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Outstanding New Chris Cassone Video: “Heads Will Roll”

Posted on July 17, 2020July 18, 2020

by Smitty

Long-time friend of this blog Chris Cassone has a new cut out fighting back against the cancel culture, as all good Americans must do:

‘Drop the Knife! Drop It!’

Posted on July 17, 2020July 17, 2020Comments

Here’s a simple question: How many times should a cop have to tell you, “Drop the knife”? Like, suppose that you were an idiot who had just caused a six-car traffic pileup in Los Angeles, and when the police showed up on the scene, you were waving around a razor knife.

The cop has a pistol drawn and yells at you, “Drop the knife!”

One time?

Yeah, I think most people would drop the knife the first time.

Two times?

Let’s face it, most criminals aren’t very smart. So maybe the police officer with a pistol would have to yell “drop the knife” twice.

But suppose you are such a complete idiot that you not only cause a massive accident on San Pedro Street, but after the cop — you know, the one with a pistol — tells you the second time to drop the knife, you not only fail to comply, you keep advancing toward the cop.

At this point, you’re what we call “fair game.” And perhaps someone should have warned you — yes, you, the reckless-driving idiot waving around a razor knife in the middle of San Pedro Street — that the LAPD officer you are confronting is one of the best shots in America.

Officer Toni McBride’s marksmanship made her nationally famous. She is literally a poster girl for the “Hot Chicks With Guns” market. Looks like you picked the wrong day to bring a knife to a gunfight:

Over the course of roughly 15 seconds, she tried to deter Hernandez with a series of seven voice commands, first, “Let me see your hands!” then, “Stay right there!” Then, three times: “Drop the knife!”

Excuse me? I don’t care who you are, three times is sufficient warning. It seems, however, that Daniel Hernandez was unusually stupid:

Hernandez kept moving slowly toward her, throwing both arms out from his sides. McBride commanded, “Drop it!” a final time, a split second before firing two shots. Hernandez keeled forward to the asphalt, but quickly pushed himself up and forward. McBride fired two more rounds, then the final two as Hernandez rolled on the ground.

Six shots, six hits. Good shooting, Officer McBride.

Because this is 2020, of course, everybody in L.A. is trying to turn this into an excuse for a protest. “Stupid Lives Matter,” or whatever.

UPDATE: A commenter calls attention to a highly relevant fact:

A coroner’s autopsy would later show that Hernandez had methamphetamine in his system. Witnesses said he rejected any assistance and appeared to be cutting himself in the cab of his truck. (A medical examiner later noted cut marks on Hernandez’s forearms.)

Meth is a bad drug, which can cause paranoid psychosis. We don’t know how much meth Hernandez had been doing, but the fact that he plowed his truck into another vehicle and began cutting himself would lend itself to the supposition that he was deranged, demented, delusional, off his rocker, out of his mind, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

Proving once again that Crazy People Are Dangerous.

White Lives Don’t Matter: Democrats Encourage Murderous Racial Hatred

Posted on July 17, 2020Comments

#BlackLivesMatter is a racial hate movement promoted by Democrats who believe that it will help them win elections. The essential message of the movement’s propaganda is that all white people are evil racist oppressors. If any white person dares object to this hateful message, his objection will be cited as proof that he is a racist. The wave of criminal violence inspired by #BlackLivesMatter is not an accidental consequence of this propaganda; violent crime is the desired result because Democrats have embraced a radical “worse is better” mentality. The worse conditions become in the black community, the more motivativation there will be for black voters to go to the polls in November, and (because Democrats always get about 95% of the black vote) this increase in turnout will mean that Democrats win more elections.

One obvious consequece of the Democrats’ cynical strategy is that #BlackLivesMatter will actually increase white racism. After all, if black people are full of anti-white rage — which is what Democrats seek to inspire — their hostile attitudes will inspire fear. And if Democrats deliberately demonize police and encourage black people to engage in violent crime — which is what #BlackLivesMatter is about — then white people concerned for their safety will avoid areas where the population is largely black. You see that Democrats are thus pursuing a “divide and conquer” strategy, with the belief that they can win the fall election by promoting racial polarization. The results are frightening:

Police in Texas are searching for a suspect accused of attacking an 83-year-old man, taking his car and running over him with the stolen vehicle.
According to KTRK, the incident occurred about 4 p.m. June 28 at a gas station on Beechnut Street in Houston. In a Thursday news release, police said the victim walked out of the Valero and started his Toyota Camry before getting out again to smoke a cigarette.
Moments later, a 20- to 30-year-old Black man approached the victim, punched his face and stole the car, police said. The suspect then struck the victim with the car before fleeing, according to the news release.
The victim told officers that he didn’t know the attacker, who weighs about 180 to 200 pounds and stands 6 feet to 6 feet, 2 inches tall, KTRK reported. . . .
Three days later, police found the stolen car abandoned on Synott Road, the release said.

Suspect runs over 83 year old male after punching him in the face during a robbery at a West Houston gas station on June 28th at 4:00 pm. The male then returns later that day and is captured on camera inside the store. Call @CrimeStopHOU w/info. See story>https://t.co/1i0AKbYLYy pic.twitter.com/UMKUC68vEm

— Houston Police Robbery (@hpdrobbery) July 16, 2020

Pause for a moment and ask yourself: Why isn’t this national news? If the races were reversed — if a white man had attacked a black man, stolen his car and run over him — wouldn’t this story be covered by the New York Times, CNN and every other major national media outlet?

As it is, this is strictly “local news,” but obviously every white person in East Texas now knows to stay far away from Houston, a city full of angry black Democrat voters who want to kill white people.

Churchill on Education

Posted on July 17, 2020July 17, 2020Comments

In 1897, when he was a young officer serving in Bangalore, Winston Churchill recorded his ideas on “universal compulsory education,” a policy that he deemed “a somewhat dangerous experiment.” If the policy could not be reversed, what was the appropriate curriculum for boys?

“Reading and writing, the knowledge of sufficient arithmetic to enable the individual to keep his accounts; the singing of patriotic songs and a gymnastic course is all that he may expect.” [Emphasis added.]

Churchill was exactly correct, of course. It was, and remains, foolish to expect every child to be able to complete a high-school education. Until about 100 years ago, most Americans had no more than eight years of public school. There were no child labor laws; the country boy worked on his family farm, and the city boy found work running errands or whatever. Compulsory public education — the government forcing parents to send their children to school — was a “reform” imported from imperial Prussia by Horace Mann, and this policy went hand-in-hand with regulations to prevent children from pursuing gainful employment. For many years, however, it was not uncommon for boys from working-class families to find actual jobs at age 12 or 13, while in rural America, children quite generally were expected to do their share of work on the family farm. Thus the supposed “need” for making high-school education compulsory was something created by self-declared reformers; most teenagers (and their parents) had no problem with the expectation that young people could begin working for wages at an early age.

If “reformers” insisted on compulsory education, however, this required answering the question of what children should be taught, and Churchill’s prescription was entirely correct, including his suggestion to require “singing of patriotic songs.” If nothing else, schools ought to teach children to love their country, and the project of instilling patriotism in young minds would, at least, tend to ensure a supply of young men willing to volunteer for military service. What better purpose could Lieutenant Churchill of the Fourth Queen’s Own Hussars have in mind for England’s youth? You see that civilian “reformers” — generally a meddlesome bunch of middle-class women, then and now — might imagine all sorts of social benefits from universal education, but the true statesman must ask of any proposed reform, “How does this advance our national interest?” Great Britain had an Empire to govern and to defend, and if this small island was to maintain its place in the world, every resource had to be devoted toward that purpose.

England ought to have heeded young Churchill’s advice, and it would behoove America to pay to attention to that lesson.

In The Mailbox: 07.16.20

Posted on July 16, 2020

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Getting Ready To Officially Call This Fake
357 Magnum: 75 Years Of The Nuclear Age
Red Pilled Jew: Wednesday Whittle
EBL: Show Some Backbone, B!tches!
Twitchy: Chicago Mayor Tells Honey Badger To Watch Her Mouth After Being Called Derelict
Louder With Crowder: Hodge Twins Blast Occasional Cortex’s “A World Without Police” Stupidity
Vox Popoli: Adios To The Redskins, also, SJWs Never Learn
AIER.org: Who Is Making Decisions About Our Lives? (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Making Democrats Own Their “Summer Of Love”
American Greatness: How Confident Can We Be About Victory In November? also, National Association Of Police Organizations Endorses President Trump
American Power: Can The Republican Party Survive?
American Thinker: A Pandemic Of Democrat Proportions
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Bronco Returns News
Babalu Blog: Photo Essay Of The Day – Goyapocalypse Now
BattleSwarm: TX-23 Runoff Results On A Knife’s Edge
Cafe Hayek: Constant Repetition Does Not Transform Fallacies Into Facts
Camp of the Saints: The House Of Special Purpose At 102
CDR Salamander: The Navy Is MIA, also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Pointing & Laughing The Best Medicine, also, Jeff Sessions – A Good Man Whose Time Has Unfortunately Passed
Don Surber: Why They Attack Cervantes & Lincoln, also, Systemic Racism Explained
First Street Journal: Sloppy Journalism In The Lexington Herald-Leader
The Geller Report: Video Shows #BLM Mob Getting Shipment Of Bats Before Attacking Police On Brooklyn Bridge, also, Soros Foundation Spending $220 Million To “Dismantle Systemic Racism” In The U.S.
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, 75 Years Ago Today
Hollywood In Toto: Dirt Music Croons A Somber, Meditative Love Song, also, Nick Cannon Reminds Us Why Cancel Culture Is A Joke
JustOneMinute: The Future Is Coming Like A Melting Glacier
The Lid: De Blasio Claims Releasing Criminals Made NYC Safer – But Violent Crime Rose 250%
Legal Insurrection: Cornell Takes A Big Step Toward Compulsory Racial Activism For Faculty & Students, also, #NeverTrump “Republican” Lincoln Project Funded By Democrat Donors
The PanAm Post: Venezuela’s Doctors Die Waiting For Regime’s Aid, also, Corona-Chan Pushes Spain’s Economy Into Recession
Power Line: The Smithsonian Has Lost Its Mind, also, America’s Reporters & Editors Are Liars
Shot In The Dark: If It’s A Spurious Correlation, It Leads
The Political Hat: Reddit Approval Of Racial Hatred
This Ain’t Hell: Training Shows In Fighting Ship Fire, also, Berkeley Proposes Using Unarmed Civilians For Traffic Stops
Victory Girls: Twitter Hack For Bitcoin – An Inside Job?
Volokh Conspiracy: Just Another Book In The Library? Not Quite
Weasel Zippers: Teenage Boy Given Estrogen As Behavior Therapy In Juvie Grows Breasts, also, Sen. Kaine (D-VA) Admits Trump Is Making Russia Pay For Malign Actions – And Obama Didn’t
Mark Steyn: A World Without Blue Checkmarks

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In The Mailbox: 07.15.20

Posted on July 15, 2020Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1048
357 Magnum: Get Triggered!
EBL: Goodbye, Jeff Sessions
Twitchy: Joe Biden, Barack Obama Hacked; Verified Users Unable To Tweet – And It Feels Great
Louder With Crowder: The Washington Redskins Caved To Cancel Culture, And The Hodge Twins Have Thoughts
Vox Popoli: A Labor-Free Economy, also, Superconvergence

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It’s Time For Foreigners To Go Home
American Conservative: Somaliland Breaks Ranks & Defies Red China
American Greatness: Local News Investigation Finds FL Hospitals Exaggerated COVID Numbers
American Thinker: Cancel Culture Is A Mighty Tool Of Fascism’s Advance
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: No Running Water In Some Havana Neighborhoods For Over Two Weeks
Baldilocks: A History Lesson & The Chief Topic On My Mind
BattleSwarm: Reminder – Your Taxes Are Due Today! also, Bari Weiss Resigns In Protest Of The NYT SJW Wokecult
Cafe Hayek: Beware The Teenagers!
Da Tech Guy: Will The Left’s Twitter Magruders Face The GOP’s McClellans Or Grants? also, Don’t Know Much About History
Don Surber: 2020 Is The Showdown Between Good & Evil
First Street Journal: Reichsstatthalter Beshear Loses Another One
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Pelosi Endorses Anti-Semite Ilhan Omar For Re-Election, also, Prominent Blacks Calling On NYPD To Reactivate Anti-Crime Unit
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Follow The Money
Hollywood In Toto: Ask No Questions – The Documentary Actors (And LeBron James) Must Watch, also, How My Own Private Idaho Defied Hollywood Conventions
The Lid: Latest Flynn Document Release Clarifies Strategic Depth Of Obamagate
Legal Insurrection: Abolitionist Mural At Vermont Law School Deemed Racist, also, Leadership Of College Democrats Imploding Amid Accusations Of Racism
Michelle Malkin: Mask Mandates Are A Public Health Menace
The PanAm Post: Columbian Prosecutor’s Office Opens Internal Investigation For Cooperation With Leftist Foundation, also, Trump, Goya, & Democratic Socialism
Power Line: Will Trump Run On Law & Order? also, Will Trump Make Biden’s War On The Suburbs A Campaign Issue?
Shot In The Dark: The Triumph Of Karen’s Will
The Political Hat: Concerning The “Forced Trajectory Project”
This Ain’t Hell: What Frightens The American Left? Larry Elder’s New Documentary Uncle Tom, also, Former VA Hospital Employee Pleads Guilty To Murdering Seven Veterans
Victory Girls: Changing Tides – Viacom/CBS Fires Nick Cannon
Volokh Conspiracy: Libel Lawsuit By Trump Supporter Roslyn La Liberte Against MSNBC’s Joy Reid Can Go Forward
Weasel Zippers: National Museum Of African American Culture Has Opinions On Work Ethic, Esthetics, & Scientific Method, also, Joe Biden Says Arizona Is An Important City
Mark Steyn: Presuming Competence

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Convicted Sex Offender Arrested Again (Want to Guess What He Was Doing?)

Posted on July 15, 2020July 14, 2020Comments

Three years ago, when Shaelyn Reed was 17, he was convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl in Washington State. Reed, who is six feet tall and weighs more than 250 pounds, was required to register as a sex offender upon his release from custody last year at age 19. Because of his age at the time of his conviction, Reed served his sentence in Juvenile Rehabilitation. You might think that this blubbery pervert would avoid doing anything that could send him to actual adult prison, where the inmates tend to be muscular brutes who take pleasure in inflicting sadistic violence on child molesters. But it turns out that Reed isn’t very smart. He joined Antifa:

A convicted child rapist was charged with felony assault stemming from violence at an Antifa and left-wing protest in Olympia, Wash. on Sunday.
Shaelyn A. Reed, 20, of Olympia, is accused of striking a man on the head with a baton in front of Olympia City Hall. Video recorded of the assault shows the victim bleeding profusely from the head. According to Olympia Police Lt. Paul Lower, Reed allegedly disposed of his weapon in a trash receptacle and changed clothes before being arrested. . . .
Reed is currently held at the county jail on felony assault charges. Police believe he was also part of a group of rioters who destroyed property at an Antifa and Black Lives Matter protest in Olympia on July 5.

Graphic: Over the weekend, a group of antifa & far-left protesters tried to stop a patriotic rally outside the Olympia, Wash. city hall. Three far-left militants busted a man's head open using a baton.

Shaelyn A. Reed, a convicted child rapist, was arrested for felony assault. pic.twitter.com/AhUBGmvuUn

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 14, 2020

Before the bloody violence on Sunday, a few dozen Antifa and far-left protestors countered a small conservative rally. As the two groups met, insults and curses were exchanged, with Antifa accusing the conservatives of being “fascists.” Video recorded at the scene shows far-left protesters physically blocking drivers from leaving the rally and photographing the cars’ license plates.
A group of masked protestors appear to confront a man, identified by first name Edward, before a scuffle breaks out in the street. A witness says Edward was pepper-sprayed, which led to an attack where he was beaten and hit on the head with a baton. The man was punched by a second protester and a third person who hits him repeatedly with a protest sign. As the man is kneeling on the ground and bleeding, protesters continue to call him a “fascist.” Edward was taken by ambulance to Providence St. Peter Hospital.
“The police were in City Hall watching what was happening, and they didn’t come out or respond because they’ve been instructed not to,” says Peter Diaz, who co-organized Sunday’s conservative rally. “We started waving the public through the parking lot to go around Antifa. They’re terrified — Antifa was banging on the cars.”
Diaz added: “The agitators hiding behind the BLM movement are not a problem, they are a symptom of the problem. The problem is the lack of leadership from the politicians running our city.”

Here is another video of the violent attack for which Reed was arrested:

Antifa sure attracts some quality people, huh?