@FUDdaily If you have a son, daughter, relative or mate in the police, it’s time to have ‘that’ talk.
No British bobby should be arresting people for opinions.
Don’t let them shame themselves, their families, their profession & their country.
It’s wrong and dangerous for all our futures.
Three times in my adult life, we got to see what our leaders were made of.
Who opposed the bailouts in October 2008?
Who opposed the lockdown in March 2020?
Who resisted the BLM madness in June 2020?
The number of politicians who passed all three tests AT THE TIME is tiny.
I’ve always liked Stephen Miller. He’s principled, smart, and fearless. I didn’t know this about him.
In spring 2006, three Duke lacrosse players—David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann—were accused of raping Crystal Mangum at a team party.
Within days the campus verdict was in. The season was canceled. The coach was forced out. Their faces were on every cable channel.
88 Duke professors signed a full-page ad thanking protesters for not waiting for the facts and declaring the case exposed “racism and sexism” no matter what a court decided. The school suspended the players.
Durham DA Mike Nifong, a Democrat fighting a tough primary, went on TV promising convictions. Saying “wait for the evidence” got you called racist.
Except for one student. He wasn’t on the team. He wasn’t a friend of the accused. He was just a 20-year-old junior (later senior) who kept writing in the student paper that in America you’re innocent until proven guilty. Then he did something no other Duke student did: he went on The O’Reilly Factor and Nancy Grace—not as a lawyer or pundit, but as a student—telling millions his own university had rushed to judgment.
Most of campus called him racist. The News & Observer called him the “lonely voice insisting that the players were innocent.” He stayed that voice for a year.
Then the case collapsed. DNA cleared all three. Mangum’s story kept changing. The photo lineup was rigged.
Worst of all, Nifong conspired with the DNA lab to hide the exculpatory results.
On April 11, 2007, North Carolina AG Roy Cooper dropped every charge and declared Evans, Finnerty, and Seligmann “innocent”—victims of a “tragic rush to accuse.” Nifong resigned, was disbarred, and was briefly jailed. Years later Mangum admitted she lied.
The student who refused to back down, who was called racist for defending three fellow students while 88 of his own professors had already convicted them in print, who went on national TV at 20 to stand for the presumption of innocence?
His name was Stephen Miller.
#StephenMiller #DukeLacrosse
This was a piss weak argument in 2016 and it's just as dumb now. A big part of the reason Britain is a squalid shit tip is the Waste Framework Directive and the EU landfill tax. A big part of the reason we struggle to build anything is the onerous EU derived planning laws and the Habitats Directive. The Working Time Directive is why the NHS is reliant on temps, and that was made even worse by the Agency Workers Directive.
The main reason we screwed up the national grid was because of the Large Combustion Plant Directive and the Renewables Directive. One of the main reason our meat industry is dying is because of the EU veterinary system. Not forgetting the EU EV mandate and emissions rules that have demolished our car industry.
I could do this all day. Everything is saddled with unsustainable bureaucracy. There are endless malign influences of EU technical policy that a know-nothing like Massie would have zero comprehension of, and I'd be here til midnight were I to detail them all.
Leaving the EU was a perquisite for making any strategically important reforms - and until it actually happens, Britain will remain a declining moribund economy.
@hellenomania@HeadGarlic@clement_molin ha ha, the Russians would love the Ukrainians if they were actually Nazis. Because they'd be much more like modern Russians.
@Timmetie@NotWoofers Russia has tried to send people it won't miss. Convicts in their thousands and high numbers of Buryats, Chechens and other minorities.
@CraigMoffett2@clement_molin Ukraine has lost hardly any territory this year. Why is that if the Russians aren't taking big losses.
Do you think they're not trying?
@r8wb4pnkwy@clement_molin What's your argument Vatnik?
If you think that the Russians aren't taking huge losses, why haven't they gained any significant ground all year?
Are you telling us they're not trying?
@emkenobi George Floyd was a nasty career criminal who killed himself by swallowing his whole stash of illegal drugs when the police came to arrest him for fraud.
I'm personally quite ok with the fact the sack of shit woman-beater is dead but I don't think Charlie ever mocked his death.
George Floyd was a drug addled violent criminal hobo who died of a drug overdose and then was venerated as a literal saint while leftists burned down entire city blocks in revenge. Charlie Kirk was a political commentator who never committed any crimes and was gunned down on camera while speaking peacefully in front of an audience, and nobody responded by rioting or committing any acts of violence or reprisals anywhere at all. So, no, joking about George Floyd is not the same as joking about Charlie Kirk. The two men, and the circumstances around their deaths, and the subsequent reactions, have no resemblance at all. There is no comparison except that they both died, and that's it. Anyone trying to draw this moral equivalency is lying or stupid or both. And any conservative claiming that we have to tolerate the Charlie jokes because we criticized George Floyd is a submissive cucked shill and should be disregarded on this issue and every other.
@miss_anthrop75 He looks lovely. Dog owners inflict this sadness on ourselves every 10 to 15 years.
Yet it's worth it for the joy, friendship and love that they bring us.
He's an old man in dog terms but that's only some comfort when you lose them.
@TonklinDiary@jammach I went from telling one truth to telling another truth.
If either truth upset you, that’s a you problem.
The fact is that, at the time of WW1 and even until after WW2, many Canadians were fiercely British in outlook, as well as genetically.
In Poland, it has been discovered that the Kraków attacker, Michał Oksiński, was a radical left-wing, antifascist and anarcho-communist activist who mocked Christianity. Tusk’s government and the left wing media tried to link him to right-wing groups, but it is now known that this is not the case.
@TonklinDiary@jammach In those days, people didn’t distinguish much, especially for Canadians descended from Britons.
Canadians were just thought of as Britons who had gone to our colonies to serve the empire and spread Britishness.
Most had relatives in Britain and vice versa.