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What the Arrest of Daniel Penny is All About
American Thinker ^ | 18 May. 2023 | Robert Weissberg

Posted on 05/18/2023 4:47:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The New York City subway incident in which former Marine Daniel Penny, whose chokehold inadvertently killed career criminal and homeless vagrant Jordan Neely quickly became front-page news. Matters exploded when Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s Soros-funded district attorney, charged Penny with second-degree manslaughter. Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis made reference to at a campaign rally, and Penny’s defense fund has thus far raised more than two million dollars from 42,000 contributors Hard to say where it will end, but the incident has obviously touched a public nerve. There’s something about the episode that transcends the simple facts of a good Samaritan’s intervention going wrong and a progressive local DA stirring the racial pot.

Most Americans do not ride New York City subways, so the psychological dimension to this incident is not easily grasped. Yet it is this psychological element that makes it important far beyond the bare-bones legal facts.

Regular subway riders -- me included -- are always aware of certain inescapable realities. These realities come with city life, knowing New York City’s troubled past (remember the film Death Wish?) and having a keen eye for one’s surroundings.

Experienced subway riders know that they are trapped for minimally three minutes, longer on express trains and, occasionally even longer if there’s a track fire, a broken switch, or a stuck train. You are also stuck with all the people on the ten-car train (usually a 100+). Furthermore, though walking between cars is prohibited, people ignore the restriction (doors are unlocked), so forget about choosing only cars with non-threatening fellow passengers. That scruffy vagrant you saw sleeping in the end car before you boarded a crowded middle car may soon be standing over you requesting a “donation.”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: daniel; danielpenny; penny; selfdefense
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1 posted on 05/18/2023 4:47:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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This is a battle between human nature versus progressive politics. The survival urge is genetically driven, and progressives like Alvin Bragg prefer a docile, vulnerable, and easy-to-manage population.
2 posted on 05/18/2023 4:47:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Cities are minority havens and those minorities are in control of the governments of such havens.

They are filled to the brim with hatred of those of other races...even to the point of saying that such hatred is entirely acceptable and understandable because they are not in control.

Ironic, isn't it?

3 posted on 05/18/2023 5:04:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: MtnClimber

The goal is to destroy manhood. Any alpha male who rises up is to be cut down. Then society will be taken over by beta male cucks who are too frightened to defend themselves much less anyone else.

L


4 posted on 05/18/2023 5:10:25 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: MtnClimber

“This is a battle between human nature versus progressive politics. The survival urge is genetically driven, and progressives like Alvin Bragg prefer a docile, vulnerable, and easy-to-manage population.”

That’s the exact quote I saved.


5 posted on 05/18/2023 5:16:06 AM PDT by stanne
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To: MtnClimber
This is a battle between human nature versus progressive politics pure, unadulterated evil
6 posted on 05/18/2023 5:16:32 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: RoosterRedux

“Cities are minority havens and…”

The author doesn’t mention race

This situation has zero to do with race


7 posted on 05/18/2023 5:18:57 AM PDT by stanne
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To: MtnClimber

It’s all part of the plan. The same knuckle heads that vote democrat will be begging to exchange our God given rights for the promise of safety.


8 posted on 05/18/2023 5:26:20 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: MtnClimber

There is a reason Gothem needed Batman.


9 posted on 05/18/2023 5:35:04 AM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: MtnClimber

There is a reason Gothem needed Batman.


10 posted on 05/18/2023 5:36:15 AM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: stanne
This situation has zero to do with race.

Very true, but the racists in the rat 🐀 party, will make it into racism. I do, however, believe it’s all about getting whitey. If the roles were reversed, it wouldn’t even be an issue.

11 posted on 05/18/2023 5:36:22 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: MtnClimber

The leftists on Twitter are saying the 2 million dollars raised shows how conservatives want to kill black people.

These idiots usually ignore violence when it’s the other way around.


12 posted on 05/18/2023 5:36:46 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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When our government policy is to NOT treat mental illness and instead to turn the mentally ill into the streets, you inevitably get conflict and the government is intentionally putting people at risk. This is opposite their priority to protect citizens.
13 posted on 05/18/2023 5:42:07 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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The arrest of Daniel Penny has nothing to do with race? What planet are you living on. It has everything to do with race!

Do you think for a moment that if Daniel Penny were black or if Neely were white, there would be an arrest?

14 posted on 05/18/2023 5:43:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: 1Old Pro

You can thank the Warren Berger court and the ACLU for that.


15 posted on 05/18/2023 5:45:47 AM PDT by Glennb51
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To: stanne
BTW, the entire idea behind Alvin Bragg's leniency on crime has to do with race. It's about the oppression of black men and how oppression (straight from the Marxist playbook) turned their otherwise happy existences into lives of crime and violence against their oppressors (white people).

As I have said many times, black people (including Alvin Bragg) are being manipulated by Marxists into believing this oppressed vs oppressor BS. The Marxists are fanning the flames of racism to create chaos.

16 posted on 05/18/2023 5:51:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: Phoenix8

People can comment on this headline without reading the article all they want but in this case it is glaringly ignorant

The writer describes the situation of riding on the subway and how it led to this

No where in it does it describe the race of anyone on that subway car. That’s because what happened on that subway car had nothing to do with race

People here are disgusting taking a headline and writing their own version of events that had nothing to do with race bringing a discussion of an excellent article completely over to a pretend article that rooster redux pretends this was about

He did not reas the article

You are commenting on a fantasy article and it makes you look like an ignoramus racist.


17 posted on 05/18/2023 5:51:49 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

How does that virtue signaling feel? Does it give you a warm glow?


18 posted on 05/18/2023 5:54:15 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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Read the article. Here’s the gist

“This is a battle between human nature versus progressive politics. The survival urge is genetically driven, and progressives like Alvin Bragg prefer a docile, vulnerable, and easy-to-manage population.”

Racists here are responding to a poster who did not read the article

Write your own article about how it’s about race

This article is about something else.


19 posted on 05/18/2023 5:55:12 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Glennb51

JFK emptied the mental hospitals.


20 posted on 05/18/2023 5:55:17 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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