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UPDATED (7/3/021): NEW COLUMN: Mad, #MeToo Matriarchy Ensnared Bill Cosby

Criminal Injustice, Feminism, Gender, Justice, Law, Sex

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NEW COLUMN is “Mad, #MeToo Matriarchy Ensnared Bill Cosby.” It is currently on WND.COM, The Unz Review, Townhall.com and American Greatness.

Excerpt:

… The same myopic, malfunctioning media are currently choosing to focus on how the Cosby verdict has been overturned on a procedural or technical matter

…. don’t allow the due-process oversight, indubitably important, to distract you from the nub of the matter.

The Cosby prosecution, as I pointed out at the time, rested on he-said, she-said hearsay evidence, on facts that can’t possibly meet the rules of evidence (the ones the United States once abided), or be corroborated for the purposes of a just prosecution, in accordance with the legal standards of Western law (of blessed memory).

The tainted evidence was solicited decades too late, with utter disregard for the statute of limitations. It came from unverified “prior bad act” women (“witnesses”)–unhinged #MeToo hysterics loosed in a court of law–who acted and sounded as though they were demented. Why, even the date of “the crime” could not be established.

The Law must engage in a search for truth. Ultimately, however, courts of law do not deal with what happened. Their judgments must rely on what can be proven to have happened.

Prosecutorial power to bring charges against a person is an awesome power, stress Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton in The Tyranny of Good Intentions. Backing him, the prosecutor has the might of the state, and, consequently, he must never “override the rights of the defendant in order to gain a conviction.”

Prosecutorial duties are dual. While acting as the plaintiff, the prosecutor must also take pains to protect the defendant’s rights.

This is why the #MeToo judicial “philosophy” undergirding the prosecution of Bill Cosby and many other men is so terrifying.

“Always Believe the Victim” is a ditzy, made-in-Hollywood dogma that goes against the stellar Anglo-American common law legal tradition.  …

…MORE. NEW COLUMN is “Mad, #MeToo Matriarchy Ensnared Bill Cosby.” It is currently on WND.COM, The Unz Review, Townhall.com and American Greatness.

* Image: Bill Cosby’s accuser, courtesy BBC News. Note that Mr. Cosby is legally blind NOW, but I don’t believe he was blind when he allegedly went for this apparition.

Stephen Sacks On Facebook:

Bill Cosby & Harvey Weinstein are almost in the top five sleaziest guys in Hollywood, but we don’t typically imprison boorish louts for immoral behavior.
Immoral is not necessarily illegal.
Just like one can’t yell fire in a crowded theater, a prostitute, err, I mean, sex worker, shouldn’t be allowed to yell rape in a crowded brothel.
Read the transcripts from both trials.In an alternate universe the ACLU would have filed Friend of the Court briefs in both cases to protect the integrity of our legal system.

Bakari Sellers Steps Out As The New Star In The ‘Racism-Industrial-Complex’

Business, Criminal Injustice, Media, Politics, Race, Racism

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Bakari Sellers, a presentable young man, is a CNN commentator, a lawyer in a lucrative practice, and, naturally, a radical progressive. Here he is speaking on personal matters in what is clearly an accent almost indistinguishable from that of his CNN host.

A man with the political promise of Sellers, Esq., would be remiss if he didn’t entrench himself in the “Racism-Industrial-Complex” (Jack Kerwick’s coinage for this shakedown fraternity).

So, Sellers has joined the usual suspects, members of the “Racism-Industrial-Complex,” in doing battle against an embattled police force for the killing of one Andrew Brown Jr, “fatally shot by cops last week in Elizabeth City, [North Carolina, I believe] where witnesses say he was driving away when deputies opened fire on him. After the shooting, 7 deputies were placed on administrative leave and 3 resigned.” (TMZ)

I note that Laura Ingraham, far from a favorite of mine (see “A Traditionalist Lesson For Laura Ingraham“), had picked up on the issue of Sellers’ new twang. On that we can agree.

Female Officer Doesn’t Know Her Revolver From Her Lipstick

Affirmative Action, Crime, Criminal Injustice, Feminism, Gender, Law

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The female officer who killed a man, because she reached for her service revolver instead of her taser, is another item in the case made in this column, “Systemic, Institutional Rot: From Big Freeze In Texas To Fires In Cali.”

Clearly, Kim Potter accidentally discharged her weapon. She did not mean to kill Daunte Wright.  This only strengthens the case against women in the force. This was a veteran officer, who had worked for the Brooklyn Center Police for 26 years!

In my opinion. Weapons are just not natural to us.

I say this as my one piece rests on my desk; I’m never without it. (I use a revolver precisely because I’m pretty clumsy, and my digits aren’t even strong enough to rack the slide. Revolvers are female-proof.)

The video of the incident that was circulated by police shows the officer shouting out “Taser, Taser, Taser” before shooting, and then appearing to realise she had used a handgun instead. The officer, Kim Potter, … has resigned, and been charged with second-degree manslaughter.

This is a case, to quote from the column, “ Systemic, Institutional Rot: From Big Freeze In Texas To Fires In Cali, “of systemic stupidity; systemic rot. …”

“Things start to fall apart when the best-person-for-the-job ethos gives way to racial and gender window-dressing and to the enforcement of politically pleasing perspectives.”

The American government is marred, at every level, with similar set-asides, preferential hiring practices and affirmative action, which compromise an already compromised institution (the State, where incentives are inverted, as in the less efficient they are, the more funds government departments get). MORE.

And now, a policewoman, probably a very decent lady, is in a terrible bind, her life having been destroyed.

*Image credit is here.

NEW ON YouTube: DAVID VANCE AND I DISCUSS ‘DEEP TECH’!

Business, Criminal Injustice, Free Speech, Ilana Mercer, Paleolibertarianism, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Private Property, Regulation, Technology

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DAVID VANCE and I DISCUSS ‘DEEP TECH’! It’s a wide-ranging discussion, but it’s also “deep,” we hope.

David, who had upwards of 200,000 Followers on Twitter, was removed from that forum by the ignoramuses in charge, and he periodically gets sent to the YouTube doghouse by another set of equally asinine knaves.

My own (highbrow) content has been limited on Facebook’s (lowbrow) slum-dog forums. I’m throttled on Twitter.

Why? What have a demure writer, a mild-mannered broadcaster and many others like us done to give the billionaires in charge the excuse to make it hard for us to make a living? We distill the meaning of it all.

David and his producer, Ged, have created such a welcoming and interesting environment for me—yeah, I like those hard-to-find English niceties known as “manners” and professionalism—that we’ve decided to make the chat a regular thing.

I appreciate your support in sharing the segment and providing feedback here.