State of Friday: SHUT UP AND GET MUGGED
Manhattan needs to send a message to the Foehners of the world: Shut up and get mugged.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
Tight on time today, lots to do before the big flight to Florida next week.
Heading down there for the annual family gathering. We’ve got five Marines and an Air Force veteran in the famdamily. Grandpa’s the AF guy, sons and cousins in the Marines, grandkids running around, dogs, beers, barbecue.
Going to be a good one.
So let’s get to it while the gettin’ good, eh?
SHUT UP AND GET MUGGED
Charles Foehner’s crime wasn’t gunning down the career criminal Cody Gonzalez, but it might as well have been.
Gonzalez had charged Foehner in the middle of the night brandishing what appeared to be a knife, but it was later identified as just a pen. Before you go all lefty on me, there’s video of the attack. He was clearly within his rights to use deadly force on Gonzalez.
The perp’s rap sheet is extensive. He had 15 arrests since 2004, proving once again that urban justice systems see fit to keep chronically violent criminals among the general population.
While prosecutors agreed that Foehner’s actions were in legal self-defense, his possession of an unregistered firearm inside New York City limits violated the city’s gun laws. A follow-up inspection of his home found an “arsenal” of guns.
Foehner is 67 and a retired doorman. He’s married and modestly working-class. Because he demonstrated his right to self-determination and self-defense, he is therefore conservative-coded, regardless of his personal politics. So he must be prosecuted and, unlike Gonzalez, imprisoned.
Manhattan needs to send a message to the Foehners of the world: Shut up and get mugged.
The kicker is that prosecutors were so zealous they demanded the judge put Foehner away immediately. They wanted him to spend the holidays not with his elderly wife, but in prison. The judge soberly batted away the demands and allowed him to be out on his own recognizance until his sentencing in January.
From the NY Post:
[H]e’ll remain “at liberty” and will be able to celebrate Christmas with his wife, Judge Toni Cimino ruled — over objections from the Queens DA’s Office, which had pushed for him to spend the holidays at Rikers Island.
“If this was a state and a city that had its affairs in order, Mr. Foehner would be getting a plaque, not a prison sentence,” Foehner’s lawyer told reporters.
Foehner will report next January for a stunning four years of incarceration, despite having no criminal record. He will be near the life expectancy for an average male in America once he’s released, so he’ll have spent what little time he might have left on Rikers Island instead of with his wife.
If we can’t see the injustice in all this, then we’re blind.
I’m all for law and order. We should follow laws as written. It is our civic duty.
It’s clear as day, however, that the people we’ve put in places to tip the scales of justice are incompetent at best, and at worst, malicious and politically motivated.
Justice would be Foehner simply giving up his firearms, paying a fine perhaps, and going home.
Sending an upstanding, elderly man with nothing but good citizenship on his record to prison for his golden years is a miscarriage of justice, plain and simple.
What’s more, Foehner did the citizens of New York City a favor, one the justice system should have done but didn’t. He took a bad man with no intent to be a constructive member of society off the streets … forever.
So for that, in case nobody else says it, let me say it first: Thank you, Charles.
WHAT I’M READING
The “we did nothing wrong” routine is pure crap.
Scott Jennings Explains Who Motivated Six Democrats To Tell Military To Disobey Trump
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Surprise, surprise.
Major Democrat Donor Has Sizeable Stake In Pot Company Raided By ICE
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Of course our government was funding terrorists. What’s new?
Blue State Somalis Allegedly Sent Welfare Money To Al-Qaeda Ally Planning Another 9/11
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Just when you think you’ve been shocked enough, the shocks keep on coming.
WHAT I’M WATCHING
Charlie Kirk: American Martyr gives an intimate look at a life that influenced a generation — told by the people closest to him.
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