Governments lie. And the police are the business end of the government, so they, by definition, lie.
According to the National Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial Fund, there were fewer cops killed in 2018 than in 1916 … and two-thirds as many as in 1975.
And police work is not even among the 10 most dangerous professions. And according to this article, only half of these on-the-job deaths were homicides.
This went viral recently for very good reason.
By William Norman Grigg (1963-2017)
When you see a cop — or, more likely, several of them — beating up on a prone individual, do you instinctively sympathize with the assailant(s) or the victim?
If it’s the former, you’re an authoritarian, irrespective of your partisan attachments or professed political philosophy.
If it’s the latter, you’re an instinctive libertarian, whether or not you are consistently guided by that impulse in your political decisions.
It may later be demonstrated that the figure on the receiving end of the beating had committed some horrible crime. However, such a disclosure wouldn’t invalidate the results of the Tom Joad Test, because that test reveals a subject’s default assumptions about the relationship between the individual and the state.
Do you assume that the state is entitled to the benefit of the doubt whenever its agents inflict violence on somebody, or do you believe that the individual — any individual — is innocent of wrongdoing until his guilt has been proven?
This could be considered a reverse application of Lenin’s famous political formula, kto kogo? — broadly translated as “Who does what to whom?” Lenin and his followers sought and acquired the power to be the “Who” in that formula, which meant that millions of those consigned to the “whom” category were imprisoned and slaughtered.
Ironically, many law-and-order conservatives come uncomfortably close to Lenin’s view of the state when they reflexively take the side of agents of state coercion — the “who” in the typical encounter between police officer and citizen. The American view of rights, however, is overwhelmingly weighted on behalf of the latter, even when the “who” is a winsome and well-dressed policeman, and the “whom” is a scruffy and unappealing individual.
Source: The Plague of Punitive Populism
Who was William Norman Grigg? Read his Pro Libertate blog and find out.
And start learning stuff.
Dum Spiro Pugno.
This is NOT an endorsement of Trump. He did A LOT to spread the fear of COVID and promote the economic lockdowns back in March.
However, this study, which speaks favorably of Trump, concludes that the cost in – among other tragic things – depression, suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, and stress related illnesses resulted in 10 times the number of life-years lost than were from the actual virus.
By Charles Hugh Smith
“Propaganda doesn’t have to change your mind to be effective– all it has to do is disable your critical thinking by blinding you with rage, misdirecting your attention, generating an “Other” that acts as a target for projected frustration, creating either-or thinking, splinter the working / middle classes into divisive “tribes” supported by echo-chamber social media and addict you to constant drips of carefully tailored emotional derangement.”
Read the full article here.
By John Nolte at Breitbart.
Even though the creators of CHAZ didn’t do it right, I firmly believe secession will become a very real thing after 2020.
Neither side will accept defeat in the election. And a goodly percentage of the population – perhaps more than half – are tired of being tyrannized.
Expect new states and very possibly new countries to form on a map that hasn’t changed since 1959. (And the “lower 48” have been this way since 1912.)
Click on this link to read.
By William L. Gensert at the American Thinker.
This was written in September 2019, well before the BLM/Antifa riots set America’s cities aflame. And it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
Click on this link to read.
By Doug Newman – email me here.
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If you would like to post this elsewhere – who knows why? – please just link to this URL. Thanks!
Click here and then look at the paragraph just above the horizontal dark blue bar that says “Table 3”.
Big thanks to Steve Deace for pointing out these statistics.
So if 174,070 deaths have been COVID-related, only 10,444 have been from COVID alone. (These statistics are as of 9/5/20.)
Yes, that’s still 10,444 too many.
But in a nation of 330,000,000 that means that only 1 person in 31,597 will die solely from COVID.
Or, you can look at it this way: if you don’t have one of the listed comorbidities, you have a 99.9968 percent chance of NOT dying of COVID.
So, get out of your fetal position.
Crawl out from under your bed.
Take off your STUPID face diaper.
Grab your phone, keys and wallet.
Walk out the door and lock it behind you.
AND GO…LIVE…LIFE!
There is nothing normal about the “new normal”. From the outset, it has had NOTHING to do with protecting you against a virus with a 99.97 percent survival rate and EVERYTHING to do with depriving you of every last vestige of YOUR INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL LIBERTY.
Read this column by C.J. Hopkins, if your personal constitution permits it.
And also read this horrifying account of the lockdown in Melbourne, Australia by Jeffery Tucker.
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