Every people has unique gifts. In some things, whites on average are better than blacks. In other things, blacks, on average are better than whites. In other things, asians rule. In some areas, Ashkenazi Jews are best.
* The Dallas PD during the firefight looked like they were sorely lacking in helmets, body armor, and long guns. I presume they were deployed unprepared to present a friendlier look to BLM protestors? You wouldn’t want a Militarized Police Force, now would you?
* Many commenters underestimate blacks. For a little sniping, you don´t have to have IQ 150.
* Not to mention that millions of America blacks have military training and experience. The military starts with blacks of somewhat above average (for blacks) intelligence and is highly experienced and effective in teaching specific tasks to people with less than rocket science IQ (and one of those tasks is frequently shooting). Something as complex as an aircraft carrier is operated mostly by 19 year olds with high school degrees who did not graduate anywhere near the top of their class. The reason it works is that each one is repetitively trained to do his limited task.
* It wasn’t even that complex – it appears that it was only 1 guy.
There is a natural human tendency to think that the enormity of the actor must be commensurate with the enormity of the act. If a President or a dozen cops, etc. have been shot, it can’t just be one pathetic mentally deranged loser with a rifle, it has to have been a grand conspiracy or the shooter must have been a highly trained terrorist, etc. How is it possible that the mighty can brought low by the humble? The cognitive dissonance that is set up by such a situation is what gives rise to conspiracy theories. If on the one hand it’s “impossible” for such a thing to happen, but on the other hand it HAS happened, then what we see before our eyes cannot be true and there must be some other “better” explanation.
* For anyone old enough to remember the LA Riots of 1992, recall the division over whether to label the event as a riot or uprising. To people on one side of the aisle, it was a riot. To those on the other side, mostly blacks, it was an uprising. I remember seeing a black celebrity on TV correcting a white anchor when that anchor referred to the “riots”. I suppose uprising made them feel justified.
Now I see people referring to last night as terrorism. I assume most on this blog will run with that term which to me seems appropriate. But will the democrats and their coalition refer to last night as a terrorist attack? Or will they come up with a euphemism to make it sound justified?
* Has Hillary finished poll-testing her statement on the Dallas killings yet?
* The Black Liberation Army killed a number of police officers.
Wikipedia:
According to a Justice Department report on BLA activity, the Black Liberation Army is suspected of involvement in over 70 incidents of violence between 1970 and 1976. The Fraternal Order of Police blames the BLA for the murders of 13 police officers.
On October 22, 1970, the BLA is believed to have planted a bomb in St. Brendan’s Church in San Francisco while it was full of mourners attending the funeral of San Francisco police officer Harold Hamilton, who had been killed in the line of duty while responding to a bank robbery. The bomb was detonated, but no one in the church suffered serious injuries.
On May 21, 1971, as many as five men participated in the murder of two New York City police officers, Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones. Those arrested and brought to trial for the shootings include Anthony Bottom (aka Jalil Muntaqim), Albert Washington, Francisco Torres, Gabriel Torres, and Herman Bell.
On August 29, 1971, three armed men murdered 51-year-old San Francisco police sergeant John Victor Young while he was working at a desk in his police station, which was almost empty at the time due to a bombing attack on a bank that took place earlier – only one other officer and a civilian clerk were there. Two days later, the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter signed by the BLA claiming responsibility for the attack.
On January 27, 1972 the Black Liberation Army assassinated police officers Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie at the corner of 174 Avenue B in New York City. After the killings, a note sent to authorities portrayed the murders as a retaliation for the prisoner deaths during 1971 Attica prison riot. To date no arrests have been made.
* The attack last night was terrorism in a classic sense (collective punishment to inspire terror in the target population, here, white cops) and it was also a “hate crime” (as much as I dislike the word) because it was directed towards killing white cops.
Look, the one doesn’t justify the other. Many people feel that too many civilians are being shot by police officers. That doesn’t justify this shooting. By the same token, condemning this terror attack doesn’t justify cops shooting civilians, either.
I doubt the media will call it what it is. They’ll just ride “lone gunman” real hard and try to ban AR-15′s, again. However, I would imagine that just about anyone in this country who doesn’t have one yet will be lining up to get one after last night.
* The good news for Trump is that there will be no further talk about Six Pointed Stars, which suddenly seems ridiculously trivial. A few days ago, Trump’s son-in-law wrote a piece in which he explained that his grandparent’s experience in the Holocaust had taught him the difference between REAL racism (the kind that involves the massacre of innocents) which demands attention and bogus “racism” (the kind that involves trumped up (no pun intended) controversies over the shape of a star in order to score political points), which is not worthy of any. Now Americans are learning the lesson he was trying to teach, the hard way.
* If Trump had (and this could never happen) the backing of 99% of whites, this would be seen as proof positive that he was a extremely racist candidate who was pandering to whites in order to gain their unanimous support, but if Hillary has the backing of 99% of blacks, this is proof positive that….. Trump is evil.
* Why was the 7-11 in Dallas looted?
That reads like a setup for a joke…
Because it could be?
Because rioters like Slurpees?
Because they ran out of Skittles and Snapple?
To get to the other side?
* Why did the scorpion sting the frog in the parable? It was just his nature.
* “If that’s how black dudes feel about US, just imagine how Muslims feel.”
Now just imagine how sensible white Americans feel about having these blacks and Muslims in the US.
* So far, I’ve not found one main stream media source that is connecting Obama’s pre-Dallas shooting speech that was hostile towards cops with the murder of those police officers. Yet when anti-Trump protesters attack Trump supporters in California, it’s somehow Trump’s fault…something he said set them off.
Funny how that works.
* The fact that Alton Sterling was a convicted sex offender doesn’t seem to bother the white virtue signalers, many of whom are young white women. I thought they would back off tweeting and posting love and support and calling him by his first name like an old friend, but they seem just as smitten with him now as when they first saw his worthless, twitching corpse and fell in love.
* Battle lines have been drawn, emotions are bubbling over and reason will not prevail.
The media & powers that be wanted a race war to distract the masses and keep themselves in power. They now have it.
I just don’t see anyway this nation can avoid a bloodbath as each side is out for revenge against real or imagined wrongs. This seems to be escallating and none of our leaders look able to heal it. Not Trump not Clinton. No one.
It reminds me of Yeats “Second Coming” poem.
* BLM provides the “muscle” for the demokrat party. They are to the demokrat party what the Gestapo was to the Nazi Party.
* Maybe the Dems didn’t get much punishment electorally over Orlando, but there’s a crucial difference. They couldn’t be see as actually encouraging the anger that motivated Orlando. Their policies were of course the opposite of protective, but they didn’t play an active part in making it happen. In this case, assuming it’s someone sympathetic with BLM who has perpetrated the murders, both Obama and Hillary can be said to have fostered the anger. They bear direct responsibility. That’s a very important difference, politically.
