“We’ve heard, anecdotally, reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area. This is the crime of extortion. If anyone has been subjected to this, we need them to call 911,” Assistant Chief of Police Deanna Nollette said on Wednesday.
“While Washington is an open-carry state, there is no legal right for those arms to be used to intimidate community members,” she told KOMO News. “No one at these checkpoints has the legal authority to demand identification from anyone. We ask if anyone is subjected to these demands to call 911 and report the incident,” Nollette said.
Nollette also added that they are aware of threats to burn down the East Precinct, which she said “would endanger residents, firefighters and businesses.”
Then, after viewing these photos, you tell us…
…who on earth is going to call 911 when city authorities have already demonstrated a complete lack of commitment to the rule of law by abandoning the police precinct?!?
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, a story from FOX News which confirms Liberalism is an increasingly virulent form of mental illness, as the…
“The San Francisco Municipal Transporation Agency announced Tuesday it will no longer transport San Francisco Police Department officers to protests over the death of George Floyd after photos and videos on social media showed buses filled with officers in riot gear.
The agency first said, ‘We transport everyone at MTA and make sure our services are available for critical needs.” But this week, the agency said it wanted to be “agents of change.”
Along with no longer conveying officers to “anti-police brutality protests,” SFMTA said in a statement posted on Twitter, it plans to “advance our agency-wide implicit bias training and other equity trainings that provide us with personal/professional tools to address the agency’s and our own bias to ensure that all are heard and included in our future.”
…Jeffrey Tumlin, SFMTA’s director of transportation, thanked employees and riders for starting “100s” of conversations “about undoing the deep structural racism at root of all transport depts. We have a lot of work to do.”“
Soooo…if Jeffrey Tumlin is overseeing a transportation department rife with “deep structural racism”, shouldn’t he either resign or be fired, along with the entire management of the SFMTA?!?
Speaking of the mentally ill, the Dimocrats’ Crazy, Groping Uncle in the Attic is at it again, this time comparing a career criminal and habitual drug addict to the Nobel Prize-winning icon of the Civil Rights movement:
Is it any wonder, as we noted in our last edition, Terry McAulffe, as slimy a creature as ever slithered through the The Swamp, recently suggested…
In a related item, the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel relates how The Donald remains his own worst enemy, as Trump is beating Trump:
“The U.S. is emerging from an unprecedented pandemic lockdown that left millions unemployed or bankrupt, children without education, the social order in shambles. The fury that followed George Floyd’s death has put Americans on the edge. They need calm leadership and a positive vision for the future.“
With the emphasis on “calm“. The good news for the future of the Founders’ Republic is, while Groper Joe might be able to muster the serenity of dementia, he’s neither a leader, nor has he a positive vision for the future.
Next up, NRO‘s Andy McCarthy suggests a federal government with a 2×4 in its own eye should not be so quick to help state and local law enforcement remove the specks from theirs, primarily because…
“Here’s a laugh: Washington intends to tell New York how to do policing.
The federal government has one premier law-enforcement agency, the FBI, and a sprawl of more specialized police forces — DEA, ATF, IRS’s criminal-investigation division, etc. These bureaucracies are dwarfed in size and scope by big-city municipal police departments, such as the NYPD. They are also, to be blunt about it, reeling at the moment because they don’t do their jobs very well: long on politicized arm-twisting, short on due process.
The FISA court recently found federal intelligence agencies guilty of an “institutional lack of candor” in dealing with the tribunal. That conclusion has only been bolstered by Justice Department reports outlining stunning abuses of power by the FBI, serial lying and leaking by top officials, fabrication of evidence, and investigations launched on a dearth of predication and furthered by entrapment tactics and perjury traps. We never did get to the bottom of the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” scandal, in which the ATF allowed illegal firearms transfers into Mexico — evidently hoping to fuel a political narrative against the Second Amendment but succeeding only in fueling violent Mexican gang crime that claimed the life of a border-patrol agent. A federal appeals court echoed a district judge in New Orleans, who was appalled when Obama Justice Department lawyers anonymously led a race-baiting press campaign to undermine the trial rights of indicted police officers and then misled and stonewalled investigators who tried to find out what happened. And speaking of misleading and stonewalling, they explain why we never got accountability for the bare-knuckles tactics the IRS used to harass conservative groups.
That’s just a thumbnail sketch.We could go on. I’d rather not go on, because these incidents sully the reputations of thousands of agents who go about their work honorably, day in and day out. But these incidents represent management failures, misfeasance and malfeasance at the high echelons of federal law enforcement. It is thus doubly important to highlight them because, in the wake of the George Floyd killing and the uproar that followed, the federal government is now presuming to dictate how state and local police forces must do their jobs.
The federal government cannot even run its own limited law-enforcement missions properly. Where does it get off micromanaging policing on a nationwide scale, which deals with community-safety issues that are outside the federal ken?…
…It is not just that the federal law-enforcement agencies for which Washington is actually responsible are mired in scandal right now. We must remember that the revolution in policing practices that ushered in an era of low crime, domestic tranquility, and economic prosperity was driven by city and state police departments, not Washington.
Policing is a human endeavor. There are always going to be instances of abuse, whether at the federal, state, or municipal level. There will inevitably be occasional abuses, such as George Floyd’s senseless killing, that shock the nation. On the whole, though, the federal glass house should keep its stones to itself. The United States is a vast, variegated country. The best policing is sensitive to the different concerns of the diverse communities it reflects, protects, and serves. There is nothing prudent about forcingone-size-fits-all federal standards on it.“
Here’s the juice: we’re as white bread as they come, yet still we’ve been on the receiving end of abuse from police officers who were either bad cops or just having a bad day; not on the same level as George Floyd, but certainly far out of proportion to the reason for the encounter. And a dear, departed friend who was visiting New Orleans along with a fellow student Naval Aviator, both also White, were literally beaten to within an inch of their lives by a White cop for no reason at all. In fact, the assault was so egregious, in the subsequent lawsuit, the court found for my friend.
Just sayin’.
In a related item forwarded by our friend Mark T., here’s an intriguing aspect of the Floyd murder which has somehow escaped attention:
At the risk of going out on a limb, if the Floyd family attorney agrees Chauvin likely knew his victim, does it not bring into question the narrative surrounding Floyd’s demise, as well as the motive behind his murder?
Again, just sayin’!
Moving on, the Journal‘s Dan Henninger records the rise of…
“In 1789, America’s Founding Fathers, acutely aware of the political bloodbaths that had consumed Europe for centuries, created a system in which disagreements would be arbitrated by periodically allowing the public to turn their opinions into votes. The majority would win the election. Then, because political disagreement never ends, you hold more elections.Aware of the natural tendency of factions and majorities to want to suppress opposition opinion, the Founders created a Bill of Rights for all citizens, including what they called, with unmistakable clarity, “the freedom of speech.”
Nothing lasts forever, and so it is today in the U.S., where the pre-liberal idea of settling disagreements with coercion has made a comeback.
…The Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse argued in 1965 that some ideas were so repugnant, which he identified as “from the Right,” that it was one’s obligation to suppress them with what he called “the withdrawal of tolerance.”Marcuse is a saint on the American left.
The ingeniousness of this strategy of suppression and shaming is that it sidesteps the Supreme Court’s long history of defending opinion that is unpopular, such as its 1977 decision that vindicated the free-speech rights of neo-Nazis who wanted to march in Skokie, Ill. But if people have shut themselves up, as they are doing now, there is no speech, and so there is “no problem.”
Free speech isn’t dead in the United States, but it looks like more than ever, it requires active defense.“
We can only assume Ali bin Babble’s retroactive theory of reparations is equally applicable to Italy, heir to responsibility for the countless millions subjected to Roman slavery. And since the Italians should be held accountable for the sins of their ancestors, let’s not forget the British, Belgians, Germans, French and Spanish…just to name a few. Then there’s the former Barbary states, famed for their unlimited trade in human flesh. And in the interest of fairness, we’d be remiss in not recounting the role West African nation tribes played in providing White slavers with the cargo to fill their ships’ holds.
Nor, as the map above graphically depicts, should contemporary countries OTHER than America NOT be held to account for their tacit tolerance, if not active embrace, of slavery.
Welcome to the Brave New World of 1984…and the Newspeak of Progressive Revisionist History.
Since we’re on the subject of Progressive attempts to rewrite history, witness, courtesy of the Daily Caller via White House Dossier (with a hat tip to Shannon for the art work), the failure of The Windy City‘s leadership to deflect responsibility for its monumental mismanagement:
“Leaked audio revealed Chicago aldermen and Mayor Lori Lightfoot melting down on Sunday over their inability to stop violence and looting in their city.
Lightfoot held a conference call briefing all 50 aldermen on Sunday as the city descended into chaos and violence. The recording paints a raw picture of just how bad the rioting and looting became across Chicago — and just how helpless the city’s leaders were to stop it.
Here are the 17 most explosive quotes from theleaked audio(warning: explicit language)…”
Let’s face it: though he might not have actually said or written it, urban elections are nonetheless the very embodimentof the Definition of Insanity attributed to Albert Einstein. And if he DIDN’T say or write it, he SHOULD have.
For though we’d love to suggest it’s a joke, the fact is, if history is any guide, by the narrowest of margins, a likely yet-unindicted criminal defeated a former felon in what was, as is in every other American urban hell hole the equivalent of the general election, Brandon Scott won the Democratic nomination for Baltimore mayor.
Is it any wonder Progressives want to enfranchise convicted criminals?!?
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this from Brenda Berry…
…two from Speed Mach…
…along with a few more from Ed Hickey…
…and last but not least, a final thought from The Penguin:
Cassandra would certainly find a home in Seattle.
Finally, we’ll call it a week with yet another sordid story straight from The Crime Blotter, as, courtesy of James Nichols, The Babylon Bee relates the latest victim of the anti-police hysteria birthed by Barack Obama:
McGruff The Crime Dog Put Down
“In response to a growing anti-police sentiment, McGruff the Crime Dog has been taken to the vet and put down.
“We just didn’t feel safe with him around,” said activist Ray Clarke, one of the people who demanded McGruff be euthanized. “He was always urging people to ‘Take a bite out of crime,’ and we don’t need more violence like that from law enforcement. He has to die.”
McGruff had long educated people on measures they can take against crime but had recently been criticized for not caring about the racial disparity of his bites out of crime and for his association with the police…”
Reports McGruff’s last words were, “Why didn’t I just take a bite out of the mailman, like every other dog?!?” remain unconfirmed.
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