Oh, So This Is Why Luigi Mangione Pleaded Guilty

PJ Media 

  "If Turley is right, a man who executed a father of two on a Manhattan sidewalk in broad daylight could walk away from the murder charge entirely on a technicality, having already secured the lighter of his two possible sentencing outcomes.

The generation that blames Israel for Oct 7 considers Mangione
innocent?

Luigi Mangione, the man whose assassination of a health insurance executive turned him into a folk hero to many on the left, shocked the country on Friday when he finally admitted to the killing and changed his plea to guilty.

"I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan. I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death of bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal," Mangione told the judge. He admitted to stalking his victim, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, in the weeks before he gunned him down. The guilty plea locks in a consequence few outside the courtroom seemed to notice at first: a state court can no longer try Mangione for murder.

Mangione had spent more than a year cultivating an image as a martyr willing to fight the system to the end. So why did he suddenly fold and admit everything?

According to Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley, the answer has nothing to do with a guilty conscience. Turley discussed the plea with host Charlie Hurt on Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday, and argued the move was a calculated legal gamble aimed at avoiding a life sentence rather than any sign of remorse.

Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges connected to Thompson's murder. He still faces a separate state trial in New York scheduled for September. That's where things get interesting, because the two cases carry sharply different stakes. The federal charge carries a possible sentence of life without parole. New York's state system has no such option available.

"The New York case is the case that involves the murder charges, but it is also the case and is the case that has a lower potential ceiling for the sentencing," Turley said." . . .

‘Sharia Is Already Here,’ Speaker Tells Plano Mosque Open House

 The Dallas Express  

The public debate turns on whether Americans can protect private religious exercise while identifying and resisting efforts to impose religious authority through law or political power. At the Plano mosque, that distinction was not theoretical. It was the argument in the room and outside its doors. 

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"A Muslim outreach leader told visitors at a Plano mosque Saturday that Sharia is “already here,” describing it as a religious framework Muslims follow through charity, family obligations and personal conduct.

"Outside the Islamic Association of Collin County, an Iran-born Christian who said he lived under Sharia offered a starkly different warning. He argued that Islamic law becomes dangerous when it gains political power and is enforced by the state.

"The competing messages unfolded during an open house billed as “Understanding Islam & Shariah: Myths vs Facts.” About 100 people attended the event at the mosque.

The DX Brief

• The event: WhyIslam Dallas organized a July 18 open house at the Islamic Association of Collin County in Plano with mosque tours, food, a presentation and questions from visitors.
• What was said: GainPeace Director Dr. Sabeel Ahmed said Sharia is already practiced in the United States through Muslims’ personal religious conduct. His remarks presented it as personal religious guidance, not a replacement for American civil law.
• The dispute: A Christian attendee questioned the treatment of women in some Muslim-majority countries. Outside, Edwin Isagholi, who said he was born in Iran and lived under Sharia, warned about blasphemy and apostasy laws.
• Why it matters: The exchange placed two different meanings of Sharia in direct conflict: a personal code of faith and an enforceable political or legal system.   More...

Knowing Four Arabic Words May Save Our Civilization from Islamic Takeover

Like the “handwriting on the wall” that Prophet Daniel had interpreted, there are four Arabic words, which could lead to submission of the entire world to Islam, if non-Muslims do not fully understand their meaning and implications. Those words are takiyya, tawriya, kitman, and muruna.

UPDATE:   Can't pay interest under Sharia law? Minneapolis says no problem, offers alternative financing | Alpha News MN   . . . "Minneapolis operates a loan program for business owners who don’t want to pay interest for religious reasons — and $1.44 million has already been issued through that program.

"The city’s Alternative Financing program was created specifically to comply with Islamic law, or Sharia, which prohibits charging or paying interest — known as riba — and instead relies on financing structures that generate a return without conventional interest." . . .

Why All Leftism Is Now Far Left

 Itxu Díaz  

"That is why the first thing the postmodern left did was to start renaming everything: from sex or gender to the way we refer to certain races. It is fair to admit that they won the battle of the dictionary."

Conservative America

"A 20th-century leftist might have debated how much the state should intervene in citizens’ lives. A postmodern leftist only debates how far the transformation of society and the minds of each individual citizen should go. It’s as if they have gone from being bad economists to being bad psychoanalysts.

"Gender politics, rewriting history, multiculturalism and open borders, or abolishing the police were issues that used to be addressed by a small group of leftists we called the “far left.” In both the United States and Europe, these issues are now the central agenda of left-wing parties, starting with the Democratic Party, perfectly caricatured today in what AOC represents. (RELATED: The Marxist-Islamist Alliance Feeds On DSA Naïveté)

"The 20th-century left, the left of class politics, was profoundly wrong about everything, but the contemporary left, the left of identity politics, is simply insane. The revolution that socialists entrusted to the proletariat of the last century, they now intend to carry out with an army made up of trans people, immigrants, people of fluid and intermittent sexuality, and ordinary Americans who are suddenly fascinated with Islam. Sometimes, when I watch the woke army struggling to form a uniform line, I don’t know if I’m looking at real soldiers or just at a circus. (RELATED: You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics)

"A curious observation: leftists never try to convince informed and free people; they always go after those they consider dependent and malleable. Just as yesterday they went after the workers, and especially the blue-collar workers and those who, a priori, are less intellectually qualified, now they’re going after the freaks, those who don’t know their own identity, and those who urgently need to see a psychologist.

"In comparison, the blue-collar workers at least had the dignity of labor and an ethical foundation vastly superior to that of this brainwashed mass of followers of postmodern progressivism. Perhaps it’s time to pass a law (Good Lord! Am I asking the government to solve something? What have I become?) that prevents political parties from seducing those with obvious mental problems with Gnostic rhetoric. If you think about it, by gathering the mentally ill, the left has become one of those infamous cults from the 90s where one idiot managed to get a thousand fools to give him money, offer him sexual favors, and later commit suicide without killing him. (RELATED: From Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Samuel Moyn: What Happened to the American Left?)" . . .  More...

Itxu Díaz is a Spanish journalist, political satirist, and author. He has written 10 books on topics as diverse as politics, music, and smart appliances. He is a contributor to The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, National Review, American Conservative, and Diario Las Américas in the United States, as well as a columnist at several Spanish magazines and newspapers.

Marco Rubio Just Made the Anti-Trump Ballroom Crowd Look Like Absolute Lunatics

 RedState   

"When your TDS is so bad that you fight the security measures intended to keep the current and future presidents alive, it's time to rethink every bad life choice you ever made."

"The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday asking it to overturn a lower court ruling that halted construction on the new White House ballroom. 

"In the filing, U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer argued that it was imperative that the project – which includes an underground military complex and a drone port – be allowed to move forward because of increased national security threats and "a growing number of recent assassination attempts" against President Trump.

“President Trump has been the target of a growing number of recent assassination attempts,” the solicitor general wrote in his appeal, citing the July 8 “threat of a missile attack against Air Force One” and other previously reported incidents. 

"As RedState reported Tuesday, President Trump was forced to switch planes at the last minute as he departed the July NATO summit in Turkey after a credible assassination threat from Iran was received.

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"Due to the situation in Iran, not to mention the frequent domestic threats against the president, there is clearly an increased urgency to get the East Wing constructed as quickly as possible. 

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoed that sentiment, noting that he's regularly hosted overseas in beautiful facilities with impressive security measures, while, here in America, "we must currently host such visits in plastic or canvas tents on the South Lawn with unsafe and unsanitary portable bathrooms and accommodations unbecoming of our national stature.'" . . .

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Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court to Let It Keep Building White House Ballroom | The Epoch Times

. . . "The emergency application by the National Park Service was filed with Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts directed the respondent, the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, to file a reply brief by 12 p.m. on Aug. 18." . . .

Zohran at 9-11?

 The Mamdani campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mamdani — who has distanced himself from his past “defund the police” views — also drew ire this week, ahead of the 24th anniversary of the attacks, for his association to Hasan Piker, a popular far-left influencer who once said that “America deserved 9/11.”  NY Post

Curtis Sliwa Attacks 9/11 Families Who Don't Want Zohran at the Memorial  

It’s a small world in NYC politics as reporters run into Curtis Sliwa in Midtown after mayor’s presser. He’s asked many including what he thinks about the campaign to stop Mamdani from attending the 9/11 ceremony. “Ridiculous,” he said. “He’s the mayor. Stop being sore losers.”

. . . "Mamdani skipped the 1993 World Trade Center bombing memorial months ago, but vows he will be at the 9/11 ceremony to represent New Yorkers.

Reporters came across Curtis Sliwa in the City and asked him what he thought. He called the push to ban Mamdani “ridiculous,” while talking with reporters Thursday, adding:

“He’s the mayor. Stop being sore losers! You knew this is Zohran Mamdani. He was never a fake, phony, fraudulent, fugazi like a lot of politicians. He told you who he was. Once he got elected, you should have known he was going to be there at 9/11. Now, if you choose to turn your back on him, I don’t want to ever tell family members what they should be doing on this holiday — not holiday, but this solemn occasion — that’s your choice. But I believe you respect the office. He’s the mayor. He’s representing the city.”

Sliwa should stay in the basement with his cats. Mamdani doesn’t represent these people, and no one thinks Sliwa is relevant." . . .

Some 9/11 families defend Mayor Mamdani's inclusion at upcoming remembrance ceremony - CBS New York 

 . . . "Mamdani has reaffirmed his commitment to attend. 

"'I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack by standing alongside them," Mamdani said last week. 

"Miller said she hopes this debate does not overshadow the true reason they're all there.

"'The focus really shouldn't be on who's there, who's not there," Miller said. "It should be on our loved ones." 

"A spokesperson for the 9/11 Memorial and Museum said, in part, "we have intentionally worked to keep the commemoration free of politics because remembering those we lost on 9/11 should never be a partisan issue."