Criminal justice

And I think what makes your book especially compelling is that you show us this city at a moment of this extraordinary experimentation, right? Like, the Tanzimat reforms arrive, and Rustchu- Rustchuk becomes in a sense of like a testing ground, right? Like, that brings us to, I guess, your, uh, chapter one of your book, which does something I did not expect, honestly.

It, like, it opens not with politics or nationalism, but with a criminal justice.

Um, and this, uh, you really take us into this Ottoman criminal justice system in, uh, Rustchuk, uh, around, like, between 1839 and 1864.

So we go kind of through the police, the courts, and the prison, and this might not be where readers expect to begin, but it turns out to be extremely fascinating window into how the Tanzimat actually worked on the ground.

Uh, what was the state of criminal justice in Rustchuk before the reforms, and what changed?

Mm-hmm.

So the reason...

And, uh, generally mo- historians kind of just call it experimentation phase, but does-- they do not go into details about what happened.

That, that's just fucked, right?

Like it, it really shows a, a kind of a flaw in the whole like criminal justice system.

Yeah.

Like where we're, are we punishing? Are we rehabilitating? Are we trying to separate danger- dangerous people?

I doubt you have the means or the wherewithal.

I do." But, like, he literally was threatening me in the public place.

Like, I'm like, "These people should not be out here." But it's this criminal justice-

I know, I know.

Oh, say can you see the words that became the star-spangled banner written on this day, September the 14th, 1814.

As for today's news, two stories of criminal justice that ought to have your attention and certainly your concern.

Let's start with a continued fallout from the Lindsey Clancy murder trial where a hung jury ended the case for now in a mistrial.

Since that moment, the defense lawyer, news media, and several jurors have been working together to terrorize and reveal the identity of the lone juror who refused to go along with an acquittal.

It's apparent that these jurors got into a room and decided the opposite, that they were social justice warriors who had a chance to strike a blow for women who want to murder their children.

Is this not the ultimate destination of the pro-abortion culture that we've created in America? If we celebrate killing children before they are born, in some cases just before the moment of birth, Doesn't it stand to reason that we could someday celebrate killing them after? That's what I see in this jury.

A bunch of devils so steeped in the culture of death that they wanted to hijack our criminal justice system to strike a blow for the rationalization of child murder.

That's not a legitimate jury in there, folks.

But when you hear about stories like that, and you hear about how we don't want to hold moms responsible for strangling their kids and killing your kids, but we're going to have very, very light punishment for people who actually do commit serious offenses.

I mean, none of the criminal justice system makes sense to me these days.

But you can find today's X-Poll at Lars Larson Show and at LarsLarson.com.

But let me get back to the guy who planned to use a beheading to be able to inspire people in his anti-ICE activities.

Now, I've got to tell you something.

I think this is a result of a very, very flawed criminal justice system.

And it speaks volumes that 19-year-old Raden Coleman from St. Helens, Oregon, would plead guilty to the charges this week and then get a slap on the wrist from a judge.

And by the way, the first thing I suspected was, well, this is probably one of those federal judges that was appointed by Biden or appointed by Obama No, it turns out to be a state court judge, and not even a state court judge appointed by a Democrat governor, as so many state court judges in the state of Oregon and other liberal states are appointed by the governors.