We often discuss how defendants undermine their cases with statements to the press or on social media. The latest example is John McGraw, 78, who assaulted a protester, 26-year-old Rakeem Jones, at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina. Despite already being in hot water over the disgraceful attack, McGraw told Inside Edition “Next time we see him, we might have to kill him!” That should make for an interesting sentencing hearing.
McGraw appears quite proud of being a thug. He added “We don’t know who he is. He might be with a terrorist organization.” Well, that assumption is more likely to be made to the guy who violently attacked someone who was protesting a presidential candidate.
The attack was not only criminal but cowardly. Jones was being escorted out and McGraw sucker punched him. He then bragged on television: “You bet I liked it . . . Knocking the hell out of the big mouth.”
McGraw, a retired horse handler and artist, is now charged him with assault and battery and disorderly conduct. Given his lack of remorse and subsequent implied threat, the court should impose the maximum penalty. I cannot imagine a fair sentencing that would not include jail time given McGraw’s behavior and post-arrest statements.
Paul Shulte,
Once again we find you criticizing the posters and contributing nothing to the discussion. If it isn’t that, it’s you acting as the defensive sycophant to the board’s regressives. I feel sorry for you.
As for Drumpf, I think I could have done OK for myself if my daddy had bought me a shopping center as a graduation present, or left me a couple hundred mill along the way. So no, I don’t attribute any actual success to the short-fingered vulgarian, so there’s nothing to be jealous of.
Ever see Trading Places with Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd? They did with Eddie Murphy what Donnie did with his daddy’s money. Not beating a basic index fund is not impressive to me. At all. So many others have done so much better in real estate. Not to mention all his other failures.
phillyT – you do know that Trading Places is fiction?
@bettykath
Yeah, the Brown Shirts shut down a political rally, and its the guys inside who are fascists! Thinking isn’t really big in the liberal skill set, is it???
@Fiver
Yep, more name calling! Oh Lookee! We found a racissss in among the Trump supporters sooo they’re all racissss! Thinking isn’t big in the liberal skill set, is it??? (That sounds familiar. . . )
Plus, you still haven’t discussed the fact that it is BLACK people who I usually link to or quote who are telling you what is going on in the hood with the welfare ho’s and the violence? C’mon give us the old liberal assessment, “Well, those blacks just aren’t black enough!”
For anybody who actually cares more about what it is happening to Black America, and less about stroking their own white egos, a good but uncomfortable place to start, is Taleeb Starkes book, “The Uncivil War: Blacks vs. Niggers. My BFF has put the first 25 pages at the link in a single document. (since those pages are already free on the net.)
Here is an excerpt, and the link follows:
https://pansiesforplato.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/the-un-civil-war-blacks-vs-niggers-by-taleeb-starkes.pdf
Sooo, c’mon liberals! Help a black guy out! Go buy his book! Others, too who actually give a damn.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/696261127182064/
No, Paul. We’re not talking about legitimate discussion. We talking about racist trolling with concocted butthurt. This was the bait I refused to take:
Yeah. That’s real tough.
http://www.americasfreedomfighters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/portia-boulger-575×383.jpg
There’s no need for me to waste time arguing with white supremacists about the merits of their bigotry. Their arguments have been made and soundly defeated.
I don’t pick fights with flat-earthers either.
fiver – is Sanders responsible for the people who broke up the Trump Chicago rally? Or Soros? Or Clinton? Candidates cannot always be responsible for every person who votes for or supports them. However, in the case of the Trump rally I would say they are responsible since they were working on it for a week. Someone in the Sander camp or the Clinton camp knew in advance what was happening. Soros knew because his organization, MoveOn.org funded it.
My comment follows: There is nothing better than a cogent, plausible, non-question-begging, non-tendentious argument.
When such rare and fine discussions ensue, it is rare. It is poetry
Dear Randyjet
Pretty please go to a Trump rally and try to disrupt it! Pleeeeze! Oh, I will be sooo sweeeet to you if you do!!!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Psst: Don’t nobody tell Randyjet that it is a violation of 18 USC 1752 to do this kind of stuff and he can face up to 10 years in prison!!! Tee Hee!!!
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1752
Pat Condell has an excellent video that tells it lie it is regarding the Trump phenomenon. Of course, those who hate America, hate liberty, hate free speech, hate freedom, and want to force others to adopt their perverse way of “thinking,” whether it be “progressive,” “leftist,” “authoritarian,” Islamic,” fascist, communist, or any other of the variants of the enemies of civilization, will not like this video because it tells the truth, which they hate:
Lisa, Since you issued a challenge I guess I will have to take you up on it. I am working out of DFW now, and if the draft dodger has a rally in Dallas that I can make, I will see you at it. I will be happy to heckle from the floor with some pithy comments and I have a VERY loud voice which I developed as a squadron leader in tech school with command voice training. You can recognize me since I will be one of the biggest white guys there and there is a photo of me and Otterray Scribe when I flew into his airport one day that he posted on this blog. So please try and beat on me if you will. I am not a pacifist either.
@Elmer Fudd
LOL! Maybe, if Trump could read the future, he would have made a business of giving speeches to Goldman Sachs, and the other Wall Street biggies! That’s a darn good gig at $200,000+ per hour!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Gee. Maybe after reading all this I am now for Trump.
@PaulCS
I don’t think PhillyT likes Donald Trump. Oh well, you can’t save every child on the Short Yellow Bus.
🙂
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Sorry, Paul, she’s a registered Republican and is very proud of her Nazi salute. Look it up.
And Ralph, you are 100% wrong. Trump’s supporters are violent, angry, often racist. They beat people up, punch them, chase them out of the rallies. Trump always eggs them on. He wants to torture prisoners, wants to violate the Geneva Convention. He has no intention of making America great again, he wants to Make America Hate again. But he won’t. He will fail. Again. Just like he has so many many times before:
Trump Vodka
Trump Steaks
Trump University
Trump Mortgage (Really!)
Trump Airlines
Trump: The Game
Trump Casinos
Trump Magazine
Trump Travel (Go Trump)
The Apprentice Board Game
Trump Entertainment Resorts
Trump Ice
The USFL
Trump Tower Tampa
I won’t go into his failed marriages or multiple affairs. If he had taken the money his daddy gave him and put it in an index fund, he would have more money today than he has made from all his deals and his “brand” which it turns out is what he considers most of his valuation. He makes his clothes in China. The man is a complete disaster, and I thank the goddess he will never, ever be president.
phillyT – I have never seen someone so jealous of Trump’s success. It must really grind at you every day that you did not do what he did.
History repeats itself. We must blame the “communists.” It’s NEVER the fault of the authoritarians and bigots.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/burns.htm
Donald “No Trump” Duck – many a communist is both authoritarian and bigoted. Stalin is an excellent example.
phillyt, the violence is incited only by the leftists, not Trump. Trump’s campaign has been totally peaceful. It’s the anti-Trump people who are violent and are constantly trying to silence free speech of others who don’t share their anti-American depraved point of view.
But why don’t you face facts for a change? Admit that what really gets under your skin is Trump’s theme of “Make America Great Again!” You find the very notion of working toward that objectionable goal contemptible and abhorrent. You much prefer the Establishment candidates who will continue the path of destroying America and incrementally shutting down freedom and liberty. They give you great comfort and hope.
PaulC.
Here’s one of the Trump supporters you are defending: Her name is Birgitt Peterson, of Yorkville. And in case you’re wondering, yes, there were others doing the same “salute”
http://www.trbimg.com/img-56e4a20f/turbine/chi-ct-trump-protest-photo3-20160311/1300/1300×731
phillyT – any Soros paid shill can put on a Trump t-shirt. If you believe this you believe that Hillary is a virgin.
It’s kind of funny, Schulte, that you never actually contribute to the discussion. Your entire modus seems to be either getting people to go find evidence that you can then dismiss because of the source, or to defend other members of the board by going after people who criticize what they’ve written. Do you have a hard time making friends or something?
Why not make your own contribution to the discussion once in a while, you know, say something about the actual original article instead of just attacking people?
phillyT- I already commented on the article. You seem to have a pathological need to use ad homenim attacks against people. They do not help your argument.
If Trump gets elected it’s very likely that people will start getting jailed, if for nothing else, calling him a stubby-fingered vulgarian. He incites violence, he wants to legalize torture and violate the Geneva Conventions.
George W. will seem like the prince of peace compared to Drumpf.
phillyT – The violence seems to have been started by Bernie’s, Hillary’s and Soro’s people. You cannot expect people to not defend themselves.
Naturally, far-lefty Turley, along with the left mainstream media, would be focusing on trying to make a Trump advocate look bad, and totally ignore the vile anti-Trump activists’ disgusting conduct in Chicago, funded and sponsored by Clinton, Sanders, Soros, Move-on, and all the other depraved leftists, who are anti-American, anti-free speech, anti-liberty, and anti-freedom. They won’t be happy until they get an Establishment president who will continue the unabashed destruction of America and its values. All these slimy, lefty, anti-Trump agent provocateurs should be jailed.
@fiver
“don’t need to” translates to:
“WTF??? I am not used to people being this direct and telling me I am flatly wrong, and more dangerous to blacks than the KKK. I think I better punt on this one, because I can’t really think of a good excuse why we should pay black women to pop out four illegitimate kids by four different baby daddies, and Jesus, those black rascals, excuse me, I mean, poor oppressed black citizens, are killing the crap out of each other! I think I will just punt and call her a racist before she lays another one of those Tommy Sotomayor videos on me. And I am going to have to ask my Democratic Party Gauleiter about why we don’t listen to the black folks who don’t agree with us. Because maybe we ought—oh no—slapping head sharply several times—I can’t be thinking thoughts like that. Happy thoughts! Happy thoughts! fingers in ears. PUNT!!!”
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Paul,
You really think I can’t make the case Trump is a bigot? Really? You don’t think I can’t get a middle-schooler to make that case?
Of course I can, and you know it. We’ve had discussions before, and you well know that I back up my claims.
I don’t need to argue with this type of trash. And I won’t. That’s an old argument that’s already been had plenty of times. No matter how the Stormfront folks still whine about not getting a fair shake, it’s a done argument; the bigots lost; and people of all political stripes don’t want their kids trick-or-treating down in that area of the trailer park.
Fiver – if you don’t read/see the material you cannot defeat the argument. You are like the kid who puts their fingers in their ears and goes “Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa” until it is all over.