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neptuneblue
 
  4  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 02:14 pm
@gungasnake,
gungasnake wrote:
Certainly. He, Manafort and others are being targeted by a massive abuse of prosecutorial and judicial powers.

You are basically blaming the victim in what amounts to a DOJ lynching.


Well, when he's out on bail...don't do stupid things.

Judge orders Roger Stone to court over inflammatory Instagram post
Adam Shaw By Adam Shaw | Fox News

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former Trump adviser Roger Stone to appear in court to consider whether his bail will be revoked after he posted a picture of her on Instagram showing what appeared to be crosshairs in the background.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered Stone to show up on Thursday afternoon to argue why she should not modify or revoke his bail -- or even impose a full gag order.

Stone deleted the photo, but later posted the same one again, this time without the crosshairs, and slammed the trial in a caption.

“Through legal trickery Deep State hitman Robert Mueller has guaranteed that my upcoming show trial is before Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointed Judge who dismissed the Benghazi charges against Hillary Clinton and incarcerated Paul Manafort prior to his conviction for any crime,” Stone’s post was captioned.

Stone and his lawyers filed a notice on Monday night, admitting that sharing the picture wasn’t appropriate and that he apologizes. His lawyer also said he plans to apologize in person Thursday.

“Please inform the Court that the photograph and comment today was improper and should not have been posted. I had no intention of disrespecting the Court and humbly apologize to the Court for the transgression,” Stone said.

On Instagram, Stone said that the post has been “misinterpreted” and denied he tried to threaten the judge.

“A photo of Judge Jackson posted on my Instagram has been misinterpreted. This was a random photo taken from the Internet. Any inference that this was meant to somehow threaten the Judge or disrespect court is categorically false,” he wrote.

Stone pleaded not guilty last month to obstruction of justice, witness tampering and making false statements to Congress after being indicted last week as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

The indictment alleges that Stone worked to obstruct the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 election by making false statements to the committee, denying he had records sought by the committee and persuading a witness to provide false testimony.

The indictment does not charge Stone with conspiring with WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy website that published Clinton campaign emails, or with Russian officers Mueller says hacked them. Instead, it accuses him of witness tampering, obstruction, and false statements about his interactions related to WikiLeaks.

Jackson last week issued a limited gag order, preventing Stone from discussing the case near the courthouse -- but it does not stop Stone from making other public comments about the case.

In implementing the limited gag order on Friday, Jackson said it was necessary to "maintain the dignity and seriousness of the courthouse and these proceedings."
coldjoint
 
  -2  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 02:16 pm
@gungasnake,
Quote:
about a billion dead bodies lying around due to that "religion"...

The 270 million is an estimate backed by facts that have been disputed, but I think that number is realistic. Either way, Muhammad made Hitler look like a baby.
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oralloy
 
  -3  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 04:12 pm
@hightor,
hightor wrote:
Did you call them a "liar" as well?
I'm not entirely sure who "them" is. But probably not. I'm a bit reluctant to call people a liar. I called you a liar because you are being intentionally dishonest. You post without honor.

I'm going to guess that "them" refers to people who find an actual error on my part. If so, no. I don't call them a liar. As I already said, if they find an error that I've made, I acknowledge the error.

hightor wrote:
Why are you defending Nazis?
Because you are making false accusations against them, and I always tell the truth.
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oralloy
 
  -4  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 04:13 pm
@neptuneblue,
Quote:
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former Trump adviser Roger Stone to appear in court to consider whether his bail will be revoked after he posted a picture of her on Instagram showing what appeared to be crosshairs in the background.
It's time to ask a higher court to remove this judge from the case.
gungasnake
 
  -1  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 04:33 pm
AUTOPSY OF A DEAD COUP D'ETAT

https://amgreatness.com/2019/02/17/autopsy-of-a-dead-coup/

gungasnake
 
  -2  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 04:34 pm
@oralloy,
Same judge who apparently has Paul Manafort sitting in solitary confinement....
blatham
 
  3  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 04:43 pm
The NYT has a Must Read piece up on Trump's wide-ranging attempts to block or neuter the many investigations into his presidency.
Quote:
...The story of Mr. Trump’s attempts to defang the investigations has been voluminously covered in the news media, to such a degree that many Americans have lost track of how unusual his behavior is. But fusing the strands reveals an extraordinary story of a president who has attacked the law enforcement apparatus of his own government like no other president in history, and who has turned the effort into an obsession. Mr. Trump has done it with the same tactics he once used in his business empire: demanding fierce loyalty from employees, applying pressure tactics to keep people in line and protecting the brand — himself — at all costs....

It is a public relations strategy as much as a legal strategy — a campaign to create a narrative of a president hounded by his “deep state” foes. The new Democratic majority in the House, and the prospect of a wave of investigations on Capitol Hill this year, will test whether the strategy shores up Mr. Trump’s political support or puts his presidency in greater peril. The president has spent much of his time venting publicly about there being “no collusion” with Russia before the 2016 election, which has diverted attention from a growing body of evidence that he has tried to impede the various investigations.
NYT

Why such a PR (propaganda is a better word here) strategy? Obviously, to keep his base on board. But the far edge of this is to excuse increasingly egregious moves to protect himself. God knows what crises are going to come of his criminality.

Edit: further down in the piece there's something I hadn't thought of
Quote:
Mr. Mueller was unlikely to indict Mr. Trump, the president’s advisers believed, so the real danger to his presidency was impeachment — a political act that Congress would probably carry out only with broad public support. If Mr. Mueller’s investigation could be discredited, then impeachment might be less likely.
izzythepush
 
  3  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 04:56 pm
Quote:
The editor and publisher of a local paper in Alabama is under fire for penning an editorial calling for mass lynchings by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

The opinion piece ran in his print-only newspaper, the Democrat-Reporter, last Thursday, Goodloe Sutton confirmed on Tuesday.

He said Democrats were going to raise taxes and that the KKK should hang them and raid Washington DC.

Alabama lawmakers have called for Sutton to resign.

The KKK is one of the oldest white supremacy groups in the US, formed just after the civil war. The group was behind many of the lynchings, rapes and violent attacks on African Americans in the 1900s.

The editorial began garnering attention online after students from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, tweeted photographs of the article.

Sutton could not be immediately reached for comment on the matter.

He was once a celebrated journalist, commended for his ethics by other news outlets - including the New York Times and American Journalism Review.

A short editorial piece published without a byline on 14 February was entitled: "Klan needs to ride again."

"Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again," the article said, referencing the KKK's terrorising raids through black communities.

"Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama... This socialist-communist ideology sounds good to the ignorant, the uneducated, and the simple-minded people."

"Seems like the Klan would be welcome to raid the gated communities up there."

Sutton later confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser that he had written the article.

"If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out DC we'd all been better off," he said. "We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them."

"It's not calling for the lynchings of Americans. These are socialist-communists we're talking about."

Sutton also told the paper he did not believe the Klan was a violent organisation.

"They didn't kill but a few people. The Klan wasn't violent until they needed to be."

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are currently around 5,000 to 8,000 KKK members across the US; during the Klan's heyday in the 1900s, there were as many as four million members.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47295551
Builder
 
  -1  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 05:15 pm
@gungasnake,
Quote:
AUTOPSY OF A DEAD COUP D'ETAT


Good article.

No mention of Aussie sycophant, Alexander Downer, but he was in the thick of it as well.

Article here
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coldjoint
 
  -2  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 05:16 pm
@blatham,
Quote:

Why such a PR (propaganda is a better word here) strategy?

Lara Logan has told people where the propaganda really comes from. Next.
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blatham
 
  2  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 05:19 pm
@izzythepush,
That dude is something, ain't he.
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coldjoint
 
  -1  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 05:26 pm
@izzythepush,
Quote:
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are currently around 5,000 to 8,000 KKK members across the US; during the Klan's heyday in the 1900s, there were as many as four million members.

Besides your never ending interest in keeping race involved in everything is your failure to trivialize horrific events like you do when Islam is involved. And if I recall, you think Islam is a race.
Quote:

Islamic Terrorists ...murder more people every day than the KKK has in the last 70 years (26 since 1945).

https://thereligionofpeace.com/
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coldjoint
 
  -2  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 06:56 pm
Quote:
Two Days After Telling Americans to Check All Sides of a Story, CBS Dumps Lara Logan

Imagine that.
Quote:
Ritland characterized U.S. news media as “absurdly left-leaning” and supportive of Democrats, further describing the status quo of American news media’s left-wing and partisan Democrat biases as a “huge ******* problem” and “disaster for this country.”

Logan concurred, “I agree with that. That’s true.” She described U.S. and international news media as “mostly liberal,” adding, “most” journalists are left.

“The media everywhere is mostly liberal, not just the U.S.,” assessed Logan.

https://godfatherpolitics.com/two-days-after-telling-americans-to-check-all-sides-of-a-story-cbs-fires-lara-logan/
oralloy
 
  -2  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 07:12 pm
@coldjoint,
Wow. She was the only good reporter left at CBS.
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oralloy
 
  -1  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 07:15 pm
@gungasnake,
gungasnake wrote:
Same judge who apparently has Paul Manafort sitting in solitary confinement....
The government should seize leftists' property to fund compensation payments to all of their victims.
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jcboy
 
  1  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 07:17 pm
tRump wants to investigate SNL but not Russia. How does anyone - ANYONE - takes this small, pathetic, sorry ass POS seriously?
oralloy
 
  -3  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 07:20 pm
@jcboy,
Mr. Trump prevents leftists from violating my civil liberties.

My civil liberties are important to me.
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coldjoint
 
  -2  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 07:26 pm
@jcboy,
Quote:
tRump wants to investigate SNL but not Russia. How does anyone - ANYONE - takes this small, pathetic, sorry ass POS seriously?

It is always a good time for introspection.
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glitterbag
 
  3  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 07:33 pm
@jcboy,
I have a theory!
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RABEL222
 
  1  
Tue 19 Feb, 2019 07:47 pm
I see that Trump got another journalist thrown in jail in the Philippines. I wonder how long before he gets his own crooked cops in the justice system so he can become another Putin or Duterte?
 

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