[Front Page] We think of crime as emanating from the poor and the underprivileged, but the country’s crime wave actually has its roots in the work of academics who taught at prestigious universities.
The pro-crime movement that originated in the 1960s and has since swept America began in part with an article by Communist leader and agitator Angela Davis: ’Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition’. Davis, a UCLA academic, was catapulted to national prominence during her trial for supplying firearms to terrorist Jonathan Jackson, who used them to murder a California judge presiding over the homicide trial of his criminal brother George, who later died after slitting the throats of three guards while attempting to escape from San Quentin. There are shrines devoted to Davis at prominent schools like University of California — Santa Cruz.
Angela Davis began her seminal incitement by quoting Michel Foucault: a French academic with the Collège de France. Foucault’s ’Discipline and Punish’, which Davis described as "arguably the most influential text in contemporary studies of the prison system" remains widely studied on college campuses along with Davis’ racist perspective that incorporated the Black Panther’s threat to "Off the Pigs" (Police) that has long since entered politics and the wider culture in the form of police assassinations, demonizations and defunding, and other allied efforts to eliminate prisons, prosecutions and the justice system.
The two activist academics were not really interested in crime and the penal system as a field of research. They were bent on fomenting a civil war that would put the Left in power.
Foucault, a Marxist-trained philosopher, had been a co-founder of the Prison Information Group to support the Maoists imprisoned over the radical violence in France in 1968. Foucault had credited the riots with stimulating his interest in "the direction of penal theory".
Angela Davis had bought guns to facilitate a murderous terrorist attack on a Marin County courthouse by the Black Panthers. The attack roughly coincided with Foucault’s visit to the United States during which he "investigated" the American prison system and the subsequent death of George Jackson: the Panther leader whom the Marin County attackers hoped to free.
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Many people in his own time and subsequently have venerated John Brown. I have never been a fan. Maybe it is the hair, but less superficially, I am against change enacted by violent slaughter of civilians. I am also not big on Curtis LeMay. I believe that dropping the nuclear bombs prevented millions of casualties on both sides, but generally the firebombing of civilians is abhorrent. Maybe LeMay’s tactics were useful and effective, but I choose not to keep the John Brown characters out of my personal pantheon of heroes. By not singing the mournful hymns about John Brown’s body, I can reject characters like Angela Davis without being hypocritical. Thelma and Louise sucked anyway.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/03/2023 7:44 Comments ||
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Not sure how LeMay has anything to do with this, but ok. LeMay was not a fan of the bomb. He called it, "something dropped by someone". He was a believer in firebombing as part of total war. BTW Japan was the last war we won, largely due to his efforts of bringing the cost of war home to Japan. I find the whole idea of war abhorrent, nukes, gas, fire bombs and bullets, but if we must put our younger generation at risk, total war should be the method. LeMay did more in the short firebombing stint in Europe than all the strategic bombing did. For example, strategic bombing of the ball bearing factories, costing over 70 B17s and 600 men over the one night, yielded a reduced production of 34% for a whopping 3 days, 6 weeks to retain full production. We, on the other hand lost 20% of our entire bomber planes and crews. Just maybe firebombing them would have been a better choice. If we are going to fight, fight to win.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
04/03/2023 13:07 Comments ||
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Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/03/2023 13:29 Comments ||
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From the San Francisco Chronicle archives:
FILE - Angela Davis enters court in San Rafael, Calif., Dec. 23, 1970, following a heavily-guarded airborne extradition from New York. Davis, who was accused of supplying some of the weapons used in a shootout during an attempted escape of prisoners at the Marin County Courthouse, was eventually acquitted of federal charges.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/03/2023 13:32 Comments ||
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Shocking, sensation pictures at the link. For some reason I was not able to post them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/03/2023 13:33 Comments ||
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[Daily Reckoning] From 1998 to the present, the percentage of Americans who say that patriotism is an important value has crashed from 70% to 38%. The bulk of the fall has happened since 2019.
More results will be discussed in a bit but let’s first focus on this issue of patriotism.
The poll doesn’t define for the respondents what patriotism is but reflect on the word. It can mean love of country and homeland. It’s perhaps true that this has fallen. That’s believable since the U.S. in three years ceased to place freedom as a first principle.
Indeed, there is a growing cultural movement, extending from academia to the mainstream, that encourages loathing of American history and its achievements. No "Founding Father" is safe from being called the worst-possible names. Hatred of this country has risen to be an expected norm.
But the problem goes even deeper.
When you are locked in your home, your business is closed, your church is shut, your neighbors are screaming at you to mask up, then the doctors come at you with shots you don’t want, and you are further prevented from leaving the country to anywhere but Mexico, and the president calls the unvaccinated enemies of the people, sure, one can imagine that affections for the homeland decline.
AMERICANS HAVE LOST FAITH IN THEIR INSTITUTIONS
But there is another important pillar of patriotism. It is about trust in the civic institutions of the country. These include schools, courts, politics and all the institutions of government at all levels.
Civic trust in these are surely at rock bottom. The courts did not protect us. The schools shut, particularly the public ones, which are supposed to be the crowning achievement of Progressive ideology. Our doctors turned on us.
And let’s say that we consider the media to be part of civic culture. It has been that way since at least FDR’s Fireside Chats. It’s always been the mouthpiece for what we are supposed to be thinking about as a people.
The media too turned on regular people for three years, calling our parties super-spreader events, jeering pastors who held worship services, demonizing live concerts and screaming at everyone to stay home and stay glued to the tube.
Yet at the same time, they encouraged mass protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Think about the logic, or lack thereof.
Yes, such evil antics tend to lessen public respect for all the institutions involved, especially when objections to these policies were censored by all the institutions we were supposed to trust with our data and friend networks. They turned out to be wholly owned too.
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Agree with B. Its not dead. Once we reset and remove our elites , by voting, we can take our nation back.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
04/03/2023 6:55 Comments ||
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Patriots don’t answer pollsters.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/03/2023 7:48 Comments ||
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oh yeah, that voting seems to be working out so well. Accept it, we're past that point.
Posted by: Chris ||
04/03/2023 8:42 Comments ||
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If the news is accurate, that test to remove the yoke referenced above, comes as early as tomorrow. Far sooner than 2024. If Trump's indictment is followed by a blanket gag order akin to what was done to LTG Flynn, the Marxist alliance will have removed Trump from campaigning for President. What follows may well be the conflagration they have been hoping for...
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At this point, "Patriotism" is standing up for the ideals this country was founded on. Only way for this to happen is to be willing to fight and make the other side bleed buckets to bring it back.
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Entirely possible to love your country without loving the government.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/03/2023 13:49 Comments ||
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#2 "our elites" exist on a different plane and many can't be touched by voting...or whatever passes for voting these days. The ballot box lies in ashes, and tomorrow we get word on the soap box. I can't say I'm optimistic.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
04/03/2023 17:38 Comments ||
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Totally agree with comments 5 thru 8.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
04/03/2023 18:43 Comments ||
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[YouTube] William Spaniel: Since the start of the war, Russia has made a number of apparently bad mistakes with its troop deployments and overall tactical decisions. This video explains why a good portion of them are a consequence of Russia's struggles with combat compliance. With soldiers reluctant to follow orders, Russia resorts to actions that command can verify compliance with, which ultimately leads to more Russian casualties than would otherwise occur.
[FOX] The U.S. Armed Forces have one mission: to protect our nation from foreign enemies. Our troops are as committed to that mission as ever before. But according to a bracing new report, our warriors’ ability to do their job is being undermined by civilian leaders more interested in woke indoctrination and partisan politics than warfighting readiness.
"The Report of the National Independent Panel on Military Service and Readiness" is an urgent warning about creeping politicization at the Pentagon and its corrosive impact on America’s national defense. As the report details, the Biden administration’s whole-of-government embrace of woke politics is becoming a dangerous distraction for servicemen and women who signed up to protect and defend, not virtue-signal.
The top-line statistics compiled in the report are jarring.
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At this point, it may be for the good as the intent to politicize the institution will make it less effective in putting down its own citizenry. There are a lot of middle grade veterans out there with real combat experience from the last 20 years.
[PJ] American and Canadian institutions — business, education, military, medical, legal, and government — have all intentionally instituted systemic discrimination against white citizens who are increasingly treated as villains or excluded entirely.
In the past, when the democratic norm of respect for the majority was taken for granted, white citizens, who make up strong majorities in both countries — 60% in the U.S. and 70% in Canada — did not suffer from racial discrimination. But with the adoption of the Marxist model of society, in which there is an oppressor class of villains and an innocent victim class, whites have been cast as the villains to be legitimately attacked and thwarted.
Today, the discrimination against racial minorities in the past is no longer seen as justification for equalizing rights so that all enjoy equal citizenship and equal opportunity but as justification for flipping the racial hierarchy and giving minorities rights and benefits which are forbidden to white citizens.
I can report this firsthand from universities, where I taught for fifty years. For a couple of decades at least, there was a double standard, with preference given to minority racial applicants over more academically accomplished white and Asian applicants. This of course was institutionalized in the U.S. by "affirmative action," transformed from President Kennedy’s insistence on equal treatment to President Johnson’s preferential treatment.
Today universities in Canada and the U.S. do not just favor certain minority races but systemically exclude other races, particularly whites, from fellowship support and from jobs as professors and administrators. It would be easy to offer hundreds of examples (see them listed on the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship website at safs.ca), but this one from the University of Ottawa illustrates the pattern:
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An on-going phenomenon for more than sixty years. LBJ's infamous quote about an Africanized electorate is unnecessary. He knew exactly what what he was doing and so has every politician since.
[FOX] Fox News host Steve Hilton lays out the Biden administration's 'seismic' and 'disastrous' foreign policy in the Middle East as China cozies up to more countries on 'The Next Revolution.'
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
