Andrew C. McCarthy explains the Breonna Taylor case,…
…which he calls “tragic.” It is, but it’s nowhere near murder – not that the mob cares. But for those who’d like to know:
Police will be relieved that no charges were brought against Sergeant Jon Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove, whose shots in the dark chaos struck Ms. Taylor only after the officers were fired upon by her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker — who himself may have been justified, in the confusion, in shooting at what he says he believed was an intruder. The cops were doing their job in executing a lawful search warrant at a location that was quite justifiably tied to a notorious criminal — Ms. Taylor’s former boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover.
Please read the whole thing.
It won’t matter to the mob, because the mob’s actual objection is that deplorables (e.g. police officers) are empowered to arrest people of higher status (blacks).
The facts mean nothing to the mob or to the racial arsonists in the MSM or to the morons in the world of entertainment and athletics because only the end matters (“by any means necessary”), the end being, of course, an unrealizable utopia, i.e. an imaginary land (in the words of Peter Hitchens) which can only be approached across oceans of blood, with the shore never actually attained.
It was tragic, and it wasn’t murder. Same goes for George Floyd, although he was much more directly responsible for his own death by fentanyl overdose. Breonna Taylor, indirectly, because she had chosen to associate with a drug dealer.
These people aren’t utopians. There whole shtick is that no honky cop be tellin’ dem what to do. Their white auxilliaries and witless poseurs who think nothing through. Oh, did you catch this?
https://hillfaith.blog/2020/09/24/new-survey-finds-millennials-much-more-intolerant-than-boomers/
Point these lemmings towards the most convenient cliff. Call it the leap for justice, just don’t stand in their way.
I have read the “hillfaith” material linked to above, and attempted to get to the base statistics and methodology behind the report.
Once I signed up to receive it via email, I was able to access a pdf online which contained a chart presenting the millennial percentage totals corresponding to various queries or viewpoints, rather than just an annoucement of generational differences.
This, marginally better material I suspect, is not the full report which I understood I would receive in my email box at some futire point. The authors’ reference to some subset of millennials viewing life as an illusion, as per Buddhism or even eliminative materialism perhaps, struck me as profoundly interesting.
But in the meantime and with the material at hand they do report that only some 19% of millennials are willing to call human life ” sacred”, as opposed to 50% of “boomers”.
Now, the word “sacred” might mean different things to different people depending on their initial familiarziation with the word. But at its most general and secular , it more or less means specially regarded or ordained, or “set apart” from the mundane when evaluated or approached.
This reluctance to valorize humans across the board with a special and distinct existential status is no doubt the result of several generations now of a politically motivated pop science’s debunking and reductionistic conceits. Out of the anthropocentric frying pan, and into the fires of nihilism. Copernicus proves you are essentially nothing. It’s Science!
If there seems to be a homicidal disregard abroad for any intrinsic value to human life, it is because there is.
om: Turns out the lemmings-cliff-mass-suicide narrative was faked by Disney.
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In 1958 Walt Disney produced “White Wilderness,” part of the studio’s “True Life Adventure” series. “White Wilderness” featured a segment on lemmings, detailing their strange compulsion to commit mass suicide.
According to a 1983 investigation by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation producer Brian Vallee, the lemming scenes were faked. The lemmings supposedly committing mass suicide by leaping into the ocean were actually thrown off a cliff by the Disney filmmakers. The epic “lemming migration” was staged using careful editing, tight camera angles and a few dozen lemmings running on snow covered lazy-Susan style turntable.
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=56
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Californians, I’m not so sure of.
McCarthy fudged some of the info about Taylor that’s now coming out to make make her more into the innocent bystander that the PC narrative had spun.
There’s more here about the facilitation of the rioting:
https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=21316
https://twitter.com/TaraLaRosa/status/1308870646391336960
Choices. Breonna Taylor made some bad ones. Apparently, she was an EMT and a hard working person. However, she made a bad choice of a boy friend and allowed him to engage in illegal activities associated with her dwelling. It’s a cautionary tale. Such simple bad choices often have consequences. In this case it cost her her life. A tragedy,? The city of Louisville has recognized that – to the tune of $12 million. What else can be done to make amends for the tragedy? Prosecute all three cops? For what exactly? Burn down 50% of businesses in Louisville? For what? And how would that help anything? The truth is that this is a phony baloney cause. Why don’t they care about the lives of innocent young blacks killed every weekend in Chicago? No, only blacks killed by cops are useful to them. It gives them a cause, however phony, to work to tear down the system of western civilization.
Most of the rioters arrested last night in Louisville were from out of town. They are astro-turfed rioters. All well planned and well financed. Marxism is on the move. Our civilization is under frontal assault.
J.J.
Breonna Taylor may have had a long history of bad choices with her boy friend and a non EMT alternative economic model. It may have been a bit more like a preferred life style not bad luck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9Czx1cmnk
huxley:
Regarding lemmings. The religion of systemic racism and mass hysteria regarding police shootings proves that media a wonderful tool for manipulation. A mob is a terrible thing (cue Young Frankenstein).
The family and the lawyer got $12m; a sum completely divorced from the facts. But they are still complaining.
She got caught in crossfire as the police acted in self-defense. I want to know what the theory of the case was. Negligent shooting?
om:
A certain subset of women (and they may come from either side of the tracks and any socioeconomic / educational profile) will always Choose the Thug if society permits them to do so. And society today does allow them to make this choice.
It’s evolved lower brain-stem / between the legs stuff and no amount of debating or public policy round tables will change it. Rebuilding some Chestertonian Fences might, but we all know what chance there is of that.
I watched snippets of that press conference by AG Cameron. I feel bad for him – this kind of thing is probably not quite what he signed up for when he spoke at the GOP convention. But he obviously has some strength about him.
Om, thanks for the link. Tatum is way ahead of most people on this. My info was only what I’ve gleaned from the usual sources. As Zaphod points out, many of these young women are drawn to the “gangsta” persona.
However guilty or innocent she may have been, the outrage over her death is a phony cause. They are trying to gin up a race war or worse. Remember Manson and “Helter Skelter?” That was his goal. Ahead of his time, he was.
Guns and ammo are still flying off the shelves. I wonder if the brains behind these riots knows or understands what that portends?
Okay, so it wasn’t a “no knock” warrant — but, three men pounded on a single woman’s door at midnight and — expected her to calmly get up and open it??
I assume the men were shouting their bona fides, but even if she could hear “police!” — why in the world should she be expected to believe it?
Then they busted down the door and came toward her bedroom —
McCarthy:
If I had been Taylor, alone, I would have shot them!
“Turns out the lemmings-cliff-mass-suicide narrative was faked by Disney.” – huxley
First you fake lemming behavior; then, the next thing you know, you’re faking Chinese history.
AesopFan: The after-midnight aspect bothered me too. I understand the warrant was legal and that Taylor was likely not a babe in the woods, but still given the possibility someone inside just woken might react in self-defense, as Walker did, there seems to be something wrong with this picture.
Then there’s this:
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Meantime, Hankison, who was in the parking lot outside the apartment, began firing when the commotion he could not have seen began. He sprayed the patio and a window with ten bullets — irresponsibly, to be sure, but fortunately without harming anyone. Hankison, who had a spotty disciplinary record in almost 20 years as a cop, was terminated when police officials judged that his conduct during the raid shocked the conscience.
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The police have not covered themselves in glory here. Which doesn’t justify the current riots, of course, but I’d say the police might do something rethinking about this scenario.
Re the after midnight timing:
Last year during the demonstrations in Hong Kong it was not uncommon for a few van loads of police to show up in a quiet street after midnight and fire off tear gas at an imaginary invisible foe. Not quite the frigate firing broadsides into an empty African Jungle in Heart of Darkness, but you get the idea.
Multiple theories about why they did this, but the most parsimonious explanation was that they would get paid some very meaningful multiple of the regular overtime rate if they were engaged in ‘action’ and this even more so if it happened to be after midnight.
So perhaps the police in this case simply wanted to pocket more overtime?
We’ll never know.
But one thing many of us who have been around for a while do learn after a while is that often the *real* reason for something big happening is not the one which got past the journalists and ‘fact checkers’ – often something trivial, mundane, and/or sordid.
Didn’t bother to put ironic quotes around ‘Journalist’ above because by now there’s no need. The word is synonymous with ‘Whore’ and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
Things not learned:
Don’t do drugs. Don’t sell drugs. Don’t be a THOT. Don’t expect to reach Medicare/Medicaid enrolment if you live the thug life or live as a thug moll.
Your peers, not the po po, will be your undoing in most cases (which won’t be solved).
The answer to the timing of the warrant service depends on KY law. I’m in CA and warrants cannot be served during the hours between 10PM and 6AM following. (here are exemptions to this when the subject is in a public place or already in custody on another matter.) If one in CA wishes to serve a warrant during those hours they must make their case for that in the supporting documentation and the judge must specifically authorize the “night service”. This may not be the case in KY. If not, it probably will be soon.
Of course it is tactically advantageous to be the one who is awake and alert and your adversary being the one rudely awakened…