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Thursday, November 26, 2020

"Burn It Down"

American cities are entering a period of chaos. Protests and riots have dominated headlines, but beneath the surface, activists are launching an unprecedented campaign to overthrow the traditional justice system and replace it with a new model based on a radical conception of social justice. 

In Seattle, where this campaign may be most advanced, activists have crafted a narrative about police brutality, mass incarceration, and punitive justice that leads to a natural sequence of solutions: “abolish the police,” “divest from prisons,” and “defund the courts.” Over the past three decades, the city’s radical-progressives have seized control of municipal government—with the notable exception of the criminal-justice system, which they see as the final obstacle to total control. If they can dismantle it, activists believe, they can bring about their transformation of society.
-Chuck

19 comments:

  1. Don' think of it as "transformation of society". That sounds all kinds of upheaval-ish and stressful.
    Think of it as "repairing the world". There. That has a nice calming and pleasant ring to it, right?

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  2. "Social Justice" = Mob rules judge, jury, and executioner. All without any due process or time to sort it out.

    Instant gratification without any justice whatsoever.

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    1. "From the end of who's barrel?"

      The hint is in the BIPOC acronym. They're saying who will be in charge - the "B" (some animals are more equal, after all). At least up until the point that the hispanics realize that they're more numerous and should be running things.

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  3. So......When Biden takes the guns away from the poor through taxation.....

    and the radicals defund the police......Who is going to protect the poor and politically weak.....?

    There’s no need to worry about the rich and politically powerful.....they’ll have armed protection.

    Ed357

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  4. What this is, is a return to the wild west of a couple of hundred years ago. We will all need to be armed at all times. Frontier justice is street justice.

    The idea of police and courts and prisons was so that we wouldn't have to defend ourselves and possibly kill other people in the process.

    So really is best ... I leave that question to you. How do you want to live .. with a loaded Glock on your hip at all times or something like we have had for the past 120 years or so. I prefer to have police and courts and jails ... it's much safer for the kids and the women.

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    1. All that you named, the courts, prison, and police have been around much longer than 120 years. A formalized police department is the youngest and still that is since the 1830s or thereabouts. But we've had Sheriffs since the founding. These are Anglo-Saxon ideas brought from England.
      Before that was the Constables and militia. Even the Pilgrims had a designated community security force. Jails and courts have been with us for thousands of years.

      So the 'progressives' want to revert to an earlier time. Fine with me, laws will still be enforced and justice still served. Vigilantism may break out here and there but largely will justice be served through a formalized process. Those turds don't know what they're doing. Aside from the fact that it is the very police which is preventing their massacre, they are just switching out people who will be in the role of enforcement and justice. And if they think it will be them who dispatch justice, they better think again. Society, in which ever form they think they can create, will still be cohesive and will not long tolerate some utopian ideal of caging people for being the wrong skin color or a bull crap system of 'social points'. It really is funny to watch them repeat all the mistakes of the past. They don't have a clue of history. The best they could do is recreate a system which allows for slavery.

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    2. Exactly.
      Let some of the leftist coastal cities distory themselves. And just maybe that will help some of the fools in the flyover country wake up ("hey, maybe this leftist garbage does not work!"). We are far past the point of saving the country we need to sacrifice some places to themselves to try to get the rest of the country to save itself. Trying to redeem Seattle or Portland is like trying to redeem Sudan or Iraq, it's a fool's errand.
      Let the dead bury the dead. Christ told us that 2000 years ago. The Coastal NW is lost.
      -Just A Chemist

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  5. Sometimes, you just gotta back off and let 'em piss on that electric fence.

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  6. I will be honest, I was a little disappointed that Wheeler was reelected and Sarah Iannarone lost the Portland mayoral race. That city has become such a cesspool,i was hoping her communist/Marxist/antifa ass would have won and made the place a bigger sh*t show.

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  7. What is required is a crew with gasoline to spread around the city and one guy with a match....

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  8. Portland and Seattle are not the real problems. They were actually very nice and pleasant places to live. (Check demographics if you are a doubter.) Dumb assholes with their fool heads filled with poison from the Eternal Rebels got out of control, but SEA and PDX are merely symptoms, not the causes of our problems.

    The real problems are in Washington DC, and New York City, and Hollywood (by which I mean the cultural complex, not necessarily the physical municipality). A key support of these problem places is a set of academic institutions, Harvard and Yale being at the top of the list.

    Some people still think that Harvard, Yale, and their “peer institutions” are bastions of WASP power. This is not so, and has been untrue for decades. Who holds the power at these places is left as an exercise for the reader, because I’m sure I don’t know. Who could it be? As Adam Carolla once said, “Who who who?”

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  9. It's not just in the cities, the cancer is spreading everywhere. I was listening to a radio program last Monday morning on the way into work and they were talking about this very subject. A woman who identified herself as retired NYPD stated that she moved five hours north of the city into the Adirondacks after her retirement. She went on to say that this past August, one of her friends went to a town council meeting and apparently there was some female there who no one had ever seen before, who was lecturing everyone there about the problem of systemic racism within EVERY police department in the country (Is it just me, or is it ALWAYS females you see spearheading this type of crap? Maybe the Mohammedans DO have a point about females.)
    This woman said she promptly contacted every person she could on the council and tried sounding the alarm bells about this woman and was met with the usual, "Don't sound so paranoid." as well as, "Well maybe she has a point, you did see what they did to that poor man in Minneapolis, right?". This woman did go on to say that there were one, or two people she spoke with who stated that when they made inquiries into who the woman represented and who they were backed by, she got very curt and accused them of trying to avoid the issue at hand, going so far as to accuse another woman of being a closet racist. That last bit got everyone to back down.

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    1. Never apologize or try to “explain” when someone accuses you of racism. Don’t even try to deny it and say you’re NOT racist. Make their statement about THEM and their mental state, not about you. The first response is “I’m sorry you feel that way, but you’re wrong.” The next response is “You are clearly trying to slander me by saying false things about me. If you do not stop, I will sue you.”

      There is ZERO benefit from launching into a speech about human biodiversity (HBD), group differences in nearly all traits, particularly IQ, or any other true thing. There is especially nothing to be gained by noting (correctly) that American Blacks, and those-that-cannot-be-named-in-a-negative-context, are the most overtly ethnocentric/racist groups in the US. Someone calling you racist is a slander, plain and simple. It is an attack. Counterattack without seeming to attack by making them look unbalanced and hysterical. Don’t even (or ever) discuss how you really think about race.

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  10. Yes, Women should not have any say in how we run our country

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  11. I read the whole article. Seattle is headed to "Escape New York". There will not be a business that will transport goods into that city for 1. Employees will refuse with their lives, 2. Goods will be confiscated by warlords. People will leave as if escaping a Maoist run country. They will literally escape with the clothes on their back because U-Haul will not allow trucks to go into a city that they will never leave.

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  12. Wall 'em off, and let 'em eat each other.

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  13. The uncivil and immoral are killing what is left of the republic and instituting democratic democracy. Notice it resembles the third world. Lets hope there is still a court in this country willing to act against the cabal willing to lie cheat and murder their way in to power.

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