Thank you for this fine, fine article. I had known about this issue for several decades, knew that Holmes regretted his throwaway line, but had no idea it had never been a part of law, never knew that the line had been repudiated in a later Supreme Court decision.
This is one of the few articles on this issue that appear here that inform me and give me immense pleasure to read.
Thanks again.
What would appear to be at issue here is the ultra hysterical claim that it was a "far" right anything at all. That kind of false claim could be damaging and might warrant a cost to the liar who would call itself a journalist.
You should look more carefully to the motives for the suits. In all the cases recently (incl. Nunes) you find people lying in order to smear.
Look to the motives b before you defend the enemies of speech and free thought.
Since the climate isn't changing and has nothing to do with human input nor fossil fuels, it is shockingly Great to see ignorant politicians not force companies into meaningless, ineffective, expensive measures solely for the purpose of virtual signaling.
Best news I've heard all morning!
Twitter should be banned worldwide unless and until it agrees to stop censoring anyone for any reason ever.
Since Floyd died of a frenatnyl overdose and it was conclusively proved in Chauvin's trial that he did not hamper in any way the overdosing drug addict Floyd from breathing (as the chief of police had to admit on the stand), the police are prudently realizing that they can never get a fair trial in the city and that they will be charged at any time for anything that the mob deems chargible, why would they put much effort into police work.
Add to that the proven fact that the coroner was pressured by the prosecutors to change his autopsy conclusions (the basis for legal action being taken by the remaining defendants) and the recent higher court's reversal of that Somali cop's murder conviction, and you can easily understand it.
In short, it's very hard for the human beings who work in law enforcement to do their jobs without risking death or injury or the loss of their freedom from juries afraid to acquit lest the mob dox and hurt them, with Maxine coming into town demanding they convict.
It's obvious that Chauvin will be reversed, but it may take several years. He did nothing but his job, and the prosecutors again as in so many other cases in the past few years, cheated in order to convict. That's not justice. The cops and everyone else can see it. Who'd want to go to one's work one day and never return for 35 years because a stoned out overdosing drug addict resists arrest?
Answer: very few.
Uh, it's not racist to realize reality: blacks are much more violent than other races. AI and programming data quickly realize this. Idiots call that racist. Obviously it's just the truth. Machines don't lie. They ain't racist.
Those that deny the reality of black violence, like you, are the true racists. You are anti-white racists, and I'm betting you are white, It's a mental illness in many white people.
They call frank reporting and studies as racists because they show the truth, Time for you to get back to the science.
This should read: Minnesota Dept. of Safety now mandating that all black people take training in how to behave during traffic stops.
No black person I've even known who knows how to behave (while also maintaining their rights) has ever had a problem with a cop.
Stop catering to the victim nonsense.
The FBI should never have been started, it was a blackmail operation for decades, it has done nothing other than gin up cases--either via entrapment schemes or agents provacateur--for its entire existence. They are inept in every way. And have been for 100 years.
What act like this one will be the end of them? Depends on the stupidity of the American people.
Time will tell.
There's no perhaps about it.
Warren is one of the many school marms (e.g. Susan Wojicki) who have invaded American society.
She thinks she is so right that it's now cool for her and the other school marms to prevent the rest of us from reading or seeing anything they deem yucky.
Even liberals I know who have had contact with Warren say she is an insufferable bitch.
This book banning, anti Free Speech stuff is all her, baby, all she is about. Forget about Big Brother. It's really all Big Sister.
Well, it's obvious, isn't it? to anyone with a brain. So-called fact checking is censorship. You are saying your facts are the TRUTH while my facts are DISINFORMATION.
How on Earth can you accept that as an American?
Newsflash: Chauvin killed no one. As was proved in court. So that nonsense at the beginning of the article makes suspect this other cop. When the Chief of Police think he wasn't guilty? We should go with that. Hindsight is always wrong. The lady cop thought she had the suicidal man with the gun under control? Is that the same as sending a social worker out?
I have got a hot tip: don't walk around with a loaded gun if you don't want to get shot. And here's the obvious fact: the guy wanted to commit suicide by cop. He got his wish. The lady cop had to leave town as she should have left. She's a terrible cop and should go back to waiting tables.
Meanwhile, just another step in destroying any form of law enforcement in the United States. What cop is going to do anything to any violent lunatic with a gun if it means he will suffer the insane hatred of cop haters (like those on Tech Dirt)?
Answer: few. Meaning kiss any law enforcement at all good bye. This is the weirdest experiment in social engineering of all times. Let's just see how it goes, shall we? All the cops are in prison and all the criminals run free (Sympathy for the Devil --Rolling Stones).
Keep going with this lunacy. Hope you have a gun or two.
This is the greatest news I've heard all evening! An order that totalitarian censors of social media can't censor! Who could have any problem with that? No one but totalitarians. since there is no such thing as dis or mis information--only a different opinion than yours--this is perfect.
They should leave in the nudity tho.
What part of 5 million injured from the vaccines is a myth? What part of 1,000s died from vaccines is a myth? Is VAERS a myth?
Moderation is anti-American. Stop doing it.
This is what you get when you do not support Free Speech if you are a writer for Tech Dirt or you are a social media monopoly: politicians trying to fix it.
It needs fixing. You don't like how they are trying to fit it Free speech means all speech. There is no sucha thing as hate speech (as the Supreme Court correctly says) so that means all speech by all people should be on social media all the time.
Don't want to do that? Thank you're snarky smart writing about content moderation and dissing conservatives who want free speech? What goes around comes around. At this point few care what politicians do to bring these totalitarian lunatics to heel.
Change it or Lose it. Do it voluntarily or we gonna figure out how to make you allow American values back into social media and the town square.
Reading this makes me sad that you don't push for public utility of all social media. You just keep on with that right-wing talking point that "it's a private company" nonsense. And then put down anyone that tries to seek remedy for the totalitarian anti-American discrimination, censorship and smearing that goes on routinely.
I mean why. The laptop was "apparently" Hunter's? Are you high?
And not a word about the suppression of it all before the election by your BFFs the social media totalitarians.
Wow. someone who can believe that and could write like that must not realize: they coming for you next.
Phony trial on a phony law that was bogus from the git. It's remarkable how simple prostitution got relabeled sex trafficking. It all depended on Puritan American culture. It shuts people up. My best wishes to the victims of this show trial.
I am confused. I know that there were rioters that destroyed property and people in Kenosha last year. It was just after another black man resisted arrest and acted violent, something that no one does who wants to survive an encounter with the police anywhere on earth.
I can't remember when and where there were simple "protesters" and most especially any incident of police "brutality."
Rioting and destruction are crimes. If they have innovative and effective ways of arresting, charging, convicting rioters who destroy property? Who on Earth would not be for that?
You know? When I read this article with its smearing, sniggering snarky depiction of Sydney Powerll and Lin Wood and then read the corrupt judge's pages of nonsense, which nevertheless, could have some important consequences for that hateful corruption, I started to wonder how Sydney Powell was reacting these threats to her vocation.
So I went on a search for recent video of her and I do mean recent. Like in the last week.
And what did I find? Sydney Powell without a care in the world. She (and Lin) know what is right and just.And if some corrupt and hateful AG wants to enlist her BBF judge to mount a hate campaign that has nothing to do with justice, fairness or American style decency?
Looks like Sydney is saying: bring it.
Your article is nonsense. You should be questioning like journalists do. Instead you are applauding like tainted corrupt fools do.
Ideas
Try to understand:
If a cop decides that he or she needs to arrest you, that means that he or she has decided that you have or are violating a law that the community has passed and is in favor of.
This means that you don't get to leave or run. Arrest means to stop. He or she is stopping from being in the community. In other words, you are a danger to the community if you run or resist. The reason is simple: if you are indeed a violator of laws the community has passed by democratic vote, then if you are let out into the community without first being arrested and tried and sentenced then you could do more harm to the community more than you already have done or are doing now.
So running or resisting? That means you are a dangerous out of control zombie criminal. You must be stopped. You have been ordered to stop. You have dangerously decided you do not need to obey the laws your fellow citizens have passed in order to have an ordered community.
If you die are killed? Who is the person protecting the community from the law breaker who will not submit to the will of the community? The guy getting shot.
The cop was doing his or her job. Get these clear principles through your head and stop capping on cops.
And stop resisting arrest. And stop running from the police!!!!!
Just Stop!!!