MAGA Hats And The Easily-Triggered Left

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Letter From Kentucky: Covington and the Cannibals

Having mistakenly thought that he had killed his rival during a fight over a girl, 16-year old Simon Kenton headed west from Virginia into Kentucky. Before he turned 20 Kenton had established himself as a first-rate ranger and Indian fighter, and he had become a frontier icon by the time he died in 1836 at age 81. Kenton rescued Daniel Boone from being tomahawked at the Siege of Boonesborough, ran a series of Shawnee gauntlets at Chillicothe, and took a lead role in the long war against the legendary Tecumseh. Little wonder, then, that a northern Kentucky county along the Ohio River he so diligently explored should today bear Kenton’s name.

It is likewise fitting that Kenton County is where we find Covington Catholic High, an institution associated with a very different sort of protagonist, one whose fame has now been spread far and wide throughout the postmodern wilderness. Last January a short YouTube clip depicting Nicholas Sandmann wearing a “Make America Great Again” ball cap while smiling at Indian activist Nathan Phillips went viral. The narrative accompanying the clip was that Sandmann and his Covington Catholic classmates had as an encore to the March for Life which they had been attending accosted and harassed Phillips.

Phillips did his best to stir the pot, characterizing the students as racist “beasts” who had also threatened a group of black men nearby.

Celebrities, journalists, and untold other social justice jihadists swallowed Phillips’s story without question, and directed at Sandmann—and his family, friends, and school—a barrage of vulgar insults, along with threats of violence.

But additional videos told a very different tale. The African-Americans whom Phillips had supposedly sought to protect from the Covington lynch mob were in fact affiliated with a bizarre black power cult, and had treated the Covington students to obscene harassment.

Meanwhile, Phillips and his fellow Indian activists were revealed to be ethnonationalists of the more obnoxious sort, with one especially unfriendly Indian telling the Catholic boys to “go back to Europe.”

As if the fates sought to rub salt in the wound, the oft-repeated claim that Phillips was a Vietnam veteran also proved false. Many of those who had attacked the boys admitted to being in the wrong, although some still felt obliged to insinuate that anybody who wears MAGA gear in public has it coming.

Rather than complain about biased leftist institutions like Hollywood, CNN, and National Review, it would be more positive to

emphasize the good example the Covington students have provided for youth throughout Flyover Country. Indeed, while the discomfort to the Covington students is regrettable, from a certain standpoint the left itself has done America a favor here by putting a spotlight upon Sandmann and his friends. Unlike Alt-Right activists, the Covington students were unmistakably motivated by Christian faith, and so never indulged in freakish poses which would alienate decent, ordinary people; unlike conservative establishmentarians they refused to cower and submissively slink off into a corner, even when confronted directly by the sacred power of a “person of color.”

It is earnestly to be hoped that the other young men throughout America who find themselves alienated from the liberal status quo are taking notes.

As for Archbishop Kurtz and Robert George and the various public figures who made fools of themselves by rushing to condemn the students, if they really want to learn something, the first thing to admit is that
morally serious people think in terms of justice and charity—not “battling racism,” a pharisaical cause which has for some time now helped rationalize both unconstitutional tyranny and the most ugly viciousness.

In fact, to what could the weaponized weasel-word racism refer if not to the assumption that some racial and ethnic groups deserve no consideration whatsoever, even as others are entirely above criticism? From there, it should be obvious that few expressions could be more stupidly racist than “Native American,” excluding as it does people whose ancestors have for generations poured their blood, tears, and sweat into America. Equally obvious is the fact that the most spitefully racist people alive are precisely those who cry the loudest about “white supremacy”—i.e., the preservation and fostering of European civilization in countries that Europeans founded.

“There is no effective struggle against racism,” man of the left Pierre-André Taguieff concedes,

once one creates a false image of it, for then antiracism becomes a mirror image of the racist myth. To treat in a racist way those whom one is accusing of racist conduct is part and parcel of current antiracism, and one of its shortcomings. Above all, to fictionalize “the Other,” even if he be racist, is to miss who “the Other” really is, never coming to know him.

Just as it would be foolish and unjust to say that the only good Indian is a dead Indian,
it is likewise foolish and unjust to tolerate—much less embrace—the petty Marxist fable of a great-souled aboriginal proletariat resisting evil white oppressors.
To be sure, the Indian was often “grave and calm and loved ceremony and ritual,” as well as “deeply religious” and “respectful of many time-sanctioned customs and taboos,” as Kentucky historian Harry Caudill observed, even as in many places the white settler “was, more often than not, loudmouthed, profane, vulgar and short-tempered.” Yet even if he deemed the settler to be in some respects “less civilized than his red foe,” Caudill also recognized that “it is unlikely that history will ever again record the appearance of a man who, as a type, will possess the hardihood, the sturdy self-reliance and the fierce independence of the American frontiersman.” Nor was Caudill so deluded as to assume that every last Indian was a quaint and magnanimous medicine man straight from central casting, ready to share his secrets of therapeutic herbs and sustainable living. Some were like those described in Caudill’s disturbing chronicle Dark Hills to Westward: The Saga of Jenny Wiley—hate-filled savages, who foreshadowed the abortion movement by scalping a newborn baby before its mother’s eyes.

Others were cannibals, like the Ojibways, who hope to gain the white man’s strength by eating the hero of Kentucky novelist Elizabeth Madox Roberts’s The Great Meadow. They fail, and the undaunted Berk Jarvis’s escape from them offers a pattern we would do well to study. “You will not put me in your kettle, you brown son-of-the-devil,” Jarvis tells the Ojibways. “I belong,” he adds defiantly, “to the Long Knives. Iffen you never heard it said what kind they are, you better go find out.” His refusal to be intimidated is based not upon bravado, but experience. “The Shawnees couldn’t put me in their pot, and the Shawnees are better men.” When Berk’s resolve is juxtaposed with the lines of another, more learned character, who reflects upon the passage through the Cumberland Gap by quoting Virgil—arma virumque cano—there can be little doubt that Roberts saw in the frontier an analogy to the terrible sacrifice and trouble which went into the founding of Rome.

As heroes go, Sandmann cannot be set beside Simon Kenton or Berk Jarvis, much less Aeneas. Laudable though it is, keeping cool and smiling while some feeble-minded lunatic bangs a drum under one’s nose is hardly to be compared with dodging arrows and tomahawks, outwitting a mob of man-eaters, or shepherding a people through the ruin of a destroyed culture. No, America hasn’t been made great again overnight. But it must be said that the Covington students point us in the right direction.

https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/letter-from-kentucky-covington-and-the-cannibals/
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Anti-doxing legislation:

‘They deserve a criminal charge.’ Covington Catholic student’s dad pushes anti-doxing bill.



Shortly after a video depicting Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann standing face to face with Nathan Phillips, a Native American protester, went viral this January, Sandmann’s personal information began spreading online, accompanied by threatening and harassing messages.

Local police stationed themselves in front of the Sandmann’s house until the Department of Homeland Security told them there were no more threats, according to Sandmann’s attorney.

The practice of releasing someone’s identifying information online is known as “doxing.” Ted Sandmann, Nick’s father, testified in front of a Kentucky Senate panel Wednesday in support of a bill that would make it illegal to “dox” a minor online with the “intent to intimidate, abuse, threaten, harass or frighten” them.

“Had this legislation been in place today, prosecutors might be able to bring criminal charges against people like Reza Aslan (a television commentator) who responded to fake news about my son by tweeting a screenshot of Nick looking at Phillips and writing ‘Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s,’” said Sandmann, mentioning that Bakari Sellers of CNN agreed with Aslan.



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How Covington’s Nick Sandmann Could Win His Defamation Claim Against Washington Post



Nicholas Sandmann is one of the Covington Catholic High School students caught in a media firestorm while attending the March for Life last month in Washington, D.C. Now, he is pushing back.

Last week, his lawyers filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post for $250 million—the amount that Jeff Bezos spent to buy the newspaper.

Does Sandmann have any chance of winning? The short answer is “yes.” But it’s not a sure thing. He’s taking on a defendant with very deep pockets and absolutely no incentive to settle.

Sandmann has sent letters threatening legal action to more than 50 media organizations, celebrities, and politicians about their public statements condemning and attacking Sandmann. The Washington Post is the first media organization to be sued.

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What’s Sandmann’s beef? He was accused of racist behavior toward Native American activist Nathan Phillips, based almost entirely on what his lawyers call a “deceptively edited” 59-second video clip. More complete videos of the incident show that the allegations were false.

Sandmann’s lawyers claim The Washington Post stories were “falsely accusing him of instigating the January 18 incident” and “conveyed that Nicholas engaged in acts of racism by ‘swarming’ Phillips, ‘blocking’ his exit away from the students, and otherwise engaging in racist misconduct.” The lawsuit says the newspaper “ignored basic journalistic standards” and engaged in “negligent, reckless, and malicious attacks” on Sandmann, leading a “mainstream and social media mob of bullies which attacked, vilified and threatened” him.

So what are the legal standards governing this type of defamation lawsuit? As Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas explained in a recent opinion, the legal right to sue someone for damaging your reputation depends on whether you are a “public” or a “private” individual.

The Supreme Court’s 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan established two different standards for proving a defamation case. A “public” figure, such as a government official or celebrity, must prove that the false statement was made with “actual malice,” i.e., with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not. A private individual has to prove only that the statement was false.

In a 1967 case, Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, the court expanded the definition of a “public” figure to include private individuals who “thrust themselves to the forefront of particular public controversies in order to influence the resolution of the issues involved.”

Sandmann’s lawyers maintain, quite reasonably, that the 16-year-old is a private figure who has “lived his entire life outside of the public eye.” Further, he did not “engage the public’s attention to resolve any public issue that could impact the community at large” and “has not inserted himself into the forefront of any public issue.”

His lawyers say that his issuance of a statement and his appearance on NBC’s “Today” show were only to provide a “detailed and accurate factual description of his encounter with Phillips.” They were intended to refute the accusations made against him and were “reasonable, proportionate, and in direct response to the false accusation.” That did not turn him into a “public figure” under the legal standard governing defamation lawsuits according to his lawyers.

On this issue, Sandmann will probably be successful. It is doubtful that a court would consider attending the March for Life as meeting the standard for an individual voluntarily injecting himself into a public issue. As First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh says, the Covington High School students “weren’t famous or influential” before this incident, and he doubts that “just showing up at a rally” would qualify them as public figures.

But the law does not allow you to recover damages for an opinion that you consider defamatory. Thus, Sandmann would have a hard time recovering from The Washington Post or anyone else for expressing an opinion that he is racially insensitive or a racist. While that opinion may be unfair or unjust, it is not actionable. Sandmann is going to have to show that factually false statements were made about his behavior.

That is no doubt why the lawsuit claims that The Washington Post falsely stated that Sandman swarmed, confronted, and mocked Phillips, as well as “engaged in racist conduct.” Sandmann’s lawyers also claim that the stories “communicated the false and defamatory gist that Nicholas assaulted and/or physically intimidated Phillips” and “engaged in racist taunts.”

Once you get past the public figure/private person standard established by the Supreme Court, state law is going to apply. In Kentucky, where this lawsuit was filed, you can get damages without proving actual harm if the defamatory statement made against you is “defamatory per se.” That includes: statements falsely accusing you of committing a serious crime; conduct affecting your fitness for office, trade, occupation, or business; or having a “loathsome” disease.

Sandmann’s lawyers argue that The Washington Post’s statements were defamatory per se because they were “libelous on their face” and subjected him to “public hatred, contempt, scorn, obloquy, and shame.” Sandmann has “suffered permanent harm to his reputation” and “severe emotional distress.” His lawyers are also asking for punitive damages because the newspaper published the false accusations “with actual malice” by failing to verify them and by failing to review the complete video that showed what actually happened.

Can he win? Maybe. Rolling Stone agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle the defamation lawsuit filed by the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia after it published an article that implicated the fraternity in a false gang rape story. The Washington Post is probably willing to put a lot of resources into fighting this case in order to avoid encouraging other lawsuits. But just like Rolling Stone, it may eventually agree to a settlement to buy peace.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03...his-defamation-claim-against-washington-post/
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Report: CNN to be sued for more than $250M for CovCath march coverage


CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Fox News is reporting that a lawyer representing Nicholas Sandmann announced in a recent interview plans to sue CNN for more than $250 million.

The attorney, L. Lin Wood, discussed the decision in an interview that will air Sunday, according to Fox News.

A recent lawsuit filed on behalf of Sandmann also seeks $250 million in damages from the Washington Post.


The lawsuits come after an incident from earlier this year in Washington, D.C. involving Covington Catholic High School students. Videos of that incident garnered national attention. The initial video showed the now self-identified Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic, and Nathan Phillips, an indigenous man who was participating in the Indigenous Peoples March.

Sandmann and his classmates were in D.C. for the March For Life.

Earlier this year, Wood and Todd McMurtry announced the WaPo suit in a post on the Hemmer DeFrank Wessles website.

“This is only the beginning,” the announcement read.

Details of the WaPo suit are included in that post, and can be read here. Nicholas Sandmann is listed as the plaintiff, by and through his parents and natural guardians, Ted Sandmann and Julie Sandmann.


http://www.fox19.com/2019/03/09/report-cnn-be-sued-more-than-m-covcath-march-coverage/
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Trump walked across the stage carrying a wooden box.

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Then Trump walked across the stage carrying a small step ladder.

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YouTube bans Navy SEAL who exposed stolen valor cases


The online video platform YouTube decided to suspend the account of a retired Navy SEAL known for exposing numerous cases of stolen valor.

Known for his direct manner and incisive humor, retired Senior Chief Petty Officer Don Shipley used his YouTube account, tagged Buds131, as a hammer against military imposters, specifically Navy SEAL imposters. His channel was named after the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training class with which Senior Chief Shipley graduated.

YouTube, which is owned by Google, said the account suspension was because Senior Chief Shipley divulged too much personal information about his targets online. However, he disagrees. In an interview with PJ Media, he said “this time I was told/emailed I was banned from a video I had posted several years ago about a phony SEAL, but after several years I doubt that caused it. If you ask me, it was because I outed Nathan Phillips. That Indian who masqueraded as a Vietnam vet. That video got a lot of attention and a lot of big lawsuits pending from it.”

Nathan Phillips is the Native American who claimed to have been a recon ranger with multiple combat deployments during the Vietnam War. Senior Chief Shipley, however, used military documents to show that Phillips’ claims were false. In fact, Phillips’ military records showed that he never deployed outside the United States.


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Jersey City Shooter (December 10) Was One-Time Black Hebrew Israelite


Remember the Black Hebrew Israelites? They're back in the news, and once again it's bad news.
The two people who stormed a kosher grocery store in Jersey City with rifles, killing three people inside and also murdering a veteran detective, have been identified as David Anderson and Francine Graham, four law enforcement sources familiar with the case tell News 4.​
Three sources say Anderson was a one-time follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, a group whose members believe they are descendants of the ancient Israelites and may adhere to both Christian and Judaic beliefs. There was a note with religious writings in the U-Haul he and Graham allegedly drove to the scene, but a motive -- including any alleged nexus to hate or terror remains under active investigation, officials say.​



If the name Black Hebrew Israelites sounds familiar, that's because members of that group were the ones who screamed bigotry at Nick Sandmann and the rest of the Covington Catholic kids at the Lincoln Memorial back in January:


As Sandmann noted a few days later:

"They called us 'racists,' 'bigots,' 'white crackers,' 'f*gg*ts' and 'incest kids.' They also taunted an African-American student from my school by telling him that we would 'harvest his organs.' I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to hear," Sandmann wrote.



Nice guys. And then, of course, 99% of the news outlets in the entire world tried to ruin Sandmann's life because he was wearing a MAGA hat as he smiled awkwardly at a Native American man who was banging a drum in his face.* The Black Hebrew Israelites who started the whole thing were almost entirely ignored. They didn't fit the narrative.

I suspect that's what will happen with this shooting, too. There's no way to blame Republicans or the NRA or white people or any of the other designated villains. The Black Hebrew Israelites are the wrong kind of anti-Semites. This doesn't fit the narrative. The media will just move on to the next thing. And they'll keep wondering why we don't trust them.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/jersey-...rew-israelite/

 
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well, let's take a look at it, from the video evidence that now is available, from multiple angles

what is more clear now than the original viral clip showed is the following:

1. CovCath Kids are gathering by the Lincoln steps to wait for their bus
2. BHI start to target them specifically using racist and abusive language
3. CCK mostly ignore BHI, move away
4. CCK get permission from chaperones to do pep rally style cheers to drown out BHI shouting
5. CCK do pep rally style cheers - lots of energy, happy faces
6. CCK do not approach BHI
7. meanwhile, Indigenous People's March (which was a protest against Trump's wall, among other things) has ended, Phillips and entourage still lingering
8. Phillips and entourage, banging drum and "singing" (and recording) wade into group of high energy, happy kids who are continuing to do cheers
9. CCK open path for Phillips and entourage, respectfully keep their distance
10. Phillips approaches a group of students standing at the foot of the steps
11. Sandmann is visible throughout the following - never moves from his position
12. Phillips approaches first one student, then another, moving to his right, until he comes to Sandmann
13. Phillips stands directly in front of Sandmann, banging his drum and "singing" so close that the drum occasionally brushes Sandmann's jacket for three and a half (roughly) minutes - video evidence shows clear space around Phillips
14. Sandmann stands frozen, different expressions on face, usually smile, flinches occasionally as Phillips becomes uncomfortably close
15. Meanwhile, one of Phillips entourage attempts to bait a CCK into an argument - Sandmann signals to friend not to respond
16. As all this is happening, BHI is continuing to shout/yell/scream racist taunts and insults at CCK - chaperones are dealing with this instead of Phillips
17. Also, high energy kids, momentarily curious about what Phillips and entourage are doing, at first decide to join in with drumming and "singing", then get bored and go back to what they were doing - pep rally chants and goofing around
18. Buses arrive, kids leave
19. Somebody in Brazil with a fake twitter account uploads video shot by Phillips entourage, misrepresents it in description
20. small amount of retards on twitter are outraged
21. irresponsible msm report story, push it hard
22. story explodes



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The Right To Life March is coming up - January 24.

No word yet on whether Nathan Philips plans to attend with his gay little "drum of peace"
 
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and more:


ABC, CBS, NBC ignore CNN settlement with Covington student Nick Sandmann, report says


January 14, 2020 By Brooke Singman The news that CNN had decided to settle the high-profile, $250 million defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann was completely ignored by ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and NBC, according to the Media Research Center.
The settlement was significant and should impact outcomes of a variety of other defamation suits that stem from Sandmann and his classmates being swept up in a controversy after a 2019 video clip depicted the “MAGA” hat-wearing student smiling at Native American Nathan Phillips. The man was beating a drum and singing a chant as he was surrounded by Sandmann’s peers, who had joined in on the chant in front of the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

CNN SETTLES NICK SANDMANN DEFAMATION LAWSUIT

Several mainstream media outlets — including CNN — portrayed the incident with Sandmann and the other teens as being racially charged before additional footage surfaced and showed that a group of Black Hebrew Israelites had provoked the confrontation by slinging racial slurs at the students. Footage then showed Phillips, who was in town for the Indigenous Peoples March, approaching the students amid the rising tension between the two groups.
All three networks first covered the student’s confrontation with Phillips.
NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck wrote that CNN settled with Sandmann “for an undisclosed amount after they tried to ruin his life” but the liberal cable network “had help with blackouts” from ABC CBS and NBC.

CNN SETTLEMENT WITH COVINGTON STUDENT NICK SANDMANN A WIN FOR THE ‘LITTLE GUY,’ EXPERT SAYS

Law school professor William A. Jacobson told Fox News that CNN agreeing to settle is a “rare example of a ‘little guy’ being able to stand up to a media behemoth” and estimated the deal was worth at least seven figures. However, viewers who rely on network news would have no idea.
NBC and CBS did not immediately respond to request for comment. ABC News declined comment.
Failing to report CNN’s settlement isn’t the first time the Covington saga was ignored by mainstream media. Back in February, MRC analyst Nicholas Fondacaro reported that ABC, CBS and NBC omitted details of the independent investigation that found the Covington students weren’t at fault.
“An independent investigation found that the high school students of Covington Catholic didn’t harass anyone,” Fondacaro wrote at the time. “Effectively proving that the liberal media reports about them were smears and lies, all three broadcast networks [ABC, CBS and NBC]…” omitted the findings from their evening reports.”







https://foxwilmington.com/headlines/...n-report-says/

 
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CNN's "coverage":


STELTER: A different -- turning to some news involving CNN this week, two unrelated stories about CNN to tell you about, two settlements. The first involving this viral video of marchers in D.C. High school student in a MAGA hat on one side, a tribal elder on the other side. You remember this story from about a year ago.

The student Nick Sandmann sued the Washington Post, CNN, and NBC Universal alleging defamation. And this week, CNN and Sandmann reached a settlement in case. This means it won't go to trial. The terms were not disclosed, which is pretty common in these cases.



http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/12/rs.01.html



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