PSST: WE ONLY BELIEVE RAPE HOAXES AGAINST MEN -

  Ann Coulter  

"When Christine Blasey Ford tried to torpedo Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 nomination to the Supreme Court by claiming he’d raped her 35 years earlier at an unspecified high school party, on an unspecified date, all of liberal America stood and applauded."

"Whatever his position on transgenders, Chirayu Rana, the Indian who claims a female executive at JPMorgan made him her “sex slave,” must be wishing he could change his gender right about now. No sooner had he filed a sexual harassment complaint against Lorna Hajdini, than the media tore him to shreds.

"This is something new. The media have believed way more laughable stories than his.

"In fact, we seem to be living through the Golden Age of women being canonized for falsely accusing men of rape, specifically white men — white lacrosse players, white military contractors, a white guy at Columbia University, white frat boys at the University of Virginia, and a white appellate court judge. (Duke lacrosse, Jamie Leigh Jones, Rolling Stone’s fraternity gang rape, Mattress Girl, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.)

"Today’s hoax rape trend kicked off in 2006, when a black stripper claimed that white members of the Duke lacrosse team had gang-raped her. The media, the professorate and the Democratic Party yipped for joy. This was just the story they’d been waiting for!

Kamala and Booker laugh at Kavanaugh

"Newsweek instantly slapped mugshots of the accused on its cover. Time magazine ran an article titled “Fraternity of Silence,” claiming — falsely — that the players had “formed a Blue line of sorts and stayed mum.” (The article was written by Sean Gregory, who remains a sports correspondent at Time.)                            "Even after it was known that none of the lacrosse players’ DNA matched that found on the accuser, Time was still droning on about the “classic American sex story: the pretty female slave being summoned up to the big house to sexually satisfy the master.” (Author: Jeninne Lee-St.John, currently editor-in-chief, Travel + Leisure, Southeast Asia.)

"Until the bitter end, The New York Times sourced all its information to the prosecutor, Mike Nifong; the lead investigator, Sgt. Mark Gottlieb; and the stripper herself, Crystal Mangum. The paper only began to have doubts around the time Nifong was disbarred and jailed, Gottlieb was forced to quit and committed suicide; and Magnum stabbed her boyfriend to death. (That’s a dinner party!)

"Say, aren’t there any executives at JPMorgan who played lacrosse at Duke? Perhaps it would have been wiser if Rana had accused one of those guys.

"Naysayers scoff at his allegation that he was drugged with Rohypnol and Viagra before being raped.

"The media aren’t usually so untrusting. In 2008, the Times put on its front page Jamie Leigh Jones’s story about being drugged with Rohypnol, beaten and gang-raped while working for a military contractor in Iraq. Adding to her credibility, she said that, in retaliation for reporting the rape, the contractor locked her in a shipping container guarded by men with machine guns, with no food or water, for 24 hours. (Did they think she’d never go home and tell people?)" . . .More...

Democrats are now the 'party of evil' By the late Michael Reagan, 2018; quoting Tucker Carlson back when he was Tucker Carlson. TD  

. . . "Tucker Carlson, who said the mindless anti-Kavanaugh protesters banging on the Supreme Court’s doors reminded him of zombies from the Netflix series “The Walking Dead,” correctly called them a “mob.”

"But CNN and their liberal ilk disagreed."As far as they are concerned, only right-wingers can become a dangerous mob — like the angry Tea Party activists who showed up and shouted at political meetings back in 2010."Creepy Antifa kids disrupting traffic and harassing old folks in Portland? Gangs of progressive screamers showing up in restaurants to publicly harass Republican officials or politicians? The left-wing media say they are not really “mobs.'” . . .

Spooked by Creepy Mamdani Video, Billionaire Prepares to Flee Hostile NYC and Take His Jobs With Him

  Athena Thorne – PJ Media   

"Sounds like it will be a drawn-out, long goodbye from a man who hates to admit it's over. But it's over. Griffin will never see New York City the same way again. Even if Mamdani is no longer mayor someday, the people who elected him will still be the voting majority in that rotten apple."

...and fire his maintenance people, his local administration. Why not close down the wealthy owners of Las Vegas resorts and send away all the workers (who, by the way, tend to give that city a Democrat majority.) TD

"It started with an undeniably creepy, stalky video starring New York City's dashing young communist mayor, Zohran Kwame Mamdani. The mayor posted the video on Tax Day, April 15. In it, he announced the creation of a so-called pied-à-terre tax — a tax on luxury second homes within city limits. That was the commie part of the video; the creepy, stalky part was that he chose to film it in front of a building that houses a penthouse belonging to one individual billionaire. Mamdani called the man out by name — Ken Griffin, founder and co-owner of the Citadel hedge fund and securities empire — and stoked envy by disclosing what he had paid for his apartment." . . .

. . . "Something the menacing mayor never mentioned in his covetous propaganda clip is that Griffin is already an extremely generous benefactor of the Big Apple. My colleague Robert Spencer reported in April:

The thing is, however, that Ken Griffin is not really a problem for New York City. The Washington Free Beacon reported Saturday that Griffin, along with legendary music mogul David Geffen, made a “joint $400 million donation to Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2023. This constituted “the largest single donation the cancer center has ever received.” Griffin has also given “$40 million to the Museum of Modern Art, $40 million to the Museum of Natural History, and $15 million to the poverty-fighting Robin Hood Foundation.” The Free Beacon adds: “Sources tell us his gifts to city institutions total around $600 million.”

"All told, Griffin "has donated more than $2.5 billion to advance education, opportunity, and health sciences initiatives that significantly transform people’s lives," according to Citadel's website.

"Then, there are also the enormous contributions that Griffin's business endeavors make to NYC's overall prosperity. "…Griffin, whose Citadel and Citadel Securities together employ approximately 5,000 people, is currently building Midtown's tallest skyscraper right on Park Ave.," the Free Beacon noted, "something a mayor with any understanding of how to help working people would be welcoming and celebrating." . . .More...

Athena Thorne • coastal conservative • NYC Metro Area, New England • fearfully and wonderfully made • cats, fish • medium rare • the peatier the better 

Marsha Blackburn to Secret Service: ‘Root Out the Rot”

 RealClearPolitics  

"Former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, who previously served as a Secret Service agent, also expressed concern about the possibility of multiple assailants bombarding Secret Service checkpoints and argued that agents with elite training should help fortify that layer of security."

"Sen. Marsha Blackburn sent a sharply worded letter Wednesday to Secret Service Director Sean Curran demanding an immediate, top-to-bottom review of the Secret Service, a move that comes nearly two weeks after an armed gunman sprinted past a checkpoint leading to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in a third assassination attempt on President Trump.

"As part of the review, Blackburn called for a “full, thorough audit of every single employee on your payroll.”

"'It is blatantly clear that the Secret Service needs to be cleaned up,” the Tennessee Republican wrote. “Unless you root out the rot, our nation will suffer the consequences.”

"Blackburn’s letter also comes just days after a Secret Service Uniformed Division officer was arrested in Miami after being found naked and masturbating in a hallway in yet another embarrassing spectacle.

"The senator drew an explicit connection between the misconduct pattern and the agency’s core protective mission: “At a time when President Trump faces increasing threats to his safety, including yet another assassination attempt, the Secret Service cannot afford to have individuals who engage in this kind of embarrassing, disgraceful conduct on its payroll.”

"Blackburn stopped short of calling for Curran’s resignation, but her demand for a full personnel audit – along with the blunt warning about consequences – signals mounting congressional pressure on an agency that has faced repeated public scrutiny since the July 2024 assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, that nearly killed him. An attempt on Trump’s life two months later at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course, was another close call.

"Blackburn cited the recent arrest of the agent for indecent exposure at the Miami hotel and framed the personnel issues as symptomatic of deeper structural problems – including what she described as persistent difficulties in vetting, hiring, and maintaining agent morale." . . .More...

Mayorkas' legacy: Tuberculosis makes a comeback in San Francisco

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker   

 . . . "one of the reasons nations have policed their borders has been to keep out diseases. Thanks to the Democrats’ open-door policy for illegal aliens, America has seen a resurgence of third-world diseases that had once become alien to America, things such as measles, TB, whooping cough, and even polio and dengue fever."

"The headline on a San Francisco news website is stunning: “‘This is a big outbreak’: Nearly 1 in 5 affected by TB at SF school.” Certainly, when I was growing up and living in San Francisco, such a headline would have been unimaginable, but now tuberculosis is a growing problem in California, a state with the single largest illegal immigrant population in America.

"According to SFGATE:

New data shows 18%, or nearly 1 in 5, of tested students and staff at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco were diagnosed with either latent or active tuberculosis during an outbreak that started in November. 

New testing is scheduled to start today. 

In total, 96% of the school community was tested, seven people were diagnosed with active cases during the course of the outbreak and 241 latent cases were reported, according to data released by the San Francisco Department of Public Health on April 27 to the school community. (Emphasis mine.)[snip]

Tuberculosis remains a problem for California, where cases hit a 12-year high in 2025 with 2,150 reported. The state also had a “substantially higher” rate of disease in 2025 than the U.S. overall, the department said, with 5.4 infections per 100,000 people compared with about 3 per 100,000 nationwide.

"The news about Riordan follows reports from last week that two California high schools—one in San Diego, in the southernmost part of the state, and one in Fresno, in Central California—had experienced TB outbreaks. TB’s surge in both those regions made sense, given  that they are where most of California’s enormous illegal alien population clusters. And yes, the fact that they’re illegal matters, because it means that they come from impoverished countries rife with disease, enter the U.S. without any medical barriers, and live in densely populated communities. All lawful applicants to America are screened for TB." . . . More...

Are Biden’s immigration policies allowing dangerous diseases into our country? Back in 2023 some worried about this.

Biden's Open Borders Bringing Diseases to Your Neighborhood | RealClearPolitics

. . . "Texas border counties have a TB rate triple the national average. At least TB is treatable. Polio, on the other hand, can paralyze you for life.Time will tell how big a threat the return of polio is. In the 1940s and early 1950s, thousands of Americans were permanently paralyzed by it, but vaccines ended that nightmare."  

Bianco and Hilton Both Need To Win California’s Jungle Primary

 In a previous recall attempt, California had a great chance to be rid of Newsom yet chose to keep him.

Robin M. Itzler - American Thinker   

"Strategically speaking, in order to maximize their chances of advancing Hilton and Bianco to the November election, Republicans need to split their vote as close to 50-50 as possible. President Trump coming out and endorsing Hilton for governor makes that more difficult to achieve."

"Forget counting sheep. If you can’t get some shut-eye, just open the California primary booklet and read aloud the names of the 61 candidates running for governor: 24 Democrats, 12 Republicans, 1 Libertarian, 1 Peace and Freedom, and 23 running with no party affiliation. Ballots were mailed in early May, which means illegal aliens are being instructed on which Democrats should get their votes.

"Yet, this primary season, there is some optimism on the right side of the aisle. With both Republican candidates—Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco—frequently maintaining the one and two positions in numerous polls, along with multiple Democrat gubernatorial candidates possibly splitting votes, there is a chance to save this leftist state come November. The whispered chatter is that both Republicans might be the top two vote-getters—and let’s hope that happens, because it’s the only path to a Republican victory.

"For both Hilton and Bianco to be the top two winners, it would require a lot of disgruntled Democrats, along with No Party Preference voters, to vote Republican. Per the Independent Voter Project:

• Democrat registered voters 44.96%
• Republican registered voters 25.14%
• No Party Preference 22.65%
• Other 7.25%

"Some Republican strategists say it is mathematically impossible for both Republican candidates to emerge as the top two primary winners. They insist that the only path to success is for Republicans to rally behind one of the two leading candidates. This is easier said than done since Hilton supporters want Bianco to drop out, and Bianco supporters want Hilton to drop out." . . .More..

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter.

Gorsuch Just Named Who Put Justice Kavanaugh in the Crosshairs During Bombshell Reagan Library Remarks

 24/7 Politics 

 "Madison later believed there would have been no Constitution" without that protection, Gorsuch said. The left is trying to destroy that same protection now – and last time they succeeded, a man showed up at a Supreme Court justice's home with a gun."

Someone flew from California to kill Brett Kavanaugh while Kagan refused to act on warnings it was coming.

"Gorsuch just broke his silence on who left his colleague in that crosshairs.

"What he revealed about the liberal justices who kept Kavanaugh there is something conservatives need to see.

"The Kavanaugh Assassination Attempt the Dobbs Leak Made Possible

"It was June 8, 2022. Nicholas Roske flew from California to Maryland with one purpose: to kill a conservative Supreme Court justice and change the outcome of a case.

"Roske showed up at Kavanaugh's Chevy Chase home in the middle of the night loaded down with a Glock, a tactical knife, zip ties, duct tape, a hammer, a crowbar, and lock picks.

"He had searched online how to cause maximum damage with a knife

"He had told people online he was going to "remove some people from the Supreme Court."

"The only reason Brett Kavanaugh is alive today is that Roske saw marshals outside the home and lost his nerve.

"This wasn't a protest. It wasn't a threat. It was a premeditated assassination attempt – and it was made possible by the Dobbs leak.

"Kagan and Sotomayor Left Kavanaugh in the Crosshairs

"Here's the part the media buried: the conservative justices begged their liberal colleagues to release the Dobbs decision quickly.

"Justice Alito warned them directly – delay was a security threat, because an assassin could still change the outcome if a justice died before the ruling became official.

"The liberal dissenters had one job: finish their dissent so the ruling could be released.

"They refused.

"Mollie Hemingway's new book Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution reveals that Kagan didn't just slow-walk the dissent – she screamed at Breyer so loudly when he considered complying that observers said "the wall was shaking."

"The Dobbs majority had been ready since February." . . .

The final ruling didn't come out until June 22 – two weeks after the assassination attempt." . . .

. . . "For those two weeks, with a would-be killer already arrested and more threats building, the left-wing justices did nothing to reduce the danger to their colleagues. 

"Roske was sentenced to eight years in prison.

"Not one liberal justice has faced a single consequence."

Schumer and Biden know how to argue for assassination TD

NYC Grocers Are Begging Zohran Mamdani to Stop Before His Government Store Opens -

Renewed Right  

"Every radical-left mayor in America is watching this experiment.  If Mamdani gets away with it in the largest city in the country, it becomes the template – Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, then everywhere a socialist mayor wants to tell you what food you can buy and at what price."

"Venezuela had government grocery stores too.

"Now Zohran Mamdani wants New York City to try the same thing.

"The locals who actually run food businesses in East Harlem are not impressed – and they're saying so out loud.

"The Plan That 45 Grocery Stores Did Not Ask For

"Mamdani is spending $30 million of New York taxpayer money to open a city-run grocery store in La Marqueta, a public market space at Park Avenue and 115th Street in East Harlem.

"He plans five stores total – one in each borough – by 2029.

"The city-run stores will be exempt from paying rent or property taxes, advantages that every private grocer in the neighborhood will never get.

"Fox News Digital analyzed the area around La Marqueta and found 45 grocery stores already operating within a 35-minute walk." . . . More...

How Disneyland Remade American Politics

 Beverly Gage   

"It’s not just that Reagan co-hosted Disneyland’s opening day or that, like Nixon, he went back again and again. It’s that Reagan and Disney shared a view of America." 

"On July 17, 1955, Ronald Reagan stood near a mocked-up wood-plank town in Anaheim, California, where a 13-star flag flew incongruously over an “Old West” landscape, and introduced the world to Disneyland. He had been invited by Walt Disney himself to co-host the park’s live ABC broadcast, alongside Art Linkletter and Bob Cummings—three Hollywood actors who seemed to embody a wholesome, all-American ethos. From the imagined past of Frontierland, the show leaped ahead to Tomorrowland, set in the far-off year of 1986, emphasizing the technical marvels yet to come: nuclear energy harnessed for civilian purposes, human beings riding rocket ships into space. Disney foretold great things for a 1980s in which the United States would serve as “a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.” But even he could not predict the most important political fact of the age: that his genial co-host would become president.

"Southern California was a strange place to build a park about the past, because the region at the time was all about newness and abundance and growth. For a lot of its history, Orange County had been Southern California’s version of flyover country: a vast agricultural expanse between two desirable places, Los Angeles and San Diego. But Disneyland was changing that. Before long, 50 miles south of deep-blue Hollywood, Orange County would become a region famed for its right-wing politics—but also for its mythmaking skills. Those two things, it turned out, went naturally together.

"The two presidents Southern California gave America both understood this instinctively. Richard Nixon and Reagan each built a national career on invoking a version of the American past in which the specificities of historical context mattered less than the big picture. For Nixon, progress meant proclaiming a “New American Revolution” on the eve of America’s bicentennial while dismantling the federal programs that had built the postwar middle class.

 "For Reagan, it meant recapturing a lost optimism and an old-fashioned faith in America as an exceptional nation. Both men were less interested in history as it actually happened than in history as it felt—and Orange County, a place that had built itself almost entirely from scratch, turned out to be exactly where the myth of America’s future was getting made.

"I’m a historian—and historians tend to be myth-busters. With the country’s 250th birthday on the horizon, I figured it was a good time to step out of the ivory tower and check in with the past as it exists here and now, at the museums and monuments and roadside attractions where Americans go to learn about their history. After all my travels—to Davy Crockett’s Tennessee and Texas, to the real Erie Canal, to the birthplace of the American automobile and the actual Old West—I couldn’t miss out on Disneyland, the single most influential historic attraction in U.S. history." . . . More...

Former Louisiana sheriff indicted after infamous jailbreak

Bing "A year after 10 inmates escaped the Orleans Justice Center, former Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson faces charges of malfeasance in office and obstruction of justice. NEWSMAX Crime Correspondent Jason Mattera has more on “Wake Up America.'”

Comment; "I am retired law enforcement and this is hilarious. From what I can gather she had zero actual law enforcement experience prior to being elected except for being a watchdog on how police do their jobs. This also does not say much for the voters of Orleans Parish either does it. What Rush Limbaugh used to refer to as "Low Information Voters."

A timeline of what led to Sheriff Susan Hutson’s indictment 

"Hutson voted out of office: October 2025; Orleans Parish voters booted Hutson from office in October 2025, replacing her with Michelle Woodfork, a 30-year New Orleans police officer who rose to become interim NOPD superintendent. Woodfork won the primary outright with 53% of the vote. Hutson garnered 17% of the vote."...

Not A War Of Choice

Trump will soon be gone and whenever a Democrat takes the White House again, expect another Biden, Harris or a Hollywood, MSNOW or CNN acceptable leader to take over America's foreign policy. Then our faithful ally, Israel will once again be alone just as Britain and Churchill had the axe of Naziism looming over them. Tunnel Dweller

Fletch Daniels - American Thinker  

"Iran is the only regime in the world that wants nuclear weapons for the purpose of using them. That’s what this war is about." 

"Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Democrat-media complex, the war with Iran is not a war of choice in any practical sense. If anything, the current operations represent the end of the great pretending, since Iran has long been at war with us, keeping their attacks just low enough in intensity or with just enough plausible deniability to allow for the continuance of that pretending.

"Iran is the single most committed and least deterrable enemy of the United States, and was developing ever more lethal means to inflict grave harm.

"Democrats and their media allies who mostly know better are calling operations against Iran a war of choice for political gain. It is only a war of choice if you are okay with Iran using proxies to continually kill Americans, or if you are cool with a smuggled nuclear bomb one day going off in Washington D.C., New York, or Tel Aviv.

"We have fought plenty of wars of choice in recent history. In 2010, General David Petraeus, then CENTCOM commander, admitted that what kept him up at night was worrying about Iran.

"So, one year later, we got serious about the threat and attacked…Libya. We left Iran to continue killing Americans while we toppled the secular government of Libya, converting it to an Islamist one, and kicking off a disruptive civil war that still rages beneath the surface.

"The media adored the “we came, we saw, he died” war since it was overseen by Democrats and made no strategic sense. Not only was that a war of choice, but we were openly acting against our own interests, removing a pragmatic and reformed authoritarian secular government in favor of an Islamist one that would be far harder to deter.

"The second Iraq war was also a war of choice, removing a secular strongman in favor of an Islamist government that further empowered Iran, while handing them a killing field to target Americans.

"Iran is simply a different beast, a radical Islamist regime that sees it as their mission to bring about the apocalypse and the revelation of the Twelfth Imam.

"Most Americans are blissfully unaware of just how effective Iran has been at killing Americans." . . .   More...

"My hope is that we finish the job now or set the conditions for the regime’s fall before the inmates are back in charge in D.C. We need to remove the remnants of the nuke-committed regime from the board before the future is reduced to ashes in a torrent of mushroom clouds."

Hate Wars: Luke Skywalker Proves Yet Again That He's No Hero — He's Just Part of a Death Cult

 Bob Hoge – RedState  

"It’s quite ironic that the man who played an ironic rebel, who stood up to tyranny and oppression and fought heroically, now sides firmly with the corrupt Democrat regime that despises law and order and wants to destroy the freest and most noble republic that has ever existed."

"So many Hollywood stars have gotten so gross, lecturing us from awards shows about climate change while jetting around in private planes, talking about peace and love while admitting they despise half the American population, and regularly ruining franchises like Star Wars and Snow White by injecting them full of toxic woke messages.

"Actor Mark Hamill has become a face of the Tinseltown far-left movement and has made himself much more well-known for his pious lectures than he has for his performances. While he was a serviceable Luke Skywalker in numerous Star Wars movies, it was actually the much more dynamic Harrison Ford who rose to superstardom playing Han Solo.

"Hamill has always been somewhat insipid, but now he’s taken his hate to new levels and is openly wishing for death to strike the president of the United States. I have always cared about our country and its leaders, but have never once prayed for the demise of those on the other side. Why? Because it’s sick.

"Once you cross that line, you are no longer a concerned citizen practicing your First Amendment rights and simply voicing your opinion — you have become an evil cog in the progressive machine that is working feverishly to destroy this country. (Trust me, I live in California; I know of what I speak.)" . . .  

🚨 NOW: The White House is EVISCERATING deranged Mark Hamill for openly egging on the death of President Trump
The SAME Mark Hamill that Barack Hussein Obama just welcomed to his trash can library in Chicago
THEY WANT 47 TO BE KlLLED.
"Mark Hamill is one sick individual. These… pic.twitter.com/WUUrsyXZQg

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 7, 2026

Speaking of... The Barack Obama Presidential Center won't be open to the public for another few weeks, but the gift shop is already up and running

. . . "These other books by notable authors ($40) It's always a good time to learn about community organizing and structural racism. Add these fun titles to your child's summer reading list, or get the whole neighborhood involved by starting a book club—in which case you should probably get them on Amazon for half the price." . . .

. . . "This gorgeous lapel pin ($30) This "unique accessory" was designed by Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes, a former NYU professor of ethical leadership and an architect who specializes in sustainability and social equity. It allegedly represents the "intersection of bold design and global leadership."

 More...

The design of the library is referred to as Brutalist architecture: . . . "is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are known for minimalist construction showcasing the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design.^] The style commonly makes use of exposed, unpainted concrete or brick, angular geometric shapes and a predominantly monochrome colour palette; other materials, such as steel, timber, and glass, are also featured.

" . . .I suggest this must be the cheapest, fastest way of restoring bombed-out, devastated cities such as Britain and Germany after WW2. A legacy of Adolph Hitler's destruction..

 No! No! I do not call Obama's Library "Nazi"; aren't we all sick of that?  

Mandatory suicide watch for terrorists and assassins

"When a judge offers an apology to a man accused of attempting to assassinate the president, you know something needs to change."

 Monty L. Donohew  

"A 30-day review is more than reasonable for a person charged with the willingness to sacrifice his own life in the taking of others’ lives.  Anything less is an invitation to more evidence lost, more martyrs created, and more condolences to new victims." 

"Last week, a federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C. offered an apology to the man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump in the middle of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.  Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old California man who allegedly stormed a security checkpoint armed with a shotgun and knives on April 25, 2026, had been placed on suicide watch in the D.C. jail.  His lawyers complained that it was “demeaning” and amounted to “functionally solitary confinement.”  The judge, “fascinated and disturbed,” agreed, publicly apologized to the suspect, and ensured that the watch was lifted.  Prosecutors had noted that Allen told investigators he never expected to survive the attack, a detail that should have screamed “high suicide risk” to anyone with common sense.

"Judicial theater that elevates the feelings of a would-be presidential assassin (or his lawyer) over public safety, national security, protection of the accused, and the basic imperative to keep dangerous defendants alive long enough to face accountability is simply unacceptable.  It is time for Congress and state legislatures to enact a clear, narrow mandate: Any individual charged with or credibly suspected of terrorism, attempted assassination of a public official, or mass murder must be placed on continuous suicide watch upon arrest and detention.  No exceptions, no judicial discretion to coddle, and no apologies to the perpetrators.

"The reasons are straightforward and compelling.

"First, suicide in such cases is inherently an obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence.  Suicide destroys evidence — perhaps the only evidence — of conspirators and inciters.  These attacks rarely occur in a vacuum.  Even when the shooter appears to act alone, as authorities currently claim about Allen, digital trails, writings, communications, and potential co-conspirators often exist.  A successful suicide, however, allows the perpetrator to take his secrets to the grave.  It also removes the perpetrator as a possible witness.  Families of victims, investigators, and the American people deserve every scrap of information and every possible witness about and against co-conspirators, those who radicalized the killer, those who provided material support, and those who may have looked the other way.  Allowing a terrorist or assassin to check out early is a permanent loss of evidence, a loss enabled by the state itself."

"Critics will wave the Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment) and the presumption of innocence.  But suicide watch is not punishment; it is a protective medical and security protocol, not at all different from involuntary psychiatric holds or medical restraints used every day in hospitals and jails for suicidal individuals.  The Supreme Court has long recognized that the state has a compelling interest in preserving the lives of those in its custody, particularly when their deaths could harm public safety or the administration of justice.  Moreover, protecting the life of a person and insulating that person from self-harm is hardly cruel or unusual punishment." . . .  More...

"Licensed to practice law since 1987, Monty has been admitted to practice in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois and currently practices in Ohio and Missouri. Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, and before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, he is a member of several state and local bar associations, among them being the Ohio State Bar Association,  Missouri Bar Association, Akron Bar Association, and St. Louis County Bar Association." . . .