The Worst Week Yet: October 27 – November 3, 2024
Oops! Southport Stabbing Suspect Charged with Producing Ricin & Possessing Al-Qaeda Training Manual  

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Courtroom sketch of Axel Rudakubana. Source: Liverpool Crown Court.

In an ongoing saga that has so many violent plot twists it could induce whiplash and cerebral hemorrhaging, 18-year-old Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, who’s already facing murder charges for allegedly stabbing three underage white girls to death last July in Southport, England, was arraigned Wednesday on biological-weapons and terrorism-related charges.

In last week’s column, I covered a separate stabbing murder in England—one where an adult white woman who worked at a migrant hotel was reportedly stabbed to death by an asylum-seeking boat person—and compared it to the Southport debacle. But even I, whose acidic heart burns with cynicism like a lantern’s wick flickers through the frigid winter night, was not expecting the latest news.

At a press conference last Tuesday, Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy announced that after searches of Rudakubana’s home in the days immediately following the Southport stabbings, authorities saw fit to charge the choco-tinted teen with “production of a biological toxin, namely ricin, contrary to Section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974” and possessing information “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, contrary to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.”

The terror charge involves a PDF titled Military Studies In The Jihad Against The Tyrants, The Al-Qaeda Training Manual. The charges state that the ricin was produced on or before July 29 and that Rudakubana possessed the terror PDF at some point between August 29, 2021 and July 30, 2024.

This suggests that English authorities already knew about these items in August, while huge patches of Ol’ Blighty were rioting over what could be fairly assumed were the stabbing deaths of three white girls by a black teen. Whether the suspect was technically a boat person or an Islamic terrorist didn’t seem to matter to the “far-right thugs” who were raising a ruckus.

According to the Daily Mail, the Crown Prosecution Service requested permission to charge young Axel with the biological-weapons infraction “a few weeks ago,” but they had to wait for consent from the attorney general or solicitor general to lodge the formal complaints.

Authorities and their media enablers were quick to point out that no ricin was found at the scene of the Southport stabbings and that they find no evidence of a terroristic motive for the event. They were much quicker to point this out than they were to announce the that they found biological weapons and an Al-Qaeda manual at his home over the summer.

NYC Trial: Homeless Michael Jackson Impersonator “Still Had a Pulse” After White Marine Allegedly Choked Him to Death on the Subway

Jordan Neely was an unhoused mimicker of the King of Pop who’d been arrested 42 times in NYC from 2013 to 2021. On May 1, 2023, Neely was said to have been threatening subway passengers when an ex-Marine named Daniel Penny walked up from behind and subdued him in a chokehold. Neely lost consciousness and was later declared dead at a local hospital.

Almost immediately after news broke of Neely’s death, his aunt and other People of Bias were declaring unequivocally that he’d been “murdered” by Penny, who for a year and a half has had to defend himself against charges of being a “white supremacist.”

Last Friday as Penny’s manslaughter trial commenced in Manhattan, police bodycam footage was shown that revealed two separate NYPD officers repeatedly saying that Neely still had a pulse when they arrived at around 2:33PM. Five minutes later, they administered the anti-opioid overdose drug Narcan to Neely and gave him CPR. A police sergeant testified at the trial that they refused to give Neely mouth-to-mouth resuscitation because “He seemed to be a drug user…he was an apparent drug user. He was very dirty. I didn’t want them to get…hepatitis.” Toxicology reports found that Neely had the synthetic cannabinoid K2—which can induce psychosis and even be fatal—in his bloodstream at the time of his death. The bodycam footage ends at 3:13PM, 40 minutes after police first arrived. Neely wasn’t declared dead until a hospital later in the afternoon. Could it be that rather than being choked to death, Jordan Neely had been working on a George Floyd impression?

Citing “Disproportionate” Arrests of Colored Folk, New York City Decriminalizes Jaywalking

It’s said that jaywalking is a victimless crime. This may be true, unless the impudent jaywalker winds up killed or crippled by a driver who was obeying all traffic rules…or if the driver gets slapped with vehicular-homicide charges and civil penalties up the ying-yang because they plowed into some jerk who was too oblivious to watch where they were going or some thrill-seeker who decided to press their luck. In such cases, there are victims, whether or not it’s even a crime.

I’m pretty sure that if a driver decides to run a red light when no cars are coming and no one’s crossing the street, that’s still a crime, regardless of whether anyone gets hurt.

It’s a well-known fact that blacks and Latinos—but never, for some weird reason, Asians—are disproportionately arrested for, and convicted of, crimes because we live in a racist society. It has nothing to do with the possibility that they tend to break the law more often, nor that witnesses often describe their assailants as black and Latino.

On January 1, 2023, California’s “Freedom to Walk Act” made it legal to cross a street against a light or outside of a crosswalk “when no cars are present.” In justifying the law’s passage, Assembly Member Phil Ting bellowed:

Everybody has the freedom to walk across the street without being worried about being cited or being stopped. We see that African-Americans are five times more likely to get cited than other individuals.

Phil Ting is an Asian, though. Why aren’t Asians getting cited as often as African-Americans? Is it because their legs are shorter and they might not be able to cross the street in time, or are they generally more law-abiding?

Now comes word that New York City has effectively legalized jaywalking. The law was sponsored back in February by Brooklyn Councilwoman Mercedes Narcisse, who happens to be black. It became law because Mayor Eric Adams, who also happens to be black and is facing federal corruption charges, was too lazy to either sign or veto it within 30 days after it was sent to his desk.

Ms. Narcisse said in an emailed statement:

Let’s be real, every New Yorker jaywalks. People are simply trying to get where they need to go….Laws that penalize common behaviors for everyday movement shouldn’t exist, especially when they unfairly impact communities of color.

According to an analysis in May from Gersh Kuntzmann of Streetsblog NYC, “NYPD officers wrote 467 summonses for crossing mid-block or against the light — and 92 percent went to Blacks [sic] or Latinos.”

Prediction: We will soon see the Usual Suspects decrying the fact that blacks and Latinos are the disproportionate victims of pedestrian deaths.

“Euthanasia Campaigner” Remains in Custody After Woman Who Died in His Company’s “Suicide Pod” Is Found With Strangulation Marks

In late September, I covered the grim and not-quite-right story of an American woman who had the dubious distinction of being the first person to allegedly take her own life in a large plastic 3D-printed capsule that its proponents had dubbed the “Sarco Pod”—named in honor of the sarcophagus. Shortly after the woman gave up the ghost in the Swiss forest near the German border, authorities arrested four people near the scene of her death.

The only person who still remains in custody is Dr. Florian Willet, the German-born co-president of The Last Resort, the firm which manages the suicide machine’s operation. Willet is an odd duck who’s had a lifelong fascination with suicide that he says extends back to when he was five years old. Though he’d originally issued a statement that said the woman’s death had been “peaceful, fast, and dignified,” authorities might disagree.

Dr. Philip Nitschke, who invented the Sarco Pod and followed the event via a video feed as the woman’s death unfolded, originally told Dutch media: “My guess is that she lost consciousness within two minutes and that she died after five minutes.”

But according to Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, a full six-and-a-half minutes after the woman had pressed a button designed to release nitrogen gas into the pod and end her own life, Willet told Nitschke over a video call, “She’s still alive, Philip.”

A long article in Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant says that although no official autopsy report has been released, nor have any official murder charges been lodged, chief prosecutor Peter Sticher has been able to keep Willet locked up based on merely raising suspicions that the woman died of homicide rather than suicide:

In court, the prosecutor has suggested in recent weeks that the woman may have been strangled. Documents show that this is based on a ‘phone note’ from September 23, a few hours after the woman’s death. During that conversation, the prosecution reportedly heard from the forensic doctor that the woman had, among other things, severe injuries to her neck.

“Powerful and Riveting” Novel Imagines America After Whites Commit Mass Suicide

While we’re pondering the grey areas between suicide and murder, Simon & Schuster recently released Sky Full of Elephants, a novel by a dreadlocked black male named Cebo Campbell. Booklist calls it “powerful and riveting,” while Publishers Weekly hails it as a “stunning allegory.”

 According to the intro of a recent interview:

Cebo Campbell’s debut novel, Sky Full of Elephants, revolves around a shocking and audacious premise. “They killed themselves. All at once,” the novel begins, “they” meaning all the white people in the world, who end their lives by walking into the nearest bodies of water.

The novel follows Charlie Brunton, a man gifted with machines and computer programs, who suddenly finds himself teaching at Howard [University] after decades spent in prison for a rape he didn’t commit.

The change of the world is that the concept of whiteness is gone. Now what?

In a meandering chunk of verbiage from his interview which I am either far too stupid or smart to comprehend, Campbell feels compelled to unashamedly mention Haiti:

So you have this, this breathtaking victory over the French with Toussaint Louverture in Haiti, and then you get the Louisiana Purchase, which now allows America to become America.…You literally wouldn’t have California if it then didn’t happen. How is that not a way to uplift, to encourage, to remind us that the contribution of not just Black [sic] Americans, but Haitian American or Black [sic] Haitians was profound and transformative?…So I thought, this feels like an opportunity to tell that story, and because it’s so near to Haiti, and Haiti is the last vestige of our access to Africa.…It’s as if in Black [sic] America, Haiti isn’t a part of our reality.…I wanted to use the book as an opportunity to celebrate Haiti, to put it on a pedestal and acknowledge that that little island transformed this entire continent as we know it.

There’s already a story about what the world would look like once all the white people die, but via homicide rather than suicide. It’s a nonfiction tragedy called Haiti.