Why would I give a flying fart what the Brits think or feel about our president? I don't care what they think about Joe, Bubba, or the anointed one.

Anyways...

Per one Edgar Allan Poe via his short story “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether” from the November 1845 issue of “Graham’s Magazine”. The tale was set in a private hospital for the mentally ill, and the adage was spoken by the nominal head of the institution.

“You are young yet, my friend,” replied my host, “but the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, without trusting to the gossip of others. Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

Mine cracked a while back. I have a view but it's possible that it's somewhat distorted. Actually that probably applies to most in here.

Not so fast.

https://www.jurist.org/news/2019/06/us-supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-illegal-immigrant-in-possession-of-firearm/#

June 21, 2019 03:19:03 pm

The US Supreme Court held in a 7-2 decision on Friday that undocumented immigrants must know both that they are in the country illegally and that they belong to a class that is proscribed from possessing firearms to be prosecuted under federal law.

The petitioner, Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif, whose F-1 student visa had expired after he was dismissed from Florida Institute of Technology for being academically ineligible, stayed in the country, rented a gun and purchased ammunition at a gun range. He was arrested after the FBI, responding to a tip, came to his hotel room and discovered the ammunition and was told by the petitioner that he indeed had fired a gun. A federal grand jury subsequently charged him under 18 USC §922(g), which prohibits a person who “is illegally or unlawfully in the United States” from possessing “any firearm or ammunition.” He was convicted by a jury in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida and the Eleventh Circuit affirmed.

The majority opinion penned by Justice Breyer overturned the lower court, holding that Rehaif did not knowingly commit a crime when he participated in shooting activities at a gun range. The court explained that,

In a prosecution under §922(g) and §924(a)(2), the Government must prove both that the defendant knew he possessed a firearm and that he knew he belonged to the relevant category of persons barred from possessing a firearm.

The court additionally stated that there was “a longstanding presumption that Congress intends to require a defendant to possess a culpable mental state regarding “each of the statutory elements that criminalize otherwise innocent conduct,” and that “There is no convincing reason to depart from this presumption here.”

Justices Alito and Thomas in their dissent stated,

So today’s decision is no minor matter. And §922(g) is no minor provision. It probably does more to combat gun violence than any other federal law. It prohibits the possession of firearms by, among others, convicted felons, mentally ill persons found by a court to present a danger to the community, stalkers, harassers, perpetrators of domestic violence, and illegal aliens. Today’s decision will make it significantly harder to convict persons falling into some of these categories, and the decision will create a mountain of problems with respect to the thousands of prisoners currently serving terms for §922(g) convictions.

Justices Alito and Thomas acknowledge a student may not know that he was dismissed from school, but ask “Does that take him outside §922(g)(8)? Is it likely that this is what Congress wanted? That is most doubtful,” they argue.

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So, the question to be asked is does the illegal alien know that he is illegal?

I think any rational person would say that any "immigrant" that avoids detection crossing the border and does not notify the border authorities of his presence knows that he is here illegally.

23 He said, “I am (AT)the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight[h] the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

Last I checked, trans is anything but straight....

As a Catholic, that was genuinely disgusting.

Which is it Frank? Transgender or Gay? I was Transgender Day not Gay Day. Try to stay on topic.

Sure it is. It is evidence of what a POS, or POG if your prefer, Mr. Biden is.

There's like a few billion Christians. They believe Christ rose from the dead on Easter.

I doubt you can find a few billion people that believe that a transgender is something other than a dude in a dress. Or as Ricky Gervais says about transgenders..."lose the cock, ladies".

Same guy that is letting unprecedented numbers of illegals and signing off on having them counted on the census. That last one is going to jack up the number of Reps in all those blue states. He's doing this to literally rig elections. Maybe you can see that maybe you can't.

I haven't really been paying attention but I thought it got dropped to $175million...

Your post was mostly about cartoons and comic books.

From Webster's dictionary online....

'Woke is now defined in this dictionary as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice),” and identified as U.S. slang. It originated in African American English and gained more widespread use beginning in 2014 as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. By the end of that same decade it was also being applied by some as a general pejorative for anyone who is or appears to be politically left-leaning."

"Stay woke" became a watch word in parts of the black community for those who were self-aware, questioning the dominant paradigm and striving for something better. But stay woke and woke became part of a wider discussion in 2014, immediately following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The word woke became entwined with the Black Lives Matter movement; instead of just being a word that signaled awareness of injustice or racial tension, it became a word of action. Activists were woke and called on others to stay woke."

You really have it bad for Trump don't ya?

Your fixation is unhealthy Art.

Who knows? I worked on sonar communications equipment for the Italian Navy. True story. They were the customer. Perhaps there's some group of Jews that want a space laser? That wouldn't even register a signal.

Then again, I did that back in the early 80's. Things are probably different now.

I'm going with "They know you".

Yeah, whatever. I worked in the DoD industry for about a decade. I saw so much oddball stuff that I would not be surprised at all to find out there is a space laser. You know they are mounting a laser canon on the fighter jets right? That is more of a challenge due to dirt, vibration, and compact size.