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They Murdered Her for Saying All Lives Matter
Murdered by the insurgency, her three year old will never know her
It is a season of remembering names. I am adding one to the list. She was shot dead on July 5 in Indianapolis for exercising her First Amendment rights by responding to mostly peaceful rioters proclaiming that black lives matter with “all lives matter”.
Her name is Jessica Doty Walker, and these hate mongers canceled her permanently. The cowards pulled guns on her and her friends, who responded in kind. So the BLMers deescalated, bumped fists, and waited nearby in ambush for them to leave and then fired from cover.
These are the fruits by which we can judge the current violence and the politicians that indulge and enable it. The message is simple. Elect a man rapidly progressing to a vegetative state who will surrender to Xi and the insurrection, or they will continue to escalate the violence. Like Jenny Durkan, the Seattle Mayor, Indianapolis mayor Joe Hogsett is a former US Attorney nominated by Barack Obama.
On June 1, Former President Obama decried the violence that continues to erupt:
First, the waves of protests across the country represent a genuine and legitimate frustration over a decades-long failure to reform police practices and the broader criminal justice system in the United States. The overwhelming majority of participants have been peaceful, courageous, responsible, and inspiring. They deserve our respect and support, not condemnation — something that police in cities like Camden and Flint have commendably understood.
On the other hand, the small minority of folks who’ve resorted to violence in various forms, whether out of genuine anger or mere opportunism, are putting innocent people at risk, compounding the destruction of neighborhoods that are often already short on services and investment and detracting from the larger cause. I saw an elderly black woman being interviewed today in tears because the only grocery store in her neighborhood had been trashed. If history is any guide, that store may take years to come back. So let’s not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it. If we want our criminal justice system, and American society at large, to operate on a higher ethical code, then we have to model that code ourselves.
Second, I’ve heard some suggest that the recurrent problem of racial bias in our criminal justice system proves that only protests and direct action can bring about change, and that voting and participation in electoral politics is a waste of time. I couldn’t disagree more. The point of protest is to raise public awareness, to put a spotlight on injustice, and to make the powers that be uncomfortable; in fact, throughout American history, it’s often only been in response to protests and civil disobedience that the political system has even paid attention to marginalized communities. But eventually, aspirations have to be translated into specific laws and institutional practices — and in a democracy, that only happens when we elect government officials who are responsive to our demands.
I agree with these words. Would that his political progeny were as dedicated to reform within a framework of civil order as these words demand rather than condoning broad insurrection.
In unrelated news, background checks for gun purchases nationwide were four times more numerous in June 2020 than June 2019.
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Yes they do. Reminds me of something Costner said in Open Range. “A man will tell you his bad intentions if you listen, let yourself hear.”
And when push comes to shove, remember that “Deserve’s got nothin to do with it.”
This is a big country with a lot of people.
We can pretty much say anything about a group and it’ll be true for some number of them.
Yeah, “they” want a civil war. “They” can include violent white supremacists, anarchists, Marxist revolutionaries, pyromaniancs, maybe even a couple of dissatisfied Amazon customers. And if you can find two of them, you can accurately say, “They want…”
Are we anywhere near a critical mass of people who want a civil war? No way, not even close, not even off the ground, not even measurable.
We recently had a post about overplaying one’s hand. Radicals tend to surround themselves with like minds, then imagine that everyone feels like they do, then imagine their vision has some path to success. They are almost always wildly mistaken.
The challenge of trying to keep one’s head through all this is understanding who exactly supports what.
The support for violent conflict in the United States by radical groups is infinitesimal. Loud, but for practical purposes, zero.
The recent looting and riots were driven by several disparate groups of differing ideologies. Trick birthday candles burn longer.
No appetite for continued conflict in this country.
My guess is that the appetite for meaningful dialog is huge, but there is no place to find it, no place to engage.
It doesn’t help that within the national structures of both of the major political parties, there is definitely no room to engage. All is either loyalty or betrayal anymore.
Exactly.
I hope you are right.
Yes, “they” can. The difference is that the Democrats see Marxist revolutionaries as good because the Party is committed to a Marxist/Alinskyite agenda and is putting radical Marxists in positions of power. The Republican leadership, despite the Left’s propaganda, does not see dissatisfied Amazon customers and violent white supremacists as useful allies and excludes them from leadership positions.
The anarchists are basically the SA, the Marxists are the high Party leadership. The anarchists are a side show, but will probably suffer a similar fate to the SA if the Party consolidates its hold on power, with the modern twist of CCP style social credit, only via a joint project of the IRS/Google/Twitter/and, if Biden can be relied on, the Postal Service Bank.
The IRS has already been politicized by Democrats (with the collusion of the anti-Tea Party Republicans and the (R) branch of the swamp is still swamping away today,) the tech giants are already doing this, and the USPS has been promised a new lease on life as a social control agency by the presumptive Democrat Presidential candidate.
When your enemy tells you his intentions, take him seriously, particularly if he has or is acquiring the capability of doing what he intends to do.
How can you say that!? Betrayal!
There’s also a very popular Canal St in New Orleans, isn’t there?
No no, unarmed black TEEN. You know, like 18-year-old adult, 6′ 4″ tall, 292 lb Michael Brown who was trying to grab a cop’s gun…