Criminal Degeneracy in Action

Posted on | November 27, 2023 | 2 Comments

Say hello to David Matthew Fines of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and yeah, go ahead and mention the obvious — face tattoos.

Does anything good ever happen to anyone after they get tattoos on their face? I doubt it. As a symbolic expression of poor decision-making skills, it’s hard to beat face tattoos, and David Matthew Fines has a documented history of making poor decisions, e.g., this incident from May 2016:

A Fort Smith man who police say led a chase on a bicycle faces felonies in connection with an apartment break-in.
David Matthew Fines, 27, of Fort Smith was arrested on suspicion of felony residential burglary, on two felony warrants for failure to appear and on suspicion of fleeing apprehension, and on two misdemeanor warrants.
Shortly before 7:15 p.m. Monday, an officer patrolled the vicinity of North 12th Street, he saw Fines riding a bicycle, knew he had warrants out for him, and decided to conduct a traffic stop. When the officer tried to conduct the traffic stop, Fines fled on his bicycle, according to the Fort Smith Police Department.
A witness who saw the chase told police Fines went into [an] apartment in the 1200 block of North G Street. The apartment manager told the officer no one was supposed to be inside the rented apartment, according to the Police Department.
The door had been left unlocked, and when the officer went inside the apartment and found Fines. The tenant of the apartment arrived at the scene and told the officer Fines didn’t have permission to be inside of his residence, according to the an arrest report.
Fines remained in the Sebastian County Detention Center Friday without bond, deputies said.

I would argue it was a mistake ever to release this guy from custody. Sure, life in prison may seem harsh in such a case, but what evidence is there that this guy — who was already wanted on two felony warrants before he fled police and broke into somebody’s apartment — is capable of a law-abiding life? He seems to be a more-or-less constant menace to public safety, and did I mention that he’s got tattoos on his face?

Because I do a lot of blogging about crime and law enforcement, and because black criminals are statistically overrepresented in such cases, some might mistakenly accuse me of racism — “RAAAAACISM!” — for my interest in these issues. But lest the SPLC add another entry to my dossier, let me make the point that I hate white criminals, too. In fact, perhaps I hate white criminals more, especially degenerate trash like David Matthew Fines of Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Not that I’m any kind of “woke,” you understand, but when you consider how often we’ve been lectured about “white privilege” and “systemic racism” in recent years, don’t you think it behooves white folks to be minding their manners and obeying the law? When the Commie mob is accusing us of these things, it seems to me, we ought to make an extra effort to prove ourselves worthy of any advantages we might actually have. Whatever it takes to deserve “white privilege,” I’m willing to do, but it seems to me that the bare minimum is not to be a despicable criminal like this Arkansas trash with tattoos on his face.

And you know what? I don’t think I’m alone in this opinion. How else to explain the wrathful reaction of Arkansas State Trooper Roam when he apprehended David Matthew Fines after a high-speed pursuit:

If you don’t want to watch the first four minutes of that frightening pursuit — Fines driving 120 mph in the opposite lane of traffic — you can skip ahead to the post-apprehension scene:

Fines: “I’m going through things, man.”
Trooper: “I don’t give a shit what you’re going through.”

And let all God’s children say, “Amen.”

Let us recall how often law enforcement gets accused of racism — “RAAAAACISM!” — when dealing with black suspects. Do you think that’s going to make them go easy on white criminals? Oh, hell, no. If Trooper Roam had just started blasting away with his pistol and filled David Matthew Fines full of bullet holes, this might not have been ruled a justifiable homicide, but nobody would have rioted. Ben Crump wouldn’t have showed up to hold a press conference. As far as most white folks are concerned, a white criminal deserves whatever ill fate may befall him: “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”

Check the Sebastian County Jail file, and you’ll see that David Matthew Fines has kept pretty busy in his criminal career since his 2016 arrest. He was repeatedly charged with violating parole, failing to pay fines, absconding, etc., and there seems to be little likelihood he’ll start a law-abiding life at any future time. So why did a judge turn him loose on a mere $130 cash bond? Can someone in Arkansas investigate this judge and maybe start a petition to kick him off the bench? Did the judge even see that trooper’s dashcam video? I’d say that video constitutes an overwhelming argument in favor of denying bond on the grounds that David Matthew Fines is an eminent threat to public safety.

Sooner or later, a criminal like that is going to kill somebody, or else he’s going to die in the proverbial “hail of police gunfire” and no one will have occasion to mourn his death. Because . . . face tattoos.

Category: Arkansas, Crime

Another ‘Pretendian’ Exposed

Posted on | November 27, 2023 | 1 Comment

This is deeply offensive to me, and should be offensive to everyone: The once-popular folk singer known as Buffy Sainte-Marie has spent decades fraudulently claiming to be of Native American ancestry. One of the telltale clues was that, at different times during the 1960s, she claimed ancestry from three different groups — first Algonquin, then Micmac, and finally Cree. In fact, as an extensive investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) shows, “Buffy Sainte-Marie” is actually Beverly Jean Santamaria, born in Massachusetts to a family that was Italian on her father’s side and Anglo-American on her mother’s side. Early in her musical career, she began telling reporters that she had been adopted — a claim conclusively refuted by her birth certificate — and further claimed that her adoptive family had changed their surname from Santamaria to “Sainte-Marie” because of anti-Italian prejudice in the 1940s. This might surprise some of her surviving relatives in Massachusetts who still call themselves by the family name:

Bruce Santamaria said his family told him Sainte-Marie’s claim that she was adopted was incorrect.
“We were told flat out that she was my Uncle Albert’s child,” he said.
Despite the family’s concerns, his aunts and uncles followed Sainte-Marie’s career with passion and were proud of her, Bruce Santamaria, 61, said.
“She was a really talented musician,” he said. “And she was also authentic in her support for the Native Americans. She really cared about them. She was a voice for them.”
He said the family believed her claim to Indigenous ancestry was some sort of publicity stunt.
Whispers began to swirl that Sainte-Marie had threatened family members, including her own brother, with legal action or worse if they publicly questioned her ancestry claims.

Why did she lie? A hint can be found in a detail from the CBC account: Buffy’s brother Alan St. Marie served as a pilot in the Air Force and later became a commercial pilot. In the mid-1970s, he was greeting passengers one day after landing a flight in New York, and was surprised to see Buffy among the passengers. She was accompanied by a producer for PBS, and introductions were made, as Alan’s daughter explained to CBC:

Weeks later, that PBS producer called Alan to confirm that he was, in fact, Sainte-Marie’s biological brother.
Heidi St. Marie said the producer told her dad he didn’t appear to be Indigenous. Alan had light-coloured hair.
Alan told the producer he and Sainte-Marie were white and shared the same parents. St. Marie said her dad didn’t think much more about that call until Nov. 7, 1975, when a letter from a Los Angeles law firm arrived in his mailbox.
“This firm represents Buffy Sainte-Marie,” said the letter from a lawyer who had represented the likes of the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys.
“We have been advised that you have without provocation disparaged and perhaps defamed Buffy and maliciously interfered with her employment opportunities,” the letter said. It said if he continued, Buffy would “spare no expense in pursuing any and all of her legal remedies.”

It so happened that Buffy Sainte-Marie was angling to get a gig on Sesame Street, based on her (fake) Native American identity, which was the basis of the lawyer’s accusation that her brother was interfering “with her employment opportunities,” simply for telling the truth.

But notice something — Buffy’s brother was fair-complected with light-colored hair, whereas Buffy is swarthy. Probably this explains her creation of a fictional Native persona. Was she insecure about her appearance? Was she ashamed of being half-Italian? In any family, some children will favor either their father or their mother more strongly, and Buffy more closely resembled her Italian father. Rather than to present herself honestly, she instead fabricated a more “exotic” explanation for her dark features, and thus hit upon the myth of herself as an adopted Native girl. And while this may have been “some sort of publicity stunt,” as her relatives say, it is both dishonest and offensive.

What’s wrong with being white, huh? This was part of what I hated about Elizabeth Warren and her “high cheekbones” nonsense about being part Cherokee. While I would expect that anyone of genuine Cherokee ancestry would be proud of who they were, the fakery of “Fauxcahontas” Warren implies that there’s something shameful — some inferiority — in merely being white. What inspires most such fakery, I believe, is that so few Americans know anything about their actual genealogy.

No one is generically “white.” This classification is simply too large to function as the basis of a meaningful ethnic identity. Every white person in America is a descendant of people from specific places, but most Americans nowadays can’t even tell you their grandmother’s maiden name, and have done zero research into their family tree. While Americans of Irish Catholic ancestry, or those descended from Ellis Island-era immigrants, may have a certain ethnic chauvinism about their particular identity, generic Anglo-American white people — descended from the colonial era “Old Stock” — seldom view themselves as having any distinct ethnic heritage. Unless you’re a Hyphenated American, you’re just a mayonnaise-on-Wonder-Bread sandwich of whiteness.

This attitude is harmful in many ways, and one of its consequences is that some white people feel a compulsion to create fictional identities, if not to exploit the “diversity” quota system (which seems to have been Elizabeth Warren’s motive), then to have an “exotic” identity that strikes them as more interesting than the bland vanilla identity of generic whiteness.

But is it boring to be a descendant of Rollo the Viking or Colonel John Bolling? These are just a couple of the eminent individuals in my own family tree, and who knows how many other extraordinary connections might be discovered if I ever did a complete genealogy? Everybody has eight great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents, etc., so that if you can trace your ancestry back seven or eight generations, that’s more than 100 different lineages, and certainly some of them must be at least interesting, if perhaps not illustrious. Somehow, though, most people would rather be ignorant of their forebears, and in that sense, really don’t know who they are. This ignorance is, I believe, a crucial factor in leading people to manufacture fake identities, not just as fake Indians, but also such bizarre identities as “Queen of the Lost Continent of Lemuria.”

Category: Celebrities

Rule 5 Sunday: Face Time

Posted on | November 27, 2023 | 2 Comments

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This week’s appetizer courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on X.
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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | November 26, 2023 | 3 Comments

When weighing career opportunities, most of us never give any consideration to cult leader as a job worth pursuing. However, I’ve spent some time contemplating the pros and cons of such a gig, and reached the conclusion that I’m simply not cut out for that kind of work. For starters, to be an effective cult leader requires a rare combination of traits — the charisma necessary to attract a loyal following of gullible idiots, the cleverness to come up with a uniquely weird belief system, and the cunning cruelty to exploit the aforesaid gullible followers.

Just not my idea of fun, really. So as much as I might enjoy imposing my personalized brand of Divine Wisdom on a brainwashed mob, enjoying the pleasure of polygamous relations with their nubile daughters, etc., I simply lack the basic aptitude, even if I were willing to accept the risk of the way cults typically end. Dying in a shootout with the FBI or serving a life sentence in federal prison are outcomes I’d prefer to avoid, so scratch “cult leader” from the career list. But there are other considerations.

How do cult leaders come up with the implausible bullshit they foist on their followers, and where do they find people stupid enough to believe it? Well, that’s what the Internet’s for, as exemplified by the Colorado-based “Love Has Won” cult and its deceased leader, Amy Carlson:

According to her family, Amy Carlson grew up in Dallas, Texas, and was a “straight A student”. In Carlson’s early adult life, however, she began to talk increasingly about “outlandish concepts” such as starships. During the mid 2000s, Carlson developed an interest in New Age philosophy, and became a regular poster on the forums of the website Lightworkers.org. On the forum, she met Amerith WhiteEagle, who convinced Carlson that she was divine, and Carlson began to claim to experience paranormal phenomena. In late 2007, Carlson left her third husband, her children, and her job as a manager at McDonald’s, and ceased contact with most members of her family, and joined up with WhiteEagle in Colorado. The group was originally known under the name “Galactic Federation of Light”. The group posted their first videos to YouTube in 2009.

There is a new HBO documentary series about Carlson and her cult, and Saturday night I watched part of the first episode, enough to reach the conclusion that almost anyone could have their own cult nowadays, because the Internet provides access to an effectively unlimited supply of gullible followers. Nearly all of Carlson’s followers were the kind of dopeheads we used to call “burnouts,” people who’d done too much LSD and permanently fried their cerebral cortex. These wild-eyed kooks are interviewed for the documentary and let’s just say that none of them seem to have a very firm grasp on reality. Which isn’t surprising, when you consider the cult’s belief system:

The theology of Love Has Won has been described as fluid, combining New Age spirituality, conspiracy theories, and elements from mainstream Abrahamic religions. The group proclaimed that Carlson was a divine, 19 billion year-old being who had birthed all creation. Carlson claimed she had been reincarnated 534 times, including as Jesus, Joan of Arc, Marilyn Monroe and Cleopatra, and would lead 144,000 people into a mystical “5th dimension”. Carlson had several romantic partners throughout the group’s history, beginning with Amerith WhiteEagle, who were referred to as “Father God”, and who played a counterpart role to Carlson in the theology of the group. The group also adopted elements of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
The group claimed that Carlson was the queen of the lost continent of Lemuria, and the group incorporated the belief that Lemurians live within Mount Shasta in California.[9] Carlson had stated that Donald Trump was her father in a past life, and that she had spoken to the spirit of deceased actor Robin Williams, who she claimed was archangel Zadkiel. The group’s theology also included references to the concepts of Atlantis, the Anunnaki and “reptilians”. They believed that the world was run by a “cabal” determined to keep the planet in a “low vibration” state.

Unfortunately for the “Queen of the Lost Continent of Lemuria” and her followers, Carlson died at age 45 from a combination of anorexia, alcohol abuse and colloidal silver poisoning.

“COLLOIDAL SILVER POISONING”?

This is an unusual twist. We’re used to cult leaders dying in mass suicide rituals or being gunned down in a hail of automatic weapons fire. But what the heck is this colloidal silver thing?

Colloidal silver consists of tiny silver particles in a liquid. It is sometimes promoted on the internet as a dietary supplement; however, evidence supporting health-related claims is lacking.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that colloidal silver isn’t safe or effective for treating any disease or condition. Additionally, the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission have taken action against a number of companies for making misleading claims about colloidal silver products.
Colloidal silver can cause serious side effects. The most common is argyria, a build-up of silver in the body’s tissues causing a bluish-gray discoloration of the skin, which is usually permanent.
Colloidal silver can cause poor absorption of some drugs, such as certain antibiotics and thyroxine (used to treat thyroid deficiency). There is also some evidence that it can cause kidney, liver, or nervous system problems.

This explains why, when law enforcement in Saguache County, Colorado, found the mummified corpse of Amy Carlson, she was blue.

What sort of lessons can we learn from this? To me, it’s about how the Internet creates niche echo chambers of like-minded people. Even the tiniest fraction of a single percentage point of the population represents an audience of thousands, when you realize that there are 1.2 billion English-speaking Internet users worldwide (one-tenth of one percent = 1,200,000). Given the basic mathematics of the equation, it’s not really strange that “Mother God” Carlson could get 20,000 online followers, of whom about two dozen moved to Colorado to join her cult IRL.

Speaking of weird cult beliefs, the director of the HBO documentary is a liberal with an Ivy League diploma, who sees this as a political morality tale about health care and income inequality:

The self-styled deity sold remote healings and slowly gained an impressive online audience: almost 20,000 followers on Facebook and nearly 10,000 on YouTube. The group’s videos were watched more than 1.5 million times. All the while, she convinced more and more people to escape their lives and join her party. “You were high from the moment you woke up to the moment you went to bed,” a former follower recalls in the series.
Many who devoted themselves to Mother God were escaping one specific reality, according to [producer/director Hannah] Olson. “This is a group of people who were traumatized by the health care system,” the director says. One member arrived after struggling with an opioid addiction. Another found the group after losing his father to that same disease. One young woman joined after waking up from a coma to discover she owed half a million dollars in medical bills. “Love Has Won exists,” says Olson, “because people were searching online for how to heal their bodies and minds, because they could not afford to go to a doctor.” Many, if not all, were without insurance; the uninsured rate for American adults stood at 11% earlier this year.
“Reality doesn’t make sense for a lot of people because of the enormous income inequality,” Olson says. “My generation has not inherited the world we were promised.” (The director is a millennial.)

Like I said, weird cult beliefs. Despite the director’s politics, I haven’t found any liberal sermonizing in this HBO documentary, which is like watching a slow-motion train wreck, with a trainload of kooks.

Category: Colorado, Crime, Religion

FMJRA 2.0: Night Train

Posted on | November 26, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A good week for Senators fans. Took two out of three from the Twins and then went to Busch Stadium, where we swept the Cardinals. Pat Dobson notched his 13th and 14th wins, Joe Coleman got his 13th, and Moe Drabowsky & Darold Knowles picked up wins in relief. At this point, we’re two wins short of the 86-win season of the 1969 Senators IRL, and doing FAR better than the 1971 Senators who were burdened with Denny McLain and Mike Thompson in their rotation. We’ve closed to within six games of Oakland. and if we’re lucky, might even catch them.
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The Swampeoisie are the Colonial Occupiers

Posted on | November 25, 2023 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

So, if Michael Hayden is equating armed, religiously faithful Americans with Hamas, does that mean that Hayden and the Swampeoisie are the Colonial Occupiers?

While I reject General Hayden in general (heh) and his cheap smear in particular, if he’s stipulating a false equivalence between patriots and terrorists, at some point, it could become needful to move the accusation a bit closer to reality.

Just because we lack even the tiniest interest in fomenting violence does not mean that violence mirrors that disinterest in us. Peace sells, but who’s buying? The well-prepared purchase that peace.

I wonder if Hayden has the self-awareness to grasp that he and the Swampeoisie are the baddies?
Probably the response is some variation on the theme of Jessup:
“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by Experts armed with studies.
Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Mr. Patriot?
I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom.
You weep for the First Amendment and you curse the Swampeoisie.
You have that luxury.
You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that liberty’s demise, while tragic, probably saved lives.
And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that cable news channel.
You need me on that cable news channel.
We toss out words like honor, code, loyalty.
We use variations on these words as the backbone of a life spent managing something.
You use them as traditionally intended, for some reason.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the managed freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it!
I would rather you just said “thank you” and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a social media account and spread a meme.
Either way, I don’t give a *damn* what you think you are entitled to!”

Category: Uncategorized

Geert Wilders Wins; Left Freaks Out

Posted on | November 25, 2023 | 3 Comments

Stunning news this week from the Netherlands:

Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) have swept to a stunning victory in Dutch elections, with exit polls predicting that his populist anti-mass migration party will become the largest force in the House of Representatives in the Netherlands. . . .
Performing in a way that many would have considered unthinkable just a week ago, the populist party is now projected to have more than doubled its representation over the previous election in 2021 when the PVV only managed to secure 17 seats in the House.
The PVV was followed by the leftist-green coalition GL-PvdA of Great Reset proponent Frans Timmermans at 26 seats, the centre-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) at 23 seats, and the centrist New Social Contract (NSC) at 20.

Liberal media are trying to portray Wilders as a Trump imitator, when in fact Wilders long preceded the Trump phenomenon. When I heard the news of Wilders’ victory, the first person I thought of was Pamela Geller, who brought Wilders to CPAC in 2009. Wilders was also the keynote speaker at a Geller-organized 2015 event in Garland, Texas, that was attacked by two ISIS-inspired terrorists. These headlines give a taste of how Wilders’ victory inspired panic among liberals:

Dutch election winner Geert Wilders is
an anti-Islam firebrand known
as the Dutch Donald Trump
— Associated Press

Far-Right Populist Geert Wilders Scores
Major Victory in Dutch Election
— Wall Street Journal

Dutch Election Results Deliver
a Turn to the Far Right
— New York Times

Opposition to mass immigration is “far right,” the media declare flatly, even though polling shows that a majority of U.S. voters believe (and have believed for many years) that the border is out of control, that illegal immigration is a serious problem, and that the overall level of immigration is too high. Most Americans want less immigration, and especially want stricter enforcement to prevent illegal immigration — but such opinions are “far right,” according to the media. This is an interesting example of media manipulation, whereby a mainstream (majority) opinion is transmogrified into an “extremist” position, while the fringe beliefs of the Left are treated as if they were mainstream.

Geert Wilders was ahead of his time, calling attention to immigration-related problems that most politicians (and their media allies) don’t want people to notice. When the 2015 “refugee crisis” hit Europe, suddenly what had been seen as a “far right” fringe became the voice of a majority. The left-leaning “elite” in politics and media tried to prevent this majority from gaining power, but as the victory of Wilders shows, a determined people can overwhelm elite resistance. Congratulations!