Off The Editor’s Desk – 11-27-2019
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Trump pardons two soldiers!
A couple of weeks ago President Trump pardoned two soldiers that brought the wrath from former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden.
According to a news release from Tea Party PAC that stated; “President Trump, while at time gruff and rough, does have a lot of admirable qualities that should be celebrated and honored. One of those traits is that he is able to push through adversity and still get a lot of things done despite the whole world coming against him.
“Rather than allowing himself to be dragged down by the impeachment mess that’s going on right now in our country, he still pushing to accomplish things and make American great again.
“The president recently decided to pardon some U.S. fighters accused of war crimes.”
The president granted clemency to two Army officers accused of war crimes; Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorence, who has served six years of a 19-year sentence. He was convicted of ordering his soldiers to open fire and kill three men in Afghanistan. His supporters say he killed Taliban fighters, but nine members of his unit testified against him, saying the men were innocent.
Also pardoned was Major Mathew Golsteyn, who has pleaded not guilty, being charged with murder after killing an Afghan civilian, who he claims was a bomb maker for the Taliban.
Biden put out this statement; “Trump’s intervention in the American military justice system to pardon service members accused or convicted of war crimes betrays the rule of law, the values that make our country exceptional and the men and women who wear the uniform honorable. He is not fit to command our troops.”
I don’t remember what if anything Joe Biden said when then President Obama gifted the Iranian regime with a secret pallet of $400 million in the dead of the night or released the Gismo detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl plus millions of dollars in cash.
Obama also commuted the sentence of Bradley Manning, who leaked hundreds of sensitive information pieces to Wikileaks. Manning is also known as Chelsea and became a hero of the left wingers for declaring himself to be transgender, and Obama did this just days before he left office.
Obama also commuted the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a leader of a Puerto Rican terrorist group responsible for 130 attacks in the U.S. and at least six deaths. He also let out hundreds of drug offenders he claimed were non-violent offenders who deserved a second chance because of racism. It came out latter that many of the people he released were actually violent offenders guilty of gun crimes. Obama granted more acts of clemency than any president since Truman, but he saved much of that executive use of power for the latter months and days of his presidency.
Now, comes former New York Mayor, billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg, who last week reversed his long-standing support of the “stop-and-frisk” police policy that he aggressively supported during his 12-years as Mayor, a policy that Bloomberg now regrets. According to a story in the New York Times written by Shane Goldmacher, “Mr. Bloomberg’s policing record negatively impacted huge swaths of people of color across New York, so much so that his support for ‘stop-and-frisk’ is seen as one of his biggest potential vulnerabilities in 2020.”
The US Supreme Court ruled that the 4th Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks him or her without probably cause.
A 2016 study found no evidence that “stop-and-frisk” was effective. One of the authors of that study, Jeffery Fagan of Columbia University said that you can achieve really very positive crime control, reduction in crime, if you do stops using those probably cause standards.
It looks like to me that those left-wingers want to see people that should not have guns, like convicted criminals, gang-members, people with mental issues are on the streets with guns. Then, when those types of people pile up more gun deaths, the left-wingers will be able to convince the American Public that guns should be outlawed. That is when they will take over control of the country and rule over us.
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton