A Season sans Reason

By William L. Garvin

Why is it that so many liberals who reject the reason for the season seem to gleefully embrace a season without reason?  Maybe it’s a lack of critical thinking skills.  Maybe it’s a large dose of ignorance.  Or maybe it’s just a foolish desire for anarchy.  If you can destroy structure and authority, then you will be “free” to pursue your own selfish pleasures with neither earthly nor heavenly consequences. 

It appears that liberal lemmings must have a cause du jour and if one does not actually exist, they will invent one.  As a subchapter in the specious saga of the fictitious “war on women,” the Rolling Stone article on collegiate fraternity gang rape is the perfect example.  Once proven to be baseless, a young liberal noted that “it didn’t matter if the facts were false; it still placed a spotlight on the problem.”  That’s the type of lockstep, sophomoric reasoning that $100,000 in student loans will buy you these days!  Then again, if NBC can doctor tapes to fit their agenda and presidents can deny what is clearly on tape, why bother with facts, logic, or rational discussion?

The same is true of the newly minted “movement” spawned by deaths in Ferguson and New York.  Lost to the majority of demonstrators and their supporters is the simple truth that if Michael Brown and Eric Garner had not broken the law to begin with, they would be alive today.  They have no one to blame for their deaths but themselves.  Personal accountability and individual responsibility are anathemas to those who live in the “I’m so special, I can do anything I want” world of extreme narcissism.  Therefore, they are “entitled,” by virtue of their self-proclaimed moral superiority to cast judgment as to the “truth” of any given situation.  Damn the facts; full emotions ahead!

As mainstream media continues to cover the violent and destructive “movement” to oppose racist police gunning down innocent black youth, why do they not point out that the premise is false?  In all of the arrests and confrontations by law enforcement in 2012, there were very few instances of force resulting in death.  While 123 of those killed by police were indeed black, another 326 of those killed were white.  The following year (2013) whites committed 4,396 murders.  Despite being only 13% of the population, blacks committed an astonishing 5,375 murders!  Look closely at those numbers and decide for yourself, who is waging war against whom?  Don’t let the media and the anarchists drag you down into their cesspool of unsubstantiated bile.

Pulling double duty as both a racial agitator and media shill is the omnipresent Al Sharpton, tax cheat extraordinaire.  The Democrat party and Comcast needs to assess how long they are going to support this prevaricating provocateur and his incendiary polemics.  Can you name a single situation where Sharpton has eased tension (absent a corporate payout)?  Can you name a single situation where he has brought parties together and offered reasonable solutions?  Yet somehow, he is President Obama’s go to guy on race relations.  Now there’s a definite lack of critical thinking skill!  This $4 million dollar tax cheat in his thousand dollar suits sits between the president and vice-president one day, and is instigating the blocking of streets, highways, airports, department stores, breaking of windows, trashing of Christmas trees, and general hooliganism.  As to the execution of the two NYPD police officers, Al may claim that he too is a victim, but in reality he is one of the most vocal, nefarious, and vindictive persecutors of law enforcement extant.

Has anyone from the Democrat party ever denounced Sharpton’s foolish polemics and deliberate instigation of a race war?  Will responsible Democrats ever put their country’s welfare above ginning up their base?  Not as of this date but hope springs eternal.  Then again, maybe the moderate Muslims will finally excommunicate the radicals in their midst from Islam.  Maybe Iran will only use their nuclear power for peaceful purposes.  Maybe Lois Lerner and all those who abused their power and authority in targeting conservatives will be held accountable.  Maybe the truth about Benghazi, Bergdahl, NSA spying, Obamacare, and the surge in “amnesty” for illegal aliens will finally be told.  Maybe the president will remember that elections have “consequences” and will spend more time governing rather than dictating.  Maybe the curious coalition of communists, socialists, anarchists, naive idealists, looters, arsonists, and drug addled joy riders will come back to reality.  Maybe the liberal lemmings will break out of their media-indoctrinated stupor and do something constructive for themselves and their country.  Until then, they can continue their adolescent antics and revel in their season without reason, but… beware the consequences!    

Baring False Witnesses

By William L. Garvin

“There are six things that the Lord strongly dislikes, seven that are an abomination to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.”  Proverbs 6:16-19

There is a quote attributed to Winston Churchill:  “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”  In today’s age of instant communication, that lie would make it ALL the way around the world!  One should look at how and why those lies are perpetuated, who is financing the canards, and who profits by their dissemination.  It is important to lay bare those who are bearing false witness.

Lying and cheating are rampant in our society.  “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t competing,” as young folks say.  Lying seems to be a prerequisite for political office in this country despite the ninth commandment:  “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”  There’s the infamous “I did not have sex with that woman.”  False.  “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”    False.  “Hands up, don’t shoot” is false, a lie perpetuated by members of the congressional Black Caucus, by athletes on sporting fields, and “protestors” throughout the land.  A similar path is coursed by those same parties with the false narrative “I can’t breathe.”  There’s the ROLLING STONE story on gang rape at the University of Virginia.  False.  The Lena Dunham Republican rape story.  False.  The Duke lacrosse team rape story.  False.  The Tawana Brawley rape story.  False.  The Benghazi murders were caused by a videotape.  False.  “There’s not a smidgeon of corruption (in the IRS).”   False.  “Your health insurance premiums will go down by an average of $2,500 per family.”  False.  Because there are no timely consequences for any of these lies, unethical, immoral, and illegal behavior is not only condoned but encouraged.

It makes no difference that the Obama administration lied about the Benghazi videotape story or the false premises on which the Affordable Care Act was enacted.  It makes no difference when an American president can lie on live television to the American people about his sexual peccadilloes and remain fabulously wealthy and popular.  It makes no difference that three separate autopsies prove Michael Brown’s hands were never up.  It makes no difference when you say eleven times you can’t breathe, which is proof positive that you CAN breathe.  It makes no difference that the autopsy of Eric Garner showed no damage to either his windpipe or his neck bones, that he did NOT die of asphyxiation on the street but of cardiac arrest while in the ambulance.  For all the race hustlers in the grievance industry, it makes no difference that the crackdown on selling “loosies” in New York was ordered by the highest ranking black officer in the NYPD, Chief of Department Phillip Banks.  As the NEW YORK POST catalogued, Banks ordered the crackdown, black business owners lodged the complaint, a black officer ordered the arrest, and a black, female sergeant supervised the arrest.   None of that makes any difference and will be ignored because it doesn’t fit the liberal media narrative.  Just as Michael Brown’s strong arm robbery is deemed irrelevant, so are Eric Garner’s thirty-one previous arrests (eight for selling loosies in addition to assault and grand larceny).

So who profits by fanning these flames of racial unrest by bearing false witness?  Certainly Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP and every politician who practices racial politics by playing to a core constituency of grievants.  Certainly the popular media with its liberal propaganda (such as “white privilege”) will profit in ratings for live coverage of assaults, looting, and arson.  Looters certainly profit.  Young idealists profit in a search for meaning and significance by identifying with “causes” whether real or imaginary.  Certainly the political forces abroad and at home that would love to see the “Great Satan” humbled are once again dancing in the streets.

And finally, there’s the Obama administration that has already seen the national debt exceed $18 TRILLION while simultaneously presiding over 92 million unemployed and record numbers of food stamp dependents.  Millions have illegally crossed our porous borders.  Iran marches unimpeded towards a nuclear arsenal while Putin continues to pugnaciously rattle his jingoistic saber.  The US has over 4,000 “boots on the ground” in Iraq for a war with no apparent strategic coherence.  China has replaced the USA as the premier economy and the Democrat party is divided and diminished.  False witnesses, breathing lies, sowing discord among brothers may be just the profitable distraction the doctor ordered…even if it’s an abomination!

Facts vs. Ferguson Fabrications

By William L. Garvin

“We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the law breaker.  It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”  President Ronald Reagan

Nothing says “peace and justice” more than plunder, pillage, and arson.  Nothing combats unemployment more than burning downing the enterprises that might hire you.  Nothing encourages redevelopment more than looting and destroying locally owned and run businesses.  But, if you want to reinforce the stereotypes of “ghetto gangsta’s” and “urban thugs,” Ferguson is a resounding success!

As for those limousine liberals of Caucasian persuasion, the Anonymous anarchists, and the mindless sheeple who are harkening back to a pale imitation of Tom Wolfe’s RADICAL CHIC, here are some cold, hard DOJ and FBI facts to chill your boiling, emotional cauldrons.  Of course “Black Lives Matter,” but so do white lives and lives of every color.  Unfortunately, black lives don’t matter to lots of blacks.  While blacks comprise approximately 12.6% of the USA population, the latest FBI crime statistics show they comprise 53.1% of the murderers.  They also comprise 50.4% of the homicide victims.  For the vast majority of homicides, (approximately 90%), the murderers and victims are of the same race.  However, when it comes to interracial crime, the numbers are extremely lopsided.  Of the 1.7 million interracial crimes, only 2-3% of crimes committed by whites have black victims.  When it comes to ALL the crimes committed by blacks, 56% of their victims are white.  According to DOJ stats, in looking at over 100,000 rapes and sexual assaults where the victim was white, 44.5% of the assailants were white and 33.6% of the assailants were black.  Looking at 36,600 victims who were black, 100% of the assailants were black and 0.0% of the assailants were white.  Can you hear me N.O.W.?  The biggest threat to black men and black women are black men, not white cops!  Again, according to the DOJ statistics, blacks are 50 times more likely than whites to commit individual acts of interracial violence and 250 times more likely to engage in “multiple offender” or group interracial violence.

Despite the macro-statistical rejection of the fabricated war on young black men by violent white racists and police, Al Sharpton continues to peddle his Tawana Brawley Snake Oil sophistry.  In order to foolishly follow Sharpton’s lead, you must be anti-science and anti-evidence.  In order to parade around with your “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” placards, you must deny there was any of Michael Brown’s DNA and blood on Officer Darren Wilson’s gun or in his patrol vehicle.  You must deny the tapes of the police transmissions identifying Brown as wearing the same clothes as the robber.  You must deny the trail of blood leading away from the vehicle and then back towards the patrol vehicle.  You must deny every word that Wilson and every supportive black witness said.   You must deny the videotape showing Brown stealing cigars and manhandling the storeowner.  You must deny that Brown’s stepfather and mother’s profane and violent actions had no influence on the so called “gentle giant’s” upbringing.  You must deny Brown’s Facebook picture of himself brandishing a gun with a mouthful of cash.  Somehow you have to believe that Wilson would try to pull a 300 pound man-child through the window of his patrol car, would shoot him in the back as he ran away, shoot him with his arms up, and then stand over him to “finish him off” even though there’s no evidence or logical reason to believe any of this.  But many do.

Much praise should be given to the black citizens of Ferguson who stood up and protected local businesses whether they were owned by blacks or whites  Similarly, much opprobrium should be hurled upon those who lied, looted, burned, destroyed, and still refuse to face facts.  Similarly, shame on all those who are not equally outraged by the six blacks in Charlottesville, Virginia, (four men, two women) members of the “99 Goon Syndikat” gang who carjacked, robbed, and murdered white police captain Kevin Quick.  Eric Holder has already intervened and declared that the four gangbangers eligible for the death penalty will not face it.  So much for justice; may Captain Quick rest in peace.

Law enforcement puts more time, more effort, more money into policing itself as a profession than any other that can be named.  Nine times out of ten, when we find out there was a bad cop, it was another cop who figured it out.  Internal Affairs and Professional Standards processes are not perfect but they stand head and shoulders above any other process that can be named.  It is appropriate that they do their very best to weed out the bad apples and they do.  Black America should do the same.