Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade as part of equity-focused plan https://t.co/T1DoD4zLB5

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 22, 2021

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

Harrison Bergeron wasn’t supposed to be read as a fucking how-to manual.

From KARE11:

‘I wish it didn’t have to happen’: Alternate juror reflects on Derek Chauvin trial
A juror who didn’t know she was an alternate in Chauvin’s trial details why she supports the former Minneapolis officer being convicted in George Floyd’s murder.

A woman who sat as an alternate on the jury that found Derek Chauvin guilty in George Floyd’s murder is speaking out about what it was like to parse through nearly three weeks of testimony in the former Minneapolis officer’s high-profile trial.

Brooklyn Center resident Lisa Christensen told KARE 11’s Lou Raguse about her role on the jury, as another police killing unfolded in her neighborhood.

Raguse: Did you want to be a juror?

Christensen: I had mixed feelings. There was a question on the questionnaire about it and I put I did not know. The reason, at that time, was I did not know what the outcome was going to be, so I felt like either way you are going to disappoint one group or the other. I did not want to go through rioting and destruction again and I was concerned about people coming to my house if they were not happy with the verdict.

That is the basis of jury intimidation.  One alternate juror admitted to it.

I am not a lawyer but I suspect that this news interview give an exceptional strong basis for appeal.

The mob was successfully in intimidating jurors, possibly enough to influence their verdict.

This was mob rule.

Again, I post this quote from Theodore Dalrymple:

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

In the last month we have seen these two point made by the Progressives on TV and in the Biden administration.

On one hand:

Law abiding citizen who have gone through background checks cannot be loved to own certain semiautomatic rifles or magazines that hold more than ten rounds.  The police should be sent to take those weapons from people who have committed no crimes with them.  Implied in this is that if those people resist disarmament, the police can and should use force – possibly lethal force – to take those weapons because they claim it will save lives from gun violence.

On the other hand:

Police should not use force, especially lethal force, to stop an assailant from injuring or killing a person with a knife before their (the police officers’) very eyes.  A potentially fatal stabbing is a “school yard knife fight” which doesn’t require violent police intervention.  The cop who uses lethal force to prevent a murder with a knife is the bad guy in the situation.

It is impossible for a logical and rational human being to hold these two ideas in their head simultaneously.

The people espousing these ideas know that.  The point is to break you down and humiliate you to the point where you have so abandoned rational thought and critical thinking that you can blindly accept these ideas without discomfort.

These is the crime prevention equivalent of 2+2=5.

I was not gonna save them for next Friday.

This should be entertaining, specially since the Anti Riot bill is now the law. Maybe that is what they want, to test it and see if the cops have the balls to go for it.

Of course, the last time a bunch of protesters got stupid over Torch of Friendship, this happened:

In Portland, protesters taunt cops. In Miami works the other way around and cops take you down without riot gear.

I have a Sticky Holster for a micro pistol I carry sometimes when I have to step outside the house wearing the Florida Uniform (Shorts, flip-flops) and it is an exercise on being VERY careful every time I manipulate the combo.

I confess that I have used it as waist holster and I admit it did never felt safe to do so. It is a holster to carry a gun in the pocket safely because it keeps the trigger covered from outside influences. In fact you must double down by keeping only the holstered gun in that pocket and nothing else.

We live and learn from the errors of others so we improve our safety.