Thinning the Herd
It appears that a Texas woman (shown here) will be spending some jail time for her threat to kill the judge overseeing the case involving Trump’s attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.
According to this:
A Texas woman was arrested and has been charged with threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington.
Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, called the federal courthouse in Washington and left the threatening message — using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan — on Aug. 5, court records show. Investigators traced her phone number and she later admitted to making the threatening call, according to a criminal complaint.
In the call, Shry told the judge, who is overseeing the election conspiracy case against Trump, “You are in our sights, we want to kill you,” the documents said (sic). Prosecutors allege Shry also said, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you.”
When my son was 14, I co-coached his soccer team with a homicide detective in the Los Angeles police department. When I asked him about his career, he told me that he tends not to get too aggressive with prosecuting gang members who kill one another on the basis that they are simply “thinning the herd.”
I suppose we could use the same metaphor here; now we have one fewer hateful moron on our streets.
Here’s another point of view. This woman is 20 years old, born in 2003. She looks like she could be 35. She’s obviously lived a hard life, perhaps one of drug addiction. Maybe it’s incumbent on us to keep our people away from such horrific levels of ignorance.
Are there 20-year-old women living in the Germany or Norway who are desperate to kill a federal judge? Everyone living in a developed nation outside the U.S. who wants a good education gets one.
It’s just so sad.
There is a nasty game of “chicken” being played in the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump in Georgia just now. The former president has consistently violated the “conditions of release,” whereby he is not remanded into custody pending his trial on multiple felony counts surrounding his attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. (See video below.)
If what Clarke said here is correct, we’re in hot water as a species, because it’s fairly plain that our morals are in a steep decline, at least in the United States.
Thanks, Mike, though this comment might have been more useful had it come two and a half years ago.
Texas senator Cruz actually is under attack–by everyone in his state with a conscience who uses reason to guide his behavior.
From this: 
Taking advantage of religious people goes back to the dawn of humanity, but it’s never been more egregious than it is now.
Here, U.S. Senator from Texas
When this is over, it will be clear that the only mistake Trump made was running for president.
