From a 3rd generation policeman. The closing lines:
[LawOfficer] I used to talk cops out of leaving the job. Now I’m encouraging them.
It’s over America. You finally did it.
You aren’t going to have to abolish the police, we won’t be around for it.
And while I know, most Americans still appreciate us, it’s not enough and the risk is too high. Those of you that say thank you or buy the occasional meal, it means everything.
But those of you that were silent while the slow turning of the knives in our backs happened by thugs and cowards, this is on you.
Your belief in hashtags and memes over the truth has and will create an environment in your community that you will never expect.
If you think Minneapolis will turn into Mogadishu and that is far from you, it’s coming.
And when it does, remember what your complicity did.
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Others will replace them. The Left isn't against cops, they just want their political police.
The right obsession with guns regardless of other tools of defense is dumb. See what the left did with low level violence and not that many guns? They have all corporations licking and giving them millions/billions. A racist organisation like BLM gets money from Coca Cola to Intel...
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See what the left did with low level violence and not that many guns?
See what the right can do with guns. I believe that was the 19th Century when Western Civ pretty much conquered the world. Break the self imposed leash and its theirs again.
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The right obsession with guns regardless of other tools of defense is dumb. and
See what the right can do with guns.
We have not yet seen what the right can do with firearms but push hard enough and that might happen--it would not be pretty.
Presently, Virginia 2nd Amendment supporters and other citizens are trying to replace the left wing office holders in their state in a peaceful way; through the election process.
[AlAhram] While renewing calls for a political solution in Libya, Egypt is warning against escalation that could threaten regional peace. But as the balance shifts on the ground, resolution might be more difficult than ever.
The self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) under the command of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... retreated in the last three weeks from its positions around Tripoli
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] The impregnable American capitalism is under the mounting strain of a mass uprising.
Not really. The mass uprising is very localized in certain city centers and such — the rest of us only see what shows up on the news and Twitter... for the small number connected to Twitter.
The dawn of realisation has finally arrived. Democracy and commodity, the tools of capitalistic culture, are insufficient to gratify the needs of the masses. They have failed to maintain the hegemony of the dominant class and are, hence, falling apart. The subalterns living in ghettos are becoming the basis of revolt — if not revolution. Lacking organization and organic intellectuals, a revolution, for now, may not be the immediate option but the revolutionary upsurge has rocked the capitalistic boat. To stave off the crisis, the ruling class is running from the church to the bunkers, a scene rarely seen in modern times.
Will the subaltern movement be exhausted and crushed or will the balance of forces hold equilibrium giving some respite to the masses groaning under the capitalism’s knee is a question whose answer for now remains enigmatic; however, the impotence and vulnerability of the system lie exposed to the people. The bulwark of its invincibility was a sham; any suppression of the rebellion through massive coercion will not reverse the trend. The 9/11 of crumbling capitalism has struck the narcissistic ego of the bourgeoisie denting its confidence in being an impregnable force. "Once the liberty has went kaboom! in the soul of man," Sartre says, "the gods can do nothing against him."
Without acknowledging the anarchic nature of capitalism, certain quarters are terrified by the anarchic character of the movement as they watch the trend of incineration and destruction creeping in the struggle; violence breeds violence, it knows no other language. This is how the oppressed recreate themselves. Those dejected, devastated and destroyed do not pay tribute to their oppressors strangulating them; they raise the barricades and set the guillotines, in the meantime, history takes its course of carrying the old form to its grave.
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The impregnable American capitalism is under the mounting strain of a mass uprising.
Why is my supermarket closed? What am I supposed to do?
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The author is a bit of a drama queen about what he is seeing. IMO, we are seeing a redux of the 1968 Chicago "Days of Rage" put on by a bunch vicious stunted adolescents--more like a bunch of kids living out their "Lord of the Flies" fantasies. Nothing to be admired in that.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Our response to Indian re-occupation, un-lawful and forced annexation of its controlled part of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... on 5 August and 31 October 2019, has not been pointed, proportionate and in accordance with the merits of Kashmir case. People of Kashmir continue to suffer an 11 month lockdown and we seem to have given up on them. Is something wrong on Kashmir? We hope not.
Government of Azad Kashmir laments and rightly so, that it is not allowed to open up on the diplomatic front to represent the Kashmir case. The grievance is partly true. But President and Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir and many others find a way to go abroad and are free to discuss their case. At times they are accommodated in Pak delegations and facilitated in various capitals for an appearance. Government of Azad Kashmir has assumed duties under UNCIP Resolutions. It should interpret its duties accordingly and assert its principal right to represent the Kashmir case.
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[Arutz 7] - So it’s come to this. One of our Culture Policemen found "Gone with the Wind" too racist, even too sexist, complained, and got HBO to remove it from its lineup.
Call it another step toward what’s becoming Gone with our Culture.
It was a great movie. Drawn from Margaret Mitchell’s classic book, it depicted the Old South authentically, warts and all.
The job of a writer is to tell it how it is...or how it was...from his or her personal perspective...and both book and movie did this, truthfully, fearlessly, and grandly.
Back in 1963, Oct 26 to be exact, when there were still some heroic and sane people in the country, President John F. Kennedy spoke at Amherst College, for a gathering to honor the poet Robert Frost, and this is what JFK said: "In democratic society — in it the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may."
Further — "In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves the nation."
I highly recommend reading the entire speech. It was one of the most elegant speeches ever given by a president.
I covered it, and the era, when I wrote the historical novel "The Days of the Bitter End," back when I too was fearless.
Now I don’t know. When will they come for me, for what I am writing, and for what I am reading?
Ray Bradbury saw it coming, didn’t he? In "Fahrenheit 451" he gave us a world where book-reading was a crime. Books were meant to be burned.
"Firemen" were on patrol to dispose of books and people caught with material so subversive.
Suppose now, on top of that, you are caught watching "Gone with the Wind?"
The process is not entirely new; it has only been accelerated. For years street signs, buildings and statues have been defaced, defamed, renamed to satisfy Community Standards.
[SN] A trusted attribution process underpins a credible deterrence strategy.
What is often overlooked in today’s space strategies and policies is the need for a robust space attribution process. That is the ability to trace the origin of an action against space architectures. Without being able to determine the origin or source of a hostile or malicious action, the ability to respond appropriately seems doubtful.
Several shiny bright ideas from left-Libertarian academic Jason Brennan.
[MarketWatch] Over the past 50 years, as racism has waned, American police have become ever more aggressive. Violent crime has dropped since 1994, but our criminal system became even more punitive. For every bullet the German police fired on duty in 2016, American police killed 10 people. Even overwhelmingly white states like Wyoming and Montana imprison citizens at higher rates than authoritarian Cuba.
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The drug war also licensed police departments to seize cash and property on mere suspicion that they might be connected to drug trafficking. Innocent victims almost never win back their money. The Justice Department’s "equitable sharing program" ensures much of the seized money — $657 million in 2013 alone — enhances police and other local government budgets. In 2015, the Obama administration curbed some of these practices, but still permit the majority of seizures, which come from local police activity and seizures from joint tasks forces. Unfortunately, most states do not disclose the total amounts seized under these laws.
We authorize and pay police to steal from us for their own benefit. Police in Tehana, Texas, stole $3 million from innocent minority drivers between 2006 and 2008, until an ACLU lawsuit ended the practice.
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Here are just six ways we can alter the financial incentives; there are other options as well, but the logic of these is relatively easy to see.
• Repeal civil asset forfeiture laws.
• Disband SWAT teams in any town smaller than 100,000 people.
• Don't allow towns to keep revenue from tickets and fines; instead place that revenue in victim restitution funds.
• Remove laws immunizing police from civil and criminal penalties.
• Enable citizens to sue police for excessive or inappropriate violence; pay resulting judgments from police pension funds or salary pools, rather than general taxes.
• Make police salary raise pools dependent upon measured community satisfaction.
There are a couple of good ones in the list but the main problem is that the incentivizers are the politicians behind the scenes, not the cops.
Get rid of sovereign immunity, cut back on the over militarization of police, get rid of civil forfeiture laws. Etc. etc. Oh, and lock up the professional instigators.
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Making the police a punishing, occupying force that the locals hate and whose focus is on raising revue is NOT a good way to lower crime. It just isn't. Police couldn't care less about keeping people safe, they just want to seize people's stuff and keep their jobs (the real nasty ones also want to get their rocks off hurting people). And the politicians want to use the police to signal that they're "doing something". Whatever that may be. I think the idea of disbanded SWAT teams in any town smaller than 100,000 people in inherently unworkable (most Western states and larger rural areas would be instantly disarmed), but he has a number of goods points. Civil asset forfeiture is just another way of saying "theft", and sovereign immunity allows police to do almost anything they want without consequences. And allowing cities to benefit from the tickets and fines they levy naturally makes the police into revenue collectors eager to levy more petty tickets that turn into a stream of cash.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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