Comments by "Sean" (@sean2015) on "Democracy Now!"
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@vallee7966 I'm tired of people making excuses for this thug. The media has been harping on the fact that is mother was killed in 2007, as if that's any excuse for his mile-long rap sheet or the fact that he broke a 67 year-old woman's nose or pushed a 60 year-old man onto the tracks.
I know plenty of people who lost a parent at a young age, but didn't turn to a life of drugs, vagrancy and thuggery like Neely did. Again, I'm not interested in hearing about his mother. The old mental illness excuse has been getting worn thin by the Left for years now.
There are infinitesimal resources available for people like Jordan Neely: our country spends half (HALF!) of its annual budget just on Social Security and health care alone. That's $2 trillion. Nobody in this country is starving (with all the food pantries we have), nobody is dropping dead in the street for lack of access to health care (that's a bogus Leftist lie).
From what I can gather, Neely was placed under psychiatric care at some point but fell off the wagon, stopped taking his meds and stopped attending his appointments. You can't help people who won't accept help, and unfortunately bums like Jordan Neely usually only want one type of help and that is cash so they can buy booze or drugs. He did not have a "mental illness problem", he had a substance abuse problem. He alone chose to go down that path. I feel no sympathy for him, nor should I. I only feel disgust towards him that he could've made something of his life but didn't.
The rest of us trying to go to work have to deal with them threatening us because 1) our government isn’t caring for them and 2) our government isn’t providing safe mass transit for us. ...you can blame the Police Defunders for that. These people should NOT be allowed to use subway trains as shelters, they should be actually staying in a shelter where they belong. And no, shelters are not always full every night of the year (that's another bogus Leftist myth) but people like Neely refuse to stay in them because they don't want to abide by the "no smoking/no drugs/no alcohol" rules. Otherwise we need to bring back insane asylums and commit these people, even forcibly if necessary. The alternative is leaving them on the street.
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@garretdrake2347
Nicholas Sandmann settled Friday with NBC-Universal, he said.
The media had lambasted the Covington Catholic High School student from Kentucky, now 19, over a confrontation at the 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C.“
At this time I would like to release that NBC and I have reached a settlement,” wrote Sandmann on Twitter, adding that the terms were confidential.
Following the 2019 incident in Washington, D.C., many media outlets and Democratic politicians criticized Sandmann for a confrontation with a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial following the march.
Sandmann was recorded on video wearing one of former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign hats while smiling at the activist, Nathan Phillips, as Phillips beat a ceremonial drum and chanted at him in close proximity.
Several media reports at the time claimed the incident was racially charged on the part of the White teenager, which Sandmann and other witnesses disputed. People have judged Sandmann “based off one expression, which I wasn’t smirking, but people have assumed that’s what I have,” he said a 2019 interview with NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie.
Nearby members of the Black Hebrew Israelites group were shouting slurs at him and his classmates, he added.
“I heard them call us incest kids, bigots, racists,” Sandmann said.
His filing against NBC-Universal and MSNBC reportedly asked for $275 million in damages.
CNN and the Washington Post both settled defamation lawsuits from Sandmann in 2020 for undisclosed amounts.
The suit against CNN sought damages for “emotional distress Nicholas and his family suffered” in the fallout of the network’s reporting.
Law school professor William Jacobson told Fox News at the time 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.
Sandmann, then a Covington Catholic High School student, was criticized following a confrontation with a Native American elder at the March for Life in 2019.
Sandmann, then a Covington Catholic High School student, was criticized following a confrontation with a Native American elder at the March for Life in 2019.
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In 2020, Sandmann attorney Todd McMurtry told Fox News that lawsuits against “as many as 13 other defendants will be filed,” including ABC, CBS, The Guardian, HuffPost, NPR, Slate, The Hill, and Gannett, which owns the Cincinnati Enquirer as well as other small outlets.
After Illinois teenager Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of homicide charges in the shooting deaths of two Kenosha, Wisconsin, rioters Nov. 19 amid similar media attacks, Sandmann told Fox News the teenager’s experiences seemed similar and that as of November, he had six pending suits against other media outlets himself.
“It’s terrible, Sean — as a 17-year-old in Kyle’s case and mine 16, your mind is still developing,” he told host Sean Hannity. “So to deal with an overload of stress where you have this feeling that half of the country — hundreds of millions of people — hate you for something that you are innocent of, but how you are painted can do a lot to you mentally.”
“It takes a very strong will to be able to resist that and keep a level head,” he added. “I think that Kyle Rittenhouse is dealing with that right now."
--New York Post, 12/18/21
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