Jimmy Walker’s profundity

Many years ago I heard Jimmy Walker of Good Times fame say that poverty doesn’t cause crime, crime causes poverty. There are many poor persons in the United States and around the world who do not turn to a life of crime simply because they are poor. They respect others, their property and understand that it is wrong to violate others simply because of the circumstances they find themselves in.

Being poor doesn’t make a person commit murder. Being poor doesn’t make a person do drugs, especially since doing drugs is such an expensive habit. Being poor doesn’t make a person steal or destroy the property of others. Being poor doesn’t make a person ignore the humanity of others. Those who claim poverty makes them commit crimes or self-destructive acts are simply copping out, because it is just as easy to decide not to commit these acts as it is to decide to do them. Free will always rules.

In order for a community to survive financially and otherwise it is essential for businesses and other institutions to have a welcoming and safe atmosphere in which to flourish. Those who choose to open a business that will not only provide jobs to the locals, but also creates a way for the locals to fulfill their daily needs, do so out of free will. Being able to walk across the street to the grocery store is very important to many as we have seen expressed by those who saw their local businesses burned to the ground during the recent and ongoing lunacy.

Politicians are all the time saying they are going to pass job creating legislation. Well here’s the bad news. The government can’t pass legislation and then jobs magically appear. That is a good political soundbite, and it may garner a few votes, but job creation doesn’t work that way. That only occurs in a market of free exchange that develops into a system that fulfills the needs of the locals. It takes time to develop that system, and an unwelcoming or unsafe atmosphere will cause the local system to never reach its full potential, and if that system is destroyed once established, it will never come back as it was. The lives of the locals will forever be changed for the worst.

This brings us to the purpose of this post, which is the insanity of leftists who are demanding that the police be abolished. Any government that eliminates the police department will be saying to businesses and other institutions that are essential to a vibrant and bustling local economy that they need not apply. Businesses are the personal property of the owners, they are not community property, and they choose where to setup shop. Eliminating the police would be a message to all citizens and property owners that their property and persons are not important enough to protect, and it will cause a massive exodus of citizens, investment, and tax base that will destroy the local economy. As the old saying goes, don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.

The rioting following George Floyd’s death is serving a political purpose

President Trump has been criticized roundly for threatening Americans with, wait for it…safety and security. This criticism has been wrought upon him because he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to use the military to protect Americans and their property if their political leaders were unwilling to. The Insurrection Act has been invoked many times, so it is not a new concept, and should be used by the President if local and state officials refuse to protect their citizens.

This has nothing to do with whether or not those leaders have the resources to provide such protections, they just refuse to. These leftist politicians are telling their citizens that they will not be protected, and they, the political leaders, will be damned if they are going to let anyone else provide protection. There clearly is an agenda going on here.

These local and state politicians refuse to protect their citizens being victimized by this anarchy because they like what they are seeing. Yes, actually they love it, because they think they will receive a political benefit from it. They love it because they hate freedom, they hate America, they hate American citizens, and most importantly to them, they hate President Trump. Ever since Trump won the Presidency, they have been completely insane, and lost any vestige of self-awareness they had. They became insane because they lost the thing they hold most dear….power. And they will destroy any innocent person they need to in order to regain power.

The treasonous inaction of these state and local politicians, unbelievably are supported by national politicians such as Chuck Schumer. All of these politicians took an oath to serve and protect all citizens, personally, their property, and their rights. Obviously just as with how American citizens are second class citizens according to leftists when compared to illegal aliens, even criminal illegal aliens, law abiding are second class citizens when compared to criminals.

Now, there are even discussions about reducing or eliminating police departments. Snake Plissken will come in handy if that traitorous lunacy ever happens. I use the words traitorous and treasonous because they apply. They apply to the rioters and looters who are committing insurrection in the first degree. The politicians who support this lawlessness are guilty of accessory to committing insurrection in the first degree.

These leftist politicians portray the rioters, looters, and murderers as patriotic protesters and that what they are doing is a wonderful thing while giving no time to condemning the violence and destruction of property that hard working Americans spent a lifetime creating. Well, this isn’t the 1800’s when a politician could say something in one town, and then say the complete opposite in a town ten miles away and never be caught. We have our own eyes, and we can see exactly what is going on in real time, and it has absolutely nothing to do with George Floyd’s death.

Celebrating the death of George Floyd

The death of George Floyd has turned into a giant celebration from coast to coast, a wake of sorts. The joy one mourner felt who was beaming through her face mask while walking out of a bakery with a freshly made cheesecake that was left unmolested by the other mourners really was the luck of the draw. We should be very happy for her. Maybe she was going to take it to family visitation at George Floyd’s funeral.

Another apparent joyous moment was when a black man pummeled a white woman. He obviously didn’t have things under control while he was pounding on her as she was crumbling into a jumbled heap, another black man started pummeling her with a 2×4. Not only was this an extremely joyous moment, it really was a profile in courage for these two black men. What studs they are. They are true role models. Rumor is that they may have been former professional athletes who didn’t have their own women to beat up, so they found a good stand-in.

One of the happiest moments had to be the black woman while walking out of a destroyed store with freshly looted goods yelling, “I got mine.” I hate to break the bad news to her, but she didn’t get hers, she got somebody else’s. You know though, why quibble over private property since this was such a joyous moment, and after all, she may never get hers again?

We must not forget the blacks killed during this nationwide celebration. There certainly are risks involved with such celebrations such as the discharge of firearms which in one case killed David Dorn, a 77 year old retired law enforcement officer, a black man at that. I guess the person who shot Mr. Dorn hadn’t watched many westerns and didn’t know to point the gun into the air before firing, and instead fired it into Mr. Dorn’s belly. Unfortunate, but that can be corrected with some good firearms training. This was such a joyous moment that his final moments were sent out live over Facebook for all of the other revelers to enjoy.

This rioting and looting and wanton destruction of property and lives has nothing to do with George Floyd. It certainly has nothing to do with black lives, since so many black lives have been destroyed figuratively and literally by all of the destruction. It is being carried out by different groups of anarchist leftists intent on destroying America with the assistance of leftist politicians, and they are daring anyone to try and stop them.

Breaking news: There is no systemic racism in America. There is no genocide of blacks occurring in America. There is no white privilege in America. Lastly, the police are not killing unarmed blacks in extraordinary numbers. In fact, data shows that the police are killing unarmed blacks in extraordinarily small numbers. This irrational behavior can be summed up very simply by the title of a book written a long time ago….Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

A race free analysis of the George Floyd killing

Law enforcement officers have a very difficult job, but sometimes some of them just become completely intoxicated on power. What was that policeman thinking when Floyd was telling him that he couldn’t breathe, and the bystanders were telling the policeman that Floyd was bleeding from his mouth and that he was going to kill him. Did he think Floyd and the bystanders were lying? It was obvious from his stance that he was putting a great deal of weight on Floyd’s neck. How could he not know that he would kill him kneeling on his neck like that? Floyd was handcuffed and a threat to nobody. This is just so disgusting

Floyd’s arrest wasn’t motivated by race, because he was caught committing a crime, and it wasn’t just loose cigarettes.  And there is no evidence that the force used during his detention was motivated by race. What it was motivated by, I do not know. The only way I know how to characterize it, is that it was a complete disregard for the safety and wellbeing by the police of a person in their charge. It was little different than leaving him lying on the railroad tracks of an oncoming train. The moment he was placed under arrest, it was their job to protect him.

Then came the typical aftermath. Hoodlums looting, ransacking and destroying the private property of those who had absolutely nothing to do with Floyd’s killing. As one comment I saw noted, it apparently is a lot easier to mourn the loss of George Floyd watching a freshly stolen 65 inch flat screen TV, and Xbox. The American people are on the side of George Floyd, but they aren’t on the side of the vandals and thieves. And their criminal behavior influences nobody, except to reinforce negative stereotypes for blacks. The policemen involved should be punished to the greatest extent possible, because theirs was a flagrant abuse of power and of the public trust.

A race free analysis of the Ahmaud Arbery killing

When I first saw this story on my feed I didn’t spend any time looking into it. I didn’t watch the video, but I did read the headline and was aware of the race of the players which isn’t important to me. My understanding was that a couple of guys wanted to make a citizen’s arrest on a man they saw running through their neighborhood because of recent property thefts, and ended up shooting him. I posted a comment on that article that the two men essentially shot Arbery over personal property because they thought he may be a thief, and that they should be prosecuted, because nobody should be killed in order to defend personal property.

Then I saw a comment about the incident on a subsequent post that stated that Arbery made an attempt to wrestle the gun from the younger McMichael. This raised a red flag for me so I dug into it a little more. I have since viewed the longest video I could find, and read some more reporting which also mildly explained the law governing citizen’s arrests. Until more facts come out, this is my analysis currently.

There were two pivotal mistakes made, one by the McMichaels, and the other by Arbery. The first pivotal mistake was made by the McMichaels for trying to make an illegal citizen’s arrest because they had no probable cause to arrest Arbery. Apparently they saw him doing nothing but running through their neighborhood. It wasn’t like they just saw him murder someone or commit some other type of violent crime. However, the video evidence does show that they didn’t chase him down just to kill him because he was black. They could have done that without getting out of the truck. They were indeed trying to effect a citizen’s arrest as misguided and illegal as it was, and there is no evidence that the encounter was motivated by racism.

I don’t think they were wrong in taking a gun because they had no way of knowing if Arbery was armed and capable of being violent. However they should not have approached Arbery in such a reckless manner with their guns brandished. Brandishing guns the way they did only added great a deal of tension to the situation. They should have left their guns stowed, but accessible if needed for self-defense purposes. They should have only tried talking to or monitoring him without trying to detain him. That is the job of the police.

The second and most consequential mistake was made by Arbery when he attacked the younger McMichael and made an attempt to take the gun away from him. This is undeniable, the video shows this. In the video you can see Arbery running down the middle of the road with the McMichaels truck stopped in front of him with the younger McMichael standing outside the truck trying to stop Arbery. Arbery then diverts around the truck and then swerves toward McMichael and initiates a physical confrontation with McMichael and begins to try to wrestle the gun from him.

All of the reporting I saw stated that Arbery was unarmed. This is true up to a point, but the moment Arbery grabbed the gun he became just as armed as McMichael. The moment Abery charged at and tried to wrestle the gun from McMichael is the moment the entire dynamic changed. It does not matter that what the McMichaels were doing was illegal or unwarranted. This encounter was reduced to two men, one holding a gun and the other trying to take it from him.

I think the McMichaels should be charged with something, what, I do not know. They were wrong when they chased after Arbery in such a reckless manner, but Arbery was wrong when he attacked the younger McMichael and tried to take control of the gun. Again, it does not matter that what the McMichaels were doing was illegal, it was happening. Arbery could have swerved away from McMichael or stopped and allowed the arrest or detention to occur. He could then file charges against the McMichaels for false arrest or illegal detention, and then maybe they would be sitting in jail while he was out running in the streets again.

The moment he created the scuffle for the gun, he changed the dynamic and put himself in deep jeopardy and even made it possible for the Younger McMichael to claim self-defense. Arbery should have conducted himself the way most businesses want their employees to act when confronted with an illegal actor such as an armed robber…give him what he wants and don’t try to be a hero….comply and survive.

A Tale of Two Political Parties while re-opening the economy

It shouldn’t be, but there are two distinct ways to handle re-opening the economy, and it overwhelmingly depends on which political party is in charge. Republican controlled States are more likely to treat their citizens as adults and allow them to put their lives back on the path to normalcy while doing those things necessary to protect those who can’t protect themselves, and instructing those who can protect themselves to do so. They understand not just the economic damage, but the damage to the lives of their citizens in all areas caused by this lockdown, and that a safe and reasonable balance can be achieved to end the lockdown. They are willing to allow the freedom that most Americans expect after having sacrificed so much.


Democrat controlled States are more likely to treat their citizens as children, and hover over them like helicopter parents. They don’t view their citizens as being capable of taking care of themselves, therefore they require constant supervision and meddling. The extent that these States want to continue their lockdowns shows absolutely no faith in their citizenry, and no regard for their personal lives after they have willingly sacrificed so much. The decision by these States to continue the lockdown have nothing to do with the science or data. There is in my opinion two overriding reasons to continue the lockdown. First, is a genuine fear by omnipotent moral busybodies for the safety of their citizens. The second, is a purely political move to damage the economy and President Trump’s re-election chances. I leave you with a quote by C.S. Lewis, and then a question.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Can the citizens of those States so negatively affected by the continued lockdowns, survive the consciences of their omnipotent moral busybody government officials?

Trump shouldn’t pardon Flynn….yet

As you probably know, Judge Emmet Sullivan has refused to drop the case against General Michael Flynn, but has instead opted to appoint a former federal judge to present arguments against the DOJ’s decision to drop the case against Flynn, and to see if Flynn should be held in contempt of court for perjury which I guess is for lying about being guilty. I guess Judge Sullivan has never had defendants in his court plead guilty to a crime which they did not commit. This is said to be a very inappropriate and unprecedented move by Sullivan.

I don’t know Sullivan’s motivations, but I have heard him spoken of very favorable. Even Flynn’s attorney Sydney Powell has thought a great deal of him in the past because of his actions in the Ted Stevens case. Stevens, was at one time a senator from Alaska who was victimized by federal prosecutorial misconduct.

Judge Sullivan may be a left wing loon using his position as an accomplice to the deep state, or he may be highly peeved and embarrassed that his court was used by the deep state to further a travesty of justice. He certainly is fully aware that prosecutors and investigators are capable of lying, and is fully aware that these same individuals can bring such pressure to bear on the target, Flynn in this case, that the target will acquiesce and plead guilty to a crime not committed. That’s why it’s called a plea agreement. I’m sure more will come out that will help to determine his true motivations, so I will leave it at that.

The reason I think President Trump should not pardon Flynn at this time is because I think it will be better to use the same system to vindicate him that was used to railroad him. I want to see the system and the players eat crow publicly and as embarrassingly as possible. I think the prospects will be greatly enhanced of him becoming a very wealthy man after he sues the federal government for its prosecutorial misconduct, investigative misconduct, his financial ruin defending himself against this travesty, and the hit upon his personal integrity. This should be played out all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. What do you think would carry a more powerful message of public disgrace for the DOJ and in particular the FBI and those involved, a dismissal by the Supreme Court or a pardon by President Trump?

President Trump can pardon Flynn at any time, even going out the door if Biden wins the presidency. The Left is not going to go down without a fight, so the rancor that has followed the DOJ’s decision to drop the case should not have been a surprise. As the days pass, we will learn Judge Sullivan’s motives. If he is an accomplice to the deep state it will be easily detected, because his court will fill with kangaroos, and as more of the illegal activities of the deep staters are uncovered, it will become impossible to deny the obvious.

It is time for Anthony Fauci’s fifteen minutes of fame to end.

Anthony Fauci clearly has no understanding of the economic impact of the policies he is proposing we continue. I have no problem with the actions taken in the beginning because we were dealing with an unknown virus. It appeared extremely lethal and the transmissibility of the virus wasn’t well known. The death rates worldwide ranged from one percent to ten percent. In fact, nothing was well known in the beginning. The science and data were nearly complete unknowns. However, that situation no longer exists.

Now we hear leftists say we need to follow the science and data and keep the Country closed. Well, actually the science and data say a completely different thing. We now know that the death rate is far lower than previous estimates, and may only be twice as lethal as the regular flu. We also know that it is particularly lethal to the elderly and those with problematic health conditions, and particularly non-lethal to everyone else, particularly children.

Some seem to believe that we can control this virus. I think Birx has even made the comment that we do not have the virus under control. First, you don’t need to be an expert in epidemiology to know that it is impossible to control a virus. Second, in listening to experts in epidemiology other than Fauci and Birx it is clear to me that if we keep running from this virus that it will keep chasing us. Our immune systems are the only way we will be able to defeat this virus.

Therefore, it is time to open up the economy, and stop being completely stupid about this social distancing stuff. There certainly are reasonable actions that we as individuals can do, but someone standing on a beach alone is a threat to nobody.  Those who are at particular risk must take responsibility for and isolate themselves from everyone else, and those who cannot protect themselves such as nursing home residents should be protected to the greatest degree possible. This will allow the rest of the population go about their lives while developing herd immunity that will in the end benefit all, and particularly those who are most at risk. These stay at home edicts are akin to jailing persons before they have a chance to commit a crime, and that is definitely a bad thing.

The Anatomy of a Hoax

Hoaxes are generally very easy to spot. Especially the hoaxes that make allegations that reach into the political sphere that are then used by the inhabitants of that sphere for corrupt purposes. These hoaxes are very easy to spot because they are stated in such a way as to leave no doubt as to who the guilty party is and the motivations involved, or if the allegation is so bizarre that it just simply is not believable. Usually all you need is just one small snippet of the entire allegation, a Freudian slip of sorts, the desire to essentially force everyone to believe by shocking the conscious.

For instance, when Jussie Smollett made the claim that his attackers were wearing MAGA hats and made some comment about how this is MAGA country, I knew that he was lying.  Another one occurred when a young black girl claimed that her dreadlocks were cut off by some white kids and that she was called racist names. I don’t remember what it was the girl said specifically that exposed her allegations as a hoax to me, but I turned to my wife after we watched that report and told her that the girl was lying, and sure enough it turned out that she was.

I didn’t believe the Kavanaugh hoax from the beginning because the mainstays of leftist political character assassination are accusations of racism, sexism or sexual predation. So, when those accusations came out, I turned off immediately. I would have been more likely to believe that he had robbed a bank when he was younger.

Last, but certainly not least is the Trump/Russia hoax which wasn’t just a hoax, but was a large scale disinformation campaign. However, let’s just look at the first allegation designed to shock the conscious. I can still remember the day when I heard the allegation in the Steele Dossier that Donald Trump had hired prostitutes to urinate on a bed that the Obama’s had slept in. I knew right then that the dossier was a hoax. The notion that Donald Trump would hire prostitutes to do something so petty and bizarre simply was not believable.

There is a pattern of behavior by leftists that is unmistakable and undeniable, and it plays out nearly the same way every time. Theirs is a religion of a big and controlling government, and all of the tactics they use are designed to move more political power in their direction. So, it is of utmost importance to recognize when they are implementing one of their tactics so that it can be resisted from the start.

Liberals Don’t Believe There was Collusion With the Russians

This nonsense of collusion with the Russians I think was summarized perfectly with a question by Senator Cotton to Attorney General Sessions in which Cotton made the case that this nonsense was too bizarre for any fiction spy novel. The thing is, the democrats believe that also. They are simply using this as a distraction in order to stop President Trump’s agenda.

To date, there is absolutely no evidence of collusion with the Russians by Trump or anyone associated with his campaign, and there never will be. There is no smoking gun, because there no smoke. The tactic here is to simply repeat a lie over and over with the hope that it will become true. This is evidenced by the fact that months ago the democrat’s disinformation campaign started by making sure that the word “Russian” was stated several times in every conversation regarding the election. Goebbels and Lenin would be impressed.

It takes the lowest form of human life to know that this entire scam is a lie, but to still push it simply for the purpose of destroying someone’s life just because they disagree with that person politically. Liberals are statists. They come from that part of the political spectrum that demands compliance to authority, and uniformity of thought in much the same way as communists, socialists, fascists, Marxists, religious Nazis, and etc. Have you ever wondered why they are so sympathetic toward dictatorships? Well, here you go.

The only difference between the different forms of statist governments is the power available to force compliance and uniformity. I have said that Liberals are communists without the ability to murder their political enemies en masse. However, they certainly do play out what they would do if they could. The Kathy Griffin Trump beheading stunt was so vulgar I could not believe my eyes. I wonder how those whose family members were murdered that way felt when they saw that on their Facebook feed. Then there is the play depicting Trump being stabbed to death. You might not remember it, but there was a video or movie that depicted the assassination of Bush when he was in office. Then there is Antifa, the fascist anti-fascists. Running around with their faces covered like a new age Ku Klux Klan physically attacking others because they don’t like the way they think…remember uniformity of thought is required.

The Left has gone completely insane with Trump derangement syndrome. They see their church of big government and totalitarianism being attacked by freedom, and they are fighting intensely to protect it. Which begs the question. How intensely are you willing to fight to protect your freedom, because they will take it if you allow it?