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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively at VDARE.com

My faith in the integrity of courtroom justice was holed below the waterline twenty-some years ago, when I followed the child sex-abuse hysterias of the 1980s and 1990s.

Those were shameful injustices, travesties of justice. Decent, harmless citizens like Gerald Amirault and his family—there were many, many others—were convicted and given double-digit sentences on charges no sensible person could credit, and for which there was no physical evidence.

Ambitious, unscrupulous prosecutors; dim-witted juries; avaricious and/or ideological attorneys; bought-and-paid-for judges; all were on plain display there back in the nineties.

And our country then was more sane than it is now! It still had a stabilizing ballast of older citizens with memories of war and Depression, of reality biting hard. Today we are more frivolous, more stupid, more detached from reality.

So my expectations that today’s judicial system will consistently deliver anything resembling justice, could not be lower. When it does so, as in the Rittenhouse trial last month, I am quietly astonished.

Much more common, and more in line with my cynical expectations, was the appalling miscarriage of justice in the Arbery case, also of last month, where three decent, public-spirited citizens had their lives and the lives of their families destroyed by the determined efforts of an antiwhite cabal of prosecutors, politicians, activists, and media bloodsuckers.

The Arbery case illustrates an important point about the random and approximate nature of our justice system: that it is at its most random, most approximate when dealing with cases that snap easily into the cherished, beloved Narrative of working-class whites—especially Southerners—being beastly to blacks.

That Narrative is so deep-imbedded in our collective psyche, it is now unusual to find a person—even a normal, non-ideological person—whose worldview is not infected by it.

This week’s cases:

  • Jussie Smollett

This did not snap neatly into the Narrative, although Jussie did his best to make it do so. The white perps Jussie accused of having assaulted him back in January 2019 could never be located.

The only other human beings involved in the incident who could be located were the Osundairo brothers from Nigeria. My own cynicism kicked in from the very start, like many other peoples’—including, I am sure, the Chicago police officers assigned to investigate the so-called crime. I doubt there were ever so many eyes rolling simultaneously as when a roomful of seasoned big-city street cops were given that assignment. Jussie’s story was all so obviously phony … unless, of course, you have sold your soul to the Narrative.

How cynical was I? Well, when I first saw that stock picture of the Osundairo brothers, as black and as jacked as it is possible to be, my first thought was: “Oh, so those are the guys Jussie was paying to bugger him.”

On the courtroom testimony, that was not precisely the case; but I think I got the main idea of the relationships there.

Laying cynicism aside, I am now going to annoy some readers, I’m sure, by saying that I don’t think Jussie should have been brought to trial, any more than the three defendants in the Arbery case should have been. This, and that, were wastes of public time and resources for reasons ultimately political.

Remember the early stages of this case. January 2019, Jussie claimed he was attacked. February that year, state attorney Kim Foxx stepped away from the case, handing it to her assistant Joseph Magats to pursue, while also asking the FBI to take an interest. In March Jussie was indicted for a false report … but then, three weeks later, all charges were dropped.

Why? Well, Assistant D.A. Magats had cut a deal with Jussie’s attorneys. The deal was, they would drop the charges provided Jussie performed sixteen hours of community service and forfeited his ten-thousand-dollar bond.

That seems pretty fair to me for what was surely a trivial offense by a guy with no criminal background.

Why wasn’t it? Well, Rahm Emanuel, the Mayor of Chicago, and Eddie Johnson, his police chief were mad as hell about the charges being dropped. Chief Johnson had given over three thousand man-hours to investigating the damn thing, he protested. To which a sensible response would have been: “Well then, let’s not waste any more resources on it.” That wasn’t the response he got, though.

And on the national political scene, Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, with their eyes of course fixed on the following year’s presidential election, were pushing to have lynching made a federal hate crime. The Smollett story, which both senators pretended to believe, was helpful to them and needed to be kept alive.

Plus the FBI had gotten involved on Kim Foxx’s urging. So what with one political thing and another political thing, the Jussie Smollett case stayed alive when it should have died peacefully in late March 2019.

I apologize to Jussie Smollett on behalf of all citizens who believe in swift, clean, proportionate, and un-political justice.

You’re an idiot, Jussie, and a deeply unattractive human being. Neither thing is against the law, though. You’ve been unfairly treated. Ten thousand dollars and sixteen hours of community service looks proportionate to me. It’s not your fault the media is full of gullible, Narrative-soaked nitwits. I’d like to see them in court.

  • The Maxwell-Epstein mysteries.

The federal prosecutors in the Maxwell trial told us they’d rest their case Friday. However, a key attorney has taken ill, so now the prosecution may not rest until next week.

ORDER IT NOW

Ms. Maxwell is charged with procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, the super-rich guy who passed away under mysterious circumstances in August 2019, and the precise source of whose wealth is also mysterious, at any rate to me. All Epstein’s on record as having done for a living is managing the financial affairs of other people—very seriously rich people, to be sure; but I can’t see that he got as much as he seems to have gotten just from that.

Whatever: Epstein was very rich, Ms. Maxwell and he were some kind of an item; and prosecutors claim she helped procure jailbait for him and his rich friends.

Ms. Maxwell is the daughter of British media mogul Robert Maxwell, who also died a mysterious death—drowned, either by suicide or otherwise, after falling from his luxury yacht in 1991.

Robert Maxwell was a piece of work. Born to a poor Jewish family in 1920s Czechoslovakia, he got out of Nazi-occupied Europe, joined the British Army, and had a good war. Postwar he went into publishing, got modestly rich, and was a Labour Party Member of Parliament for six years in the 1960s. The 1970s and 1980s he spent getting richer from media takeovers. After his death, it turned out he’d been looting his business enterprises to the degree that they soon collapsed.

He was also a spy of some kind, with links to Britain’s MI6, the Soviet Union’s KGB, and Israel’s Mossad. He was either a double or a triple agent, no-one seems to know for sure.

And he and Jeffrey Epstein were pals back in the day—in the 1980s, that is, when Robert Maxwell was coming under increasing suspicion of financial shenanigans and Epstein himself was a player in Towers Financial Corporation which later—after Epstein had left the firm—turned out to have been a massive Ponzi scheme. Birds of a feather.

Was Epstein, like Maxwell, working with Israeli intelligence at some level? It’s not improbable. I refer you to Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown’s book published this summer, Perversion of Justice, delving into some of the mysteries of Epstein’s life and death.

Most to the point here: when Robert Maxwell’s businesses collapsed following his death in 1991, his daughter Ghislaine, youngest of his nine children, was not quite thirty. The whole family was in distress, having gotten used to living high. Ghislaine moved to New York, where she met Epstein. He seems to have given the family considerable help, in return for which Ghislaine shared not only her intimate favors but also her contacts among Britain’s rich elite, apparently including Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth’s second son.

It’s all a strange and tangled tale, and still today getting stranger and tangleder. Observers of the current trial tell us that the prosecution hasn’t been trying very hard, are just going through the motions. There are murmurs that rich and powerful people—ex-Presidents even—wish it so.

If the complete story of Epstein and the Maxwells is ever written out in full and published between hard covers—if—the Amazon delivery driver will need a hand truck to get it to your front door.

  • Another Minneapolis martyr

The Kim Potter trial got under way this week.

Ms. Potter was a police officer on the force of Brooklyn Center, an inner suburb of Minneapolis. Back in April, she and a fellow officer pulled over a car for a technical violation. In the car were 20-year-old Daunte Wright and his girlfriend. The cops ran Wright’s ID through their computer: turned out there was a warrant out for his arrest.

They went back to his car and told him to step out. Officer Potter’s colleague started to cuff him; but Wright pulled away and got back into the car, plainly intending to drive away. The colleague tried to pull him back out of the car while Officer Potter pulled out her weapon and yelled “I’ll Tase you! Taser! Taser! Taser!” Unfortunately, she’d pulled out her revolver by mistake.

It fired; the car rolled a few yards, then hit another car and stopped. Daunte Wright was pronounced dead at the scene.

It’s all on video and it’s plain that Officer Potter knew at once that she’d pulled the wrong weapon, and was distraught over the result. She’s since resigned from the force.

In the trial that got under way this week she faces two charges: first-degree manslaughter, second-degree manslaughter. Neither implies an intent to kill, only different degrees of carelessness with a weapon.

Ms. Potter is white, though, while Daunte Wright was black, or at any rate black-ish—a quadroon, would be my guess.

So this one is a good fit for the Narrative. Not the Narrative about tobacco-chewing good ol’ boys lynching black field hands, but the related secondary narrative of white city cops shooting young black men every chance they get.

And this in Minneapolis, remember, or near enough; the very city from which the Holy Blessed Martyr George Floyd ascended to Heaven on a golden cloud. The show trial of Derek Chauvin was in fact under way nearby when this whole incident occurred.

Being such a good fit for that Narrative, on the Derbyshire Principle we can reasonably expect a mockery of justice here. Standard sentences for those two manslaughter charges are seven years and four, maximums 15 years and ten. Ms. Potter will likely get the maximums, to run consecutively. And then the feds will pile on with the “civil rights” buncombe; although that will not, absolutely not, constitute Double Jeopardy—not, no way, never! Don’t even think it’s Double Jeopardy!

The jury, twelve seated and two alternates, is seven men, seven women. Two of the women are Asian, one is black; all the other jurors are white.

Naturally, the demonstrators are out in force. The police probably not so much. After last year’s ructions and the ritual sacrifice of Officer Chauvin, it’s amazing there are any cops left in Minneapolis.

One stomach-turning aspect of all these wretched stories is the fawning coverage given to the deceased. Sure, I understand de mortuis nil nisi bonum, “ask not for whom the bell tolls,” and so on; but you can take the eulogies too far. Here’s The New York Times

Daunte Wright has been remembered by friends as upbeat and gregarious, someone who loved to play basketball and was a supportive father to his son, Daunte Jr., who was a year old when Mr. Wright, 20, was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop.

Who was Daunte Wright? by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, December 8, 2021

And that’s nothing compared to the coverage Wright got from the BBC back in April when the story was new.

Mr. Mason [one of Wright’s schoolteachers] told Associated Press that Mr. Wright was “a charismatic kid … one of those kids that everybody looked up to.”

Mr. Wright was a talented basketball player when he was in high school, and used to tell Mr. Mason that he wanted to play for the NBA.

Daunte Wright: ‘One of those kids everybody looked up to’, BBC, April 15, 2021

There is actually a George Floyd connection, the BBC told us. Courteney Ross, billed here as George Floyd’s girlfriend, was at one point Daunte Wright’s teacher. She testified that, quote:

It’s enough that Floyd is gone, but for one of my youths to be gone as well. He was just a wonderful, beautiful boy.

As my old Dad was wont to say: “Where are all the bad people buried?”

ORDER IT NOW

Daunte Wright was in fact quite seriously bad. Back in December 2019 he was charged with aggravated robbery after he threatened with a gun a woman who had given him hospitality. He demanded she hand over $820 in cash he knew she had stashed in her bra[Video shows Daunte Wright posing with gun in woman’s bathroom before robbery, by Michael Ruiz, Teny Sahakian, Fox News, September 9, 2021].

There’s a thing that we normal people wonder all the time: Why are these martyrs and victims of the Black Lives Matter pantheon all such scuzzy antisocial unemployable lowlifes? Daunte Wright, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, … These are your heroes? These are your martyrs? Yeccch!

If, as the BLM types keep telling us, cops and vigilantes shoot young black men opportunistically, at random, how come they never hit a young chess wizard or even just a trainee accountant?

John Derbyshire [email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.

(Republished from VDare by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Realist says:

    Smollett, Maxwell, Potter—Another Bad Week for the U.S. Justice System

    The people of the U. S. have suffered many decades of a bad justice system.

    • Agree: Adept, Bro43rd
  2. “There’s a thing that we normal people wonder all the time: Why are these martyrs and victims of the Black Lives Matter pantheon all such scuzzy antisocial unemployable lowlifes? Daunte Wright, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, … These are your heroes? These are your martyrs? Yeccch!”

    Yes, it’s uncanny how coonsistently black heroes turn out to be pieces of shit. It’s practically a given.

    But I’m not sure that normies get it….because the hostile media informs us that magical people are saintly, kind, talented, rhythmic, sexually superior, and innocent even while burning buildings and stomping people to death.

    TBH, the jewing is so in your face brazen that…..one has to marvel that there are institutions dedicated to propagating these lies and that people carve careers out of an agenda totally based on lies and bullshit.

    Just imagine what our world would be like if all of that energy could be applied to doing something worthwhile.

  3. “Today we are more frivolous, more stupid, more detached from reality.”

    Exactly. I have been reading lately about America in the 1950s and noted how much more serious we were then.

    • Agree: Decoy, HammerJack
    • Thanks: Daniel Rich
    • Replies: @Mackerel Sky
    , @Fuzzbaby
  4. Exile says:

    Derb, your equanimity re: Smollett would be acceptable in a secure, sane White-run society – pre 1964 America or Britain.

    It’s not anymore. Smollett was a genuine case of racial agitation and incitement – the kind Whites are constantly accused of (but always turns out to be a hoax by some Jewish or Black subversive).

    Look at Waukesha’s bloody parade attack – these things have consequences in a racially-charged environment. That’s what we live in, Derb – the only way through is forward – we are never going back to 1960.

    To flog a cliche (that’s only tired because it remains true), you may not be interested in racializing the justice system and politics, but your opponents are – and they have power, not you.

    You can recognize that and be part of the solution or you can pretend it doesn’t exist and get wrecked.

  5. Jiminy says:

    I see where the killer of Justine Damond, copper Mohamed Noor, has had his murder charge reversed.

  6. Wyatt says:

    Jussie Smolett is a jew in addition to a queer nigro. The only question a just society would ask in his case is: gas or noose?

  7. SMK says: • Website

    The “Derb” is sympathetic toward a deranged and psychotic hater of Trump and his supporters who lied about being assaulted and “lynched” by white “racists” wearing MAGA hats to advance and confirm the “narrative” of blacks as the victims of “systemic racism” and “white supremacy.” And also, so he hoped, apparently, to enhance his career, and, moreover, as an attention-seeking narcissist.

    And the MSM, and nearly all leftists and democrats, including Joe Biden and kamala Harris, believed or affected to believe his ludicrous and transparent lies, further inciting hatred of whites, especially the tens of millions who voted for Trump, and the US as defined by “systemic racism” and “white supremacy.” How many whites were assaulted, raped, and murdered because of Smollet’s lies and the anti-white demagogy of the MSM and leftists and democrats like Biden and Harris?

    And Smollet not only lied about an assault and “lynching” by white “racists” but reported the “crime” his invented to the police who conducted a lengthy and costly investigation. If he hadn’t reported the “crime” to the police who realized he was lying, he would not have been prosecuted and, refusing to admit he lied and to accept a plea-bargain, would not have been tried and convicted by a jury of 5 felonies.

    And even after reporting the “crime” to police, he could have admitted he lied and apologized and there wouhld have been no trial and felony convictions. At worst, he might have been sentenced, under a plea-bargain, to 30-60 days of probation and perhaps 50-hours of some kind of “community service” -if even that?

    And the “Derb”is sympathetic.

    • Agree: Rogue, David In TN
    • Replies: @Wokechoke
    , @Catdog
  8. The case is tainted by the corruption of law enforcement, common in that part of the world, where I grew up, at least in the pass. Killer pere, formerly of the police, asked DA Jackie Johnson, a friend, to block investigation, the request being a crime. She imposed the coverup, also a crime, for which she is now under felony indictment. Those who, following her orders, wrote the documents asserting no wrongdoing, are morally and perhaps legally party to obstruction of justice. The Deep South and Long Island are different places.
    Many commenting on the adventure seem unable to distinguish between evidence and assumption, suspicion, and wish. He Arbery allegedly entered the house five times, consistently leaving without stealing anything. Not stealing is not evidence of stealing. The day of his killing he left the house with, visibly to the killers, nothing in his possession. The line of reasoning—there had been thefts in the neighborhood, Arbery was in the neighborhood, therefore Arbery was the thief—works in the comment section of Unz but not in court.
    That the shooter’s father consoled him is perhaps touching, but irrelevant, as the law judges you on what you do, not how you feel about it later. Doubtless Arbery could have run in another direction, but this is irrelevant as Georgia law does not prescribe your direction of flight when pursued by vigilantes in trucks. That he had THC in his system might have been relevant if he had been on trial for drug use, but he wasn’t on trial for anything at all.
    As the prosecutor told the jury—I presume you watched the video—the only question before them was whether the three were conducting a legitimate citizen’s arrest. If not, running Arbery down was an assault made with no authority. The killers had not seen Arbery commit a felony since he had not committed one. They had no grounds to suspect him of committing a burglary since he left the house empty-handed. No felony, no reasonable suspicion of felony, no citizen’s arrest.
    The self-defense defense has no basis in law. If you attack someone, as by chasing him with trucks which you use to herd him in desired directions—this is ADW—and at some point he turns to fight, you cannot kill him and claim self-defense. This is neither rocket science nor legally speculative, being (I think) settled law everywhere.
    I don’t think I can reasonably be charged with being soft on crime by blacks, or anyone else, but murder is murder, regardless of the albedo of the murderers. Again, the South does not work like northern suburbs.

  9. Dutch Boy says:

    As a non-Southern, non-Confederacy admiring observer, I fairly quickly identified the Arbery case as one of justifiable homicide. The accused were engaged in a legal (then) act of citizens’ arrest when Arbery attempted to wrest control of a firearm from the shooter. That is a kill or be killed situation and thus a legitimate act of self defense.

  10. @Dutch Boy

    Luckily suburban white democrat Georgians know better than you.

    • Replies: @Dutch Boy
  11. @Frederick V. Reed

    Well argued, Frederick. Yours is the same as mine was before I read Jared Taylor’s analysis of the trial. Now I’m leaning your way again. Glad I’m not a juror anywhere.

  12. lloyd says: • Website

    The Maxwell trial indicates accusations of sexual abuse of minors by powerful celebrities does exist. It seems Epstein’s and Maxwell’s tastes went no further down than the nubile. The legacy media seem to fudge if some of the victims were twelve. They focus on “as young as fourteen”. I would suggest that is moral corruption rather than mental sickness. Whether the sexual abuse of small children allegations in child care centres was all delusion, I am no longer sure. At least one retired FBI agent is convinced they are real.

    • Replies: @SMK
  13. SafeNow says:

    The mathematical but bookstoreless Mr. Derb assumes that Jussie’s hoax was trivial career-enhancement. But Jussie’s hoax, as everyone in the country knows, might have incited violent and deadly protests, in Chicago and other cities. I liken this to arson. The arsonist “merely” wants to burn down the building. But the consequences could include the deaths of occupants and firefighters. Thus, the sentence for (white) arson is harsh, even when the secondary consequences do not ensue. When the Jussie judge imposes sentence, this should be taken into account.

    • Agree: ic1000
    • Replies: @Robert Dolan
  14. ‘…It’s all a strange and tangled tale, and still today getting stranger and tangleder. Observers of the current trial tell us that the prosecution hasn’t been trying very hard, are just going through the motions. There are murmurs that rich and powerful people—ex-Presidents even—wish it so.

    ‘If the complete story of Epstein and the Maxwells is ever written out in full and published between hard covers—if—the Amazon delivery driver will need a hand truck to get it to your front door…’

    Move along, it’s all too complex, in other words.

    …and above all, omit any mention of how one of the rich and powerful people on record as enjoying the delights of Epstein’s jail-bait smorgasbord was the former premier of Israel, Ehud Barak.

    • Thanks: Orville H. Larson
  15. @Jiminy

    ‘I see where the killer of Justine Damond, copper Mohamed Noor, has had his murder charge reversed.’

    Duh. He was black and his victim was white.

    • Replies: @Dave Bowman
  16. I only disagree with you on the Smollett thing, and you’ll have others argue that one. Since I have no argument here, I’ll just write about what I just read from you on VDare, What Do Diversitycrats Do With Their Millions?—At UWM They Spend $45,000 To Make Students Listen To Ibram X. Kendi. (Not all your stuff appears on The Unz Review.) From the end:

    Pretty nice. I don’t blame Kendi for milking the rubes. My question is: Is there a chamber of Hell hot enough for the college bureaucrats who subject their students to this poisonous dreck under the pretense it is a form of higher learning?

    Sure, I hope they go straight to hell, but I blame the students and their parents for putting up with this crap. You get together via twitter or what-have-you, and you agree to all not show up. If they dock your grade, you show up en masse in front of the U. President’s house, all night long, whatever it takes.

    I don’t agree with most of the causes they stood for, but the ctrl-left of the 1960’s knew exactly how to raise hell. Is that a lost art now?!

    • Replies: @Daniel Rich
  17. @Frederick V. Reed

    Look who straggled in, the prodigal son who poured water on Ron’s favorite theories.

    I have to agree with the old coot this time, the McMichaels overstepped their boundaries. The elder McMichael did a poor job of knowing the law–inexcusable since he used to be the law himself.

    The smarter thing would have been to follow jogger boy down the road with their cameras rolling, shouting at him that all this footage would be going to the po-po. He’d have been scared shitless, and probably found a new cul-de-sac to terrorize.

    Or they could have set some sort of primitive trap like an open container of paint perched above a door left ajar. The sight of Arbery running away with white paint all over him would be priceless.

  18. Uncle Sam says:
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Arbery knew that his pursuers knew that he was up to no good. That is why he kept running, euphemistically called “jogging”. If he had not done anything wrong , anyone with an IQ of 70 would have stopped and explained himself. The McMichaels would have let him go on his way. They certainly come across as reasonable people.

    The McMichaels certainly had probable cause to do a citizens arrest. That is the key point. The fact that Arbery was in that house under constructions uninvited on several occasions is a burglay felony even tho nothing was taken. Under Georgia law you don’t have to take anything. What was his intent is the issue. Arbery was no carpenter, plumber or electrician. There is nothing in his record that he did any type of construction work. So you can easily infer that he wanted to steal something.

    In any case, all of the above becomes irrelevant when he decided to attack Travis. It became a life and death struggle over the shotgun, which resulted in Arbery dying. It was a justifiable homicide. The trial was a show trial staged for political purposes and is a travesty of justice. I hope it is reversed on appeal. I wish all 3 of these convicted men the best.

  19. AceDeuce says:

    Why are these martyrs and victims of the Black Lives Matter pantheon all such scuzzy antisocial unemployable lowlifes?

    Because all blacks are pretty much the same way.

    Also, it’s the way that they died-at the hands of the Evil White People. Most niggros would have killed Fentanyl Floyd or the Gentle Jogger over $10 or a bag of weed without a second thought, but if YT does it, no matter how legit; no matter how much the niggro caused the incident, the blacks are on Team niggro.

    Hey, no one ever said that blechpipo overthink things.

    The real question is how any sane, self-respecting White person can indulge in this insane worship of these creeps.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
  20. Unit472 says:

    Its w0uld be comical this outbreak of ”negroism” that requires us to not believe our lying eyes were it not so serious for those who are the victims of it.

    In our modern world of ubiquitous video we are actually able to see criminals committing their crimes. Even the hoodies and masks they wear ( perhaps their only observance of social norms) we can see their hands and foreheads and they are those of the negro. White palms and black fists are hard to hide when you are striking a Chinese woman or elderly white man but rather than ask NASA or the FBI to enlarge this aspect of the suspects identity, news media prefers to offer us only the most grainy video or conceal it altogether. It doesn’t work because the more they try to hide the more we KNOW what the problem is and it is not ”gun violence” it is negro violence and it is out of control in those states that let it get out of control.

    I actually relish it. Philadelphia has had more than 500 murders this year. Most of the victims young negro males. Well, it’s a start. The Philadelphia police couldn’t get away with shooting that many strutting Leroy’s but can you imagine how horrible life would be in Philadelphia if its negro population didn’t kill that many of its hoodrats every year. Same with Baltimore, Chicago etc. The hoodrats are doing the job the police can’t.

    My guess is this will end once the Democrats understand that, as important as the negro vote is to them, it is costing them more from the loss of the support they were getting from their immigrant. subbase. Will Asian, Hindu and Latino voters stick with the Democrats when they realize that Negro Supremacy means they too can become a White Hispanic like George Zimmerman or a white supremacist Muslim convenience store owner when they shoot back at the black animal robbing him.

  21. Wokechoke says:
    @SMK

    I’ll bite. Does this open the door for the prosecution of Hoaxers though? Think it through to a logical extreme.

  22. SMK says: • Website
    @lloyd

    “…the child sexual-abuse hysterias of the 1980s and 1990s”-the “ritual sex-abuse hoax,” the “mass-molestation” daycare prosecutions, the interfamilial sex-ring prosecutions- are inconceivable apart from feminist ideology and the anti-rape movement and CSA victimology. The hysteria over and obsession with CSA began, officially, when Florence Rush gave a speech at the 1972 NY radical feminist rape conference on “The Sexual Abuse of Children’ that was later published as a chapter in a book with all the other speeches.

    “Believe the children,” they implored and demanded, irrespective of the facts and even if there was not a scintilla of physical evidence or a single adult material witness to corroborate the accusations, and no matter how bizarre and fantastic the accusations, and SVU detectives, prosecutors, and juries obeyed, blighting and destroying the lives of hundreds of people, virtually all of them women in the daycare persecutions, convicted of myriads of sex crimes against toddlers they not only didn’t commit but which never even happened.

    Is the “retired FBI agent” you cite but don’t name Kenneth Lanning, a fanatical CSA victimologist who, as I remember, played a crucial role in creating and sustaining this mass hysteria and lunacy and moral panic and secular witch-hunt?

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    , @Bill Jones
  23. @Frederick V. Reed

    They didn’t attack Arbery, you fool…..Arbery attacked THEM.

  24. @Uncle Sam

    You really need to watch attorney Andrew Branca’s analysis of this. He’s an expert in self-defense law and a 2nd amendment absolutist. Even he agrees that the McMichaels were in the wrong.

    • Replies: @houston 1992
    , @Uncle Sam
  25. @SafeNow

    Jussie’s hoax was blood libel on white people as a group…..the aggregate of these hoaxes along with the Jmedia demonization of whites surely leads to countless black on white rapes and murders.

    This is not a trivial matter.

  26. pecosbill says:

    John Derbyshire on VDARE gave a far better analysis of this travesty of justice and joke of a trial.

    The case is tainted by the corruption of law enforcement

    Wrong. It was the failure of the court system. Arbery was arrested on at least two felonies. One was carrying a loaded gun to a high school event which is a serious crime. He was sentenced to five years but allowed to serve it on probation. Later, he plead guilty to felony theft of a TV from Walmart, which should have revoked his parole on the gun charge. Arbery often used the jogging excuse when confronted by police who found him in trespass circumstances. Law enforcement did their jobs, the courts and probation officers failed. Fred, you are incorrect.

    He Arbery allegedly entered the house five times, consistently leaving without stealing anything.

    No Fred. Arbery was caught five times on video in the house in question and under construction. This video got circulated around Satilla Shores, so the residents had a good idea who the frequent trespasser was. Having left without anything proves only that nothing easy to carry and sell was found. But five times trespassing into one house shows felony intent. Police, for some reason did not question Arbery on this. Other incidents occurred near the house under construction; but, I’ve corrected you enough for now on the lead up to the shooting.

    The line of reasoning—there had been thefts in the neighborhood, Arbery was in the neighborhood, therefore Arbery was the thief—works in the comment section of Unz but not in court.

    Very light and trite Fred, go back and do some work on this statement.

    irrelevant as Georgia law does not prescribe your direction of flight when pursued by vigilantes in trucks.

    They were not vigilantes rather residents of the community. Fred, the truck was stopped and Arbery had room to keep running unmolested. Georgia is a stand your ground state and one is not obligated to retreat, but, if you are a white man being confronted by a black, you damn better be able to show the court you took all reasonable steps to deescalate and avoid killing. Arbery might have chosen to continue the jog, but chose instead to attack a man holding a shotgun.

    The killers had not seen Arbery commit a felony since he had not committed one.

    No. First of all it was not a citizens arrest. Had the pursuers seen a felony in progress they could have used force to arrest Arbery. As it were, they had reasonable suspicion which is enough to stop and question, in police parlance. Here an arrest was not warranted, but questioning was reasonable given Arbury’s action on that day; fleeing the house under construction after having been seen by a neighborhood woman. Police were on the way to do the questioning. Arbery knew he was on probation. Another arrest might send him to prison on a parole revocation.

    This was a political trial from the get go. The worthless, soon to be one term Governor, wanted red meat for his Atlanta howlers and race baiters. He is a chicken-Schiff. He let militant, armed blacks crowd close to the courthouse and intimidate the jury and judge. Had the governor had any courage, he’d have had the state guard seal off the streets two or three blocks away. But like I said, the Gov is a coward, same goes for the AG. The indictment of the original DA in the case is pure vindictiveness, the Atlanta crowd wanted pounds of flesh and they’ll get much more.

    If you attack someone, as by chasing him with trucks which you use to herd him in desired directions

    More like following instead of herding. But I do agree one has the right to self defense if attacked, as was Travis when Arbery intentionally advanced on him and tried to pull the gun away, which Travis was in legal control of and not pointing it at Arbery.

    Those who, following her (the original DA) orders, wrote the documents asserting no wrongdoing, are morally and perhaps legally party to obstruction of justice.

    By that logic, all the bomber crews who knowingly dropped bombs on German cities burning alive women, children, noncombatants as well as Jews and others in work camps, are guilty as well. These were war crimes and I know of no air crew who refused illegal orders, which they were.

    Again, the South does not work like northern suburbs.

    And that’s a good thing.

    Now that I’ve corrected you, Fred, go back and rewrite your post.

    BTW, Moderator, why is Fred’s post in yellow? Does this mean it is the voice of God or something?

    • Thanks: Mike Tre
    • Replies: @pecosbill
  27. Hibernian says:
    @Exile

    Smollett’s community service was performed at and for Operation Push, which vouched for his having performed that service. Yea, right.

  28. Hibernian says:
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The Deep South and Long Island are different places.

    Don’t know much about Long Island, but Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Illinois, and Louisiana have a lot in common. I’ve heard rumors to the effect that the political system of Texas is also not exactly squeaky clean.

  29. pecosbill says:
    @pecosbill

    Sorry I posted the wrong video although the exploits of Mosby is a good study.

    Here’s the tune I wanted up.

    Forty Forth (44th) Georgia Infantry Regiment

  30. anon[512] • Disclaimer says:

    You flubbed Smollett, Mr Derbyshire. This is the first hate hoax that has resulted in ANY acknowledgement in the mainstream press and public consciousness. This one, finally, wasn’t ignored.
    And if Jussie had not lied so obviously and clumsily, this would have been settled with much less fanfare.
    What’s more of a thing? White on Black hate crimes, or Blacks asserting hate hoaxes? We know that hate hoaxes are frequent. But they are always then just ignored after it seems likely to be a hoax.

    We need a database of hate hoaxes, and need to challenge them because it is such bullshit. As well as blood libel.

  31. Dr. X says:

    Derb is right that the “justice” system is FUBAR, but his analysis is questionable, particularly on the Kim Potter case.

    First… not trying to be pedantic here, but… Potter DID NOT shoot Daunte with a “revolver”!!!! Cops haven’t carried revolvers for 30+ years. You know that, Derb. C’mon, man.

    Second, Potter absolutely deserves prison time for negligent homicide or manslaughter. Yes, Daunte Wright was a scumbag, but that fact does not excuse the stupidity and incompetence of Potter in shooting him. Shooting someone “accidentally” is simply 100% unacceptable and anyone without a badge would absolutely go to prison for it.

    Derb himself has written about how his own personal guns were summarily seized by the totalitarian New York gun permitting system — because his son, not him, got into a fracas in a bar! These people would hang you in a second if you shot a young black. The same standard should apply to their badged mercenaries.

    Derb is wrong about the possible sentencing, too. Kim Potter might do time, but I think the sentence will be very lenient. She is, after all, a chick and an affirmative action hire. She will cry on the witness stand and tell the jury how much she loved to “protect and serve” underprivileged black bucks who have been “victims of racism” or some such nonsense.

    She won’t get the max and she won’t be charged by the Feds. Bank on it. Look at how that chick cop in Texas got off easy after accidentally shooting a black — in his own apartment — because she was too preoccupied with texting her boyfriend to schedule a fuck session. She got ten years. Any white man who did that — particularly one without a badge — would fry.

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
  32. Frederick V. Reed: “The self-defense defense has no basis in law. If you attack someone, as by chasing him with trucks which you use to herd him in desired directions—this is ADW—and at some point he turns to fight, you cannot kill him and claim self-defense. ”

    You can if you’re a plainclothes cop. That’s probably a large part of this case. The ex-cop probably was thinking he was still “just like” a plainclothes cop, and acted accordingly, including trying to bury the case by using his pull w/the DA. Evidently he almost succeeded, too. The judges, the prosecutors, the cops — these swine are all thick as thieves. If Arbery had been white, they could have killed him and nobody would have ever heard of this case. It quietly would have been dropped down the memory hole. Bad luck for the rednecks, they shot one of the system’s protected species and got caught up in a perfect “racial justice” storm. LOL! If you ask me it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch of dumbfucks.

  33. SMK says: • Website
    @Dr. X

    Another misogynist, possibly an MRA or influenced by the lies and half-truths of the soi-disant “men’s movement, whining about how women are always coddled and men crucified by te criminal justice system -when, all things considered, especially the nature of the crimes and criminal records, black males are the most indulged, by far, of all criminals and criminal defendants.

    Space permitting, I could give myriads of examples of black males with histories of violence and criminality beginning at age 13 or 14 or 15 who’ve committed dozens of violent and other mala in se felonies and are still free in their 30’s to commit more violent and mala in se crimes. And also of black males with 6 or 7 or 8 or more felony convictions, even for acts of violence, who’ve been in jail a few times but never in prison? Is this true of even one white female in respect to her history of crime and the repeated coddling?

    To mention but one specific case: Do you believe a white female with the criminal record of Darrel Brooks, who assaulted a person and then ran over her or him with her SUV would have been released from jail, almost immediately, on $1.000 bail, free to drive the SUV into a large crowd of people, killing 6 and injuring over 60.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  34. TKK says:

    I apologize to Jussie Smollett on behalf of all citizens who believe in swift, clean, proportionate, and un-political justice.

    You’ve been unfairly treated.

    And, when a white man, who was going down to his van to get his wallet, or leaving on a early commute, had been arrested and charged with a hate crime – you believe Smollet would have come forward and said: Oops! My bad. It didn’t happen.

    Throwing the accusation of a modern lynching out in this political climate is akin to throwing out a life sentence to innocent whites.

    Smollet is a dangerous liar and should be imprisoned for many years. Anyone who feels sorry for him should be in a cell with him.

    • Agree: acementhead
  35. @Realist

    Dmitry Firtash and Hunter Biden believe the worst has yet to come.

    • Thanks: Realist
  36. @Bragadocious

    can you provide a link?

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  37. @Frederick V. Reed

    ‘…I don’t think I can reasonably be charged with being soft on crime by blacks, or anyone else…’

    But we can perhaps charge you with living in a bygone era. I would disagree with you about the legalities of the case, but perhaps that’s become a red herring.

    Perhaps the legal argument is no longer relevant. In case you haven’t noticed, the only sense in which we’re not having a race war is that we’re not fighting back. That needs to change, not continue. Eleven of those jurors were white. They should not have voted to convict.

    You remind me of the British cabinet minister in the winter of 1939-40, who, when asked why Bomber Command wasn’t dropping incendiaries on the Black Forest, retorted that the land in question was private property.

    Catch up with what’s going on.

    • Agree: Maddaugh
  38. @David In TN

    Exactly. I have been reading lately about America in the 1950s and noted how much more serious we were then.

    If you have any suggestions for good reading on this, I’d be very grateful for them. I’m looking for a sympathetic way into the topic — it seems like everyone today has a highly prejudicial view of that era, whereas it was in actuality prosperous, orderly, and a good time to be alive. I wonder if the 60s provided some sort of highly superficial yet unbreachable cultural barrier for most of us alive now — basically, “Oh my God, people in hats wearing ties and everything’s black and white! How ghastly!” Hardly a basis for fair assessment.

    • Replies: @David In TN
  39. Even my once beloved city of Los Angeles has turned into a leftist shit hole where crime is so out of control the LAPD Union boss declared it a No Go Zone.
    We Can’t Guarantee Your Safety’: Head Of LAPD’s Police Officers’ Union Warns Tourists Away – CBS Los Angeles

    https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/12/07/we-cant-guarantee-your-safety-head-of-lapds-police-officers-union-warns-tourists-away/

  40. In a sane world BLACK Hoodrats should be the ones declared domestic terrorists and Black Supremacists. Since our DOJ/FBI/ have bought into CRT brainwashing, we are now on our own when it comes to defending our cities and states,
    Lock and load, it’s only going to get worse.

  41. chris says:
    @Exile

    It’s not anymore. Smollett was a genuine case of racial agitation and incitement …

    Yeah, great point, Exile.

    … To the point of actually wandering if he didn’t actually have other accomplices, or if someone in his industry didn’t actually put him up to this in order to perpetuate the hysteria.

  42. @Robert Dolan

    But I’m not sure that normies get it

    Normies are retards. There’s no other plausible explanation for people who by now still “don’t get it.”

  43. @Jiminy

    But not the 2nd degree manslaughter conviction, for which the judge imposed the maximum, 57 months. At least a small amount of justice. The 3rd degree murder conviction was reversed on appeal because the judge ruled a “depraved mind” was not demonstrated, whatever that means, or how the judge decided it had not been “demonstrated”. Noor entered the police force on a special only-shitskins-need-apply fast track program. A psychiatric evaluation is necessary before entering the police force in Minneapolis, and the Psychiatrist stated bluntly that Noor was unfit psychologically to be a police officer. Should have listened to The Shrink, and none of this would have happened. Better than that, Somalis should have never been allowed to enter The United States, and a huge amount of garbage, including Ilhan Omar, would never have happened.

    • Agree: SBaker, Achmed E. Newman
  44. PJ London says:
    @Frederick V. Reed

    At last a sane voice.
    Like Chauvin the justice system rid society of really ignorant and stupid people.
    The Gene pool thanks the system.
    What happened to “It has got nothing to do with you. Phuq Off. Mind your own business.”
    Everybody wants to get involved in everything.

  45. PJ London says:
    @Dutch Boy

    Hey why don’t you look up the law on “Citizens Arrest”
    Hey why don’t you look up the law on “Self Defence”
    Don’t comment on things of which you are ignorant.

    • Replies: @Redman
    , @WJ
    , @Dutch Boy
  46. Adept says:
    @Realist

    It’s always a bad week in the U.S. “justice” system.

    There are many reasons for this. A few include…

    1. That, as John implicitly notes in his post, the legal code has never had less reverence or respect for natural law. The great societies of what might broadly be termed “the West” can be characterized by tremendous respect for natural law. In Ancient Greek society, even tyrants deferred to it, and the Gods and fates were the keepers and the enforcers of natural law. Today, natural justice means less than nothing, and “popular justice” — law as politics — is the rule.

    2. That average people have zero access to justice, on account of its high costs, artificial complexity, a laughable civil discovery process, and the fact that the average court case takes years to decide. So the law is primarily employed as a shell game by elites, and entirely at their behest. (And, make no mistake, the big winners of class action lawsuits and personal injury lawsuits are always the lawyers.)

    3. That the Talmudic Common Law system of deferring to precedent has become a bad joke. So much has accumulated over the past three centuries that a skilled “legal research” team can find precedent to cover both sides of any issue. This should do nothing but erode respect for the law.

    4. That anybody who has ever worked with an experienced American litigator or trial lawyer will tell you that they are a uniquely unpleasant tribe. Decent, well-intentioned people leave that job fast. Yet judges are selected from this ignominious pool, and are generally among the worst of the lot. It is a bizarre and warped personality, generally a power-hungry one, that aspires to be an American judge.

    All of these problems are connected. The end result is that the judicial function has become commingled with the executive and the political.

  47. Jussie Smollett, hate-hoax perpetrator,
    and black-Jewish penile fellator,
    must not go to jail,
    for I fear that his tail
    will be rendered a smoldering crater!

    • Replies: @Maddaugh
  48. Tjoe says:

    This author can take a flying leap off the Sears tower….and take the Jew Smollett with him.

  49. Anon[159] • Disclaimer says:

    What an asshole you are Derb.

  50. SafeNow says:

    Once that prom photo of Arbery turned-up, the niceties of the legal process became bit players (if anyone still uses that expression). What the defendants should have done at the time of initial contact was to ask Arbery if he attended his prom. Then he would have said Yes, and they would know that a prom photo would ultimately emerge, and they would stop the confrontation. Pro tip to looters, etc.: Fake a prom photo and wear it around your neck on a lanyard. This is now a defendant credential in the legal system. It is like the the framed medical-society certificates filling the wall of your doctor’s office.

  51. John; Maybe I quibble, but “it fired” is Alec Baldwins’ defense. Quit nosing in on other peoples’ explanations. This is the language I would use to explain a surprise insemination, followed by an appropriate “oops”.

  52. The law is a political weapon. That should be obvious, especially when it involves black people.

    Highlighting what the law allows in this state that may be different in that state should show that the law makes no sense and the average person hasn’t the training in the asinine interpretation that some lawyer or judge might infer. The law creates victims of the law as part of its operations.

    That Arbury was a known criminal with a violent past means the law didn’t do its job of segregating him from society permanently. The law is the major problem in this situation since had it done the required job, none of this would have happened. It put that POS back on the street where he could continue being a problem and left him on the street after he proved beyond doubt that he can’t be trusted.

    That his pursuers had no cause to go after him is a small matter of bad judgement that in and of itself would not have harmed anyone. When the low life Arbury committed unintentional suicide by pulling on the barrel of a shotgun that should have been the end of the matter. A decent prosecutor would have held off any prosecutions as part of a deal to not give the pursuers a medal for helping clean up the town.

    Arbury is dead. His pursuers are slated for prison and the law and justice system, that failed miserably in its duty to protect the population, is in no way tarnished to continue its depredations upon the population.

    What a system.

    • Agree: Brutusk
    • Replies: @Ralph B. Seymour
  53. Anonymous[124] • Disclaimer says:
    @SMK

    Dr. X: “Kim Potter might do time, but I think the sentence will be very lenient. She is, after all, a chick and an affirmative action hire. She will cry on the witness stand..”

    Too true.

    SMK: “Another misogynist, possibly an MRA”

    Or an SMK: Simping Manginal Koomer. You know, the kind of male-feminist in hock up to his ears from throwing endless bucks at online e-thots who thinks he’s one of the few “good men.”

    whining about how women are always coddled

    Bints are not? Ever?

    There’s a near epidemic now of female teachers having sex with their underage boy charges. The rapes are routinely described as “romps, affairs, trysts, relationships, dalliances” and so on.

    How do SMKs react? By making light of raped males.

    In fact, they often get jealous of the young victims, mewling: “Where were all the hot teachers when I was in grammar school!”

    They also bet the boys brag about being raped to other boys.

    Of course, if an SMK has a daughter, he’ll threaten to KILL any male teacher who dares boink his precious Missy.

    I could give myriads of examples of black males with histories of violence

    The issue on the table is women getting lesser punishments for similar crimes based solely on possessing vag. The same PoonPriv that nets them child-custody in most divorces. And a ton of other queenly perks.

    FACT: Too many men ARE swayed by female tears.

    FACT: Female violence is often hidden (committed by stealth, poisons, hired proxies, etc.).

    FACT: Women start HALF the fights with male partners (and ALL in lesbianated couples).

    Feminists brag that women are equal-better-tougher than men. Then they demand that guys not treat females equally when provoked by same. They will say that guys are bigger and so should “control themselves.” Of course, they invariably excuse violent women who let THEIR feelings get the better of them.

    Be male and spit in another man’s face. Say: “It’s just moisture. Besides, I’m smaller than you.” See what happens.

    Again, the issue: supposedly “equality-seeking” societies cutting females slack simply because they are female.

    Finally, another unaddressed/ancillary issue: women (including white women) seeking out and boinking “bad boys” (including baboonal orcs), then whining that all men are “violent beasts.”

    • Replies: @SMK
  54. Rogue says:

    Derb’s views on the Smollett trial are completely wrong.

    If lefty politicians, and if the vast majority of the MSM, and if the Hollywood shitlibs hadn’t made a big noise about “White supremacy”, “racist” MAGA Trump supporters, and how poor Black and gay men can never be safe in the USA, aka the KKK, then – and only THEN – would I have suggested he might be right in his assessment of the Smollett hoax trial.

    As it is, let’s just say 2 White Trump supporters had been bust for this, whether fairly or unfairly (in this case obviously it would have been unfairly). Do you think they would have been told to perform 16 hours of community service and pay a $10 000 fine each? And that would have been that? We all know they would have had the book thrown at them by both the State of Illinois and the Federal governments.

    There is a reason why in ancient law codes (including the Old Testament but not confined to it) that an accuser (false-flagger) should face the very same penalty as the accused – if found guilty of bearing false witness.

    There is a plethora of supposed hate-crimes that have been proven to be false-flags. Seeing as very little ever happens to the perpetrators of these hoaxes, these libelous hoaxes (the real “hate” crimes) continue apace.

    About high time the perpetrators of these lies faced the proper and just consequences of their actions.

    • Agree: acementhead
    • Replies: @MB
  55. Redman says:
    @PJ London

    How exactly do you disagree that this was self-defense? If a person (any person) has a legal right to openly carry a gun, and said person is charged by another in an attempt to wrestle the gun away, is the chargee supposed to let the charger just have the gun? Once Arbury charged for the gun it was a kill or be killed situation.

    • Replies: @Maddaugh
    , @PJ London
    , @Avery
  56. Uncle Sam says:
    @Bragadocious

    That is not what Attorney Branca said. He thought the Judge’s instructions were wrong. If applied correctly, the men would have been acquitted. In a previous video he thought the death was justifiable homicide.

    • Replies: @Bragadocious
  57. @Frederick V. Reed

    Good to hear from you Mr Reed. I wasn’t too worried about you i figured you were hiding out in the open somewhere.
    I enjoyed the last column of yours i read. It was a few weeks ago.
    Happy holidays to you and the family, Sir.
    Take care look forward to reading moar columns from you

  58. Where can I find John’s writings on the child sex abuse hysteria?

  59. Mike Tre says:

    “Laying cynicism aside, I am now going to annoy some readers, I’m sure, by saying that I don’t think Jussie should have been brought to trial”

    Do you take this stance with all perpetrators of false hate crime allegations, or

    – just famous ones?
    – false rape accusations as well?

    Should there be some sort of law to deter people from wasting tax payer resources in the form of false accusations, and more importantly ruining the lives and reputation of an accused individual or as in this case an entire voting demographic? I think the answer is obviously yes. Smellit deserves no special consideration.

    “Well why wasn’t it”

    Your inner cynic must not be feeling well. Smellit was not prosecuted because Eddie Johnson was mad (lol), Smellit was prosecuted because he made the entire female negro contingent (including a states attorney, a mayoral candidate, and peripherally a presidential/VP candidate) of the Chicago Political Machine look ridiculous (and people in their position can’t afford to be made to look ridiculous! Now you get the hell outta here!) with their knee jerk affirmation of his absurd and preposterous lies. His trial was a merely public shaming.

    “I apologize to Jussie Smollett on behalf of all citizens who believe in swift, clean, proportionate, and un-political justice. It’s not your fault the media is full of gullible, Narrative-soaked nitwits. I’d like to see them in court.”

    Derb, it was Juicy himself who was counting on the narrative soaked nitwits to provide legitimacy to his story! He brought this entire ordeal upon himself. If true justice were served he’d serve the sentence to handed down to his attackers, had they actually existed and been convicted. Save your apologies for the lives this homosexual jewish negro narcissist would have happily ruined for nothing more than to promote himself.

  60. WJ says:

    Derb is a reliable boomer dipshiatte on the things that matter. Having guys like him on our side is why we lose.

    • Troll: Hangnail Hans
  61. WJ says:
    @PJ London

    You would have credibility if you knew how to spell “defense”. You aren’t from this country so phuq off.

    • Troll: Hangnail Hans
    • Replies: @PJ London
  62. KenH says:
    @Robert Dolan

    Yes, it’s uncanny how coonsistently black heroes turn out to be pieces of shit.

    Even Martin Luther Coon was a piece of shit. He was a communist agent who physically abused women and regularly took part in sex orgies with white women while married. Yet he’s now considered the founding father of post 1965 merica.

    His statues should all be torn down and his holiday repealed.

    • Agree: Rich, acementhead
  63. @Realist

    I see a nightclub on the 19th Street, in the heart of Chelsea (for those of you, who aren’t familiar with New York City, it’s famous for its LGBTQ+ residents) where, Jussie is a nightly performer in g-strings to the sound of the Village People for Bubba Clinton, Royal Randy Andy et al and Ms. Potter is a bouncer, equipped only with a taser gun and the the joint is owned by no less than Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell… a happy ending for all.

    • Replies: @Realist
  64. @Mackerel Sky

    The books I’ve read lately are by historian Alan J. Levine. They are expensive but worth it:

    “Bad Old Days: The Myth of the Fifties”
    “After Sputnik: America, The World, And Cold War Conflicts”
    “The Soviets Greatest Gambit: The Cuban Missile Crisis”

    I reviewed them at Nicholas Stix Uncensored.

    • Replies: @loren
    , @Mackerel Sky
  65. SBaker says:
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Whatever you state “the law” says does not make it right. Hiding the facts of Arbery’s career as a criminal is the law–but that does not make the hiding of his past the right thing to do.
    “That Arbury was a known criminal with a violent past means the law didn’t do its job of segregating him from society permanently. The law is the major problem in this situation since had it done the required job, none of this would have happened. It put that POS back on the street where he could continue being a problem and left him on the street after he proved beyond doubt that he can’t be trusted.

    That his pursuers had no cause to go after him is a small matter of bad judgement that in and of itself would not have harmed anyone. When the low life Arbury committed unintentional suicide by pulling on the barrel of a shotgun that should have been the end of the matter. A decent prosecutor would have held off any prosecutions as part of a deal to not give the pursuers a medal for helping clean up the town.”

  66. Maddaugh says:
    @the one they call Desanex

    Well, the Nigerian brothers got some so I dont see why the cons should not get a taste. Jussie would look great in an orange mini skirt/ jump suit combinations and for obvious reasons should grow a full beard and moustache. I’ll bet the jailbirds have already sold him on a timeshare basis for some drugs and cigarettes.

    As for cratering, Jussica should hook up with Snatch X and Goof. They can recommend some rehabilitation centers. When Snatch X got out he was in a gurney but while he will never walk straight again and is in fact permanently bow legged, at least he has a job in construction and a credit score of 7.48.

    That;s quite an accomplishment by age 70. What you say Troof ? The Honkies wants to know Old Sport !

  67. Nat X says:

    Another deluded pasty faced incel yt arguing the case after the fact. Yt those 3 yt’s that killed Maud getting they bums stretched out right about now. Good online activism though lol!

  68. Why are these martyrs and victims of the Black Lives Matter pantheon all such scuzzy antisocial unemployable lowlifes?

    I asked a similar question to an African American friend of mine some years ago.

    “If the cops all over the US are running El Salvador-style death squads to exterminate innocent black people, why not pick a sample case where it is clear that the person killed was a perfectly respectable citizen going about their lawful business and a random target chosen purely on the basis of skin color? Why pick sample cases where the deceased is a scumbag when you would get so much more sympathy for your cause by picking a better test case?”

  69. Maddaugh says:
    @Redman

    Once Arbury charged for the gun it was a kill or be killed situation.

    Absolutely. Blacks are naturally stupid. In Arbery’s case:

    Idiocy + Impetuosity + The Crackers wont do shit + I will get away with it + I am tough = A Coffin

    Anyone charging a man holding a shot gun with two other fellows as backup has got to be an ass. He got what he deserved in spades ! Blacks have climbed a mountain with their lawlessness and are on the slippery slope of the other side with the weight of every other ethnic group on their backs.

    They dont understand how this world works and its a long long way down.

  70. Seneca44 says:
    @Exile

    Would agree with Derb that expensive prison time really serves no purpose for a non violent first offender like Smollett; however, the $10K surrendered seems a little light to compensate for 3000 hours of police time. With all benefits, Chicago police man-hours are probably at least $100 per hour, so restitution of $300K would seem reasonable in addition to whatever punitive fine would be dictated by the law.

    • Agree: Tony massey
    • Thanks: Hibernian
  71. PJ London says:
    @Redman

    Nope, Arbrey was chased and followed, he was confronted by an armed man and in fear for his life.
    It cannot be self defence if you follow and confront someone.
    Michaels was the pursuer and the antagonist.

    For example, if a person creates a conflict that becomes violent then unintentionally kills the other party while defending himself, a claim of self-defense might reduce the charges or punishment, but would not excuse the killing entirely.

    Michaels created the conflict.

    • Replies: @Getaclue
  72. Realist says:
    @Adept

    3. That the Talmudic Common Law system of deferring to precedent has become a bad joke. So much has accumulated over the past three centuries that a skilled “legal research” team can find precedent to cover both sides of any issue. This should do nothing but erode respect for the law.

    Yes, stare decisis means keep making the same goddamn mistake over and over…forever.

  73. PJ London says:
    @WJ

    Another intellectual I see.
    Just because spelling is difficult it does not mean that you should misspell words.

    The meaning of defence is the act or action of defending.

    Whilst the American version is a bastardised version of the correct, as you do not appear to be smart enough to remember grammar.
    Only in America would one say I erected a fense to keep out the dogs.

    • Agree: Wielgus
  74. Maddaugh says:
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Many commenting on the adventure seem unable to distinguish between evidence and assumption, suspicion, and wish.

    And you seem unable to distinguish between reality, fantasy and the current behaviour of blacks.

    Everything, most times, seem perfectly logical to real lawyers and wannabee lawyers. However we live in a world of emotion and one today where self preservation is paramount when blacks are seen consistently loitering around. Lawyers are essentially word engineers, twisting narratives to achieve their goals which are : To satisfy the people PAYING THEM. This is clearly evident when we look at any case in Court. Both the Prosecution and Defence have far different spins on the “evidence and assumption, suspicion, and wish”. Our country is run by Lawyers and given the state of the place this gives one a view of what they are all about.

    Now as you pointed out :

    He Arbery allegedly entered the house five times, consistently leaving without stealing anything. Not stealing is not evidence of stealing.

    I ask you Freddy, what if he had entered YOUR house in a similar manner. He may have left 5 times without stealing but what about the 6th time ? Maybe there would have been something to steal AND if the owner was around a murder added to the equation.

    That is just one example. If we look at all your other assertions and ask WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE we would get a different answer. You would not be so “logical” with your lawyer like B/S.

    The self-defense defense has no basis in law. If you attack someone, as by chasing him with trucks which you use to herd him in desired directions—this is ADW—and at some point he turns to fight, you cannot kill him and claim self-defense

    What claptrap ! Please tell us exactly which law school you attended !

    Hence your commentary is BUNK more so when we take into consideration Arbery;s past bad behaviours and brushes with the law. Arbery was an accident waiting to happen. Luckily this time it happened to him.

    As time passes and the public (black especially) loses interest, these three whites will be released. They had every justification for capping this wretched character depicted in his photos one way, as a smiling “about to enter University” scholar but in reality a hard faced loser with a criminal mentality and past.

    • Agree: CelestiaQuesta
    • Replies: @Mackie Messer
  75. Sean says:

    The Arbery case illustrates an important point about the random and approximate nature of our justice system: that it is at its most random, most approximate when dealing with cases that snap easily into the cherished, beloved Narrative of working-class whites—especially Southerners—being beastly to blacks.

    Elites whites’ most formidable enemy is not blacks, but the bulk of the traditional population, who are now redundant as workers and even cannon fodder. But being white gives them an inherent cohesiveness, which the elite wish to destroy.

    • Replies: @loren
    , @Sean
  76. That seems pretty fair to me for what was surely a trivial offense by a guy with no criminal background.

    The crime was not making a false statement to police. It was committing a blood libel against white people and attempting to stoke more racial hatred against them. I don’t know what a fitting punishment for this should be, but $10,000 and community service is woefully inadequate.

    The take-home message from the Kim Potter trial is that women should not be police officers.

  77. loren says:

    DERB ‘ I followed the child sex-abuse hysterias of the 1980s and 1990s.’

    You didnt follow them closely enough. If you had you would have seen them as a cover for the Pizzagates of the era. IE, Throw the little guy in jail, let Podesta, Clinton, etc get 14 year olds.

    Have you looked at podestas ‘art’ in his home?

  78. loren says:
    @David In TN

    I will skip (((Alan J. Levine. )))

    • Replies: @David In TN
  79. Anon[413] • Disclaimer says:

    The Mint Press’s Whitney Webb has exposed all you would ever want to know about Epstein. Read the stories with a barf bag nearby. Many of them are available at TUR

  80. Julian Assange has had a stroke.
    prolly the vaxx.

  81. KenH says:
    @Frederick V. Reed

    As the prosecutor told the jury—I presume you watched the video—the only question before them was whether the three were conducting a legitimate citizen’s arrest.

    I presumed Fredrico read the law. It is two sentences and establishes a different standard in each sentence. If the offense is a felony, which burglary is, then all the citizen arrester requires is reasonable suspicion and the McMichael’s easily had that so the attempted arrest was legal and Arbery is the guilty party in attacking the younger McMichael and attempting to take his gun and presumably use it on he and his father.

    As has already been said by some great criminal defense and civil rights attorneys but juries should not be left to their own devices in interpreting the applicable laws. The judge should have instructed them on how to interpret the law and should have applied the concept of lenity to favor the defense given the contradictions and ambiguities in the citizens arrest law.

    • Replies: @Curmudgeon
  82. @RoatanBill

    This incident is so stupid that it must be fake:

    It’s very hard to believe the filmed shooting was real.

    But even if it was, the charges are nonsense and the jury conviction — in south Georgia no less— is ridiculous. None of it makes sense.

    It reeks of a George Soros funded Jewish junkie stunt designed to further divide and destroy society.

    But never mind that, you are correct in that it can all be laid at the feet of the government.

    • Thanks: RoatanBill
  83. @Robert Dolan

    These are your heroes? These are your martyrs? Yeccch!”

    It’s absolutely necessary that they be “Yeccch!”. The purpose of current propaganda is to humiliate whites. This can only be done if black “victims” are the absolute dregs, of the dregs of society.

  84. @Dutch Boy

    People can’t say or assume somebody stole something and then confront, detain that person with deadly force in a citizens arrest scheme without strong evidence not just suspicion. Even the cops just don’t go around arresting people unless they have enough powerful evidence.

    Using your logic these three goof-balls could be in Walmart and claim that they saw an innocent old lady put a candybar in her pocket and then chase her down, then point a gun at her, discharge the gun when she cries out, puts an arm between her and them. Your logic is it’s acceptable to escalate the situation and if you believe your in danger to shoot somebody over a candybar or tool? Why not call security or the cops and let it go at that?

    Arbery was criminal dirtbag and his death is certainly not a loss to society, in fact some people may live because he’s not going to be around to violently kill an innocent person; and the taxpayers were spared future incarceration cost of Arbery, instead taxpayers are going to pay to incarcerate three instead of one in an ironic twist that was totally unnecesssary.

    • Replies: @Sean
    , @Uncle Sam
    , @RestiveUs
  85. Mike Tre says:
    @Nat X

    “Another deluded pasty faced incel yt arguing the case after the fact.”

    I didn’t know Shawn King had opined. Is he your hero?

  86. cestall says:

    Um, nah. Smollett needed to face a trial and the justice that comes from it. Unfair? How, exactly, is it unfair to be given an open trial in a court when accused of a crime? It’s not like he’s doing 99 to life, it is a misdemeanor after all. But consider the climate and motive, and also the consequence, that could have come from it. We live in an age where people will loot and pillage based on very little. No, this isn’t just about Smollett, but the TRUTH needs vindication in court as well. The rich, the powerful and the famous are always getting away with virtually everything and nothing happens to them. Ouyr society NEEDS this to happen. Sad that so many can’t see that.

  87. Avery says:
    @Redman

    If a person (any person) has a legal right to openly carry a gun, and said person is charged by another in an attempt to wrestle the gun away,

    Who was ‘charging’ whom?

    1) The 3 left the safety of their houses to chase someone who they
    thought was the same guy that had supposedly burglarized some empty house.

    2) Travis had testified that he would not chase someone who is armed. Yet he grabs his fully loaded shotgun to chase someone who at best might be a burglar.

    3) Travis left this baby son in the house, grabbed a loaded shotgun, jumped into his truck to give chase.

    4) All they saw was some black guy jogging/running.

    5) They jumped in their trucks, 2 of them (father and son) armed, and chased Arbery for 5 minutes: back and forth, back and forth.

    6) Arbery ran away from them several times, trying to get away from some strange men chasing him in pickup trucks. They kept after him, blocked him, pushed him into a ditch by a truck, then finally cornered him*.

    7) What would you do if 3 strange men were chasing you in pickup trucks, with the apparent intention to kill you? In desperation Arbery tried to disarm the guy who was trying to kill him: is that so hard to imagine?

    8) They didn’t call 911. They didn’t just track him at a distance while on the phone to cops to direct them to his location. They decided to go hunting.

    9) You can clearly see Arbery’s hands running towards Travis’s truck: he has no weapons. Instead of taking cover behind his truck door, Travis goes around – with a loaded shotgun – to confront Arbery. Travis knows Arbery is unarmed, that’s why he confidently leaves the cover provided by his massive truck to confront Arbery in the open. Again: in desperation Arbery tried to disarm the guy who was trying to kill him: is that so hard to imagine?

    Travis hanged himself by his lying testimony.

    [Prosecution cross-examines Travis McMichael in Ahmaud Arbery murder trial]

    {How exactly do you disagree that this was self-defense?}

    How exactly can you possibly think that it was anything other than murder?

    _______________________________________________
    *
    [Ahmaud Arbery: Timeline of events]

    • Agree: The Old Philosopher
  88. @Robert Dolan

    Well said. I would not have used the exact words but well said, never-the less. Any sensible person must understand the damage things like this do . The rest, are just reacting instead of thought fully considering. Too bad this country has so many people that live just this way.

  89. Mike Tre says:

    JD,

    In case you are looking for a very short succinct explanation for how the West was lost to minoritarian disfunction, look to your own words:

    “I apologize to Jussie Smollett on behalf of all citizens who believe in swift, clean, proportionate, and un-political justice.”

    You’re in your mid 70’s and you still haven’t figured out that politeness is what lost the West. Better dead than rude.

    • Agree: Jimmy le Blanc, TKK
  90. Agent76 says:

    Jul 30, 2021 It’s all Theater: Federal Funding of Local Police

    One side claims the other is trying to “defund” or “abolish” police, while the other is actively trying to double federal funding – which, of course, comes with federal strings and federal priorities. But they’re all full of it – the feds shouldn’t be involved in local policing in the first place.

    APRIL 15, 2021 No-Knock Warrants Leave Trail of Terror, Property Damage, and Deaths

    As protests spread across the U.S. after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020, another police killing two months earlier in Kentucky gained notoriety – that of Breonna Taylor.

    https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2021/apr/15/no-knock-warrants-leave-trail-terror-property-damage-and-deaths/

  91. Getaclue says:
    @PJ London

    “jogger”…give it a break we’re not the Huffington Post here

    • Replies: @PJ London
  92. Unfortunately, she’d pulled out her revolver by mistake.

    Revolver?? Cops still use revolvers?? I doubt it. Police agencies switched over to 9mm semi-automatics almost twenty years ago because “the new breed of cop,” (i.e. women, homosexuals, beta-males) couldn’t handle the recoil of a good ol’ .357 magnum revolver shooting a 125 gr. semi-jacketed hollow point at 1500 feet per second.

  93. You should really leave the George Zimmerman trail alone. Justice was not served for Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin committed no crime other than being suspicious in Mr Zimmermans paranoid mind. Trayvon Martin was still in high school had no criminal record. He was suspended for marijuana, but that is very common for all races in Florida schools. They said George was innocent because he stood his ground. What about the ground Trayvon was standing on? George Zimmerman was guilty cause he was a coward that started a fight he could not finish same as the three diffuses in Georgia. Don’t start a fight if you can’t take an as wiping coward.

  94. The fact the “Derb” thinks Smollet should have got off with a slap on the wrist should make thinking Whites reconsider their support of this traitor, and the publication that stinks up with internet with its mentally-deranged musings.

    The two Nigerian homosexuals should also suffer.

    Don’t forget, “Derb” married a chink. That alone is grounds for ignoring his blithering.

  95. @Wyatt

    Not just a “just” society, but a rational one.

  96. Sean says:
    @Firebase Ladybird

    People can’t …. assume somebody stole something and then confront, detain that person with {the threat of} deadly force in a citizens arrest scheme without strong evidence not just suspicion

    I would say people can do that without legal repercussions in the >95% of the cases when they are not dealing with someone who goes from running away to coming straight at them, grabbing the deadly implement, and then does not let go of the shotgun even after having his arm blown apart.

    They fucked with the wrong guy.

    • Replies: @Firebase Ladybird
  97. Due to skyrocketing Black crime, cops in the big cities are negro-fatigued and utterly disgusted with how badly the criminal justice system has been perverted. Many of them are transferring to police agencies far away from any sizable city, especially those with a large Black population.

    Those cops who remain in the large cities only do what is minimally required of them because they know good-and-well that most of the criminals they arrest will soon be back on the streets with barely a slap on the wrist. There is little if any proactivity in their police work in terms of actively looking for bad guys. White officers, in particular, avoid dealing with Blacks because they know the system will likely accuse them of ‘racial profiling’ if things turn ugly.

    The truth is, big city cops don’t really trust the ‘system.’ Many don’t even trust their own departments because they know that a good many of their own superiors would throw them under the bus if given the chance. Though most cops would never admit it in any public forum, they are quite aware of how dysfunctional and criminally-oriented Blacks are. Even Black officers among themselves will concede how screwed-up their own people are.

    One more point. Few are aware that the liberal D.A.’s in California’s major cities give preferential treatment in charging Blacks and Browns under the guise of ‘social justice.’ The liberal judges, likewise, render light sentences under the same mindset. In other words, if the offender is Black or Hispanic, their race and socio-economic status is factored in. If the offender is White, no such factors are considered. Is it any wonder why Blacks in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other large cities run rampant raping and pillaging with no fear of the authorities?

    Californians recently had a chance to remove one of the worst governors in their State’s history, Gavin Newsom. They instead kept Newsom in office which only served to embolden him against every measure of common sense that might actually improve things.

    I saw this trend in crime many years ago, and I had to leave the Golden State for my own safety and sanity. While no State in the Union is paradise, some places are definitely better. It’s only when you get out of California that you fully discover what an insane asylum you had lived in.

  98. @Uncle Sam

    You’re right, he did say that about the Judge. I’ve been watching too much lawtube lately.

  99. @Uncle Sam

    We have a similar law in Florida. Trespassing on a construction site is a felony. Doesn’t matter if you steal or intend to steal, just taking a shortcut through a construction site is felony Trespassing.
    There are large signs saying this at every large construction site.
    For what it’s worth, I agree with the law. It’s very dangerous to go wandering around a construction site and contractors don’t deserve to get sued or clean up your corpse because you’re an idiot.
    Don’t wander around a construction site. Getting shot is the least of your worries.

  100. Nancy says:

    Sgt/Cmdr Jon Burge – Chicago

  101. Free Kim Potter.

    Throw some more dirt on Daunte. He dead!

    • Agree: Wake up
    • Replies: @Mackie Messer
  102. Uncle Sam says:
    @Firebase Ladybird

    You have a twisted sense of logic or don’t know the laws of Georgia. You the use word “suspicion”. Probable cause is based on suspicion, not “powerful evidence”. Certainly not beyond a reasonable doubt. This Arbery fit the description of the person filmed in the cameras installed in the house under construction. That is a reasonable suspicion. Any rational person would conclude that he was up to no good.

    Familiarize yourself with the Georgia laws in effect at the time of the incident.

    • Replies: @Firebase Ladybird
  103. @Adept

    Playing judge is playing God, is the ultimate sin.

    • Replies: @Adept
  104. Let’s all have a drink for the New Year coming soon. I’m buying . The drink is called “the rittenhouse” chaser followed by 3 shots.

  105. @SMK

    One of the few real examples I can recall of high class investigative journalism was the WSJ woman ! whose name I forget, who doggedly worked away and exposed the staggering destruction caused by shit-house government apparatchiks.
    None of them were prosecuted, as I recall.

  106. @Maddaugh

    “He Arbery allegedly entered the house five times, consistently leaving without stealing anything. Not stealing is not evidence of stealing.”

    Wouldn’t it be considered breaking and entering by law being that he was trespassing on to a private property, without an invitation, regardless of what he stole or didn’t steal?

    • Replies: @Maddaugh
  107. @Jeffrey A Freeman

    Or, worry about the living and not the dead. She’s an industrious type, I think, whereas the deceased showed utter lack of sociability and communities are made for builders and not for destroyers.

  108. @SMK

    Dorothy Rabinowitz.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz

    I remember thinking of the irony of Jewish women writing about child abuse, especially boys.

    • Replies: @SMK
    , @Decoy
  109. @Sean

    Maybe.. Depends on the makeup of the jury.

  110. @Uncle Sam

    Well, we can conclude that the state of Georgia believes the three goobers broke the law.

  111. Fuzzbaby says:
    @David In TN

    “Today we are more frivolous, more stupid , more detached from reality”

    I would also add less mature and more childlike. A proliferation of long haired grotesque chatterbox feminized women taken over the news business and representing the country at every turn.

    These overgrown college girls are now inlfuencing and aside along with the negro represent just about everything in this country. Trust in little girls is the new motto…

  112. Adept says:
    @Jeffrey A Freeman

    Justice must be dispensed with somehow… But American judges are a very strange breed. Consider this: The vast majority of state superior court judges, and Federal judges at all levels, take a huge pay-cut when they take up the black robes. (Most were successful lawyers making 2-10 times a Federal judge’s salary.) They’re not motivated by money, so one might ask what motivates them.

    For one thing, it’s a sinecure. A job for life, where all of the heavy lifting is done by clerks and interns, and the judge’s primary function is to direct and sign off on their work. (Judge Posner was pretty clear about this in his recent works which were critical of the judiciary.) Great responsibility combined with near-total lack of accountability — this can appeal to a certain personality type. And that same type usually consists of people who just love feeling superior to others.

    And for some, thanks to the mindless reverence of precedence, a Judgeship is an opportunity to “put their stamp on the law.” This is insane — and insanely destructive — and is one of the best possible arguments in favor of the Civil Law over the Common Law.

    And it must be noted that being a judge is usually very boring and mind-numbing. In most Civil Law countries, judges are active investigators and direct the course of litigation, and lawyers are neutral advocates. (This is the so-called “inquisitorial system,” as opposed to the “adversarial system,” where judges are neutral and passive referees, and lawyers direct the course of litigation.) In such countries, it’s actually quite interesting to be a judge. In the US, there’s nothing interesting about it.

    I could go on. Point is, aspiring to become a judge is something that only attracts a certain type of very strange personality. And if there’s one thing that can be said about them, it is that they’re not good people.

    Anyway, the way things stand right now, you could replace all American judges with an AI and get much better justice.

    • Agree: Jonathan Mason
    • Replies: @Hibernian
  113. In the Arbury case the three idiots deserved what they got; Arbury was minding his own business; if they believed he committed a crime they should have called the cops.

    • Replies: @Jonathan Mason
  114. @Bragadocious

    It seems to me unlikely that the McMichaels knew about the Civil War era law of citizens arrest at the time, and that the defense was quickly cobbled together after the fact, once somebody had a chance to peruse the law books and look for a defense.

    Sleepy Georgia seems to have been so embarrassed by the discovery of this ancient law, that it was repealed and changed before this case even came to trial, although of course it was still a relevant law at the time the two trigger-happy unemployed white men hunted down and shot the unemployed black runner.

    The neighbor seems to have got a rough deal, and perhaps if he had gone straight to the police and reported what he witnessed he would be a free man now.

    • Replies: @Bragadocious
  115. @Max Maxwell

    That’s why Georgia promptly abolished the Civil War era law on citizens arrests–to discourage any future self-appointed vigilantes from hunting down and killing mentally ill people who they thought might have done something wrong.

  116. Maddaugh says:
    @Mackie Messer

    Wouldn’t it be considered breaking and entering by law being that he was trespassing on to a private property, without an invitation, regardless of what he stole or didn’t steal?

    Absolutely ! Fred Reed should try breaking into his bank 5 times and consistently leaving without stealing and see how that works out. He probably stole nothing because the home owner was shine to his visits and secured all tools etc. If his intention was not to steal then what is he doing there ? Oh I know, he wanted to be a master carpenter !

    What if Arbery had broken into Reed’s house 5 times, sneaked into the bedroom and watched Reed and his wife sleeping. Even the coloured people in the area kept their kids inside when they heard of his continual visits.

    When you examine the other Fed Reed comments they are sheer rubbish Blacks are habitual thieves. Having lived among them I can tell you they rip off shit that is practically worthless. You hang up your underwear to dry and it gets stolen, your smelly sneakers you wash and put in the sun ? Gone, Kids plastic toys ? Ripped off. Old outdoor and worn outdoor mats ? Vanished ! The bell at the front gate ? Torn off. Some fruit trees hanging over your fence ? Chopped up for the unripened fruit. You have to lock everything up, lock it down, lock it out of sight and have sharp eyes and ears 24/7.

    It unlike having your car stolen and that’s it. The constant thefts sets your blood boiling. People will then say “Why did you cap the thief for an old pair of shorts ?” They dont realize this was just one of a hundred provocations. I’ve lived in many other countries and not one of them bemoans some black man who got his just deserts. Most times even his family are glad he is gone because he was pure trouble ! Here, we make a habit of looking into every nook and cranny to prop up these cretins.

    What I find astounding is that minutes after any theft they are broke again . Blacks are idiots, There is no getting around that ! Arbery got what he deserved. There is no doubt in my mind that he would ultimately have one day assaulted and killed someone.

    Whenever we hear of some black being capped it is always the scum of society, well known to the police. Good riddance to the trash.

    • Agree: Mackie Messer
  117. pyrrhus says:
    @Exile

    The original dropping of the Smollet case was sheer corruption, from Soros or some other outsider…Smollet committed a felony with his false police report, intended to stir up racial hatred, and dropping the case implied the cops did something wrong, which was blatantly false…As a Chicagoan, and an attorney, Smollet deserved everything he got, and more…

    • Replies: @Jeffrey A Freeman
  118. @Colin Wright

    Not Black (ie. nigger), but a low-IQ Somali sand-nigger – which basically means even more stupid, even less competent – and a cultural and religious Moslem woman-hater to boot. The murderous bastard should have been fried.

  119. @Complex Pseudonymic Handle

    A sickening display of rank semitism. They stick together like .

  120. We can buy into the race bs, ansd kick the can down the road until nothing is left of America, or we can awake, and spread the news to waken those around us to the real threat, which is Globalism, and their war against the average human. If we continue to fall victim to the covid19 bull shite, and the soon to arrive vaccine passports with all the transhumanist consequences that accompany that nonsense, we will cease to exist as so called ‘free persons’.
    It is time to look past skin color and forgive past grievences and come together as one, and to take our lives back. It won’t be easy, it won’t come witbout the cost of bloodshed, but it must come.
    Is it odd that the FDA wants to seal the Pfizer vaccine application for 75 years? Is it odd that 75 years is also close to the expected life span of man? Is there a connection? Somehow we have to break the backs of Mr. Global and paralyze them. Never give up.

  121. @pyrrhus

    He deserved to be beaten by the police.

  122. @Nat X

    USers just love talking about sodomy and anal rape. A nation of homos. Weird as E. coli!

  123. @Jonathan Mason

    The neighbor seems to have got a rough deal, and perhaps if he had gone straight to the police and reported what he witnessed he would be a free man now.

    That’s exactly what he did do, and it’s the reason he’s in prison now. He should have clammed up and erased his dashcam, or better yet incinerated it.

  124. “You’re an idiot, Jussie, and a deeply unattractive human being. Neither thing is against the law, though. You’ve been unfairly treated.”

    Completely disagree. Jizzy Smolét needs to be buried under the jail. Liberals believe America is rife with Whites running around drawing swastikas and KKK on everything and jumping and beating up blacks and gays because blacks,gays,and jews are constantly hoaxing hate crimes against themselves,and each other. The reason they think that is because our media shouts the lie of “white supremacy” and “white terrorism” and whispers the retraction on thousands of hoaxes a year. Liberals never see the story later turned out to be a hoax,or won’t believe it when it is printed because they are already primed to believe White people are constantly committing violence against non-Whites.

    That is why it is important Smolét get the maximum sentence possible,so that liberals will print the fact that he hoaxed the “hate crime” in the first place,and kvetch that he is receiving his due for it. So that it is constantly reinforced that blacks will sometimes come up with an elaborate, “believable” (to liberals) blood libel against Whites, cry precious black tears about how sad they are and rend their clothes about how “As a black man in America…” and it is ALL FAKE.

    From now on,every time the media reports a “hate crime” it needs to be prefaced with “Jussie Smollett notwithstanding”.

    That is why the prosecution of Jussie Smollett is useful to White people and to the course of justice in the future because THERE ARE NO REAL HATE CRIMES.

    • Agree: Jeffrey A Freeman
  125. @Robert Dolan

    But I’m not sure that normies get it….because the hostile media informs us that magical people are saintly, kind, talented, rhythmic, sexually superior, and innocent even while burning buildings and stomping people to death.”

    But isn’t most of the media owned by those tribal elements that do the exact same thing in Occupied Palestine… and get away with it…?

    • Agree: Robert Dolan
  126. @Marcus Chapman

    “You should really leave the George Zimmerman trail alone. Justice was not served for Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin committed no crime other than being suspicious in Mr Zimmermans paranoid mind. ”

    What stetl are you kikes crawling out of?

    He committed 3 crimes.

    Trayvon Martin was suspended for marijuana and when they searched his locker at school he had a lock picking kit and a bag FULL of WOMEN’S jewelry. Was he convicted of burglary? No. What other reason did a nigger have a lockpicking kit and women’s jewelry for though,Rabbi?

    Then,and this is how I know that you’re jewish, in a direct inversion of what you claim,Zimmerman (“creepy ass cracka”) was so suspicious in MARTIN’S mind that when Zimmerman was actually CALLING the cops and not interfering,merely keeping an eye on Martin,Martin lost Zimmerman,circled back, and attacked ZIMMERMAN. Then HE died. Just like Armed Robbery in Georgia. Martin and Armed Robbery BOTH threw the first punch,without which there wouldn’t have BEEN a fight because in both cases, the people who shot the nigger were actually just trying to call the cops on them when they were ATTACKED BY THE NIGGER. THEY started fights that THEY couldn’t win,a characterization based on the actual fact that THEY were the ones who actually DIED,i.e.,lost,rather than Talmudic inversion of facts and pure chutzpah.

    So,in short, f*** you,kike. I hope you start a fight you can’t win with one of these niggers one day.

    • Replies: @Marcus Chapman
  127. @KenH

    I agree. The DA who recused himself cited the law in his assessment. There is nothing ambiguous about the law as the prosecutor alleged, and the judge was at fault for not ruling on that. His responsibility is to charge the jury on the law. If he did rule it was ambiguous, it seems to me that is an error in law and grounds for appeal. The two sentences are clearly different thoughts and impose different requirements.
    The fact that Arbery was in the property, is more than trespass, it is illegal entry.
    Going after the DA and assistant, both of whom recused themselves, show this is a political charge, not a criminal one.
    Do I think the 3 people in the Arbery case were foolish? Absolutely. Since Michael Brown, Whites are fools to come anywhere near Blacks.

    • Replies: @Marcus Chapman
  128. @AbrahamSteinblattbaumstein

    Never been called a Jew before. I definitely have been in a few sewers before. Thank God for sewers other wise the whole place would stink. White, black, yellow or brown sewers are good. It really sucks when they back up. Are masterbating when you write this kind of trippe. I am sure your are, you probably have spit rolling off your chin at the same time.

  129. @Curmudgeon

    This is the Georgia law on criminal trespass. In the case in Georgia, Aubrey did not break the law.

    https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2010/title-16/chapter-7/article-2/part-1/16-7-21

  130. @Robert Dolan

    Maybe , but the coward Zimmerman was getting his ass kicked and he deserved it. He took the cowards way out and shot the kid. Coward shit through and through.

  131. @Achmed E. Newman

    “Is that a lost art now?!

    No, it’s a verboten art now.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
  132. RestiveUs says:
    @Firebase Ladybird

    Why not call security or the cops and let it go at that?

    Because in this day and age, the security and cops are not getting the job done!

  133. Dr. X says:
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The actions of the McMichaels — chasing after a suspected trespasser on someone else’s property to make an armed citizen’s arrest — might have been unwise, but they hardly constituted “malice murder” worthy of guaranteed life without parole.

    They may have been liable for creating a situation where an armed confrontation could end badly, but in a sane world that’s manslaughter at worst.

    The biggest mistake McMichael made was forgetting that he was no longer a cop and no longer indemnified by his department — and engaging in a pursuit for which he could be held personally liable.

    That being said, what the court did to Bryan was absolutely obscene. The unarmed Bryan was found guilty of murder simply for being present and taking a cell phone video of the incident.

    The Arbery case was not cut-and-dried for either side. However it was clear that the defendants were crucified by the court and given the maximum becuse they were white and the deceased was black.

  134. @Dr. X

    My dear Dr. X (and also commenter Jimmy le Blanc), the word revolver is the British blanket term for “pistol” regardless of a pistol’s mechanism. Similarly in U.S. usage the word muzzleloader is a catchall for matchlock, wheellock, flintlock, and percussion cap muzzle-loaded firearms regardless of those arms’ specific priming/ignition mechanisms.

    • Replies: @Maddaugh
    , @Wokechoke
  135. SMK says: • Website
    @Bill Jones

    The first person to expose this lunacy and hysteria was also a Jewish woman, Debby Nathan, who wrote a long article entitle the “Ritual Sex Abuse Hoax” that was initially published in The Rolling Stone, I believe. 30-40 years ago, not all leftists were totally insane.

    Then Dorothy Rabinowitz published a long article in Harpers on the Kelly Michails outrage and travesty entitled “From the Mouths of Babes to a Jail Cell. Michaels was sentenced to 48-years in prisons and spent 5-years in solitary confinement, I assume, for her protection, before her convictions were overturned. Then Rabinowitz wrote a series of articles for the WSJ on the Amirault outrage and other cases and finally published a book entitled “No Crueler Tyrannies.”

  136. Decoy says:
    @Bill Jones

    Dorothy Rabinowitz was a hero of that dreadful period of time when every crazy mother with a bone to pick with a day care center would be believed. Lives ruined, family businesses destroyed, and the crazies suffered no consequences. It was madness.

  137. Hibernian says:
    @Adept

    In the US, there’s nothing interesting about it.

    Except when witnesses lie, lawyers lie, lawyers disregard the rules of procedure, the law is not clear, etc. IOW, it’s almost always interesting. Also, in civil cases the judges are often heavily involved in brokering settlements.

  138. @Daniel Rich

    It’s not for the left, Daniel. See the “Summer of George” riots and antifa riots that I hear are STILL going on in Portland, Oregon.

    Once could chalk it down to the Anarcho-Tyranny, with the alt-right getting railroad and the ctrl-left being let off Scot-free by the Establisment. However, there’s great power in numbers, and I think the right just has no idea how to raise hell. It’s time we learn.

  139. @loren

    You proved my point with your comment which was frivolous, stupid, and detached from reality.

  140. PJ London says:
    @Getaclue

    No for many it is more like Breitbart, except for the commenters who actually use their intellect.

  141. SMK says: • Website
    @Anonymous

    You’re a lunatic. I’m an anti-feminist who’s written 3 anti-feminist books. But, unlike you and MRAs, I’m not a misogynist lunatic.

  142. @Marcus Chapman

    Just shut your fucking yap,you sick negrophiliac asshole.

    You’re wrong about everything and no one wants to hear your jewish bullshit.

    • Thanks: Maddaugh
  143. @Marcus Chapman

    “Maybe , but the coward Zimmerman was getting his ass kicked and he deserved it.”

    Why did he deserve it? Was it because despite his name,he wasn’t jewish? He was neighborhood watch,not some random burglarizing nigger like Trayboon Martin was. He protected people in his neighborhood. Trayboon Martin did not even live in that neighborhood. I know from personal experience that just being in a NIGGER NEIGHBORHOOD when you don’t live there is justification enough in THEIR nigger “minds” to kill a non-nigger.

    You know who deserves to have their ass kicked by a nigger? You.

    “He took the cowards way out and shot the kid.”

    The coward’s way out is a phrase that actually has a meaning and has had for as long as I’ve been alive and it means to shoot YOURSELF because you can’t handle the trials of life,not to shoot some black-assed pavement ape.

    There’s a phrase for that too. Nothing of value was lost.

    • Agree: Maddaugh
  144. KenH says:

    Ten thousand dollars and sixteen hours of community service looks proportionate to me.

    Wrong Derb. These fake white on black/Jewish hate crimes staged by black and Jew prima donnas go viral on social media and get innocent white people killed by moronic spooks who see everything on Shaun King’s Twitter feed and those of other leftist and black supremacist twitter feeds. So they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law or new laws passed to enable draconian punishment and deter would be black and Jew hate crime hoaxers.

    • Agree: acementhead
  145. @Bragadocious

    “The smarter thing would have been to follow jogger boy down the road with their cameras rolling, shouting at him that all this footage would be going to the po-po. He’d have been scared shitless, and probably found a new cul-de-sac to terrorize.”

    Haven’t spent much time around blacks,have you? If they did that,Armed Robbery would not have been “scared shitless” he just would have attacked them and tried to steal the camera rather than the gun.

    “Or they could have set some sort of primitive trap like an open container of paint perched above a door left ajar. The sight of Arbery running away with white paint all over him would be priceless.”

    Yeah,that would have been hilarious. In Scooby Doo. In some states in America,setting a trap for people that can result in any bodily harm whatsoever, especially to a black, is an automatic enhanced attempted murder since the fact that you planned it “with malice aforethought” becomes basically a foregone conclusion at the point that you admit you constructed a trap that you intended for a specific individual to trigger.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  146. Exile says:
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I don’t care to live in Fred’s society.

    Fred’s OK with a society in which Armed Robbery can prey on a neighborhood and get away with it. He’s OK with punishing citizens doing the job that police won’t do.

    I’m not going into the Talmudic weeds re: what Georgia law required. If Georgia law mandated this result, Georgia law is an ass. It’s a dubious proposition – multiple prosecutors declined to charge the McMichaels.

    Anti-White media drove the eventual prosecution and the result.

    I haven’t read Fred’s posts for a long time because of his dishonest contrarian BS like this. If he’s now going to sh*t up threads outside his containment area, it’s a disservice to Unz readers who’ve learned to distrust and avoid his low-effort trolling.

    Fred, if you have something to say, especially on a subject that’s somewhat off-topic to this thread, you have a corner here at Unz to p*ss in. Say it there and stop shilling for attention in Derb’s space.

  147. Dutch Boy says:
    @PJ London

    According to news reports, the first two prosecutors who looked at the case refused to prosecute (i.e., they agreed with ignorant old me). The third time was the charm. In defense of the jury, the judge did not allow evidence that the shootee was a deranged criminal, which I thought would be highly relevant but the judge considered highly prejudicial.

    • Replies: @PJ London
  148. Dutch Boy says:
    @Supply and Demand

    In defense of the jury, the judge did not allow evidence that the shootee was a deranged criminal, which I thought would be highly relevant but the judge considered highly prejudicial.

  149. @AceDeuce

    ‘Also, it’s the way that they died-at the hands of the Evil White People. Most niggros would have killed Fentanyl Floyd or the Gentle Jogger over $10 or a bag of weed without a second thought, but if YT does it, no matter how legit; no matter how much the niggro caused the incident, the blacks are on Team niggro.’

    To be fair, I think blacks have this attitude because we — and Jews, in particular — encourage them to have it.

    As I keep saying, blacks would hardly be an ornament to America under any circumstances. But it is we ourselves who have made them the plague they are. You could apply the same principles and raise a Labrador Retriever to be the beast from hell.

    Keep it simple and clear. Smack them down when they get out of line. Don’t ask them to do things they can’t do. Make sure there are things they can do. Blacks will stop being the horror that they are.

    This carnival of misery for all is our own invention. It can be stopped whenever we say it stops.

    • Agree: Exile, Maddaugh, AceDeuce
    • Replies: @KenH
    , @AceDeuce
  150. MB says: • Website
    @Rogue

    There is a reason why in ancient law codes (including the Old Testament but not confined to it) that an accuser (false-flagger) should face the very same penalty as the accused – if found guilty of bearing false witness.

    Deut. 19:19
    If you can’t prove the crime, you do the time.

    IOW the whole lawfare schtick would cease immediately.

  151. “Two of the women are Asian, one is black; all the other jurors are white.”

    It’s pretty hard to find a suitable black person for jury duty. Nearly all have saluted BLM on social media.

  152. PJ London says:
    @Dutch Boy

    It often happens that prosecutors hand cases to others, for any of a thousand reasons.
    Any acts or information that is not relative to the actual actions of the case is ALWAYS held out of the evidence and not presented to the jury. It is only relevant at sentencing.
    How would the fact that he had stolen before be relevant, as the defendants had no knowledge of it and it could not have affected their actions?
    Law 101.

    • Replies: @Jonathan Mason
  153. Maddaugh says:
    @Auntie Analogue

    My dear Dr. X (and also commenter Jimmy le Blanc), the word revolver is the British blanket term for “pistol” regardless of a pistol’s mechanism.

    Thanks for the patronising definition Auntie and educating us deplorables in the land with more privately guns than the whole. of the EU. However I doubt Dr X or Jimmy give a shit about the British blanket term. I dont either because your “definition” and the British term is poppycock !

    In the British Army there is a clear definition between a Revolver (which uses a revolving cylinder that only holds 6 rounds) and a PISTOL which uses a magazine with as many as 15 + rounds and is semi automatic. I believe the standard sidearm in the British Army is the semi-automatic PISTOL which is referred to as such rather than as a REVOLVER.

    The mechanisms of both are completely different as are the methods of use, reloading, cleaning and even aiming. What you assert is like classifying a parang and Sabre as similar. We dont mind a little trolling but please, dont write about things you dont know shit about. If the British blanket term is REVOLVER regardless of the mechanism then they must be as daft as you.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  154. KenH says:
    @Colin Wright

    Keep it simple and clear. Smack them down when they get out of line.

    You mean kind of like we used to do prior to 1965? Both de facto segregation in the North and and de jure segregation in the South worked very well and blacks were sternly punished for any monkey business, pun intended. Unlike today when we’re supposed to view black savages as victims of an unjust, systemically racist society.

    • Agree: Colin Wright
  155. @PJ London

    Apparently the senior McMichael had been involved in a case that involved breach of probation with Arbery a couple of years earlier, but this never came up and it is possible that he had forgotten about it, because he didn’t seem to know who Arbery was.

    Then again maybe he did know who Aubrey was, which would put a whole new perspective on the events of that fatal day.

    To me it is hard to believe that you wouldn’t remember a case that you had dealt with a couple of years ago, but who knows?

    I can clearly remember some cases I dealt with almost 50 years ago.

    • Replies: @PJ London
  156. @Bragadocious

    Assuming the affair was not just another staged event.

    Movies and TV have their ways of creating realistic images of murders and mayhem that only exist in a writer’s imagination.

    The area is home to a national law enforcement training center. Another drill gone “live”.

    Also, in the area is Jekyll Island, where the Christmas plot to unconstitutionally create a private central bank to control US currency was hatched then rubber stamped by Congress and signed off by POTUS.

  157. PJ London says:
    @Jonathan Mason

    My issue is that they should not have got involved.
    If they had witnessed a robbery, a rape or an assault with a weapon, then a citizens arrest is warranted although you are still pushing it to have a firearm and to chase them for blocks. A trespass even with a “potential” theft of property, they have no business interfering.
    It screams of vigilantism. The fact that they were white and he was black, oy vey. Three of them and one of him, what kind of outcome can you expect.
    Like Chauvin and kneeling on someone for 20 minutes, it is just abysmal stupidity.
    They recognised him from the neighbourhood and could have identified him to the police. Whereupon the police would have done nothing as no crime was witnessed.
    I hope that this will send the message, “Mind your own business”. Unless you are witnessing a violent crime, take a photo and move on. If, like in the NY subway, a man had been actually abusing a woman they probably would have turned away and not interfered.
    Chauvin sent a huge message to the police, do your job and don’t be a bully.
    McMichaels message is “Don’t wave firearms around to threaten people. The only time you may use a firearm is if your life is in danger from assault.”
    Baldwin is going to get the same message.

    • Agree: Jonathan Mason
    • Troll: AceDeuce
  158. Mike-SMO says:

    There are all the assumptions. Officer Potter yelled, “Taser. Taser.” to the other rookie officer who was not doing too well. That was an instruction to the rookie. Officer Potter did what was then necessary to stop a fleeing suspect. She “switched gears” from instructing a defective student to taking a shot at a fleeing suspect that the rookie had let escape. I don’t see any error on the part of Officer Potter. She did not grab the pistol “by accident”. It was good reflexes that brought out the necessary implement. Good Shoot!

    • Agree: SurfingUSA
  159. @Frederick V. Reed

    You hit the nail on the head with every point.

    Anyone thinking otherwise in agreement with the author of this trash is proving their synapses have have terminaslly shortcircuited.

    • Agree: Jonathan Mason
  160. Wokechoke says:
    @Maddaugh

    No one would call an automatic pistol a revolver. They’d use the brand name in the UK. Webley in the army. Although that’s an archaic Museum piece. They’d call a Beretta, Browning, Glock etc by the brand. Side arm or secondary.

  161. Wokechoke says:
    @AbrahamSteinblattbaumstein

    If he had stolen the camera, that’s theft and robbery of course.

  162. Wokechoke says:
    @Auntie Analogue

    Handgun or pistol. Revolver is specific.

  163. GenFranco says:
    @Nat X

    Speak English, please. This was once America.

  164. Anonymous[893] • Disclaimer says:
    @houston 1992

    Andrew Branca’s analysis can be found here:

    legalinsurrection.com

  165. AceDeuce says:
    @Colin Wright

    Agree. They are like a toddler who falls down unhurt, and scans the room quickly, dry-eyed, to see if a sympathetic adult saw the fall, and, if so, break into shrieks and sobs.

  166. Anonymous[407] • Disclaimer says:

    Those were shameful injustices, travesties of justice. Decent, harmless citizens like Gerald Amirault and his family—there were many, many others—were convicted and given double-digit sentences on charges no sensible person could credit, and for which there was no physical evidence.

    Ambitious, unscrupulous prosecutors; dim-witted juries; avaricious and/or ideological attorneys; bought-and-paid-for judges; all were on plain display there back in the nineties.

    To say nothing of all those cases in which the individuals claiming to be the victims— the accusers and plaintiffs— are, in reality, self-serving opportunists driven by ignoble or even downright malicious motives.

    Mr. Derbyshire:

    How open would you be to the possibility that the true story of the “the 2011 Penn State scandal that led to the disgrace of football coach Joe Paterno and the conviction of his former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, for child sexual abuse” might be another, more recent example of no less than what you have described and inveighed against here?[1]

    A compelling case for just that has been made by both Mark Pendegrast[2] and by John Ziegler[3]. Are you familiar with any of their work in this area? Have you commented at all on the topic of the Penn State Affair? I do not recall your ever having done so, and I am unable to find anything from you on it via web search.

    Criminal justice, particularly in matters involving pedohysteria, is a key area in which I have found your views to be refreshingly independent, considered, nuanced, conscientious, reasonable and responsible.

    Notes and citations appear below break.

    [MORE]

    [1] The quote is hyper-linked to its source, a blog post from May (2021) by one James Leroy Wilson. In it, Wilson goes on to make a larger point, one that would seem quite apropos here, about certain de facto realities of the criminal justice, and particularly, jury system.

    [2] The Most Hated Man in America – Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to Judgment (2017, Sunbury Press. ISBN: 978-1620067659 )

    [3] Ziegler’s work on the case, which includes much written material, as well as both videos and an entire series of podcasts, With The Benefit of Hindsight, can be found at
    framingpaterno [.] com
    From the home page:

    an incompetent, ratings-driven media told this story in a way not consistent with the facts, or even basic logic, and are now too invested in their fairytale to ever correct their colossal errors.

    While this site began as a defense of Paterno, after investigating the case for two years and interviewing Sandusky twice in prison, it became obvious that Sandusky himself has also been done a horrendous injustice. While this revelation will be shocking to people who have not followed the case closely, if you look at the evidence here with an open mind, there is little doubt that you will come to the same conclusion.

  167. SF says:

    I wouldn’t have a problem with a Smollett plea deal for a $10,000 fine and community service, provided it was tied to the shame of a guilty plea and an apology.

  168. loren says:
    @Sean

    Elites whites’ most formidable enemy is not blacks, but the bulk of the traditional population, who are now redundant as workers and even cannon fodder. But being white gives them an inherent cohesiveness, which the elite wish to destroy

    / fool. first dont use the term ‘elite’ in this context

    (((whites)))

  169. MEH 0910 says:

  170. If potter is convicted then there sure as hell better be charges for Baldwin. Both did something very reckless that got someone killed . Potter killed a black thug so the press says hang her. Baldwin killed a white karen so the press says tragic accident.

    • Agree: europeasant
  171. Sean says:
    @Sean

    They elite are between 40% and 50% Jewish, the other at least 50% of the elite are just as intelligent as the Jewish half.

  172. @Dr. X

    Second, Potter absolutely deserves prison time for negligent homicide or manslaughter.

    The bright legal minds on the Rekeita Law podcast see Potter as going free. Given the threats to her fellow officers, by a suspect fleeing a warrant, and the fear she saw in her husky, strong police supervisor, Potter was justified in either tasing or shooting Daunte Wright. Making a mistake in terms of weapon selection when either weapon can be employed in that situation is not a criminal act. The jury is unlikely to hammer a rare street cop with no complaints in a 26-year career.

  173. Catdog says:
    @SMK

    A few months ago Derb announced that he is now down with trannies. He’s showing his boomer impulse to cuck.

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