Kass: Daniel Penny, Trapped in the Soros Mouth of Madness

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Daniel Penny, Trapped in the Soros Mouth of Madness

By John Kass

Friday Dec. 13, 2024

What did the neo-Marxist zealots seek as they took George Soros’ millions to elect destructive and woke prosecutors in the big blue cities of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago?

They got what what they wanted:

Anarchy.

And what came with it? A nightmare for law-abiding citizens in those Sanctuary Cities that were offering sanctuary to violent criminals.

The neo-Marxists who elected the woke prosecutors, like Alvin Bragg in New York and Kim Foxx in Chicago weren’t demanding strict adherence to law and order and sending repeat offenders to prison to keep the law-abiding safe. They didn’t reinforce law enforcement, which they argued was part of a systemically racist justice system. They despise cops and wanted to defund the police, remember?

Cops who pushed back were isolated and threatened with the loss of their pensions. Violent street crime was rising and victims were bleeding and the pro-Democrat corporate media went out of its way to shout that crime was decreasing. It wasn’t. It was increasing. Blue cities could not retain law enforcement officers. And journalists who dared push back against this left wing anarchy were denounced as bigots and de-platformed, remember? I remember that some journos were told to kneel publicly, apologize and beg forgiveness in struggle sessions. And that I can’t forget.

The seeds of lawless anarchy kept growing, like some wild strangling vine. It kept growing, with the law-abiding becoming increasingly afraid as street gangs and flash mobs swooped into high end shopping districts to attack jewelry stores. Or attacking them on public transit. And the do-nothing Soros prosecutors would not prosecute, or softened prosecutions to apparently address racial discrimination from decades ago. It was anarchy.

It was absolute madness, funded and supported by left wing billionaire George Soros and others. Their permissive policies were destroying the great cities. The arson, looting and destruction in the cities in 2020 continued on, insatiable. It was the mouth of madness.

And into it stepped a tall, thin young man riding on the subway in New York. A former Marine who, many years before, fell in love with classical music, playing the stand-up bass:

Danial Penny.

Into his subway car was an angry habitual criminal and madman Jordan Neely, high on the synthetic cannabinoid known as K2. He was screaming he was thirsty and hungry, screaming he was ready to go to jail if he didn’t get what he wanted, screaming he was ready to die. And Neely did die, after Penny stood to face him and defend terrified commuters. Penny was a hero. Neely wasn’t. Neely’s family did little if anything to help him, but a few sought to cash in and make money off the taxpayers of New York.

“There’s outbursts on the train all the time,” Penny told Judge Jennine Pirro in the exclusive interview on Fox News. “Unfortunately, in New York City, there’s always people coming on and saying, kind of, talking crazy, and this was unlike anything that I’ve ever experienced. It was very serious. I completely believed what he was saying.”

I’ve been there on the CTA trains when a deranged madman starts threating behavior. So have you if you’ve ridden public transportation in a blue city. People look away, trying to avoid the stare of the threatening madman. Some find solace in their ear-buds. Some fantasize there would be someone to help them. But no one comes. They don’t want the grief that would come to them if they stood up and defended themselves and others. And in that instant the anarchists have won. That is their nourishment.

In his interview with Pirro on Fox Nation, Perry was asked, if faced with the same situation on the subway where someone was making threats and acting erratically, would he take action again?

“I would not be able to live with myself if I didn’t do anything in that situation and someone got hurt,” he said. “I would feel guilty for the rest of my life.”

But the jury rejected Bragg’s attempts to put him in prison. Penny was acquitted. Now Penny is thanking the jurors.

He wants to give them a hug.

“I’d like to give them a hug. I’d like to thank them. Yeah, definitely. It takes a lot of courage, especially in this climate in New York City, to stick up for me,” he told Judge Jeanine Pirro in the exclusive FOX News interview.

Penny said if he faced the same situation on the subway where someone was making threats and acting erratically, he would take action again. That’s what the Soros left wanted to take away. Penny, an architecture student ,added that he feared Neely would act on his threats to kill people in the subway car.

Mason Letteau Stallings of The American Conservative noted that District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office attempted to make race a salient factor in the trial, with the prosecutor, Dafna Yoran, referring to Penny as “the white man” and “murderer” throughout the trial,” writes Stallings.

Just imagine a Jim Crow era prosecutor talking like that, referring to “black man.” Who talks like that now? Drooling racists, yes. And the neo-Marxist left working for Soros prosecutors who see themselves as morally superior to all of us.

Their ends justify their means. And all animals are equal though some animals are more equal than others.

“Yoran is also known as a proponent of “Restorative Justice,” writes Stallings, “having earlier reduced the charges against a man caught on camera killing an elderly college professor from felony murder to manslaughter.”

Outside the courtroom, Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome stood after the verdict to threaten white people. The reason? Skin pigment in common with Daniel Penny is a call to violence.

Newsome, shouting the way cowards shout, called on ‘black vigilantes’ to step up after the Marine veteran was found not guilty.

Was he arrested or indicted by Soros prosecutor Bragg’s office? No. Bragg was silent as a church mouse. Newsome, who says he is Jordan Neely’s uncle, threatened Penny inside the courtroom during the chaos which immediately followed the verdict, reported the Daily Mail. He shouted, ‘it’s a small f**king world, buddy.’

And then outside came more of his racial hate.

Black vigilantes? Sounds like a call for direct violence to me. Did it sound that way to you?

In City Journal, author and lecturer Heather Mac Donald wrote “New York’s Government is the Real Villain in the Daniel Penny Trial” asking mentally ill addicts are certain to attack more innocent New Yorkers—what will city officials do to protect them?

“The Daniel Penny homicide trial was a travesty of justice. On May 1, 2023, a psychotic, wildly gesticulating vagrant burst into a New York subway car as it travelled beneath Manhattan’s SoHo district. The new arrival, Jordan Neely, started screaming that he wanted to return to jail and was ready to die. Some eyewitnesses recalled that the 30-year-old Neely threatened to kill the straphangers.”

When Penny made his move others helped him. Black subway riders, Latin subway riders helped hold Neely for a time. And then Penny found himself in that mouth of madness, until a jury of his peers defied Bragg and his race-baiting prosecutor, and defied the courtroom judge, to make Penny a free man.

Some of you may have picked up on the fact that this is not written at a dispassionate distance and that I’m bitter. You’d be right.

I wasn’t forced to defend myself and others from a madman, but my loyal readers know that I spent some time in the Soros mouth of madness. It was hell for me and my wife and kids. The pro-Soros activists in the Tribune–at the Tribune newsroom union–hated my conservative politics. And they defamed me when I dared criticize Soros for funding his do-nothing prosecutor in Chicago, the ally of Jussie Smollett Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. And they demanded I come to them and apologize.

I would not apologize. I would not kneel.

I’d written a column about the lawlessness and anarchy “Something grows in the big cities run by Democrats: An overwhelming sense of lawlessness.” The neo-Marxist Tribune guild defamed me, and their defamation found its way to Robert Feder, a left-wing Chicago media critic (aren’t they all?) who published it. They called me a religious bigot, an anti-Semite even though I made no mention whatsoever of Soros’ religion. I referred to his corrosive attempts to change the big blue cities by electing Soros prosecutors.

Feder did publish their names for the record so that Tribune readers might be reminded of what happens when the left destroys an institution.

The Chicago Tribune Guild Executive Board:

Megan Crepeau

Elise De Los Santos

Sara Harvey

Erin Hegarty

Charlie Johnson

Steve Johnson

Todd Lighty

Greg Pratt

I won’t forget them.

A guild cheerleader who once wrote a column at the paper–and is now apparently and desperately seeking to find paying readers–demands that I debate him. That’s ridiculous horse poop from a hysteric in search of status . I don’t care. The leftists of the Tribune guild don’t need to be defended from me. But they should apologize to their readers for protecting the disaster that was Kim Foxx and the Democrats who gathered around her like the Stygian Witches searching for an eye.

There are still some good journalists there, but the guild has all but gutted a once-great paper. It is dying like the rest of the corrupt corporate media. And I’m here for readers at johnkassnews.com. You keep subscribing for a good cup of Midwestern common sense and I’ll keep on writing.

I wrote back then that the left doesn’t like my politics. I get that. I don’t like theirs much, either. But those who follow me on social media know that I do not personally criticize my colleagues for their politics. I try to elevate their fine work. And I tell disgruntled readers who don’t like my colleagues’ politics that “it takes a village.” I did it at “the paper” and I do it now at johnkassnews.com

Here’s what I’ve learned over my life in and around Chicago, what my immigrant family taught us in our two-flats on South Peoria Street:

We come into this world alone and we leave alone. And the most important thing we leave behind isn’t money.

The most important thing we leave is our name.

We leave that to our children.

And I will not soil my name by groveling to anyone in this or any other newsroom.

The larger question is not about me, or the political left that hopes to silence people like me, but about America and its young. Those of us targeted by cancel culture are not only victims. We are examples, as French revolutionaries once said, in order to encourage the others.

Human beings do not wish to see themselves as cowards. They want to see themselves as heroes.

And, as they are shaped and taught to fear even the slightest accusation of thought crime, they will not view themselves as weak for falling in line. Instead they will view themselves as virtuous. And that is the sin of it.

Those who do not behave will be marginalized. But those who self-censor will be praised.

I don’t equate what I’ve done to the heroism of Daniel Penny. But now is the time to close the book on what happened to me at the paper. I want to live my life. And I have many stories to write.

Daniel Penny’s pain was obvious and breathtaking, as was his stoicism in going to that courtroom every day to be jeered at by the mob outside, to be smeared by the Alvin Bragg prosecutor inside railing against “the white guy.” He did what he did for the people around him in that subway car and he was drawn into that Soros mouth of madness. He and the jury gave America a sense of hope.

And he prevailed, unbowed and unbroken and walked out of the mouth of the Soros madness.

Naturally, the Greeks have a word for Daniel Penny.

He is axios. He is worthy. It doesn’t refer to a left-wing magazine website. I use it to refer to Penny:

Axios!

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