“Think of your mother, you can do this, keep awake!” Those were the last words Daniel M. could still address to his friend Milo P. (names of the injured parties changed). At that point Milo P.’s gaze was fixed, he collapsed on the street Herzog-Wilhelm-Straße, in the middle of the downtown area of Munich, in broad daylight, blood pouring from his wounds.Milo P. later died of his injuries despite emergency surgery and intensive medical treatment in hospital; he was just 17 years old. Now Amir U. is before the Second Criminal Chamber at the Munich I Regional Court, charged with murder. He is said to have interfered in a quarrel that arose out of a triviality on that afternoon in April 2019.They were in a good mood, had ” had some beer in the English Garden park and had a barbecue”, Daniel M. states in court. It was Good Friday 2019, the shops were all closed and to return the empty beer crate, Daniel, Milo and three other friends took the underground to Stachus to get to the Agip petrol station on the street Josephspitalstraße.On the way there, Milo recorded with his mobile phone out of his good mood. According to the indictment, Baryalei A., who was also walking with two girls on the street Herzog-Wilhelm-Straße, felt disturbed and feared that he was being videotaped. An argument broke out between the groups. “And the guy threw a drink can at Milo,” Daniel M. recounts. According to the prosecution, the verbal assaults were soon followed by physical attacks.Following the argument, Milo noticed that his mobile phone, which he was carrying in his pocket, had broken. “We discussed it in the group and then wanted to go to the guy and talk to him about the broken mobile phone,” Daniel M. said. Then Amir U., Baryalei A.’s best friend according to the indictment, stepped out of a ledge and asked Milo to “sort it out in the park together”. A scuffle then broke out between Milo and the other two. “I didn’t see a knife,” says Daniel M.. But when Milo turned to him, he was suddenly covered in blood all over his body and face. The prosecution writes in its indictment that Amir U. had severed an artery at the level of Milo P.’s collarbone with a stab, then U. allegedly stabbed the injured man several times in the leg.Daniel M. said that he was also attacked and felt blows on his legs. Then a passer-by shouted: “Fuck off, I’m calling the police”, whereupon the attackers disappeared. Only then did he realise that blood was running down his legs and that he was also injured. Milo and he sank to the ground. A friend of his covered Milo’s wounds with a T-shirt. Even today, the young man says, he can still remember the incident; now, at the beginning of the trial, almost every hour. Until now, he had believed he could make it without support. “But I have nightmares, insomnia, I have to seek professional help”.Amir U. wants to talk. The 23-year-old tells his side of the story. He claims that on the day of the crime he was on the phone with his mother in Afghanistan and found out that his father and brother had been killed months ago. Then he got drugs and alcohol and met his friend Baryalei at the Stachus. He told him about an argument over a video. Then he was approached by Milo P. and beaten by four youths.The presiding judge Norbert Riedmann reproaches U. with several inconsistencies, which the accused cannot explain either. After the crime, Amir U. says, he went to the Theresienwiese to play cricket with friends and changed his bloody clothes there. In the evening, some “boys” ambushed him in front of his flat, so he ran away to France. Three weeks after the crime, U. was arrested near Paris.

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-innenstadt-mord-prozess-gestaendnis-1.5175641?fbclid=IwAR3MYgvpZycq6euOAvMr8G1-Gh70S2CY_8vzx-mHe9w6y4LTA9aGpPW_xEU

More than 60 stab and cut wounds: The killer had brutally massacred his ex (22 years old). The unborn child also died with Juvy-Ann.An inconceivable crime unsettles the city of Hamm.

On Thursday evening at 10.40 p.m., a woman had called 911 – her brother had apparently attacked his former partner.

When the police officers arrived at the dark car park shortly afterwards, they found the woman’s body covered in blood at the side of a garage – hidden by a pile of foliage!

Shortly afterwards, the officers arrested Alim K. (23 years old). “There is strong suspicion of having committed the crime. We have issued an arrest warrant for manslaughter,” says public prosecutor Felix Giesenregen (34 years old).

The young man from Bergkamen remained silent during police interrogation. He has a criminal record for assault and is on probation.

During the post-mortem examination, forensic experts found that Juvy-Ann F. had bled to death. The popular young woman with Filipino roots last lived together with two sisters and her mother in Hamm.

What happened in the hours before her death, what were the motives for the horrific act – these are the questions that a homicide squad of the Dortmund police is now trying to clarify.

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By James V. DeLong

“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” —Euripides

Amazon abruptly de-platformed Parler last week, terminating its web services hosting account with a speed and lack of notice clearly designed to ruin the company.

Amazon covered up this action by a fig leaf of allegations that Parler did not adequately control incitements to violence, or that someone might sometime use Parler to suggest that someone think about using violence, ignoring the extent to which Facebook, Twitter, and other social media freely allow all sorts of Progressive groups to glorify, incite, and condone violence.

By doing this, Amazon has exposed itself to an impressive spectrum of risks, both legal and business.  Parler has already filed suit.

Most obvious are contract liabilities. Amazon clearly violated its terms of service, which require adequate notice.  In addition, a fundamental of contract law is that every contract contains an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, an obligation violated by destroying a company at the behest of a competitor or political opponent.

Parler also alleges violation of the antitrust laws in that Amazon’s action was designed to help another of its hosting customers, Twitter, a clear transgression if there was any communication between the two.

Moving on, some serious civil rights claims exist.  If Amazon and Twitter talked about this action with government officials, then those officials are liable for violating Parler’s constitutional rights in several ways, which makes Amazon and Twitter a part of a conspiracy to this end.  Violation of First Amendment free speech rights is the most obvious.  Also, though, Amazon and Twitter seem to be interfering with Parler’s efforts to find alternative hosting and legal representation, which would, I submit, transgress the Privileges & Immunities clause of the 14th Amendment.

Given the incestuous current relationship between Big Tech and the Democrats, it is almost a certainty that such conversations took place.

The media, naturally, pooh-poohed the claims and trotted out various experts to minimize them.  In fact, though, Amazon’s defenses look thin and would, I would bet, crumble in actual litigation, given an honest court.

The dubious legality of Amazon’s action raises two possibilities about the role of Amazon’s lawyers in this affair, both of which are disturbing.

The first is that the censors did not ask the lawyers, but simply did it or overrode legal cautions.  This would mean that the company’s employees are out of control and indifferent to the welfare of the company itself, answerable only to the demands of their woke religion.  Note, in particular, that cutting off Parler was of no benefit to Amazon, which bore no responsibility for Parler’s supposed failure to police its users.

The second is that the lawyers gave them the go-ahead on the grounds that thelegal profession is now so corrupted that no court would dare to find for Parler, however meritorious its case.  (The courts’ refusal to hear about election fraud supports this theory.)  Also, just as lawyers who tried to represent Trump were bullied and intimidated, Amazon might feel certain of its ability to prevent Parler from obtaining adequate representation.

Take your pick of these possibilities, but either creates big business risks for Amazon.

Assume that you are chief information officer of a large company.  How can you justify using Amazon as your host server, knowing that you are now naked to the whims of its censors or to the machinations of a competitor with better connections at Amazon than you have?  And that Amazon is contemptuous of your ability to get legal relief?  Today’s action seems to be a combination of ideology and avarice, but pure financial corruption will not be far behind.

Furthermore, if the CIO queries Amazon about it, what can the company do to reassure him?  Nothing.  One of the most important assets of any organization is the ability to make a credible promise, and Amazon has, in one stroke, destroyed this asset in a way that is impossible to fix.

When I sometimes get gloomy about the long-term economic prospects in the U.S., a friend in the investment community likes to remind me that America has a big competitive advantage in the form of the rule of law, or “the insiders aren’t allowed to rob you blind!”  Amazon has decided to prove him wrong.

As a matter of business prudence, it will be hard for a CIO to justify staying with Amazon.  This will be especially true for global companies, which rightly fear the incestuous relations between Big Tech and the new administration.  Moving operations offshore looks sensible, if you can find a nation less subject to this toxic stew of woke madness and crony greed.

If you think corporations all over the world are not thinking about this, recognize that directors’ liabilities have expanded greatly over the past few years, largely at the behest of the left.  Consult a handbook published by the Seattle-based law firm Perkins Coie on the duties of corporate directors, and judge how well a director meets these if he does not weigh seriously the risks of placing the corporation’s existence at the whims of anonymous Amazon bureaucrats.

The hosting service is the most important part of Amazon’s business, and the deplatforming of Parler will ramify on the consumer side.  Asking conservatives to boycott Amazon is not a good idea, because it is an important outlet for small businesses and independent authors.  But action is still possible.  One can seek out alternatives, or use Amazon to search for products and then order elsewhere.  One can return things more readily, or switch from Prime TV to Roku.  For Amazon to motivate 75 million conservatives to find ways to annoy it is a dubious business strategy.  (Amazon’s directors had better read that handbook, too.)

None of these consequences will play out quickly, but forces have been set in motion that will, in the long run, be detrimental to Amazon.

So, in addition to Euripides, consider an observation of Robert Conquest: “the behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”  Or, perhaps, re-read “Ozymandias.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/amazon_goes_mad.html

By Monica Showalter

When the Capitol riots happened on Jan. 6, the blame of President Trump was all over. 

Supposedly, he was the instigator.  Supposedly, he’d egged the rioters on.  The tape of his urging his supporters to stay strong and fight was Exhibit A in the press, and with no skepticism whatsoever, House speaker Nancy Pelosi declared Trump guilty and rushed a crazily hasty second impeachment just days before Trump’s exit.  She declared that it was all about holding Trump “accountable,” and she added that her explicit aim at the uselessly late date was to prevent him from ever running from public office again.

Never mind what the voters might want.  In more ways than one, in Pelosi’s addled mind, their votes don’t count.

The press also rushed to judgment — even the Wall Street Journal’s editorial writers, claiming that Trump’s political capital and credibility was now gone and he’d never run for president again.

But as news of the arrests comes out, showing who these branded Trump so-called supporters are, the conventional argument is starting to splinter apart.

The arrests made in the riots case are starting to show the kind of people who like to riot, which is to say extreme leftists.

Start with this freak, as reported by Fox News:

A left-wing activist who told Fox News last week that he’d followed a pro-Trump mob into the Capitol in order to “document” the siege is now the subject of a criminal complaint in connection with his alleged participation, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

John Sullivan can allegedly be heard egging on protesters in video he provided to the FBI, according to a federal criminal complaint. He has also shared the video to his YouTube and Twitter accounts under the pseudonym Jayden X.

He was charged Thursday in federal court in Washington after being arrested by the FBI. He remains in custody in Toeele County, in his home state of Utah, on a U.S. Marshals Service hold request.

The Epoch Times reports that he was a Black Lives Matter activist.  Andy Ngo notes that he’s been busted for BLM riot activity, too.  GatewayPundit reported that he was caught on video bragging about posing as a Trump-supporter.

He had a pal, too, from CNN.  According to this report from TrendingPolitics:

On Thursday night, damning new footage showed CNN’s Jade Sacker inside of the Capitol with John Sullivan, the BLM member who was charged by federal prosecutors for inciting chaos on January 6th.

Sacker co-conspired with the liberal activist in order to cause chaos and make Trump supporters look bad.

The shocking video shows her and Sullivan celebrating and shouting “We did it!” when they got the footage they were looking for. When she asked Sullivan if he was filming, he said was going to delete it. He never did.

Trending Politics ran a tweet of the actual video, and described this:

As you can see, Sacker and Sullivan are overjoyed with the fact that they got footage of Trump supporters “rioting”.

“Is this not gonna be the best film you’ve ever made in your life?!” Sullivan asks her.

Verified twitter user Amuse breaks everything down in further detail in a series of tweets.

“To make this clear. CNN was embedded with BLM/Antifa pretending to be Trump supporters taping them incite a riot. This is freaking huge. If CNN is allowed to maintain its press access anywhere in DC there needs to be a serious overhaul of our entire system,” he tweeted.

Here’s another one, who showed up with furs, and also got himself arrested.  According to the New York Post:

Aaron Mostofsky was busted Tuesday at his brother’s house in Brooklyn by federal agents on multiple charges, including theft of government property for allegedly stealing a police riot shield and bulletproof vest, the source said.

Mostofsky, who is the son of Shlomo Mostofsky, a Supreme Court judge and a prominent figure in the Orthodox Jewish community, was photographed with both items.

Video circulating on Twitter following Mostofsky’s arrest shows FBI agents swarming the home and carting out what appeared to be the fur pelts and walking stick he had on him during the insurrection.

His politics?  According to this report, registered Democrat.

Even the press is starting to notice that the pieces aren’t fitting together.  Rather than a picture of all wicked and crazed Trump-supporters, charging the Capitol, leftist news outfit Bloomberg reported that its survey of various parties involved, including those who died or were arrested, didn’t paint the desired picture.  Conclusion?

Many of those shown in news footage had no party affiliation and voted sporadically, if at all. 

Bloomberg’s survey of the players showed that only the people who died of medical emergencies seemed to be fully normal Republican voters — the rest didn’t vote at all, voted sporadically, voted Libertarian, independent, or Democrat, and in general were fringe players.  Bloomberg, missing that obvious conclusion, seemed to consider these mostly arrested characters “Trump’s people” and Trump’s “base,” in a bid to still pin the riots on Trump.  But how anyone who votes Democrat or doesn’t vote at all could be a part of Trump’s rise and the huge crowds he draws was never actually explained.  Trump-supporters…vote for Trump.  This isn’t rocket science.

More and more, it looks as though Trump was framed.  This, in addition to transcripts not bearing out the claims that Trump called for an attack on the Capitol, as well as the inconvenient timeline — the FBI put out warnings of plans for disturbances days earlier, and the attack on the Capitol began before President Trump finished speaking and probably uttered the words the Democrats literally impeached him on.  

It was a rush to judgment, a failure to look at facts.  It happened in the aftermath of the event, and it turns out that Trump had little or nothing to do with it.  Even House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy blamed Trump for the riots.  But he, too, disgracefully rushed to judgment, so we await his apology, please.

The rush to judgment, incidentally, didn’t affect just President Trump, who got a second impeachment from it.  There were many rushes to judgment in this leftist hysteria.

Here’s a blameless man named David Quintavalle, a retired Chicago firefighter, who was falsely accused of being the person who hurled the fire extinguisher that killed police officer Brian Sicknick, who, by the way, really was a Trump-supporter.

According to The Patch of Chicago:

The retired Chicago firefighter from Mount Greenwood — whom social media trolls called a “terrorist” and accused of fatally wielding a fire extinguisher that killed a cop as a mob of Trump-supporting insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — was grocery shopping and celebrating his wife’s birthday in Chicago, Patch has learned.

Twitter exploded with unsubstantiated claims Tuesday that Quintavalle — who retired from the fire department in 2016 after 32 years — was the bearded “#extinguisherman” in a surveillance video wearing a “CFD” stocking cap wanted for questioning and “soon to be arrested” by the FBI regarding the fatal beating of U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick.

Quintavalle had all his receipts and proofs.  But this is how the left’s rush to judgment went for him:

By Tuesday night, Quintavalle began getting angry calls from people saying he’s a “f—— murderer” who belongs in jail. TV news reporters had staked out his house. Chicago police dispatched a patrol car to keep watch overnight, as well, his lawyer said.

Some folks got ridiculed for tweeting that Quintavalle wasn’t “the guy” and his facial features don’t match those of the man wanted for questioning by the FBI. One post claimed that tweets disputing Quintavalle’s involvement in the U.S. Capitol insurrection were pushed by trolling Twitter “bots with practically no followers coming out of the woodwork.”

This is a hell of a sorry picture.

The facts will continue to roll out, and the picture that emerges will likely start to show that these rioters were hardly “Trump’s people” as a rule, or people who were egged on by Trump.  They were, in general, leftists, political fringers, and people who like to go to riots.  There remains to be news of whether and how this fiasco was plotted out but expect news of that to roll out. 

That leaves Congress and all the jerks who voted for impeachment of President Trump looking like boobs and losers.  They’ve hitched their star to this leftist impeachment obsession, and now have seen it falling flat.  Now they are about to sully and overshadow Joe Biden’s first days in office with increasingly discredited charges against President Trump, and rest assured: the voters will notice just how bad it is.  This rush to judgment will trash their own legacies for history.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/rush_to_judgment_on_trump_multiple_leftists_arrested_for_capitol_riot.html

He offered a student a part-time job as a dog trainer, then raped his unsuspecting victim. Now Serdal C., of Turkish origin, (40 years old) could get a lenient sentence for his serious crime. Can a rapist buy his way out of this?

August the 27th 2020: Serdal C. picks up Lisa B. at Kamen station by car. She had placed a small ad looking for a part-time job. Together they drive to a dog training ground in Lünen. The young woman is in good spirits and wants to earn a few euros. But things turn out differently.

Public prosecutor Uta Bayerl (53 years old) explains: “The defendant had the opinion that Lisa B. had bad sexual experiences. C. even lied to the psychology student that he was a psychologist himself and wanted to help her. Then the unforgivable happened: after Lisa B. confessed to him that she had been raped as a child, C. is said to have attacked the young woman.

The prosecutor: “He stood between her legs and pulled down her trousers.”

Now Serdal C. is hoping for a settlement in court, which in legalese is called a “plea bargain”.

His defence lawyer announced that his client was ready to confess to the crime and to pay compensation to his victim. The amount in question is 15,000 euros. In return, he would be granted two years’ probation.

The public prosecutor told the newspaper BILD: “For me, the solution would be satisfactory. At least Lisa B. would be spared having to testify in court. Verdict on January the 22nd.

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A Nigerian man caught traveling as a fare-dodger in Frankfurt pushed a 60-year-old woman onto the railway tracks and seriously injured her while trying to flee inspectors, the Junge Freiheit reported. The victim survived the attack, as no train was arriving at that moment.

The 49-year-old African was spotted by two controllers on the S-Bahn traveling from Wiesbaden to Hanau without a valid ticket. They asked him to leave the train at Frankfurt Airport Station. While he was getting off, according to the police, he suddenly pushed one of the controllers aside and fled across the platform.

There he pushed a woman so hard that she fell headfirst onto the tracks. The victim was unconscious for a while, but, fortunately, the two inspectors managed to quickly lift her up and called an ambulance.

Perpetrator already known to the police

Investigators from the federal police managed to arrest the Nigerian, who is now being investigated for bodily harm and fraud. In addition, the African, who is already very well known to the police, is accused of blackmail.

A year and a half ago, the case of a 40-year-old Eritrean caused consternation across Germany, when he pushed a mother and her 8-year-old son onto the tracks in front of an arriving train at Frankfurt Central Station. While the mother was able to roll over at the last second, the child was run over and died.

African pushes woman onto railway tracks while fleeing inspectors

Already in 2019, Zdravko I narrowly escaped death. An Iraqi pushed him in front of the train. It is now known that he will not get a cent in compensation for his pain and suffering.Zdravko I. narrowly escaped death in May 2019. At Vienna’s West Station, a then 21-year-old Iraqi pushed him in front of the arriving train. Miraculously, Zdravko I. (37 years old) survived the attack, but his foot had to be amputated. In the “Heute” interview he said at the time that he was glad to be alive.Now, almost two years after the horrific crime, it is clear that the victim will apparently not get any compensation from the perpetrator for his ordeal. His lawyer Astrid Wagner explains to “Heute” what the reason is: “Basically, this is a problem with the law.

The perpetrator is allegedly ill and therefore not capable of committing a crime. Furthermore, he has zero assets.”

“My brother-in-law is no longer who he used to be,” Zdravko’s sister-in-law Kristina I. explains in despair. “He constantly tries to hide his depressive mood from his family. But I have a close bond with him and see that he has become a completely different person since the incident.”The stroke of fate changed Zdravko I’s life permanently. He used to be very adventurous. “Now he does almost nothing because his foot has been amputated,” says Kristina I.”Although he used to love to go dancing, now he only locks himself in the flat and only goes out of the house when his wife urges him to for hours.”

Almost two years after the dramatic incident at the West Station, Zdravko I. tells the “Heute” talk that he is doing well under the circumstances: “We’re getting by halfway”. With his prosthesis and crutches, he manages to go for a walk now and then. However, he still struggles with pain: “I still have screws in my shoulder and they are very painful. So the next surgery is scheduled for the beginning of February.”After all, the 37-year-old received 8,000 euros from the Social Ministry Service. The ministry also paid for the hospital costs. However, Zdravko I. will apparently not receive a penny from the underground bully himself.

https://www.heute.at/s/fuss-weg-aber-wiener-kriegt-nach-stoss-vor-u3-keinen-cent-100122246

A delivery driver from Deliveroo who refused to handle food from two kosher restaurants in the French city of Starsbourg because he didn’t want to deliver to Jews will be expelled, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said.

The 19-year-old man, of Algerian citizenship and who stays in France illegally, was convicted by a Strasbourg court of anti-Semitic discrimination. He will be deported after he completes his 4-month prison sentence.

The conviction in the city of Strasbourg came two days after a regional Jewish institution, the Israelite Consistory of the Lower-Rhine region, said two kosher restaurants had reported that drivers working for Deliveroo refused to handle their food. They said: ‘’We prepared the order and the delivery man asked uss: “What is your specialty?” The restauratant owner replied: “These are Israeli specialties”, and the delivery man then said: “Oh no, I do not deliver to Jews” and cancelled the delivery.

The Jewish institution and restaurants, as well as the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Antisemitism,  have lodged a complaint in this case, denouncing an “openly anti-Semitic discrimination.” Only one deliverer was ultimately involved in the court action.

“I have decided to expel from the national territory the food ‘deliverer’ who said he did not want to handle deliveries to Jewish clients,” Darmanin said.

The Strasbourg prosecutor’s office had opened an investigation into “discrimination based on ethnic origin in the framework of providing a service,” according to a prosecutor’s aide.

A Deliveroo spokesman told media that the company thinks “anti-Semitic acts, like all racist or discriminatory acts of all kinds, are unacceptable.”

“We have no tolerance for anti-Semitic words or actions, which constitute a criminal offense and we condemn any act of this nature with the greatest firmness,” the company said. “If the facts as they are reported are proven, we will act and put an end to the contract of the responsible delivery person.”

France’s minister for citizenship issues, Marlene Schiappa, met the management of Deliveroo France in order “to act collectively against the scourge of anti-Semitism”.

Israel’s Ambassador to France came to Strasbourg to meet one of the two restaurants owners.

Delivery driver who refused to deliver food to Jews in Strasbourg will be expelled