Divemedic

Real Goal of the Alex Jones Judgement

Alex Jones has to pay $1 billion. He says he will fight, delay, and appeal for years. In any case, he is likely done. Still, the reason for what was done to him is apparent to anyone paying attention. Just look at this article from the Guardian: Only proper online regulation can stop poisonous conspiracists like Alex Jones and by Alex Jones, they mean anyone on the right, including and especially Donald Trump. I quote:

Jones, like QAnon, Donald Trump and others, can navigate fake news sites and social media to reach millions…No one seriously believes free speech is an absolute right. The British government is now making desperate attempts to define such concepts as “causing offence” and “legal but harmful”. More ruthless efforts at control are emerging from authoritarian regimes in Russia, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The EU, too, is pondering regulation. But this realm of government is patently in its infancy.

The freedom of speech which to John Milton was “above all liberties” is not that simple today.

You get that? They consider censorship like Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the EU, and the UK are preferable to the freedom to say what you think. That is the lesson of Alex Jones: shut up, peasant. Silencing the opposition, it’s what every communist revolution needs to do.

By Divemedic, ago

My Thoughts on the Parkland Shooter

In the interest of full disclosure, I will start this post by saying that I am opposed to the death penalty. Not in principle, mind you. After all, there is only one way that is 100% certain to make sure that a killer doesn’t repeat his crime. No, I am opposed to the death penalty because I don’t trust the government officials in charge of the criminal “justice” system. Ask the Duke Lacrosse players, or any of the thousands of people exonerated by the Innocence Project. To put even one person to death who didn’t deserve it is a travesty of justice that makes all of us culpable in that innocent death.

Now that we have that out of the way, I will also say that if there ever was anyone who deserves the death penalty is the guy who carried out that shooting. He was upset because no girl wanted a piece of him, so he admitted that he planned the shooting for Valentine’s Day so none of the students would ever celebrate that holiday again. He admitted to planning out his attack for five years. He simply waited until he was old enough to buy guns with which to carry out his massacre. He is an evil son of a bitch who deserves to fry in Florida’s chair, but the jury decided that they will give him life in prison, instead.

Sharing in his guilt are all of the people along the way who knew that this monster was unhinged, yet failed to take action. The FBI, who received numerous calls to their “see something, say something, we do nothing” line. The school counselors who failed to report his statements and behavior. His foster parents who were scared enough to lock up his guns, but not call the cops.

Most of all? The voters of Broward county. They reliably vote for this shit, they vote Democrat, the reelect coward public officials, they tolerate this. They are getting the government that they vote for. It’s just too bad that their mental issues have an effect on the rest of us in this state.

By Divemedic, ago

We Always Knew They Were Going Here

Virginia Democrats introduce legislation that would criminally prosecute parents who don’t affirm their child’s “gender identity.” The bill expands the state’s definition of child abuse and neglect to include parents who do not affirm their child’s gender identity or sexual orientation.

This would require people mandated by virtue of their jobs to report the parents to authorities if a child tells them that the parent doesn’t support or affirm the child’s decision to be a tranny. So nurses, teachers, paramedics, and police would be required to report you for refusing to buy your son a dress when he tells you that he wants to be a girl now.

Depending on how the law gets written, it could be a felony to not use a child’s chosen pronouns, and it may not be just parents who are susceptible to the new law. Some bearded 17 year old fruitcake in a dress demands that you use ‘zir’ or ‘zem’ could report you and have you arrested for child abuse when you laugh at his crazy ass.

You could be the next person getting pepper sprayed and being chucked in jail.

To those who claim this violates your religious freedom, Democrats have this to say:

“The Bible says to accept everyone for who they are. So that’s what I tell them when they asked me that question, and that’s what I will continue to tell people. You know, we all have a commitment to God And for those believers out there, we know that there’s life after life, and there is going to be a conversation between that person and God and that’s what we’re after — to go by what the Bible says. It is not my job to judge anyone. It is my job to help people.”

Now Democrat government officials, who constantly bleat about separating church and state, feel qualified to interpret the Bible for you and tell you what you are supposed to believe.

By Divemedic, ago

Fines

Remember the 2008 Financial crisis? The one where banks made loans to people who couldn’t afford them so those people could buy homes they couldn’t afford at inflated prices that far exceeded the actual value of the property, then bundled those loans into securities and had ratings agencies vastly overstate the value of those securities, all so they could make billions in profits? They then got bailed out at the expense of the taxpayers they just ripped off, all because they were too big to fail? Then they used the bailout money to pay huge bonuses to bank executives? Those actions crashed the economy of the entire world, destroying trillions in retirement savings that vanished virtually overnight? The banking regulators that were in charge of making sure stuff like that didn’t happen? They retired from government service, and all were offered high paying jobs with the same banks they were supposed to be watching and never even have to go to work. Isn’t that odd? They made a great movie about it, called The Big Short.

No one went to jail. Not one person. The largest fine paid by a banking executive was $67.5 million. For committing fraud on such a large scale that it was the largest transfer of wealth in human history to that point.

Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked in children for decades. She made money by providing children to be used as sex toys for no one, apparently. Not one person has been named as being one of her customers.

Why do I bring that up? Because today, Alex Jones was ordered to pay $1 billion in damages because he is an asshole and said mean things. Don’t get me wrong, he *is* an asshole. What he did and said hurt the victims of Sandy Hook and their families. I often wondered if he wasn’t a government disinformation campaign designed to make the right look like a bunch of nutjobs. That however, doesn’t come close to being in the same league with what the banks, their executives, and government regulators did.

I guess he wasn’t big enough for a bailout. I wonder, if one were to draw a Venn diagram of banking executives, government officials, and Ghislaine Maxwell’s clients, how much of those three circles would overlap? Now compare that to a Venn diagram of Alex Jones fans. Perhaps that is the real reason why he is paying out a billion bucks. He is being crushed as an example to all of the others: don’t you DARE question us.

By Divemedic, ago

Small Subset of Violence

Marcus McCowan Jr. is an 18 year old who was in an Odessa, TX hospital with his girlfriend, who was in labor. This “teen” entered the nursery and tried to choke and shake several babies to death. He attacked a new mother, several staff members, and attempted to take an arriving police officer’s gun. Drugs were found in his possession.

Those actions are enough to get a mention here. However, there is more to the story. The “teen,” you will note, is a “jr.” and has a father of the same name, who was in the news a few years ago, having lost an appeal to the Fifth circuit after being arrested. Let’s let the case speak for itself:

On October 13, 2004, police obtained a search warrant for the house and an arrest warrant for its occupants…Upon entering the dwelling in execution of the warrant, the officers encountered Heather Wilson, who informed them that McCowan resided there. The officers found two handguns in the living room, a.45 caliber handgun found under a couch and a.380 caliber handgun, with the serial number obliterated, found underneath a smaller couch…Beside the .380, approximately six to eight inches away, was a baggie of marijuana… They gave [McCowan] Miranda warnings and began to question him. He gave them a statement in which he admitted: (1) he and Love resided at the house; (2) the handgun in question belonged to his mother; (3) he kept the handgun at the house for protection; (4) he knew its serial number had been filed off; (5) he knew that possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number was unlawful; and (6) he thought the firearm probably had been stolen.

He lost the appeal. It seems that this particular apple didn’t fall very far from this particular tree, which just happened to be located in the orchard that seems to be incapable of living in accordance with the law.

But hey, Cassandra, these two just happen to be two more of what you call “a small subset of violent black males that disproportionately commit violent crimes.”

By Divemedic, ago