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L.A.’s white racist DA

From The Guardian:

In Los Angeles, only people of color are sentenced to death

The county’s prosecutor has won death sentences for 22 defendants, none of them white, report shows

Sam Levin

Tue 18 Jun 2019

Los Angeles has sentenced more people to death than any other county in the US, and only people of color have received the death penalty under the region’s current prosecutor, a new report shows.

LA county’s district attorney, Jackie Lacey, has won death sentences for a total of 22 defendants, all people of color, and eight of them were represented by lawyers with serious misconduct charges prior or after their cases, according to a new analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The last execution in California was on January 17, 2006.

Lacey’s office has also continued to pursue death penalty trials this year despite the fact that California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, issued a moratorium on capital punishment, with an executive order officially halting executions in the state.

In addition to severe racial disparities and ethical concerns around legal representation, LA’s system is costing taxpayers millions of dollars in pursuit of a punishment the region’s voters and California leaders have rejected, activists said. Some key findings:

In California, 222 people currently sentenced to death are from LA county, representing 31% of all death sentences in the state. (The LA population is only 25% of the statewide figure.)

There’s proof of anti-Los Angelesism prejudice!

LA is one of only three counties in the country to have more than 10 death sentences from 2014 to 2018.

LA County has 10 million people, about twice the population the second biggest county, Cook in Illinois.

In the last five years, LA produced more death sentences per capita than any large county in Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah or Washington – and sent more people to death row than the states of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia combined.
Last year, out of 3,100 counties nationwide, LA was one of only four to have more than one death sentence.

Under Lacey’s tenure, which began in 2012, zero white defendants have been sentenced to death, and her capital punishment sentences disproportionately targeted cases involving white victims. Although 12% of homicide victims in LA county are white, 36% of Lacey’s death penalty wins involved white victims.

Of the 22 defendants sentenced under Lacey, 13 were Latinx, eight were black and one was Asian.

“This should be profoundly troubling to all of us,” Cassy Stubbs, director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project, told the Guardian. “Los Angeles is really in a class of its own … It is just such an enormous producer of death sentences in a way that really does not make sense for where we are today.” …

In her statement this week, Lacey noted that California voters had not abolished the death penalty, saying: “I will follow the law as prescribed by the citizens of California – whether that is seeking the death penalty for the most heinous crimes or, with the abolition of the death penalty, life without parole.”

The district attorney’s office has “extensive review processes” in place to decide whether to pursue the death penalty and makes recommendations “based on the facts without regard to the race of a defendant or a victim”, Lacey said. Her office sought the death penalty in less than 3% of all eligible cases last year, she said.

Back in 2010, I read through most of the 2,700 homicides committed in Los Angeles County in 2007-2009, as aggregated by reporter Jill Leovy in the Los Angeles Times’ Homicide Blog.

 
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  1. “by Sam Levin”

    No further questions, your honor.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @The Germ Theory of Disease

    Game.
    Set.
    Match.

    , @Olorin
    @The Germ Theory of Disease

    Unmutual! Unmutual!

  2. I suggest that the threshold for capital crimes be lowered, for white people. A white woman being rude to a black kid on an elevator, for instance. Judicial Affirmative Action.

  3. MARCH 14, 2019 pewresearch.org
    California is one of 11 states that have the death penalty but haven’t used it in more than a decade

    BY JOHN GRAMLICH

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week announced a moratorium on executions in his state, a move that will affect 737 inmates on the largest death row in the country. The decision marks a significant change in policy, but not in practice: California is one of 11 states that have capital punishment on the books but have not carried out an execution in more than a decade. The federal government’s death row has also grown substantially since the last federal execution. There are currently 62 federal inmates sentenced to death, up from 26 in January 2003 (just before the federal government’s most recent execution).

    The increases in the number of people on death row in California and at the federal level run counter to the national trend. Nationwide, the number of inmates on death row fell 26% between 2000 and 2018, from 3,682 to 2,721, according to the NAACP’s figures.

    A variety of factors explain this decrease. For one thing, 892 executions were carried out between 2000 and 2018, including 359 in Texas alone, according to a database compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center. Many other death row prisoners have died of other causes. Another 81 were removed from death row between 2000 and 2018 because they were exonerated, whether by acquittal, dropped charges or pardons. And the number of new defendants sentenced to death has declined sharply, from 223 in 2000 to just 42 last year.

    Legal and political factors have played a prominent role in several of the states that have the death penalty but have not carried out an execution for 10 years or more. In California, courts struck down the state’s lethal injection protocol in 2006, and the state did not propose a replacement method until years later. In 2016, California voters approved a ballot initiative intended to speed up the death penalty process, but Newsom said this week that no executions will occur in the state while he remains governor.

    California is not the only state whose governor has declared a moratorium on executions even as capital punishment remains on the books. The governors of Oregon and Pennsylvania, for example, have also suspended executions in their states.

    Nationwide support for the death penalty ticked up in 2018, according to a Pew Research Center survey. A narrow majority of U.S. adults (54%) said they support the death penalty for those convicted of murder, compared with 39% who opposed it. But support for capital punishment remains much lower than in the 1990s or throughout much of the 2000s.

  4. The Ultra Woke will not let up. Whitey must pay, one way or another. Never mind the reason so few Whites are sentenced to death in LA County is that few can afford to live there. And the prosecutor in question is well, by appearances, Black.

    The Woke must fight (their caste/dynastic) enemies, average working/middle class Whites. It will soon be legal for Blacks to kill any White, just like the Purge movies come to life.

    Really, Hollywood is a plague upon society as every stupid idea/meme they come up with ends up as law sooner or later.

    Suppose the Purge does come to life? Who benefits? The ultra Woke like Zuck with his 6,000 bodyguards. And the like. Joe Average has to take it in the neck, fighting back is of course illegal and will be punished to the full extent of the law.

  5. Executions Under the Federal Death Penalty
    from: deathpenaltyinfo.org

    Three people have been executed since the reinstatement of the federal death penalty in 1988.

    Timothy McVeigh, White male, executed on June 11, 2001. McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death in June 1997, for the bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, in which 168 people were killed. McVeigh waived his collateral appeals, and the Government set McVeigh’s execution on May 16, 2001. McVeigh was granted a 30-day stay of execution by Attorney General John Ashcroft after it was discovered that the FBI had failed to disclose more than 3,000 pages of document to McVeigh’s defense team. McVeigh’s co-defendant, Terry Nichols, was capitally prosecuted by the federal government in a separate trial. In December 1997, he was convicted by the jury and sentenced to life without parole. Nichols was later capitally tried in Oklahoma state court for the murders of the 161 non-federal employees in Oklahoma City. In May 2004, he was convicted, and the jury deadlocked and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. (Terry Nichols Fast Facts, CNN Library; Oklahoma City Bombing Fast Facts, CNN Library.)

    Juan Raul Garza, Latino male, executed on June 19, 2001. Garza, a marijuana distributor, was convicted and sentenced to death in August 1993, in Texas for the murders of three other drug traffickers. Garza was denied review by the U.S. Supreme Court in late 1999 and was facing an execution date of August 5, 2000. The date was postponed until the Justice Department finished drafting guidelines for federal death row inmates seeking presidential clemency, which were issued in early August. Garza was offered the opportunity to apply for clemency under the new guidelines and a new execution date of Dec. 12, 2000 was set. In December 2000, President Clinton again delayed Garza’s execution for at least six months to allow further study of the fairness of the federal death penalty. (In Death, Garza Seeks Forgiveness, ABC News, June 19, 2001.)

    Louis Jones, Black male, executed on March 18, 2003.Jones was sentenced to death in November 1995 in Texas for the kidnap/murder of a young white female soldier. The United States Supreme Court granted review of the case and heard arguments on February 22, 1999. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on June 21, 1999. Jones, a decorated Gulf War veteran who had no prior criminal record, claimed that his exposure to nerve gas in Iraq and post-traumatic stress from his combat tours contributed to his murder of Pvt. Tracie Joy McBride in Texas. President George W. Bush refused Jones’ clemency request. (Associated Press, U.S. Executes Gulf War Veteran Who Raped and Killed a Soldier, NY Times, March 19, 2003.)

    • Replies: @Redneck farmer
    @Diversity is Great!

    1 white, 1 black, 1 Hispanic. Sounds like a gang from TJ Hooker!

    Replies: @Ray Huffman

    , @Hippopotamusdrome
    @Diversity is Great!

    McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death ...for the bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995

     

    Coincidence, but 1993-1995 a wierd soda brand called OK Soda came out. Capital O, capital K, with a period at the end, signifiying an abbreviation. One commercial contains the line "Recently, authorities have asked "OK" soda to respond to allegations that the television chain letter is some sort of code."

    OK Soda Commercials! All Of Them (I Think)

    , @Bill Jones
    @Diversity is Great!

    You really believe McVeigh was executed?

    Replies: @Art Deco, @sayless, @Corn

    , @obwandiyag
    @Diversity is Great!

    1. McVeigh was killed because he might reveal certain secrets.

    2. I would think you guys would think that Garza was doing public service.

    3. Re: Jones: I do not doubt that fighting in modern wars turns people's minds into murderous mush. Not for one second.

    Replies: @Art Deco

  6. In addition to your pointing out that these “journalists” of today don’t understand “per capita” only when they don’t want to understand “per capita”, there is this gem of an analysis:

    In the last five years, LA produced more death sentences per capita than any large county in Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah or Washington – and sent more people to death row than the states of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia combined.

    That is just complete cherry-picking here. It’s cherry picking with more degrees-of-freedom than you normally see, so I’ll give him that . There is probably some good statistics theory that could help one pick out groups of states or counties to prove about any damn thing one wanted to prove.

    The important thing here is, can Los Angeles spare enough electrical energy to fry these 22, or is it all spoken for by the movie studios and tanning salons?

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Achmed E. Newman


    [LA DA's] office sought the death penalty in less than 3% of all eligible cases last year, she said.
     
    I wonder the racial breakdown, and how that compares to other counties. I suspect POC don't fare too well per the usual ways, 'cause per capita is racist.
    , @Dieter Kief
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Uhh Achmed - aren't tanning salons some sort of electrical death sentence too?

    Plus you could have mentioned the rechargeable batteries in dildos as possibly prioritized energy consumers, in addition to the tanning studios and Hollywood.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  7. Sam Levin. NOT Sam Levenson!
    “As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One to help yourself and one to help others.”

    • Replies: @Ragno
    @Father O'Hara

    “As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One to pick pockets and one to point fingers."

  8. 216 says:

    O/T

    While U.S. Census Bureau data shows the number of truckers at an all-time high, industry experts contend a driver shortage remains an issue.
    The agency said earlier this month that the number of truckers surpassed 3.5 million in 2017.
    A decade before, during the Great Recession, approximately 3.4 million people worked as truck drivers in 2007. The recession ended in 2009; by 2010, there were fewer than 3 million.

    https://www.ttnews.com/articles/data-shows-there-are-more-truckers-ever-experts-say-driver-shortage-still-issue

    “shortages”

    Costello said the increase in truckers and trucking businesses may be the result of pay increases and widespread media coverage on the driver shortage.

    This one weird trick

    • Replies: @M_Young
    @216

    Anyone remember Wally Thor? He *really* wanted you to get a job.

    In fact, anyone remember staying home as a kid and watching teevee and it would be wall to wall commercials for trade schools -- De Vry, Bryman Institute, Control Data institute, American Bartending Schools ("learn by doing in our cocktailbar classrooms!"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKI2dQIr5xo

    Replies: @Known Fact

  9. Schedule the events in winter months, when the grid isn’t threatened by forest fires and air conditioning.

  10. Pesky voters have not read the memo.

    2016 California Proposition 62

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_California_Proposition_62

    The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Sacramento Bee all favored the proposition putting the Death Penalty to death. Voters rejected the proposition 53% – 47%.

  11. anon[355] • Disclaimer says:

    Mostly off topic, but does anyone remember an anonymously written article that came out in a mainstream conservative news magazine, sometime around the time of Trump’s election, which evaluated the failures of diversity and multiculturalism from a no-nonsense paleoconoservaitve perspective, even suggesting HBD as a reason for its failures? It was widely circulated at the time.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @anon

    Is that "The Flight 93 Election", in the Claremont Magazine?

    https://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/


    "Third and most important, the ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle. As does, of course, the U.S. population, which only serves to reinforce the two other causes outlined above. This is the core reason why the Left, the Democrats, and the bipartisan junta (categories distinct but very much overlapping) think they are on the cusp of a permanent victory that will forever obviate the need to pretend to respect democratic and constitutional niceties. Because they are.

    It’s also why they treat open borders as the “absolute value,” the one “principle” that—when their “principles” collide—they prioritize above all the others. If that fact is insufficiently clear, consider this. Trump is the most liberal Republican nominee since Thomas Dewey. He departs from conservative orthodoxy in so many ways that National Review still hasn’t stopped counting. But let’s stick to just the core issues animating his campaign. On trade, globalization, and war, Trump is to the left (conventionally understood) not only of his own party, but of his Democratic opponent. And yet the Left and the junta are at one with the house-broken conservatives in their determination—desperation—not merely to defeat Trump but to destroy him. What gives?

    Oh, right—there’s that other issue. The sacredness of mass immigration is the mystic chord that unites America’s ruling and intellectual classes."
     
  12. white girls love Black Men and will bear their children

    Read Adam Serwer you cannot refute him

    • Replies: @216
    @Tiny Duck


    His father, Daniel Serwer, was in the Foreign Service and so Serwer spent part of his childhood abroad. His father is white and Jewish and his mother is African American.
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Serwer

    Bleach

    Replies: @Bill Jones

    , @istevefan
    @Tiny Duck

    When the sh#t hits the fan, watch out. We'll be coming.

    , @Amerimutt Golems
    @Tiny Duck



    white girls love Black Men and will bear their children

     

    LOL. It is the other way round.

    Blacks are essentially West African polygamists living in the Americas.

    They are wired to sire many offspring with lots of women, for example Dennis Rodman's dad had 29 kids with 16 different women, 6 more than former South African president Jacob Zuma.

    Replies: @Art Deco

  13. @The Germ Theory of Disease
    "by Sam Levin"

    No further questions, your honor.

    Replies: @Anon, @Olorin

    Game.
    Set.
    Match.

  14. Nkechi Amare Diallo[pron 1], born and still commonly known as Rachel Anne Dolezal, is just way ahead of her time.

    Did anyone think the transgender stuff would get this far this fast? There’s no reason it can’t happen with race: just make it offensive to doubt someone’s self-proclaimed race.

    It will be de rigueur to present or identify differently in the future. You will have to denature your Whiteness, like they did with alcohol during prohibition.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Ghost of Bull Moose

    Both her names have 17 letters, which beg for haiku.

    , @El Dato
    @Ghost of Bull Moose

    Rachel Dolezal comes out as bisexual during Pride Month


    The woman who pretended to be black while heading an NAACP chapter marked Pride Month by coming out as bisexual Sunday.

    "I am in absolutely no rush to explore a new relationship, but it still matters to stay visible. I am bisexual," Rachel Dolezal tweeted, telling people her first kiss was with a woman, though she had also been married to a man.

     

    Is it the Vibranium injections?

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  15. @Tiny Duck
    white girls love Black Men and will bear their children

    Read Adam Serwer you cannot refute him

    Replies: @216, @istevefan, @Amerimutt Golems

    His father, Daniel Serwer, was in the Foreign Service and so Serwer spent part of his childhood abroad. His father is white and Jewish and his mother is African American.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Serwer

    Bleach

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @216

    So which is it, White or Jewish?

  16. @Tiny Duck
    white girls love Black Men and will bear their children

    Read Adam Serwer you cannot refute him

    Replies: @216, @istevefan, @Amerimutt Golems

    When the sh#t hits the fan, watch out. We’ll be coming.

  17. istevefan says:

    In California, 222 people currently sentenced to death are from LA county, representing 31% of all death sentences in the state. (The LA population is only 25% of the statewide figure.)

    That doesn’t sound like a huge disparity given LA’s reputation. I don’t live in CA, but it seems like LA is more violent than the rest of the state.

    Is it more violent, or is this just a misperception due to media coverage?

  18. The last execution in California was on January 17, 2006.

    This is why it doesn’t actually matter. We have 750+ people on death row, and not a single one will be executed.

  19. The only part that’s surprising to me is that California still has a death penalty. I’m amazed the libtards haven’t done away with it yet.

    • Replies: @Lurker
    @Anon

    Is that because of the increasing Hispanic vote in CA? They may vote Democrat but they're not strictly libtards when it comes to certain issues.

  20. Los Angeles has sentenced more people to death than any other county in the US

    Los Angeles has more people than any two other counties combined. Los Angeles County has more people than all but seven or eight states.

    What a dumb way to open a story. Or manipulative, to a dumb readership.

    • Replies: @Redneck farmer
    @Reg Cæsar

    Reg, The Guardian is in Great Britain, a country of people whose ancestors couldn't figure out to leave Great Britain when they had the chance.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @El Dato, @Ancient Briton

  21. Even the most die-hard egalitarian judge is unlikely to have the stomach for an unjust execution, so this won’t go anywhere, but it probably means that the death penalty is not workable in a multiracial society.

    • Replies: @stillCARealist
    @Rosie

    When a friend was up for jury duty in a South Sacramento murder trial, she shared the details with me: all Hispanic, meaning the victims, the murderers, and the families. The grandparents of a murdered child demanded the death penalty for the druggies who pelted dad's car with bullets, killing junior.

    So when you see someone get the death penalty, it means the families are insisting on it. I suspect the Hispanics know a cancerous tumor pretty well and would like the justice system to cut it out. Needless to say, I highly approve.

  22. Los Angeles County has more on death row than Michigan, Wisconsin, and Alaska have had in their combined history. Those are all Trump states.

  23. Lack of diversity in genomic research hinders precision medicine for nonwhite Americans

    A new study uncovers 65 genetic variants found in understudied minority populations that could lead to improved precision medicine for those groups.

    By University Communications , Wednesday, June 19th, 2019

    The vast majority of genomic data scientists have collected focuses on people of European descent, overlooking minority populations. As genetic-based precision medicine grows, this data gap means minorities may lack access to medical care that could reduce growing chronic disease disparities among racial and ethnic groups.

    Precision medicine is an approach that allows doctors to select treatments that are most likely to be effective in protecting a patient’s health or treating their disease, based on an understanding of the patient’s individual genes, environment, and lifestyle. This approach allows doctors and researchers to better predict which treatments and prevention strategies will work for which people, but it can’t be effectively used without access to accurate information for that individual or group.

    A team of researchers from institutions across the country, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, analyzed phenotypes of nearly 50,000 non-European individuals, identifying 65 new associations and replicating 1,400 associations between genes and diseases, highlighting the need for equitable inclusion of diverse populations in genetic research.

    Kari North, a professor in the epidemiology department at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Misa Graff, assistant professor in the school’s epidemiology department, are co-authors on the paper “Genetic Diversity Improves Our Understanding of Complex Trait Architecture,” which was published on June 19 in Nature. North was the senior co-leader and oversaw the research and Graff was a co-junior lead.

    “This is an extremely important public health issue,” said Graff. “We need to work hard to make sure that the populations most burdened by disease are not overlooked by genomic studies, because we cannot afford for disease disparities to get worse. Understanding the genes in these populations is key to targeting prevention and designing drugs that can better target their illnesses and improve quality of life.”

    Overall, minority populations are disproportionately affected by chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and cancer. According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health, African Americans are 80% more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to have been diagnosed with diabetes and 30% more likely to die from heart disease.

    https://uncnews.unc.edu/2019/06/19/lack-of-diversity-in-genomic-research-hinders-precision-medicine-for-nonwhite-americans/

    🙂

  24. @Diversity is Great!

    Executions Under the Federal Death Penalty
    from: deathpenaltyinfo.org

    Three people have been executed since the reinstatement of the federal death penalty in 1988.

    Timothy McVeigh, White male, executed on June 11, 2001. McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death in June 1997, for the bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, in which 168 people were killed. McVeigh waived his collateral appeals, and the Government set McVeigh’s execution on May 16, 2001. McVeigh was granted a 30-day stay of execution by Attorney General John Ashcroft after it was discovered that the FBI had failed to disclose more than 3,000 pages of document to McVeigh’s defense team. McVeigh’s co-defendant, Terry Nichols, was capitally prosecuted by the federal government in a separate trial. In December 1997, he was convicted by the jury and sentenced to life without parole. Nichols was later capitally tried in Oklahoma state court for the murders of the 161 non-federal employees in Oklahoma City. In May 2004, he was convicted, and the jury deadlocked and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. (Terry Nichols Fast Facts, CNN Library; Oklahoma City Bombing Fast Facts, CNN Library.)

    Juan Raul Garza, Latino male, executed on June 19, 2001. Garza, a marijuana distributor, was convicted and sentenced to death in August 1993, in Texas for the murders of three other drug traffickers. Garza was denied review by the U.S. Supreme Court in late 1999 and was facing an execution date of August 5, 2000. The date was postponed until the Justice Department finished drafting guidelines for federal death row inmates seeking presidential clemency, which were issued in early August. Garza was offered the opportunity to apply for clemency under the new guidelines and a new execution date of Dec. 12, 2000 was set. In December 2000, President Clinton again delayed Garza’s execution for at least six months to allow further study of the fairness of the federal death penalty. (In Death, Garza Seeks Forgiveness, ABC News, June 19, 2001.)

    Louis Jones, Black male, executed on March 18, 2003.Jones was sentenced to death in November 1995 in Texas for the kidnap/murder of a young white female soldier. The United States Supreme Court granted review of the case and heard arguments on February 22, 1999. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on June 21, 1999. Jones, a decorated Gulf War veteran who had no prior criminal record, claimed that his exposure to nerve gas in Iraq and post-traumatic stress from his combat tours contributed to his murder of Pvt. Tracie Joy McBride in Texas. President George W. Bush refused Jones’ clemency request. (Associated Press, U.S. Executes Gulf War Veteran Who Raped and Killed a Soldier, NY Times, March 19, 2003.)
     

    Replies: @Redneck farmer, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Bill Jones, @obwandiyag

    1 white, 1 black, 1 Hispanic. Sounds like a gang from TJ Hooker!

    • LOL: Lurker
    • Replies: @Ray Huffman
    @Redneck farmer

    LOL, either that or Death Wish.

  25. @Reg Cæsar

    Los Angeles has sentenced more people to death than any other county in the US
     
    Los Angeles has more people than any two other counties combined. Los Angeles County has more people than all but seven or eight states.

    What a dumb way to open a story. Or manipulative, to a dumb readership.

    Replies: @Redneck farmer

    Reg, The Guardian is in Great Britain, a country of people whose ancestors couldn’t figure out to leave Great Britain when they had the chance.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Redneck farmer

    They moved from Manchester to London. Enough of a credibility loss right there.

    , @El Dato
    @Redneck farmer

    The Guardian is damaged goods:

    Guardian compromised by UK MoD? Deputy editor thanked for ‘re-establishing links’ post Snowden leaks


    Another document detailing the minutes of a meeting held in the MoD on May 8, 2014, shows Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Vallance reported that the MoD’s relationship with the Guardian had “continued to strengthen” with Johnson on board. This strengthening was due to “regular dialogues” being held with Guardian journalists, the document says.

    Johnson was seemingly rewarded for his compliance two years later when he was awarded an interview with MI5 head Andrew Parker, the first ever newspaper interview given by a serving spy chief.
     
    It's not like there has been an vicious, fact-inventing anti-Assange campaign running in the Guardian for about 10 years now.

    Just saundered over and getting a faceful of Afua Hirsch:

    Teach British tourists the truth about empire – they can take it

    Once you get past the British couples having their wedding photos taken on the steps of this slavery HQ – a strange choice in my personal opinion – the museum’s emphasis is all on the white mistress who lived here (an alleged serial killer of her slavemaster husbands) with barely a mention of the African slaves themselves. The cell where those who attempted to escape had their legs amputated by a bear trap, and were left to bleed to death, is now a tourist toilet that the guides assure visitors is “perfectly safe to use”. Tourists are reminded, repeatedly, that this site, ground zero of one of the greatest horrors in human history – is “paradise”.
     
    White Mistress is code for the heart of darkness of all of the Whitey Population from times immemorial and forever into the future. Whitey Population needs to have their noses rubbed in the legacy of White Mistress.

    Replies: @Redneck farmer

    , @Ancient Briton
    @Redneck farmer

    About 40 million people have left GB in the last 400 years - hence Canada, USA, Oz, NZ & sizable diaspora in the rest of the world.

  26. @Achmed E. Newman
    In addition to your pointing out that these "journalists" of today don't understand "per capita" only when they don't want to understand "per capita", there is this gem of an analysis:

    In the last five years, LA produced more death sentences per capita than any large county in Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah or Washington – and sent more people to death row than the states of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia combined.
     
    That is just complete cherry-picking here. It's cherry picking with more degrees-of-freedom than you normally see, so I'll give him that . There is probably some good statistics theory that could help one pick out groups of states or counties to prove about any damn thing one wanted to prove.

    The important thing here is, can Los Angeles spare enough electrical energy to fry these 22, or is it all spoken for by the movie studios and tanning salons?

    Replies: @bomag, @Dieter Kief

    [LA DA’s] office sought the death penalty in less than 3% of all eligible cases last year, she said.

    I wonder the racial breakdown, and how that compares to other counties. I suspect POC don’t fare too well per the usual ways, ’cause per capita is racist.

  27. @Diversity is Great!

    Executions Under the Federal Death Penalty
    from: deathpenaltyinfo.org

    Three people have been executed since the reinstatement of the federal death penalty in 1988.

    Timothy McVeigh, White male, executed on June 11, 2001. McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death in June 1997, for the bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, in which 168 people were killed. McVeigh waived his collateral appeals, and the Government set McVeigh’s execution on May 16, 2001. McVeigh was granted a 30-day stay of execution by Attorney General John Ashcroft after it was discovered that the FBI had failed to disclose more than 3,000 pages of document to McVeigh’s defense team. McVeigh’s co-defendant, Terry Nichols, was capitally prosecuted by the federal government in a separate trial. In December 1997, he was convicted by the jury and sentenced to life without parole. Nichols was later capitally tried in Oklahoma state court for the murders of the 161 non-federal employees in Oklahoma City. In May 2004, he was convicted, and the jury deadlocked and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. (Terry Nichols Fast Facts, CNN Library; Oklahoma City Bombing Fast Facts, CNN Library.)

    Juan Raul Garza, Latino male, executed on June 19, 2001. Garza, a marijuana distributor, was convicted and sentenced to death in August 1993, in Texas for the murders of three other drug traffickers. Garza was denied review by the U.S. Supreme Court in late 1999 and was facing an execution date of August 5, 2000. The date was postponed until the Justice Department finished drafting guidelines for federal death row inmates seeking presidential clemency, which were issued in early August. Garza was offered the opportunity to apply for clemency under the new guidelines and a new execution date of Dec. 12, 2000 was set. In December 2000, President Clinton again delayed Garza’s execution for at least six months to allow further study of the fairness of the federal death penalty. (In Death, Garza Seeks Forgiveness, ABC News, June 19, 2001.)

    Louis Jones, Black male, executed on March 18, 2003.Jones was sentenced to death in November 1995 in Texas for the kidnap/murder of a young white female soldier. The United States Supreme Court granted review of the case and heard arguments on February 22, 1999. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on June 21, 1999. Jones, a decorated Gulf War veteran who had no prior criminal record, claimed that his exposure to nerve gas in Iraq and post-traumatic stress from his combat tours contributed to his murder of Pvt. Tracie Joy McBride in Texas. President George W. Bush refused Jones’ clemency request. (Associated Press, U.S. Executes Gulf War Veteran Who Raped and Killed a Soldier, NY Times, March 19, 2003.)
     

    Replies: @Redneck farmer, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Bill Jones, @obwandiyag

    McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death …for the bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995

    Coincidence, but 1993-1995 a wierd soda brand called OK Soda came out. Capital O, capital K, with a period at the end, signifiying an abbreviation. One commercial contains the line “Recently, authorities have asked “OK” soda to respond to allegations that the television chain letter is some sort of code.”

    OK Soda Commercials! All Of Them (I Think)

  28. @Achmed E. Newman
    In addition to your pointing out that these "journalists" of today don't understand "per capita" only when they don't want to understand "per capita", there is this gem of an analysis:

    In the last five years, LA produced more death sentences per capita than any large county in Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah or Washington – and sent more people to death row than the states of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia combined.
     
    That is just complete cherry-picking here. It's cherry picking with more degrees-of-freedom than you normally see, so I'll give him that . There is probably some good statistics theory that could help one pick out groups of states or counties to prove about any damn thing one wanted to prove.

    The important thing here is, can Los Angeles spare enough electrical energy to fry these 22, or is it all spoken for by the movie studios and tanning salons?

    Replies: @bomag, @Dieter Kief

    Uhh Achmed – aren’t tanning salons some sort of electrical death sentence too?

    Plus you could have mentioned the rechargeable batteries in dildos as possibly prioritized energy consumers, in addition to the tanning studios and Hollywood.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Dieter Kief

    Yes, the tanning bed could be thought of as a long-term slow-burn death sentence, Dieter - you have a good point. Those dildos use what, AAA's, I don't know? Still, a dildo here and a dildo there, and pretty soon it adds up to real amperage.

  29. Anonymous[104] • Disclaimer says:

    One is reminded of the ancient Hebraic custom – as recorded in the Bible – of the ‘scapegoat’.

  30. @Ghost of Bull Moose
    Nkechi Amare Diallo[pron 1], born and still commonly known as Rachel Anne Dolezal, is just way ahead of her time.

    Did anyone think the transgender stuff would get this far this fast? There's no reason it can't happen with race: just make it offensive to doubt someone's self-proclaimed race.

    It will be de rigueur to present or identify differently in the future. You will have to denature your Whiteness, like they did with alcohol during prohibition.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @El Dato

    Both her names have 17 letters, which beg for haiku.

  31. @Redneck farmer
    @Reg Cæsar

    Reg, The Guardian is in Great Britain, a country of people whose ancestors couldn't figure out to leave Great Britain when they had the chance.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @El Dato, @Ancient Briton

    They moved from Manchester to London. Enough of a credibility loss right there.

  32. Of the 22 defendants sentenced under Lacey, 13 were Latinx, eight were black and one was Asian.

    Wouldn’t most of those “13 were Latinx” show up as “white” offenders in the FBI’s uniform crime report racial counting?

    But somehow they morph into “People of Color” for death penalty pouting.

  33. Clearly, white killers need to up their game. It’s been all downhill since Charlie Manson.

  34. @Anon
    The only part that's surprising to me is that California still has a death penalty. I'm amazed the libtards haven't done away with it yet.

    Replies: @Lurker

    Is that because of the increasing Hispanic vote in CA? They may vote Democrat but they’re not strictly libtards when it comes to certain issues.

  35. America – such a great nation. We have immigration laws our leaders choose not to enforce. We have a death penalty our leaders choose to enforce.

    Meanwhile my state DOT has proposed adding GPS devices to cars (“voluntarily,” of course) because the increase in hybrid and electric vehicles is cutting into gas tax revenues. Our Republican state legislature seemed to be orgasmically supportive of the idea.

    Laws to punish (and track) the law abiding, but not the real criminals.

    • Replies: @Ancient Briton
    @Wilkey

    Anarcho-tyranny. See the late, great Sam Francis.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    , @Lurker
    @Wilkey


    Meanwhile my state DOT has proposed adding GPS devices to cars (“voluntarily,” of course) because the increase in hybrid and electric vehicles is cutting into gas tax revenues. Our Republican state legislature seemed to be orgasmically supportive of the idea.
     
    How does the GPS make up the shortfall? You have to pay (state) to have it fitted? Sorry if I've misunderstood.
  36. @anon
    Mostly off topic, but does anyone remember an anonymously written article that came out in a mainstream conservative news magazine, sometime around the time of Trump's election, which evaluated the failures of diversity and multiculturalism from a no-nonsense paleoconoservaitve perspective, even suggesting HBD as a reason for its failures? It was widely circulated at the time.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    Is that “The Flight 93 Election”, in the Claremont Magazine?

    https://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/

    “Third and most important, the ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle. As does, of course, the U.S. population, which only serves to reinforce the two other causes outlined above. This is the core reason why the Left, the Democrats, and the bipartisan junta (categories distinct but very much overlapping) think they are on the cusp of a permanent victory that will forever obviate the need to pretend to respect democratic and constitutional niceties. Because they are.

    It’s also why they treat open borders as the “absolute value,” the one “principle” that—when their “principles” collide—they prioritize above all the others. If that fact is insufficiently clear, consider this. Trump is the most liberal Republican nominee since Thomas Dewey. He departs from conservative orthodoxy in so many ways that National Review still hasn’t stopped counting. But let’s stick to just the core issues animating his campaign. On trade, globalization, and war, Trump is to the left (conventionally understood) not only of his own party, but of his Democratic opponent. And yet the Left and the junta are at one with the house-broken conservatives in their determination—desperation—not merely to defeat Trump but to destroy him. What gives?

    Oh, right—there’s that other issue. The sacredness of mass immigration is the mystic chord that unites America’s ruling and intellectual classes.

  37. @Ghost of Bull Moose
    Nkechi Amare Diallo[pron 1], born and still commonly known as Rachel Anne Dolezal, is just way ahead of her time.

    Did anyone think the transgender stuff would get this far this fast? There's no reason it can't happen with race: just make it offensive to doubt someone's self-proclaimed race.

    It will be de rigueur to present or identify differently in the future. You will have to denature your Whiteness, like they did with alcohol during prohibition.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @El Dato

    Rachel Dolezal comes out as bisexual during Pride Month

    The woman who pretended to be black while heading an NAACP chapter marked Pride Month by coming out as bisexual Sunday.

    “I am in absolutely no rush to explore a new relationship, but it still matters to stay visible. I am bisexual,” Rachel Dolezal tweeted, telling people her first kiss was with a woman, though she had also been married to a man.

    Is it the Vibranium injections?

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @El Dato

    I guess just getting a regular job is too much work for Miss Dolezal. She's got a new scam going, and it's humorous to me that she made it clear she doesn't want to "explore a new relationship" involving her newfound bisexuality. It's one thing to make tweets and go to marches, but quite another to actually go down ... uhh, there ...

    Come on, Rachel. You fooled us on the race thing. This time we're gonna need some proof.

  38. @Redneck farmer
    @Reg Cæsar

    Reg, The Guardian is in Great Britain, a country of people whose ancestors couldn't figure out to leave Great Britain when they had the chance.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @El Dato, @Ancient Briton

    The Guardian is damaged goods:

    Guardian compromised by UK MoD? Deputy editor thanked for ‘re-establishing links’ post Snowden leaks

    Another document detailing the minutes of a meeting held in the MoD on May 8, 2014, shows Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Vallance reported that the MoD’s relationship with the Guardian had “continued to strengthen” with Johnson on board. This strengthening was due to “regular dialogues” being held with Guardian journalists, the document says.

    Johnson was seemingly rewarded for his compliance two years later when he was awarded an interview with MI5 head Andrew Parker, the first ever newspaper interview given by a serving spy chief.

    It’s not like there has been an vicious, fact-inventing anti-Assange campaign running in the Guardian for about 10 years now.

    Just saundered over and getting a faceful of Afua Hirsch:

    Teach British tourists the truth about empire – they can take it

    Once you get past the British couples having their wedding photos taken on the steps of this slavery HQ – a strange choice in my personal opinion – the museum’s emphasis is all on the white mistress who lived here (an alleged serial killer of her slavemaster husbands) with barely a mention of the African slaves themselves. The cell where those who attempted to escape had their legs amputated by a bear trap, and were left to bleed to death, is now a tourist toilet that the guides assure visitors is “perfectly safe to use”. Tourists are reminded, repeatedly, that this site, ground zero of one of the greatest horrors in human history – is “paradise”.

    White Mistress is code for the heart of darkness of all of the Whitey Population from times immemorial and forever into the future. Whitey Population needs to have their noses rubbed in the legacy of White Mistress.

    • Replies: @Redneck farmer
    @El Dato

    Looks like she came ashore with the Anglo-Saxons.

  39. @Diversity is Great!

    Executions Under the Federal Death Penalty
    from: deathpenaltyinfo.org

    Three people have been executed since the reinstatement of the federal death penalty in 1988.

    Timothy McVeigh, White male, executed on June 11, 2001. McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death in June 1997, for the bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, in which 168 people were killed. McVeigh waived his collateral appeals, and the Government set McVeigh’s execution on May 16, 2001. McVeigh was granted a 30-day stay of execution by Attorney General John Ashcroft after it was discovered that the FBI had failed to disclose more than 3,000 pages of document to McVeigh’s defense team. McVeigh’s co-defendant, Terry Nichols, was capitally prosecuted by the federal government in a separate trial. In December 1997, he was convicted by the jury and sentenced to life without parole. Nichols was later capitally tried in Oklahoma state court for the murders of the 161 non-federal employees in Oklahoma City. In May 2004, he was convicted, and the jury deadlocked and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. (Terry Nichols Fast Facts, CNN Library; Oklahoma City Bombing Fast Facts, CNN Library.)

    Juan Raul Garza, Latino male, executed on June 19, 2001. Garza, a marijuana distributor, was convicted and sentenced to death in August 1993, in Texas for the murders of three other drug traffickers. Garza was denied review by the U.S. Supreme Court in late 1999 and was facing an execution date of August 5, 2000. The date was postponed until the Justice Department finished drafting guidelines for federal death row inmates seeking presidential clemency, which were issued in early August. Garza was offered the opportunity to apply for clemency under the new guidelines and a new execution date of Dec. 12, 2000 was set. In December 2000, President Clinton again delayed Garza’s execution for at least six months to allow further study of the fairness of the federal death penalty. (In Death, Garza Seeks Forgiveness, ABC News, June 19, 2001.)

    Louis Jones, Black male, executed on March 18, 2003.Jones was sentenced to death in November 1995 in Texas for the kidnap/murder of a young white female soldier. The United States Supreme Court granted review of the case and heard arguments on February 22, 1999. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on June 21, 1999. Jones, a decorated Gulf War veteran who had no prior criminal record, claimed that his exposure to nerve gas in Iraq and post-traumatic stress from his combat tours contributed to his murder of Pvt. Tracie Joy McBride in Texas. President George W. Bush refused Jones’ clemency request. (Associated Press, U.S. Executes Gulf War Veteran Who Raped and Killed a Soldier, NY Times, March 19, 2003.)
     

    Replies: @Redneck farmer, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Bill Jones, @obwandiyag

    You really believe McVeigh was executed?

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Bill Jones

    Where do you fancy McVeigh's been hiding out the last 18 years? Is his sister in on the scam?

    , @sayless
    @Bill Jones

    I thought it was strange that so many witnesses to the execution described what they saw in ghastly detail, broadcast. There were a dozen or more. And it was the same thing over and over again of course: He isn’t just dead, he’s really, really dead. I wondered if the guvamint was trying to talk us into something.

    Not implying that the witnesses weren’t sincere. But I’ve never heard anything like it before or since.

    , @Corn
    @Bill Jones

    Why would the government not execute him if he was sentenced to death?

  40. @216
    @Tiny Duck


    His father, Daniel Serwer, was in the Foreign Service and so Serwer spent part of his childhood abroad. His father is white and Jewish and his mother is African American.
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Serwer

    Bleach

    Replies: @Bill Jones

    So which is it, White or Jewish?

  41. Journalism and law are professions which attract the innumerate.

    Racial controversies in re crime control are commonly reducible to complaints about status. Police officers (and most jurors) are deplorables. In the mind of black nationalists, they are commoners who cannot be allowed to impose community standards on blacks. In the mind of white liberals, they are commoners who cannot be allowed to impose community standards on the retainers of white liberals.

  42. @Father O'Hara
    Sam Levin. NOT Sam Levenson!
    "As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One to help yourself and one to help others."

    Replies: @Ragno

    “As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One to pick pockets and one to point fingers.”

  43. @Dieter Kief
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Uhh Achmed - aren't tanning salons some sort of electrical death sentence too?

    Plus you could have mentioned the rechargeable batteries in dildos as possibly prioritized energy consumers, in addition to the tanning studios and Hollywood.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    Yes, the tanning bed could be thought of as a long-term slow-burn death sentence, Dieter – you have a good point. Those dildos use what, AAA’s, I don’t know? Still, a dildo here and a dildo there, and pretty soon it adds up to real amperage.

    • LOL: Dieter Kief
  44. @El Dato
    @Ghost of Bull Moose

    Rachel Dolezal comes out as bisexual during Pride Month


    The woman who pretended to be black while heading an NAACP chapter marked Pride Month by coming out as bisexual Sunday.

    "I am in absolutely no rush to explore a new relationship, but it still matters to stay visible. I am bisexual," Rachel Dolezal tweeted, telling people her first kiss was with a woman, though she had also been married to a man.

     

    Is it the Vibranium injections?

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    I guess just getting a regular job is too much work for Miss Dolezal. She’s got a new scam going, and it’s humorous to me that she made it clear she doesn’t want to “explore a new relationship” involving her newfound bisexuality. It’s one thing to make tweets and go to marches, but quite another to actually go down … uhh, there …

    Come on, Rachel. You fooled us on the race thing. This time we’re gonna need some proof.

  45. @El Dato
    @Redneck farmer

    The Guardian is damaged goods:

    Guardian compromised by UK MoD? Deputy editor thanked for ‘re-establishing links’ post Snowden leaks


    Another document detailing the minutes of a meeting held in the MoD on May 8, 2014, shows Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Vallance reported that the MoD’s relationship with the Guardian had “continued to strengthen” with Johnson on board. This strengthening was due to “regular dialogues” being held with Guardian journalists, the document says.

    Johnson was seemingly rewarded for his compliance two years later when he was awarded an interview with MI5 head Andrew Parker, the first ever newspaper interview given by a serving spy chief.
     
    It's not like there has been an vicious, fact-inventing anti-Assange campaign running in the Guardian for about 10 years now.

    Just saundered over and getting a faceful of Afua Hirsch:

    Teach British tourists the truth about empire – they can take it

    Once you get past the British couples having their wedding photos taken on the steps of this slavery HQ – a strange choice in my personal opinion – the museum’s emphasis is all on the white mistress who lived here (an alleged serial killer of her slavemaster husbands) with barely a mention of the African slaves themselves. The cell where those who attempted to escape had their legs amputated by a bear trap, and were left to bleed to death, is now a tourist toilet that the guides assure visitors is “perfectly safe to use”. Tourists are reminded, repeatedly, that this site, ground zero of one of the greatest horrors in human history – is “paradise”.
     
    White Mistress is code for the heart of darkness of all of the Whitey Population from times immemorial and forever into the future. Whitey Population needs to have their noses rubbed in the legacy of White Mistress.

    Replies: @Redneck farmer

    Looks like she came ashore with the Anglo-Saxons.

  46. The sentencing disparity just compounds the larger issue, which is that statistically speaking, the people of Los Angeles aren’t murdering enough non-Hispanic whites in the first place.

  47. @216
    O/T

    While U.S. Census Bureau data shows the number of truckers at an all-time high, industry experts contend a driver shortage remains an issue.
    The agency said earlier this month that the number of truckers surpassed 3.5 million in 2017.
    A decade before, during the Great Recession, approximately 3.4 million people worked as truck drivers in 2007. The recession ended in 2009; by 2010, there were fewer than 3 million.
     
    https://www.ttnews.com/articles/data-shows-there-are-more-truckers-ever-experts-say-driver-shortage-still-issue

    "shortages"

    Costello said the increase in truckers and trucking businesses may be the result of pay increases and widespread media coverage on the driver shortage.
     
    This one weird trick

    Replies: @M_Young

    Anyone remember Wally Thor? He *really* wanted you to get a job.

    In fact, anyone remember staying home as a kid and watching teevee and it would be wall to wall commercials for trade schools — De Vry, Bryman Institute, Control Data institute, American Bartending Schools (“learn by doing in our cocktailbar classrooms!”

    • Replies: @Known Fact
    @M_Young

    Don't forget Columbia School of Broadcasting. But the best line was for some refrigeration repair school -- "You like working with your hands, but you don't like gettin' em dirty?"

  48. @Rosie
    Even the most die-hard egalitarian judge is unlikely to have the stomach for an unjust execution, so this won't go anywhere, but it probably means that the death penalty is not workable in a multiracial society.

    Replies: @stillCARealist

    When a friend was up for jury duty in a South Sacramento murder trial, she shared the details with me: all Hispanic, meaning the victims, the murderers, and the families. The grandparents of a murdered child demanded the death penalty for the druggies who pelted dad’s car with bullets, killing junior.

    So when you see someone get the death penalty, it means the families are insisting on it. I suspect the Hispanics know a cancerous tumor pretty well and would like the justice system to cut it out. Needless to say, I highly approve.

  49. @Redneck farmer
    @Reg Cæsar

    Reg, The Guardian is in Great Britain, a country of people whose ancestors couldn't figure out to leave Great Britain when they had the chance.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @El Dato, @Ancient Briton

    About 40 million people have left GB in the last 400 years – hence Canada, USA, Oz, NZ & sizable diaspora in the rest of the world.

  50. @Wilkey
    America - such a great nation. We have immigration laws our leaders choose not to enforce. We have a death penalty our leaders choose to enforce.

    Meanwhile my state DOT has proposed adding GPS devices to cars ("voluntarily," of course) because the increase in hybrid and electric vehicles is cutting into gas tax revenues. Our Republican state legislature seemed to be orgasmically supportive of the idea.

    Laws to punish (and track) the law abiding, but not the real criminals.

    Replies: @Ancient Briton, @Lurker

    Anarcho-tyranny. See the late, great Sam Francis.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Ancient Briton

    The great Dr. Francis never married, ended his days earning small sums contributing to Chronicles and editing a newsletter issued by the residue of the white Citizens' Councils, and took terrible care of himself, dying at age 57.

  51. I promise you, without a doubt, several of those 222 are innocent. This is how the system works. Are you willing to sacrifice a couple innocents just so that you can see the guilty die? Because that is the price. Always.

    • Replies: @peterike
    @obwandiyag

    “Are you willing to sacrifice a couple innocents just so that you can see the guilty die?”

    Yes.

  52. @Diversity is Great!

    Executions Under the Federal Death Penalty
    from: deathpenaltyinfo.org

    Three people have been executed since the reinstatement of the federal death penalty in 1988.

    Timothy McVeigh, White male, executed on June 11, 2001. McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death in June 1997, for the bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, in which 168 people were killed. McVeigh waived his collateral appeals, and the Government set McVeigh’s execution on May 16, 2001. McVeigh was granted a 30-day stay of execution by Attorney General John Ashcroft after it was discovered that the FBI had failed to disclose more than 3,000 pages of document to McVeigh’s defense team. McVeigh’s co-defendant, Terry Nichols, was capitally prosecuted by the federal government in a separate trial. In December 1997, he was convicted by the jury and sentenced to life without parole. Nichols was later capitally tried in Oklahoma state court for the murders of the 161 non-federal employees in Oklahoma City. In May 2004, he was convicted, and the jury deadlocked and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. (Terry Nichols Fast Facts, CNN Library; Oklahoma City Bombing Fast Facts, CNN Library.)

    Juan Raul Garza, Latino male, executed on June 19, 2001. Garza, a marijuana distributor, was convicted and sentenced to death in August 1993, in Texas for the murders of three other drug traffickers. Garza was denied review by the U.S. Supreme Court in late 1999 and was facing an execution date of August 5, 2000. The date was postponed until the Justice Department finished drafting guidelines for federal death row inmates seeking presidential clemency, which were issued in early August. Garza was offered the opportunity to apply for clemency under the new guidelines and a new execution date of Dec. 12, 2000 was set. In December 2000, President Clinton again delayed Garza’s execution for at least six months to allow further study of the fairness of the federal death penalty. (In Death, Garza Seeks Forgiveness, ABC News, June 19, 2001.)

    Louis Jones, Black male, executed on March 18, 2003.Jones was sentenced to death in November 1995 in Texas for the kidnap/murder of a young white female soldier. The United States Supreme Court granted review of the case and heard arguments on February 22, 1999. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on June 21, 1999. Jones, a decorated Gulf War veteran who had no prior criminal record, claimed that his exposure to nerve gas in Iraq and post-traumatic stress from his combat tours contributed to his murder of Pvt. Tracie Joy McBride in Texas. President George W. Bush refused Jones’ clemency request. (Associated Press, U.S. Executes Gulf War Veteran Who Raped and Killed a Soldier, NY Times, March 19, 2003.)
     

    Replies: @Redneck farmer, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Bill Jones, @obwandiyag

    1. McVeigh was killed because he might reveal certain secrets.

    2. I would think you guys would think that Garza was doing public service.

    3. Re: Jones: I do not doubt that fighting in modern wars turns people’s minds into murderous mush. Not for one second.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @obwandiyag

    He didn't have any secrets worth bothering about once the case against him, Terry Nichols, and the Fortiers had been satisfactorily demonstrated.

    Replies: @obwandiyag

  53. Does anyone have any examples of white people in Los Angeles County who were found guilty of first degree homicide with aggravating factors that would have brought the death penalty into play, who avoided the death penalty based on doubtful reasoning?

  54. @M_Young
    @216

    Anyone remember Wally Thor? He *really* wanted you to get a job.

    In fact, anyone remember staying home as a kid and watching teevee and it would be wall to wall commercials for trade schools -- De Vry, Bryman Institute, Control Data institute, American Bartending Schools ("learn by doing in our cocktailbar classrooms!"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKI2dQIr5xo

    Replies: @Known Fact

    Don’t forget Columbia School of Broadcasting. But the best line was for some refrigeration repair school — “You like working with your hands, but you don’t like gettin’ em dirty?”

  55. @Tiny Duck
    white girls love Black Men and will bear their children

    Read Adam Serwer you cannot refute him

    Replies: @216, @istevefan, @Amerimutt Golems

    white girls love Black Men and will bear their children

    LOL. It is the other way round.

    Blacks are essentially West African polygamists living in the Americas.

    They are wired to sire many offspring with lots of women, for example Dennis Rodman’s dad had 29 kids with 16 different women, 6 more than former South African president Jacob Zuma.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Amerimutt Golems

    The total fertility rate for black women is 2.1 children per woman per lifetime. In recent years, about 3.7% of the youth born have been classified as multi-racial by the Census. The share of multi-racial people who report black ancestry is just north of 40%. So, roughly 1.6% of the children born in this country are multi-racial with black ancestry. Even if all of them featured black sires, it's not going to increase the live births attributable to black men by more than about 10% or so.

    Replies: @Johann Ricke

  56. Your reference to 2700 homicides also brought up an article by Jill Leovy and Doug Smith entitled “Getting away with murder in South LAs killing zone,” dated January 10, 2004. Incredible is the only way to describe the amount of unsolved murders in LA, and. this was back in 2004. This story relates the reasons why so many murders are unsolved, fear of retaliation a major factor. In previous posts I have mentioned my step-son was one of the victims, unsolved of course.

  57. @The Germ Theory of Disease
    "by Sam Levin"

    No further questions, your honor.

    Replies: @Anon, @Olorin

    Unmutual! Unmutual!

  58. @Bill Jones
    @Diversity is Great!

    You really believe McVeigh was executed?

    Replies: @Art Deco, @sayless, @Corn

    Where do you fancy McVeigh’s been hiding out the last 18 years? Is his sister in on the scam?

  59. @Amerimutt Golems
    @Tiny Duck



    white girls love Black Men and will bear their children

     

    LOL. It is the other way round.

    Blacks are essentially West African polygamists living in the Americas.

    They are wired to sire many offspring with lots of women, for example Dennis Rodman's dad had 29 kids with 16 different women, 6 more than former South African president Jacob Zuma.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    The total fertility rate for black women is 2.1 children per woman per lifetime. In recent years, about 3.7% of the youth born have been classified as multi-racial by the Census. The share of multi-racial people who report black ancestry is just north of 40%. So, roughly 1.6% of the children born in this country are multi-racial with black ancestry. Even if all of them featured black sires, it’s not going to increase the live births attributable to black men by more than about 10% or so.

    • Replies: @Johann Ricke
    @Art Deco


    The total fertility rate for black women is 2.1 children per woman per lifetime.
     
    The age at which they have children makes a big difference. 66% of black childbirths are born to mothers under age 30, vs 48% of white and 41% of Asian. Blacks are getting grandchildren at the same time many whites of the same age are bearing children.

    https://www.infoplease.com/us/births/births-age-and-race-mother

    Replies: @Art Deco

  60. @obwandiyag
    @Diversity is Great!

    1. McVeigh was killed because he might reveal certain secrets.

    2. I would think you guys would think that Garza was doing public service.

    3. Re: Jones: I do not doubt that fighting in modern wars turns people's minds into murderous mush. Not for one second.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    He didn’t have any secrets worth bothering about once the case against him, Terry Nichols, and the Fortiers had been satisfactorily demonstrated.

    • Replies: @obwandiyag
    @Art Deco

    Yes, he did, you ignorant boob.

    Replies: @Art Deco

  61. @Redneck farmer
    @Diversity is Great!

    1 white, 1 black, 1 Hispanic. Sounds like a gang from TJ Hooker!

    Replies: @Ray Huffman

    LOL, either that or Death Wish.

  62. @Ancient Briton
    @Wilkey

    Anarcho-tyranny. See the late, great Sam Francis.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    The great Dr. Francis never married, ended his days earning small sums contributing to Chronicles and editing a newsletter issued by the residue of the white Citizens’ Councils, and took terrible care of himself, dying at age 57.

  63. @Bill Jones
    @Diversity is Great!

    You really believe McVeigh was executed?

    Replies: @Art Deco, @sayless, @Corn

    I thought it was strange that so many witnesses to the execution described what they saw in ghastly detail, broadcast. There were a dozen or more. And it was the same thing over and over again of course: He isn’t just dead, he’s really, really dead. I wondered if the guvamint was trying to talk us into something.

    Not implying that the witnesses weren’t sincere. But I’ve never heard anything like it before or since.

  64. @obwandiyag
    I promise you, without a doubt, several of those 222 are innocent. This is how the system works. Are you willing to sacrifice a couple innocents just so that you can see the guilty die? Because that is the price. Always.

    Replies: @peterike

    “Are you willing to sacrifice a couple innocents just so that you can see the guilty die?”

    Yes.

  65. I thought it was strange that so many witnesses to the execution described what they saw in ghastly detail, broadcast. There were a dozen or more.

    I am pretty much agnostic on the death penalty, because to me life in prison would be a fate worse than death, but it seems to me that executions ought to be held in public, or at least put on Youtube, so that we can see what our government is doing.

    In Florida we have something called the Government in the Sunshine Law, a witty play on words intended to promote the ultraviolet-rich state climate, which states that all government meetings even at the highest and lowest levels must be held in public, but in reality the public gallery at executions, thought it does exist, is minimized to a few seats.

    We had our latest execution here in Florida on May 23rd of this year, when the execution ceremony was performed on one Bobby Joe Long, a mass rapist and murderer. Long was arrested in 1984 and eventually given his lethal injection 35 years later, so the state cunningly gave his a lifetime in prison PLUS execution when he became old enough to qualify for the procedure on Medicare.

    Long was born with an extra X chromosome, causing him to grow breasts during puberty, for which he was teased. Had he been born at a later time, he might have opted for womanhood, had himself castrated, and avoided all the nastiness.

    The peanut gallery.

    https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20181213/ARTICLE/181219822/AR/0/AR-181219822.jpg&MaxW=1200&Q=66

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5765435/death-row-witness-execution-serial-killer-ted-bundy-inmates/

  66. @Bill Jones
    @Diversity is Great!

    You really believe McVeigh was executed?

    Replies: @Art Deco, @sayless, @Corn

    Why would the government not execute him if he was sentenced to death?

  67. @Art Deco
    @obwandiyag

    He didn't have any secrets worth bothering about once the case against him, Terry Nichols, and the Fortiers had been satisfactorily demonstrated.

    Replies: @obwandiyag

    Yes, he did, you ignorant boob.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @obwandiyag

    The only thing I'm ignorant of here is the issue of your imagination, which is of no interest.

  68. @Art Deco
    @Amerimutt Golems

    The total fertility rate for black women is 2.1 children per woman per lifetime. In recent years, about 3.7% of the youth born have been classified as multi-racial by the Census. The share of multi-racial people who report black ancestry is just north of 40%. So, roughly 1.6% of the children born in this country are multi-racial with black ancestry. Even if all of them featured black sires, it's not going to increase the live births attributable to black men by more than about 10% or so.

    Replies: @Johann Ricke

    The total fertility rate for black women is 2.1 children per woman per lifetime.

    The age at which they have children makes a big difference. 66% of black childbirths are born to mothers under age 30, vs 48% of white and 41% of Asian. Blacks are getting grandchildren at the same time many whites of the same age are bearing children.

    https://www.infoplease.com/us/births/births-age-and-race-mother

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Johann Ricke

    The median age at the birth of the first child for black women is 23, v. 26 for white women. Really isn't that different.

  69. In LA County, non Hispanic whites are 27.8% of the population. Hispanics are 47.7%

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Los_Angeles_County

  70. @obwandiyag
    @Art Deco

    Yes, he did, you ignorant boob.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    The only thing I’m ignorant of here is the issue of your imagination, which is of no interest.

  71. @Johann Ricke
    @Art Deco


    The total fertility rate for black women is 2.1 children per woman per lifetime.
     
    The age at which they have children makes a big difference. 66% of black childbirths are born to mothers under age 30, vs 48% of white and 41% of Asian. Blacks are getting grandchildren at the same time many whites of the same age are bearing children.

    https://www.infoplease.com/us/births/births-age-and-race-mother

    Replies: @Art Deco

    The median age at the birth of the first child for black women is 23, v. 26 for white women. Really isn’t that different.

  72. The median age at the birth of the first child for black women is 23, v. 26 for white women. Really isn’t that different.

    The median age for both is astonishingly old by historical standards. Optimal fertility starts at around 20 and ages 20-24 have the lowest probability of miscarriage. Fertility decreases rapidly after 30.

    In most African countries and India the median age is between 18 and 20. However in most of the developed countries the mean age is even higher than in the US with

    Best estimate is that most women are physically at their most attractive from about 18-23, which probably corresponds to biological fitness to reproduce. After that everything goes downhill all the way with Australia leading the way at 30.1. New Zealand is at 27.7. (A psychiatrist friend of mine who spent a year there who was a single man said that New Zealand must have the ugliest women per capita in the world, but whether there is a connection between attractiveness and fertility is moot.)

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Jonathan Mason

    The median age for both is astonishingly old by historical standards. Optimal fertility starts at around 20 and ages 20-24 have the lowest probability of miscarriage. Fertility decreases rapidly after 30.

    In non-occidental cultures, perhaps. Not in occidental society. See Angus Maddison on this issue.

  73. @Jonathan Mason

    The median age at the birth of the first child for black women is 23, v. 26 for white women. Really isn’t that different.
     
    The median age for both is astonishingly old by historical standards. Optimal fertility starts at around 20 and ages 20-24 have the lowest probability of miscarriage. Fertility decreases rapidly after 30.

    In most African countries and India the median age is between 18 and 20. However in most of the developed countries the mean age is even higher than in the US with

    Best estimate is that most women are physically at their most attractive from about 18-23, which probably corresponds to biological fitness to reproduce. After that everything goes downhill all the way with Australia leading the way at 30.1. New Zealand is at 27.7. (A psychiatrist friend of mine who spent a year there who was a single man said that New Zealand must have the ugliest women per capita in the world, but whether there is a connection between attractiveness and fertility is moot.)

    Replies: @Art Deco

    The median age for both is astonishingly old by historical standards. Optimal fertility starts at around 20 and ages 20-24 have the lowest probability of miscarriage. Fertility decreases rapidly after 30.

    In non-occidental cultures, perhaps. Not in occidental society. See Angus Maddison on this issue.

  74. LAs DA Lacey is a political hack, she has parked the LA County Assessor John R Noguez public corruption trial for SEVEN YEARS! since day 1 of her DA term in 2012.

    https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-john-noguez-20160721-snap-story.html

    A Noguez prosecution would lead to half the CA legislature being prosecuted for bribery, Noguez channeled millions of dollars in Assessor bribes to dozens of Democrat campaigns for years.

    He took in so much cash as Assessor he started his own Political Action Committee.

    https://www.loscerritosnews.net/2012/11/23/obscure-elect-noguez-committee-poured-thousands-into-campaign-coffers/

    Parking a public corruption case indefinitely requires CA DOJ, FBI and USDOJ collusion.

    Talking to you AG Barr

  75. @Wilkey
    America - such a great nation. We have immigration laws our leaders choose not to enforce. We have a death penalty our leaders choose to enforce.

    Meanwhile my state DOT has proposed adding GPS devices to cars ("voluntarily," of course) because the increase in hybrid and electric vehicles is cutting into gas tax revenues. Our Republican state legislature seemed to be orgasmically supportive of the idea.

    Laws to punish (and track) the law abiding, but not the real criminals.

    Replies: @Ancient Briton, @Lurker

    Meanwhile my state DOT has proposed adding GPS devices to cars (“voluntarily,” of course) because the increase in hybrid and electric vehicles is cutting into gas tax revenues. Our Republican state legislature seemed to be orgasmically supportive of the idea.

    How does the GPS make up the shortfall? You have to pay (state) to have it fitted? Sorry if I’ve misunderstood.

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