Blog Heap of Links for the day 4 April 2018
Digital Age Violence
The shooter who took her own life after wounding four YouTube employees at the video hosting website’s San Bruno, California, offices on Tuesday has been identified as Nasim Aghdam… long history of animal rights activism… claims to be from Iran…
Theory of Justice
…It wasn't about the facts in the case - it was about the fact that the 9th Circuit ruled that the Officer should have known Judicial Precedent was against him, because of a decision that they handed down some months AFTER the shooting. Seriously, that was the 9th Circuit's reasoning.
The Supreme Court, in a surprising 7-2 margin, took this rather insignificant case about a lawsuit just for the chance to once again publicly slap down the 9th Circuit and tell them they are all ignoramuses who wouldn't know a legal precedent if it jumped up on the table and danced and sang a little song saying "I am a Legal Precedent!"
Breitbart is Here
…On this day in 1859 Bryant's Minstrels debuted the song "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show. Somehow it has become known as a 'hate song' now. And if anyone had the audacity to try a blackface minstrel show in NYC now they would be run out of town.
…First up, the YouTube shooter has been identified as an Iranian woman who was a whackadoo vegan and PETA activist.…
Now on to the big story which is the migrant "caravan" reportedly still heading north through Mexico…