A student leader at Columbia is under fire this week over a newly-resurfaced video declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” Khymani James has been one of the leaders at the anti-Israel encampment at Columbia and featured prominently by media outlets. He is reportedly the spokesperson for Columbia’s anti-Israel student group Apartheid Divest. While banned this week from campus, James embodies the type of radical chic culture that pervades higher education among both faculty and students.
James mocked university officials who called to inquire about such statements, including “Zionists don’t deserve to live comfortably, let alone Zionists don’t deserve to live…The same way we are very comfortable accepting Nazis don’t deserve to live, fascists don’t deserve to live, racists don’t deserve to live, Zionists, they shouldn’t live in this world.”
He added: “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists. I’ve never hurt anyone in my life, and I hope to keep it that way.”
The conservative site, the Daily Wire, published an Instagram post in which James mocks officials from Columbia’s Center for Student Success and Intervention who said that they were doing a routine inquiry over the comments. The staffers asked such mild questions as “Do you see why that’s problematic in any way?” James did not react well.
When asked “Do you see why that’s problematic in any way?,” James said “No” and added “I feel very comfortable, very comfortable, calling for those people to die. And with that being said, Khymani is signed out.”
Despite mocking the inquiry to his followers on social media, James retracted the words after the video was published and caused a backlash. It is a familiar pattern on our campuses where faculty and students garner support for radical statements and then tack back when those comments become a liability.
James posted a statement on X:
“On Thursday, a video of me taken back in January began to circulate online. What I said was wrong. Every member of our community deserves to feel safe without qualification…I also want people to have more context for my words, which I regret. Far right agitators went through months of my social media feed until they found a clip that they edited without context. When I recorded it, I had been feeling unusually upset after an online mob targeted me because I am visibly queer and black.”
The original radical and hate-filled statements by James are hardly unique in higher education. Administrators, faculty and admissions committees have fostered this radicalized environment. It is not because radical views are expressed, but the intolerance for opposing views, the purging of faculties of conservatives and dissenting views, and the echo chamber created on campuses.
We recently discussed one of UCLA’s “activists in residence” spewing anti-Israeli and racist comments at a mandatory medical school class. Likewise, we have seen professors recently espousing the same violent rhetoric or sentiments.
We have seen a steady stream of professors shouting down speakers, committing property damage, participating in riots, verbally attacking students, or even taking violent action in protests.
Others, like Fresno State University public health professor Dr. Gregory Thatcher, recruited students to destroy pro-life messages.
At the University of California Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young, who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display.
Despite pleading guilty to criminal assault, she was not fired and received overwhelming support from the students and faculty.
She was later honored as a model for women advocates.
Other faculty confine themselves to calling for or justifying the violence of others.
We saw professors advocating “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters, and other outrageous statements.
University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis defended the murder of a conservative protester and said he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence.
The university later elevated Loomis to director of graduate studies of history.
For many academics, this extremist rhetoric is reinforced on campuses and supported by colleagues. When they make it into the main press (often through conservative or alternative media outlets), they often take their social media posts private or issue the perfunctory mea culpa.
The extremist rhetoric of students like James is being fostered in this environment where universities now offer degrees in activism and professors support censorship and violence. This will continue until more donors demand greater diversity of viewpoints on our campuses and an end to the academic orthodoxy that has taken hold of many faculties.
When federal funding of education, direct and indirect, ends, people like Mr. James will disappear.
WHATEVER WILL HAPPEN WHEN AMERICA BECOMES THE LAND OF THE FREE?
WHATEVER WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE CLEAR MEANING AND INTENT OF THE CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS ARE FULLY AND ACCURATELY IMPLEMENTED?
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The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with substantial emphasis on the Supreme Court.
When the Constitution is implemented, the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) will disappear.
Congress has the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and general Welfare, which is basic infrastructure that allows “all” or the “whole” to “fare” “well.”
Congress has the power to regulate only money, commerce, and land and naval Forces.
The 5th Amendment absolute right to private property prohibits a majority of governmental regulation and control.
Private property is distinctly not public property or under public dominion.
Congress has no power to tax for individual welfare, specific welfare, particular welfare, charity or favor.
Congress has no power to tax for or fund “education.”
The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, signed by Abraham Lincoln, was and remains irrefutably unconstitutional, as is everything else Lincoln did, beginning with his wholly unconstitutional denial of not-prohibited and fully constitutional secession.
The Barbarians are not At the Gate, the Barbarians are Inside the Gate.
Khymani James is a general in the original, foreign, illegal alien, Obama, standing army on U.S. soil, which is in the process of obtaining tens of millions of covetous and avaricious reinforcements.
Khymani James is “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Khymani James is a direct and mortal enemy of Israel, which is America’s ally.
Khymnai James and his ilk are direct and mortal enemies of the American thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America.
Now you know why the Founders required voters to be 21 years of age.
Now you know why the Founders required homogeneity in the population through immigration law, the Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802.
Now you know why the Founders made partiality, bias, favoritism, affirmative action, quotas, etc., unconstitutional.
This is the caliber student you get when you have a huge DEI infrastructure.
“It’s the [merit], stupid!”
– James Carville
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Or the flagrant lack thereof.
Diversification is Diworsification.
Affirmative action, by definition, is the promotion of lower caliber entities that lack merit.
Affirmative action is but one political “emulsifier” employed to force the impossible mixture of political oil and water.
Normal people would be embarrassed.
DEI is a component of Marxism. Marxists view everything through the lens of the oppressed and the oppressors. It’s a “paint by numbers” programming of the feeble minded.
The gullible students are radicalized and can now sympathize with terrorists. The only antidote to their warped minds is truth and facts. That is why the radicals despise debate and free speech. If they can’t stop a source of information, they instruct their lemmings that this person or this source of information is evil, poison.
They don’t know it, but these so called “protesters” would have fit in very well in Jonestown or with Charlie Manson. They are radicalized cult members.
Dear Prof Turley,
Speaking of ‘donors’ and ‘diversity’, Speaker Mike Johnson, in another profile of courage (see H.R. 815 supplemental), made the arduous and dangerous trip to Columbia University recently to brow-beat the student rabble-rousers ‘extremists’. Tough crowd. Columbia is known as a mecca of antisemitism and mob rule.
In addition to calling in the National Guard, Speaker Johnson mentioned withholding public education funding .. . in consultation with President Joe Biden.
No mention of Gaza, or the plight of the Palestinians .. . other than Hamas is using them as human shields.
“No mention of Gaza, or the plight of the Palestinians .. . other than Hamas is using them as human shields.”
Dgsnowden, with all the money provided to the Palestinians, they should be well off, but that money was used for genocidal purposes against the Jews. Along with all the heinous things, hiding behind the skirts of women and the diapers of babies is the most notable thing one can say about them. The addition of their terrorism and bombing of school buses wouldn’t help the stupid to understand.
@S. Meyer: Re: ” No mention of….” Well writ. That lot has pretty much been hoisted by their own petards, and will continue to be until an opposition rises to rally and throw off the oppressive yoke of Hamas which crushed the Fatah wing in 2007 and occupied Gaza by force. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-poll-shows-palestinian-support-hamas-still-high-despite-mounting-death-toll
You got it, ZZ. The Gazans have chosen their leaders poorly and even today support them. They refused multiple two-state offers and refused to remain at peace when they controlled Gaza. It is expected, which is why they were thrown out of Jordan and Egypt, both Arab states.
There is only one solution. Israel must rule Gaza and let its citizens resettle. The Gazans who wish for a better standard of living and wish to remain in peace can do so. Those who do not can resettle elsewhere. Qatar supports them and has plenty of money. Let Qatar absorb the people they have been arming.
S. Meyer, but Qatar won’t take them either. Incidentally, they were never admitted to Jordan or Egypt, both countries not wanting to fomit even more unrest.
No one in the world wants them – not even the countries who give them lots of money.
David, Jordan’s King Hussein warred on the PLO in 1970, and the PLO exited Jordan. Many from the PLO went to Lebanon to engage in Lebanon’s Civil war. The original two-state solution was Israel and Jordan. In 1948, Jordan illegally (based on the laws created after WW1) occupied Judea and Samaria along with parts of Jerusalem.
No, Jordan was not the original two-state solution. Transjordan was separated from Palestine, taking about 75% of its territory, before there was any two-state proposal. The various two-state proposals of the 1930s and 1940s were all based on dividing the remaining 25% which the British called Palestine. The Arabs rejected all of those proposals, so they are now off the table.
until an opposition rises to rally and throw off the oppressive yoke of Hamas which crushed the Fatah wing in 2007 and occupied Gaza by force.
You seem to be falling into the trap of regarding Fatah as the “reasonable” and “moderate” alternative to Hamas, which should be supported. The differences between Fatah and Hamas are many and bitter, but relevant only to them and their supporters; for all purposes relevant to anyone else, there is not a dime’s worth of difference between them. Going to war to destroy Hamas, only to hand the place over to Fatah, would be a waste of blood and money and misery, on both sides.
Remember that Hamas ousted Fatah from the Gaza Strip after it won a clear majority of the vote in that district. Fatah won the overall election, but in the Strip the people supported and wanted to be ruled by Hamas. And Hamas has spent the next 15 years brainwashing the next generation into supporting it even more fanatically. So one can’t really call its rule illegitimate. It represents the people it rules, who are therefore not innocent civilians, and share in the responsibility for all of Hamas’s crimes against humanity. Israel is foolish to treat them as if they were innocent bystanders, and to spend its own soldiers’ lives in order to minimize the risk to them.
Anyone hear what the alphabet people are doing about the threats to America, the Jewish community and what investigations regarding the professors pushing the terror? I recall school moms and Catholics no long ago.
OT, Joe Biden’s decision to gut Title IX: the left used to champion women’s rights. Now it wants to force women and teen girls to have men and boys (including naked ones) in their locker rooms, showers, restrooms, and other facilities that are supposed to be safe spaces for females. The left also favors depriving women and girls of scholarship opportunities and athletic prizes whenever a male decides he wants to compete against women. Why?
Anyone notice that the most vile and vicious anti-semites are leftist African Americans and Gen z whites! Probably students in gender and African studies indoctrinated by Marxist professors. Still 70 percent of American Jews will vote for a party that welcomes participants who have the same agenda as Nazi germany did in the 1930s
I think more and more American Jews are waking up to the anti-Zionist sentiment that is pervasive among the progressive Democratic base and to the pernicious impact of the DEI agenda endorsed by the Biden Administration. Within the donor class, Bill Ackman is perhaps the most visible among what is likely to be many.
American Jews have sold out meritocracy for political power via elevation of the non-meritorious. Thye slept with dogs and now they are getting bitten.
I cannot figure out why a Jewish person would EVER vote democrat – but they do. I’m stunned.
Well, the answer is STUPIDITY. The same with african americans. They are stupid. But, you sort of have to be stupid to be a Democrat in the first place. So the real question is, why are they so stupid? Part of it is that they have been lied to and brainwashed for years by the Democrat Party legacy press. But still, the Russians used to be lied to by the Communist Party press, and yet the Soviets had to use guard dogs, machine gun towers and barbed wire to keep the Russian people from leaving. Because they knew they were being lied to.
I guess maybe why Jews, blacks and may Catholics are so stupid that they vote for Democrats, is that they are just stupid.
no wonder your only companions are stray cats.
My cats are smarter than the average Democrat. My cats are capable of learning, and they have a sense of Reality. How long have blacks been addicted to the Democrats? And still, their kids are going to schools where the qualification for going to a new grade, is getting one year older. And still, they live in violent neighbourhoods, and most are broke on their a$$e$. Catholics? Dumbest of the dumb! Most of them vote Democrat, where you have to be pro-abortion to run for office as a Democrat. I guess they think they can be good Catholics, like Nancy Pelosi, and still worship Moloch on the side. Jews? The ones here had a good country, where there WAS little anti-Semitism, and what did they do? Vote for Democrats and open the borders to folks who are proudly anti-Semitic.
Give me my cats every time!
Jews have voted largely for Democrats because they used to be welcomed into the Party. They thought it was a safe haven and supported equal rights for all and thought they picked the right side as the Right was largely just silent. The Democrats crept to the left favoring the nut balls and eventually Islamist bigots and their trendy ignorant sycophants. Now they are left out in the cold by the Democrat Party, except in places like NY Jewish precincts like Jamie Rankinland . I also find the Jewish attraction to the Left stunning. They as a group abhor the Nazi brand of Socialism but glom onto the Academic brand of Socialism. Reality eventually seeps through. The current Democrats are the party of George Soros paid misfits and troublemakers, while the rest of us go to work and keep the world operating. Walter Reuther’s idea of a Union Democrat is long dead.
Not true. I think you will see a significant erosion in the support of Jewish Americans for the Democrats. This is based on my own conversations and comments from a couple of prominent, middle-of-the road Rabbi’s.
I don’t think so. I wish you were right, but experience tells me that when cognitive dissonance sets in, people will double-down on their false belief system.
If this were Just attacks on Israel – MAYE you would be right.
But Oct 7 was a reminder that the Hollocaust was not that long ago and there are growing bodies of hatred of jews in this country.
And that is the big problem – the attacks go beyond israel or when they address israel they advocate terrorism and murder.
Communism and violence, the history of the Twentieth and Twenty-first. Always leads to genocide.
Defund the Marist indoctrination centers. Colleges and Universities teach hate and the destruction of Western culture.
Did he touch anybody? Did he hurt anybody? Then the man gets to say what ever the hell he wants. I told once and I will tell you again, death threats are protected speech. A Christian nation only punish illegal conduct, illegal actions—not thoughts, opinions, or trash talking……and the people who would say otherwise well they are not like us, not one tiny bit like us.
@ Robert Browning: “Then the man gets to say whatever he wants”. When it comes to the codes of conduct established by the academic institution he has been admitted to, he will be adjudicated as to any violation of same. In the public sphere, he is entitled to be pilloried or not as deemed appropriate by those who may or may not judge him. Should he become the ‘darling’ of AOC as appears to be his expressed hope, the outcome of such has yet to be known. If he raises a hand to any individual with the abilities of self-protection, he may find his future dimmed.
You are arguing for the punishment of someone who did not hurt anybody, and yet you object to being called a Christ killer, and you are blind to how the slur suits you to a tee. We do not have to change to conform to your inferior morality. You have to conform to ours. Your unwillingness to conform is the reason for the creation of Israel, the Christian world refuses your immorality and still does. Do you need a written invitation? You are not like us. Your blood is different.
Robert, another called you Brownbug. That seems appropriate to me. He also demonstrated your stupidity in knowing less than zero about Jesus.
You and the Bug have a lot of similarities.
Stupid
Foul mouthed
Inability to be rational
I wonder about the booze?
Why did you kill Christ?
What is the nature of the beast?
The beast persecutes and torments the weak and the innocent.
Do you see what I see?
You are unfit and undeserving of the blessings of God.
Insulting me will not save you. Your only salvation is through Christ.
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Robert, you are known as a sick. First, recognize that Jesus was born a Jew and died as a Jew. Then, you can learn the Christian religion didn’t start until later. Afterward, as a member of the deaf, dumb, and blind club, you can discuss your nonsense. I repeat what most others on the list already know and have stated.
How was Christ a Jew? Jews have been breeding and producing children with their sisters and cousins for centuries, such breeding practices create a commonality of traits and characteristics across a bloodline. What traits and characteristic do you and those closest to you, other Jews share with Christ? What you are saying is you and he, Jesus Christ are the same and I am asking you to compare and tell me in what regard? I am trying to reason with you, without insulting you. Are you capable of listening to reason, we know Christ died trying to reason with your kind and failed. and the things he was trying to get across to you, his teachings have not been absorbed in to the common Jewish psyche—–and you need them to be. He loved you, he wanted to help you. If you and he are the same why won’t you take his teaching to heart? You understand why your line of crap doesn’t sell schmuck? He wasn’t a Jew not by blood, not by deeds, and actions and not in his mentality and in the way he viewed life. He was not a predator, he was a victim of the predator. The Jews are the predators, the goyim the sheep. Right or wrong kyke?
“How was Christ a Jew?”
Do a search. I will copy from your type of research, Wikipedia, but many other sources say the same thing. “Jesus[d] (c. 6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ,[e] Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.[10] He is the central figure of Christianity, the world’s largest religion.”
It’s hard to converse with you because you are ignorant and one whose discussion almost always involves foul language
The defining quality in Jew blood is absent from Christ, a predatory nature he did not possess. How could that stupid goyim allowed himself to be nailed to the cross? You know he went voluntarily? You are only singing a different song now, because you intent to deceive. We are all the same, are you not, Jew?
Robert, are you now a hematology technician who examined Jesus’ blood or one of the Nazis who did such work? Your ego is about to explode. Do you need help understanding the Wikipedia statement I provided or the many others you can look up for yourself? It takes a bit of intellect to understand. That is something you are unable to discover.
If your goal was to show us that there are poeple more reprehensible than these pro-terrorism pro murder left wing nuts – you have succeeded.
My goal is for you to find the truth of yourself and your own, but you are too blind to see. Moshiach loves you and the sins you are committing against the innocent will not go unnoticed or unpunished.
“Moshiach loves you and the sins…”
You should know that Moshiach is the Hebrew word for Messiah. Your use adds a bit of flavor.
Yes and yours is Christ, but you are too blind to see. God has something teach you, even the deafest the dumbest and blindest of you and yours.
John, as you know from familial experience, mental illness, particularly Axis II, is very prevalent in our nation. Its incidence is increasing, particularlyCluster B traits
There are many people on here who manifest these types of symptoms with their posts. Ive always stated that all of us have physical and mental pathologies at one or more points in life. The difference is those few who actually manage and reverse their pathologies. Browning is either another Soros paid troll with hopes of causing disruption, Axis II or perhaps both
Take care of you and I will do likewise
Pax
Memtal illness and homosexuality are a product of incestuous breeding practices. The Jews have been breeding and producing children with their sisters and cousins for centuries, centuries. Look at yourself, Jew mental ills are so bad and so noticeable one of your own took it upon himself to study and investigate and try and help his very own kind overcome their ills, Freud. And you and your kind and all the mental ill found in Jew blood turned Freud into a dope fiend. So much for helping those in need. Moral of the story, some people you just can’t help, and if you do, you too are bound to suffer.
F**k off, Nazi.
Also, while this guy didn’t make any threats, the fact remains that actual threats are NOT protected speech. That is the law, whether you like it or not. Making terroristic threats is a federal felony, and federal judges routinely sentence people to prison for it, without any constitutional challenge.
Gods law rules supreme. No harm comes to the innocent, is Gods law. Show me the blood and harm the mans word caused to anyone. Any psychological damage is caused only to the weak of mind, the guilty of conscious and the mentally defectives.
This is the United States, where the law comes from the constitution and the congress, not from God.
Hmmm I wonder if the Jewish community will continue to support and vote democrat?
Jonathan: In other news you have been pretty quiet about Jim Comer’s Biden impeachment inquiry. That’s probably because Comer has gone quiet. Despite over a year of investigation what has he come up with? Nothing. No evidence Pres. Biden committed any impeachable offenses. It’s now become an embarrassment for Comer. One Republican called the investigation “an unmitigated disaster”. Comer has now told Republicans he is “done” with the investigation. So where does that leave you? Without much to discuss. Comer’s inquiry was like the Roman candle you paid $20 for to celebrate the 4th of July. You lighted it but nothing happened. It just fizzled and produced a lot of smoke but nothing else. Even your kids were disappointed. Comer needs to pack up and move on!
Which leads us to the oral arguments before SCOTUS this week over DJT’s claim of “absolute immunity”. Trump’s lawyer, John Sauer, was put in the uncomfortable position of claiming a president can order the killing of a political opponent, have the military stage a coup or sell nuclear secrets to a foreign power and still be immune from criminal prosecution. Thomas and Alito seemed sympathetic.
It was a sad spectacle to see SCOTUS even wanting to hear the case. The Constitution no where mentions “immunity” for a Presidents crimes. The Founding Fathers designed our founding documents to preclude the President from becoming as Monarch who can do anything he/she wants without accountability. SCOTUS should have allowed the DC Court of Appeals to stand. Instead, SCOTUS appears to want the lower courts to determine what are “official” and what are “unofficial acts” by a president. This will ensure further delays with appeals and the DC criminal case will not be decided until after the election. The conservatives on the Court have given DJT everything he wanted. That’s not good for the rule of law or the reputation of the highest Court in the land!
Four more years, pause: Speaking to North America’s Building Trades Union, Biden tried to get the crowd going in a raucous chant. And so you had our daffy 81-year-old president onstage doing his best impression of a barnstorming rally: “Four more years, pause,” he said, glancing around, looking to all the world like a man whose TV remote is attached to a string. It’s a little quiet before the audience realizes what he’s asking for and erupts into “Four more years” chants.
And our White House staff carefully removed the gaffe and presented a special, clean transcript.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Folks, imagine what we can do next. Four more years (inaudible).
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
It’s a tiny thing, but. . . it wasn’t inaudible. It was audible! It was even kind of sweet. He was just reading an instruction from the teleprompter. After people noticed, the transcript was updated. Related to unreliable White House transcripts, Biden refuses to give interviews to the major American publications, and on Thursday a New York Times spokesperson was pissed off: “Biden has granted far fewer press conferences and sit down interviews with independent journalists than virtually all of his predecessors.” Love to see that vim and vigor!
— Nellie Bowles, April 26, 2024
https://www.thefp.com/p/tgif-four-more-years-pause
Nothing you say has any credibility as long as you side with an evil man such as Putin.
I have more credibility than you ever will.
I do not side with Putin.
I side with ending the death and destruction, avoiding WWIII and side with peace.
Heck, I side with Putin! I hope he creams Ukraine, and then Ukrainians realize what the U.S. manoeuvred them into. I wish Putin was our President instead of Biden.
Floyd, move to Russia and your wish becomes realty!
Upstatefarmer, Keaton from Due Dissidence said on the Jimmy Dore show yesterday that he thought the ‘four more years’ was actually scripted for the audience to say. You can hear them jump in with it right away, and Biden did indeed read the word ‘pause’, it’s right there in the footage. Not the first time by a long shot that the transcripts have been altered in his favor.
If you wanna control the topic of blogs, why don’t you start your own?
because he would not get paid. Its the only reason the trolls come here day after day with the same regurgitated talking points…paid trolls
@Dennis McIntyre: Re”Jonathan: In other news …” Boring and irrelevant pontification as you are wont to do and be.
Dennis, you’re so inspiring I have decided to follow in your footsteps!
I now go to blogs and news sites, and write OT comments, too!
If the article is about a boxing match, I write about tiger cubs!
If it’s about cooking, I comment that the author should post about clouds instead!
If the focus is on protests, I chide the writer and add a long blahblahblah about gardening!
Wow! It’s so easy! Thank You! Please keep up with your whataboutism!
Dennis:
As to the House committees, they have shown that the Biden family received, for some reason, milliions of dollars from foreign sources, while Joe Biden was holding federal office. This is inherently corrupt, or at least needs a better explanation than so far provided.
As to the word “immunity” not appearing in the Constitution, this is not relevant. Federal law is not limited to the text of the Constitution. The Constituion does not refer to executive privilege, but that doctrine has been recognized as part of our law since the founding of the Republic. It is appropriate that the Court, along with Congress and the Executive, propound rules – not FORBIDDEN by the Constitution – that protect the functioning of our politicial process.
Presidents have powers that others do not. Some execises of those powers are both constitutionally legitimate and crimes.
President Obama ordered the assassination of a US citizen without a trial or even an arrest.
That is a crime. At the same time the president has the power to direct the military to kill people who are a threat to the country outside the country.
Do you really think our founders gave presidents the power to use lethal force against terrorists without having immunity ?
The standard is NOT that government has the power to do what is not forbidden by the constitution.
The standard – and that does lead to immunity, is that the president has the power to do those things that are executive powers in the constitution AND those things that are necescary and proper in order to do what is explicitly allowed.
If the constitution gives the president the power to do something – then he is immune for it.
Dennis you KNOW the left is in trouble when Marbury vs. Madison – you know James Madisn the guy who drafted the constitution comes up.
Or Pretty much anytime opinions by John Marshall are cited.
This was discussed at the constitutional convention and our Founders beleived that impeachment and removal and THEN prosecution is the means to deal with presidential crimes. There is no form of presidential immunity that can not be stripped by impeachment and removal.
It is my opinion that we should stick to that. It is the safest course. As Roberts properly noted – once this is allowed to start it will become the norm.
The court – whether you like it or not, is not deciding the Trump case.
They are deciding how all expresidents will be handled in the future.
As I said at the start – they should stick to what the founders said – and Marshall said the acts of the executive are not reviewable by the courts. That is what Marbury found as the only way to understand what was in the constitution.
So yes the constitution does say that presidents have immunity.
Regardless, I do not think the justices are going to follow the constitution.
But it appears absolutely certain – they are not following the DC appeals court. That went down in flames quickly.
It is near certain that SCOUTS is going to establish some rule for when expresidents have immunity for presidential acts and when they do not.
And they are going to kick this back to the DC courts to determine what parts of the allegations against Trump are protected and which if any are not. That alone ends this case until after the election.
Visibly queer, eh? Where would he be treated better, in Israel or Gaza? He wants people to die who would be the only people in the Middle East that would treat him well.
Oldman, you remain on top of things. He wants to be noticed, and has difficulty dealing with his queerness. He is not normal. Gay people can be normal or crazy hateful people. He is one of the latter.
@oldmanfromkansas: ‘James Three Pronouns’ is another plucked chicken supporting the needs of Colonel Sanders’ ‘Kentucky Fried’.
Hateful people will to quote a former Speaker, “do what they do” but the equivocation and false equivalence spewed by this President who only ran because of the hate on display at Charlottesville, is striking, and disgusting.
These hate filled idiots have the right to speak but we have an obligation to forcibly let them know that speech is where it ends. Any hostile acts against the country or our Jewish residents and citizens, will be met with overwhelming force from those charged with defending the rights of all.
And they say white supremacists are the greatest threat to our nation.
The US media is focusing more on the protesters than on the issue they are protesting — genocide in Gaza, funded by the US taxpayer. One would think that the students’ words, however violent, are not as egregious as the actual murder of 34,000 Palestinians. Gaza was 80% children to begin with, and now Israel’s unhinged and brutal killing rampage has reduced that number significantly. But let’s all look at the birdie, while the slaughter gets barely a mention in the media.
If the people in Gaza would stand up to Hamas, the terrorists group who uses them as human shields, they would not have that problem.
Hamas is the problem. They are a death cult. And all these pro-Hamas protesters support them.
Israel is not the problem.
The peoplem is the people of Gaza support Hamas. They ARE Hamas.
Upstate Farmer, well said. Also , don’t that their leaders havekept much of the foreign aid for themselves and they are billionaires, living the good life in other countries while they let their own people suffer.
I posted the following yesterday in reply to GioCon re: his “genocide” canard.
Facts don’t matter to the Left and these trolls. Theyre here for repeating propaganda. They repeat them because it is emotive while also vacuous like their arguments.
The word Genocide comes from 2 words:
Gene = unique DNA that is heritable e.g. genotype, epigenetics, etc
– cide = kill, e.g. those who oppose the Clintons are Arkancided
The people in Gaza have no unique genes or genotype, anymore than the people of Delaware, Rhode Island, George Soros paid trolls, etc
There is no genocide taking place in Gaza. There is however a genocide taking place by the Chinese Communist Chinese Party of Uyghurs who indeed have a unique genotype
You must know that there is no genocide in Gaza. You are spewing progaganda.
” they are protesting — genocide in Gaza”
Are you of the same caliber of Brownbug who knows nothing and is proud of it? Where do you get your numbers from? The genocidal Hamas terrorists? Are you like Brownbug who hides himself behind the skirts of his women and the diapers of his babies?
65,000 people are born in Gaza every year.
Whatever else you may this is neither genocide nor eradication of a people.
@GioCon: Re: ” genocide in Gaza, funded by the US taxpayer.- Hamas overthrew Fatah militarily and occupied Gaza by force. Since 2007 they modified the infrastructure of that territory to enable asymmetric warfare against the Jewish State at the expense of the submissive and brainwashed who live there and continue to support them notwithstanding the known fact that Hamas, by virtue of how it deploys its offensive military manpower and materiel, intentionally puts its supporters in harms way. Absent Hamas’ intent to satisfy its Covenant of 1988, Iran’s as well, and other governments in the region of the same ilk, the State of Israel would have little interest in or motivation for conflict with Hamas, those living in Gaza, or the others as well. Pull the tiger’s tail, poke the bear, such as was done on October 7th, after having been the author of so many years of hostilities, they are finally hoisted by their own petards and have invited ruin. So let it be written, so let it be done!! All the better for the rest of the world to have this matter settled for good.
Read up on urban warfare (chosen by Hamas) and you’ll find the Israelis are being remarkably careful and humane. Also you might want to look up the definition of “genocide” before misusing it again. Providing food, water, and medical care to civilians doesn’t really fit into that definition.
Yes, nothing in Israel is a threat to the US – what is happening in Gaza is much the same as what happened in Afghanistan after 9/11.
What students do in the US is a real potential threat to people in the US.
Everyone is supposed to pick a side and take a stand, no matter the issue.
‘We the people’ is more and more becoming ‘Just some of the people’.
Voting for what you’re ‘against’ not what you are ‘for’.
-Cat
Where are the “hate speech” legislation champions when you need them? “Death to America” sounds pretty much like shouting “fire” in a crowded theater to me.
“Death to America” is ideological hyperbole. Go after them for specific threats or illegal actions.
It wasn’t long ago that these same Leftists were demanding “safe spaces,” bemoaning “micro-aggressions, and denouncing hate in all its forms. Now they show their true colors as a racist, hateful, angry mob.
Seems the folks that told you that the Jewish left’s demands for diversity were, in fact, based on pure speculation. Diversity is not a strength in the same way that chemotherapy is only valuable in small doses. The marxist left, the black regurgitators, the alphabet clowns, and the neo-con asswipes have all seen way to much sun and need to be mowed down to manageable and presentable sizes. obamma, soros, clinton, and wall street have run roughshod over the nation for the past 35 years and enough is enough.
Time to separate the wheat from the chaff and rid the nation of the lameness that seems to sucker the weak.
“Time to separate the wheat from the chaff and rid the nation of the lameness …”
you start loudmouth. Show others step by step how you intend to rid others.
Put up or shut up, coward
1. defund them
2. mock them
3. remove all benefits to associating with them or being them (this is standard treat people equal stuff)
4.mock them
5. have police do police work and not social service work – on the streets in on wall street
6. mock them
7. base upward mobility on merit and character, not color/creed/pandering to self-loathers
8. only stop mocking them when they realize they need to (re?)build a foundation and build upon that later.
9. destroy the infrastructure that benefits from crime, poverty, wokeness – we have the ability to follow the money, use it.
All of Our Institutions have been Infiltrated/Compromised by the Zionist whom Run/Control the narrative that rules the system.
Clearing the Ranks is Fine, as long as it doesn’t lead to Ethnic Cleansing.
Clean the Slate and lets start over, -virus scan & reboot-.
Wait, do I have this right? A student wishes death to Jews, and you’re blaming that on the Jews?
Hubris
Some Factions can’t handle Autonomy, They have to be the Ones in Control.
There is a Faction that has thoroughly saturated the United State’s system of Government, Co-Opted it and runs the Narrative, hence its ‘operations’ thereof.
A reboot is possible and has been done in the past. Post WWII Germany (W-Ger) after the Potsdam Conference/Agreement, The Japanese Reconstruction 1945–52, are examples of successful initiating and instituting Systems of Governance with Democratic values.
The U.S. needs to ‘reboot’ for it’s own survival.