Category Archives: Criminal Injustice

Bakari Sellers Steps Out As The New Star In The ‘Racism-Industrial-Complex’

Business, Criminal Injustice, Media, Politics, Race, Racism

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Bakari Sellers, a presentable young man, is a CNN commentator, a lawyer in a lucrative practice, and, naturally, a radical progressive. Here he is speaking on personal matters in what is clearly an accent almost indistinguishable from that of his CNN host.

A man with the political promise of Sellers, Esq., would be remiss if he didn’t entrench himself in the “Racism-Industrial-Complex” (Jack Kerwick’s coinage for this shakedown fraternity).

So, Sellers has joined the usual suspects, members of the “Racism-Industrial-Complex,” in doing battle against an embattled police force for the killing of one Andrew Brown Jr, “fatally shot by cops last week in Elizabeth City, [North Carolina, I believe] where witnesses say he was driving away when deputies opened fire on him. After the shooting, 7 deputies were placed on administrative leave and 3 resigned.” (TMZ)

I note that Laura Ingraham, far from a favorite of mine (see “A Traditionalist Lesson For Laura Ingraham“), had picked up on the issue of Sellers’ new twang. On that we can agree.

Female Officer Doesn’t Know Her Revolver From Her Lipstick

Affirmative Action, Crime, Criminal Injustice, Feminism, Gender, Law

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The female officer who killed a man, because she reached for her service revolver instead of her taser, is another item in the case made in this column, “Systemic, Institutional Rot: From Big Freeze In Texas To Fires In Cali.”

Clearly, Kim Potter accidentally discharged her weapon. She did not mean to kill Daunte Wright.  This only strengthens the case against women in the force. This was a veteran officer, who had worked for the Brooklyn Center Police for 26 years!

In my opinion. Weapons are just not natural to us.

I say this as my one piece rests on my desk; I’m never without it. (I use a revolver precisely because I’m pretty clumsy, and my digits aren’t even strong enough to rack the slide. Revolvers are female-proof.)

The video of the incident that was circulated by police shows the officer shouting out “Taser, Taser, Taser” before shooting, and then appearing to realise she had used a handgun instead. The officer, Kim Potter, … has resigned, and been charged with second-degree manslaughter.

This is a case, to quote from the column, “ Systemic, Institutional Rot: From Big Freeze In Texas To Fires In Cali, “of systemic stupidity; systemic rot. …”

“Things start to fall apart when the best-person-for-the-job ethos gives way to racial and gender window-dressing and to the enforcement of politically pleasing perspectives.”

The American government is marred, at every level, with similar set-asides, preferential hiring practices and affirmative action, which compromise an already compromised institution (the State, where incentives are inverted, as in the less efficient they are, the more funds government departments get). MORE.

And now, a policewoman, probably a very decent lady, is in a terrible bind, her life having been destroyed.

*Image credit is here.

NEW ON YouTube: DAVID VANCE AND I DISCUSS ‘DEEP TECH’!

Business, Criminal Injustice, Free Speech, Ilana Mercer, Paleolibertarianism, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Private Property, Regulation, Technology

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DAVID VANCE and I DISCUSS ‘DEEP TECH’! It’s a wide-ranging discussion, but it’s also “deep,” we hope.

David, who had upwards of 200,000 Followers on Twitter, was removed from that forum by the ignoramuses in charge, and he periodically gets sent to the YouTube doghouse by another set of equally asinine knaves.

My own (highbrow) content has been limited on Facebook’s (lowbrow) slum-dog forums. I’m throttled on Twitter.

Why? What have a demure writer, a mild-mannered broadcaster and many others like us done to give the billionaires in charge the excuse to make it hard for us to make a living? We distill the meaning of it all.

David and his producer, Ged, have created such a welcoming and interesting environment for me—yeah, I like those hard-to-find English niceties known as “manners” and professionalism—that we’ve decided to make the chat a regular thing.

I appreciate your support in sharing the segment and providing feedback here.

George Floyd’s Cause Of Death: Clear. Chauvin’s Criminal Intention: Harder To Prove.

Crime, Criminal Injustice, Justice, Law, Race, Racism

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“In the case of Mr. Derek Chauvin, a mindset of depraved indifference seems to jibe with the video of George Floyd’s expiration.” (From “Was The Cop’s Knee On George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!“)

Judging from the known facts, …  the chilling video recording in which Floyd expired slowly as he pleaded for air… Floyd begged to breathe. But the knee on his neck—“subdual restraint and neck compression,” in medical terms—was sustained for fully eight minutes and 46 seconds, causing “cardiopulmonary arrest.”

There are laws against what transpired between former Officer Derek Chauvin and Mr. Floyd.

And the law’s ambit is not to decide whether the offending officer is a correct-thinking individual, but whether Mr. Chauvin had committed a crime.

About Officer Chauvin’s mindset, the most the law is supposed to divine is mens rea—criminal intention: Was the officer whose knee pressed on Floyd’s neck acting with a guilty mind or not?

For fact-finding is the essence of the law. The law is not an abstract ideal of imagined social justice, that exists to salve sensitive souls. …

Considerations to tease apart are in, “Was The Cop’s Knee On George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!”

Comments from readers can be followed on this blog post: “UPDATED (8/22/): NEW COLUMN: Was The Cop’s Knee On George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!”

Derek Chauvin’s trial is live, on USA Today.