GUNS ( Part 1: The Chauvin Trial )

 

The Chauvin Trial: Justice in the Era of Racial Equity and Political Partisanship 

The Chauvin verdict is in and the mob has been appeased.  Wait no, they have just moved on to the next outrage.  Remember, the goal is to convince you that America is systemically racist.  The police are racist.  Voting laws are racist.  The filibuster is racist. Not admitting DC and Puerto Rico into the union is racist.  Healthcare is racist.  The border is racist.  Hell, according to AOC and her band of merry progressives, even climate change is racist.  You’ll have to explain that last one to me. Apparently the left has weaponized racism and is using it to bludgeon conservatives into retreating on every progressive talking point, making a sensible discussion of the issues impossible.  Especially when one side has essentially resorted to name-calling.  And don’t get me wrong, Derek Chauvin is a persona non grata on the right as well.  This cretin opened the door to the narrative that we have to “fundamentally change racist America” and “defund the police” by his callous disregard for the well-being of his fellow man in obvious distress, regardless of Mr. Floyd’s criminal record, drug abuse, and the infamous gun held to the pregnant woman’s belly during a home invasion. No angel was he.  But he didn’t deserve to die in the street and be deprived of due process.  Yet he also doesn’t deserve to be canonized by the left. And while on the subject of due process: Since when in America do we disregard the effect of outside influences placed on a non-sequestered jury?  CNN essentially doxed them all, providing detailed descriptions of their ages, races and professions.  As Glenn Beck pointed out, in a parody of the Dating Game (Google it, kids): he’s a 30 year-old white, chemist, married with two children.  Gee, I wonder if his co-workers in the lab can put that together when Frank is mysteriously out of work for two weeks? And how about the pig blood smeared on the front door of a witness’ home? And the reprehensible and utterly self-serving Maxine Waters inciting the mob to violence should the verdict not be to their liking?  Incredulously, even Biden weighed in and issued a statement.  And how about that mob that assembled outside the courthouse every day? Does anybody have a job anymore?  But here’s what I really gleaned from the trial and all those expert witnesses:  unless a knife was plunged into the victim’s heart, or perhaps there’s a large bullet hole in the forehead, pathologists frequently have absolutely no idea what actually killed the victim.  The most important determining factor on autopsy would appear to be which side is picking up the tab.  And in all that testimony, not one word in the media about the most common side effect of fentanyl: respiratory depression.  Another complication, although rare, is “stiff chest syndrome”, a poorly understood phenomenon that results in muscle contraction and rigidity of the chest wall with the patient being unable to exchange sufficient air resulting in the inability to breathe.  Might that account for Mr. Floyd claiming he couldn’t breathe when he was standing upright, unmolested, restrained only by handcuffs?  Nothing.  Crickets.  Even the judge provided a qualifier as the jury headed to deliberation, chastising the mob, and that includes you Maxine, for seeking to influence the jury.  Such is the state of justice in America. She may claim to be blind, but she sure has become politically correct.  And now we find that a juror seeking his 15 minutes of fame, a sad commentary on our times, lied on his questionnaire and had appeared at a BLM rally that featured Floyd’s family.  But we’ve seen this before.  Recall the jury foreperson in the Roger Stone case who lied about her background, actually being a failed Democrat candidate, and a vehement anti-Trump activist.  But Obama appointed judge Amy Berman Jackson let that one slide, and Stone was convicted.  With that precedent, this appeal should be of interest.

The Woke Movement

.....Jordan Peterson best describes what is happening to us.....

“Culture is always in a near-dead state, even though it was established by the spirit of great people in the past. But the present is not the past. The wisdom of the past thus deteriorates, or becomes outdated, in proportion to the genuine difference between the conditions of the present and the past. That is a mere consequence of the passage of time, and the change that passage inevitably brings. But it is also the case that culture and its wisdom is additionally vulnerable to corruption—to voluntary, willful blindness and Mephistophelean intrigue. Thus, the inevitable functional decline of the institutions granted to us by our ancestors is sped along by our misbehavior—our missing of the mark—in the present.”

More Thomas Jefferson

My favorite Jefferson quotes are as relevant today as they were in his day. Take heed, you Democrats he speaks to the same planks in your party’s platform that you all so vehemently support:

"When we get piled 

upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, 

we shall become as corrupt as  Europe."

"The democracy will cease to exist 

when you take away from those 

who are willing to work and give to those who would not. "

"It is incumbent on every 

generation to pay its own debts as it goes. 

A principle which if acted on would save 

one-half the wars of the world. "

"I predict future happiness for 

Americans if they can prevent the government 

from wasting the labors of the people under the 

pretense of taking care of them." 

"My reading of history convinces me 

that most bad government results from too much 

government. " 

"The strongest reason for the 

people to retain the right to keep and bear arms 

is, as a last resort, to protect themselves 

against tyranny in government. "

 "To compel a man to subsidize with 

his taxes the propagation of ideas which he 

disbelieves and abhors are sinful and tyrannical. "

It has been asked, how did Jefferson in his time know our fledgling government was  going to be subjected to these kinds of affronts in the future? Because in his superior intellect he was a student of the history of European forms of government that preceded our founder's efforts, their distortive political machinations, their rise, and fall. And, in that keenly aware that those that fail to remember the failures of the past and guard against them, are destined to repeat them. 

             

 

Don't Be Deceived

The end game here: de-incentivize self-sufficiency in subsidizing your subsistence. In other words, kick back you layabouts, and your government will take care of your every need. Of course, the government, in its infinite wisdom, will also tell you what those needs are to be. Again let me borrow from Thomas Jefferson:“... beware the government wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”  And, make no mistake, that's what Socialism is all about, robbing the labor of the people for the good of a single-party state. The governing class, the politicians,being the sole beneficiaries of that theft!

Vice vs.Virtue

As Americans, we've got to get our heads straight again. This division promoted by the so-called Progressives as a means to their desired end, that of fundamentally changing the governance of our country, is fundamentally wrong. There is no better governance platform than our representative constitutional democracy-driven Federal Republic. Simply because it is structured to ensure we the people decide its ultimate practice, not some self-appointed autonomous entity or contrived cabal. If one takes the time to read our constitution, they would realize its writers recognized the inadequacies, the biases of all governing forms that preceded it, and provided a composition for the people to prevail in attempts to corrupt it. The Progressives have systematically tried to undo those provisions, intentionally misinterpreting their intent and purpose; through politicization, circumventing the checks and balance of its protocol. We must choose virtue over vise if we are to preserve the dignity of all human life, observe common decency, traditional values, and morals, be united in their support. Be the Americans that only we can be!

The Zeitgeist of the Dissidents

We no longer abhor deviants and dissidents but lionize them; we no longer subscribe to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and self-reliance but entitlements, reparation, welfare, and mob rule. Social disorder has run amuck in our cities. We are encouraging lawlessness, racism, and insurrection in our actions and inactions. Covid caused us to disengage, become islands unto ourselves, insensitive to the division and chaos engulfing our country, worst tolerant of it! It's no longer a question of civil rights but right and wrong-,one of law and order. Once known or suspected inadequacies in our governance were debated and resolved in legislation and courts of law, not taken to the streets in violence and vengeance. That was not the way of our American representative republic but that of Banana Republics. We are regressing!

Irrational

Those that feel they can extort favor by threatening violence are only to incite disfavor and violence in return. The Black Community best take heed of the MLK teachings than that of the BLM extortionist. It is beyond me why those creditable spokespersons and champions of our Black brethren’s civil rights, and there are many, are not being heard above the din of the likes of Sharpton and Waters. See, the make-up, rhetoric, and antics of their supposed, taken to the street’s protesters, turn to burning, looting mobs, and saying they represent their civil rights movement? These are not my Black peers, colleagues, and friends. And, those thought to be privileged Whites preaching Americans are Systemic Racists having no basis for their provocative claims yet persist in spewing this false narrative to further inflame Race relationships We persist in being irrational.