I watched Dexter in an interview. He's incredibly cool-headed for someone who, at the time, was facing over a decade in prison. Now that he's actually been sentenced, he continues to maintain that calm demeanor.
This is a smart man who is unwilling to bend to the power of the state in defense of his unalienable Second Amendment rights. I'm certain his case will be the one that leads to a court-defined right for citizens to build their own firearms. But at what cost? Fortunately, there are men like this who are willing to sacrifice their freedom to preserve the freedom of others. Kind of sounds like the Founders, doesn't it?
As Cody Wilson said, "Gun control is undead. We just keep killing it, but it keeps coming back." The ever-increasing ease of making one's own firearms at home has led to zombie gun control. The state is twisting and contorting gun regulations into all kinds of odd shapes to avoid the inevitable.
It's like Minority Report. Instead of punishing us for what we do, the state now focuses on what we might do. We have given the state so much power to protect us that governments must now enslave us to guarantee our safety. How crazy is that? I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery any day.
All of us have an obligation to support Dexter’s case. He is willing to do something the vast majority of us will not. So, it's a small price to pay to support a man representing our cause, who is paying with his liberty.
We left upstate NY back in the mid 1960s after the oil furnace died, dad had no choice but to move to Florida. I miss upstate NY but I'm never going back.
What really is appalling here is, in addition to the judge's bizarre behavior and the NYC gun laws, is that a jury of "hie Peers" actually convicted him. I mean are New Yorkers' actually this, I guess brainwashed, to convict someone "beyond a reasonable doubt" for this.
Which means Trump's going to jail too! Tyrus made that implication last night on GUTFELD! while discussing the debate schedule and why the first one is so early. Although I doubt Trump's going to jail.
After all, THEY can do and always could do to you or me whatever THEY felt like doing.
Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Stalin's NKVD chief, allegedly said, "Give me the man, and I 'll show you the crime." I never thought we would see this in America, but we are rapidly degenerating into a Soviet-style "justice" system. And not just Soviet: the old Swiss joke, as a Nazi German visitor was being shown around Bern in the 1940s, he laughed and said "Switzerland is a land-locked country. Why do you need a Ministry of Marine Navigation?" The Swiss replied, "In that case, what are you Germans doing with a Ministry of Justice?"
Sadly, the same joke could be told about America today.
Growing up we were taught to respect law enforcement and trust the legal system to do the right thing, protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty. Today? You would be a fool to permit yourself to be arrested and hope you don't end up with a "judge" like Abena Darkeh.
Abena Darkeh completed a J.D. from Hofstra University, Maurice A Deane School of Law. Served as co-founder and V.P. of the Ass. Of Ghanaian Lawyers of America. Served as the Domestic Violence Coordinator of N.Y. City Criminal Court, and then served as deputy commissioner of Regional Affairs and Federal Programs in the N.Y. State Div. of Human Rights.
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Mayor Blasio appointed Darkeh to a judgeship in the Criminal Court of N.Y. City’s N.Y. County in 2015. In 2021 Judge Lawrence K Marks appointed her to the Kings County Supreme Court Criminal Term in the 2nd Judicial District of N.Y.
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N.Y. prosecutors have been frustrated repeatedly by the judges chosen by De Blasio to enact his Bail Reform policies. Judge Darkeh is an aggressive proponent of social justice activism from the bench. After reading several sources on her time on the bench it is my opinion that she is sending a message concerning the second amendment, which is, if you’re a black American and use a gun to rob someone you will go free, as in the case of Oluwasean Are, where she rejected a $30,000 bail request by the prosecutor and set Are free instead, but in the case of Dexter Taylor, another black American, your political leanings---pro second amendment non-criminal--are the key political element upon which Darkeh’s system of social justice will be based, resulting in ten years in prison.
He’s a grown man, smart enough to construct his own firearms. He should be smart enough to know gunsmithing is a hobby that is 100% guaranteed to end badly in a leftist shithole like NY, to say nothing of NYC.
It is time to tribe up. We will never change states like NY, NJ, CA et. al. The math (and scumbaggery) doesn’t work.
If you’re a citizen of the former USA (now known as Weimerica), living in a state with a majority of sub 100IQ DEI candidates, grifters, degenerates and Marxists in control, you need to gtfo of there. Period.
If you decide to stay, for whatever reason, you’re going to have to learn to live within the rules of the circus.
So you are saying that those who fought to defend the rights enumerated in the Constitution are fools? It takes a special kind of callousness to ignore the sacrifices of so many who understand the Constitution to state inalienable rights established for us by God. Dexter is fighting for the freedom that our Founding Fathers and so many others died for. Ronald Reagan said “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
There are intelligent ways to fight battles and there are stupid ways. In Minnesota, our GOP constantly fights election battles that it cannot win at the expense of smaller battles it could win. We're endlessly bankrupting ourselves trying to install people in high statewide offices (e.g. governor) where our losses are virtually guaranteed, while neglecting suburban & rural legislative swing-district races. As a result of dreaming the impossible dream, in 2022 we finally lost our only political asset, which was our one-seat State Senate majority, giving the Democrats a trifecta here, thereby allowing their complete unbridled insanity to rule the state with zero opposition. I constantly remind Republicans here that we could have retained our ability to block the Democrats, in return for which I am called a defeatist. So in Minnesota, it seems, Republicans prefer losing everything to retaining something. They endlessly admire their own lofty goals, but in reality their lack of pragmatism has rendered them total losers. So no, losing all three branches of government when you could have at least one does not make us winners, and sitting in jail in a blue state over a matter of principle also does not make you a winner.
Their dreams are not impossible. They've been destroying us slowly and systematically for decades. We don't seem to understand slow, systematic progress. Like little kids, we just want the whole cookie jar and we want it all NOW. And we expect lunatic leftards who've been brainwashed in leftist institutions all their lives to suddenly switch sides and vote for us because, obviously to us, we are RIGHT. And just like Superman and the Lone Ranger we will win! Just like on TV when we were kids. See? It's GOTTA work! "This time for sure!", as Rocky the Squirrel used to say.
Davy, if the colonists looked at England the same way you look at right vs left, we would still be under British rule. You are being duped by the “we can win their votes” we’re the good guys narrative. Tyrants must be fought head on!
Well then, since you proposed this analogy, fine: We will need a new Revolutionary War, complete with bloodshed on a scale we've probably never imagined before. After all, the colonists didn't win anything by sitting in Tory jails. Are you ready to suit up?
I am saying those who pick fights they cannot possibly win at the guaranteed promise of losing their freedom are fools.
NY is overwhelmed with leftist reprobates. NYC is completely bereft of anyone but reprobates. It’s fine to fight tough battles, but throwing one’s self on a pyre serves no purpose.
I really doubt that Dexter sees himself as a masochist. No hero does. Sometimes you don’t have the luxury of choosing the battlefield you prefer to fight on. It is clear that he believes in the importance of standing for human rights. I honor and support him for that!
Sure, "ghost guns" are the problem. Now let's take a good look at the streets of the Big Apple... Right, ghost guns. Anything you say, just get me out of here.
"Ghost guns"! NY needs a better district attorney, one who's more lawyer than ghost hunter, and who understands that there's a Constitution providing Americans with inalienable rights, including New Yorkers, or are they seceding from the union now? Something the ATF ghost busters are desperately in need of being taught themselves, as it's been clear ever since Waco they've never even heard of the Constitution, let alone read it or anything to do with it.
And I don't understand what kind of authority that Judge thinks they have, apparently one of rule by decree since they've decreed there is no Second Amendment in New York! Wonder what the status is on the Fifth there, or if they can just be hauled off to a dungeon somewhere for trying to rip up the Second? What obscenity. You know there's trouble when those in charge of the law are not law givers but takers who trash what laws there are, who can't tell the difference between justice and injustice.
I watched Dexter in an interview. He's incredibly cool-headed for someone who, at the time, was facing over a decade in prison. Now that he's actually been sentenced, he continues to maintain that calm demeanor.
This is a smart man who is unwilling to bend to the power of the state in defense of his unalienable Second Amendment rights. I'm certain his case will be the one that leads to a court-defined right for citizens to build their own firearms. But at what cost? Fortunately, there are men like this who are willing to sacrifice their freedom to preserve the freedom of others. Kind of sounds like the Founders, doesn't it?
As Cody Wilson said, "Gun control is undead. We just keep killing it, but it keeps coming back." The ever-increasing ease of making one's own firearms at home has led to zombie gun control. The state is twisting and contorting gun regulations into all kinds of odd shapes to avoid the inevitable.
It's like Minority Report. Instead of punishing us for what we do, the state now focuses on what we might do. We have given the state so much power to protect us that governments must now enslave us to guarantee our safety. How crazy is that? I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery any day.
All of us have an obligation to support Dexter’s case. He is willing to do something the vast majority of us will not. So, it's a small price to pay to support a man representing our cause, who is paying with his liberty.
Very well said, sir. Thankfully, his legal fund is increasing every day. He'll have enough to mount a significant appeal.
An ATF raid……. He’s fortunate to be alive.
As Bongino says: “Get the hell out of New York!”
Great advice!
We left upstate NY back in the mid 1960s after the oil furnace died, dad had no choice but to move to Florida. I miss upstate NY but I'm never going back.
He must not have had any dogs, or there would have been massive gunfire.
What really is appalling here is, in addition to the judge's bizarre behavior and the NYC gun laws, is that a jury of "hie Peers" actually convicted him. I mean are New Yorkers' actually this, I guess brainwashed, to convict someone "beyond a reasonable doubt" for this.
Which means Trump's going to jail too! Tyrus made that implication last night on GUTFELD! while discussing the debate schedule and why the first one is so early. Although I doubt Trump's going to jail.
After all, THEY can do and always could do to you or me whatever THEY felt like doing.
TRUMP / DeSANTIS 2024 anyone?
And Trump can’t pardon state convictions???
Yep.
This judge needs more than removed from the bench. I will refrain from describing the appropriate procedure.
Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Stalin's NKVD chief, allegedly said, "Give me the man, and I 'll show you the crime." I never thought we would see this in America, but we are rapidly degenerating into a Soviet-style "justice" system. And not just Soviet: the old Swiss joke, as a Nazi German visitor was being shown around Bern in the 1940s, he laughed and said "Switzerland is a land-locked country. Why do you need a Ministry of Marine Navigation?" The Swiss replied, "In that case, what are you Germans doing with a Ministry of Justice?"
Sadly, the same joke could be told about America today.
Hope his appeal is successful. It's a travesty. Can I borrow your jigs Lee?
Growing up we were taught to respect law enforcement and trust the legal system to do the right thing, protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty. Today? You would be a fool to permit yourself to be arrested and hope you don't end up with a "judge" like Abena Darkeh.
Abena Darkeh completed a J.D. from Hofstra University, Maurice A Deane School of Law. Served as co-founder and V.P. of the Ass. Of Ghanaian Lawyers of America. Served as the Domestic Violence Coordinator of N.Y. City Criminal Court, and then served as deputy commissioner of Regional Affairs and Federal Programs in the N.Y. State Div. of Human Rights.
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Mayor Blasio appointed Darkeh to a judgeship in the Criminal Court of N.Y. City’s N.Y. County in 2015. In 2021 Judge Lawrence K Marks appointed her to the Kings County Supreme Court Criminal Term in the 2nd Judicial District of N.Y.
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N.Y. prosecutors have been frustrated repeatedly by the judges chosen by De Blasio to enact his Bail Reform policies. Judge Darkeh is an aggressive proponent of social justice activism from the bench. After reading several sources on her time on the bench it is my opinion that she is sending a message concerning the second amendment, which is, if you’re a black American and use a gun to rob someone you will go free, as in the case of Oluwasean Are, where she rejected a $30,000 bail request by the prosecutor and set Are free instead, but in the case of Dexter Taylor, another black American, your political leanings---pro second amendment non-criminal--are the key political element upon which Darkeh’s system of social justice will be based, resulting in ten years in prison.
Your civil rights depend on Soros.
If Portland, Oregon can get a new DA, something is going on: https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/05/22/soros-funded-da-crushed-in-portland-election-n1224996
I feel bad for Dexter; but not too bad.
He’s a grown man, smart enough to construct his own firearms. He should be smart enough to know gunsmithing is a hobby that is 100% guaranteed to end badly in a leftist shithole like NY, to say nothing of NYC.
It is time to tribe up. We will never change states like NY, NJ, CA et. al. The math (and scumbaggery) doesn’t work.
If you’re a citizen of the former USA (now known as Weimerica), living in a state with a majority of sub 100IQ DEI candidates, grifters, degenerates and Marxists in control, you need to gtfo of there. Period.
If you decide to stay, for whatever reason, you’re going to have to learn to live within the rules of the circus.
So you are saying that those who fought to defend the rights enumerated in the Constitution are fools? It takes a special kind of callousness to ignore the sacrifices of so many who understand the Constitution to state inalienable rights established for us by God. Dexter is fighting for the freedom that our Founding Fathers and so many others died for. Ronald Reagan said “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
There are intelligent ways to fight battles and there are stupid ways. In Minnesota, our GOP constantly fights election battles that it cannot win at the expense of smaller battles it could win. We're endlessly bankrupting ourselves trying to install people in high statewide offices (e.g. governor) where our losses are virtually guaranteed, while neglecting suburban & rural legislative swing-district races. As a result of dreaming the impossible dream, in 2022 we finally lost our only political asset, which was our one-seat State Senate majority, giving the Democrats a trifecta here, thereby allowing their complete unbridled insanity to rule the state with zero opposition. I constantly remind Republicans here that we could have retained our ability to block the Democrats, in return for which I am called a defeatist. So in Minnesota, it seems, Republicans prefer losing everything to retaining something. They endlessly admire their own lofty goals, but in reality their lack of pragmatism has rendered them total losers. So no, losing all three branches of government when you could have at least one does not make us winners, and sitting in jail in a blue state over a matter of principle also does not make you a winner.
Gee, the other side isn’t stopped by the idea that they are dreaming the impossible dream. 🤔
Their dreams are not impossible. They've been destroying us slowly and systematically for decades. We don't seem to understand slow, systematic progress. Like little kids, we just want the whole cookie jar and we want it all NOW. And we expect lunatic leftards who've been brainwashed in leftist institutions all their lives to suddenly switch sides and vote for us because, obviously to us, we are RIGHT. And just like Superman and the Lone Ranger we will win! Just like on TV when we were kids. See? It's GOTTA work! "This time for sure!", as Rocky the Squirrel used to say.
Davy, if the colonists looked at England the same way you look at right vs left, we would still be under British rule. You are being duped by the “we can win their votes” we’re the good guys narrative. Tyrants must be fought head on!
Well then, since you proposed this analogy, fine: We will need a new Revolutionary War, complete with bloodshed on a scale we've probably never imagined before. After all, the colonists didn't win anything by sitting in Tory jails. Are you ready to suit up?
I am saying those who pick fights they cannot possibly win at the guaranteed promise of losing their freedom are fools.
NY is overwhelmed with leftist reprobates. NYC is completely bereft of anyone but reprobates. It’s fine to fight tough battles, but throwing one’s self on a pyre serves no purpose.
I really doubt that Dexter sees himself as a masochist. No hero does. Sometimes you don’t have the luxury of choosing the battlefield you prefer to fight on. It is clear that he believes in the importance of standing for human rights. I honor and support him for that!
This is why government is a joke, and attempts to reform it an even bigger one. Flee from tyranny or be ready to defend yourself.
Sure, "ghost guns" are the problem. Now let's take a good look at the streets of the Big Apple... Right, ghost guns. Anything you say, just get me out of here.
"Ghost guns"! NY needs a better district attorney, one who's more lawyer than ghost hunter, and who understands that there's a Constitution providing Americans with inalienable rights, including New Yorkers, or are they seceding from the union now? Something the ATF ghost busters are desperately in need of being taught themselves, as it's been clear ever since Waco they've never even heard of the Constitution, let alone read it or anything to do with it.
And I don't understand what kind of authority that Judge thinks they have, apparently one of rule by decree since they've decreed there is no Second Amendment in New York! Wonder what the status is on the Fifth there, or if they can just be hauled off to a dungeon somewhere for trying to rip up the Second? What obscenity. You know there's trouble when those in charge of the law are not law givers but takers who trash what laws there are, who can't tell the difference between justice and injustice.