Posted on 02/19/2025 4:55:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
Who needs the Klan when there are guys like left-wing lawyer Benjamin Crump doing what it does better?
According to Fox Business host Charles Payne: [Video and X-post at link]
The video, which has an MSNBC badge below it, and was probably made in 2024, features Crump, who represented George Floyd and Trayvon Martin in their race-baiting cases, shooting cue balls on a pool table with the Rev. Al Sharpton and a couple other men, waxing philosophical between pool shots:
"We can get rid of all the crime in America, overnight, just like that ... change the definition of crime. If you get to define what conduct is going to be made criminal, you can predict who the criminal's going to be."
Which doesn't sound very charitable to the black people he purportedly represents.
Last we heard, black people dislike crime at least as much as other crime victims and don't care what the color of the perpetrator is. After all, they are most often the victims of violent crime, and the sad story is, most of it comes from black criminals.
While Crump cites the case of "loosey cigarettes" as his argument -- there had been a case on Staten Island where someone resisting arrest for selling "looseys" was overly restrained and died, the broader statement is that if one can magically end the definition of crime for all criminal acts, then all the murders, robberies, rapes, carjackings, drug dealings and other violent offenses would go away, because the word would be gone.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Well said
The more lawlessness that occurs the more human nature will do to stop it.
“Benjamin Crump is a racist.”
To the third power.
We’d never hear the end of it.
In the gutter.
And a clown 🤡.
13% of the population commits 70% of all violent crimes and 49% of all homocides.
Heyyy. The Babylon Bee suggested this about 10 years ago.
Logical fallacy.
Statist delusion exposed.
This statement reeks of statist sophistry and intellectual laziness. The idea that you can "get rid of crime" by simply redefining it is a dangerous and Orwellian notion. It assumes that morality and justice are malleable concepts that can be manipulated by those in power. This is the same logic authoritarian regimes have used to silence dissent and criminalize freedom—by redefining "crime" to suit their agendas.
The statement also fails to address the root causes of crime or the principles of justice. Instead, it implies that the problem isn't the actions themselves but the labels we attach to them. This is a classic non sequitur: the definition of crime doesn't change the reality of harm caused by theft, assault, or murder. It's like saying you can eliminate poverty by redefining "poverty" to mean "owning one less yacht than Jeff Bezos." Ridiculous.
Moreover, this perspective is hypocritical. It criticizes the arbitrary nature of defining crime while simultaneously endorsing the idea that crime should be arbitrarily redefined. It's a circular argument that collapses under its own weight. True justice is rooted in objective principles, not the whims of those who wield power.
This kind of thinking is a slippery slope to tyranny. If the state can redefine crime, it can criminalize anything—free speech, self-defense, or even the act of questioning authority. History is littered with examples of governments that have done exactly that, and the results have always been disastrous for individual liberty.
Soros DA's have already done this.
So is it just part of the White culture to hang horse (car) thieves?
On YouTube, search “restaurant fights”.
...and that is why our grandparents insisted on ‘separate but equal’.
He is correct about “loosey cigarettes.” That is a waste of police resources.
I’ve posted before “When is the US going to admit there is a black crime wave gripping the US?”
He’s actualy right about loosy Cigarettes. Liberal Manny State laws killed Eroc Garner
The law goy Eric Garner killed.
You are an idiot.
Trump doesn’t think like you.
It is indeed.
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