We all know that people get arrested for false alarms. Like, for example, Bubba Wallace:
“Today’s despicable act of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society and how persistent we must be in the fight against racism,” he said in a statement
The FBI gets called in, and they conclude that it’s a door pull, not a news,…. Errr… Sorry, noose, and it’s been there for years.
On Monday, fifteen FBI special agents conducted numerous interviews regarding the situation at Talladega Superspeedway,” the joint statement from U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr. “After a thorough review of the facts and evidence surrounding this event, we have concluded that no federal crime was committed.
The FBI learned that garage number 4, where the noose was found, was assigned to Bubba Wallace last week. The investigation also revealed evidence, including authentic video confirmed by NASCAR, that the noose found in garage number 4 was in that garage as early as October 2019. Although the noose is now known to have been in garage number 4 in 2019, nobody could have known Mr. Wallace would be assigned to garage number 4 last week.
The decision not to pursue federal charges is proper after reviewing all available facts and all applicable federal laws. We offer our thanks to NASCAR, Mr. Wallace, and everyone who cooperated with this investigation.
So, for the sake of argument, let’s be kind, well past the point of being absurd about it, and say Bubba jumped to the wrong conclusion and break it down.
If you’re taught from an early age, that every problem a black person has is easily attributed to racism, (which, if we read the reports of the interactions with his mother on the matter to be anything like accurate, appears to be the case) then, just like the person with a hammer thinks every problem is a nail, we have a plausible explanation for the whole deal.
If we make that unwarranted assumption, that raises an important question:
Who else has wrongly concluded they’ve suffered from racism?
And that in turn raises serious questions about what we’ve been seeing the last few weeks in cities around the country.
But there’s a problem with that assumption. Are we really supposed to believe that a race car driver hasn’t seen a garage door pull down rope before?
Now go up and read that statement from Wallace again. Notice how easily the cookie cutter, formulaic language of the race baiter falls from his lips. And, notice the slap at Trump, without any evidence whatsoever to back it up.
No, I’m not buying it.
This was a planned event, a political attack, based on lies, like so many before it. From this, I am left several questions…
#Why have we not seen a picture of the “noose” that supposedly started this?
# Is there anything the left will jump on board with that isn’t based on lies?
# Is there any wonder why the constant cry of “racist” isn’t being taken seriously any more?
# When will we being to realize that such lies are hurting and not helping race relations?
And
# When will the leftist press approach Jussie Smolette for his comments on the matter?
**Update
As of the time this post went live, I had managed to confirm the quote on the graphic with only one of two sources I trust. I have yet to confirm with the second.
Meanwhile, Wallace is doubling down, saying “it was a noose” regardless of what the FBI report has to say on the matter.
Of of course, right on schedule e shows up on The view and says, among other things:
“I’m mad because people are trying to test my character and the person that I am and my integrity.” – -Bubba Wallace
Ummm…No, they’re not trying to test you. That test has already been done. You failed, miserably, and people are rightfully calling you out on it. That’s why you’re mad.
….it still comes down to the idea that you don’t eliminate a virus from the threat list by avoiding it. You do that by building up a herd immunity, by simple exposure to it. There is no point in world history where we have managed to duck a virus by quarantining and masking the healthy.
As for being a more interconnected world, I can’t argue that. And yet, who is it has been pushing for ever greater population density in the cities so as to “Save the planet”?
Who is it that’s been pushing us into smaller and smaller apartments all with the same h v a c? Who was it that’s been pushing us out of single-family suburban homes? Who is it that’s been pushing us into mass transit? And finally, who is it that’s been pushing the idea of government-run healthcare where all of these things come to a head?
As a parting shot, I’ve noticed that there aren’t very many people that are championing open borders, anymore.
I have praised John Bolton for his actions and for his insights in the past, but apparently there are sides to this man we didn’t know about, Petty, vindictive, and self-contradicting.
Of course, you can add self- promoting to that list. Not that of itself I mind self- promotion. That’s how you get ahead in the political world to a great degree but not to the expense of everything you have stood for until now, as Bolton has done.
At at one point, Bolton was smart enough to label the impeachment witch -hunt as such, but now has changed his mind. This one, unfortunately, doesn’t work as well.
The reason he’s changed his mind of course, is because he got himself fired.
Now, he’s trying to sell books because he knows it’s the only way he’s going to get anywhere in the future. He knows very well that there’s no Republican Administration in the future that will hire him, and of course the Democrats aren’t going to touch him, either.
The only possibility that he’s got these days is as a CNN analyst which I expect to be happening before the end of the year.
That’s the best scenario possible the more likely scenario is that he’s going to end up in The slammer for the remainder of his mustache.
Kel McClanahan over at The Daily Beast:
John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, wanted to write a book. He knew that the White House would do everything it could to stop him. He hired a flashy white-shoe law firm to handle the prepublication review process required by the nondisclosure agreement he signed when he got his security clearance. As expected, the White House weaponized the prepublication review process against him to keep him from publishing. If he published without approval, it said, he could face severe legal consequences.
Then his lawyer, Chuck Cooper, wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week intended to put public pressure on the White House. In it, Cooper volunteered that Bolton had violated both his NDA and perhaps a few criminal laws, including the Espionage Act. Now, even if Bolton’s book is never released, he is facing stiff penalties. As unforced legal errors go, that’s a doozy.
An even worse scenario is that Bolton was responsible for a good deal of the leakage to the press out of the White House. I’ve seen assertion this from various sources that Bolton was in the center ring of that particular circus for years now. I dismissed such speculation in the past, but it’s a little harder to now, given what I see happening here.
2 minutes worth of the straight-up truth.
Listen closely to this one… It’s critical you understand.
I’ve been saying it for many years, that 99% of what gets written off as racial issues are actually cultural issues… And I point to Walter Williams, Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, Candice Owens, David Webb, and literally millions of other people of color who have rejected the so-called Black Street culture and are there by wildly successful.
Found elsewhere:
A TALE OF TWO INCIDENTS by The Atlanta DA’s Office and the Atlanta Mayor.
Incident #1-
5 Atlanta Police Officers fired last week for using a taser to remove two college students from a car. Officers were fired because the Atlanta District Attorney’s Office deemed the Officer’s use of the taser was DEADLY PHYSICAL FORCE.Incident #2-
A suspect who failed a field sobriety test and deemed Driving While Intoxicated resists arrest, fights with police, steals the officers taser (robbery) and escapes. During the pursuit, the suspect turns and fires the taser at the officer’s head and was shot and eventually dies. The Atlanta mayor calls for the Officer to be fired because he used deadly physical force against a taser.BURNING QUESTION: Why is using a taser considered Deadly Physical Force when it’s used by a police officer but not Deadly Physical Force when used against a police officer by a suspect?
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Indeed, why?
I should point out that has described I do have some problems with the way the first case was handled, but even with that said, I’m quite sure there was more going on there than we were told in that description.
The question about the double standard though, is well-taken.and this double standard is one of many being applied these days by those wishing to eliminate the police.
I will say this again:
This push against the police is a push against the power of the people, and the laws that they have been sworn to enforce. It’s as simple as that. If you don’t understand that, the rest of all of this is not going to make any sense to you whatsoever and you are there for part of the problem.
The wolf will always complain and seek to eliminate the sheepdog.
Point blank…
This push against the police is a push against the power of the people, and the laws that they have been sworn to enforce. It’s as simple as that. If you don’t understand that, the rest of all of this is not going to make any sense to you whatsoever and you are there for part of the problem.
And by the way this is precisely why I have always objected to the Radley Balko types. They give people and movements like this traction, and aid them in their goal of tearing this country down. As far as I’m concerned they qualify for the title of useful idiots.
Make no mistake, it is with the help of Balko and others that the Democrats have managed to play the games they’re playing right now… And I’m willing to bet that he can’t even identify what I’m talkin about here
I ask you, where are the ethics, and the principles involved with claiming you’re fighting for freedom and for the individual, and then doing the dirty work of the people who are trying to tear down the country and the culture that gave us the freest society on the face of the planet?
I was willing to hear you out on this one Radley, but I’m done. Or more correctly, you’re done.
We have got a problem right here that begins with P, and not P for Police but rather P for politician. I the taser a deadly weapon? Well it depends. In Atlanta a couple weeks ago two police officers were fired and charged for using tasers in the course of an arrest. The District Attorney noted that under Georgia law, the taser is defined a a deadly weapon. Then recently the same DA filed murder charges against another Atlanta police officer for killing a fleeing felon carrying a stolen taser, without making reference to the taser, from Twitchy,
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced that former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe would face 11 charges in connection with the deadly shooting of Rayshard Brooks, including felony murder, which could net him life in prison or the death penalty if found guilty.
Rolfe’s attorneys will certainly argue that Rolfe fired in self-defense, as Brooks, in a scuffle with Rolfe and another officer, managed to grab the officer’s Taser and run off. He’s seen on surveillance video from Wendy’s turning around at one point and pointing something at the officers, presumably the Taser.
Whether or not that justifies Rolfe firing on Brooks will be decided in court, but as Greg Price notes, just a couple of weeks ago Howard was explaining to the press that a Taser is considered a deadly weapon in Georgia, but during his presser today, he said that at no time did Brooks pose a threat.
Paul Howard may soon be out of office, but not out of the case. Howard seems to hold the view that a taser is a deadly weapon in the hands of a police officer, but not in the hands of a convicted fleeing felon.
The former senile senior senator from the former slave state of Delaware, Joe “Slow Joe” Biden has reassures me that any purported black who does not vote for him is not a real black. Lord knows that democrats never lie, well except for maybe Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi. That having been said, the video below just must be Karl Rove in blackface and a wig: video:
Thankfully, if it were not for Slow Joe’s prescient warning, I might have been fools. Would you have been?
Hat tip: Last Refuge
Pop quiz, name the one lifetime achievement of the late four time governor of New York State, one Nelson Rockefeller? He fired, Robert Moses, from three state jobs. Moses dream was to bulldoze every neighborhood and to build a freeway. A present day version of Moses is Dr. Anthony Fauci who has the pension for yelling epidemic, from Just the News:
Dr. Anthony Fauci says Covid-19 is “his worst nightmare.”
It might be his worst, but it’s certainly not his first. He has spent his professional career warning of nightmare scenarios, many which never materialized.
Nobody did more to kick off the U.S. AIDS alarm than Fauci, who was sole author of a 1983 piece in the prestigious JAMA in which he declared the disease might be transmissible by “routine close contact, as within a family household.” Fauci shortly thereafter ascended to the position he holds to this day as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
To quote Auric Goldfinger: “Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.’”
Donny, be like Rocky. Padlock Fauci’s office, seal his files, give him a gold watch, and walk him out the door.
Minneapolis goes to heck in a handcart. Citizens go on partrol. Neighborhood stay safe and intact, from Star Tribune:
But now it’s also known as the hub of an impressive community effort that saved Franklin Avenue businesses and nonprofits during the violence that erupted after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
It started with three American Indian leaders who saw the destruction unfolding on Lake Street and rushed to protect businesses at the heart of the American Indian cultural corridor along Franklin Avenue. Michael Goze, CEO of the American Indian Community Development Corporation, and Frank Paro, president of the American Indian Movement (AIM), sent out a call for volunteers as violence erupted in the streets. Bob Rice, owner of Pow Wow Grounds coffee shop, opened his property as the staging area for AIM street patrols and offered other logistical support.
Citizens rise up, unite and do their civic duty. No mention of white men, and no talk of those evil assault weapons. Maybe the lame stream dictionary defines vigilante as a white man with a gun. In this case the vigilantes happen to native Americans. Well done gentlemen.
People, make no mistake about this. This push against the police is really a push against the laws that the police are sworn to enforce. Laws which, in most respects, have been demanded by the people.
It is, perhaps, instructive and focusing to learn that the very definition of the word “police” comes into play here. The word comes from the French, which literally translated comes out “the power of the people”.
And and what happens once this movement starts succeeding? We already have examples. For example, this from Powerline:
Following Freddy Gray’s death, the police force came under sustained attack by local politicians and the Obama Justice Department. It backed off from proactive policing, and the size of the force decreased significantly.
Violent crime skyrocketed. In the five years before Gray’s death in 2015, homicides averaged around 215 per year. In the past five years, they have averaged around 335, and reached a high of 348 last year. Residents attribute this to “relaxed police patrols.”
and now we see sections of Seattle being taken over by these people. The governor and the mayor are refusing to do anything about it and instead are trading barbs with the president over their non-action.
The Democrats are playing this game because they believe it to be to their advantage.
Meantime in Chicago the mayor and all 50 of the aldermen are completely freaked out because they can’t control the rioting. Eventually somebody’s going to figure out that the rioting is a direct result of the city government’s policies. And yet they still refuse to do anything serious about it.
There is an old Limerick which seems to apply very nicely here.
There once was a lady from Niger
Who rode on the back of a tiger.
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside
And a smile on the face of the tiger.
In short my friends the Democrats are now being consumed by the world that they have made as has long been predicted.
The real tragedy here is they’re going to end up taking the rest of us down with them if we don’t stand up on our hind legs and do something about it.
So what’s behind this push eliminate the police?
Perhaps it would be helpful if we were to examine the criminal records of the individuals that the left has been trying to make Martyrs of.
As regards Michael Brown, from. NY Times article of the time;
Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life. Shortly before his encounter with Officer Wilson, the police say he was caught on a security camera stealing a box of cigars, pushing the clerk of a convenience store into a display case. He lived in a community that had rough patches, and he dabbled in drugs and alcohol. He had taken to rapping in recent months, producing lyrics that were by turns contemplative and vulgar. He got into at least one scuffle with a neighbor.
Then, there’s Trayvon Marti, by way of The New American
During the discovery process in May 2012, the defense team for Zimmerman got the first glimpse of just who Martin really was, in data contained in 67 compact discs. Included were texts from Martin’s cellphone going back to November 2011 and photos of Martin other than the one the press used to generate public sympathy — a hooded innocent gunned down by a white racist.
As the Miami Herald noted in its article the month after the incident, “Weed, fights and guns,” a broader, deeper and uglier picture of Zimmerman’s attacker emerged:
As thousands of people gathered here to demand an arrest in the Trayvon Martin case, a more complicated portrait began to emerge of a teenager whose problems at school ranged from getting spotted defacing lockers to getting caught with a marijuana baggie and women’s jewelry.
In October, 2011, Martin was caught on a school surveillance video defacing lockers with obscenities using a magic marker pen. The police investigator said Martin was “hiding and being suspicious.” When the officer confronted Martin the next day he found Martin’s backpack contained some women’s jewelry — a watch, some silver wedding bands and diamond-encrusted earrings. Martin told the officer, “They’re not mine. A friend gave it to me.” Continuing his search, the officer found a large flat-headed screwdriver which the officer described as a burglar’s tool. The jewelry was turned over to the police and Martin was suspended for defacing school property.
Four months later Martin was caught with a baggie containing “traces” of marijuana along with a marijuana pipe.
It was at this time that his mother, Sybrina Fulton (who had divorced her husband Tracy Martin back in 1999 when Trayvon was four but who conveniently showed up with her ex to attend Zimmerman’s trial) kicked him out of the house and told him to go live with his father in Sanford. It was there that the run-in with Zimmerman occurred on February 26.
Martin’s text messages revealed a teenager just looking for trouble. In a highly redacted 10-page listing of his phone texts, Martin revealed a life of a marijuana smoker (one of his friends called him a “weed head”), and schoolyard bully who had been involved in at least three fistfights and threatened more in order to “get even,” and had shown an interest in obtaining a gun from another friend: “U wanna share a .380?” asked Martin at one point.
Photos released as part of the discovery process but not allowed in the courtroom as “not relevant” revealed an arrogant teen showing off his gold teeth and his disrespect for normal decorum with obscene gestures and threatening countenances.
Such was the background of the young man portrayed by the media as an innocent “hoodie” gunned down by Zimmerman. But there was one piece of evidence that surfaced during the trial: Zimmerman’s defense attorney Don West provided an expert who told the jury that there was enough marijuana in Martin’s system the night of the incident sufficient to create some impairment
Then there’s Rodney King, whom you may remember as the subject of the LA riots not so many years ago…. From a site called Famous Trials
July 27, 1987: According to a complaint filed by his wife, King beat her while she was sleeping, then dragged her outside the house and beat her again. King was charged with battery and pleaded “no contest.” He was placed on probation and ordered to obtain counseling. He never got the counseling.
November 3, 1989: King, brandishing a tire iron, ordered a convenience store clerk to empty the cash register. The clerk grabbed the tire iron, causing King to fall backwards and knock over a pie rack. King swung the rack at the clerk and fled the store with $200. King was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, second-degree robbery, and intent to commit great bodily injury. In a plea agreement, King pleaded guilty to the robbery charge and the other charges were dropped. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but was paroled on December 27, 1990.
The Arrest of Rodney King on March 3, 1991
March 3, 1991: After being seen speeding on the 210 freeway by CHP officers, King led them on a chase at speeds estimated at up to 110 to 115 mph. When finally stopped, King refused requests to get into the prone position and appeared to charge one of the officers. He was beaten and arrested. King was charged with felony evading. Charges were later dropped.
King’s 3/3/91 Arrest Record
King’s Trouble with the Law After March 3, 1991
May 11, 1991: King was pulled over for having an excessively tinted windshield. Although King was driving without a license and his car registration had expired, King was not charged.
May 28, 1991: King picked up a transvestite prostitute in Hollywood who happened to be under surveillance by LAPD officers. King and the prostitute were observed in an alley engaging in sexual activity. When the prostitute spotted the officers, King sped away, nearly hitting one of them. King later explained that he thought the vice officers were robbers trying to kill him. No charges were filed.June 26, 1992: King’s second wife reported to police that King had hit her and she feared for her life. King was handcuffed and taken to a police station, but his wife then decided against pressing charges.
July 16, 1992: King was arrested at 1:40 A.M. for driving while intoxicated. No charges were filed.
August 21, 1993: King crashed into a wall near a downtown Los Angeles nightclub. He had a blood alcohol level of 0.19. King was charged with violating his parole and sent for sixty day to an alcohol treatment center. He was also convicted on the DUI charge and ordered to perform twenty days of community service.
May 21, 1995: King was arrested for DUI while on a trip to Pennsylvania. King failed field sobriety tests, but refused to submit to a blood test. He was tried and acquitted.
July 14, 1995: King got into an argument with his wife while he was driving, pulled off the freeway and ordered her out of the car. When she started to get out, King sped off, leaving her on the highway with a bruised arm. King was charged with assault with a deadly weapon (his car), reckless driving, spousal abuse, and hit-and-run. King was tried on all four charges, but found guilty only of hit-and-run driving.
March 3, 1999: King allegedly injured the sixteen-year-old girl that he had fathered out of wedlock when he was seventeen, as well as the girl’s mother. King was arrested for injuring the woman, the girl, and for vandalizing property. King claimed that the incident was simply “a family misunderstanding.”
September 29, 2001: King was arrested for indecent exposure and use of the hallucinogenic drug PCP.
Then of course the most recent subject of martyrdom, George Floyd’s arrest history.
In 1998 he was sentenced to 10 months in prison for armed robbery.
In 2002 he was sentenced to 8 months in jail for cocaine possession..
In 2004 he was sentenced to 10 months in jail for cocaine possession.
In 2005 he was sentenced yet again to 10 months in jail for cocaine possession.
In 2007 he attempted to rob a pregnant woman in her robe and was sentenced to 5 years in jail.
It should be noted that his record is much more extensive than this if you include the points where charges were not laid.
When he died, the man was high as a kite on methamphetamines and fentanyl.
Now for the sake of comparison, perhaps we should look at another example of a black American, St Louis Police Captain David Dorn.
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..David Dorn, 77, was found dead from a gunshot to the torso around 2:30 a.m. Prior to working security at the pawn shop, he served as a police captain with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and a police chief in nearby Moline Acres.
He retired in 2014 after more than 40 years in law enforcement.
It is interesting and instructive that this example of a black American is ignored by those calling for the elimination of police… What gets lionized by the left and what gets ignored.
Dr. Martin Luther King spoke with passion about a day when people would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
I dare to say to you today the Doctor King’s dream will never come true under these conditions.to begin with, since that for that dream to come true, for one to be judged by the content of one’s character, one must actually happen above board character, which is something that play George Floyd, Michael Brown, etc etc crowd simply does not possess.
There was a time, my friends, when black families kept a portrait of Dr. King on the wall oh, my phone is not right next to a portrait of Christ himself. Those who were around in the sixties and seventies will remember this well. We have alas, come to the point where Dr. King and his dream themselves are being rejected.
Let’s see, here. Dr. King still has a holiday, we have black awareness month, black only colleges, a Black entertainment Network, every city in the country has at least one black radio station. Black only dating sites, black only bars, black only clubs, a Congressional Black caucus, and yet the rest of us are racist?
We see Hollywood celebrities taking collections of millions of dollars to bail out the rioters and looters across our nation, and yet not dime one for Captain Dorn. What kind of a message are they trying to send here?
And finally, 19 people, 19 black people, Chicago residents, died last weekend, as a result of violent acts against them by other blacks. Where are the BLM brownshirts on this one?
I just got off the Ouija Phone with the late Robert Byrd, and he approved of using local law enforcement to deprive minorities of their civil rights. This rant is about as long as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s knee to George Floyd’s neck, and almost as painful to watch. Be warned. The racist bigot play of the day, video(profane language):
Partial except:
“They let these people come outside with they AK-47s. Ak-47s to protect they stuff from black people. They ready to kill black people, the Arabs, the fake a** Ramadan mother f**kers. They got M-16s, AK with they people’s out here. Everything y’all. Look at this s**t,” she said, flipping the camera to a nearby store. “They got mother f**kin’ AKs out here and I’m going to get my cousin that’s a police officer right now and ask him are they legally able to carry these mother f**kin’ guns like this.”
I don’t know who the black Chicago women is. I will just call her BCW. While researching this article the original videos were still posted on both Facebook and Youtube. So they not all that opposed to threats of violence.
BCW clearly wants to rob or have here friends rob the business. So she schemes to have the local police confiscate the business’s firearms. So BCW does not support totally defunding the police.
BCW clearly assumes that if the property owners were to shoot any person attempting to rob the store, that the would robbers, would be dead robbers, would be dead black robbers. Are all robbers in the Peoples’ Republic of Chicago black?
BCW is upset that Chicago residents are carrying constitutionally legal manner that are visible. She invokes the need for a state license. Yet the best I can make out from the her video, the weapons are only being carried and displayed on private property. There is a iron fence around the parking area.
BCW assumes, maybe correctly, that the owners or employees of the business are foreigners. Would I be correct in assuming that BCW is not fan of Comrade Lori Lightfoot’s sanctuary city policy. BCW clearly has contact with the local police. Does she lack such contacts with federal immigration officials?
