Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Gilmore v. Jones, et al., Hearing

Posted on | November 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Gilmore v. Jones, et al., Hearing

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia
Defendants in a major First Amendment case today urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by former State Department official Brennan Gilmore, who claims he was defamed by Alex Jones and others who criticized his activities at the August 2017 riot where a woman was killed.

Attorneys for Jones and his co-defendants, including Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft and investigative journalist Lee Stranahan, not only disputed Gilmore’s claims of defamation, but also argued that the U.S. District Court for Western Virginia does not have proper jurisdiction in the case. Stranahan is a Virginia resident and, his attorney Aaron Walker argued, this fact defeats the “diversity of citizenship” requirement for federal jurisdiction over a state law case, as the plaintiff Gilmore is also a Virginia resident. Walker has filed a motion for sanctions against the plaintiff’s attorneys under Rule 11, alleging they did not exercise due diligence in their filings. (Which is not legally the same as saying “they lied,” but readers are free to draw their own conclusions.)

Gilmore was on the scene of the August 2017 riot in Charlottesville, where left-wing counter-protesters engaged in sometimes violent confrontations with white supremacists at a “Unite the Right” rally. Gilmore captured video of the fatal incident in which 20-year-old James Alex Field Jr. rammed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of leftist protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring several others. In subsequent TV appearances and a column for the Politico website, Gilmore sought to blame President Trump for what he called the “escalating, toxic politics of hate” that resulted in Heyer’s death.

Once Gilmore’s ties to the State Department and the Democrat Party became public knowledge, Jones accused Gilmore of being a CIA operative and suggested he was on the payroll of liberal billionaire George Soros. Some of Jones’s claims were echoed by other defendants (Hoft called Gilmore “a deep state shill with links to George Soros”) and Gilmore blames the defendants for his being targeted for harassment.

During today’s court hearing, Gilmore’s lawyers — Andrew Mendrala of the Georgetown University Civil Rights Clinic and Brianne Gorod of the Constitutional Accountability Center — repeated the assertions in their complaint that the defendants had sought to make Gilmore a “scapegoat” for the violence in Charlottesville, in order to deflect blame from right-wing white supremacists. Lawyers for the defendants, including former Republican congressman and Army Lt. Col. Allen West, mostly emphasized the jurisdictional issues in the case. However, Walker and defense attorney Andrew Grossman, representing Jones, also strongly disputed the plaintiff’s characterization of Stranahan’s comments in an interview with Lee Ann McAdoo on Jones’s InfoWars site.

Reporters for several media organizations were on hand for the hearing and, in a brief interview outside the courthouse, Walker emphasized the importance of the First Amendment issues involved. “Free speech isn’t just for people we like or opinions we agree with,” Walker said, mentioning his personal dislike for Alex Jones. Walker made reference to Supreme Court cases including Brandenburg v. Ohio. “Today, it’s Alex Jones, but tomorrow it could be the New York Times.”

I made this trip with John Hoge of Hogewash, who made a guest appearance in court as an easel, holding up a large display poster that Walker had prepared for the case. He summarizes today:

The Plaintiff’s attorneys spent most of their time trying explain why the case should be left standing in spite of the facts and law.
The judge did not rule from the bench, so it will be a while before we know whether the case will go forward.

As longtime readers know, Hoge, Walker, Stranahan and I were all co-defendants in lawsuits filed by convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin, whose pro se shuttuppery LOLsuits failed miserably. Whether the current Gilmore v. Jones et al. litigation has more merit than Kimberlin’s nuisance suits is a matter of opinion, but the whole point is that as Americans we are entitled to express our opinions, and the Gilmore suit might conceivably infringe our rights . However, while we still have our freedom, I wish to remind you of an important truth, that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Constitution, Neutral Objective Journalism, Shoe Leather Fund

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.12.18

Posted on | November 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.12.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stan Lee RIP
Twitchy: There’s Something Really Dubious About This Surgeon Shaming The NRA With An Operating Room Selfie
Louder With Crowder: Dan Crenshaw Appears On SNL’s “Weekend Update” To Roast Pete Davidson

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #95 – The Electric Dreams Episode
American Power: Martha McSally Concedes, also, Isabell Sawhill, The Forgotten Americans
American Thinker: The Common Thread In All Those Florida Election Debacles
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Colion Noir On Dystopian Seattle
Camp Of The Saints:
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, The Arab Lessons O The Arab Spring
Da Tech Guy: To Survive, The Illinois GOP Must Be The Anti-Tax Hike Party, also, The Time To Be Ready For The 2020 Election Vote Fraud Algorithm Is NOW
Don Surber: Election Will Be Stolen Only If We Let Them
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, What The Traffic Will Bear
First Street Journal: The Elephant In The Sacristy
Fred On Everything: Intelligent Design – Two Weeks In & Around Chengtu
The Geller Report: Boston Imam – “This Is The Home Of The Coward And Land Of The Slave”, also, Israel Under Attack – Over 100 Rockets Fired From Gaza
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Shoe Leather Journalism
JustOneMinute: We’ll Always Have Paris
Legal Insurrection: AZ Senate – Why Did McSally Underperform Other GOP Candidates? also, Democrats Reportedly Have “Subpoena Cannon” Aimed At 85 Trump Targets
Michelle Malkin: Say “No” To Nanny Bloomberg
The PanAm Post: To Fight Money Laundering, Bank Of England Refuses To Repatriate Venezuelan Gold
Power Line: Republicans Fight Back In Florida, also, A Second Look At Last Week’s Election
Shark Tank: Rick Scott – “My Win Will Be Certified By The Court”
Shot In The Dark: A Good Guy With A Gun, Maybe Two
STUMP: Mornings With Meep – 100 Years Since The End Of World War I
The Jawa Report: John Hawkins, H8er Extraordinaire, also, The Guns, They’ve Stopped
The Political Hat: 100 Years Ago Today The Guns Fell Silent
This Ain’t Hell: The Ghost Army Of WW2, also, Army Retro Uniform OK’d For 2020
Victory Girls: Florida’s Bay County Election Supervisor Let People Vote By E-Mail
Volokh Conspiracy: Libertarian Critiques Of Democracy Can’t Be Refuted By Showing It’s Better Than Dictatorship
Weasel Zippers: Andrea Mitchell Lies That Broward County Election Boss Snipes Is Republican, also, World War I’s Unlikely Canine Hero
Megan McArdle: Populists On Both Sides Might Want To Rethink Cheering On The Norm-Busters
Mark Steyn: The Four Chads Return, also, The War That Made The World We Live In

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Category: Linkagery

University Begins ‘Intersectional Diversity and Sexual Harassment Training’

Posted on | November 12, 2018 | Comments Off on University Begins ‘Intersectional Diversity and Sexual Harassment Training’

News from the campus SJW Thought Police:

The University of Washington-Seattle has caved to student demands culminating after a computer science professor pointed out why efforts to close the “gender gap” in computer science may be futile.
The controversy began in June, when UW-Seattle Professor Stuart Reges published “Why Women Don’t Code” for Quillette, in which he articulated why women are less interested in computer science than men. (Hint, hint: men and women are different).
Though Reges admits the title was hyperbolic — as he has taught hundreds of women to code during his career — UW students didn’t see it as such. They circulated an internal memo of concern ad lobbied UW against his “gender harassment.”
Roughly five months later, a group of graduate students have announced that they’ve negotiated with senior officials at the UW computer science school to ensure that “more will be done to address gender harassment at the Allen School.”
While it’s unclear exactly how many “grievance demands” students filed, the school agreed to at least three.
From now on, UW will provide “intersectional diversity and sexual harassment training to both [student employees] and [the professors who supervise them]” which all students and professors will be highly encouraged to attend. . . .
UW spokesman Victor Balta said that nearly every aspect of 100-level computer science courses will be inspected to ensure they promote inclusivity. This includes “curriculum, organization, programming language and environment, teaching methods and techniques, new devices… as well as ensuring that our gateway courses are attractive and welcoming to the broadest group of students.”
All this, it seems, simply because students were outraged at Reges’ op-ed pointing out that men simply are more interested in coding, as men tend to want to work alone and with numbers, while women are more people oriented.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Given a choice between university “intersectional diversity” training and, say, driving a forklift in a warehouse, I’m absolutely certain I’d be driving a forklift. What part of “fuck your totalitarian ‘social justice’ ideology” do these pinheads not understand?

Category: Education

Reading Samizdat

Posted on | November 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Reading Samizdat

One of my habits — perhaps not a good habit, but valuable to my career as a journalist — is studying the radical fringe. This is part of what I learned from Hunter S. Thompson‘s career. If you want to know where society is heading in the future, pay attention to what is being advocated by those who are considered extremist kooks. Thompson made a habit of immersing himself in the fringe, writing about the “non-student Left” at Berkeley long before these young radicals emerged as a revolutionary force in American politics and culture. I’ve always enjoyed reading anything far-out and freaky, so long as it was actually true. Weird tales of human savagery, such as Thompson’s Hell’s Angels, are far more interesting to me than the bland stuff that passes for political “current events.” The vast collection of radical feminist books I’ve accumulated during the past four years could also be included in this category of fringe literature. How many conservative journalists have bothered reading the collected works of Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin, Adrienne Rich, et al.? Only me, I suspect, but how else to understand the deranged mentality behind the Hillary Clinton campaign and the #MeToo witch-hunt?

Before it was possible to buy out-of-print books via Amazon, my habit was to prowl used bookstores in search of obscure titles and forgotten classics. This is how I acquired old paperbacks of William F. Buckley Jr.’s Up From Liberalism and J. Edgar Hoover’s Masters of Deceit. Because my knowledge of Cold War-era history is informed by such contemporary sources, I’m rather inoculated against revisionism by the Marxists and postmodernists who nowadays prevail in academia. And it was during my used bookstore browsing forays, some 25 years ago, that I acquired a first edition of The Dispossessed Majority by Wilmot Robertson.

This is one of those Books You’re Not Supposed to Read and, indeed, it’s risky even to acknowledge its existence, as The Dispossessed Majority is not only racist, but also anti-Semitic. However, given the recent trends — everybody is getting banned from social media and fired from their jobs if they dare connect the phrase “open borders” with the name George Soros — I went plowing through my bookshelves yesterday to find this old book. Much like Jean Raspail’s 1973 The Camp of the Saints, a dystopian novel about mass immigration that now seems prophetic, The Dispossessed Majority offers some interesting critiques of how race was, and still is, publicly discussed in our society. You don’t have to share the author’s particular opinions on race, for example, to nod your head in agreement at this passage from page 51:

With the passing of the Melting Pot fantasy has come the anti-fantasy — the American Mosaic. The intellectual mise-en-scène has suddenly been rearranged to accommodate a new sociological fad, the pluralistic society, in which all races and nationality groups live harmoniously side by side, all maintaining and strengthening their racial and cultural identity, each making its own contribution in its own way to the total picture of American life.
Like the promoters of the Melting Pot, the salesmen of pluralism have misread history, which teaches that pluralistic societies are static and caste-ridden and a standing invitation to disorder and disaster. Historically disoriented, the voices of pluralism are also dramatically contradictory. They are opposed to racism in theory, but support minority racism in practice. They uphold group identity, but demand integration. They approve of racial quotas, but are against racial discrimination.

As an indictment of the mentality of those who advocate what we now call multiculturalism, this is exactly on target. We see this in the implementation of “diversity” policies at, e.g., Harvard University where a lawsuit claiming admissions discrimination against Asian students has produced evidence indicating that Harvard has established de facto quotas for black and Hispanic students. Harvard has denied this, and yet it appears that the university has determined that 14% is the “correct” number of black freshmen to be admitted every year. Just as The Dispossessed Majority said, administrators at Harvard now “uphold group identity, but demand integration.” This contradictory logic of “pluralism” cannot be justified by any purely educational purpose, and it is certainly not a color-blind policy of the sort endorsed by an earlier generation of liberals, who had been raised on what Robertson calls “the Melting Pot fantasy” of minority assimilation.

To repeat and emphasize what I previously said, you don’t have to agree with the author’s general opinions about race to see the truth of such prescient passages of The Dispossessed Minority, just as you don’t have to be a radical feminist to deplore rape and prostitution. And now, as Paul Harvey would say, for the rest of the story . . . Read more

Category: Books, History, Racism

Anti-Trump Radical Identified as Member of Mob at Tucker Carlson’s Home

Posted on | November 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Anti-Trump Radical Identified as Member of Mob at Tucker Carlson’s Home

Dylan Petrohilos, a former Think Progress employee who was previously arrested for his role in the January 2017 protests against President Trump’s inauguration, was reportedly part of the mob that targeted the home of Fox News host Tucker Carlson last week.

On Twitter, Petrohilos said Thursday that D.C. police visited his home “asking about last night’s protest.” Petrohilos was already known to police as a radical anarchist because he was accused of involvement in the violent riot during the Trump inauguration. Petrohilos, who claimed “he wasn’t even in the area” when anarchists smashed windows and burned a limousine during the anti-Trump riot, had been recorded on undercover Project Veritas video of a meeting where the so-called “J20” protest was planned. Police raided his home and Petrohilos was charged with conspiracy to riot, but the charges were dropped after federal prosecutors admitted to violating the Brady Rule, which requires that exculpatory evidence be disclosed to defense attorneys.

Although Petrohilos did not explicitly state that he participated in the mob at Carlson’s D.C. home last Wednesday, multiple pro-Trump activists on Twitter “doxxed” Petrohilos, publishing his home address, as well as the address of his parents in Frederick, Maryland.

Meanwhile, Carlson defended himself against claims by “Creepy Porn Lawyer” Michael Avenatti, who accused the Fox News host of “assault on a gay latino immigrant,” releasing a video clip showing Carlson shouting at the man to “get the f–k out of here.” Carlson responded by issuing a statement explaining that the homosexual Democrat, Juan Manuel Granados, had made obscene insults to Carlson’s daughter at the Farmington Country Club near Charlottesville, Virginia. Carlson and his family were having dinner when “my 19-year-old daughter went to the bathroom with a friend,” Carlson wrote in the statement:

On their way back through the bar, a middle aged man stopped my daughter and asked if she was sitting with Tucker Carlson. My daughter had never seen the man before. She answered: ‘That’s my dad,’ and pointed to me. The man responded, ‘Are you Tucker’s whore?’ He then called her a ‘f–king c–t.’
My daughter returned to the table in tears. She soon left the table and the club. My son, who is also a student, went into the bar to confront the man. I followed. My son asked the man if he’d called his sister a ‘whore’ and a ‘cunt.’ The man admitted he had, and again become profane. My son threw a glass of red wine in the man’s face and told him to leave the bar, which he soon did.
Immediately after the incident, I described these events to the management of the Farmington Country Club. The club spent more than three weeks investigating the incident. Last week, they revoked the man’s membership and threw him out of the club.
I love my children. It took enormous self-control not to beat the man with a chair, which is what I wanted to do. I think any father can understand the overwhelming rage and shock that I felt seeing my teenage daughter attacked by a stranger. But I restrained myself. I did not assault this man, and neither did my son. That is a lie. Nor did I know the man was gay or Latino, not that it would have mattered. What happened on October 13 has nothing to do with identity politics. It was a grotesque violation of decency. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.

If homosexual Democrats start harassing your children, remember that beating them with a chair is against the law. Just call the police.

Michael Avenatti published what he said was a statement by the homosexual Democrat, denying Carlson’s account and expressing an intent to press charges against Carlson and his son. But we know not to trust any statement issued by the Creepy Porn Lawyer, right?

Category: Democrats

Late NIght With Rule 5 Sunday: Nurse! Nurse!

Posted on | November 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Late NIght With Rule 5 Sunday: Nurse! Nurse!

— compiled by Wombat-socho

One of the few good things about being in the hospital for the last few weeks was the nurses, who were uniformly young, mostly cute, and generally Asian. They weren’t dressed like this, but scrubs can be sexy too when they’re tight in the right places.

Somebody find this nurse some pants! Or at least a (short) skirt!

Three weeks’ worth of links, oy vey…First, Ninety Miles From Tyranny has Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #419, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism had Rule 5 Federalism Friday and the last Saturday Gingermageddon of October.

EBL contributed Paula Faris Hot For Beta, Not The Honduran Invasion You Were Looking For, Got Milk?, World Series Game 1 Rule 5, World Series Game 2, Megyn Kelly, Halloween Cultural Appropriation, National Pumpkin Day, World Series Game 3, Game 4, and Game 5 – BoSox Win!

A View From The Beach had Time for Another Brazilian – Nathalie Edenburg, Sexologist Thrusts for Masturabatory Equality, Over My Dead Body, Starting Halloween Early, “Layla”, Another Monday Morning in Malta, and I’m An Indian, Too!

Proof Positive’s Friday NIght Babe was Porsha Williams, his Vintage Babe was Anouska Hempel, and Sex in Advertising was covered by Guess. At Dustbury, it was Selma Blair and Brooke Burke.

Week Two!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #426 (Halloween Edition), Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Get Woke Go Broke Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: #NationalCatDay Julie Newmar, Smart & Sexy Self-Defense, Vintage Halloween, Diane Lane, National Candy Corn Day Rule 5, Day of the Dead Dirty Democrats, Rule 5 Crazy Democrat, Stacy Abrams’ Romance Novels, and National Sandwich Day Rule 5.

Dustbury: Janel Parrish and Lulu.

Week Three!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late NIght, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #433, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five (No) Crime Wave Friday and a Saturday Vicamageddon.

EBL: PMJB, Karin Housley, Florida, Great Scott, Bohemian Rhapsody, Marine Corps Birthday Rule 5, and WW1 Vintage Posters

A (double stuffed) View From The Beach: Whoa Nelly! – Nell McAndrews, Remind Me Not to Visit Plattsburgh, Neandertal Children in the News, Late Night Halloween Music, Happy Pumpkin Night!, Democrats Prefer Pain and Suffering, A Little Dab of Russiagate, Idiot Has Belly Buttonectomy to Spite Parents, “Miracle”, Disney Princess Approves Appropriation of Her Culture and Excellent Audience Selection, Marco Polo’s Olivia Cheng, Omnivores Have More Fun, Be Prepared . . ., Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?, The Girl Next Door: DIY, I Don’t Know About You, But I’m Inspired, Russiagate Ramblin’ On and Palm Sunday

Proof Positive: Lina Esco, Lina Gaye, and Got Milk?

Dustbury: Fiona Bruce and Kiernan Shipka.

Thanks to everyone for the links, and also for the kind thoughts, prayers, & actual money y’all sent my way.

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Category: Rule 5

Democrat Election Theft Update: Pigs Don’t Fly and Questions Are Racist

Posted on | November 11, 2018 | Comments Off on Democrat Election Theft Update: Pigs Don’t Fly and Questions Are Racist

Sarah Hoyt states the obvious:

“Have you noticed there has never been a late-found vote-hoard that gives victory to Republicans? What do you think the chances are? Look out the window, either pigs are flying or it’s fraud.”

Pigs are not flying:

On élection night, it appeared that the GOP had picked up three Senate seats. Now, two of them may be in doubt.
In Florida, there didn’t seem to be any question on November 6. Senator Bill Nelson conceded that he had lost to Governor Rick Scott, while Andrew Gillum likewise conceded to Ron DeSantis. But then the national Democratic Party swung into action. Election officials in Broward County and Palm Beach County began ignoring Florida election laws and, in the case of Palm Beach, a court order. And Nelson and Gillum have withdrawn their concessions.

Nobody can out-cheat Florida Democrats, but Georgia’s trying:

The Democratic Party of Georgia tweeted Saturday evening that a “handful” of Georgia counties reported thousands of “new” absentee, early, and Election Day votes not accounted for by Republican candidate Brian Kemp. . . .
Kemp had 1,975,806 votes to Abrams’ 1,916,931 — a margin of 58,875 votes — leading 50.28 percent to [Democrat Stacey] Abrams’ 48.78 percent. . . .
Kemp’s campaign argued that it was “mathematically impossible” for Abrams to pull ahead or get close enough to trigger a recount, even with the remaining uncounted provisional and military ballots.
But, Abram’s campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo shot back, saying Kemp “lied” about the numbers.

The latest from Georgia:

The unsettled race for Georgia governor tightened over the weekend as Democrat Stacey Abrams prepared litigation to force the counting of more provisional ballots, while Republican Brian Kemp’s campaign said her refusal to concede was “a disgrace to democracy.”
The clash heightened as a cache of 5,500 provisional and mail-in ballots were reported that showed Kemp’s lead over Abrams shrinking slightly to about 59,000 votes. Some came from counties that days earlier reported all votes had been tallied.
The newly-reported votes overwhelmingly tilted to Abrams and triggered a wave of celebration for Abrams’ supporters. But she still needs to net about 22,000 votes to force a Dec. 4 runoff, and there aren’t many votes that have yet to be reported. . . .
About 40 counties had yet to report their final provisional ballots by Saturday afternoon, including many larger left-leaning counties where Abrams stands to gain votes.
One of the largest is Fulton County, which on Friday reported rejecting 1,556 of the total 3,722 provisional ballots cast. Nearly 1,000 of the ballots were disqualified because they were out of county, and another 581 were not registered to vote. Three were rejected because they weren’t U.S. citizens.

There is no known limit to how many previously undiscovered votes Democrats can “find” at this stage. Whatever number is necessary to steal an election. they’ll find them somewhere, given enough time. Democrats have no shame about their transparent criminality. Everyone sees what they’re doing, but if you say anything about it, you’re racist:

An election official in Florida implies asking questions is racist. Broward and Palm Beach County are under the microscope following Tuesdays’ mid-term elections. Rick Scott, in the lead for the Senate seat, has already sued Broward County—and won a ruling—to force county officials to comply with election law. But according to Susan Bucher, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections, apparently asking for information about the election ballot counting process is both disruptive and racist.

JUST IN: Facing criticism from Pres. Trump, Sen. Rubio, Gov. Scott and other Republicans, Palm Beach Co. supervisor of elections says it's “unfortunate” that they “are trying to disrupt our democracy because they don’t like the demographics of our voters.” https://t.co/XgxNvfogar pic.twitter.com/CKFLNNseOa

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 9, 2018

Of course, she doesn’t say “racist.” She says, “You know what I mean.” Wink wink. Because everybody’s in on the joke that Republicans are racists. Everybody gets that right? Right?
These kinds of derogatory attacks are so frequent now, that they hardly even get a notice. This is an election official asserting that people who have suspicions about the voting process and want some answers are in the wrong.

They’re “finding” thousands upon thousands of votes for Democrats, and you’re “trying to disrupt our democracy” if you complain about it.

Democrats will celebrate Veterans Day in their customary way, by lying and cheating, because that’s what “our democracy” is all about.

Category: Election