the “Free Press” seems to be pretty much Fox News lite. Like we get it, I think woke is broke too, but put a sock in it already. 16 years ago if it existed we’d be reading nothing but Obama walks on water articles. kinda comes off as intellectual trendiness
no one is ever found innocent in a criminal trial. right of center white people are really liking this a bit too much. not saying it was criminal, but 3 on 1 against an unarmed guy and the guy dies
Daniel Penny is being sued by Jordan Neely's family yet AOC believes that Daniel Penny must make a public statement that expresses his remorse for the tragic and long path of events and circumstances that led to the death of Jordan Neely.
AOC has thought very deep and hard about justice and has concluded that because Daniel Penny did not express remorse on X or Tik Tok which is where AOC resides: our justice system failed New Yorkers and Mr. Penny has placed all New Yorkers at risk of more violence.
Soon AOC will demand that all confessions and dialogues with Priests, Ministers, Rabbis and Imams are made public.
The gall and ignorance of AOC is astounding, simply astounding.
AOC and her/she colleagues in the Squad who have failed people like Jordan Neely and Jordan Neely's family should express remorse. We are all endangered by the defund the police mentality that drives AOC not by Daniel Penny.
"As of November 2024, according to the New York Post, there were 27,122 reported felonies, up 16.9 percent from before Bragg took office. Meanwhile, rape has jumped 7.4 percent across Manhattan, robbery 8.9 percent, felony assault 16.8 percent, and grand larceny 29.8 percent. These are crimes that overwhelmingly affect the poorest New Yorkers."
AND LET US NOT FORGET the idiot CUOMO passing the NO BAIL FOR ANY CRIME WHATSOEVER law so literally every single person who commits a crime has to be let out on bail or no bail and judges have zero discretion. So the dangerous person such as the mentally extremely dangerous person Daniel Penny was accused of killing could not be held in prison. This is insanity.
Are we now deciding we only accept jury decisions with which we agree?? Whatever the motivation for the trial was-and I don't disagree- this was properly selected jury which found him guilty. I've not seen one complaint from trump or his attorneys about the composition of the jury
Trump was found guilty by "trumped up" charges by politically motivated Democrats with a profoundly Democrat voter jury in an attempt to stop him from running. I don't know how you can even equate the two situations.
Black "leaders" will whine that Penny's acquittal proves that America doesn't care about them. On the contrary...the fact that Penny was prosecuted in the first place proves that America does care very much about what Blacks want. The acquittal, on the other hand, simply proves that it is possible to protect the public without being sent to prison.
Today’s generation has the never-ending Swift tour, more excruciating than the Serena Williams retirement tour. Sadly, this generation will never experience the total joy and exhilaration I experienced during the ‘70’s. I paid $150 for a tour pass, a substantial sum at the time, packed up my VW van and followed the Grateful Dead’s tour that summer. Met new friends, shared all sorts of substances, and enjoyed music that was unique to America.
Interesting how Biden has disappeared from public view. Guess he thinks he's still campaigning in his basement? Can't wait for Trump to officially get into office.
Penny should never have been tried. Once again the alphabet media and our judicial system has abandoned us.
This Ivy-educated killer of the CEO should be locked up for life. He has all insurance-related employees living in fear.
Police identified a top suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as an Ivy-educated former data engineer named Luigi Mangione. Authorities nabbed 26-year-old Mangione yesterday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, with a ghost gun and a silencer as well as a handwritten manifesto and four fake IDs. Mangione was allegedly upset with the healthcare industry because of its treatment of his sick relative, according to the New York Post. Meanwhile, in January, he posted a book review of the Unabomber’s manifesto on a now-private Goodreads account, praising him as a “political revolutionary.”
Another “Mind for Murder”?
Recalling Alston Chase’s analysis of the Unabomber, raising the question—can the United States survive the nihilism our educational system now promulgates at every level of our schooling?
We don’t have all the facts yet about Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but early reports indicate he may be another radicalized individual who decided violence is necessary. How did he get radicalized?
(Snip)
It does not appear, as was originally speculated, that Mangione was someone with a direct grievance against United Healthcare for denying coverage for a medical treatment, though there are reports that his mental state spiraled down on account of chronic pain after back surgery. He seems, however, to have sought out Thompson specifically, just as the Unabomber sought out specific individuals for their role in “industrial society” as targets for his bombs.
Like the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski (who was a math prodigy with degrees from Harvard and the University of Michigan), Mangione is far from being a “marginalized” or “oppressed” person. He comes from a wealthy family, and attended fancy prep schools before matriculating at Penn.
(Snip)
In other words, our education system, from the high schools that assign Howard Zinn in order to make students despise America for its supposed wholesale injustice, to our universities that teach unalloyed nihilism dressed up as “postmodernism” or “critical theory,” is mass producing new generations of alienated souls who have contempt for our culture and history. To be sure, 99.99% of students do not become murderers, but as Chase rightly puts it, “Although the vast majority of educated people never turn to crime, history reveals that intellect is, indeed, a prerequisite for accomplishing mass murder.”
(Snip)
And thus the key question everyone needs to confront directly: Can America survive the rot in our educational and cultural institutions? And if not, what is to be done about it?
But yet with all his "brilliant Ivy League education" he managed to be eating in plain sight in McDonalds for all to see. He probably knew he would get caught and wants to be written about in the history books. Either that or he's really stupid.
He had to know he would be caught. From what I have read, he's been on a steep downhill spiral for several months. I feel for his family. It's too bad no one got him help. Always seems to be the case in these shootings.
I also read (Daily Mail) he was doing A lot of psychedelic's. As someone who (back in the day) did more psychedelic's by accident than most people did on purpose, This is not a Good Thing. Thing is You never know what will happen.
not saying he shouldn’t have stepped in. I said I have many questions if there is a 3 on 1 situation against an unarmed person and the 1 dies. perhaps it’s not criminal but I’m betting they have a good civil case
Re Daniel Penny trial: relieved (and more than a little surprised) at the outcome. Not surprised that they unanimously declared him not guilty on the lesser charge, once they had deadlocked on the more serious one. At least one sane juror stood firm. I'd like to think he or she was a vet, but I'm pretty sure Bragg wouldn't have allowed a veteran on the jury.
Went back and re-read Olivia Reingold's piece on the trial. So now we understand that any veteran in legal difficulties is to be described as a "trained killer" by the prosecutor and echoed in the MSM. Ye gods. Hope all you vets out there got respect on Veteran's Day last month!
I feel like this is counter-intuitive, so I'd like to know more of your reasoning: if they were deadlocked on the more serious charge, it stands to reason that they would find him guilty or, at best, be deadlocked on the lesser charge. Doesn't it?
So your hypothesis is that at least some of the jurors were determined to find him guilty of something, and it should have been easier to do that on the lesser charge? That's plausible, but to me the result suggests that a majority of the jury was originally in favor of a not guilty verdict, and the holdouts either were persuaded or gave up on the second round. I've never served on a jury -- been called multiple times but always thrown off by one side or the other -- but I've been in a whole lot of overly long meetings. If the judge was hoping for guilty verdict, it may have been a mistake to send the jury back immediately for the second deliberation. It took only an hour.
the “Free Press” seems to be pretty much Fox News lite. Like we get it, I think woke is broke too, but put a sock in it already. 16 years ago if it existed we’d be reading nothing but Obama walks on water articles. kinda comes off as intellectual trendiness
no one is ever found innocent in a criminal trial. right of center white people are really liking this a bit too much. not saying it was criminal, but 3 on 1 against an unarmed guy and the guy dies
Daniel Penny is being sued by Jordan Neely's family yet AOC believes that Daniel Penny must make a public statement that expresses his remorse for the tragic and long path of events and circumstances that led to the death of Jordan Neely.
AOC has thought very deep and hard about justice and has concluded that because Daniel Penny did not express remorse on X or Tik Tok which is where AOC resides: our justice system failed New Yorkers and Mr. Penny has placed all New Yorkers at risk of more violence.
Soon AOC will demand that all confessions and dialogues with Priests, Ministers, Rabbis and Imams are made public.
The gall and ignorance of AOC is astounding, simply astounding.
AOC and her/she colleagues in the Squad who have failed people like Jordan Neely and Jordan Neely's family should express remorse. We are all endangered by the defund the police mentality that drives AOC not by Daniel Penny.
I do like how "the Blacks" and other non-whites are the only ones constantly lectured about forgiveness.
Weird....considering American history it looks to me like "the Blacks" are the most forgiving people on Earth.
Dylan Roof knows.
"As of November 2024, according to the New York Post, there were 27,122 reported felonies, up 16.9 percent from before Bragg took office. Meanwhile, rape has jumped 7.4 percent across Manhattan, robbery 8.9 percent, felony assault 16.8 percent, and grand larceny 29.8 percent. These are crimes that overwhelmingly affect the poorest New Yorkers."
AND LET US NOT FORGET the idiot CUOMO passing the NO BAIL FOR ANY CRIME WHATSOEVER law so literally every single person who commits a crime has to be let out on bail or no bail and judges have zero discretion. So the dangerous person such as the mentally extremely dangerous person Daniel Penny was accused of killing could not be held in prison. This is insanity.
Trump was found guilty. How can you portray the charges as ' spurious?
Are we now deciding we only accept jury decisions with which we agree?? Whatever the motivation for the trial was-and I don't disagree- this was properly selected jury which found him guilty. I've not seen one complaint from trump or his attorneys about the composition of the jury
Trump was found guilty by "trumped up" charges by politically motivated Democrats with a profoundly Democrat voter jury in an attempt to stop him from running. I don't know how you can even equate the two situations.
Black "leaders" will whine that Penny's acquittal proves that America doesn't care about them. On the contrary...the fact that Penny was prosecuted in the first place proves that America does care very much about what Blacks want. The acquittal, on the other hand, simply proves that it is possible to protect the public without being sent to prison.
Blacks need to remember that there were Black people on that train that were frightened and threatened.
Today’s generation has the never-ending Swift tour, more excruciating than the Serena Williams retirement tour. Sadly, this generation will never experience the total joy and exhilaration I experienced during the ‘70’s. I paid $150 for a tour pass, a substantial sum at the time, packed up my VW van and followed the Grateful Dead’s tour that summer. Met new friends, shared all sorts of substances, and enjoyed music that was unique to America.
Thank you Madeleine. Informative, evenhanded, professional. Great to have you back!
I wonder if Biden was quoting George Carlin in his seven words spoken to the press?
Beat me to it. It was my first thought.
Interesting how Biden has disappeared from public view. Guess he thinks he's still campaigning in his basement? Can't wait for Trump to officially get into office.
Penny should never have been tried. Once again the alphabet media and our judicial system has abandoned us.
This Ivy-educated killer of the CEO should be locked up for life. He has all insurance-related employees living in fear.
This is an awesome post. All the bits are enlightening news. Thanks
Police identified a top suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as an Ivy-educated former data engineer named Luigi Mangione. Authorities nabbed 26-year-old Mangione yesterday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, with a ghost gun and a silencer as well as a handwritten manifesto and four fake IDs. Mangione was allegedly upset with the healthcare industry because of its treatment of his sick relative, according to the New York Post. Meanwhile, in January, he posted a book review of the Unabomber’s manifesto on a now-private Goodreads account, praising him as a “political revolutionary.”
Another “Mind for Murder”?
Recalling Alston Chase’s analysis of the Unabomber, raising the question—can the United States survive the nihilism our educational system now promulgates at every level of our schooling?
Steven F. Hayward
Dec 10, 2024
https://stevehayward.substack.com/p/another-mind-for-murder
We don’t have all the facts yet about Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but early reports indicate he may be another radicalized individual who decided violence is necessary. How did he get radicalized?
(Snip)
It does not appear, as was originally speculated, that Mangione was someone with a direct grievance against United Healthcare for denying coverage for a medical treatment, though there are reports that his mental state spiraled down on account of chronic pain after back surgery. He seems, however, to have sought out Thompson specifically, just as the Unabomber sought out specific individuals for their role in “industrial society” as targets for his bombs.
Like the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski (who was a math prodigy with degrees from Harvard and the University of Michigan), Mangione is far from being a “marginalized” or “oppressed” person. He comes from a wealthy family, and attended fancy prep schools before matriculating at Penn.
(Snip)
In other words, our education system, from the high schools that assign Howard Zinn in order to make students despise America for its supposed wholesale injustice, to our universities that teach unalloyed nihilism dressed up as “postmodernism” or “critical theory,” is mass producing new generations of alienated souls who have contempt for our culture and history. To be sure, 99.99% of students do not become murderers, but as Chase rightly puts it, “Although the vast majority of educated people never turn to crime, history reveals that intellect is, indeed, a prerequisite for accomplishing mass murder.”
(Snip)
And thus the key question everyone needs to confront directly: Can America survive the rot in our educational and cultural institutions? And if not, what is to be done about it?
(Snip)
But yet with all his "brilliant Ivy League education" he managed to be eating in plain sight in McDonalds for all to see. He probably knew he would get caught and wants to be written about in the history books. Either that or he's really stupid.
Given his "brilliant Ivy League education" I'm gonna go with Stupid.
There's a line from Babylon 5.
Boggs (head bad guy) "They Can't Be This Stupid Can they!"
Sniper (another bad guy) "Always Bet On stupidity."
He had to know he would be caught. From what I have read, he's been on a steep downhill spiral for several months. I feel for his family. It's too bad no one got him help. Always seems to be the case in these shootings.
I also read (Daily Mail) he was doing A lot of psychedelic's. As someone who (back in the day) did more psychedelic's by accident than most people did on purpose, This is not a Good Thing. Thing is You never know what will happen.
Daniel Penny's trial was a travesty. It only happened because Neely was black. Daniel Penny is a hero.
ehhh I know right wing takes are in vogue now, I have a lot of questions anytime an unarmed person ends up dead
Oh please. Let's make sure that no Good Samaritan ever helps you when being threatened.
not saying he shouldn’t have stepped in. I said I have many questions if there is a 3 on 1 situation against an unarmed person and the 1 dies. perhaps it’s not criminal but I’m betting they have a good civil case
Well people always use these situations along with the attorneys for a big payoff. There's always the sad sob story. Let's go for millions.
Re Daniel Penny trial: relieved (and more than a little surprised) at the outcome. Not surprised that they unanimously declared him not guilty on the lesser charge, once they had deadlocked on the more serious one. At least one sane juror stood firm. I'd like to think he or she was a vet, but I'm pretty sure Bragg wouldn't have allowed a veteran on the jury.
Went back and re-read Olivia Reingold's piece on the trial. So now we understand that any veteran in legal difficulties is to be described as a "trained killer" by the prosecutor and echoed in the MSM. Ye gods. Hope all you vets out there got respect on Veteran's Day last month!
I feel like this is counter-intuitive, so I'd like to know more of your reasoning: if they were deadlocked on the more serious charge, it stands to reason that they would find him guilty or, at best, be deadlocked on the lesser charge. Doesn't it?
So your hypothesis is that at least some of the jurors were determined to find him guilty of something, and it should have been easier to do that on the lesser charge? That's plausible, but to me the result suggests that a majority of the jury was originally in favor of a not guilty verdict, and the holdouts either were persuaded or gave up on the second round. I've never served on a jury -- been called multiple times but always thrown off by one side or the other -- but I've been in a whole lot of overly long meetings. If the judge was hoping for guilty verdict, it may have been a mistake to send the jury back immediately for the second deliberation. It took only an hour.