She was a witness to a car accident, along with an off duty police officer, another witness. Hannah saw the accident and believed him to be intoxicated, according to her own statements on the phone to 911. (It actually turns out he was having a diabetic emergency) The man who caused the accident left the scene. Hannah called 911 and engaged in a vehicle pursuit.
The dispatcher, upon finding out Hannah was engaged in a vehicle pursuit, said “We actually don’t want you to chase him,” then asked her to return to the scene of the accident.
Hannah replied, “There is a police officer at the scene, but this guy is drunk, and I am not NOT going to follow him, because he is going to cause another accident.”
When she caught up to him, Hannah pulled her vehicle into the path of the man’s car, to block him from going further. She got out of her car to confront him, yelling for him to get out of the car. She is heard to say, “He was fighting with me, and he pulled the trigger on my gun.” The thing is, he was still in his pickup with his seatbelt on. She claims her finger was indexed and not on the trigger. You decide, here is a screen grab from the video:
In 2023, Hannah was convicted of felony murder, false imprisonment, and weapons charges, and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, plus 8 years and 5 years. The story would end there, a wanna be cop with a gun who decided to shoot someone over a traffic accident she wasn’t even involved in, but there is more.
The Supreme Court of Georgia weighed in on her appeal just this spring. The prosecutor in the case had used AI to write her legal briefs and motions. The case law cited by the AI was fake, either made up cases, or the cases cited didn’t say what the lawyer claimed they did. So the Supreme Court of Georgia, as they should have, ordered the conviction tossed out, and granted Hannah a new trial.
That’s what laws are for, Mr. Reardon. If the right people don’t break them, they are of no use whatsoever.
My recent quotes of Atlas Shrugged made me rewatch the trilogy. Part II was the best of the three.
It’s a fine balance we have. You depend on my coal for power, and to fill your hoppers. Hank uses my coal to make his steel. We use his steel to shore up my mines and to lay your rail. It’s perfect. Natural. Trading value for value.
The Hank Reardon in this episode was cast perfectly.
I honestly feel like going John Galt more and more often lately. My target for full retirement is 2030. Some days, I don’t know if I will make it.
Trump needs to nationalize our oil! We’ve got the oil, the refineries. But we are still in the world markets. The oil goes to whomever will pay the most. Meanwhile the farmers, truckers, 9-5’ers, get screwed! MAGA is just a joke. I feel so duped!
This case is a great example of why you should never open your door to anyone you don’t intend on allowing into your home. That’s the purpose of doorbell cameras, after all. Police in Greenville, North Carolina approached a woman who had a Ring camera on her house in the belief that the camera caught video evidence of a crime. They demanded she show them the video, and she refused, claiming the camera didn’t record. There are numerous reasons for this. You can set Ring cameras to record on motion, and it’s entirely possible that the camera simply didn’t record the incident because the motion was too far away to trigger the motion sensor. Even so, I wouldn’t want cops going through my phone. So the answer from me is going to be no.
The cop replied, “Listen to me, you pull it up and show me that it isn’t working, or I will rip it off the wall, get a warrant, and I will keep you up all night.”
First, ripping the camera off the wall won’t get you any footage. It’s an Internet camera. My cameras aren’t Ring cameras, but they don’t store any footage. Either this cop is a dumbass, or is going to destroy the camera because she can.
Listen:
So what did the cops do? They entered the home, took the woman’s phone, forcibly unlocked it, and stole the video, all without a warrant. The woman wasn’t suspected of committing a crime.
At some point, you are tempted to wonder if the officers are wearing Level IV plates, or if the plates they do happen to be wearing are capable of stopping .308 or .300 Blackout.
Look, I am not against it. I once had a thief in my neighborhood and the cops believed my cameras might have caught the thief on film. They contacted me while I was on vacation in Colorado and ASKED me for footage. they were a bit panicked because they were afraid the video would get deleted before I got back. They wanted me to give them permission to enter the home and get the hard drive. I refused, but I assured them it would not. I reviewed my videos, pulled up the relevant footage, copied it to a USB drive, and handed it over. They wound up catching and convicting the guy.
He was charged with 9 felonies, including arson, armed burglary, several counts of grand larceny, and theft of a firearm. He reached a plea agreement where he got 6 months’ probation and his records were sealed.
Then it became a habit. After that, the cops came over for every single incident that occurred anywhere near my house and wanted my camera footage. The cops wouldn’t even reimburse me for the USB drives. It started getting expensive after the 5th or 6th time, both in free USB drives and in the use of my time. I told them I should be eligible for a crime stoppers award. When they refused, I eventually had to tell them to get bent. I’m not going to keep doing your jobs for you for free, the cops were getting paid while I did their jobs for them at my expense.
I want to see cops defend the cops’ actions at this point. The person here wasn’t suspected of a crime. They weren’t even awake- it was 3am. The cops are investigating.
I will say it again- qualified immunity needs to be replaced with a requirement for liability insurance. The dirty little secret is there is no law establishing qualified immunity. That particular little benefit for dirty cops was created by the courts, who supposedly don’t have the power to make law, in a blatant example of legislating from the bench.
I ran a travel agency, and Florida law REQUIRES a bond in order to do so. Don’t you think liability for police with the power to take your life is more important than insurance for the travel agent who can ruin your vacation?
Here is another video on the incident, but it includes actual Ring camera video and some applicable court cases.
#news One of the Lindsay Clancy jurors said she did not consider any of the points the prosecution made in the trial – not one.#massachusetts Reporter: Did the prosecution make any points you considered? Paula Devlin: No.
John Leguizamo has a net worth of about $23 million. He was paid $2.5 million for The Odyssey, and gets millions each year in residuals from his previous movies.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. That’s what the communists claim, is it not? My question has always been- “How do you determine ability and need?” Well, Ayn Rand already answered that question:
Whose ability and which of whose needs comes first? When it’s all one pot, you can’t let any man decide what his own needs are, can you? If you did, he might claim that he needs a yacht — and if his feelings is all you have to go by, he might prove it, too. Why not?
If it’s not right for me to own a car until I’ve worked myself into a hospital ward, earning a car for every loafer and every naked savage on earth — why can’t he demand a yacht from me, too, if I still have the ability not to have collapsed? No? He can’t?
Then why can he demand that I go without cream for my coffee until he’s replastered his living room? Well, anyway, it was decided that nobody had the right to judge his own need or ability. We voted on it. Yes, ma’am, we voted on it in a public meeting twice a year. How else could it be done? Do you care to think what would happen at such a meeting? It took us just one meeting to discover that we had become beggars — rotten, whining, sniveling beggars, all of us, because no man could claim his pay as his rightful earning, he had no rights and no earnings, his work didn’t belong to him, it belonged to ‘the family’ — and they owed him nothing in return, and the only claim he had on them was his ‘need’ — so he had to beg in public for his relief from his needs, like any lousy moocher, listing all his troubles and miseries, down to his patched drawers and his wife’s head colds, hoping that ‘the family’ would throw him the alms. He had to claim miseries, because it’s miseries, not work, that had become the coin of the realm
The key to getting treasure in a communist system is to be needy. To prove need, one needs to have a tragic story, one must claim your victimhood. The contest, then is to be a victim. That’s why social media has become what it has. In this world, the crowd has decided that a black man who has been accused of being a domestic abuser is less of a victim than the mother who has to live with poor mental health and three dead children, even if she is the one who killed them.
The landlord isn’t a victim. The corporation isn’t a victim, and neither is it’s billionaire founder. The victim is the looter, the thief, the person who doesn’t produce anything. Why is this? Because it must be in order for the communist system to work.
Again to Ayn Rand in the morality of the kidnapper. The kidnapper holds a physical captive for ransom. Those who would take from society are holding those who producers captive using the producer’s own morality as a weapon. The “morality of altruism” holds a good person’s conscience, empathy, and sense of duty as a ransom.
theirs is the morality of kidnappers. They use your love of virtue as a hostage. They know that you’ll bear anything in order to work and produce, because you know that achievement is man’s highest moral purpose, that he can’t exist without it, and your love of virtue is your love of life. They count on you to assume any burden. They count on you to feel that no effort is too great in the service of your love.
your enemies are destroying you by means of your own power. Your generosity and your endurance are their only tools. Your unrequited rectitude is the only hold they have upon you. They know it. You don’t. The day when you’ll discover it is the only thing they dread.
learn to understand the nature of your own power and you’ll understand the paradox you now see around you. You do not have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production. Wherever you are, you will always be able to produce.
You have a desire to succeed, to build things, to accomplish things. My entire life, I have always worked, and built, and struggled to accomplish things. Those who would take advantage of me know this, and so they take advantage of my desire to do things, to work, to be useful. They take from me in the form of taxes, of asking that I do the right thing. They take small pieces of my time, my effort, my production for themselves, secure in the knowledge that I will continue to do so. They do the same to you.
As long as we continue to provide, they will continue to take. Like the old plow horse, the useless breeders in our society will continue to take our labor until we collapse under the whip. Not just us as individuals, us as a society. They will continue to take until the entire system comes crashing down.
It’s always been so, and will be until we have decided that we’ve had enough.
Every firefighter wears an alarm that alerts those nearby that a firefighter has been motionless for 30 seconds. The alarm is called a PASS device and emits a loud noise to facilitate finding a downed rescuer. We jokingly referred to it as the “lazy man” alarm. Once you have been motionless for 30 seconds, it emits a soft beeping noise. On fire scenes, you will hear one device chirp, and every firefighter on scene will wiggle to reset the alarm.
The sound in that video is the sound of 343 PASS devices sounding their cry for help, all at the same time. Each of those noises is emanating from a PASS device that it attached to a dead firefighter. That noise gives me chills to this day. Those rescuers each entered the building, knowing that they may not come out. In fact, some of the firefighters who went into the north tower had already seen the south tower collapse, and knew what was going to happen.
They went in anyway.
There are people out there who claim the buildings were downed in a controlled demolition. There are people who claim to have worked the pile, but were never there. They can all kiss my entire ass.
Then, not one of the dozens of rescuers, investigators, or other workers at ground zero would see a thing, or you would have to believe that the ones who noticed were willing to keep it a secret even though many of the dead firefighters were related to those same investigators.
I know people who were both at the towers and at the Pentagon. I was at the Pentagon site afterwards.
Explain to me how:
a demolition crew of at least several dozen people could spend several weeks in a building where 50,000 people worked every day and 150,000 people used the building as a transit station, place several thousand pounds of explosives, several hundred feet of det cord, wire all of it for demo, all while having not single person notice and wonder what those guys were doing,
Either none of the thousands of rescuers who were there noticed anything, or still marched into the building knowing it was wired to explode. One of them was a Battalion Chief who ordered his own brother into the building. Can you imagine giving your brother an order that resulted in his death? Now tell me why he would then keep it a secret when the government did something like this.
nor would anyone of the people involved say a word about what really happened.
In order for this conspiracy to work, thousands of people would have to be in on it. Some of the people who were in on it lost close relatives.
The FDNY’s deployment included:
121 engine companies
62 ladder companies
All 5 rescue companies
6 squad companies
27 chief officers
Over 1,000 personnel in all, and more than a third of them perished.
Don’t even claim it was crisis actors. There is no way to get a hundred imposters into a group where everyone knows someone who knows you. Fire Departments are a close knit community. Once you go up in rank, you know people. There are classes, seminars, conferences, etc. Firefighting is a family business. There are brothers, sons, fathers, cousins, and even wives and daughters who work in that community. To think that 343 people would die in a building collapse, all of whom were friends and relatives of those in the fire service still living, and not one of the living would say a word? That’s simply unbelievable.
That battalion chief I talked about earlier? Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer, the first FDNY chief at the World Trade Center. He survived. The firefighter killed was his brother, Lieutenant Kevin J. Pfeifer of Engine 33. You can see him here in the white shirt and hat in the only known video of the first plane striking the towers:
Engine 33 was only 1.5 miles away from the towers and was one of the first to arrive. Joseph ordered Kevin’s company into the North Tower to help evacuate occupants; Kevin died when it collapsed. Here he is in the National Geographic documentary on those first responders. Watch this and imagine your pain in sending your own brother in to die:
Now picture a building wired with demolitions. Every firefighter there would have know- you can’t secretly wire a building that large for demo without it being obvious.
One wall in my game room is filled with department patches and pictures of people who I know in the fire service. Even today, my wife is amazed at how we will go some random place and some firefighter will walk up to me and say hi. I’ve been retired for more than 15 years, yet I still know and talk to people who work in the fire department- including from New York, Maryland, Virginia, and I live in Florida. In fact, I know people in departments all over the east coast and beyond. We were in Fairbanks, Alaska in 2017, and ran into a firefighter I knew from Maryland.
There is no way that you could pull something like this off without at least one firefighter saying something.
Sorry, dude. I trust people that I have known for decades more than some Internet rando doing a pseudo analysis of a youtube video who then sets up a webpage where he claims to have solved the crime of the century. Any engineer or architect who tells you they can prove it was a controlled demo from watching a video is full of shit. If this were the case, why wouldn’t that same government simply have eliminated whoever it was? A government that killed 3,000 people in front of the entire world would be too squeamish to eliminate the guy running that website and destroy his “evidence?”
This is the same government that couldn’t even keep it a secret when a President got a blowjob in the Oval office. Anyone who seriously believes this hasn’t thought it through.
It’s easier for me to believe one of the following than it is a controlled demolition:
The government was completely inept and just dropped the ball by not knowing what was coming
the government knew something was afoot and screwed up by allowing it to happen, like they did in OKC
the government knew what was going to happen, but allowed it to happen for some unknown reason
If you believe this bullshit about a controlled demo, you are a moron and are spitting on the graves of people I knew and respected. There is just no other way to put it. Not everything that happens is a government conspiracy. Don’t dishonor dead people who gave their lives to save others by calling them liars.
EDITED TO ADD:
I’ve shown my work here. Going forward, please refer to rule 6 of this blog:
If you demand that anyone provide evidence for an assertion that they are making, then you must hold yourself to the same standard when making a counterargument. It takes time and effort to research sources, and replying with “Nuh, uh, I refuse to believe that” while not providing sources of your own to refute them is how an 8 year old debates. If you demand that the person with whom you are disagreeing show their work, so do you.
