Our courts must have used this case as precedent for many current cases. So the murderer is found not guilty because he murdered someone who was also a murderer but of way more people. This sounds like the basis of the current murder of the CEO of United Healthcare, a murderer, some are saying, by some guy who many women think is cute. Bet he gets off too.
I’ll point out once more that the black kid who stabbed Austin Metcalf to death in what seems like a half-planned ambush has had 450,000 in cash raised online on his behalf.
The left was appalled by the trials of George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse and they’re looking to put one in the win column for their sick selves.
The trial of Derek Chauvin was a win for the Left. Him and 4 other cops were unjustly found guilty of killing a crazed junkie-counterfeiter who died of an overdose.
If someone had shot Jeffrey Dahmer on the way to the courthouse and the shooter got charged with murder and I was on the jury, I'd vote to acquit and wouldn't bat an eye. And I'd sleep long and deeply that night too.
From my travels in Turkey years ago, I got the impression that Turkish men were more generally heavy duty than Americans or Europeans--not someone you'd wanna get physical with (and best to keep a close eye on your women and girl children around them, too). In a way, the Armenian genocide was a perverse acknowledgment that the Turks considered the Armenians even heavier duty than they were. Reminds me of Orwell's street wisdom about tribal cultures: "Trust a snake before a Jew; a Jew before a Greek; but whatever you do, never trust an Armenian."
About ten years ago a restaurateur in SF, native Sicilian, was in a Turkish tourist bazaar with his wife and 20-year old daughter. One of the merchants offered him 30 camels for his daughter.
Camel wrestling is a big sport about this time of year in Turkey. Surprisingly, it's biggest along the Turkish Riviera in the west rather than in inland Anatolia.
A crowd of random Mexican-Americans in East L.A. chased down the Night Stalker serial killer, Richard Ramirez, and damn near beat him to death before the LAPD arrived. Were they ever charged with any crimes?
Not surprisingly, several groups, including Spielberg, did make shows about the killing of Black September, the '72 Munich terrorists, by Mossad. Good PR for them.
Instapundit likes to point out the police exist to protect criminals from the populace, but have we had vigilantism squashed out of us? The Soros DAs seem to be testing that deliberately.
I knew the story but for some reason thought that he actually surrendered. I’m sorry to be disabused of my prettier preconception.
Not that he would have been wrong to distrust the justice system in any land in the modern era but to audiences with nothing at stake it’s easier to trust that The Law Brings Justice than to face the facts that it most often does not.
Navalny seemed confident enough in his righteousness (I mean he got a recorded confession from his would-be assassin!) to return to Russia only to be disappeared, starved, and killed to no effect.
Justice in America is not much better but rather than open a ca of worms that most of us prefer to ignore, I'll make up for my disappointment in learning that Tehlirian lost his nerve by sharing a very similar story from the same time period, where the protagonist reacted as our comfortable heroic notions prefer they do.
I've lectured and published on the assassination of Symon Petliura by Sholem Schwartzbard in France.
To stave off Sons-of-Light vs Sons-of-Darkness distinctions I’ll just point out that both Talaat and Petliura “had their reasons”.
But Tehlirian and Schwartzbard had better reasons.
Rather than re-write Schwartzbard’s story ex nihilo (my publication on the matter is in an audio format and available as a free gift along with 15 hours of similar tales of forgotten Jewish history for paid subscribers to my substack), I’ll point you to a report of the trial written for an American audience in 1927.
Culprit: The accused man, who not only admitted committing the crime but even boasted of it, was a young Jewish Ukrainian, now a naturalized Frenchman, Sholem (Samuel) Schwartzbard, a watchmaker by profession.
Short, ugly, he yet commanded the attention of the whole court, for he told his story, not as do many prisoners, shamefaced and haltingly, forced to reveal their crimes and motives by harassing lawyers—no, Watchmaker Schwartzbard openly confessed with gleaming eyes and hysterical mien, his body trembling with passion, how he slew “General” Simon Petlura to avenge the deaths of thousands of Jews slain in pogroms, which he charged “General” Petlura instigated.
….
Lawyers: Henri Torres, chief counsel for the defense, florid, bloated, dynamic… was attempting to prove that M. Schwartzbard could not have shot Simon Petlura as he lay prone on the ground.
….
“When I saw him fall I knew he had received five bullets. Then I emptied my revolver. The crowd had scattered. A policeman came up quietly and said: ‘Is that enough?’ I answered: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘Then give me your revolver.’ I gave him the revolver, saying: ‘I have killed a great assassin.’
“When the policeman told me Petlura was dead I could not hide my joy. I leaped forward and threw my arms about his neck.”
“Then you admit premeditation?” asked the judge.
“Yes, yes!” replied M. Schwartzbard…
….
Verdict: Amid tense excitement, after an absence of 35 minutes, the jury returned a verdict for the young, pale faced Jew’s acquittal. Frenzied cheering greeted the decision. M. Schwartzbard, calm, kissed his lawyer, Maitre Henri Torres. “Vive la France!”
"...on the Genocide like said he was waking up under his brother’s course."
Did you mean to say, "...OF the Genocide like HE said he was, waking up under his brother's CORPSE."?
I had to re-read that twice and then with the translation above it made sense... 😄
Guess I need to brush up on my Armenian.
Fascinating story!
Thanks.
"[of] the Genocide[,] like [he] said he was waking up under his brother's [corpse]."
Best I can do.
Our courts must have used this case as precedent for many current cases. So the murderer is found not guilty because he murdered someone who was also a murderer but of way more people. This sounds like the basis of the current murder of the CEO of United Healthcare, a murderer, some are saying, by some guy who many women think is cute. Bet he gets off too.
I’ll point out once more that the black kid who stabbed Austin Metcalf to death in what seems like a half-planned ambush has had 450,000 in cash raised online on his behalf.
The left was appalled by the trials of George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse and they’re looking to put one in the win column for their sick selves.
The trial of Derek Chauvin was a win for the Left. Him and 4 other cops were unjustly found guilty of killing a crazed junkie-counterfeiter who died of an overdose.
So the lesson is. It’s okay to commit murder as long as no-one likes who you murder. Got it.
If someone had shot Jeffrey Dahmer on the way to the courthouse and the shooter got charged with murder and I was on the jury, I'd vote to acquit and wouldn't bat an eye. And I'd sleep long and deeply that night too.
Would watch.
From my travels in Turkey years ago, I got the impression that Turkish men were more generally heavy duty than Americans or Europeans--not someone you'd wanna get physical with (and best to keep a close eye on your women and girl children around them, too). In a way, the Armenian genocide was a perverse acknowledgment that the Turks considered the Armenians even heavier duty than they were. Reminds me of Orwell's street wisdom about tribal cultures: "Trust a snake before a Jew; a Jew before a Greek; but whatever you do, never trust an Armenian."
About ten years ago a restaurateur in SF, native Sicilian, was in a Turkish tourist bazaar with his wife and 20-year old daughter. One of the merchants offered him 30 camels for his daughter.
Camel wrestling is a big sport about this time of year in Turkey. Surprisingly, it's biggest along the Turkish Riviera in the west rather than in inland Anatolia.
A crowd of random Mexican-Americans in East L.A. chased down the Night Stalker serial killer, Richard Ramirez, and damn near beat him to death before the LAPD arrived. Were they ever charged with any crimes?
> Tehlirian died in Fresno, CA in 1960, where he is commemorated with a statue of an eagle hunting a snake
Is it next to the statue of Jerry Tarkanian?
Not surprisingly, several groups, including Spielberg, did make shows about the killing of Black September, the '72 Munich terrorists, by Mossad. Good PR for them.
Instapundit likes to point out the police exist to protect criminals from the populace, but have we had vigilantism squashed out of us? The Soros DAs seem to be testing that deliberately.
Too bad Tehlirian ran.
I knew the story but for some reason thought that he actually surrendered. I’m sorry to be disabused of my prettier preconception.
Not that he would have been wrong to distrust the justice system in any land in the modern era but to audiences with nothing at stake it’s easier to trust that The Law Brings Justice than to face the facts that it most often does not.
Navalny seemed confident enough in his righteousness (I mean he got a recorded confession from his would-be assassin!) to return to Russia only to be disappeared, starved, and killed to no effect.
Justice in America is not much better but rather than open a ca of worms that most of us prefer to ignore, I'll make up for my disappointment in learning that Tehlirian lost his nerve by sharing a very similar story from the same time period, where the protagonist reacted as our comfortable heroic notions prefer they do.
I've lectured and published on the assassination of Symon Petliura by Sholem Schwartzbard in France.
To stave off Sons-of-Light vs Sons-of-Darkness distinctions I’ll just point out that both Talaat and Petliura “had their reasons”.
But Tehlirian and Schwartzbard had better reasons.
Rather than re-write Schwartzbard’s story ex nihilo (my publication on the matter is in an audio format and available as a free gift along with 15 hours of similar tales of forgotten Jewish history for paid subscribers to my substack), I’ll point you to a report of the trial written for an American audience in 1927.
https://archive.ph/20120913230841/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,731176,00.html
Excerpt:
Culprit: The accused man, who not only admitted committing the crime but even boasted of it, was a young Jewish Ukrainian, now a naturalized Frenchman, Sholem (Samuel) Schwartzbard, a watchmaker by profession.
Short, ugly, he yet commanded the attention of the whole court, for he told his story, not as do many prisoners, shamefaced and haltingly, forced to reveal their crimes and motives by harassing lawyers—no, Watchmaker Schwartzbard openly confessed with gleaming eyes and hysterical mien, his body trembling with passion, how he slew “General” Simon Petlura to avenge the deaths of thousands of Jews slain in pogroms, which he charged “General” Petlura instigated.
….
Lawyers: Henri Torres, chief counsel for the defense, florid, bloated, dynamic… was attempting to prove that M. Schwartzbard could not have shot Simon Petlura as he lay prone on the ground.
….
“When I saw him fall I knew he had received five bullets. Then I emptied my revolver. The crowd had scattered. A policeman came up quietly and said: ‘Is that enough?’ I answered: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘Then give me your revolver.’ I gave him the revolver, saying: ‘I have killed a great assassin.’
“When the policeman told me Petlura was dead I could not hide my joy. I leaped forward and threw my arms about his neck.”
“Then you admit premeditation?” asked the judge.
“Yes, yes!” replied M. Schwartzbard…
….
Verdict: Amid tense excitement, after an absence of 35 minutes, the jury returned a verdict for the young, pale faced Jew’s acquittal. Frenzied cheering greeted the decision. M. Schwartzbard, calm, kissed his lawyer, Maitre Henri Torres. “Vive la France!”