Saturday, June 20, 2020
Seattle police union chief calls for 'leadership' after fatal shooting in CHOP zone
The head of Seattle's police union lamented the lack of "leadership" in the city Saturday after reports emerged that an early morning shooting in the so-called 'CHOP' left one person dead and another in critical condition.
According to The Seattle Times, police homicide and assault detectives are investigating the shooting, citing a post on the Seattle Police Department's blotter.
"On June 20th, at approximately 2:30 AM, East Precinct officers responded to a report of shots fired in Cal Anderson Park," a statement on the blotter said.
"This is inside the area referred to as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). Officers attempted to locate a shooting victim but were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims. Officers were later informed that the victims, both males, had been transported to Harborview Medical Center by CHOP medics.
"Officers responded to Harborview and were informed that one of the victims, a 19-year-old male, had died from injuries. The other victim, also a male, unknown age, remains in the hospital with life-threatening injuries."
In an interview on "Fox & Friends Weekend" with host Pete Hegseth Saturday, Seattle Police Officers Guild President Michael Solan remarked that it is "no longer the summer of love" like Democratic Mayor Jenny Durkan claimed, but the "summer of chaos."
"Early this morning, that violence was raw and real where one of our community members lost their life and police are still not allowed into that area and were prevented to providing that police service to the area to locate victims and/or render aid. [It’s] very troubling what’s...
Free Speech is Under Full Assault
Increasingly, we see people holding unpopular views being attacked and refused a forum in which to speak. Through the threat of force and censorship to control people's speech, free speech is under full assault. History is replete with others using similar tactics. As in the times before the Nazi rise to power, the Soviet gulag era, and Mao's revolution, similar trends are prevalent today.
Freedom of speech is engaging in unrestricted speaking of one's mind without fear of retaliation or censorship. It is the freedom to use one's natural rights to engage in complex thought and speech. This is not a new concept. Freedom of speech has a history centuries old, long predating the founding of this country. Some want to control these natural abilities. This is where the dispute lies.
One does not have to look far to find multiple examples of the threat of violence and censorship. This ranges from online mobs to technology company and media censorship and peer attacks. Those with differing opinions are blackballed, blacklisted, attacked, and censored out of existence.
Take, for example, distinguished University of Chicago professor Harald Uhlig, attacked by his professional peers and online mob for writing that Black Lives Matters "just torpedoed itself, with its full-fledged support of #defundthepolice." And, "Time for sensible adults to enter back into the room and have serious, earnest, respectful conversations about it all... We need more police, we need to pay them more, we need to train them better."
The mode of operating is the same: disapprove the words someone uses, sensationalize the awfulness of it, then use every method of force available to attack them. As with Dr. Uhlig, threaten to take away their livelihood, discredit their work, and then, by proxy, incite mobs to physically attack them and their property. They are treated worse than the violent criminal who can at least work when released from prison. Even the radicals of the 60s had the decency to honor freedom of speech. One would think today's academics would be the champions of free speech, not adversarial critics.
Then there are the technology giants like Twitter, Facebook, Google, and others, pretending to have an open platform but leading the charge for censorship and tyranny against free speech. This is like selling a microphone, then taking it away when the buyer uses it to say something the seller does not like. Or like selling a pair of shoes but taking them off someone's feet when they do not like where they walk. These platforms are not free, people pay for them through advertisements and other fees. As allies of government, these companies enjoy special protections and regulations, platforms, privileges, benefits, and partnerships.
All enemies of free speech are similar; they control the free expression of speech, the words people choose, and change the meaning of words when it suits them. They attack those who disagree, take away their income, and do whatever harm they can get away with toward those who disagree. It is a violent philosophy.
Ethics are defined by the expediency of the situation. Therefore, they justify making up stories and twisting facts, refusing to let what is just and right get in the way of cramming their beliefs onto others and getting what they want. Sacrificing the value of a person for the promises of a self-serving ideology.
They are the masters of fear. Using out-of-control anger and sensationalized reactions, they bully anyone with...
Welcome to America’s Cultural Revolution
We’re in the dawn of a high-tech, bloodless cultural revolution, one that relies on intimidation, public shaming, and economic ruin to dictate what words and ideas are permissible in the public square.
“Words are violence” has always been an illiberal notion meant to stifle speech and open discourse. Popularized by a generation of coddled and brittle college students, it now guides policy on editorial pages at newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, and most major news outlets.
The Times can claim that a harsh tone and a small factual error in Sen. Tom Cotton’s recent op-ed was the reason the entire paper had a meltdown, but the staffers who revolted initially claimed that Cotton’s argument for bringing the National Guard into cities put black lives in “danger.”
None of the Times’ editors, all of whom are apparently comfortable with running fabulist histories or odes to communist tyrannies, pushed back against the caustic notion that engaging in debate was an act of violence. They bowed to the internal mob and pleaded for forgiveness.
What editor at a major newspaper is going to stand up for ideals of open and free debate if doing so means putting “black lives in danger” and ends his career? Few, if any.
The Times has been cleansed of reactionary elements. The paper is in the hands of The People. Others will follow.
You may also have noticed another progressive slogan gaining popularity these days: “Silence is violence.” It’s no longer enough not to peddle wrongthink in the op-ed pages of the local paper, but now you must also actively champion woke progressive positions or you, too, are tacitly engaged in violence and racism.
This is a neat trick: To speak out in the wrong way is violence. Not to speak out is violence. Not to speak out in the way progressives dictate is violence. This is why your apolitical local lawn care company is sending out emails promising to dedicate themselves to Black Lives Matter. No one wants to be accused of harboring...
VIDEO: Black Man is Set Free by Cops After Viciously Ambushing a White Man at Macy’s
The police set him free as they conduct their investigation.
In a taste of how the law functions in multicultural America, a black male thug was not taken under arrest by law enforcement after viciously assaulting a white man inside of a Macy’s in Flint Twp, Mich.
“Yes we are investigating and at this point, no one is in custody,” Flint Township Lt. Brad Wangler said to MLive.
Video of the assault can be seen here:
The black man was sent into a violent rage after allegedly hearing a racial slur. He apparently believes that the racial slur absolves him from committing the rampage, and the cops – terrified by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) mob – are apparently acquiescing.
“Yes we are investigating and at this point, no one is in custody,” Flint Township Lt. Brad Wangler said to MLive.
Video of the assault can be seen here:
This attack was completely unprovoked. pic.twitter.com/JLzX3i6yEX— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 20, 2020
The black man was sent into a violent rage after allegedly hearing a racial slur. He apparently believes that the racial slur absolves him from committing the rampage, and the cops – terrified by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) mob – are apparently acquiescing.
Black activists on social media are applauding the violent thug’s cowardly ambush attack on the white person.
FT Quay wrote in a Facebook post: “This not the whole video but Me and bro in the mall n shit and he ask this man otp did this shirt look to little he told him yea and kept talking on the phone then mumbled talking bout sum “ no one just sum n***er” he thought we ain’t hear em because his mask was on #blackpower.”
“A man at a store in #Flint allegedly referred to a black man in the store as a ‘n***er’ while talking on the #phone,” wrote Tariq Nasheed in a Twitter post. “The black man overheard him, then things went left.”
Macy’s released a statement in which the department store chain stopped short of denouncing the violent display that occurred in their store.
“We are deeply saddened about the incident that took place on Monday at Macy’s Genesee Valley as the safety of Macy’s customers and colleagues is our top priority,” Andrea Schwartz, senior director of media relations for Macy’s, said.
“We take these situations very seriously and are working closely with local authorities on this investigation, deferring all comments about the case to them per policy,” she added.
Big League Politics has reported on the epidemic of black-on-white violence that is sweeping the nation as BLM agitates for racial supremacy:
FT Quay wrote in a Facebook post: “This not the whole video but Me and bro in the mall n shit and he ask this man otp did this shirt look to little he told him yea and kept talking on the phone then mumbled talking bout sum “ no one just sum n***er” he thought we ain’t hear em because his mask was on #blackpower.”
“A man at a store in #Flint allegedly referred to a black man in the store as a ‘n***er’ while talking on the #phone,” wrote Tariq Nasheed in a Twitter post. “The black man overheard him, then things went left.”
Macy’s released a statement in which the department store chain stopped short of denouncing the violent display that occurred in their store.
“We are deeply saddened about the incident that took place on Monday at Macy’s Genesee Valley as the safety of Macy’s customers and colleagues is our top priority,” Andrea Schwartz, senior director of media relations for Macy’s, said.
“We take these situations very seriously and are working closely with local authorities on this investigation, deferring all comments about the case to them per policy,” she added.
Big League Politics has reported on the epidemic of black-on-white violence that is sweeping the nation as BLM agitates for racial supremacy:
Soros-Affiliated Anti-Deportation Group Part of ‘Defund Police’ Movement
An anti-deportation group affiliated with leftist billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations is one of the groups behind the “defund the police” movement taking place across America.
The Soros-affiliated group has been part of the “defund the police” movement as far back as early 2016 — long before the death of George Floyd that brought it to national attention. While many Americans see the current protests and riots as organic reactions to the death of Floyd, many organized groups are seizing on the momentum.
The Soros-affiliated group is called Organized Communities Against Deportation (OCAD). OCAD lists on its website the “Open Society Foundation” as a partner.
On February 16, 2016, OCAD hosted a protest in Chicago, Illinois, to defund the police according to an article posted on the website of #Not1More, another anti-deportation organization — itself an offshoot of the larger and more organized anti-deportation group National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON).
During that protest, activists sat on ladders in the middle of a street in front of a Regional Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office holding banners that said, “Dismantle ICE. Defund the police.” The activists consider ICE “the largest police force” in the country and were “joined by leaders from the movement for Black lives who say there is a connection between their efforts,” the article said.
Activists shout "Defund the police! Dismantle ICE" on intersection of Congress and Lasalle #stoptheraids #chicago
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Other activist groups participating in the protest were Assata’s Daughters, Black Youth Project (BYP) 100, Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY), Palestinian Youth in Action, Centro Autonomo, People’s Response Team, and the Chicago Religious Leadership Network (CRLN).
Assata’s Daughters said in a statement at the time, “Undocumented people in Chicago and nationally are living in fear daily of being taken from their homes and away from their families. We, as Black American community organizers, can relate to that fear. … Our struggles are distinct but connected. When enforcement is overfunded, that is money that is not being spent on services that actually keep us safe.”
An OCAD organizer and Policy Director for the #Not1More Campaign, Tania Unzueta, complained that Chicago spent “40% of its budget on police” and that the government should spend money on “developing and nurturing our communities not deporting and incarcerating them.”
“If these agencies have endless resources, they will find endless ways to target and harm our families. They need to be defunded and dismantled,” she said.
OCAD in recent days and weeks has been calling for its supporters to support the Black Lives Matter movement, posting on its Facebook page, “our liberation is dependent of...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #325
Before You Click On The "Read More" Link,
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1024
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Friday, June 19, 2020
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Report: Indian Army Stocking up on Spiked Clubs After Chinese Massacre
India’s Northern Command has commissioned lightweight riot gear and spiked clubs for its border forces following a deadly attack on Monday by China’s army, which saw the Chinese use batons wrapped in barbed wire to kill at least 20 Indian soldiers in the western Himalayas, India Today reported on Thursday.
Following Monday’s bloody hand-to-hand combat, the Indian Army felt compelled to order the armor and spiked clubs to protect its soldiers from further ambushes by China’s army, “a medieval adversary,” according to the report.
Monday’s clash occurred in the Galwan Valley, located in the northeastern Indian state of Ladakh. Neither Indian nor Chinese troops stationed along the border in this region are reportedly armed though, following the incident, some reports claimed the Indian soldiers had firearms but not permission to use them.
This has been the tradition for decades, meant to discourage the escalation of border conflicts. In general, past border disputes between the two sides have been relatively tame, limited to sporadic brawls and scuffles along the boundary. On Monday, however, the Chinese troops reportedly used improvised weapons – including rocks, iron rods, and batons wrapped in barbed wire – to savagely attack and kill Indian soldiers.
In response, the Indian Army has ordered its own spiked clubs, according to an Indian army officer who spoke to India Today on Thursday.
“We won’t be surprised the next time,” he said.
On Tuesday, “500 sets of full-body protectors [were] airlifted from the Mumbai-based supplier to Leh [Ladakh’s capital]” where they will be “distributed among troops deployed along the LAC [Line of Actual Control, the official name for the border between India and China],” the news magazine reported.
“The body protectors comprise padded polycarbonate inserts and protect wearers from, significantly, sharp objects and stones,” India Today said.
Monday’s ambush killed at least 20 Indian soldiers, with many others critically injured. Indian media reports indicate that roughly 40 Chinese troops died after Monday’s conflict, but Beijing has yet to officially confirm the Chinese death toll. Indian government sources on Tuesday said that at least 24 more soldiers were being hospitalized with “life-threatening” injuries in the...
Many Newspapers are Refusing to Publish Mugshot Galleries Because the Criminals Aren’t White
They say it enforces negative stereotypes.
There is a growing trend of newspapers across the country that are refusing to publish mugshot galleries because the pictures of minority criminals are supposedly reinforcing negative stereotypes.
The Tampa Bay Times announced on Monday that they would stop publishing mugshot galleries due to concerns that they “disproportionately show black and brown faces.”
“The galleries lack context and further negative stereotypes,” Tampa Bay Times executive editor Mark Katches said in a statement.
“We think the data is an important resource that our newsroom will continue to analyze and watch carefully, but the galleries alone serve little journalistic purpose,” he added.
They followed suit shortly after the Orlando Sentinel announced that they were making a similar decision.
“We’ve come to realize that without context, the galleries have little journalistic value and may have reinforced negative stereotypes,” the Sentinel wrote about the paper’s decision to censor their mugshot database.
In addition, all Gannett-owned papers have announced that they will no longer publish “mugshot galleries, or mugshot photos that are not associated with a story or other editorial content,” according to a Poynter report.
This is part of a broader campaign to suppress facts about crime from being known by the greater public. Big League Politics has reported about how tech corporations are censoring crime statistics from being shared on their...
Never Bend the Knee
Ready or not, the fight is coming to your communities, your schools, your workplaces, and your places of worship.
Recently, I posted a meme on Twitter showing a large idol with “BLM” on it, people bowing down before the idol labeled “woke evangelicals,” and three men standing who are labeled “infidels.” Of course, the meme is based on the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the Bible’s book of Daniel. These three men refused to bend the knee to a false idol. For that, they were labeled unbelievers by the ruling power and thrown into a pit of fire, yet miraculously they lived.
Some friends and family were not entirely sure what I meant by posting the meme—hence this essay.
Most evangelicals—in fact most Americans—have no idea that Black Lives Matter means something more than the basic and indisputable point that the lives of black people are precious. They don’t know what Black Lives Matter, the organization, actually is, what it stands for, or what it is trying to achieve. They don’t know that it is a Marxist political ideology cloaked in race, an Orwellian tactic if there ever was one.
People think that if you speak out against BLM, you are a racist who cares nothing for the lives of your fellow citizens if they are of a different race.
So let me make this abundantly clear: I care about the lives of my fellow man regardless of the color of his skin. My work has been focused on ensuring not only that every life matters, but that every voice is heard, and that every vote is counted.
In my personal journeys and public efforts, I have seen the challenges others face every day in schools, on the job, even at the ballot box, and I am here to tell you that BLM doesn’t truly care about bettering the lives of anyone—least of all the black community in the United States. It is far more concerned about pushing a radical ideology intended to harm the very people it claims to support because such an agenda keeps them up and operating and in business.
In short: they are traitors to the cause so many believe they espouse.
So what is Black Lives Matter, really? BLM was founded by three Marxist women in 2013. Alicia Garza, one of the founders, is a writer and activist who resides in Oakland, California. She is a self-proclaimed Marxist and “queer social justice activist” who makes no bones about admiring other Marxists and the Black Panthers.
In a September 2016 interview with Complex.com, Garza claimed that the U.S. would be in a better place if we terminated the police. “Quite frankly,” she said, “many of our [BLM] members are continuing to investigate what it would mean to have police-free communities. I think what we’ve continued to see over time is that no moral appeal [to police] is actually stopping the deaths of black people [at the hands of police], whether they are armed or unarmed.”
Patrisse Cullors, another BLM founder, was trained in her activism by Eric Mann, a former Weather Underground member. In a December 2014 interview with The Feminist Wire, Cullors claimed she views Black Lives Matter as a means to push issues such as “decriminalizing Black lives,” “reducing law-enforcement budget,” and requiring that some police departments be “disbanded or abolished.” She’s also a supporter of the BDS movement, a deeply anti-Semitic movement that seeks to...
Australia Under MASSIVE Cyber Attack By a ‘State-Based Actor,’ Prime Minister Says
Australia was undergoing a widespread cyber attack Thursday which was targeting all levels of government, political parties, businesses, and other organizations, according to the Prime Minister.
“This activity is targeting Australians organisations across a range of sectors, including all levels of government, industry, political organisations, education, health, essential service providers and operators of other critical infrastructure,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. “We know it is a sophisticated state-based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting and the trade craft used.”
“To encourage organisations, particularly those in the health, critical infrastructure and essential services to take expert advice and implement technical defences to thwart this...
McEnany Destroys Bolton: ‘We Take Classified Information Seriously, John Bolton Apparently Does Not’
Watch as White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany destroys John Bolton’s lies about the President and his slimy unprofessional behavior:
McEnany does it again!
Truth is Bolton knows his reputation is completely destroyed and the only way he could salvage anything at all was to cash in on a huge book deal.
Looks like he may have to forfeit his profits and may even end up in jail.
Transcript:
REPORTER: “So in this book, John Bolton alleges that President Trump ran on [inaudible] with Xi to ensure that he’d win in 2020. Do you deny that incident?”
MCENANY: “Robert Lighthizer has been asked this. On the fly, in fact, he was asked it without even reading that and immediately said that is absolutely untrue. And I would note, no one, no president has been tougher on China than President Trump. The trade deal, the billions in tariffs, this President has been tough on China from the very beginning.”
REPORTER: “But why did it take six months for the White House to review it?”
MCENANY: “It was going through a classified review process, it still is going through that process. We take classified information seriously. It puts people at risk, it puts sources at risk, and it’s a process that we meticulously look through. It’s undergoing a review process that’s still ongoing.”
REPORTER: “[inaudible] — that there could have been additional people reviewing the book?”
MCENANY: “Again, it’s still undergoing the review process. We take classified information seriously, John Bolton apparently does not. And this was absolutely appalling that he chose to do this. He more than anyone, being a part of the NSC, should know that classified information is very serious, being someone who’s been a part of two different governments, in fact, and should be very well versed in...
Truth is Bolton knows his reputation is completely destroyed and the only way he could salvage anything at all was to cash in on a huge book deal.
Looks like he may have to forfeit his profits and may even end up in jail.
Transcript:
REPORTER: “So in this book, John Bolton alleges that President Trump ran on [inaudible] with Xi to ensure that he’d win in 2020. Do you deny that incident?”
MCENANY: “Robert Lighthizer has been asked this. On the fly, in fact, he was asked it without even reading that and immediately said that is absolutely untrue. And I would note, no one, no president has been tougher on China than President Trump. The trade deal, the billions in tariffs, this President has been tough on China from the very beginning.”
REPORTER: “But why did it take six months for the White House to review it?”
MCENANY: “It was going through a classified review process, it still is going through that process. We take classified information seriously. It puts people at risk, it puts sources at risk, and it’s a process that we meticulously look through. It’s undergoing a review process that’s still ongoing.”
REPORTER: “[inaudible] — that there could have been additional people reviewing the book?”
MCENANY: “Again, it’s still undergoing the review process. We take classified information seriously, John Bolton apparently does not. And this was absolutely appalling that he chose to do this. He more than anyone, being a part of the NSC, should know that classified information is very serious, being someone who’s been a part of two different governments, in fact, and should be very well versed in...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #324
Before You Click On The "Read More" Link,
Please Only Do So If You Are Over 21 Years Old.
If You are Easily Upset, Triggered Or Offended, This Is Not The Place For You.
Please Leave Silently Into The Night......
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1023
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Thursday, June 18, 2020
UCF Professor Under Investigation And Police Protection After Tweeting About “Black Privilege”
The University Of Central Florida Is The Largest University In The United States By Enrollment
We have been writing about efforts to fire professors who have criticized the “Defund the Police” campaign or Black Lives Matter. Now, Charles Negy, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Central Florida, is under school investigation and has received police protection after he tweeted about what he views as “black privilege.” While countless professors have written about “white privilege,” Negy is looking at discipline or termination while police have been called to his house to protect his life.
Negy is not the first professor to be put under police protection after voicing criticism of the protests or BLM. Once again, I am less interested in the merits of the underlying debate as the implications for free speech and academic freedom. As one of the large free speech blogs, we have long discussed efforts to pressure or fire academics for their exercise of free speech and academic freedom. Recently, however, these efforts have been joined by schools and fellow academics who seek to deter others from expressing opposing views.
Negy is facing outrage caused over his tweets in early June including a petition demanding his termination by more than 30,000 signatures. While classroom misconduct has been...
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