Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The United States now has attributes of the 20th century totalitarian regimes that it opposed. The New York governor is implementing the hated Soviet internal passport that prevents freedom of movement, and the illegitimate Biden regime is working with private firms to create a nationwide internal passport.
American elections mean no more than Soviet ones. As Stalin said, it is who counts the votes that matters.
Washington’s foreign policy is more aggressive and bloody than the Third Reich’s.
Soviet show trials are now the new normal for American “justice.”
As an example, consider the highly orchestrated show trial of Officer Chauvin accused of George Floyd’s death currently underway. Yesterday, the second day of Officer Chauvin’s trial was “eye-witness day.” Eye-witness Donald Williams told the prosecutor, Steve Schleicher, that “I believe I witnessed a murder.” Eye-witness Alyssa Funari said, “I was upset because there was nothing that we could do as bystanders except watch them take this man’s life in front of our eyes.” Eye-witness Darnella Frazier said, “When I look at George Floyd I look at, look at my dad. I look at my brothers, cousins, uncles, because they are all Black. I have a Black father, I have a Black brother, I have Black friends. And I look at that and I look at how that could have been one of them.”
I believe these witnesses are describing what it seemed like to them. Donald Williams believes that he witnessed a murder. It certainly can look like that to everyone who does not have all the information. Thanks to the media, all the information is missing.
Among the missing information is the medical examiner’s report that finds three times the fatal dose of fentanyl in George Floyd’s blood. The medical examiner reports “No life-threatening injuries identified. No injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures.” The medical examiner reports extensive heart disease: Arteriosclerotic heart disease, multifocal, severe; Hypertensive heart disease.
Fentanyl causes breathing problems and death when overdosed.
As police audio/video show, Floyd complained to police of breathing problems prior to being restrained on the ground. He complained of breathing problems while sitting in the police car.
When Officer Chauvin arrived, he recognized a drug overdose problem and called for medics, an inexplicable decision if he intended murder.
Officer Chauvin restrained Floyd using a police-approved technique that has been used many times without killing anyone. Chavin restrained Floyd in order to prevent Floyd from agitated behavior that would exhaust the little oxygen able to get into his system. The knee-hold does not prevent the flow of oxygen.
Practically alone among the print, TV, radio, and Internet media, I reported the facts of the situation. See:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/06/19/george-floyd-was-not-killed-by-police/
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/07/07/there-is-no-second-autopsy-of-george-floyds-death/
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/07/08/the-medical-examiners-report-of-george-floyds-death/
In contrast, the visual “evidence” was constantly hyped all over the media. What people thought they saw was not the explanation.
The public was primed to misunderstand George Floyd’s death by previous instances of police brutality against blacks. The presstitutes only report police brutality against blacks, not the more numerous instances against whites, so the public sees it as a racist response to blacks. Officer Chauvin is partly a victim of the one-sided reported incidents against blacks.
As my readers know, I am a long-standing critic of police brutality against the public. I forecast that the police brutality together with the one-sided reporting was brewing racial problems by being misrepresented as racism. When I reported the medical examiner’s report, some readers wanted to know why I had changed from being a police critic to being a police apologist. I am not for or against the police. I am for truth and against lies and misrepresentation.
The truth is Officer Chauvin’s true defense, but it is unlikely to play a role. The presstitutes have presented the prosecutor with the case of his career. He is not going to let facts get in the way of Chauvin’s conviction. Neither does the judge want the vilification that a fair trial would bring. The jurors all understand that if they let Officer Chavin off they will be outcasts and suffer violence to themselves and their property. The entire community knows that unless Chauvin is convicted, their city will again be looted and burned. Indeed, the many cities that experienced the George Floyd protests feel the same way. A person already convicted by the media cannot be let off even if innocent. What is the purpose of the eye-witnesses when all have already seen many times the scenario they describe and have their minds made up?
In former times when America had a justice system and a responsible media, media was careful not to convict a suspect or defendant prior to the jury doing so. To be convicted by the media was reason for dismissing the charges on the grounds that there was no prospect of an objective jury. But in America today, it is conviction that is the focus, not innocence or guilt.
Eye-witness Donald Williams feels that he witnessed a murder. No doubt every juror feels the same way prior to the trial. Evidence, even if presented, is unlikely to get anywhere with people already convinced by the constantly replayed video of Officer Chauvin with his knee-hold on George Floyd.
What I have noticed over the years, especially recent ones, is that facts have lost their importance. Facts have given way to emotional responses based on feelings. It is how Americans feel about whatever, not the facts, that determines the response.
It would take a heroic jury to find Chauvin innocent. His conviction will constitute another blow to law and order. White and Asian police officers will protect themselves by avoiding interaction with black criminals. I suspect that black officers will also. Otherwise, their kids will be beat up and their homes firebombed. The emboldened criminal population that is being created will be hard to contain.
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Riots are a given no matter what the outcome. If acquitted it will be a justified response to the systemic racism that led to his death. If convicted it will be a justified response to the systemic racism that led to his death.
The time of Atticus Finch is long gone….Chauvin is a dead man walking.
The problem, Scout, is how to convince the jury that the dog posed a rabid threat to society.
The real problem, I think, is that Chauvin really is guilty of callous disregard and haughty demeanor. Any of us watching his arrogant smug mug during that horrifying 9 minutes we had to endure again and again over the Spring and Summer 2020… well, we all know the police are increasingly militarized with an “us against them” mentality. And, we know that we have all seen cops kill people because the people weren’t “obeying” their commands. No threat, just being “disrespected.”
Some of us have witnessed it up close and personal. In 2017, I made a bad judgment about stomping off into a Cape Girardeau, Missouri neighborhood after a spat with my husband and ended up surrounded by a bunch of local cops who thought a middle-aged woman walking through a neighborhood was worthy of a dozen cop cars. By the time my husband got there, I was handcuffed on pavement. It was ugly.
Enough said. I claimed mental problems due to my shunt, so avoided actual arrest. Unless you count twelve hours of emergency room observation arrest. Anyway, it was an experiment gone badly awry.
Those who know Floyd is a scumbag criminal are out there. They will turn on him for the right sort of publicity. Rabid animals tend to share the disorder.
Callous disregard? He was doing his job, all while being threatened by a mob of angry blacks.
Themis blesses your newly minted maxim as Truth.
Laissez les spectacles commence.
Chauvin must have one crappy attorney. No lawyer of merit would let the prosecution get away with letting witnesses state how they ‘felt’ as opposed to stating what they saw. His lawyer should have been objecting ‘hearsay your honor’ at every ‘feel’ utterance. Then again, perhaps he did and the judge overruled him. In today’s world, there really is no justice, the court systems are all compromised and the rule of law is whatever the press determines. Look at how they called Biden ‘president elect’ before the election was even finalized.
Everything these days is one huge gaslighting episode after another, no respite between, just a continual onslaught of lies, disinformation and propaganda.
No one else? What does that poster specifically understand to which everyone else fails? Serious question.
Falcon,
I’m not talking about the trial specifically. There is an ongoing revolution not unlike what other countries have experienced.
” revolution not unlike what other countries have experienced.”
wip,
that is one of the saddest things about this revolution–it is not just what other countries have experienced, it is straight out of the commie playbook–
when you try to tell people about it their eyes glaze over & they start telling you what a conspiratorialist you are and to stay off the internet–
That is ALL that the prosecution has to sway the jury of NOT Chauvin’s peers. The other facet of the prosecution strategy is to numb the minds and glaze the eyes by introducing heaps of minutia about EMT/Fire Department protocol and such. Anyway, the defense team has to tread lightly with the MSP denizens on the jury who are ever on the prowl for unsympathetic random atoms to Angel George.
I think America is sinking in that ocean of lies and there is no one willing to bail.
The courts are a god damn joke. There is no one more corrupt that a fucking Judge.
If i were a police officer,i would just respond slowly and carefully.Let the black community eat each other.
10-4 dispatch. We will respond as soon as we finish the coffee and donuts.
Career criminal , I mean choir boy George Floyd found those fake $20 dollar bills and was stuffing them in his car seat for back pain relief while driving . As for the fentanyl OD he accidentally took that for his back pain . As for his failure to comply to sit in an air conditioned police car , he was a big guy and that back set was to tight .
So now here we are at Easter and the multitude cry out for justice so they want Barabbus and they demand the crucifixion of innocence
anon,
i was in the car yesterday & had a local public radio station on–it was an npr show that had segments about different issues & a piece was being done about the chauvin trial–
a black minister was being interviewed & was comparing floyd to jesus b/c they were both innocent & both were murdered by agents of the state–
Justice has been rare for a long time. If Chauvin is found guilty , it has ceased to exist in America. Act accordingly.
When my friend was 15 or 16 he passed a modified bkll. It was a one with the corners of s twenty taped on. He was arrested. Young white jewish kid. Close to thirty years later he was working in a bank doing mortgages. One day he is escorted out and fired because of that teenage incident. Even a poorly cojnterfeited bill is taken seriously.
Blacks will run riot whatever the outcome of this trial ends up being.
The good thing that will come from all of this is that police will not even attempt to enforce the law in black areas, so they will turn in to Mogadishu and blacks will kill each other in ever increasing numbers… I say start dropping off cases and cases of machetes and let them go to it….