The Plot To Kill John Bolton and Salman Rushdie

[Doc]

2 hours ago, B-Man said:

There’s been a potentially interesting development in the Salman Rushdie stabbing attack. Rushdie is in the hospital in serious condition and his attacker, Hadi Matar, was due to be arraigned this morning. But it turns out that the New York Post and the Associated Press (at a minimum) were told by officials that they could not be present at the arraignment to cover the news.

 

From the statements being given by authorities in Chautauqua County, no press was to be allowed inside. After the fact, we learned that Matar was being charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree. That doesn’t sound like an unfair set of charges to bring considering the nature of the attack, but the lack of press coverage would cast a shadow of suspicion on the entire affair.

 

Officials did provide an explanation for the decision, but it seems unusual to say the least. (NY Post)

 

https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/officials-ban-post-and-ap-from-arraignment-of-suspect-in-rushdie-attack/?lctg=6079a542373dd11b6e38368d

 

How is this anything other than first degree attempted murder?

[Demongyz]

On 8/12/2022 at 7:05 PM, Andy1 said:

Most immigrants I know work their ass off to carve out some modest success in this country. They emphasize education for their children so they can have a better life. It doesn’t surprise me at all that US citizens have a higher arrest rate. A lot of Americans are lazy, doped up entitled addicts who don’t seem to care about working to succeed in this country. 

I can agree with this, however, if you have open borders, it's much more dangerous for the immigrant, and they don't necessarily have the ability to take care of themselves when they arrive.  It's not a good thing.

[Irv]

Demented Biden botches another thing.  Nice work by the security team.   What a mess.  

[LeviF]

17 hours ago, Doc said:

 

How is this anything other than first degree attempted murder?

 

Because first degree murder in NYS is reserved for killers of police/peace officers, firefighters, material witnesses, etc. as well as felony murders.

 

Because of all the changes to the ways that NYS punishes those convicted of various murder statutes all three of second degree murder, first degree murder, and aggravated murder are class A-I felonies.

[T master]

On 8/12/2022 at 12:46 PM, ChiGoose said:

 

US citizens are 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and more than 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes than undocumented immigrants

 

 

First off it's illegal immigrants & the reason being is because they know there very well could be consequences if they break the law because they will be deported unlike the spoiled ass entitled Americans that know that there will more than likely be little to know consequences to their actions & if they do have some they can sue someone & more than likely get more than they had prior to breaking the law welcome to the new American dream .

 

Give the illegal immigrants time to assimilate and they will become as spoiled as the rest of those that take advantage of the system & the dynamic will change .

Edited August 15, 2022 by T master

[SoCal Deek]

“It’s Salman, not Salmon…you idiot!”

Elaine Bennis 

[Trump_is_Mentally_fit]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

A Critically Important Trial Has Just Begun, and No One Involved Will Speak About Motive

Robert Spencer 

 

 

When the defendant entered the courtroom, he was dressed respectably in a blue button-down shirt and dark slacks. When his presence was announced, he stood up, said “Good morning,” and gave all present a cheery wave. And thus began one of the most important trials of our age, although everyone involved is doing everything possible to ignore all the reasons why it is so important.

 

Hadi Matar finally went on trial Tuesday for attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie back in Aug. 2022. There is little, if any, doubt about Matar’s guilt, even though he has pleaded not guilty, for he stabbed Rushdie multiple times in full view of a shocked crowd at the Chautauqua festival. Matar was supposed to have gone on trial in Jan. 2024, but Rushdie wrote a book about the attack, and Matar’s defense attorney, public defender Nathaniel Barone, received a delay in the trial so that he could review the book. It’s hard to fathom how what the victim thought about what happened might affect the guilt of his client, but nevertheless, Barone managed to delay the trial for over a year.

 

Now that it has begun, both Barone and his opposite number, Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt, seem curiously intent on preventing any discussion of Matar’s motive. Matar tried to kill the man who, at the time of the stabbing had carried for 33 years the most famous bounty on his head since the days of the Wild West.

 

It was on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 1989, that Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called for Rushdie to be killed for supposedly blaspheming against Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses." By 2022, Iran’s bounty on Rushdie’s head was $3 million. Without Khomeini’s death fatwa on Rushdie, Matar wouldn’t have tried to kill him, and there would be no trial. Nevertheless, neither the prosecution nor the defense wants any talk of that as Matar is tried.

 

 

Matar himself was upfront about why he stabbed Rushdie. Back in Aug. 2022, he said: “I respect the ayatollah. I think he’s a great person. That’s as far as I will say about that.” Of Rushdie, Matar said: “I don’t like the person. I don’t think he’s a very good person. I don’t like him. I don’t like him very much. He’s someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems.” Matar isn’t the most articulate person in the world, but what he said was clear enough to establish that he wanted Rushdie dead in accord with Khomeini’s fatwa.

 

Schmidt, however, insists all that is irrelevant, saying: “Here, I don’t believe we have to get into issues of Mr. Matar’s religious beliefs, his nationality, and his background to prove an attempted murder charge, which is what we’re doing. The allegation is that Mr. Matar stabbed Mr. Rushdie and stabbed Mr. Reese in an unprovoked attack. Therefore, I think we can prove that without getting into matters that give rise to prejudice of our jury pool.”

 

Schmidt added: “From my standpoint, this is a localized event. It’s a stabbing event. It’s fairly straightforward. I don’t really see a need to get into motive evidence, whether that’s applicable or not applicable and what that consists of. I’d like to avoid all of that.”

 

Well, all right, but isn’t examination of motive ordinarily a staple of murder trials?

 

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/02/06/a-critically-important-trial-has-just-begun-and-no-one-involved-will-speak-about-motive-n4936756

 

 

 

 

Edited February 7 by B-Man