more at stake than the fate of Chauvin.
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
I think that this is a very good take on the recent events.
This guy has a good youtube channel.
That is wrong, one of the expert witnesses said that if she found Floyd in an apartment, she would have ruled it an overdose.. he had lethal amounts of fentanyl, and he had meth in his system.. combining drugs like that reduces the lethal dose.
Also I guess you forgot that they found a "chewed up" speedball in the police car.. which means he was chewing on the pill and ingesting the drugs, then he spit out the shell.. so there were no "pills" in his stomach, so he likely had drugs in his system and then added most of a speedball on top of that (and possibly more, that may have been spit out in the street somewhere)
"He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
"dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
"You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
"When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q
"Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul
"Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."
"He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
"dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
"You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
"When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q
"Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul
"Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."
In the end no trouble.
Chauvin's restraint was wrong, even the police said this during the testimony.
Essentially the charges are presented as a hierarchy, with 2nd degree murder being the most severe, 3rd degree being the next, then manslaughter (in this case). Each one has its own elements to prove. Ergo, Chauvin was not found to have criminally killed Floyd three times; it was that he was found to have committed three separate crimes that all resulted in Floyd's death.
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that his justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson
Note that this video does not take any position on the Chauvin verdict.
It merely uses the controversial circumstances surrounding the Chauvin trial as a justification for the topic.
A Jury of Our Peer Pressure: The Psychology of Conformity
How impartial are juries and jurors really? Let's look at the research on conformity and how social psychology influences how a jury might vote on major legal cases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI1zvM6Hl0k
The Bastiat Collection · FREE PDF · FREE EPUB · PAPER Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)· tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ·
That awkward moment when you want to riot, but you got the verdict you wanted so now you have no reason to.
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."
Calvin Coolidge
Derek Chauvin got what he deserved
Some conservatives are saying Derek Chauvin being found guilty for the murder of George Floyd means it was a sham trial based on "mob rule." This couldn't be more wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0LQCqai7Ec
The left has hijacked the issue of police reform/criminal justice reform by making it all about race. Now conservatives reflexively support the police even more than before, because it’s become a 100% racial issue. Of course, all of us realize that it’s an issue of government overreach, not an issue of the police hating blacks. But, that’s no longer even part of the discussion. It’s now just entirely a racial issue and a racial debate between the right and the left. It’s quite sad.
I'm not a conservative, but I can see the answer to this without doing any soul-searching at all: conservatives are by nature reactionary - so when Woke progressives make an issue all about race, conservatives will react on that basis. They wouldn't be conservatives if they didn't. (And in any case, what else are they supposed to do? Just accede to the "racializing" of everything, including the identification and denunciation of themselves as "racists"?)
Every element of the Cathedral (government, academia, and corporate media) is falling or has already fallen under the sway of the Woke, who are "racializing" everything. Brett85 already alluded to this fact when he said, "The left has hijacked the issue of police reform/criminal justice reform by making it all about race." To Woke progressivism (which is currently by far the most active and virile faction of the left), everything is always about race. (That is, after all, what they mean by "systemic" racism.) To them, there is literally nothing that (1) is not in some way "problematic" along racial, gender, or other "intersectional" lines, and (2) does not need to be "abolished" or "dismantled" because of (1) (to be replaced, of course, with illiberal systems of their own design).
Given this, and regardless of other internecine differences, everyone who is not a Woke progressive (conservatives, the non-Woke left, libertarians, etc.) should be reacting vigorously against the vicious bigotries of the Woke. As I addressed in a recent post to another thread, illiberal left-socialist authoritarians presently pose a far greater danger to civil, liberal society than does any faction on the right (including illiberal right-fascist authoritarians who may be genuine racists). It will not end well for anyone else, no matter their politics, if the Woke gain the power and control that they seek (not even the Woke's own "useful idiots" in media and the academy will be safe).
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