Crime and No Punishment…

Merry Christmas to all my 2 or 3 readers!  Sorry if I missed anyone…

Today I offer a guest article about a topic I’ve written about:  How the criminals and low life are given special privileges by our warped criminal justice minds.

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Crime and No Punishment

by Jerry Newcombe, D.Min.

In the classic sitcom from the 1960s, “Get Smart,” the bad guys were from an organization called “Chaos.” The good guys, led by Maxwell Smart, were called “Control.”

Today, chaos is often prevailing over control. Only this isn’t a comedy, and the results are tragic.

We are experiencing a crime wave seldom seen in previous times in America.

Murders are up. ABC News notes: “At least 12 major U.S. cities have broken annual homicide records in 2021---and there's still three weeks to go in the year.” One police captain said it’s “worse than a war zone around here lately.”

But homicide isn’t the only crime that is way up. On “Black Friday,” when stores are supposed to have such strong sales because of Christmas (putting them in the black), many businesses were instead hit with a rash of smash-and-grab robberies across the country. Home Depots, Best Buys, Foot Lockers and others have been hit in places like San Francisco, Monterey, and Chicago.

nbcchicago.com (11/27/21) reports, “Police are alerting businesses in Chicago to recent thefts of purses at retail shops….The thieves flee in vehicles, most of which were reported stolen.”

Fox32 of Chicago reports on a robbery over this past weekend, in which luxury jewelry items were stolen. Yet Mayor Lori Lightfoot apparently blames the companies hit. She recently said, “I'm disappointed that they are not doing more to take safety and make it a priority.”

In early December, thousands of dollars’ worth of toys and other goods for Christmas were gathered by a non-profit in Chicago to help the underprivileged–and were stolen under cover of night.

When California Governor Gavin Newsom was on “The View,” Joy Behar, no friend of conservatives, told him, “Critics in law enforcement blame this on your lax bail and theft policies emboldening criminals.”

Newsom responded that the crimes like this are just as bad in Texas as they are in California, only Fox News won’t show that. The claim is misleading at best.

And on it goes, when the lawless are often freed without being punished.

What’s going on? We have crime with no punishment. Leftist prosecutors, district attorneys, and judges are letting many criminals go with a slap on the wrist, if that. Recently a career criminal who tried to run over his wife with a car in Wisconsin was released on a mere $1000 bail—only to purposely drive into a Christmas parade two days later killing six and injuring 62.

Some of those magistrates (including the prosecutor who let the parade killer out) have been elected with money pouring in from George Soros, an atheist who wants to see America (his adopted country) brought down several pegs.

I interviewed Rabbi Daniel Lapin, founder of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians, for our D. James Kennedy Ministries television special on Soros.

The rabbi told our viewers, “There’s no question that Soros money and Soros-inspired money is flowing into the crowds busy smashing plate glass windows in the cities of Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, and in cities everywhere else around the country.”

As Tucker Carlson of Fox News has pointed out, as quoted in Newsweek: "[Soros’] latest area of focus is criminal justice. From Texas to Philadelphia [and] the state of Virginia, Soros has reportedly spent millions of dollars backing candidates for District Attorney, for prosecutor. Once elected, these candidates…have ended cash bail, treated felonies like misdemeanors, and sometimes ignored some crimes entirely."

Rabbi Lapin adds, “Does he want chaos in the streets? Absolutely, that always been the dream of the revolutionaries. It’s always been the fervent desire of those who understand that in order to rebuild society, you first of all have to destroy what is.”

The founders of America were very concerned about order in society.

What’s happening in America today with our crime wave is bad anthropology run amok. Biblical anthropology asserts that man is sinful and crimes need to be punished. Bad anthropology, like that espoused by Marxists, asserts that man is basically good---but that it’s society or structures are bad and need to be torn down. Instead, the theory goes, we will rebuild these structures to be more just, affirming the goodness of man. We see the results now being carried out by coddled criminals on the streets.

What horrors Marxism has unleashed on planet earth. Yet it continues to exert its demonic influence. These magistrates,, many funded by the George Soros the Marxist, are among the latest examples.

And we all suffer---especially the poorest among us---who lack stronger security measures.

The founders of America showed a better way to live in a controlled society, with liberty under the rule of law. How much better that is than the chaos that so many leftist elitists try to unleash on the rest of us.

Why has this craziness and chaos come about?

The United States has a spiritual problem. No, not merely a “cultural” one. We have lost the sense of morality that our early founders cherished and that enabled our nation to grow and prosper. Now our founders are demeaned and canceled, much like what is happening to devout Christians. A moral vacuum has been created. It has been filled with craziness and uncertainty.

For those seeking a solution…my concern is that we have to reach bottom before we recover. 

My pessimistic prediction:  Things will get a lot worse before they get better.

My advice to all who agree we are on the wrong path:  Stay faithful to your Christian beliefs and act on your faith.

Progressive Insurance: “Don’t become your parents”…

Where to start with this one.

First off, Progressive Insurance lives its namesake:  Progressive.  Politically progressive.

And political progressives believe in change.  They also dislike the past.  They like to rewrite history to show that what we were taught was wrong.

They dislike tradition.  They dislike historical figures, including their statues.

They even dislike parents because they carry on past traditions and values.  Past traditions and values are not good in the mind of Progressive.

Of course, Progressive’s marketing gurus are telling them to focus on this younger demographic.  So they do what typical, run-of-the-mill progressives and leftists do best:  Divide, demean, and antagonize to get their desired results.  In the case of Progressive, they do it for profit.

Here is one among many examples of Progressive’s divisive “anti-parent” commercials:

The Federal government, Department of Education, public schools, and now corporate America are all doing their level best to turn our children against their parents. Parents who believe it is their responsibility to determine what their kids should and should not be taught are called “domestic terrorists” by school boards and federal government agencies.

Progressive Insurance itself should be labeled a domestic terrorist organization – spending millions in advertising to rip apart the social fabric, the family structure, of our nation.

You say “what’s there to worry about? It’s only fun advertising?”  But the not so subtle message is there.  Every age group that views TV views these ads – not just the 25 to 45 demographic targeted by the ads.  The age 5 to 18 that watch TV with their parents get the message.  Why spend millions if their ads are not effective?

The leftist playbook:  Disconnect the children from their parents, their values, their heritage and traditions and you can control them for life.

Don’t parents have a tough enough time raising decent kids without a major US corporation spending millions on what is basically political propaganda to diminish their value in the eyes of their kids?

Advantages of paying attention…

A FOX news headline this morning got my attention:

WOKE UP CALL

The article is about how retailers are bearing the fruits of their misguided wokeness in supporting the side that is destroying their businesses.

You can’t blame them.  They’re busy.  They have been single-mindedly focused on maintaining and growing their business.  Most have not had the time or forethought to cultivate a 360 degree perspective of what’s going on around them.

Consequently they have been exposed ONLY to the primary, force-fed sources of news and opinion from the main stream government propaganda outlets.

Retailers aren’t the only segment of our economy and workplace to be fuddled and misled by the narrow alternate reality check offered by the likes of ABC News and their fellow travelers.

Here is the short list of the various segments of our society, what they are fed by the media, the reality of the situation, and the consequence of their deception:

Retailers: 

These folks got on the Black Lives Matter bandwagon early on –donating millions to that “shoot yourself in the foot” cause -  immediately after the first criminal said he couldn’t breath. The realities are that BLM is a communist organization, and the “I can’t breath” guy was a criminal with a rap sheet, resisted arrest, was high on drugs, and the cops did what they were trained to do.  Unfortunately for the cops they were in the world of instant video, shocking the snowflake masses into observing for the first time what effective police work involved – thus the politically correct court verdict.  Retailers also got on the “defund the police” bandwagon as well, while supporting their local socialist politicians. 

The consequence of all of these boondoggle retailer “great awakenings” was and is unbridled shoplifting, looting, smash and grabs, and locust-like flash mobs wiping out their inventories.  Cops are nowhere to be seen.  Can you blame them?  Would you want YOUR cop son to be accused of a hate crime for doing his job?  Me neither.

Doctors and Nurses: 

Bless their hearts.  These are the most compassionate of this group.  They save  lives.  They expose themselves to horrible disease.  They are highly educated and continue devoting time to keeping up in their profession.  Consequently, their view of the world is also quite narrow.  They must focus on the sources of medical information that are the lowest hanging fruit to keep up.  And unfortunately, the source of that fruit is the often wrong, conflicted of interest, government medical propagandist, the good doctor Fauci himself.  Again, these fine folks have little time to consider the broader alternative views on the topic of COVID and related matters that may be even more effective than what they allow themselves to learn from their single source.

The consequence in my experience and research is that doctors generally are either out of the COVID loop altogether, do not recognize, never mind provide, alternate treatments, or go to extremes in their concern or lack thereof about the disease.

Schools, school boards, teachers and their unions: 

Let’s face it.  Public schools are an arm of federal government. As such, they are required to carry out federal Department of Education policies in spite of school boards being local. And those federal government policies are now suppressing even the expression of opinions of local parents, calling them “domestic terrorists” in a few instances. 

Many of us thought it was bad enough several decades ago when prayer and the pledge were removed from the classroom.  But now: No more American history, no more patriotism, no more civics, no more discipline. The new priority topics are gender studies, why “white man” is bad, why our founders were racist, and why our nation is evil.  The greatest destructive achievement is establishing the lowest common denominator of testing and behavior so that no one’s feeling are hurt.  Is it any wonder why we have school shootings?  No, it’s not the guns.  It’s government policy.

Military:

The military is now also deep in the ditches of “don’t offend anyone,” a priority higher than having an effective fighting force or even winning.  Standards of physical fitness have been reduced in some elements of the military to accommodate women.  Gays are in the same quarters as their sexually oriented opposites.  What could possibly go wrong?

But not only must we accommodate every soldiers perverted whims, we must not offend the enemy.  Don’t let them see the holy books of our predominant religion – they might be offended.  Honor our enemies traditions and beliefs so we don’t offend them.  Don’t fire until fired upon and related insane ROE. News flash:  We are not simply guests in our enemies nation.  We should not have to follow the adage “when in Rome do as the Romans do” when we there as enemy combatants.  We are there to win, not make them love us.

Could these foolish military policies have anything to do with why we haven’t won a war since WW2?  You betcha. 

Entertainers and Sports Stars:

These are the “wokest” of all.  Entertainers are the “artsy fartsies” that are all emotion and no substance.  Sports jocks are the “tough guys” that influence the rest of the gullible.  Both of these groups are so deep in their trade and feelings that they wouldn’t feel a gerbil crawling up anywhere. Yet they spout their ignorance as if they know something.

Unfortunately, these are the personalities the masses look up to the most -  even more so than the main stream media.

The consequence of this corner of public ignorance is destructive voting patterns and and politicians who pander to this ignorance.

Media:  The great majority of media, both news and entertainment, promotes socialism, globalism, immoral cultural values, and racism. These traits are revealed by their negative spin applied to conservative points of view, their portrayal of race and gender, and the absence of conservative content in their programming. In short, they are the conduit and mouthpiece for government policy.

Why is this the case? Lack of diversity in corporate media ownership and management. Virtually all media, ABC/Disney, CBS, NBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, and many in high levels of government, are related by blood or marriage.  Most have a common political agenda:  Usually socialist globalist, and anti-religionist, especially anti-Christian.  Nepotism rules the day.

The consequence is a biased, leftist-driven news source viewed by the majority of Americans.  We become what we consume.  And in this case, what we consumed is destroying our nation.

All these groups are so embedded in their professions, trades, and profits that they don’t have time or refuse to see broader perspectives.

That is an advantage that some of  us have:  The advantage of time to view the broader world and broader perspectives. We look at not just CNN or FOX, but Russia Today, Breitbart, China Daily, Taiwan News, Ukraine National News, religious sites, and dozens of others. We are not locked into the leftist agenda-driven nepotism of the prevailing media and culture.

I wish more of us had the advantage of paying attention.

Leftist mayors promote affirmative action for criminals…

What are some of the guiding thoughts of criminals and the indolent?  Here are a few:

* I deserve what I can get

* Society “owes” it to me

* It’s someone else’s fault

* “They” made me do it

* Others deserve whatever I do to them

* Screw society; screw the white man’s/rich man’s laws; screw the pigs.

And here is Chicago’s “esteemed” leftist mayor, Lori, blaming retailers for her city’s crime wave:

"We also got to push retailers," she said during a Dec. 6 event. "I'm disappointed that they are not doing more to take safety and make it a priority. For example, we still have retailers that won't institute plans like having security officers in their stores, making sure that they've got cameras that are actually operational, locking up their merchandise at night. Chaining high-end bags, these purses seem to be something that is attracting a lot of attention on these organized retail theft units."  From FOX.

She, in essence, has the same mentality as the criminal:  Looting and stealing is someone else’s fault; the retailers made them do it.  Blame someone else instead of the criminal.

Leftists are morally weak beings.  They can’t control their own behaviors so they transfer their own weaknesses on to others.

The Islamic culture is much the same with regard to their doctrine of gender relations.  In instances of rape, the woman is always wrong.  The woman didn’t have her Burka on.  Her ankle was showing – what else could I do? They practice a doctrine of “no personal responsibility – let emotions run their course.”

Lori-the-panderer-of-criminals would probably blame the rape victim if she had to choose. She doesn’t even have the moral fortitude to decide her correct gender.

I submit that every leftist mayor of every city, large or small, mostly large, consciously or unconsciously, applies an “affirmative action” lens on how they view crime in their cities.

They remove all moral and civic responsibility from the criminal.  They believe the criminal is a “victim” of society.  They believe society owes them a break. They believe “someone else” made them do what they do.  That “someone else” might be a retailer or an attractive woman or a cop. It’s always someone else’s fault.  Affirmative action for them: Reduce enforcement, reduce bonds, reduce jail.  They’re “not responsible” for what they did. 

This helps explain the riots and looting, the promotion of Black Lives Matter (a communist organization), defunding police, catch and release, low or no bonds, and all the rest of the insanity coming from these destroyers of civilization. 

On top of that, they tend to demonize anyone promoting patriotism, law and order, and charging, convicting, and locking up criminals.  INSANE!

The old work song has morphed from..

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we go…

to…

I owe, I owe, it’s off to work I go…

to…

You owe, you owe, its off to loot we go.

Put a rap beat to that and it’ll be a hit.

Tale of two police-involved shootings…

Some will find the following comparison requires a bit of nuance – but the differences are clear:

In the first instance, an off duty police officer, Amber Guyger, was headed for what she thought was her apartment – but it was not. The door was apparently unlocked. She entered.  She saw a strange man. He was on his sofa eating ice cream at the time of her entry.   She said she felt her life was threatened. She shot and killed him.

She was convicted in a Dallas court of murder. HERE is more detail.

In the second instance, an on duty police officer, Kim Potter, was present during a traffic stop. The officers at the scene learned that Duante Wright, the driver, had an outstanding warrant for a weapons violation.  Officer Potter approached and attempted to arrest him, warning “I’ll tase you.” He attempted to flee in his vehicle “…with a police officer (Potter) dangling from his car…".  She unintentionally shot and killed him after grabbing the wrong weapon.

She is charged with manslaughter.

While I hate to see anyone charged with murder or manslaughter for what is in reality an honest, but careless mistake, I see a clear distinction between these two cases.

In the first instance, neither a criminal nor an attempted escape was involved.  There was pure innocence on the part of the deceased.  The police officer’s carelessness or mistake was not provoked by a “heat of the moment” attempted escape by a known criminal.  While the shooting was a mistake, it was intentional, careless, and unprovoked.

In the second instance, a known criminal attempted to escape during an attempted apprehension.  A jury should find the police officer “not guilty” even if she did intentionally shoot. The man was attempting to escape arrest and endangered the officer’s life in the process. The shooting was clearly provoked by the actions of a criminal.

If the Minnesota jury finds this officer guilty and I was a cop in that state, I would hasten my way to a state that had greater respect for law enforcement and the rule of law. HERE is more detail on this case.

See more regarding rights of police in apprehending a fleeing felon:

Use of Deadly Force in the Arrest Process - LSU Law Digital …

https://aizmanlaw.com/evading-officer-causing-death-serious-bodily-injury/

Omicron fear porn update…

As of November 6th, 2021, the mainstream news media continues to report, without evidence, that Omicron poses a grave risk to life and limb.  We all might DIE.

They continue to urge everyone to get vaxed and boosted.

Yet the latest info out of Britain suggests several things about Omicron:

• More than half of Omicron cases in the UK are among the fully vaxed
• No one has died or even been hospitalized with Omicron, whether vaxed or unvaxed.

The takeaways:

• Omicron is a mild version of COVID
• COVID, overall, is waning
• The media continues to hype fear porn
• Backlash against heavy-handed government action relative to COVID will continue and possibly worsen in many nations.
• This all makes many wonder whether the population has developed an unhealthy phobia about getting sick from ANYTHING.  The government is promoting this mentality.

More info about the new mutant COVID…

Gathering facts for my own edification, here is what I’ve learned about the new strain of COVID:

• It was originally named “B.1.1.529 coronavirus variant” but is now called by WHO simply “Omicron.”  HERE is some history of why Nu and Xi names were skipped.
• It is said to have originated in the region of South Africa several weeks ago, likely around October 2021. However, concurrent cases were noted in Egypt.
• It is believed to have originated in an individual with an already compromised immune system, possibly in someone with acquired immune deficiency (AIDS).  The COVID strain was enabled to fester and mutate within that host, and mutate into what is now called Omicron.
• Omicron is the result of many more mutations than the Delta variant had; therefore it is likely to be somewhat resistant to current vaccines -  but the extent is yet to be determined.
• Many of the people in Africa and Europe who have been infected with Omicron had previously been fully vaxed.
• HERE IS THE MONEY FACT:  Those who have naturally acquired COVID and recovered have a much higher immunity to the current as well as new strains of COVID than those who have been fully vaxed.
• It is likely to have already spread to most nations of the world, including the US.
• Travel bans will only slow the spread by as much as one month.  The benefit of that is to buy more time for research and developing a strategy to fight the new strain.
• The major pharmaceutical firms expressed that it will not take long to develop new, effective vaccines for Omicron.  This is debatable since COVID, like all viruses, are constantly evolving targets.
• While the transmissibility is much higher than the Delta or original strains, the lethality is not known, but is estimated to be about the same as the original strains.
• High doses of Vitamin D3 (6,000 to 10,000 International Units) supplemented by weekly doses of Vitamin K will significantly strengthen the human immune system.  These supplements are recommended by many, including Dr. John Campbell of Great Britain who has been providing daily updates on COVID since March of 2020. Vitamin K added to D3 amplifies the benefits of both as explained HERE. I’m doubling my daily dose from 4,000 IUs to 8,000 and adding Vitamin K2 that I didn’t know about till now. I’m researching the best dose of K2.
• COVID burnout, society’s reaction of being told what to do based on questionable science, will result in more protests, civil disobedience, and civil unrest. Governments will likely react even more forcibly.
• We can only guess what impact this new COVID strain will have on world and especially US economies – I doubt it will be pretty.
• The jury is still out as to whether this new variant is merely “overblown fear porn” or something to be genuinely concerned about.

Stay tuned.  New and better information will be coming to us about the expected impacts of this new strain rapidly over the next two weeks.

Rittenhouse absolutely should have been there…

Many folks, including some conservatives, but especially snowflakes and leftists, argue that Kyle Rittenhouse had no business being in Kenosha during the riots.  They believe it was “poor judgement” on his part – that he never should have been there. 

I have no doubt that the great majority of parents would have forbidden their 17-year old to go to a town where an ongoing riot was taking place.

Why do they believe that way?

First of all, our culture has become one that believes that teenagers are still irresponsible “children.”  Many, perhaps most, parents have not given their kids of that age responsibilities that nurture adulthood.  Many “kids” today remain basement dwellers in their parents homes through their twenties. To bolster this conclusion, read Diane West’s “Death of the Grownup.”

Kyle was an exception.

Second, Kyle’s family lived in Kenosha.  He had relatives who had businesses there.  Those businesses were threatened by the rioters.  Those family members invited Kyle to Kenosha to help them defend their business in a town whose failed leaders ordered both the cops and the National Guard to “stand down” and let the rioters do their thing.

And finally, we have have become a nation of “anything goes.”  Our highest value has become “don’t offend anyone.”  Don’t judge anyone’s behavior.  That has morphed into “let the rioters do their thing.”  That leads the majority of us to believe we shouldn’t get involved or be involved in defending anything.  That would require judging others.  The left believe the rioters shouldn’t be judged. Why?  Because what they do is merely protesting “injustices” brought about by our founding fathers, the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, Catholics and Jews.  Anyone who opposes a good riot must be a racist.

Kyle was an exception. 

I was saddened by his remarks in a recent post-trial interview that he even supports Black Lives Matter (the Communist front organization.)  Not sure if his attorneys told him to say that as cover or he really believes it.  But he said it. But he is not a racist.

No, Kyle is merely an “adult” teenager who believed in doing the right thing when called upon to help.  He had the fortitude to go, and the skill set to defend himself. He did what the great majority of Americans would have done 50-100 years ago.  But sadly, most now believe that we all should mind our own business and refrain from defending our communities from vandals, rioters, and looters.  Even many city officials now believe this.

Kyle is an exception, a hero, and a role model for what many more of us should become – especially city officials.

Governance without representation…

The American Revolution was fought on the basis of “taxation without representation.”  The Boston Tea Party was among the early acts of that revolution:  They didn’t want tea taxed by a far off, out of touch, greedy, out of control, unresponsive government entity which happened to be England.

Today we have a broader problem beyond mere “taxation” without representation.  We have “governance without representation.”

Sure, we tell ourselves we are being represented.  But are we, really? At least half our population believe we are not.

I submit that we are taxed and governed by a far off, out of touch, greedy, out of control, unresponsive government every bit as much as the colonist considered England to be.  The fact that the governing authority happens to be on the same continent headquartered in Washington DC is irrelevant.  The government might as well be in England or Mars.

The results are the same:  Governance without real representation.  Let’s call it what it is:  Fake representation; in many cases, NO representation.

The problem is a matter of scale.  We as a nation have gotten too big to have any real representation. There is no way effective representation can be provided on the scale we now have.  England and the colonies had a greater potential for real representation than the 50 states and Washington have. Washington is as much a distant authority to the states as England was a distant authority to the colonies.

The additional problem we have is more than a state/federal divide.  Our current political and cultural divide is not regional as much as it is between urban and rural.  In every state, whether in the northeast, south, Midwest, or west coast, there is an urban/rural divide.

Politics, policies, taxation, and regulation in cities of all sizes tend to range from liberal, to socialist, to communist. Politics, policies, taxation and regulation in suburbs and especially rural areas tend to range from moderate to conservative to libertarian.

How could greater representation than what we are currently subjected to be achieved?

There would need to be two federal governments set up. Such governments could not be formed on a regional basis because the interests of urban and rural/suburban would remain in conflict.  The two governments would need to be on the basis of cities in one nation and non-cities being another nation.

The impracticality of that arrangement highlights the difficulty of our current state of non-representation. Thus we have the seeds of revolution sown in our current form of non-representative, “representative” government.

“Measured response” is for losers - or for those who don’t care all that much about surviving or winning.

The United States fought three significant wars where our strategy was a “measured response”:  Korea, Vietnam, and most recently Afghanistan.

Our thinking, if you can call it that, was that we have such overwhelming power we dare not use it. It might be considered “unfair” if we did.  So we didn’t use it.  We held back.

This was seen over and over in Afghanistan via our “rules of engagement.”  Basically it was “don’t fire until fired upon.”  On top of that, we must not do anything that might be perceived as insulting the enemy, his culture, and his satanic religion whose primary tenant is to erase the infidel.  In fact, we must not have any sign of Christian or Jewish religion within sight of the enemy or he might not just merely be offended but might be made angry.

Fast forward to Kenosha, Wisconsin and the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

The same demented mentality is being applied in that trial by the persecution, err - prosecution.  The argument is attempted that Rittenhouse brought a gun to a…to a…to a what?  A street party"?  A carnival?  A demonstration?

Or did the prosecution deliberately ignore the fact that Kyle was asked to help some of the merchants protect their businesses during three nights of riots, burning and looting.  And all in a city where its leaders told both the police force and National Guard to “stand down.”

The prosecution deceptively framed the shootings as if there were seconds or minutes for Kyle to assess his situation, review his options, and act on the best one.  In fact, there were split seconds to act or die.

That sounds familiar.  Our troops in Afghanistan were told countless times to stand down.  We might use too much force.  We might have even won – God forbid. Many unnecessarily died.

So Kyle brought his gun to the town where most of his family lived, Kenosha, at the request of friends.  Why?  To help them protect their businesses from rioting, burning and looting in the absence of law enforcement who were told to stand down.

Kyle must have appeared to the rioters as a goody goofball worthy of being attacked.  So they did.  A number of the mob, not sure how many, but several, decided to teach this kid a lesson.  First by pummeling him with a skate board.  Skate boards weigh up to five pounds, by the way, as much as a sledge hammer. And while he was down on the ground another “innocent Amish boy” took some time out from burning and looting to promote “social justice” and pointed his Glock at him.

Kyle fired his AR.

For this, the prosecution claimed he used “excessive force.”  He should have used his fists but he was “too cowardly” to do that.  Shades of our Afghanistan rules of engagement – our incompetent leaders told us to figuratively use our fists, which in that case meant “play nice.”

This to me sounds like rampant insanity, both in wars and in riots.  We are told to do nothing to defend ourselves and to do as little as possible to win.

The first insane thing was to tell police and National Guard to stand down, allowing the mob to burn, loot, and riot.

The second insane thing was to mock, demean and legally harass those who not only attempt to protect their community but those who take measures to defend their own life in the face of mob attack. They call such civic minded folks “vigilantes.”

This is life in another dimension.

By the way, Mark and Patricia McCloskey are also present in Kenosha to provide support to Rittenhouse.  They suffered similar persecution for merely holding weapons – leftist media calls it “brandishing” - on their front yard to defend against demonstrators who broke into their gated community.

I pray that every clear thinking person not imbued with a will to die or leftist dementia will take advantage of all available measures to defend himself and prevail if found in a similar situation.

And our nation should do the same in any war it feels necessary to engage in.

Changing Clocks twice a year is stupid…

I agree with Marco Rubio and his sentiment about the dumb “clock changing ritual” twice a year.

*****

Sen. Marco Rubio: Changing Clocks Is 'Stupid'

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Capitol Hill on April 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images)

By Marisa Herman    |   Friday, 05 November 2021 09:40 AM

Daylight saving time will end at 2 a.m. Sunday, much to the chagrin of Sen. Marco Rubio.

The Republican senator from Florida is once again leading the charge to make daylight saving time permanent across the country.

Earlier this year, he reintroduced the Sunshine Protection Act, which would stop the changing of the clocks for good.

His initiative is backed by 19 states: Alabama, Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Idaho, Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, Arkansas, Delaware, Maine, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, Florida, and California.

Rubio railed against the fact that he will have to set his clock back an hour on Sunday in a video message.

"We’re about to once again do this annual craziness of changing the clock, falling back, springing forward," he said. "The overwhelming majority of members of Congress approve and support [ending this]. Let's get it done. Let’s get it passed, so that we never have to do this stupid change again."

Proponents of making daylight saving time permanent argue it betters the health and safety of the nation by saving energy, preventing traffic accidents, and curbing crime.

Jim Reed of the National Conference of State Legislatures told USA Today that six states enacted measures to make daylight saving time year-round during this year’s legislative session, meaning no clock changes.

Currently, states can opt out of participating in daylight saving time. However, it requires a change to federal law.

According to the 1966 Uniform Time Act, states must change the clocks to daylight saving time at a specified time and day or follow standard time throughout the year.

Daylight saving time was first enacted by the federal government during World War I as a way to conserve coal.

Standard Time resumes Sunday and lasts until March 13.

From Newsmax

Do you notice any resemblance?

 

Both senile, both grumpy.