Glad you all had a kumbaya day -- as it should be. Folks advocating violence or committing violence fall into two categories: the crazies and the provocateurs. The crazies are the hotheads and nihilists, mostly younger males, who enjoy a set-to, unwisely anticipating they'll not be permanently harmed by it. The provocateurs, as we learned back in the day, are the Judases who work for the authorities and will encourage others to break the law while keeping their skirts (mostly) clean.
Glad also to learn that some of the JSO want to play by the rules, an important practice to encourage as due process is being shunted aside by MAGA leaders with their quotas and officials like Wayne "Noriega" Ivey, who bluster while flanked by dozens of armed cops. Being in public safety is not for me -- I don't run towards gunfire. Nonetheless, law and order works both ways, or it should -- but the JSO and the Sheriff are not under much citizen compulsion today, unfortunately.
The JSO has a recent track record. The first example is the blocking of the entrance ramp to the Mathews Bridge, which concluded with the JSO clearing the area without resorting to violence or mass arrests. I credit good JSO supervision. The second is the conclusion of the summertime BLM march in which a few renegades broke off and did some physical damage to property. This seems to have set the JSO off as later, when the rally was over and the crowd was dispersing from the court house, JSO officers made an announcement and then immediately moved in and began arresting folks. Bad supervision here.
Thanks to a hostile weekend hostile, most of the arrested had to spend the weekend in jail before getting bail. Ultimately COJ had to settle a law suit for $100K brought by those arrested -- admitting no guilt and the penalty being paid for by taxpayers, not coming from the JSO budget. Which is not accountability.
All praise to those who showed up yesterday, and to the hotheads who stayed home. I wager old man Trump (now 79 and having trouble staying awake in public) won't last but two years into his term before he is pushed aside by yon lean and hungry Vance, leveraging the 25th Amendment.
Or, perhaps Congress changes hands in 2026, and Trump gets impeached for the third time and FINALLY gets convicted. I can dream.
Glad you all had a kumbaya day -- as it should be. Folks advocating violence or committing violence fall into two categories: the crazies and the provocateurs. The crazies are the hotheads and nihilists, mostly younger males, who enjoy a set-to, unwisely anticipating they'll not be permanently harmed by it. The provocateurs, as we learned back in the day, are the Judases who work for the authorities and will encourage others to break the law while keeping their skirts (mostly) clean.
Glad also to learn that some of the JSO want to play by the rules, an important practice to encourage as due process is being shunted aside by MAGA leaders with their quotas and officials like Wayne "Noriega" Ivey, who bluster while flanked by dozens of armed cops. Being in public safety is not for me -- I don't run towards gunfire. Nonetheless, law and order works both ways, or it should -- but the JSO and the Sheriff are not under much citizen compulsion today, unfortunately.
The JSO has a recent track record. The first example is the blocking of the entrance ramp to the Mathews Bridge, which concluded with the JSO clearing the area without resorting to violence or mass arrests. I credit good JSO supervision. The second is the conclusion of the summertime BLM march in which a few renegades broke off and did some physical damage to property. This seems to have set the JSO off as later, when the rally was over and the crowd was dispersing from the court house, JSO officers made an announcement and then immediately moved in and began arresting folks. Bad supervision here.
Thanks to a hostile weekend hostile, most of the arrested had to spend the weekend in jail before getting bail. Ultimately COJ had to settle a law suit for $100K brought by those arrested -- admitting no guilt and the penalty being paid for by taxpayers, not coming from the JSO budget. Which is not accountability.
All praise to those who showed up yesterday, and to the hotheads who stayed home. I wager old man Trump (now 79 and having trouble staying awake in public) won't last but two years into his term before he is pushed aside by yon lean and hungry Vance, leveraging the 25th Amendment.
Or, perhaps Congress changes hands in 2026, and Trump gets impeached for the third time and FINALLY gets convicted. I can dream.
"hostile weekend judge" I meant to type
Thank you for keeping us woke, just in case we doze off.