Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | June 19, 2020 | 1 Comment

Derrick Lashun Hobbs was probably an honor student.

Not all murders of black people make national news. Despite their devotion to #BlackLivesMatter, CNN will never mention this crime:

DOUGLASVILLE, GA — A Douglasville man who authorities say murdered his mother and niece is in the Douglas County Jail as of Thursday afternoon.
Derrick Lashun Hobbs, 37, was arrested Sunday night after the bodies of Lawanda Barrows, 59, and Layla Hobbs, 4, were found in a burning vehicle behind a residence on Colquitt Street. Hobbs was charged with two counts of aggravated assault in connection with their deaths. He was denied bond.
The Douglas County Sentinel reported Hobbs is the only suspect in the case. No motive or other details were provided by police.
The Douglasville Police and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the deaths.

Curiously, no media outlet reporting this story included a mugshot of the suspect. The only way I found a photo of Hobbs was from a Google search that turned up notice of his status as a sex offender, having been convicted of felony statutory rape in 2003. So he raped a minor when he was 20, and then murdered his own mother and niece last weekend — allegedly, I hasten to add. I wouldn’t want to libel someone who was probably an honor student, and might yet become a civil rights hero, if he somehow manages to get himself shot to death by a white cop.

Category: Georgia, Racism, Violence Against Women

‘It’s Table-Tossing Time’

Posted on | June 19, 2020 | 2 Comments

The decision of the Fulton County District Attorney to charge Officer Garrett Rolfe with felony murder in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks has driven many conservatives to the point of despair. How could anyone looking at the facts of the case think this charge was appropriate?

As a native of Atlanta, this case has been emotionally disturbing to me. And as I’ve said, this incident was stupid from start to finish. Brooks was stupid to pass out drunk in the Wendy’s drive through, and the cops were stupid not to be prepared for him to resist arrest.

After watching all the videos, and learning that Officer Rolfe was a decorated member of the High Intensity Traffic Team (HITT), it occurred to me that, because he had arrested dozens of drunk drivers, this was more or less a routine event. Had any of his previous DUI busts tried to resist arrest? I don’t know, but Officer Rolfe is a tall, muscular man, and he had perhaps never encountered someone who fought him as desperately as Brooks did. Keep in mind, there were two cops holding him when Brooks started fighting, and yet they were unable to control him. What could inspire such ferocious violence?

Rayshard Brooks was on probation and faced going back to prison if he was charged with a DUI, DailyMail.com can reveal.
It was the fear of incarceration that likely caused Brooks to panic in the face of imminent arrest and caused him to make a break for it. . . .
The charges to which Brooks pleaded guilty and for which he was still on probation dated back to August 2014 when he was convicted on four counts – False Imprisonment, Simple Battery/Family, Battery Simple and Felony Cruelty/Cruelty to Children.
He was tried in Clayton County and sentenced to seven years on the first count, with one year in prison and six on probation and 12 months for each of the other three counts, sentences to be served concurrently.
His sentence was revised, and he was sent back to prison for 12 months in July 2016 when he violated the terms of his probation.
Brooks had not been in trouble since that year until last December when he went to Ohio without informing his probation officer and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
That warrant was revoked and the case dismissed when he returned to Georgia on January 6.

Have you ever been on probation? Once I got six months probation for driving on a suspended license and it was a bummer. You have to pay a monthly maintenance fee and meet with your probation officer. Talk about feeling like the man is keepin’ you down.

Most middle-class, college-educated people have never had that kind of involvement with the criminal justice system, and can’t relate to what it’s like, but I can. And because of my habit of high-speed driving, I also know the paranoia of a traffic stop when you’re not sure if there’s a warrant out for you because of a ticket you forgot to pay. So imagine what it was like for Rayshard Brooks being on probation for six years, and having just recently gotten past a hassle over a violation for traveling out of state without informing his probation officer.

The mainstream media have ignored Brooks’ prior criminal history, and indeed have depicted him as a devoted family man, despite his record of domestic violence and cruelty to children. In other words, there is a narrative they’re promoting, and this narrative requires omission of the facts of Brooks’ criminal record. The same liberals who deplore “violence against women” are now eager to avoid any discussion of what Brooks did that resulted in his felony convictions, because they are determined to make this a story about racial injustice in which Brooks is an innocent victim. Never mind if he was also a wife-beater and child-abuser.

Daniel Horowitz argues that Officer Rolfe’s shooting of Brooks “was clear self-defense, and had the suspect been white, we would never have heard of it. The cop wouldn’t have been fired and rioters wouldn’t have burned down the Wendy’s”:

I’m seeing some commentators who clearly concede the self-defense point but lament that something so low-level, such as a drunk driver blocking the Wendy’s drive-through, could result in a death. Yes, it is tragic. This is what many cops have to deal with regularly. Many violent career criminals are often caught committing low-level crimes. Cops approach them as if they are innocuous, just as in this case, where clearly the cops treated him as just someone who had too much to drink. But there’s something interesting about violent criminals who barely serve time for past offenses: They are not deterred from acting violent again. Cops never know when someone is going to turn violent on them.

This is true, and it’s what is so wrong with the interpretation of the encounter made by the District Attorney, where he talked about Brooks being “jovial” while talking to the officers. Yes, we can see that on the video — Brooks was trying to talk his way out of a DUI bust that he knew could send him back to prison for violating his probation. His “jovial” demeanor was intended to convince police to let him go, and when that didn’t work? Had he planned to try to escape? Was his fight with the cops something that Brooks had been thinking of the whole time he was being “jovial” with the police? We will never know, because Brooks is not here to tell us, but the suddenness with which this situation went from being an ordinary DUI bust to become a life-or-death struggle was shocking.

Keep in mind that this is really all about politics. It is an election year. Democrats and the media are trying to “energize” black voters by inflaming racial animosity. There was no other reason to make George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks the most famous black men in America. Once you realize that the media is engaged in deliberate distortion, and once you realize the motive for this distortion, this can help you maintain emotional equilibrium among all the craziness.

Or, you could just explode in rage:

Steven Crowder SNAPPED pic.twitter.com/ZDfFgBB3e8

— american nationalist (@NationalistTV) June 18, 2020

Steven Crowder’s rant expresses what a lot of Americans are feeling right now. America seems to have gone completely crazy, so crazy that Officer Rolfe’s stepmother got fired from her job.

Category: Crime, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 06.18.20

Posted on | June 18, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.18.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Wednesday Whittle
357 Magnum: Historic Moments In Chicago Policing
EBL: DACA Wacka
Twitchy: Speaker Pelosi Finally Rids The Capitol Of Former Speakers Who Were Confederates (And Democrats)
Louder With Crowder: Three Things You Need To Know About Fulton County DA Paul Howard
Vox Popoli: Atlanta Police Stay Home, Mayor Shocked, also, Antifa’s Minneapolis AAR

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Few Good Men
American Conservative: Another General Wants Forever War In Iraq
American Greatness: The Democrats’ Corruption Of America’s Inner Cities
American Thinker: How To Fight The Woke & Win
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Extra-Terrestrial News
Babalu Blog: Florida Senators Rubio & Scott Introduce Bill Aimed At Cutting Off Cuba’s Slave Doctor Profits
BattleSwarm: Our Horrible Media – A Triptych
Cafe Hayek: Signifying Nothing
CDR Salamander: Disintegrative Phase II Is Nigh
Da Tech Guy: Society Without Police – Blue State, Red Rules, also, A Modest Proposal To End The National Anthem Kneeling Conundrum
Don Surber: Chief Justice Roberts Voids Nation’s Immigration Laws
First Street Journal: Philly Cancels Police Budget Increase
The Geller Report: Atlanta Cops Walk Out, also, Canada Loses UNSC Bid Despite PM Zoolander’s Relentless Israel-Bashing
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Four Comets Out Of Four Thousand
Hollywood In Toto: Elvis Brought Together Two Wyatt Earps For 3000 Miles To Graceland, also, Mr. Jones Speaks Directly To Our Fake News Age
Legal Insurrection: Michigan Gives Barber Back His License, also, Celebrity-backed Jail Fund Has Spent Less Than 1% Bailign Out Protesters & Rioters
The PanAm Post: Gramsci, The Joker, & Protests In The U.S., also, Hispanics Fight Back Against #BLM Attacks
Power Line: Big Tech Goes To War Against The Right, also, Banality Brushback
Shark Tank: Mucarsel-Powell Accuses Gaetz, GOP Of Human Trafficking
Shot In The Dark: Mark Your Calendars
The Political Hat: Trial Balloon For Tyranny
This Ain’t Hell: Rolling Back Big Tech’s Legal Immunity, also, No Surprise Here
Victory Girls: CHOP Seattle – No Trader Joe’s For You!
Volokh Conspiracy: SCOTUS Holds Trump Administration’s Recission Of DACA “Arbitrary & Capricious”
Weasel Zippers: Police Take Down Portland Autonomous Zone Because It Was Outside Mayor’s House, also, “Cream Of Wheat” Owner To Launch “Immediate Review” Of Brand
Megan McArdle: Liberals Might Have Gotten A Taste Of What Makes Trump So Popular
Mark Steyn: Breaking All Records! also, “Creating” Slavery – And Ending It

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Category: Linkagery

Mayor Ted Discovers Law and Order

Posted on | June 18, 2020 | 3 Comments

You know how obnoxious the anarchist scum in Portland must be when they managed to turn Mayor Ted Wheeler into Dirty Harry:

Portland protesters on Wednesday night followed in Seattle’s footsteps and attempted to build an autonomous zone in the city. That effort, however, was broken up by police.
Unlike Seattle, where protesters cordoned off multiple blocks around a police precinct evacuated during the protests, demonstrators in Portland barricaded off two blocks in front of what was said to be Mayor Ted Wheeler’s apartment building.
According to videos posted online, a group of protesters arrived at Wheeler’s NW 10th Avenue and Glisan Street apartment early in the evening where they set up tents, played music and blocked the streets.
Shortly before 11 p.m., the modest crowd swelled in size as a few hundred protesters arrived from the Multnomah County Justice Center, the epicenter of nightly protests against police brutality and racism for the past three weeks.

(Really? Is Portland — Multnomah County, which voted for Hillary in 2016 by more than a 4-to-1 margin — really such a swamp of racism that you need three weeks of protests against it?)

With live music, chants and laser pointers lighting up the largely dark apartment building, protesters set about erecting barricades on the blocks around the building. It was a considerably smaller area than the community built in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Seattle’s zone has drawn considerable ire from right wing media and President Trump, though reporters in the area have described it as a peaceful gathering.

(Notice how they had to bring Trump into this. Because reasons.)

At 11:30 p.m. Portland protesters had named their area the Patrick Kimmons Autonomous Zone, after a young Black man who Portland Police Sgt. Garry Britt and Officer Jeffery Livingston shot and killed in 2018.

(Patrick Kimmons was a convicted dope dealer with ties to the Crips street gang, who got into a gunfight with rival hoodlums, then ran toward police with a pistol in his hand. But never mind . . .)

By 1 a.m., elaborate barricades had been erected. But in the early hours of Thursday morning, police moved into the area, declaring it an unlawful assembly. Portland Police estimated about 50 people were in the area when they dispersed the autonomous zone.

Officers are clearing the closed area. Arrests are being made. Leave the area immediately or you are subject to arrest or force. Residents in the area shelter in place.

— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) June 18, 2020

Portland Mayor @tedwheeler after mob of antifa and far-left protesters took over the street outside his downtown condo last night: I don’t support an autonomous zone. pic.twitter.com/3gRhS9wcAe

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 18, 2020

Wheeler goes out of his way to express his sympathy with the Antifa mob, but he doesn’t want them messing around in his neighborhood.

Category: Crime, Democrats, Oregon

Democrats Celebrate Their Heritage

Posted on | June 18, 2020 | 1 Comment

And by “their heritage,” of course, I mean, slavery:

Tuesday at USA Today there was a fascinating “fact check” article covering that idiotic spectacle put on by Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and several other congressional Democrats last week in which they donned African kente cloth scarves and knelt on the floor of Emancipation Hall for some eight minutes and change in some sort of morbid tribute to George Floyd.
Because kente cloth, by the standard of this stupid moment in American history, is quite reminiscent of, and therefore pays homage to, the African slave trade. And therefore those wearing it also support the African slave trade . . .

Or so we must conclude, judging by contemporary standards. Many years ago, when I was first accused of “white supremacy” — !!! — my reaction was to wonder if words still have any meaning.

Whatever my Thought Crimes might have been, certainly I was not so foolish as to advocate, or even to imagine, resurrecting Jim Crow segregation or some other policy that might truly deserve to be called “white supremacy.” I have never endorsed any such policy, because it would be utter folly to do so. It is absurd to think that any sizeable percentage of Americans in the 21st century would support a return to segregation, or the disenfranchisement of racial minorities. For better or worse, we must live within the circumstances of political reality. Anyone who wants to go off into some kind of neo-Nazi fantasyland (“Wolves of Vinland”) is free to do so, but they are pursuing a delusion.

Because I am not a “white supremacist” in any meaningful sense of that phrase, I can laugh at my SPLC hate-list membership, and no intelligent person nowadays takes the SPLC seriously. They destroyed their own credibility by making such accusations so promiscuously and, while it is sometimes amusing to play this “gotcha” game against liberals, the whole point is to illustrate the absurdity of the game.

Refusing to kowtow to political correctness can get you in trouble, but the alternative — Pelosi and Schumer with their kente-cloth public ritual of self-abasement — requires a surrender of human dignity. I have nothing to say to any white person who imagines that such spectacles are the kind of help black people need, except seek psychiatric treatment.

Crazy people are dangerous, and progressive kooks are leading the Democratic Party down the road to perdition. There is no reason that the rest of us ought to follow them down that road, even if our refusal to join them means that we will be smeared as racists. It wasn’t me who hired Derek Chauvin as a cop. Minneapolis is more than 1,000 miles west of here, and I am not eligible to vote in Minnesota. So if the police hired by the Democrat-controlled government of Minneapolis engage in acts of racist brutality, certainly I cannot be blamed. The responsibility is not mine and, because no one in Minneapolis gives a damn about my opinion, I am not obligated to say anything about their problems. What I have said on the topic has mostly been about calling attention to certain facts that the liberal media don’t want us to notice.

At any rate, if the wearing of kente cloth is a celebration of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, what about old Beatles songs?

Did you know that Paul McCartney once wrote a song celebrating slavery? Well, neither did he. It took about half a century after “Penny Lane” was a hit for the Beatles before historians decided that this street in Liverpool was a legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Sir Paul wrote the song as a nostalgic ode to Penny Lane as the scene of childhood happiness “beneath the blue suburban skies.” The Liverpool-born musician could not have known, while composing the cheerful tune in the mid-1960s, that scholars would one day conclude Penny Lane was probably named in honor of James Penny, a local mariner who made his fortune in the slave trade in the 1700s. Historians have not been able to prove this as a certainty, but the mere possibility was enough to inspire vandals to deface a sign in Liverpool with graffiti: “RACIST Lane.”
History is a horror show for liberals, who only look to the past in search of grievances they can exploit in their remorseless quest for political power. The liberal has a quasi-religious faith in Progress, which means that yesterday — another McCartney song title — was self-evidently worse than today. The past was a bad time, according to liberals, who see nothing there but oppression. Your nostalgia for the pleasant memories of childhood is almost certainly racist, and probably also sexist and homophobic. . . .

You can read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.

Category: American Spectator, Crime, Racism

In The Mailbox: 06.17.20

Posted on | June 17, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.17.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Random Thoughts
357 Magnum: Free Speech? Not If The Left Has Anything To Say About It
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1019
EBL: Sleepy Joe Biden Describes “Fine People” Who Display The Confederate Flag
Twitchy: Sounds Like That Walkout By Atlanta Police Is For Real
Louder With Crowder: Democratic Senator Tim Kaine Claims “America Invented Slavery”
Vox Popoli: We Are All Far Right Now, also, The Boy Scouts, Converged

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #146 – The Quickie Episode
American Conservative: The Killing Of George Floyd Is America’s Dreyfus Affair
American Greatness: Progressive Racism And The Tulsa Massacre Of 1921
American Thinker: Every Drop Of Blood
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Star-Studded Petition Begs Nobel Committee To Grant Nobel Peace Prize To Cuba
BattleSwarm: Is #DefundThePolice Madness Receding?
Cafe Hayek: Misdiagnosing Externalities
Camp of the Saints: REMEMBER BUNKER’S HILL! #OUTLAW!
CDR Salamander: 2020 Would Like To Draw Your Attention To The Koreans
Da Tech Guy: Woke & Stupid Sports, BLM Grifting, President Trump Biding His Time Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Conservative Pretends There’s Debate In America
First Street Journal: Philly’s “Leadership” Has Surrendered To The Mob
The Geller Report: NYC Mayor DiBlasio Threatens Jews, also, Savage Who Beat Elderly NYC Woman Arrested Over 100 Times
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Don’t Know Much About History
Hollywood In Toto: Sorry Howard, You Haven’t Changed At All, also, Mark Wahlberg Had The Perfect Response To Cancel Culture
JustOneMinute: Trouble In Paradise
Legal Insurrection: VT School Principal Placed On Leave For Criticizing #BlackLivesMatter, also, Anti-Intellectualism At Cornell Law
The PanAm Post: Should Citizenship Be A Birthright? also, Maduro Regime Financed Italy’s Ruling Party
Power Line: Nihilism In An Emblematic City, also, Why So Much Trouble Nominating Reliably Conservative Judges?
Shark Tank: Florida Dem Rep Lies That Police Have Killed 10,000 Blacks
Shot In The Dark: Steam
STUMP: States Under Fiscal Pressure – Connecticut
The Political Hat: So They Say They Want A Revolution
This Ain’t Hell: An Overview Of Lemmingism, also, Mayor Supports #BLM, Gets Vandalized By #BLM
Victory Girls: Democrats Trip Over Obama In Pushing Police Reform
Volokh Conspiracy: SCOTUS Declines To Hear Administration’s Appeal Of California “Sanctuary State” Case
Weasel Zippers: That Time In 2015 #BLM Chanted About Wanting Dead Cops, also, Quaker Oats Cancels The “Aunt Jemima” Brand
Mark Steyn: This Column Goes Against Our Community Standards, also, Un-Naming & De-Monetizing

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Category: Linkagery

They’re Not ‘George Floyd Protests’

Posted on | June 17, 2020 | 1 Comment

Look at this sentence:

“NBC News is facing intense backlash for apparently influencing Google to punish two conservative news sites over what was deemed offensive coverage of the George Floyd protests.”

What “protests”? You mean the riots that destroyed millions of dollars of property? You mean the vandalism of public monuments? You mean the looting and arson of businesses? And what did this coast to coast spree of criminal violence — from Seattle to New York — have to do with George Floyd? How does tearing down a statue in Virginia or Ohio do anything to prevent police brutality in Minneapolis, or anywhere else?

One reason we cannot have civil discussion in this country is because our media so distort reality — by the abuse of language and other means — that words themselves begin to lose their meaning. What does the word “racist” mean? We are told that George Floyd was a victim of racism, simply because he was black and died at the hands of a white police officer, but where is the actual evidence of racism on the part of Officer Derek Chauvin or the other accused officers in the case? Officer Chauvin had been previously accused of misconduct, and there is some indication he may have had a personal grudge against Floyd — they evidently knew each other — but I have yet to see any evidence clearly proving that racism was the motive of Chauvin’s actions on May 25.

To ask for evidence, I suppose, is racist, because everything is racist. Merely being white is racist, so if you’re white, it’s probably just a matter of time until some activist notices your existence and decides to destroy you personally. Something you said or did was racist, or maybe you didn’t say anything, but silence is violence, so the mob will show up, the “unrest” will begin, and they’ll burn everything to the ground.

The next day’s headlines will describe a “mostly peaceful protest,” as if the attendant destruction and violence was trivial.