News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Colin Kaepernick arrived at the Minneapolis riots last night, saying he was excited to be a part of the looting and violence.
Kaepernick tried out for the riots by throwing bricks into windows but missed every time. He was able to rush a Molotov cocktail into a target window and then spike it on the ground, but then he caught fire. Finally, in a last-ditch effort to get selected for one of the riot squads, he filmed a workout video and sent it to various protester organizations but hadn’t heard back as of publishing time.
“While we appreciate Kaepernick’s enthusiasm, we need someone who can lob a Molotov cocktail accurately,” said a representative for the rioters. “We wish him the best of luck in his future rioting career. We believe Kaepernick will land on his feet with another rioting organization. Maybe Chicago or Louisville will want him.”
Go here to read the rest. And suddenly we have entered a time warp and we are back in the urban riots of the sixties. Once again, ostensibly, the issue is race, even though blacks are now well represented on urban police forces and in almost all major urban governments, where race is the criteria uber alles. Back then we had the added fuel of the Vietnam War and opposition to it, and this time we have a country on edge from the over the top reaction to the virus farce, and the self made havoc in the economy that has wreaked. Both times we have left wing groups seeing opportunity in chaos. This time many urban governments are already controlled by Leftist Democrats who now assume that performing normal police functions, which all governments have performed since the time of Sumer, is, wait for it, racist! Democrats have been whipping up race hatred for electoral purposes since the days of Andrew Jackson, and the manifest ineptitude of many urban police forces, in cities controlled by Democrats for generations, has now injected that poison directly into presidential politics this year. I suspect that the Democrats are about to reap the whirlwind in some of the worst urban rioting this country has seen in almost three decades. I could almost laugh at this, except the rest of us are along for the ride, and in riots the innocent always suffer first.
‘Ominous Convergence’ by James Howard Kunstler. Good article, same subject.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/ominous-convergence/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+clusterfucknation+%28Clusterfuck+Nation%29
Can anyone tell me why those cops were required to arrest George Floyd? I couldn’t find anything about it.
Observation: Irish-Americans (before China virus) mourned our dead with the women praying the Rosary and the men getting bloody drunk. Evidently, our black brothers and sisters mourn by burning their neighborhoods and looting stores – without mask and social distancing.
In conclusion, German Nazis said the same things about Jews that those people are saying about you and me.
Excellent points, Don. The perpetually race-baiting Democrats look sillier every time something like this happens, and since all they seem able to do is make speeches about how awful it all is, telling people to keep voting for them despite their abject failure to achieve anything they promise to the black community, nothing ever improves. The mayor of Atlanta gave a perfect example of this yesterday, first sensibly telling rioters they are not helping their supposed cause, but then lapsing into an exhortation to “go vote if you want things to change.” I am reasonably sure she didn’t mean they should go vote for Republicans. So, sure, all you folks burning down your own city over the killing of a black man by a white Democrat cop on a police force with a black Democrat chief, in a Democrat-run city in a Democrat-run state, blame the Republicans and elect more Democrats. What could possibly go wrong?
The police officers attempted to arrest Mr. Floyd because they determined he had committed a crime and it appears he then resisted arrest with violence. This is all consistent with his history. Police officers arrest criminals – that’s their job.
Also interesting (and not being reported by most American liberal media outlets) is that the Medical Examiner determined the causes of Mr. Floyd’s death were intoxicants in his body coupled with his preexisting medical problems, also consistent with his history, not the police officer crushing his trachea. Hopefully the officer will be exonerated.
Thanks, T. Knight
Apparently, Mr. Floyd didn’t read D. L. Hughely’s book, ‘How Not To Get Shot, And Other Advice From White People.’
The pols and PD chiefs are now blaming the arson, looting and mayhem on outside agitators. Maybe, DJT should invoke the Insurrection Act.
This could happen all over America in August when the $600 extra unemployment payments end. Do you have sufficient bullets?
Can anyone tell me why those cops were required to arrest George Floyd? I couldn’t find anything about it.
I think he was arrested on an outstanding warrant, but my understanding is police were called to the scene because he allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.
My guess, and that’s all it is, is he had some kind of respiratory or cardiac episode, or just a panic attack, which was interpreted as resisting arrest, and that’s how he got taken to the ground.
Last I knew the tox report wasn’t back yet.
I will cynically note that if your goal is to keep the economy comatose until after the election, allowing a major city or two to burn is a good backup plan to your failing lockdown scheme.
Governor Walz is woefully out of his element. We already knew that from his response to the Coronavirus, but it’s even more obvious in his press conferences about the riots. As far as he’s concerned it isn’t fair that the riots are happening in his state when he has all the right politics, and if the rioters were nice they would just stop on their own (but they won’t, because they’re white supremacists or something). Even our usually useless media is having none of his nonsense.
Have Gun – Will Travel.
Democrats are ‘funny.’ They arrest people for opening their businesses and let run free people that burn other people’s businesses.
I proffer a solution. Broadcast curfew/lockdown hours and the issuance of ‘shoot to kill’ order. Problem solved. Brilliant!
I proffer a solution. Broadcast curfew/lockdown hours…
There was a curfew in effect last night. The rioters called Walz’s bluff because calling up 500 guardsmen when you need 5000 is an obvious bluff. Now he’ll have to call up 50,000 so they knows he means it this time.
…and the issuance of ‘shoot to kill’ order. Problem solved. Brilliant!
He wants Trump to give that order because it’ll look bad. And appearances are more real than reality. Trump might do it. But not until the rioters start marching on the Republican suburbs and exurbs.
The problem of the ordinary citizen to be secure in his person and his property don’t enter into the equation. Which may be why the militia is an idea whose time has come again.
My thoughts:
https://www.facebook.com/paul.primavera/posts/3523547180992797
T. Shaw – Thanks man, you made me laugh. Not too much of that going on when I read the news now. And yes, I’ve got plenty of bullets – I’m one of those “evil white cops”. And I’ll share with my like-minded brothers if it comes down to it….
USCCB statement is as pathetic as you’d imagine it would be.
The only two statements which at all condemn the rioting are:
“While it is expected that we will plead for peaceful non-violent protests, and we certainly do, we also stand in passionate support of communities that are understandably outraged.”
and
“We plead for an end to the violence in the wake of this tragedy and for the victims of the rioting. ”
The other seven paragraphs are about how George Floyd’s death is the greatest tragedy this nation has ever known and how racism and bias are the greatest spiritual danger imaginable.