GUNS ( Part 1: The Chauvin Trial )

 

The Chauvin Trial: Justice in the Era of Racial Equity and Political Partisanship 

The Chauvin verdict is in and the mob has been appeased.  Wait no, they have just moved on to the next outrage.  Remember, the goal is to convince you that America is systemically racist.  The police are racist.  Voting laws are racist.  The filibuster is racist. Not admitting DC and Puerto Rico into the union is racist.  Healthcare is racist.  The border is racist.  Hell, according to AOC and her band of merry progressives, even climate change is racist.  You’ll have to explain that last one to me. Apparently the left has weaponized racism and is using it to bludgeon conservatives into retreating on every progressive talking point, making a sensible discussion of the issues impossible.  Especially when one side has essentially resorted to name-calling.  And don’t get me wrong, Derek Chauvin is a persona non grata on the right as well.  This cretin opened the door to the narrative that we have to “fundamentally change racist America” and “defund the police” by his callous disregard for the well-being of his fellow man in obvious distress, regardless of Mr. Floyd’s criminal record, drug abuse, and the infamous gun held to the pregnant woman’s belly during a home invasion. No angel was he.  But he didn’t deserve to die in the street and be deprived of due process.  Yet he also doesn’t deserve to be canonized by the left. And while on the subject of due process: Since when in America do we disregard the effect of outside influences placed on a non-sequestered jury?  CNN essentially doxed them all, providing detailed descriptions of their ages, races and professions.  As Glenn Beck pointed out, in a parody of the Dating Game (Google it, kids): he’s a 30 year-old white, chemist, married with two children.  Gee, I wonder if his co-workers in the lab can put that together when Frank is mysteriously out of work for two weeks? And how about the pig blood smeared on the front door of a witness’ home? And the reprehensible and utterly self-serving Maxine Waters inciting the mob to violence should the verdict not be to their liking?  Incredulously, even Biden weighed in and issued a statement.  And how about that mob that assembled outside the courthouse every day? Does anybody have a job anymore?  But here’s what I really gleaned from the trial and all those expert witnesses:  unless a knife was plunged into the victim’s heart, or perhaps there’s a large bullet hole in the forehead, pathologists frequently have absolutely no idea what actually killed the victim.  The most important determining factor on autopsy would appear to be which side is picking up the tab.  And in all that testimony, not one word in the media about the most common side effect of fentanyl: respiratory depression.  Another complication, although rare, is “stiff chest syndrome”, a poorly understood phenomenon that results in muscle contraction and rigidity of the chest wall with the patient being unable to exchange sufficient air resulting in the inability to breathe.  Might that account for Mr. Floyd claiming he couldn’t breathe when he was standing upright, unmolested, restrained only by handcuffs?  Nothing.  Crickets.  Even the judge provided a qualifier as the jury headed to deliberation, chastising the mob, and that includes you Maxine, for seeking to influence the jury.  Such is the state of justice in America. She may claim to be blind, but she sure has become politically correct.  And now we find that a juror seeking his 15 minutes of fame, a sad commentary on our times, lied on his questionnaire and had appeared at a BLM rally that featured Floyd’s family.  But we’ve seen this before.  Recall the jury foreperson in the Roger Stone case who lied about her background, actually being a failed Democrat candidate, and a vehement anti-Trump activist.  But Obama appointed judge Amy Berman Jackson let that one slide, and Stone was convicted.  With that precedent, this appeal should be of interest.