Category: civil rights

Jonathan Gruber: Killing for Crime Control

~ Pharmer

Mona Charen has dredged up more Jonathan Gruber sludge, linking him to the Killing for Crime Control thesis made famous in the Freakonomics book and ensuing debate.

Referencing this 1998 article by Jonathan Gruber, et al, Freakonomics author Steven Levitt and colleague, John Donahue argued in a 2002 Quarterly Journal of Economics  article  that the availability of abortion had significant influence in lowering the crime rate.  This later was made available for public consumption in the 2005 Freakonomics chapter on abortion.

Besides connecting Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber with more of his macabre plans for social engineering, this underscores another leftist inconsistency.  Usually these people are arguing to mitigate penalties against established criminals, yet here you see them supporting the idea of aborting babies from groups considered  more likely to become social liabilities.  That’s the same as a death penalty exacted before a crime is even contemplated.

Gruber’s own conclusions from 1998: “Perhaps more importantly, these findings may also have implications for the lifelong prospects of the average child born after legalization. The children not born due to abortion availability would have grown up in adverse living circumstances that other studies have shown may be detrimental to later prospects.”

What other interesting ideas from the mind of Johnathan Gruber have made their way into the intrinsic design of Obamacare?

Wouldn’t Want to Be the Guy Who Reported John Crawford III to 911.

~ Pharmer

Last summer, cops responded to a 911 call reporting Beaver Creek, Ohio shopper, John Crawford for “Playing With a Gun While Black”.  To be sure,  Crawford was without gun etiquette and safety skills, but he was not threatening his fellow shoppers.  He had picked up an unloaded, air powered, pellet gun in Walmart and had been swinging it in the corner aisle, while talking on a cell phone. Most of the time the rifle is pointed towards the floor. At one point, the muzzle is seen pointing  toward a back wall and shelf of pet food, but not at any other shoppers.

Once readers tour the Walmart video footage, they will admire the folks at Truth About Guns, who essentially got the gist of this story way back in August, before any of this info was available.  John Crawford is mainly a victim of  panicky, anti-gun propagandizing .  It also appears that cops, all juiced up for a crazy shooter, did not give the guy much of a chance to respond appropriately to their presence before he was plugged by two of their bullets.

One 911 caller will be crawling into a hole after the unwarranted death of  22 year old Crawford, as well as the untimely demise of a 37 year old female shopper, who had a heart attack following the ensuing melee.  (Naturally the left wing media is trying to tie the caller to the Tea Party.)

Given the sum total of the story, it’s not a surprise that the family of John Crawford would want to sue somebody.   They would not be able to get much out of the 911 caller who touched off this whole disaster.

Lastly, people need to be exercising gun safety and etiquette along with their gun rights.

Ferguson Charades

~ Pharmer

By now, many of those who have paid close attention to news of the protests in and about  Ferguson understand that they have been orchestrated in supposed response to a fictional narrative spun around a “gentle giant” Michael Brown.  From this base, leftists are trying to reenact the 60s and pretending to oppose the deteriorating race relations that they themselves  have brought about.

When confronted with available evidence, the grand jury  concluded that police officer Darren Wilson committed no crime, and refused to bring charges against him.  Despite this, he has resigned from the force.

A large proportion of protesters and rioters in Ferguson are rent-a-mobs, bussed in from elsewhere.  For example, 15 out of 16 members arrested from this leftie group of protesters was found to be from out of town says  KMOV.com. One of them was from Berkeley, CA.  CNN claimed that out of towners were inciting violence in Ferguson as early as last summer.

Most of the businesses damaged or destroyed on the first night of riots in Ferguson were minority owned.

Agents of Homeland Security have been nesting in and around Ferguson.  We were NOT supposed to be made aware of this fact,  as former employee, Mark Paffrath, discovered when he lost his job at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Chesterfield, MO, not 30 miles from Ferguson.  He reports seeing 70-plus Fed vehicles parked there, and had posted a photo and video of them online. Per Mr. Paffrath, a U.S. Navy veteran,  hotel management told him that his actions threatened a $115,000 contract that the hotel had with the Feds.

People are starting to tire of the lefties trying to reinvent and relive the civil rights movement.  More rational folks  find that protecting their own Ferguson neighborhood is more important than hosting a government backed riot.  Back in the 60s, Black people had good reasons to be protesting the unjust rule of mob, that caused extreme cases of abuse, and loss of life, as well as a routine environment of disrespect.   Now some of the new ‘civil rights’ charlatans, and low IQ media flunkies seem to be asking for the rule of mob to taint the legal process that protects our rights.

Related: Vandalized Bakery receives $230,000 in donations to reopen.

If Black Lives Matter, something will be done to fix THIS.

 

Tim Cook’s Small Brick

~ Pharmer

Given that  people in China are routinely arrested for homosexual activity, and many land in jail for this type of “licentiousness”, Tim Cook’s offer of his “brick”  in the path of “justice” for gays seems not so momentous.

The CEO of Apple (which produces most of its products in China) imagines that he’s become more connected with the civil rights leaders of the past, by publicly announcing which kind of sex he likes.  Says Cook in  Bloomberg Business Week :

“When I arrive in my office each morning, I’m greeted by framed photos of Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. I don’t pretend that writing this puts me in their league. All it does is allow me to look at those pictures and know that I’m doing my part, however small, to help others. We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.”

After this offering……….. how is Tim Cook addressing his biiiig China difficulty?   Is it similar to the way that Warren Buffet addresses his own taxes vs. what you should happily pay?

Justice Dept Expert says Black Americans are Less Sophisticated Voters

~ Pharmer

and this is the excuse for opposing such things as voter ID, and other regulations that might stop the Democrats from STUFFING the ballot boxes, (as seen in this vid).

The Eric Holder Justice Department hired Charles Stewart to testify against voter registration and laws requiring voters to cast a ballot in their own precinct.  Stewart stated that these laws would affect African Americans more because they tend to register closer to election day and “they tend to be less sophisticated voters, tend to be less educated voters, tend to be less attuned to public affairs“.   He cites the literature of political science for this.

James O’Keefe demonstrated on film that a White guy could have easily voted using the ballot of Eric Holder himself, in the 2012 primary election.  One wonders if the integrity of our election system has to remain unprotected, so that elections can be stolen, and if it will remain OK for Dems to cite Black American Voters as “less sophisticated” as an excuse for this.

See more of Charles Stewart’s (paid) testimony in this article by J Christian Adams, and see the whole transcript here.

Media Coverup: The Inherent Racism of Leftists

~ Pharmer

One of several important reasons a person should avoid affiliation with leftists is the inherent racism, sexism, and bigotry which is the basis for their social policies and personal functioning.

Leftists consider non-whites to be livestock, and treat them as such.  The left desires to herd (to the cities), feed (food stamps EBT SNAP), house, provide health care (birth control and abortions), various ethic and racial groups, and keep them as voter stock.

The media serves as cover whenever the leftist racism bubbles to the surface in their words. Certainly they have been effective in training people to believe that the conservatives, who want everyone to be free to achieve self actualization, are the oppressors, while the paternalistic left, which pushes down or kills  anyone who wants to work hard and achieve, is seen as benevolent.  In fact, non-white conservatives, who respect the family, and oppose the herding of minorities, are said to be selling out their own people.

Here is your chance to see how the media covers  up  the racist gaffes of Harry Reid, Gary King, and Joe Biden. Desperate leftie  politicians, with possible dementia reducing their ability to filter speech, have been firing off offensive comments right and left, lately, and Brietbart.com  has been cataloging the remarks and the lack of media response.  Click the links to see: it’s still pre-civil-rights-era in the brains of the lefties.

Living in lie-cloud of the lamestream media has left many minority groups completely confused about who is REALLY holding them down in present day America.

Supremes: Obama Can’t Force Companies to Pay for Birth Control

~ Pharmer

Congratulations to Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp, first for filing lawsuits to protect their religious freedom, and second for defeating the Obama Administration before the Supreme Court.

The courageous owners of these two companies objected to being forced to pay for forms of birth control which can have prominent interceptive (early abortive) mechanisms of action.  In a 5 to 4 decision, in which Justice Roberts and the conservatives upheld religious freedom, (and naturally the leftists did not), the two companies are excused from paying for birth control which people could most certainly provide for themselves by other means.  At issue were Plan B, Ella, and the indwelling coathangers otherwise known as IUDs.

This decision appears to be protective of closely held, for-profit corporations, but appears to  exclude non-profit entities such as Little Sisters of the Poor.

Naturally the idea of religious freedom for Christians is causing the lefties to curse, swear, and threaten lives and property of their ideological opponents.  Violence has always been integral to leftism.   Those people are anything but compassionate.

Think Twice Before Calling Cops. Is the Risk Worthwhile?

~ Pharmer

The cops seem to be much more likely to use extreme or disproportionate force if news trends have any relationship to reality.

Samantha Ramsey is dead at age 19 after trying to leave a field party in Hebron, Kentucky.  This conflicting story is moving into national news, likely because both accounts of police action seem to indicate the use of inappropriate force.  The police account states that the Ramsey refused to stop her car as ordered, rammed the officer, Tyler Brockman, propelling him onto on the hood.  The cop drew his gun and shot four times into the car (with three occupants), killing Ramsey, the driver. One of the occupants disputes the police story, and claims that he was not rammed, and that  he jumped on the hood and shot first. The officer in question is now on administrative leave, and the Sheriff’s office is keeping quiet about the incident, thus far.

Another party crasher story details the firing of Tennessee cop, Frank Phillips, who choked a non-resisting student who was being arrested for disorderly partying.  Photos taken by a freelance photographer seem to indicate clearly that there was no justification for rendering the student unconscious while he was being cuffed. The Knox County Sheriff demoted all of the officers associated with this particular incident.  (It IS an election year).

The DC Clothesline blog, details other recent cases of police over-kill, including separate incidents of two teens killed by cops who were summoned for assistance.  In another case, an elderly man was beaten by cops, and now  faces charges after he called an ambulance for help with his wife’s behavior.  The woman, who suffers from dementia, has been removed to a nursing facility, while the man is suing cops for assault.

The take home?  Militarized style police raids and disproportionate uses of force have risen precipitously.  Calling the cops could result in unnecessary injury or fatalities.  Think twice about whether the call is worth the risk.

 

Lefties Invent Race Controversy, Republicans Fall in Line

~ Pharmer ~ 2 Comments

The leftists have invented a False Racial Controversy out of some comments made by Cliven Bundy, the famous Nevada Rancher. It’s totally bogus, but, just as expected, weak minded republicans are denouncing Bundy, because this is what the lefties tell them to do. We really need to get rid of these politicians, and unfortunately that seems to include Rand Paul.   It has now become racist to say that the stupid government policies are are screwing up the lives of various minority people.

Click THIS, or the pic to hear what Cliven Bundy really said: that for Blacks, living on government subsidies is no more freedom than when they were picking cotton down South, and is possibly worse, due to destruction of the family structure. He also gives some interesting comments on immigration.  Of course some buzz words are there, and no brainless acolyte of political correctness could pass through them to hear the real message. In addition, the destruction of family is high on the leftist agenda.

The lamestream media managed some editing, so that the Republicans would denounce Bundy as fast as Pavlov’s dogs salivated. They never fail to disappoint.

Cliven Bundy FAKE Racial Controversy
Cliven Bundy FAKE Racial Controversy

UPDATE:  Rip Curl at Truth Revolt has provided text and a bit of commentary on the media editing hack job of Cliven Bundy.  The NYT has acted similarly to  NBC, editing the 911 call by George Zimmerman, to smear him as a racist.  This is defamation.