By getting away with a hate crime hoax, Jussie Smollett paves the way for future hoaxes that will one day lead to massive unrest and civil war "... if Smollett had been found guilty of only half of what he was charged with and received the minimum sentence for each count, he still would have had to serve nearly a decade behind bars." "... But as it turns out, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office dropped all charges against Smollett on Tuesday. In the end, Smollett got away with the hoax." 03/27/2019 / By JD Heyes Democrats and their Left-wing base are determined to plunge our country into its second civil war one way or the other, judging by the way they stoke hatred, division, and violence among competing political factions. More and more Americans are becoming convinced of that and for good reason. Take the case of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett. As you likely know, the Chicago PD had Smollett dead to rights on 16 counts of “disorderly conduct” related to a fake hate crime he staged with two Nigerian brothers. In Illinois, when you lie to cops, it’s a felony; each count carries a sentence of one-to-three years, according to The Associated Press. So even if Smollett had been found guilty of only half of what he was charged with and received the minimum sentence for each count, he still would have had to serve nearly a decade behind bars. And clearly, cops and Cook County prosecutors wanted that. The “prosecutorial overkill,” as his lawyer Mark Geragos called it, was due to the fact that “authorities are angry” at him, AP reported. But as it turns out, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office dropped all charges against Smollett on Tuesday. In the end, Smollett got away with the hoax. Chicago PD had good reason to be angry. The implications of the actor’s accusations — that two white guys wearing “MAGA” hats, a direct reference to POTUS Trump supporters, beat him up and called him racial and homosexual epithets — were potentially disastrous for the city but also affected many far beyond Chicago. Consider: If Smollett had managed to pull off his hoax, the outrage within the black community would have immediately spilled over into the streets. In such a highly charged political atmosphere as we have today, Chicago could have resembled Los Angeles during the 1992 riots inspired by the unbelievable acquittal of four LAPD officers caught on videotape beating Rodney King. Over five days, looting and violence killed 60 people and led to the arrests of more than 12,000; the rioting caused $1 billion in damages and California put armed National Guard troops on the streets. (Related: Chicago PD claims they have ‘more evidence’ that Jussie Smollett staged his hate crime.) The hoax that sparks societal breakdown is already being planned Fast-forward to today’s Chicago, which is already near the top of U.S. cities in murders per year. The bloodshed and damage would have been far worse. But there is something else that is different about the times we are currently living in compared to when the King riots occurred. Today we are a much more divided country, thanks to the Left’s refusal to accept POTUS Trump as our leader. We are on edge politically, culturally, and racially. Massive race-related riots in Chicago sparked by the beating (alleged) of a black, gay actor by a couple of white Trump thugs very likely would have sparked similar riots in other large American cities, and who knows where they would have spread from there. Untold billions in damages. Lives lost. Communities permanently shattered. Businesses ruined. And our cultural divide would have grown too large to bridge overnight, leading us in a permanent state of conflict, where one outrage would beget another. And another. And another — until the country was shattered. Yes, what Smollett attempted to do was this serious and could have led to these kinds of consequences. And yet, letting him off the hook will prove to be just as destructive and divisive. Because letting Smollett go not only constitutes a travesty of injustice, it lays the groundwork for future fake hate crime reports. After all, if he can get away with it, why can’t someone else? And someone after that? Eventually, though, police won’t be able to prove the hoax, and the lie will stand. Then the rioting will begin in earnest. Where it stops once it starts is anyone’s guess.
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http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/09/jussie-smollett-still-wont-give-up-on.html Jussie Smollett Still Won't Give Up on Infamous 'Hate Crime' Hoax September 14, 2020 7 Comments Facebook The day after this interview, a judge denied a motion to drop the new charges against him, according to USA Today. Unless Smollett is willing to reach some kind of deal with prosecutors — something that would likely force the actor to admit guilt and that all of this is made up — he’ll end up going to trial. If this is a preview of his defense, I can’t imagine how this ends well for him. There’s nothing that could possibly induce Jussie Smollett to take an iota of responsibility for allegedly setting up the most infamous “hate crime” hoax in recent memory. We’re almost 20 months out from the incident that derailed Smollett’s career. He hasn’t been convicted in a court of law, mind you, but it’s difficult to imagine a scenario in which Smollett was the victim of anything other than one of the most inane and manipulative publicity stunts ever. Yet, in an interview with former CNN commentator and academic Marc Lamont Hill, the former “Empire” actor insisted he was the martyr here. According to Fox News, the interview was conducted Wednesday on Instagram. “What happened in these last two years, it has humbled me in a way that nobody could possibly understand,” Smollett told Hill. “Out of all these jokers in this entire situation, I am the only human being who has not changed his story one time.” I mean, except for the numerous times he has changed his story, but never mind. So, what’s the biggest falsehood he’s heard? “Well, I mean that I did a hoax, obviously,” Smollett said. “I am a human being like everybody else,” he added. “I ingest the media, I read the headlines, and all that type of stuff. I’ve been guilty of taking things at face value as well. But when you see that happening, and they talking about you, and you know — you know that it’s not true — somehow it becomes different.” He also said there were witnesses who back up his original story — that he was attacked by two white men who put a rope around his neck and told him that Chicago was “MAGA country.” “These are the things that people don’t necessarily know because the lies and the things that were not true were yelled from the rooftop,” he said. “There is a tape … there is something, but of course it cuts off right before it happens.” Yes — it’s a conspiracy against Jussie Smollett! Hill asked why the tape was cut. “I certainly didn’t have the power to cut the tape,” Smollett said. “So who cut it?” So, let’s take stock of this story. You have two hateful Trump supporters who decide to target Smollett, who is maybe the third- or fourth-most-popular person on “Empire.” Why are these “MAGA country” types watching “Empire”? Who knows. Maybe they thought Fox was airing a Ron White comedy special, saw Smollett’s performance and felt their bubble of white heteronormativity being popped. So they tracked Smollett to his neighborhood and attacked him — but it wasn’t caught on video. Why? Because someone cut it. They knew a “hate crime” was being committed against Jussie Smollett and they wanted to frame him. That’s seriously what Smollett wants us to believe. “It was set up to make it seem like I was lying about something or everything,” Smollett told Hill. “There would be no reason for me to do something like this,” he said. “There would be no reason for me to do something foolish … and I do think that if you look at all of the things that were happening for me, and then for all of the opportunities and all of the money … whatever, that I have lost at this point, if in fact what they said was true, the smart thing to do would be to admit that. At least there would be a place to work back from. This is bulls—. It’s bulls—.” Yes, that would be a good idea. A better idea would be to just not talk about this at all with anybody. The matter is currently under adjudication and the actor faces a new round of charges for allegedly lying to police after a call for a renewed investigation by special prosecutor Dan Webb. Instead, he gives an interview like this where he swears the accusation against him — that he paid two Nigerian brothers $3,500 to attack him because he was unhappy with the attention he was receiving on “Empire” — was just a setup by shadowy figures. Apparently, he just had to get this off his chest. “It’s been frustrating to say the least. It’s been frustrating. It’s been beyond frustrating because to be somebody that’s so outspoken, to be somebody that speaks up for so much and speaks up about so many things, it’s been difficult to kinda be, you know, quiet,” Smollett said. “To not be able to say all of the things that you want to say, to not be able to yell from the rooftop because, I don’t think that people realize I’ve just been wrapped up in some form of a case for the last … approaching, in just a couple months, two years.” “So it’s been beyond frustrating, and I think that I’m certainly not going rogue, and I’m still taking the advice of my attorneys and everything like that. I just don’t see, honestly, what staying quiet has done, where it’s gotten me,” he added. “Then there’s the bigger picture that it’s so much bigger than me.” As for going rogue: Too late. Once you start talking about setups and people cutting video footage to frame you, that’s something his lawyers would probably him rather not do. If this is yelling from the rooftops, yes, staying quiet would have been preferable. The full interview is here, although be advised it’s over an hour long and Hill is much more interested in connecting this to a larger narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement and racial equity as opposed to, say, holding Smollett’s feet to the fire. And Smollett tried to connect this to a larger narrative about police and the legal system, telling Hill that authorities “won’t let this go.” “There is an example being made, and the sad part is that there is an example being made of someone that did not do what they’re being accused of,” he said. “You’re willing to throw people under the bus that don’t deserve to be. You’re willing to coax people into lying about saying things happened that did not happen, you’re able to switch a narrative and sell a narrative based on the agenda that you’re trying to sell.” “That is what’s been happening,” he said. Smollett hasn’t been convicted of a crime, but this isn’t a convincing alternative explanation. Instead, this is an instance of Smollett muddying the water in a weak attempt to connect the case to the Black Lives Matter movement and racial injustice. The day after this interview, a judge denied a motion to drop the new charges against him, according to USA Today. Unless Smollett is willing to reach some kind of deal with prosecutors — something that would likely force the actor to admit guilt and that all of this is made up — he’ll end up going to trial. If this is a preview of his defense, I can’t imagine how this ends well for him.