• judge says: schizophrenia is no excuse for crime

    From slider@1:229/2 to All on Thursday, September 17, 2020 04:29:22
    From: slider@anashram.com

    Schizophrenic who stabbed young mother seven times in face and neck in
    random attack as she pushed her child in a buggy is jailed for life for attempted murder

    Mark Brazant, 44, ambushed married mother Josephine Conlon, 36, narrowly missing her jugular vein as he slashed at her in Streatham on December 30.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8740019/Schizophrenic-stabbed-young-mother-seven-times-jailed-life-attempted-murder.html

    He had been released from prison just six days before, having served a
    jail term for three counts of battery and one count of common assault on
    women.

    (snip longer rambling article to here...)

    While he admitted stabbing her multiple times with a kitchen knife, the
    court heard he was 'acutely psychotic' - having suffered from
    schizophrenia and a personality disorder since his early 20s.

    Today, he sat in the dock wearing a dark blue felt jacket and a disposable
    face mask as he was told he would not be released until he no longer posed
    a risk to the public.

    Judge Angela Rafferty QC told Brazant: 'You are totally unpredictable,
    your hostility towards women is deep-seated and poorly understood by you.

    'There is no prospect you being safely managed in the public for the foreseeable future.

    'Just because you have Mental illness does not relieve you of responsibly
    of your actions. In your case you have a very long history of
    non-compliance with mental health services.

    'You are well aware of what the consequences of not taking your medication
    will be. You were thinking very clearly before, during, and after the
    attack. You chose her because she was small and vulnerable.

    'You decide to 'get' a young, slight mother pushing a pram, you followed
    her to somewhere dark and inaccessible, selected a knife from you bag, and inflected seven wounds to her neck and face.

    'I also find that, at time, you displayed deep hostility to women which is
    not explained by your diagnosis of mental illness. You have tendency to
    target women in the street.

    'I accept that you mental illness played some part in your offending but
    in my judgement your culpability is high.'

    ### - neverrrr gonna let this fucker out again lol :)))

    i.e., schizophrenics need constant supervision to get by really, without
    which they inevitably stop taking their anti-psychotic meds at some point
    and then all hell usually breaks loose, whereas in an institutional
    setting there's always gonna be someone there to make sure they do take
    them? besides which it's not actually fair to depend on 'them' to manage
    to look after themselves correctly or properly unsupervised? they forget
    to take 'em! such is the nature of their illness!

    in fact, very few schizophrenics manage to live alone successfully without 'incidents' that seriously impinge upon other members of the public! every
    year here there's attacks & murders committed by them for example! every
    year! and they can't be cured coz it's a life-long condition!

    thus they simply shouldn't be 'allowed' to live on their own else it's
    like planting a ticking time bomb that's just waiting to go off at random
    some day when you're least expecting it...

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  • From LowRider44M@1:229/2 to All on Thursday, September 17, 2020 09:54:06
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    PROSECUTES SEDITION

    Barr tells prosecutors they could file sedition charges against violent protesters: report

    Violence could grow worse during lead-up to November elections, Barr reportedly
    said.

    Attorney General Bill Barr has told federal prosecutors to consider charging violent protesters with sedition and other criminal statutes, according to a report.

    https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/barr-tells-prosecutors-they-could-file-sedition-charges-against-violent

    Barr made the comments last week during a conference call with U.S. attorneys, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited "people familiar with the conversation."

    During the call, the news outlet reported that Barr told prosecutors to "be aggressive," to include potentially charging suspects with plotting the overthrow the U.S. government.

    The pertinent statute would fall under the U.S. Code section that deals with seditious conspiracy.

    The 18 U.S. Code subsection 2384 statue reads as follows.

    "If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by
    force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined
    under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."

    During the conference call with prosecutors, Barr reportedly warned that violent demonstrations could grow worse leading up to the November elections.

    The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Just the News.

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    COMMUNIST AGITATORS

    International - Analysis
    This BLM Co-Founder and Pro-Communist China Group Are Partnering Up. Here’s Why.

    Imagine that far-right demonstrators were laying siege to American cities for months, led by activists explicitly calling for an “ethno-state,” and that one of their groups was funded by an outfit involved with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. It would
    lead the news every day and there would be congressional hearings, right?

    And rightly so. The threat of foreign interference in our domestic affairs is a
    serious matter, whether the suspects are rivals such as Russia or friendlies such as Mexico. This is especially the case if a foreign power were abetting unrest that aims to
    topple our constitutional order.

    Well, the scenario described above is happening, though not with Russia or the far right, but with China and the leftist disturbances upending America and seeking to transform it.

    Yet, there has not been a peep from the media or Congress about China’s support of the riots.

    Go to the website for the Black Futures Lab, a venture of Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza, and click on the “Donate” button. It will ask you to send your money to an obscure organization, the Chinese Progressive Association, explaining that
    Black Futures Lab is a fiscally sponsored project of the Chinese Progressive Association.”
    History of Chinese Progressive Association

    The CPA was founded in San Francisco in 1972 during the heady days of the Marxist-oriented Asian American Movement, and today it also has a very active chapter in Boston. From its start, it has been a promoter of the People’s Republic of China.

    According to an authoritative 2009 Stanford University paper tracing its early days to the present, and which can be found on Marxist.org, “The CPA began as
    a Leftist, pro-People’s Republic of China organization, promoting awareness of mainland China
    s revolutionary thought and workers’ rights, and dedicated to self-determination, community control, and ‘serving the people.’”

    The CPA, continued the paper, “worked with other pro-PRC groups within the U.S. and San Francisco Bay Area … Support for the PRC was based on the inspiration the members drew from what they saw as a successful grassroots model that presented a viable
    alternative to Western capitalism.”

    One of the ways it did this was by holding “film screenings that were open to
    the public, sometimes showing Chinese films as well to facilitate understanding
    of the country’s revolutionary ideas. … CPA also took the lead with groups such as the U.S.
    -China People’s Friendship Organization to celebrate China’s National Day on Oct. 1.”

    To this day, the CPA continues to be a partner of the PRC in the United States.
    Three years ago, the Boston chapter teamed up with China’s Consulate General in New York to offer Chinese nationals the opportunity to renew their passports, getting praise
    from China’s official mouthpiece, China Daily.

    Last year, the CPA sponsored the raising of the PRC’s flag for the first time
    ever over Boston’s City Hall to honor the takeover of China by the Chinese Communist Party, just as the Stanford paper says has been its practice from the
    beginning, but
    this time drawing protesters. The event was organized, again, with the Chinese Consulate. Consul General Sun Guoxiang was on hand to say that, “The common interests are far more important than differences between U.S. and China.”

    CPA co-founder Lydia Lowe also spoke at the event, reminding her audience that “McCarthyism is behind us. The Cold War is behind us.” In an essay she authored with other people on the Marxist revolutionary site LeftRoots last year, Lowe sounded as
    though she wanted to start another Cold War, writing that she wanted Asians to play a role in creating a “revolutionary strategy” that would achieve a “fundamentally different society.”

    And CPA drew praise from China’s mouthpiece China Daily just a few weeks ago,
    for taking part again in Black Lives Matter demonstrations in San Francisco. Black Lives Matter Opposes Capitalism

    It is clear, then, that CPA works with China’s communist government, pushes its agenda here in the United States, and is regularly praised by China’s state-owned mouthpieces. It is clear, too, from, this perspective, why the CPA would sponsor a new
    enterprise by Garza: They espouse the same desire for world communism.

    Garza sits atop a worldwide revolutionary empire, starting with the Black Lives
    Matter Global Network she founded, which now has 15 chapters in the U.S. and several more all over Canada, Australia, and Europe. As Foreign Affairs wrote in its September/
    October issue, “Today, BLM has a global network of dozens of chapters. This number will likely grow exponentially in the coming years.”

    Garza is also behind the Movement for Black Lives, with its 50 domestic organizations. In July she said, “We helped to also pull together an ecosystem that was much broader than the organization that we founded, and that
    ecosystem is called the
    Movement for Black Lives and it is taking the world by storm.”

    Movement for Black Lives is unabashedly anti-capitalist, saying on its website,
    “We are anti-capitalist. We believe and understand that Black people will never achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system.”

    So is Garza, and she means to use her international platform to end world capitalism. In 2015, she told an important gathering of global Marxists, “It’s not possible for a world to emerge where black lives matter if it’s
    under capitalism, and it’
    s not possible to abolish capitalism without a struggle against national oppression.”

    There, she portrayed BLM as an offshoot of the Black Liberation Movement, the Marxist pan-Africanist Movement. “BLM, BLM,” she said coyly.

    Last year, Garza told a roomful of Maine progressives, “We’re talking about
    changing how we’ve organized this country, so that we actually can achieve the justice that we are fighting for. I believe we all have work to do to keep dismantling the
    organizing principle of this society, which creates inequities for everyone.” The Role of Black Futures Lab

    Two years ago, Garza created the Black Futures Lab, the organization that the Chinese Progressive Association funds, as yet another asset in the vast Garza empire. By the looks of it, it acts as a sort of a lobbying arm of this empire.

    As Colorlines put it when it was launched on Sept. 26, 2018, Black Futures Lab “seeks to engage advocacy organizations and legislators to advance local-, state- and federal-level policies that make Black communities stronger. It will
    also craft
    strategies that harness Black political power to bring those policies to fruition.”

    “Today, we are launching the Black Futures Lab as a way to mobilize around our needs, hopes, and dreams,” Garza told Colorlines in an emailed statement.
    “For too long, people have spoken for us and perpetuated false representations of the issues
    that drive our votes.”

    This legislative clout adds to the organizing muscle that the Black Lives Matters Global Network and the Movement for Black Lives organizations already bring.

    As I wrote at City Journal last month, the BLM organizations have been the nerve center of this year’s protests: “They have been laying the groundwork
    for years, carefully cultivating a network of groups that could organize protests when the moment
    came and amplify the message through social media.”

    Communist China has put its vast propaganda apparatus to work in support of the
    mayhem that has wreaked havoc in American cities this year. China is, after all, a rival of the United States, and would see weakening of U.S. society and the country in
    general as advantageous.

    The involvement of an outfit as closely associated with the Chinese government in the funding of one of Garza’s ventures is something else entirely, however.

    Maybe journalists and congressmen have not seen it till now (I myself hadn’t until Jenny Nguyen, a graduate of The Heritage Foundation’s Young Leaders Program, alerted me to it).

    But now they have.

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