Category Archives: Culture
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”.
In the Course of Human Events…
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to another… pull down a statue of Thomas Jefferson.
Defunding the Police in the Land of CHAZ
Here’s a glimpse of what defunding the police looked like this week. Protesters in Seattle founded a new nation in the hood called CHAZ.
The cops ran away from Chaz without a fight. And the new national ruling elite seem to be using the abandoned police station as its capitol.
My cartoon below is an oldie from the 1999 ant-globalism protests in Seattle.
Property Can be Replaced, New Ethic in Minneapolis
Property can be replaced. In fact, destroying it isn’t violence according to NYT Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones. She also thinks the country was founded in 1619.
The Minneapolis 3rd Precinct station will need to be replaced. The cop’s ran away and rioters burned it to the ground.
Officials also stood by as looters destroyed minority owned businesses. Governor Tim Walz blamed outside agitators.
