More thoughts on the police misconduct debate

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It is possible to be pro-police while also recognizing that police need accountability and limits on their power.

It is possible to recognize that a police presence is crucial to the protection of society, while simultaneously recognizing that many cops commit serious crimes while wearing the badge.

It is possible to support police while also supporting the prosecution and punishment of bad cops.

It is possible to support police while also calling for justice for victims of police violence.

It is even possible to support many of the reforms demanded from Black Lives Matter without believing that every single white person is irredeemably racist.

 

The loudest, most ignorant voices from both sides of the debate, the only voices being heard now, will say that none of these are possible. At one point, there was much common ground between BLM and supporters of police. It was a rare opportunity for both sides to work together. That moment has long since passed.

This is sad, because it means that nothing will change.

Breonna Taylor was murdered by police during a no-knock raid

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The debate over police misconduct has devolved into the most idiotic spectacle, an endless exchange of insults between Dumb and Dumber, rather than a real debate. Breonna Taylor was murdered while she slept by trigger-happy cops executing a no-knock raid on the wrong apartment. Taylor’s boyfriend, a registered gun owner, believing this to be a home invasion, picked up his weapon and fired at the invading thugs. In return, the police fired wildly into the dark apartment, hitting Taylor eight times. One officer fired his weapon 10 times, with three bullets passing through the walls to the other apartment, coming very close to killing even more innocents during their violence-fueled home invasion. He was the only cop to face actual charges for endangerment.

Unfortunately, BLM rioting has set the police misconduct debate back by years. The rioting has awoken the drones who will blindly defend every action by police, no matter how egregious, and smear every victim of police violence, no matter how innocent. Their past will be dragged into the public eye, and the gaggle of idiots, with their usual air of absolute certainty, will hold it up as some kind of post-mortum indictment: “see, she deserved to die!” It’s pathetic, but those are the voices currently drowning out any sign of intelligence within the police brutality debate.

One good thing has emerged in the aftermath of Taylor’s death: Louisville, Kentucky, has now banned the use of no-knock warrants.

Ohio mom tased, arrested at 8th-grade football game for not wearing a mask

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Here’s what blind police worship gets you, a culture where a cop can violently and openly assault a mother over a 3-inch piece of cloth in front of school children with zero repercussions. The hateful disregard for decency or humanity by the flabby enforcer of the Pandemic Police State decrees is ugly and profoundly anti-American. And the profoundly stupid “back the blue”, and equally anti-American, cop worship that is currently taking place in this country ensures that it will continue to occur unimpeded.

Police are the armed agents of the State. They enforce the State’s decrees. When the decrees become authoritarian and fascistic, the police must increasingly act like violent thugs in order to enforce them.

200 Moore students and staff quarantined after “exposure” to COVID-19

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This is beyond pathetic. Notice the article doesn’t mention anything about any of the students or staff experiencing symptoms, nor the type of PCR test administered that produced the positive tests. More than likely it was the high-cycle test proven to produce a false positive up to 90% of the time. Which means that the entire quarantine/contact trace charade is for nothing.

We as a society must move on, and forget all about COVID-19. If it truly is here, then it’s here regardless of the actions we take. Fortunately, it poses no danger to children or healthy adults up to 65 and even beyond. It only poses a risk to those for whom the world was already filled with risks to their lives. If you’re at risk of COVID, there’s already a long line of threats waiting to do you in before COVID gets its hands on you.

We can’t help that it’s here, nothing really we can do. What we can do is cease feeding ourselves the same crap sandwich over and over ad infinitum.

If we weren’t inundated with fear porn every single waking moment over the virus, we wouldn’t even know it was here. It’s not the virus, it’s the story of the virus that is causing so much devastation. It is crucial that we realize this before we burn down everything we hold dear in some vain attempt to change that story.

Letter to the Norman Transcript

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Sent this AM, lets see if they publish it:


“Norman’s public school students, after having been gifted with two wonderful weeks of semi-normalcy while attending in-person classes, have now been forced back into virtual school with little notice. This is all thanks to Oklahoma’s color-coded ‘COVID-19 Alert System’, which school administrators use to determine whether campus will remain open. When a certain number of cases are reported, parents are informed, and students go back to the computer screen at home. 

 

Of course, the schools aren’t actually closed. Teachers and their own children have the privilege of being physically present on the school grounds while completing their “virtual” lessons. It’s a bit confusing, and more than a little insulting, that the schools are open to the children of teachers, but not to the rest of us. Either schools are too dangerous to remain open or they aren’t. If they are dangerous, why are kids and adults still there? The answer is that no one actually believes schools to be a danger to children, because COVID-19 poses no actual risk to children. 

 

The fatality rate for children under 14 hovers around 1 in 1,000,000 according to an estimate made by Avik Roy of FREOPP. Unlike the flu, 80% of COVID deaths occur in people over age 65, with the vast majority of deaths and hospitalizations occurring in those with pre-existing conditions. Stanford professor John Ioannidis calculated a median fatality rate of just 0.05% for individuals below the age of 70. This is not the boogeyman virus we’ve been led to believe it is. 

 

We have mountains of evidence that tells us that COVID-19 affects a very specific demographic, which is comprised almost exclusively of the very old and very ill. And yet with all this evidence, the charade continues, with school closings, mask mandates, and threats of new lockdowns. Everyone else has had to go back to work, including daycare workers, who have reported to work every day since March. Businesses have been open for months, and our kids have been out and about for months. School should be no different.

 

Our children should be laughing, playing, and learning with their classmates at school during the waning days of summer, but instead are made to suffer at the hands of policymakers who do not appear to have their best interests at heart. Parents are being jerked around on a weekly basis, scrambling to make virtual school work while also juggling jobs and childcare. 

 

For the sake of the mental and physical well-being of our children, schools must immediately reopen. Masks must be ditched as well, which do little more than place children at great risk of developing thrush or a staph infection. Let them breathe, and let them return to school. They deserve a normal childhood, not one marred by this unfounded hysteria and germophobia that has suddenly become the basis for public policy.”