Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

AND HIS PROTECTION IS DISAPPEARING: Well, YEAH: Cop Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Has Long Disciplinary Record. “The issues in Captain Michael Byrd’s background included a failed shotgun qualification test, a failed FBI background check for a weapons purchase, a 33-day suspension for a lost weapon and referral to Maryland state prosecutors for firing his gun at a stolen car fleeing his neighborhood, according to congressional and police documents.”

THEY’VE BEEN DREADING THE INVESTIGATIONS TO COME: House Oversight Committee: DoD Inspector General Lied About January 6th. “Representative Barry Loudermilk, who chairs the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, released a report yesterday that slams the Department of Defense Inspector General and basically accuses him of engaging in an illegal coverup of the truth behind the Army’s failure to deploy the D.C. National Guard to defend the Capitol building as ordered.”

GOVERNMENT IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR THE THINGS WE CHOOSE TO DO TOGETHER:

WHEN REPUBLICANS ARE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT MUST BE FREE OF POLITICS. WHEN DEMOCRATS ARE IN, IT’S ALL POLITICS, ALL THE TIME.

Just another of the many double standards they employ, in pursuit of untrammeled power.

BRIAN KEMP SHOULD PARDON HER, THEN HAVE THE COPS FIRED: Georgia Police Arrest Mom Because Her Son Went for a Walk. “She was taken to the police station, stripped and put in an orange jumpsuit. She was initially told the charge was “reckless endangerment,” but there is no such offense in Georgia. The actual charge was reckless conduct, a misdemeanor which could land her in jail for up to a year. Patterson’s lawyer David DeLugas points out that under Georgia law parents can leave a child aged 9-12 with a caretaker for up to two hours. She left Soren at home with his grandfather for 90 minutes. And since she didn’t give him permission to walk to the store, there was no criminal act here.”

Even if she had given him permission that shouldn’t be criminal. Criminalizing what for centuries was normal parenting and normal childhood behavior and parenting is a civil rights violation, and civil rights violators should be punished.

OPEN THREAD: You and me were meant to be, living free in harmony.

WANTS IMMUNITY? I’M SURE HE DOES.

Seems like a bit of an admission, though.