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GAVIN LONG: ‘Cosmo Ausar Setepenra’ and the Dangerous Kind of Crazy

Posted on | July 18, 2016 | 46 Comments

 

My conclusion that Baton Rouge gunman Gavin Long was “both racist and insane” drew some criticism from commenters who said that such a judgment “plays into the Left’s hands and provides it with deniability.”

So what? What we hate about the Left is how they politicize everything. We should not imitate them by politicizing everything in reverse.

Besides which, I am a well-known expert in craziness. I’ve been studying kooks for years, and when I say somebody’s crazy? Trust me.

Gavin Eugene Long was deranged, daft, demented, cracked, zany, wacko, bonkers, off his rocker and a few fries short of a Happy Meal:

The suspect in the fatal shooting of three Baton Rouge cops maintained a robust social media presence and a website called Convos With Cosmo in which he describes himself as a “freedom strategist, mental game coach, nutritionist, author and spiritual advisor.” . . .
Long officially filed paperwork in Jackson County, Missouri, last year declaring himself Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, a “sovereign citizen” of the United Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah Mu’ur nation, a loosely affiliated network of mostly African Americans who claim to be Native American and don’t believe the U.S. government has jurisdiction over them.

(Via Memeorandum.) More from the Kansas City Star:

Online the shooter called himself Cosmo Setepenra, and more than a week before he killed three police officers Sunday in Baton Rouge, La., he told a YouTube audience he didn’t want to be associated with organized groups in case anything happened to him.
“I’m affiliated with the spirit of justice: nothing else, nothing more, nothing less,” he said in the clip.
Cosmo Setepenra’s real name was Gavin Eugene Long, and he was from Kansas City. . . .
He was a military veteran without a criminal record. He had a robust online presence, where in “Convos with Cosmo” he doled out everything from health tips to advice to help men reach “complete and full masculinity.”
He took up anti-government views, and while he said he didn’t want to be affiliated with any organized groups, he was a member of a bizarre offshoot of the sovereign citizen movement and had been associated with the Nation of Islam. He saw police as part of the government and was outraged by the recent spate of police shootings of black men.
Followers of the sovereign citizen movement believe the government is corrupt and has no jurisdiction over them. Federal authorities consider the movement a domestic terrorist threat, and the movement continues to swell, with violent incidents erupting regularly.

Gavin Long’s bizarre Afrocentric cult mentality is neither new nor uncommon. Here is a 2004 Associated Press story about one such cult:

EATONTON, Ga. — Pyramids, obelisks and a lonely sphinx stand deserted on the Egyptian-themed compound where as many as 500 members of a quasi-religious sect lived only five years ago.
The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors has gone quiet since its leader, Malachi York, was sentenced to 135 years in federal prison in April for molesting 14 boys and girls whose parents were members of his group.
The federal government has seized the Nuwaubians’ 476-acre farm in this middle Georgia town and the group’s members have dispersed.
“York was it. Everything flowed from York. There was never any mistake about that,” said Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills, who has clashed with the Nuwaubians since York moved his followers from New York City’s Brooklyn borough to this rural county in 1993.
“He was the absolute ruler. There was no one else,” Sill said.
At their height, the Nuwaubians brought 5,000 people to Eatonton for Savior’s Day to celebrate York’s birthday.
In 1999, as many as 500 people lived on the compound, practicing York’s malleable religion that shifted from Islamic roots to Judaism, Christianity and Egyptian mysticism, with members at times dressing as cowboys and American Indians. At one time, York even incorporated space aliens into his teachings, claiming that he was an extraterrestrial from the planet “Rizq.”

This kind of kook cult conspiracy stuff is always floating around out there. You’ve got white people who are into weird pagan sex cults, feminists who are into astrology, tarot, “goddess spirituality,” et cetera.

Was it entirely coincidental that a crazy kook cultist like Gavin Long was inspired to drive to Louisiana and shoot cops? No, because the “Black Lives Matter” movement appeals to the same kind of Afrocentric racial insanity that led Gavin long to rename himself “Cosmo Setepenra.”

This is the problem with media coverage that deliberately feeds into racial paranoia in the black community, as I explained last week:

CNN has a long history of going into round-the-clock coverage mode for stories like the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida and the subsequent trial of George Zimmerman, which fit into a certain social-justice narrative of racial victimhood. CNN devoted many hours of coverage to the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, that gave birth to the Black Lives Matter movement. When the Ferguson protests turned into riots, however, nobody at CNN seemed to wonder what part their coverage had played in inciting the racial resentments behind the chaos of looting and arson. Going back as far as the 1991 Rodney King arrest and the deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots that ensued, CNN’s coverage of race and crime has been problematic, and the network’s apparent willingness to act as a publicity agency for Black Lives Matter is part of a troubling pattern.

CNN and other media act like a warped mirror, reflecting back to the audience a distorted view of the world, a sort of alternative reality, and some people are unable to cope with the cognitive dissonance this creates. TV shows us a world full of rich people, important people and famous people, whereas the vast majority of viewers are poor, insignificant and obscure, at least in comparison to the people they see on TV. There is a seemingly unbridgeable gap between TV life and real life. A dangerous kind of craziness takes hold when an obscure loser becomes obsessed by the idea that they can Be Somebody — that is to say, they can become one of the Important People on TV — by committing a spectacular act of violence. Whether it’s Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris perpetrating the Columbine Massacre or Gavin Long shooting cops in Baton Rouge, the deranged mental process involved is essentially the same.

Are there political lessons to be learned from this? Yes.

Can “Black Lives Matter” be blamed for the murders in Baton Rouge? Yes.

However, the really important lesson here is about the intersection between mental illness, politics, and life in a world where the shows on TV seem more “real” to some people than their own actual lives. And guess what? A lot of the “news” on TV is staged with the audience in mind. What is a modern political convention except a big TV show? And what’s the point of “Black Lives Matters” protests? To get on TV.

Turn off your TV! Your TV is making you crazy!

Trust me on this, brothers and sisters, because I’m a “freedom strategist, mental game coach, nutritionist, author and spiritual advisor.”

Crazy? It’s 2016 — the whole world has gone crazy.

It’s OK to be crazy. Just don’t be the dangerous kind of crazy.





 


Category: Crime, Racism, Terrorism

Rule 5 Sunday: Playmate Turns Showgirl

Posted on | July 17, 2016 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Buckaroo Banzai: You ever thought about joining me full time?
New Jersey: Whatya mean, you serious, do you have an opening?
Buckaroo Banzai: Uh huh. Can you sing?
New Jersey: A little, yeh, I can dance.
-from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension

If I were still doing Live at Five (currently on hiatus due to ongoing strange overnight work schedule) I would have linked to the flap this week over former Playboy Playmate Dani Mather and her egregious stupidity, but even without the link she’s a good counterpoint to Claire Sinclair, 2011 Playmate of the Year, who is currently building a nice career for herself as star of the show Pin Up here at the Stratosphere Casino. Ms. Sinclair is rather obviously entitled to the All This And Brains Too t-shirt. As usual, the management is not responsible for any dire consequences arising from your failure use discretion when clicking on the following links, many of which are NSFW.

Claire Sinclair doing her thing and doing it well.

Goodstuff kicks off this week’s Rule 5 Sunday with an exploration of Steampunk, followed by Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Martial Law Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon; Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns; The Last Tradition with Amber Heard and Lena Chase; and First Street Journal with Working For A Living.

EBL explores new frontiers this week with Kayaking, #FishBra, The Golden Age Of Air Travel, Why Does The All-Female Ghostbusters Suck?, Embrace Immortality With Lobsters, Katherine Ross, and Catherine Deneuve.

A View from the Beach chips in with Natalie Gulbis Speaks for Trump, Are Bluefish in Trouble?, Beware the Turtles!, Sturgeons Throw Scientists A Curve, FBI Guys Sign Nondisclosures on Clinton.com, A Real Charmer, Holy Mackerel, A New Use for Fish!, A Short Film, Well, Did She or Didn’t She?, “Cruel Summer” and Went Fishing…

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Elle Evans, his Vintage Babe is Yeoman Janice RandGrace Lee Whitney, and Sex in Advertising this week is (un)covered by Kate Upton. Dustbury is getting back into gear this week with Barbara Stanwyck.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially those of you who linked Rule 5 Sunday in the FMJRA to make it (once again) the most-linked post on The Other McCain last week! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, July 23; deadline for submitting links to the Wombat-socho mailbox for the FMJRA is noon on Saturday.


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Category: Rule 5

GAVIN EUGENE LONG: Cop-Killer in Baton Rouge Was Racist and Also, Crazy

Posted on | July 17, 2016 | 25 Comments

 

The maniac who killed three police in Baton Rouge and wounded three others was both racist and insane. Ranting against “crackers” on YouTube, talking about “revolution” and “my people” with the delusional grandiosity typical of a paranoid schizophrenic:

Long also said that bloodshed was the only way to win against oppression.
“One hundred percent of revolutions, of victims fighting their oppressors, from victims fighting their bullies, 100% have been successful through fighting back through bloodshed,” he said in one video. “Zero have been successful through simply protesting. It has never been successful and it never will.”
He also referred to himself as an alpha male, unafraid of taking that step.
“If y’all want to keep protesting, do that, but for the serious ones, the real ones, the alpha ones, we know what it’s going to take.”

Yeah, “victims fighting their oppressors” — dude from Kansas City drives to Baton Rouge and shoots six cops who never knew this doomed loser.

How do cops in Baton Rouge oppress someone in Kansas City?

Your TV is making you crazy! Sitting around watching CNN all day, brooding about how you’re a victim of oppression?

That’s crazy, and it’s dangerous. Go watch this YouTube video in which Gavin Long relates “principles for my people.” It was recorded five days ago, and the dude’s just rambling incoherently. Lunatics rambling incoherently on the Internet — well, there’s a lot of that going around lately, but some crazy people are clearly more dangerous than others.

 

Category: Crime, Racism, Terrorism

Queer Feminist @Girly_Juice Explains Why You Should Avoid Queer Feminists

Posted on | July 16, 2016 | 104 Comments

 

Kate Sloan (@Girly_Juice) is an example of what I mean when I say every feminist’s ideal boyfriend is a Hitachi Magic Wand. She describes herself as a “Cis queer kinky poly femme feminist.” Also, she’s Canadian, which is another good reason to avoid Canada, as if you needed any more.

Feminism is an anti-male hate movement. Everyone understands this, except for those pathetic masochists who call themselves “male feminists.” No feminist ever dated a man except to obtain the sadistic revenge of humiliating the men she dates. The only way a feminist ever looks at a male is down. To be male is to be inferior, according to feminist theory, and so in her every interaction with a male, the feminist is merely giving him the opportunity to prove his inferiority. Like every other feminist, Kate Sloan habitually mocks and demeans males, which was the point of her recent column with this headline:

The Dangers Of Dating Faux-Feminist Men

What is a “faux-feminist” man? Basically any heterosexual man who thinks of himself as a feminist. If you are male, Kate Sloan hates you, and in feminist discourse, heterosexuality is a synonym for oppression.

In her column, Kate Sloan begins by describing her vindictive humiliation of “a passably nice boy I’d met on Tinder.” She uses the pseudonym “Liam” for this boy, and describes him as “smart, funny, creative, interesting, and a terrific cuddler.” This is obviously false, because (a) there are no “nice boys” on Tinder, and (b) any man who would date Kate Sloan can’t be very smart. No man with an IQ above room temperature would ever speak to a queer feminist, especially not a Canadian queer feminist. Do I even have to explain this? Or would it be sufficient to point out that Kate Sloan’s web site has page after page of dildo reviews?

Look, pal, if you want to date a vibrator connoisseur like Kate Sloan, don’t let me stop you. However, even in 2016 there are still plenty of women who actually like normal sex with human males, and maybe you should consider trying to find one of those instead. Also, queer feminist Kate Sloan helpfully includes a naked picture of herself on her “About” page, if you need any further incentive to avoid her completely.

Why would a “nice boy” want to interrupt Kate Sloan’s solitary pursuit of battery-operated fun? Oh, I almost forgot — you’re a “male feminist.” Or at least you thought you were until you dated Kate Sloan, and then she deliberately started a pointless argument about movies:

I wanted, so badly, to give him the benefit of the doubt. I wanted him to cede that Hollywood’s misogyny is a bad thing, or even a real thing. But he didn’t acknowledge any of that. . . . He kept walking and holding my hand, like nothing had changed.
Struggling to keep my voice even, I told him, “If you don’t see gender injustice in the world, it’s because you’re a straight, white, able-bodied cis dude, and you’re blinded to those things by your privilege.”
“Oh, here we go,” he snapped, his veneer of cool condescension bending at last. “Men aren’t more privileged than women. Different people have different levels of privilege depending on what’s going on in their lives. For example, in divorce courts –”
That’s when I let go of his hand. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I threw his hand away from me like it was a rotting rat corpse I’d found behind the couch. “Nope,” I barked. “I can’t have this conversation with you. I’m going to get too mad at you and we are going to break up if we have this conversation.”
That night, I went home and texted my four closest friends: three ardently feminist women and one dude who I considered a pretty solid ally. “Do I have to break up with him?” I implored after explaining the situation. All three women immediately blew up my phone with all-caps yeses. . . .
I’d assumed he was a feminist because, in my mind, any good and decent man would be. My experiences up til then had mostly confirmed this. But in Liam’s case, being a good and decent man wasn’t enough, if he didn’t also believe in the systemic struggles women face. . . .

You can read the rest of that, but ask yourself this: Why would any “good and decent man” date Kate Sloan, who is neither good nor decent? Perhaps a Venn diagram would be helpful in understanding this.

 

You see that these are non-intersecting sets. However “passably nice” this guy she met on Tinder may have been, he wasn’t good or decent, or else he would not have dated a Canadian queer feminist like Kate Sloan.

Her experiences led her to an existential crisis:

What does it mean for a man to be truly feminist? Is that even possible, or is a man only ever, at best, a feminist ally and a recovering misogynist? . . .
For feminist women, dating men can feel like a lose-lose proposition. Either you settle for someone who invalidates your politics and therefore your personhood, or you gamble on a man who claims to support your cause but may or may not actually give a s–t.

Heterosexual feminism is impossible. It’s a “lose-lose proposition,” because feminists hate men with such white-hot intensity that no man could ever hate himself enough to qualify as a “male feminist.” Why even talk to Kate Sloan? A feminist never wants to hear a word any man has to say, because men are always wrong about everything.

No intelligent man would waste time talking to Kate Sloan. Just let her stay home alone with her collection of dildos and vibrators. But maybe you’re not an intelligent man. Maybe you’re so stupid that even if I told you not to click here to see a photo of Kate Sloan with her, uh, equipment, you’d click it anyway, despite my warning that you can never un-see it.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Post-Coup, Pre-Repression Edition

Posted on | July 16, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: This UFC Thing
Animal Magnetism
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

KILLER WAS ‘PERVERT’: Dallas Shooter Sexually Harassed Woman in Army
Batshit Crazy News

Bill Clinton Met With Anti-Police Hate Group Leader Two Months Ago
First Street Journal
The DaleyGator
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Call of the West
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

Will the New SJW ‘Ghostbusters’ Be a ‘Disaster of Biblical Proportions’?
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News

Why Does CNN Hate Police?
Batshit Crazy News

FLOP! New Feminist ‘Ghostbusters’ Toys Already on Clearance Before Movie Opens
Rotten Chestnuts
Batshit Crazy News

Man-Hater @AlannaBennett Promotes #Ghostbusters as Feminist Revenge
Dark Brightness
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 07.11.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Butt-Hurt Jeb Bush Blames the Pope?
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 07.12.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Words Mean Things: @kate_manne and the Elastic Definition of ‘Misogyny’
Rotten Chestnuts
Batshit Crazy News

Mir Islam, Who SWATted Me in 2013, Has Been Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 07.13.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

MIKE PENCE IS TRUMP’S VP PICK
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 07.14.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive

TERROR IN FRANCE – Sixty Dead In Bastille Day Truck Attack
Batshit Crazy News

COUP IN TURKEY: MILITARY CLAIMS TAKEOVER OF GOVERNMENT
Batshit Crazy News

National Conference on Campus Rape and Due Process, August 1 in Charlotte, N.C.
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 07.15.16
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (20)
  2.  Proof Positive (6)

Honorable mention: A View from the Beach

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

Category: FMJRA Award

In The Mailbox: 07.15.16

Posted on | July 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
The Blaze: Rumor Check – Is Anonymous Planning A Day Of Rage? Probably Not
EBL: Why The Media Sucks – Trump’s Appropriate Reaction To Nice Terror Attack Gets Spun
Michelle Malkin: Honor Dallas’ Fallen With #BlueLightFriday
Twitchy: Piers Morgan Tries To Shame Dana Loesch For NRA Ad, Gets Pwn3d Again


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Leftist Media Whitewashing Nice Terrorist’s Fanatical Islamic Background
American Thinker: Why Justice Ginsburg Fears Trump
Da Tech Guy: Last Night In Nice
Don Surber: Fascists Call Trump Fascist
Jammie Wearing Fools: Shocking Revelation! Nice Terrorist Named Mohamed!
Joe For America: French Government Suppressed Evidence Of Gruesome Torture During Bataclan Massacre
JustOneMinute: Nobody Likes An “I Told You So”
Pamela Geller: Turkey Coup – Military Takes Over Government – Live Updates
Shark Tank: Police Union Stiff-Arms Corrine Brown, Backs Her Primary Opponent
Shot In The Dark: Falling Far Behind
The Jawa Report: Awesome! Refugees Bring Super Cool Tuberculosis Spike To America
The Lonely Conservative: Terror Strikes France Again, Over 70 Dead In Nice Attack
The Political Hat: Today The Church, Tomorrow Your Conscience
This Ain’t Hell: Has-Been Child Actor Blames NRA For Latest Shooting
Weasel Zippers: Obama Uses Press Conference On Jihadi Attack In Nice To Defend Muslims From GOP
Megan McArdle: Judge Not Your Neighbor’s Love For Mac & Cheetos


Party Size Cheetos
Original Kraft Macaroni & Cheese

Category: Linkagery

National Conference on Campus Rape and Due Process, August 1 in Charlotte, N.C.

Posted on | July 15, 2016 | 11 Comments

Along with Ashe Schow, Wendy McElroy, attorney Eric Rosenberg and others, I have been invited to speak at this upcoming event:

The National Coalition For Men Carolinas, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-partisan human rights advocacy organization, is pleased to announce the “Forum on Campus Sexual Assault, Consent and Due Process” to be held August 1, 2016 at Central Piedmont Community College Central Campus in Charlotte, NC. The Forum will consist of prominent experts who will share insight into how universities are handling the complex and often confusing issues of Title IX related sexual misconduct cases, consent and due process.
With mounting political pressure applied by the federal government to get tough on campus sexual assault and fearful of losing federal funding, universities are removing male students from campus in record numbers with the highest risk associated with male students of color, fraternity members and male athletes.
Buoyed by the Administration’s dramatic expansion of the scope of Title IX and the issuance of the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Dear Colleague letters on harassment (issued October 23, 2010) and sexual violence (issued April 4, 2011), allegations of sexual misconduct are becoming commonplace on college campuses resulting in what many describe as kangaroo court processes that presume guilt and deny adequate due process for accused students.
This forum is designed to take a critical look into the impact that the Dear Colleague letters are having on college campuses, students and the problematic issues surrounding the handling of sexual misconduct allegations by institutions of higher education.

You can learn more by clicking here, and I hope all my friends in North Carolina will attend this important event.

 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

COUP IN TURKEY: MILITARY CLAIMS TAKEOVER OF GOVERNMENT

Posted on | July 15, 2016 | 20 Comments

Headlines via Memeorandum:

Turkish Coup Effort Under Way
as Government Vows to Retain Power
— Bloomberg

Turkey Coup Attempt: Military
Says It Has Taken Over Government
— Haaretz

Turkey coup attempt: military
claims government takeover
— Guardian

What does this mean? Perhaps after last month’s deadly terrorist attack at the Istanbul airport, the Turkish military decided that President Erdogan’s government was not doing enough to counter the radical Islamic threat of ISIS, which has been looming in Syria and Iraq for five years. Erdogan himself has blamed the so-called “Gulenist” movement, but that may just be propaganda.

Right now, however, the situation is confused. Turkey is a NATO ally, and the United States therefore has a deep interest in stability in Ankara.

UPDATE: Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch:

Since the advent of Kemalist secularism in the 1920s, the military has been its guardian. If the military now is trying to forestall Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman plans to restore Islamic rule in Turkey, then this coup could be an extremely positive development. If it succeeds, that is. And yes, that is two big if’s.

In other words, the Turkish military is a modernizing force — trade, peace, and secular law — whereas Erdogan was allying himself with Islamic fundamentalism. So the coup is probably a good thing.

Allahpundit has lots of background at Hot Air.

 

Category: Turkey
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