Minnesota ICE Shooting: The Marketplace of Ideas is Working

God forbid, the same thing ever happen to one of Will or the Col’s family their Trump bootlicking BS would evaporate.

“Refusing the lawful commands of a police officer is a crime.”
First, how is an ICE officer’s “command” for a citizen to get out of her car lawful?
Most important: is the proper punishment of every crime the death penalty? And with an ICE officer as the judge, jury, and executioner?

And correction: Tim Walz did NOT “threaten to call out his state’s national guard against the federal government.” He only put them on ready status should the demonstrations get violent. He was prepared to activate his state’s national guard “against” his own protesters INSTEAD OF, not “against” ICE quelling the protests.
There can be “no market place of ideas” about what Tim Walz actually said.

Without tooting my own proverbial horn, seeing beauty in, and deriving happiness from, the abstract is one of the highest forms of human evolution.
For example, experiencing delight in the idea that man landed on the moon. You can’t play with it as if it were a pet, smell it as if it were perfume, or eat it or drink it or smoke it. But if you are highly evolved, you can derive from it such happiness as if you played with it, smelled it, smoked it, drank it and eaten it.
The few of us committed to prevention derive happiness from the realization that we prevented something bad. We don’t get paid or applauded for it; and sometimes we even get attacked for it. But prevention makes us happy.
This still-evolving Minnesota story, and my recent visit to the three-year-old Green Pond article on this outlet, again reminded me of the lack of preventive imagination.
Democrats’ solution to every problem (including the impending Obama Care crisis) is to throw money at it.
Republicans’ solution to every problem is to throw prisons and/or deportations at it.
But when it really matters, both extremes can find imaginative solutions. For example, instead of prosecuting and imprisoning mothers who self-abort or who kill or neglect a live birth after a non-noticed pregnancy, a safe-heaven law was passed that such mothers could simply and timely take that live but very vulnerable baby to a hospital, church, or fire station, and leave it there, NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED.
The success of such law proves what happens when the pure-hearted purpose is to save the lives of babies born to unprepared mothers instead of a demagogue purpose of mutual recriminations about disregard of morality and disrespect for privacy.
Statistically, death penalties are most frequently imposed on convenience-store murders after failed-or-completed robberies, murders after attempted-or-completed rapes, murders for hire or for self of witnesses to a crime, and murders of law enforcement officers.
Decades, even centuries, of the death penalty for such murders have not stopped them.
If the lives of convenience-store clerks (the majority of whom are immigrants) mattered to both extremes as the lives of babies born to unprepared mothers, we would, FOR EXAMPLE, have a law to have a 24/7 on call father-confessor (my Catholic education is showing; but only Catholic and Orthodox father confessors are exempt from the requirement to report an intended or completed crime) to whom a drug addict hard-up for money to buy drugs and considering an armed robbery or a convenience store could go to find an alternative, even if the alternative were to be given a little money to buy the drugs and use them in the confessor’s presence THEN REPORT TO A TREATMENT FACILITY no additional questions asked.
Can this idea be gamed? Sure. But the human imagination which sent men to the moon and brought them back safely can be stimulated and applied to prevent murders.

After this last appeal to your conscience, maybe other media outlets or more principled propagandist such as Wes Donahue
There is no market place of ideas about perjury being a crime.
It is a crime for which, incidentally as early as the Hammurabi code and as late as the early 20th Century, the death penalty (which I oppose) was imposed.
Nor can there be a debate that a prosecutor who suborns perjury should be held to account.
Indeed, the U.S. Supreme Court has always recognized perjury and lies about facts as exceptions to the rights of free speech.
Yet, while claiming to fight for justice and accountability, not only to you glorify a perjury-suborning prosecutor, you refuse to run this comment of mine:
Will Folks, at 1:02:07, you crown Heather Weiss (“Hatchet-for-Hire Heather” in my book) “a competent prosecutor” and continue at 1:02:14 to class her among “some great lawyers,” after I repeatedly provided you transcript and record evidence that, for years, Weiss received from the City of Columbia $70K/year IN ADDITION TO HER SALARY as assistant to then-5th-Circuit-Solicitor Barney Giese, and to John Meadors after Barney Giese stepped down, SOLELY to bring criminal charges, justified or not, against the political or civil-litigation-adversaries of the City of Columbia itself or of its officials.
I now see clearly that in inability to advertise on your outlets, or even pay the monthly subscription to it, makes what Hatchet-for-Hire Heather did to me unworthy of you condemnation, or even investigation.
Just in case you forgot, that very Weiss had, in 2001 convicted one Corey/Cory Lamont Curry of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and got him sentenced to five years. In 2009, that very Curry returned to the vicinity of his 2001 PWID arrest, threatened to rape me, snatch my camera, and use it to photograph himself in the act of raping me, then stood in my parking lot publicly masturbating at me and later shooting me the bird with both his hands.
What did Hatchet-for-Hire Heather do about my photo-documented reports to law enforcement about Curry’s acts? Hatchet-for-Hire Heather had ME falsely arrested under FALSE PRETEXT that I harassed that supposedly-poor, hapless Curry by photographing him in the act of making lewd gestures at me.
Why did Hatchet-for-Hire do that? Because I was suing the City of Columbia to re-route sewer pipes improperly but clandestinely placed on a vacant lot of land Mother and I had purchased earlier that year unaware that the illegal sewer lines made it unbuildable until the sewer pipes were moved.
Did Hatchet-for-Hire stop at falsely arresting me? No, no, NO. When she found out that I will not knuckle under, she began scheming to cause my death in one of the most gruesome ways imaginable. She knew that in 1980 I had had thyroid surgery in Chapel Hill, NC, and that metal surgical staples were placed in my neck instead of absorbable surgical sutures to stop profuse bleeding. That was before MRIs were invented. Knowing that, Hatchet for Hire began pushing for a brain MRI as a condition of my bond. That, God forbade, would have cause the powerful magnetic field to violently pull the metal staples out of my neck and tear arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures in the process.
Did she stop after I bonded out and later, thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER did for myself what Murdaugh’s team could not do for him: prevent a jury from returning a wrongful conviction? No, no, NO. Instead of dismissing the false case against me or giving me the speedy retrial for which I was pushing, Hatchet-for-Hire actually filed a motion to find me, ME, who dazzled judges with my brilliance, mentally incompetent to continue representing myself, and get this, because of the thyroid surgery I had in 1980.
That is all in OFFICIAL transcripts.
As is the fact that Heather Weiss LIED to Judge Clifton Newman about that Corey/Cory Curry’s criminal record after Weiss had listed Curry as one of her witness but declined to call him and I wanted him as a hostile witness in my defense.
Hatchet-for-Hire Heather Weiss suborned 365 perjuries from one of the false witnesses against me. Yet, not John Meadors, not Alan Wilson, not Clifton Newman, not John Kittredge, not anyone does anything about it after being provided with the annotated transcript OBJECTIVELY proving those perjuries and subornation.
Well, the other “great” lawyers Laurie Taylor and Shaun Kent are provided with a copy of this comment and that annotated transcript; and they owe it to their clients, if not to me or to the honor of the profession, to bring Heather Weiss’ past unethical conduct to light.