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Chaos in NYPD as Commissioner Resigns

Posted on | June 13, 2023 | Comments Off on Chaos in NYPD as Commissioner Resigns

Keechant Sewell (left) with NYC Mayor Eric Adams

Three kids “horsing around” with a basketball in Brooklyn somehow set in motion a chain of events that has led to the resignation of New York City’s first female police commissioner. One of the first moves Mayor Eric Adams made when he took office in January 2022 was to appoint Keechant Sewell as the new NYPD Commissioner. Adams, himself a retired NYPD officer, was praised for choosing a woman as the city’s top cop. Sewell had spent more than 20 years as a cop in Nassau County.

What does any of this have to do with three kids in Brooklyn? Well, it’s kind of a long story. Sewell had complained that City Hall was interfering with her authority as commissioner:

Sewell’s authority became more tenuous after she sided with the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board’s decision to discipline Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer.
Maddrey, who was found by the police civilian’s watchdog to have abused his authority in a 2021 gun case, was highly regarded at City Hall, which “wanted him to get a pass,” according to sources.

Having researched this, I can assure you that “2021 gun case” was the biggest nothingburger in the history of nothingburgers, and that if it had happened anywhere else — OK, well, anywhere saner than New York City, at least — nobody ever would have heard about it. Yet somehow, because it is New York City, where everybody’s crazy, it turned into a cause célèbre and has now thrown the entire NYPD into turmoil.

Jeffrey Maddrey (left); Kruythoff Forrester (right)

Let’s begin by acknowledging that everybody involved in this story is black. The mayor’s black, the police commissioner is black, Chief Maddrey is black and so, too, is retired cop Kruythoff Forrester. Therefore, anyone trying to find a “social justice” angle here is going to be disappointed. Whatever else is involved in this story, there’s no “systemic racism” or “white privilege” to blame. So . . . November, 2021:

One of the highest-ranking members of the NYPD is being eyed by Brooklyn prosecutors for his role in getting a retired cop cleared of gun charges, The Post has learned.
The probe centers around an incident from the night before Thanksgiving, when former NYPD Officer Kruythoff Forrester allegedly pulled a gun on a trio of kids in Brownsville, according to sources with knowledge of the ordeal.
Chief Jeffrey Maddrey — who has been bragging to others in the department of his impending promotion with the incoming Eric Adams administration — got wind of the collar, showed up at the 73rd Precinct and ordered officers to void the arrest, sources tell The Post.
Just over 45 minutes later, Forrester was cut free, sources said.
Accompanying the off-duty, three-star chief that night to the stationhouse was Deputy Chief Scott Henderson, commanding officer of Brooklyn North Patrol Borough, sources said.
It’s unclear how Maddrey — who was tapped to run the NYPD’s community outreach last year despite prior scandals involving romantic indiscretions — learned of Forrester’s arrest or how the two men know each other.
The Civilian Complaint Review Board has opened a probe into the incident and referred the officers’ actions, including Maddrey’s involvement, and the gun charge Forrester faced to the Brooklyn DA’s Office Tuesday evening for potential criminal charges, sources said.
The gun case allegedly involving Forrester unfolded on Nov. 24 on Saratoga Avenue, where a trio of boys, ages 12, 13 and 14, were horsing around outside a real estate office that’s owned by the retired cop’s family, sources said.
At one point, one of the boys accidentally tossed a basketball into a camera set up on the outside of the storefront and ran off down Pacific Street.

(Oh, “accidentally”? These three young hooligans just happened to be “horsing around” at night and knocked out a security camera in front of a business “accidentally”? But never mind . . .)

Forrester then allegedly chased after the boys, came up behind them and threatened them with a gun, possibly firing at least one shot, sources said.
The 12-year-old boy sprinted home and called 911, and the other two ran off in a different direction, according to the sources.
The three kids independently gave cops identical accounts of the encounter and described the gun, which matched the description of the loaded pistol found on Forrester when cops questioned him, according to sources.
Forrester never said he feared for his safety or announced himself as current or former law enforcement, according to sources, who added that the ex-cop denied pulling a firearm.
Investigators have a video showing Forrester leaving his storefront and returning — but it doesn’t show the confrontation between him and the kids, sources said. In another video, first reported by The City and found by investigators, the kids can be heard yelling that Forrester had a gun.

See? Nothingburger.

Being chased by an angry gun-waving property owner is the kind of educational opportunity more “youth” in New York City need. There are plenty of places in America where if a property owner had shot such young vandals, no charges would have been filed, and most folks in the community would have said, “Served ’em right.” But whatever else you say about Forrester, he didn’t shoot anybody. He just gave those kids a good scare, and who can fault him for that? These kids nowadays . . .

Now imagine the situation when Chief Maddrey finds out a retired cop has been arrested over this silly nothingburger case. He did exactly what anyone would have expected him to do: Back the Blue, baby.

Being a cop in New York City is a tough job. Every day is Rorke’s Drift, surrounded by screaming hordes of Zulu warriors. Anyone who would volunteer for the job of trying to keep the lid on the boiling cauldron of violent criminality that is New York City deserves a certain amount of deference and, while the liberal wussies on the Civilian Complaint Review Board might fault Chief Maddrey’s exercise of his prerogative, I’d have to rule in his favor. The whole thing was just a nothingburger.

So far, I’m not a big fan of Mayor Adams, but if Commissioner Sewell sided with the review board against Chief Maddrey, I guess I’m glad to see her resign, even though I think the situation at NYPD is likely to go from bad to worse in the future. New York City, like most other major cities in America, is increasingly ungovernable, and my advice to anyone still living there is simple: Get out before it’s too late.



 

 

Category: Crime, New York

In The Mailbox: 06.12.23

Posted on | June 13, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.12.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

h/t Andrew Torba on Gab

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Would You Do If You Called 911 And They Ignored You?
EBL: Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber, Chesterton Sunday, Elizabeth Schuyler, and The Great War of Archimedes
Twitchy: Here’s How Sesame Street Sells Pride Month To Kids, Johns Hopkins: Where Men Are Men And Women Are Non-Men!, and Speaker McCarthy Turns Tables On CNN Reporter
Louder With Crowder: Garth Brooks appears to side with Bud Light, Students jeer Pride video forced on them in MATH class, so the teacher threatens them with weekend detention, and Massive amount of Americans turn AGAINST allowing trans athletes to compete against real girls
Vox Popoli: Banking in Yuan, Regression to the Historical Mean, Officially Outdated, The Testimony of Elie Wiesel, and You Are Not the Topic
Stoic Observations: I’m Squinty

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: To Stand Behind the True Cross
American Conservative: The Bomb Myth, The Drug on Your Phone, and Pitcher Canned for Supporting Bud Light Boycott
American Greatness: Can Trump Clean The Augean Stables on the Potomac?, White House Accused of Violating U.S. Flag Code with Pride Flag Display, and Grassley Bombshell: Burisma Exec Secretly Recorded Conversations With Joe and Hunter Biden Regarding Bribery Scheme
American Power: Chris Begley, The Next Apocalypse
American Thinker: As Biden Abuses Our Republic, His Handlers Abuse Him, Trump Was Right About Russia, and Same Plot, Different Actors
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Swedish parliament calls on the EU to stop financing the Cuban dictatorship, Violent crimes keep intensifying in Cuba along with repression and hunger, Leftovers in communist Cuba, and Some Russian tourists are ‘disappearing’ in Cuba
BattleSwarm: Abbott Gets His Slush Fund Back, Even The Unabomber Couldn’t Stand College Lefties, and This Is Your City On Democrats: Philadelphia
Behind The Black: Red China tests parachutes on recent Long March 3B launch, SpaceX launches another 52 Starlink satellites, SpaceX launches 72 smallsats; lands a Falcon 9 1st stage for the 200th time, Astronomers admit new satellite constellations “are not a threat” to Hubble, and The evidence shows clearly that Biden has worked to squelch Elon Musk and SpaceX
Cafe Hayek: Reducing CO2 Concentrations In the Atmosphere Is Not An End In Itself, Rubio Is Wrong, and Soiled by Socialism
CDR Salamander: Strategy For Facing The Red Chinese & Russian Threat, also, Funding DoD In Inflation & About Replacing Weapons & Ammo Sent To Ukraine
Chicago Boyz: “Cricket Morality”
Da Tech Guy: A Very Basic Question that some in the GOP Need to Answer, Winsome Sears is my President, Can You Say: “Game Set and Match”, and Disney’s Fahrenheit 2023
Don Surber: Why LGBTWTFBBQ Is Losing
First Street Journal: There are times when being courteous is harmful to society, He will not do well in prison, and The Philadelphia Inquirer whines that not enough blacks are getting into the legal marijuana business
Gates Of Vienna: The Visegrád Four Become the Visegrád Two, Your Papers, Please, Here, Take Our Money! Please!, Transgenders are the Vanguard of the Socialist Revolution, and When Migrants Become Pirates
The Geller Report: Authenticated Leaked Video Shows D.C. Cops Were ‘Rioters’ and Instigators at J-6 Protest, 96% of U.S. Climate Data is Corrupted, New Report Finds, George Soros’ Son Takes Over Father’s $25B Empire, and Grounds to Immediately Dismiss All Charges Against Trump
Hogewash: That’s No Space Station. It’s a Moon, Smog, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and Adventures at a State Party Convention
Hollywood In Toto: 19 Criminally Underrated Movies, The Two Reasons The Bodyguard Became a Sensation, Garth Brooks Goes to ‘Low Places’ in Bud Light Fight, and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Might Be Best in Series
The Lid: Mark Levin Blows His Lid Over Trump Indictment “This IS The Insurrection”, also, 36 Years Ago Reagan Uttered His Most Powerful Words, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!’
Legal Insurrection: Muslim and Christian Parents in Ottawa Protest LGBT Policies in Schools, “This is an indictment that comes across as a very public relations-oriented document”, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski Dies in Prison at Age 81, Report: Fox News Sends Tucker Carlson Cease-and-Desist Letter Over Twitter Show, New California Bill Would Punish Parents for not ‘Affirming’ Their Child’s Gender Identity,  and Disgusted Parents Describe Princeton President’s Graduation Address as a ‘Woke Sermon’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, First Sunday after Trinity, and Cancelling Anglo-Saxons, Tromp Indicted, and more
Outkick: Deion Sanders Puts Collectives On Blast, Wants Players To Focus On NIL, Getting ‘That Lamar Jackson Bag’, Martina Navratilova Slams Austin Killips After He Wins Another Women’s Race, Brittney Griner Wasn’t In Danger, And She’s Not An ‘American Hero’ Despite Narrative, Charles Barkley Says His Upcoming CNN Show Feels Like ‘Jumping On The Titanic’, Ump Show Unfolds After Blatant Missed Strikeout Leads To Home Run That Cost Alabama Super Regional Win, and Breanna Stewart Calls For Chartered Flights For Brittney Griner After She Was Asked Questions In An Airport
Power Line: Six theses on the Trump indictment, Last Act for the Unabomber?, and Now They Tell Us!
Shark Tank: DeSantis Disses Trump-Appointed SCOTUS Justices, also, DeSantis Dubbed “Grand Wizard” At Tony Awards [Robert Byrd could not be reached for comment.]
Shot In The Dark: The Racket, 36 Years Ago Today, and A County of Cowards
STUMP: Podcast: Failure, Sunk Costs, and Candace Wheeler, also, Data Visualization: People and Books in 1946
The Political Hat: The Surrey Police Are Big Brother
This Ain’t Hell: Former Marine Pat Robertson dies, Army Veteran, who disarmed club attacker, to lead pride parade, Fake soldier’s appearance at remembrance event results in his exposure, Russians use $14M chopper – to kill an ag sprayer, Phony special forces man accused of punching his girlfriend, and Base Drag Show Ban
Transterrestrial Musings:  The Delusion Continues, DEI And NASA, The Augean Stables On The Potomac, News You Can Use, and Case Closed
Victory Girls: Anglo-Saxons Aren’t Real, Salon: The Eighteen States Of America, and Fox News “Cease and Desist” To Tucker
Volokh Conspiracy: Against the “Banana Republic” Critique of Indicting Trump, also, Donald Trump’s Breach of Confidentiality Agreement Lawsuit Against Niece Mary Trump Can Go Forward
Watts Up With That: Mexico and South America Must Tap Fossil Fuels to Fight Poverty, Wrong, Washington Post, Climate Change Is Not Driving ‘Arizona’s Water Troubles’ and The Push for Regulating Banks: An Alarm Bell for the Advent of Eco-Fascism?
Weasel Zippers: California Bill Would Charge Any Parent Who Doesn’t Affirm Child’s Transgenderism With “Child Abuse”, Report: Joe, Hunter Each Got $5 Million From Energy Executive, and Biden Gets Confused Again After Finishing Speech
The Federalist: The Drama At CNN Shows The Impossibility Of Fixing The Media, Ted Kaczynski’s Murderous Legacy Doesn’t Mean His Diagnosis Of The Post-Industrial West Is Wrong, You Don’t Have To Be A Tradwife To Fight In The Culture War, The U.K. Just Banned Chemical Castration For Kids. America Should Do The Same And More, and Extremist Left Claims Only Nazis Want To Teach Children Grammar And Patriotism
Mark Steyn: Racing is Life: Steve McQueen and His Mighty Flop, Le Mans, Tal Bachman: Two Centuries of Rugby, Part V, and The Girl from Ipanema

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Frank Kelly Freas

Posted on | June 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Frank Kelly Freas

— compiled by Wombat-socho

One of the great science fiction artists of the late 20th century was Frank Kelly Freas, who usually went by Kelly. and whose artistic talent was matched by being just a really neat and friendly guy. I was blessed by being able to hang around with him at various DC-area SF conventions in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he was always willing to talk about his work, other artists and their work, and to sing the old songs. He’s probably a lot better known for doing the cover to Queen’s News Of The World than any of his SF work. His death in 2005 was a great loss. There were several great illustrations of curvaceous babes that I couldn’t find clean copies of**, but this cover for Anne McCaffrey’s “A Womanly Talent” from the January 1969 Analog is a good example of his work.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Urban Meltdown News, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA – The Fix Is In, Avatar II, The Idol, Call Me Kate, Astrud Gilberto RIP, “The Girl From Ipanema”, “What Am I Eating?” With Zooey Deschanel, and Blue Cheese

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Tiffany Toth, Fish Pic Friday – Saltwater Jackie, A New Trump Indictment Coming?, Thursday Tanlines, Tucker is Back!, The Wednesday Wetness, Contempt for Christopher Wray?, Tattoo Tuesday, Weekend Leftovers, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for June 9th

* A modification of his cover art for “The Gulf Between” by Tom Godwin, published in the October 1953 Astounding.
**i.e. without the text from the book/magazine cover.

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Road Warriors

Posted on | June 11, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Road Warriors

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD: Weekend Warriors
A good start to the 1971 season for my Senators! Yes, we dropped two of three to the Royals (were Twins) since Dom Carden is a tough and canny manager, but we came back to sweep Pete’s Brewers (were Pilots) at Milwaukee. Se we’re four and two after the first week, half a game in front of the A’s and Twins, with a series coming up against the Giants on Tuesday.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Fly the Curly W flag!

Death by ‘Mommy Makeover’?
The DaleyGator
Flappr
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum

‘Comprehensive Gun Safety Measures’
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

Is the Left Breaking Apart?
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Das Herz Von Groenland
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Double-Scoop Swimsuit Edition!
Animal Magnetism
Flappr
EBL

‘Our Recreational Drug Use Began About a Year Ago … It Increased Recently.’
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 06.05.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

D-Day: ‘The Blessing of Almighty God’
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 06.07.23 (Afternoon Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum

What Counts as ‘Hate’?
The DaleyGator
Flappr
EBL
357 Magnum

Cue the ‘Paw Patrol’ Theme Again
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

I’ll Take ‘Symptomatic Evidence of Demonic Possession’ for $400, Alex
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

BREAKING: Trump Indicted
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 06.08.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Other Unruly Acts’ in Killadelphia
The DaleyGator
First Street Journal
EBL
357 Magnum

Right-Wing Trump Supporter Charged in Murder of Black Transgender Woman
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 06.09.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Top linkers for the week ending June 10:

  1.  EBL (17)
  2.  357 Magnum (16)
  3.  A View From The Beach (9)
  4.  The DaleyGator (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

No Heroes for You, Whitey: Albany, N.Y., Has ‘Cancelled’ Gen. Philip Schuyler

Posted on | June 11, 2023 | Comments Off on No Heroes for You, Whitey: Albany, N.Y., Has ‘Cancelled’ Gen. Philip Schuyler

Decades have now passed since left-wing activists started a ruckus about the Confederate flag that had long flown over the South Carolina statehouse. It occurred to me at the time that, if the flag couldn’t be flown there — where the South Carolina convention had voted to secede from the Union, thus precipitating the war — then it must eventually be banned everywhere, and once all the Confederate flags were gone, then what? Such movements do not simply stop once their initial demand has been granted; every concession to such radicals will only incite them to make new demands. It’s like Hitler — give him the Sudetenland today, and he’ll take the rest of Czechoslovakia a few months later, then invade Poland next year. Appeasement is never successful when dealing with totalitarian aggressors, and perhaps you don’t wish to think of the advocates of “civil rights” as totalitarians, but do we invoke Godwin’s Law if we notice how, just like Hitler, they can never be appeased?

At any rate, when the quarrel over the flag in South Carolina first started making national headlines, several defenders of Southern heritage prophesied that anyone who imagined that the demands would stop with Confederate symbols was sadly deluded. Those prophecies have been amply vindicated in recent years, especially during the George Floyd BLM/Antifa riots of 2020, which saw the toppling or desecration of statues coast to coast. Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, Junipero Serra — the iconoclastic mob attacked monuments to all kinds of historic figures who never had anything to do with the Confederacy. And now, they’ve come for Revolutionary War heroes:

The statue of General Philip Schuyler that stood in front of Albany City Hall for nearly a century is gone. The city moved it to storage early Saturday morning—which was about much more than what first meets the eye.
“We’re happy that the statue has finally come down,” said Dr. Alice Green, Executive Director of the Center for Law and Justice. “I don’t know what they’re going to do with it, but at least it’s not in a public space.”
Green has been pushing city leaders to take down the statue for years. She said it was a constant reminder of what General Schuyler did to her ancestors.
“He robbed them of their humanity, their dignity, and their labor,” said Green. “Labor that brought him money.”

We shall get to the matter of Doctor Green and her ancestors momentarily, but first let us address the question: Who was Philip Schuyler and why was he honored in Albany, New York?

Philip John Schuyler was born on November 20, 1733, in Albany, New York, to Cornelia Van Cortlandt (1698–1762) and Johannes (“John”) Schuyler Jr. (1697–1741), the third generation of the Dutch Schuyler family in America. His maternal grandfather was Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the 17th Mayor of New York City. . . .
[I]n 1755 during the French and Indian War, [Schuyler] raised a provincial company, and was commissioned as its captain by his cousin, Lieutenant Governor James Delancey. In 1756, he accompanied British officer Colonel John Bradstreet to Oswego, where he gained experience as a quartermaster, which ended when the outpost fell to the French. Schuyler took part in the battles of Lake George, Oswego River, Carillon and Fort Frontenac. . . .
Schuyler became colonel and commander of a militia district regiment in 1767. In 1768, he served as a member of the New York Assembly.
Schuyler was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775 and served until he was appointed a major general of the Continental Army in June. General Schuyler took command of the Northern Department and planned the Invasion of Quebec. . . .

Schuyler was blamed for the fall of Fort Ticonderoga, but was vindicated by a court martial, and played a key role in the American victory at Saratoga, where British General Burgoyne’s entire army was captured, and thus persuaded France to officially enter the War on the American side. The site of the battle is now called Schuylerville, which ought to convince anyone of how highly esteemed the general and his family were in upstate New York. Speaking of General Schuyler’s family, his kinship to the Van Cortlandt and Delancey families has already been noted, and he married a daughter of the Van Rensselaer family, who were arguably the most prominent of the Old Dutch settlers of New York. His wife was also a cousin of the Livingstons of New Jersey, so that the couple’s numerous children were connected to some of the most illustrious families in the American colonies. Their second-oldest daughter, Elizabeth Schuyler, married a young military officer.

You may have heard of him, or seen his picture on a $10 bill.

Despite his subsequent accomplishments, in his wedding to Philip Schuyler’s daughter, Alexander Hamilton very much married up, considering the prominence of both sides of her family. As further proof of how highly Philip Schuyler was esteemed:

He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1780 to 1784, and at the same time New York State Surveyor General from 1781 to 1784. Afterwards he returned to the State Senate from 1786 to 1790, where he actively supported the adoption of the United States Constitution.
In 1789, he was elected a U.S. Senator from New York to the First United States Congress, serving from July 27, 1789, to March 3, 1791. After losing his bid for re-election in 1791 to Aaron Burr, he returned to the State Senate from 1792 to 1797. In 1797, he was selected again to the U.S. Senate and served in the 5th United States Congress from March 4, 1797, until his resignation because of ill health on January 3, 1798.

This was why the citizens of Albany were once proud to erect a public statue honoring their native son, and as for how and why it was decided to dishonor Schuyler, well, the 1790 Census found 21,193 slaves in the state of New York, of which 3,722 were in Albany County, “the most of any county in the state at the time.” The Dutch patroons who settled the Hudson River valley were substantially reliant on slave labor and, the 1790 census showed, Philip Schuyler “owned 13 slaves at his South End mansion in 1790 and another four slaves worked on his farm in Saratoga County.” To which any sensible person might respond, “And . . . ?”

In historical context, there is nothing remarkable or controversial about Schuyler’s status as a slaveowner. If one studies slavery from a global and historical perspective, the idea of a transtemporal collective grievance — an idea Thomas Sowell addresses in The Quest for Cosmic Justice — is simply absurd. To carry around permanent grudges over the practices of antiquity is a foolish posture. Believing ourselves to be the beneficiaries of progress, ought we not rather be grateful for that progress than to spend our time endlessly rehearsing a vengeful script about how oppressed our ancestors might have been? What possible benefit do black people in Albany, New York, derive from dishonoring Philip Schuyler? How does removing his statue make their lives better? And what did General Schuyler have to do with George Floyd’s death?

There were riots in Albany in the summer of 2020, and the city’s liberal mayor decided now was the time for an empty and futile gesture:

Mayor Kathy Sheehan has ordered city workers to remove the statue honoring Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler from in front of City Hall. . . .
“Scores of community members have reached out to my office requesting the removal of the statue of former slave owner Gen. Philip Schuyler and I thank those residents for making their voices heard,” she said in a statement.
The statue will not come down immediately. Sheehan’s executive order directs the Department of General Services to take steps to remove the statue as soon as possible, including an engineering study to determine the statue’s structural integrity. The statue will not be destroyed, instead it will go toward a museum or other institution, according to a news release.
City Auditor Dorcey Applyrs said the statue’s removal doesn’t eliminate any institutionalized racism but it a symbolic acknowledgement by the city that slavery was wrong.
‘The removal of this statue also acknowledges the horrific and negative implications of slavery and its impact on the lives of black Americans in the city of Albany every day,” she said.

The one thing missing from this? Logic. How is it that the death of George Floyd (in Minnesota, where slavery was never legal) should cause riots in Albany, New York, thus requiring removal of the statue of a Revolutionary War general who has been dead more than 200 years? Whence the need for “symbolic acknowledgement” of the “horrific . . . implications of slavery” in upstate New York? One might wonder why “scores of community members” would have “reached out” to the mayor, but their motive is irrelevant to the real question, i.e., exactly how do these “community members” benefit from the statue’s removal? The rhetoric about slavery’s “impact on the lives of black Americans in the city of Albany every day” seems to imply some logical connection between the statue and the aforesaid “impact,” but I’ll be darned if I can figure out what that connection might be. Imagine yourself presented with a choice: Would you like a nice cold beer? Or would you instead prefer “symbolic acknowledgement” of some injustice that your remote ancestors may have experienced 200 years ago? Give me that cold beer, pal.

What seems to be going on in this kind of “social justice” transaction — the unspoken implication of the “symbolic acknowledgement” — is that (a) the condition of black people in 21st-century America is presumed to be one of misery and hardship, which (b) is so deep and pervasive as to require a Grand Unifying Theory of Oppression to explain it, and therefore (c) The Horrific Implications of Slavery are summoned forth as the ultimate cause of black misery, and thus (d) tear down that statue!

One might write 10,000 words explaining what’s wrong with this line of thought, but why bother? It’s not about logic, it’s about feelings — irrational sentiments which are immune to argument. And now, as promised earlier, we return to Doctor Green who, since the mid-1980s, has been working her social-justice hustle through the tax-exempt nonprofit Center for Law and Justice.

Doctor Green has “several degrees from SUNY Albany . . . [which] include a bachelor’s in African-American studies, master’s degrees in education, social welfare and criminal justice, and a doctorate in criminal justice.” According to WTEN-TV, Doctor Green viewed the statue at City Hall as “a constant reminder of what General Schuyler did to her ancestors.”

Except he had nothing to do with her ancestors. Doctor Green was born in South Carolina. Her family later moved to upstate New York. So whoever enslaved Doctor Green’s ancestors, it wasn’t General Schuyler.

Facts, logic — these are the weapons of white supremacy! Whereas social justice relies on “symbolic acknowledgement,” but speaking for myself, I’d still rather have a cold beer. Perhaps you feel the same.



 

 

Category: History, New York, Racism

Five — Count ’Em, FIVE — Flaming Skulls for FBI Whistleblower Report on Biden

Posted on | June 10, 2023 | Comments Off on Five — Count ’Em, FIVE — Flaming Skulls for FBI Whistleblower Report on Biden

Ace of Spades believes this is a report of extreme urgency, and therefore awarded the story one flaming skull alert for each of the five million dollars allegedly paid to then-Vice President Joe Biden by a member of the Burisma board. And by “member of the Burisma board,” of course I mean, corrupt Ukrainian oligarch. As I reported last week, this involved the congressional subpoena of an FD-1023 form recounting the FBI’s interview with a “confidential human source.” FBI Director Christopher Wray refused to comply with the subpoena by claiming that information in the form would compromise the source. Given the events of Thursday, however, we may conclude that Wray was stalling for time so that Special Counsel Jack Smith could indict Trump, thereby “burying” news of the revelations about Biden’s corrupt dealings in Ukraine.

Am I a conspiracy theorist for suggesting this? It doesn’t matter. The loss of credibility of the Deep State regime — which is their fault, not mine — predictably gives rise to paranoia, as the citizens witness the blatant double standards: Antifa rioters walk free without prosecution, while hundreds of pro-Trump protesters are sentenced to federal prison. Similarly, the Biden family’s corruption is covered up by the FBI and the DOJ, while a Special Counsel is appointed to prosecute Trump for a case which basically originated with some minor bureaucrat at the National Archives complaining about White House documents and thus triggering a massive FBI raid on Mar a Lago. Just like the election results in 2020 (which you’re a TRAITOR for doubting), all of this reeks to high heaven, yet we are powerless to do anything about it. If people don’t trust their government, don’t blame the people, blame the government.



 

Category: Corruption, Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 06.09.23

Posted on | June 10, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.09.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Is That Bail Reform Working Out?
EBL: Pat Robertson, RIP, $5 MILLION BRIBE TO “BIG GUY” BIDEN BY BURISMA?, TRUMP INDICTED OVER MAR-A-LAGO DOCUMENTS, and Who Destroyed The Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine?
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Right-Wing Trump Supporter Charged in Murder of Black Transgender Woman

Posted on | June 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Right-Wing Trump Supporter Charged in Murder of Black Transgender Woman

As everyone knows, transphobic racist Republicans are constantly terrorizing LGBTQ people of color in cities like Atlanta:

Atlanta police on high alert after 2 Black trans women shot to death a week apart
April 21, 2023
ATLANTA — Police are working to determine if the murders of two Black transgender metro Atlanta women a week apart are hate crimes.
Friends and family shared photos of Koko Williams and Ashley Burton, who were both shot and killed earlier this month.
Williams, 35, was shot to death on MLK on Tuesday night. . . .
Koko’s murder marks the second in just a week involving Black transgender women.
Last Tuesday, friends said 37-year-old Ashley Burton was shot and killed outside of an apartment complex on Fairburn Road.
Activist Stasha Sanchez said Black trans women are being targeted.
“We’re some really strong people,” Sanchez said. “But we’re also always targeted, and I think that is something that is very important for the world to know that. You don’t have to target us.”
In a statement, Atlanta police said they’re investigating a third shooting that critically injured a Black transgender woman in January on Highland Ave.

Yes, black trans women are always “targeted” on Highland Avenue, Fairburn Road and MLK Boulevard in Atlanta, and if you know anything about the city, of course, these are the exact locations where you’d expect to find right-wing transphobic Trump voters.

The Human Rights Campaign sent out this press release in April:

HRC is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Ashley Burton, a 37-year-old Black transgender woman, who was killed in Atlanta, Georgia on April 11, 2023. Ashley’s death is at least the ninth violent killing of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in 2023, and the second death to occur in Georgia since the start of 2023. We say “at least” because too often these deaths go unreported — or misreported. . . .
More than 25,000 hate crimes in the U.S. involve a firearm each year, which equates to almost 70 cases each day, according to a 2022 report from Everytown for Gun Safety in partnership with HRC and The Equality Federation . . . The report also notes a marked increase in anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes, especially against transgender people. HRC’s own tracking of fatal violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people found that between 2013 and 2022, more than two-thirds of all recorded fatalities against transgender and gender non-conforming people involved a firearm — including over three-quarters of all reported fatalities in 2022. . . .
It is clear that fatal violence disproportionately affects transgender women of color, especially Black transgender women.

You might get the impression from reading this that the death of Ashley Burton was obviously a “hate crime,” of which we are assured that “almost 70 cases a day” involve firearms. But with the Atlanta police on “high alert,” this killer of transgender women of color — who was probably an NRA member, and possibly even associated with a dangerous hate group like Moms for Liberty — was certain to be caught eventually. And this week, the APD apprehended the suspect:

Accused murderer Darius Mills, 31

Convicted felon charged with murder of Atlanta hairstylist
ATLANTA – A suspect is in custody facing murder charges for the shooting of an Atlanta hairstylist in a southwest Atlanta apartment.
Atlanta police found 37-year-old Ashley Burton dead outside in a breezeway at The Elite at City Park apartments on the 400 block of Fairburn Road on the morning of April 11.
Investigators believe Burton was shot inside one other apartments and went door-to-door for help in her complex before she succumbed to a gunshot wound.
On Monday, officials say they secured warrants for 31-year-old Darius Mills in connection with Burton’s murder.
Mills, who is currently in custody at the Fulton County Jail for an unrelated incident, now faces charges of murder, armed robbery, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
While Burton was a transgender woman, police have not said if her gender identity had any connection with violence perpetuated against her. . . .
Authorities have not provided a possible motive for the crime.

“Possible motive”? The motive is obvious — TRUMP!

This guy was clearly a right-wing Republican, just like those guys in MAGA hats who attacked Jussie Smollett in Chicago.



 

 

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