Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1. @ThePark 627 So let me see if I understand. Police don't have to JUSTIFY lethal force. The target has to prove he didn't deserve to be shot.
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  2. A question: do white people feel safe from no-knock warrants executed in the middle of the night by agents in plain clothes? How can anyone think this is not a tactic of dictatorships? The occupants of the apartment were the ones who had a right of self-defense.
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  3. Tremendous demonstration by the ball players. I love them.
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  4.  @greglaprade7507  Except that Chauvin pled guilty to federal charges.
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  5. Of course. This report misrepresented the case, which pertains only to minors who are not on puberty blockers or trans-sex hormones already. WHAT ELSE IS NEW? One more example of needing to read stuff for yourself, which I just did.
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  6. Having said that, these were wonderful guests. Will return to what they have to say in the months to come.
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  7. The ultrarich do nothing that is not calculated to be to their advantage.
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  8. ​ @letsomethingshine Choice means the choice to be a birth parent someday. Some people decide to do that in their 30s and 40s, and had no idea they would want to when they were only 16. I support CHOICE.
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  9. LET'S HOPE SO.
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  10. Wait. How does a pardon protect anyone from investigation? It lifts the reason for invoking the Fifth Amendment.
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  11.  @epis8613  Exactly!!!
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  12. Amy has been superb, transcendent. Sometimes it's hard to listen. I have to take a break. But she is always there, reporting on all of it. 😢
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  13. ​ @TOGAB  Do you know what "independent" means?
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  14. It's about minors, and there is a legitimate issue. But not to be treated like this!
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  15. He pardoned the judge who put kids in juvenile custody for money, and failed to pardon Leonard Peltier. Yeah, real good.
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  16.  @Red-Check-Mark  Actually, every court has a responsibility to rule on a constitutional claim that is properly before the court, but only the Supreme Court is the final and controlling authority on what the US Constitution means.
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  17. No one should open the door to a claim of police being on the other side. If someone tries to break down your door and claims to be the police, call the police. You have no duty to open your door. It's YOUR door. Anyone can shout "sheriff." That is a FACT.
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  18. Michael Ratner's book is life-changing.
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  19. I tried to drop it. They put $5 in my account and refuse to close it unless I spend it or give them my banking information so they can deposit it. I only joined PayPal because I had to, to join an organization (that's supposedly against this stuff.)
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  20.  @mischevious  No, he wasn't nice or warm hearted. Reagan was a profoundly cruel man who knew how to seem nice. His contempt for anyone who wasn't rich was off the charts. His racist stereotypes are still part of our political discourse.
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  21.  @13ghosts  Well, they are not well by any stretch.
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  22.  @garymorris1856  Ah, okay. Then you won't look at the actual case, which holds that you cannot EXECUTE an insane person consistent with the Eighth Amendment. It is unconstitutional to do so. That is entirely separate from the person's conviction for the crime, which stands.
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  23. Why am I not surprised?
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  24. @timbses  That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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  25. @lucasmurphy740  Never follow only US sources on public health matters. The financial incentives in developed countries that have socialized medicine are much more sane than they are under the US system of commercial medicine. I always want to see what Europeans are doing. A word to the wise . . .
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  26. When you take an oath to support the Constitution, you are supposed to endeavor not to issue orders that violate the Constitution. Then the Court won't be so busy. As it stands, when someone sues and properly invokes the jurisdiction of a federal court, they are entitled to press their case -- against Trump, Musk, or anyone. Then the court will rule on that case. That's how that works.
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  27. Just read the case. It was misrepresented, on top of everything. Really disappointing. :/
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  28. Not what he said.
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  29. ​@marvelmusic4566 So, if she is nuts, that will be obvious to everyone. If someone speaks critically about you, even if their intentions are clearly neutral or good, would you not want a right of reply? Wouldn't you believe you were entitled to the opportunity to be heard? But more important: why don't you see that straightaway? Why do you bristle and label her nuts? ALL THE MORE reason to allow her to come here and speak. Rights are not just a legal concept, they're a culture.
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  30. ​​ @marvelmusic4566  After reading this thread, I hunted down a few videos of Wolf. I don't pretend they were a representative sample -- in fact, in light of the recent censorship, they are likely to be the ones that survived. In any event, from the few I saw, what struck me were all the times she was careful to state that she was not a medical doctor, that she was not a statistician, and that she did not have the necessary expertise to take a hard look at the data. Then she called upon people who have that expertise to get involved. She had no trouble saying three little truthful words that would have made all the difference over these past three years: "I don't know." I don't hear that from Klein. I don't hear that from any administration mouthpiece. On the other hand, I also noticed that Wolf sometimes exaggerated the risk of certain side effects that we now know to be common, but that were systematically denied or minimized by the CDC, FDA, NIH, and other bad actors. I don't like or approve of either one, or regard exaggeration to be an antidote to minimization. It isn't. We WERE lied to, by those with an obligation to tell us the truth and keep us safe. The only corrective to lies is scrupulous truth-telling. On balance, I find Wolf much more likable and believe she is sincere. I also find it much easier to check her claims and forgive her errors, but only because she is more humble and concedes her limitations. But as I said, I don't like or endorse exaggeration any more than the poisonous gaslighting we have been subjected to. Exaggeration makes it too easy to dismiss the truth that the problems with the vaccines are serious and are not being given the attention they deserve --- and to write people off with pressing concerns as "conspiracy theorists." That that move still works (still!!) is disappointing.
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  31. She did. Why do you think she didn't?
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  32. @TD1237  Her letter was all emotion and political leanings. This passes for a solid argument now? Trump World all right!
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  33. If there is ANYONE sane and in control of their faculties who justifies this shooting, then this country is not liveable.
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  34. Glenn Greenwald analyzed this best.
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  35.  @Skiddoo42  My meaning is that she's rich. The fact that you and I suffer is not something she cares about.
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  36. There is something that really makes my skin crawl about seeing a woman of Amy Goodman's stature, dignity, and gravitas having to ask some of these questions. I admire her all the more for doing this report. Wow. Just WOW.
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  37.  @ericpratt9509  And I'm not a liberal. "How dare you?" LOL
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  38.  @Name-jw4sj  You and your friend were planning to protest her appearance here by contacting the channel. If deplatforming in a broad sense, as in globally silencing someone, was an exaggeration, your reaction to disagreeing with her position is absurd, verging on shameful.
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  39.  @ericpratt9509  Glenn Greenwald is libertarian. Show me where he ever tried to get a channel not to invite someone like Briahna Joy Gray to speak. Do you not hear yourself, you self-righteous prig?
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  40. SOMETHING has got to change. I disagree with a lot of what Bobby Jr. says, and I think his qualifications are marginal, but to sweep aside the important points he does make is deeply wrong. Why didn't Caroline stick to facts? I trust her less than Bobby.
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  41.  @SpaghetteMan  How can they believe nonsense? They have been fast and furious in embracing nonsense since . . . Why, since right about 2008. In other words, right around the time it became apparent that the US has been allowing the stability of its own currency to be grossly undermined in order to enrich a tiny, tiny number of people who have wrested democratic control of the powers of government from the mass of the people. McCoy just explained it. The pushback you hear is whistling in the dark.
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  42. @holliegolitely6245  Paris IV, among others
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  43. "God and guns" -- not figuratively but literally -- could the most perverse imagination come up with this?
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  44. @ClassicFIHD  That isn't the standard at all. I had a fender-bender with an immigrant whose papers probably weren't in order. The accident was nevertheless MY fault. Whether "they shouldn't have been there" has exactly nothing to do with it. If you hit the bumper of a Real Bad Guy, it's still the bumper that counts.
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  45.  @RussoConcerned  Brilliant idea.
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  46.  @federalreservebrown2507  It is illegal to defend property with lethal force. Only physical well being ("life and limb") can be defended with lethal force. So, Wisconsin does not train and license armed security guards now? People make informal arrangements with heavily armed kids to defend property? Or, the adults in the picture use kids that way, then conveniently deny their part? Funny. That's how the Chicago gangs operate.
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  47. The opposite is true. If you calculate "excess deaths" using the method typically used for calculating deaths from flu every year, the number of deaths is higher. There is a good REASON to calculate excess deaths: we know mild COVID can cause persistent inflammation that speeds disease processes like cardiovascular disease and stroke. So, we are probably UNDERCOUNTING total deaths.
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  48.  @0_P.E.  Well, you have a point. The problem is when someone comes to your door and insists that they are the cops. If they are, then calling the cops will cause them to cool it. This happened to me.
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  49. This.
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  50. That has nothing to do with politics, or to be mistaken for someone else by strangers because of a similarity in names and in some views held twenty years ago.
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