(11-18-2021, 06:32 PM)ABNARTY Wrote:(11-18-2021, 06:19 PM)Ninurta Wrote: And let's not forget the prosecuting attorney pointing an AR15 at the jury with his finger on the trigger! If that's not juror intimidation(1), I dunno what is! It's no wonder the Marxist massses feel at ease issuing threats and jury tampering at leisure(2) when even the prosecution attorneys do it and get away with it!
He should rightfully be sitting in jail right now, cooling his heels on a charge of felony jury tampering, yet here he is, walking free like all of the rest of us who have done no wrong.
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1. That is a good point.
2. Another good point. If they are allowed to get away with it, they will do it.
I was trained that all guns are "loaded", all the time. I was once nearly killed by an "unloaded" gun that went off while it was being disassembled by another guy, and sent a slug about 3 inches past my left ear, so I take that axiom to heart. There is no excuse, much less any legitimate reason, to point a firearm at anything you do not intend to kill, much less with your FINGER ON THE TRIGGER.
That cannot sanely be considered anything less than jury intimidation with callous disregard of human life.
Furthermore, he failed to clear the weapon himself and inspect the chamber to make sure it was empty. He relied on his assistant to do that, like Baldwin. Where did that get Baldwin's director of cinematography?
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’