You Want Me On That Train
You Need Me On That Train!
Posted on 12/10/2024 5:48:32 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Jordan Neely was, in fact, like George Floyd: both were violent criminals with a long record of antisocial behavioral problems who suffered from drug problems, and eventually died under troubling circumstances. But Derek Chauvin’s jury failed in its duty to separate the facts from ideological myths, and failed to stand up to political pressure. Chauvin was convicted by a jury frightened into complicity, and effectively thrown to the mob.
By contrast, in New York today, another conception of justice prevailed. Despite the activists ringing the courtroom, a hostile media chumming the waters, and a highly irregular legal procedure which saw the prosecution withdrawing one of Penny’s charges on Friday in order to avoid a mistrial and seek conviction on a lesser charge, the jurors retained their composure, and stuck to the facts and the law. Whatever fear they may have felt, they overcame it, and Penny was correctly found not guilty.
What will happen next? My own suspicion is that the verdict will not generate anything like the violence, riots, and disorder that followed the death of George Floyd. Americans are finished with the failed regime of the Left. The past four years have clarified what “social justice” really means and exhausted all remaining patience for granting activists the benefit of the doubt. The extraordinary shamelessness of Jordan Neely’s father in launching a civil suit against Penny over the death of a son he didn’t raise exemplifies the moral emptiness that was formerly, by many, mistaken for social justice.
In reality, “social justice” was never about justice: it was about the political subversion of justice to achieve pathological and ideological ends. The contrast with Penny himself could not be more striking. Penny is not merely not guilty, he is an unambiguous hero, who correctly understood and carried out his duty, with great courage, in a dangerous situation. He believed that it was his duty to use his training to protect women and children from a violent individual with a previous record of subway assault, and he was right to do so.
Today’s verdict marks the end of an era. BLM, which seemed unstoppable four years ago, is finished. Its activists are discredited, and its grip on the public imagination is broken. No doubt the violent spirit of the movement will seek to resurface in the future, but a brutal and stupid decade of moral and judicial corruption has come to a close.
With its passing, the opportunity returns to truly confront the problems that have plagued American cities for a generation. Penny’s heroism should never have been necessary because Jordan Neely should never have been riding that train. Neely himself was failed by BLM and the ideology of social justice, just as Penny was persecuted by it: it was also social justice which, from misguided ideas of compassion, stopped Neely from getting the treatment he needed. The correct moral attitude, as well as the right social policy, is to dismantle this system entirely – in academia and media, where it generates its alibis, but above all in criminal justice. That means holding the attorneys responsible for this shameful prosecution accountable...
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What causes this behavior? There are hundreds of reasons and one is that the gov't rewards fathers of black kids NOT to be in the home with their kids. Even deeper, however, is a cultural problems that breaks up the black family. In 1965, 25% of kids had no father present in the home. After welfare reform in the 1960's, the rate now is 73%. Welfare payments should be reduced if the father is not present. You don't think the mother would go after the father if it's costing her several thousand dollars a year?
Congress needs to change this reward system. Blacks need to change their culture to one that respects a man for supporting his kids. Any idiot can be a father. Being a parent is more difficult.
Great article by Rufo.
I hope he is right that Americans have woken up to the horribly disastrous policies of the left since 2020 and the destruction of society and people they caused.
That's only because it's cold outside. The riff raff ferals have low tolerance for personal discomfort or sacrifice.
You are so right. The absence of a traditional family, with single mothers and also some single fathers is a major cause of crime. Groups that are supposed to benefit blacks like BLM is made up of a bunch of grifters. Leaders lead lavish lifestyles and offer no help to lift the blacks out of the dire situation many are in, and only make matters worse by inciting riots. But there is money in it apparently, racism can be profitable. Just ask Al Sharpton and his buddies.
“it was also social justice which, from misguided ideas of compassion, stopped Neely from getting the treatment he needed”
We can do much better as a society.
speaking of chauvin
any word on his appeal?
seems weird
What is really holding us back are these race baiters and the Democrat plantation managers who are like vampires to the black community.
Doesn’t matter, the damage is already done. No one in their right mind would want to get involved at he risk of being bankrupted with legal costs and a attempted public lynching.
IMO-—CHAVIN needs to be pardoned on Trump’s FIRST DAY in office.
THE KIDS ALWAYS KNOW WHO THE MOTHER IS-—
NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW WHO THE FATHER IS.
My two cents: the Floyd death was manslaughter - he waited patiently in his car and the cop didn’t need to kneel on his neck to restrain him.
This particular case is very clearly self-defense - Neely was insane and directly threatening a young mother with child.
What type of a “baptist” is he - if he even is one at all?
A good article. Except for the error of thinking that people like Chauvin aren’t already getting “treatment.” All of these violent wackos are products of the mental health cabal.
I suspect the biggest difference between the Chauvin jury and the Penny jury was that Minneapolis is filled with losers and nitwits who are delusional about criminals, while NYC is filled with losers and misfits who ride the subway and experience the dystopian lunacy every day.
No, he doesn’t deserve our attention, but he seems to get it anyway because his head always pops up when there is a racist event, or better yet an event he can turn into racist, and he is an attention addict, jumping at every opportunity to show his face on tv. Him and others like him are the real problem in eliminating racism. They have to keep it alive or they die along with it.
Manslaughter or not, Floyd was a real scumbag, put a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly. The woman or someone else present would have had every right to shoot him if they were also armed. Imho, Floyd should already have been dead before Chauvin got hold of him.
Yes, Floyd was a real scumbag.
For the other crimes, he definitely deserved punishment.
But for the incident in question, Chauvin stepped over the bounds
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