Blood on their Hands: Mayor Bloomberg, Jesse Jackson and the Assault on Stand Your Ground Laws
This is my new Red State piece dealing with the attempts to repeal Stand Your Ground laws.
In the summer of 2008, 27-year-old Sergio Aguiar stood on the side of a busy country road in California and kicked his infant son to death. Multiple people stopped at the scene to watch the beating, which went on for some time, but did nothing more than call the police and wait. By the time police arrived and killed Aguiar, the infant was so badly disfigured by the savage attack he had to be identified with DNA testing. Some of the witnesses claimed they would have acted had they been armed, but no one seriously believes that because many were armed with tire irons, wheel locking devices, and all the other sundry makeshift weapons found in a car. No, the inaction of these people was not because they couldn’t do anything, but because they didn’t know what they could do. They were residents of a state where self-defense itself is suspect and acting on behalf of others when you yourself are not threatened is an invitation to legal prosecution.
Residents in many states and cities know that they are at the mercy of politically driven prosecutors and government officials anytime they act with force–even if they are justified. Thus, they are trained to not act unless they have no possible alternative to save their lives. We often comment on the callousness of bystanders who do nothing when crimes are being committed, but such apathy is a direct result of the leftist legal theory that people have a legal and moral responsibility to retreat from violence and crime before being “allowed” to act with force. Stand Your Ground laws are a small step toward providing rationality to civil society by recognizing your individual right to protect yourself and others as well as protecting citizens who end up in physical confrontations through acts of good faith.
People like hypocritical NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg and professional grievance monger Jesse Jackson are trying to sway public opinion against these laws and reenforce the notion that no matter what is going on you have a duty to retreat from the aggression of criminals.
But think that idea through.
People who did nothing while Sergio Aguiar kicked and stomped an infant to death reported that Aguiar threatened them and they retreated. They did what Bloomberg and Jackson wanted and a child died. For Mayor Bloomberg and Jesse Jackson, this is how civil society should work. If I’m up late, my wife is asleep, and someone kicks in the door, if I can get out the house without confrontation Bloomberg and his ilk want me to abandon my wife to a criminal’s tender mercies. Or if we can both escape, we are morally obligated to allow someone to destroy that which we worked hard to build, steal our hard earned wealth, and desecrate the sanctity of our home–because we have a “duty” to retreat.
Is that a civil society? Is society obligated to retreat from the Sergio Aguiars of the world and be culpable in the death of their victims? Do we really have a duty to spare criminals the repercussions of their criminality?
The left has always maintained just that. It is basic Marxist class conflict theory, taught in every major university under the guise of “sociology” and other so-called social sciences: criminals are the victims of your wealth, your prosperity, your morality, and your goodness. Your desire to protect your property, your family,or an innocent child on the street all conflict with the criminal’s desire to steal, rape, murder, and do evil. Thus, you have a duty to stand aside and allow the most degenerate among us free reign on our streets.
It comes as no surprise Bloomberg would push this view in light of not just his extreme anti-gun positions, but his tacit support for Occupy Wall Street. Bloomberg allowed occupants of a communist-organized encampment to terrorize NYC residents, shut down businesses, and assault and rape people. He only acted against them when public support for the movement amongst the rich liberal elite waned. The supposed Republican mayor implicitly supports that movement through his words, policies, and actions and his attack on stand your ground laws is another facet of that support. His vision of the limitations on your rights is designed to allow mob rule, to give any special interest group that can mobilize an unruly crowd the ability to force you to accept their random demands with threats of violence you cannot defend against and from which the state is unwilling to protect you.
How many lives will be lost when Bloomberg-enforced cowardice is perceived as weakness by these drug addled “revolutionaries” during the coming spring offensive? Criminals are like animals–their attacks are triggered by weakness and fear. Most people attacked by mountain lions are attacked from behind while jogging or riding a bike, which to the big cat looks the same as a prey animal fleeing. The perceived flight from the beast triggers the attack. In the same way, fleeing thugs or giving into them escalates their attacks on your person. Bloomberg and Jackson are advocating behavior that they know will trigger more vicious attacks by criminals, all for political purposes.
In states where there are strong legal protections for citizens defending themselves from threats of any type, OWS has done nowhere near the damage that has been done in places like NYC, Oakland, and other liberal bastions. Zuccotti Park occupiers invaded businesses and assaulted the people within. In Oakland they committed dozens of acts of violence. Occupy has caused tens of millions of dollars in damages that will never be replaced in Obama’s new economy. Bloomberg, Jackson, and their allies are trying to ensure these people can do more damage, that they have free reign to enter your business, your house, and even your personal space and do whatever they want while you are “duty bound” to surrender all you have–your goods, your pride and your dignity–to the neo-bolshevics they intend to put on the street.
And this is in addition to the common street thugs these people want to have absolute sovereignty over your streets, your homes, and ultimately your friends and family. Imagine the world viewed through Bloombergian lenses–you stumble upon a rape in a park and the rapist threatens you. You’re obligated to flee and if you don’t you must rely on the largess of civil servants to stay out of jail. You witness a man beating his wife and if you step in to stop the beating you may face a court date where you have to explain why you didn’t flee as the law requires when the wife beater attacked you. If home invaders kick in your door you should slink out the back while who knows what happens to anyone left in the house because they were too slow. That rape victims, abused wives, and victims of home invasions are routinely murdered can’t be your concern because Michael Bloomberg, Jesse Jackson, and every other thug-hugging social engineer who has a public platform will make sure you’re punished for not following your “duty to retreat” which is nothing more than mandatory cowardice.
Infants like Sergio Aguiar’s son are the price Bloomberg and Jackson are willing to pay for their liberal pretensions and civic power grabs.
A little more than a year after Sergio Aguiar killed his son, a 15-year-old California girl endured a two hour gang rape where she was so badly beaten she needed to be flown to a trauma center. It was widely reported that dozens of people witnessed the attack, but did worse than nothing. They laughed, took pictures, and recorded the attack on cell phones. Reporters were at a loss to explain how such a crime happened but are you? That attack is the end result of Bloomberg’s world view. When state empowers criminals by suppressing the natural rights of all citizens to ensure their own security, barbarity flourishes. For people like Bloomberg this works out well as the powerless citizenry must turn to politicians for safety, and the Jesse Jacksons of the world gain near godlike power by controlling mobs you can’t defend against.
But how does that work out for the rest of us?
Stand Your Ground laws save lives by disempowering criminals. We cannot allow the left to reverse our country’s course toward rational civic life and return us to the days of criminals running the streets.
New Black Panthers Planning Nation Wide Riots Today
Whether or not they can come through is another story. But as the very awesome blog Red Alerts points out today is there “day of action” planned ostensibly for “justice” for Trayvon Martin and the NBPP has hundreds of members and connections to terror groups like Hezbollah. Greenville residents may remember that the NBPP held a rally in Newberry a couple of years ago where they were able to draw a good crowd.
The NBPP is a cult whose main appeal is to uneducated youth and racist morons and there are plenty of both in South Carolina so we’ll see if they stir up any trouble. Breitbart has audio of the conference call where two of their leaders can be heard telling members to commit violence today so I’ll be pleasantly surprised if there isn’t some sort of trouble anywhere, but I’d be just as surprised if there was trouble here in South Carolina. Here’s the audio:
I’m not expecting any trouble – but I always prepare for the worst.
Topless Teen Photo Sold for Money in High School
Child pornographers are starting young. The blame in all this lies with parents who raise kids to be self-indulgent and amoral:
Notice the comment from some (skeevy) guy who says sexting is natural? That’s the real audience for your photos kids. Adults who want to rub one out to children. Cool, right?
Surprise! Cops (Like Everyone Else) Are Lazy
Here’s a story from Canada about lazy police work ending up costing an innocent woman thousands of dollars in court fees. Cops were looking for a brunette who got in a bar fight at some club – so they checked the clubs Facebook page and tried to pin the crime on the first brunette they came across. No really:
You’ll notice that after the cops were found out they actually started trying to frame her, which is easier than finding the real perp. Cops (like everyone else) are lazy so stay out of their cross hairs.
Word on the Street: Palmetto Public Record a “Progressive” Funded Smear Operation
A little bird tells me that Logan Smith, a former employee of the left leaning South Carolina NBC affiliate WIS-TV, is not really fulfilling a dream of running an objective political blog to counter wife beating degenerate Will Folks but is in fact receiving money to knowing spread false information about Republican and Conservative politicians in the state in preparation for an attempted political take over of our right leaning state. Allegedly I will say because although I contacted Smith a couple of days ago to get his comment he won’t get back to me. I assume that’s because he’s out looking for rats in his home and office.
This is why Smith was unconcerned about being sued for the story he obviously made up about our governor being indicted – he knows his legal defense fund will be padded out by local and national lefty groups.
He is not alone in being an operative for the radical left. There are many “reporters” and bloggers her that are either being paid or are volunteering for this project which is to create a progressive echo chamber in the state powerful enough to actually sway voters. Smith knew his story would be easily debunked but with the help of people like Folks (who hates Haley and the GOP) and small timers like Tiffany Barkley Smith knew that the retractions would never reach as wide an audience as the original charges. And like most progressives he thinks the majority of us are stupid so we’ll never find him out.
My little bird also tells me that PPR’s very active comment section is also made of shills and sock puppets. You will find many of the same people saying the same or similar things at similar websites who happen to have the same masters. It’s almost like there are people who are paid by the left to sit around all day on the web making their opinions seem more popular than they are. That is how modern “liberal” groups online work after all.
More interesting is the chirping surrounding how PPR funds itself. Are they using their anonymous donation button as a way for certain groups that are required to remain non-partisan for taxes purposes to fund online smear campaigns? There a few people who think that’s exactly what’s happening. Again, Smith hasn’t got back to me so I don’t know how he justifies leaving a real job to run a blog. I’ve run blogs for years, several in fact some of which are fairly high traffic. Even with selling ads on pages, my precious Amazon affiliate links and adsense I still freelance to make ends meet.
Smith just stopped working to run a blog and as someone I might have talked to who might know him quite well said he ain’t losing no weight. Makes you wonder.
Now I’m not going to say that Smith uses his sweet libel money to affiliate with drug dealers, “masseuses” and other bad actors willing to rat him out to a ruggedly handsome crime blogger. I will say that if I was dumping millions of dollars into a state to create a strong progressive movement I’d make sure all that money was actually accounted for before giving it to people who think drugs, prostitution and child porn should be made legal. Besides their are plenty disgruntled former co-workers, bitter ex-lovers and not so political people who work at political organizations just to make money who like to tips off a person running a website devoted to corruptions and crime. Allegedly Smith is the kind of guy people line up to screw over, because he’s “kind of a douche” as one tipster put it.
I have some other rumors about Smith and PPR coming out later this week after I check into the more salacious things I’ve heard. Maybe he’ll have a comment then.