We previously discussed the controversial threats of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) against those who were raising electoral fraud allegations.
She is currently in another controversy involving the arrest of restaurant owner Marlena Pavlos-Hackney. Fox Host Tucker Carlson has alleged that the owner was arrested due to her appearance on his show. (For full disclosure, I am a contributor to Fox News).
Nessel can certainly point to a long history of noncompliance to justify the arrest but her statement issued in response to the allegations is, in my view, highly inappropriate and shows raw political bias.
Pavlos-Hackney became a national hero for some in defying the Michigan health orders and what followed were a series of citations and contempt orders.
Those orders were sufficient to secure a bench warrant of arrest, but the timing following her appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show led many to object that Nessel was retaliating against a national critic.
Putting aside the retaliatory accusation, there is ample reason to condemn Nessel’s response to the criticism. Here is the statement:
Marlena Pavlos-Hackney had countless opportunities to comply with even the most basic health and safety protocols to protect her community from the spread of Covid.
She defied her local health department and the court at every turn, instead choosing to taunt health inspectors, law enforcement and the courts at every turn- going on Tucker Carlson and setting up a lucrative Go Fund Me account instead of making even the slightest effort to protect her customers, her workers and community. She is no martyr and no hero.
One cannot repeat the mantra of “Law & Order” and support the activities of Ms Pavlos-Hackney.
But if you cheered Donald Trump when he bragged about the many ways he avoided military service while others complied with their legal obligations, it’s no wonder you revere this woman.
Making personal sacrifice for the greater good of our state and nation was once considered admirable. Not anymore.
Michigan AG Dana Nessel
My objections to the statement are two-fold.
- First, Nessel goes out of her way to taunt Pavlos-Hackney and her supporters. She also makes specific reference to her going on the Tucker Carlson show. Given the free speech issues in such appearances, the reference to a national show (in which Nessel was criticized) shows, at a minimum, terrible judgment by Nessel. This is particularly concerning given Nessel prior threats against people who raised electoral fraud claims.
- Second, Nessel uses the statement to confirm raw political bias in striking out at Trump and his supporters. She mockingly notes “if you cheered Donald Trump when he bragged about the many ways he avoided military service while others complied with their legal obligations, it’s no wonder you revere this woman.” Ironically, it is the type of gratuitous attack that many of us criticized Trump for using against political opponents. However, this is the Michigan Attorney General engaging in petty digs against Republican critics.
The entire statement reads like a political screed rather than a prosecutorial statement. It is both unprofessional and unwarranted in addressing the arrest of a citizen. What is bizarre is that most officials in such a controversy would strive to maintain an absolutely legally objective and politically neutral position. Nessel could have left the matter by detailing the history of noncompliance as sufficient justification for the arrest. Nessel did precisely the opposite to pander to a political base. She seems to struggle to fulfill every stereotype of a biased political operative exercising criminal enforcement authority.
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Michigan comes across as strange considering I can go out to eat at local restaurants here. Schools are open. There are still uptight mask freaks though in some places.
“Women will lead them, and children shall be their oppressors” Somewhere in the book of Isiah, talking about foolish men of the future.
The AG should be above and impartial. How can there be a semblance of a fair trial now considering that statement made above. Nessey having chosen the low road, because that is what DEMS do, have handed the restaurant owner excellent grounds for an appeal. Who knows, some day it might just end up in docket at SCOTUS.
Hopefully the court will not be stacked with hacks like her if that was to occur.
To late, the Communist are running all the government trains now.
It needs to be understood how outrageous her statement is, coming from an official who is supposed to be the impartial head of law in the state. It’s completely out of bounds and insane, and the liability itself should be enough to drive removal from office. Any defense attorney could claim that their client is being targeted by a biased prosecutorial office and would only need to point to the AG’s OWN STATEMENT to prove it.
That said, the rule of law is quite obviously dead in this country. There is only power. It’s all that matters and leftists hold it in spades. So I’d predict the result of this will be nothing. She’ll remain in office – emboldened by the lack of accountability – and the bias and tyranny will grow.
Just a matter of time before the average man loses faith in the legal system. They haven’t caught up to reality yet. Or the other way around. Necessity will become clear at that point.
Ever sit on a jury? After a couple of those experiences a thinking person will conclude it is all a charade and has little to do with justice being served.
Please be aware that Dana Nessel is a lesbian and a Jew.
A Jewbian?
Just take one look at this nasty, ugly bitch. People like her and her leftist comrades are utterly lacking in imagination. When the balloon goes up in this country – and it surely will before too long – they will be hunted down. Yeah, yeah. I know. Nobody will do anything. Nobody will do anything until the dollar collapses, there is no food or gasoline, the power goes off, and the cops and the military are not being paid real money. The most obtuse, lazy, cowardly couch potato will then root hog or die. The moron occupying the White House is going to spark a catastrophe, and soon. Biden thinks people will just give him their guns in exchange for some pieces of paper? This is not going to happen, period. Just who is going to be doing the confiscating? After the first few shoot-outs, Federal agents will be highly reluctant to give up their lives for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. This is especially so as in many Red states governors will order local police and officials to refuse any sort of cooperation. The military? Don´t make me laugh.
Like what happened to Mr & Mrs Dictator of Romania only it will be all the Useful Idiots from sea to shining sea, Left coast to left coast, WDC to the state of Washington. …”whosoever shall offend one of these little ones…” Liberals and RINOs have aborted, dumbed-down, brainwashed, perverted, kidnapped, sold, enslaved, raped, and sacrificed our children; their Day of Justice is fast approaching.
After one or two of them catches one through their eyes on the way home some evening the rest of the slimeballs will be petrified with fear. There is no amount of fence and razor wire that will help them then.
She’s a democrat political hack.
This happened in a town 40 min south of me, my wife and I supported her in her business, she was actually on her way to turn herself in but the “authorities” had to make a big fucking scene by arresting her.
We also went to a breakfast place in town who also defied the governor’s “orders” Toast n Jams suffered great social media backlash by the mindless liberal sheep parroting the same stupid claim over and over after they opened early, but they were packed every morning with some very happy customers and staff. And ironically it was social media that helped spread the word they were indeed open, so that was pretty funny.
There is panic among Michigan’s “leaders” I think they know they are on borrowed time, even with changing voting rules and stealing elections, most people just don’t care anymore about their fucking rules or orders.
This by no means will result in the fucktards in charge going down without a fight or imposing even more rules and orders, I expect more but I just don’t care anymore.
I think the more we ignore them the more pissed off they will become, the more pissed off the more stupid rules they’ll make, eventually pissing off the mindless liberal sheep.
That sounds like the perfect plan. No sarc.
Civil disobedience.
Red, White, and Blue Vests???
Apparently Nessel is an angry lesbo. Refundant, I know, as most of the lesbos of this world are bitchy and angry as hell.
It starts when they realize they will never be the princess they hoped for and the prettier girls are.
Damn. Look at the Adam’s Apple on that dyke. I bet she wishes she had a dick as big as her Adam’s Apple.