O Really wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 12:50 pmHe'll be right at home in prison with the Aryan Brotherhood. Probably come out meaner and more radicalized than he goes in. I think he should get a harsh sentence, but it seems in this case they may be tossing Brer Rabbit in the briar patch. I might have voted for chopping his nuts off and dropping him off in Somalia.
Or Tel Aviv. 
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Just to be clear, Pena lost by a MARGIN of 48 percentage points in HD14, 74-26!Ex-GOP candidate arrested in shootings at lawmakers' homes
A failed Republican state legislative candidate who authorities say was angry over losing the election last November and made baseless claims that the election was “rigged” against him was arrested Monday in connection with a series of drive-by shootings targeting the homes of Democratic lawmakers in New Mexico’s largest city.
Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina held a news conference Monday evening hours after SWAT officers arrested Solomon Pena at his home....
Pena lost in November to incumbent state Rep. Miguel P. Garcia, the longtime Democrat representing House District 14 in the South Valley. Garcia won by 48 percentage points, or roughly 3,600 votes.
I blame the big fat crybaby Election Denier in Chief, TRE45QN.... Deputy Commander Kyle Hartsock said at least five people, including Pena, were involved in the shootings. Pena is accused of paying the others to carry out at least two of the shootings, according to Hartsock, before “Pena himself" allegedly “pulled the trigger” during one of crimes....
No one was injured in the shootings, which came amid a rise in threats to members of Congress, school board members, election officials and other government workers around the nation....
Then, during the first week of January, shots were fired at the home of state Sen. Linda Lopez — a lead sponsor of a 2021 bill that reversed New Mexico’s ban on most abortion procedures.
Lopez said in a statement that three of the bullets passed through her 10-year-old daughter’s bedroom....
This was not a mistake nor lapse in vetting. The modern GQP loves its violent nutjobs.Despite Red Flags, GOP Backed Candidate Now Charged in Shootings
The former Republican candidate accused of targeting the homes of Democrats in drive-by shootings had routinely called for locking up 2020 election officials in Guantánamo Bay. He promoted conspiracy theories about solar power, feminism and “the demonic theories of the Globalist Elites.” He had been demoted twice by the U.S. Navy and served nearly seven years in prison for burglary.
Yet powerful party leaders in New Mexico not only gave the first-time candidate, Solomon Peña, 39, full-throated endorsements, but they also opened their checkbooks to fund his race for a state legislative seat in central Albuquerque long held by Democrats....
Was J6 our Beer Hall Putsch? Is a Kristallnacht in the offing?... The attacks came at a time of growing fears nationwide about a trend of political violence, mostly from the right wing, including the attack on the husband of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a conspiracy to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
I endorse Former PINO's ongoing destruction of the GQP.... Many election deniers lost in New Mexico, mirroring similar Republican setbacks in other parts of the country. The results helped the state’s Democrats solidify their control of both houses in the state Legislature, the governor’s office and the entire congressional delegation, sparking recriminations over Republicans’ loss of power.
WRONG WRONG WRONG. You reject and loudly denounce the extremists, move to the sane middle and figure out how to get the support of independents and con Dems. That's what a patriotic party would do.... “You don’t take a group of people whose support you want and tell them, ‘You’re a bunch of crazies,’” Candelaria said. “You’re going to have some extremists that you have to figure out how to keep their support.”
Opps.... As part of their investigation, Albuquerque police detectives said they were also examining whether Peña used proceeds from narcotics trafficking to finance his campaign and whether campaign laws were violated. The New Mexico attorney general’s office will lead the investigation into Peña’s campaign finances, a spokesperson for the office said Friday.
The turn in the investigation came after detectives learned through witness interviews that Peña had identified individuals to funnel contributions from an unknown source into his campaign, according to Gilbert Gallegos, a spokesperson for the department. Investigators said they are focusing on José Trujillo, who is also accused in the shootings, and Trujillo’s mother, Melanie Griego, who are listed as donating a total of $9,150 to Peña’s campaign.
Police arrested Trujillo on Jan. 3, shortly after the shooting targeting the Albuquerque home of Linda Lopez, a state senator. In the car that Trujillo was driving, which police say is owned by Peña, investigators say they found 893 fentanyl pills and $3,036 in cash, as well as a firearm matching shell casings found at Lopez’s home.
... Peña presented himself as someone on the mend, leading groups in prayer at political meetings and telling neighbors that he did not drink or take drugs. But he made little effort to hide his extreme views. His campaign website denounced “the demonic theories of the Globalist Elites and their foreign counterparts,” called feminism “demonicism,” and said the 2020 election had been rigged against Trump by “enemy combatants” who “must be placed in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for the remainder of their natural lives.”
Opps.During his campaign, Peña highlighted his time as a Navy hospital corpsman assigned to a Marine division in Okinawa, Japan. But promotion data provided by the U.S. Navy’s public affairs office shows that Peña hardly served with distinction. He was demoted twice during his four years in the service and left the military in 2004 at the lowest possible rank....
Sounds like the endangered workers and the public.... He served nearly seven years in prison in New Mexico on charges including burglary and larceny after being part of a “smash-and-grab” crew that slammed vehicles into retail stores, including a Kmart in Albuquerque, then stole items, according to court records....
Verified quote.Carl Sagan once said, "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
Something to think about, and to consider.
Violence is the inevitable consequence of election results denials. Once you get people to conclude that elections are not a way to solve issues with government, you have in essence suggested the only solution is violence. Like Voltaire once said, “if you can get people to believe absurdities, you can get them to commit atrocities”
I think I've heard that before. 
At least 10 are dead and at least 10 are hospitalized after a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, Saturday night, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Whack9 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 7:48 amhttps://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/los-an ... index.htmlAt least 10 are dead and at least 10 are hospitalized after a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, Saturday night, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
A dance studio in a predominantly Asian community near a Chinese Lunar New Year festival celebration is a very unusual venue. I wonder if children were present. Both Asian-Asian dispute and anti-Asian terrorism come to mind.
They've got his name (unreleased), gun, maybe van, and finger prints, too.
Driver found dead after authorities breach van linked to Lunar New Year mass shooting
... Multiple law enforcement sources told The Times that the driver had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound....
Dance instructor David DuVal taught at the studio, most recently samba and tango on Thursday morning.
He said the studio has Saturday night parties and that a lot of people who attend are older. "60s would be young."
"There's definitely going to be people in their 70s, 80s, people in their 90s," he said. "A lot of people I teach are older people. I have a feeling it could be one of them or people I know." ...
Speaking of Asian terrorism.
Crap, our former homies are dealing with the Indian Klan.Maryland's Democratic Lt. Governor Has Ties To A Dangerous Far-Right Movement
Activists and voters have sounded the alarm over Aruna Miller’s history of brushing shoulders with Hindu nationalist groups.
Aruna Miller, the new Democratic lieutenant governor of Maryland, is stirring concern in the state due to her decade-long ties to advocates for far-right Hindu nationalist groups.
Miller, a former state legislator, assumed office last month alongside Gov. Wes Moore (D). Since then, activists and voters have sounded the alarm over Miller’s history of brushing shoulders with nationalist groups and dodging questions about her ties to a violent ideology that has long cracked down on minorities. She and Moore have also faced questions about collecting thousands of dollars in political donations from people sympathetic to Hindutva, a far-right nationalist ideology that mirrors white supremacy....
“It’s bigger than [Miller]. It’s an example of how there’s an encroachment into the Democratic Party by a fascist entity,” said Susan Kerin, the chapter chair for Peace Action Montgomery (O Really's former and my childhood county), the local chapter of the human rights advocacy group Peace Action. “[Miller’s case] is a little bit more egregious, but it’s really something that we have to watch out for.”
... In 2005, Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi was barred from entering the U.S. for his role in the 2002 anti-Muslim riots that killed nearly 2,000 people.
But after he was elected prime minister of India in 2014, Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party — a Hindu nationalist political party that believes the country is fundamentally a Hindu state — were able to circumvent that ban and allowed entry to the U.S.
Support for Modi’s government remains strong, and not just in India. Nearly half of all Indian Americans approve of his performance as prime minister, with one-third of respondents favoring the ruling BJP party, according to a 2020 study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Miller’s support of Modi and the BJP dates back nearly a decade.
... they’re worried that the Democratic Party may become increasingly accepting of candidates who get support from extremists. Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat who is now an independent, and Sri Preston Kulkarni, a Democratic congressional candidate in Texas, have also faced scrutiny for having donors with ties to Hindutva and for courting members of right-wing Hindu groups.
“It’s a racist movement. It’s a caste-ist movement. It’s a supremacist movement. It’s an antisemitic movement. It’s an Islamophobic movement. That is something all of those things are going to be affecting people who are already vulnerable and marginalized in the U.S.,” said Gayatri Girirajan, a member of Peace Action Montgomery. “We should start looking at the Hindutva movement as a really potent, slow-boiling, long-term sort of foreign interference that really does have a tangible impact.”
There went the neighborhood.... She moved to Maryland in 1990, where she worked for the Montgomery County Department of Transportation.
Maryland House of Delegates
After state delegate Craig L. Rice announced that he would run for the Montgomery County Council in 2010, activist in the Montgomery County Democratic Party called Miller to ask her to run. She initially declined to run, but changed her mind after talking with her husband. Miller won election to District 15 (Montgomery County) of the Maryland House of Delegates, succeeding Rice. Miller was the first Indian American woman to be elected to the Maryland Legislature.
Two People Arrested For Plotting ‘Racially Motivated' Attack on Baltimore Power Grid
The two suspects "were not just talking, but taking steps to fulfill their threats and further their extremist goals," which was "to inflict maximum harm on the power grid, a key component of our critical infrastructure," authorities said.
Two people, including a known neo-Nazi leader, were arrested last week after the FBI interrupted their plot to attack the Baltimore power grid, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland announced Monday morning.
The FBI views the two people, identified as Sara Clendaniel and Brandon Russell, as "racially or ethnically motivated" extremists.
NBC News reports that Russell is a known neo-Nazi and founder of the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group bent on "ushering in the collapse of civilization," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group admires Charles Manson and supports "the idea of lone wolf violence," according to the Anti-Defamation League.
According to U.S. Attorney Erek Barron, the two were arrested on criminal complaints of conspiracy to destroy an energy facility, after they "took steps to shoot multiple electrical substations in the Baltimore area."
Conspiracy to destroy an energy facility is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
LOL, billy.pilgrim, we win.One suspect was arrested in Maryland, while the other suspect was arrested in Florida. Clendaniel is a Catonsville, Maryland resident, and Russell is an Orlando, Florida resident.
I don't agree with the remedy, but I understand the sentiment. Otoh, this is an action I can get behind:Wanna bet a box of donuts these radicals watch Fox Pravda network as they allowed themselves to become brainwashed? Time to revoke Fox's broadcasting license, else it will get worse, until the FCC deals with this nonsense. TAKE FOX off the air.
Put them in Baltimore cells with no power for their entire sentences.
Since not everyone will click:billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 6:19 pmhttps://nypost.com/2023/02/09/lawyer-de ... arges-gun/
"Leandro Mathias de Novaes, was taking his mother to get scanned at the Laboratorio Cura in São Paulo"
“Both the patient and his companion were properly instructed regarding the procedures for accessing the examination room and warned about the removal of any and all metallic objects,” they declared."
"The facility’s PR added that both Novaes and his mother signed a form regarding the protocols, but that the lawyer failed to mention his weapon and entered the unit with it “by his own decision.”
Nobody takes my fricking gun, not nobody, nohow
Lawyer dies after gun triggered by hospital MRI scanner
... Novaes decided to go in sans announcing his concealed weapon.
Disaster struck after the machine yanked the weapon from his waistband, causing it to go off and strike the lawyer in the stomach. He was subsequently rushed to the São Luiz Morumbi Hospital, where he hung on for weeks, before eventually succumbing to his injuries on February 6....
Before his death, Novaes had frequently posted pro-gun content to his more than 8,000 followers on TikTok....
If conscious, he had weeks to contemplate being a stupid asshole.
You linked a Roberto Clemente book burning article. Here's one on Donham, if not the exact one you quote:billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 12:36 amLast June, a research team found an unserved arrest warrant for the woman in the 1955 lynching that was a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
The old, "But she has white kids response".
"The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized in 1955, but the Leflore County sheriff at the time told reporters that he did not want to “bother” the woman since she was raising two young children."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/rob ... -rcna70081
Weird. I just tried the link.1st try was the warrant article, 2, 3 and 4 were Clemente and 5 was the warrantVrede too wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:00 amYou linked a Roberto Clemente book burning article. Here's one on Donham, if not the exact one you quote:billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 12:36 amLast June, a research team found an unserved arrest warrant for the woman in the 1955 lynching that was a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
The old, "But she has white kids response".
"The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized in 1955, but the Leflore County sheriff at the time told reporters that he did not want to “bother” the woman since she was raising two young children."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/rob ... -rcna70081
Arrest warrant for woman who accused Emmett Till found nearly 70 years later in court basement
billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 9:41 amWeird. I just tried the link. 1st try was the warrant article, 2, 3 and 4 were Clemente and 5 was the warrant
That is strange. I get Clemente x 5. 