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Hell On Earth

Blacks, Guns & Crime

Juan Williams, a black commentator, wrote an interesting article recently entitled “ Race and the Gun Debate.” (Wall St. Journal, Mar 27, 2013) Among the statistics he cites are that 54% of all murders involve black victims, virtually all of whom were killed by black murderers, and yet blacks comprise only 13% of the population.

 

These are familiar numbers, but, as Williams points out, although more than half the “gun problem” can be laid at the feet of blacks, the gun debate never seems to mention this. If it were mentioned, the obvious thought that might occur is maybe it’s blacks that need to be regulated and not guns.

Three years ago I wrote the following in the prologue to my book They Came For Our Guns, They came For Our Freedom (William Lafferty):

“ The single most important factor that has caused the political left to demand an end to private firearms ownership is that the underclass has, over the last fifty years, expanded exponentially, bringing with it an exponential increase in crime. Many of these criminals come from the single-parent families encouraged by the welfare system, a dysfunctional government give-away favored by the far left. The absence of fathers has led large numbers of children to seek gangs as a substitute for parenting not available at home. Not content with having created an entire class of welfare-bred criminals, the political left now seeks to protect this underclass by rendering ordinary citizens defenseless against crime perpetrated by these criminals.”

In sum, both blacks and whites are part of this criminal underclass, but, as Juan Williams points out, blacks, a 13% minority, are doing 54% of the killing and dying. That needs to be said.

Why is this happening? According to Juan Williams, the out of wedlock birth rate for blacks is now 72%. This leads to more than 70% of black mothers being on welfare raising more than 70% of black children without fathers.

That’s part of the problem. Another part, Williams says, is:

“ a dysfunctional gangster-rap culture that glorifies promiscuity, drug dealers and the power of the gun.” 

So now we have black culture of violence financed by the welfare system producing what are – by any measure – distorted values. One might think this needs to be addressed.

“We only kill each other” – Bugsy Siegel

Outlaws as Folk Heroes

Miss Cellania shares with us truncated tales of seven outlaws who achieved ‘folk hero’ status.  This includes an analysis as to why this occurs, to wit:

1. The outlaw is a victim of injustice from authorities, and is paying back the favor.
2. The outlaw helps common people.
3. The outlaw is sacrificing his life for a political stance.
4. The outlaw does things the average Joe would love to try, if he had the courage.
5. The outlaw’s outlandish adventures provide entertainment in the manner of a long-running serial.

I’ve often wondered why this happens, historically.  After all, some folks, in spite of their fledgling pretense at ‘social justice’ are nothing more in reality than murderers.  Bonnie and Clyde come to mind.

Also, William Ayers and the Weather Underground.  I’m all for political protest, but blowing up folks and setting fire to their homes is hardly a brave act of protest.  And being unrepentant for it years later, and saying they didn’t do enough – after becoming a college professor (!) molding young minds.  Disgusting.

Angela Davis?  The cop-killer being lauded by the N.A.A.C.P.  Mao.  Fidel.  Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. – murderer and bigot.  Every time I see some college fool or rock star wearing a Che’ shirt – it turns my stomach.

There are many others.

How are they heroes?  Except perhaps to Lenin’s useful idiots.

It’s April 18th, again…

…and I harken back to that whole Paul Revere (William Dawes, Dr. Samuel Prescott, et al) thing.

Paul Revere

I remember reading history (guessing it’s not even offered in school, anymore, unless it’s politically-correct) about Mr. Revere, patriot, silversmith, artisan.

It seems his father had emigrated to the British Colonies from France (!)  His name was Apollo Rivoire, and his son Paul was his namesake.  Sadly, many of the English New Worlders had difficulty pronouncing his name – so he changed it.

To Paul Revere.

Or in his father’s words, “I changed it so the bumpkins would find it easier to pronounce!”

Bumpkins in the Nation – even back then!

Well, Call Me A RACIST, Yet Again!

The NAACP.  The Vanguard of the Rights of the Negro, colored, , African-American, Black since when?  1909?  Over 100 years of service.  And thank you for much of it!

EXCEPT, in recent years, they’ve been compromised by a progressive political agenda.  No longer is it about the right to vote, or work, or use the same soda fountain, water fountain or restroom.  It’s about how much can we get from the government, and how much can we distort history toward this aim?  And further a progressive agenda.

To wit.  Weasel Zippers shares THIS with us.  (Hang on to your butts!)

Cop-Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal Nominated For NAACP’s “Unsung Hero” Award…

The Ghost of Captain John Parker

not Ms. Maddow

Rachel Maddow says something fundamentally stupid about ‘open carry’ demonstrations.

She opines:

But let the record show, at the same time, that in the United States, whether the issue is guns or anything else, you will not win arguments that you try to win by threatening to shoot your opponents. You will not win if the way you are trying to win is by threatening to use weapons to get your political way. People do it in this country, it is a tactic. People try it from time to time and they lose because Americans do not settle disputes that way. In fact, we’re pretty invested in having a political system that has us not settling disputes that way. Once you threaten that you are going to settle your political disputes by use of arms, you will lose all of your political disputes. Tempting as it may be, particularly when the issue is guns itself, threats and physical intimidation are not how we successfully achieve change in this country.

Tell it to the Deacons for Defense and Justice. Tell it to the veterans of the Battle of Athens. Besides, it is these collectivist bastards that are using the force and power of government to threaten and physically intimidate US with their inconstitutional laws and criminality under color of law. “Threats and physical intimidation are not how we successfully achieve change in this country.” Yes it is. Ask the ghost of Captain John Parker.

For those with a progressive, liberal  education, please Bing or Google, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the Battle of Athens, and Captain John Parker, as I reasonably certain you’ve no idea what these subjects mean.  Of course, progressives largely run these search engines, so you might have to look elsewhere.

h/t Special Thanks to Mike Vanderboegh

Call Me RACIST…

…and Bob Owens, as well.  For not buying what they are selling.

WaPost op-ed blames whites for mass shootings; fact remains minorities are over-represented for ALL murder types, including mass murder.

an excerpt:

A pair of sister-researchers that make their living off the government teat have decided to blame white men for mass shootings:

Whites are under-represented by race in mass shootings, as are Hispanics, when you look at percentage of total population. Don’t take my word for it, either; look at the stats kept by über-left-wing Mother Jones.

Over-represented are Asians, like Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho, One L. Goh, Jeong Soo Paek, Jiverly Wong, Byran Koji Uyesugi and Gang Lu who are all East Asian, and West Asian/Arabs, such as Nidal Hassan, and Abdelkrim Belachheb, whom the sisters dishonestly label “white.”

Also over-represented are black mass murders like Omar S. Thornton, Maurice Clemmons, Charles Lee Thornton, William D. Baker, Arthur Wise, Clifton McCree, Nathan Dunlap, Colin Ferguson, and we’re not even including the DC Snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, because they are arguably serial killers instead.

While white mass murderers are given considerable airtime, black mass murderers are ignored by the mass media as quickly as they possibly can… including the racist Washington Post.

Are these overtly liberal sisters really sure they want to start playing race games? As it invariably leads back to the failure of progressive social engineering, I don’t think they do.

As for calling us racist, I’m certain someone will.  It’s their modus operandi.

CONTROL YOUR FIREARMS AND PRISONERS, PEOPLE!

Fight to the Death Inside a Moving Elevator

The Hat Squad

I LOVE History.  Especially American.  Especially Twentieth Century – post War era.  Film(s) noir, depicting such a period.  And stuff based on real events.

The Hat Squad was a loose team of L.A.P.D. detectives, roughly from the late 40s to the early 60s.  Popular culture has used them in such films as The Hat Squad, Mullholland Falls, and L.A. Confidential.  And Stephen J. Cannell (of The Rockford Files and about 20 other shows) even pegged a short-lived television show on them.

But the real Hat Squad was something much more than lauded in West Coast crime fiction.  They were real men who lived by a code – not the code of Mulholland Falls, but not the police department service manual, either.

(excerpted from The Seattle Times, March 12, 2000)

LOS ANGELES – In this city where everything and everyone can be reinvented, true crime has long become true drama.

The Los Angeles Police Department stars in both.

The LAPD Hat Squad of the 1940s and ’50s starred four detectives in crisp fedoras and matching suits costing two weeks’ pay.

Publicly revered, the squad became known for its more secretive duties, including getting rid of Eastern mobsters seeking to expand business. According to legend, the Hat Squad discouraged visiting gangsters by meeting them at the airport and beating the wanderlust out of them.

Two of the detectives later became judges. None was ever disciplined.

“They were so feared and respected that when we’d announce such-and-such a case had been turned over to the Hat Squad, many of the suspects in those cases would voluntarily give themselves up,” department veteran Dan Cooke, now dead, told a local newspaper in 1987.

Inevitably, a movie depicted the well-dressed quartet. In 1996′s “Mulholland Falls,” Nick Nolte played its leader. In an early scene, a bloodied don is about to be tossed from a canyon ledge.

“You can’t do that, this is America,” the gangster squeaks.

“This isn’t America, Jack,” says Nolte. “This is L.A.”

And here, fact and fiction continuously blend.

I don’t think anyone had done a definitive work on them.  Perhaps they are afraid.  Just like no one will touch the FBI’s Cointelpro program with any depth.  Funny, they’ll do the NSA’s MK Ultra…?

We need to look at the triumph and tribulations of our police past to make certain history doesn’t repeat itself on a national federal scale.

Perhaps it already has.

On This Day in History

(the above to be read in a radio announcer’s voice…Gabriel Heater?)

As some of you know, part of my daily routine (aside from penning – or stealing copying – material for this blog is to read a daily almanac page from Ref Desk, entitled Today in History.  Some days seems mundane, as if nothing happened in humanity of note on that day.  Others?  Well, here are some snippets from today’s almanac page:

Births

1834 John Wesley Powell US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist

1871 Sir Ernest Rutherford nuclear scientist

1874 Harry Houdini [Erik Weisz] Budapest Hungary, magician/escape artist

1898 Dorothy Stratton organizer (SPARS-women’s branch of US Coast Guard)

1902 Thomas E Dewey Ohio, 1st Catholic Presidential candidate 1944, 1948 (R)

1909 Clyde Barrow bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)

1930 Steve McQueen Slater MO, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt)

Deaths

1603 Elizabeth I Tudor [Maiden Queen] UK queen (1558-1603), dies at 69

1905 Jules Verne sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77

1953 Queen Mary of Britain dies

1964 Peter Lorre Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), dies at 59

1976 Bernard L Montgomery British General, defeated Rommel, dies at 88

On This Day…

1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island

1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts

1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers

1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio

1883 1st telephone call between New York & Chicago

1898 1st automobile sold

1906 “Census of the British Empire” shows England rules 1/5 of the world

1930 Planet Pluto named

1947 John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN

1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title

1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon’s Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska

1980 El Salvador’s leading human rights activist, Archbishop Oscar Romero, 62, was assassinated by a sniper while saying mass in a hospital chapel.

Who knows what happened in history tomorrow?

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