In The Mailbox: 03.15.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 16, 2024 | 2 Comments

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Season opener in Pete’s Continual Draft League was tonight for most folks but I guess I’ll take on KC tomorrow night.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Should An Elderly Woman Defend Herself From A Home Invasion?
EBL: Saint Pancake of Gaza, also, Riley Gaines
Twitchy: Feeble Joe Biden Took On A Door Today & The Door Won, Wisconsin Professor Pines To Go & Die In Gaza, and Hysterical Details Emerge On how The Don Lemon/X Deal Went Sour
Louder With Crowder: Canadian Supreme Court Judge To Lower Court Judge: Using The Term “Woman” To Refer To A Rape Victim Is Too “Confusing”, also, Tyson Foods Fires American Workers, Plans To Replace Them With 52,000 Migrants
Vox Popoli: An Army of Cheerleaders, No Honor in the US Military, The Trauma of Russian Independence, and Against Free Speech
According To Hoyt: Bigger Than, Uncouth, and By Whose Right?
Monster Hunter Nation: The Tower of Silence audiobook preorder is up now on Audible.com, also, Rogue Stars: Purgatory
Jon Del Arroz: The Love of Daredevil

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: There are no spectators in heaven
American Conservative: Assange, Phillips, and the End of Rights, Stung by Defeat, Irish Elites Double Down, and Does ‘Little Napoleon’ Macron Want to Lead Europe into War with Russia?
American Greatness: Study Shows Suicide Rate Doubles for ‘Trans’ People After Surgeries, House Judiciary Committee Threatens Fulton County DA Fani Willis with Contempt, and Elite Heaven or Real Hell on Earth?
American Thinker: The Temporary Pier and the Question of Why, Our Fake, Fake, Fake World, and The Face of Democrat Justice
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Superconductor News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Biden’s SOTU Lies Friday
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba – Contaminated water main cause of diarrheal diseases in Cuba, Cuban oligarch rewrites Cuban history, Unstoppable inflation in Cuba – Pork selling for $42 to $50 a pound, Cuban dictatorship arrests wife of purged minister, daughter incommunicado, and Federal charges filed against Cuban American woman caught smuggling cash into U.S. from Cuba
BattleSwarm: Tank News Roundup For March 9 2024, NYC’s Illegal Alien Debit Card Scam, Spin Dead, Federal Judge Squashes NLRB’s Attempt To Destroy Gig Economy, Why Russia’s Weapons Suck, Texas Sues Colony Ridge, and LinkSwarm For March 15
Behind The Black: The payloads to be carried on the first Ariane-6 launch, Mapping the layered geology of Mars, Engineers report progress in restoring proper communications with Voyager-1, SpaceX’s Superheavy/Starship successfully launches, Scientists: Mars’ mysterious slope streaks and seasonal recurring lineae are caused by dust, and The DEI disaster now appears to be hitting American Airlines
Cafe Hayek: An Open Letter to Angus Deaton, None of These People Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are, The Experience of an Economist, and An Inevitable Result of Populism
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Messages in the Original Star Trek, Biden, Hamas, and Israel, Separate, and “Israel’s strategic game of survival”
Da Tech Guy: Silence is golden Under the Fedora, Busting Some Freedom of Speech Myths, If You Really Want to Know How Desperate the Dems are to Save the Islamic Vote, Massachusetts Side Effects Patriots Edition, and Don Surber and Lara Trump Get It – Does the Donald?
Don Surber: Trump did his job
First Street Journal: When the media play Nurse Ratched, be Randle Patrick McMurphy! I can’t prove a cover up motive in the secrecy of the guilty plea in Josh Kruger murder, but if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, and This is what happens when you don’t lock up criminals!
Gates Of Vienna: A Small Country Far Away, When Islamization Deniers Celebrate Islamization, Time Flies When You’re Having Fun, Boy vs. Man, and Putting Whitey in His Place
The Geller Report: Shoot Out on NYC Subway, Mothers, Babies Cower in Fear, While Biden Boasts About Violent Crime, Self-Hating Jew Chuck Schumer Blames Netanyahu, Turns Gun on he Jewish People, West Point Ditches “Duty, Honor, Country,” The Enemy Won Without Firing a Shot, Judge DISMISSES Six Charges Against Trump in Absurd Fani Willis’ Election Interference Case, and Biden Regime Poised To Give Iran 10 Billion
Hollywood In Toto: Neil Young Waves White Flag, Returns to Spotify ** UPDATED, How Snack Shack Captures Life Before Digital Revolution, Killing America Connects Shocking DEI Dots, Knox Goes Away Turns Assassin Genre on Its Ear, and Colbert Gaslights Viewers on Hur Testimony to Protect Biden
The Lid: West Point Goes Woke, Ends Dedication to ‘Duty, Honor, Country’
Legal Insurrection: Conservatives are Actively Working to Defeat DEI Policies in Higher Education, *UPDATE* Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade Resigns From Georgia Trump Case, FDNY Rethinks Plan to Investigate Staffers Who Booed AG Letitia James, CDC Responds to FOIA Request on Myocarditis Data for Covid Vaccinations With Over 100 Blank Pages, DeSantis: Law Enforcement Seized Boat of Haitians Who had Guns, Drugs, Night Vision Gear, and “Chuck Schumer is fighting to prevent Hamas from being destroyed. It’s disgraceful. He will never live this down.”
Nebraska Energy Observer: We’ve spoken here often of the difference between the French Enlightenment and the Anglo-American Enlightenment Teach Your Childen Well, Standing ovation, Scattershot Friday: On Freedom, and Let’s have some fun!
Outkick: Los Angeles Times Supports Sheryl Swoopes Claim ‘Black People Can’t Be Racist’, Davidson College Makes Student-Athletes Watch Video Claiming All White People Are Racist, Auburn Fan Tossed From Game With His Team Up 24 Points At SEC Tournament For Arguing With Refs, Blows Kisses, ‘You Gotta Be Sh-tting Me’: Tennessee Fans In Meltdown Mode At SEC Tournament; Nothing A Few Beers Won’t Fix, This Just In: Olivia Dunne Still A Competitive Gymnast At LSU – And A Good One, Reporter Alleges ‘White Media’ Is The Reason Michigan Coach Might Be Fired, and Veronika Rajek Says Her Bouncing Boobs Being Censored On Social Media Put Her On A Path To Success
Power Line: Don’t RIP, Karl, Exploding the Myths of “Green” Energy, Election Interference, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: DeSantis Steps In, Holds Off Big Tobacco
Shot In The Dark: Further Evidence, Ever Wonder What A Sled Dog Feels Like? EdMinn’s Curious Self-Indictment, Things On My Legislative Bingo Card For Today, and Where’s The Money?
STUMP: On Choosing A Retirement Age – For Individuals
The Political Hat: Warrantless Raids On Home School Families, The Ides of March, and Happy Pi Day!
This Ain’t Hell: West Point gets rid of “Duty, Honor, Country”, Music artists and panelists canceled appearance due to US Army sponsorship, Hometown Boy Does Good, Valor Friday, and Drone incursions from Mexico into the US reached alarming levels
Transterrestrial Musings: Eat Me, NBC, Doubling Computer Speed, Finally, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Make It So, and BS From The FAA
Victory Girls: “Journalist” Tries To Push Trans-Teen Bullying Narrative, Haiti “—-Hole” Gets The Biden Afghanistan Treatment, and Andrea Long Chu Demands Your Kids
Volokh Conspiracy: Rats Dine on Marijuana Confiscated by Police, also, A Comment On The Judicial Conference’s Policy From A Fifth Circuit Practitioner
Watts Up With That: Patients Will Die, Thanks To The NHS Net Zero Drive, Friday Funny: John Kerry Praises Haitian Cannibals’ Efforts To Reduce Humanity’s Carbon Footprint, India Power Sector In 2023, and Marine Power? More Magical Thinking
The Federalist: Zuckbucks Group Teaches Election Offices How To Shut Down Speech And Influence Election Laws, Dragging Trump Into Court While Biden Campaigns Is Election Interference, Regardless Of Verdict, Leftists Hate Natural Law Because It’s The Only True Bulwark Against Tyranny, How Many More? Illegal With Drunk Driving Record Faces Vehicular Homicide Charges In Wisconsin, Bigoted Democrats Reject Science When It Comes From The Religious Right, Lawsuit: Anti-Trump Official Illegally Designated Ballot Drop-Off Sites In Pennsylvania County, and 2024 Is Shaping Up To Be The ‘We Were Right About Everything’ Election
Mark Steyn: A System All My Own: Claudette Colbert and It Happened One Night, Erin Go “Naaaaaaa…”, When Pushka Comes to Shove, Funiculi, Funicula! and Hooray for Hollywood

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In The Mailbox: 03.15.24

Posted on | March 15, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.15.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Should An 80-Year-Old Defend Himself From A 28-Year-Old?
EBL: Elon Musk finds that Don Lemon cannot be Trusted, also, Happy ? Day
Twitchy: Rob Schneider Needs Just One Headline To Completely Torch Today’s Democratic Party, What A Harvard Probe Found This “Honesty Researcher” Was Engaged In Is Beyond Parody, and Disgraced Former Biden Appointee/US Attorney Rachael Rollins Has Law License Suspended
Louder With Crowder: Abbott To Bands Who Dropped Out Of SXSW Festival Over Military Sponsorship: “Bye. Don’t come back.”, also, Dylan Mulvaney’s new music video is ear torture and further evidence how little he (and the Left) think of women
Vox Popoli: Testimonials to the Power, Economics, Reconsidered, A Significant Nexus, The Vampires’ Ball is Ending, and The End of Liberalism
Stoic Observations: Reality Games
upstream Reviews: Chuck Dixon’s Blood Red Tide

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Pivots, Strategic Persistence, & Rethinking MPS,
Dana Loesch: FCC’s Brendan Carr Discusses The Ticking Clock For TikTok, Wednesday Mishmash – All About TikTok,
Don Surber: Birdbrains in the press complain,

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Democrats: The Pro-Hamas Party

Posted on | March 15, 2024 | Comments Off on Democrats: The Pro-Hamas Party

First, the news:

President Joe Biden on Friday praised the speech delivered by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a day earlier in which he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and called for new elections in Israel.
“He made a good speech and I think he expressed a serious concern shared not only by him but by many Americans,” Biden told reporters in the Oval Office when asked what he thought about Schumer’s remarks.

How shameful is this? Because about 100,000 Democratic primary voters in Michigan voted “uncommitted,” and because polls show Trump leading in Michigan (a must-win state for Joe Biden) Democrats have decided Israel’s democratically elected government is illegitimate:

President Joe Biden’s endorsement Friday of a call by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for Israel to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hold new elections marks the worst crisis in the history of U.S.-Israel relations.
Israel is currently fighting to defeat Hamas, which murdered 1,200 people in the October 7 terror attack. It is also under attack from Hezbollah in Lebanon, and has even faced missile attacks launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen.
All of these groups are funded and armed by Iran, which views the United States as its enemy. Instead of backing Israel fully, Biden is not only criticizing Israel in increasingly strident terms, but demanding it remove its democratic leader. . . .
Meanwhile, the Senate — at Schumer’s direction — is refusing to pass billions of dollars in military aid for Israel. And there are reports that the Biden administration is “slow-walking” deliveries of ammunition already promised to Israel.
This is happening because Netanyahu — like most Israelis — rejects Biden’s plan to impose a Palestinian state after the war, which would reward Hamas for terror. Israelis also want to win the war — not to wait, and allow Hamas to survive.
Biden is furious, and wants Netanyahu out of the way. So he, and Schumer, have sent a message to Israel: if you do not replace Netanyahu, you will not be receiving more money and more weapons. You will be on your own against terror. . . .

Read the rest of that by Joel Pollak. The Democrats’ scapegoating of Netanyahu is irrational, as John Podhoretz has explained:

Chuck Schumer stood on the floor of the U.S. Senate and declared that Israel needs a new government under a prime minister other than Benjamin Netanyahu. Schumer is calling for this despite the fact that, were there to be such a change in government right now, it wouldn’t change policy at the most important level. Israel’s populace and its politicians are in alignment. Its government is a unity government in which the prime minister’s most formidable rival is sitting alongside the majority coalition. The current Israeli government, the one Schumer says he wants to see replaced, unquestionably represents a consensus view of the Israeli electorate on the most important issues, and that view is shared by something like 75 percent of Israeli voters.

Israelis overwhelmingly support the war to destroy Hamas, so even if the Democrats were to succeed in getting rid of Netanyahu, this would not meaningfully change Israel’s policy. Keep in mind that this unprecedented maneuver — top U.S. leaders demanding “regime change” in a country with whom we are supposed to be allies — is driven entirely by the domestic politics of Biden’s reelection campaign. There is no fundamental principle involved, except to appease Arab voters in Michigan. The bogus claim that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza is based entirely on Hamas propaganda. Ace of Spades takes a long look at that propaganda, referencing an analysis by Tablet‘s Abraham Wyner, demonstrating that the “civilian casualty” figures provided by Hamas are almost certainly fictitious. Hamas has claimed that more than 30,000 civilians have been killed in Gaza, and these claims have been repeated by top administration officials, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Wyner’s analysis finds that “the numbers are at a minimum grossly inaccurate and quite probably outright faked.”

So on the basis of fake statistics, enemy propaganda and 100,000 disgruntled Democratic primary voters in Michigan, U.S. foreign policy is now treating our ally as an enemy and vice-versa. Democrats have become the pro-Hamas party, and this is somehow supposed to help Biden become more popular? Good luck with that.

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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Black ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Shoots Memphis Cop

Posted on | March 15, 2024 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Black ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Shoots Memphis Cop

Say hello to Geronimo Kee, 22, who was behind the wheel of a Nissan doing 81 mph in a 55 mph zone on I-240 at 4 o’clock in the morning when he was pulled over by Memphis Police 2nd Lt. Bobby Johnson. The officer wrote Kee a speeding ticket, but Kee refused to sign the ticket:

“When 2nd Lt. Bobby Johnson went back to the driver and asked him to sign the citation, Mr. Kee refused and rolled his window up,” the affidavit read. “2nd Lt. Johnson requested additional backup and advised Mr. Kee several times that if he did not sign the ticket he would be taken to jail. Mr. Kee would only roll his window down enough to speak with 2nd Lt. Johnson.”
According to the affidavit, Johnson spoke with Kee for the next 14 minutes, trying to convince Kee to sign the speeding ticket.
“Mr. Kee made the statement, ‘You’re going to have to kill me,’ several times during this encounter,” the affidavit read.
More back and forth took place, with Johnson ultimately telling Kee that he would be under arrest and that Johnson would have to break his window to place Kee in custody, if he continued to refuse to sign the ticket, the affidavit read.
“Mr. Kee refused to get out of the vehicle to sign the citation yet again,” it said. “2nd Lt. Johnson then broke the driver’s side door window and Mr. Kee fired several shots, striking 2nd Lt. Johnson multiple times. Officer Forrest [who had arrived as backup on the stop] fired back at Mr. Kee in defense of 2nd Lt. Johnson. Mr. Kee sped off southbound on 240 South.”

Kee was able to escape, temporarily, with the assistance of four accomplices — Zaire Kee, 24, Tezaree Pennington, 42, Kennedy Williams, 23, and Malik Oliver, 25 — according to police. Pennington is Kee’s mother; Williams is his girlfriend. Kee was apparently wounded in the hand by the second officer’s gunfire, and the accomplices were treating his wound while harboring the fugitive at the girlfriend’s house.

Keep in mind, this was all about a speeding ticket. From the moment I heard about this shooting last week, with the description of Kee’s actions — rolling up the window and refusing to sign the ticket — I suspected he was a “sovereign citizen,” a type of kook I’ve written about before:

The sovereign citizen movement is a loose grouping of American litigants, commentators, tax protesters, and financial-scheme promoters. Self-described “sovereign citizens” see themselves as answerable only to their particular interpretations of the common law and as not subject to any government statutes or proceedings. In the United States, they do not recognize U.S. currency and maintain that they are “free of any legal constraints.” . . .
In surveys conducted in 2014 and 2015, representatives of U.S. law enforcement ranked the risk of terrorism from the sovereign-citizen movement higher than the risk from any other group, including Islamic extremists, militias, racists, and neo-Nazis.

For a long time, the “sovereign citizen” movement was a largely white phenomenon, considered “right wing,” but in recent years it has spread to the black community, probably due to the influence of social media and, in particular, YouTube videos. My suspicion about Geronimo Kee was confirmed after he made his first court appearance:

After walking into the courtroom, Judge Johnson asked Kee if he’d be able to make his $175,000 bond.
“All criminal cases are commercial,” Kee said. “I am a natural man, created by Yahweh and subject to natural law. Let the record show that.”
“I’m not sure what the record is showing, but OK,” Judge Johnson said. “Are you able to make your $175,000 bond?”
“Shelby County is holding me against my will,” Kee replied. “Through coercion, assault and torture they have forced my fingerprints through the intake process. I have the report right here that shows Shelby County is holding me against my will.” . . .
Kee’s comments, along with his alleged refusal to sign a speeding citation, suggest that the 22-year-old may identify as a sovereign citizen. The sovereign citizen movement is defined by the Anti-Defamation League as “an extreme anti-government movement whose members believe the government has no authority over them.”
“Alright. I’m sure they are holding you against your will,” Judge Johnson said. “I’m asking you if you’re able to make your bond.”
Kee then began repeating that “all criminal cases are commercial.”
“That sentence doesn’t even make sense,” Judge Johnson said. “All criminal cases are commercial. You mean like a TV commercial?”
Kee then made comments about an “artificial burden” and talking about the 14th amendment.
“I am a natural man, created by Yahweh and subject to natural law,” Kee said. . . .
“And you’re subject to the laws of Tennessee too,” replied Judge Johnson.
“I am not subject to admiralty or maritime law,” Kee said.
“Maritime law?” questioned Judge Johnson. “Are we on a ship? OK. I’m not aware of that. Are you able to hire an attorney?”
Judge Johnson then interrupted Kee as he once again recited his speech, asking a court employee to order a mental evaluation for the 22-year-old.
“It sounds like Mr. Kee does not want to be represented by anybody and he’s speaking nonsense,” Judge Johnson said. “Can you fill out a mental evaluation form for me for the suspect?”
Kee was ordered back to court on March 25.
“Shelby County is holding me against my will,” Kee said as he was led out of the courtroom.

You know what the finding of the court-ordered mental evaluation will be? The suspect is “daft, deranged, demented, berserk, bonkers, off their rockers, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

A little more background: When he was 18 and being held at a juvenile detention center, Geronimo Kee was charged with vandalism, escaping custody of an officer, and inciting a riot after he and fellow inmates caused a disturbance: “Authorities say several housing pods were damaged in the incident and cinder blocks were used to break windows, doors, security mirrors and security cameras.” Also, after the judge initially set Kee’s bond in the shooting at $175,000, the Memphis Police Association complained and the bond was increased to $500,000. Frankly, I think he should have been held without bond. Shooting a cop over a simple traffic ticket? You’re an eminent danger to public safety.

Finally, the good news is that Lt. Johnson survived, despite being shot four times. He’s black, the Memphis police chief is also black, and therefore there is no racial “angle” that would draw the interest of the national media to this crime. But it’s important to be aware of the problems caused by “sovereign citizens,” because they’re crazy and, as I keep reminding you: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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In The Mailbox: 03.14.24

Posted on | March 15, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.14.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Eric Carmen of the Raspberries RIP, The Mendacious Myth of Palestine (via maps), and Brigadoon
Twitchy: Feds Now Targeting Gamers For Spreading “Disinformation”, Illegal Online Drug Buyers Find Out The Hard Way That Online Crooks Can’t Be Trusted, and The Gender Cult Ship Is Sinking
Louder With Crowder: Former Disney star Olivia Rodrigo is so pro-abortion, she hands out free “Plan B” at concerts, UK follows the science and bans puberty blockers for minors, of course JK Rowling is dropping mics about it, Diving Deep into the Boeing Whistleblower’s Mysterious (ahem) “Suicide!”, and Add Taco Bell to the list of businesses making drastic decisions because of rampant California crime
Vox Popoli: Column and Line, The Demonic Dirt, Upon Further Review, Remember, THEY’RE the Bad Guys, and Shut it Down: Haiti Edition
Draw & Talk Comics: I Went Missing & I’m Still Planning On Hiding
Upstream Reviews: John Carter

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: What War, Exactly, Are We Preparing For?
Dana Loesch: Trudeau’s Secret Lab Leak Exposed/He Threatens Jail Time For Past Tweets, Now They’re Murdering Roadhouse, also, Last Week In Legal -More Evidence Edition
Don Surber: Haiti Replaces Ukraine, also, Social Security has a surplus

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Haiti’s Zombie Apocalypse: Media Skeptical of Cannibalism Reports

Posted on | March 13, 2024 | 3 Comments

How bad is the situation in Haiti? Three words: Worse than Baltimore.

Sure, Baltimore is a violence-plagued hellhole and no sane person would go near it, but as bad as things are in Baltimore, the city hasn’t yet been taken over by gangs of cannibals:

The embattled prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, has said he will resign after weeks of mounting chaos in the Caribbean nation, where gangs have been attacking government structures and social order is on the brink of collapse.
Henry said in a video address late Monday that his government would leave power after the establishment of a transitional council, adding, “Haiti needs peace. Haiti needs stability.”
“My government will leave immediately after the inauguration of the council. We will be a caretaker government until they name a prime minister and a new cabinet,” Henry said.
Henry’s adviser Jean Junior Joseph told CNN that Henry would remain in his role until the formation of a new interim government.
The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), meeting in Jamaica on Monday said it had agreed to set up a transitional council to lay the foundations for elections in Haiti. . . .
When the worst of the violence erupted last week, Henry was in Kenya to sign an agreement to send 1,000 Kenyan police officers to the Caribbean nation to restore the security situation of which his government has lost control.
He was unable to return to Haiti as the security situation deteriorated around the airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince. A plan to travel via the neighboring Dominican Republic was abandoned after the government there refused permission for his plane to land. He has been in the US territory of Puerto Rico since last week.
The United States will contribute $300 million to the Kenyan-led multinational security mission, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after attending the CARICOM meeting on Monday. He also announced an additional $33 million in “humanitarian assistance for the people of Haiti.”
Following Henry’s announced resignation and “the complete breakdown of law and order” in Haiti, Kenya has put its deployment of police to the country on hold, a Kenyan spokesperson told CNN.
“Without a political administration in Haiti, there is no anchor on which a police deployment can rest, hence the government will await the installation of a new constitutional authority in Haiti,” Kenya’s principal secretary for foreign affars, Koror Sing’Oei, said. . . .
Henry, who came to power unelected in 2021 following the assassination of Haiti’s then-president, failed to hold elections last year, saying the country’s insecurity would compromise the vote. But his decision only further enraged protesters who had for months demanded he stand down as Haiti slid further into poverty and rampant gang violence.
Since Henry’s trip to Kenya, Port-au-Prince has been gripped by a wave of highly coordinated gang attacks on law enforcement and state institutions, which has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Haiti’s government has been under a state of emergency since groups attacked the country’s largest prison in Port-au-Prince earlier this month, killing and injuring police and prison staff and allowing some 3,500 inmates to escape.
One gang leader, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, took credit for the attack and said the jailbreak was an attempt to overthrow Henry’s government.
“If Ariel Henry doesn’t step down, if the international community continues to support Ariel Henry, they will lead us directly into a civil war that will end in genocide,” Cherizier told Reuters in Port-au-Prince last week.
Gangs now control 80% of Haiti’s capital, according to United Nations estimates, and continue to fight for the rest. While Henry was out of the country, gangs laid siege to the country’s main airport to prevent his safe return.

OK, so Haiti’s president was assassinated just three years ago. His replacement has now been driven out of office by gangs led by a guy nicknamed “Barbecue.” For the record, “Chérizier has denied that his nickname . . . came from accusations of his setting people on fire.” However, his gangs have committed multiple massacres and, while the mainstream media are insisting that there is no credibility to reports of cannibalism amid the chaos, there is a history of such things in Haiti. Do some research into Sect Rouge, if you’re interested.

We do not have any confirmed cases of cannibalism in the present disorder, but when there is a “complete breakdown of law and order,” how would we know? There are no police to investigate or apprehend the cannibals, nor are there any courts where the cannibals could be put on trial. So if there are cannibals in Haiti, they’re running wild with nobody to stop them, and the outside world would have no way of knowing. Do you think any American reporters are booking flights for Port-au-Prince, to investigate these reports of cannibalism? Can you imagine, for example, the Washington Post sending Taylor Lorenz to Haiti?

OK, maybe you can imagine that, you sadistic bastards, but the point I was trying to make is that Haiti is worse than Baltimore, which is about as bad as it gets in America. The chaos in Haiti is a reminder of just how bad things can get — a worst-case scenario, the Zombie Apocalypse — and if the gangs who have taken over are not actually feasting on their victims yet, perhaps it’s just a matter of time.

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In The Mailbox: 03.12.24 (Abbreviated Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 13, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Get Woke, Go Broke – Deadspin Edition
EBL: The Regime, Mace vs. Stephanopoulos, and Poor Things
Twitchy: The Adults Are Back In Charge -Part N In A Series, Liz Cheney Lashing Out At MAGA Backfires As The J6 Committee Coverup Gets Worse & Worse, and Chris Murphy Admits Class Warfare Is The Only Way The Democrats Can Win
Louder With Crowder: Hobby Lobby teams up with pro-life diaper company to do something wonderful for expectant parents, Joe Biden Apologizes For Insulting Laken Riley’s Killer, Dana Carvey nails FLAWLESS Biden impersonation about the border crisis, complete with gibberish and everything, and Girl won’t calm down when Taco Bell runs out of her favorite item, puts her hands on the wrong employee
Vox Popoli: Those Who Call Evil Good, The Roots of GamerGate 2.0, DEI vs Semiconductors, Ireland Rejects Clown World, and The US Defines Antisemitism
Against The Mountains Of Madness: Malicious Compliance & The AI Conundrum,
Tessellations: Fall, or Dodge In Hell, How Not To Be An NPC,
Upstream Reviews: Dune (2000), also, Torchship
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: DIEing to stop CHIPS
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Forgotten Heroine’s Journey,
Gab: We’re Cleaning Up Gab & It’s Long Overdue

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CDR Salamander: Sea Blindness with Dr. James W.E. Smith On Midrats, also, So A Pier For Hamas It Is,
Dana Loesch: The Angry SOTU, also, Sunday Night Thoughts,
Don Surber: Will they get away with it again?
Glenn Reynolds: Some Scuba Notes
STUMP: On Self-Regulation – Sumo, Failing Annuities, & Public Pension Practice, The Week In Meep, and DST Kills – More Tales Of The Killer Time-Changer

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Academia’s DEI ‘Oppression’ Racket and the Demonization of Jews on Campus

Posted on | March 12, 2024 | 3 Comments

Harvard University alumna Dara Horn published a very interesting article in The Atlantic last month talking about the climate on elite campuses, the subject of congressional hearings:

The problem was not that Jewish students on American university campuses didn’t want free speech, or that they didn’t want to hear criticism of Israel. Instead, they didn’t want people vandalizing Jewish student organizations’ buildings, or breaking or urinating on the buildings’ windows. They didn’t want people tearing their mezuzahs down from their dorm-room doors. They didn’t want their college instructors spouting anti-Semitic lies and humiliating them in class. They didn’t want their posters defaced with Hitler caricatures, or their dorm windows plastered with F**K JEWS. They didn’t want people punching them in the face, or beating them with a stick, or threatening them with death for being Jewish. At world-class American colleges and universities, all of this happened and more. . . .
In Congress, all three university presidents offered some version of the platitudes that “Hatred comes from ignorance” and “Education is the answer.” But if hatred comes from ignorance, why were America’s best universities full of this very specific ignorance? And why were so many people trying to justify it, explain it away, or even deny it? . . .
Shortly after the [October 7] attacks, a Cornell professor publicly proclaimed the barbarity “exhilarating” and “energizing,” while a Columbia professor called it “awesome” and an “achievement.” Comparable praise percolated through America’s top universities, coming from students and faculty alike. On campuses around the country, students began gathering regularly to chant “There is only one solution: intifada revolution!”—a reference to a suicide-bombing campaign in Israel a generation ago that maimed and murdered well over 1,000 Jews. (If there is only one solution, perhaps one could call it the Final Solution.)
Students took these rallies inside libraries and other campus buildings. They vandalized university property with such slogans as “Zionism = Genocide,” “New Intifada,” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”—referring to a geographic area that encompasses the entirety of the state of Israel, where half the world’s Jews live. . . . On some campuses, the exhilaration escalated into death threats and physical assaults against Jewish students. When a Jewish Tulane University student tried to stop an anti-Israel protester near campus from burning an Israeli flag, protesters attacked him and other Jewish students, breaking one student’s nose. . . .
Many public and private institutions have invested enormously in recent years in attempts to defang bigotry; ours is an era in which even sneaker companies feel obliged to publicly denounce hate. But diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have proved to be no match for anti-Semitism, for a clear reason: the durable idea of anti-Semitism as justice.
DEI efforts are designed to combat the effects of social prejudice by insisting on equity: Some people in our society have too much power and too much privilege, and are overrepresented, so justice requires leveling the playing field. But anti-Semitism isn’t primarily a social prejudice. It is a conspiracy theory: the big lie that Jews are supervillains manipulating others. The righteous fight for justice therefore does not require protecting Jews as a vulnerable minority. Instead it requires taking Jews down. . . .

Missed it by that much, as Maxwell Smart used to say.

“Diversity, equity and inclusion” programs — and the justification of such programs as necessary for “leveling the playing field” in the name “justice” — represent a simplistic misunderstanding of how the world operates, a misunderstanding directly related to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Ronald Reagan once famously described this worldview: “We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.” Exactly so.

The Left believes that inequality is synonymous with injustice. Insofar as you have a nickel’s more net worth than your neighbor, this disparity proves that you are oppressing him. You may laugh at this as silly hyperbole, but it is the essence of the belief system that justifies DEI programs at universities, and which also justifies people claiming that Israel is guilty of “genocide” in Gaza. How unfair it is — an injustice! — that Israel should be a wealthy nation while Gaza is poor, and how unfair it is that Israel has a powerful military with which to punish Hamas.

Viewed through the warped lenses of leftist thinking, nations that win wars are always oppressors and those who lose wars are always victims — unless, however, the winners are Communists, in which case how dare you speak of “victims” you capitalist swine! The Left’s formulaic conceptions of “justice” are always premised on the idea that successful people have somehow succeeded at the expense of others, and therefore failure is proof of victimhood. If the average annual income of Group A is X, while the income of Group B is X-minus-1, then Group B has been cheated out of its “fair share,” according to the Left.

The disparity between Jews in Israel and Arabs in Gaza (the essential casus belli of the October 7 Hamas attacks) may have a long history and involve many different factors, but the motives of Hamas terrorism are really just the same sort of whiny demand for “fairness” that grown-ups learn to expect from any five-year-old who’s been told “no.”

For nearly 40 years, the beef was the Israeli occupation of Gaza. So in 2005, Israel announced it was pulling out of Gaza, removing its settlements: “Here, you can have it. No more occupation.” The Palestinians could have turned Gaza into a luxury seaside resort community, but they’re Palestinians, you see. Success is not in their DNA; failure is the essence of their national character. The residents of Gaza promptly elected Hamas as their governing party and turned Gaza into a hive of terrorism, a base for launching attacks against Israel, which happened routinely — although the world at large seldom took notice — up until the big attack on October 7, which could not be ignored, and which led to Israel finally determining to destroy Hamas.

Dara Horn, bless her heart, cannot let go of her leftist conceptions of “justice,” even when these ideas are used as justification for Jew-hating. She speaks of DEI programs as necessary to “combat the effects of social prejudice,” without bothering to interrogate that premise.

What does “social prejudice” mean, and does such prejudice suffice as the all-purpose explanation for disparities and conflicts between various groups on the campus of Harvard or anywhere else? How much does it matter, in terms of an individual’s success and happiness in life, whether he is an object of “social prejudice”? Isn’t it better — as a matter of education, which is after all what Harvard is supposed to be good at — to teach young people to cope effectively with whatever disadvantages they may suffer, than to fill them with resentment and self-pity by lecturing them about how oppressed they are? Dara Horn has apparently never given much thought to this aspect of what’s gone wrong at her alma mater, and why? Because conservatives are, and have been for many years, persona non grata at Harvard and other Ivy League schools.

The Ivy League is Decadent and Depraved, as I have often remarked, and the reason for this depravity is simply that the Left has taken control and implemented a regime of ideological conformity, so that these campuses have become echo chambers, where never is heard a dissenting word. Occasionally, someone with faculty tenure will deviate from the Gospel of Social Justice — Amy Wax at Penn Law, for example — but these isolated heretics are swiftly purged or marginalized, since disagreement is now classified as “hate.” Because these schools now consider political indoctrination to be their primary objective, they must ensure that students are never confronted by any criticism of the Official Ideology.

The perverse idea of a world controlled by mechanisms of oppression, where victimhood is given prestige by demands for “social justice,” is now deeply rooted on elite campuses because of the political conformity that the Left has imposed not only in universities, but also in K-12 public education. If conservatives are effectively banned from university faculties, and if school teachers must obtain university degrees as credential for employment, it is predictable that the same political beliefs which prevail at Harvard will inform the curriculum and pedagogy in every public school classroom. It was perhaps not predictable that this process would ultimately result in college students chanting Hamas slogans and terrorizing Jews on campus, but now that this result has been achieved, we ought to be honest about how and why it happened.

Dara Horn and other liberal Jews are learning a bitter lesson, but many of them refuse to acknowledge how their basic worldview — their doctrinaire devotion to “social justice” — is implicated in the frightening rise of anti-Semitism at Harvard and other elite universities. Joe Biden is now pandering to Hamas because he’s afraid of losing support among Palestinians in Michigan. Can any Jew be so blind as to not see what this omen portends for the future? “The Corbynization of the Democratic Party” is too far along to be stopped now. At some point, this process will lead Jews to . . . Well, an exodus, so to speak. You can either support Israel, or you can be a Democrat. You can’t do both. And something similar could be said for the Ivy League and other elite universities. These institutions face a choice. They can either stop suppressing conservative dissent, or else they’ll be swallowed up entirely by the kind of politically motivated hatred that now expresses itself with murderous slogans borrowed from Hamas and Hezbollah. Ironic isn’t it? “Progressives” claim to be so intellectually and morally superior to the rest of us and yet, whenever they attain control anywhere — in academia, in Hollywood, in government — the results are always a disaster. Harvard University is now more anti-Semitic than a Klan rally, and it’s all because of progressives and their “social justice” ideology.

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