I have taught at universities in the US, the UK, Germany and China and I have published in numerous academic journals. I was active in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s demanding equal rights for Blacks. NOW I SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS AND DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL CITIZENS, INCLUDING WHITES AND MEN.
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To All, I took a trip outside the US for the first time in several years, thanks to the virus making things too uncertain. They were still uncertain for me. I am 20th century in many ways. If I text, on a phone, it takes me forever because unlike kids, my fingers hit the wrong keys on the small key-board. Then I must erase and try again. With poor eyesight, I often repeat the error. Frustration.
Though I had never been to the Philippines, I decided not to try a new place at age 84 and alone. I love Saigon (officially now Ho Chi Minh City), but I no loner know anyone there. Hanoi in December is NOT 90 F, so I was less inclined for that or Taiwan. I still have a friend in Bangkok, so that is where I went. My friend was working full time, and after work, had liver problems, so we were not together too often this trip. We did phone and had a few meals together, but some of the restaurants near my hotel had closed during the virus, so we ended one night just eating at my hotel. We did have a tasty meal at another restaurant after some wandering.
The hotel had not travel and tourist brochures. I was told many of the businesses that had supplied them had succumbed to the virus. Told to try the hotel's computer. Did so and found several notices about tourism in Bangkok, but when I phone the numbers listed, got the message that that number no longer existed.
Happily I had brought a tour book with me, borrowed from my local American library, and at the back, it had a general map of Bangkok and a map of the subway system. That was most helpful. I had hoped to have a side trip to a nearby beach resort, but as nothing seemed certain, decided simply to use the hotel's lounge area and swimming pool - which is always so cold, even in the sun.
The World Cup provided entertainment, even tho some of the games were shown beginning at 2am BKK time. Most were shown at 10pm, so I could enjoy most. In some bars chatted with other tourists from many parts of the world. Amazed to see the locals still wearing masks, while most Americans and Europeans went everywhere without them.
I did not travel there using America's Southwest Airline, but had trouble on the one I did, and got stuck in a part of the Tokyo air terminal, not allowed into the city or the larger part of the airport, and plane cancelled, and had to sleep on a bench there over night. When told the next day's flight could be cancelled too, I made other arrangements and left Tokyo to return to the good old USA.
I seem to have suffered more jet-lag this time and am still overly tired. I do hope to return to finishing my book soon. The big question today: will America be able to survive two more years of President Biden's policies? ---------Hugh Murray
I just posted this on a Newser site that discussed the many protests now occurring in mainland China.
And the globalist elite assert that Communist China is the role model for the future of the world! They think that because they favor slavery for most of us. The tragedy is that Biden (who has received millions from Chinese Communist fronts) is in the White House. If Trump were President with all the protests in Iran and China, we might have been on the threshold of a truly free world. Sadly, Biden is in the White House instead. We sorely miss Trump because of the scandal election of November 2020.
It was good to see that America's High Court finally took another look at affirmative action policy. My views are clear - for every one who is aided through affirmative action, another person is hurt by its related negative action. I see it as racist, sexist, ethnist, helping one race at the expense of another; helping one sex at the expense of the other, etc. I was involved in the early days of the civil rights movement, and then the demand was for equal rights for all citizens, for what Pres. John Kennedy said in his speech on the subject that our Constitution was color-blind, and what Martin Luther King, Jr. declared at the March on Washington in 1963 about judging people by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. Affirmative action is the denial of all that. It rejects the color-blind approach, and demands that people be treated differently depending on their race, ethnicity, sex, etc.
Some are pleased by some of the comments by members of the Supreme Court in the presentation of the cases by the attorneys on both sides. I am pleased to hear such judges criticize the policy. As in 2003 major corporations will submit friend of court briefs urging continuance of affirmative action. So has the high brass of the US military, contending diversity is our strength and universities must continue affirmative action so the military may have people of color officers. This occurred in 2003 when the issue was previously before the court.
My point in this posting - even if we win, even if the Supreme Court declares affirmative action un-Constitutional, it will not be the end of the struggle for equal rights. Over the past decades, the believers in quotas, in diversity, in affirmative action, have been hired in every personnel office, every human resources office, and their purpose was to impose quotas. Will they quite because of mere Supreme Court decision? Of course not. They will rally their base, especially the unqualified students admitted to universities, the unqualified workers hired and promoted because of these policies. This empire of the ill-qualified exists throughout America, ready tp defend its turf.
The military. During WWII, the armed services were generally segregated. It has sometimes been called the greatest generation. The American armed services certainly did their part in Europe, and led the victory over Japan in the East. After WWII, the American armed services became diverse. After WWII, America stopped winning wars.
Eleanor Holmes Norton led the fight agaisnt objective testing (on which blacks and Hispanics often did poorly as groups) Most such exams were banned by judicial decrees as "racist" in that they showed the real abilities of the exam takers. Norton pressed for lower standards, tests that almost everyone could pass, and then the government could force hiring by quota. Norton said all the new hires would be "basically qualified." But they would NOT be the BEST QUALIFIED. So the American workforce has become ever more mediocre in a more competitive world. Why not return to seek the best, not the bottom of the barrel?
Even if we win in the Supreme Court. all the commissars of diversity will still have jobs, with one intent, restoring racist, racial favoritism for their particular group. Their main job is to insure that the lesser qualified, the ill qualified, and the unqualified are hired, promoted, admitted to university, awarded scholarships, etc. The truly qualified minorities will be admitted without them. The positions of the diversity officers will be on the line. Expect protests, rallies, violence - a long and dirty fight. We must fight them for equal rights and the promotion of the best, the best worker, the best student, the best for America.
Last week in New York City, career criminal Argenis Rivera punched a woman who was pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller, then began choking her, screaming that she was a “white bitch.” He let go only to attack another woman, sitting on a bench, reading—apparently, also a “white bitch”—until he was scared off by a man with two dogs who came to the women’s rescue. This happened at around 1 p.m. in Hudson River Park, a nice area.
A few months earlier, Rivera had been arrested for punching a doorman in midtown Manhattan, the latest of about a dozen arrests. But under the law, he was immediately released.
In February, Frank Abrokwa, 37, was arrested for the 45th time. (Thanks, U.S. immigration officials! Another job well done.) Among Abrokwa’s most recent arrests:
On Jan. 7, he was arrested for hitting a 30-year-old man, a complete stranger, on a subway. Released without bail.
On Feb. 5, he was arrested for punching a 53-year-old man, also a stranger, at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Released without bail.
On Feb. 21, he was arrested for smashing his own feces into a woman’s face as she sat in a subway station. Released without bail.
On Feb. 22—the very next day!—he was arrested for shoplifting at a hardware store and threatening employees with a screwdriver. Released without bail.
All in all, New York’s no-bail law is working great! The law is called “no bail” but really means “no jail, not ever, no matter how many times you’re arrested.” How did such a dangerous policy become law? It seems that in 2020, Democrats finally gained total control of state government, the first time that’s happened since World War II, except for a single year in 1964.
And what was the first item on the Democrats’ agenda, literally the moment after they were sworn in? Crack down on Wall Street? Fill potholes and creaking bridges?
NO! They passed a law to ensure that no criminal ever spends a night in jail!
True, a lot more people are getting raped, stabbed, slashed, mugged and shoved onto subway tracks on account of the no-bail law. But for Democrats, protecting New Yorkers from violent attack is not the goal of law enforcement. The main objective of the criminal justice system is to ensure that it does not “worsen racial disparities,” as explained by the New York Times’ Mara Gay.
The law certainly achieved that! “Black bodies” are being kept out of jail like nobody’s business. SUCCESS!
As one of Rivera’s strangling victims exclaimed with relief, Thank God this black man was not already in jail when he attacked me. The possibility of my daughter growing up without a mother is a small price to pay to safeguard the self-esteem of any black person who happens to look up the racial composition of New York jails.
No, actually, that wasn’t her response at all. She said, “I thought I was going to die ... I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t get out... I don’t want to be here anymore. I want to leave. This doesn’t feel safe.”
By now, the word is out that if you commit a crime in New York, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO YOU. Rivera told his strangling victims, “Call the cops, I don’t care.” During one of his assaults, Abrokwa also taunted his victim, saying, “Call the police.” After the feces attack, he posted on Facebook, “I’m not posting Bail. Never Been Up North Never Will.”
Frank Abrokwa all smiles after arrest for feces attack
Even if you’re caught dead-to-rights, at worst, maybe you’ll have to waste a couple hours of your afternoon getting arraigned. And then you’ll be right back on the street.
But as the Times primly reminds us, people who are arrested are “presumed innocent until proven guilty.”
Liberals act as if we have absolutely no idea if the people the police arrest are guilty. Maybe he did it, maybe he didn’t. Who knows? I guess we’ll have to wait for the trial to see!
No, if the police make an arrest at all, they’re pretty sure the guy did it—that crime as well as five others. The trial, if there is one, is merely to confirm that he did it, not discover whether he did it.
Street muggings aren’t like murder investigations, requiring months of painstaking DNA analysis by forensic experts. If a criminal punches you and steals your purse, there isn’t going to be an “investigation.” The police either catch the guy, or they don’t.
If they catch him, it’s usually becausethe perp is on camera. There are witnesses and people who recognize him—his hat, his shirt, his face. Or he has the victim’s blood or property on him. Often, he’s still standing 20 yards away—as with the attack in the park, when the victims and witnesses watched as the police arrested Rivera at a nearby bus stop.
Democrats: You never know! Maybe he’s innocent!
Another career criminal, Lamale McRae, shoved a stranger onto the subway tracks last week. He was quickly arrested thanks to the exceedingly clear photos of his face, build and clothing captured by subway cameras as he takes a running leap to push a man onto the tracks. When McRae was arrested a few days later, even a child could see that it was absolutely, 100%, positively the same guy. He was even wearing the same distinctive bright yellow sweatshirt.
Articles about McRae’s arrest repeatedly refer to New York’s amazing facial recognition cameras as “controversial.” Huh. I wonder who they’re “controversial” with.
Liberals think public safety should be like a sporting event: The Police v. The Criminals. Unless the guilty have a decent shot at getting away with it, where’s the fun? The rules have to be modified to make the game more thrilling. High-tech subway cameras are like spitballs. Hey, no fair! It’s cheating to have cameras.
If that’s what you like, watch sports. But if you don’t want criminals controlling the streets, destroying neighborhoods and committing violent crimes in parks and subway stations, please vote Republican on Nov. 8.
The following is the work of Anthony Flood taken with approval from his website anthonyflood.com/2020/08 Hugh Murray
When fascists were frank: Another look at “We were the first fascists”
Talk of fascism is in the air; fascist violence, masquerading as opposition thereto, in the streets. Its appeal crosses racial lines, and it isn’t the first time. It seems opportune to republish “‘We were the first fascists’: from Garvey to Farrakhan.” — Anthony Flood
“We were the first fascists”: from Garvey to Farrakhan
On August 13, 1920 Marcus Garvey presided at the convention of the United Negro Improvement Association held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. There he promulgated the Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World. Its 54 points comprise the farthest thing from a fascist manifesto.
And yet, as my friend Hugh Murray noted a quarter-century ago, Garvey “admired . . . leading anti-communists, such as Mussolini. Indeed, in 1937 Garvey proudly proclaimed of his Universal Negro Improvement Association, ‘We were the first fascists.'”[1]
Here’s the full quote:
We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.[2]
He said this in 1937, after Mussolini consolidated his rape of Ethiopia.
While many liberals [Murray continues] are the first to hurl the word “fascist” at those with whom they disagree, they usually ignore the fascism of blacks, even when publicly advocated.[3]
A few years after Hugh wrote those words, King’s College Professor of American and English Literature Paul Gilroy came out with “Black Fascism” (Transition, Indiana UPress, 2000, 70-91), a scholarly monograph on Garvey’s boast, the first instance of Black public advocacy of fascism. I recommend it to students of this overlooked chapter of Black American history.
George Lincoln Rockwell, center
On June 25, 1961 American Nazi Party Commander George Lincoln Rockwell sat in the Uline Arena, Washington, DC (where the Beatles would give their first US concert a few years later). He was there at the invitation of Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Elijah Muhammad. Thousands were in attendance. During the collection, Rockwell shouted:
George Lincoln Rockwell gives $20!
That’s about $135 in today’s money. Malcolm X, noting the applause, asked him:
George Lincoln Rockwell, you got the biggest hand you ever got, didn’t you? [4]
This wasn’t a one-off: Muhammad invited Rockwell to speak at their next Saviour’s Day Convention, which he did on Sunday, February 25, 1962, before 12,175 people in Chicago’s International Amphitheater.
At the podium, in full Nazi regalia, Rockwell adjudged “that Elijah Muhammad is to the so-called Negro what Adolph Hitler is to the German people. He is the most powerful black man in the country. Heil Hitler!”[5]
Louis Farrakhan, NOI’s current Führer, has not only not repudiated his outfit’s past overtures to American Nazis, but has only reinforced his image as a Black National Socialist. Of course, there isn’t an American Nazi Party worth its salt to invite to a Saviours’ Day commemoration. (Farrakhan pluralized “Saviour” in 1983.) Instead he enjoys the admiration of Black Muslim members of Congress who share his anti-Jewish Weltanschauung and can promote it on a platform wider than the Uline Arena.
Whereas Farrakhan recently joked that he’s not an anti-Semite (only “anti-termite“) it’s the considered view of Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” When, under pressure from the Democratic leadership, she apologized, Farrakhan gently chided her:
Ms. Omar from Somalia—she started talking about ‘the Benjamins’ and they are trying to make her apologize. Sweetheart, don’t do that. Pardon me for calling you sweetheart, but you do have a sweet heart. You sure are using it to shake the government up, but you have nothing to apologize for. . . . Israel and AIPAC pays off senators and congressmen to do their bidding, so you’re not lying, so if you’re not lying. Stop laying down. You were sent there by the people to shake up that corrupt House.
Another Muslim congressional newbie, a 2006 guest columnist for NOI’s The Final Call, is Rashida “Impeach the motherf—–” Tlaib (D-MN). She wants the US to cut off aid to Israel because such aid “doesn’t fit the values of our country,” which “values” apparently include using an obscenity to refer to our country’s president. In front of her child.
Addressing both women, the Minister reminded his “beautiful sisters” that they “were sent there to shake that House up. Your people voted you in, but God is the overseer.”
Then-Senator Obama with Farrakhan and members of the Congressional Black Caucus, 2005
He was almost certainly at those “ecumenical” NOI events in 1961 and 1962. I would appreciate hearing from any reader who can eliminate the “almost.”
Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Bill Clinton, funeral service for Aretha Franklin, Greater Grace Temple, Detroit, MI, Aug. 31, 2018
[1] See J. A. Rogers, World’s Great Men of Color (New York: J. A. Rogers, 1947), Vol. II, pp. 602, 605.”
[2] 1937 interview reported by Joel A. Rogers, “Marcus Garvey,” in Negroes of New York series, New York Writers Program, 1939, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York. This remark seems to have been dropped from later editions of Rogers’s book.
[5] See Black History and the Class Struggle, Spartacist League, August 1994, p. 37. Those interested in researching this fascinating (if also disturbing) chapter of American history should start with William H. Schmaltz, Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell & the American Nazi Party, Washington,DC: Brassey’s, 1999. For the June 25, 1961 event, see Chapter 6, “1961: This Time the World,” 119-21; for February 25, 1962, see Chapter 7, “1962: A World Union of National Socialists,” 133-35. I’ve posted the text of these chapters here. See also Tristan Hopper, “The weird time Nazis made common cause with black nationalists,”National Post, August 24, 2017. Also useful is Mark Jones, “Malcolm X’s Unlikely Washington Connections,”Boundary Stones, February 21, 2015. The most comprehensive article I’ve seen is Sam McPheeters, “When Malcolm X Met the Nazis,”Vice, April 15, 2015. See also Hugh Murray’s 1994 letter to The New York Times and 1995 letter to The Chronicles of Higher Education. You can read them here.
[6] It probably got Malcolm killed. After he had called out Elijah Muhammad for serially impregnating his underage secretaries, Farrakhan (then “Louis X”) announced that “such a man is worthy of death.” He later regretted that his words may have led to Malcolm’s murder on February 25, 1965—two months after he uttered them.
Yesterday, we learned of the passing of the queen, Elizabeth II of England, Elizabeth I of Scotland - the same person. (Why not Elizabeth ii of Scotland? Think Mary Queen of Scotts). When the American news shows informs us that she also was head of the Church of England, that is the Anglican Church, that is true; Error Elizabeth did not become the head of the Scottish Church. Scots headed their church whic was not Anglican but closer to Presbyterian. However, when she crosses the border into Scotland, she becomes does not become head of the Church of Scotland. The Church of Scotland is basically a Presbyterian Church, and it recognizes only Jesus as its head. Charles will be the 3rd in both England and Scotland as the Stewarts, Charles I and Charles II, ruled in both kingdoms, though Charles I's reign ended when he was beheaded.
When Elizabeth was a youngster, a princess, she lived in the British Empire, the largest empire of modern times, dominating one fourth of all the land of the planet and dominating many of the seas. That was true as recently as 1939. By the time of the death of Elizabeth, there is no world empire, and even Great Britain seems to be unsure itself, with a border question in Northern Ireland and Scotland mulling independence. Elizabeth has reigned over the disintegration of the British Empire.
Though the British were among the victors of WWII, they had to make promises of more local government to various colonial people to get their support against the Axis. "The Jewel in the Crown," India and Pakistan, won independence in 1947. Under Elizabeth, in 1957 the Gold Coast gained independence as Ghana, and there was a Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. The Soviets, who supported anti-colonial movements with propaganda, money, and arms, did its best to disrupt the British in the Cold War. Of course, the Soviets brutally crushed independence movements in its own empire, but this interaction of empires has always been true.
Our media reports how Elizabeth was non-political. Generally, this may have been true. But not always. When Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher made an election promise to support the British in Rhodesia, the Queen interfered, leading to the fall of the white government and the rise of various corrupt leaders willing to exterminate the whites and kill the nation's ecemony. A few years later, The Queen interfered to prevent Thatcher from stopping sanctions against the government of South Africa. This led to the change in government, and the slow decline of infrastructure, and anti-white genocide (simply dismissed as "crime").
On the home front, is London still and English city? Recent statistics reveal, for private property in London today the largest property owners are Indians, second the British, third the Pakistanis. When in 1968 Conservative Member of Parliament Enoch presented his "Rivers of Blood" speech, about the dangerous outcome of large numbers of colonial immigration to Britain, Powell received no help from the leaders of his party, and certainly not from Elizabeth. Happily there have not yet been rivers, but certainly too many red pools.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy, "clean Gene," the Minnesota Democrat who opposed Pres. Lyndon Johnson's war in Vietnam and was very popular with the media in 1968, failed to with the Democratic nomination for President, and left political office. He did write several books, one in 1994 titled: A Colony of the World - The United States Today. The liberal media was less impressed by keen Gene in the 1990s. If this described America, it described England even more. The colonies had come "home" to roost. Perhaps that is Elizabeth's most lasting legacy.
A few days ago Pres. Biden accused a large portion of the Republicans, the Trump supporters, the Make America Great Again group, of being semi-fascists. Biden is wrong; He lies.
It is the Democrats who are the real fascists. The strongest element in the Axis alliance was Nazi Germany. In Nazi Germany, the leading variant of fascism, all your rights and privileges, or lack thereof, depended on your race, ethnicity, sex, gender. Top of the heap were straight, Aryan males; bottom, Jews. Beginning in early 1933, Jews in Germany slowly lost rights, were singled out for discrimination, lost their citizenship, the right to work in media, publishing, theater, etc. Eventually, the aim was to exterminate the Jewish race, and the Nazis killed about 6 million. Also low on the racial totem pole, Negerkinder, the children of French black occupying troops and German women during the 1920s. They were sterilized, faced discrimination, and had general problems. Japanese were deemed honorary Aryans, and provided the rights of Aryans residing in the Reich. Poles and other Slavs, down notches, and in conquered Poland, their leaders had already been murdered by Soviet occupiers, but there Poles were to serve the Germans. Some young Poles who looked sufficiently healthy and Aryan might be taken as children of Germans. With the rise of Anti-Semitism in the 1930s, Persia, which had been Persia for thousands of years, changed its name to Iran. It's people were not Semites! But in time, after promoting Jewish emigration from the Reich to "Palestine," the Nazis found new Jew-haters among the Arab Semites. During WWII, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem broadcast from Radio Berlin urging listeners in the Middle East to kill the Jews there. He even visited a concentration camp and approved of its work. The Irakis had a coup, overthrew the British, indulged in a kill-the-Jews pogrom, and established a pro-Axis regime, until it was quickly overthrown. When Rommel's army threatened to invade Egypt during the war, the Muslim Brotherhood prepared to join the Germans and destrou that nation's ancient Jewish population. (Wasn't the Muslim Brotherhood brotherly with Obama?) Though one method to discover secret Jews in Europe was for men to drop their pants, that method did not work in Muslim areas of what had been Yugoslavia. The Wehrmacht recruited many of these Muslims, who wore a fez as part of their uniform.
In America today, we follow the same Nazi policies of granting rights, or denying them, based on your race, sex, ethnicity, gender. The Democrats are the main proponents, but rich, liberal Republican usually favor these policies too. In theory, it is to destroy white privilege. What a lie! Elizabeth Warren would never have been a law professor at Harvard if she had been a white man. Or as a white woman. So Ms. Warren became an Amerindian, a "Native America." Zingo, suddenly she was qualified to teach at Harvard. But as a mere "native American" citizen, her application would go to the trash. She KNOWS white privilege is a lie. Her actions demonstrate that she knows it. Yet, Sen. Warren supports Affirmative Action, which is discrimination against whites, males, etc. It is hiring and promotion by quota, NOT by merit. It is a major cause of America's decline. It is a curse on the land.
Warren chose her "race," to get ahead, to avoid anti-white govt. discrimination. There are incidents when govt. officials will choose the box for you, perhaps not the one you want. Or the value of the box can change. Initially, Asians were among the favored groups, getting extra credit here or there, extra promotions, just because they were Asian. But in recent years, many Asians are no longer pets of the Democrats. They are seen as bad as whites, and now they are officially discriminated against by Harvard, by govt., and the Democrat cities allow black thugs (their unofficial Storm Troopers) to beat and kill Asians at will.
Under the Democrats, Civil Rights have become the opposite, special privileges for the pets of the Democrats, discrimination and punishment for whites, now north Asians, and who next? The Democrats have abandond the notion of Equal Rights, and they denounce that very idea; They have replaced it with Equity - preferences for their pet crowd; no rights for the others. A new IRS army of 87,000 armed tax collectors aimed, as under Obama's Lois Lerner, to destroy conservatives.
In Biden's America, all are equal, but some are more equal than others. Whites, like liberal super rich billionaires Bill Gates or George Soros or the Zuckerbergs, the tech giants, Hollywood, or CEOs, you can pay to play. Other whites, get otta the way. The FBI under Obama took Sheryl Atkinson's laptop, cost her her visible job at CBS, and went after other reporters and even their parents. One FBI agent assured his girl friend that he and his agency would prevent Trump from ever becoming President. When Trump became President, this cabal in the intelligence agencies would not stop. One of the first acts of the FBI was to trip up Gen. Flynn, threaten him and his child with bankruptcy, and disrupt the new Administration. Then the FBI created fake charges of Russian collusion, - years of expensive investigation and media attacks on Trump, that should have dissolved with the Mueller Report. Then, two impeachments. And now the FBI raid on Trump's home. The leadership of the FBI, CIA, and other intel agencies has become a disgrace.
The Democrats are the party of racism. They follow the formula of the Nazis. And in the past few years, the Democrats, and their fascist ideology, show more and more contempt for free speech, freedom af assembly, and freedom in general . The Democrats are now the party of racism and fascism.!
Let’s hope Merrick Garland’s search of Mar-a-Lago is based on more evidence than his indictment of the Louisville, Kentucky, police officers involved in the raid on Breonna Taylor’s house.
That passive construction I just used—“involved in the raid on,” instead of “who raided”—is not sloppy writing: It’s the facts. The officers who actually shot Taylor have not been charged, apparently on the flimsy grounds that they were being shot at when they fired.
Instead, our lunatic attorney general has indicted officers who prepared the affidavit used to obtain the warrant to search Taylor’s home. In the words of the indictment, the affidavit “contained information that was false, misleading and out-of-date…and that the officers lacked probable cause for the search.”
Further, the indictment also alleges that the officers knew they were providing false information.
Breonna Taylor, you will recall, was the moll for drug dealer Jamarcus Glover, one of Louisville’s biggest suppliers of cocaine and fentanyl, and therefore by definition a murderer. On March 13, 2020, the police executed simultaneous search warrants on two of his “trap houses” as well as the home of his bagwoman, Breonna.
At Taylor’s house, police announced themselves and got no response. They announced themselves again; no response. They announced themselves again; no response. Finally, they used a battering ram to enter. Almost immediately, an officer was shot.
The man with Taylor, Kenneth Walker, claims he shot at the officers because he thought the guys pounding on the front door and yelling "POLICE!" were home invaders. Skeptics will say that’s implausible, but it is now treated as hard fact in such solid, reliable news sources as The New York Times.
The officers returned fire and hit Taylor, who had the misfortune to be standing next to her boyfriend as he was shooting at the police. Riots ensued. Taylor’s family got $12 million.
Kentucky’s criminal prosecution of the one officer charged ended in an acquittal. With last week's suit, the federal government is now bringing its own criminal charges against the police—in a sane world, this would be double jeopardy—alleging that the affidavit for a search warrant was based on information that was knowingly “false, misleading and out-of-date.”
Specifically, the feds say the following claims were false:
Glover and Taylor had an “ongoing connection”;
Glover used Taylor’s address as his residence;
Glover received packages at Taylor’s address.
While it can be murky determining the precise relationship status and residence of a drug dealer, especially when he works out of three trap houses and has multiple girlfriends, those three claims are not false. They are “true.”
The cops didn't lie; the indictment does.
Did Glover and Taylor have an “ongoing connection”?
Their relationship dates back to at least 2016, when Taylor loaned Glover her rental car, only to have the police show up at her door to ask about the dead body in the trunk. The dead man turned out to be the brother of one of Glover's criminal confederates.
But that was four years before the raid! Surely, Breonna wised up after the body-in-the-trunk incident and dumped Jamarcus like a hot potato. Right?
Nope! Taylor continued bonding Glover out of jail through his many arrests from 2016 to 2020. He called Taylor from jail at least 26 times during those four years—that can be proven—including on January 3, 2020, three months before the raids. During that call from January 2020, the two talk about sleeping together and exchange "I love you's."
On January 2, 2020, police installed a pole camera to observe one of the crack houses in response to numerous violent assaults in the area. The very day the camera went up, Taylor’s car was seen pulling up to the house, dropping off Glover. On Feb. 13, 2020, Taylor drove him there again, and while waiting for him, got out of her car, in full view of the camera.
GPS tracking showed his car driving to Taylor’s house six times in January 2020 alone.
But this is a dry recitation of police evidence. Glover’s baby mama (not Breonna) is more colorful. In a recorded jailhouse phone call the day after the shooting, she told him: “This bitch (Breonna) where she’s been with you, since you ain’t been over at my house ... the same day you post a picture I guess she post a video, you knew it because she said what’s up she was in the bed with you, you kissing all over her.”
Glover repeatedly assures the irate baby mama that Breonna just kept his money for him—and that thousands of dollars were still at her house.
Now, where in the world would the police get the idea that Glover and Taylor had some sort of “ongoing connection”? It's a puzzlement.
Did Glover use Taylor’s address as his “residence”?
Again, what constituted Glover’s “residence” is a bit of a philosophical question because, in the words of his baby mama, “You bounce back and forth between these bitches.”
But he had to give the bank an address. He gave them Taylor’s—as confirmed by the police with subpoenaed bank records they obtained on Feb. 24, 2020, mere weeks before the raids. He also had to give police a phone number when he filed a complaint in February about his car being towed. He gave them Breonna’s number.
To the extent that a major coke dealer with a string of ladies has any fixed address, Glover’s address was Taylor’s house.
Did Glover receive packages at Taylor’s residence?
This one’s the easiest to answer. The police had photos of Glover carrying a USPS package from her house on Jan. 16, 2020. His car pulls up, he walks into her house empty-handed, then emerges carrying the USPS package. (Whereupon, he drove directly to a trap house.)
The hilarious part of this charge is that according to the indictment, it is based on the word of U.S. Postal Inspector Tony Gooden, who has been giving interviews all over, saying that in January 2020, his office investigated whether any “potentially suspicious packages” were being sent to Taylor’s house. But after a thorough investigation, he reported, nope, no suspicious packages!
That search must have been exhaustive.
Even the lawyer representing Taylor’s family wasn’t stupid enough to deny the packages. Amid a blizzard of fanciful claims about Taylor and Glover’s relationship—They’d broken up years ago! They barely stayed in touch!—the lawyer admitted that Taylor “accepted packages” for Glover.
Yeah, we know. There are pictures. The only people who don’t know are the Louisville postal inspector and the attorney general of the United States.
This fall, the Democrats will try to convince you that they support the police. Why, look at how well we treated the cop who shot Ashli Babbitt! Never forget that this is the party that spent 2 1/2 years—and counting!—trying to destroy Louisville police officers for risking their lives to take down a major drug ring.
I was surprised to find different reactions to the trip by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan this August 2022. She had earlier announced that she would go, the government of the People's Republic of China objected. There was debate in the US. Pres. Biden asserted that the American military discouraged her trip. Pelosi planned to stop in Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, and South Korea, as well as Taiwan. Some hawks in China threatened to prevent her from landing or even shoot her plane down. On the other side, some conservative Republicans thought her trip a good idea, and hoped she would ask them to accompany her. She did not announce her specific plans, but on Tuesday 2 August she arrived in Taipei, was presented an award by the leader of the island, and soon thereafter, continued to her next destination.
I was shocked by Pat Buchanan's reaction, contending that she was risking war with China with no specific purpose. Even more surprising, the reaction of Fox News star Tucker Carlson, who deemed her Taiwan venture, irresponsible, dangerous, a provocation to a war with China.
I am usually an opponent of every political act my Speaker for the past few years: her impeachment of Pres. Trump; her 2nd impeachment of Trump, the January 6 one-sided inquiry into the fracas on the Capitol, her support for the Democratic Party pandemic policies, and her left-wing agenda. Why then do I support her reviled trip to Taiwan.
When House Speaker Newt Gingrich visited Taiwan in the 1990s, the PRC may have objected, but so what? The American military and naval forces were far superior to those of the People's Liberation Army. True, on the Asian mainland, the PLA's "volunteer" forces stole an American military in North Korea, and restored the border to where it had been when Kim Il Sung invaded the South in 1950. But the US had no desire to invade the mainland now. The American navy, which had defeated that of Imperial Japan in the 1940s, was far superior to that of the PLA-N in the 1990's.
The question of who would win a war for Taiwan today is not so clear. In war games, China often wins. But games are not reality. Still, it would be a closer call. On Wednesday morning, I was pleasantly relieved when I turned on my tv, and it worked. A first strike attack today will not be like one on Pearl Harbor in 1941. We will not find out by listening to our radios or tvs. The first thing to go in the star war age will be our electric grid and satellites. We may not have electricity, a phone, or water. Welcome to America 1820. Or China may suffer that black-out. Nukes may not be necessary to win a modern war.
So why risk war with China for a non-essential visit by Nancy Pelosi? The main reason, as close as the 2 contenders are today, the US and the PRC, under Pres. Biden - the worst President in America history, our military will only get worse. Better a confrontation today than a year from now. The sooner a Republican is in the White House, America and begin to rebuild and repair the broken machine where a major ship is destroyed by a minor fire in the docks, and others cannot be properly steered so as to avoid collisions, and leaders are chosen by racial or sexual quotas, not on abilities. Better the fright today so that perhaps some can begin to repair the Democratic Party caused damaged. This is why, for once, I cheer Nancy Pelosi, whose visit may make a wake-up call to all America about the real danger we face.
Now the dull stuff: About 94% of our chips are made in Taiwan. These are used in many American industries, and without them, we cannot finish auto production, or make washing machines or most other machines. If China were to impose a blockade around Taiwan, that too might mean war. Unlike Ukraine, we are dependent upon Taiwan, we need it to remain an industrial power.
China lost Taiwan to Japan in war in the 1890s, and it remained Japanese until the Imperial defeat in 1945, when it was restored to the official govt. of China, the Nationalist govt. In China's civil war Pres. Truman sent Gen. Marshall to handle things and he demanded that Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek form a coalition government with Communist leader Mao. Chiang refused Marshall's demand, so Marshall refused to allow any arms to be supplied to the Nationalists, while Stalin was supplying Mao with captured Japanese arms from Manchukuo and Soviet sources. Communists in the US Treasury Dept. and other departments sabotaged any later efforts to supply Chiang with aid. Mao won the civil war on the mainland and proclaimed the PRC in 1949. Chiang and his remnant fled to Taiwan and continued as the Republic of China. In the effort to split the USSR from China, Kissinger and Nixon made deals with Mao. Under Pres. Carter, we ditched The RoC, and recognized the one-China policy.
Legally, that one-China policy gives Beijing a strong claim to Taiwan (it is harder to imagine Taiwan now conquering the mainland, which would also be a one-China policy). But the PRC ignores the law, especially when the international court ruled against its fantasy claims to the South China Sea. In the 1400s the Chinese probably had the largest fleet in the world and might have claimed that sea, but a new emperor around 1450 destroyed the fleet and all plans for such ocean-going vessels and established a new stay-at-home policy, which was not reversed until centuries later. But China ignred the law and used forced to build and fortify islets in the South China Sea and threaten its neighbors and all sea-going vessels in the area with its lawless actions.
