Another Aspiring Rapper Update

Posted on | July 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Another Aspiring Rapper Update

Say hello to Zerail Dijon Rivera, a/k/a “Indian Red Boy.” You can also say good-bye to him while you’re at it, because the screenshot above depicts the moment when Indian Red Boy, who was doing an Instagram Live chat with a fellow rapper, looked up to see the gunman who killed him:

A young Los Angeles rapper was shot to death last week while livestreaming with a friend on Instagram, and his final tragic moments have shocked the internet.
Indian Red Boy, whose legal name is Zerail Rivera, was killed on Thursday [July 8] as he sat in his car in Hawthorne, the Hawthorne police said in a press release on Saturday. His identity was confirmed by the LA County coroner.
Police stated that “officers located a 21-year-old male slumped in the front seat of a vehicle” after he had suffered “multiple gunshot wounds.”
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Indian Red Boy was laughing and smiling while chatting with a friend when he was ambushed with gunfire. The video captures how quickly a happy moment turned deadly. He turns to his side with a look of shock. Gunshots can be heard as the car fills up with smoke. Blood then runs from the rapper’s head and nose as he tries to mouth “help” to his friend. He is clearly gasping for air and scared in his final moments.
“It appears to have been a walk-up shooting, and he appears to have been targeted,” Lt. Ti Goetz of the Hawthorne Police Department said, adding that Rivera “appears to be a gang member.”

“Appears to be a gang member”? Indian Red Boy and the friend he was talking to on IG Live, known by the nickname “Kapone,” were affiliated with a gang of Bloods from Inglewood. The rumored motive for Indian Red Boy’s assassination was that he had “dissed” the late rapper known as “Nipsey Hussle” (Ermias Joseph Asghedom) who was a member of the rival Crips gang, murdered in 2019 by a fellow Crip. Allegedly, Indian Boy Red and Kapone had defaced a mural tribute to Nipsey Hussle, although it has elsewhere been claimed that Indian Red Boy was “set up” by an angry ex-girlfriend. Of course, this isn’t an “either/or” choice — it may be that Indian Red Boy’s ex-girlfriend set him up for assassination by ratting him out to the Crips. Whatever the motive, crimes like this call into question the legitimacy of the Black Lives Matter movement because where are they when black people are killing each other?

Nothing BLM does is aimed at reducing the deadly violence that takes so many lives in the black community, indeed quite the opposite. BLM is against the cops, and therefore objectively pro-criminal. You don’t reduce violent crime by promoting an anti-law-enforcement agenda, and this bloody mayhem certainly does nothing to reduce racism.

This will not be the last “Aspiring Rapper Update” today. There is a very long list of such stories to choose from recently.

Category: Aspiring Rapper Update, California, Crime

Aspiring Rapper Update

Posted on | July 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Aspiring Rapper Update

Say hello to Jacquavius Dennard Smith, a/k/a “9lokkNine,” whose stage name is pronounced “Glock 9,” like the pistol, see? Regular readers may have noticed that “aspiring rapper” is a dangerous gig:

The Death of ‘Quono’
— Sept. 13, 2020

Rapper Killed by ‘Systemic Racism’ and
Semiautomatic Pistol Fire, But Mainly …
— Nov. 6, 2020

Dallas Rapper ‘Mo3’ Dies of Structural
Oppression and Gunfire, But Mainly …
— Nov. 11, 2020

Timothy ‘Lil Tim’ Leeks, 22, Charged
With Murdering Rapper King Von in Atlanta
— Nov. 11, 2020

64 Shots: Londre ‘KTS Dre’ Sylvester
Gunned Down Outside Chicago Jail
— July 12, 2021

There would appear to be a significant overlap between the rap entertainment industry and the criminal community, and while perhaps not every “aspiring rapper” is also a gang-banger, that’s the smart way to bet. Certainly 9lokkNine is an excellent role model for young thugs:

9lokkNine released his first mixtape, Kold Face Kold Case with nine tracks on January 2, 2018. He released his second mixtape, Bloodshells Revenge with 18 tracks on April 17, 2018. On May 8, 2018, 9lokkNine released a music video for his single “I Don’t Need No Help”. On July 23, 2018, he released his 17-track mixtape, Loyalty Kill Love. On August 3, 2018, he signed to Cash Money Records and Republic Records. According to a press release, the contract was worth $2 million.

TWO MILLION DOLLARS? You might expect that getting a $2 million recording contract at age 18 would be enough to induce even the most hardened outlaw to go legit. Alas, thug life is habit-forming, and 9lokkNine already had an extensive criminal record:

In September 2015, 9lokkNine, 15-years-old at the time, was arrested in connection to a shooting that left a 17-year-old hospitalized. Smith was charged with aggravated battery with a firearm and unlawful discharge of a firearm and also had a violation of probation for trespassing. . . .
On October 3, 2018, 9lokkNine was arrested on multiple charges, including possession of a concealed weapon by a convicted delinquent, grand theft in the third degree, and possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana.

Dope, guns, grand theft, attempted murder — these are reputation-enhancers for any aspiring rapper, and 9lokkNine was quite popular. His May 2020 video, “Why You LYING” got 20 million views on YouTube, where he had more than 350,000 subscribers to his channel.

You might think that such success would suffice to turn this young man away from criminality, but if so, you would be wrong:

Already facing racketeering and attempted murder charges in state court, Orlando rapper Jacquavius ‘9lokkNine’ Smith pleaded guilty to identity theft and weapons charges on Tuesday, records show.
Smith, 21, fraudulently applied for and received $10,000 in federal Paycheck Protection Program funds meant to help struggling businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, his plea agreement said.
He pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm, aggravated identity theft and felon in possession of a firearm.
According to records, Smith was in possession of a sawed-off semi-automatic rifle which was not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. The rifle was stolen during a burglary in 2019, the plea agreement said. It was found in the garage of Smith’s grandparents’ home when the Orlando Police Department served a search warrant, the document said. Smith’s thumbprint was on the rifle magazine and his DNA was on the grip area, records said.
Because the barrel of the rifle was about nine inches instead of 16, it had to be registered, according to the plea agreement.
In the aggravated identity theft charge, Smith used the name, social security number and address belonging to a person identified in the plea agreement as “S.S.” to apply for the PPP loan and open a bank account in March, records said. A deposit arrived in the account for more than $10,000 on April 16, records said.
Smith shared an Instagram message to friends showing the loan application which was intercepted by a wiretap obtained by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the agreement said.
Smith also was caught with a weapon during an OCSO raid last month at a home on Hazenridge Way, south of Curry Ford and Dean roads. Smith was found in a bedroom where there was a duffle bag with a loaded firearm and several rounds inside. He also had 13 “auto sears” which allow semiautomatic firearms to become automatic, records said.
Smith, who has a felony record dating back to when he was 16, is prohibited from having firearms.
A judge is scheduled to sentence Smith on Oct. 6.
Authorities earlier this month announced racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations (RICO) charges and conspiracy to commit racketeering charges against Smith and more than 20 other people in connection with an ongoing gang feud that has resulted in multiple shootings and homicides.
At the heart of the battle is rivalry between Smith, a key figure in the All Friends No Family gang, and fellow rapper Javarri “Hotboii” Walker, of the 438 gang, officials have said. Walker also is facing racketeering charges and was arrested Monday, jail records show.

Gosh, I wonder what’s causing the “mass incarceration” problem?

Category: Aspiring Rapper Update, Crime, Florida

In The Mailbox: 07.15.21

Posted on | July 15, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.15.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Survival Instincts – Individual & Societal
357 Magnum: He Got What He Wanted And He Still Shot The Victim
EBL: Linda Ronstadt – The Only Mama That’ll Walk The Line
Twitchy: Squad & Bernie Hardest Hit – Biden Denounces Communism, Not Thrilled About Socialism Either
Louder With Crowder: BLM Loves Cuban Communism So Much, Marco Rubio Is Offering Them A Sweet Deal
Vox Popoli: That Will Be Non! also, Collapse 2040
Stoic Observations: You Are Not In A Community

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: You Want To Be Riggs, Not Murtaugh
American Conservative: The First Amendment, Yes, But Curricula Too
American Greatness: Class – The Word We Dare Not Speak, also, Tucker Carlson – It Appears There Was Meaningful Voter Fraud In Fulton County
American Power: Biden Lobbies For Democrats’ Infrastructure Scam
American Thinker: The COVID Aftermath & Lessons Learned
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Starving Nork News
Babalu Blog: Some Thoughts On The Current Uprising In Cuba, also, Nephew Of Cuban General & Politburo Member Flees Cuba, Calls For End Of Communist Regime
BattleSwarm: Georgia – “Provable” Election Fraud
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, FAA Threatens Shutdown Of SpaceX Starship Program At Boca Chica
Cafe Hayek: Halting Comments Temporarily
Camp of the Saints: The House Of Special Purpose At 102
CDR Salamander: Can You Hug Out 20 Years?
Da Tech Guy: Opinions On Haiti, Catholics Demanding Refunds, & Other Matters Under The Fedora, also, Disasters & Inaction On Cuba Under The Biden Administration
Don Surber: Still Blaming Trump, also, Media Should Back Tucker Carlson
First Street Journal: The Administration Wants To Snoop Into Your Text Messages, also, It Isn’t The Guns, It’s The Culture
Fred On Everything: Watching Red China – Anatomy of A Suicide
The Geller Report: Overwhelming Evidence That January 6 Was A Setup, also, Trump Slams Obama For Backing Raul Castro
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Why David Mamet’s The Edge Trumps Other Action Adventure Films, also, Boys In Red Hats At War With Reality Itself
The Lid: MSNBC’s Joy Reid Claims Republicans Are Neo-Nazis
Legal Insurrection: Cornel West Accuses Harvard Of “Spiritual Rot” In Resignation Letter, also, Red Chinese Ships Dumped So Much Sewage In The South China Sea That It’s Visible From Space
Nebraska Energy Observer: Wherever Two Or More Of You…
Outkick: Tom Brady Played Through Last Season & The Super Bowl On Torn MCL, also, Five Non-Victims Of Cancel Culture Who Are Fighting Back & Winning
Power Line: What The Hell Happened To Bill Kristol? also, The Strange Career Of Jim Crow, Joe Biden Edition
Shark Tank: Miami Republicans Condemn #BLM Statement On Cuba
Shot In The Dark: One Evening At A School Board Meeting, also, Going About It Wrong
The Political Hat: Star Chamber Equity, also, Woke Justice – Woke College For Police, Autonomous Zones Still Autonomous, & Boogie World
This Ain’t Hell: 73 Year Old Vietnam Vet Beaten To Death In Broad Daylight In Mostly Peaceful Chicago, also, New Book Says General Milley Was Worried About A Trump Coup
Transterrestrial Musings: SpaceX’s Environmental Problem, also, California’s Demographic Decline
Victory Girls: Britney Spears Free To Hire Her Own Attorney
Volokh Conspiracy: Open The Door To Cuban & Haitian Refugees
Weasel Zippers: Bad Orange Woman Refuses To Condemn Cuban Communism, also, #BLM Under Fire For Defending Cuban Regime
The Federalist: Facebook Censorship Board Member – Free Speech Is Not A Human Right, also, White House Brags About Colluding With Big Tech To Suppress Dissent
Mark Steyn: Twilight Zone Reopening, also, Live Around The Planet

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Whither the ‘Ahoy’ Coalition?

Posted on | July 15, 2021 | Comments Off on Whither the ‘Ahoy’ Coalition?

“Questions of policy — is Bill Kristol in favor of enforcing our immigration laws, or not? — were ultimately less important to the fate of the Weekly Standard than their intellectual pride. Neoconservatives decided in 2015 that Donald Trump should not be the Republican nominee and, when their advice was rejected by GOP primary voters, the neoconservatives doubled-down and decided that Hillary Clinton should be president. When that didn’t happen, they doubled down again, and declared Trump’s presidency illegitimate. At no point, apparently, did it ever occur to them to ask, ‘What if we’re wrong?’ The possibility of error was not something Bill Kristol (Harvard, Class of 1979) was willing to consider.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Dec. 6, 2018

Kurt Schlichter popularized, if he did not invent, the use of “ahoy” as a jab to make fun of the “cruise-ship conservatives” (e.g., the staff of the defunct Weekly Standard) whose #NeverTrump politics led them sailing off into irrelevant oblivion. That 2018 Weekly Standard cruise which they advertised as “coming soon” never happened, because anti-Trump “conservatism” represented only a disaffected handful of writers, and had no substantial following among GOP voters in general.

The appeal of “cruise-ship conservatism,” really, was to affluent old people who paid for a chance to get up-close-and-personal with political celebrities they recognized from watching Fox News. Probably 90% of Americans couldn’t pick Stephen Hayes out of a police lineup, but to habitual Fox News viewers, Hayes was once a superstar.

And then Trump broke their minds. He completely wrecked the Standard — or rather, they wrecked themselves, by their seething hatred of him — and once he beat Hillary, the handwriting was on the wall. So now Hayes is doing Jonah Goldberg’s Dispatch newsletter with David French (similarly mind-broken by Trump) and Kristol’s name is attached to The Bulwark, the title of which is said by some to be a pun alluding to the depraved sexual kink of its proprietors and staff. (“Bull Work,” get it?)

Earlier this week, The Bulwark published a genuinely obnoxious attack on the conservative Claremont Institute, and this prompted Steven Hayward to reflect on what happened to Kristol & Co.:

Trump is gone now, and his opponents can claim a large measure of vindication in the ignominious end of his term. Yet the Never Trumpers seem by degrees to have become Never Republicans. Bill and several of his colleagues at The Bulwark seem to have decided that throwing Trump over the side, and Trump-friendly Republicans with him, isn’t enough: they now seem to be throwing aside conservatism itself, suddenly attacking conservative views on climate change, health care, and many other issues. Is it now Never Conservative?

It’s not about ideology, just like it was never really about policy, as I explained in December 2018. No, it’s about ego, about the imagined entitlement of the Harvard-educated Kristol and his influential friends to act as the de facto Membership Committee of Conservatism, Inc.

In this context, think about Nicolle Wallace. How is it that this erstwhile Republican operative has gone so far Left that she’s ideologically indistinguishable from her MSNBC colleague Rachel Maddow? The answer, I would argue, is that Wallace — like Hayes, Kristol, et al. — is essentially a careerist, who was always more concerned with maintaining her membership in a certain socioeconomic class than with politics.

Such people will always be found scrambling to climb aboard whatever political bandwagon seems most likely to deliver them to the upper echelons of prestige and influence, where they can rub elbows with the rich and famous or, better yet, become rich and famous themselves. From the time Republicans took over Congress in 1994, until Hillary lost in 2016, Bill Kristol exercised an enormous amount of control over who was allowed to ride aboard the bandwagon of Conservatism Inc., and it was this extraordinary influence which was most important to him.

Far be it from me to speculate on what role, if any, psychosexual deviance may play in all this — I’ll leave that to Ace, who’s pretty sure that the third Mrs. Charlie Sykes is a “hot wife,” IYKWIMAITYD — when the real crux of the matter is how to prevent the “Ahoy” Coalition from regaining its former power over the conservative movement in the future.

Category: Celebrities, Intellectuals

In The Mailbox: 07.14.21

Posted on | July 14, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.14.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Mr. Al-Sahhaf has a reasonable complaint.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1413
357 Magnum: The Biden Regime & Wrongthink
EBL: Rush – Bastille Day
Twitchy: Amy Klobuchar Spouts Drivel About Fleeing Texas Democrats
Louder With Crowder: Keith Olbermann Is A Nincompoop
Vox Popoli: Biden Burns The Spies, also, The Trends Aren’t All Bad

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Smoking Is Cool
American Conservative: The Lingering Relevance Of The Katyn Massacre
American Greatness: AZ Senate Prez Says Audit Team’s Ballot Count Differs From Maricopa County’s Count
American Power: “My Black Generation Is Fighting Like Hell To Stop The Whitelash”
American Thinker: Big Tech Are State Actors, also, Biden’s “American Jobs Plan” Is Devoid Of Moral Values & Economic Realities
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Pitbull Makes Impassioned Call To Support The Struggle For Freedom In Cuba, also, Cuba’s Deputy Minister of The Interior Resigns, Condemns Use Of Excessive Violence Against Protesters
BattleSwarm: South Africa Burning
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Facebook Leaves Satellite Business, Sells Employees To Amazon
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Culture Is Upstream Of Everything
Da Tech Guy: An Interesting Robert E. Lee Statue Vs. Statute Note, also, History & Critical Race Theory
Don Surber: The School Board Tea Party, also, Diversity – What’s In It For Me?
First Street Journal: The #Woke Destroy More History, also, The Washington Post Will Never Get The Right Answers
The Geller Report: George Floyd Mural Struck By Lightning, Crumbles Into Pile Of Bricks, also, Huge New Evidence Pointing To Massive Vote Fraud In Fulton County
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, “Our” Who?
Hollywood In Toto: A Beloved Basketball Classic & Synergy Gone Wild, also, God’s Not Dead Sequel Could Throw Gas On Raging Culture War Fires
The Lid: Homeland Security Boss Mayorkas – Mexican Drug Cartels Si, Cubans & Haitians No
Legal Insurrection: Larry Elder Enters California Recall Fray, also, Homeland Security Sec Mayorkas Closes Door To Cuban, Haitian Refugees While Mexican Border Remains Wide Open
Nebraska Energy Observer: “Presenting America’s Forgotten”, also, Can Gary Recover?
Outkick: Country Music’s New #1 Isn’t Interested In Your Complaints About America, also, Richard Sherman Arrested, Denied Bail In Seattle
Power Line: Live From Havana, also, A Setback for Stacey Abrams And Georgia Democrats
Shark Tank: Steube Slams Democrats For “Staying Silent” On Cuba
Shot In The Dark: Signals, also, Hate
STUMP: Mortality With Meep
The Political Hat: All Your Children Are (Trans And) Belong To Us, also, Indoctrination In Oregon Schools
This Ain’t Hell: Missile Defense Radar For Hawaii Funded, But Guam’s F*cked, also, Sailors Say Navy’s Leaders Failing To Prepare For War
Transterrestrial Musings: The U.S. Navy, also, A Guide To Web Designers
Victory Girls: Where’s Joe Biden? Talking Civil War Again. Again.
Volokh Conspiracy: Senate Democrats Embrace Marijuana Federalism – Will Republicans?
Weasel Zippers: Bad Orange Woman Refuses To Blame Communism For Cuba’s Misery, also, Cuban Dictatorship Blames Porn Star For Helping To Incite Protests
The Federalist: Yale Professor Wants Your Kids To See Sex At Pride Parades, also, What Did Fauci Know And When?
Mark Steyn: Topless In Qatar, also, Bastille Day For Non-Stormers

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Never Doubt God Answers Prayer

Posted on | July 14, 2021 | Comments Off on Never Doubt God Answers Prayer

You wouldn’t believe what can happen sometimes in a blogger’s life, and I am not at liberty to tell you what happened this afternoon, and maybe you wouldn’t think it was miraculous, but of this I am certain: It was no accident. God sent me where I needed to go, to do what needed to be done, and how could such a thing have happened randomly?

During our conversation, I said: “Think about Joseph — sold into slavery by his own brothers.” And then recounted everything that happened up until Joseph confronted his brothers and said to them, “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.” The Lord moves in mysterious ways, and when you’re enduring tribulation, just remember that there must be some reason behind all this, some lesson to be learned from your suffering. God is testing you, preparing you for a future purpose.

The other person thanked me for my generosity and I was like, what? No, my motives were entirely selfish. As I say I’m not at liberty to discuss the details, but the duty of gratitude is all mine. Selah.

Category: Fear. Loathing.

Apocalypse in South Africa

Posted on | July 14, 2021 | Comments Off on Apocalypse in South Africa

How bad is the violence in South Africa? It’s even worse than Chicago:

Crowds looted shops and offices in South Africa on Wednesday, defying government calls to end a week of violence that has killed more than 70 people and wrecked hundreds of businesses.
The unrest, the worst in South Africa for years, also disrupted hospitals struggling to cope with a third wave of COVID-19 and forced the closure of a refinery.
Protests triggered by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry last week have widened into looting and an outpouring of general anger over the hardship and inequality that persist 27 years after the end of apartheid.
Shopping malls and warehouses have been ransacked or set ablaze in several cities, mostly in Zuma’s home in KwaZulu-Natal province, and the financial and economic center Johannesburg and surrounding Gauteng province.
Overnight it spread to two other provinces — Mpumalanga, just east of Gauteng, and Northern Cape, police said.
A Reuters photographer saw several shops being looted in the town of Hammersdale, Kwazulu-Natal, on Wednesday. Local TV stations meanwhile showed more looting of shops in South Africa’s largest township Soweto, and in the Indian Ocean port city of Durban.
Soldiers have been sent onto the streets to help outnumbered police contain the unrest and order was being restored in some places on Wednesday, such as the northern Johannesburg township of Alexandra, local TV reported.

Less than 10% of South Africa’s remaining population is white — 4.6 million in a nation of 52 million. Nearly two-thirds of the white population lives in two provinces — Guateng (Johannesburg and Praetoria), with 1.9 million (41% of the white total) and Western Cape (Cape Town) with about 900,000 (20% of the white total). In the KwaZulu-Natal province (Durban, on the east coast near the Indian Ocean) where the violence broke out, only 5% of the population is white.

Now, look at this Monday video from a French-language news channel:

??? #SouthAfrica : la situation devient de plus en plus tendue dans le pays. Sur cette vidéo on aperçoit des hommes lourdement armés tirer sur des protestataires. On ignore si ces hommes armés sont de la police sud-africaine. #KZNViolence #ZumaArrest #SouthAfricanLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/Q6sFIiYCFa

— LSI AFRICA (@lsiafrica) July 12, 2021

The caption translates, “The situation is becoming increasingly tense in the country. In this video we see heavily armed men shooting at protesters. It is not known whether these gunmen are South African police.” Are the gunmen vigilantes? I don’t think so.

Notice they all seem fit and muscular, and they show a certain level of discipline. This suggests to me that they are professional security. What were they doing here? Trying to clear the highway, it looks like to me. But the appearance of such forces in the midst of this chaos is a warning of what lies ahead in South Africa, and perhaps here in the United States. That was a point raised last night by Tucker Carlson:

It is not a defense of apartheid, and certainly not an argument for a return to apartheid, to say that the current “hardship and inequality” causing violence in South Africa is a predictable consequence of the post-apartheid era. The underlying problem is not inequality, per se, but rather the unrealistic belief that politics can eradicate inequality. Poverty does not automatically cause of political unrest; rather, what causes unrest is the belief — promoted by left-wing activists — that political action can end poverty, and that a lack of political power is the only reason people are poor. Let me quote Federalist No. 10:

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves. The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties. . . .
But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government.

James Madison here describes the origins of political division as a matter of people freely pursuing their own interests. The basic job of government is the protection of property rights, and notice that Madison assumes that “different and unequal faculties” will result in people having “different degrees and kinds of property.” No matter what the government may do, this cannot be avoided in a free society. The problem we see in South Africa is that too many people there (as here) were led to believe otherwise and, nearly three decades after the end of apartheid, the failure of the false promise of “equality” produces an irrational rage among those who feel they have been cheated out of something.

“And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”
— Luke 12:15

“Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.”
— I Timothy 6:5-8

What is causing violence is an anti-Christian belief system — “doctrines of devils,” as the Apostle Paul says — encouraging covetousness, a sentiment that will always produce rage and violence.