Wise Judges, judgment and the lack thereof

Admittedly, this column is a bit behind the times, I apologize. Parshah Shoftim was a few weeks ago. And part of the Parshah really hit home. Probably because if I spend any time at all listening to the news, all I hear is impeachment, impeachment, impeachment (said is the best Jan Brady whine). The secret Soviet style hearings which include only progressive #Demoncrats, the liar Adam Shiff-less., and lots of leaks, lots and lots of leaks.

Shiff-less

But here’s the relevant portion of the Parshah that got me to thinking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part of Parshah Shoftim

This is from Deut./Devarim דברים

19:16.

Haven’t all of the women hired to attack Kavenaugh recanted? After they and their complicit media tried to ruin his and his family’s lives. Of course.

And the penalty for that?

No matter the crime, gun control is the answer. Knee-jerk gun control response to deadly shootings

Honest law-abiding gun owners, judged guilty for the acts of criminals.

And as Sammy “The Bull” Gravano points out, the mob will always have guns. You only have to listen to the first couple minutes if you want.

Well, the mob and #Bozo’s armed guys he would have sent in to make sure American Citizens complied with his rules, so they could “recover” the AR-15s and AK-47s. Recover? Were they missing before they were stolen by #Bozo?

The murderer of Kate Steinle went free, he literally got away with murder. And posters put up at a liberal Kalifornia college campus honoring her and reminding people of the cost of illegal un-checked invasion have been deemed racist my the college administrators. Color me shocked.

This is wise judgment?

But the real hypocrisy of liberals is on full display in a fairly recent bill proposed by Sen. John Cornyn -Rep of Texas. He proposed a bill to “combat mass shootings”. He proposed to do this by

It would expand resources for mental health treatment, facilitate the creation of “behavioral intervention teams” to monitor students exhibiting disturbing behavior and offer new tools for law enforcement.

The bill’s school safety proposals are a response to years of school shootings perpetrated by young people described as isolated and troubled.

What is their objection you ask?

Privacy experts and education groups, many of which have resisted similar efforts at the state level, say that level of social media and network surveillance can discourage children from speaking their minds online and could disproportionately result in punishment against children of color, who already face higher rates of punishment in school.

“This is all very frightening,” an education policy consultant, who has been tracking the legislation, told The Hill. “There’s no real research, or even anecdotal information, to back up the idea … that following everything [kids] do online is really a way to determine that they’re going to be violent.”

Now, I’m not a fan of monitoring or big brothering anyone. But this is hypocrisy at it’s finest. And if you don’t believe me, you could ask Alexandria Keyes. She was suspended from school for five days after she posted a picture of herself with her brother.

The two are shown holding guns and the photo is captioned, “Me and my legal guardian are going to the gun range to practice gun safety and responsible gun ownership while getting better so we can protect ourselves while also using the First Amendment to practice our Second Amendment.”

Oh the shock, the horror, the carnage! Oh, wait there wasn’t any. The girl and her brother just went to the range practiced marksmanship and harmed no one. But panties were being twisted into a bunch at a rapid rate, and Alexandria was suspended for disrupting school. Huh? She wasn’t at school, she didn’t use a school computer to post the picture. Sen. Cornyn’s bill only monitors online activity while the students are using school computers.

Abbe Smith, Chief Communications Officer for Cherry Creek School District, told me that the decision to suspend Keyes “involved multiple social media posts that concerned the school community and resulted in multiple parents keeping their kids home from school out of concern for safety.” Smith said that federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protections prevent her from discussing the details of the case, including disclosing the other photos the district allegedly considered in Keyes’ suspension.

More about this

The school’s policy references Colorado law, which defines the grounds for suspension as “behavior on or off school property that is detrimental to the welfare or safety of other pupils or of school personnel, including behavior that creates a threat of physical harm to the child or to other children.”

… According to Cherry Creek School Board policy, the school district reserves the right to suspend students who “[repeatedly interfere] with a school’s ability to provide educational opportunities to other students.” Over the phone, Smith noted that since multiple parents kept their children home after becoming aware of the post, Keyes’ photo could be viewed as an impediment to the school’s ability to educate, even if the district didn’t ultimately make its decision based on the chances that Keyes posed a physical threat. Does this mean parental fears can be a mechanism for the school district to veto a teen’s extracurricular activities?

Is Cherry Creek not worried that this is going to prevent Alexandria from speaking her mind online? Maybe Cherry Creek never got the memo from the educational policy consultant that monitoring online activity of children is not effective in determining if they are going to be violent later?

And those sanctimonious sniveling parents that bullied the school into suspending her? They have accused her falsely. She has done nothing wrong. They have left a mark on her school record because of their hoplophobic tiny minds. They have allowed their lack of education and knowledge to deprive her of five days worth.

What should then be their sentence?

False statements given to police because someone wants someone’s guns seized in a storm trooper operation because they are A) mad at their uncle B) don’t like how someone voted C) don’t think people should be allowed to own guns D) ___________________ for whatever reason. Police show up, guns are seized and sometimes, sometimes, people die. Red Flag laws, the height of hypocrisy coming from progressives.

What then should be their sentence? And what should their sentence be if it results in the death of an innocent gun own, exactly as they intended it would?

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4 thoughts on “Wise Judges, judgment and the lack thereof”

  1. Sheila,

    This made me think of the so called Red Flag laws, which are also based upon nothing but a rumor, or a statement, made not about anything other than mere suspicion, or even less than that. A complaint based upon the suggestion that a person MAY be a danger to himself or to others. But not enough of a danger that he or she needs to be taken in for observation by a health care professional. No just take any guns away from the person that the government knows that he or she has.
    The next question is just how does the government know how many and what kind of guns does this person own? I know in Michigan, we must register our handguns at purchase. But long guns, we are supposed to not have any registration of any kind. That sounds good, but somewhere there is a record of your purchase, if done through a dealer. And if you happen to sell your gun to another person, then of course, the government has no real idea where that gun is at. Right?
    I am becoming not only jaded about our government and any hope we have of turning things around, after seeing how an outsider like Trump, who is not exactly the greatest person who we could have hoped for, has been used and abused. Even his own party has at times deserted him. Gun friendly laws being passed in the first two years? Dream on, gun lovers. Defeating Obamacare, and putting in a better and smarter, yet less costly insurance plan? You had your chance Republicans, and you screwed that up, by not coming out with a plan on the first day of Trump’s administration.
    Drain the swamp? The swamp is self filling, and cannot be drained no matter how deserving they might be of it. Preppers had better get more prepared, because it is going to be a long and harsh time before things become better.

  2. I agree. The “educational expert” is so concerned about privacy and people being monitored on their school computers, but those same people turn around and get a young girl who has not been a problem suspended due to their bias, not her behavior. Red flag indeed!

    The way Trump has been spied on, information leaked, the lies, etc should be very frightening. Whether or not someone likes President Trump, if they can do it to a Presidential candidate and now the President, what couldn’t the swamp do to an ordinary citizen?

    We need wise judges, who uphold the Constitution, not judicial activists who turn criminals loose and further victimize the innocent.

    1. Sheila,
      I hope that the one long lasting legacy of President Trump is the large number of federal judges and Supreme Court Justices he has appointed to the bench. That is the one thing that can change the direction of the country, having a court system that is geared to upholding the constitution. It has been too long since we have seen that.
      The liberal Democrats complain about conservative leanings of the SCOTUS, but the fact is, they have used the court system to by pass the desires of the government for decades.

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