tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post7932623272682803668..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: July 2001, John Kriakou, CIA accounts on pre 911 warnings to Bush Administration - Why did the US put John Kriakou in federal prison?Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10934305743245993222015-05-08T02:47:38.523-04:002015-05-08T02:47:38.523-04:00>>>It seems absurd to me, on the facts as...>>>It seems absurd to me, on the facts as we now understand them, for a prosecutor to charge murder when there appears to be no evidence of intent to kill (a fact the prosecutor implicitly concedes by the contradictory charge that Mr. Gray’s death was a case of involuntary manslaughter or negligence).<<<Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59637216551217772802015-05-08T02:46:08.134-04:002015-05-08T02:46:08.134-04:00True enough. But our jurisprudence teaches that “r...True enough. But our jurisprudence teaches that “reasonable suspicion” and “probable cause” are not hyper-technical terms; they are commonsense concepts that ask how a reasonable, experienced police officer would judge what he sees in the heat of the moment. The average person who runs away from police has done something wrong; it is not unreasonable for a cop in a crime-ridden area to conclude that he is probably dealing with the average person, not the unusual type who runs for no apparent reason. And the whole point of the investigative stop is that police can ask a few questions and let the detainee go on his way if there is no good reason to detain him further. Police have the right to be wrong, as long as they are wrong in a reasonable way. That is the case not only when they detain someone but when they decide they have grounds to make an arrest. If a police officer finds on a suspect what he believes in good faith is an illegally possessed knife, he can arrest the suspect. If it turns out that the knife is actually legal, the remedy is to vacate the arrest — not to prosecute the cop for unlawful imprisonment. It’s a mistake, not a crime. <br /><br />Note that I am not arguing against a prosecution for some form of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Mr. Gray. That is a different issue from whether he was properly detained and arrested in the first place. Once the police have a suspect in their custody, they have a duty to keep the suspect safe and secure. It seems absurd to me, on the facts as we now understand them, for a prosecutor to charge murder when there appears to be no evidence of intent to kill (a fact the prosecutor implicitly concedes by the contradictory charge that Mr. Gray’s death was a case of involuntary manslaughter or negligence). Yet it is entirely possible, if not probable, that death was caused by criminally culpable police misconduct. There is, however, much more at stake here than finding out exactly what happened to Mr. Gray, as important as that is. If police are now to conclude that they cannot, without fear of being prosecuted, take routine investigative steps based on reasonable suspicion, communities cannot be protected. There can be no security and no commerce. Innocent people will be preyed upon and killed. The unlawful-imprisonment charges filed by prosecutor Marilyn Mosby are not even social justice, much less justice. They are a death sentence for Baltimore.<br /><br />Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418018/prosecution-threatens-city-andrew-c-mccarthyCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65126506293723038542015-05-08T02:45:40.294-04:002015-05-08T02:45:40.294-04:00Contra Judges Napolitano and Pirro -
A Prosecutio...Contra Judges Napolitano and Pirro -<br /><br />A Prosecution That Threatens a City<br /><br />Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418018/prosecution-threatens-city-andrew-c-mccarthy<br /><br />..............It is not at all clear to me that the police were wrong to pursue and arrest Freddie Gray. Much has been made by commentators of the fact that the police did not have a warrant for Gray’s arrest or see him commit a crime when they ran after him. This is an unrealistically narrow conception of probable cause. Imagine the not-at-all-unusual situation in which, in a high-crime area, a suspect who has just, say, mugged a woman and taken her wallet, sees a police officer as he’s leaving the scene. The police officer did not see the mugging. The suspect makes eye contact with the officer and flees in the opposite direction. It would be cold comfort to the woman who has just been assaulted, and infuriating to most law-abiding citizens, if the officer decided not to pursue the suspect — who got away, to mug another day — just because he hadn’t witnessed the mugging. Our jurisprudence teaches that “reasonable suspicion” and “probable cause” are not hyper-technical terms; they are commonsense concepts. And, of course, the officer is not required to let the suspect get away. In the hypothetical circumstances just described, a cop would have a good-faith basis for suspicion of wrongdoing, even if he did not yet have probable cause. The law permits a brief investigative stop in that situation. The suspicion would heighten if the suspect continued running away after the police officer directed him to stop. In the brief detention, the police officer would be permitted to pat the suspect down, and to seize a weapon if the suspect had one. And if the officer believed in good faith that the weapon was illegally possessed, he could make an arrest. Some counter that it is not a crime to run away from a cop. Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81746364848321174552015-05-08T01:31:39.843-04:002015-05-08T01:31:39.843-04:00.
He should talk to Bibi. He formed one with a 1....<br /><br />He should talk to Bibi. He formed one with a 1 vote margin.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81411912964050808692015-05-08T01:27:36.269-04:002015-05-08T01:27:36.269-04:00I am assuming that the Police are saying they saw ...I am assuming that the Police are saying they saw the knife in the possession of Sir Freddie. If they say they did not see the knife, and lacking something else suspicious, we are back to Judges Napolitano and Pirro and an illegal arrest.<br /><br />Even if the knife is found to be legal, the suspicion that it was not is enough for a defense of the Police.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28052408268349322062015-05-08T01:17:33.981-04:002015-05-08T01:17:33.981-04:00DEFIANT SPEECH
The Volokh Conspiracy
Islamo-non-p...DEFIANT SPEECH<br /><br />The Volokh Conspiracy<br />Islamo-non-phobia, and the value of defiance<br />Eugene Volokh<br /><br />Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law, a First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, and tort law, at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28003511765748820972015-05-08T00:14:12.160-04:002015-05-08T00:14:12.160-04:00Judge 'Hang Em High' Rufus has already rul...Judge 'Hang Em High' Rufus has already ruled 'Guilty as Charged' on all counts.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86339370210424509202015-05-08T00:12:03.441-04:002015-05-08T00:12:03.441-04:00The case against the Police in Baltimore is frayin...The case against the Police in Baltimore is fraying badly around the edges, even falling apart.<br /><br />The Chief Investigator against the Police had been in the Police Force and been canned for misbehavior thus raising the question of a grudge and a conflict of interest.<br /><br />The original Medical Examiner's report did not support homicide, but was changed under pressure.<br /><br />The knife does seem to have been illegal.<br /><br />etcetc<br /><br />Watch Fox News for moment by moment updates.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5291554243420150132015-05-07T21:46:14.150-04:002015-05-07T21:46:14.150-04:00Strike 'big time'.
It was closer than I h...Strike 'big time'.<br /><br />It was closer than I heard a few minutes ago.<br /><br />Cameron will need to form a government coalition.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72791985913717876852015-05-07T21:39:55.839-04:002015-05-07T21:39:55.839-04:00God Save The QueenGod Save The QueenCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91830747471290880562015-05-07T21:38:51.880-04:002015-05-07T21:38:51.880-04:00In a hopeful omen of things to come here, the Brit...In a hopeful omen of things to come here, the British Conservatives have won big time.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79616755677112854502015-05-07T21:37:57.003-04:002015-05-07T21:37:57.003-04:00Well that certainly proves it Ash, your short NYT ...Well that certainly proves it Ash, your short NYT video proves the Police are racist bullies everywhere.<br />*********<br /><br />AshThu May 07, 07:06:00 PM EDT<br /><br />Even if your name was Trayvon and his was Zimmerman?<br /><br />This is idiocy, Ash, not worthy of you.<br /><br />You can, should and must do better.<br /><br />We all know the US Department of Justice found ZERO cause to indict Zim on anything at all, and that Trayon was banging Zim's head into the concrete when Zim used force.<br /><br />Stop with your stupidities now Ash.<br /><br />Stop it now.<br /><br />Pipe down.<br /><br />You embarrass yourself in front of the mega millions of readers here.<br /><br />You have wasted the time of stadiums full of people all across America.<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26687045591469625572015-05-07T20:05:00.391-04:002015-05-07T20:05:00.391-04:00We all know the little bait trap Ash is setting fo...We all know the little bait trap Ash is setting for Bob. But Search and Frisk is not Constitutional.<br /><br />http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/judge-rules-nycs-stop-frisk-unconstitutional/story?id=19936326Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62696022006571477362015-05-07T19:06:46.019-04:002015-05-07T19:06:46.019-04:00Even if your name was Trayvon and his was Zimmerma...Even if your name was Trayvon and his was Zimmerman?Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24814898802835784992015-05-07T18:29:34.743-04:002015-05-07T18:29:34.743-04:00I will watch a little later. Got to drive into tow...I will watch a little later. Got to drive into town now.<br /><br />If he got violent/attacked me so I feared for my life or great bodily harm I would hope like hell I would shoot him.<br /><br />What would you do if he kept pestering you hunh ?<br /><br />Cheers !<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91401876536067266952015-05-07T16:51:06.437-04:002015-05-07T16:51:06.437-04:00Did you watch the video?
I would tell him to mind...Did you watch the video?<br /><br />I would tell him to mind his own business. So, you'd shoot him if he kept pestering you hunh?Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73792579831695449272015-05-07T16:50:15.748-04:002015-05-07T16:50:15.748-04:00(I'd hope you'd tell him to fuck off, and ...(I'd hope you'd tell him to fuck off, and you'd finally get that good non life threatening non serious injury but truly frightening mugging you so richly deserve and desperately need. You would a better man for it)Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28764625720509519932015-05-07T16:36:51.792-04:002015-05-07T16:36:51.792-04:00What would you do, Noble Ash ?What would you do, Noble Ash ?Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78143341588833879632015-05-07T16:35:58.450-04:002015-05-07T16:35:58.450-04:00Yo, Ash, yo bro, what it is, what it is, wha happe...Yo, Ash, yo bro, what it is, what it is, wha happenin' dood ?<br /><br />I wouldn't do either.<br /><br />Hopefully I would be packing and have a little confidence and would simply say kindly leave me alone and walk away with the gun in my pocket cocked and my eyes very alert.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28429027827536749192015-05-07T16:32:04.388-04:002015-05-07T16:32:04.388-04:00She's a good choice.She's a good choice.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18419536745061181492015-05-07T16:31:26.995-04:002015-05-07T16:31:26.995-04:00Now I am looking.
And...........
I was right !!
...Now I am looking.<br /><br />And...........<br /><br />I was right !!<br /><br />Seattle has become one big traffic jam.<br /><br />Wonderful place in many ways, but straight down hill from when mom was there.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5362575182939087102015-05-07T16:25:59.279-04:002015-05-07T16:25:59.279-04:00Without looking, I am betting it's that nitwit...Without looking, I am betting it's that nitwit from Seattle.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52884690695787657732015-05-07T16:25:10.894-04:002015-05-07T16:25:10.894-04:00Dumb fuck, dumb fuck, dumb fuck
Mindless inanity,...Dumb fuck, dumb fuck, dumb fuck<br /><br />Mindless inanity, my assCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55947108199711704972015-05-07T16:17:53.797-04:002015-05-07T16:17:53.797-04:00Yo, Bob,
I was wondering how you would react if y...Yo, Bob,<br /><br />I was wondering how you would react if you were walking home from the store some night and a Hispanic guy came up to you and started accusing you stealing something? Would you be nice and empty your pockets for him to demonstrate you hadn't stole anything or would you tell him to f-off?<br /><br />There is a nice little short documentary on the front page of nytimes.com right now titled:<br /><br />"‘A Conversation About Growing Up Black’"<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/opinion/a-conversation-about-growing-up-black.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0<br /><br />Take a look and let me know what you think about it.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45959693201005773842015-05-07T15:58:31.828-04:002015-05-07T15:58:31.828-04:00Air Force Announces First Ever Female F-35 Fighter...<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/07/christine-mau-first-female-f35-pilot_n_7229768.html" rel="nofollow">Air Force Announces First Ever Female F-35 Fighter Jet Pilot, Lt. Col. Christine Mau</a>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.com