On Name Changing and Statue Toppling
By all means let us reexamine the names of military installations and the statues of our supposed heroes. But let us wait until the violence has dissipated.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Senators: ‘Far-Left Radicals’ Causing ‘Anarchy’ by Tearing Down Statues
Senators: ‘Far-Left Radicals’ Causing ‘Anarchy’ by Tearing Down Statues
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Republican senators on June 23 harshly criticized groups who toppled or defaced statues of former Presidents Ulysses Grant, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.
“A crazy fringe is treating their monuments like vanity statues of tinhorn tyrants. Our Founding Fathers are being roped to the ground like they were Saddam Hussein,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor in Washington.
“There could be no clearer sign that these far-left radicals have severed any connection to the righteous cause of racial justice. They’ve literally tried to succeed where Robert E. Lee failed and bring General Grant to the ground.”
A statue of Grant was among those toppled in San Francisco late June 19.
McConnell described towering figures in American history like Grant, who forced the surrender of the Confederacy, as “imperfect heroes,” while the United States is an “imperfect union” that’s “still the great nation in world history.”
While vandals pull down statues of Grant and his peers, a statue of Vladimir Lenin, the former communist leader of the Soviet Union, remains standing, untouched, in Seattle, a city run by Democrats, the senator noted.
“Apparently people claim with a straight face that this communist statue has survived because it is located—wait for it—on private property. So the founding father of the mass-murdering Soviet Union watches over Seattle streets, but our own Founding Fathers are dragged in the dirt,” he said.
America’s past is complex, McConnell said, calling the claim that bigotry is its deepest founding principle, absurd.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), one of three black lawmakers in the Senate, said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on June 23 that he opposes “tearing down history for the sake of anarchy.”
He described the people involved as “not a part of any protest.”
“They’re simply agitators and simply trying to find their way to create anarchy, chaos, and lawlessness,” he said.
Communities that are the most vulnerable, in a chaotic world, suffer the most, Scott said.
Efforts to remove statues started with those portraying soldiers or others who served in the Confederacy but have quickly moved on to others who had no link with the South.
Scott said America can have a debate over how to rename military bases named after Confederate officers but shouldn’t “purge all of history because it was ugly or negative.”
He suggested keeping the name of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to preserve the “reality of how vicious people could be.” The senator supports President Donald Trump’s efforts to crack down on people removing or defacing statues and monuments.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and Trump have differed on the renaming of the bases, with Biden supporting the efforts and Trump opposing them.
Democratic lawmakers have largely supported or led efforts to remove Confederate statues and haven’t weighed in on the removal of other statues.
Trump told a rally in Oklahoma on June 20 that Biden “remains silent in his basement in the face of this brutal assault on our nation and the values of our nation.”
“Joe Biden has surrendered to his party and to the left-wing mob,” he said.
During widespread riots in May, Biden, who hasn’t addressed the removal of statues, said in a statement that protesting police brutality “is right and necessary,” but added, “Burning down communities and needless destruction is not.”
“Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not,” Biden said.
Monday, June 22, 2020
Columbi University vs William A.
“The spines of thousands are being strengthened by hearing of your fight” – A Supporter’s Message
A Combat Tactics Instructor Pilot’s advice: “You are not alone. You can make a profound difference… Bow, kneel, grovel… you will dissolve into obscurity.”
There was a natural inclination, when colleagues and others at Cornell Law School twisted and distorted my words to try to isolate me and damage my reputation, to think it was about me.
Alinsky Rule 13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
Once I went public with what was happening, and the isolation ended, it didn’t take long for me to realize that it’s not about me.
It’s about the dozens of students and many hundreds of others who have written to me, thanking me for speaking up because they can’t. And it’s for the millions of others who have followed these events on TV, radio, social media, and websites, and for whom the fear of a career-ending false accusation of racism is too great, so they are bullied into silence.
A consistent theme is that they are grateful for the people who are able to give voice to what so many are thinking, but can’t say out loud given the current political climate. I was shocked by the outpouring. Yes, I expected support in the comment section from readers, but nothing approaching the groundswell that occurred. Something is happening below the media radar.
This evolution in my thinking was captured in an email from a Combat Tactics Instructor Pilot, accompanied by the iconic image from Tiananmen Square. He heard about what what happening and sent his email of support, followed up with this note:
Heard you on Ben Shapiro’s show last night, and was so hurt and angry by your shared experience; a little voice inside me told me I had to write you, encourage you. The words wrote themselves as I started to type. It was like I wasn’t doing the typing.
Only today did I realize you are “THAT” William Jacobson, “That” Legal Insurrection. I listen to Mark Levin (my hero) when driving home from work. Mark Levin has mentioned you a few times in the past. Didn’t make the connection until today, I simply thought you were a fellow Instructor; being attacked and on the ropes, and hoped to encourage you.
Here is his email to me (personally identifying information removed).
Combat Theology – a Combat Pilot’s perspective during trying times
Don’t cave to them.
You are not alone.
You can make a profound difference.
You are not alone.
You can make a profound difference.
Sir,
When you are in Combat; far from the target; there is rarely a shot fired against you.
When you are (Air Force term ) “on the Run In, to the OA” (Objective Area) that is when you know you are in the right area… SAM shots, AAA gunfire…everything the Adversary has, comes at you. Not solely to destroy, but often, simply attempt to distract you off target.
Distraction can lead to mission failure, as much as Destruction.
But, you are a warrior, you have trained your whole life for this moment, and you are on the Run In.
You are on the Run In, and you have Top Cover.
People, Prayers, Angels, the Earth itself is a witness to your Courage.
You will not die 1000 deaths; you will taste of death but once. The Top Cover overhead are like F15 Strike Eagles. You can’t see them, can’t hear them at 45,000ft; but the Eagles are there, and they will “Cry ‘Havok’ and loose the Dogs of War;” not now, but at the right time. To defeat the adversary when their tools, at their disposal, are the most effective. Not on your desires, not on your timing; but on moment when they know their weapons are the most effective; to protect you. ‘For the weapons of our warfare are divinely powered, for the destruction of fortresses.’
The spines of thousands are being strengthened, by hearing of your fight.
You are NOT ALONE.
Before tonight, I never heard of you. If you had equivocated prior to this point, you would have still been destroyed by the people who want you to pander to them; and you would have dissolved into obscurity.
But, you fought for righteousness. The rule of law, the Constitution and Bill of Rights. For the Ethos of Dr Martin L King, … you fight for Content of Character.
You stood, seemingly alone, in the breach.
But you are not alone. We are with you.
I am with you – Fangs Out and Full Speed, I am coming; and with you even now.
Bow, kneel, grovel… you will dissolve into obscurity.
Make them seemingly kill you; and the eggs and smears and brutality they throw at you, will be a mantle of Honor you wear into eternity.
Use their leaders and their words to defeat them. Fight like Sun Tzu, fight with asymmetric warfare; expose the rot they expound, with Frédéric Bastiat – the Law…. show their decayed ideas and words are NOT NEW: decaying and failing for the last 200 years; and being renamed, rehashed and repacked: Orwellian; Gestapo; Tribal and Animal Farm-brutal.
You stand, seemingly alone, in the breach. But you are not alone.
I am with you – Fangs Out and Full Speed. Dropping my external tanks; so I can gain extra speed, extra maneuverability; unguarding the Weapons Release switches. I am coming, a Warrior Poet, with an army of angels and prayers. Reaching Mach1, and the turbine blades in my engines glow cherry red, while the Tach gauge red-lines at 103%
I am coming. I am the prayers of strangers. I am the Almighty; who sees all and judges the Heart.
I put Daniel’s heart in the scales, to see if he would kneel to images of gold; but he chose lions; and therefore I was with him. I put David’s heart in the scales; to see if he would kneel to a giant. Three small stones. Smooth and round. Symmetric, and elegant in their simplicity. The sword was too heavy, the armor too clumsy. David fought his fight, he won because he fought on his terms and didn’t fight the way the others wanted him to: friends and foe alike. I was with him. Three smooth stones. He didn’t kneel; so I was with him. I Am with you.
…and I’m with you as well.
Fangs Out and Full Speed,
LtCol X.
Combat Tactics Instructor Pilot; and your friend.
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The Coming Legal and Financial Blitz in Seattle
The Coming Legal and Financial Blitz in Seattle
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s truly outstanding Neville Chamberlain imitation is so good that she needs only to grow a mustache, wave a paper over her head, and claim “Peace in our time!”
And much like there was for the milksop British politician who hastily signed over Czechoslovakia to the Nazis, and whose style of ineptitude Durkan is precisely mimicking, there will be hell to pay once again.
No, not with Stukas and Heinkels. But “the Blitzkrieg” is coming and from a direction that the hapless Durkan is not expecting: the lightning war will come from all those grownups who accept the responsibilities of their jobs and who will take issue with the ceding of a chunk of Sudetenland . . . err, Seattle to uninvited agitators.
Those grownups are the ones who work setting up insurance rates and exceptions, as well as paying out claims; the bankers who use property values to set loan rates; the municipal bond companies who determine credit ratings; and of course, lawyers and more lawyers.
Evidently, it never occurred to the ultra-liberal Durkan that ceding her power to govern, including that of her police department to enforce the law, to unelected Communist Antifa thugs might have some unpleasant side effects. Did she ever consider that her ill-considered policies might send insurance companies into panic mode and cause them to raise rates ad astra?
Did Durkan ever consider that the fire trucks and ambulances slowed at the whim of unelected, nongovernment Antifa parasites, might cause fire insurance rates to go up, up, up?
What happens when Seattle police can not go instantly into the so-called Capitol Hill Organized Protest (formerly known as CHAZ)? (Shucks! Durkan’s cops can’t even go to their own precinct headquarters!) Did the mayor consider that property insurance rates might race skyward?
Who pays for this? Everybody in Seattle, and maybe the rest of Washington State, in the form of high insurance rates. I’m sure all those folks who have nothing to do with Durkan’s milquetoast response to the Communist Antifa “summer of love” simply will be overjoyed with that.
And then there are those good ol’ boys at Moody’s and Fitch. You know, the ones with the green eyeshades who crunch numbers and love it. The fellas who determine the credit rating of municipal bonds based on the following five-point criteria (along with qualms one might surmise that they might have about contemporary Seattle):
- Economy: OK, so long as Amazon doesn’t hiccup.
- Debt Structure: Very blue, anyone care to guess?
- Financial Condition: The actual city or the Communist People’s Republic of CHOP?
- Demographic Factors: Communist Antifa thugs, the Black Lives Matter motley, assorted anarchists, and all the huge balance of the population made up of the unseen, undefined adults who actually live, pay taxes and buy bonds in Seattle.
- Managing Practices of the Governing Body and Administration: Again, the city of Seattle or Communist Antifa CHOP? So far, Durkan’s administration is hesitant, unwilling to enforce the law, devoid of control of a chunk of her city, but has demonstrated superlative handwringing and meaningless word-salad lip service.
Moody’s last year assigned the city an “Aaa” rating. We’ll soon see if that holds up.
And sooner still, Durkan will face the equivalent of the Biblical plague of locusts: The tsunami of lawyers!
Just picture Durkan the Dolt, her eyes bulging, jaws agape as she watches the sky above the Space Needle darkened by vast jetloads (hordes!) of briefcase-toting barristers descending from everywhere to unleash gigantic waves of lawsuits from loss of business, injured innocents, destroyed property against her, her administration, and any person or institution with pockets deep enough to take a hit.
A Digital Revolution Comes for the Cash King - MBrew
A Digital Revolution Comes for the Cash King |
As the coronavirus changed our perception of cash from "boo-ya I've got money" to "why am I carrying around this germ-infested piece of paper?" many shoppers started leaving their cash at home, and some retailers stopped accepting it altogether.
Is this the death of cash?
The pandemic has fundamentally changed how consumers pay for items, Visa’s European chief told the FT. And it's not just that shoppers are using debit and credit cards more: Contactless payments, which use radio-frequency tech or QR codes to pay with taps or scans, are gaining traction.
So what's preventing the cashless revolution? Installing contactless systems is expensive, especially for small businesses. Consumers also need smartphones to use the tech.
Plus, 6% of U.S. adults are “unbanked,” meaning they do not have a checking, savings, or money market account. And access to banking falls unevenly across racial lines: 4% of white adults are unbanked, compared to 14% of Blacks and 11% of Hispanics, according to data from the Fed. If stores drop cash entirely, millions could get shut out.
Bottom line: The coronavirus has not only transformed what we buy, but how we buy. The transition to digital payments just got a dose of jet fuel.
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Sunday, June 21, 2020
BLM's Are MARXIST (by their own admission)
BLM's website lists many far-left ideals in its list of core beliefs, including:
- We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
- We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.
- We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.
- We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work "double shifts" so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.
- We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and "villages" that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
- We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).
Saturday, June 13, 2020
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