Reprising an article germane to what we are seeing in Russia today. I happened across this in the Rantburg archives while searching for something else entirely, posted on 21. October, 2005. Link goes to the Rantburg post by anonymous5089, who commented:
Reader Jack Fulmer sent me the following item, which appeared a century ago — 13 September 1905 — in the Gay Paree edition of the New York Herald:
Holy War Waged
St. Petersburg: The districts of Zangezur and Jebrail are swarming with Tartar bands under the leadership of chiefs, and in some cases accompanied by Tartar police officials. Green banners are carried and a ’Holy War’ is being proclaimed. All Armenians, without distinction of sex or age are being massacred. Many thousand Tartar horsemen have crossed the Perso-Russian frontier and joined the krazed killers. Horrible scenes attended the destruction of the village of Minkind. Three hundred Armenians were massacred and mutilated. The children were thrown to the dogs and the few survivors were forced to embrace Islamism.
Plus ca change, eh? Last week Islamists killed a big bunch of people in Nalchik, the capital of the hitherto more-or-less safe-ish Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. True, in our more sensitive age the Herald Tribune’s current owners, the New York Times
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The old republic was never set up to be a world power. The needs and ambitions of a world power require the concentration of authority, power and accumulation and expenditure of wealth that are inconsistent with a republican form of government. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Power becomes its own end.
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Anyone have a river or two handy?Government-created levees prevent those rivers from doing any good.... until they fail catastrophically, and then all bets are off...
[LawEnforcementToday] Is FBI data an accurate portrayal of US Crime?
No, The FBI does not Measure Crime.
The FBI measures REPORTED crime.
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) uses data from 125 of the 154 police agencies serving cities and counties with a population of 250,000 or more who report to NIBRS.
Any bets, who runs the 29 Metros NOT reporting/providing crime data?
Some will note the lack of meaningful demographic elements for National Crime Database started with the BLM / ANTI-FA / WOKE / TRANS / LGBT?? related protests and violence for years 2020+.
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And they even don't count all reported crime, if it does not meet their guidelines...
Running things by the numbers is generally a good way to keep tab on things. The problem is you need some discipline and honesty because it is always easier to cook the books than do the job. Once you start doing that, you are boned as far as using the numbers for anything useful.
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.
Is FBI data an accurate portrayal of US Crime?
