JC.
Why do you let the bible dictate your every action?

I’m sorry, but I can’t answer that as the bible prevents me from doing so. I hope you understand that if I did answer it would be haram.

Haram?
Or halal?
Or non-kosher?

Whoops

I forget: is haram a Muslim or Christian thing? 🙂

Not to be confused with harem.

It’s good, Sanchez.

Haram is a Christian restriction.

forbidden or proscribed by Islamic law.

From the Oz. I haven’t posted the whole article.

Northern Territory police review knife-gun maxim ahead of the Kumanjayi Walker inquest
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The Northern Territory Police Force is revising its use of force training – telling officers that the decades-old maxim “knife equals gun” no longer automatically applies – ahead of the coronial inquest into Kumanjayi Walker’s death.

On Tuesday, the NT Police Force disseminated an internal broadcast to all sworn members to “address an identified ­erroneous belief or misconception amongst some members that ‘knife equals gun’ in all circumstances when members are faced with a physical threat to themselves or others during their operational duties”.

The broadcast, authorised by NT Police College Commander Hege Burns, said the phrase “knife equals gun” may have derived from past training and had “since been used incorrectly, poorly explained or wrongfully interpreted”.

“This matter is brought to the attention of all sworn members as the phrase was subject of proceedings during the supreme court trial of constable Zachary Rolfe,” it said.

“Operational safety training does not use this phrase as it bears no true resemblance in relation to a member’s situational awareness, available tactical options and decision-making when confronted with a weapon, including an edged weapon.”

This comes after Constable Rolfe was in March found not guilty of murdering Walker at the remote outback community of Yuendumu.

I used to think like that until 1965 with the hanging of Ryan.

Silly me, I thought Ronald Ryan wasn’t hanged until 1967.

I don’t like the idea of hanging an innocent man, but I dislike releasing murderers to kill again even more.

There have been at least two cases, in Australia, where a convicted murderer was sentenced to hang, was reprieved, was released on parole, and went on to take another life.

SADS!
Bwah ha ha ha.

More titles for the jaded:

I was a Teeny Bopper for the FBI: her code name was Jailbait.

Brexit 1534: the first time a fat, hairy English leader exited from a corrupt European organisation.

and I wondered how they’d fallen on that weird combination where you’d end up asking a grown man in a uniform “would that woman know what street the bus leaves from?”

Not true. The formal plural is not feminine. Like the French vous, which is not feminine.

In the America , “the state” doesn’t find people guilty of capital crimes. Juries do. Juries are NOT the state.

I recall this one. Troy Davis was not freaking innocent. As Coulter says, dozens saw the fuckhead shoot the cop.

Coulter: NY Times, bogus claims on death row innocence

The New York Times has been touting a study purporting to show that 4 percent of death row inmates have been “falsely convicted.” “Falsely convicted” is not “innocent.” But after being processed through the lawyer-to-journalist telephone game, “insignificant procedural errors” quickly becomes “27 guys didn’t do it!”

What the study actually shows is that those sentenced to death are more likely to have their convictions overturned than those sentenced to prison.

Yeah, we knew that. Anti-death penalty fanatics fight every execution tooth and claw. Sometimes they get lucky. What the statisticians have proved is that it’s very difficult to be executed in this country.

Most of the media cited this pointless study to proclaim that “statistical analysis” proves that 4 percent of people on death row are innocent. They just have to be! And if you disagree, you must hate science.

Whether innocent people have been executed is not a matter that lends itself to statistical analysis. We have the names of every person who has been executed — 1,373 since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

A few dozen lawyers could each take home a stack of case files for the weekend and find the innocent guy — if there were one. But despite years of searching by single-minded zealots, they still don’t have the name of one innocent person executed in at least the last half-century.

Identifying the innocent has lead to embarrassments in the past. In this week’s and next week’s columns, we’ll review the left’s last few poster boys for “innocence.”

The day of Troy Davis’ execution, MSNBC and CNN went live until midnight to cover it, much like the 9/11 terrorist attack. Rachel Maddow posted an article claiming there was “persistent doubt that the death-row inmate is guilty of the crime of which he was convicted,” under the headline, “Georgia plans to kill Troy Davis tomorrow.”

(This was a delightful change from Rachel’s usual nightly smirk-fest.)

A reporter for the British Guardian claimed Davis was “very possibly innocent.” Amnesty International issued a statement after the execution, announcing that Georgia had “executed a person who may well be innocent.” (In the same sense that I “may well be” an astronaut named Smitty.)

The New York Times editorialized about “A Grievous Wrong” being done to Troy Davis, citing “reports about police misconduct, the recantation of testimony by a string of eyewitnesses and reports from other witnesses that another person had confessed to the crime.”

In all criminal appeals, defense lawyers roll out claims of “police misconduct,” preposterously unbelievable “new” witnesses and a surprise “confession” by someone else.

In fact, that’s a single typewriter key at the Times, used for all reports on criminal convictions. I have my own typewriter key to describe Times’ editorials on executions: “reports about extreme self-righteousness, excessive moral preening, obliviousness to the facts, and lies from a string of journalists.”

Always check to see if the person suddenly confessing to a crime will face any penalty for doing so. You will find that surprise confessions invariably come from those already serving the maximum sentence or that the statute of limitations has run.

(The Times editorial didn’t mention the police officer murdered by Davis. A few days later, an article on the execution did mention the victim in the fifth paragraph — and then spelled his name wrong.)

Those of you who follow my work assiduously know that Davis shot and killed an off-duty cop, Mark MacPhail, in a busy Burger King parking lot in front of dozens of witnesses, including people who knew him, as well as a van full of Air Force airmen. (He didn’t recant.)

After shooting the cop once, Davis sauntered up to the cop’s body and shot him again, directly in the head. As one of the airmen told the jury in identifying Davis: “You don’t forget someone that stands over and shoots someone.”

The much-ballyhooed “recantations” in Davis’ case were typical, which is to say: nothing of the sort. Years after the trial, defense lawyers trick witnesses into making small, inconsequential alterations to their testimony. Then the lawyers rush to the press claiming the witness has “recanted.”

For example, Davis’ lawyer prepared an affidavit for the girlfriend of the homeless man Davis was beating when MacPhail intervened and got shot. The affidavit was consistent with her trial testimony in all respects — including identifying Davis as the killer — except that the lawyer altered her description of events to say that Davis had been “arguing” with her boyfriend before shooting the cop.

The girlfriend would have had no way to know — years later — that this was any different from her original trial testimony. She signed the lawyer-drafted affidavit, but didn’t consider it important enough to get notarized. Then she died.

Out of 34 witnesses for the prosecution, that was one of the five purported “recantations.” Normal people hear that and say, “ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE CALLING A ‘RECANTATION’?”

And in different and unusual, seen on the side of the Newell Highway, a tribe of wild goats grazing the long paddock.
And a few kilometres away, a dead wedgetail eagle, how that managed to end up as road kill I do not know.

Just don’t say you’re a Republican

You really have to laugh.

The Innocence project on Netflix has a case of a man who was on death row in Texas for ten years who was innocent.
Finally got a payout of 2 million in 2021.
I agree no-one goes to the death chamber these days without it being about absolutely certain. With appeal after appeal often for years and then potential governor pardons every avenue is explored.
I read a bio once which noted in the war years UK criminals sentenced to the long drop were executed three weeks after conviction.

Only possible explanation Bespoke.

And a few kilometres away, a dead wedgetail eagle, how that managed to end up as road kill I do not know.

Easily, they make a late lift off from a road kill and zig when they should’ve zagged.
I had one nearly make it through the windscreen last Christmas eve, certainly got the blood pumping!

Approaching from downwind masks any vehicle noise which gives them a panicked response at the last minute which doesn’t help.

Crude is over US$122 . The Hiden’s are choking supply like crazy in an attempt to transition to carbon neutral. These nutballs could end up killing the economy. They’re mentally ill.

It’s deliberate.
They hate their country.
When you look at Garrison’s cartoon you really wonder how much more the place can take.

Don Stuber reckons there’s a little noticed SCOTUS case that could, if the court decides, end up being bigger than the abortion and and guns cases in terms of the punch. It ties into the ability of the administrative state to make laws. Stuber reckons the court will largely dismantle the administrative state. Oh God, let it happen.

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-decision-bigger-than-guns-and.html

The actual case is about a coal plant in W.Va and the EPA’s regulations dealing with carbon emissions.. What else? 🙂

4% of death row inmates being falsely convicted is enough to pull the pin.

Dot, it’s a bullshit number. Don’t believe it. Look, I’m not (pun intended) hanging myself onto capital punishment, so if you can demonstrate that number is true then I’ll take some of it back.

We also have, in 2022, a case such as three times convicted murderer Reginald Arthurell, who now goes by the name of Renata Arthurell (oh yes, he’s now a tranny, pretending to be a female). 

Report on TeeVee last night of Paul Denyer (who murdered three women in Frankston in 1993) wanting parole.
Paul now goes by the name Paula and identies as.
What are the odds?

I never buy the “I’ve become a Christian, I’ve reformed, set me free” argument.

Quite so.
I watched a doco about US parole boards a while back. A parole board member with a thick Southern drawl …

“If you’re trying to find Jesus, your best bet is to come on down here to the court-house around parole hearing time. He’s bound to show up.”

How do you defame a teacher?

They don’t even try to hide their evil intent any more.

Amid border surge, Biden admin plans to send migrants to cities deeper inside U.S., starting with L.A., say internal documents

Suddenly a new syndrome. 

Except it’s not new.
A young relative of mine died in a similar fashion mid last year.
Full autopsy.
Heart failure (nothing to do with vaccines).

Thanks for wedge tail eagle explanations, the abundance of road kill putting an end to hunting makes much sense.
I would also note the most common road kill was foxes. They must be in great abundance, possibly due to the last couple of years of many many mouses.

Iceberg in short supply and expensive, $7 here ($9 in rural nsw) and broccoli is $13 a kilo.
KfC should switch to avocados, still only a dollar each.
Or perhaps chokoes, also abundant and cheap.

I shouldn’t be even answering these questions.
The bible forbids it.
Haram.