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Monday, October 6, 2025

It's Time for Nidal Hasan to Die

He killed 13 and wounded 39 more at Fort Hood in 2009

By Susan Daniels, Oct 04, 2025 @ Susan's Newsletter

Sixteen years ago, former Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan entered Fort Hood’s processing center and fired upon the unarmed personnel. He killed thirteen and wounded thirty-nine more who were waiting for deployment.

According to HOT AiR:

 ...”The shooting began about 1:30 Central Time at Hood’s Soldier Family Readiness Center where (Lt. Gen. Robert W.) Cone said soldiers from multiple units were crowded into the center for a scheduled weekly ‘make up time’ for medical and dental appointments.

“Casualties were high due to the enclosed location, but would have been much worse were it not for the training and quick reaction of the soldiers, Cone said, adding that he was on the scene quickly after the shooting began.

“‘Suffice it to say…the American soldier did a great job,’ he said.

“From the reports of eyewitnesses, he said, the soldiers – ‘many of them combat lifesavers’ -- reacted instantaneously, ripping off parts of their own clothing to treat the wounded.

“‘I credit the first responders,’ he said. ‘God bless these soldiers and Department of Army civilians. As horrible as this was, it could have been much worse.

“The suspect is believed to have used two handguns in the shooting, one a semiautomatic, Cone said. And in responding to a question, “As a matter of practice, we do not carry weapons on Fort Hood,” he said. ‘This is our home.’

“The only saving grace was that Hasan had attacked a room full of combat veterans getting ready to head back out.

“Once the initial shock of the attack passed, battle-tested Army members swung into action, either in concert against their attacker or to immediately attend to offering life-saving aid to wounded comrades.”

Hasan continued firing when he left the building until he was shot twice by civilian police Sergeant Mark Todd, who, after he arrived, exchanged fire with Hasan. Hasan was shouting “Allahu Akbar” before he began shooting. He told a mental health panel “that the shooting was justified because the victims were going against the Islamic Empire.”  Hasan had been in contact by email with American-born, Yemeni-based radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

“Imam Anwar al-Awlaki (was) notable for being President Obama’s first drone strike assassination of a US citizen - and (Hasan’s) military colleagues had been concerned and warned of his increasing radicalization for several years preceding the murders.”

“President Obama…authorized the capture or killing of Anwar al-Awlaki on the basis that he posed an imminent threat to the United States. He was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen in September 2011 along with an American acolyte, Samir Khan, with whom he had published the slick English-language Al Qaeda magazine Inspire.”

Al-Awaki apparently influenced the unstable Army psychiatrist who had attended a mosque in Virginia where al-Awaki had preached. Despite the terrorist link, then president and fellow muslim traveler, Barack Hussein Obama, declared the shootings “workplace violence.” That designation prevented the families of the dead and injured from collecting government benefits.

That continued from 2011 to 2015 when Congress changed the designation, and the families were awarded a Purple Heart and benefits.

From the Daily Caller: 

“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is seeking the permission of President Trump to execute Muslim Jihadi, Nidal Hasan, via the death penalty, which was his sentence back in 2013 after massacring 13 and wounding 32 at Fort Hood. (Hasan’s final appeal expired in April 2025.)

“The execution, if approved by Trump, would be the first carried out by the military since 1961. Hasan, a former Army Major and psychiatrist turned radical Islamic terrorist, killed 13 people and wounded 32 others during his notorious rampage on the Army base in 2009.”

While researching this article, the following information was discovered. USAID reported bankrolled al Qaeda terrorist’s college tuition.




 

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Biden Puts the DEI in the Death Penalty

By @ Sultan Knish Blog

 

Over the summer, the Biden administration warned 9/11 family members that it was negotiating a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the attacks, and four other Al Qaeda terrorists directly involved in the plot to murder thousands of people in America.

Biden had previously freed Mohammed al-Qahtani, the 20th 9/11 hijacker, and Zuhail al-Sharabi, another hijacker for an expanded version of the 9/11 attacks, along with an Al Qaeda ally who plotted to smuggle nukes into America and still another terrorist who plotted to blow up gas stations in Maryland, among others of the ‘worst of the worst’ still being held in Gitmo.

No wonder that Biden ducked out on the 9/11 commemoration to avoid facing family members.

While Biden’s people are trying to cut a plea deal for the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, they have, for the first time, demanded the death penalty for another killer.

Payton Gendron’s massacre of ten people in a Buffalo supermarket was not the only such supermarket mass killing. A year earlier, Ahmed Al-Issa, a Syrian Muslim immigrant, had opened fire in a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, and killed ten people. The case quickly vanished from the news (although the Washington Post did inquire whether the Arab Muslim mass killing of Americans could somehow count as “white male violence”.)

Instead of trying Ahmed in federal court in a death penalty case, the Biden administration was only interested in trying and executing Payton. Why? According to the Justice Department, “Gendron, a white male, committed a mass shooting attack targeting Black people.” (The racial capitalization here comes from the DOJ.) “Gendron’s motive for the mass shooting was to prevent Black people from replacing white people and eliminating the white race.”

Gendron’s mass shooting was not even the worst recent racist supermarket shooting

In 2019, Patrick Wood Crusius shot up a Walmart in El Paso, killing 23 people in order to stop Latinos from taking over America. In early 2023, the Justice Department announced that it wouldn’t pursue the death penalty.. In January 2024, around the same time that Biden decided to seek the death penalty for Gendron, it ruled out the death penalty for Anderson Lee Aldrich who had shot up a gay bar and killed 5 people. It was never clear whether Aldrich was gay or hated gay people, but the DOJ did hit him with 55 hate crime charges. Still no death penalty.

Murdering 5 people in cold blood (or 1 person) whatever the reason ought to be a fast track to a lethal injection. But Attorney General Merrick Garland froze all new death penalty cases on taking office and has so far only signed off on one of them because of entirely racial reasons.

Supermarket shooters, whether they’re white, black or Muslim, should all face the death penalty. So should any number of mass shooters, including Nicolas Cruz, the Parkland high school mass murder who killed 17 people, almost all of them children and teenagers, who was spared the death penalty in 2022 by a soppy jury who chose to value the killer’s life over that of his victims.

The Al Qaeda terrorists we collected in Gitmo, should have been culled a long time ago.

Instead, Biden’s rules are that if you’re a Muslim who kills thousands of Americans, you get a plea deal, if you kill ten, you vanish from the news, and if you kill 17 Latinos, you’ll get some of the book thrown at you, if you’re a black man who kills other black men, you’ll get ignored, but if you’re a white man who kills black people, only then will you finally qualify for the death penalty.

That’s putting the DEI in the death penalty. It also violates the Constitutional protections against handing out different penalties based on the races of the victims of the perpetrators. Civil rights legislation, the basis for federal prosecutions, is already constitutionally dubious, but even it does not allow for picking and choosing which minorities have lives that matter more.

In Muslim countries, the value of a human life depends on the victim’s race, sex and religion.

In Saudi Arabia, for example, killing a Muslim man used to require paying a blood price of 100,000 riyals, 50,000 for a Muslim woman or a Christian man, 6,666 for a Hindu man and 3,333 for a Hindu woman. (This was among the clauses supposedly due for reform by MBS. It’s unclear if this occurred, but similar laws exist across the Muslim world in places like Pakistan.)

America is not supposed to work that way. Unfortunately under Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, an acronym that can just as easily be rearranged to spell DIE as the familiar DEI, it does.

Biden’s plea deal with 9/11 terrorists is a profound betrayal, not just of his constitutional duties and our national values, but of promises made during the Obama-Biden administration by both Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be executed.

Like so much else, those were lies.

Instead the Biden administration warned that, “the Office of the Chief Prosecutor has been negotiating and is considering entering into pre-trial agreements” that could “remove the possibility of the death penalty.” And it’s hard to imagine any such agreement that wouldn’t

Kill 2,996 people for Islam and you get life in prison, but kill ten people because you’re a racist and you get the needle.

9/11 family members have grown old and died waiting for justice. Meanwhile a corrupt coterie of terrorist sympathizers have kept the wait going to rot the system from within while finding every possible way to help America’s enemies.

A week after the anniversary of 9/11, a military judge struck the name of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a friend of the lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, who helped form the Hamburg cell at the heart of the 9/11 attacks, on account of a supposed “mental illness”.

According to his lawyers, the “key facilitator of 9/11” was so traumatized by “torture” that he has trouble sleeping because “invisible forces” make his bed vibrate and “sting his genitals”.

And the souls of 2,996 murdered people take a backseat to al-Shibh’s stinging genitals.

The Biden administration and its DOJ operatives are not pacifists who would never take a human life. As the Buffalo supermarket shooting case shows, they’re willing to demand the death penalty when the killer has done something sufficiently evil in their eyes.

Killing 2,996 people for Islam doesn’t meet that standard. Neither do most mere murders. Massacring children won’t meet that bar or even massacring Latinos or gay people when the motive is at all in question. Only exactly the right kind of racism merits the death penalty.

That’s why the Biden administration is freeing Al Qaeda killers. They may be terrorists, but they’re not racists. On 9/11, they massacred Americans of all races, sexes and orientations in the ultimate expression of diversity. And just to add equity, 2,435 were white, and 286 were black, making 9/11 a form of anti-racist DEI rendered in bodies falling from the sky.

If only Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had shouted a racial slur, he could be on death row now.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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Friday, February 17, 2023

Daniel Greenfield Unleashed

By Rich Kozlovich 

You will find reading this first article is truly disturbing.   How people could be so vile is beyond explanation.  This kind of viciousness has always been with us, but its becoming so common place everyone should be disturbed and realize when society gets this out of control, getting society back in control will take strong and unpleasant measures.  America's cities have become a mess, and the Democrats own it.  

The last two articles deal with voter fraud, in a round about way.  I recently read an article from the Washington Post claiming the reason the Republicans lost a winnable race in 2022 for the Senate is because of choosing bad candidates, and the author claims they haven't learned their lesson.  And of course you know the Washington Post wants the help the Republicans all they can.  Right? You do believe that don't you?  You do believe they want to help the Republican?  

Well, I agree they picked some less than desirable candidates, but the Democrats ran even less desirable candidates, like Fetterman.  And no candidate has been less desirable for any public office than Joe Biden in 2020, and the Democrats are stuck with him for 2024 and he will run the same "I'm gonna hide in the basement campaign" he did in 2020.   So....let me say this once again.  It wasn't the candidates, it wasn't their policies, it wasn't their presentation.  It was VOTER FRAUD!  Again.  VOTER FRAUD!

Did everyone hear me? No? Let me say it again.  VOTER FRAUD!

Gov. Josh Shapiro Vows to Protect Monster Who Tortured and Killed Disabled Woman- “She was friendly, sweet and trusting” - Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was being painted by some as a “moderate” and “sensible” on crime didn’t take long to show his true colors and his real priorities. Shapiro issued a statement vowing that he will refuse to allow the execution of any killer, no matter how evil. After announcing that he would not want the Tree of Life synagogue shooter put to death, Shapiro stated that, 

“I’m respectfully calling on the General Assembly to work with me to abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania – once and for all.” “This is a fundamental statement of morality. Of what’s right and wrong. And I believe Pennsylvania must be on the right side of this issue.” 
 
Let’s talk about Shapiro’s deeply warped notions of morality and Jennifer Daugherty................
 
Canada Proposes Just Euthanizing Everyone - Lewis was a candidate for euthanasia and that if her mother chose not to pursue it, that would be “selfish.”   Depressed? Lonely? Having trouble getting out of the house? Just kill yourself or have the government do it for you. Underage? Mentally unstable? The Canadian government will kill you too. No extra charge. “Canada should expand assisted dying to include mature minors and patients with mental illnesses”................. 
 
Sen. Fetterman Was Not Qualified to Serve. His Doctor and Staff Lied About It - After hospitalizing him for what staff suspected might have been another stroke, Senator John Fetterman has now been hospitalized with “clinical depression”. This comes after the New York Times reported that the newly elected senator had trouble understanding what people were saying and was trying to avoid interactions. And it’s a safe bet that we’re being told less than half the story.  Fetterman is not qualified to serve. He can’t do his job or any job. He needs extensive medical care and he’s not able to carry out his responsibilities. Whether or not he was aware of that depends on his mental capacity.............
 
Biden Planning a Second Presidential Basement Campaign - When your campaign plan is hoping your candidate won't have to debate, that means you know he's not competent.  The kindest advice I gave the Democrats was that they should have taken a loss in 2022. Hand the House and the Senate to Republicans and clear the deck for a new generation of leadership. Biden would have been forced to follow Pelosi into retirement after a long grueling struggle with congressional Republicans.............Instead, Biden was locked in for a second term. Most of the critics fell silent and endorsed his reelection campaign. The potential competitors, primarily Newsom, have gotten out of the way. They’ve won the battle and lost the war. And having caught the car, they have no idea what to do now..............
 
 
 

Monday, October 11, 2021

The Power is on the Side of the Killers, Not Their Victims

October 10, 2021@ Sultan Knish Blog

At 6:11 PM, Ernest Lee Johnson, a monster who murdered three people, two of them poor single mothers, with a claw hammer was pronounced dead.

Despite the pro-crime lawfare that went all the way to the Supreme Court insisting that lethal injection would cause painful violent seizures, he died quietly.

That was more so than could be said for his victims.

On a cold day in a Missouri winter, Mary Bratcher never came home to the trailer park where the single mother lived with her three children. She was working that night as a manager at a Casey’s General Store in Columbia helping out Mable Scruggs, another single mother, making ends meet by picking up a night shift. Neither of the two women would make it home again.

An hour before midnight, Ernest Lee Johnson came in after a binge in which he bought three rocks of crack cocaine, traded one of them for a gun, put on a mask and came to rob Casey’s.

The plan had been to lock the employees in the back and have one of them open the safe. But then Johnson beat all three of the Casey's employees to death.

He stabbed Mary Bratcher repeatedly through her hand with a screwdriver, likely defensive wounds as she fought the monster for her life. Then he smashed her over the head with a claw hammer again and again. Johnson appeared to be aiming for her face, striking her mouth and nose, to disfigure her while killing her. He beat Mabel to death in the same vicious way.

That was 1994. Like every monster, Johnson never had any shortage of defenders.

He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1995, but the Missouri Supreme Court intervened claiming that the jury should have heard testimony that the crackhead was actually suffering from "cocaine intoxication delirium". The case went to a jury yet again which refrained from excusing the crackhead on the grounds that he had been high while murdering three people.

And then the liberal justices on the United States Supreme Court gave murderers on death row a gift with a decision falsely contending that executing murderers with intellectual limitations was cruel and unusual punishment. Any killer who could claim an IQ under 100 was home free.

Instantly every killer, no matter how cunning and clever, became retroactively retarded.

Johnson had plotted to rob the Casey's safe, he had carried out the crime, and then tried to conceal the evidence. He was evil and high, but not stupid. But the Missouri Supreme Court threw out the decision again and a third jury found the crackhead guilty all over again. But by then over a decade had passed since the original murders while the families waited for justice.

Two decades later, Johnson was finally scheduled to die when the United States Supreme Court intervened, complaining that the monster who beat two women to death with a claw hammer might suffer “painful seizures” when he’s executed by lethal injection because he has a tumor.

Since then he found exciting new legal stratagems to delay justice, including requesting death by laughing gas and firing squad. 

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Breyer, and Kagan wanted to hear his plea for a firing squad.

“In addition to being near instant, death by shooting may also be comparatively painless. And historically, the firing squad has yielded significantly fewer botched executions,” Sotomayor ranted in her dissent. 

Did the court’s wise Latina develop a sudden fondness for firing squads? No more than the rest of the delaying tactics that kept the bludgeoner alive this long.

Leftist lawyers and judges wage lawfare against the law and the victims to protect killers.

But now that Johnson is out of tricks, the Democrats have come to his defense.

Rep. Cori Bush, a former organzier for the racist hate group, Black Lives Matter, co-signed a petition demanding a commutation of Johnson's sentence because it's just like "slavery and lynching". It’s understandable that Bush would take that position considering that Mary and Mabel were white women and their worthless lives don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.

But Johnson’s first victim was the store’s third worker: Fred Jones.

Jones, an African-American man, had been the only caregiver for his mother and a disabled brother. When Johnson murdered him, he also took away the only helper left in their lives.

Johnson started out by shooting Fred Jones. But when the bullet didn't kill him, the crackhead beat the store employee to death with a hammer instead.

Then he began the rest of his killing spree.

Fred Jones had been in the cooler, perhaps because as the only male in the store he was seen as more of a threat. And he may have resisted or tried to fight Johnson, leading the crackhead to decide to kill him.

And everyone else.

The killer had shot Jones in the head. Then he beat him with the claw on the hammer fracturing his skull.

But his black life, like the lives of the over 5,800 black people who were killed in 2020, don’t matter to Rep. Bush and to Black Lives Matter. Only the lives of crackhead killers do.

Pro-crime lawfare had already put the families of Johnson’s victims through hell. When the Supreme Court decided to illegitimately intervene in his previous execution, the family members had already been there and waiting. Instead justice was denied to them for another six years.

Rep. Cori Bush claims that executing the killer of a black man is racist, the NAACP is rallying on behalf of the killer, not the victim, and Pope Francis has appealed to the “sacredness of human life.” Except the lives of Mary Bratcher, Mable Scruggs, and Fred Jones which are not sacred.

“This would be a crime against humanity," Rep. Bush falsely claimed.

The crime against humanity was that Mary Bratcher never came home to her three children, that Mable Scruggs also never came home to her children, and Fred Jones never returned to his mother. But that is not the only crime here. The feverish efforts to prolong the pain of their family members in order to keep the monster who killed them alive is a crime against humanity.

And a crime against justice.

Every dirty trick, every fashionable legal trend, from mental disability to the supposed risk of side effects from death penalty drugs, had been enlisted in the crackhead killer’s defense.

"These death sentences are not about justice,” Bush and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver whined in their pro-killer petition. "They are about who has institutional power and who doesn’t."

They’re right.

Which House members have spoken out on behalf of Mary Bratcher, Mable Scruggs, and Fred Jones? Do Bush and Cleaver even know their names? Does Pope Francis? I doubt it.

The institutional power that allowed the killer to escape justice for 27 years is on his side.

This is not about justice, it’s about who has institutional power. And it’s the killers who have all the power and their victims who have none. After Johnson got through beating three people, poor people, to death with hammers, lawyers and judges took up what he had left undone.

Even Rep. Cori Bush and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver took a turn swinging the claw hammer.

Hollywood, the media, and politicians keep pushing the big lie that criminals are helpless victims of the system. And yet they provide the best evidence of the vast institutional power that even the lowest and vilest killer can summon against justice and the families of his victims.
 
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Thursday, January 28, 2021

Quadruple Murderer Is NYT’s Profile in Courage

Ann Coulter Ann Coulter Jan 27, 2021

Having run out of international con women to promote or innocent biological weapons researchers to accuse, The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof is banging on about a spectacularly guilty quadruple murderer who — according to Kristof — “is very likely innocent.”

In this belief, he is opposed by more than a dozen courts, including the California Supreme Court, the infamous 9th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Joining Kristof’s crusade are Kim Kardashian and the usual pro-criminal misfits.

On June 4, 1983, a Chino Hills, California, couple and two children were hacked to death by a perpetrator using a hatchet, an ice pick and a hunting knife. Doug and Peggy Ryen, both 41 years old, had been chopped, slashed and stabbed 37 and 33 times, respectively. Their 10-year-old daughter, Jessica, had 46 wounds, and a visiting neighbor, 11-year-old Christopher Hughes, had 25. Some of the victim’s body parts had been fully amputated. The Ryens’ 8-year-old son, Josh, miraculously survived, despite a slit throat and hatchet blows to his head.........In 1985, a unanimous jury convicted Kevin Cooper, a violent rapist, career criminal and escaped mental patient, of the murders and sentenced him to death........

One year before......... Cooper violently kidnapped and raped an underage girl who’d interrupted him in the middle of yet another burglary, stabbing her in the eye with a screwdriver.............Among the hundreds of pieces of evidence used to convict Cooper for the Ryen murders were:.........Guess whose DNA it was? ...............guess who hasn’t given up demanding more tests, more appeals and more investigations of their preposterous theories of the crime? Well, yes, obviously Kevin Cooper, the mass murderer himself, but also, Nick Kristof, the most easily fooled man in America............To Read More................

My Take - I've written before about pro-abortionists and their hate of the innocent unborn and their love of the vile and murderous guilty.  Nicholas Kristof on abortion?  "I don't support abortion but I am pro-choice."   And this line from a commenter:  "One can easily be pro choice and pro life. They believe it is civil right not a congressional mandate of pro birth."
 
Nonsense!  If you're "pro-choice" it means you believe people should have the choice to murder the unborn.  That is support of abortion.  Just because someone isn't for murdering all the innocent unborn doesn't mean they're not pro-abortion.  Twisted language created twisted thinking and disgusting outcomes.   
 
As for Kristof's view that Kevin Cooper is very likely innocent, is further evidence of the insane logic used by the twisted minds of leftists. 

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Pakistan Threatens to Jail Americans for 10 Years for ‘Blasphemy’

Frances Martel4

The government of Pakistan recently threatened two American Muslims with prison sentences of up to ten years if they did not take down a U.S.-based “blasphemous” website — a threat one of those targeted told Breitbart News on Tuesday represented “an unprecedented and entirely new frontier of digital policing that Pakistan is trying to impose.”

The website in question — TrueIslam.com — is the online home of the American Ahmadiyya Muslim community, run by an American group, hosted in the United States, and represented by American citizens. Ahmadi Muslims differ from Sunni and Shia Muslims in believing that the promised Messiah of Islam arrived on earth in the form of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who was born in India in 1835. The Ahmadiyya consider their current leader, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the “Present Khalifa of Islam.” Ahmadi Muslims emphasize in their worship “commitment to peace, their law-abiding nature and determination to create a harmonious society for all people, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity or faith,” TrueIslam.com details............To Read More....

My Take - One of the things westerners fail to understand is just how divided is Islam.  The Middle East countries are at total odds with one another and Iran is hated by the other countries in the area and Iran and Iraq, of Persian origin, despise the Arab Muslims.   One more thing.  Isn't this the country we gave 25 million dollars to for some feminist clabber?  One more thing.  All it took was a nanosecond after another wimp enters the White House before the radicals start threatening America. 

Monday, January 18, 2021

'Squad' Member Cori Bush Wants Biden To Grant Clemency To Everybody On Death Row

Submitted by Tyler Durden on Wed, 12/16/2020

The ‘Squad’s’ newest member Cori Bush is demanding President-elect Joe Biden move to grant clemency to everybody currently sitting on death row.  Bush’s view shows once again that there isn’t any level of criminal the group won’t embrace.  The Missouri Democrat made her views clear in an op-ed with Time Magazine on Monday.

“If [Biden] truly opposes the death penalty,” she wrote, “he must do everything in his power to stop it for good. Granting clemency to all on federal death row is his most effective tool.”

Bush went on to describe the death penalty as “murder in the name of justice” and drew a link between it and the dark stain of racism in American history.

“Ending the death penalty is about justice,” she argued, seemingly unaware that families of their victims need justice as well. “It’s about mercy. It’s about putting a stop to this nation’s dark history of lynching and slavery.”

“We must build a fair criminal-legal system on a foundation of mercy, due process and equity,” continued Bush. “We must break the cycles of death, devastation and trauma that have broken Black and brown communities like mine.”..........To Read More.....




 

Saturday, December 12, 2020

The World as I See It! 'Brandon's Execution Is a Stain'

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First off, let me start by saying I've come to have issues with the death penalty, and the biggest driving force for that is the Duke University Soccer team rape case and the despicable actions of the prosecutor:

Michael Byron Nifong (born September 14, 1950) is a disbarred North Carolina attorney. He served as the district attorney for Durham County, North Carolina until he was removed, disbarred and jailed following court findings concerning his conduct in the Duke lacrosse case, primarily his conspiring with the DNA lab director to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence that could have acquitted the defendants.

He wanted to assure his election one more time before he was to retire, and so he wanted to appease his black constituents, and since this was a race issue, and the boys were white and from well off families, he thought he would sacrifice them to assure his "comfortable" retirement.  It's become clear to me we can't really trust prosecutors with that kind of power, and I've looked askance at prosecutors ever since.  

Editor's Update, March 12, 2026: The Duke Lacrosse Case 20 Years Later: How Durham Law Enforcement Promoted a Criminal Conspiracy.  I've never stopped following this story, and this article shows not only was Nifong corrupt the police were party to this corrupt conspiracy, and this criminal violation of these boys Constitutional rights.   The real injustice is as far as I can tell is that none of them were ever indicted for their vile deeds.  RK

Now we come to the execution of Brandon Bernard. 

In the article, which is clearly attempting to support the position he shouldn't have been executed, they highlighted the support against his execution from "Rep. Ayana Pressley and Rev. Jesse Jackson, calling for all federal executions to be halted, while others, including Kim Kardashian West and other activists and celebrities, specifically spoke up for Bernard".  

And why? Do they think he's innocent? No, they want to end executions, which goes right along with this Critical Race Theory clabber they support and their insane

They, along with and 23 prosecutors, which when you consider the Los Angeles Country prosecutor isn't planning on prosecuting just about anyone, and since his ilk are becoming an epidemic, those views don't carry much weight any longer.

Their bone of contention is he was a youngster when it occurred (he was 20) so he, now 40, is too young to die.  And there was "newly discovered evidence, which was withheld by prosecutors and not presented at his 2000 trial, diminished his role in the crime", and so that justifies stopping the execution according to them.  

Newly discovered evidence?  Like what?  That he didn't do the crime?  Well, he did do the crime!  As for his youth, so-called children, especially black "children", can be deadly, ask the family of 13 month old Antonio Santiago, and all the other people these black "children" brutalized. 

So, before we go on, let's see what his crime was.

He and "four other gang members abducted, robbed, and ultimately killed" Stacie and Pastor Todd Bagley, "in 1999 as they were on their way home from a church service in Killeen, Texas."

Here's the story:

The mastermind of this vicious crime was Christopher Andre Vialva, who was 19 a the time, "spent about six hours driving around Bell County with the young couple locked in the trunk while their abductors took turns trying to use the Bagley’s ATM cards.Eventually Vialva drove the car to a secluded area of Fort Hood, opened the trunk and after Stacie Bagley told him God loved him, he cursed at her and shot her in the head with a .40 caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol.

But she didn’t die.  Todd Bagley died of a gunshot, but his wife Stacy, who also had been shot, died of smoke inhalation, which means she was alive in the trunk of the couple’s car when Bernard, in an effort to hide evidence, set the vehicle on fire.....  Bernard was found guilty for the murder of Stacie.  

Why weren't they too young to be murdered?

Arguments against executing Vialva?  There was no evidence; it was done because he was black; there was only one black juror.   His whine to save himself:  "No one should be executed for a mistake they made as a juvenile."  Excuse me, 19 is no longer a juvenile.  Being 19 makes you an adult.  As for this being a mistake: Adding two and two and getting twenty two is a mistake.  Kidnapping, robbing and murdering two people are choices and those choices are crimes.

Now, we need to know this for sure if we're to make an honest decision.  Was either of them innocent?  Well, no, neither were innocent, and the evidence against him wasn't superficial, the police caught them with the car and the dead bodies. They did it! Bernard admitted it!

The article goes on to state:

"During his three-minute last words, he apologized to the families of Stacie and Todd Bagley, the youth ministers"........ [saying]......."I wish I could take it all back, but I can't."...... The 40-year-old also apologized to his own family for the pain he had caused." 

While I can certainly feel sympathy for the fact he was young, stupid, hung around with a bad crowd, and he really does feel regret, it doesn't change the fact he really did do it.  How much he participated, which was substantial, is immaterial!  He was part of that vicious and murderous team. 

If these thugs were white would we be having this conversation? Not from me.  If these were white thugs, and if they  had done this horrible crime, I wouldn't waste one iota of concern at their demise or one erg of energy in their defense.  But, then again, this isn't about right and wrong, and we all know it.

We can really be stupid when we're young, it's part of growing up, we all certainly have our share of it.  But the questions we should be asking has nothing to do with whether or not he should be executed, no matter how much he may have improved as a human being.   

The question that's not asked and not answered in this piece, or probably any piece about him is what was his home like.  Was he part of the 70% illegitimacy rate of the black community?  Was he indoctrinated with the "we hate whitey" mantra that's epidemic in black America?  He apologized for the pain he caused his family.  Maybe if we looked into his family, we'd find they should have apologized to him.

I don't know the answers to any of that, but there's one thing I do know.  

He committed the crime. 


Friday, July 26, 2019

AG Barr Reinstates Federal Death Penalty after 16-Year Hiatus

By Jack Crowe July 25, 2019

Attorney General William Barr has reinstated the death penalty for federal crimes following a 16-year moratorium, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

Barr’s order includes instructions to schedule the executions of five inmates currently incarcerated on death row for murder.

“Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,” Barr said in a statement. “The Justice Department upholds the rule of law — and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”

Under the new guidance provided by Barr, the Bureau of Prisons will begin conducting executions using one drug, pentobarbital, rather than the three-drug cocktail that was employed when the last federal execution occurred in 2003. The one-drug system is currently employed in Georgia, Missouri, and Texas and is believed to reduce the potential for mishap.........To Read More....

Sunday, July 7, 2019

The Morning They Beheaded The Drug Smugglers: It Wasn’t Pretty, Believe Me

July 6, 2019 By Allan C. Stover

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 9:50 A. M., Tuesday, August 31, 1999. “They will kill four today,” one Saudi in the crowd said. “No, fifteen,” said another. “You’re all wrong,” said one of the dozens of soldiers deployed around the parking lot of the city’s central mosque where the executions take place. “They will kill eight. They killed eight last Tuesday, and two more on Friday. And today is Tuesday, and they will kill eight again.” The method of execution is decreed in the Qu’ ran: beheading by sword. Saudi Arabia is the only nation that regularly beheads offenders.

I’m the only Westerner in the crowd. I'd arrived early with my Saudi military friend, Tariq, and I got a choice spot in the front row overlooking the platform where eight people would soon die. “We need these executions,” Tariq insists. “Without them we would have even more crime and more of a drug problem. God willing, we will never have a drug problem like America and Europe.” Their crime rate is lower than in the West, but they do have a drug problem, although it admittedly isn’t as severe as ours.

Saudi Arabia performs beheadings for murder, rape, armed robbery, drug smuggling, and other offenses that “threaten the public order,” such as armed robbery. When I first arrived in Saudi Arabia, their newspapers reported the beheading of two Saudis who raped a 12-year-old shepherd girl. I sent the article to my favorite pub in Maryland. I heard that waitresses and customers alike said they wished we meted out the same punishment to child rapists in America. Another article told of a gang of Nigerians who stole a car and robbed a bank. The sentence for the gunmen: off with their heads. The getaway driver got off easier: he had a right hand and left foot severed before the stumps were plunged into hot oil to cauterize the wound.......To Read More....






 

Sunday, August 12, 2018

The Day Andrew Cuomo Got Religion

By T.R. Clancy

Who could have predicted back in 1928 that Al Smith's successor as governor of New York would be explaining his advancement of legislation by his "solidarity" with the pope?

Back then, poor Governor Smith was defeated in his run for president in part by anti-Catholic fears that he represented a "Romish Peril," not least by way of a transatlantic tunnel between Washington and the Vatican. A vote for Al Smith would put America under the dictatorship of the pope.

So when Governor Andrew Cuomo, literally on the same day Pope Francis declared that the death penalty is "inadmissible" in all cases, introduced a bill to abolish capital punishment in New York, the left erupted in justifiable outrage at Cuomo's attempt to establish religion........Or not...........More