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Xipe Totec

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January 19, 2021

Duty to act when a defendant has created a danger

A person who creates a dangerous situation may be under a duty to take reasonable steps to avert that danger.

Let's say, hypothetically, that a person incites a mob into sedition and insurrection using lies. And after the mob attacks, destroys property, kills some police officers and continues to stand in defiance of the government, the person who incited the mob takes no steps to quell the insurrection and refuses to retract the lie, or to take steps to calm the mob by telling the truth.

Is that person criminally negligent?

What if that refusal to retract the lie continues, hypothetically, even after that person has left office and no longer has the power to pardon. Is that person criminally negligent for any failure to act that occurs and continues to occur after the person has left office?

What about other people who repeat the lie and refuse to correct it? Are they also criminally negligent?

Is a failure to utter a truth after uttering a lie, still a lie?

Just wondering.

January 15, 2021

Cage The Elephant - Ain't No Rest For The Wicked



Somehow, it strikes the right message:

Ain't No Rest For The Wicked until we close our eyes for good.

So,... time to put down that elephant, and say goodbye to the Republican Party.
January 14, 2021

Cage The Elephant - Ain't No Rest For The Wicked



Somehow, it strikes the right message:

Ain't No Rest For The Wicked until we close our eyes for good.

So,... time to put down that elephant, and say goodbye to the Republican Party.

December 11, 2020

Xente (People)

December 3, 2020

Will Joe Biden grant a pardon to Hunter for the Bowling Green Massacre?

Inquiring minds want to know.

December 2, 2020

Can selling pardons run afoul of the emoluments clause,

and could that render the pardon unconstitutional?

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