CNBC’s Shep Smith to Dr. Fauci: “Why can’t we” impose "an 111-day lockdown" like Melbourne? pic.twitter.com/OA9nvOBDc9

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 28, 2020

Yes, all 330 million Americans are bad, selfish people because locking an entire country in their homes, except for a few approved essential activities, for four months, with the threat of arrest for non-compliance is remotely possible or reasonable.

“15 days to slow the spread” has turned into most of the year and “until there are no new cases.”

This is crap.  We slow the spread with a lockdown and as soon as it’s lifted it spreads again.

I’m expecting news from the future to be:

“October 2023, to prevent a COVID 12th wave, the government has ordered a Stage 6 lockdown. No one will be allowed to leave their home for any reason.  The government has contracted with Amazon Prime to provide drone delivery of food and necessity rations to all Americans. In other news, Jeff Bezos is the first person to become a trillionaire.”

This COVID fear porn shit has gotten out of control.

I saw a recap of the second presidential debate and something stuck out at me.

Biden claimed that the Obama administration let 38,000 people out of prison like that was a good thing.

Trump bragged about the people he pardoned.

Biden then apologized for the Clinton crime bill.

What the fuck is wrong with the current political zeitgeist?

Do we not remember the 80s and 90s crime wave and crack epidemic?  Homicides peaked in the early 90s at 9.8 per 100,000.  Violent crime in the same era was 758.2 per 100,000.  By 2010 that had dropped to 4.8 and 404.5 respectively, and by last year violent crime was down to 366.7 per 100,000.

Why are politicians apologizing for halving the crime and murder rates?

We have seen in the last year was bail reform, Prop 47, and letting people out of jail for COVID has done to the crime rate.  Homicides in NYC and California have doubled.  Property crime even more so.  It’s the bad old days of the 80s and 90s again in America’s Blue zones.

Is that what America really wants, the 90s crime wave again?

I keep hearing about how the disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine is racist, with the idea of reducing sentences for crack cocaine.

Crack was cheap.  Black politicians wanted harsh punishments for crack dealing to keep it out of the hands of black kids and combat gang crime.  The rise of gang crime in black neighborhoods, the gang War between the Bloods and the Crips was over gang territory for dealing crack in the black community.

On a side note: Now maybe the sentencing disparity was racist but maybe we should have increased penalties for powdered cocaine. Had we thrown those Wall Street investment bros doing coke parties in the 80s and 90s into hard prison, perhaps we could have avoided the sub-prime bullshit and banking scandals of the 2000s when all those coke-head junior associates became senior managing partners.

But I digress…

Crime will expand according to our willingness to put up with it.

Why are politicians jumping over themselves to show how willing they are to put up with crime.

How about promising to protect the middle class?  Protect middle class equity by preventing crime from tanking property values.  Protect middle class business by punishing theft.

It feels like this is a very racist pandering to minorities.

I’m sure black home owners and black businesses owners would be far happier being safe in their neighborhoods with their business not losing money due to shoplifting or loss of business traffic, than they would be at the idea of some crack dealer having his sentence commuted.

Simple things to avoid cases like Walter Wallace’s:

When a call for help is placed to 911, the caller must say if it involves a person with mental health issues so the police does NOT respond.

Then the 911 operator will contact the appropriate county or state Mental Health responders so they can take the call and avoid tragic endings.

If the caller is less than truthful and police arrives to a case of an individual with mental issues, the officers must leave immediately to avoid the use of force (deadly or otherwise) against such person. The officer will immediately notify dispatch of the type of call so Mental Health responders are called to the location.

Neither the officers nor the local PD department will be held liable for not engaging the patient if he becomes or is dangerous to the public.

Whomever calls 911 and lies about the mental health condition of a person so police goes to  the location, should be charged with a felony resulting in a conviction of no less than 5 years in prison. If somebody dies because of the false call, the caller should be charged & tried for murder.

I am not sure how many EDP calls police departments get every day, but not having to respond to them should prove to result in substantial savings in the budget that can be used for better equipment and training, maybe even hiring new personnel.

Just an idea.

It seems Black Lives Matter cannot but base its “fight” on the lives of common criminals and they are doing their hardest to gain political superiority using them as martyrs…and winning

I have no idea how many cases criminals used the Second Amendment to try to avoid a prison sentence and all failed IIRC. It took decades and lots of vetting to finally come up with the Heller and McDonald defendants and still was a crapshot.

And you wonder if you were told lies all your life. Is it Burn, Loot and Murder rather than Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?

Is it  to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty” still valid concepts or are we now in a country where the criminal not only is hailed as hero, but it is backed by the political side and those who were supposed to keeps us informed?

I feel our Country is about to enter the third season of Babylon 5:

The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.

It failed.

Are we in the Year of the Shadow War? Looks like it.

(Sorry for the B5 references, but the suckers match.)

11 ATMs blown and robbed across town and 16 truck stolen from one facility are not the mark of a popular protest bur of a criminal organization in full engagement.

But it was not only ATMs blown up. Public transportation machines also fell to explosives.

#Philadelphia pic.twitter.com/6BSobHrA2S

— Enter?Your?Name (@tr00puRR) October 29, 2020

This is as much a popular uprising as The Bachelorette is “reality” TV.

Remember when Biden said police should shoot people in the legs to stop them, during a national debate.

Following the Walter Wallace shooting in Philadelphia, the narrative is that police “murdered another unarmed black man.”

Except that he had a knife.

“But it’s a knife vs. a gun, that’s not fair.”

Yes, you are right, handguns don’t decapitate people.

UPDATE: A woman has been decapitated in a suspected terror attack in Nice, French police say.

French media is reporting a knife attack has taken place, which left three dead and several others injured.@skymarkwhite has the latest.

Read more here: https://t.co/Bp8rmc833v pic.twitter.com/beYc7zqG3Z

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 29, 2020

A large knife is a serious weapon and not to be underestimated.

Only in a completely out-of-touch, all they know is what they see in the movies, word, shooting a man armed with a knife isn’t “fair” or “sporting.”

In the real words, madmen with knives can cause a lot of damage and death before being stopped for good.

I was checking this thread out because the user was transcribing what he was listening in the local scanner:

#Philadelphia
BREAKING:
Reports of a SILVER Hyundai that has pulled up to a bank on Federal Street with 3 black males attempting to break the front windows.

— Shane B. Murphy (@shanermurph) October 28, 2020

Looting, arson, straight up robbery, shootings, explosions, take your pick.

Nothing on Live on TV stations. There was some streaming, but it suddenly dried up to the point the usual stream aggregators I use have either quit or are showing other stuff.

A reporter from Breitbart was attacked the night before and in the same night watching streaming feeds coming out of Philly, I heard several times protesters warning/threatening “reporters” on their own side to keep the cameras away from them. It got to the point (both yesterday and today) that other than endless hots of the police line, nothing else was happening. No criminal incidents were being transmitted even when happening nearby or next to them.

My guess it is a combination of solidarity for the “cause” and fear they be beaten to a pulp. But sure as hell, they do not deserve the patch of PRESS they carry as amulet on their bodies.