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Non-Impeachment Thread

by 15 flush mistermix|  November 19, 20195:41 pm| 41 Comments

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Ilhan Omar’s letter to the judge asking for mercy for the man who threatened to kill her is a diversion from the smears of today’s hearing. Open thread.

Sharing my full letter on the the sentencing of Patrick W. Carlineo, a man convicted of threatening my life.

We must apply a system of compassion to criminal justice.

Who are we as a nation if we respond to threats of political retribution with retribution ourselves? pic.twitter.com/s96jjh8AlD

— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) November 19, 2019
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      debbie

      November 19, 2019 at 5:45 pm

      That’s more compassion than he deserves. Proof Omar is not an American! //

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      Redshift

      November 19, 2019 at 5:45 pm

      Class act.

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      AxelFoley

      November 19, 2019 at 5:46 pm

      Couldn’t be me. I’d let the fool do the time.

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      Baud

      November 19, 2019 at 5:46 pm

      I know certain moral codes place value on mercy, but I’m not sure I’m on board in this case.

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    5. 5.

      Mary G

      November 19, 2019 at 5:46 pm

      Next year her Republican opponent will call her weak on crime.

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    6. 6.

      debbie

      November 19, 2019 at 5:47 pm

      @Redshift:

       

      Especially quoting Mandela at the end.

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      Chetan Murthy

      November 19, 2019 at 5:48 pm

      @AxelFoley:  Same here.  She’s 10x the decent person I am.

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      David Hunt

      November 19, 2019 at 5:49 pm

      @AxelFoley: I didn’t  get the impression that she was asking for him to do no time.  She asked that he not be given as “severe prison sentence.”

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      AxelFoley

      November 19, 2019 at 5:57 pm

      @David Hunt: Still, I’d let him do the severe time. Then again, I’m not a politician. Plus, this probably goes a way of rehabbing her image a bit.

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      Ohio Mom

      November 19, 2019 at 5:58 pm

      I knew I liked her.

       

      After watching today’s hearing, I had a very nice afternoon, stepping away from the news. Took a nap, ordered a few Hanukkah presents, cooked a slightly more elaborate than usual dinner. Now waiting for Ohio Dad to come home from work so supper can be served.

       

      Even though this is the moment I’ve long waited for, the moment Trump’s presidency begins to implode, I find that I am running out of tolerance for witnessing it. I just want to fast forward to whatever is next.

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      Yutsano

      November 19, 2019 at 5:59 pm

      Omar is taking from the books of Medina, which emphasise compassion and mercy. I don’t know the exact surah off the top of my head but to express compassion for the prisoner is in the Qu’ran. She’s also shading all the supposed Christians with how true empathy is supposed to work. She’s definitely showing the better side of humanity here.

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      Zinsky

      November 19, 2019 at 5:59 pm

      Islam values mercy higher than Christianity, at least the Christianity we see being “practiced” in America today.

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    13. 13.

      Yutsano

      November 19, 2019 at 6:00 pm

      @Zinsky: Jinx. :P

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      Jay

      November 19, 2019 at 6:05 pm

      @AxelFoley:

       

      her image needs no rehabbing, large numbers of so called Americans on the other hand, need to pull their heads out of their asses.

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      Dan B

      November 19, 2019 at 6:12 pm

      @Yutsano:  Do you know the difference, if there is one in this area, between Wahabbi views of mercy and other forms of Islam?

       

      I have Muslim friends who can answer this if it’s outside your sphere of expertise.  At the moment they are focused on the outrages to the Palestinians and the GI the President pardoned after he shot a young girl in a flowered hijab walking with her girlfriends, stabbed a teenage boy who was being treated for injuries, and many more, including shooring his machine gun randomly from a bridge on the Tigris.

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      Ruckus

      November 19, 2019 at 6:14 pm

      Many of the sentences in this country are overly excessive and send the message that there is no rehabilitation for crimes. Well except for the wealthy. That doesn’t mean everyone can be rehabilitated, they can’t. But it sends the wrong message for society as a whole. People have to pay for their crimes, they shouldn’t have to pay several times over.

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      AxelFoley

      November 19, 2019 at 6:19 pm

      @Jay:  I disagree. She has a habit of putting her foot in her mouth and has said things that have been construed as anti-Semitic. Speaker Pelosi has had to cover for her because she has no filter.

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      jayjaybear

      November 19, 2019 at 6:22 pm

      @AxelFoley: Because of course none of that was propelled forward by Islamophobia or “Squad”phobia. Everything that other people say about Rep. Omar’s state of mind is 100% correct, and her own witness to her state of mind is 100% suspect.

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      Ruckus

      November 19, 2019 at 6:22 pm

      Also, right now, and yes, several times in my life, our government has had its head up it’s ass in punishing other countries, as well as in not punishing some at all, for all the wrong reasons, or in making the action so severe that it was retribution, not punishment.

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      Tata

      November 19, 2019 at 6:23 pm

      @AxelFoley: If you’re looking for something to construe as anti-Semitic you could find it anywhere, even in things that specifically aren’t. But that’s if you’re looking.

       

      Are you looking for something anti-Semitic?

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    21. 21.

      Jay

      November 19, 2019 at 6:24 pm

      @AxelFoley:

       

      anti-semites and nazis have accused her of being anti-semetic.

       

      funny that.

       

      it’s always fun to see nazi talking points trotted out here and elsewhere by so called Democrats.

       

      NeverAgainNow and similar Jewish groups have no issue with her.

       

      Sheldon Addelson, APAIC and others do.

       

      in Trumps America, one is known by ones enemies.

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      Chetan Murthy

      November 19, 2019 at 6:25 pm

      @AxelFoley:  said things that have been construed as anti-Semitic.

      Perhaps you are referring to things that coudl be reasonably construed as anti-Israeli?  Or anti-Zionist?  Because those aren’t the same as anti-Semitic.

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      jackmac

      November 19, 2019 at 6:30 pm

      The first three paragraphs of Rep. Omar’s letter make a pretty convincing case for severe punishment.

      I know she goes on to call for compassion. But has Patrick W. Carlineo, the man who pleaded guilty to threatening her, offered any apology? Has he exhibited any remorse?

       

      He needs a lengthy sentence and time to ponder his crime . He also should serve as an example to others thinking about taking shots at people like Rep. Omar.

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      Chetan Murthy

      November 19, 2019 at 6:34 pm

      @AxelFoley:  said things that have been construed as anti-Semitic.

      I have a Jewish-American friend, who, once over dinner, extolled the many great qualities of Israel, and urged me to visit.  In my line of work (computer science) there are many opportunities to do so.  After that dinner, I wrote him, and let him know that as long as Israel continues to oppress the Palestinians, I could not in good conscience set foot in Israel.

       

      Was that anti-Semitic?  Might be anti-Israeli (the state) and anti-Zionist.  But anti-Semitic?

       

      I also expressed to him that notwithstanding, I fully supported the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, and America’s support for Israel’s existence.  How does that change your determination above, of my position?

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      trollhattan

      November 19, 2019 at 6:37 pm

      We sure it’s not Stockholm syndrome?

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      Jay

      November 19, 2019 at 6:41 pm

      @jackmac:

       

      the US is by far the global leader in incarcerating citizens, what’s a few more.

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      Jay

      November 19, 2019 at 6:45 pm

      @trollhattan:

       

      some understand that the US Prison Industrial Complex neither provides reformation, nor rehabilitation. People who manage to survive the system and come out as “better” people, do so, despite the best efforts of the system to destroy them as human beings.

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      Yutsano

      November 19, 2019 at 6:54 pm

      @Chetan Murthy:

      I fully supported the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state

      I can agree that Israel should exist as a state primarily for the Jewish population. But pushing as an exclusive Jewish state pushes the apartheid of the Palestinians. It needs to be a shared democratic land or Israel is going to fail.

      EDIT: I know you’re on my side here that the Palestinians need to have their own right to self-determination either inside or outside Israel. I wasn’t accusing you of agreeing with current Israeli policy. My apologies since that doesn’t look clear.

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    29. 29.

      Omnes Omnibus

      November 19, 2019 at 7:02 pm

      When everyone finishes shitting righteously on AxelFoley, they could take a moment and notice that he said that she has said things that were construed as anti-semitic and that this letter could help her image.  Both of his statements were correct.

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    30. 30.

      p.a.

      November 19, 2019 at 7:17 pm

      But conservatives believe in personal responsibility, amirite?

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    31. 31.

      Jay

      November 19, 2019 at 7:22 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus:

       

      given the whom of whom is “construing” her statements as anti-semetic, a letter suggesting mercy to a man that targetted her, is not going to help her image, with “them”.

       

      in Trumps America, you are known and your quality is shown, by the enemies you keep.

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    32. 32.

      Kent

      November 19, 2019 at 7:28 pm

      I like Omar and to the extent that I have followed her, I have never seen her say or write anything anti-Semitic.   Not once.  I have seen her be critical of Israel which is not the same as being anti-Israel.  My wife is Chilean and I have been recently critical of Chile when it comes to the recent crisis.  But that doesn’t make me anti-Chilean any more than being critical of Trump makes me anti-American.

       

      What she has been is deliberately and maliciously misquoted by right wing scandal mongers with bad intentions.  Which I expect has been a learning experience for her and something she seems to have learned from.  Her only real misstep I’m aware of is the opposition to the Armenian Genocide resolution in the house last month and her apparent closeness to Assad.    That’s the only thing I think she has to explain.

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    33. 33.

      Omnes Omnibus

      November 19, 2019 at 7:28 pm

      @Jay: People barely pay attention to news could see the surface nature of both bits.

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    34. 34.

      Omnes Omnibus

      November 19, 2019 at 7:36 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus: “People who barely…”

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      Jay

      November 19, 2019 at 7:38 pm

      @Kent:

       

      the Armenian Genocide Resolution was a “no brainer”. It was not a “good faith” Resolution, nor did it do “anything”.

       

      her support/closeness/whatever to Ergodan on the other hand, is problematic, but then there’s a lot worse wearing D’s and pure Monster’s wearing R’s.

       

      forget the pundit that pointed it out, but politics is like Public Transportation. You take the bus that takes you closest to your destination. You don’t wait for perfect when perfect doesn’t exist.

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      Jay

      November 19, 2019 at 7:42 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus:

      People barely pay attention to news could see the surface nature of both bits.”

      When known white supremacists, nazis and their media enablers were shouting it out. Once the quotes were placed in context, it quickly became no biggie.

      Generally, that’s what often happens when you live under a Nazi regime and it’s myriad of enablers.

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      Omnes Omnibus

      November 19, 2019 at 7:46 pm

      @Jay: Most of the world and most of its people are not like the denizens of Balloon Juice.  They don’t pay close attention to the news.

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    38. 38.

      OzarkHillbilly

      November 19, 2019 at 8:02 pm

      She is a far better person than I. Hence my continuing contributions to her.

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      Jay

      November 19, 2019 at 8:43 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus:

       

      which is why it had traction for a couple of days but no longer has any traction except amongst nazis and other islamophobes.

       

      something about “the company you keep” has more traction,

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      Amir Khalid

      November 19, 2019 at 9:12 pm

      @Chetan Murthy:

      You spoke out of respect for the humanity of Palestinians, not out of hate towards Jews or Israel. So, clearly not anti-Semitic. Anti-Zionist? Well, if you think (as I do) that the creation of Israel, which involved an imperial power giving to European Jews the land from under another people’s feet, was a very unjust remedy for a great injustice, then you are anti-Zionist; but you weren’t expressing that opinion.

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      I'll be Frank

      November 19, 2019 at 10:42 pm

      compare with Gaetz wanting a year in the fed pokey for the person who threw a drink on him

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