The Denninger site text has been changed to black for some reason and with a black background it is very difficult to read. Highlighting the page will make it readable. How or why this was done I have no idea. Other than that the site appears to be functioning.
Then again maybe not as the last article posted was America Died on July 5, 2016.
He’s more on top of things than 99% of site admins, I don’t think it’s worth contacting him.
I expect this is his protest/drama for a week or two and then the site returns in some form.
Crimson Avenger
July 9, 2016 11:05 am
No way he’s thrown in the towel. Yes he’s smart, but he’s also an egotistical know-it-all who has to be right; he couldn’t walk away from his own little fiefdom.
Bea Lever
July 9, 2016 12:06 pm
Who cares? I will be joining him soon enough going dark/galt.
lysander
July 9, 2016 2:00 pm
He has a new post up explaining the ‘black-out’.
“It is for this reason that I have decided that for the present I am going to go enjoy whatever time is left in a reasonably-peaceful society here in America, for I neither believe that state of affairs will persist for long nor do I believe any material number of people will lift a single finger to do anything about it. Eight years is enough time to see whether or not there is any indication that any material percentage of the public gives a good damn about this, and absent a marked change in the evidence my verdict is in.”……….Denninger
This is the kind of stuff that torques me about Denninger’s posts, as much as I think his work is valuable.
He makes shotgun style statements about how much no one cares as much as him; No one is going to DO anything (which was covered great depths. Thanks Stuck); No one does/haves/wants as much as him.
I think many of us care. Not many of us are sure what to DO.
You don’t understand why The Ticker has faded to black?
REALLY?
Let me start with this: Why do drug dealers shoot each other on street corners?
Answer: Joe the drug dealer cannot call the cops and tell them that Jack the drug dealer ripped him off and sold him a bag of oregano instead of weed. Joe also can’t sue Jack. Thus, when the threshold of his tolerance is crossed Joe has only the use of direct force available to him because he has no recourse to the law to settle his dispute with Jack.
The FIRST foundation of civil society is The Rule of Law. Without it there is literally nothing other than the Law of the Jungle, commonly known as “he who has the biggest teeth (or the most guns) and is willing to use them first wins.”
Let me remind you that Han Solo, who is widely regarded through the Star Wars series as a hero, shot first at Mos Eisley. George Lucas edited that in the second release of the film (and later had to put it back after fan outrage) but it is a fact that Han shot first in the original theatrical release. Why did Han shoot first and kill Greedo? Because he knew there was no Rule of Law and he had no recourse to the law, which incidentally was later proved to be an exactly correct expectation when he was made an ornament in Jabba’s castle.
Now I want you to stop reading, go get an adult beverage or a cup of coffee, and think long and hard before you continue reading about the above.
Why?
BECAUSE THE ABOVE IS THE ISSUE THAT, IF WE FAIL TO ADDRESS IT IN THE PRESENT TENSE, RUNS THE RISK OF RESULTING IN AN IRREVOCABLE SERIES OF EVENTS IN THIS COUNTRY UP TO AND INCLUDING POSSIBLE CIVIL WAR.
Did you go get your drink, consume it, and think?
Good — you may now continue.
This site was founded back in the early part of the financial crisis, spring of 2007 to be exact, because the Rule of Law was being blatantly disregarded — specifically, with regard to “Prompt Corrective Action” and banks that were paying out dividends with fictitious earnings.
Did anyone go to prison for doing that? No.
Did anyone go to prison for selling “good investments” to clients that they described in their own internal emails and on recorded internal conference calls as “vomit” and “dog squeeze”? NO.
Did anyone go to prison for claiming to Congress (and all testimony to Congress is under oath) that they were “adding liquidity” to the system during the meltdown when I found, in public records, that in fact over $60 billion was pulled from the system into the maw of Lehman’s collapse? That facially appears to be perjury, incidentally. The answer is again NO.
How many hundreds of thousands of Americans lost jobs and homes as a direct result of this? How many lives were ruined? Now ask this: How many people were made whole on the damage they suffered as a result of these acts, all of which were facial violations of the law?
NONE.
It is broadly illegal to price-fix via any mechanism where market power exists. So says 15 United States Code, Chapter 1. Go read it. Virtually the entire US Medical System operates on business models that are facially in violation of that section of law. The latest outrage is an off-patent device called an “Epipen” used for severe allergic reactions; if you need one and don’t have it you have a very good chance of dying. They cost about $60 10 years ago, and are about $100 today anywhere else in the world. Except here in the United States — where they’re $400, and if you get on a plane, buy a bunch and bring them back to sell (to make a profit and undercut the price) you go to prison. The exact same sort of price-fixing with the direct support of the US government and FDA is present in virtually every area of medical practice — from drugs to devices to hospitals. All of this facially appears to be illegal; were I to even have had a discussion with a competitor on fixing pricing when I ran my Internet company that would have been a federal offense.
How many people are dead — broke — or both as a direct result of these practices? There is an entire industry that amounts for nearly one dollar in five spent on all items in our economy and it has multiplied its share of spending by a factor of roughly six through the use of these tactics. You, I and everyone else in the country are being overcharged by a factor of five times as a result, it’s destroying the Federal budget and has or will destroy state and local budgets also. You can’t run a car repair shop without quoting prices before you start turning wrenches and yet it is essentially impossible to get a price, nor to bind the hospital to any figure they give you, for a procedure before it is done.
What did you see this last week with James Comey? The head of the FBI stood at the podium and described, facially, a felony violation of the law, which I remind you does not require intent, and then said “no prosecutor would bring the case.” Then, one business day later, he sat in Congress and described knowing that a second felony violation of the law, perjury, had taken place and yet he insisted that he needed a “referral” to “investigate” it.
Folks, if you were being interviewed because the cops thought you robbed a bank and on your kitchen table was a bale of marijuana do you think they’d need a “referral” to bust you for the weed? You know damn well the handcuffs would be on you in seconds, so why weren’t they on Hillary?
Next, if there was no intent as Comey claimed he could not find why did she lie repeatedly, both to the public and Congress, about the presence of classified information on her server? You don’t lie about something you aren’t trying to hide and you don’t hide something that doesn’t incriminate you! Prosecutors argue this every single day before juries and get thousands of convictions every year on exactly that basis — the accused lied about something they did and that lie is evidence that they knew what they were doing was wrong as that’s the only reason to lie about it!
Another section of the same law attaches liability to anyone who is involved in these acts and fails to report them. That facially involves Bill and Chelsea Clinton as well as Hillary’s entire senior staff! This issue is, again, not just limited to Hillary’s conduct. As persons with security clearances (with the possible exception of Chelsea) they all were aware of the law and their positive obligation to immediately report any breach of security of classified information, and failure to do so is a criminal offense.
Finally, contrary to Comey’s assertions (which were also a lie, and since they were made to Congress were also Perjury, a felony violation of the law) there indeed are people who not only have been but are being prosecuted for quite-similar violations of the law with regard to classified data. Specifically there are service members who have been arrested, not just demoted or had their security clearances revoked, for putting classified information on unauthorized devices. One, Kristian Saucier, faces 20 years in prison; there is no apparent public evidence that this individual ever allowed anyone outside of trusted Navy circles to see the images. Comey made the blanket statement that the government does not prosecute people who do not give said information intentionally to our enemies; his statement before Congress was a lie.
If I, as an ordinary person, fire a gun I own every single round that comes out of the barrel until it comes to rest. Even if I am perfectly justified in drawing and firing that weapon if I shoot an innocent person I remain responsible for the round that did not go where I intended it to and the results of same. Now contrast this with the police of any stripe, who may fire indiscriminately, emptying weapons containing dozens of rounds even into targets that are facially wrong such as a pair of women in a truck when they are seeking a man in California, and yet they are never held accountable for the damage those rounds do to either person or property.
How many people are dead in Orlando not as a result of a terrorist but rather due to the rounds fired by police, along with their intentional 3+ hour delay in entering the building? Where are the manslaugher (or felonious assault) charges for the persons who were hit with wildly-sprayed rounds from police weapons during that breach? Why has there been no accounting for those rounds and the persons killed by them? Why is there never any accounting for said rounds fired by the police wildly and with outrageous disregard for innocent persons in the vicinity? You or I would charged be immediately for such a flagrant display of gross negligence, likely with multiple felonies.
If that’s not enough the shooter in Dallas was cornered — “treed” if you will, isolated in a parking garage from which he could not escape. Rather than wait him out and arrest him, then go through this entire pesky “due process” thing including a trial and sentence even though he was not presently shooting at anyone the police instead mounted a bomb on a robot and blew him up. You got that folks? Yeah, he was obviously guilty as hell but if you catch someone having just killed your daughter and he’s cornered in your shed, either out of ammo or choosing not to shoot at that time, you cannot blow the shed up rather than arrest him! Due process of law? What’s that?
You idiots cheered that on too and yet what you just invited the next guy to do is throw a grenade or make damn sure he has a really BIG bomb with him instead of surrendering when cornered! If one person has no right to due process of law THEN NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE — including the cops.
Folks, all of what has gone on of late is traceable and chargeable to the destruction of The Rule of Law. The destruction of millions of American’s financial status, their wealth, their freedom, their health and frequently their very lives are destroyed because CERTAIN PEOPLE, namely the rich, politically powerful, those wearing a “blue” costume of some sort or those who happen to run big corporations can and do whatever they wish and are simply not prosecuted for violations of the law that you, I, or anyone else would be and are.
When you back a bear into a corner it will attack you because it perceives that as the only remaining course of action that it has available to it other than death.
We created the conditions under which drug dealers resort to shooting each other because we made the consensual act of trade in and consumption of certain substances a crime, and by doing so denied them any other recourse under the law for disputes among themselves.
They are at fault for shooting at one another but it is our responsibility because we intentionally removed their recourse to the law.
We created the conditions under which millions of Americans, most of whom are not drug dealers, believe they have no recourse to the law through our willful and intentional acts and then we sit still, swill beer and post on Facebook when the fact that ordinary Americans have no recourse to the law as soon as someone rich, powerful or wearing a costume wants to screw them is driven in day after day as every “important person”, cop or company you care to name pulls some stunt that would result in anyone else facing down an immediate felony indictment and walks away laughing or, almost as bad, collecting hugs and donuts.
Specifically, and in reference to recent events, it is our refusal to demand that police officers be held accountable for every round their fire just as is any other person.
It is our refusal to demand that those in political power who perjure themselves are prosecuted while if you lie you go to prison for obstruction of justice.
It is our refusal to demand that the cops who claimed they had video footage of an innocent man shooting and plastered same all over the media when they knew they did not be prosecuted for intentionally causing him to be subjected to death threats and have his reputation destroyed while if he had told the slightest untruth to said cops he would have been charged with obstruction, lying to investigators or both. Worse, instead of tendering that demand and sticking to it we bring the cops donuts, pay for their lunches and post all sorts of laudatory crap on social media, cheering on the lies!
It is our refusal to demand that an officer who claims to pull over a car for a broken tail-light when both lights are clearly illuminated on the dashcam video and then shoots said motorist be immediately brought up on murder charges and as prime evidence of his guilt we use his intentionally false statement that he was stopping the car for a broken taillight.
It is our refusal to demand that police officers who steal property under so-called “civil forfeiture” when they have no actual offense they can charge the owner with be prosecuted and imprisoned for grand theft and the entire department so-involved dismantled for Racketeering, exactly as you or I would be if we all got together and held people up at gunpoint claiming that they had committed some crime, stealing everything they owned.
If this issue — the utter destruction of The Rule of Law — is not addressed now there is a very real risk that the spiral of events that has been growing, first slowly and now exponentially, could erupt into literal war within our own nation.
If it does you had better get up and look in the damned mirror because it is the collective inaction and refusal to demand the restoration of the Rule of Law by the American people that has and will lead to this outcome.
It is for this reason that I have decided that for the present I am going to go enjoy whatever time is left in a reasonably-peaceful society here in America instead of writing for your consumption, for I neither believe that this relatively-peaceful state of affairs will persist for long nor do I believe any material number of people will lift a single finger to do anything about it.
Eight years is enough time to see whether or not there is any indication that any material percentage of the public gives a good damn and absent a marked change in the evidence my verdict is in.
Han was not wrong in his assessment of the state of Rule of Law in the Star Wars Universe. We must not, as a society, allow that assessment among people in this nation to continue on the path it is on here in the United States or the outcome will be the same.
None of us are going to kill a clearly corrupt official. None of us are going to lead a rebellion (it would be subverted by “agents” before it ever had a chance anyways).
The entire god damned point is either the planners are stupid enough to push thing so far they force an armed defense at the local level due to a breakdown of topographic order… or the churn will just go on and on and on until eventually the only humans who haven’t suicided or breed failed are the ones who are content in the NWO.
I’m not killing anyone anytime soon… are you? Probably not. We’ll probably either suicide or breed fail and on the timeframe the people we’re frustrated with work on… that’s an easy timeframe to wait.
TreeFarmer
July 9, 2016 2:05 pm
New post from Karl this morning.
IndenturedServant
July 9, 2016 3:17 pm
His site is completely offline as off 12:15pm PDT.
Anonymous
July 9, 2016 4:21 pm
He’s single. His kid is grown. His house with channel access to the Gulf is free & clear. He has assets left from the sale of his internet company in Chicago and he makes some money from trading. Then he castigates everyone who keeps working and paying taxes. He may be right, but I don’t think so.
Gay Veteran
July 9, 2016 4:42 pm
He’s a really good writer and will be missed.
🙁
Ed
July 9, 2016 5:01 pm
Karl still blames me for all the shit that’s wrong with the US. According to Karl, I “refused” to shoot the cops. politicians, greedy corporate CEOs and other assorted assholes. Nevermind that Karl hasn’t shot any of them either, it’s all my fault.
OK Karl, whatever, babyboy.
hardscrabble farmer
July 9, 2016 5:28 pm
Minor correction, it was NOT a “broken taillight” that triggered the stop of Castile Whatever in Minneapolis, it was that the pair fit the description of a couple wanted for armed robbery. Police will often tell the occupants that it is something minor in order to put them at ease until he can gather more information.
“The reason, apparently, was the two occupants matched the description of suspects wanted for an armed robbery.
“The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery,” the officer said in the recording.
“The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide set nose,” the officer added.”
That is not a minor correction, that is a
MAJOR correction.
Full Retard
July 9, 2016 6:26 pm
I’d be concerned if BW went dark forever. I need BW to let the air out of some fat-asses who begin to believe the importance of their own opinions.
Some folks need to lick the tarn out of BW’s decepticon ass once in a while. Sometimes even Karl.
Uncarbonated
July 9, 2016 6:57 pm
Godspeed, KD. Eight years is a fair amount of time and it was good while it lasted.
The meme back then was “too big to fail” and today it’s “too rigged to jail” with the Hildabeast, amoung others, while lawlessness abounds.
Oh well, time marches on. And quite often some of us need to take time out when we lose our “fizz”.
Perhaps the key to happiness is not to base it too much upon the actions of others. However, that said, we, your audience, would like to apologize to you for having been derelict in our duties regarding the overturning of our government and restoring all of the nations to liberty, justice and order and within your eight year timeline.
Thank you though, for being patient with us for as long as you were.
Hopefully, we will figure it all out soon without you. In the meantime, peace be upon you and yours, as Market-ticker.org fades to black. Goodbye and good luck.
Maybe so. But even if Tony Montana, upon hearing Father Mapple’s sermon, repented and joined the crew, the ship would still only be a means to an end.
In other words, the ship may as well drift rudderless upon the waves, without a purpose. This is why one must never give up chasing the whale. And, with success, remain prepared for the unexpected.
Never give up. Never give up. Never give up!
This, in my opinion, is what makes us feel alive amidst the violent eruptions of guts and glory.
Amen.
1980XLS
July 9, 2016 7:07 pm
He’s just at a party with Vince Foster.It’s all good.
No worries.
Westcoaster
July 9, 2016 8:14 pm
At least KD went out with a bang; that was a great post and he’s about 92% right.
Tator
July 10, 2016 7:19 am
Karl’s mistake is he thinks a revolution can be started by intellectually pointing out the problems that justify it. It is only when the masses become so uncomfortable, physically, the revolution will begin. That is still years away.
RCW
July 10, 2016 8:57 am
I don’t think KD is one to be underestimated in so far as his resolve, intellect & actions are concerned.
Nurse ratched
July 10, 2016 3:04 pm
There are many who would follow but so far none who will lead…
He’s gone Galt.
The Denninger site text has been changed to black for some reason and with a black background it is very difficult to read. Highlighting the page will make it readable. How or why this was done I have no idea. Other than that the site appears to be functioning.
Then again maybe not as the last article posted was America Died on July 5, 2016.
Good chance someone was just updating things and screwed up the code without checking to make sure the thing still worked right.
I suggest contacting the site admin to tell them.
He’s more on top of things than 99% of site admins, I don’t think it’s worth contacting him.
I expect this is his protest/drama for a week or two and then the site returns in some form.
No way he’s thrown in the towel. Yes he’s smart, but he’s also an egotistical know-it-all who has to be right; he couldn’t walk away from his own little fiefdom.
Who cares? I will be joining him soon enough going dark/galt.
He has a new post up explaining the ‘black-out’.
“It is for this reason that I have decided that for the present I am going to go enjoy whatever time is left in a reasonably-peaceful society here in America, for I neither believe that state of affairs will persist for long nor do I believe any material number of people will lift a single finger to do anything about it. Eight years is enough time to see whether or not there is any indication that any material percentage of the public gives a good damn about this, and absent a marked change in the evidence my verdict is in.”……….Denninger
This is the kind of stuff that torques me about Denninger’s posts, as much as I think his work is valuable.
He makes shotgun style statements about how much no one cares as much as him; No one is going to DO anything (which was covered great depths. Thanks Stuck); No one does/haves/wants as much as him.
I think many of us care. Not many of us are sure what to DO.
Great post, tim
He’s Back!!!!
The Rule Of Law
by Karl Denninger
Seriously folks?
You don’t understand why The Ticker has faded to black?
REALLY?
Let me start with this: Why do drug dealers shoot each other on street corners?
Answer: Joe the drug dealer cannot call the cops and tell them that Jack the drug dealer ripped him off and sold him a bag of oregano instead of weed. Joe also can’t sue Jack. Thus, when the threshold of his tolerance is crossed Joe has only the use of direct force available to him because he has no recourse to the law to settle his dispute with Jack.
The FIRST foundation of civil society is The Rule of Law. Without it there is literally nothing other than the Law of the Jungle, commonly known as “he who has the biggest teeth (or the most guns) and is willing to use them first wins.”
Let me remind you that Han Solo, who is widely regarded through the Star Wars series as a hero, shot first at Mos Eisley. George Lucas edited that in the second release of the film (and later had to put it back after fan outrage) but it is a fact that Han shot first in the original theatrical release. Why did Han shoot first and kill Greedo? Because he knew there was no Rule of Law and he had no recourse to the law, which incidentally was later proved to be an exactly correct expectation when he was made an ornament in Jabba’s castle.
Now I want you to stop reading, go get an adult beverage or a cup of coffee, and think long and hard before you continue reading about the above.
Why?
BECAUSE THE ABOVE IS THE ISSUE THAT, IF WE FAIL TO ADDRESS IT IN THE PRESENT TENSE, RUNS THE RISK OF RESULTING IN AN IRREVOCABLE SERIES OF EVENTS IN THIS COUNTRY UP TO AND INCLUDING POSSIBLE CIVIL WAR.
Did you go get your drink, consume it, and think?
Good — you may now continue.
This site was founded back in the early part of the financial crisis, spring of 2007 to be exact, because the Rule of Law was being blatantly disregarded — specifically, with regard to “Prompt Corrective Action” and banks that were paying out dividends with fictitious earnings.
Did anyone go to prison for doing that? No.
Did anyone go to prison for selling “good investments” to clients that they described in their own internal emails and on recorded internal conference calls as “vomit” and “dog squeeze”? NO.
Did anyone go to prison for claiming to Congress (and all testimony to Congress is under oath) that they were “adding liquidity” to the system during the meltdown when I found, in public records, that in fact over $60 billion was pulled from the system into the maw of Lehman’s collapse? That facially appears to be perjury, incidentally. The answer is again NO.
How many hundreds of thousands of Americans lost jobs and homes as a direct result of this? How many lives were ruined? Now ask this: How many people were made whole on the damage they suffered as a result of these acts, all of which were facial violations of the law?
NONE.
It is broadly illegal to price-fix via any mechanism where market power exists. So says 15 United States Code, Chapter 1. Go read it. Virtually the entire US Medical System operates on business models that are facially in violation of that section of law. The latest outrage is an off-patent device called an “Epipen” used for severe allergic reactions; if you need one and don’t have it you have a very good chance of dying. They cost about $60 10 years ago, and are about $100 today anywhere else in the world. Except here in the United States — where they’re $400, and if you get on a plane, buy a bunch and bring them back to sell (to make a profit and undercut the price) you go to prison. The exact same sort of price-fixing with the direct support of the US government and FDA is present in virtually every area of medical practice — from drugs to devices to hospitals. All of this facially appears to be illegal; were I to even have had a discussion with a competitor on fixing pricing when I ran my Internet company that would have been a federal offense.
How many people are dead — broke — or both as a direct result of these practices? There is an entire industry that amounts for nearly one dollar in five spent on all items in our economy and it has multiplied its share of spending by a factor of roughly six through the use of these tactics. You, I and everyone else in the country are being overcharged by a factor of five times as a result, it’s destroying the Federal budget and has or will destroy state and local budgets also. You can’t run a car repair shop without quoting prices before you start turning wrenches and yet it is essentially impossible to get a price, nor to bind the hospital to any figure they give you, for a procedure before it is done.
What did you see this last week with James Comey? The head of the FBI stood at the podium and described, facially, a felony violation of the law, which I remind you does not require intent, and then said “no prosecutor would bring the case.” Then, one business day later, he sat in Congress and described knowing that a second felony violation of the law, perjury, had taken place and yet he insisted that he needed a “referral” to “investigate” it.
Folks, if you were being interviewed because the cops thought you robbed a bank and on your kitchen table was a bale of marijuana do you think they’d need a “referral” to bust you for the weed? You know damn well the handcuffs would be on you in seconds, so why weren’t they on Hillary?
Next, if there was no intent as Comey claimed he could not find why did she lie repeatedly, both to the public and Congress, about the presence of classified information on her server? You don’t lie about something you aren’t trying to hide and you don’t hide something that doesn’t incriminate you! Prosecutors argue this every single day before juries and get thousands of convictions every year on exactly that basis — the accused lied about something they did and that lie is evidence that they knew what they were doing was wrong as that’s the only reason to lie about it!
Another section of the same law attaches liability to anyone who is involved in these acts and fails to report them. That facially involves Bill and Chelsea Clinton as well as Hillary’s entire senior staff! This issue is, again, not just limited to Hillary’s conduct. As persons with security clearances (with the possible exception of Chelsea) they all were aware of the law and their positive obligation to immediately report any breach of security of classified information, and failure to do so is a criminal offense.
Finally, contrary to Comey’s assertions (which were also a lie, and since they were made to Congress were also Perjury, a felony violation of the law) there indeed are people who not only have been but are being prosecuted for quite-similar violations of the law with regard to classified data. Specifically there are service members who have been arrested, not just demoted or had their security clearances revoked, for putting classified information on unauthorized devices. One, Kristian Saucier, faces 20 years in prison; there is no apparent public evidence that this individual ever allowed anyone outside of trusted Navy circles to see the images. Comey made the blanket statement that the government does not prosecute people who do not give said information intentionally to our enemies; his statement before Congress was a lie.
If I, as an ordinary person, fire a gun I own every single round that comes out of the barrel until it comes to rest. Even if I am perfectly justified in drawing and firing that weapon if I shoot an innocent person I remain responsible for the round that did not go where I intended it to and the results of same. Now contrast this with the police of any stripe, who may fire indiscriminately, emptying weapons containing dozens of rounds even into targets that are facially wrong such as a pair of women in a truck when they are seeking a man in California, and yet they are never held accountable for the damage those rounds do to either person or property.
How many people are dead in Orlando not as a result of a terrorist but rather due to the rounds fired by police, along with their intentional 3+ hour delay in entering the building? Where are the manslaugher (or felonious assault) charges for the persons who were hit with wildly-sprayed rounds from police weapons during that breach? Why has there been no accounting for those rounds and the persons killed by them? Why is there never any accounting for said rounds fired by the police wildly and with outrageous disregard for innocent persons in the vicinity? You or I would charged be immediately for such a flagrant display of gross negligence, likely with multiple felonies.
If that’s not enough the shooter in Dallas was cornered — “treed” if you will, isolated in a parking garage from which he could not escape. Rather than wait him out and arrest him, then go through this entire pesky “due process” thing including a trial and sentence even though he was not presently shooting at anyone the police instead mounted a bomb on a robot and blew him up. You got that folks? Yeah, he was obviously guilty as hell but if you catch someone having just killed your daughter and he’s cornered in your shed, either out of ammo or choosing not to shoot at that time, you cannot blow the shed up rather than arrest him! Due process of law? What’s that?
You idiots cheered that on too and yet what you just invited the next guy to do is throw a grenade or make damn sure he has a really BIG bomb with him instead of surrendering when cornered! If one person has no right to due process of law THEN NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE — including the cops.
Folks, all of what has gone on of late is traceable and chargeable to the destruction of The Rule of Law. The destruction of millions of American’s financial status, their wealth, their freedom, their health and frequently their very lives are destroyed because CERTAIN PEOPLE, namely the rich, politically powerful, those wearing a “blue” costume of some sort or those who happen to run big corporations can and do whatever they wish and are simply not prosecuted for violations of the law that you, I, or anyone else would be and are.
When you back a bear into a corner it will attack you because it perceives that as the only remaining course of action that it has available to it other than death.
We created the conditions under which drug dealers resort to shooting each other because we made the consensual act of trade in and consumption of certain substances a crime, and by doing so denied them any other recourse under the law for disputes among themselves.
They are at fault for shooting at one another but it is our responsibility because we intentionally removed their recourse to the law.
We created the conditions under which millions of Americans, most of whom are not drug dealers, believe they have no recourse to the law through our willful and intentional acts and then we sit still, swill beer and post on Facebook when the fact that ordinary Americans have no recourse to the law as soon as someone rich, powerful or wearing a costume wants to screw them is driven in day after day as every “important person”, cop or company you care to name pulls some stunt that would result in anyone else facing down an immediate felony indictment and walks away laughing or, almost as bad, collecting hugs and donuts.
Specifically, and in reference to recent events, it is our refusal to demand that police officers be held accountable for every round their fire just as is any other person.
It is our refusal to demand that those in political power who perjure themselves are prosecuted while if you lie you go to prison for obstruction of justice.
It is our refusal to demand that the cops who claimed they had video footage of an innocent man shooting and plastered same all over the media when they knew they did not be prosecuted for intentionally causing him to be subjected to death threats and have his reputation destroyed while if he had told the slightest untruth to said cops he would have been charged with obstruction, lying to investigators or both. Worse, instead of tendering that demand and sticking to it we bring the cops donuts, pay for their lunches and post all sorts of laudatory crap on social media, cheering on the lies!
It is our refusal to demand that an officer who claims to pull over a car for a broken tail-light when both lights are clearly illuminated on the dashcam video and then shoots said motorist be immediately brought up on murder charges and as prime evidence of his guilt we use his intentionally false statement that he was stopping the car for a broken taillight.
It is our refusal to demand that police officers who steal property under so-called “civil forfeiture” when they have no actual offense they can charge the owner with be prosecuted and imprisoned for grand theft and the entire department so-involved dismantled for Racketeering, exactly as you or I would be if we all got together and held people up at gunpoint claiming that they had committed some crime, stealing everything they owned.
If this issue — the utter destruction of The Rule of Law — is not addressed now there is a very real risk that the spiral of events that has been growing, first slowly and now exponentially, could erupt into literal war within our own nation.
If it does you had better get up and look in the damned mirror because it is the collective inaction and refusal to demand the restoration of the Rule of Law by the American people that has and will lead to this outcome.
It is for this reason that I have decided that for the present I am going to go enjoy whatever time is left in a reasonably-peaceful society here in America instead of writing for your consumption, for I neither believe that this relatively-peaceful state of affairs will persist for long nor do I believe any material number of people will lift a single finger to do anything about it.
Eight years is enough time to see whether or not there is any indication that any material percentage of the public gives a good damn and absent a marked change in the evidence my verdict is in.
Han was not wrong in his assessment of the state of Rule of Law in the Star Wars Universe. We must not, as a society, allow that assessment among people in this nation to continue on the path it is on here in the United States or the outcome will be the same.
We won’t do anything. That’s his point.
None of us are going to kill a clearly corrupt official. None of us are going to lead a rebellion (it would be subverted by “agents” before it ever had a chance anyways).
The entire god damned point is either the planners are stupid enough to push thing so far they force an armed defense at the local level due to a breakdown of topographic order… or the churn will just go on and on and on until eventually the only humans who haven’t suicided or breed failed are the ones who are content in the NWO.
I’m not killing anyone anytime soon… are you? Probably not. We’ll probably either suicide or breed fail and on the timeframe the people we’re frustrated with work on… that’s an easy timeframe to wait.
New post from Karl this morning.
His site is completely offline as off 12:15pm PDT.
He’s single. His kid is grown. His house with channel access to the Gulf is free & clear. He has assets left from the sale of his internet company in Chicago and he makes some money from trading. Then he castigates everyone who keeps working and paying taxes. He may be right, but I don’t think so.
He’s a really good writer and will be missed.
🙁
Karl still blames me for all the shit that’s wrong with the US. According to Karl, I “refused” to shoot the cops. politicians, greedy corporate CEOs and other assorted assholes. Nevermind that Karl hasn’t shot any of them either, it’s all my fault.
OK Karl, whatever, babyboy.
Minor correction, it was NOT a “broken taillight” that triggered the stop of Castile Whatever in Minneapolis, it was that the pair fit the description of a couple wanted for armed robbery. Police will often tell the occupants that it is something minor in order to put them at ease until he can gather more information.
“The reason, apparently, was the two occupants matched the description of suspects wanted for an armed robbery.
“The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery,” the officer said in the recording.
“The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide set nose,” the officer added.”
That is not a minor correction, that is a
MAJOR correction.
I’d be concerned if BW went dark forever. I need BW to let the air out of some fat-asses who begin to believe the importance of their own opinions.
Some folks need to lick the tarn out of BW’s decepticon ass once in a while. Sometimes even Karl.
Godspeed, KD. Eight years is a fair amount of time and it was good while it lasted.
The meme back then was “too big to fail” and today it’s “too rigged to jail” with the Hildabeast, amoung others, while lawlessness abounds.
Oh well, time marches on. And quite often some of us need to take time out when we lose our “fizz”.
Perhaps the key to happiness is not to base it too much upon the actions of others. However, that said, we, your audience, would like to apologize to you for having been derelict in our duties regarding the overturning of our government and restoring all of the nations to liberty, justice and order and within your eight year timeline.
Thank you though, for being patient with us for as long as you were.
Hopefully, we will figure it all out soon without you. In the meantime, peace be upon you and yours, as Market-ticker.org fades to black. Goodbye and good luck.
Unadulterated, when is enough guilt enough? You built the ship, that was enough.
Maybe so. But even if Tony Montana, upon hearing Father Mapple’s sermon, repented and joined the crew, the ship would still only be a means to an end.
In other words, the ship may as well drift rudderless upon the waves, without a purpose. This is why one must never give up chasing the whale. And, with success, remain prepared for the unexpected.
Never give up. Never give up. Never give up!
This, in my opinion, is what makes us feel alive amidst the violent eruptions of guts and glory.
Amen.
He’s just at a party with Vince Foster.It’s all good.
No worries.
At least KD went out with a bang; that was a great post and he’s about 92% right.
Karl’s mistake is he thinks a revolution can be started by intellectually pointing out the problems that justify it. It is only when the masses become so uncomfortable, physically, the revolution will begin. That is still years away.
I don’t think KD is one to be underestimated in so far as his resolve, intellect & actions are concerned.
There are many who would follow but so far none who will lead…
Nurse Wretched, isn’t that what Trump is trying to do?
And in the way of informing people, isn’t that what TBP is doing?