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On Kajieme Powell, and Injustice in America

October 5, 2014 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)

We here at GayPatriot care deeply about justice. In contrast to the political Left, we happen to care about real justice; rather than posturing and claims of “social justice” that are usually unjust and illegitimate. We know that 90-95% of the time, when the political Left is shrieking about “social justice”, it’s exaggeration – or often baloney.

Accordingly, we tend to favor law and order. But the law-enforcement system must be subject to constitutional limits. And it’s made of human beings like anything else, beings who can make mistakes or go wrong. There are times when law enforcement should be criticized, if not condemned, for doing something horribly unjust.

Kajieme Powell’s death is one of those times. If you haven’t seen this video already, WARNING – it’s tragic and not for the faint of heart:

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(Via Zero Hedge; edited video is also at HotAir.)

At the risk of being obvious, I’d like to state what was so unjust in the police killing of Powell. First and obviously, it was out of proportion to anything Powell did. He allegedly stole food items from a convenience store. And he reportedly waved a knife while resisting police arrest. And for those bad things, he should have been knocked to the ground (to get the knife away from him), or tased, or (at the very most) shot in the leg. Not riddled with a stream of bullets.

Second – and perhaps less obviously; some Democrats may need to have this spelled out for them – it was far out of proportion to what others have done. Others like, for example, DEMOCRAT Jon Corzine who, to this day, still has not been charged for stealing on a scale so vast that poor Kajieme Powell couldn’t begin to dream of it.

An America where Powell is riddled with bullets over a few food items while DEMOCRAT Jon Corzine never faces charges, is not a place of justice.

This is what our society has come to. And I don’t think it’s about race per se, as much as it is about political status & connections. Remember, Corzine’s key political connection was President Barack Obama. Powell probably had no connections.

P.S. I apologize for my tardiness in getting to the Powell matter. Without going into detailed excuses, let’s just say that (1) writing posts is time-consuming work, the way I go about it; (2) I had a busy summer; and so (3) I simply wasn’t writing in August when this happened, and I’m only now getting caught up.

Filed Under: Democrats & Double Standards, Dishonest Democrats, Rule of Law, Social Issues Tagged With: Democrats & Double Standards, dishonest democrats, Jon Corzine, justice, kajieme powell, Rule of Law, Social Issues

Huffington Post Forgets a Word in article on Corzine charges

June 27, 2013 by B. Daniel Blatt

And it’s not just in this image from AOL’s home page:

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The editors also failed to include that word in the linked article.  Mr. Corzine, as you may recall, the immediate past Governor of the Garden State, is a Democrat.

Vice President Biden said that the Obama team called Mr. Corzine for economic advice during the transition.  “We,” the Delaware Democrat said, “trusted his [Corzine’s] judgment.” (Just after 1:00 in the video at the link.)

Do you think that if Mr. Corzine had been a Republican who had advised George W. Bush or Mitt Romney that his partisan affiliation would not have gone unnoticed?

UPDATE (from Jeff): Dan, GMTA. I was going update my earlier post on this theme. For the detail-hungry, Zero Hedge has the CFTC statement and complaint. Charges at last! But (again as ZH notes, as well as our commentors) only civil charges: why not criminal?

Filed Under: Democratic Scandals, Democrats & Double Standards, Media Bias Tagged With: Democratic scandals, Jon Corzine, MFC Global

Why hasn’t this guy been put on trial?

April 4, 2013 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)

Most of you will get the likely reason in one guess:

Democrat Jon Corzine

Yes, it’s “Jon Corzine” (don’t say Democrat! don’t say Democrat!!! it won’t matter, if nobody ever points it out!!!1!), formerly of Goldman-Sachs and MF Global.

At this time, the 767-word news article that I’ve linked to never gets around to mentioning that “Jon Corzine” is a top Democrat. It lists his political involvement simply as “former New Jersey governor”, omitting not only his party, but also his powerful roles as a Democrat Senator and as one of Obama’s very top fund-raisers and (formerly) advisors.

At this time, the article’s photo caption has even (wrongly) put an “(R)” after Corzine’s name. The caption reads:

Reuters/Reuters – Former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine (R) receives help with his notes from his legal counsel as he testifies before a House Financial Services Committee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee…

Bias, anyone?

From The Comments: John points out that the (R) would of course be defended as the photographic “right”. But even allowing that, Corzine is not the guy on the right; he’s the guy in the center (of three people in a rapidly-receding perspective). The point is that somebody at Reuters is fine with allowing people to think that Corzine is something other than a top Democrat.

Filed Under: Democratic Scandals, Democrats & Double Standards, Dishonest Democrats, Government Accountability & Ethics, Liberal Lies, Media Bias, Misrepresenting the Right Tagged With: Democratic scandals, Democrats & Double Standards, dishonest democrats, Ethics in Government, Jon Corzine, Liberal Lies, media bias, Misrepresenting Republicans

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