We are the drain the swamp people

• Obviously someone diverging from liberal political correctness is pathological
• How is this Duke professor’s “diagnosis” different from the purpose behind punitive psychiatry of the Soviet Union?
• Praise Jesus (sorry, insert favorite politically correct however delusional fairy-tale) Biden gets clean bill of mental health!

Two Stories, Two Different ‘Takes” on The Same Nutty Psychiatrist “Diagnosing Trump” For CNN

In our view the American Psychiatric Association somehow needs to keep people publicly associated with its “profession”(?) out of the media.

They tend to confirm what many of us believe. The people involved today in psychology, psychiatry, counseling, etc, with a few exceptions, need help far more than their unwary “patients” or “clients”.

We think it’s useful to present “side by side” reports from two different news organizations reporting on the same story.

In neither story, however, does the subject come out looking good. In fact both seem to amount to a call for the men in white coats to come and get this character. (Hats off to Duke Univ. for its sense of humor in showing the world the quality of mental health analysis, mixing with politics these days.)  DLH   Other of our comments follow.

Daily Caller:

Former Duke Psychiatrist Admits Trump Isn’t Mentally Ill, But ‘Go With It If It Will Get Him Out Of Office’ 

Former Duke Chair of Psychiatry Dr. Allen Frances admitted Sunday that President Donald Trump was not mentally ill, but suggested that if using that argument would get Trump removed from office, he would do it.

Frances appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Brian Stelter to discuss what he felt were the dangers of declaring Trump mentally unfit — namely, he said, calling Trump “crazy” was an insult to people who do have mental illnesses.

— acceptable to lie about Trump’s mental state if there was a way to use that false narrative to get him out of office —

“I think it’s very clear that he’s dangerous because he’s evil, he’s not dangerous because he’s mentally ill, and the mentally ill argument, if it would get him out of the office, I would say go with it even if it’s inaccurate,” Frances continued. “Anything to get this man out of office. But it won’t work, so piling on inaccuracy, stigma, the press will get people who know nothing about psychiatric diagnosis spouting off at the mouth, it won’t add to the discussion, it will distract from the political stuff and we have to focus on how evil —”

Stelter interrupted but did not push back on Frances’ willingness to lie to push Trump out of office. Instead, he said that he felt there was a need to “connect the dots,” adding, “There is something wrong here when he’s attacking his Federal Reserve chair, misspelling the guy’s name and doing 50 of those things a day. I’m kind of grasping for the language to use around this, but it’s —”

“I have — I think I have better language,” Frances cut in. “I think Trump is best characterized as a spoiled brat, as a baby having temper tantrums, as a completely unfit person unable to meet the challenges and the responsibilities of his office, as a con man, as a — the most narcissistic person maybe in our time and a narcissist for all times. All of these — as a thief. As a corrupter of others, as an obstructor of justice. These are terms that all make sense. Attributing every bad behavior that humanity is capable of to mental illness misses the point of evil and also stigmatizes the mentally ill.”

Newsweek:

PSYCHIATRIST WARNS CNN AGAINST DIAGNOSING TRUMP’S MENTAL HEALTH

A controversial CNN segment Sunday morning featured the former head of Duke University’s Psychiatry Department demanding professionals stop discussing President Donald Trump’s mental health in terms of “psychological name-calling.”

Dr. Allen Frances, author of Twilight of American Sanity, appeared on Brian Stelter’s CNN program Sunday to push back against a Yale School of Medicine psychiatry professor and several other mental health professionals who often appear on cable news networks to “diagnose” Trump from afar based on his frequently erratic behavior and public comments. Stelter was later ridiculed on social media for allowing Dr. Frances to claim “Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin and Mao were in the last century.”

On Sunday afternoon, Stelter blamed “tech difficulties” that kept him from hearing Dr. Frances’ comparisons to the murderous 20th Century dictators and apologized for not interrupting the controversial commentary. Several psychiatrists appeared on MSNBC and other networks Sunday accusing Trump of being a narcissist and a “successful sociopath” along with other negative mental health diagnoses.

“I think medicalizing politics has three very dire consequences,” Dr. Frances told Stelter Sunday morning, warning colleagues against diagnosing Trump from afar.

“The first is it stigmatizes the mentally ill. I’ve known thousands of patients, almost all of them have been well-behaved, well-mannered, good people—Trump is none of these.”
“Lumping in the mentally ill with Trump is a terrible insult to the mentally ill and they have enough problems and stigma as it is,” he added. Stelter noted to a previous psychiatrist guest that she’d “never met” Trump in person.

“The second issue is calling Trump ‘crazy’ hides the fact that we’re crazy for having elected him and even crazier for allowing his crazy policies to persist,” Dr. Frances continued. “Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin and Mao were in the last century. He may be more responsible for millions of more deaths than they were. He needs to be contained. But he needs to be contained by attacking his policies and not his person.”

Several right-wing Twitter accounts and other pundits pounced on Dr. Frances’ claim, noting Mao, Hitler and Stalin were each responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people, prompting the apology from Stelter Sunday afternoon.

Dr. Frances went on to say it’s only “crazy” not to tax the rich or to have Republicans block climate change legislation. (It appears to us that Dr. Frances is charging that all Trump voters are suffering from a “mental illness” for “not taxing the rich”! And that assertion is not a “terrible insult” to the mentally ill?)

“Discussing the issue in psychological name-calling terms distracts us from getting out the vote,” he added in the segment entitled, “Tiptoeing Around Trump’s Instability.”

Earlier Sunday on MSNBC’s AM Joy program, retired Harvard clinical psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes diagnosed Donald Trump as having a “fundamental psychological problem” that causes him to seek male approval from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Donald Trump does have a fundamental psychological problem,” he said. “He needs to be loved all the time, he needs to have power over everyone all the time. Once you get that idea down, the rest of his behavior and his speech makes sense…He’s an extremely successful sociopath.”

Dr. Frances concluded the segment by saying Trump will “never be removed from office on the grounds of mental unfitness…that will never happen.”

Related reading here:

The Biden good news:

Has any President not been characterized by their political opponents as evil or a narcissist?

If Trump did not respond to the calumny and mania and real malice aimed at him, such extreme (in context) apathy in the face of such real harm to himself but also his family and supporters, would that not just as glibly be characterized as schizophrenia?

How would you respond to torments and evil coming from your opponents?

Oh, we see, evil is in the eye of the beholder

What is more narcissistic than seeing evil in others but not yourself, a characteristic of Trumps accusers?

What percentage of sociopaths are Democrats?

Don’t take it personally but you are a nutcase.   R Mall

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• Insight begets insight
• Clarice Feldman has delivered and  . . .  prognosticated about it
• As the beautiful people send their condolences to philanthropist family

How anything more than this should even be necessary to convince an overwhelming number of American voters (at least those who are citizens). The Democratic Party is now home to some of our nation’s history’s most dangerous, irresponsibly ambitious dimwits, who have ‘volunteered to be President. The willingness to consider electing one of these can only be explained by an all pervasive gullibility and/or craven self-indulgence that is currently raging in that political party.

America can only hope that only legally eligible American citizens (the overwhelmingly sensible ones) comprise the electorate in 2020.     DLH

Political Forecast: Stormy Weather Ahead      (excerpt, posters not in original)

. . .   An online poster whose identity is unknown to me summed up the party’s unappealing agenda rather neatly, I think:

1. Fred Stevens, a welder, and Joe Frisco, a bartender, neither of whom went to college, will have to pay off the student loans for Eric, an Art History major, and Emma, a Gender Studies major, because they cannot get jobs. (Elizabeth Warren).

2. Yusef Hussein, who killed 23 children by bombing their school, will be allowed to vote from prison. (Bernie Sanders)

3. Grace Thompson, who worked hard for 47 years, must give up her employer furnished medical plan and join the National Health plan. (The whole slate)

4. La’Darius Washington, who has never had a regular job, will receive a monthly income from the federal government to spend as he pleases. (Amy Klobuchar)

5. Billy White, age 16, who has trouble with subject/verb agreement in English class, still has trouble with fractions in math class, and thinks Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court will get to vote. (Kirsten Gillibrand)

6. Stan Billings, an avid deer hunter, will have his semi-automatic rifle (fires one shot each time you pull the trigger) taken away, or go to jail, because it looks like an AR 15. (The entire slate)

7. Sven Johannson, whose grandfather immigrated to the US in 1953 will have to pay reparations to Sha’lyndia Jefferson because she THINKS her great-great-great grandfather MIGHT HAVE BEEN a slave. (Cory Booker)

8. Thomas Finch, who is an ambitious and motivated adult, cannot get a job because he doesn’t want to join a labor union. (Kamala Harris)

9. Sammy Thomas, a farmer, will no longer be able to haul his crops to market in his 3/4 ton diesel pick-up, but will have to make 43 trips in his Toyota Prius. (The whole slate)

10. The population of the US will become 76.4% Hispanic because all of the existing border wall will be torn down. (Beto O’Rourke)

11. NONE OF THIS WILL MATTER BECAUSE THE WORLD IS GOING TO END IN TWELVE YEARS. (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & most of the candidates)      . . .

As the summer days wane, there’s going to be no end to the political heat waves. We learned this week that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was being treated the past three weeks for a recurrence of her pancreatic cancer. I wish her no ill in her continuing health issues, but given her age and series of cancers, it is unclear how long she can continue her duties on the Supreme Court.

A nomination battle for a replacement would surely make the outrageous Kavanaugh hearings seem mild in comparison.

With no saleable candidates or agenda I expect the Democrats to grow ever more pugilistic and the press to grow ever more blind to their incitements to violence. And voters to become even more disgusted by both.

Read more here.

Doubt the forecast?  Consider these twitter triggering agents of influence:   Hollywood Celebrates David Koch’s Death — and Hopes His Brother Dies Soon 

Will the leftist twits who follow them try to impress them /each other with “direct action”?

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• Justice for these malignants won’t  be sure much less swift

GET READY AMERICA…IT’S COMING!

Lindsey Graham: FISA Abuse Report Will Be ‘Ugly And Damning’ For DOJ, FBI

It’s coming. The most disappointing, disheartening, obviously contrived non-expose’ in America’s history.

Imagine the left’s disappointment when the “Russian Collusion Hoax blew up in the face of all the leftist Democrats, Never-Trumpers, “News” outlets, and America-hating World Leaders, times ten. You’ll be close to understanding the effect if the coming DOJ Inspector General’s report and the “Barr Investigation, after all the breathlessly reported leaks, rumors, and “preliminary reports”… fail to deliver will have on the vast number of the American people who were so sure that, at last, the ‘good guys’ were going to win a ‘big one ‘for “the Gipper”.

For months we’ve been conditioned to expect that solid evidence will be produced that a massive amount of criminal activity was carried out by agencies, bureaus, and departments of the nation’s top law enforcement and national security apparatus. And, reports indicate that it was aimed at destroying a validly elected presidency and administration.

Worst of all, it seemed clear that it was all at the behest, direction and active participation of a near totally corrupt presidential administration.

And finally, it was about to be fully revealed and the full weight of America’s justice system would come down on the well-heeled, well-connected, widely and undeservedly admired perpetrators.

Well, think again, America, it ain’t gonna happen!

Those same powerful forces who attempted this unprecedented overthrow of the government of the United States of America are still in existence, still maintain a presence in key areas of our federal government and justice system, the nation’s media, education system, and all of our major cultural and religious institutions.

In every area, the perpetrators, their accomplices, supporters, and abettors are active in preventing the exposure of the full picture of the massive corruption which nearly destroyed our great nation and remains today, and will for the foreseeable future, a palpable threat.

While the investigators who have actively sought to uncover the evil corruption that aimed to overthrow our government seem to be people of honor, integrity, and good will, those being investigated are none of those things.

Final official reports will be subject to “redaction”

And thus, if even diligent and aggressive investigation has brought forth strong evidence of FBI corruption, there are still people within the Bureau and the DOJ, in key positions with the vested authority to redact damaging findings and keep them from from being fully exposed.

What information from the reports by the IG or the Barr investigation will be withheld from public exposition under pressure to “protect national security” or the “protection of vital security resources of friendly foreign countries”?

What “legal” restraints on disclosure of damning evidence will corrupt or intimidated judges uphold?

What evidence or information in the IG’s report for example, will be diluted or withheld out of concern it could be “misperceived” by the political establishment or the general public, as for example, despite all evidence to the contrary the earlier IG report found no indication of “political bias”?

With literally “everything at stake” for the world’s most prominent actors will there be overwhelming, even deadly, threats and intimidation imposed on investigators and those who have been given the authority to reveal any and all of the findings?

If, as some believe with some justification, that a truly full exposition would jeopardize the future, and personal freedom of the highest level government officials, current and former, would disclosure even be permitted, not by those culpable, but by even innocent and non-involved officials, out of fear of irreparable damage to the nation’s continued viability?

What do you think? DLH

From The Daily Caller by Chuck Ross Investigative Reporter

Lindsey Graham: FISA Abuse Report Will Be ‘Ugly And Damning’ For DOJ, FBI

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said he expects the inspector general’s report into FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign will be “ugly and damning” for the agency and the Department of Justice.

“I want it all out. I want people to see how off the rails this investigation got, and I want people to be held accountable,” Graham said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.”

Since March 2018, Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz has investigated whether the FBI and DOJ misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in applications for wiretap warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. (RELATED: DOJ Watchdog Interviewed Christopher Steele In June)

Horowitz told Congress June 25 he had completed the investigation and was in the process of writing a report of his findings. Some Republican lawmakers said the report is likely to come out shortly after Labor Day.

The FBI relied heavily on the unverified and Democrat-funded Steele dossier in four applications to surveil Page. The special counsel’s report dealt the dossier a heavy blow, by undercutting the document’s core claim that the Trump campaign and Page were part of a “well-developed conspiracy of co-operation” with the Russian government.

“I believe the Horowitz report is going to be ugly and damning regarding the Department of Justice handling of the Russia probe,” Graham said…, adding he wants as much of the report as possible to be declassified.

“I want the American public to hear the story. I want all this information to come out. I want them to read for themselves how bad it was, the warrant application to the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] Court I think was quite frankly a fraud on the court.”

Graham also said he is interested in finding out more about what role the CIA played in gathering intelligence on Trump associates.

“I really am very curious about the role the CIA played here. We know that the FISA warrant application was based on a dossier prepared by Christopher Steele who was biased against Trump that was unverified,” he said.

“But this whole intelligence operations — what role did the CIA play? Who knew about this in the White House?”

Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to oversee an inquiry into government agencies’ activities before July 31, 2016, when the FBI formally opened its investigation of the Trump campaign.

Former CIA Director John Brennan testified on May 23, 2017 that he shared information with the FBI related to possible Russian contacts with Trump associates.

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• Democrat policies have consequences
• The LA petri dish: pestilence, tuberculosis, plague, typhus, typhoid fever, parasites, cholera accompanying the drug use and other rampant crime
  

HP sends reference to this item with a comment:

Demonrats at work and instead of changing it, they just double down. Meanwhile the celebs live in their gated communities, demonize conservatives and Trump, and keep on doing nothing.

Paradise lost: homelessness in Los Angeles   (also see below this imbed)

Now Joni Mitchell wrote her song with reference to Hawaii, another liberal paradise like LA.     See:  Covering the crisis: Homeless in Hawaii  .

Sweet song, sweetly sung but core elements of the lyrics are liberal tripe

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• *Going back to Barry as he grew up is just toooo pedestrian or something, especially for this neighborhood
• Let’s see now: Chicago, Hawaii, DC and now “Martha’s”

KK sends us this tidbit via TMZ and a comment:

Barack and Michelle Obama Locking Down Incredible Martha’s Vineyard Estate!!!

Doesn’t look like they will be sharing their wealth. Or maybe they will allow the homeless and illegal aliens to camp on their property.

Ya think??

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• One such syndicate, Planned Parenthood,  fired its president for not focusing on abortion
• Insists on being able to push abortion with your tax dollars at clinics it operates
• Knows it will still get lots of tax money as Trumps pro-life rule only affects certain aspects of its operations
  
• The amount forgone, $60 million, represents less than 4% of PP’s yearly income
• PP knows its wealthy eugenic oriented donors will replace the relative pocket change
  

A front page QC Times article yesterday was sympathetic to abortion syndicates and others by only quoting  “tax-dollars-for-abortion advocacy” sources and no one with a contrary view supportive of President Trump’s policy to separate family planning and abortion.  However the paper probably does not realize it gives up the argument that implementation of the rule will  affect “reproductive health care” delivery.

Clinic won’t talk about abortion under new rule   (online version different)

According to the QCT article clinics on the Illinois side were already forgoing federal tax dollars for abortion advocacy as the state’s pro-abortion governor and legislature  had already decided for them (and no doubt will make it up using whatever financial legerdemain they can muster in their debt-ridden population-exodus-burdened state as abortion is such a priority with that ilk). But, according to the article, having forgone the Title X money the clinics in that system will do “counseling” but will not do referrals even though they could!

On the Iowa side the interview is with the Community Health Care-Edgerton Women’s Center in Davenport which receives Title X funds but will abide by the rule. Accordingly  abortion clinics in Iowa City or wherever lose their tax supported sales agents.

But in spite of assertions in the article  “reproductive care” properly understood is not affected as family planning contraceptives and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases will continue at locations in this area on both sides of the river. Abortion is not family planning unless family planning includes killing a member of the family. Otherwise offing your uncle prior to the next reunion might be considered “family planning.”

The QCT managed another incongruous thing as part of their article bolstering our point that abortion is not family planning. They showed a picture of a woman and unborn baby undergoing instrumentation with the caption “A registered nurse uses a Doppler baby scanner as part of a prenatal care exam in 2015 at Edgerton Women’s Health Center, Davenport”

What was that again — a Doppler baby scanner — hmmm so a baby is already present!!

The following article by Brad Mattes at Life Issues Institute explains more of President Trump’s policy vis-à-vis Planned Parenthood.

They Had It Coming  

This week, Planned Parenthood (PP) forfeited $60 million in Title X tax funding instead of getting out of the abortion business. That was their share of a total $286 hundred million earmarked for family planning services.

The president’s Protect Life Rule prevents any entity that provides or refers for abortion from receiving Title X funds.

Is the President’s decision justified? Let’s take a summary look.

Title X dollars are fungible when it comes to abortion. For example, PP abortion facilities use it as a slush fund, spending the money on advertising, staffing, utilities, rent, office supplies or computers.  These assets are used to facilitate both family planning services and abortion. The Protect Life Rule draws a bright line between family planning and the abortion industry by excluding entities that refer for or provide abortion.

Planned Parenthood had developed an end-run game around Title X money and the Hyde Amendment which prohibits tax dollars from funding abortion. It’s reported the organization will only refer women to another PP facility for an abortion, even if it’s hours away and a non-affiliated abortion center is nearby. So, PP collected Title X tax funding and then referred women to other PP abortion facilities that were paid to do the abortions.

Does Planned Parenthood need Title X funding to exist? These PP realities were compiled by Jeanneane Maxon, JD, with Charlotte Lozier Institute.

• •  According to their 2017/2018 annual report they have $1.9 billion in assets
  •  $1.6 billion in income, a 14% increase over the year before
  •  $245 hundred million in excess revenue over expenses, more than double the previous year
  • $216 to $334 hundred million estimated income from abortion
  •  $244 hundred million in estimated Medicaid reimbursements

Does Planned Parenthood actually provide legitimate health care services to women? While the abortion giant continues to increase the number of abortions it commits – most recently 332,757 in a single year – according to a SBA/CLI statistical report, its non-abortion services have dramatically decreased.

• • The number of unique patients has dropped 20%
  • Total services are down 11%
  • Preventive services of cancer screening, including pap smears and breast exams have declined a whopping 67%
  • Contraception services are down 31%
  • Prenatal services have dropped 78%

Planned Parenthood’s priority and major function is abortion.

Will women go without family planning services because Planned Parenthood no longer receives Title X funding?

According to Health and Human Services, Planned Parenthood’s fewer than 400 facilities that received Title X tax dollars represented less than 10% of the 4,000 sites that benefit from its family planning program.

Further, thousands of Community Health Care Centers throughout the nation far outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities and provide family planning in addition to a host of other medical services for women.

Women don’t need Planned Parenthood and they are better served by bona fide, more broad-based medical clinics. They aren’t the only winners. A majority of the American taxpayers also benefit.

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“During my 20 years as an NYC cop, I came across more than my share of tough guys who resisted arrest. When that person is 6’2″ and 400 pounds, the cop knows his own life is on the line. Do you know how hard it is to put handcuffs on a large man who tells you he’s not going without a fight? Trust me: when that happens, the cop is about to be fighting for his life. By the way, the cop can’t simply walk away from such defiance. Moreover, he knows intuitively that someone who defies police authority is someone who is willing to kill you to avoid arrest. That cop had better be prepared to do whatever it takes to fulfill every cop’s on-duty prayer: get back home alive!”

SHOULD OFFICER PANTELEO HAVE BEEN FIRED ?

“Garner, who was black, died during a 2014 arrest in Staten Island for the sale of untaxed cigarettes after he refused to be handcuffed by several officers. Prosecutors in the case argued Pantaleo, 33, used a banned chokehold to take Garner down to the ground, but his attorney argued he used an approved “seat belt” technique to subdue the suspect.”

It’s been 5 years since this tragic incident in New York City occurred. It was at a time when tensions between the police and the black community nationwide were were at a fever pitch. The Trayvon Martin killing had occurred and Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer was also fresh in the minds of black activists. It was also a time that President Barack Obama appeared to be fanning the flames of racial tensions with his condemnation of the New Haven police dept. for “acting stupidly” in his view while admitting he didn’t know the facts of a case.

In the specific case of Eric Garner’s death, the incident and surrounding events had been pretty thoroughly documented, including a recording of the actual arrest of Garner that led to his death (video shown in link).

From a distance of several hundred miles and no access to all of the ‘nuanced’ details which came out in the various hearings, we are able to make a judgment based only on what we do know from various news accounts at the time and in the years since. Some additional details are contained in the article below entitled “The Eric Garner case: Another cop fired for doing his job”, written by a former police officer, Bob Weir. That article is linked here,

Veritaspac would like to know what you think about the disposition of this case, and especially whether you believe officer Panteleo should have been fired.        DLH
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NYPD officer accused in Eric Garner’s death has been fired, commissioner says

Fox News (excerpt)

Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City police officer accused in the 2014 death of Eric Garner that sparked nationwide outrage, has been fired, Commissioner James O’Neill announced Monday afternoon — spurring a furious response from the department’s police union, which blasted the decision as caving to “anti-police extremists.”

O’Neill, who said it was “an extremely difficult decision,” said during a midday news conference that he made his final call in the “last couple of days” in the case that has spanned five years.

“None of us can take back our decisions,” O’Neill told reporters, “especially when they lead to the death of another human being.”

Pantaleo had been suspended since Aug. 2, after a department disciplinary judge recommended his termination.   . . .

New York Attorney General Letitia James said Garner’s family has waited five years and that “some semblance of justice is finally being served.”

“In memory of Eric Garner and the countless others who have unjustly lost their lives, we will continue to fight for reforms to fix our broken criminal justice system and ensure that all of our communities feel safe,” James said in a statement.

Garner, who was black, died during a 2014 arrest in Staten Island for the sale of untaxed cigarettes after he refused to be handcuffed by several officers. Prosecutors in the case argued Pantaleo, 33, used a banned chokehold to take Garner down to the ground, but his attorney argued he used an approved “seat belt” technique to subdue the suspect.

In a cellphone video taken by a bystander, Garner could be heard saying “I can’t breathe” 11 times before falling unconscious. That phrase has since become a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Last month the Justice Department ruled against the Civil Rights Division’s recommendation that charges be brought against Pantaleo, siding with officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York, and arguing the government’s burden of proof could not be met. A grand jury also declined to indict Pantaleo on criminal charges in 2014.

The Eric Garner case: Another cop fired for doing his job

By Bob Weir  at American Thinker

Inasmuch as we live in an era that supports the bad guys over the good guys, it was inevitable that New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo would end up being fired for doing his job during an arrest situation in which a black man died. It all began on July 17, 2014 during a routine police assignment. About 3:30 P.M., Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man, was approached by NYC cops as he was standing in front of a beauty supply store on Staten Island. Acting on a complaint, the cops confronted Garner and accused him of selling untaxed cigarettes, a violation of New York State Law. After telling him he was under arrest, officer Pantaleo tried to handcuff Garner, who was 6’2″ and weighed about 400 pounds.

Garner resisted the officers’ attempts to put the manacles on him, slapping their hands away. It was then that Pantaleo placed his arm around Garner’s neck and tried to pull him to the ground. The man was heard saying, “I can’t breathe” but continued to struggle. According to cops on the scene, Garner lost consciousness. An ambulance removed him to a hospital, and he was pronounced dead an hour later. The NYC medical examiner found that death resulted from compression of the neck and chest during the physical restraint, adding that asthma, heart disease, and obesity were contributing factors. There was no damage to the trachea (windpipe) or the neck bones.

Nevertheless, because NYC has a rule against cops using a chokehold during physical encounters, Pantaleo was put on desk duty and stripped of his service gun and his shield. At a May 2019 hearing for Pantaleo, a medical examiner testified that his use of a prohibited chokehold on Garner “set into motion a lethal sequence” that led to a fatal asthma attack. However, the examiner conceded that even “a bear hug” could have had the same effect as the chokehold, given that Garner weighed 395 pounds, suffered from asthma and diabetes, and had a heart twice the size of a healthy person’s heart. In 2014, a grand jury declined to indict Pantaleo. In addition, after a five-year federal civil rights investigation, no charges were brought against the officer.

None of that mattered to the race-hustlers who are always looking for another opportunity to divide the country and obtain more publicity (and money) for their hateful causes. Something else that didn’t matter was the fact that Garner had been arrested by the NYPD more than thirty times since 1980 on charges such as assault, resisting arrest, grand larceny, and selling untaxed cigarettes. In 2007, he filed a complaint in federal court accusing a cop of doing a cavity search on him during an arrest. He told his legal aid lawyers that he intended to take all the cases against him to trial. Why wouldn’t he? Legal aid lawyers are paid for by the taxpayers, so it wouldn’t cost him a dime. Incidentally, at the time of the incident that led to his death, he was out on bail for selling untaxed cigarettes, driving without a license, marijuana possession, and false impersonation.

How much of the aforementioned has been aired in the mainstream media? According to those who never met a criminal they couldn’t love and embrace, Garner was nothing but a lovable teddy bear, a gentle giant with a heart of gold. Pantaleo, on the other hand, was a savage brute who must have had racism on his mind when he viciously “murdered” a fine, upstanding black man. Well, Al Sharpton and the rest of the race-hustlers have had another victory: Pantaleo was fired by NYC police commissioner James O’Neill. He said he fired the officer based on a recent recommendation of a department disciplinary judge, adding that it was clear that Pantaleo “can no longer effectively serve as a New York City police officer.” That’s liberal-speak for “there’s been so much controversy over this case that even the Democrat candidates running for president have called for his termination, and Mayor de Blasio assured his left wing base that ‘justice’ will be done.”

Pantaleo is just another sacrificial lamb in the left-wing plot to neutralize police and create anarchy on our streets. As a result of incidents like this, how many cops will be more inclined to walk away from violent situations and let the criminals run wild?

During my 20 years as an NYC cop, I came across more than my share of tough guys who resisted arrest. When that person is 6’2″ and 400 pounds, the cop knows his own life is on the line. Do you know how hard it is to put handcuffs on a large man who tells you he’s not going without a fight? Trust me: when that happens, the cop is about to be fighting for his life. By the way, the cop can’t simply walk away from such defiance. Moreover, he knows intuitively that someone who defies police authority is someone who is willing to kill you to avoid arrest. That cop had better be prepared to do whatever it takes to fulfill every cop’s on-duty

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