It's Thursday, January 18th, 2024.

Criminalizing self-defense, an update on the laptop from hell, and skipping out on

repaying student loans next on the AM update.

A.M. Judge has denied Daniel Penny's motion to dismiss the criminal case against the Marine veteran, who killed Jordan Neely with a chokehold on a subway last May.

The case stems from a May 1st, 2023, altercation on the F subway train in Manhattan, where witnesses say Neely, who is a homeless man and former Michael Jackson impersonator, was shouting and begging for money and making the other passengers

feel generally uncomfortable. Penny pinned Neely to the ground with the help of two other

passengers and held them in a chokehold for several minutes, according to prosecutors. Neely

later died. Penny's attorney said in a statement, quote, while I disagree with the court's

decision not to dismiss the indictment, we understand the legal threshold to continue even an

ill-conceived prosecution is very low. Penny's attorney also expressed optimism that once the case

goes before, jury, his client will be exonerated. This is, of course, another example of the anarcho

tyranny we've been discussing recently on the show. The end goal of cases like this is to make

sure no one feels comfortable defending themselves or others. Why? Well, because in the

progressive worldview, up is down and down is up. It's pretty simple. Criminals and those

acting badly in public like Jordan Neely are

merely misunderstood victims of a cruel world. People like Daniel Penny who would take the risk to

defend his fellow passengers by subduing that miscreant, well, they're the privileged few, so they don't

have equal rights. There's also the part of this that Penny is white and Neely is black, so there's

that too.

Remember, government always punishes something.

If they're not punishing evil, they must punish good.

And this story is an example of that.

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