Random News and Notes 10 July

We start today’s edition of RNN at the UN. Kinda. Francesca Albanese is the UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur for Palestinian affairs. She is also a raging and notoriously open anti-Semite. SecState Marco Rubio announced that she was now under US sanctions for her continual anti-Israel stances.

. . . warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated. We will always stand by our partners in their right to self-defense. The United States will continue to take whatever actions we deem necessary to respond to lawfare and protect our sovereignty and that of our allies.

Albanese is not the first UN official to be sanctioned. Karim Khan, chief judge of the ICC was sanctioned recently.

We are coming up on the 1 year anniversary of the attempted assassination of then candidate Trump at a rally in Butler PA. Yesterday there was news that 6 Secret Service agents with ties to that fiasco have been suspended. While the names of the agents suspended have not been released, we know that they range from supervisory agents to regular line agents.

The suspensions range from 10 to 42 days.

ICE has been busy. Very Busy. Yesterday they snagged a MS-13 boss who is wanted for five murders in El Salvador and is on the country’s most wanted list. This was in Omaha Nebraska.

. . . e was living with, 30-year-old Rene Saul Escobar Ochoa, who is also wanted in El Salvador for allegedly giving orders to fellow gang members to commit multiple murders. Both men are illegal aliens who had embedded themselves in the Omaha area. Fox is told the kingpin is not being identified due to the sensitivity of an ongoing investigation. Video of both arrests provided courtesy of ICE. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons’ statement to FOX: “When ICE agents move in to make an arrest, it is extremely important that the public not interfere. The misinformation, and sometimes blatant lies, being spread around the country could result in someone stepping into a federal operation and suddenly finding themselves face-to-face with a killer who has nothing to lose. Our ICE officers and agents are protecting your neighborhoods, even when you don’t know the threat is there, so either support them, or get out of the way.”

I voted for this. More please.

You may not know who Douglass Mackey is but you should. He went by the name TheRickyVaughn on twitter. He was convicted on federal conspiracy charges because he posted a meme and sentenced to 7 months in prison. Well, the 2nd Circuit just overturned his conviction.

The three judge appellate panel said that “no rational jury” could have convicted Mackey. “The jury’s verdict and the resulting judgment of conviction must be set aside,” Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston wrote.

And the meme that was used to convict him? This one:

Yeah, if you are dumb enough to fall for a post like this one, you don’t deserve the franchise to begin with.

I told you about the attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas and some of the updates the other day. Well there is some more news about that attack. The FBI is looking for one Benjamin Hanil Song.

Song is alleged to have purchased some of the firearms involved in that attack. He is also a former Marine reservist.