[NEWS24] A Dutch court has convicted 20 people of insulting or threatening a politician and television personality in a racially charged case that shocked the nation.
The verdicts on Thursday came in the trial in Amsterdam of 21 people accused of targeting Sylvana Simons, who is a former dancer and television presenter of Surinamese descent, with a torrent of online racist abuse. One person was acquitted.
The court said in a statement that the heaviest sentence, 80 hours of community service, went to a man who superimposed the head of Simons on video images of a Ku Klux Klan lynching.
Simons' political group, called Artikel 1, welcomed the verdicts, saying in a tweet that they sent a "clear signal" about the limits of freedom of speech.
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Trump is a TV personality. He could take up dancing. Maybe he should look into Ancestor.com to see if he might be of Surinamese descent. Maybe this case ought to be a model for the USA (said in half-jest).
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So, was this a leering, gaptoothed "attack" on Ms. Simons, or mere mockery of her (I'm assuming here) lurid claims of enduring victimhood? If the latter, and it's me catching 80 hours, I'm demanding to do my time in DF van... or censoring posts online... anti-Christmas education... anti-pork campaign... euthanizing droolers... on and on...
Also, sending in a montage of my face pasted onto cotton pickers, schoolteachers, politicians, Black Peter... Can you buy fun like that, even in Holland? And at the end of it all, to spend a month or two delivering lunches to delightful old Dutch ladies (or passing out prostitute vouchers to junkies, or whatever constitutes community service over there)? What a country! Hey, Sylvana, wanna get married?
[Al Jazeera] US President Donald Trump has denounced the appointment of a special counsel to lead the Russia investigation as "the single greatest witch-hunt" in American history.
In the face of rising pressure from Congress, the US justice department named Robert Mueller, the former FBI director, on Wednesday as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election and possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia.
In a pair of Twitter posts on Thursday morning, Trump made clear he was unhappy with the latest crisis to grip his four-month-old administration.
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Not the 'latest crisis'. All part of the same crisis that started last November 9. Just like the 434-day "Hostage Crisis". Only longer.
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If the deep state or shadow government is looking for a real witch for a real witch hunt, they don't have to look very far--no farther than the 2016 election.
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Tell the Special Counsel they have (1) Only jurisdiction on this one (1) issue and that's it -- no Whitewater Probe wandering everywhere; and (2) You have six (6) months and January 1, 2018 your remit ends. Otherwise this will be a Never ending Circus...
[POLITICO] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... may be dramatically miscalculating how much support Sen. Joseph Holy Joe Lieberman ...what a Democrat maverick would look like if the Democrats had mavericks... has among his former fellow wardheelers to become FBI director.
Some Senate Democrats hold a grudge against Lieberman for his rightward turn and opposition to some of President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... 's agenda late in his Senate career. Others say even though they respect Lieberman, the FBI director should not be a former politician. And all Democratic senators interviewed for this story said the former Connecticut senator lacks the kind of experience needed for the post.
The 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate, who later caucused with the party as an independent in the Senate after losing his 2006 Senate primary, has emerged as a front-runner to replace fired FBI Director James Comey. But Lieberman's nomination would likely produce the most partisan vote for an FBI chief in Senate history. Typically, nominees for the job have been approved unanimously or with token opposition.
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Yes. Look at Law Enforcement people to fill that slot. Lie in the FBI. And stop listening to the idiocrats on anything important.
They are all stupid, ignorant, brainwashed, and un-able to learn.
I nominate politically neutral, non-showboat, Chief David Brown.
From Wikipedia.com:
A Dallas native, Brown is a graduate of South Oak Cliff High School and attended the University of Texas at Austin before enrolling in the Dallas police academy, originally with the intention of becoming a prosecutor.[3] He earned a Bachelor of Science from Dallas Baptist University, in 1999 and an MBA from Amberton University, in 2001 and graduated from the FBI National Academy and the FBI National Executive Institute, the Senior Management Institute for Police, the National Counter-Terrorism Seminar in Tel Aviv, and the United States Secret Service dignitary protection seminar. He is certified by the State of Texas as a master peace officer and a police instructor.
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I'd like to see a strong cop as director; one who has allegiance to the Constitution, a non-partisan, is respected within and outside the FBI and one who loves his country, the USA...and dear Santa, a pony.
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but out of the whole FBI, you cannot find a technical expert to fill that rank?
You don't reward Deep State. The old 'reward failure, you get more failure' approach gets you what you have in the swamp. One of the reasons people voted Trump.
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The Democrats reject Lieberman because he is a Democrat. Their line, that their people strongly believe, is that Trump is out to destroy our Constitution and create a right wing police state. This would presumably have to be done through the FBI. Appointing a Democrat to head the FBI makes that claim almost impossible to believe.
Naturally, the Democrats have to oppose it. Such an appointment makes their antics seem malevolent or absurd to all but imbeciles.
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"It's a Trick! He's giving us what we wanted"
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This morning on CBS I saw John McCain endorsing Lieberman. That's enough for me...Lieberman is unacceptable.
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so I notice McCain and Pelosi both are acting dain-bramaged; you supposed we've reached the Boomer expiry date?
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Chief David Brown sounds like a great nominee. He is a well educated professional, and has had much interaction with the FBI.
Another no-nonsense nominee would be Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clark. We need no BS type folks that are not denizens or previous denizens of the swamp. Retreads like Lieberman are a joke.
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"I notice McCain and Pelosi both are acting dain-bramaged"
Acting, #11?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Al Jazeera] US President Donald Trump has denounced the appointment of a special counsel to lead the Russia investigation as "the single greatest witch-hunt" in American history.
