Comments on: Law roundup

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:23:23 +0000

1. My guess is that these long sentences for Antifa members will be appealed on the ground that they are too harsh.

2. Wiki–No at all reliable, if it ever was.

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:05:21 +0000

@Skip:If you can’t fly your country’s flag your government isfor your country.

This is an interesting difference between the US and the UK. To a Scottish couple, the flag of England is NOT the flag of “their country”, and people flying it in Scotland can expect to get a negative reaction from Scots, and unless they are completely clueless, they would be intending to get a negative reaction. Welsh don’t appreciate it too much either. A rough equivalent might be a Confederate flag outside the South; the slavery and racism baggage isn’t there so it’s not a perfect equivalent. (Even inside the South Confederate flags are not universally appreciated.)

The article neo linked to was about the flag of England in Oxfordshire, which is in England, and flying it there ought to be about like flying the flag of Texas in Texas, but there’s people in America who object to the American flag too and probably there are a few people in Texas who will say that the flag of Texas represents racism and colonialism and whatnot–they’ll be found in Austin no doubt.

It’s because of the people you tend to find flying the flag of England; somewhat like the kind of people you find with a rainbow flag or a Gadsden flag or a Confederate flag in the US. Those flags have associations, rightly or wrongly, beyond their surface meanings. People have been trying to reclaim the Confederate flag for years, some of them not very sincerely, “I’m just celebrating my heritage wink-wink-nudge-nudge”. There isn’t really anyone who can plausibly pretend to think there isn’t going to be friction over it. When I see someone with rainbow flags all over it’s no mystery what they are trying to say.

By: Skip

Skip — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:14:59 +0000

Two things
1st, can’t be more happy the looters are caught in all these government projects, but afraid they spent or sent that money elsewhere and its gone. Billions vanished.
2nd – was watching YouTube as is it does one video gets you more, a Scottish couple said what most amazing things visiting here, one was American flags everywhere.

If you can’t fly your country’s flag your government isfor your country.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:12:56 +0000

And in “Merrye Olde ~~England~~ Britain, Starmer has, finally, been forced to declared he’s stepping down as PM…but as this will occur only in September, it leaves open the question—since psychos gotta psycho—of how much damage that smarmy psychopath can cause in the months before that happens….

By: Selfy

Selfy — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:04:49 +0000

(4) Finally, after Good and Pretti, another wack job named Proper has been nabbed. But Song (2) is headed to Sing Sing, or similar.
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I’ve noticed recently when using Wikipedia that links in footnotes don’t support what the corresponding text in the body of the articles says.

By: physicsguy

physicsguy — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:08:28 +0000

Thanks, Kate.

It’s all in line with the usual left lie that the vast majority of violence comes from the right.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:43:29 +0000

physicsguy, the alleged ringleader of the plot is identified as an illegal from Mexico, with an Obama-era “DACA” designation. Doesn’t sound much like the “right wing religious fanatics” your leftist friends hope for.

By: neo

neo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:19:33 +0000

Steve (Retired/recovering lawyer):

Agreed. That’s what I was trying to point out about its coverage of Antifa.

I do use Wiki a lot for other information, though. It’s pretty good on a lot of non-political things.

By: RigelDog

RigelDog — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:18:21 +0000

I will be vague, but my husband has extensive experience in what investigations look like when threats and plots against government officials are uncovered. He is very protective of first Amendment rights and recognizes that the government can and does occasionally overreach, or even come close to entrapment.
Reading publicly available information about the recent threats to attack the White House, though, he thinks it does not look like mere blowhard speech, or like entrapment. Looks like credible threats.

By: Steve (Retired/recovering lawyer)

Steve (Retired/recovering lawyer) — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:13:33 +0000

About Wikipedia: it is not a source of information about matters of current socio-political interest any longer. Rather it is a source of leftist propaganda and marxian cant. It is so badly corrupted that Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger was indefinitely blocked from editing the English Wikipedia. The ban was enacted by the site’s community consensus after he launched “WikiProject Intellectual Diversity”, a campaign aimed at pushing the site toward more ideological balance and transparency. So, unless you are looking up the gross domestic product of Lithuania or something equally pedestrian, look elsewhere for accuracy of content. Wikipedia has become a wretched hive of scum and villainy, to cadge a phrase from Obi Wan.