Said Daniel Penny, quoted in "Daniel Penny, charged in Jordan Neely death, breaks silence: 'I am not a white supremacist'" (NY Post).
Asked about something Al Sharpton said about him, Penny said he wasn't sure who Al Sharpton was: "I don’t really know celebrities that well."
Celebrities.
And he doesn't know what's going on in social media: "I don’t follow anyone, and I don’t have social media because I really don’t like the attention and I just think there are better ways to spend your time. I don’t like the limelight."
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He sounds more sane than most. And I love that he refers to Al Sharpton as a celebrity. Just another general celebrity. Which is what he is. That, and a cretinous slime-ball race hustler.
In the end, the process will be Penny's punishment.
Al Sharpton is a celebrity the way Jenna Jameson is a celibate nun, just don't call it prostitution.
Bernie Goetz served 8 months in jail out of a one year sentence.
We’re about to find out how much are the New Yorkers of 2023 like the New Yorkers of 1984.
In present day NYC, I fear him going before a jury, or a judge.
The Post doesn’t detail all of the questions that they asked, but which Penny wouldn’t or couldn’t answer.
The Post repeatedly reported that Penny’s lawyers (not Penny) stated that Penny did not intend to kill Neely. Did the Post ask Penny to detail exactly what he intended? Were they forbidden from asking about that? Did Penny refuse to answer?
The charge is Manslaughter in the Second Degree. Intent to kill is not an element of that crime. The requisite men’s rea is recklessness, not intent to kill. Penny continued to maintain a chokehold on Neely after Neely (unarmed) was subdued. I am impressed that the charge in this case was the correct one. And I’d be much more impressed that Penny had a valid defense if he addressed that element, rather than any hagiography about his personal life as orchestrated by the New York Post.
He, accompanied by diversity (color and individuals), used non-lethal force to restrain a lunatic who presented a present and progressive threat to the passengers, who died later under medical care in a city defunded or devoid of law enforcement under the rubric of "social justice".
That said, he acted in self-defense, using non-lethal force, and will now be judged by a jury, a [subway] "car", of his peers.
“I judge a person based on their character. I’m not a white supremacist.“
To the Wokist judging a person based on their character is a sign of white supremacy.
This poor SOB is going to be destroyed. His past lack of interest in, and facility with, social media --his cultural illiteracy, if you will-- is going to cost him so much. I suspect the media will pretend to treat him considerately but with morbid fascination at having this morsel of Flyover Americana presented to them: "Let's Try To Understand Daniel Penny's World: How Stoic Ignorance Is Actually A Form of White Supremacy."
I hope I'm wrong. Prayers up for him, and all those like him.
To the Wokist judging a person based on their character is a sign of white supremacy.
Exactly. I have been told several times that I am racist because I don't treat people differently based on their race.
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:24
Sharpton tried to kill the Central Park jogger. I don't differentiate between him and a Klansman.
And all Democrat politicians have to kiss his ring. So there's that.
In Soviet Amerika, social media follows you.
He is pleasantly naive, it appears.
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“I judge a person based on their character. I’m not a white supremacist.“
To the Wokist judging a person based on their character is a sign of white supremacy.
To a "Wokist" everything is white supremacy except for the crazies. Waking up early is now "White Supremacy."
"I don’t follow anyone, and I don’t have social media because I really don’t like the attention and I just think there are better ways to spend your time. I don’t like the limelight."
To which will raise the hue and cry "WITCH" from social media addicts
To the Wokist judging a person based on their character is a sign of white supremacy.
White privilege. White culture. People align with this vector in order to curry favor. In fact, in the diversitists' perspective, MLK, Jr. was a rabid diversitist, a raging racist. Douglass, too. Lincoln, for his preference to avoid the challenges of integration, perhaps to offer black Americans a fresh start, in a homeland, near their ancestors, alternating between slave and master, was, too.
Al Sharpton is the biggest RACE BAITER in America, and Daniel Penny is a HERO. THIS is who fucked up our country is, that Al has a platform to spew his RACISM, HATE and LIES, and the rest of us get attacked and arrested for helping people.
He might have done better to stick with, "I will have no comment until all processes of the New York City kangaroo court are complete, as anything I say will be used against me." But IANAL, so edit as necessary to make it safe for him to say.
Al's gotta stay relevant somehow or the cash flow dries up.
I teach the need to remain calm my effective troubleshooting workshops. The more serious the problem the more important calmness is.
I use the cockpit voice recording of the Hudson River plane crash to emphasize 2 points. Remember, they are flying over Manhattan with all no engines and the flight dynamics of a brick (to paraphrase Tom Wolfe right stuff)
1 skies the co-pilot was flying the plane and turned it over to sullen berger. Skies then pulled out a big binder, found the paper checklist on emergency restart and only then began trying to restart an engine, step by step from the checklist.
NOT from memory though he had done it scores of times in a simulator.
2 in the mean time sully and an air traffic controller were on the horn exploring options. Most people sound more excited ordering a sandwich.
https://youtu.be/mLFZTzR5u84
I find the animation and audio inspiring.
Tom Wolf spends a page or two talking about pilot calmness in The Right Stuff
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Tom Wolfe compared the glide path of military aircraft with high wing loading to that of a set of car keys. Airliners, especially with flaps down, glide much better.
Not for very long, of course.
It will come as a really rude shock to liberals everywhere, but as a sergeant in the US Marine Corp Daniel Penny would have had subordinates of all colors and varying ethnicities, and he would have had peers, senior NCOs, and commissioned officers of varying skin colors and ethnicities as well. In a combat arm the question isn’t about white skin, it’s a matter of life and death to know who you can count on in a firefight.
The Immaculate Defendant. I recognize that the NY Post wanted to give Penny his due, but Penny sounds like an exemplary young man. He's rubber and Bragg and AOC are glue. They don't look good trying to prosecute him and they will look considerably worse if they continue in the prosecution. I hope Penny walks away with a million dollars and a movie contract....Maybe the NY Times can do further research and find some ex-girlfriend with a grudge against him. However, if there was something disturbing about his past, wouldn't it have come to light by now? Everything about Neely's past, on the other hand, is disturbing. Some crazy people on the subway are harmless, but that wasn't Neely's history.
For Skies in my post above read Skiles
Jeffrey Skiles was the copilot with the checklist
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"Asked about something Al Sharpton said about him, Penny said he wasn't sure who Al Sharpton was ..."
Al Sharpton is arguably the most thoroughly discredited person on Earth. I don't believe there is anyone alive who would try to defend any aspect of his conduct or his reputation, including himself. The fact that he appears regularly on network television tells you all you need to know about network television.
I think we need to start spelling it "Wokeist" or "Woke-sit". "Wokist" suggests a strong predilection for Chinese cookware.
I think we need to start spelling it "Wokeist" or "Woke-ist". "Wokist" suggests a strong predilection for Chinese cookware.
John Henry said, "Skies then pulled out a big binder, found the paper checklist on emergency restart and only then began trying to restart an engine, step by step from the checklist."
John Henry, I'm sure you already know, though others may not, that reading from the binder so the pilot can follow the written checklist step by step -- rather than relying on memory -- is the protocol pilots are trained to follow. I was once in a small plane flown by my brother, then a teenager and a brand-new pilot. Mid-air, the radio quit working. My brother, who had not previously been known by any means for his calmness or self control, calmly asked me to pull out the manual, find the protocol for a broken radio and read it to him. I did, and he calmly followed it step by step, wagging the plane's wings in a certain pattern as we flew by the tower to communicate the problem. We landed safely, though surrounded by fire engines since, as my brother explained, the tower had no way to know whether the broken radio was the only problem. Throughout, the only clue that my brother was not actually quite as calm as he seemed was his bright red ears. That day demonstrated that he was meant to be a pilot, a career that he did follow for the rest of his working life.
John LGKTQ Henry - in flight training, one of the first and perhaps the most important BOLD FACE items we learned was: "Maintain Radio Cool."
John Henry and Mrs Whatsit: My BOLD FACE post is a true story, but of course, it was a joke BOLD FACE amongst the crews. The only BOLD FACE items you weren't expected/required to open your checklist for was the EJECTION or BAIL OUT sequence.
Great story about your brother, Mrs Whatsit. And thanks, John Henry, for the reference/recap of Sully and Skiles handling that bird strike and ditching in the Hudson. Grace under pressure is a great asset. Also, I think of the advice, “Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.”
Mrs whatsit,
Quite right.
I once flew next to a dead heading American pilot, explained what I do and asked him about it. He pulled his binder from the overhead and found the emergency restart page in about 2 seconds. He told me that although he was sure he could because of all the flight simulator time, in a real emergency he would never try it from memory. He said he only had one chance to get it right and would not risk it to memory.
Other pilots have explained to me the reliance on checklists in both routine and emergency.
I'm training techs on industrial machinery and many have the attitude "I've got 10 years experience. I don't need no stinking checklist"
I use this anecdote to show them they do.
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I'd acquit him just based on those quotes. Jury nullification.
"Al Sharpton is arguably the most thoroughly discredited person on Earth. I don't believe there is anyone alive who would try to defend any aspect of his conduct or his reputation, including himself. The fact that he appears regularly on network television tells you all you need to know about network television."
The same can be said about Donald Trump, without a change of one word or tittle, except I would have to say "I can't believe there is anyone alive who would try to defend...etc.", as, of course there are many who do. (Goes to show ...you can fool some of the people all of the time..." and all that.)
My opinion of Sharpton is the same as for Trump: They're both con men, but Trump is the greater and more harmful con man.
As for Penny, my bet is he'll be acquitted on the charges against him, if they're not dismissed before trial.
One more on checklists and aviation.
This is a video I did for a client a few years ago and talks about the Hudson River landing. It also features a clip from some WWII aircraft carrier combat footage. Enemy planes are inbound, the planes are on deck, engines running. Before they can take off, a guy on the flight deck holds up a big board with a check list: Flaps down, tits up, wings locked and so on. The pilot confirms performance of each item one by one.
My tag line is "If they don't have time not to do the checklist, what's your excuse?"
https://youtu.be/T4f1OBkx5sI
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Blogger Robert Cook said...
Trump is the greater and more harmful con man.
And yet in all these years you never give any examples of this hypothetical "harm".
Sad.
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Robert Cook
Tawana Brawley. Lives destroyed. Lives you can put names to. Trump? Mean tweets. Vulgar man. That’s it
what is a white supremacist? Too bad Mr. Penny didn't give his definition. And why should he have to deny it? why is it even brought up?
5 black dudes harrassed, committed assault, and filmed a white nurse in NYC while they tried to steal her bike. Are they black supremacists? why aren't they asked to deny it?
The sad thing about Penny is the facts of his case are irrelevant. Whether he's found guilty will depend entirely on WHO is on his jury and WHO the judge is. If he gets enough SJW libtards deciding his fate, he will hang, facts be damned. That's "Justice" in blue state America.
"And yet in all these years you never give any examples of this hypothetical "harm"."
Well, for one, Trump is living rent-free in Robert's head.
So there's that.
His naivity is going to send him straight to prison. He talks like a time traveler from 2015. It's not going to work on a 2023 jury.
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