Guest Post by Simon Black
In one of the starkest examples of how mob rule has taken over the Land of the Free, #defundthepolice is now rapidly moving from being just a hash tag, to becoming a reality.
9 out of the 12 members of the Minneapolis City Council (which is a veto-proof majority that can easily override the city’s boy mayor) pledged yesterday to completely dismantle its police department.
Their reasoning?
According to the city council president, being able to call the police “comes from a place of privilege,” and therefore must be abolished.
Actually, genius, being able to call the police comes from tax revenue… as in the money that voters pay in exchange for public services.
It’s not just Minneapolis. Across the country, cries to defund the police are growing… even though there’s no consensus about what the term even means.
For some, it means demilitarization of the police. For others, it means reducing police responsibilities, and reducing their funding accordingly. For others, it means abolishing the police altogether.
But even without a clear idea of what the concept means, the Twitter mob has already pressured politicians into taking action.
In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti bowed to the pressure and pledged to slash $150 million from the police budget.
The New York City’s politburo, Comrade de Blasio, also promised to make substantial cuts to the NYPD budget.
Other local governments across the country, from San Francisco to Philadelphia to Baltimore, are considering similar moves.
And Congress has a stack of bills that it’s furiously moving forward.
This is all truly remarkable. There’s suppose to be system in place– I read about it somewhere, I think it’s called ‘democracy’ or something like that– where people vote for leaders who are supposed to represent their interests when making public policy decisions.
But this is mob rule, plain and simple. The Twitter mob decides public policy now. Not politicians. And certainly not voters.
And if you don’t grovel and capitulate to the mob, even when there’s no consensus on what the mob actually wants, then you get vilified by their rage.
It’s like #metoo all over again.
In late 2017, the actor Matt Damon, who committed an egregious crime of being born with a penis, told an interviewer that there’s a “spectrum” of sexual harassment:
“There’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt, and rape… or child molestation. Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated.”
Seems reasonable. Damon had an opinion… and his opinion was that molesting a child was worse than inappropriately patting a woman on the butt.
But reason didn’t matter to the Twitter mob, who immediately blasted Damon as a hetero-normative patriarchal misogynist. He later apologized, apparently for being logical, and groveled to the mob for forgiveness.
Today’s mob is far more hostile.
When Minneapolis’ boy mayor Jacob Frey rejected calls to abolish the police over the weekend, he was forced into a literal walk of shame when the marauding crowd screamed “GET THE F^#K OUT OF HERE” and waived their middle fingers in unison.
Frey left the stage and sullenly retreated through the crowd while the masses chanted, “Shame! Shame! Shame!”
Then there’s Drew Brees, one of the NFL’s all-time great quarterbacks whose entire career has been one of professionalism, integrity, and humble service.
Brees has given millions of dollars to his local community, including a $5 million pledge this year alone to help put food on the table for struggling families.
But Brees stated in an interview recently that he didn’t agree with anyone disrespecting the American flag– in reference to other NFL players who kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality.
The anthem kneeling is a contentious issue for some. And it would have been reasonable for the other side to explain to Brees that their intent is to protest injustice, not disrespect the flag.
But instead the Twitter mob unleashed holy hell, calling Brees a “white supremacist” and even making death threats against his family.
And that’s what you get with a mob.
Civil discourse is an impossibility. You cannot have a respectful exchange of ideas or a discussion of values.
You can’t even say, “I completely agree that terrible injustice needs to change immediately. Let’s have a rational conversation about sensible, effective solutions.”
If you don’t grovel to the Twitter mob, even when there’s no consensus what the mob wants, you’re a white supremacist who deserves to be dead.
To be clear, I’m in strong support of the fundamental ideas behind these movements.
The culture of rape and sexual abuse that persisted for so long before #metoo needed to end. And the injustices that are front and center right now need to end. I imagine good people everywhere are in favor of human rights.
But I’m not writing about the movements, or social justice, or peaceful protests. This is about the mob mentality that has quickly taken over the US, and much of the world.
History shows that well-organized, peaceful protests can be very powerful… but also that nothing good ever comes from an angry, emotional mob.
Real progress can only take place when people are able to have calm, rational discussions about ideas and solutions.
The reality is that #defundthepolice is going to happen regardless. After Covid, most cities are completely bankrupt and will be forced to slash their budgets due to lack of tax revenue.
But #defundthepolice may be just the beginning of our new form of government– rule by Twitter mob.
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Let’s follow logic. No police force…what sane company is willing to offer P&C insurance to property owners at affordable rates, if at all?
BTW, if you live or operate a business in a larger city, police giving a crap about someone stealing a $50K truck is of zero concern other than filing the report that you use to file the insurance claim. They don’y give a rat’s ass about solving who did what. So, someone cut thief-proof locks and stole $10K of equipment and vandalized the rest of a contents of a cargo trailer (another $8K)?
Both happened to us. I moved the biz out of Charlotte to a coastal town 4+ hours south, just drive up there when needed and switched almost completely to subs.
Hey, Governor Less-Than-Zero Cooper has managed to lose the GOP Convention and $100,000,000+ that CLT dearly needs. Still love the older parts of town just SE of uptown where I lived.
This isn’t supposed to be logical. The useful idiots, armed with their 9 undergrad hours of post-modernist philosophy, believe that reality is subjective. All utopia requires is the right government ordinance (fiat). Their satanist underwriters want the whole fucking thing to burn down so that their international “peacekeepers” will be welcomed with open arms. “Order out of chaos.”
While we’re talking, I have to say that the mayor of Chicago has to be one of the strangest human beings I have ever seen. That lady is enough to get you thinking about some of the *really* far out conspiracy theories on the Internet.
Lady? That requires quite an imagination right there. Or quite a bit of Jack.
If you drink that much Jack, you’re going to have bigger problems on your hands than rationalizing the source & hidden hardware of the Lady Mayor 🙂
A cross between E.T. and Don King?
Regarding race there can be no rational discussions. What’s funny is that for the last 30 years that I know of, blacks say “we need to have a rational discussion” but at least half of what needs to be discussed is off the table before the “rational discussion” begins. Good luck with that
BTW, I saw some strong evidence that the whole Floyd thing is another psychop. He was at his own funeral but not in the casket !!!
Not only was it fake, someone on twitter pointed out that the casket was too short for a 6’5″ man.
I wonder how his family will react if he is alive and they have to give all that money back?
Fat chance in Hell.
You’re kidding, right?
I’m serious but didn’t bother to save it. I’m not on twitter. It was a link provided by an author as an example of all the discrepancies in the story but for the life of me I can’t remember what article because I’ve read so many lately.
Aparrently there was something in the picture that provided a known lenght and he determined it was 6′ outside, then deducted 6″ from both ends for filling and fabric. So there was only 5’5″ of room for a body. The picture angle of the casket and bearers seemed to confirm it.
I wasn’t aware of the short casket, I didn’t watch this farce of giving a druggie a state funeral. How come Freddie Gray, Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin didn’t get one?
I’d settle for 2 minutes of silence for Daniel Shaver. Or maybe a trial for his murderer.
If you claim “strong evidence,” howz about sharing some of that evidence?
I notice none of the city council members have agreed to abandon their “place of privilege”
What a shocker that is.
Just imagine Paradise in these liberal cities with no cops!
it’s all part of the left’s diabolic plans to create a surveillance state, like that of China.
1. begin by letting people out with no bail – done
2. use the plandemic to allow hardened felons out of prison – done
3. use a run of the mill black drug addict heart attack, to blossom into a Soros/BLM movement – done
4. engage the weak leftist politician to defund the police in predominantly jungle cities – in progress
They have now created the perfect market place for people to beg for a surveillance state, property owners will be installing their own security/data harvesting equipment, big tech will then sell the data (from their cloud) to the civil branch of the legal dept (as in civil lawsuits, where there is less of a burden of proof)
No one is going to abandon the court system. Instead of people going to jail for crimes, they will get leans or judgements against them, which will permanently brand them as UN-employable, so they will return to crime, in an endless loop of catch and release.
only a legal mind would be able to construct this level of diabolical circular logic, which guarantees their own employment, and the expense of society.