Thorner/Ingold: What would life be like without a police force?

By Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold –

In the words of Thomas Hobbes, (1588-1679), an English philosopher considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy, “Nasty, Brutish, and Short.”  As John Daniel Davidson wrote in his June 5, 2020 article, ‘Abolish The Police’ Is A Slogan For The Destruction Of America:

“If you thought ‘abolish the police’—or it’s more moderate iteration, ‘defund the police’—was just some asinine slogan blue-check journalists, woke academics, and pandering public officials post on Twitter to show they support the Black Lives Matter movement, then you’re not keeping up with the revolution.”

“This week Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, announced the city would be slashing the police department’s budget by $100 to $150 million and instead “reinvesting in black communities and communities of color.” The cuts to the LA police will make up the bulk of $250 million in funds to be reallocated to “end racism in our city,” Garcetti said. How exactly those millions will be spent remains unclear, but the mayor has in mind investments “in jobs, in education, and healing.”

On June 7, 2020, amid calls from protesters demanding that New York City yank funding from the New York Police Department, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is going to do just that.

Fellow Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a primary debate Friday that she was actively advocating for a “reduction” of the New York Police Department’s budget, which she said was taking away from potential investment in housing.  https://www.wnd.com/2020/06/poll-reveals-many-americans-actually-want-defund-police/

A day later, June 8, 2020, Minneapolis councilors vowed to abolish the city’s ‘toxic’ police force after the death of George Floyd.  Although City’s mayor, Jacob Frey, opposed the move, councilors have a veto-proof three-quarters majority.  The Plan would involve defunding police service and reinvesting money in community services and prevention.

In Washington D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser wouldn’t answer questions about removing a “defund the police” inscription which activists painted on a D.C. street. Bowser’s office had commissionedlocal artists and activists to paint “Black Lives Matter” on the street on Friday, June 5. 2020.

Not surprising is that celebrities including Lizzo, Chris Martin, and John Legend have signed an online petition demanding divestment from police departments.

As  reported by Thomas Catenacci of the Daily Caller News Foundation, according to a YouGov poll just 16% of Americans support cutting funding for police departments.  The YouGov poll was conducted with Yahoo News on May 29-30. The poll surveyed 1,060 U.S. adults.

As to the idea that funds would be diverted from the police department to provide social services to minorities. Historically speaking, very little money is diverted to the supposed beneficiaries. Over 90% goes to the social service staff and expenses, thus earning the loyalty of the true beneficiaries – dozens or hundreds of public employees.

The least we can do for our police officers is to ensure they have the best possible training and equipment – and enough funding for adequate staffing. When our communities hire police officers, we ask them to risk their lives to keep our families and neighborhoods safe.

According to the FBI, 89 officers were killed around the nation in the line of duty in 2019. These deaths were a tragedy that should not be ignored.

This is not to say that there aren’t rogue cops. By law, police and other public officials are given “qualified immunity” for their actions. This is related to the sovereign power of states granted in the Constitution. Collective bargaining agreements, however, and policies controlling most public employees make it difficult if not impossible to terminate unfit and incompetent persons unless and until something like the Floyd incident illuminate the flawed individual(s).  Action is then swift and appropriately.

George Floyd’s killer Derek Chauvin had over a dozen complaints, yet he remained on duty and even was involved in training new cops. Two of the 3 cops with him on that fateful day were being trained by him. Great example!

Sir Robert Peel leads the way in policing

The concept of a professional police force was largely unknown before the innovations of Sir Robert Peel in England in 1829. Prior to that time municipalities formed their own means of law enforcement without any standards of conduct or training. Sir Peel defined the organization and ethical standards which exist today throughout the civilized world.

Looking further back in history, the “law” applied mostly to the will of a monarch and his surrogates. Who can forget the infamous Sheriff of Nottingham? In medieval times, law was enforced by local rulers and warlords, using gangs of armed men employed at their pleasure. The common thread is that enforcement was on behalf of an individual or select group under his command, and well into the Renaissance at the behest of religious leaders or an ideology. The law itself was often subverted to those interests.

Little attention was paid to lesser disputes, which were often resolved personally and violently. The 30-year Hatfield-McCoy feud defines the conflict between familial and political differences. The duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr left one of our founding fathers dead and the other in a life of disrepute.

We have all witnessed devastation in the 20^th century caused by loyalty of the enforcers to an individual or ideology rather than the Constitution and the law. Germany in the 30’s and 40’s is a prime example, but no less in modern Iran. Warlords rule Afghanistan, despite attempts to form a representative government based on the rule of law. Outside of Europe, only a handful of the 200 or so countries are governed on behalf of their citizens.

We don’t have to look far to see modern examples of feudal rather than constitutional law enforcement. Drug cartels control the law in Northern Mexico in their own self-interest. The “protection racket” persisted in large US cities through the 1970’s (perhaps later) where you paid someone to avoid “trouble”.

Today most gang warfare is largely over drugs, by whom and where they are sold, and enforced violently. “Protection” for private business has evolved to selective code enforcement for those who don’t toe the political line.

Alternatives to law enforcement?

What are the alternatives to law enforcement based on the Constitution and the law?  Is it an ideology based on race or religion?  Are some more equal than others (as in “Animal Farm” by George Orwell). One has doubts over the preeminence of the Constitution, since those calling for dissolution of professional police departments have shown it little regard in the past.

Even close oversight has unintended and dangerous consequences. For example, the 2016 consent decree imposed on the Chicago police department by the Obama DOJ coincided with a 50% increase in homicides and violent crime. Following the consent decree, police stops decreased to only 20% of previous years. Each stop obliged the officer to fill out three pages of a report, taking at least 20 minutes. It became far more attractive to investigate crime scenes than suspicious activity or individuals.

Whatever comes out will probably not affect the personal protection provided to high city and state officials, at a cost of nearly $1 million per year for each.

Nov. election peril for Trump?

According to “Free Market Warrior” Loren Spivack, popular author, economist, political activist, and highly sought speaker on economics and small government:

 “The November election is going to be close.  This is because our country is so evenly divided. Half the country despises Trump, as much as the other half loves him.”

“For Trump Law and order is not only a winning issue, it’s a landslide issue.  Trump needs to get in front of this, and the time is now. (He’ll lose the election if he appears impotent in the face of chaos.)”

“Everyone sympathizes with George Floyd. Virtually no one, outside the professional left, sympathizes with the looters and rioters. This is being done to change the trajectory of the election. Trump can turn the narrative around completely, and change the course of American history, if he acts NOW.”

The following guidelines were proposed by Mr. Spivack for Trump to follow:

1. He needs to make a national speech committing the full resources of the federal government to law and order wherever it is challenged.
2. He needs to declare the Corona Virus lock down over, from coast to coast. It has clearly contributed to the frustration we’re seeing exploding in streets. And no one is taking it seriously anymore, anyhow.
3. He needs to federalize the National Guard and send it to wherever rioting is happening.
4. He needs to promise that anyone looting, rioting or destroying property will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If the local authorities won’t do it, it will be done at the federal level (yes, there are several ways of doing this.)
5. He needs to promise that he will veto any federal aid to rebuild what is destroyed by the rioters. This is important. The Democrats are going to want to federalize the damage by having the red states, in effect, pay for the blue state rioting. Everyone, especially the blue state Democrats, needs to know, up front, that they’re paying for the damage they allow.
6. The Justice Department needs to investigate the networks that are organizing and coordinating this rioting behind the scenes. This didn’t all just pop out of nowhere. I smell a rat. And if they look into it, they’ll find one.

Republican blame misplaced

Why is it that Republicans, and especially Trump, receive the blame for things they are not responsible for fixing? It is because Democrats and liberals have the responsibility but do not get the blame for not fixing?

Minneapolis is just such an example, as is Chicago, Detroit, NYC, LAS, SF, DC, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, St. Louis.  All have one thing in common: Wall to wall, end to end, sea to shining sea Democrat governance and union dominance, and trouble; racial tension, poverty, debt, union dominance, corruption, and riots. But not to worry, they will fix it soon.

Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia.”  Kimball had this to say in his article published on May 31, 2010, Those Burning Our Cities Aim to Destroy Our Civilization: 

“There is some macabre irony in the fact that while most of the country is “locked down” by the diktats of the health police, enforced by power-mad governors and those aspiring to power in city councils and mayors’ offices throughout the country, abetted by virtue-signaling sheep who scream at their neighbors if they get within six feet of them or appear in public without a mask, thousands of vicious criminals are given leave to loot and burn and pillage. The rules about “social distancing” are suspended so long as people are bent not upon making their living but destroying the livings of others.”

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 11:22 AM | Permalink

Monday, June 08, 2020

Thorner/Boese: Who is George Floyd? False Narrative of Systemic Racism

By Nancy Thorner & Al Boese – 

Co-author, Al Boese, recently read a story about a policeman’s harassment of an African-American who is an educated and accomplished, successful financial advisor.  The story is found here.

The experience of the African-American financial advisor in the story is likely only one of many experienced by black people from all segments of their population and is odious, patently unfair and has no place in a civilized society. Maltreatment by law enforcement and public officials of any innocent and law-abiding person is unconscionable and intolerable irrespective of ethnicity or zip code.

What happened to George Floyd is an outrage and inhumane behavior by deeply flawed individuals (including the 3 cops who simply stood by and allowed the atrocity to continue), who should never have been allowed to serve as police officers owing to their past record.

But despite the despicable behavior of the three policemen in the murder of George Floyd, as in past situations, what the media conveniently failed to report was that Floyd had landed five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and robbery two years earlier, and before that, had been convicted of charges ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs, the Daily Mail reported.

Not that any of this would have mattered or should have mattered to the thousands of protesters who took to the streets, for George Floyd’s murder was viewed as a symbol for police brutality against blacks.

As a side note, collective bargaining agreements and policies controlling most public employees make it difficult if not impossible to terminate unfit and incompetent persons unless and until something like the Floyd incident illuminate the flawed individual(s). Then, action is swift and appropriately so.

 

Systemic racism?

In our country, sadly racism does occur among the general population, and obviously in police forces as well. However, to identify the existence of racism in the nation as systemic is a very wide brush of accusation that is not supported by facts, but that is of little comfort to anyone who becomes a victim of the vile practice of racism.

So what is happening? What the vast majority of Americans find offensive and objectionable is not the color of a person’s skin, but of their behavior. Tragically, data supports the fact that, and for many truly systemic reasons, a disproportionate number of African Americans commit serious crimes and are therefore disproportionally arrested, convicted and serve time for those offenses. This then gives the impression of systemic racism, especially among the police.

An op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal by Heather Mac Donald on June 2, 2020, pushed back on the notion that there is widespread systemic racism in American law enforcement, The Myth of Systemic Police Racism.

The article is worth reading to better understand the facts and the reality. It is not an apology or disregard for the despicable action that took Mr. Floyds life, but so we can better understand what is going on and focus on weeding out the bad apples rather than degrading all police officers and leaders who in substantial numbers are good and well-intended, and in whom the general public and specifically the African Communities rely to keep them safe.

It is a paradox that a high majority of the black population on the one hand distrust the police but is in desperate need of their presence to keep their communities safe and protected. And, it is tragic that the unrelated radicals among the protesters choose to destroy business and property in the very neighborhoods that belong to and serve the people who live there.

Mac Donald notes that while Floyd’s ultimately fatal arrest was horrifying, it is not “representative of the 375 million annual contacts that police officers have with civilians.

 

Crime determines arrest, not race

 

A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing, Mac Donald writes; rather, crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions. As to the evidence Mac Donald writes:

“In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population.

Mac Donald further highlights violence that was committed against blacks over the weekend in Chicago and notes that the reason that blacks die from homicide at a rate 8X higher than whites and Latinos combined is not because of the police, but because of crime.”  85 were shot, 24 fatally, over Memorial Day weekend, Chicago’s most violent weekend of 2020.

If Black Lives Matter, except when blacks kill blacks as over the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, what about Black Police?  Do their lives matter?  Perhaps not, as there is no media or activist outrage for Mr. Dorn, except among family and friends.  So, where is the outrage; it doesn’t exist because David Dorn was a cop resisting anarchy.

John Kass got the irony of the situation across effectively in his Chicago Tribune commentary of June 3, 2020, “Is anyone taking a knee for David Dorn?”  As Kass related:

“Dorn was African American. He was unjustly killed. His life mattered too, didn’t it?  But there aren’t any protests for Dorn, no public kneeling in his memory.

Dorn, 77, was a retired St. Louis police captain. The other night, as violence raged in St. Louis, Dorn was alerted to an alarm at a friend’s pawnshop. He did what law enforcement officers are expected to do. Dorn answered the call. He tried to stop a gang of looters. The details are incomplete, but we do know he was shot to death.  And there is a video.”

 

Burt Prelutsky opines

As to why Democrats keep calling this country racist, in spite of twice electing a black man as president, Burt Prelutsky, a CA writer whose daily witty, political commentaries can be subscribed to by contacting Burt at burtprelutsky@icloud:

“The Democrats call the country racist because their very existence as a major political party requires that they pander to the lowest common denominator in both races, but particularly to blacks.  Without continuing to receive 90% of black votes, they not only couldn’t win the presidency (they haven’t carried the majority of white votes since 1964), they would have a tough time electing governors and mayors.

As for ‘systemic racism,’ it’s what they had in the South during the days of Slavery and then, for another century, Jim Crow.  It meant that racism was official state policy that mandated poll taxes; separate, but inferior, schools; segregated water fountains, lunch counters, theaters and bus seats.

These days, if anyone makes even a slightly racist remark, he can write off a political career, at least if he’s a Republican.  Even Joe Biden came in for a tongue-lashing when he accused blacks who couldn’t choose between him and Trump of not being authentically black.

In a sense, he was telling the truth, but when it comes to race, people are not supposed to speak their minds.  The exceptions to that rule happen to be blacks, including politicians and Al Sharpton, who have based their entire careers on demonizing white people.

During the Great Depression, Hitler told the poor and starving Germans that it was all the fault of Jews.  Here in America, black politicians enjoy the same success by blaming black poverty, ignorance and a through-the-roof illegitimacy rate, on Whitey”

We will never be able to get this business right, if we persist in the double standards: against Republicans, Conservatives, Cops, Corporations, Private business owners, black or white, anything goes in the name of justice.

Monday, June 08, 2020 at 09:35 AM | Permalink

Thorner: An Unvarnished Look into China’s Bio-Weapons Program

Thorner: An Unvarnished Look into China’s Bio-Weapons Program

By Nancy Thorner – 

Clare M. Lopez is Founder/President of Lopez Liberty LLC.  On Wednesday, May 20, 2020, Thorner was invited to listen to a two hour Zoom webinar meeting featuring Ms. Lopez. Two topics were discussed.  Already posted at Illinois Review on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, was a discussion by Ms. Lopez about Islam and Iran

Today’s submission by Thorner covers the second half of Clare Lopez’s May 20 lecture webinar, which delves into China’s bio-weapons program. In it you will find fascinating and thought-provoking information that can be found on the Internet, but finding it takes much time and work.

Clare Lopez began her lecture with these word: “We are 5 months into it in this nation, but in China it started way before. There isn’t much talk about where the virus originated, but there is talk of Wuhan, a major, modern and gleaming skyscraper city, capitol of Hubei Provence, located in south central China.”

There are two laboratories located in Wuhan: 1) The Wuhan Center of Disease Control, a level 2 lab geared to a certain level of handling of viruses and bacteria and 2) Wuhan Institute of Virology, a level 4 lab and the highest category, where the most dangerous scourges of mankind are dealt with like Anthrax, the Plague, Smallpox, Ebola, and the entire family of coronaviruses.

Ms. Lopez suspects the latter named lab as the possible or likely source of the coronavirus until other evidence comes forth.  According to Lopez, the virus may have gotten loose out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab by mistake in November of 2019 or possibly earlier in October.  Lopez’s reasoning is based on the panic ked response from China. Unprepared for the virus to have gotten loose, China responded accordingly:

• Silenced doctors and researchers who were trying to warn the world.
• Ordered virus samples to be destroyed.
• Allowed flights to be continued to the rest of the world out of Wuhan but not to the rest of China.

China’s massive biological warfare program

Ms. Lopez went on to enlighten viewers about the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That lab, and dozens of other labs, are part of a massive biological warfare program in China.  Lopez believes how we came to understand the Soviet Russian biological warfare program is much like what is now occurring in China. Two defectors came out from Russia in 1990 and the early 1990’s at a time when the Soviet Union was in a state of collapse.

Explained by Lopez was how Russia had a network of civilian laboratories in this nation.  Once the laboratories were revealed, the real programs were placed under military and KG B control, and the places revealed became showcases.  Mrs. Lopez suspects the same thing is happening in China, even as the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab is getting lots of attention.

Concerning was this statement by Lopez “that the Wuhan Institute of Virology may not be the lab where the deadliest research is going on.”  What especially concerns Lopez is the lack of questioning taking place in this nation about China’s biological warfare program.

Lopez made a point in explaining that everything she cites is sourced through extensive on-line research.  This includes her May 11th Newsmax article, Coronavirus Didn’t Spring From Nothing, published on Monday May 11, 2020, which she used as the basis for the remainder of her lecture.

As to China’s bio-weapon program, the Chinese Communist Party, wh ich rules China, would rather not have us dig into it.  Accordingly, the Chinese Communist Party leadership has quite a lot of influence here in the U.S. on University campuses with the establishment of Confucius Institutes and the 1000 Talents Program, which shovels money into universities.  There have been arrests made of respected professors associated with the 1000 Talent s Program who took money, never revealing income that came from China.

Since some of our best labs for all kinds of research are found in our elite universities, deep penetration exists. Penetration has likewise taken place within government itself.  An example was given of Diane Feinstein, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had a Chinese spy working for her for many years.  An appropriate question to ask is who vets staff?  Maybe no one, but maybe no one cares.

The media has also been infiltrated with obvious pro-Chinese slant, giving the benefit of doubt to China, with cautionary advice not to break relations with China or to apply more sanctions.  Such has resulted in a massive penetration of our American system.  As to no questions being asked, this is China’s preference.

 

China’s cover-up demands clarification by U.S.

It is very telling that on May 6, 2020 the PRC ambassador to the United Nations, Chen Xu, told reporters that he would not allow the international community to investigate the source of the novel coronavirus “until after a ‘final victory’ against the disease”, which said Lopez, “sounds like an indefinite postponement.”

Although U.S. requests were made to visit The Wuhan Institute, visas were denied.  But what about the many other facilities scattered among China’s military and defense establishments?

Ms. Lopez would like to see more clarity coming from elected officials and Trump administration officials.  Lopez spoke about the appearance of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on May 3 on the ABC News program This Week, where he answered that he did not disagree with experts who say the SARS and Covid is manmade; however, moments later Pompeo agreed with a statement from the Office of the Director of National Security that the IC concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.  It can’t be both!

The U.S. leadership must speak openly and clearly about Beijing’s advanced Biological Weapons Program (BWP).  Although this particular coronavirus may have escaped a CCP lab accidentally, Lopez believes its creation was anything but unintentional.

 

China ignores international law

Ms. Lopez then went on to talk about international law and treaties.  The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) opened for signatures in 1972 and entered into force in 1975.  Out of 194 countries in the entire world, 180 countries signed.  Even though this nation had a very serious biological weapons program which began in the 1950’s , it was ended in 1969 under President Richard  Nixon, three years before this nation joined the initial signatories in 1972 of the BWC, which prohibited the development, production, stockpiling or transfer of any BW agents or Toxins that that have no justification for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes.  China has been a signatory to the BC Convention since November 15,1984 to today.

The coronavirus, perhaps one of the most common viruses on the face of the earth, is a disease-causing microorganism that falls under BWC prohibition for development for a biological weapon.  There is a whole family of coronaviruses, which includes SARS, MERS, H1N1, the common cold and all kinds if flu. Deaths from the flu every year in this nation year can run 30,000 to 60,000 individuals.

 

Studies confirming China’s bio-weapons program

Although Ms. Lopez spoke of how time consuming it can be to find information about the Chinese Communist Party’s bio-weapons program, she indicated that open sources could be found on the Internet.

Mentioned was a 2001 Pentagon report, “Proliferation: Threat and Response.” in which the Pentagon stated: “China is believed to possess an offensive biological warfare capability based on technology developed prior to its accession to the BWC in 1984.”

Also mentioned was a study by Dany Shoham, a former Israeli military intelligence official who hold a doctorate in medical microbiology.  Shoham’s April 2015 study concludes that Beijing has “ 12 facilities affiliated with the defence establishment, plus 30 facilities affiliated with the PLA, that are involved in research, development, production, testing or storage of BW.”  42 is a large number, even allowing for overlap.

More recent articles cited by Clare Lopez about China’s offensive BW program follow:

• An August 2019 Department of State report raising concerns about whether China was complying with its BWC commitments, “assesses that China possessed an offensive BW program from the early 1950s to at least the late 1980s”, which would put China’s noncompliance date well past the PRC’s 1984 ratification of the BWC.
•  A January 26, 2020 Washington Times article by Bill Gertz cited Dany Shoham on the likelihood that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a key facility in China’s BW program. The Chinese will say that its research is only offensive in nature, but it’s both offensive and defensive.

 

“Gain of Function” – Chapel Hill research

One of the clearest indicators that Wuhan Institute researchers were working on BW-related coronaviruses is the December 2015 ” A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence,” which describes “gain of function” efforts that created a hybrid virus non-existent in nature.

The so called “Bat Lady” was one of the authors of the before mentioned study, along with some American researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  The “Bat Lady” traveled all over China looking into caves where there were bats, collecting samples to bring back to laboratories for research.

“Gain of function” happened, when using a CRISPR tool (described as a micro level scissors) a lab technician was able to manipulate genetic sequences by snipping out and then snipping something else back in.  Three genomic sequences were combined:  1) snippets from the original SARS virus, 2) from HIV (which causes AIDS), and 3) from bat viruses found in China.  The result was a coronavirus more capable of human transition from person to person and more able to get inside our lungs cells to do damage.

Ms. Lopez reminded listeners that a virus is not alive, as the definition of life is the ability to reproduce all by itself.  Instead, a virus is a micro-organism.  As an organism the coronavirus depends on living cells (our cells) to get inside the machinery of our own cells to reproduce, which, in turn, causes our lungs to churn out more coronavirus cells.

The research done at Chapel Hill enabled the coronavirus process to happen more rapidly in humans.

 

Wrap up:  Books and a chilling CCP’s message to this nation

 

Although Clare Lopez’s background was that of a Russian expert, she is now immersing herself in Chinese studies.  This has enabled Lopez to gain good insight as to why China is behaving the way it does, not only to its own people, but with utter disregard for the lives of people around the world.

Ms. Lopez suggested three books to understand how Xi Jinping and the CCP’s top leadership think.

•  Art of War by Sun Tzu’s 500 B.C.:  A collection of sayings that has a lot to say about warfare.  Important to Lopez was the part that dealt with the psychology of warfare, how deceit was uppermost in importance in waging warfare.
• Unrestricted Warfare written as a Masters’ thesis by two students for the PLA and published by Communist China. Types of warfare are listed that most would not think of as warfare, such as financial, economic, diplomatic and biological.
• 100 Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury speaks of time period from 1949 – 2049 when the Chinese leadership believes China will become the sole power on the face of the earth.

In closing, Clare M. Lopez spoke of a chilling and secret speech of Chi Haotian translated into English in 2005. Haotian was China’s Defense Minister from 1993 to 2003 and Vice Chairman of the CCP’s Central Military Commission.  In the speech Gen. Chi openly referred to the CCP’s intention to militarily defeat, occupy, and colonize the U.S.  And what of 330 million Americans? The CCP will be ” using special means to ‘clean up’ America“, i.e., ” new bio-weapons.”

Friday, June 05, 2020 at 02:47 PM | Permalink

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Thorner/Ingold: America’s Pandemic of Lawlessness and Rage

Mark Weyermuller photo of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile Rolex store

By Nancy Thorner & Ed Ingold –

Dangerous mobs of far-left groups are running through our streets and causing absolute mayhem. They are destroying our cities and rioting – it’s absolute madness.

President Trump has made it clear, he will not tolerate their disgusting acts of violence against innocent citizens and has vowed to designate Antifa as a terrorist group.

An article by Scott Lively published June 1, 2020 , Obamagate and the race riots, had this to say about the anarchists who are launching a national campaign of mayhem and rioting.

“Isn’t it interesting that Black Lives Matter and Antifa anarchists launched a national campaign of mayhem and rioting at the start of the weekly news cycle in which the fully exculpatory Michael Flynn transcripts were finally released to the public? The trigger, was, of course, the outrageous and possibly deliberate George Floyd killing, conveniently carried out in full public view and captured on video for instantaneous social media virality. I predicted on April 22 that the elites would orchestrate a new crisis as soon as it looked like America would regain her equilibrium, and it seems this may be it, or at least the first salvo in a new campaign of chaos.

“The main purpose of the rioting, as was true of the now-waning COVID-19 Pandemic, is to spread fear. Fear is what keeps a sizable portion of the American people “sheltered-in-place,” and that phenomenon of social destabilization is the key to preventing economic recovery. An orchestrated economic depression is, of course, the cornerstone of the elites’ plan for taking down President Trump (which I again predict will fail).”

Chicago mayhem

A Chicago Tribute commentary by the Tribune staff on May 31, 2020, was all about the George Floyd protests and how the National Guard would only have a “limited presence.”

How did that work out?  What followed was mayhem in Chicago.

Business owners who had worked all their lives to build, spending their fortunes, having been closed for 3 months because of the coronavirus now find their businesses  completely gone.

Ingold remembers a grassy strip of land bordered by 59th street and Midway, just south of the University of Chicago, extending to the lake. It looks like a park. Before 1968 it was built up with shops and apartment buildings, but all was lost in the race riots later that year. The rubble and shells of buildings are gone, and the skeletons are now covered with grass. It was never rebuilt.

Liberal mayors are apologizing for the “protesters.”  The mayor of Aurora invited them to city hall to meet with her and the police brass. Hugs and kisses, but two hours later, the Aurora mall was looted. To them, the situation is this or that , but it’s more complicated than that.

There are legitimate protesters who march, carry signs and make a lot of noise. That is their right, to peaceably assemble. But there are also onlookers, who clog the streets, agitators who instigate acts of violence (perhaps to provoke police to react against the patsies they push to the front), and opportunists who take advantage of the chaos to smash, loot and steal.

Except for the provocateurs, these roles are highly fluid. The agitators are easily recognized from the air. They keep 5 or more layers between themselves and the police, throw things at the police, then calmly turn and walk back into the crowd. Police have found pallets of bricks mysteriously located in the protest zones, and boxes of glass bottles, apparently delivered to be thrown at police or windows.

This is not 1968. The city not only has flying patrols, there are 32,000 video cameras feeding directly into police headquarters, and thousands of private security cameras as well.  It is surprising that the police aren’t using drones to surveil the protesters. It would be rather simple to equip such drones with infrared cameras. Most of the agitators wear masks, even in pre-COVID situations, which are relatively transparent to near infrared (800-1200 microns).

On the federal side, we know that the NSA monitors nearly all cell phone call logs, and the phone companies and Google (reluctantly) can pin the location of callers and receivers to within a few feet, with atomic-clock accuracy. They can run but they can’t hide (for long).

They’re not that good at hiding. These aren’t seedy characters, sleeping on park benches. Many of the agitators have good jobs, even as academics. Two lawyers were arrested in New York for attempting to fire bomb police cars, including a Princeton graduate. They poked the sleeping bear this time, and Bill Barr is on the case.

Where are Jackson and Sharpton?

And just where is Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton?  Is something brewing?

Self-serving politicians can be heard jabbering away on cable news networks about systemic racism in America.  Over this weekend, 10 black people were killed in Chicago. But their deaths were generally ignored because they were murdered by other blacks and not by the police.

CNN’s favorite civil rights leader Al Sharpton, who has started a riot or two of his own in the past, took the Minneapolis mob to task; not for their criminality, but for their lack of discernment. What annoyed him about the Minneapolis mob was that the black barbarians were burning down black-owned stores and not just those owned by whites and Asians.

You would think by now that city leaders would know what a stupid tactic it is to sit back and let riots simply play out for fear that a push back by the cops would merely incite further violence. It’s fortunate that the folks at the Pentagon don’t adopt that practice at time of war.

What made New York the safest big city in America during Rudy Giuliani’s tenure as mayor was that he adopted what he called the broken window syndrome.

He realized that if one building on a block had a broken window and nobody bothered to repair it, soon there would be a lot more broken windows. He knew that nihilism was the predictable next step when people stopped caring enough to fix a window or report a crime or began to lose respect for authority.

Soros and paid protestors

Well-funded anti-American interests, like George Soros, are investing in the complete takeover of the United States by supporting Antifa-backed and other anti-American groups and individuals in their looting and burning of dozens of U.S. cities in the pursuit of all out Communism.

This video shows a paid George Soros protestor opening up to TYT politics reporter Michael Tracey at a Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) town hall back on March 21, 2017.  Although the interview was done over 3 years, it is pertinent to today.

The unnamed protestor indicated, “We all get paid, you know.  Any time you are given the opportunity to protest and someone will pay you to do it, that’s like twice as good than doing it on your own time.”

The protester didn’t hold back in telling how to contact George Soros to become a  paid protestor, having been told that if he was willing to gather more names, he could get paid like twice as much for every name, kind of like setting up a pyramid scheme.

Admitting to becoming rich by protesting for Soros, the protestor admitted to organizing most of the protests seen in CA. For him it’s all due to being paid. He then wished more people would know about Soros, so we could start a movement,

Why wasn’t this unnamed protestor arrested at the time?

Since many of the states and cities hardest hit by the rioting and destruction, occurring mostly in minority communities, absent strong leadership in the Democrat run states and cities involved, President Trump must restore order, even if it means calling on the U.S. military.

Wednesday, June 03, 2020 at 02:04 PM | Permalink

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