“Test after test has clearly demonstrated that African Americans are dramatically smarter than their African cousins – those very clans/ tribes that their forefathers were abducted from.”

Maybe there are such tests — but I doubt it. African-Africans are zooming by African-Americans at an ever-increasing rate. Tiger Mom picked Nigerians as one of the eight most successful immigrant groups in America.
African-Caribbeans have been ahead of African-Americans for generations now.

Even in areas where Afican-Americans have historically dominated, e.g., sports, African-Africans are supplanting African-Americans. Look at the names on a college football or basketball team next season. Why? More discipline, more dedication, more hard work.

Either it’s cultural or it’s all the white DNA African-Americans inherited!

You may think it’s self-evident knowledge, but even the major religious traditions of the world have disagreed historically and even today. There has been endless debate on the topic even within religions (when does human life begin in terms of the soul, for example, which is a major part of the argument). Here’s a brief summary of each religion, but there’s lots more information available.

A brief survey of the history of debate/disagreement on the topic is here.

Abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy, however, seems to have been forbidden by the vast majority of religions, as far as I know.

Can the difference be characterized by a difference in conscience?

For example, it is scientific fact and, more so, self-evident knowledge, that a human life evolves from conception/fertilization to a natural, accidental, or premeditated (i.e. conscious) death. Yet people have accepted and feel comforted by a fantasy (i.e. spontaneous conception) and amorality/immorality (e.g. “viability”) of pro-choice (i.e. selective) policy that enables them to terminate a human life with prejudice.

While there can be intelligent and legitimate discussion about compromises on many issues, their demand for elective abortion (i.e. sacrificial rites) unequivocally and irretrievably taints their motives. Not only do they tolerate, but actually normalize or promote human sacrifice. A wicked solution to a “wicked problem”.

It’s notable that Obama acknowledges the merit of reduced abortions, but is uncharacteristically unwilling or uninterested to explain why in straight terms. So, he recognizes that abortion terminates a human life, but is still perfectly willing and capable of promoting the rite under a pro-choice or selective religion.

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Speaking of Nixon, I recall his establishment of the EPA (a dual-use agency if there ever was one). The irony of the environmentalists (not conservationists) is that they support and defend environmental unprincipled disruption through an industry’s life cycle from recovery to reclamation. Out of sight and out of mind in China, etc.; and obfuscated or shielded actions at home (e.g. solar ovens, windmill gauntlets); thereby giving rise to so-called “green energy”. The same legerdemain performed at home by feminists with a veil of privacy hanging over the abortion industry.

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The cognitive dissonance should be deafening, and yet it is not. It is merely the annoyance of a buzzing fly that is easily swatted and heard no more. A large and substantial minority of humanity is amoral/immoral and opportunistic. Perhaps it’s deference to ego, but atheists are not universally trapped in this web. I wonder what causes and sustains this schizophrenia; or perhaps it’s just a brute realization of survival of the fittest.

There is no question these charges are politically motivated, and most likely overcharged and might very well go unproven, although I would not bet on the latter.

But folks have to understand, politically motivated charges are not unusual. Law enforcement is ultimately a politically driven enterprise. It takes a prosecutor of very high character to resist having his objectivity overcome by politics.

I am guessing that everyday some prosecutor somewhere is flat out violating the ethical rule not to discuss cases publicly (I am not going to state the rule).

Why? Because it gets on the news and is cheered by the public and makes the prosecutor look like a hero to his intended audience. Whether anyone notices depends on whose ox is getting gored.

What Mosby did was despicable, and entirely typical and usual everywhere there is a prosecutor without high character. When is anyone disturbed by the local prosecutor condemning an accused on tv before trial? More likely cheering.

Our entire society has become more retributive and more willing to cast stones. That only changes when someone unexpectedly becomes a subject of the unfairness and realizes with horror that there is zero, nothing, which can change the dynamic.

As a Goldwater Republican, I really did not like Richard Nixon. He truly lived up to his philosophy: conservatives get the rhetoric, and liberals get the action. That was not an observation, it was his political policy.

Then the left viciously and unfairly attacked him and quite consciously gloried in the chaos they brought to this country as a result. Conservatives were forced to defend the person who opposed them and their interests in a sneaky, dishonest way. It was a very distasteful position to be in, and tainted conservatives as a result.

To some extent, the same thing happened with Bush, who was no conservative and who manipulated conservatives insensibly. Folks thought that the misleading word in “compassionate conservative” was compassionate. But the phrase had an entirely different purpose, to project Bush as a conservative when he was not. It was extremely clever and successful, and most conservatives fell for it.

For the non-Left to be backed into a similar circumstance with Gray, Baltimore, police and race is a win-win for the Left.

We need to get government out of education entirely, except for payment. We need to get the unions out of government and law enforcement. We need to abolish the laws which enable the Left to influence society, including charitable laws. We need to make political careers unappealing.

But the left controls the narrative, better than Pravda or Izvestia, more entertainingly and more subtly. So there is never a chance to look at the big picture. Hell, how much of local news is a mindless unwitting reflection of the leftist narrative?

So often the left tells the non-left to jump, and the non-left jumps just as high as it can.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bal-freddie-gray-arrest-documents-drawn-up-for-wrong-people-20150504-story.html

If Mosby had any integrity she’d resign. The press is disgusting too.

What many folks do not realize is that local law enforcement has been transforming into a national agency for the leftist agenda for many years now. The union aspect of the transformation is the glue which makes it all possible, fostering as it does the us against them mentality.

The transformation is always based on some warm and fuzzy, non-contentious issue which is ratcheted up as news stories present the opportunity.

Animal cruelty A mere 99.75 % of the population is horrified by animal cruelty. But the SPCA – – a law enforcement agency with a built-in conflict of interest because it is also a fund-raising 501(c)(3) agency – – ought to be investigated nationally to determine to what extent it is acting on behalf of PETA and with the help of PETA and of other “animal rights” organizations whose more explicit goal is the abolition of animal ownership, farms and private enterprise generally. How many criminal cases brought by the SPCA are a public smearing campaign intended to demonize a person and to extort a result?

Domestic violenceA mere 99.75 % of the population is horrified by domestic violence. But a national investigation should be conducted to determine to what extent these cases used to be regarded as mere family squabbles and immature behavior. How many of these cases can only result in destroying a family, leaving embittered results, and one party having the cudgel of a protective order? To what extent are domestic violence units guided by a man-hating and family-hating philosophy?

Driving while intoxicatedA mere 99.75% of the population is horrified by fatalities and injuries directly caused by inebriation. But what exactly is the cost-benefit in DWI prosecution? For example, out of annual fatalities, what percentage is the drunk driver himself, or the equally drunk passenger who got into the care with the drunk driver? What percentage is left over? To what extent are these laws overkill used to hassle and beleaguer average, otherwise law-abiding Americans and give them a taste of harsh, often life-destroying prosecution?

The list can go on – – the phony and futile “war on drugs,” the “environment,” traffic “safety” laws.

These areas are all highly propagandized and politicized on a daily basis. They have assumed a position of invulnerability. No questioning is allowed, no prosecution is not sacrosanct, no ethical rule (such as forbidden prosecutor’s public statements) needs be obeyed. What – – are you infavor of torturing animals and beating wives?

Just as the media, academia, charitable organizations, government bureaucracy and what else (familiar to the folks on this site) have been taken over by the left, so too local law enforcement, if not over taken by the left, has been immensely influenced by the leftist agenda. The takeover is happening now, and it is close. No American institution is not a target for takeover or destruction.

The self-righteousness, the arrogance, the sense of law enforcement as punishment from the get-go, all this is part of the package.

This is not about race, except to the extent the left falsely makes it so. This is about law enforcement as the punitive humiliation of citizens, the attitude that citizens are assholes and garbage. This is about greater division and distrust fomented by design.

Like the jihad lads, is it any surprise that quite a few public servants are enthralled by officially sanctioned Zero Tolerance?