Observations From the Back Row

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 By Rich Kozlovich

Let's start out with Justice American Style:

This is a question I think should be obvious to the most casual observer. When it comes to crime, criminals, punishment and culture... What is wrong with our minds?  

Criminals who've committed serious crimes are released without bail, given a slap on the wrist sentences, and paroled right back into the communities they befoul.  In one case a convicted  transgender "strangled an eleven month old baby, and was only sentenced to 55 years.  This ... at least in my view... bodes well the need to ask and answer a few questions:

1. What kind of monster murders an eleven month old baby?
2. What kind of judge would only sentence him to 55 years?
3. What kind of bleeding heart nitwits paroled this monster who continues to demonstrate he's mentally deranged insisting he's really a woman and is "demanding taxpayer-funded “gender-affirming” surgery", and an Obama judge agreed. 

He also sued President Trump for hurtful transgender speech.  Amazing, let's see if I understand this correctly. A man who could coldly strangle an eleven month old baby child to death has feelings?  Did I get that right? 

As a solution to crime, catch and release really doesn't work.  Another violent black thug got himself killed attacking the police and ... watch out now, here it comes.....the race baiters are outraged demanding "justice" for Corey Durell Ruiz.  And you're shocked... right?

Corey Durell Ruiz died on a public street in Madison, Wisconsin, on July 22 with a fixed-blade knife in his hand and roughly 40 prior convictions on his record.  Within forty-eight hours, protesters had stormed a police press conference, civil rights attorney Ben Crump had flown in to call the shooting an “execution,” and the mayor was promising a “rigorous” investigation of the officer. 

 Here's the part the really outlines this issue best:

Nobody at either microphone asked the obvious question: why was a man with 15 years of documented violent conduct, including two felony convictions for assaulting police, riding a bicycle through a residential neighborhood on a weekday afternoon instead of sitting in a cell?..........

 Here's what the record shows. Wisconsin public records reviewed by NBC News list roughly 40 misdemeanor and felony convictions for Ruiz from 2009 to 2025, including felony resisting an officer with substantial bodily harm and felony threats against police in 2021, per Urban Milwaukee, and two counts of strangulation and robbery by force in 2009. In between: theft, disorderly conduct, drug possession, bail jumping, and auto theft, per a history compiled from Wisconsin court records. It reads less like a rap sheet than a career.

Four questions:

1. Option one - You believe all this is spontaneous? 
2. Option two - You believe this is part of an organized national scheme on the left to destroy society?  
3. Who votes for option two?  
4. How many think he finally got the justice he deserved? 

It's time to revisit the New York Times v. Sullivan:

The media has been out of control with outrageous claims forever, which both William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer excelled in.  They called it "yellow journalism" in those days, but their corrupt journalism is what laid the destructive and corrupt groundwork for the journalism we see today.  The mdia not only attack individuals they don't like, they defend the most indefensible characters and positions with with projection, red herring fallacies, lies of commission and lies of omission.  But all that really became out of control with the SCOTUS decision in the New York Times vs. Sullivan.  That decision gave the media a carte blanche license to to smear public officials and public figures without consequence, and naturally as time has gone by that practice has gotten much worse..... at least until Trump and others sued media outlets...... and won.  

Now, according to Kash Patel the Atlantic has smeared him and he's sued.  The Atlantic is asking a judge to kick his suit to the curb!  Why?  The suit is meritless!  At least according to them it's meritless, and they stand four square behind their report.  Really?  Okay, they certainly have the right to stand behind the report, but as to whether or not it has merit is supposed to be decided at a trial...... you know.... that's where the accused and the accusers face each other and make their case?  

That's the way it is for everyone else in America, except the media.   Make no mistake, they will argue the Sullivan defense, and in the real world if anyone other than the media was sued for defamation it would be settled or go to trial.  

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It's high time Sullivan was revisited and just like and Chevron Doctrine, it's stench needs flushed down the toilet.  Both Sullivan and Chevron were " rights" made up by SCOTUS justices allowing them to legislate from the bench.  That needs to be addressed also. 

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