George Carroll moved from Texas to Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, New York. He was threatened by a neighbor with a box cutter so he moved again, with his wife to the safer neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York.
Correa and another man chased Carroll and his wife down the street before stabbing him to death.
As last ditch effort to get save his life, George Carroll threw his cell phone at his attackers. It did no good.
One state over, in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese survived an ambush attack by drawing his own concealed weapon and firing back at his attacker. His attacker was then shot by a probation officer.
Two spontaneous attacks. Adjacent states. One man dies, stabbed to death for looking at a career criminal. Another man lives by fending off his attacker with a gun.
Christina Romero Carroll should not have to bury her husband. The city of New York should be disposing of the body of Gary Correa. But the laws of New York cost George Carroll his life, easy on criminals and hard on law abiding citizens.
I don’t know if George Carroll knew how to use a gun, but as a native Texan I’d like to think he did.
The next time some innocent man is chased by two assailants for merely making eye contact, rather than throw a cellphone, he can launch some hot lead their way. Until something drastic changes, New York will continue to be a place where human garbage have a nearly unfettered ability to prey on the law abiding.
Of course the destruction of a monument is a crime. It doesn’t matter if the monument is offensive. It doesn’t matter if the the people that destroyed the monument feel that it glorifies racism and slavery. It is still a crime to attack public or private property.
“She is an inspiration to watch. She gave a brilliant interview, was arrested, came out and had a big smile on her face. She is resilient and smart and knows she’s done something that has awakened the conversation around race.”
Other professors have tried to get Ms. Thompson a scholarship. Yes, public university professors are trying to reward her, financially, for being a criminal.
Except she wasn’t defending herself. She was attacking a guy for carrying a flag. Again we have someone is trying to redefine the word crime to not including violence against something that offends her.
Dartmouth Professor (again, a Leftist teacher) Mark Bray said the same thing over the weekend on Meet The Press.
Antifa activists often don’t hesitate to destroy property, which many see as the incarnation of unfair wealth distribution.
“Violence against windows — there’s no such thing as violence against windows,” a masked Antifa member in Union Square told CNN. “Windows don’t have — they’re not persons. And even when they are persons, the people we fight back against, they are evil. They are the living embodiment, they are the second coming of Hitler.”
Crow explained the ideology this way: “Don’t confuse legality and morality. Laws are made of governments, not of men,” echoing the words of John Adams.
Who on the Left cares about property rights when something is offensive. It can be destroyed without consequence.
Here is the problem where is ultimately ends. Some poor dude in Colorado got stabbed because of his haircut. Apparently his high fade was just too neo-Nazi chic and some radical had to teach him a lesson.
When the message is “it’s not a crime to attack and destroy things you find offensive” we are all fair game to these radicals.
I thought I would post part of one of the most important speeches given in American history.
Given the tearing down of Confederate statues and Iconoclasm of American history I wanted to turn to the the words of Abraham Lincoln at his second inaugural address.
To put this speech in perspective. The Civil War would end within a few weeks of this speech. The Confederacy had effectively been defeated. The 13th Amendment had been just been passed by Congress. America needed to be healed after four terrible years of war.
Lincoln was known for his rather short speeches. His second inaugural address was no different, it started out with him saying so.
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first.
Lincoln then addresses the war and slavery in two paragraphs. He ends with these words.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Lets look at the first part of his closing one more time.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
He then goes on to say.
[L]et us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphans.
Lincoln could have very much celebrated the victory of the Union. He could have chastised the Confederacy, and rubbed their noses in their imminent defeat. He could have been vainglorious in saving the ship of state.
But he didn’t. His speech was modest. He knew that the defeated Confederates would soon enough be his countrymen again and he wanted to end the war with no hard feelings. Only “malice toward none” and “charity for all” would bring lasting peace and not fuel the fires of resentment.
What we are seeing today is the antithesis of Lincoln’s desires. The quote of the zeitgeist might as well be “with malice toward all, with charity for none.”
How sad it is that when we fail to teach the facts of history we forget the lessons of it.
Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. It seems that America right now has been doomed to repeat the darker days of history.
I am going to have to disagree with Miguel’s assessment a little bit on where and when America is pulling its current batch of troubles.
America isn’t 1938 Germany, it is 1789 France. I actually think that’s worse.
To be entirely honest, I really don’t see Antifa or a some marginal number of neo-Nazis actually setting up concentration camps in the US. That’s just too much work for them. Setting up that kind of infrastructure and mechanized death machine is beyond the capabilities of a bunch of snowflakes with degrees in Anti-Whiteness Transgender Studies.
That is the good news.
Here is the bad.
Let’s remember our French Revolution history. The indulgences of the monarchy had pissed off the people of France. Unlike the American Revolution, which pretty much had two sides, Tories (Loyalists) and Whigs (Patriots/Revolutionaries), the French broke up into a number of factions.
Two of the most significant revolutionary factions in France were the Jacobin and Sans-Culottes. the Jacobin were an elite club of wealthy anti-Royalists. The Sans-Culottes were working class French citizens. They were groups naturally would have disliked each other along class lines, but formed an alliance against the Monarchy.
The Jacobin did not like to get their hands dirty. They were wealthy elite. What they did was whip the Sans-Culottes into a violent frenzy and had the working class actually fight the forces of the King.
The non stop debasement of Trump and his supporters by the Democrats and media, not just actual-factual Nazis, but all supporters as racist, sexist, homophobes, fuels it.
Brit Hume is now a Nazi because he Tweeted about this article criticizing Antifa.
Democrat elected officials and members of the press are part of the #Resistance by turning Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and a whole motley assortment of other (mostly college age) activists to be their Sans-Culottes boots on the ground.
This is not a Wermacht like army, this is groups of angry, violent young people smashing things. The French Revolution, for that matter, was not fought by regular armies or trained militias as much as it was bouts of violent uprisings and marches (until the Napoleonic wars, but that came later).
To further this parallel, one of the great tragedies of the French Revolution was Iconoclasm. Catholicism was the official religion of France to the enraged french set about destroying French churches. Art, relics, and any imagery associated with the monarchy or the regime being rebelled against was vandalized or destroyed. The revolutionary parties in France sought not just to purge the monarchy, but any reminder of the monarchy.
In fact it is a crime to destroy a public monument, even if it offends you, but the Jacobin at Slate want their Antifa/anti-racist/BLM Sans-Culottes to commit the acts of destruction so convince them that they are in the right as they vandalize the public space.
With the destruction of Confederate monuments now a socially acceptable act (that only took a couple of days to accomplish), America’s founders and greatest presidents are headed to the bonfire.
At the rate at which the Left has normalized the public desecration of Confederate monuments, I’m sure Washington, Jefferson, and the rest of the men who signed the Deceleration of Independence and ratified the Constitution will be ousted by the end of the year.
So why is America’s experiencing the French Revolution now so terrible.
The marches and riots of the French Revolution brought down the nation’s monarchy. What took its place was the Reign of Terror under Jacobin lawyer Maximilien Robespierre.
The central image and most substantial mark on history of the Reign of Terror was the guillotine. Many Frenchmen, some only loosely associated with the Old Republic, others who were revolutionaries but fell out of favor, lost their heads in the Parisian square before an angry mob.
Like I said above, I don’t see concentration camps coming to America.
I think we are headed down the road of a Progressive Reign of Terror. Pick a progressive city, let the police stand around with their thumbs up their asses at the behest of Jacobin politicians, and an angry Antifa mob will turn into a public spectacle kangaroo court followed by public executions. Be it hangings, beheadings, or shootings a handful of people will be accused of being racist Nazis in front of a jeering, black clad crowd. The accused with profess their innocence. It will fall of deaf ears. Blood will be spilled. As fast as the crowd appeared and the trial occurred, it will break up and nobody will be held accountable.
That will be enough to silence people. It’s not Jackbooted totalitarians dragging people out of their beds in the middle of the night that will crush the people. It is having the Antifa mob take something posted on Facebook, descend on the person in a mob, convict them of disloyalty in a farce of a trial, and guillotine them, that will silence America.
The transistor was invented by Bell Laboratory engineer William Shockley.
Shockley won the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for his work.
He was also a proponent of eugenics and a vile racist. He once said:
“My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro’s intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and, thus, not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in the environment.”
It must be noted that the transistor is the device that makes all electronics and circuit boards function. The microchip is nothing but a series of tiny transistors all packed together.
In the spirit of racial justice please destroy all of your digital and analog electronic devices. Your continued used of electronic technology is an act of perpetuating white supremacism.
