Category Archives: crime
Violent Protests Ignored at Mostly Peaceful DNC
Violent protests burned Milwaukee and other major cities. But they were the unmentioned elephant in the room at last week’s DNC.
The Democrats bend their reality toward a referendum on President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, but they bend it away from any mention of growing violence in American big cities run by liberal Democratic administrations.
John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Peaceful Demonstrations Trashing Cities
Peaceful protests? President Clinton might say, “it depends on the meaning of “peaceful.”
A BBC headline in June reported, “27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London.”
And ABC News continued the trend last weekend reporting that “peaceful demonstrations intensified” in Oakland. Rioters set a courthouse on fire and assaulted police officers.
President Obama once said that shovel ready jobs “weren’t as shovel ready as we expected.”
Peaceful protests don’t seem to be as peaceful as we expected.
Counterpoint in Portland
This is my Counterpoint cartoon from last week. It appeared alongside a Rob Rogers cartoon and here’s what I had to say about it:
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler joined the mob Wednesday night and got booed and teargassed for his efforts. And I got a cartoon idea. But my sketch contained a couple of mental maneuvers making it tough on the poor reader. Not only that, my lefty Counterpoint counterpart Rob Rogers didn’t care for the whole point of the thing. He thought Mayor Wheeler had done a splendid job over the past 50 days during which the mob trashed his town’s working class shopkeepers. And, “oh, by the way,” Rob added, “why don’t you tweak that cartoon and just have the woman say, “Where’s the mayor when you need him”? Perfect. Thanks, Rob, you ignorant slut.
Defund Police to Avoid Trouble and get Votes
New York City just defunded its police to the tune of $1 billion. That’s 17% of the law enforcement budget. Murders there are up 21% over a year ago but the funds will be redirected to social services.
“It’s almost like someone thinks there’s a benefit to keeping people divided.” That’s the last line of Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone critique of the #1 best seller “White Fragility”.