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Best of the Web: Americans should never again comply with pandemic lockdown orders

John Daniel Davidson
The Federalist
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC
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We're told a second wave of coronavirus infections is coming. As businesses open back up and states relax lockdown orders, the number of new cases is ticking up in a handful of states. We've heard warnings in recent days from the Centers for Disease Control and various public health experts and elected officials that a new series of lockdowns might be necessary.

What these experts and officials don't seem to realize is that Americans will never comply with their lockdown orders again. They have burned their credibility to the ground, and they no longer have the moral authority to tell us what to do.

Simply put, the people in charge have shown themselves to be rank hypocrites who care more about politics than science. For months, we were told that large gatherings were deadly because of the coronavirus, but when protests broke out in late May, large gatherings were suddenly okay.

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Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies aged 92


The Guardian
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:23 UTC
Jean Kennedy Smith
© Photograph: Jose Goitia/APJean Kennedy Smith walks on the beach at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba on 24 March 2001.
Jean Kennedy Smith, the youngest sister and last surviving sibling of John F Kennedy, who as US envoy played key role in Northern Ireland's peace process in the 1990s, has died aged 92, her daughter confirmed to the New York Times.

Smith died on Wednesday at her Manhattan home in New York City, her daughter Kym told the newspaper.

She was the first Kennedy woman of her generation to take on a serious political job. Like her sisters and the wives of her brothers, she had had roles in family political campaigns, but not in public service.
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Bad Guys

Brother of Robert Fuller killed after shooting at police

Vivian Ho
The Guardian
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:13 UTC
Robert Fuller
© Photograph: Apu Gomes/AFP/Getty ImagesA protest in front of Palmdale sheriff’s station to demand an investigation into the death of Robert Fuller, whose body was found last week.
The half-brother of a black man found hanged in a southern California park was killed by the Los Angeles county sheriff's department, the same agency investigating the hanging.

Deputies shot and killed a man in Rosamond, just north of the Los Angeles county border, during a shootout on Wednesday afternoon, Sheriff's department officials said.

The man was identified as Terron Boone by an attorney representing the family of Robert Fuller, the 24-year-old man who was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale last week and whose death is under investigation.

Boone was Fuller's half-brother.
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How Britain's feminist grass roots turned the tide against gender extremists

Erin Perse
Quillette
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC
Liz Truss
Liz Truss, currently serving as UK Secretary of State for International Trade, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister for Women and Equalities, photographed in 2013.
In the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic and a series of massive protests over racist police brutality in the United States, one might find it hard to believe that an author's common-sense views on human biology would make headlines. Yet everywhere you look, you'll see coverage of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who's now being denounced as "transphobic" for speaking plain truths about the differences between men and women.

In fact, so much attention has been focused on Rowling that some have missed the more significant British news in this area: The country's Conservative government is distancing itself from proposed legislative reforms that would have enshrined gender "self-identification" over biological sex. Though Liz Truss, Minister for Women and Equalities, likely won't be releasing the government's policy response till July, leaks confirm that "self-ID" (as it's widely known) will not be introduced. Moreover, Truss says she wants to protect gender dysphoric children from making "irreversible decisions" in regard to their bodies, and would allow women to create and maintain safe single-sex spaces free of male-bodied individuals. This is a huge win for so-called "gender-critical" activists, who lack the deep pockets and institutional influence of the far more fashionable trans-rights lobby — even if there is still a long way to go to repair the damage that's already been done.

Comment: As the left continues to fracture more and more, the identitarian ideologies become more and more incompatible. Pass the popcorn.

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Bad Guys

'It got ugly': What happened when Black Lives Matter protests came to small town Ohio

Dan Horn
USA Today
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:35 UTC
Black lives Matter counterprotest
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Donna Henson sat on her front porch last weekend, as she always does when the weather is nice, and watched dozens of her neighbors walk by with bats in their hands or guns strapped to their sides.

They were married couples, friends and relatives, young people and old. All heading up Union Street, toward the center of town.

Henson, 78, figured they'd heard the same rumors she had, the ones about busloads of people coming to her town to join small Black Lives Matter protests on Sunday and Monday. Word was hundreds could arrive from Cincinnati or Columbus or Detroit.

Henson was afraid, and she guessed her neighbors were, too. If they didn't do something, if they didn't show up armed and ready, the unrest they'd seen on TV for weeks on far off American streets could come to Bethel, a village of 2,800.

Comment: The reason people are protesting in peaceful, small American towns is because collective guilt based on manufactured systematic racism is now a thing. These are normal everyday Americans who are just trying to live their lives. Collectively shaming them for grievances that aren't even wrong is naturally seen as a bizarre provocation. And when a few respond in turn, the agitators signal how right they are. It's a dark and backwards mess.

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Elites who appease the baying mob's apology addiction have stripped apology of all meaning

Frank Furedi
RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:42 UTC
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© Getty Images / Jason Armond / Los Angeles TimesJacob Frey, Mayor of Minneapolis takes at knee George Floyd's memorial service on Thursday, June 4, 2020 in Minneapolis , Minnesota
No sooner did Jacob Frey, the Mayor of Minneapolis, apologize to the black community for the killing of George Floyd than everyone felt they had to say sorry for the sins of their fathers, erasing the meaning of sincere apology.

I've stopped counting the number of apologies issued by public figures, business institutions and celebrities in recent weeks. It's sometimes difficult to avoid the conclusion that a public apology has become a public-relations exercise. Why else would the Greene King pub chain and Lloyd's of London apologize for the links to the slave trade - a historical event that occurred centuries ago?

Moral cowardice and the easy way out

Moral cowardice is another of the driving forces fueling the proliferation of public apologies. Apology has become weaponized to the point that very few politicians possess the strength of character to stand by their words. I remember when, last November, the Mayor of Middlesbrough, Andy Preston, apologized 'unreservedly' to the mental-health charity Mind for calling a Facebook commenter a 'nutter'. There's something truly scary about a world in which people wish to censor others for using a word the vast majority of human beings find unobjectionable. But what is even more chilling is that the mayor felt obliged to grovel and apologize.
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Police op underway in Dijon, France after days of street skirmishes between Chechen and Maghreb gangs


RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:39 UTC
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© Twitter / Prefect of Bourgogne-Franche-Comte @Prefet21_BFC
French police are conducting an operation in the city of Dijon, which has seen several nights of gang violence in the past week.

Local law enforcement announced the operation in the neighborhoods of Gresilles and Chenove on Friday morning, tweeting photos of officers in action.


Some 150 officers were deployed to search the area for stashed weapons that could have been used in the gang confrontations, according to local media.

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Best of the Web: The birth of the culture wars

Frank Furedi
Spiked
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC
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Many pundits and politicians seem to blame UK prime minister Boris Johnson for provoking the latest installment of the culture wars that now dominate Anglo-American public life. Sections of the media, from the New York Times to the Guardian, have claimed that Johnson wants to argue over statues to distract from his poor handling of the Covid pandemic. Others, such as Labour's David Lammy, reckon Johnson's defence of the statue of Winston Churchill, against those who would deface or dismantle it, was a deliberate attempt to stoke the culture wars, and deflect attention from the Tories lack of progress on 'racial injustice'.

These are massively disingenuous claims. After all, is it really surprising that a British prime minister would defend a memorial devoted to arguably the nation's greatest modern figure? Moreover, Johnson was not initiating anything. He was responding to a movement that has been directing its energy towards the destruction of the symbols of Britain's national history and culture. It takes tremendous bad faith to characterise Johnson's defensive response to an attack on British culture as an attempt to launch a culture war.
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About face: Ralph Northam is speaker for Virginia Dems even though they called for his resignation over blackface photo


RT
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:12 UTC
Ralph Northam
© REUTERS/Michael A. McCoyRalph Northam
Governor Ralph Northam is speaking for Virginia Democrats at an upcoming convention, a decision being blasted, because the same group had previously called for his resignation over a controversial blackface photo.

"We're honored to have @GovernorVA speaking at our virtual state convention coming up in just a few days!" the Democrat Party of Virginia wrote on Thursday, in a tweet that left many scratching their heads.

Virginia Democrats were one of many groups to call for Northam to resign only a year ago, after the governor was found to be in a photo containing one person in blackface - whom many suspect is Northam - and another in a Ku Klux Klan outfit.
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Best of the Web: Empty Coffins, Empty Hospitals: Brazilian MPs Expose Biggest Covid-19 Hoax Known To Date

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:05 UTC
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FRN brings the following major revelation:

Members of the Brazilian parliament decided to confirm suspicions and break into a hospital that claimed to have 5,000 infected & 200 deaths from COVID-19, and found that the hospital had grossly over-represented the cases and its claims. There was in fact not a single person, they report, and the hospital was entirely empty and was obviously still under construction.

Acting on a tip that something was going wrong at this hospital, five members of the Brazil parliament went to hospitals under encouragement by president Bolsonaro to break in & check to see the number of patients there.
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