DL Open Thread Monday May 9 2022

Filed in National by on May 9, 2022

May (in Latin, Maius) was named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with growth and fertility.  I was going to make a connection between the month of May and Justices Barret and Alito referencing the need for abortion restrictions in order to maintain the “domestic supply of infants” available for adoption.  I was going to do that, but it fuck it. Who cares that the legal reason behind this court’s rulings are gibberish wrapped in nonsense?  The longstanding legal precedent of “LOL, Fuck you!” reigns from on high.

Here are a couple of two more sickening stories and one happy story to start your week. I’m rescuing the sickening ones from earlier post because the Monday shift is the glamor shift all posts hope to land on.

Support the “Abortion Providers Protection Act”

Laws that create special classes (where crimes against them get additional punishments) are mostly bullshit virtue signaling – as in “WhAt? yUo d0nT zuPp0rt tHe p0LICE!?!?!”  I mean if you support cops, get them de-escalation training.  If you support teachers, fucking pay them.

Regarding the DEGOP falling assbackwards into writing a law that explicitly protects abortion providers, a wise man said, “Sometimes the right thing happens for the wrong reason.” 

I can’t understand why this story is breaking nationally.  It is appalling. There is video, and it was written up with grace and precision by Sydney Anderson.  

DSU Womans Lacrosse Team Racially Profiled by Georgia State Police

The intermittent and unpredictable flag of the day is the Starry Plough. It was originally used by the Irish Citizen Army, a socialist Irish republican movement, and subsequently adopted by other Irish political organizations. It was first flown on 5 April 1914 over the Imperial Hotel by the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Easter Rising.

It appears here because he political arm of the IRA, Sinn Fein, hailed a “new era” Saturday for Northern Ireland as it captured the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time in a historic win.

I’m nobody’s Brexit expert, but I have to think (without looking it up) that having tasted the benefits of the EU, the good people of Ulster, catholics and protestants alike, have finally had it with the Tory assholes in Westminster.

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  1. Jason330 says:
    May 9, 2022 at 6:35 am

    I guess it is getting out there a little. A commenter at a MEAC twitter thread noted:

    “My due diligence indicates the arm patch on these deputies are from the Liberty County Sheriff Office in Hinesville, Georgia, not Georgia State Patrol.”

  2. Jason330 says:
    May 9, 2022 at 7:08 am

    And also, yeah. “domestic supply of infants” read “white babies”. They don’t even try to hide the racism anymore.

  3. RE Vanella says:
    May 9, 2022 at 7:16 am

    Had a toast at the pub Saturday at halftime of the Liverpool v Spurs match.

    Cheers to our comrades Sinn Féin. Here’s to a united, socialist and republican Ireland.

  4. jason330 says:
    May 9, 2022 at 12:07 pm

    DSU President Tony Allen:

    To the University Community:
    On April 20, an incident occurred in Georgia when the Delaware State University Women’s Lacrosse Team was returning home from a game in Florida. Traveling by contract bus, Georgia Law Enforcement stopped the team under the pretext of a minor traffic violation. The belongings of the student-athletes, including suitcases in the luggage racks beneath the bus, were searched by police and drug-sniffing dogs. Videos such as this one taken by one of the players clearly show law enforcement members attempting to intimidate our student-athletes into confessing to possession of drugs and/or drug paraphernalia.
    To be clear, nothing illegal was discovered in this search, and all of our coaches and student-athletes comported themselves with dignity throughout a trying and humiliating process.
    Our student-athletes, coaches, and the subcontracted bus driver are all safe. I have spoken with many of them, and in the course of investigating this incident in conjunction with our General Counsel and Athletic Director, I have also reached out to Delaware’s Governor, Congressional delegation, Attorney General, and Black Caucus. They, like me, are incensed. We have also reached out to Georgia Law Enforcement and are exploring options for recourse—legal and otherwise—available to our student-athletes, our coaches, and the University.
    We do not intend to let this or any other incident like it pass idly by. We are prepared to go wherever the evidence leads us. We have video. We have allies. Perhaps more significantly, we have the courage of our convictions.
    News of this incident has hit social media in response to a May 4 article published in The Hornet Newspaper. Written by sophomore Mass Communications major and lacrosse player Sydney Anderson, the piece is thoughtful and well-written, supported by one of several videos taken of the incident. We have already begun to receive inquiries from local reporters. I would not be surprised if this story eventually extends beyond local coverage.
    It should not be lost on any of us how thin any day’s line is between customary and extraordinary, between humdrum and exceptional, between safe and victimized. That is true for us all but particularly so for communities of color and the institutions who serve them. The resultant feelings of disempowerment are always the aggressors’ object.
    This past January and February during the spate of bomb threats made against HBCUs, it was made clear then that personal nobility, individual virtue, and communal excellence do not exempt us from oppressive treatment. In fact, it seems the opposite holds true; too many people of color in this country, our students among them, experience what W.E.B. Du Bois dubbed “double consciousness,” a wasteful predicament in which people of color live doubly: in talented pursuit of their dreams and in self-conscious defense of their mental and, too often, physical safety.
    However, as I said in January, we will never be bullied into believing anything other than what we are— Americans, learners, teachers, builders—useful and honorable people ready to soar. I am proud of our student-athletes, their coaches, the athletic department leadership, and the reporters and staff of the University newspaper. Our mission is a critical one and is as much a part of the American story as any.
    Again, I say, “We shall not be moved.”
    Together,
    – Tony

  5. Hop-Frog says:
    May 9, 2022 at 6:06 pm

    Bravo, Tony Allen! It will certainly be interesting to see how those cracker deputies try to justify their blatantly illegal search, as well as how Delaware officials endeavor to hold their feet to the fire.

    Thanks, too, to Jason for the Starry Plow — I’ve seen the Big Dipper referred to as Charles’s Wain (wagon) in British lore, but didn’t know of that reference — and vexillological use.

  6. Andrew C says:
    May 10, 2022 at 6:16 pm

    Delaware abortion rights with a nice write-up in The Guardian today: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/10/delaware-access-abortion-care

    Gripe at our Democrats, but occasionally they give us good things when they come together in Dover.

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