By now I'm sure most readers have seen, or read about, former FBI Director James Comey's social media post that appears to call for the assassination of President Trump.
He later pulled the post, writing:
The expression "to 86 someone" is a well-known reference to killing them; and President Trump is the 47th President of the United States. The message was instantly understandable to anyone who knows modern slang and "street talk". For Mr. Comey to deny that he was aware of that hidden message is so ridiculous as to defy belief. As a prison chaplain, I heard similar expressions almost every day from gang-bangers intent on murdering a rival, or a snitch, or anyone they regarded as a threat. Street cops heard it far more than I did.
Sorry, Mr. Comey, but I simply don't believe you. Your excuse doesn't pass the "smell test".
So . . . what does one do with a former Director of the FBI who has publicized a message that calls for the murder of our President? If he denies in court that he meant, or understood, any such thing, how can we prove he's lying? The fact that any law enforcement professional or associate knows exactly what that message means can't be used to call him a liar - to do that, one has to be able to prove that he knows/knew that he was lying. Implication or "common knowledge" is not evidence admissible in court.
This is what the progressive left does all the time. They call for crime and violence, while "disguising" - sometimes very thinly - the reality of their message. Criminals do it all the time, too.
I hope someone's keeping a list of all the threats, explicit or implicit, directed against President Trump and his executives, complete with the names of everyone who makes them. If anything should happen to those who've been threatened, we'll have some idea where to start looking for those responsible.
Peter
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If this guy didn't know the meaning of "86'ing" someone he's been in a COMA his ENTIRE LIFE...
He is the typical leftie. All he is doing is thumbing his nose at us.
Rubbing our faces in it. He knows good and well that bondi, kash and bongino wont do a damn thing.
But, he thinks that Americans in general won't do anything. He pretty much has to stay in the liberal enclaves to stay safe.
Comey's actions cross a line, and he should be investigated--and probably arrested and charged. This is along the lines of the famous quote, attributed to English King Henry II: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" It encouraged four knights to murder Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170.
Michael Bane (michaelbane.tv) calls this practice, "chumming for monsters." It's usually more subtle--and deniable--so they can claim to be misunderstood, such as when someone travels from California to the Beltway to attempt the murder of a Supreme Court Justice, or a Bernie bro travels from Illinois to Virginia to attempt the murder of several GOP congressmen.
Comey's incitement to violence is much less deniable. As I wrote above, he probably needs to be arrested and charged.
--Bob G
James Comey is either a lying liar who lies, or he is the biggest idiot to carry a badge since Barney Fife (my apologies to Barney Fife).
Okay. Lets be fair. He's probably both.
"This is what the progressive left does all the time."
Quite. So use their tactics against them. Drag his sorry ass into court. Ask the questions, and let him play dumb (again) in front of the cameras. Yeah, he may likely get off, but not without some burn marks. That, and watching heads on the left explode.
Were I in President Trumps shoes the gloves would be off and I'd be borrowing some Russian assassins or similar. The opposition in fortunate he's playing by the rules. 2020 showed us he played by the rules even when the Opo didn't. I wonder if he learned a lesson from that? Never good to let the other side change the rules at a whim.
That said, I have to respect the man. He's trying to preserve the union within the framework of the rules.
In Barney's defense, he believed in the law.
Wonder how he'd react if somebody happened to find a set of shells on the beach that said 86comey. and posted it on fecesbook
You know, these threats could easily be pointed back at them. I doubt they realize this.
This is why I've pushed for 25 yrs to allow such verbiage be a legal defense in "proper action." Ex - a guy tells a woman, "if I can't have you, no one can." Or someone telling a business owner "nice business you have here, be a shame if something happened to it." An appropriate response should be "BANG"
They announced yesterday that they're investigating him. Now I've got serious doubts that this is a prosecutable offense where a conviction could reasonably be obtained. Any halfway competent defense attorney could get him off based on reasonable doubt in the eyes of not just you and those who think like you, but twelve jurors who have been deliberately picked so as not to stack the deck one way or the other (to the extent that's even possible in some places).
Sadly, just like Cinderella at midnight. When the clock strikes 2028, it will all go back to rats and pumpkins!
To "86" someone/something means to get rid of them, not necessarily kill. He has an easy out--all he has to do is say he meant it metaphorically.
Lots of people are overreacting. I can't stand the bastard, but let's not start acting like the other side here.
Sigh... He'll get away with it, as usual.
For years, the Democrats have made the process be the punishment - including Comey.
I bet he couldn't handle the same thing being done to him.
It's not a crime? Fine - let him prove it at trial. And of course, he is a flight risk so he needs to be denied bail and held until his trial in 3 or 4 years...
J
At first I thought that the origins of 86 come from the number shorthand created by early Ham radio operators. Upon further research I discovered that this was started by Western Union telegraphers to expedite communications both by Morse code and later early voice.
What I find somewhat amusing is that while under the code 86 means remove the thing in question, 88 stands for love and kisses.
All said and done, while I find Comey smarmy and disrespectful, it's no worse than that doofus who I see had filed articles of impeachment against our good President. Both should be mocked in public and ridicule heaped upon their heads.
Granted, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer but I would not have seen 86 as a call to violence. 86 to me means get rid of which could mean vote him out, impeach him etc.
"It never occurred to me..."
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Comey should be given an additional 75 years in prison for floating that turdburger. Which should kick in ahead of the sentence for conspiracy to assassinate the president.
No one could find pam Bondi or Kash Patel for comments about the total lack of any arrests since they tripped over two judges and one judge's wife actively harboring illegal aliens in their homes.
The entire DHS, FBI, and ICE, and they can only find three chargeable federal criminals in all of the country.
The opening credits to Monty Python and the Quest For The Holy Grail were not supposed to be a manual for how to staff an administration with total incompetent wastes of skin and oxygen.
The Demotards want communism for the communism.
I want it for the police snatching guilty mofos out of their beds at 3AM and whisking them to the gulag, or simply shooting them in custody "while trying to escape".
Trumps last administration put The Three Stooges in charge of the wheels of justice.
This time, he's trying the Keystone Kops.
Article 86 of the UCMJ is “Absent Without Leave”. In the US military in the 80s & 90s “86’d” was akin to “disappeared” or “gone missing” eg Q:”where’s that damn wrench? A:”86’d - I don’t see it anywhere”
DOJ should have ALL of Comy’s investigations reports and court testimony analyzed by AI for any previous use or exposure to the term 86.
It is a good reason to confiscate all his electronic devices and go on a deep dive for any other possible crimes. which will immediately be leaked to friendly media. Or is that borrowing the Democrats playbook too closely?
The 86 is a reference to the 86 relay in a control circuit - it's the Emergency Stop, a.k.a. Kill Switch.
There are limits to free speech and Comey just crossed the line.
I always wondered where that number came from. Looks like my definition is derivative of this.
Oh, yes, for sure. Investigate, and put him through theprocess, but since "86" can also mean to physically remove someone, as in evict or bounce out a bar, I doubt there's any chance at a conviction. Less than no chance if it's in D.C.
Well said. I worked behind a bar for years, and as far as I'm concerned, 86ing someone means throwing them out, then trespassing them so they can't return.
That guy said that, but nobody rushed to his house with torches and pitchforks to imprison him, did they? Apparently he's a celebrity or an official or something and that means he's exempt from normal moral rules.
You realize the 'celebrities and officials are exempt from moral rules' idea the government school employee trained your natural intelligence with in 4th grade was just zero-day malware to exploit you with in the future, right?
> Implication or "common knowledge" is not evidence admissible in court.
You realize pretending the science of advertising doesn't exist was was more zero-day malware to exploit you with in the future, right?
Nobody rushed to his house with torches and pitchforks because Western cultures are civilized. We're not (yet) Third World hellholes of mob violence. That, and to '86' someone can also mean to bounce someone out, as from a bar, for example.
"88 stands for love and kisses."
Please don't use it in Germany in that belief.
I hope that Trump is keeping his inner core of former Mossad agents as his primary protectors. I do not trust the Secret Service.
That's why it's beyond time when people should just start turning up randomly dead, or simply disappearing without a trace. No cute coincidences, no show trials, no public spectacles, no martyrs. Just "here today, gone tomorrow". Take 'em out like Amelia Earhart or Jimmy Hoffa, never to be seen nor heard from again, never found, and nobody knows nothing.
Just "Your America privileges have been revoked, forever, and your family will never know what happened to you."
That would thunder coast to coast, and the message will sink in like the Titanic hitting the ocean floor.
Let them know Big Brother is a concept that works both ways.
That's how you do it, and that's what they - and we - need.
The "Bart Simpson Defense":
I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything!
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