Democrats are the ENEMY of the United States.They are the ENEMY, every bit as much as China — and they are more insidious, because they are dissolving America from within due to their hatred of everything American.
Democrats hate the founding fathers. They hate the US Constitution. It doesn’t provide them enough power. It exists to hinder government, not grow it. Your rights come from God, not government. They despise that foundational concept. They want you to revere government, to bow and scrape before government.
To kneel before government.
They hate the First Amendment. They don’t embrace free speech. They want normal people muzzled, you and me, for speaking our minds. Their social media giants do it for them. If they had the power, they’d imprison you for speech. That’s coming.
If they could get away with it, they would burn physical books. At this point they don’t have to. Yet. Because if they wish to eradicate history one day, they could do it with the flip of a switch — and everything you “own” in the cloud is gone. Fiction they don’t like. History they don’t like. Movies they don’t like. It’s happening already with Netflix.
If you think you “own” content, you own nothing. If It’s digital, it’s air. It’s nothing. Books are a guarantee that immure history and thoughts in the physical world. And they’re working on that.
De Blasio doesn’t believe you should own property. Communists don’t believe in the concept of private property. All property belongs to the State. YOU belong to the state.
Democrats hate the Second Amendment. It is the right that stops them from immediately removing your free speech wholesale, which is their goal. Only one speech. Theirs. Only some thoughts. Theirs. Firearms protect your speech and your family and your property.
Democrats hate your free speech. Democrats hate your family. They hate mothers and fathers together in a family. They hate children. They don’t want them born. Many despise the human race. And they certainly hate your private property and its very concept.
They hate your firearms and if they had the power, they would break into your home and forcibly take them. Altogether too many Americans would surrender them, and altogether too many law enforcement officers would obey the order to do so. Even one officer doing so is too many.
They hate your firearms. But they still fear your firearms. Good. Government should fear the people. People should not fear their government.
Democrats exist to remove your freedoms and liberties — occasionally deigning to sell them back to you at a terrible price.
Think: when was the last time a Democrat expanded your freedom or liberty? Reduced government? Respected your rights instead of trampling on them?
There is a lesson to be learned from President Trump. If government, in concert with the media — another issue altogether — could array itself against a presidential nominee, a president-elect, and a sitting president, essentially a soft coup, then that government could crush you in an instant and wouldn’t give two thoughts about it.
NEVER kneel before the mob, never kneel before Democrats, never appease them, never capitulate, never prostrate yourself. Because they will take and take, and can truly never be appeased.
Let’s read about one Seattle Police Department officer and his revelation concerning Democrats and the way they run their government in 2020.
Hey guys, I have a little down time so here is an update on things here. Absolute madness here. Can’t even express it all.
Day 12 for us and our Mayor and chief abandoned a major precinct and gave it to the anarchists. Unthinkable.
9 blocks of our city under the complete control of these terrorists. No joke. This is unreal. No police, no fire dept, no sanity allowed in.
They have an armed force patrolling, manning checkpoints and stopping cars and citizens at gun point.
They are creating a currency, an ID system, a supply system that includes food, water, ammo and chemical weapons.
They have access to the precinct and have made it their hq.
Our “leaders” are completely silent and the city council is completely complicit.
Yes, they have been on the front lines WITH the anarchists and yes, last night one council member let about 200 into city hall.
The warlord in charge of the new “capitol hill autonomous zone” (CHAZ) drives a Tesla and has been arrested for drugs, guns, pimping and crimes against children and is on a federal child porn watch list.
He carries an AK-47 and has already started abusing people inside. WTF? You can’t make this up.
We have been castrated. There is no recovering from this. We can’t go near the zone and have been warned by our dept to stay away.
We are only working for each other now.
We have been in battles where these psychopaths have hit us with rocks, cinderblocks, homemade napalm, and even IEDs.
Multiple injuries and THEN we gave up the precinct.
Now the guns are out.
This city can burn.
I’m working on my exit plan now.
The city and state hates us and gives us no support, in fact the leaders are actively supporting this very real insurgency.
Yet, all you hear in the media is that they are merely peaceful protesters.
This is real. There is a part of our country that is no longer under our control.
I repeat: Democrats are the ENEMY. There is no shielding this truth any more. No trying to sugarcoat it or downplay it. Democrats are, in no uncertain terms, the enemy.
They despise you, me, normal people, actual Americans. I couldn’t care less about anyone’s “paint job.” This isn’t about color. It’s about holding our country, “a Republic if we can keep it.”
It’s about our liberties, our rights, our freedoms, the very things that so many others are willing to put their lives on the line to enjoy. If this country is so inherently evil, so racist, so misogynistic, why would people care or want to live here?
We must realize that the very things people around the planet are fleeing, Democrats are working for now. Socialism. Communism.Massive, impersonal governments who exist to remove the rights of people and simultaneously acquire more power, more control, more personal wealth for themselves.
NEVER kneel for the mob. NEVER kneel before Democrats. Never attempt to appease them, capitulate to them, acquiesce to them.
We’re seeing the results in Seattle today. Anarchy, chaos, the repression of people, crimes against people. the subjugation of taxpayers. destruction of property.
You and I have been thinking this for some time, but I’m writing and saying it now.
Democrats are the ENEMY.
There can be no bipartisanship or compromise with those persons who wish to completely destroy this country.
Don’t listen to me American Media Maggots as November nears. They want you disillusioned. They want you depressed. They want you to stay away from the polls and from casting your ballots.
They will tell you that President Trump is so far ahead that your vote is not necessary.
Or they will tell you that he is so far behind that your vote is immaterial.
Don’t believe the American Media Maggots. You know who they are.
And we will surely LOSE this country if we don’t vote red in November and forever.God bless America.
We are on the cusp of losing her.
Don’t let it be US who allowed that to happen.
God bless you, your family, take care and be safe.
It’s not only a rallying cry for Leftists, Antifa, anarchists, Socialists, Communists and Demorats, it’s also the New Leftist Purity Test. Just when we thought purity tests stopped with the Nazi regime, well, no, it’s back.
Just as Antifa consists of nothing but fascists, nothing pleases Leftists more than the embracing ol’ Adolf and his purity tests.
And whereas people in BLM were chanting about killing cops, “pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.”
“What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.”
Sooner or later, you have to take people at their word. So cops are being targeted and killed. But that’s not fast enough or sufficiently far-ranging. Why not just cut off their funding? Why not abolish them wholesale?
That’s the foundation behind “defund the police.”
The interesting part is, while everything else in terms of government budgets has skyrocketed, police funding throughout the nation has remained even at about 8%.
But enough of that. Let’s start at the start with an assumption that will place me in jeopardy with most every member of the LDAMM (Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots), as well as most every anarchist extant. And that is this.
I don’t believe there is systemic racism in America. I believe what we have, instead, is a congealed glop of Americans cowering before a “movement” that they know — as has been proven most recently — can break them individually and collectively, because most people are good natured but, moreover, cowardly. There is racism, but it’s a two-way street. All paint jobs can be racist. Blacks too. Listen to the rhetoric. Said it before, I’ll say it again: “No one is equal until everyone is equal.”
Leftists are more into 1984 and Animal Farm these days: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Leftists control nearly every major institution in America:
– Mainstream media
– Academia
– Administrative government
– Courts
– Hollywood
– Big Tech
– Demorat Party, etc.
So if “systemic racism” really did exist, then truly, whose fault would that be?
And what about systemic racism by the police?
Data has been compiled by the Washington Post since 2015 on every police shooting in America, and killings by police of unarmed Black Americans has gone down every year since they started charting, with 2019 only showing 10 unarmed Black Americans killed by the Police. Of the 10, in 5 of these, the police officer was attacked before shooting the person. In 4 cases the officer was charged with a crime. Doesn’t exactly sound like genocide of Black Americans as some far left politicians and media personalities have told us. Sure doesn’t sound like systemic racism, either. Another important statistic, 48 police officers were murdered in 2019, according to FBI data.
Larry Elder dares to use facts. America has what I term Historical Alzheimers. It forgets that the highest rate of crime occurred in the late 80s, early 90s. Shootings, gun crimes, overall, have been going down markedly since.https://t.co/gTNt5jsoNR
Putting the violent rioting aside for a moment, politicians in both parties are insinuating that the killing of George Floyd was racially motivated and reflects a broader injustice against black citizens more than anyone else, which legitimizes the rage undergirding the riots, if not the riots themselves. This assertion is simply not borne out by reality.
According to the Washington Post’s searchable database on police shootings, nine unarmed black people were shot dead by cops in 2019, while 19 unarmed white people shared the same fate. So even before we examine whether these shootings were justified, there were more than twice as many fatal police shootings of white people than of black people.
Now obviously this database only analyzes shootings, not choking incidents, but if the case of Floyd is part of a broad trend rather than an aberration, we are certainly not seeing that reflected in the shootings. One poster on Twitter has done research into the nine cases of unarmed black people being shot by police, and in each one, it appears that the suspect was in the process of using potentially deadly force against the cop or another civilian.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, approximately 53 million people come into contact with the police each year, often with multiple encounters.
As researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Maryland reported last year, “We did not find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force across all shootings, and, if anything, found anti-White disparities when controlling for race-specific crime.”
Last year, 49 police officers were killed, and 30 percent of the suspects were black. So far this year, the number of cops killed is more than last year, despite the lockdown for two months. Has anyone made that a racial issue? Of course not, because individual criminals alone are the ones responsible for their actions.
Then, of course, there are the black-on-black crimes that are the biggest threat to black lives, yet they don’t seem to matter to the media and politicians. Just over the past weekend, 82 individuals were shot, 22 of them fatally. Black people are killed by homicide at eight times the rate of white people. That is the true disparity in the justice system we should be talking about. Having tougher policing and sentencing helps reduce that disparity and save exponentially more black lives, as we did from 1993 to 2015 before the advent of criminal justice deform reversed the positive trend of reduced violent crime.
In New York City, cops are beleaguered by political accusations of the Black Lives Matter movement. They are experiencing some of the most violent attacks in recent months, not just during the current riots. But is this really about protecting black lives, and are the police really the problem?
According to NYPD crime data, of the 209 homicide suspects in 2018 whose race is known, 149 (71 percent) were black or “black Hispanic,” 40 (19 percent) were “white Hispanic,” and just 14 (6.6 percent) were white. In other words, 93.4 percent were committed by “minorities.”
At the same time, however, of the 289 homicide victims in 2018 whose race is documented, just 26 (9 percent) were white, 196 (68 percent) were black or “black Hispanic,” and 54 (19 percent) were “white Hispanic.”
Thanks to more aggressive policies over the years, thousands of black lives have been saved in New York City since the days of 2,000 annual murders. We see the same principle in reverse in Baltimore, when unjustified rioting in 2015 led to a hands-off approach that kicked off several years of record murders, mainly harming African Americans.
Damn those statistics. You can never talk about the statistics. You can only speak of emotions.
But people are scared of the mob. Corporations lack courage, individuals lack courage, government lacks courage, and most of the politicians in DC lack courage. They can’t or won’t stand against the mob. And the mob demands obeisance, kneeling, genuflecting, prostration and, most recently, foot-washing. Not kidding.
Random Caucasoids were stopped on the street by alleged BLM members, demanded to kneel, and they did.
If cops take a knee, why not the national guard?
Soldiers kneeling to BLM and Antifa. What a wonderful propaganda coup for them. https://t.co/0FC4IXkGde
I’ll say it here first: NEVER KNEEL FOR THE MOB. NEVER ATTEMPT TO APPEASE OR CAPITULATE TO THE MOB.
Some very brief statistics. In depth stats later, on another post.
How many unarmed blacks were killed by cops last year? 9. How many unarmed whites were killed by cops last year? 19. Many more officers are killed every year than are unarmed blacks. When do the #BlueLivesMatter protests begin? Never.
Instead, now, I want to focus on the “defund the police” issue, what it looks like, how it materialized, how it’s gathering momentum and what it really means for those Leftist cities who implement it.
Because, as I say, it’s now a Leftist Purity Test. Will you, as a city or state or government administrator, work to defund the police? If yes, we won’t destroy you. If no, we’ll do our best to destroy you, all you have, all you’ve worked for, and remove you from any semblance of power whatsoever.
DTP has already threatened Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who failed abjectly to acquiesce to their demands to defund. They have said “you are gone in the next election. Get out. You mean nothing to us now.
DTP has also threatened the Mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan, who did not immediately kiss the DTP ring and has placed her own political future on the line. She has since, clearly, “seen the light” after City Hall was breached by protesters, the doors opened to the mob by a Leftist city council member, so the entire building could be occupied. Mayor Durkan was then threatened with removal. Astonishingly, she managed to somehow become illuminated. From King5.com:
Seattle council starts inquest of police budget amid demands to ‘defund police’
by Chris Daniels, 6-10-20
SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council began what it is calling an “inquest” into the police department budget, in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the violent demonstrations that followed in Seattle, as well as across the nation.
That’s at least the early discussion as presented by the council on Wednesday, the first of many expected meetings and negotiations between Mayor Jenny Durkan and the city council.
Several council members have already expressed openness to discuss decreasing the police budget, in the wake of the protests against racism and police brutality.
In 2019, multiple current council members approved $15,000 signing bonuses for new Seattle recruits, citing staffing shortfalls. That measure was approved 7-1, and was cheered by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best.
Yet now, based on recent events, the pendulum has swung the other direction and cuts will likely have to be negotiated.
Councilmember Kshama Sawant has called for cutting the $400 million dollar police budget, and budget chair Teresa Mosqueda has thrown out a 50% estimate.
Durkan is expected to make a pitch to the council to cut $300 million dollars from the overall budget, as a result of the coronavirus crisis, but delayed making that move in advance of a council-led meeting on Wednesday.
Things are getting truly primordial in Seattle but, why not? It’s the home of Antifa, Leftists and those who simply don’t mind trashing an entire city.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, originally in favor of abandoning Seattle’s East Precinct (“we’re not really abandoning it,” she said, after equipment, files and other items were removed — and then all personnel left the building), has now thrown the Seattle administration under the bus.
But we’ll get into the whole Seattle “autonomous zone” in a moment.
Burning. Vandalizing. Killing. Looting. Is it just BLM? Of course not; it’s Antifa and whites as well, GOWPs as well as WCM — Woke Child Mob — members.
This black Woman is screaming and begging for the #AntifaTerrorists to stop looting and burning down stuff
Far Left extremist group Antifa has hijacked the George Floyd Protests!
They are acting like Terrorist and they should be arrested
Looting by rioters, black Americans, BLM and, of course, Caucasoids on the order of Antifa — which mostly consists of young, military-age white males.
The concept of DTP first took public hold in Los Angeles. From NBCLosAngeles.com:
LA Council Members Seek to Eliminate at Least $100 Million in Police Budget
by City News Service, 6-3-20
Three City Council members filed a motion Wednesday to cut the Los Angeles Police Department’s budget by $100 million to $150 million for the 2020-2021 fiscal year.
The motion was filed by Council President Nury Martinez as well as councilmen Herb Wesson and Curren Price.
“We need to rethink what it is that makes people safer and makes communities stronger. We cannot just look at the police in isolation,” the motion stated. “There is no doubt that communities of color suffer disproportionately from negative interactions with the police.”
“Our only path forward is to dismantle the systems that are designed to harm people of color,” Wesson said on Twitter. “A preliminary cut to the LAPD budget will not solve everything, but it’s a step toward to being the city we aspire to be.”
Translated: LAPD exists to harm people of color. No other interpretation possible.
$150 million dollars cut from the LAPD budget. Let the floodgates open and the insanity commence. A little pushback from LAPD, who are reminding LA City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez that they too cast ballots.
Meanwhile, as we’re defunding the police, let’s create our own police to combat the police. From FoxNews.com:
Black Lives Matter plans armed ‘peace officers’ in war on police, NY leader says
by Peter Aitken, 6-3-20
The Black Lives Matter movement will develop an armed branch of “peace officers” to combat police brutality in black communities during the so-called war on police, according to one of its leaders.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, BLM New York chapter Chairman Hawk Newsome described how the group plans to follow in the footsteps of the Black Panthers Party by matching fire with fire – when necessary.
“We’re talking about self-defense. We’re talking about defending our communities,” Newsome said. “You know what it’s like to see a taser pointed at a 7-year-old, you know what it’s like to see a 67-year-old black woman … pepper sprayed and pushed to the ground?”
“We are preparing and training our people to defend our communities.”
Newsome attended a national conference in Los Angeles of party leadership to discuss how the movement can create a “pathway forward” for people. The plan, called “Black Opts” for Black Opportunities, details how the movement can help to liberate black people.
“We have black Special Forces officers advising us, and we will teach and train people in our communities, the Black Opts department of Black Opportunities,” Newsome said.
We Want Freedom. We Want Power To Determine The Destiny Of Our Black Community.
We believe that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.
We Want Full Employment For Our People.
We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the White American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.
We Want An End To The Robbery By The Capitalists Of Our Black Community.
We believe that this racist government has robbed us, and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million Black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.
We Want Decent Housing Fit For The Shelter Of Human Beings.
We believe that if the White Landlords will not give decent housing to our Black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.
We Want Education For Our People That Exposes The True Nature Of This Decadent American Society. We Want Education That Teaches Us Our True History And Our Role In The Present-Day Society.
We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.
We Want All Black Men To Be Exempt From Military Service.
We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like Black people, are being victimized by the White racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.
We Want An Immediate End To Police Brutality And Murder Of Black People.
We believe we can end police brutality in our Black community by organizing Black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our Black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all Black people should arm themselves for self- defense.
We Want Freedom For All Black Men Held In Federal, State, County And City Prisons And Jails.
We believe that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.
We Want All Black People When Brought To Trial To Be Tried In Court By A Jury Of Their Peer Group Or People From Their Black Communities, As Defined By The Constitution Of The United States.
We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that Black people will receive fair trials. The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the Black community from which the Black defendant came. We have been, and are being, tried by all-White juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the Black community.
We Want Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice And Peace.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Sounds remarkably similar to 2020 Seattle, doesn’t it?
There was never a more appropriately named book than “The War on Cops” by Heather Mac Donald, published a few weeks ago, on the eve of the greatest escalation of that war by the ambush murders of five policemen in Dallas.
Nor is this war against the police confined to Dallas. It is occurring across the country. Who is to blame?
There is a ton of blame, more than enough to go around to the wide range of people and institutions that have contributed to these disasters. In addition to the murderers who have killed people they don’t even know, there are those who created the atmosphere of blind hatred in which such killers flourish.
Chief among those who generate this poisonous atmosphere are career race hustlers like Al Sharpton and racist institutions like the “Black Lives Matter” movement. All such demagogues need is a situation where there has been a confrontation where someone was white and someone else was black. The facts don’t matter to them.
The same is true of the more upscale, genteel and sophisticated race panderers, including the President of the United States. During his first year in the White House, Barack Obama chastised a white policeman over his handling of an incident with a black professor at Harvard — after admitting that he didn’t know the specific facts.
Nor did he know the specifics when he publicly announced that, if he had a son, that son would look like Trayvon Martin. Are we to decide who is right and who is wrong on the basis of skin color? There was a long history of that in the days of the old Jim Crow South. Are we fighting against racism today or do we just want to put it under new management?
No one should imagine that any of this is helping the black community. The surge in murder rates across the country, in the wake of the anarchy unleashed after the Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore riots, has taken a wholly disproportionate number of black lives.
But, to the race hustlers, black lives don’t really matter nearly as much as their chance to get publicity, power, money, votes or whatever else serves their own interests.
The mainstream media play a large, and largely irresponsible, role in the creation and maintenance of a poisonous racial atmosphere that has claimed the lives of policemen around the country.
I believe that Barack Hussein Obama will go down in history as one of the largest dividers of Americans in United States history.
A very important axiom comes to mind at this point: “A society that makes war on its police had better learn to make peace with its criminals.”
Minneapolis council members seek to disband police department
by Law Officer, 6-4-20
Councilmember Steve Fletcher called cops ‘ungovernable’
MINNEAPOLIS — A member of the Minneapolis City Council revealed this week that he and several other council members are working on finding out what it would take to disband the Minneapolis Police Department.
The announcement from Councilmember Steve Fletcher comes a week after George Floyd died while in police custody in Minneapolis. During an appearance on CNN on Wednesday, he called the city’s police department “ungovernable.”
“The department is ungovernable,” Fletcher said. “Chief (Medaria) Arradondo is a leader that we’ve all had very high hopes in and that I imagined could play a role in envisioning the next version of public safety. But he has clearly not been able to make the culture change happen that we were hoping for and investing in.”
BRUTAL MATH: The NYPD’s $6B Budget Must Be Cut, Advocates and Lawmakers Say
by Gersh Kuntzman, 6-4-20
It’s the $1-billion solution.
Activists — and perhaps soon, some politicians — are focusing on cutting the $6-billion NYPD budget by $1 billion, and redistributed in a way that better benefits long-suffering communities and reduces police brutality.
As the city budget process begins, Streetsblog has been asking Council members to put an actual figure on their vague demands for cuts as part of the #defundTheNYPD movement, but none has provided a target number, citing ongoing budget negotiations. But the billion-dollar ask has long been championed by Communities United for Police Reform, and it was a prominent part of an open letter sent to the mayor yesterday by 236 current and former staffers who expressed shock at how badly he is handling the current situation pitting the NYPD against residents protesting police brutality. (Council Member Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn is the only lawmaker to publicly commit to cutting $1 billion per year, according to the #defundTheNYPD tracker.)
The mayor should “reallocate that money to essential social services, including housing support and rental relief, food assistance, and health care, in alignment with the demands of the NYC Budget Justice campaign,” the letter said.
De Blasio: NYC to cut NYPD funding, shift it to social services
by Peter Aitken, 6-8-20
New York CityMayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday he would accede to protesters’ demands by moving to shift funds away from the NYPD toward social services.
During his daily briefing, the mayor addressed the demonstrations that have gripped the city and nation for almost two weeks following the death of George Floyd while in police custody. De Blasio announced a number of reforms as proposed by a task force on racial inclusion, one of which was to shift funding from the police force to youth initiatives.
“The details will be worked out in the budget process in the weeks ahead. But, I want people to understand that we are committed to shifting resources to ensure that the focus is on our young people,” de Blasio said.
Translated: you older people and the elderly, those who don’t vote for me, can go to hell.
Massachusetts lawmaker wants to outlaw the use of tear gas by police
Boston Magazineis reporting that a Massachusetts state representative from the Boston neighbor is preparing a bill which would ban the use of tear gas by police.
“Tonight, in Brockton, police fired several tear gas canisters into a crowd of #BlackLivesMatter protestors. Tear gas is considered a chemical weapon and is not allowed on military battlefields. My office is now working on legislation to ban its use against protestors, too.”
Federal judge orders Denver police to limit firing tear gas, projectiles at peaceful protesters
A federal judge in Denver issued an order late Friday night that limits the Denver Police Department’s use of chemical weapons and non-lethal projectiles on protesters, saying that protecting First Amendment rights were more important than protecting buildings.
“The threat to physical safety and free speech outweighs the threat to property,” U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote.
Read that again.
“The threat to physical safety and free speech outweighs the threat to property,” U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote.
So the oath that law enforcement made to protect lives and property — those oaths about property are suddenly null and void? If so, why would any businesses locate in an area controlled by Leftists who condone or tacitly ignore rioting?
It’s about removing police power, police tools, and eventually the police entirely. At this point, due to the DPT movement, the beginning is with budgets and now with tools. If you defund police, that reduces the number of officers available in riot situations and, absent the proper crowd tools, the only way to defeat riots is with numerical superiority. That will likely, with this trend, never occur in the foreseeable future.
But wait. I have a thought. I honestly think the time has come. Pick a city. Hell, start with Minneapolis. Let’s not stand in the way of their wish to eliminate the police. Really. Cops, resign now, pick another locality. City council, make good on your “threat.” Do it. Everyone else, stand back and watch.
You want a Big Experiment? Do it. Start with a city.
Because it all worked so well in 1965 Los Angeles. Those businesses didn’t come back. It took decades for something else to come. 1968 Baltimore. There are still places in Baltimore, decimated from the 1968 King riots, that look like downtown Stalingrad from World War II. How about 1992 Los Angeles? Many of those businesses never came back.
And considering businesses already crushed and throttled by Wuhan-19, the rule of law gone in so many American cities, small businesses burned and looted, big businesses too, do you think they’re coming back? Big businesses can move somewhere else. Small businesses just die. So do their owners.
Amidst this confusion and chaos, Joe Biden thinks that 10% to 15% of Americans are bad people. Only 50 million Americans. Really, Joe?
And I say again, I emphasize again, NEVER KNEEL FOR THE MOB, never try to appease the mob, never capitulate to the mob — because they can never be appeased. It is never, WILL NEVER be enough.
The official BlackLivesMatter DC chapter recently tweeted their disappointment in response to a mural stating “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street in front of the White House calling it “counter organizing” to their demands.
“This is performative and a distraction from [Mayor Muriel Bowser’s] active counter organizing to our demands to decrease the police budget and invest in the community. Black Lives Matter means Defund the police,” they replied to a tweet by Rachel Chason, a Washington Post reporter.
Mayor Bowser, one of the most Leftist mayors in the US, is insufficiently Left for Leftists and Antifa. Good to know. Ask Neville Chamberlain.
Let’s remember, all Caucasoids are racists. And our children need to be punished.
Now activists in Minneapolis are calling for more than just reform: They want the Minneapolis Police Department defunded — and those calls are catching on elsewhere as demonstrations against police brutality sweep across the country and peaceful protesters are met with more barbarism for speaking out against it.
Defunding the police does not mean stripping a department entirely of its budget, or abolishing it altogether. It’s just about scaling police budgets back and reallocating those resources to other agencies, says Lynda Garcia, policing campaign director at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “A lot of what we advocate for is investment in community services — education, medical access… You can call it ‘defunding,’ but it’s just about directing or balancing the budget in a different way.”
The concept is simple: When cities start investing in community services, they reduce the need to call police in instances when police officers’ specific skill set isn’t required. “If someone is dealing with a mental health crisis, or someone has a substance abuse disorder, we are calling other entities that are better equipped to help these folks,” Garcia says.
So maybe it’s time for this:
Here’s the oddly-unreported thing, though, from DailyCaller.com:
Poll: 56% Of Americans Believe Police Are Behaving Appropriately Or Not Being Aggressive Enough
by Jordan Lancaster, 6-5-20
A new NPR-Marist poll found that 56% of Americans believe that the police are behaving appropriately or not being aggressive enough during the nationwide demonstrations after George Floyd’s death.
The survey, which was conducted Tuesday through Wednesday, asked 1,062 American adults about police behavior in relation to the protests about George Floyd’s death with a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points.
Because people aren’t much enamored with this.
We are heading towards a binary eruption; either those who love our country win, or those who despise our country win.https://t.co/FQvTYuVy1a
In the meantime comes a press conference that, at first blush, makes you wonder if it isn’t something from the Babylon Bee or George Carlin’s mind.
And since we’re on the topic of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, here is her treatment of an alderman with serious concerns in his ward.
‘What Are We Going To Have Left In Our Community?’ Aldermen React with Panic, Sorrow to Unrest
by Heather Cherone, Paris Schultz, 6-5-20
As unrest swept the city Sunday, aldermen pleaded with Mayor Lori Lightfoot to help them protect their communities from roving bands of criminals clashing with police and looting businesses.
WTTW News obtained a recording of an online conference call held by the mayor’s office to brief all 50 aldermen on the city’s response to the unrest touched off by the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.
In the wake of protests over police brutality, some are left asking whether the D.C. police force’s budget is too big and oversight of the department is too meager.
Protesters want law enforcement to be held accountable, as it would appear that police oversight is too meager even though department budgets balloon year after year. And while the protests are not a referendum on any one agency, the D.C. chapter of Black Lives Matter, along with other groups, is calling for local leaders to defund MPD. “[Washington Teachers’ Union demands] greater investment in communities, not policing,” says its president, Elizabeth Davis. Organizers are also circulating an online petition to defund the police.
“A budget is a moral statement,” says Sean Blackmon, an organizer with Stop Police Terror Project D.C. “It comes down to a question of who gets this money and resources and why do they deserve it?”
The Leftist Purity Test began with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who said he wasn’t all-in with defunding and disbanding the police.
Guaranteed. Last white mayor of Minneapolis. Buh-bye. NEVER KNEEL or PROSTRATE YOURSELF before the mob, kid. Did you learn any lesson here, Mr GOWP? https://t.co/ED6p8qKI8E
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we see clear evidence that black lives really don’t matter. From the Chicago Sun Times:
18 murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago
by Tom Schuba, 6-8-20
A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m.
A West Side high school student murdered two hours later.
A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m.
A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood.
While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.
In a city with an international reputation for crime — where 900 murders per year werecommon in the early 1990s — it was the most violent weekend in Chicago’s modern history, stretching police resources that were already thin because of protests and looting.
“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the crime lab. “ … I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.”
If they keep on this path, pretty soon Chicago is going to run out of black people to shoot and kill.
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — With more people venturing out into reopening businesses and restaurants, Los Angeles crime has skyrocketed in the first week of June.
A tweet from the LAPD says between May 31 and June 6, homicides were up 250% compared to the previous week. The number of victims who had been shot jumped 56% in the same week.
More than 700 officers injured in George Floyd protests across US
by Ebony Bowden, 6-8-20
WASHINGTON — More than 700 law enforcement officers have been injured on the job during nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd — with nearly 300 of those among New York’s Finest, according to the Department of Justice and the NYPD.
Since mass unrest over Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody first broke out on May 27, approximately 700 federal, state and local law enforcement officers have sustained injuries in clashes with demonstrators, according to Justice Department data.
Then things truly went insane in Seattle, Washington, the hub of Antifa, Leftists and anarchists. From FoxNews.com:
Seattle protesters declare ‘cop free zone’ after police leave precinct
by Michael Ruiz, 6-10-20
Protesters declared a “Cop Free Zone” near where Seattle police boarded up and seemingly abandoned their East Precinct building Monday night, according to local reports — following days of demonstrations in response to the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
On Monday, the Seattle Police Department sent a memo to officers noting that brass had decided to unblock the streets and allow demonstrators to march past the building on their way to Capitol Hill.
But with the building boarded up and police gone from the area, at least some demonstrators apparently decided to stay in place.
It is now called the CHAZ, or Capital Hill Autonomous Zone.
And what happened almost immediately? No chanting, no harpsichord, no patchouli oil? No. Instead, ID checks at its 6-block borders. Cash for entry. They have instituted their own version of “stop and frisk.” Their own “police force.” A shakedown of businesses for cash, for “protection,” like the Mafia. Apparently Leftists and anarchists DO like borders, they DO like walls, and they DO enjoy graft and corruption. Immediately.
Antifa Releases List of Demands After Taking Over 6 Square Block Section in Seattle and Setting Up Armed Security Watch — List Includes Reparations and Ending Police Dept.
The antifa terrorists are advocating for “folks with firearms” to take shifts defending the barricades.
The Antifa group set up barricades at the border and certain areas for dining and public speech.
Given the historical moment, we’ll begin with our demands pertaining to the Justice System.
The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police. At an equal level of priority we also demand that the city disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle.
In the transitionary period between now and the dismantlement of the Seattle Police Department, we demand that the use of armed force be banned entirely. No guns, no batons, no riot shields, no chemical weapons, especially against those exercising their First Amendment right as Americans to protest.
We demand an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and the abolition of youth jails. Get kids out of prison, get cops out of schools. We also demand that the new youth prison being built in Seattle currently be repurposed.
We demand that not the City government, nor the State government, but that the Federal government launch a full-scale investigation into past and current cases of police brutality in Seattle and Washington, as well as the re-opening of all closed cases reported to the Office of Police Accountability. In particular, we demand that cases particular to Seattle and Washington be reopened where no justice has been served, namely the cases of Iosia Faletogo, Damarius Butts, Isaiah Obet, Tommy Le, Shaun Fuhr, and Charleena Lyles.
We demand reparations for victims of police brutality, in a form to be determined.
We demand that the City of Seattle make the names of officers involved in police brutality a matter of public record. Anonymity should not even be a privilege in public service.
We demand a retrial of all People in Color currently serving a prison sentence for violent crime, by a jury of their peers in their community.
We demand decriminalization of the acts of protest, and amnesty for protestors generally, but specifically those involved in what has been termed “The George Floyd Rebellion” against the terrorist cell that previously occupied this area known as the Seattle Police Department. This includes the immediate release of all protestors currently being held in prison after the arrests made at 11th and Pine on Sunday night and early Saturday morning June 7th and 8th, and any other protesters arrested in the past two weeks of the uprising, the name Evan Hreha in particular comes to mind who filmed Seattle police macing a young girl and is now in jail.
We demand that the City of Seattle and the State Government release any prisoner currently serving time for a marijuana-related offense and expunge the related conviction.
We demand the City of Seattle and State Government release any prisoner currently serving time just for resisting arrest if there are no other related charges, and that those convictions should also be expunged.
We demand that prisoners currently serving time be given the full and unrestricted right to vote, and for Washington State to pass legislation specifically breaking from Federal law that prevents felons from being able to vote.
We demand an end to prosecutorial immunity for police officers in the time between now and the dissolution of the SPD and extant justice system.
We demand the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons.
We demand in replacement of the current criminal justice system the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment.
We demand autonomy be given to the people to create localized anti-crime systems.
We demand that the Seattle Police Department, between now and the time of its abolition in the near future, empty its “lost and found” and return property owned by denizens of the city.
We demand justice for those who have been sexually harassed or abused by the Seattle Police Department or prison guards in the state of Washington.
We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that each and every SPD officer turn on their body cameras, and that the body camera video of all Seattle police should be a matter of easily accessible public record.
We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into: A) Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle. B) Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege. C) Public education, to decrease the average class size in city schools and increase teacher salary. D) Naturalization services for immigrants to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called “undocumented” because no person is illegal.) E) General community development. Parks, etc.
We also have economic demands that must be addressed.
We demand the de-gentrification of Seattle, starting with rent control.
We demand the restoration of city funding for arts and culture to re-establish the once-rich local cultural identity of Seattle.
We demand free college for the people of the state of Washington, due to the overwhelming effect that education has on economic success, and the correlated overwhelming impact of poverty on people of color, as a form of reparations for the treatment of Black people in this state and country.
We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that Seattle Police be prohibited from performing “homeless sweeps” that displace and disturb our homeless neighbors, and on equal footing we demand an end to all evictions.
We demand a decentralized election process to give the citizens of Seattle a greater ability to select candidates for public office such that we are not forced to choose at the poll between equally undesirable options. There are multiple systems and policies in place which make it impractical at best for working-class people to run for public office, all of which must go, starting with any fees associated with applying to run for public office.
Related to economic demands, we also have demands pertaining to what we would formally call “Health and Human Services.”
We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients.
We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support Black-owned businesses. Your money is our power and sustainability.
We demand that the city create an entirely separate system staffed by mental health experts to respond to 911 calls pertaining to mental health crises, and insist that all involved in such a program be put through thorough, rigorous training in conflict de-escalation.
Finally, let us now address our demands regarding the education system in the City of Seattle and State of Washington.
We demand that the history of Black and Native Americans be given a significantly greater focus in the Washington State education curriculum.
We demand that thorough anti-bias training become a legal requirement for all jobs in the education system, as well as in the medical profession and in mass media.
We demand the City of Seattle and State of Washington remove any and all monuments dedicated to historical figures of the Confederacy, whose treasonous attempts to build an America with slavery as a permanent fixture were an affront to the human race.
Just a few demands.
These are terrorists folks, and the powder-keg is not far from blowing. But people are now saying the federal government should step in.
Send in no one. This is a local government creation and local and state government can repair it. But they must first have the will to do so. Their lack of will — when they have all the equipment and personnel to do it themselves — does not an emergency make. The city of Seattle groomed and coddled and petted and nurtured that little lizard until it became a dragon.
If you, Seattle, lack the will to repair this yourselves, these are your options:
1. Coordinate with local LE to take your city back, like King County, surrounding cities and counties.
2. Ask for state assistance. I watched Governor Inslee profess ignorance of the situation yesterday. That’s a lie. He knows precisely what’s going on in Seattle.
3. It is the governor’s job to request National Guard assistance and HERE’S the rub.
Washington and Gov Inslee very well might not because that would acknowledge three things:
– Washington can’t handle their own people.
– Asking DC for help is acknowledging their fundamental errors in appeasement and capitulation.
– It would give a “win” to President Trump politically, and Demorats/Leftists can never, will never, cannot afford to yield a “win.”
It would prove their foundational tenets and beliefs are insidiously corrupt and unworkable.
You are going to see Seattle sacrificed, an entire city, on the Altar of Political Correctness by the Woke Child Mob.
NOT BLACKS. NOT BLM. By GOWPs — Guilty Overeducated White People — and the WCM.
Let Seattle stew in its own festering broth. They wanted it — no, DEMANDED it — they VOTED for it, they disciplined normal people to get it, so I say:
Give them what they want. A Balkanized city. A Balkanized state.
Seattle has the capability to stop this, but not the will. Governor Inslee lacks, at this point, the will to even acknowledge a problem.
Stay out, federal government, unless CALLED by Governor Inslee. They started the mess, they can fix their mess.
Calling DC for help is a clear admission of guilt and, moreover, failure.
THEIR job to fix, not ours. Unless called by their Governor.
Do you think he’ll do it?
MASSIVE loss of political face to ask for FEDERAL help. Meaning Trump.
Note: the “autonomous zone” is about to get larger. You watch.
Maybe Seattle Chief Carmen Best is having second thoughts? Throwing her mayor under the bus?
Jay Inslee Laughs About Antifa’s Rebellion in Seattle as He Demobilizes National Guard
by Tyler O’Neill, 6-10-20
As antifa militants have taken over six blocks of Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, calling it the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” or the “People’s Republic of Capitol Hill,” Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) laughed about this open rebellion, saying he hadn’t heard about it. Inslee added that the National Guard is demobilizing, and his chief of staff suggested that even if an open rebellion had broken out on the streets of Seattle, it would be up to “local authorities” to fight it.
“Passing the buck” doesn’t even begin to cover the insanity of this “response.”
A reporter asked Inslee about the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone during the governor’s press conference on Wednesday, noting that the antifa militants had shut down part of the city and were “not allowing people to come and go freely.” He did not mention the fact that antifa had commandeered the Seattle Police East Precinct.
“That’s news to me. So, I’ll have to reserve any comment about it. I have not — I have not heard anything about that… from any credible source,” Inslee said, with a chuckle. “Not that you’re not credible, it’s just before I espouse and opinion I should know of which I speak.” He laughed again after giving this response.
If the governor of Washington has not heard about the open revolt taking place in the state’s largest city — in the Capitol Hill district, no less! — then he is utterly incompetent. But his next response proved equally insane.
The reporter responded with a follow-up question, asking whether or not Inslee would bring in the National Guard to open up the city when “protesters” had erected barricades to block streets.
“You know, that’s a hypothetical. Look, we’ve got to have safety. I’m sure that people will find a way to have public safety everywhere in the state, I’m confident of that,” Inslee said. “The National Guard is demobilizing, over two-thirds of them are demobilized as of yesterday.”
This is the perfect time for Leftist Insurrection. Antifa members are terrorists. Terrorists have taken over an American city. The mayor lacks the will to act and the governor lacks the will to act. They are equally complicit. Seattle Mayor Durkan knows precisely what’s going on. So does Washington Governor Jay Inslee. This is a political statement and they’re making it.
Again, Leftists couldn’t care less whether you live or die, your working conditions, your living conditions, and if some citizens have to be sacrificed on the political altar, oh well. Better yet if cops get removed wholesale or get killed along the way.
In the meantime, those persons living within those six blocks of Seattle had no choice in the matter. They are trapped by terrorists. Young and old. Black and white. And trust me. They get no voice in the matter whatsoever.
This means any group of “protesters” can now choose, in any major American Urban Rat Cage, to close off some blocks of a city and call it their own. Because they can get away with it, and encounter no resistance.
That means it can occur in any city, in Sacramento, on a block where YOU and your family lives, and THEY could be in charge of whether you go in or out, to work, to a grocery store, and the fee of re-entry could be as simple as “are you with us or against us.” If you lie and say yes, you enter. If you say no they pull you out, beat and rob you, turn over your car and set it on fire.
That’s where this is going.
Oh and yeah: without cops they WILL do this.
In the words of a good Seattle cop himself:
I have heard from many people, both pro-cop and anti-cop friends that I’m “one of the good ones” and they “wish all officers were like me.” That I’m fair, kind, understanding, loving, and a great guy. I am still that guy. But my heart is no longer in it.
I work with an amazing group of people, people who got into this job as a calling. A calling to help people. Officers who when they hear people are being shot, stabbed, raped, robbed feel the call to try their best to protect life and property. And place themselves between the violent and the victim. And even take those wounds.. A department of people who recognize the past failures and have committed to try to correct the mistakes of the past and work towards a better future. Recognize their own biases and mistakes and learn about others to be more fair, caring, and understanding. Who were as disgusted and upset at the callous murder of George Floyd as the general public and wanted justice to be served. Officers who called out the actions of those officers and wanted them out and charged.
And for a moment, I had hope. Hope that something beautiful and good could come from it. In the last week, that hope has been extinguished. I am all about reform. I am all for accountability. And I am all about ensuring justice for all. And my department is a national leader in all of that. In the last years I’ve attended community meetings, made a point to get to know the people in the area I work (a largely minority community), and worked with people from other social agencies to improve our effectiveness and bring about better results when people need help beyond what I am trained to do.
But the actions of the last two weeks have shown me that does not matter. Progress counts for nothing. Discussion is off the table. Unity to address problems is dismissed.
I have been working 12-16 hour days for almost two weeks, trying my best to protect lives and property and ensure that those who want to march and have their voices heard are able to do so. But even when officers were simply blocking intersections to protect people marching or stationed around marchers as we’ve done thousands of times in the past, it was nothing but insults, death threats, and assaults by rocks, frozen water bottles, beer bottles, fireworks, flammable substances, and explosives. I’ve heard my black coworkers called traitors, Uncle Toms, and the N word, by white people. I’ve heard other minority officers slandered and singled out. Officers that I know and am friends with. People I know who joined hoping to make a difference and bring about change. Be that person that someone can directly relate to, because of a shared background. It made me sick and broke my heart for them.
I can take insults and threats. I understand people are angry about what happened, I am too. But this time has shown me that this area in general does not want me around. Despite numerous steps and advancements, personally and as a department, it mattered for nothing. There was no chance for connection and conversation. People were not interested in what anyone on my side of the line had to say. I heard what protesters where saying, heard their hurt, and spent a lot of time thinking about it, trying to at least partially understand and take it to heart.
But I legitimately don’t feel this community wants me or any other officers around. The community seems to feel this city and area would be better with no officers on duty, nobody willing to answer the calls for help.
I have stood next to officers while they were shot, attacked, injured. I have held people as they died in my arms, doing everything I could to try to fend off death. Heard the screams of people finding out their loved one was never coming home. Held people as they cried asking me “why?” Why did this happen to them or their family members and felt helpless because I had no answers. Pulled mangled bodies from accident scenes. Chased armed people, murders, and robbers through the dark. Been shot at, had people pull weapons on me or try to take my gun while threatening to kill me. Attended funerals for officers who were killed trying to save victims of domestic violence and robbery.
I have gone home and cried myself to sleep at the lives I couldn’t save. And then got up the next day and gone back to try to do better and do this job to the highest standard. And I serve with officers who have done all that and more. Because we care, deep in our core.
But despite all of that it seems like we are not wanted. We are looked at as worse than the criminals we try to stop from harming people. And more than that, I feel as if this city would not just be indifferent if I or a fellow officer were killed, they want it.
This week has shown me the city’s true colors and I don’t know how to reckon with the fact that I could lose my life trying to protect a city that will protest my funeral and cheer when I’m laid in the ground. And it has made me consider leaving it all behind. Abandon my calling to serve, help, and protect.
So no matter what side of anything you are on, please consider the ramifications of some of the things you are demanding. Because at some point even the strongest “good ones” may walk away. I am not there yet, but I am close. I am praying for the strength to continue. To be the change I want to see. But I don’t know how much more I have left. Or how much my brothers and sisters have left.
We have to ask ourselves: what are some of the true ultimate goals? There are two that immediately come to mind. Here is the first. A “police-free” future.
Minneapolis City Council president: ‘The goal’ is a ‘police-free future’
by Madison Dibble, 6-9-20
The Minneapolis City Council president said the city is aiming to have a “police-free future” as it shifts to dismantle its police department following the death of George Floyd.
Council President Lisa Bender noted on Monday that the change will take time but said that the city is aspiring to change the department completely with the goal of eventually eliminating police altogether.
“I think the idea of having a police-free future is very aspirational, and I am willing to stand with community members who are asking us to think of that as the goal because so many folks in our community have seen us work on reform,” she told CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
George Floyd’s Family Asks United Nations to Disarm Police in U.S.
The family of George Floyd, the black man killed while in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, has sent a letter to the globalist United Nations to ask for its help in disarming police officers in the United States of America.
YouGov Poll Finds Only 16% Americans Want to ‘Defund the Police’; 65% Oppose
A YouGov poll found “despite calls by activists and protesters to defund police departments, most Americans do not support reducing law enforcement budgets. Close to two-thirds (65%) oppose cutting police force funding. Just 16 percent of Democrats and 15 percent of Republicans support that idea.”
Demorats and Republicans at about the same percent.
So make no mistake. We are in the heart of a war. A civil war. A war for the United States of America.
This is absolutely a binary election this November 3rd.
Either people who love this country win — or people who despise this country win.
This is a conclusion pushed not by normal Americans, but by anarchists, Antifa, Leftists, Demorat-Socialists, Socialists, Communists and Demorats.
We are on the cusp of Balkanizing the United States of America, dividing it, doing the exact things our Founding Fathers fought to avoid.
E pluribus unum.
Today?
Every Leftist bastard for himself, and everything for free.
Most recently, Jane Fonda said this about the minimum wage as per the Detroit Free Press:
Jane Fonda visits Detroit to push for $12 minimum wage
by Ann Zaniewski
Actress and activist Jane Fonda will be in Detroit this weekend for a fundraiser to promote a $12 minimum wage in Michigan and better rights for all workers.
Fonda will discuss her activisim and committment to workers’ rights from 6-8 p.m. Saturday at Colors Restaurant, 311 East Grand River Ave. She will “talk directly with restaurant workers about the struggles they endure receiving the tipped minimum wage,” according to a news release about the event.
My first thought was: where are the other$3 dollars per hour that Leftists are demanding? Why so tight with your wages, Jane Fonda?
After all, Fornicalia Governor Jerry Brown said, about the $15 minimum wage:
Gov. Brown admits $15 minimum wage makes no sense, signs bill anyway
by Eric Boehm
Economically, a $15 minimum wage doesn’t make much sense for many parts of California.
Even Gov. Jerry Brown, who on Monday signed a bill to increase California’s minimum wage to that level, knows that.
In what could go down as one of the most honest moments in political history, Brown told reporters that raising the minimum wage was more about culture and politics than about economics.
Trust me, Brown is in the throes of dementia per my sources. At many times his wife is actually running Fornicalia. Here, perhaps, his true thoughts emerged but for a brief moment.
Right. Binding the community together in economic destitution.
Reaffirming my position that Leftists and Demorats think only of emotions and not facts or reality. Leftists were shedding flecks of enamel from their teeth when they heard this.
Sadly, as Larry Elder has talked about for years, the people most likely hurt by minimum wage laws are blacks in America.
What are the costs of a minimum wage in general? Economist Milton Friedman said this, applicable then as now.
The figures change; consequences do not. Milton Friedman said: “the people who have been hurt most by the minimum wage laws are the blacks.”
Two labor economists report that when the minimum wage increases, Black teens suffer disproportionate dismissals.
It is no surprise that Black teens, 16- to 19-years old, are disproportionately unemployed. At the Great Recession’s bottom, African-American teens had an unemployment rate of nearly 50 percent while the rate for all teens was 27.1 percent. In the weak post-Recession, many teens compete for jobs against down-sized adults with college degrees.
And economists William Even from Miami University and David Macpherson from Trinity University report that when a state, or the federal government, increases the minimum wage, Black teens are more likely to be laid off. The duo analyzed 600,000 data points, which the Employment Policies Institute says included “a robust sample of minority young adults unprecedented in previous studies on the minimum wage.”
Why?
A key reason is that many young Blacks hold tenuous, low-skilled positions in the nation’s eating and drinking businesses, such as fast food restaurants. The researchers report “that nearly one out of three Black young adults without a high school diploma works in the industry.”
There is a caveat.
It is a sector that welcomes their entry, and lauds young Black workers in its ads. But African-American teens working in that highly-competitive industry with its narrow profit margins should know that their job is on shaky ground when the minimum wage rises.
Is there any morality connected to the so-called “minimum” or “working” wage”
Is there any sort of an historical reference to the minimum wage and blacks in any general case? From PanAmPost.com:
US History Shows the Minimum Wage Has Harmed the Black Community
by Grant Phillips
Black teenage unemployment was roughly equal to their white counterparts in 1948, but has since diverged sharply away from whites. The same is true for the labor force participation of black teenagers.
The minimum wage continued to reduce black youth employment from 1940 to 1970, with the racial unemployment gap expanding as a result.
However, during this same period, the racial income gap shrank to it its lowest point. Wage growth for the entire black community — not just black youths — was almost double the subsequent growth from 1970 to 2000.
Let that statistic sink into your brain pan for a moment or three. The terrible trend built by Leftists began rolling in earnest.
While older blacks already in the workforce were less likely to be affected by the new price floor, the minimum wage effectively prevented black teens from gaining work experience, and the necessary skills for future labor. This was exacerbated by an education system rigged by racist government funding mandates, which prevented black teens from building sufficient human capital through schooling.
When this generation of black teens hit their 20s, many of them had no job experience and, because of wage floors, were unable to find employment. Eventually, they exited the workforce entirely.
Until 1970, the labor force participation rates of black males age 20-24 were equal to, and even slightly higher, than whites of a similar age.
Let me repeat and emphasize that last sentence: “Until 1970, the labor force participation rates of black males age 20-24 were equal to, and even slightly higher, than whites of a similar age.”
How odd that this information flies directly in the face of what Demorats, Leftists and Poverty Pimps tell you.
Unemployment of the same group, which widened after the minimum wage, was 62 percent higher than whites in the same year. By 1980, both measures worsened as blacks exited the labor force in large numbers.
In 1965, the Great Society began to “fight” racial and economic disparity through a number of welfare programs and jobs initiatives that still exist today. These policies were targeted at the poor, and although blacks were continuing to make large economic gains, they disproportionately qualified because they were still the poorest demographic at that time.
LBJ’s “Great Society” was the beginning of the long claw to the bottom for American blacks, instigated by a man who said:
These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.
Or as LBJ is reported to have said to one of his black chauffeurs one day:
As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.
Or one of LBJ’s most famous quotes.
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for 200 years.”
That one seems to have been vastly prescient and accurate to this day. Just ask Dinesh D’Souza.
Unfortunately, the Great Society has had very little impact on the poverty rate, and has completely failed to reduce the socioeconomic disparity between black and white Americans.
Blacks made significant gains in economic prosperity up until the minimum wage and Great Society welfare state; all in spite of lawless government policies. Without these disastrous programs, they would have continued to make productive gains and close the economic gap.
Good intentions are over-rated. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, for instance, has been hailed for its lofty goals of reforming the American economy and helping the under-privileged. Yet mounting evidence, developed by dozens of economists across the country, shows that the New Deal prolonged joblessness for millions, and black people were especially hard hit.
The flagship of the New Deal was the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed in June 1933. It authorized the president to issue executive orders establishing some 700 industrial cartels, which restricted output and forced wages and prices above market levels. The minimum wage regulations made it illegal for employers to hire people who weren’t worth the minimum because they lacked skills. As a result, some 500,000 blacks, particularly in the South, were estimated to have lost their jobs.
That cannot be. Just ask Demorats and Leftists.
Marginal workers, like unskilled blacks, desperately needed an expanding economy to create more jobs. Yet New Deal policies made it harder for employers to hire people. FDR tripled federal taxes between 1933 and 1940. Social Security excise taxes on payrolls discouraged employers from hiring. New Deal securities laws made it harder for employers to raise capital. New Deal antitrust lawsuits harassed some 150 employers and whole industries. Whatever the merits of such policies might have been, it was bizarre to disrupt private sector employment when the median unemployment rate was 17 percent.
Then unions stepped in.
The Wagner Act (1935) harmed blacks by making labor union monopolies legal. Economists Thomas E. Hall and J. David Ferguson explained: “By encouraging unionization, the Wagner Act raised the number of insiders (those with jobs) who had the incentive and ability to exclude outsiders (those without jobs). Once high wages have been negotiated, employers are less likely to hire outsiders, and thus the insiders could protect their own interest.”
Wait. Unions love blacks. Right?
By giving labor unions the monopoly power to exclusively represent employees in a workplace, the Wagner Act had the effect of excluding blacks, since the dominant unions discriminated against blacks. The Wagner Act had originally been drafted with a provision prohibiting racial discrimination. But the American Federation of Labor successfully lobbied against it, and it was dropped.
Oh stop. Please. We’re told by Leftists and Demorats that unions historically then and now love American blacks. Just as Demorats have historically loved American blacks.
AFL unions used their new power, granted by the Wagner Act, to exclude blacks on a large scale. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey were all critical of compulsory unionism.
Uh. Ooops. And I haven’t even addressed the TVA — Tennessee Valley Authority — issue.
What about New Deal spending programs? They were channeled away from the poorest people, including millions of blacks, who lived in the South. These people were already on FDR’s side, so, from a political standpoint, there wasn’t anything for FDR, as an incumbent, to gain by giving them money.
Does this sound like something of a precursor to LBJ by FDR?
If FDR’s New Deal policies weren’t conceived with racist intent, they certainly had racist consequences. Hopefully in the future, more people will try to better understand the often startling, unexpected consequences of government interference with the economy.
You have to ask, though, are wages even the primary issue? From an episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher,” Mike Rowe makes a series of insightful points.
Then, from the Employment Policies Institute, at EPIOnline.org:
Minimum Honesty on Minimum Wage
It tells you all you need to know about the drive to alter New Jersey’s Constitution to hike the minimum wage that the measure’s proponents keep citing a study that was completely discredited more than a decade ago.
Back in 1994, Princeton economists David Card and Alan Krueger claimed that they’d looked at Garden State fast-food outlets in the wake of the state’s 1992 minimum-wage hike — and found that employment increased relative to similar restaurants in next-door Pennsylvania.
But six years later, the Card & Krueger study was debunked in the same economics journal that originally published it.
Perhaps after a crashing bit of reality set in?
Far from boosting employment, they found, the mandated wage increase in New Jersey decreased employment — just as economic theory would predict.
Sadly, some journalists are also playing this game: In recent months, writers in Bloomberg, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and The New York Times have also trotted out the study to support their points.
When left wing economists Gruber and Krugman practiced economics
by Larry Elder
President Obama, in his State of the Union speech, called for a minimum-wage hike and for government-mandated paid family and medical leave.
“We are the only advanced country on Earth,” said the President, “that doesn’t guarantee paid sick leave or paid maternity leave to our workers.” On the minimum wage, Obama issued this challenge: “And to everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.”
In 2011 — less than four years ago — Gruber gave an MIT lecture called “Applying Supply and Demand.” About the minimum wage, Gruber said: “Let’s say the government rolled in and set a minimum wage. … Workers want to supply more hours than firms want to hire. … You end up with excess supply. And we call that excess supply ‘unemployment.’ ” He also insisted that a higher minimum wage pressures an employer to turn to automation: “We have a downward sloping demand curve, and why is it downward sloping? Because the higher the wage, the fewer workers the firm wants to hire. It would rather use machines instead.”
Hello Future? Fast food kiosks? Fruit picking machines? Even the Roomba?
Krugman even dismissed Card-Krueger, the widely cited minimum-wage study that purports to show its positive effect. Krugman pretty much dismissed it. “Indeed,” he wrote, “much-cited studies by two well-regarded labor economists, David Card and Alan Krueger, find that where there have been more or less controlled experiments, for example when New Jersey raised minimum wages but Pennsylvania did not, the effects of the increase on employment have been negligible or even positive. Exactly what to make of this result is a source of great dispute. Card and Krueger offered some complex theoretical rationales, but most of their colleagues are unconvinced; the centrist view is probably that minimum wages ‘do,’ in fact, reduce employment, but that the effects are small and swamped by other forces.”
“In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price — determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away.”
Are you beginning to see a bit of a recurrent theme throughout the post? Something about the corruptive and deleterious effects of Leftist intrusion into the once-nuclear black family in America?
Two questions: 1. is it a valid question, and 2. if so, what’s the answer?
One young black woman explains.
Is she right? Is she wrong? I would like black Americans to respond in the comments section. Is this a taboo subject or one that actually requires examination and discussion?
Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source
by Hollie McKay
Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital (eye socket) fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, a source close to the department’s top brass told FoxNews.com.
“The Assistant (Police) Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side,” said the insider. “He was beaten very severely.”
According to the well-placed source, Wilson was coming off another case in the neighborhood on Aug. 9 when he ordered Michael Brown and his friend Dorain Johnson to stop walking in the middle of the road because they were obstructing traffic. However, the confrontation quickly escalated into physical violence, the source said.
“They ignored him and the officer started to get out of the car to tell them to move,” the source said. “They shoved him right back in, that’s when Michael Brown leans in and starts beating Officer Wilson in the head and the face.”
The source claims that there is “solid proof” that there was a struggle between Brown and Wilson for the policeman’s firearm, resulting in the gun going off – although it still remains unclear at this stage who pulled the trigger. Brown started to walk away according to the account, prompting Wilson to draw his gun and order him to freeze. Brown, the source said, raised his hands in the air, and turned around saying, “What, you’re going to shoot me?”
At that point, the source told FoxNews.com, the 6-foot-4, 292-pound Brown charged Wilson, prompting the officer to fire at least six shots at him, including the fatal bullet that penetrated the top of Brown’s skull, according to an independent autopsy conducted at the request of Brown’s family.
Some statistics:
In 2012, there was some 12 million arrests in the United States;
34,000 arrests per day, average;
In 99.9% of those cases, the suspect was not killed by the police;
400 fatal police shootings are reported in this country per year;
But here is the statistical kicker:
91% of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks;
And, of course, all of the facts are not yet in yet; despite this, the American Media Maggots and the Race Pimps have already convicted Officer Wilson and are calling for his hanging.
Finally:
I have to hand it to Ferguson PD — they have missed cues and screwed the pooch whenever possible in terms of managing the media and managing the situation. Theirs was a primer on what not to do in terms of handling a critical incident of a sensitive nature. This should certainly be a teachable moment for that department, and I can only hope they have learned what it means to be tarred and feathered in the media — and how to avoid that in the future.
Let there be no mistake.
The phrase de rigeur is now “defund the police.”
And Leftists can’t wait for it to occur.