Timber

The Michael Bennett indictment is interesting for several reasons: it involves the evolution of negligence in criminal law, and Michael McCann delineates these issues with expertise for Sports Illustrated, a publication I peruse but sparingly, and intersects at the midpoint of competing progressive values. Identity politics versus identity politics, black male self-righteousness, the intimidation, either necessary or perceived, in black athleticism, the inclusion of the disabled in society, among other things. Where I side with the skeptics is the length of time involved for the investigation going forward. 411 days for the police to gather evidence and the DA to indict? The situation begins to feel more like a personal injury case to be settled in civil court. The poor bastard now managing my daily living, would be on the side of Eugene Gu, if he had enough sense to know what liberalism was, and while I am not quite with Acevedo, I cannot  quite discount the narrative of the investigators on the case.

Michael Bennett is being politically persecuted for taking the knee. These felony charges for pushing past someone are way over the top and make it seem like he is the Austin bomber. Oh wait, the Austin bomber was “smart and kind.” pic.twitter.com/zcH0FAi6ZR

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) March 23, 2018

Eugene Gu's rather inflammatory comparison of Conditt with Bennett, a man whom one supposes Gu considers an American dissent, troubles me far more than the Texas cow chips flinging themselves about like buckshot. The preponderance of the evidence suggests Mark Conditt is the serial bomber who so recently terrorized Austin, but we need to remember this young man will never be tried, never convicted, and for a surgeon like Gu to even compare the Conditt's familial shock to Bennett's alleged poor conduct is an outrage. I am a self proclaimed racist and even I have significant questions about why the DA went forward. I am, however, a quadriplegic victim of urban corruption many many times over, and I feel like the district attorney is standing up for me, once removed. You want to see pity for Conditt's family as a double standard when looking at authority's speculative vindictiveness against Bennett? It really isn't that simple; it isn't the way statutory law works, and as a medical professional, Gu, a child of the radical Asian left, perhaps? is being irresponsible. He's a doctor, and should know something about inner emotional pain. After 9/11, the shocked Sunni's in the Middle East said "Run Osama, run!" Remember? I was slightly, ever so slightly tempted, to give the then anonymous bomber a lecture about not getting caught. I would have gotten into trouble, and because the situation made no sense, hung my fire. I'm glad, as this poor boy would have made me appear idiotic.