As the government of Britain actively works to replace the English (and Welsh, and Scottish) culture with something more glitteringly diverse, old, stale notions of criminals receiving trials and punishments that don’t involve hacking bits off are going by the wayside. in their place, exciting new ideas in dealing with criminal activity, ideas that aren’t constrained by cisheterowhitenormativecryptolibertarianpatriarchal concepts like “law and order.”
Any comments along the lines that summarily chopping off peoples hands in the streets is not a good idea means you are an -ist and a -phobe.
Note that the suspected thief is not from the same community/culture that lopped his hand off (reportedly a Caribbean import was caught trying to rob Bengali imports). So culturally specific responses to crime are not being restricted to members of that culture.
I heard people yapping about this on random scraps of talk radio while trekking back and forth across Iowa today. “Treason” was a word tossed around a lot. I always managed to miss the context of the discussion, so I assumed that it was the usual hyperbole. But then…
“Gen. Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time,” Milley added, as reported by the book, “Peril,” which is set to be released next week. “It’s not going to be a surprise.”
UMMM…
The claim is made that a US General called a Chinese counterpart and said that he would provide the Chinese warning of American military actions. It seems he did not actually provide any such warning; and it is of course possible that he was simply lying for some reason. But offering to provide aid and comfort to the enemy, even if you don’t actually do it… that’s a bad look for anyone, never mind a military man. Never especially mind the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Nowhere near enough to start tossing around trials for treason. But more than enough – if confirmed, and if confirmed to have been done without the Commander In Chiefs approval – for a summary reduction in rank to Private and then drummed from the service for insubordination. Considering his spectacular failure in Afghanistan and delusional belief int he threat of white supremacy, he really needs to be presented with an opportunity to explore new career options in the food service industry.
Why do I shrug at the “January 6” narrative? Because *actual* cases of terrorism and sedition like the one below go largely unreported by the media (certainly not getting the coverage of a Viking LARPer acting the fool in Congress), even though the actual events and actual motives were far worse than a bunch of chuckleheads wandering around the halls of power uninvited.
The attempt was made to cause trains carrying hazardous materials to derail and/or blow through road intersections without setting off the crossing guards, thus putting cars and trucks at risk of getting hit. Derailing a tanker train in a city is a good way to create a massive disaster. This was not just attempted murder, but attempted *multiple* murder in the service of leftist political goals.
Imagine if *half* the effort that the idiot rioters and insurrectionists went through to disrupt life and burn down buildings all through 2020 went to actually *fixing* problems. How many of these poor benighted souls might not now be stuck in the ruined lives they’re living?
If your city has an area that looks even remotely like this and the city spends so much as a *nickle* on CRT or 1619 or Pride Parades… fire your entire city government.
Twenty years ago today I boarded a van for the irritatingly long ride to work just south of San Jose, CA. The drive mentioned that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We all figured it was a private plane, with minimal real damage. Before we got to the plant, we heard the first tower fall. Got into the main meeting room just in time to see the second fall. The rest of the day was utter chaos, with rumors running rampant. A truck bomb had gone off in front of the court house in San Francisco. A truck bomb was parked on the Oakland Bridge. A freighter had detonated in the bay. A jetliner was headed directly towards our little ICBM factory. All of these were wrong, of course, but there was no denying, on the trip home that afternoon, that the sky was remarkably clear of contrails.
After World War II, the United States and its allies hunted down every accessible bastion of Nazi ideology and re-educated it from existence; today Nazis exist almost solely within the minds of crazy people. After the Cold War, the United States and its allies did *not* cleanse the world of Communism, and thus we now have commies in the classroom and fellow travelers in the White House. After 9/11, the United States did *nothing* to erase the ideology that led to 9/11. And as a result, it is growing by leaps and bounds with almost no opposition whatsoever.
On that day twenty years ago, there was opposition. It came late; three planes full of people were sacrificed on the altar of believing that hijackings were to be simply waited through. One plane, though, had passengers who learned what was going on and stood up to evil people following an evil ideology. They died on their own terms, which is the best any man can hope for.
This young lady watched “United 93” and reacts to the movie like much of the country did twenty years ago.
Never forget, never forgive. If it helps, listen to the final words of Kevin Cosgrove:
A cop dares to state the basic facts. On today of all days.
Note that the AR pistol is repeatedly erroneously referred to as an “assault rifle.” Note as well that the guy wielding it is a convicted felon out on bond, thus ineligible to wield a firearm of any kind, a failure of the gun control movement the news reader seems to have forgotten to mention.
This incident would have been instructive twenty years ago. “How do we respond to an attack upon our civilization?”
Methinks there are some students who don’t belong. A bunch of fighting morons would seem a poor fit to be people studying to become the next generation of scientists, engineers and mathematicians.
The forthcoming video game “God of War: Ragnarok” features this Scandinavian character:
Uh… huh.
It should be noted that Angrboða was the mate of Loki and the “mother of monsters.” She birthed Fenrir the wolf, the Midgard serpent Jörmungand and Hel, the half-dead ruler of the land of the dead. So… one wonders if this is just straight-up unthinking woke cultural appropriation, or if someone in the background might be doing some counter-programming by making this character the evil mother of evil monsters that sow destruction and devastation.
First, for context, here’s the original piece from @RollingStone and the follow up from the actual hospital saying the story was BS and that the one (one!) person the story quotes doesn’t work at that hospital anymore (and hasn’t in months). pic.twitter.com/6k4FjaQWD3
In short, someone made up a story, Rolling Stone ran with it without checking it, a whole bunch of other media outlets picked that up and also ran with it also without checking it, and then the people actually involved spoke up and called BS.
This is the same press that spent years yapping about Russian Collusion, and went on about the Covington Blood Libel, and told us that violent arson-riddled riots are “mostly peaceful protests” while people milling around in the halls of Government were a violent armed insurrection, that “the pink tax” is a thing, that the 1619 slanders are valid history, that “the Wage Gap” is a thing, that Biden was of sound mind. The press has a *long* way to go to rebuild any sort of trust
