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TAR, FEATHERS. MAYBE WORSE. Here We Go Again: US, China to Collaborate on Making Bird Flu More Infectious.
TAR. FEATHERS. Ex-CIA analyst says intel agencies to be politically active again in 2024 election: ‘Significant problem.’
I think we’re well past the point at which the Intelligence Community has become a net negative.
THE UK POPULACE NEEDS TO START STOCKPILING TAR, FEATHERS, AND ROPES: UK: you may soon go to jail if you don’t upgrade your energy efficiency.
TAR AND FEATHERS WERE NOT INVOLVED: Indiana Abortionist Caitlyn Bernard Disciplined for Her Role in Outing 10-Year-Old Rape Victim.
At the end of April, IJ filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse the Fifth Circuit’s ruling providing qualified immunity to a mayor and a police chief who threw a 72-year-old grandmother in jail, after she criticized a city manager, their ally.
Since then, five groups consisting of public interest organizations, renowned advocates, and acclaimed scholars filed their own briefs asking the Supreme Court to grant review and overturn this grievously wrong decision.
“The outpouring of support has been absolutely remarkable,” said IJ Attorney Anya Bidwell. “This has been such a morale boost for Sylvia Gonzalez, our client, who’s been terribly hurt by this whole experience. In addition, it has shown that we’re absolutely right in our interpretation of the law.”
Sylvia was arrested in 2018 after she petitioned her government to remove the city manager. As it turns out, the city manager had powerful friends determined to ensure that Sylvia and others opposing the powers that be knew their place. To punish Sylvia for speaking out, the mayor and the police chief engineered an arrest of the 72-year-old grandmother. Her offense? She supposedly tried to steal the petition to remove the city manager that she herself championed.
The district court saw through this charade and denied qualified immunity to the officials. The Fifth Circuit reversed, holding that Sylvia had not been able to prove that the arrest was only done to retaliate against her, despite evidence that no one had been prosecuted for a similar action in the last decade in Texas. In a 2-1 decision, the judges relied on a previous case that was about police acting in a split-second decision. But again, Sylvia wasn’t arrested at the meeting; her opponents took months trying to figure out how to put her in jail.
“‘Show me the man and I will show you the crime’ is what notorious Soviet secret police leader Lavrentiy Beria once said in boasting about his ability to weaponize the law to punish government critics. What happened to Sylvia is not far removed from that. It’s not the kind of thing that’s supposed to happen in America,” said Patrick Jaicomo, IJ senior attorney.
Too many officials operate in a culture of impunity.
TAR. FEATHERS.
Translation:
“If you don’t raise the debt limit, we will inflict maximum pain on Seniors and every other popular program, so we can keep wasting trillions of $$$ on the other stuff we don’t want to talk about”. pic.twitter.com/E3uVEq337q
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) May 7, 2023
TAR. FEATHERS. AT BEST.
At the Revere Hotel in Boston, FBI agents and Army Special Ops units were about to conduct a "training exercise".
In the "exercise", they would go into a room and interrogate a "role player".
Instead, they went to the wrong room, where an unsuspecting airline pilot answered the… pic.twitter.com/OmuBXouQQI
— Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) April 29, 2023
THE WAGES OF DEI AT TEXAS A&M. Tar. Feathers.
WILL TAR AND FEATHERS BE INVOLVED? New Zealand announces public inquiry into COVID-19 response.
This seems more like a CYA exercise to me.
TAR, FEATHERS: ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: Planned Parenthood director claims kids ‘sexual beings’ from birth, promotes porn literacy.
TAR, FEATHERS: Teacher forced to apologize for bringing in cotton plants during lesson on slavery.
A San Francisco history teacher allegedly was suspended and then forced to apologize for bringing in cotton plants for a lesson on slavery and the cotton gin.
Last month, the Creative Arts Charter School teacher had brought in the plants, called “bolls,” to show “the sharp edges that had pierced hands while picking cotton and pulling out the seeds,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
It took less than a day for the school to begin an investigation into the teacher and the lesson.
Although school officials “declined to confirm” what specific actions were taken, the teacher was absent for five weeks following the lesson. Upon her return just nine days ago, she issued a written apology to school families.
The apology noted the lesson was “sourced from reliable sources” (the report indicates it is “widely available online”) and was “an effort to get the students to understand the difficulty of manually processing cotton prior to the invention of Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin.”
But, the teacher added, “I realize that this lesson was not culturally responsive and had the potential to cause harm.”
No, it did not.
TAR, FEATHERS: Rochester Michigan schools monitor parents’ social media posts, twice contacted critics’ employers.
A lawsuit filed on May 3, 2021, claims Dinverno advocated on two separate Facebook groups to reopen schools in-person: “RCS Parents for In-Person Education” and “Conservative Parents for Rochester.” Dinverno asked other parents for video testimony of how virtual school was hurting kids.
In a February 3 deposition, Superintendent Robert Shaner admitted he called the parent’s employer over a parent’s social media post encouraging protesting private homes over virtual learning because he was “scared.”
Shaner said he believing the woman had submitted a written threat to the district, although never asked further details. He defended the district’s surveillance of parent social media accounts in the deposition.
“Yeah, we value the input of all parents, and we certainly want to keep our thumb on the pulse of the community, so we monitor social media very closely on all fronts and make sure we’re responsive to the community,” Shane told Deborah Gordon, Dinverno’s attorney.
“Yeah, so again, I just want to be clear about the social media,” Shane said. “We do watch it and try to make sure we know what’s going on in our community, but that’s not the only place that we get information on social media. Believe it or not, there are parents that support what we are doing, and they often share what’s going on in social media with us as well…”.
The lawsuit alleges that RCS public relations members Amy DiCresce and Lori Grein were assigned to compile a dossier on district parents’ social media posts and comments critical of the school district, which were circulated to school officials.
Gordon told the News that the school spent taxpayer money to surveil parent’s social media posts and gather personal information, including place of employment, names of children, and the schools they attend.
Leftists watch The Lives of Others for tips on efficient government and education.
TAR, FEATHERS: Fairfax Schools Sues Special-Ed Parents, Demanding ‘Damages’ For Publicizing Embarrassing Records The Schools Gave Them. “It also sued another mother of a special-needs student who runs a blog that published portions of the records. The documents are billing records showing how FCPS paid Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm that hired now-Virginia gubernatorial candidate McAuliffe as a top advisor, to do much of what parents say is the school system’s dirty work, including seeking to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed by special-ed parents who allege that their children were systematically physically abused by educators.”
YOU WANT TAR AND FEATHERS AND GUILLOTINES? THIS IS HOW YOU GET TAR AND FEATHERS AND GUILLOTINES: Fed-up Sarasota County school board bans criticism of members. “At a meeting last week, Vice Chairwoman Jane Goodwin — standing in for Chairwoman Shirley Brown, who lost control of the meeting — directed police to remove citizens who criticized specific elected officials during the public comment period, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports.”
They can be reached here. Their group photo seems rather Karenish. There’s only one man.
Our political class increasingly seems to think it shouldn’t have to care what voters think. That’s how you turn voters into protesters, rioters, and revolutionaries.
Or “areas where there is a problem with sexual harassment” may be a code word for “Muslim immigrant neighborhoods,” though in that case he’s got to worry about beheading, not tar and feathers.
TAR. FEATHERS. Joel Kotkin: Climate Policy: Covid on Steroids?
For most people around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic seems a great human tragedy, with deaths, bankruptcies, and fractured mental states. Yet for some, especially among the green Twitterati and in some policy shops, the pandemic presents a grand opportunity to enact permanent lockdowns on economic growth, population growth, and upward mobility.
Remember, they don’t see making ordinary people’s lives worse as collateral damage. They see it as a collateral benefit. Or maybe as the goal.
TAR. FEATHERS. Government Cameras Hidden on Private Property? Welcome to Open Fields.
Seated at his kitchen table, finishing off the remains of a Saturday breakfast, Hunter Hollingsworth’s world was rocked by footsteps on his front porch and pounding at the door, punctuated by an aggressive order: “Open up or we’ll kick the door down.”
Surrounded on all sides of his house, and the driveway blocked, Hollingsworth was the target of approximately 10 federal and state wildlife officials packing pistols, shotguns and rifles. And what was Hollingsworth’s crime? Drugs, armed robbery, assault, money laundering? Not quite.
Months prior, in 2018, the Tennessee landowner removed a game camera secretly strapped to a tree on his private land by wildlife officials in order to monitor his activity without apparent sanction or probable cause. Repeat: Hollingsworth’s residence was searched by U.S. government and state officials, dressed to the nines in assault gear, seeking to regain possession of a trail camera—the precise camera they had surreptitiously placed on his private acreage after sneaking onto his property at night, loading the camera with active SD and SIM cards, and zip-tying the device roughly 10’ high up a tree—all without a warrant.
This is a physical trespass, and any claim that the “open fields” doctrine should apply here is absurd.
TAR. FEATHERS. PITCHFORKS. New Files Highlight Brennan’s Role Promoting Clinton’s Russia Collusion Narrative.
Related: ‘Russia hoax’ was lie created by Hillary Clinton and one of the dirtiest political tricks ever.
It was a seditious conspiracy to overturn a democratic election. People should be jailed, if not outright executed, which I don’t believe the law permits.
BUT… BUT… BUT WE’VE ALREADY SPENT SO MUCH ON ROPE, TAR, FEATHERS AND A RAIL!!!! Pelosi waiting for Judiciary Committee hearings before committing to impeachment. (And the commitment should be involuntary and to a mental facility for Pelosi and the gang. Look, if ever I saw a crying need for anti-psychotics.)
TAR, FEATHERS. School district warns parents their kids could be put in foster care unless lunch debt paid. People are amazingly docile — or, if you prefer, law-abiding — given that threats like this almost never get the threatener killed or beaten to within an inch of their life.