Victor Davis Hanson on post-Ferguson policing:
[Officer Darren] Wilson’s second apparent error was in winning the fight over Brown for his gun. Had he allowed Brown to beat him, then Wilson might well have had a chance of surviving the wounds, and thus he might now still be a policeman with a career, rather than ostracised, in danger, and unemployed. Neither the community nor the media would have found newsworthy the shooting or beating of a white policeman by an African-American youth — in the manner that the murder of two California sheriffs by a twice-deported illegal alien was one-day news.
I absolutely HATE unions, but in the U.S., these days with the Obama administration in place, it might not be a bad strategy for the police unions across the country to walk out for a couple of days. Maybe then people will wake up. It would certainly topple the Obama administration in short bloody order.
it is not that minor minority group that voted the racist in the WH in, it is the broader demoKKKrap supporters. So the blame lies with the electorate, and to some extent the politicians who do not take action to stop this erosion of democracy
A national police strike in the USA would wake up a lot of people, Joey, but not the current administration, as least not in the way you hope.
Rather, the response would be, as per the phrasing of Rahm Emmanuel, to not let a good chrisis go to waste. Huge new government powers, in the hands of the President, would be seized on the pretext of ensuring this did not happen again.
And after Clinton’s impeachment debacle, nothing, I repeat, NOTHING and NOBODY in the USA will topple Obama in the next two years.
Blacks are now calling for the disarming of police: “No mother should see her child shot for committing a crime”
Since most of the black crime is black on black, and the people in the ghettos where most of the black crime is committed make less than $35k and therefore pay no income tax, then police forces should simply remove officers from black ghettos and let them prey on each other. Assign police only to the areas where actual taxpayers live.
One thing to point out: Victor David Hanson is a very excellent writer who pretty much hits the nail on the head. He would be on my recommended reading list.
How is it that a white man can lose a basketball team and billions of $$$ for saying one racist thing, while racists like Al Sharpton have a who television network at their command to spout the vile encitements? The first thing to do is remove Al Sharpton and his cohorts. Then maybe you could start to hold some sensible dialogue.
I’m not convinced that will happen.
If the US is desparately seeking a race war, with total genocide the only outcome, they sure are going about it the right way.
They are hard at work creating a society in which the defining characteristic is the color of one’s skin. If tribal identity is what it is all about in the end, then whites in the US will throw in their lot with their own kind, … And let the killing begin.
I suspect cornered whites, fed up with about 2 decades of racist abuse, will defend their children with the kind of savagery currently on display in Syria…
One forgets that the US forces will likely fragment along racial lines, leaving plans for any “police state” rather sketchy.
But since I am heavily exposed to US equities, I really wish the goddamned Yanks would just get their s**t together already. The US is too important a country to just hand over to a race war.
It may be that European-style no-go zones are the inevitable progressive solution. There’s hundreds of them in suave sophisticated European cities. With no police presence, the minority can racially purify their territory and govern it themselves.
Mike, because racism is not the sin. The sin is being the wrong sort of racist. Racism, and sexism too, in pursuit of what Obama, Holder, Sharpton, et al., call “justice” is required by morality. All the good people say so. Discrimination is favour of the “marginalized” is good. Oh, and down is up.
So, how are we all supposed to know how to act, to know what morality requires of us?
Here’s the formula: If an activity or process, be it economic life, the law, or a math test, produces materially unequal outcomes, then that activity or process is immoral.
So:
If the economic marketplace produces more poor blacks than whites, the marketplace—Capitalism!—is therefore immoral, and must be subverted. Stealing, looting, fraud and the like, as well as massive redistribution schemes like welfare—promote equal distribution, and are therefore morally required.
If the law convicts disproportionately more blacks than whites, the law “privileges whites” and is therefore immoral, and must not be enforced. As VDH observes, non-enforcement of the law against blacks is the intended outcome that Obama/Holder/Sharpton are pushing for. Why? Because that’s the means to equal distribution of the goods.
If the rules of evidence developed by the law, which have stood us in such good stead down through the ages, show that Lena Dunham was not raped, that the UVA student was not gang raped on broken glass, that Columbia’s mattress girl was not raped—that there is no war on women, contrary to one of the main tenets of the Democrat election platform—then the law is a ass, and the rules of evidence, the Red Queen said, must be abandoned.
If a math test given to 300 people of diverse race, gender and background produces the result that jews score higher, on average, than orientals (I denounce myself), who score higher, on average, than whites, who in turn score higher than hispanics … than blacks, then the rules of math are racist and must be abandoned. If men score higher on average than women, then math itself is sexist.Think I’m kidding? This explains why traditional math is no longer taught in many of our schools: it may not be taught since it produces unequal outcomes. The prevailing educational “philosophy” (I denounce myself) insists that nothing that reveals inequality may be taught.
You can thank the cultural Marxists and their pomo useful idiots.
I hear their planning a SUPPORT DARREN WILSON demonstration on Dec 13th just contact the Council of Conservative Citizens and find out and the Wilson supporters out number the Mike Brown Supporters and frankly Browns family as wella s Trayvons family should just LEAVE AMERICA NOW and so should the NBPPP and the NATIONS of ISLAM as well as hollywood freak SPIKE LEE
Julia Horowitz, the assistant editor of UVA’s student newspaper, on why we should believe the gang rape story:
Facts? Fact-checking? The facts just privilege white men (How’s that for an endorsement?). The truth is war on women, rape culture. How do we know? Everyone is saying so, “everyone” meaning us. Your facts just get in the way of what we all say. The facts are, as we have learned to say, “unhelpful”.
Your much-touted facts are unhelpful to our preferred narrative. So, they are now “unfacts”, as Orwell taught us.
I have shown below my comment on the David Thompson article;
The comment from Victor David Hansen probably brought to mind the no-go- zones evident in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. i recall commenting somewhere, maybe here, my thoughts of this being a politicized reaction of overt pandering to a very special interest group, Islam.
I belatedly recognize this use of no-go zones is just good policing in a practical response by Policing Management to protect the front line officers from weak politicians and the second-rate media. Cheers;
Isn’t the old saying that empires and great countries aren’t murdered, they commit suicide. Seems this is happening to the US and Europe as they split into splinter areas. The plan seems to be working and the West will fade away into the muslim caliphate.
There is already a police strike going on. Its an invisible, slow motion one. Its called FIDO policing, also known as “f- it, drive on.”
In this slow motion strike the cops show up and take the money like usual, they just don’t arrest any black people. They only go into the black area of town in numbers of 20 or more, and then only when called for a major incident. They never pull over black drivers if they can help it. Etc. Because they get squashed if they do. See Ferguson.
They only patrol the white areas, where the crime isn’t. They only arrest white people. Arrest them on any pretext no matter how flimsy, to keep their statistics up. And Ghod protect you if you defend yourself against an attack/robbery/rape by a black criminal, particularly if you win.
The result is White Flight. People just leave. First they leave the city, then the suburbs, then finally the state.
Because why the h3ll would you live someplace where the cops not only won’t protect you, they won’t let you protect yourself either?
yop;
European ‘no go zones’ have existed in most major metro areas for years. Detroit in the USA comes to mind and Winnipeg in Canada.
I heard a lot of comments about Brown`s so-called peaceful nature, that his attack on the policeman was so out of character. So, the obvious answer is officer Wilson started the whole thing and for no other reason than racism. Then again I understand Wilson had a spotless record so those racist actions would seem, well, out of character.
Oh I forgot Wilson was a honky racist. That explains it, according to the intellectuals at Beg the Question, I mean Berkley.
Apparently not having gone to Berkley, Eric Garner`s widow doesn`t see the race connection:
http://nypost.com/2014/12/08/eric-garners-widow-denies-race-was-chokehold-motive/
I hear that some radical from ISIS has been arrested by the FBI for making threats aginst Darren Wilson just dont expect this news to make any big headlines in some birdcage linner/parrots toilet or from the talking heads or any of the liberal news rags like TIME,USA TODAY,PEOPLE or ROLLING STONE