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That two-tiered system of justice again: DA Mike Schmidt of Portland — 13 Comments

  1. It’s said that the county won’t pay, the taxpayers will pay. This is true. However, some will notice. Some will wonder where various county services went, or why they can’t be expanded.
    Reason….double standards.
    So, yeah, they voted for this and they’re paying for this. Only if Schmidt hid his proclivities do the voters get a pass here.
    It would be interesting to see a poll asking what proportion of the voters think it was good the Antifa types got off and good that Gibson was prosecuted…at least he has legal fees and lost his job and stuff.
    Might tell you where to put your sympathies.

  2. Is it possible that Schmidt can be recalled, and meet the same fate as Chesa Boudin of San Francisco (and, hopefully, George Gascon of LA)?

    That presupposes that there are still a few sane, rational people left in the city of Portland. Perhaps there are, I don’t know. But given all the news out of that place over the past half decade or so it seems like Lord of the Flies or something.

  3. Prosecutors of his ilk, like Bragg, like Krasner, like Boudin, like Foxx, like Gascon, etc., ad nauseum, are merely members in good standing of the Democratic Party’s shock troops.
    Basically antifa in suits. BLM in well-pressed trousers.
    If you wanna take apart a country, the best place to start is to infiltrate the institutions of that country—legal, educational, military, LE, legislative, law court—kinda sneak in there when no one’s lookin’ and sayin’ nice things like “progress”, “human rights”, “diversity”, “just say NO to racism”, “freedom”, “liberty”, etc.,…until as a result of all the chaos, mayhem, uncertainty doubt an despair brought on by those rather ingenious saboteurs, things eventually arrive at “just say NO to country”.
    (Now who said that??….)

  4. I resent the fact that this scumbag DA has the same first and last names as the GOAT Phillie, Michael Jack Schmidt. It’s a good thing that Harry Kalas, the best broadcaster the Phils ever had, always referred to Schmidt by his full name– as in the call he made on the occasion of Michael Jack’s 500th career home run:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCydP8ph8PY&ab_channel=PhilliesHighlights

    The Pittsburgh Pirates fans were a class act on that occasion, giving Schmidt a standing O. I doubt anyone will ever give the Portland DA that kind of tribute.

  5. I attended the Phillies’ home opener Schmitty’s last full season and was astounded (I had no real idea of Philadelphia fans at the time, being a visitor from out of town) to hear him roundly booed at his first plate appearance. To my knowledge he’d done nothing to warrant that (in the game) and here he was to me a sure-fire first round Hall of Famer, one of the best third basemen in history, right up there with beloved Brooksie himself. “What the hell sort of place is this?”, I’m asking myself.

    Turned out Schmidt had made some disparaging remarks about Phil’s fans in the days prior and they were letting him have it, HoFer or no.

  6. Prof. Lino Graglia has argued that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment is not an invitation to test laws, but an adominishment to the executive to enforce them impartially.

    We also need to strip prosecutors of unqualified immunity.

  7. I’m just recalling some of the ‘man on the street’ interviews with long-suffering residents from the CHAZ zone, and other interviews with homeowners a little further out that had hordes of BlacBloc rabble invading their neighborhoods in the second wave of unrest. One would think that it would be impossible to tune the message out, or disregard it, living around Portland and seeing the condition of downtown every single day.

    And yet: They voted for it. They must be satisfied with the status quo. It just boggles my mind how people decide to move to beautiful cities like Portland, and then continue to stay there and vote Blue as they steadily become cesspits.

  8. Thunderstormnetworkoutage.

    Ha! Yeah, no, PA+Cat, I’d heard the snowball pelting story, seen the fans’ treatment of opponents (Cowboys and Caps fan here) for many years . . . it’s just the boos raining down on Mike Schmidt!, I mean, I just didn’t get it . . . I couldn’t imagine Eddie Murray getting that treatment in Charm City, for instance — Impossible!

    Then I moved to Philly in ’95, married a local girl and learned the ways of the world.

  9. }}} The Pittsburgh Pirates fans were a class act on that occasion, giving Schmidt a standing O. I doubt anyone will ever give the Portland DA that kind of tribute.

    The Portland DA DESERVES a 21-gun salute.

    We should stand him next to a wall while he gets it: “Would you like a blindfold?”

    😀

  10. }}} We also need to strip prosecutors of unqualified immunity.

    Technically there are qualifications, but it’s hard to get past them. They SHOULD charge the asshole with violating their civil rights under that clause, which, as I understand it, goes to the personal, not just official, assets.

  11. The Portland DA DESERVES a 21-gun salute.

    We should stand him next to a wall while he gets it: “Would you like a blindfold?”

    21 guns is a waste of ordnance; the state of Utah uses a five-man squad of police officers when a condemned inmate requests a firing squad over lethal injection:

    https://www.livescience.com/10710-death-penalty-firing-squad-carried.html

    As an alternative, there’s the form of execution the Brits used in India in the mid-nineteenth century called blowing from a gun– which one British officer described as follows:

    The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen.

    I think most Soros-funded DAs would consider a recall election preferable to that version of a gun salute.

  12. I think you may be missing the point.

    In Compton, California, the population was ~100% Black with ~100 murders per year. The state and county imported a Hispanic population (and their gangs). The new population targeted the Black gang-bangers, their friends and family. Compton is now ~70% Hispanic with virtually no violent crime.

    Most American cities are doomed. The concentration is no longer needed. Some have a ghetto with crime and violence. Some are just useless. Selective law enforcement clears out the troublesome people and leaves an, at least partially, empty area ripe for resettlement with grift and profit for all involved. As long as the replacement population was likely to vote Democratic/Progressive/Socialist, the plan was unlikely to fail. The ghetto people are naturally destructive and the BLM and Antifa are “encouraged” to be that way. Resistance is punished with selective prosecution. The Progressive DAs (Prosecutors) are there to put on a show of anti-something-or-other while the transition continues. Then, if the Democrats/etc. hold power in Washington, there will be grift to rebuild the cities and profit the loyal players. The ghetto people will have no place to go except the “Red” suburbs. If the suburbans are disarmed or demoralized, there can be no effective resistance to the ghetto refugees.

    What a Plan!

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