Ferguson, Missouri was Black Lives Matter (BLM) first, big, visible opportunity to organize people toward the mantra of “black lives matter.” This was built around the police shooting death of Michael Brown, the alleged “gentle giant.” “Hands up, don’t shoot” became the story that went viral across the country and around the world.
Something to help lift you up for the weekend.
On Thursday, the House Democrats, every last one of them, made it clear that they are in favor of looting and mayhem.
A resolution introduced by Republican Rep. Greg Steube of Florida went down to defeat on Thursday. The resolution condemned the rioting and looting that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May and failed to attract a single Democratic vote in support.
At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, Joe Biden said 120 million people had died from Covid-19 in this country. This would be more than one-third the population of the country.
“People don’t have a job, people don’t know where to go, they don’t know what to do. Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID.”
Brett Tolman, former US Attorney for the District of Utah, was interviewed regarding the recent revelations from the unsealed Peter Strzok notes. It is his opinion that the activities with regards to Flynn were designed to keep PDJT from taking office. When they failed at that, they then utilized those activities to try to oust the President from office. In other words the activities were designed to overthrow the constitutionally elected government of the United States.
With the DC Circuit Court issuing a decision on the writ of mandamus, the Flynn case is back in the news again. The court has ordered Judge Sullivan to dismiss the case. As I have said previously, I would like to see Michael Flynn off the hook so to speak. However, the longer the case hangs on, the more corruption that is being exposed.
There has been another interesting development in the Flynn case. On Tuesday the DOJ provided more exculpatory evidence to the Flynn defense team. This led to a filing that includes hand-written notes taken by FBI agent Peter Strzok around key dates in early January 2017. Strzok is a former Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI. Strzok is also rumored to be CIA.
On Wednesday Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) went on Twitter and claimed that PDJT is urging people to “inject Lysol and drink bleach.” This claim came in response to the Trump administration efforts in court on Obamacare.
Where are Twitter’s fact-checkers? Why wasn’t this tweet red-flagged as dangerous to the public? It couldn’t be that Twitter is biased against Trump and Republicans, could it? If Twitter does not flag this while flagging conservative content, how can they be considered an open platform? Censoring some entries while permitting others should make them a publisher with the attendant liabilities. ...
The three judges (Henderson, Wilkins, Rao) on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals have approved a writ of mandamus ordering Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss the case against Michael Flynn. Judge Rao wrote the opinion for the majority. The decision can be found here.
The panel ruled that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan overstepped his authority in not accepting the unopposed motion and in questioning the prosecutors’ decision.
I have previously written an extended article (A Rush To Judgement) about the problematic issues surrounding George Floyd’s death. Floyd’s death has been co-opted by people who would like to overthrow the current government. They have used the outrage from a viral video to advance the cause of ridding the country of law enforcement. There is also an ongoing attempt to erase the history of the country.
All of this is a discussion for another time. Mark Wauck has published a much more extensive analysis of Floyd’s death that enforces many of the problems that I highlighted before. It goes much further than I did. It is long and technical in nature at times. But, if one wishes to understand what the officers did, it is a must read.
What is the problem with the US Attorney position in the Southern District of New York? Shortly after PDJT took office, PDJT decided to replace Preet Bharara as the US Attorney in SDNY. There is nothing unusual about an incoming President replacing US Attorneys. After all, they are political appointees and serve at the pleasure of the President.
In March 1993 President Bill Clinton had Attorney General Janet Reno fire 93 of the 94 U.S. Attorneys appointed by the prior administration. In 2009, President Obama asked for the resignation of all George W. Bush-appointed U.S. Attorneys. He replaced virtually all of them. Nary a word was spoken about this. It was treated as nothing out of the ordinary.