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CNN Gets its First Collar

Collaborator.

Sometimes it’s a good thing, as when two people “collaborate” on an art project.

But ever since the Nazis grabbed France and helped set up a new government based in Vichy (hence the descriptor “Vichy France”) the word has had rather negative connotations.

A bully’s little weaselly friend is a collaborator.  A person who aids the state – any state – to the intentional detriment of his fellow citizens is a collaborator.  And pretty much any big media outlet in California is an unquestionable collaborator in the decline of the state and the entrenchment in power of the Sacramento Demoblob.

But even out-of-state ethically vacant media gets in on the act here.

Last week, CNN proudly published a very long, very detailed “investigation” into who was in the crowd that went after the pro-Hamas protestors on Royce Quad at UCLA at the end of April.

CNN worked with “internet researchers” and dedicated a baker’s dozen of its staff to comb through pictures and video footage of the melee and Thursday, their hard horrible work paid off:  they think they got one.

According to a gleeful Los Angeles Times story, a person named named Edan On was arrested on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon when he allegedly tried to tear down the plywood kiddie fort the protestors had built.

On – as was very happily noted – was a “non-affiliated” agitator and was identified by CNN in its story and, within two weeks of publication, had been picked up by the cops (remember: only counter-protestors are outside agitators, not protestors.)

He is reportedly in jail in lieu of $30,000 bond and is expected in court Tuesday (hint: try to never get arrested before a long weekend.)

Whatever your position on the protest/counter protest, it is reprehensible that a supposedly independent media went hunting for suspects on its own.

I’m not even sure the Vichy Times did that for the Nazis.

Oh – and CNN or, it seems any actual law enforcement agency let alone UCLA – is looking to identify and arrest the protestors – just the pro-Israel counter-protestors.  Funny how that works.

He should be out Tuesday – if he posts bail – so On should not be thinking about going Shawshank and tunneling out over tonight.

Speaking of hopefully getting out in a few days, there is the on-going trial of Donald Trump.

It’s funny – the Democrat lawfare phalanx had assumed last year that charging and trying him a  bunch of times during the campaign would end his quest for re-election.  But that’s not happening.

His campaign team actually seems to be up to the task of figuring out what to do with a candidate who is stuck behind a courthouse table for eight hours a day.  From the bodega visits to the pizzas for firefighters to the surprisingly successfully rally in the deep heart of the Blue Bronx, Trump has not only been campaigning but quite effectively it appears.

And that is confusing his opponents.  First they thought trying to get him civilly would work – nope (though it did cost a pretty penny.)

Then it was throw him off the ballot time – not even close.

Then they went the criminal route, and what a complicated route that has.  The “documents” case involves actions that literally no other presidents – even the current president – has been dinged for.  A few letters, etc. cleared it up in the past.

Then it was off to Hotlanta and something about talking to your lawyer about what to do next in the aftermath of a very close, very contentious election being illegal.  Always thought people had the right to counsel and that a lawyer can be wrong but that does not make him a criminal.

Imagine if public defenders were held to this standard?

Then came the enticement to riot bit, practically the definition of a bootstrapped case.

And now – still – New York which, correct me if I’m wrong – involves crimes that are only crimes if another crime has been committed and the prosecution has never specifically said in court what that first crime was.

This whole journey is like flying from Portland, Oregon to France and then taking a train to Venice and then a dog cart to Trieste and then a bus back to France and then sailing to Iceland and then kayaking to Newfoundland and then hanggliding to Maine and then taking the train to Gallup, New Mexico and then hitchhiking to Denver so you can then take a Frontier flight to Seattle to see your relatives.

Cut and dried the case ain’t.

Today’s epigram:  “It is never ever possible to over-generalize.”

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