The wad to the rescue

So Eric the wad Holder is due to show up Ferguson today to talk to “his people.”  “His people” would be those lawless punks raising cane about something they know very little about.  The skinny on Ferguson from the MSM, protestors and bob Beckel on The 5 is that blacks have been arrested and stopped in disproportionate numbers in Ferguson for a number of years.

I suppose that disproportionate thing is has gone through the roof after a week of riots.  As a result, Left Libs will have a talking point for a decade.  100% of the people arrested in Ferguson during the riots were black.  In that sense the “disproportionate” talking point is like a self licking ice cream cone.  It causes riots that lead to more “disproportionate” arrests. 

Ironically, had Mike Brown been arrested instead of shot for his strong armed robbery of the convenience store, he’d be part of the Left Libs BS “disproportionate” justice meme. No one asks, “Were the arrests and stops justified, or were they pure harassment?”

Jason Riley points to speech by that well know racists and hater of blacks - Martin Luther King - given in New York City where King scolded the black community for its involvement in crime.  King told the crowd that blacks comprised only 10% of the population but committed 58% of the crime.  Could that be the root cause for the disproportionate number of blacks being arrested and stopped?

But hey, no worries.  The wad is on the scene.

Voice of reason

Wall Street Journal reporter Jason Riley has book out titled Please Stop helping US.  Riley has been a one man wrecking crew on the Left Lib meme that cops have a war on black men.  Not so says Riley.  Black men have a war on black men.  The murder rate among black men is 10 times higher than for white and Hispanics combined.  90% of the victims of black murderers are black. 

Yeah, yeah, yeah sure.  But what does a “white interloper” like Riley know about the plight of black people?  Riley is black.  He grew up poor.  But he can speak the King’s English without f bombs or trite rhymes.  That’s bad enough for the race baiting know-nothings like the wad looking for excuses for “his people” acting like the terrorists in Gaza.  But Riley’s biggest crime in all of this is demanding that black men take responsibility for their own lives.  One of Riley’s great lines to black males is, “Pull up your pants; finish school; take care of your kids.” 

So according to the race baiting industry because Riley puts the responsibility back on black males, he’s not black enough to have a legitimate opinion on this.  For the race baiting industry, it’s better to have a half black guy of “white privilege” giving them pass than a full on black man who grew up poor telling them to take responsibility for their own lives.

Militarization of police

The three regular readers of this page might be wondering if Lex is rethinking his position on the demilitarization of police departments.  No.  Not at all.  If anything the events in Ferguson confirm my thoughts.

Ferguson police apparently have the all of the military type gear.  We’ve seen it on tv and early on just the sight of it on the streets was supposedly reason enough to enflame the rioters.  So it was at best no use what-so-ever as the cops seemed content to let the looters loot and leave the up-armored HMMV or MRAP parked and at worse a provocation to do the looting.

Then in the end the real military - the National Guard - was called out anyway.  So add it up.  The gear is too aggressive to use on rioting US citizens, too much of an over kill to use on a no knock warrant in the middle of the night usually served on the wrong house and a down right embarrassment to have rolling up and down the streets of Boston while the citizens are ordered “shelter in place” while cops go door to with no warrants searching houses looking for two jihadis.  I'd encourage the cops to park the military gear and modify a couple of civilian armored cars if they think they need a bullet proof vehicle.

The truth is that you’d better not be counting on the cops – militarized or not - to save you in situations like Ferguson.  They will be of little use.  Some store owners armed themselves to protect their stores and property.  I haven’t seen a story of any of them being victimized.

A Police department can keep the lid on a civil society.  They seem to be of little use when a large portion of that society organizes against it.  I don’t know if the “it” here is the society itself, the police department or both.

I am seriously considering putting my order for more razor wire to shore up the southern perimeter of the compound on hold to free up funds for a couple of .762 sporting rifles and ammunition.

Trust me on this.  Rule #1:  You are responsible for your own security.  Rule #2: No one will take your security more seriously than you will.