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Monday, July 29, 2019

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These Blogs Provide Links To Rule 5 Sites:

What is Rule 5?

The Other McCain has: Rule 5 Sunday: Victoria Baldessara

Proof Positive has: Best Of Web Link Around

The Woodsterman has: Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

EBL has: Rule 5 And FMJRA

The Right Way has: Rule 5 Saturday LinkORama

The Pirate's Cove has: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Baltimore Is A Leftist ShitHole...

Reported Annual Crime In Baltimore

In the event that crime data for this area is not available from the FBI, estimates are used. The estimates are based on demographic data including, but not limited to: home prices, income per capita and population density.
Statistic	Reportedincidents	Baltimore/100k people	Maryland/100k people	National/100k people
Total crime	42,650	6,955	2,723	2,745

After Ugly Split With Hubby, Omar’s Extended Criminal Record Exposed; Turns Out She Has A Rap Sheet A Mile Long

Last week, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) left her husband and moved into a luxury downtown penthouse.

And with the rumor mill swirling over multiple reports that Omar married her brother in an apparent case of immigration fraud, the last thing the embattled Congresswoman wants is more public scrutiny on her personal life.

But here we are.

In the same week that Omar abandoned her current hubby, her mugshot from a previous arrest was released. It turns out Omar was arrested in 2013 for trespassing:

From Front Page Mag:

Omar had gone, along with a large crowd of other Somalis, to the Hotel Ivy, where former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was staying. Alpha News notes that “according to the police report, hotel staff requested police assistance in clearing the lobby, saying that anyone without a hotel room key was not welcome on the premises and needed to leave immediately. The officer handling the incident said the majority of people who were asked to leave were compliant. However, Omar, when approached, was ‘argumentative’ and refused to leave.”

Even when the other Somalis began to leave, Omar, according to the police report, “remained defiant” and refused to go; finally she was arrested for trespassing.

But that was only the beginning.

With her political star rising, Omar’s past is suddenly catching up with her. And it includes a rap sheet a mile long.

From Front Page Mag:

Omar was recently ordered to pay back thousands of dollars of campaign funds that she spent on personal expenses. According to National Review, Minnesota’s Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board “ordered Omar to reimburse her former campaign committee for $3,500 in personal accounting and travel expenses, and levied a $500 civil penalty against her for misspending the funds.”

Nor is that all: Minnesota’s Alpha News reports that Omar “was arrested in 2013 for trespassing and booked at Hennepin County Jail ‘to prevent further criminal conduct,’ according to a newly uncovered police report.” …

Then there are the traffic violations:

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THE TWO LEGAL QUESTIONS ROBERT MUELLER — AND THE MEDIA — AVOIDED

There were two moments in the Robert Mueller hearings this past Wednesday that neither CNN nor Fox news — or anyone else — bothered to talk about. Two moments centered around two fundamental legal questions that worth shining a light on now that the hearings are behind us.

It doesn't matter whether you believe President Trump is a lying obstructionist. Or a victim of a politically charged prosecution. The two questions were about fundamental due process standards for all American citizens. Which includes Presidents we like. And don't like.

The law, and the standards by which prosecutors work, should apply to all Americans equally. Whether that person is a politician or a poet. A CEO or a janitor. Principles should matter more than partisanship when it comes to how prosecutors do their business.

The two moments — two exchanges, actually — no major media outlet bothered to replay all day Thursday or Friday in the Mueller endless partisan postmortems were not the type that would light up Twitter. Or work their way through the hyper-partisan silos of social media. But they had everything to do with law and order. And due process.

The first exchange occurred in the House Judiciary Committee hearing. Representative Guy Reshenthaler (R – PA) is no stranger to the law: he served in the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corp during the Iraq War, and as a district court judge stateside.

He began his questioning by going back in time to Independent Counsel Ken Starr's tenure, and a statement from former Attorney General Janet Reno.

Reschenthaler: Mr. Mueller, are you familiar with the now expired Independent Counsel Statute? It's a statute under which Ken Starr was appointed.

Mueller: I am not that familiar with that, but I'd be happy to take your question.

Reschenthaler: Well, the Clinton administration allowed the Independent Counsel Statute to expire after Ken Starr's investigation. The final report requirement was a major reason why the statute was allowed to expire. Even President Clinton's AG, Janet Reno, expressed concerns about the final report requirement, and I'll quote AG Reno. She said, "On one hand, the American people have an interest in knowing the outcome of an investigation of their highest officials. On the other hand, the report requirement cuts against many of the most basic traditions and practices of American law enforcement. Under our system, we presume innocence and we value privacy. We believe that information obtained during a criminal investigation should, in most cases, he made public only if there is an indictment and prosecution, not in a lengthy and detailed report filed after decision has been made not to prosecute. The final report provides a forum for unfairly airing a target's dirty laundry, and it also creates yet another incentive for an independent counsel to over investigate in order to justify his or her tenure and to avoid criticism that the independent counsel may have left a stone unturned."

There was a pause. It was clear where Reschenthaler was heading.

Reschenthaler: Mr Muller, those are AG Reno's words. Didn't you do exactly what AG Reno feared? Didn't you publish a lengthy report unfairly airing the targets dirty laundry without recommending charges?

Mueller: I disagree with that.

Reschenthaler wasn't finished.

Reschenthaler: Okay. Did any of the witnesses have a chance to be cross examined?

Mueller: I'm not gonna answer that.

Reschenthaler: Did you allow the people mentioned in your report to challenge how they were characterized?

Mueller: I'm not going to get into that.

We all know the answer was no, and wondered why Mueller couldn't just admit to what we all knew. The exchange continued.

Reschenthaler: Okay. Given that AG Barr stated multiple times during his confirmation hearing that he would make as much of your report public as possible, did you write your report knowing that it would likely be shared with the public?

Mueller: No.

Reschenthaler: Did knowing that the report could, and likely would be made public, did that alter the contents that you included?

Mueller: I can't speak to that.

No one listening thought those answers were credible. Reschenthaler continued.

Reschenthaler: Despite the expectations that your report would be released to the public, you left out significant exculpatory evidence. In other words, evidence favorable to the president, correct?

Mueller: I actually would disagree with you. I think we strove to put into the report exculpatory evidence, as well.

Reschenthaler was making a point that few media analyst made during the length post-hearing analyses: that Mueller's report was unchallenged by any legal defense team, and untested by cross-examination.

But the former JAG lawyer wasn't finished.

Reschenthaler: Isn't it true that on page one of volume two, you state, when you're quoting the statute, you had an obligation to either prosecute or not prosecute.

Mueller: Well, generally that is the case.

Reschenthaler: Right.

Mueller: Although most cases are not done in the context of the president.

Reschenthaler: And in this case, you made a decision not to prosecute, correct?
Mueller: We made a decision not to decide whether to prosecute or not.

That use of double speak – we made a decision not to decide - made Mueller look not merely evasive, but downright duplicitous.

The cross-examination of Mueller continued.

Reschenthaler: So essentially what your report did was everything that AG Reno warned against.

Mueller: I can't agree with that characterization.

Reschenthaler: What you did is you compiled nearly 450 pages of the very worst information you gathered against the target of your investigation, who happens to be the President of the United States. And you did this knowing that you were not going to recommend charges, and then the report would be made public.

Mueller:

The Unmitigated Gall Of Donald Trump!

Germany: Police Say Man of “African Descent” Killed 8-Year-Old Boy After Pushing Him in Front of Train

Eyewitnesses needed medical treatment after seeing victim’s horrific death.

An 8-year-old boy was killed after being hit by a high speed train when a man of “African descent” pushed him and his mother onto the tracks this morning at Frankfurt’s main station.

The mother was able to save her own life by rolling into the gap between the tracks, but lost hold of her son who was killed by the InterCity Express (ICE) train, which can travel at speeds up to 186mph.

A 40-year-old man was arrested after the incident. Police say there is no connection between the alleged perpetrator and the victims.

“The mother was barely able to save herself. Passersby watched the attack and ran after the fleeing man, of African descent. He was arrested in the station,” police told BILD. Other reports confimed the man was Eritrean.

Witnesses say the man attempted to push another person onto the tracks and that the station was “full of children.”

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Suspect identified in the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. Santino William Legan:

Santino William Legan, 19, has been identified by CBS News as the suspect in the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. The shooting Sunday night on the final day of the annual event at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy left three dead, 15 injured and the suspected shooter, Legan, killed by police. Several others were injured in the chaos after shots were fired, but were not shot, authorities said.

The dead include 6-year-old Stephen Romero.

A second suspect was still on the run. Police remained at the scene of the shooting Sunday night into Monday investigating. A motive for the shooting has not yet been made public.

The shooting happened at the park near Miller Avenue and Uvas Park Drive about 5:40 p.m. local time. The festival was set to end about 6 p.m.

One witness who told reporters they’d come face to face with the gunman and asked why he was doing this was told, “Because I’m really angry.”

Here’s what you need to know about the suspect and the shooting:

1. Legan, Who Identifies as Being of Italian & Iranian Descent, Posted on Instagram Before the Shooting. The Account Was Removed But Heavy Obtained Screenshots

Legan has an Instagram page with just three posts. The one most disturbing appears to have been posted shortly before the shooting.

“Ayyy garlic festival time. Come get wasted on overpriced shit.”

Legan also shared his views that include fringe white supremacist book written in 1890. Called “…one of the most incendiary works ever to be published anywhere,” by a noted anarchist, Legan quoted from the book in a post accompanied by a Smokey the Bear sign about fire danger. He wrote: “Read Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?”

According to the book Modern Satanism: Anatomy of a Subculture, Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard was authored under a pseudonym. It is purported to expand on Friedrich Nietzsche’s “theories of master–slave morality and herd mentality …”

The book is described as being akin to Social Darwinism and includes misogynistic and racist principles “claiming that the woman and the family as a whole is the property of the man and proclaiming the innate superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. The book also contains many strong anti-Semitic statements.”

2. Legan’s Grandfather Tom Legan, a West Point Graduate, Was the Santa Clara County Supervisor. He Was Accused & Acquitted of Sexually Assaulting His Daughter. Legan’s Brother Rosino is a Noted Boxer

Heavy law enforcement presence in this Gilroy neighborhood right now. While unconfirmed by police, we got a tip someone here may somehow be connected to the #GilroyGarlicFestival shooting. Gilroy PD and ATF out here going in and out of this house. @KTVU

Legan’s brother is a noted local amateur boxer who was profiled in a 2017 story about his mission to help see tuition costs lowered, and also for his talent in the ring.

On his LinkedIn page he says, “I am a San Jose PAL boxer with more than 65 fights. I also earned a Communication degree at Santa Clara University, Class of 2018.”

Legan’s grandfather was Tom Legan, a West Point graduate who died in May of 2018. According to his obituary, The elder Legan served as a “captain in Korea as a Nuclear Weapons Officer and completed his military service in Germany. As a civilian, Tom was Western Regional Marketing Director for Kaiser Cement and was thereafter appointed and then elected as Santa Clara County Supervisor for two terms.”

In 1988, he was acquitted by a jury of the alleged rape of his eldest daughter. The Los Angeles Times reported that he was “found innocent Friday of three counts of molesting his elder daughter in 1982.” Legan was seeking re-election at the time.

3. During the Shooting, Witnesses Say They Heard Dozens of Shots & Reported Seeing a Gunman in Camouflage Armed With a Long Rifle