90 Miles From Tyranny

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Violence, retribution and the South African justice system

A victim of necklacing in South Africa

However one looks at it, the country has lost its way: the South African police are not in a position to handle crime effectively.

At a media conference on 14 May 2021, minister of police Bheke Cele admitted to a plethora of failures, including nearly five thousand murders from January to the end of March this year, up 8,4 percent from the same period last year. (These are just the cases reported!) One is not even safe in one’s house: more than 1320 people were murdered in their own homes during that period. In one Johannesburg suburb, there were 68 house breaks in three months, while an average of 105,5 people were raped every day in the same period. More than 75 000 assaults occurred in the relevant quarter, while heavy vehicle hijacking jumped by 25 percent from the previous quarter to 354 during the current period.

What is of great concern to the commercial farming industry is stock theft, with 689 reported cases during the past three months in the province of Mpumalanga alone. More worrisome is the arbitrary use of hunting dogs on private farms (without the consent of the farmer in most instances). Dog packs under the control of syndicates bet huge amounts of money on how many animals (both wild and sometimes domestic) can be killed by the dogs. Some farmers’ properties are arbitrarily invaded by the syndicates and farmers who complain are told to keep away otherwise their farms will be destroyed and their grazing burnt. Eleven people were murdered in the past three months on farms: four were farm owners.

More than 2170 police vehicles in Gauteng province are out of order, 763 more than in November last year. This makes a third of Gauteng’s police vehicles immobile, unrepaired. More than 208 000 DNA tests are awaiting processing, with specific reference to murder and rape cases. Minister Cele says the current situation gives him “sleepless nights” but these are crocodile worries. There are critical vacancies in the police forensic laboratories but ads for these jobs specify that affirmative action applicants need only apply. This rules out whites as candidates for these important jobs. Detectives complain they cannot work properly – their departments are so starved of support and finance that they have to pay for their own uniforms, for finger printing powder and even for flashlights. They pay if they get a flat tire, and they pay to fill up at the local petrol station. There is zero leadership in the SA police force, it is reported. (Rapport 21 March 2021)

Break-ins and theft from police stations have increased: there were more than 136 break-ins in 29 police stations over the past five years. Many of them were to steal crime dockets, weapons and supposedly under-lock-and-key drugs.
Violence

This parlous law and order situation means whole pockets of South Africa are without regular and visible policing. South Africa is a violent society. Many scores are settled “out of court” so to speak. Violence is and has always been the ANC’s calling card. In his book “Secret Revolution- Memoirs of a Spy Boss” (2015), Neil Barnard describes negotiations between former president PW Botha and Nelson Mandela where Botha refused to release Mandela unless the latter eschewed violence. Mandela continually refused, declaring that violence “was all that my people know”. With history as witness, the ANC came to power on a tsunami of violence. It was their modus operandi to get what they wanted. It was a winning tool in their struggle to...

German Scientists Find How Broken Parts Of COVID-19 Vaccines Mutate To Trigger Blood Clots

German scientists have found out how the broken parts of Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines branded as Covishield in India mutate to trigger blood clots in recipients. Scientists say the vaccine is sent into the cell nucleus instead of surrounding fluid, where parts of it break off and create mutated versions of themselves. The mutated versions then enter the body and trigger the blood clots.

Two vaccines, one manufactured by Oxford-AstraZeneca branded as Covishield in India and the other by Johnson & Johnson, have been linked to blood clotting disorders, particularly among women under the age of 50.

Earlier, German scientists found the exact 2 step process how the COVID-19 vaccine causes blood clots in recipients. They describe a series of events that has to happen in the body before the vaccines create these large clots.

Now, researchers at Goethe-University of Frankfurt and Ulm University, in Helmholtz, have found the problem which they say lies in the adenovirus vector — a common cold virus used so both vaccines can enter the body.

Scientists believe that in some people, the immune system sees the vaccine as a threat and over-produces antibodies to fight it. These lead to the formation of clumps in the blood, which can become deadly if the clots move towards vital organs and cut off...

Seattle Hipster Converted to Islam, Joined ISIS to Behead Non-Muslims

When you can't make it to CHAZ, you have to settle for ISIS.

Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams, 20, of Seattle, was taken into custody at the departure gate of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last Friday as he attempted to board a flight to Cairo, federal prosecutors said. After being arrested, Williams agreed to speak with agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and allegedly stated that he intended to become an "executioner" or a "machine-gunner" for ISIS, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle.

"It doesn’t matter what you guys do to me. I get rewarded for it," Williams told the FBI agents, according to the complaint. "I want to die. We love our deaths more than you love your lives."

You would think that the defeat of ISIS would have significantly slowed the pace of American recruits, but that doesn't seem to have happened.

Williams wasn't headed to Iraq or Syria though. Instead, he was looking to hook up with an ISIS affiliate in the Sinai.

It's unclear when exactly Williams converted to Islam, but it seems to have happened in high school. Considering the level of Islamic indoctrination in the urban public school system, that's not so surprising:

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'Social Justice' Means Treating Some People Unjustly

The definition of 'social justice' is imprecise. That's where the rub begins. It has precise meaning only for its user, is what the user wants it to be. So, can it be precisely defined? Perhaps, if we focus upon its application.

In his 1999 book The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote, "In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that 1) things are not right and that 2) the government should make them right. Where right all too often means cosmic justice, trying to set things right means writing a blank check for a never-ending expansion of government power."

That explains the ultimate objective of social justice: a never-ending expansion of government power [emphasis mine].

Sowell defines social justice (which he labels 'cosmic justice,' the relief of all misfortune) as an effort which seeks to eliminate undeserved disadvantages for selected groups. He defines 'undeserved disadvantages' by referencing Dr. Thomas Nagle's definition: 'unequal starting points' certain people have through no fault of their own.

What governmental policies (which Sowell universally rejects) can be enacted to reduce or eliminate unequal starting points? To answer that, Sowell references John Rawls, who insisted 'having everyone play by the same rules or be judged by the same standards' was not sufficient. True equality of opportunity meant 'adjusting starting points to provide everyone with equal prospects of success from equal individual efforts,' and 'putting [selected] segments of society in the position that they would have been in but for some undeserved...

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Chamber of Commerce Creates Lobbying Campaign to Lower American Wages

Once again, the United States Chamber of Commerce has proven to the American public that their loyalties lie solely with large corporations, the investor class, and a commitment to infinite GDP growth - no matter the cost.

This time, the Chamber of Commerce has started a lobbying campaign to massively increase legal immigration into the United States, specifically a momentous increase in foreign visa workers to further stagnate and even lower prevailing wages in the American job market.

Disingenuously labeled the “American Works Agenda,” the Chamber of Commerce intends to lobby federal lawmakers and state lawmakers to do what they can to greatly expand the rate of legal immigration.

For context, approximately 1.2 million legal immigrants are given green cards (legal permanent resident status) annually in the U.S. This is in addition to the roughly 1.4 million foreign nationals given visas to take U.S. jobs despite a U6 unemployment rate still over 10%.

The Chamber of Commerce, through their new lobbying effort, is demanding that lawmakers:

At least double employment-based green cards to 280,000 admissions a year
Eliminate per-country caps, allowing India and China to monopolize employment-based green card categories
Double the annual number of H-1B visas awarded to foreign workers
Double the annual number of H-2B visas awarded to foreign workers
Expand the H-2A visa program to allow non-seasonal agricultural businesses to import foreign workers
Allow foreign students to more easily secure employment-based green cards after graduation
Provide amnesty to illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program
Provide amnesty to foreign nationals enrolled in Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
Allow local politicians to import foreign workers to take American jobs in their local economy and to drive up population growth

Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne Clark is attempting to peddle the campaign as an effort to address some mythical “worker shortage” threatening "the business community" (America's largest corporations) - again, despite the facts that 16.4 million Americans remain jobless, 5.2 million remain underemployed, and tens of millions more who are marginally attached to the labor force.

Truthfully, the lobbying campaign is nothing more than the usual attempt, this time by the Chamber of Commerce, to create a boon for Big Business by unnaturally inflating the U.S. labor market - allowing unscrupulous employers to cut Americans’ wages, reduce the cost of labor, and increase profit margins. For this reason, American wages have been effectively stagnant for over 40 years.

In what appears to be an emerging pattern, the Chamber of Commerce’s lobbying goals, like most of Washington’s current ideas, are vastly out of step with what a majority of Americans see as a positive direction for the nation.

Just this week, the most recent Rasmussen Reports survey “revealed that 72 percent of likely U.S. voters want to cut legal immigration levels, 62 percent want businesses to recruit jobless Americans for jobs over importing...