Possibilities

Let’s talk about the Cayler Ellison case.

Berg‘s 18th law normally takes affect for the first three days after a politically charged event, since our main stream media is more concerned about ratings and “scoops“ than getting facts straight, especially in politically charged events.since our main stream media is more concerned about ratings and “scoops“ then about getting facts straight, especially in politically charged events.

And I’m going to make an executive call, and in this case extend the statutory Bergs 18th law deadline to a solid week, since the main stream media got no closer than 100 miles from McHenry, ND, the actual scene of the crime – i’ve seen no evidence of any journalists reporting from any place closer than Fargo.

But here’s what we know so far: at a street dance in McHenry last Sunday, some sort of altercation lead Shannon Brandt, age 41, to run down the 18-year-old Mr. Ellington. Ellington died of his injuries.

Brandt, Who has a drunk driving record and who blew over a .08 after his arrest, told of the 911 operator the afternoon that Ellingson was a member of a “extremist Republican“ organization.

Big media has soft pedaled this story. Conservatives say it’s evidence of media bias. Progressives hope it’s true, and that they can erase both another Republican and red state voter from the list.

Let’s consider the actual possibilities, Hare:

It’s The Bias, Stupid: for the past decade and a half, big media has been wedded to the idea that the next big wave of terrorism is going to be white, Republican extremists. A democrat extremist doing the actual terrorizing, much less killing? Is that – like the would-be Brent Kavanaugh assassin, or the many other examples of Democrats killing or attacking Republicans – doesn’t fit the narrative. Narratives beget lazy journalism.

But in McHenry North Dakota?

And it’s easy for journalists to get lazy when it comes to covering places like McHenry, North Dakota – in Foster County (where I lived, briefly), a very red place in one of the most Republican states in the union, a County were Donald Trump may have won by just shy of a three digit margin.

Which sets off a small warning bell with the conservative narrative: it’s easy to conceive of people roaming around looking to kill conservatives with impunity in places like Highland Park or Cambridge Massachusetts. but in rural North Dakota?

Let’s put a pin in that idea.

Of Course It’s The Bias – But Not The Bias You’re Thinking About: so let’s say that, rather than being it would be Democrat assassin roaming rural North Dakota looking for “Republican extremists“, you’re just a guy with a drunk driving record and, according to his neighbors, a history of troubling behavior. You’ve just gotten into a spat with someone less than half your age, at a street dance, and run them down.

What’s your alibi? The thing that you think that is going to make you a less unsympathetic perpetrator?

“He was a Republican extremist?“

The idea that there are people out there for whom that is their first thought, even in an alcoholic or psychiatric fog, should concern everyone, no matter what your politics.

Occam’s Shot Glass: let’s go back to the pin we put, earlier.

Brandt’s neighbors say he has a history of being, basically, nuts. He drinks a bit. He’s got a criminal record.

I don’t think I’m going to outside of Berg‘s 18th laws statutory boundaries to think perhaps this episode was both

  • Less less of a political assassination then a crazy drunk Freestyling his way into the middle of America‘s toxic political divide, and
  • Via his choice of “Republican extremist“ as his drunk/crazy excuse for having just committed a hit-and-run, a symptom of how toxic the political divide in this country actually is.

Hopefully we will find out sooner than later.

12 thoughts on “Possibilities

  1. It’s weird to think that a guy who intentionally ran over another guy while drunk would be given bail, no matter what the circumstances. It’s also weird to think that this bail would be granted by a prosecutor in an overwhelmingly Republican area. So we can anticipate that this guy won’t get plastered again when all his neighbors tell us he loves to do this? Or perhaps the DA would imprison someone who killed a Democrat to show fairness, but he thought that imprisoning someone who killed a (hypothetical) Republican would bring down the media moths?

  2. Help me out here. You assert that the political divide in this country is toxic. One might even say deadly. But yet, from GOP representatives being gunned down in a baseball field to an 18 year old Republican adherent being run down in an alley in NobodyThere, ND, I see a pattern here.

    This toxic divide has a single cause and it ain’t coming from the right.

    Do you think any of the Emerys or p-boi are gonna give you props for being “fair”? Jeebuz, man, call this for what it is. There’s a conspiracy of Democrats cheerleading the less sane of their followers to attack and hurt, even kill, non-Democrats. They’ve even gotten the FBI involved. Just wait until the next anti-abortion activist or perhaps the first election integrity activist defends themselves against the FBI.

  3. An FBI “whistleblower” (I hate that word), has said the big problem in the FBI is that Garland’s war on White Supremacy(tm) suffers from a distinct lack of White Supremacists.

    He has said 100% of the cases of White Supremacy(tm) based terrorism that have been brought are the product of FBI entrapment, lies and planting evidence.

  4. ^ That’s why I used “next” and not “first”. My point was that these FBI raids are intended to provoke a reaction so the FBI can really get to work arresting dangerous people.

  5. Regarding that case, there are any number of explanations that ought to be forthcoming. For starters, how exactly is a clinic escort a “provider of reproductive health care”? Second, exactly what was the FBI force used, and did it resemble a SWAT team, and if so, precisely why would we think that a man with no known criminal record and no use of weapons in his purported crimes would need to have a lot of FBI agents come to his home?

    Since the FBI is simply saying “it wasn’t a SWAT team”, my guess is that the family is right that a significant number of heavily armed and armored agents did indeed come to his home and say “we’ll huff and we’ll puff and we’ll blow your house down.” But they weren’t technically SWAT now, mind you. And it wasn’t 25 agents, but they admit to 15-20, but they really don’t know, so…..

    It’s getting harder and harder to accept the idea that the FBI is impartially investigating….

  6. liberals rant that ordinary people in nazi germany should not have stood by as the ss rounded up and persecuted political enemies ordinary germans had a moral obligation to stand up to the secret police should have fought back against hitlers goons should have shot them if necessary

    now i hear the fbi is acting as lesko brandons goons rounding up trump supporters and persecuting conservatives as political enemies

    so does that mean i have a moral obligation to shoot fbi agents cuz im pretty sure thats not what liberals had in mind but if thats how they want to play it

  7. There is an FBI whistle blower who claims that a major problem is the “metrics” that FBI employees are measured by.
    Like cops & the Gestapo, FBI agents tend to be soulless bastards who really have no career goal other than retiring as early as possible with as much of a pension as possible.
    You don’t need to reform or defund the FBI, you need bipartisan political control over the “metrics” that FBI employees are rewarded for achieving (and punished for not achieving).
    I think it was Andy McCarthy who said that the problem with the politicization of the FBI goes back to the GWOT. The FBI was given broad powers to do intelligence work, aka, gather information when no crime has been committed. Believe it or not, traditionally the feds could only investigate actual crimes, they were not (with rare exceptions) allowed to surveille people and organizations unless they were investigating an actual crime.
    Now to the FBI’s new powers add the increasing availability of every citizen’s emails, messaging, and browsing history. It seems highly likely that the feds are recording every single thing that you have done online. They don’t look at the data (supposedly) unless an actual crime has been committed and they can convince a judge to allow them to access the data.
    So says Snowden. Denial from the feds is . . . missing.
    There is a sci fi writer named Vernor Vinge. Vinge is a good writer and a great thinker, I think his background is computer science.
    Vinge wrote several novels about a future humanity where there are fleets of light speed space craft that trade between colonies on terraformed extra solar planets. Subjectively the trading fleet experiences the passage of years while their trading partners on planet-colonies experience centuries or millennia.
    The fleets find that in every case where a planet-colony has achieved tech that allows its government to perform universal surveillance of citizens, the civilization has collapsed following internal strife.
    Do not for a moment believe that the elites who manage our economy and government are competent. Do not for a moment believe that there
    are institutional or constitutional guard rails that protect ordinary people from the excesses of the elite.

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  9. UMMP;
    Your comment about the average FBI agent’s goals, is correct. I’ve heard that same thing from my retired FBI agent friend.

    Funny thing though. He tells me that progs were calling them Gestapo in the early part of the last decade. Now, these same progs, are cheering them on for going after “extremists that threaten our democracy”. That is, until it’s them or one of their ilk that gets caught doing illegal stuff.

  10. It is disheartening that the American people have come to accept the idea that it is part of the FBI’s job to spy on Americans.
    The FBI, until recently, had the job of investigating crimes and criminal conspiracies that crossed state lines.
    Back in the 60s and 70s it was rare for the FBI to get involved in quotidian events like local police shooting criminals.
    The US does not have a national police force. Or at least it is not supposed to have a national police force. But when everything from littering to a shoving match outside of Planned Parenthood has a civil rights angle, you are going to have a national police force.

  11. The FBI was created to solve the problem of lack of jurisdiction.

    Crooks would rob a bank in Georgia, run for the Alabama border and drive away, unmolested.

    That problem no longer exists. We don’t need an FBI.

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