Also, Glen Hageman is completely stupid:
“I grabbed you and decentralized you,” he blubbered while attempting to use the English language to explain why he smashed a child’s face into the pavement and broke her rib, puncturing her lung.
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Cop Kills Woman
Matt Agorist on the murder of Atatiana Jefferson:
On the night of October 12, 2019, Atatiana Jefferson, 28, had committed no crime, had harmed no one, and was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew when she heard a noise in the backyard and went to investigate. As Jefferson walked to the window to see who the prowler was, the prowler opened fire and murdered her inside her home. Because this prowler wears a badge, however, instead of investigating a murder, the police department conducted damage control by assassinating Jefferson’s character before arresting Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean with her murder.
It has been over a year since Dean murdered Jefferson in her own home and the officer has yet to even go to trial. Now, because the wheels of criminal justice are barely turning, two members of Jefferson’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Fort Worth and the former officer to seek civil justice.
The murder took place early on a Saturday morning when an officer was dispatched to Jefferson’s home because her door was slightly ajar. To be clear, however, Jefferson had storm doors, which were closed. Only the door inside was open, which is common for people who have the glass outer door. Instead of simply walking up to Jefferson’s door and ringing the doorbell or knocking, the officer crept around the home like a cowboy. When he spotted Jefferson in the window, he opened fire and killed her. According to her family, Jefferson’s 8-year-old nephew was in the room when he watched his aunt “Tay” fall to the ground and die.
Trump Wanted to Bomb Natanz
Last Thursday.
Anonymous NYT sources, but disappointing enough to be accurate. Says Pompeo and Miller talked him out of it.
And here, he wants to designate the Houthis as terrorists to make it harder for the Democrats to end the war in Yemen.
#hope #change
TechnoAgorist: President Gilligan
My children love watching Gilligan’s Island. I appreciate that the show is mindless fun and that I don’t have to worry about it pushing some stupid, progressive agenda on my children. Recently, after dinner we were watching our daily episode and in it the characters were having trouble finding fresh water. They needed to dig a well, but nobody was taking the initiative to do what they knew needed to be done!
In their typical, cartoonish way of thinking, they decide that what they need is a president of the island, who can keep order and make sure that the things get done that need getting done. After some election hijinks, Gilligan–of all people–wins and becomes president of their island.
So, do you think that solved their problems? Do you imagine that then they actually did what they needed to do and finally dug the well? Ha! That’s not how politics works!
Since they now had a de facto government led by Gilligan, everyone’s attention turned to getting positions in his government. They wined and dined, wheeled and dealed, and eventually ended up with everything but what they really needed. They had a government consisting of a president and a cabinet made up of the rest of the castaways, yet they had no water.
You see, they started off with a clear problem. They needed water. There was also a practical solution, which was to dig a well. But, rather than do what they knew needed to be done they turned to politics and ended up chasing their tails as they raced to deflect personal responsibility.
Now, this episode was absurd, like every other episode of Gilligan’s Island, but shockingly enough there are way too many people in the world today who in the same way identify real problems but then wait for government to take care of them. That is just as absurd.
If you identify a problem in your life, the answer is never bureaucracy. Politics doesn’t make things better, it makes things worse. The answer is getting off of your rump and taking care of it. If something is broken, fix it. If your grass is too tall, mow it. If your dryer hose gets clogged, clear it. If your carpet is dirty, vaccuum it. If your water is gross, filter it.
Life is all about doing what we need to do. We each have our own value scales which determine our priorities, but my point isn’t to tell you what your priorities should be, it’s to remind you that accomplishing whatever those priorities are is up to you and you alone. Anything else is a cop-out, an attempt to push your own responsibilities off onto others.
Don’t let your life devolve into an episode of Gilligan’s Island. Don’t expect politics to fix your problems. It’s your life to live and your problems to fix. I know you can do it.
Originally posted at: https://technoagorist.com/45
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Mark Perry: The Revenge Of Colonel Douglas Macgregor
Mark Perry at Responsible Statecraft
Macgregor, a West Point graduate, is an acquired taste: outspoken and controversial. He has flagged reporters with his statements about immigrants (we need martial law at the U.S.-Mexico border), Iranians (we need to look for areas where we can cooperate), Afghanistan (we have no business being there) Iraq (we should have left, long ago), and Syria (we should get out immediately). Those views aren’t to everyone’s liking, but they’re especially controversial in the military, whose staid stance on foreign interventions does not countenance the kind of dissent in the upper ranks that Macgregor represents. Macgregor, it is said, has refused to “stay in his lane,” has been too outspoken, too vocal, and not really a team player.
Yet, senior military officers quietly admit that in terms of sheer intellect, no one quite matches Macgregor. Several years ago, I asked a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer to name each of the services’s most creative thinkers. His answers were entirely predictable to anyone with even a passing knowledge of those in uniform, except when it came to the Army. He didn’t hesitate: “It’s Doug Macgregor,” he said. “He’s the best thinker they have, living or dead.” Retired Gen. Tommy Franks would probably disagree.
Well It’s About Time
Cops Kill Man
Iraq War Vet Given the Abu Ghraib Treatment to Death
“The two-hour-long tape shows what led up to the moment Edwards, a decorated veteran who served in Kosovo and Iraq, was strapped in a chair for 16 minutes, as he seemed to struggle to breathe, his chest heaving and his restrained body convulsing. Although the video has no sound, Edwards seemed to be either yelling, coughing or gasping under the sheer white hood deputies put over his head to keep him from spitting.
Jail staff periodically glanced through the windows of his cell but did not enter as Edwards struggled. Nearby, deputies focused on paperwork or chatted with each other. By the time a deputy noticed Edwards had stopped moving and a nurse entered the cell, it was too late. Edwards was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. In an autopsy report, his cause of death was listed as ‘excited delirium.’”
The murderers were government employees, so of course it goes without saying that there has been and will be no accountability whatsoever for this atrocity. Because this is the land of the free enforcers of state power and their pitiless subjects.
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