Recommended reading that I haven’t read
They sound interesting, though:
(1) Ted Cruz has a book with this intriguing title: Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System. Cruz has been doing a lot of traveling around the country lately, campaigning for Republican candidates.
(2) I saw this one at Instapundit: They’re Lying: the Media the Left and the Death of George Floyd. An excerpt from the description at Amazon: “Award-winning investigative journalist Liz Collin sets the record straight. She uncovers what really happened on a street in Minneapolis that set off the riots, the demands to defund the police, and the skyrocketing crime across the country. Based on conversations with those who were there—including Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, and other Minneapolis police officers who’ve never spoken out before—Liz exposes how the media and the Left manipulated the facts to dupe and divide America.”
(3) In line with #2 above, here’s the brief for Chauvin’s appeal. As far as I can tell, the appeal is still pending.
(4) By Julie Kelly, who’s written tons of articles about the DOJ’s actions against the January 6 defendants: January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right
Note that there’s a general theme here.
Sarah Hoyt always has some interesting links posted at Instapundit. She often links to something here.
I would add (5) In Re the imprisonment of the True the Vote founder Catherine Englebrecht and election data security analyst, Gregg Phillips – see:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/05/tucker-carlson-draws-attention-to-imprisonment-of-catherine-englebrecht-and-gregg-phillips/
Steve Bannon was talking about this today and said something like “you all love talking about democracy so much, well get ready because you are about to get a democracy suppository!”
The single one-star review posted on Amazon of the book about the blessed martyr St. George of Minneapolis demonstrates the inability of most (if not all) leftists to argue logically and rationally from evidence and facts. What is currently of most interest to many is the complete unravelling of the false narrative about the incident chez Pelosi and the spiking by NBC of what seems to have been honest reporting which suggested that what has been obvious for an entire week to any honest observer is, in fact, undeniable, since the official story makes no sense whatsoever.
since the official story makes no sense whatsoever.
It makes adequate sense. It’s just no fun for some people.
The Capitol Police and the SF police should release their video to the public.
I just finished the last book in the “The Last Kingdom” series, about the formation of England in the 800’s to mid 900’s. Great series.
Now, reading the last Rebus book. Will have to look for others to read now, but I read mostly Murder Mysteries, old and new murders, in the UK.
Chauvin is a political prisoner. So are the three chaps down in Savannah, Ga. (one of whom did nothing but record the event). So are the J6 defendants. The prosecutors responsible for these travesties are properly fired and disbarred, the judges properly impeached and disbarred. There will be no justice, of course. There seldom is.
Why didn’t the dog bark?
Why weren’t there more police on duty and the National Guard standing by on January 6th? Had the requests for more security by the Capitol police been honored, there would not have been a break in at the Capitol building.
Why didn’t the security system work properly at the Pelosi house? What did the 9/11 call sound like? Why did Paul Pelosi open the door for the police, and then go back near the intruder, Depape? Why won’t the police video be released?
Inquiring minds would like answers to those questions.
Both instances appear to be false flag operations with intent to frame the GOP. Prove us wrong.
I’d like to read the review (yes?) of the Liz Collin book. I can’t find such a thing at Instapundit …
If there is justice, everyone involved in the Derek Chauvin persecution will rot in hell. Starting with the politicians and media shills who rushed to convict him in advance; and including the Medical Examiner who found a lethal amount of Fentanyl in Floyd’s system and said (paraphrasing) “Under different circumstances I would find death due to an overdose, but…”
“since the official story makes no sense whatsoever.” j e
“It makes adequate sense.” Art Deco
Really? Please explain how the official story fits just the facts we know.
Like the great majority of the glass outside the door. The 911 call where Pelosi offers the first name of his assailant and calls him a friend. Plus, “Why did Paul Pelosi open the door for the police, and then go back near the intruder, Depape? Why won’t the police video be released?”
There are so many holes in the official police narrative and so much secrecy that the stench is overpowering.
Like the great majority of the glass outside the door. The 911 call where Pelosi offers the first name of his assailant and calls him a friend. Plus, “Why did Paul Pelosi open the door for the police, and then go back near the intruder, Depape? Why won’t the police video be released?
You don’t see anything which looks like glass outside the door. It looks like paint dust. Nor is the residual laminate bowed outward. The summary of the 911 call offered over radio chatter was that he did not knew who the man was but that his name was ‘David’ and he is a ‘friend’. The account of his movements when the police arrived does not lend itself to any sort of interpretation. We do not know precisely how he moved absent the video.
You’re all filling in blanks with your willful imaginations. My suggestion would be you leave it on simmer for a few days.
Paint Dust?? Oh Give Me A Break.
I’ve read the Liz Collin book. She was a reporter and anchor for the #1 TV station in the Twin Cities. She was also married to a police lieutenant, who happened to be the head of the police union at the time.
Minneapolis has had a succession of police chiefs who ticked the right boxes; black, female, lesbian, black lesbian, and finally “Rondo” Arridondo. The problem was that Arridondo was promoted past his competence, and the senior leadership around him had all been chosen for political, not professional reasons.
When the incident happened, Minneapolis had a white civil rights attorney as mayor, who had no understanding of how to handle riots. Cops on the street reported calling in to the command center, where phones weren’t answered, or calls were disconnected.
The police chief, the mayor and the governor all dithered, when they weren’t firing the four cops for cause, with no investigation.
And Liz Collin was frozen out of her job at WCCO at the same time she and her husband were doxed. Arridondo, the chief, who was seen hugging the police union lead at the end of contract talks weeks before, now viciously turned on his friend and colleague, blaming the union head for the riots.
I was there, I know a lot of the people in the book and I remember the surreal world of the riots. Everything in the local media was wrong: every thing. The riots were not inevitable. They could have been blocked and shut down. Floyd could have been presented as a thuggish fentanyl addict instead of his saintly image. But incompetence starting at the top made it happen.
I wonder if there is something in the Minneapolis water which affects the brains of the people there.
Gordon Scott @ 10:13pm
Another advantage of a well structured and conducted blog such as Neo’s: occasional feedback from local people about the national stories being discussed. These reports by local citizens may occasionally be biased, or inadvertently incorrect, but they have an immediacy and veracity that MSM filtered information cannot fully convey. Thank you, Gordon.
I have too many other books in my “to be read” stack to bother buying and reading Collin’s book, but it is nice to have feedback addressing its validity.
I second R2L’s praise for your comment, Gordon. Good stuff.
All here who have read Neo’s posts on the arrest and death of George Floyd, know that the police followed procedure and the damning video didn’t convey the real facts. And yet it was used to proclaim it a murder. Followed by a travesty of an investigation and subsequent overcharging of the policemen involved. After such despicable treatment of police, no wonder most Democrat run cities cannot recruit enough new cops to maintain law and order.
Yes, we now have political prisoners in this country. All put there by a DOJ that was politicized by Obama and Holder; and has become more corrupt under Biden and Garland.
This is no longer a democracy.
In Art Deco’s partial defense I will say that much of the speculation about the Pelosi break-in has been nothing more than that, wild speculation. Suffice it to say that a very bizarre incident with a certifiable wacko took place and we don’t really know what happened except Dems tried to twist it into “right-wing violence” in a desperate last-minute election ploy.
But that is one hell of a lot of “paint dust”.
In 1970 Minneapolis was one of the best-run cities in the United States.
By 2000 one could see the cracks. The mayor and council were now entirely Democrats. But most of them were serious people who understood what was at stake and how government works.
By 2016 all of those practical-minded Democrats were gone, replaced by fly-your-freak-flag liberals or grifters. Even then, I looked at a wealthy city. I figured it would take 20 years for them to fully loot it.
And then May 2020 happened, and the Minneapolis PD is now down 300 from their authorized 800. My old precinct, which has been vibrant, but livable, now often has one officer on patrol, versus ten. Never mind blood on the street; if it’s not too busy he may be able to come to a murder scene.
Since our cop-hating AG jailed a different officer who made a mistake, but accidentally killed a suspect who was threatening the life of another cop, no department in Minnesota can hire–especially the big city departments.
Why would you work for Minneapolis PD when you can work for Mesa, AZ PD, for the same money and benefits? And the other night, in Mesa, ten squads plus fire and ambulance responded to grab and run at Ulta. Caught her, too.
The sad thing is who the perps are. When I moved to Minneapolis in 1998, Somali were respected as hard-working and honest. Now, the carjackers, store looters and muggers are Somali teens. And why not? If they’re arrested, which is rare, they know the judges will lead them by the hand to the courthouse door, apologizing all the way for any mean looks the teen may have suffered.
St. George Floyd — as much as Lt General Flynn became our l’Affaire Dreyfus — the policeman railroaded to prison, Derek Chauvin, fits more blatantly, nationally.
Where else did the travesty of “The Summer of Love” emanate? If not in Minnespolis? If not over these events? And in that injustice?
I read the Liz Collin book description (Amazon?) yesterday, and a reviewer dew the “American Dreyfus” tie-in there.
Correct me if I’ve forgotten or elided Neo’s coverage of these overlapping horrific examples of railroaded injustice — isn’t bothered a clinical term for injustice fatigue? — but our Dreyfus event(s) are out there.
Trouble is, what’s insured America’s decline and fall is Truth — the value of the quest and the value in sharing it.
The Founders all agreed that the American experiment cannot succeed without four things: Marriage, Christian (faithful) belief), integrity, and honesty.
With the first two challenged and declining, the loss of the last is the deathnell.
To reduce the latter two and to secularise them, we’ve lost the shared valorisation of the Truth, as some objectiveo-political and cultural mission. However enjoyed or shared, whether in science and technology or in our own family endeavours.
Without this ideal, we are doomed — and we deserve our fate.
CORRECTION “ isn’t there a clinical term for injustice fatigue? “
Probably gonna have to ask Clint Eastwood about that…
TJ:
Yes, I covered them both in great detail and with great alarm.
Here’s one that discusses Flynn and Dreyfus.
John Hinderaker hosted for Dennis Prager on November 4, and Liz Collin was the final guest. Her segment starts about 1:12:45 and covers most of what Gordon said, in considerable detail from the insiders’ view of herself and her husband.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/11/watch-me-on-the-radio.php
Direct link to the video:
https://dennisprager.com/watch-the-show/