June 15, 2023

George Soros has reportedly handed over control of his huge financial empire to his son, but the work of the left-wing prosecutors he’s nurtured continues unabated. They’re still acting as midwives for social disarray, and they have now apparently delivered a new arrival.

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It seems we are now required to surrender public spaces to persons inhabiting the outer fringes of sanity; further, they are to be provided stages and captive audiences for performances of haranguing, threatening outbursts of profane hatred. Often these displays go beyond mere words: becoming unspeakably revolting scatological acts. Not infrequently, these close quarter confrontations devolve into actual physical violence, resulting in serious injury or death.

In the developing manslaughter charges filed against subway Good Samaritan Daniel Penny, we are witnessing another disturbing feature of the quickly expanding Soros-sphere. This sad outburst, the likes of which is seen every day throughout NYC’s vast transit system, was atypical only because Mr. Penny and the others sitting near him chose to fight back. The death of Jordan Neely, the clearly deranged aggressor in this sad, avoidable incident, has thrust it squarely into the public’s consciousness.  According to the Bizarro World rules Mr. Soros’s new deputies endeavor to establish, it was the completely unintended demise of Mr. Neely under restraint that represented the genuine cause of moral outrage and the impetus for immediate legal intervention.

The pressing need for citizens to walk the streets and ride the subways free of harassment and physical threat is now a strictly a subsidiary consideration.

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, faithful to the convoluted ethos he and his shadowy backers seek to impose, therefore withholds any benefit of the doubt upon the actions and motives of Mr. Penny — a mere passenger minding his own business until he and his fellow riders were threatened beyond reasonable tolerance by the serially violent Mr. Neely.  

The racial ambulance chasers hovering over New York couldn’t believe their luck: a white, blond-haired former Marine involved in the death of a black man.  Daniel Penny therefore by definition must be that most dangerous of Caucasian predators: a vigilante.

But this tragedy has nothing to do with race despite the best efforts of some to make it so.

Mr. Penny’s great misfortune may be his residence in New York, one of the states that limit the right of self-defense and impose upon their citizens a duty to retreat in life threatening situations; i.e., the legal obligation not to confront a dangerous aggressor if there is any reasonable escape route available. Whether such avenues of retreat exist on a moving train or bus, or even a subway platform or bus stop, is doubtful to say the least.

What that means in practice is that New York is one of the places in the nation where the need — growing every day to anyone with eyes to see — to take personal safety into one’s own hands is least recognized or tolerated.

Indeed, it’s routinely dismissed and ridiculed, resulting in a state of affairs where the price of simply getting around town can often far exceed a simple train or bus fare.