Learn to code, if not A, then? More to the point, if not the current Minneapolis Police Department then what, or if not your current PD then what. There is no point in abolishing A unless have B that is better.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1269951088964370432
Lisa Bender President of the Minneapolis City Council wants to abolish, defund, the entire Minneapolis Police Department. Ms. Bender does make one good point. The MPD is note perfect, for example the MPD totally failed Justine Diamond. That was what three years ago, and I don’t recall Ms. Bender calling for the abolition of the MPD at the time.
“Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors,” the city council president replied. “And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that [concern] comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.”
I have a right to my stuff, see Fourth Amendment. Neither Ms. Bender nor her friends have any right to my stuff. Moreover, if Ms. Bender et al should deprive me of my stuff I have a right to retrieve it.
I don’t think Ms. Bender knows to where chosen road leads, and I doubt too many American Citizens would willing to follow her. What say you?
This was found as a response in a discussion being waged elsewhere oh, and it was obviously copied from quora so I will simply box it up and ship it along.
It is more than worth the read…indeed, it speaks directly to points I’ve been making the last week or two and is too good not to share.
I found this response to a Liberal Open Society cartoon about why the “tolerant must be intolerant of the intolerant”, as if that makes any sense, but the response seems to be spot on.
“Chris Josse says there is a difference between tolerance and argument and he is correct but then he heads down the sophist rabbit hole. Academically speaking, liberals belong to the category of Sophist. The Free Dictionary defines Sophism as:
A plausible but fallacious argument.
Deceptive or fallacious argumentation.
Allow me to opine on the argument. Now read the responses here in Quora to the question. Can you pick out the Sophists? I sure can.First and foremost, they do not argue in the traditional sense of an argument. The essence of argumentation lies in the agreed upon definition terms and the use of logic backed by facts (empiricism) to support conclusions. The intellectually mature sophist (the ones that are educated beyond their intelligence) employ deceptive or ambiguous terms while the immature sophist reverts to emotional outbursts, expletives and insults. It is easier to do that because you don’t need to think and or study or collect facts to define your terms. You also get the instant gratification of self-righteousness – intellectual masturbation. A couple classic examples of a fallacious and deceptive attempts at definition:
Bill Clinton’s infamous Sophist definition statement: It depends on what your definition of “is” is.
The definition of “disruptive innovation”. The accepted definition is the introduction of a better service or product into the free market. Google uses their own definition to justify their criminal violation of copyrights, trade marks and patents to make money.
Most sophists (liberals) do not create or respond to arguments that require agreement on definitions. Instead, they are quite happy to destroy those types of arguments by using categories of exclusion. “You’re a F*^#ing white supremacist” without even attempting to define white supremacy? They throw around terms like racist, capitalist, Nazi and the popular fill in the blank ‘phobists’. Rejection instead of analysis and debate. Hate and ostracism rather than informed thought. Rage rather than tolerance in the form of an informed argument or debate. Why do they do this?Liberal philosophy is based on the fantasy of egalitarianism and they sell it to others in the form of resentment. Here is the liberal dog whistle template: “You deserve (fill in what you don’t have but want without having to work for it) because you are a (repressed category) and the (oppressive category) are keeping you from having what you deserve”. Be sure to conclude with a few choice expletives aimed at the oppressive category for effect. Ex: You’re black and deserve to have more money but the white racist republican Nazis still want to enslave you and keep you in poverty (never mind that is was Democrats who supported slavery). Or, you’re a poor exploited worker who toils all day but your rich bosses don’t pay you what you think you’re worth so they can get rich on your labor. Or, you could be something but some other class of people have singled you out and are preventing you from achieving your greatness. Liberals define success as exploitation while celebrating failure as a virtue and badge of honor. If working hard and becoming rich is bad, then not working hard or failing must be good. No wonder they want the government to take care of everybody.
The great tragedy here is the sophist tactics actually rob the average person of their capacity for achieving true greatness. When this is pointed out to them, they revert to their intolerant responses. Liberals, by stimulating resentment and hatred, kill advancement and innovation. Yet they call themselves progressives. Resentment breeds failure which breeds more resentment. Does that sound like progress? But if you can brainwash people into emotionally investing into that negative mindset, then the confirmation bias generated by the sophist controlled media will keep them trapped.
The longer they remain trapped the harder it is to realize their beliefs actually caused their lives to become increasingly disastrous. They cannot look in the mirror and admit that their actions and decisions based on their beliefs have destroyed their lives when it is much easier (and less painful) to blame others. When confronted with that truth, they cannot accept responsibility. They double down on their failure and act with intolerance against those who hold up the truth mirror that exposes their failures.”
Arthur Nimz
Answered Jul 2, 2018 · Author has 120 answers and 364k answer viewshttps://www.quora.com/Why-are-liberals-and-Democrats-so-intolerant-of-those-who-oppose-their-views-while-claiming-to-be-tolerant
News flash, vigilantes patrol in People’s Republic of Chicago, and Comrade Mayor, Lori Lightfoot is not a happy camper, from Hill, via PJ Media:
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) this week condemned vigilantism after groups of predominantly white men were seen patrolling the streets with bats amid ongoing protests against racism and police brutality.
“It is absolutely not appropriate for people to take up arms, bats, pipes, whatever in patrolling neighborhoods,” Lightfoot said, according to the Chicago Tribune.
“We’ve seen that end with tragic results across the country and we’re not about to allow that practice to happen here in Chicago. If there’s an issue, call 911,” Lightfoot said.
Video(NSFW):
https://twitter.com/i/status/1268358086160453633
Private citizens have taken to policing their neighborhood streets and Comrade Lightfoot is not happy. If Chicago were my city, and I were brave enough to admit it, I would not be happy either. However, vigilantism is not necessarily illegal, nor necessarily bad, definition:
Taking the law into one’s own hands and attempting to effect justice according to one’s own understanding of right and wrong; action taken by a voluntary association of persons who organize themselves for the purpose of protecting a common interest, such as liberty, property, or personal security; action taken by an individual or group to protest existing law; action taken by an individual or group to enforce a higher law than that enacted by society’s designated lawmaking institutions; private enforcement of legal norms in the absence of an established, reliable, and effective law enforcement body.
Given the long and sorry history of the Chicago Police Department Mayor Lightfoot’s recent performance, it understandable that some citizens of the Windy City feel motivated to do the job Mayor and her police department seem loath to do.
By chance, do you remember how Prince died? It seems quite a while ago.
Nobody could explain the sudden heart attack until such time as the coroner got involved and informed us that he had fentanyl in his system. Heck of a guitarist, and a tragic loss to be certain.
Now fentanyl is a drug that is about as addictive as anything you can name. It also has a tendency to increase coronary problems.
I bring up that piece of history because it seems to me that nobody’s considered it in light of current events.
Regular readers here will perhaps remember that I mentioned either yesterday or the day before the George Floyd had fentanyl in his system as well as methamphetamines, that there was no physical evidence of asphyxiation, but there was evidence of coronary issues and and the ruling, properly, was that of a heart attack.
Now, two points here. First, if you’re screaming anything at all, your airways are not being blocked. This would be completely consistent with the coroner’s report. That said however, a heart attack will often give as a warning sign, difficulty breathing.
Which leads me to the second point, it seems likely the coronary issues were involved with George Floyd’s death. Coronary issues brought on by fentanyl and the meth.
In short, the cop didn’t kill George Floyd. George Floyd killed George Floyd.
Then, there is 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.
When he died, the man was high as a kite on methamphetamines and fentanyl.
Now ask yourself a question.. who is it that would benefit from these points being ignored? Who would benefit from the emotionally polluted rush to judgment that we have seen in this case, which by the way is not unlike the rush to judgment that we saw with regards to the supposed Russia collusion case, the supposed sexual attack charges against Judge kavanaugh, against Judge Thomas, the Trayvon Martin case, the Michael Brown case, and so on.
As with those cases, we are being manipulated, people.
I mean, has anybody mentioned the idea that if you’re not doing something illegal, the cops will leave you alone?
The whole “white guilt” schtick is part and parcel of that manipulation.
In the case of Brown and Martin the usual suspects ignored their questionable history in their quest to make martyrs of them, just as they are doing with Floyd.
All of which raises the question, “Why are the subjects of black martyrdom of late, such abject losers?
It’s mostly because as Shelby Steele says,
That’s because the only politically correct way to see blacks is as victims of larger forces that are constantly determining them and beating them and miring them in difficulty.”
Consider closely the words of Candace Owens in this:
https://youtu.be/JtPfoEvNJ74
Notice please, the Shelby Steele quote as regards Black culture. This is vital to this discussion because as I have said for many years in these spaces, 99% of what is perceived as racial matters anymore is in fact cultural matters.
As a result of what Steele and Owens call a culture embracing the lowest common denominator, a large part of Black America and Black American opinion, doesn’t see a problem with the history of George Floyd, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, Rodney King etc,…. At least they don’t, once it’s exposed. In fact, they will call racist, anyone who exposes those histories, or if they happen to be black like Shelby Steele, Candace Owens Walter Williams, Bill Cosby Etc, they will be labeled as Uncle Tom.
There are people in our world who understand all of this… And are manipulating these forces to further disrupt our society at the expense of minorities, particularly, but everybody in the end.
I address that in full, here.
I can remember just a short while ago when toilet paper was supposedly in short supply and everyone was hording it. Maybe it’s just me, but have you seen any of the looters in Minneapolis or Los Angeles carrying large amounts of toilet paper?
For that matter, have you seen anybody involved in those riots “social distancing”? Even the Democrat Mayors are saying they’re not going to enforce social distancing rules on protesters. Just churchgoers. People trying to live their lives.
It seems obvious at this point that the suffering caused by the Coronavirus regulations are less important then the suffering caused by the “protests”.
As I said at the beginning… whatever else that was, the masking, social distancing all the rest of that nonsense had absolutely nothing to do with saving lives and more to do with altering the political structure, to favor the big government Democrats. Here’s a news flash….Don’t ever ask or order me to “flatten the curve” and give up my liberties again. I won’t comply, and I expect after what we’ve witnessed the last couple of months, nobody else will, either. Well, very few.
We are told leftist/media criminal cabal that somehow black, but only black, lives matter. Not only is the meme racist, anti-Christian and offensive, even within its rather limited scope, it still isn’t true.
The movement launched on the pretense of the ugly videoed death of a black citizen George Floyd as the hand of the Minneapolis Police Department. Yet more of our fellow black citizens have died at the hand of the George Soros riots or as result of them than have did at the hands of police departments, video:
At face value, the message of black lives matter is true. However by the actions of Soros rent a mobs, the message is rendered false. If you believe that black lives matter, then stop killing blacks, along with all people.
Oh by the way, have heard of Planned Parenthood aborturaiums being fire bombed?
So let’s see here…
We put up with 4 years of BS from the Democrats about how Trump was a Russian stooge. Of course, that proved to be a flat out falsehood.
Then along came covid-19 . Since the one point that even the Democrats can’t argue about is the wild economic success under Trump, can you possibly imagine a more effective way of messing up the economy and causing misery, and thereby attempting to interfere in Trump’s re-election, than shutting the economy down under the guise of safety?
Of course when it came out that the death rate wasn’t nearly what we were told, along comes BLM, Antifa, and the sons of ACORN, to burn down everything in their path, basically performing terrorist acts….in the name of supporting the rights of black people, and killing several back people along the way..
But again…. If you wanted to extend the misery and economic disaster that the covid-19 shutdown has inflicted on the American people, can you possibly imagine a better way of doing it then the terrorist threat of Antifa and BLM?
And don’t tell me there’s no connection between those organizations, all this violence and the Democrat Party when we see members of the Democrat Party including Joe Biden’s campaign team bailling out the people responsible for that violence, and those deaths. they and their fellow travelers are orchestrating all of this so as to regain governmental power.
Ladies and gentlemen, my dear friends, I give you today’s Democrat Party. The globalists are desperate. At all these actions up over the past four or five years, and there is no other conclusion to draw but that there isn’t thing one that’s above them to accomplish their goals.
Nothing.
Attention former General Mattis
You said publicly the other day that you never thought you’d see the president of the United States calling for using the military against American citizens.
Here’s a news flash for you, Bozo..
What in the world did you think they meant when they had you swear an oath on the Bible to protect this country against enemies both foreign and domestic?
Maybe when you get to be a certain age you start forgetting things like that.
Now, sit down and shut up.
For the record, I’m with Ed Wronka, who says:
I think it IS a drastic measure for a President to mention the possibility of using the US military….
However, the comprehensive way our citizens have become targeted by Soros-funded homegrown terrorist organizations may rise to the level that requires such action.
For now, we must hope that merely mentioning it will have the deter these thugs!
And if it doesn’t deter those thugs, well, we’ll just have to respect their choice then, won’t we? When they complain, we can tell them welcome to the world that you made.
Addendum;
A day later and I’m still chewing about this idiot. He apparently doesn’t remember that the National guard was nationalized during the 92 Rodney King riots..
And there are other examples of course. But he should certainly have remember that example at the least.
The damage that Obama has done to our military during his eight years in office is now laid bare for all to see. Obama spent a great deal of time purging people who didn’t agree with his myopic world view, …in other words the promotion of socialism and the promotion of the idea that America should take a backseat to everybody else. That Mattis managed to survive those purges should tell you everything you need to know about the man.and because of all that purging going on during the Obama Administration there wasn’t anybody but left-wingers left in the military.. Mattis was chosen as SecDef ostensibly because he was the best one of what remained after the purging.
With all of that added up it seems clear to me that we have a military that we simply can’t rely upon to act in America’s best interest.
As for Mattis himself, he is best ignored at this point. And it should be noted that the Atlantic will always leap to praise someone whose bedrock principles have about as much weight to them as a windsock.
What we have here is somebody desperately trying to remain relevant and failing miserably…except as it now at least he has secured for himself an analyst position at CNN.(How’s that for becoming irrelevant in a hurry?) Well, at least he went down in a blaze of stupidity.
General, you are dismissed.
The Associated Press ventured out of their bunker to take a field trip to Minneapolis to circa a miles from the local epicenter of the George Soros riots:
A week of civil unrest has led some Minneapolis residents near the epicenter of the violence to take steps to protect their homes and neighborhoods. They’ve stocked up on fire extinguishers and buckets, and formed scores of loose neighborhood watch groups — aided by a cluster of apps and social media — to share what they view as suspicious activity.
Style comments: notable the AP made only one mention of the evil so-called “assault rifle”. It only used neutral racial tags, white, black, to refer to individuals and not populations. It never used intentionally provocatory words such as vigilante or redneck.
Content comments: the neighborhood was reported as vigilant and still intact. Unlike a politically hindered police force, local residents can’t be ordered to retreat from their home, nor are they so inclined. The price of peace is eternal vigilance, and this is all the more important when local law enforcement is unavailable or unresponsive.
On the strategic level, Soros mobile mobs have been able to score tactical victories in city centers lacking in invested local citizens. When they venture outside the metropolitan centers they find themselves out numbers, out gunned and out motivated.
The title is literally true. The content is not safe for work. You were warned, link. If the kid has any sense, he now a former liberal.
1. Instill fear
2. Lock people in their houses
3. Drive tens of millions out of work
4. Remove the pressure valves: Sports, Concerts, Bars, Theaters, Lunch with Friends…
5. Close the churches
6. Dehumanize through masking the healthy
7. Wait
8. Strike match..
Lafayette Park has essentially been a war zone all day. The president just took a walk from the White House across Lafayette Park / 2 St Johns, the historic church that the animals tried to burn down last night.
Say what you will, the man’s no coward.
Antifa thug steals AR-15 from burning police cruiser. Unknown security officer, retrieves said gun from aforementioned thug, video:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1266876577289089026
Its the bad ass move of the day. Don’t try this at home kids.
Hat tip and more, PJ Media.
Townhall’s Julio Rosas is on the ground in Minneapolis this week, reporting on the protests and riots. Tonight he’s reporting that the riot police and the National Guard have abandoned a perimeter they had set up earlier in the day, chased away by the rioters.
The citizens of Minnesota have done better, and I, if not their governor, believe they still can. Excerpt from the annals of the First Minnesota:
July 2-3, 1863 – BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
During the second day (July 2,’62), the Confederates had broken through Sickles’ position. With a failed attempt at rallying Sickles’ men, General Winfield S. Hancock had ordered the First that was held in reserve nearby to counterattack and fill the gap in the Union line until reinforcements could arrive. During the attack, three companies ‘C’, ‘F’, and 2nd Minnesota Sharpshooters Co. ‘L’, totaling some 73 men, had been detached.7 Out of the 262 men remaining that attacked to delay the rebs and restore the Union position, 215 were killed, wounded, or missing. Earlier in the day, Col. Wm. Colville had been relieved of arrest and resumed command the regiment. Gen. W.S. Hancock whose order “Colonel, do you see those colors?” (pointing at the advancing Confederate forces) “Then take them!”, later stated:
If Minnesota can hold off Robert E. Lee, they can hold off George Soros.
Interestingly the CNN stooge with a microphone covering maybe the biggest siege in the South since Vicksburg keep calling members of the mob as protestors. Meanwhile members of the Atlanta police had to evacuated to be treated for projectile wounds. Peaceful!
Meanwhile back at the blog, we await Brian Stetler’s account of the siege.
