Meet Daniel Penny, an ex-Marine who in 2023 while riding the F Train in Manhattan, had an encounter with Jordan Neely, one of the thousands of drug-addled, schizophrenic homeless, who had a record of 42 arrests, but was turned loose every time; who desperately needed help, but got none from the city.

Two years ago Sgt Penny was charged with the second-degree murder of Jordan Neely. The circumstances leading to the latter’s death will be all-too-familiar to most New Yorkers. The New York Sun reports:

Mr. Neely got on the F train on the Second Avenue Manhattan train station and immediately started yelling that he was “fed up”. He then took off his jacket and “aggressively whipped it to the floor”.

“I don’t have food, I don’t have a drink, I’m fed up,” Neely screamed, according to Mr. Vazquez, adding “I don’t mind going to jail and getting life in prison. I’m ready to die.”

As Neely’s erratic behavior escalated, several passengers moved away, some leaving the subway car, Mr. Vazquez further reported. Video footage shows how Mr. Penny, who would tell investigators that he had moved to protect his fellow passengers, then toppled Neely to the ground and placed him in a chokehold. Neely tried in vain to break free by kicking his legs and moving his arms. Two other passengers helped restrain Neely, while Mr. Penny kept the chokehold around his neck.

Apparently Neely was asphyxiated, not surprising considering how hopped up he was on drugs. Penny was taken in for questioning by the NYPD and released soon after. The cops knew what he had been dealing with.

However, as the Sun reports:

[N]ews reports that a white man had not been charged in the death of a Black man triggered outrage across the city. Protesters demanding Mr. Penny’s arrest jumped onto train tracks and blocked incoming trains at the Broadway-Lafayette subway station, underneath downtown Manhattan, where Neely had died.

Penny was dutifully charged by the Manhattan DA. Now, at last, he will be tried in a trial likely to be long, emotionally-charged, and raucous. Unless the judge in the case is sufficiently woke, a jury trial will be demanded by the prosecution, with jurors mostly chosen by their race and the prosecutor exploiting the racism isangle at every opportunity. Sgt Penny’s chances of being acquitted are slim.

Penny, being an out-of-towner, was naïve to the ways of justice today in New York and most other large American cities. However, as judges used to say, at least they did in the movies, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Penny’s life is in ruins thanks to his ignorance of contemporary enforcement of the law, but other out-of-towners may learn from his fate when visiting Gotham: don’t ever ride the trains. If you must, ride in the car where the conductor’s booth is. Stand, don’t sit, next to a door, and keep an eagle-eye out who gets on at every stop. If somebody boarding alarms you, for whatever reason, get out. Don’t get involved, don’t be a good citizen, don’t protect others from a crackpot. Let them fend for themselves. If you feel any shame for bolting, remind yourself what happened, and will happen, to Sgt Daniel Penny owing to an accident of birth on his part and the colossal failure of the city’s vast social services apparatus to rescue tragically ill people like Jordan Neely.

Imagine being held hostage in a foreign land and returning home to America after release only to find the Internal Revenue Service has billed you for thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes, along with late fees, interest, and penalties.

That was the startling reality encountered recently by former hostages Evan Gerhskovich, Paul Whelan, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who were released from detention in Russia in August, Reason reports. The men reported facing a slew of financial issues upon their return, including tax charges and credit hits resulting from bills they were unable to pay while imprisoned.

We’re long past the point this institutional band of thieves were closed down, every one of its officers fired and the unionized employees, who would be difficult to fire, re-assigned to the most menial and degrading positions that can be found for them. Cleaning public toilets would be a good start. 

Mr Trump?

To my few but greatly appreciated readers: just a few minutes ago, I discovered, to my horror, that some of you left comments (some going back two years!) that were never read, hence never approved, and hence never posted. All of the comments should not only have been approved (I am hardly in the position of having to shift through thousands upon thousands of them) but also approved promptly. This has finally been done, but it hardly absolves your Tatler of his grievous fault. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. This will not happen again.

Your repentant Bickerstaff

Satire has essentially been banned in the Golden State if it’s not to the liking, i.e., to the right, of Governor Nuisance’s views, and which he deems “election interference.” About time someone took him on. Bravo Bee!

. . . the supply of the world’s purest quartz, essential to the world economy, in tiny Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is completely cut off because of the recent hurricane. More than two feet of rain fell there.

But not to worry, Americans, the Bidens just sent $2.4 billion more of our money to Ukraine.

Update. There’s also this: Biden Can Check Out Any Time He Likes (and He’s Basically Left)

Jews have been around for forty centuries; Hezbollah and Hamas, the latest among their countless enemies over the centuries, for only four decades. While Jewish contributions to civilization are beyond counting, Hezbollah‘s and Hamas’s raisons d’être are solely to wipe Jews off the face of the earth, via committing hideous acts against them. They will not succeed.

That is not to say Jews in Israel do not commit violent acts themselves against their enemies, they do, but they are carefully planned to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, while taking out as many of the foe as possible. A story in today’s New York Sun illustrates the strategy nicely.

Pager Attack Against Hezbollah Fighters Seen as Possible Start of Major Mideast Escalation, Dousing White House Hopes

Israel is on high alert after thousands of Hezbollah fighters across Lebanon were injured by their pagers on Tuesday — in what might be the opening salvo of a major escalation, dousing White House hopes for Mideast calm before the November election. (italics added).

This is a good example of the  resourcefulness of Jews, who have been fighting for the survival of the State of Israel since its founding in 1948 (and their civilization aeons before), after the Nazis had exterminated millions of them in Germany and elsewhere. While it may be unfortunate if this latest act by the Israelis leads to all-out warfare with Hamas/Hezbollah, they are forced to fend for themselves these days, as they have no allies in the Biden Administration, which insists the two sides be regarded as equals, though they are not, and whose sole concern is getting a cease fire signed by Election Day for bragging rights. It’s obvious Kamala and the Democrats don’t give a damn about our one true friend in the Middle East.

With or without US arms, Israel will eventually prevail over Hezbollah and its equally thuggish partner Hamas, through such brilliant and unconventional tactics like the  sabotaging of pagers. We may be confident leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah wouldn’t have a clue how to pull off such a clever ploy, nor others similar. To put it bluntly, Jews are far smarter and more creative in Israel’s fight for survival than their enemies are for their annihilation.

Israel will win this war and  Jews will survive, as they have for nearly 4000 years.

Addendum: how they did it, from the New York Post.

The stunning, simultaneous attack on thousands of Hezbollah terrorists by detonating their pagers had all the hallmarks of a highly complex covert operation — the kind that only Israel’s Mossad would have the means and motive to pull off, experts told The Post (italics added . . .

An unnamed insider told Sky News Arabia that Mossad intercepted Hezbollah’s communication devices before they were handed over to the terrorist group, slipping in the highly powerful Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) plastic explosive commonly used for military and demolition purposes.

“Mossad placed PETN explosives on the batteries, which were detonated by increasing the temperature,” the source told the outlet.

Amszing, read the whole thing.

From NRCNewsBusters.

VILE: NBC, ABC Tie Second Trump Assassination Attempt to ‘Rhetoric’, and ‘Dogs and Cats’

As we exposed earlier, the Regime Media have wasted no time in blaming former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” for the second assassination attempt against him. The evening newscasts have now picked up MSNBC’s lead, tying the attempted shooting to the “dogs and cats rhetoric coming out of Springfield, Ohio.

Mainstream media is becoming more and more blatant in its hatred of Donald Trump. From making increasingly absurd and tenuous correlations between his putatively offensive remarks and the assassination attempts on him, it shouldn’t be long before they come right out and say it: Trump deserves to die.

Utterly shameless, MSM has lost all credibility and it’s no wonder fewer and fewer people get their news from it. Eventually, please, please, the networks will drop their news divisions owing to increased expenses caused by dwindling readership and viewers. With any luck loathsome news readers like Lester Holt and Linsey Davis will be retured. Certainly they will have deserved it.

Thanks to Instapundit.

Another assassination attempt on Donald Trump. From the NY Post:

[Former President Trump narrowly survived yet another assassination attempt after a sniper with a scoped AK-47 rifle got within a few hundred yards of him as he played golf at his West Palm Beach, Florida club on Friday.

It is the second time a madman armed with an assault rifle has tried to kill the 45th president in two months.

Here your Tatler, knowing precious little about this incident, will engage in audacious speculation about it.

A culprit has been arrested and we may be confident the crack propagandists at MSM are already digging deep to find right-wing causes to which he’s connected (wouldn’t it be fun if he is, like your Tatler, a regular attendee of the Traditional Latin Mass, whom the FBI have deemed a “national security threat?”). They will then gin up a convoluted yarn how the perp may be a hard right extremist, but still is in the same boat as Trump, the implication being no one on the left would engage in such a violent act.

Should however those make-believe reporters discover the perp is indeed a left-winger, that will make their job easier; they’ll shove him into the background and launch yet another demand for the banning of so-called “assault weapons” (the culprit was carrying an AK-47).

Two things we may be sure of, even if your Tatler’s predictions turn out to be cut from whole cloth: there will be zero mention of the left’s pathological hatred of Donald Trump, and the former president’s Secret Service detail will not be increased.

But they must be a precious few.

From the Daily Mirror.

The lead singer of iconic rock band Jane’s Addiction got into a fight with guitar player Dave Navarro in the middle of a show in Boston on Friday night.

Front man Perry Farrell was barking into the mic before marching over to guitarist Dave Navarro and slugging him – sparking a brawl and stopping the show mid-song.

A drunken front man of a has-been rock ‘n’ roll band slugs one of his band members; this is news?

THIS JUST IN: The sun rose this morning.