Minneapolistan Issues Edict to Citizens: Surrender to Criminals

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Last week, the Peoples Democratic Republic of Seattle's Politburo voted to abolish the Seattle Police Department. 

Not "defund it."  

Completely demolish it.

Portland hasn't abolished it's police force--yet.  They merely neutered it.  Last month, the Rose City recorded the highest number of homicide investigations in 3 decades. 

Not to mention the perpetual "peaceful protests."

Meanwhile, in a "hold my beer moment" a few days ago, "Minneapolistan" issued this edict to the few law-abiding citizens remaining:  Be prepared to give up personal belongings to robbers and do what they say.

Minneapolis officials prefaced their decree with the Orwellian newspeak about wanting "...want those who live and work here to be safe..." 

The Dimtards in Congress unanimously sided with the anarchists, Marxists and criminals, instead of law-abiding citizens.

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Big Brother Tech and "debunking sites," are also obfuscating the issue of violence with semantic double-talk. 

Comrade Karla feels the whole "Defund The Police" Movement will move us in a direction where the elites will be protected by ruthless, well-armed security details while the rest of us will have to settle for a "Peoples Militia."

One of the facets for the Leftists' acceptance and justification for violence is their collective dismissal of property rights.  

Once property rights are abolished, any "...pursuit of happiness..." will sooner or later be stripped away from anyone who isn't "woke."

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Jihadists Attack Pedestrians on London Bridge

(Image from:  NPR's report of the terrorist attack on London Bridge)

On the evening before Ariana Grande's One Love Manchester Concert, three jihadists who weren't interested in reading the One Love Memo, mowed down and killed seven people on London Bridge. Forty-eight people were injured in the attack.

London police launched raids shortly afterwards and arrested a dozen suspects.

Meanwhile, back on this side of the pond Our Grand Nagus criticized political correctness and made the case for his travel ban.

This of course put some leftists in a tail spin.  At least two celebrities posted unhelpful tweets--along being careful not to use the phrase "Islamic jihad."

I'm with The Diplomad on this:  I'm sick of terrorist attacks' tiresome trajectory.

Mark Steyn noted that a lot more than London Bridge is falling down.

Instead of being told to "get use" to the frequent carnage...

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...western leaders should at least employ one simple solution:  Stop importing terrorism.

Mark's Commonwealth bud, Nigel Farage demanded:  We don't want words on terror, we want action.

Terror Attack in London, UK & the Human Cost of Illegal Immigration in the US

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When I woke up from my nightshift nap yesterday, the first thing I saw on-line were the headlines of the terrorist attack near Parliament where four people were killed and 40 injured.

The POS (piece of shit) was initially described by witnesses as a 40-something Asian man.  This could understandably be a heat-of-the-moment observation, or a case of political correctness (PC) conditioning.

But based on the method of attack--using a vehicle to run down pedestrians, then going at them with a knife--it didn't take me long to "jump to conclusions."

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Then there's the usual lag-time in publicizing the POS's name.  Initially there was some confusion about another usual suspect from the "religion of peace."  Whether due to mistaken identity or more PC conditioning, London PD felt confident they ID'd their man, but at the time I'm writing this, they're still not saying.

Whoever he was, he may not have been a card-carrying member of a terrorist organization, but ISIS's minions are happy.  More importantly though--he had support.  Multiple arrests were made as UK police conducted a raid on the jihadist's address.  (UPDATE:  Just as this post was about to upload ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack).

Meanwhile, at least one NBC reporter is more worried about this attack "helping Europe's right wing."

 But this latest attack comes as no surprise in the aftermath of the "Love Trumps Hate" protests.

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali said Trump's travel ban was clumsy, but he's right.

Too bad half of our voting population and Democrat politicians won't think so, because it's not just jihadists that are threatening our civilization.

Several days ago, a 14 year old girl was raped in a Maryland high school by one or two illegal aliens.  The second rapist is 17 years old, so like the London police, Maryland authorities have been mum on the rapist's immigration status.

Derek Hunter reminded us that leftists prefer illegal aliens over your kids.  Mark Steyn had similarly scathing words:  Human sacrifices on the Altar of Diversity.

VDH warned what the end-game will be when Law takes a holiday, while Ann Coulter didn't mince words:  We have now hit full-on crazy.

Or at least half the country has.  The rest of us want to bar the gates and man the ramparts...

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Swelling the Ranks of Democrat Voters

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Last week, Republican leaders rolled-out their immigration reform blueprint.  What said blueprint entails is the legalization of "some" illegal immigrants. 

News of this was greeted with "much rejoicing" among conservatives.

Ann Coulter warns this "cunning plan" will wreck the country and cost the GOP voters. 

And The Diplomad predicts this will foster voter fraud and make citizenship meaningless. 

Meanwhile, Comrade Karla was more to the point:

WTF are they thinking?  The timing is terrible, the Dems are in full demagogue mode (enabled by the press) and there are much more pressing issues that won't splinter the party.  These people are so out of touch it's making my head hurt.

Mine too Comrade, mine too. 

So much so, that I haven't renewed my GOP membership.  I keep meaning to formally renounce my affiliation, I just haven't gotten around to it. 

Monday Musings

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Yesterday, instead of sending us link-laden e-mails, Comrade Karla wrote-out his personal thoughts on some of the issues that plague us.

Here's the abridged Monday Musings, shortened for readability and privacy, from "...we happy few..."

As I sit here, enjoying the crappy Monday morning weather, having perused the newspaper to see that our politicians remain idiots and the public a bunch of mind-numbingly stupid sheep, I wonder about the epic sweep of history (how’s that for a segue?)

1914 saw the beginning of a series of cataclysms that defined the 20th century.
Will 2014 do the same for the 21st? I’m starting to wonder if a perfect storm of disastrous overseas events isn’t looming. 9/11 was bad enough, but our administration has now decided that “all that is in the past, nothing to see, all is well” while in fact things are unraveling at an increasingly fast pace in the Middle East and elsewhere—our institutional media and politicians are simply pretending it isn’t happening.
But I think it is. So what will it be? A regional conflict that goes hotter and wider? Somebody popping an errant WMD?
Feel free to speculate…I know I do. Probably way too much.

Your thoughts are inline with my own. There are so many mounting crises in the world, and most predominately in the Muslim world. The Syrian Civil War, Iranian nukes, the Shia-Sunni war that is ramping up coupled with the Saudi/Arab-Persian conflict that parallels it, Pakistan's slow disintegration even as it ramps up its nuke program, the jihadist explosion in northern Africa, Islamism in Europe, Turkey's troubles. Elsewhere we have China's less than peaceful rise, Europe's spiral downward into uselessness, North Korea's perpetual instability, etc etc.

The interesting (in a bad way) thing is how different combinations of these things will play off each other in unpredictable ways. Maybe an Iranian nuclear test wil destabilize Pakistan, which leads to Chinese intervention for its ally, which lead to trouble in Korea. Who knows? The point is the utter unpredictability. 1939 was pretty straightforward, even at the time for many who paid attention, and for everyone in hindsight. We don't have that luxrious simplicity.
Now, throw in a perfect storm of rightist isolationism, PC-ism, and general leftist stupidity in the one country that can positively impact any and all of these issues, and you get a seirous potential for disaster. (BTW, one comment in the Diplomad that is very true is that the US can survive Obama, but it cannot survive the fact that most people voted for him).
I am pretty sure something is going to happen - my gut tells me something is coming, and I tend to believe my gut instincts (my schadenfreude hope is that it happens on a furlough day!). As for what the "thing" will be, it's anybody's guess.

Comrade Karla Senior responded with this sage advice:

Sadly, your comments are well put...As somebody once said to me during a typhoon. May as well sit down and enjoy it; there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.

Eventually there's going to be a matter-antimatter collision somewhere. It's not a question of "if," but "when" and "how bad?"...What struck me about the 08 election wasn't just the fact that Obame got re-elected, but how a significant number of voters were still undecided--even while standing in line at the voting booths. It boggles my mind that there's so many clueless voters.

And the liberal-democrats are happy to keep things that way.

Words out of my mouth...With all the BS, I am gratified that my feelings so parallel those of people with whom I am glad to be acquainted.


And the MSM helps by making claims along the lines of “25 percent of Republicans support Obama.” Wow. Really? I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that they aren’t really Republicans or conservatives. One can no longer assume the two terms to be interchangeable.
The other problem with 08 and 12 was the MSM running interference for this guy. Anything negative or scandalous was spiked. And the GOP establishment let them get away with it.

I disagree that the GOP let them (the MSM) get away with it. They were drowned out and, as...pointed out, no one would listen. The constant barrage of “Republicans/Conservatives are the modern day equivalent of your crazy uncle” has taken hold. Goebbel’s Big Lie is working.


Well, I agree that the MSM tried to drown out the opposition; that said, Boehner’s counter-arguments were not made with much force. Republicans routinely let he lefties make silly claims and get away with it.

I don’t know that there is an easy answer.
Today was a good example. I was in the gym from around 1220-1310. CNN at no point ever mentioned the IRS revelations, but they talked about Angelina Jolie’s boobs, that South African guy on trial for murdering his wife—anything BUT the important stuff.
OK, they did mention the rioting in Turkey, but as nobody has really been covering Erdogan’s Islamicization of the Turkish government, I doubt it resonated very much.

Comrade Karla Responds to Obama's WoT Speech

It's been a while since we've heard from the good comrade. Here's what he had to say regarding Obama's latest speech regarding our Overseas Contingency Operations, formerly known as the War on Terror. The article is from the Politico while Comrade Karla's comments are in red italics:

President Barack Obama plans to say in his speech Thursday that the U.S. lost its way in fighting terrorism over the past eight years by failing to trust its institutions and values, according to an administration official.

Actually, I'd say we realized (at first) we had the wrong (or no institutions at all) to handle what we were facing and thus we decided to get back to some reality-based counter-terrorism/warfare methods…but that was all BAD and NAUGHTY we now find out, despite copious legal justification to the countrary.

Obama will also renew his pledge to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying he will honor the commitment he made in the first week of his presidency.

Good luck with that…between the rejection of California's spending plans and the attempt to close Gitmo and Princess Nancy's antics, you'd figure he might be getting a clue that all is not well in Democratic ideology-land, certainly not as far as the great unwashed voter goes.

In a remarkable split-screen presentation of opposing worldviews, former Vice President Dick Cheney will speak on the exact same topic moments after Obama finishes. Cheney is appearing at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, where the audience will watch the president on large TV screens.

Figured there was a reason they'd want to preempt Cheney. Interesting how he's emerging as the representative of reality-based foreign policy and security.

Cheney will say: “When President Obama makes wise decisions, he deserves our support. And when he mischaracterizes the national security decisions we made in the Bush years, he deserves an answer.”

Sort of obvious.

Cheney will argue that his intent is not to look backward but will say that a truthful telling of history is necessary to inform our choices going forward. “Though I'm not here to speak for George W. Bush, I am certain that no one wishes the current administration more success in defending the country than we do,” Cheney will say. “What I want to do today is set forth the strategic thinking that drove our policies.”
Both the president and Cheney will rest a good part of their case on effectiveness, with the president saying the last administration’s approach to fighting terror was not effective, and Cheney arguing that those programs are the reason there has been no second Sept. 11.

During his remarks at the National Archives: Obama will say that the Bush administration established an ad hoc legal approach for fighting terrorism that was neither effective nor sustainable and alienated the nation from its allies.

Nonsense. It was more like we tried to go back to handling this stuff the WAY we did in the past--I'll admit they didn't do a good job of it, but it wasn't a departure--rather the attempt to shoehorn everything from terrorism to conventional combat into the lawfare template--that my friends, is the "departure." As for alienating allies, hasn't he figure out that a lot of them still don't like us no matter what we do?

Obama will argue that so-called enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding are not the most effective, undermine the rule of law, alienate the U.S. in the world, serve as a recruitment tool for terrorists and increase the will of our enemies to fight us, while decreasing the will of others to work with America.

Oh, do tell. So what is the "more effective" approach? I'm still waiting…and here I was thinking that the jew-hate that is integral to islamofascism had something to do with their extreme worldviews. Silly me, it's only because the US put them in rooms with bugs that they turned to violence.

The president will say that while the nation must ensure that its security measures and our justice system are ready to address the threats of the 21st century, the Obama administration will uphold America’s laws and its values that are the reason we have become the strongest nation in the world and persisted through crises that have threatened our core.

Translation: If we can't shoehorn it into the civilian court system, we'll ignore it.

Obama will say that the paramount responsibility of any president is to keep the American people safe. That is what he thinks about every morning when he wakes up and every night when he goes to sleep. The president believes with every fiber of his being that we cannot keep this country safe unless we enlist the power of our most fundamental values.

In the meantime, I'll just undermine that very process if it conflicts with a preestablished ideology.

The president will refer to the setting, saying that the documents in the National Archives — including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights — are not simply words written into aging parchment. They are the foundation of liberty and justice in this country, and a light that shines for all who seek freedom, fairness, equality and dignity in the world.

What they are not is a license for our enemies to destroy us--I think the founders got that. I think in the past a lot of Ds and Rs got that. I'm not sure the 1970s wing of the Democratic Party really understands that.

Obama will point out that he is providing the resources to take the fight to the extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan who attacked us on Sept. 11; investing in the 21st-century military and intelligence capabilities; re-energizing a global nonproliferation regime and locking down loose nuclear material to deny the world’s most dangerous people access to the world’s deadliest weapons; protecting our borders and increasing our preparedness for any future attack or natural disaster; building new partnerships around the world to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda and its affiliates; and renewing American diplomacy.

Some stuff is good and was already in the works…the counterproliferation thing strikes me as attacking the wrong part of the crocodile at this particular point in time.

Referring back to the opening week of his presidency, Obama will point out that he ordered the closing of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. For over seven years, the U.S. has detained hundreds of people at Guantanamo. During that time, the system of Military Commissions at Guantanamo succeeded in convicting only three suspected terrorists.

Not through any failure on the part of the methodology--it was a political decision to fiddle-f*ck around and not get this done, oh and lawsuits that were settled by the USSC and Congressional legislating had SOMETHING to do with this, did it not? I guess we won't mention the nature of the inmates--could be embarrasing.

Obama will contend that the record is clear: Rather than keep Americans safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security. Turning to detainees who remain, the president will announce this framework:

And his proof for this is? He has none. It is ideological belief masquerading as fact. I guess letting these guys into the civil courts were they would be acquitted/let out is much, much safer somehow. I also don't get where this endlessly silly belief that if we're just nice to violent jihadists they'll somehow realize the error of their ways and take up pottery or join Mr. Van Driessen's music circle.

--When feasible, try those who have violated American criminal laws in federal courts.

Already do that.

--When necessary, try those who violate the rules of war through Military Commissions.

Were about to do that when this admin c*ck blocked it and then changed its mind.

--When possible, transfer to third countries those detainees who can be safely transferred.

Yeah, that works. I wonder if they've figured out yet why none of those "third countries" want these bozos?

Comments from Comrade Karla #2

Today the good comrade rolls-in on some oft-used criticism of Israel.

1. On Israeli "warcrimes": I'm well aware, as an historian, of past Israeli transgressions prior to independence and after. What's more interesting to me is that Arab transgressions, which are monumental and ongoing, and range from deliberate targeting of civilians to deliberate perpetuation of the Palestinian "refugee" problem for domestic political purposes is completely and continually ignored by those who wish to place the entire onus of fault in the region on Israel. I've concluded, after many years of not only study but attempts to engage on the issue, that those who believe such things simply are not interested in an objective discussion of the issues.

2. On the elusive middle-east peace and Israel's "disproportionate response":

Or, as Golda Meir said, "we will have peace with the Arabs when the love their children more than they hate us." If the Arabs truly wanted peace and were willing to accept Israeli as a sovereign state, this conflict would have been over long ago. Defending your country from ongoing missile attack can hardly be considered a jihadi policy; rather it is the jihadis who have brought this upon their own heads. Actions have consequences. One of these days Hamas and their ilk will learn this lesson.

3. On Jews clinging to Israel in the name of Zionism when they should be emigrating to the west:

That's simply unrealistic, nor it is a very serious argument, say compared with the debate about what should happen to the occupied territories or how to resolve the associated issues of settlements, the border, security arrangements or the role of neighboring states. Nor does it seem based on any serious evaluation of the actual situation--non of the Israelis I know are interested in going somewhere else, and why should they? Israel is a sovereign, legitimate state by any understanding of the accepted definition. Try reading the Hamas or Fatah charters to see how they feel about it--hard to see how you can have a peace treaty with an organization who's baseline is destruction of your country and people.

4. On criticizing Israel does not equal anti-Semitism:

No, it actually is a fact that anti-semitism often lurks behind much anti-Israeli criticism--certainly not all, but much of it--do some youtube searches on the sicko stuff being yelled at demonstrations from London to Dearborn about Israel needing more ovens or Hitler didn't do his job. Surely the sick antics of the UN meetings at Durban cannot have escaped your notice?5. On the "unbiased" press coverage of Gaza:Once again, none of this gainsays the fact that coverage of the conflict tends to be biased in favor of Hamas and the "2 minute drive by media" spend little time trying to put together any sort of comprehensive analysis, which ranges from the careless (CNN, Fox, MSNBC) to the outright dishonest (BBC, Al Jezeera, AP, Reuters, etc).

Comments from Comrade Karla #1

Today, the good comrade rolls-in on what is now called "The Blackwater Incident." Blackwater is a private security company (PSC), hired by governments or other private firms to provide protection for their personnel. For the past few years, Blackwater's primary theater of operations has been in Iraq.

On 16 September 2007, a Blackwater team escorting a diplomatic convoy was involved in a shoot-out at, or near, Nisoor Square in Baghdad.As soon as the last shots were fired, a political fire-storm was kindled and is now raging over this incident. The Blackwater employees involved in the shooting are facing prosecuting for indiscriminately firing upon civilians.BBC America has a decent recap of the incident and the current legal issues:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7033332.stm

Meanwhile various Main-Stream Media (MSM) outlets have already pronounced their verdict--guilty. The good comrade's comments are based on this article from "Pajamas Media":

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/rush-to-judgement-on-blackwater-defendants/

Comrade Karla:

"The author points out quite clearly that the initial "story" that is being put out to the public is just as damning in appearance as the Haditha one was--that said, we all know how Haditha turned out. The real "story" was that the initial publicly available version was distorted and wrong; one suspects a similar motive here given the apparent attempt to try and condemn the Blackwater team in the court of public opinion before a trial is even held. I'm more curious as to what grounds this case is even based on? There was no real SOFA for private security contractors (PSCs) that I'm aware of. The US government began to look far and wide for PSCs once Rumsfeld's War-Mart model for Iraq crashed and burned when everybody (except maybe him) began to realize you couldn't do an occupation with 100K or fewer troops. 17 Iraqis were killed in this incident. Tragic and terrible; but was it murder? Remember what happened to the Marine Recon team in Afghanistan--ambushed by terrorists, their return fire hit civilians that the terrorists had embedded themselves with--tragic, but hardly a war crime. But the Marines were quickly rotated out of the AO, the skills of useful combatants lost. The Marine ambush in Afghanistan will likely be a closer model than Haditha, which has suddenly lost all media interest with each Marine acquittal. PSCs have been derided as mercenaries, thugs, etc. While some of the earlier ones lacked in skills, this was a growth industry and nobody else was available to do the job thanks to a too small US military that had other commitments (Afghanistan). DOS and others seem to have been very happy with Blackwater, which seems to be mostly populated by ex-SOF people. Regardless, they will have a tough time beating the media characterization of them as "trigger-happy cowboys and rogue operatives."

The ultimate moral? As Longstreet said at Gettysburg when asked to launch his attack on July 2 before Pickett's Division had arrived "I don't like to go into battle with one boot off." Hopefully future administrations will heed this basic fact and not plan to fight any more future wars with "one boot off" and all the problems that entails." A previous article Karla sent us stated that--among other things--the Blackwater employees were charged with using "a machine gun in a crime." (Huh?) The "guilt by verdict from the court of public opinion" was also very much in play during the 2006 Duke University Lacrosse Scandal. Which has now been consigned to the history books, or at least cyberpedias:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Duke_University_lacrosse_team_scandal

In this case, though, public opinion steadily shifted against prosecutor Nifong. It's really a shame that our men and women in uniform, along with those seeking better pay in PSCs, fight such a continual uphill legal battle.

For information on exactly what Blackwater is and does, check out their website:

http://www.blackwaterusa.com/

Greetings from Comrade Karla

Greetings everyone! Today I'm starting a new column called "Comments from Comrade Karla.

"I've known Comrade Karla for over a dozen years and have always enjoyed his wit and appreciated his in-depth knowledge of history. (Both of which are only superseded by his father). Karla e-mails his friends daily with news articles and commentaries discussing the sad state of affairs plaguing the world today.

In agreement with the good comrade, I decided to start posting some of his most insightful and/or humorous comments on this blog. So without further adue ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Comrade Karla...

The comments below are in response to Mark Steyn's article: "Mumbai could happen just about anywhere" (28 Nov 08):

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/ideology-mumbai-gunman-2242227-muslim-terrorists

Here's what Karla had to say:

"Part of the problem with all of this, at least as I see it, has to do with how you stop this sort of thing before it starts--it seems like too many in the media and politics look at the TV plot model where a successful foiling of a terrorist plot happens when they're on their way to the hotel (or wherever) to do their deed. In fact, for me effective counter-terrorism is blowing them up with a JDAM in the hovel they're meeting in in Pakistan or Somalia or wherever planning the operation--or killing them Mossad style in the hallway to their Rome apartment. If you're chasing them while they're on their way to their target, your intel isn't working.

So if they've already crossed into the US (or more likely are already here) we're already behind the 8-ball. And as we are hamstrung by the law-enforcement model, catching them early on just leads to the Defense Attorney's saying "hey, they were just a bunch of hapless confused immigrants talking, they weren't actually DOING anything." That's just another reason why, absent any special anti-terrorism courts or laws using our standard system isn't going to cut it. We got lucky with the Ft Dix guys but again that was a reactive model and won't work in the long run."

The good comrade is spot-on regarding this.

Over a year ago I read an article in "US News & World Report" describing the problem prosecuting attorneys have in getting convictions for our home-grown, run-of-the-mill violent criminals. It's called the "CSI Effect." That is, juries want to see a state-of-the-art, whiz-bang multi-media demonstration as depicted in the popular crime drama "CSI." Unfortunately most local forensics labs are underfunded, understaffed and don't have the technological gadgets seen in the show. Even if a state forensics lab has such equipment there's a backlog of cases causing lengthy delays. Not to mention defense lawyers questioning the competency of the technicians and sowing the seeds of doubt over the lab's findings. So the "TV Model" is also hampering day-to-day law enforcement. We'll be hearing from the good comrade in future posts!