No Posthumous Pardon For Convicted Felon George Floyd
The legacy of convicted felon George Floyd. Photo courtesy of the nytimes.com
After an attempt by convicted felon George Floyd’s attorney to have his criminal record clear after his death, the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole has rejected the request.
At the heart of the request was an allegation that, according to Allison Mathis, the officer involved in Floyd’s case has been accused of using false evidence in multiple cases. Obviously this was a Hail Mary thrown hoping the board would bite. Nothing was mentioned about Floyd’s 2004 drug conviction or any alleged improprieties with that case.
Last October the board recommended issuing Floyd a pardon but then rescinded the decision a few months later without a reason.
I am sure that would have not been a popular decision among law abiding Texas citizens and it would have looked bad for Governor Abbott who is seeking re-election.
I am very pleased with the decision by the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. Just because someone is no longer alive it does not mean their crimes never happened.
George Floyd was not a saint despite the efforts by the liberal media to portrait him as such. Floyd had a violent criminal history the media refused to share with the public.
In 2009 he served a five-year prison sentence, as part of a deal, for a 2007 charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Before that, he had been convicted of several charges from theft with a firearm to drugs.
The 2020 George Floyd riots were destructive. Domestic subversive groups Black Lives Matter and Antifa went on a rampage of burning, looting, and destroying everything they could.
By the way, has anybody been convicted for these crimes?
Floyd’s death was a regrettable one. No human being deserves to die while on police custody, but that does not mean Floyd’s life of crime should be an afterthought or forgotten.
I believe the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole understood accountability for his crimes should remain in place.
As his family got handsomely rewarded for his death, bad police officers were held accountable, and millions of dollars in property damage still unaccounted for, this is a remainder that when one commits a crime, one is not the victim, but those harmed by those actions are.
Big difference. One is a constitutional protected right; the other one? Not so much. Photo courtesy of live5news.com
As a male, I have tried to stay away from the abortion debate as I feel it is a subject I cannot relate to or completely understand. I cannot put myself in the position of a woman and assume I can understand the reason they would want to terminate a life.
Unfortunately, once the communists started to call for violence, and the domestic terrorist’s began acting upon, due to the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, as a former law enforcement officer, my neutrality on the subject went out of the window.
Let me start by making it clear, abortion is not, and has never been, a constitutional right. Despite of the people in power running around stating so, abortion is not in our constitution; and therefore, is not protected by the Constitution.
It was a 1973 (410 U.S. 113) Supreme Court ruling in which decided the Constitution protected a women’s right to have an abortion, despite the fact there has never been such protection afforded by the Constitution.
The decision struck down many federal and state abortion laws creating a rift between state and federal rights and a legal battle has lasted over 50 years.
Many legal scholars have said the Supreme Court got it wrong and conservative pro-life and religious groups have fought for the overturn of what they considered and overreach by the Supreme Court.
The democrats think this winning issue is going into the mid-term elections. Of course, this is what they have done in every election cycle, they use abortion, gay rights, and racial issues to appeal to their base.
But this time is different, this time we have more pressing issues that preoccupy the American people, including democrats.
High inflation, high gasoline prices, high unemployment, and a looming full blown recession, are at the heart of the priorities Americans care about going into the mid-terms.
Abortion is not issue American families are talking about at the dinner table, especially when food is more expensive, and they have to decide to either pay the mortgage or feed their children.
Democrats claim “all is lost” for women who wish to have abortions, which is a complete lie. Abortions will continue to be offered; the only difference is the issue has been returned to the individual states.
There are many states which will continue to offer abortion and even pay for those women to travel to their state on ‘abortion holidays.’
Companies like Disney, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Facebook, Starbucks, and Morgan Stanley, to name a few, announced they will pay for their employees on this ‘abortion holidays.’
I guess it is time to put your wallet where your morals are. If you use or support any of the above businesses, and believe abortion is wrong, you are nothing more than a hypocrite, but that is between you and your conscience.
Funny how the democrats are all about the law and have no problem lying to the American people about the January 6th riots, but they have no problem calling for riots and uprisings over a Supreme Court ruling.
Just like the over 200 riots in 2020, which the democrats called for and even encouraged their left-wing loons to do, I am sure the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice will ignore the riots and destruction of property the same radicals will act upon as a result of the Supreme Court ruling.
Nobody will face charges and outlets like CNN and MSNBC will call it ‘patriotic acts’ of defiance. Talk about a diluted society we live in.
If the democrats think this is a winning formula, by all means, go for it. The reality in Americans everyday life is different, and abortion is the last thing on their minds.
Social issues were a winning strategy for the democrats when such issues were deemed underrepresented in our society, but those days are gone.
Today, Americans are worried about how they are going to make their next mortgage payment, fill up their vehicles, feed their families, how to protect their families from out-of-control crime, and how to protect their children from government indoctrination to name a few.
Democrats are out of touch and have no legitimate issues to run on or brag about and they should pay the price at the ballot box this November.
I didn’t know Howard Stern still a ‘thing.’ I haven’t heard or seen Stern in over a decade, who knew. Anyhow, if you get your medical advice from this clown, Covid-19 is the least of your problems.
In another sign of Woke Derangement Syndrome, Disney apologizes to Peter Dinklage for re-making Snow White, well, with seven dwarfs? Can’t make this stuff up. Go woke or go broke!
This is the America we live in. People calling to boycott Starbucks because they chose to respect the Supreme Court of the United States.
I don’t care for Starbucks or their college graduates who serve their coffee, but I respect the fact they understand we live in a country where the rule of law remains in effect. They may reverse their course, after all, it is Starbucks, but until then, kudos to Starbucks.
There you have it friends. It can only get better…
A very sick society! Photo courtesy of rockthetreatment.com
I am not a member of Facebook, Twitter, Tik-tok, Snapchat, Instagram, and any other of those social media outlets.
I never cared for them because I believe they are nothing more than outlets for cowards who would never dare to say the things they type, in one’s face.
It is funny to see how politicians and so-called ‘influencers,’ get upset when they get suspended or banned for site violations.
After all, these companies are private enterprises, and they have the right to admit or dismiss those they see fit. The same way, we have the right, as consumers, to refuse to use them.
Unfortunately, social media has become a substitute for real life encounters and conversations. People sit in their underwear and type away or post things, that by most part, other people do not care about.
Other than your family; who cares if your kid got a 25th place trophy? Who cares if you indulge on a Big Mac after claiming you did a forty-five-minute workout?
Social media provides the means for people to spew hate, left and right, and never be held accountable. If you are not willing to say that same thing to my face, I have no time for you. Some of the things I have read on social media could warrant some serious legal issues.
People threatening others with a keyboard, and from miles away, is a cowardly act, but that is what it is today.
From politicians telling their followers to physically harm people because they have a different political ideology, to outlets like Facebook, banning a United States President, social media has created a whole class of what I have coined “techno-terrorists.”
These techno-terrorists are protected by the government and by pages of small print customer’s agreements with the social media conglomerates.
When social media outlets allow Democrat members of Congress to say whatever they want to say but restricts and remove information provided by Republican members of Congress, this is an attack on the First Amendment. It does nothing for the betterment of society and it restricts the flow of information.
When a social media magnate is given so much power about what people is allowed to say or discuss in a free society, we have a problem. This behavior is in complete contradiction with the United States Constitution.
Let us be honest, they are all the same, be a liberal platform or a conservative platform. If you do not have a little blue checkmark or some other symbol of exclusivity next to your name, you are treated differently. This is true of Twitter or the newly conservative outlet, Gettr.
These are social clubs for the politically and socially powerful, everyone else are the water carriers, without them they could not survive.
I compare social media to Mega-churches. People are looking for something to fulfil some emptiness in their life, be by giving 10% of their income to the church with the promise of eternal salvation or following some A-lister hoping one of their posts gets acknowledge, it is all the same.
There are also outlets for those who are nothing more than irrelevant afterthoughts who need these followers to survive. As soon as some faceless follower complains about their activities or comments, they go on an apology tour. They do not even have the self-respect to stand by their comments.
Places like Twitter and Facebook allows and promotes violence by extremist groups, be Antifa, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, or BLM, while at the same time removing accounts and information posted by those who live a more normal life.
They are de-facto an extension of political parties, mainly the Democratic Party, and they serve as their digital judge, jury, and executioners of those who exercise independent thinking and free speech. They are not regulated, and as a private enterprise, they get away with everything a publisher or a real news outlet could not.
They speak of conservative misinformation, but they fail to admit they are the ones spreading misinformation by not allowing the truth to flow. They allow a liar like Anthony Fauci to flip flop in real time, but according to them, Fauci is the only doctor on the planet who knows what he is talking about.
When faced with facts by people like Senator Rand Paul, the social media police deem his factual commentary as an attack on Fauci. The double standard is despicable and ridiculous enough for me not to get involve in these types of social media outlets.
Before social media, people had to talk to each other. There was a level of respect and understanding that has been lost by people hiding behind a keyboard and feeling empowered to talk to others whichever way they want.
Disrespect has become fashionable among the ‘mommy basement dwellers’ with their Facebook and Twitter accounts. Social media has created heroes out of zeroes and a new class of useless beings.
Social media is a societal cancer and until people realize they are nothing more than a hamster on a wheel, the big tech billionaires will continue to use them, and will continue to make billions while trouncing on free speech.
Lia Thomas and the Penn State Women’s Swimming Team
What’s wrong with this picture? Lots!!!! Photo courtesy of newyorklatestnews.com
The case of Lia Thomas, a biological male who identifies as a woman has shaken the collegiate swimming world while shattering women’s swimming records in the process.
Lia Thomas, swam for Penn State, NCAA Division 1, male swimming team for three years , before switching to the women’s team.
How Penn State allowed this to happen is beyond me. All I can think of is ‘winning by all means’ is still alive and well in America, regardless of the consequences.
Lia Thomas has gone on to break the 1,650 Freestyle record, 500 yard freestyle U.S. record, and the establishing the fastest women’s U.S. record for the 200 yard freestyle by seven seconds faster than the next woman competitor.
Thomas is unapologetic for her success, despite the fact she is a biological man, who obviously has physical advantages over women, given to her by the nature of being a man.
More egregious to me is the fact Penn State has allowed this to take place and has prohibited the women’s team members from speaking to the press.
What happened to the women’s movement? Where’s Hillary Clinton, Sheryl Sandberg, the Pussyhat Project, and the rest of the powerful women in the United States who claim to be for women’s rights?
It is amazing to me how 0.58% have so much influence in the United States, in essence, eliminating the meaning of being a woman in society.
I am in the camp of live and let live, but this goes beyond that. The women in the Penn State swimming team have competed as biological women since they were kids.
Their parents have sacrificed a lot for these ladies to succeed and in a matter of seconds, records are shattered, not by a hard working equal, but by a biological male who found out it was more profitable to switch sides.
So what’s the future of Title IX? Title IX was enacted in 1972 as part of the Education Amendments and prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools or education programs who receive federal funding.
After all, there are two scientifically recognized sexes; male and female. You would think that the majority party of ‘trust the science’, the Democratic Party, would be in the forefront fighting for women’s rights and enacting legislation to prevent this from happening.
I have a feeling the courts are going to be pretty busy in the near future. Parents around the country are catching up to these injustices and are ready to stand up for the rights of their own children.
What does this mean for women’s sports? What would prevent a program from replacing their women athletes with biological males who identify themselves as women? We will have to wait and see, but if this keeps going on without challenge, it won’t end well for women’s sports.
I wonder what pioneering women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the stalwarts of the suffrage movement in the United States would think of what’s happening to the women’s movement today.
