Contempt for justice

Recent developments surrounding the acquittal of Daniel Penny in New York illustrate a profound contempt for justice on the left. We see the same with regard to the January 6 Event, with many continuing to believe a lie about a false-flag pseudo-operation – or preferring to believe a lie, merely to spite those who voted opposite them in the last election. For that, blame the education establishment – including higher, secondary, primary, even “family” education, because lessons like that start in childhood.

Daniel Penny story

Daniel Penny, now 26, is a retired Marine who intervened when one Jordan Neely, a passenger on the F train in New York City, threatened other passengers. This happened on the afternoon of May 1, 2023. Neely started shouting at other passengers, throwing trash, and saying things one could interpret as a general threat. “I need food!” he said. “And I won’t take no for an answer! I’m ready to go back to jail, and I will hurt anyone on this train!” Penny approached Neely from behind, then took him in a headlock. At least one other fellow passenger helped hold Neely down, while Penny shouted to others to “call 911.” But in the process, Neely lost consciousness and then died.

The Manhattan M.E.’s office ruled the death a homicide. Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg – of Trump lawfare fame – charged Penny with second-degree manslaughter. Even before Penny’s arrest, several protesters jumped into the track well, presumably the one serving the F train. This happened at the East 63^rd Street and Lexington Avenue subway station, a station that serves trains from three different branches of the New York City subway system: Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, the Independent, and Interborough Rapid Transit.

That arrest was almost certainly political. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) openly called for it.

Watching media give the Brock Turner treatment for the killing of a homeless man has been nauseating. A person having a record does not excuse killing them. Neither does being poor, sick, or homeless. Virtually every one of us is closer to being in Neely’s shoes than we think.

Our country criminalizes poverty and homelessness while making it impossible to afford rent on a minimum wage job. Our system is built for arresting the poor. When the wealthy break the law, they rarely get records. They can afford to be treated favorably. Most of us cannot.

Our country criminalizes poverty and homelessness while making it impossible to afford rent on a minimum wage job. Our system is built for arresting the poor.

When the wealthy break the law, they rarely get records. They can afford to be treated favorably. Most of us cannot.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 7, 2023

Acquittal – and contempt for justice

Fast-forward to last week, when the trial of Daniel Penny went to the jury. This jury deadlocked, so on Friday (December 6), Assistant D.A. Dafna Yoran moved to dismiss the manslaughter charge. Judge Maxwell Wiley agreed, and ordered the jury to deliberate on a not-much-lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide.

This morning the jury came together to acquit Penny of that lesser charge. One can readily guess what must have happened. Prosecutors do not normally move to dismiss part of their case when a jury deadlocks on that part. Nor do judges grant such motions. If Judge Wiley thought he would see Penny “do some time” anyway, he had another think coming. Obviously the holdout jurors said one to another, “Screw this!” Hence the acquittal.

Then this afternoon, Andre Zachary, father of Jordan Neely, called a press conference. In it he decried the acquittal and said a “rigged system” produced it. He’s even suing Penny, alleging assault, battery, and negligence. This is especially ironical because Mr. Zachary abandoned his son and ignored his lengthy police record and obvious mental illness.

Worse, Mr. Hawk Newsome, founder of BLM (“Black Lives Matter”) of Greater New York, spoke of “black vigilantes” and seemed to threaten death to random white people.

It’s like everybody else has vigilantes! We need some black vigilantes! People want to jump up and choke US?! And kill us for being loud! How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?

I know you are looking for us to be like, “Go and march.” No. This weekend, I want you to hold a community event everywhere…Black people hold community events and talk about what you need.

BREAKING: BLM leader Hawk Newsome calls for "black vigilantes" to get active following Daniel Penny's acquittal pic.twitter.com/YoBUXOW9Yr— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 9, 2024

This shows contempt for justice, a contempt those protesters jumping into a track well showed more than a year and a half ago. It also shows contempt for the law – especially laws against the making of homicidal threats.

More contempt for justice – continued January 6 protests

Also today, correspondent Julie Kelly described continued arrests and prosecutions arising from the January 6 Event. Yesterday on Meet the (De)Press(ed), Donald Trump granted an interview to Kirsten Welker, the hostess. In that segment he promised to act “very quickly” on pardons for January 6 defendants.

Trump just won an election, and decisively. (One does not win 312 electoral votes in only a handful of States, especially if one is a Republican.) Nevertheless – or perhaps on this account – the Justice Department continues to arrest people, and opposes motions to delay sentencing or even to dismiss cases. And judges have been all too willing to side with the prosecution.

These trials are taking place in the District of Columbia. Only one judge in the District Court for that District has granted any defense requests. The other judges seem to be following a narrative that the January 6 Event was a dangerous riot. As regular readers know, that was a false-flag pseudo-operation, that the FBI ran with full cooperation from Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Speaker of the House. Nevertheless, trials continue – before juries one has every reason to suspect of bias. (Vice-President Kamala Harris carried the District with 92.4 percent of the vote.)

About the Penny case

The Daniel Penny case illustrates contempt for justice in three ways. First, Jordan Neely’s father, Andre Zachary, was a bad father. Those who call fathers superfluous should rethink that view in light of this case. Lay aside Zachary ignoring Neely’s forty-two prior arrests – and an active warrant for his arrest on the day he died. When a man starts getting into trouble with the law, that’s usually traceable to his upbringing. That’s a father’s job. So Neely’s death is on Mr. Zachary, who is seeking to blame anyone and everyone else.

As to “the community,” deciding who, as between Hawk Newsome and his followers, are the worse offenders, is difficult. Hawk Newsome is a rabble rouser, and anyone in law enforcement has known his type for millennia. The decision to be part of a rabble rests with every individual member of that rabble. Those people choose to listen to no voices except those of race hustlers – and maybe some voices in our universities who like to apologize for crime. In this context, a murderer is, as Hawk Newsome specifically described him, a vigilante.

But those elected to office as public prosecutors should know better than any of them. Alvin Bragg ran for office promising to serve social, not true, justice. So the blame for this contempt for justice must fall upon him above all. Daniel Penny ought never have had to see the inside of a courtroom. That he did is a shame and a disgrace upon society at large.

And the January 6 cases

The continued prosecutorial interest in the January 6 Event is worse. A motive to punish a political rival of a current executive office holder is bad enough. But the Biden Justice Department seems bent on punishing those who supported that political figure. This kind of thing happens in banana republics, and never before has happened in the United States of America.

Of course President Trump should pardon those people. But now we hear of people saying what a vile act that would be. So President Biden may pardon his son, but President Trump may not pardon many who were clearly prosecuted for one reason only: their support of himself. (In fact The New York Times laments the Biden pardon because it makes January 6 pardons all the easier.)

In the days of J. Edgar Hoover, any of those judges would gladly acquit anyone caught in the toils of his controversial Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). Christopher Wray ran a COINTELPRO equivalent against Trump and his supporters. A judge who refuses to see that, rates removal from the bench on impeachment for, and conviction of, willful ideological corruption of his court and its process.

This is not justice. This is contempt for justice, and indeed contempt for anyone having any concept of justice.

Where does this come from?

This comes from an educational establishment determined to destroy America from within. The reelection of Donald Trump is the good news. It means a majority of the electorate, distributed well among the States, recognizes contempt for justice for what it is.

The bad news is that the educational establishment remains. It pervades our universities and especially the programs that train our teachers. Men like James G. Blaine and Roger Baldwin drove the entering wedge; men like The Rev. Al Sharpton and now Alvin Bragg and Hawk Newsome have slipped through the opening the wedge created. To remove this contempt will require removing the educational establishment, at all levels. That requires a recognition that God is Real, that He deserves respect, and that it violates no one’s rights to acknowledge Him – officially.