All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
I figure I’ll see if this can have future installments. After all Philly seems to be on a roll. Imagine being a cop in that place.
People in Philadelphia just started looting and rioting pic.twitter.com/wgf51nvKnt
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) September 27, 2023
Here’s what the Apple Store in Philly looked like tonight. pic.twitter.com/pf0ILFPZlZ
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) September 27, 2023
“Four very young men, all carrying guns, beat me violently down to the ground in front of our kids,” Shivanthi Sathanandan said in a Facebook post. “The young men held our neighbors up at gunpoint when they ran over and tried to help me. All in broad daylight.”
Well. Four juveniles. So I think we can say it was illegal for them to have guns. Does this liberal now understand that gun laws will do nothing?
No.
Further in her post she says they need to get the guns off the street.
It isn’t the gun, lady. It’s the person using it.
It is so sad when people refuse to learn.
Here’s a thought: What if even one of her neighbors had been armed?
The outcome would have been very different. The beating would not have gone on as long as it did and, maybe, some bad guys would be in jail.
There’s nothing like a brutal beat down and a broken leg during a carjacking to change a “defund the police” activist into a “law and order” advocate. I’m not sure whether Saint George of Floyd will forgive this falling away from the faith. It seems a little fickle.
Before beatdown:
In June of 2020, Sathanandan wrote in a post on Facebook: “We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. Say it with me. DISMANTLE The Minneapolis Police Department.”
After beatdown:
“Look at my face. These criminals will not win. We need to take back our city. And this will not be the last you hear from me about this. Thank you to the incredible Minneapolis 4th Precinct Officers,
Maybe after she’s had a chance to wash the blood off her face she’ll calm down and realize that those kooky, crazy carjacking kids were just full of high spirits and she should chalk it up to reparations. After all, maybe it was some form of white privilege or white supremacy or something white that triggered their understandable reaction. Stop blaming the victims Shivanthi and look in the mirror for the true culprit.
In 2020, Democrat leader Shivanthi Sathanandan asking for dismantling police and now she wants strict laws against juveniles.
Woke until Broke. pic.twitter.com/1UTTwBYG0N
— Facts (@BefittingFacts) September 8, 2023
Mike’s beat is documenting the absurd charges hurled at police whenever they are compelled to use deadly force in the line of duty. In this case a young man, under the influence of what will probably turn out to be some psychotropic drug, smashed through a window onto the street, half dressed in the New England winter, brandishing a machete.
He was followed by the police for five blocks who begged him to drop his weapon. When he turned on the police they first attempted to stop him with a non-lethal “sponge round” but when he charged one of the officers he shot the armed man several times with his service weapon, killing him.
So that seems pretty straightforward. But the assailant was Bangladeshi and the incident took place in Cambridge Massachusetts, the home of Harvard University and most of the craziest people in New England. I’ll quote from Mike’s article:
“Activist and Cambridge City Councillor Quinton Y. Zondervan tweeted, “We must reject the racist system of policing that is failing our young people,” likening the shooting to “the kind of racist, senseless killing that we read about in places like Ferguson.”
Such allegations have contributed to protests, calls for change, and local student newspaper The Harvard Crimson to write, “the shooting of Faisal, a Bangladeshi American, has spiked concerns of racism, Islamophobia, and police brutality throughout Cambridge.””
After discussing the inaccuracy of these characterizations of the police action and the actual record of the Cambridge Police Department over the last quarter century, Mike concludes as follows:
“When elected officials irresponsibly portray police as racist murderers, there are serious consequences. Besides these violent attacks upon the police, the lies have led to drastic changes in the criminal-justice system resulting in increased victimization of our citizens.
If Americans want serious leaders who support the rule of law and don’t act stupidly, they need to start voting smartly.”
In that last sentence Mike is parodying what Barack Obama said back in 2009 when he criticized the Cambridge Police Department as “acting stupidly” for arresting a black Harvard professor who was a buddy of his when he broke the law. And of course all of this break down of law and order began when Obama’s Justice Department started using lawfare to attack the police departments of America’s cities and towns.
So aother day, another slander against police officers protecting the public from madmen running wild.
I just read this article from City Journal that says Starbuck’s is closing a bunch of urban locations because the increases in violence and theft are just too much for them to endure. Now this is the same company that has championed “defund the police” and every other progressive platitude that came down the pike. Of course, Starbucks is the icing on the cake. The real issue is the closing of drug stores in places like Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York. The Soros district attorneys have decriminalized shop lifting and so these stores have been emptied out so many times they are just clearing out. And the poorest people who depend on these stores for everything from toilet paper to medicine are out of luck.
But hey, just keep on voting for those Democrats. That’s working really well for you. Bring it on, bring it on, bring it on.
Everyone else, stay away from the cities. They’ll be death traps for a generation.
Here’s another data point to confirm that democracy does work. The super woke residents of Beverly Hills are reaping the benefits of their election choices. LA doesn’t arrest most offenders anymore and so the gangbangers and other career criminals have decided to branch out from South Central and visit their wealthier friends in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Santa Monica and Los Feliz.
“On March 22, in the broad daylight of a typically gorgeous day in Beverly Hills, thieves in hoodies and sunglasses took a sledgehammer to the plate glass window of Peter Sedghi’s boutique and furiously rummaged through the shards. In less than 90 seconds, the robbers stole more than $3 million worth of jewels. Two days later, in response to a wave of high-end robberies, the Los Angeles Police Department announced there would be no arrests. Instead, it cautioned Hollywood residents not to wear high quality jewelry in public.
“Beverly Hills is one of the most affluent, safest neighborhoods in the world and now everyone is scared,” Sedghi said. “All of my clients – no one wears anything.”
While the total number of rapes fell in Los Angeles during the 37-month period studied, their share spiked in predominantly white neighborhoods – rising 18.2% in neighborhoods where they comprise 81% to 100% of residents.“
Personally I’m as pleased as can be. I think this new form of community outreach is long overdue.
“The zip codes showing the largest increases are home to film and pop stars, including Beverly Hills, of “90210” fame, where Beyonce and Jay-Z have their West Coast house; Bel Air, of “Fresh Prince” Will Smith fame, where Jennifer Lopez now resides; and Los Feliz, where Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom share a house and where Angelina Jolie has resided since her divorce from Brad Pitt. Nearby, the U.S. Postal Service has suspended delivery to one neighborhood in Santa Monica – a town where celebrities including Tom Cruise, Christian Bale and Sandra Bullock reportedly have homes – because “multiple carriers have been subjected to assault and threats of assault.”
Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, Angelina Jolie. Yep, they will be able to embrace the more enlightened criminal justice practices currently on view in their neighborhoods. They might want to tone down the bling displays and possibly invest in an extra bodyguard or two.
Some kind of a mass casualty event went on this morning in a Brooklyn subway train that spilled over onto the 36th St subway stop in Sunset Park. Looking at the footage maybe it was a smoke bomb followed by a handgun volley. There are supposed to be fifteen people injured. At least a couple look like gunshot injuries.
When all is said and done maybe no one will know who, what, or why this happened. The NYPD’s capabilities have been seriously degraded. And whatever the FBI says will be suspect. The takeaway for me is New York City will soon be comparable to Mexico City or Rio de Janeiro. A large city with some remaining cultural icons that is infested with crime and horrible poverty.
Thanks Democrats.
Somebody or other once said that stupidity is the most powerful force in the Universe. And I think that is true. Another name for stupidity is inertia. It is what the mind must move to bring intelligence to brute existence. And it is why nothing can be accomplished without enormous amounts of pain and death. The spark of intelligence is resisted by the inertia of stupidity. And the process of intelligence overcoming stupidity is a variety of evolution. Life adapts to the changing Universe and becomes better adapted to its surroundings in a never-ending dance.
In our human microcosm we attempt to become better adapted to the human environment. But there are many conflicting forces at work. Human cooperation and conflict exist at the same time and they can never be statically balanced. They are always dynamically interacting and so anytime you try to depend on some temporary relationship between them you run the risk of being blind-sided by change. The only way to stay on the “right side of history” is when you force history to go where you want it to go.
And that is what we see going on today. The Stupid Party wants to follow the rules from yesterday assuming that the Evil Party will follow those rules too. What they don’t see is that the Evil Party is making up new rules as it goes along. And those rules are just whatever ensures that it will be winning and its enemies will be losing. Evolution is the Stupid Party getting replaced by a Less Stupid Party. We have no choice but to evolve in our thinking or become grease for the wheels that turn the world.
If the progs want to demonize the police and deify George Floyd then we have to let them burn the cities down. That’s where reality will burn the fingers of the stupid people living there who bought into BLM and “Defund the Police.” They must find out exactly what defund the police looks like, up close and personal. When every store goes out of business from shop lifting and every subway car is filled with predators and prey then it will become clear why George Floyd wasn’t a saint. He was a disease. He was a career criminal who swam in a sea of dysfunction. He existed because this society tolerates a subculture that embraces criminality. When every inhabitant of a city gets to meet George Floyd on any random day; gets robbed by him or assaulted by him, then they will truly understand what BLM and defund the police represents for their lives. It represents the law of the jungle, kill or be killed.
So, I’m very encouraged every time I read about another atrocity in New York, Chicago or Baltimore. Whereas I mourn for the senseless destruction of life and the terror and pain inflicted on innocents in these places, I also recognize that evolution is taking place. Stupidity is being educated the only way it can be. With pain and even death. When we have a nation, whose cities are populated by people who would rather have cops in charge than gangbangers and homeless schizophrenics then we will have really evolved.
You can’t make this stuff up. Even Al Capone couldn’t run amok like this.
“A crime spree unfolded recently in Chicago that evoked a scene from “The Godfather.” In one of the more memorable moments in movie history, the Corleone family leaves a severed horse’s head in the bed of the fictitious movie mogul Jack Woltz as a sign of their power. Earlier this month in the Windy City, thieves broke into two northside stores and stole cash registers. They emptied the contents and then dumped the empty registers on the front lawn of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s private home in Chicago’s swankiest neighborhood.”
And:
“Consider, for example, that Chicago saw six children shot this past Tuesday in just a matter of hours. The violence commenced with the afternoon murder of a 15-year-old high school freshman, Caleb Westbrook, who was killed in broad daylight as he walked home from school on Chicago’s west side. The ages of the victims shocked even a city very accustomed to war-like street violence. Chicago “won” the dubious title of America’s deadliest city in 2021, with almost 800 total murders, the most in over 25 years. The death toll could have been higher but for expert emergency room skills in Chicago hospitals, because over 3,500 people were shot in Chicago in 2021. Local health care workers have become so proficient at treating gunshot wounds that the U.S. military sent medical staffers to Second City hospitals to train before deployment to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
I’m glad to hear that Chicago is reaching Mogadishu level so quickly. As I’ve often said it will take rampant cannibalism to finally force the inhabitants to admit they’re wrong about police and crime. Bring it on, bring it on, bring it on.
Of all the most discouraging aspects of the breakdown of civilization we have been living through the single worst was the orgy of violence and destruction that the Blue State and City governors and mayors unleashed on their cities. Forcing the police to stand down and allow the mobs to terrorize and victimize the innocent people of these places was horrifying. And the consequence of this decision has been the ascension of criminal urban gangs to dominance over the streets of these cities. The consequences of this have been unsustainable for law-abiding people trying to raise families and make a living. Businesses are subject to random and overwhelming attack by mobs of smash and grab thugs stealing everything of value and threatening violence or even shooting and killing the patrons and employees of businesses. And every city dweller is subject to random violence at any time.
This state of affairs is similar to what went on during the Middle Ages when marauders and pirates would descend on a coastal town and rape and pillage and burn whatever they wanted to, leaving the inhabitants terrorized and devastated. The threat was only finally ended when the local nobles figured out that building walled towns and recruiting a standing army was the only way to defeat the Viking incursions.
Now we already know that the only way to suppress crime is to have a strong and effective criminal justice system. You need a professional police force and a carefully calibrated court and prison system. It can be neither too draconian nor too lax. Too strong and the citizens will feel enslaved, too weak and the criminals will rampage across the countryside. But once you break that system you can’t just click a switch and reactivate it. It will require an effort and a conscious decision by both the government and the people. By necessity the people will have to empower a champion whose job it will be to reconquer the areas that have fallen to the barbarians. And that will of necessity require that the actions be severe and possibly exaggerated. Death penalties may have to reappear in order to make an example of the worst offenders. But none of this will happen until the people despair of fixing things by half measures. The police won’t take the risk of prosecution for using deadly force unless the people signal their desperation and their clear agreement to the use of drastic measures.
I do not imagine we are anywhere near this point yet. Idiots like the mayor of San Francisco will talk about empowering the police to stop crime an restore order. All that talk is just noise. It means nothing. Even Eric Adams who was elected in New York to be a law-and-order mayor has already signaled by his choice of a black woman diversity candidate for police commissioner that any talk of law and order will be lip service. I’ve often facetiously talked about cannibalism breaking out in the blue cities. Well, it may be a joke but I think things will have to get a lot worse before they get better. Maybe once some billionaire has his child kidnapped for ransom the rich people will realize how close to third world banana republic we’ve sunk. Or maybe a gang lord will shoot up a school yard and the sight of fifty dead kids will bring people to their senses.
But whatever the exact circumstance, I think it will be crime that finally snaps this country out of its stupor. When that happens whoever has the courage to lead that crusade will find enormous leverage to make big changes to our government. And hopefully he’ll be smart and wise enough to make them.