Saying What You Mean

By William L. Garvin

‘Intelligence is derived from two words, inter and leger, inter meaning ‘between’ and leger meaning ‘to choose between.’  An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned ‘to choose between.’  He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.”  J. Martin Klotsche

In their search for independence, generations sometimes differentiate from their elders by their use of language.  Sometimes they invent new words such as “Daddio,” “gremmie,” “homies,” “brah,” “bling,” and “selfie.”  Sometimes they develop generational “cool” by changing spelling such as “phat,” “dat,” and “def.”  Another differentiation is to change the traditional meaning of a word as has happened with “boss,” “hot,” “lame,” “bad,” “gay,” “gnarly,” and “booty.”  Most of these are merely cultural phases, harmless and ephemeral.  There is a much more serious issue when the press, government, or societal transmogrification obscures reality and the truth.

The Obama administration promised that its cornerstones would be the “rule of law” and “transparency.”  Those were its words but hardly its actions.  Throughout its scandal-plagued six years, the public has been inundated with obfuscation, stonewalling, “misremembering,” and blatant hypocrisy.  Anyone opposing the progressive transformation has been subjected to the full force of government retribution much as Tea Party and conservative groups have had to endure.  There is a campaign of “eradication of opposition” that has been aided and abetted by establishment Republicans with their “go along to get along” policy of appeasement and a complacent, compliant media that willingly follows White House marching orders.  Therefore, just as in a Brian Williams or Dan Rather newscast, you will never get the full truth.

When American soldiers were slaughtered at Ft. Hood by a Muslim shouting praises to Allah, Islamic terrorism became “workplace violence.”  The Jews slaughtered in a Jewish deli in Paris became “folks” who were killed at “random” even though the murderer said he was after Jews.  Now we have 21 Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya who are identified as “Egyptian citizens” and “innocent victims.”  However, when Craig Hicks executes three Muslim students, they are immediately identified as victims of their faith and manner of worship.  In genuflecting support of this knee jerk reaction, liberal media has tried to paint Hicks as representative of the “white, right wing extremist.”  They deliberately ignore the fact that he is an ardent atheist, a fan of the Southern Poverty Law Center (an extremist group that calls out others as extremists!), the Huffington Post, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, many anti-Tea Party and anti-conservative Facebook pages, and of course, MSNBC’s resident White House apologist—Rachel Maddow.  Some blame the movie AMERICAN SNIPER for these murders.

Even though the police have reported the murders to be the result of an ongoing dispute over a parking space, the confluence of a “perpetual grievance mentality” with the “perpetual liberal guilt mentality” has resulted in a new hashtag campaign of “Muslim lives matter.”  Of course they do along with Black lives matter, White lives matter, Christian lives matter, Hindu lives matter, Buddhist lives matter, atheist lives matter, etc., (unless they are in a liberal womb!).  This was epitomized by MSNBC’s peripatetic Chris Hayes who anointed it a “Trayvon Martin moment,” “a Michael Brown moment,” typifying the “routine stereotyping and marginalization of Muslims.”  He went on to say “It takes place in a context where subtle, persistent, anti-Muslim bias is a part of American life and this feels like a wake-up call.”  What a crock of horse manure!  First of all, there is no similarity at all between a couple of street punks and these young students.  Secondly, there is no wave of Islamophobia in this country even though the President and Muslim leaders think there is.  Thirdly, who cares what it “feels like” to you?  Where are your facts?  Reality check--you don’t have any.

Meanwhile, swastikas are painted on a Jewish fraternity in California, Jewish and Christian cemeteries are desecrated in Europe, American marines are forced to destroy their weapons before abandoning our embassy in Yemen, a Christian genocide is occurring throughout the Middle East, 300 marines are about to be surrounded in Iraq, the embassy in Kabul is now within reach of the Taliban terrorists (rather the “armed insurgents who resort to terrorist activities,” and another estimated 20,000 “boots on the ground” have joined ISIS.  Still President Obama fantasizes that “ISIS is on the defensive” and “morale is low” because of his “smart diplomacy” and “strategic patience.”  This is all Obama-speak for “dithering” and “I don’t have a clue.”  That is truly “cray cray” and since SNAFU, YOYO, and GLTA!

High Horse, Hobby Horse, or Stalking Horse?

By William L. Garvin

“Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.  In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”  President Barack Obama

Seasoned citizens were often queried as whether it was “live or Memorex.”  Today it’s a question of whether it’s April Fools or whether someone’s getting punked or whether it’s just a “Saturday Night Live” spoof.  In any event, nearly everyone who is paying attention is channeling their inner John McEnroe and screaming “you can’t possibly be serious!”  Even die-hard democrats are bowing their heads, not in reverence but in shame and chagrin, because of the president’s perplexing performance at the National Prayer Breakfast.  It was devastatingly wrong on so many levels.  Furthermore, this event raises significant concern as to whether or not there have been “high crimes” against logic, “misdemeanors” against optics and common decency, and “treason” against historical accuracy, all committed by President Obama.  As a result, anyone other than low information voters must be disturbed as to why our Commander-in-Chief has morphed into the Islamapoligist-in-Chief.  Elections do indeed have consequences that are “coming home to roost!”

As Lou Dobbs noted: “… the president seems to constantly be mounting his high horse.  It’s a wonder that he doesn’t suffer chronic nose bleeds.”  It is usually this president who sits astride the “high horse” with nothing more than a hobby horse foundation.  He’s quick to condemn police for “acting stupidly” without gathering necessary facts but equally quick to caution others not to “rush to judgment” when Nidal Hasan is shouting “allahu Akbar” and slaughtering American soldiers.  He’s quick to perpetuate the Ferguson myth of “hands up, don’t shoot” before the United Nations general assembly but slow to retract or correct his error.  He’s quick to establish red lines and deadlines but they are all sound and fury, signifying nothing as they impotently fade into memory.  He’s slow to defend but quick to condemn the country he was chosen to lead.

 “Crusades’ was not a term that was used until the seventeenth century though the Christian military actions against Muslims started in the late eleventh century.  Muslim military actions, incursions and conquests into Christendom started four centuries before that.   Indeed, Muslims had subjugated nearly two-thirds of the Christian world at the time the Pope initiated the first crusade.  Another significant observation about Islam and Christianity is that Mohammed personally led military actions whereas Jesus the Christ did not.  The early sections of the Quran read more peacefully but the later verses became more aggressive corresponding to the faith’s growth in numbers and strength.  Quran (8:12)—“I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.  Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.”  There is no similar verse in the New Testament of the Bible.  Nor are there any Christian equivalents for “fatwas” or “jihads.”

Christians do not burn people alive, behead babies, bury people alive, shoot children for watching soccer matches, stone women, keep women from school or driving cars, throw homosexuals off rooftops, or kidnap and rape young girls as a matter of contemporary faith or culture.  Anyone doing so would become an instant pariah and would be vehemently repudiated by the entire Christian community.  Christianity has embraced reform.  Such is not the case in countries under Islamic rule.  We are told that 99.9% of Muslims are moderate.  Where did that number come from?  If so, why are they powerless to eliminate the one-tenth of one percent of violent extremists that is “perverting” their faith?  It’s up to them to clean up their own act.

As for Jim Crow and slavery, the abolitionist movement was fueled from Christian ranks, not from the worlds of academia or government.  Christian leaders such as John Wesley, William Wilberforce, Charles Finney, and Theodore Weld through Martin Luther King labored tirelessly and spearheaded slavery’s demise often at great personal risk.  In his labored invocation of Jim Crow laws, note that those activities and those of the Ku Klux Klan stemmed from his own Democrat party!

This president seems to like to wade into waters even though his knowledge has no depth.  He thinks climate change is more dangerous than terrorism.  He thinks Islamaphobia is more dangerous than Muslim extremism.  He refuses to even say the words “Islamic terrorist!”  He would rather fabricate moral equivalencies from a thousand years ago than effectively challenge the evil of global Islamic extremism.  Sins of yore deserve more condemnation than the barbaric savagery of today.  Until his world view changes, it will represent an “existential threat” to this country.

Differing States of Affairs

By William L. Garvin 

The vast majority of Americans tuned out and turned away from the State of the Union speech by President Obama.  What they missed was a carefully scripted paean to the brilliance of his administration in governing our country.  If there were to be a soundtrack for accompaniment, it would have been “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” “Accentuate the Positive (Eliminate the Negative),” and “What a Wonderful World” as the finale.  Thankfully, there would be no James Taylor!  Why did so few watch?  Why were his ratings a 15-year low?  Maybe they didn’t want to see a poorly rated rerun of perpetual tax and spend democrat policies, hate the rich class warfare, and pie in the sky Monte Hall giveaways.  Maybe his oratorical luster has faded.  Maybe his failure to carry through on his previous promises has “come home to roost.”  Maybe his glitch ridden policies, lack of transparency, proliferation of scandals, incomprehensible foreign policy and deceitful domestic policy (i.e., Obamacare, Keystone pipeline, open borders) has jaded many of his customary supporters. 

That’s why Seth Meyers of NBC noted, “Obama gave the SOTU address and I just have to say that I don’t know what union he was describing.  But I want to live there.  I want to move.  It sounds outstanding.  There’s a middle class.  They have small businesses.  It sounds great.”  NBC has carried enough water for the Obama administration to fill the Great Lakes.  When even they start mocking “the One,” storm clouds are forming on the horizon of “fundamental transformation.”

He should have seen the warning signs of his impending fall from grace when his party’s candidates declared him persona non grata on their campaign trails last year.  He should have known that when “every single one of my policies” was on the ballot yet his party still suffered nationwide annihilations in the 2014 elections.  He should have known that in 2008 he inherited 257 House Democrats and 57 Democrat Senators.  His ranks have now eroded to only 188 in the House and only 44 in the Senate.  Furthermore, state Democrat governorships have dwindled from 28 to 18 while Republican governor ranks have increased to 31during his “leadership.”  He should have known that non-Gruberized, non-low information voters know that the national debt increase averaged $251 billion during the Bush years.  Senator Obama called that “unpatriotic” and a “failure of leadership.”  However, his average annual national debt increase has been an astounding $1,078 billion!  Now he’s offering up another $4 trillion budget which will add another $475 billion to the national debt.  .  Remember the company that horribly botched the Obamacare website rollout?  Some say that incompetence bordered on criminal negligence.  Well, that same company has been hired by the IRS to handle the Obamacare tax issues!!!  It’s the same old, same old wasteful and irresponsible spending

There’s another reason no one watched his SOTU—they were at the movies watching AMERICAN SNIPER, the story of Chris Kyle.  That movie not only continues to set box office records week after week after week, but it also exposes the hypocrisy of the radical left.  Since their disgusting treatment of veterans coming home from Viet Nam, like the president, they said they had “evolved” and learned to “separate the warrior from the war.”  Poppycock!  Leftists like Moore, Rogen, and Dean called Kyle a coward, linked him to the Nazi’s, and said anyone seeing the movie had anger issues, respectively.  An NBC “journalist” called him a “racist” who went on “killing sprees.”  Others labeled him a “homicidal psychopath.”  The shallow veneer is ripped away and their core ugliness is once again revealed.

The irony permeating this repugnant ingratitude is that Chris Kyle did four tours of duty in harm’s way defending their right to make such idiotic and irresponsible statements.  Remember, there’s a blogger in Saudi Arabia who is getting 1,000 lashes for making a statement insulting to Islam.  Remember Charlie Hebdo.  Try exercising freedom of speech in Iran, or Cuba (our new best friend forever), or in Russia, or in the burgeoning caliphate of ISIS.  Try it in Yemen, or in Nigeria, or in North Korea.  Speak out in Pakistan, or in China…or in Hollywood (as Clint Eastwood does) and see what it gets you.

No matter how smoothly you talk, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.  The American people are sending a message with their feet, their remote controls, and their pocketbooks.  They are telling you what they like and what they don’t like with their time and with their votes.  It’s a curious world when you go to the movies to see something that is real and when you watch President Obama’s SOTU address, you see something that is imaginary.  It’s time to get real.

New Year, Same Old Stories

By William L. Garvin

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” 

President Barack Obama

The nascent year of 2015 is already plagued with the continuing horror of Islamic terrorists wreaking havoc and destruction.  They recently murdered ten members of CHARLIE HEBDO, a satirical magazine in Paris, and two police officers.   A synchronized Muslim attack on a Jewish kosher market resulted in more innocents being executed and seems to have galvanized an international spirit of resistance.  However, there are underlying ripples of concern.  Overtly, millions have marched in solidarity with France and nearly forty leaders of nations walked point.  This was the largest demonstration in French history!  Unfortunately and conspicuously absent was the United States of America, the reputed leader of the free world.  Though he was already in Paris, Eric Holder failed to make an appearance and the President and Vice President remained safely ensconced in D.C. and Delaware undoubtedly performing other functions of great import.  Responding to criticism about the lack of a senior official, Secretary of State John Kerry huffed “I really think that this is sort of quibbling a little bit,”  and of course, they stand “four square” behind the French in their fight against terrorism and in defense of free speech.  The optics declare they are standing very, very far behind and the distinctions between “quibbling” and “quisling” become very blurred!

In the midst of all this, Boko Haram, the Islamic terrorists in Nigeria slaughter another 2,000 villagers.  Their barbaric activities have become so commonplace that they barely merit a terse scrawl at the bottom of the newscasts.  Correspondingly, the American media continues in its complicit if not cowardly conspiracy to minimize the obvious worldwide threats of radical Islam.  Instead they speak in the “lone wolf” and the “not representative of Islam” and the “this is just a small group of extremists” motifs.  How many dots need you need before there is no need for connection because the entire picture is black and bleak?  The Associated Press tries to link the demonstrations in Germany with their Nazi past and Chris Cuomo on CNN thinks the black terrorists in France are African-Americans!  Repeatedly they warn of the backlash from “right wing extremists” replete with their inherent Islamophobia.   They are much more concerned with the possibility of a hypothetical overreaction than they are with the atrocities being committed right in front of their eyes.  They seem ignorant to the fact that Jews are much more likely to be the target of a hate crime than Muslims and synagogues are more likely to be vandalized than are mosques in America.  In a paroxysm of sophistry, CNN’s Sally Kohn tweets “Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl. anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists--).  This is as horrifically in error as is MSNBC’s Chris Hayes phony photograph of the phony Colorado Springs bombing of an NAACP office and his phony equivalency to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.  Then again, that’s what you can expect from MSNBS.

As for the defense of free speech, remember this is the administration that imprisoned a filmmaker who made a YouTube video critical of Islam.  This administration not only keeps him incarcerated but also blamed him for the murders in Benghazi.  President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made commercials apologizing for the movie trailer and assuring the Muslim world that they were appalled by the “disgusting and reprehensible” depiction.  This is the administration that will sic the IRS on organizations that espouse conservative speech.  This is the administration that spies on reporters, hacks their emails and demonizes conservative news channels.

Subsequently cowed and subservient, the mainstream media now cravenly forsakes its duty to the American people.  Where were they when Sharyl Atkisson was stonewalled and subsequently fired for her investigation of Benghazi?  Where were they when the fatwa was issued against Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris?  Why did the FBI say it could not protect her?  Why did she have to go off the grid?  Why didn’t the American Society of News Editors or the Society of Professional Journalists condemn this travesty?  (Read Mark Hemingway’s great story.)  Why aren’t newspapers, magazines, and newscasts showing Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons in an act of defiance?  The New York Times says it’s because of “sensitivity” but in reality…it’s because they are cowards.

Satire is effective when there is a barb, a biting edge, a bitter truth that is readily apparent and with which one can identify or at least understand.  Cartoonists frequently do this with a great deal of skill.  In a world of lies, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.  “Avec solidarite, en verite…’je suis Charlie.’”

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.