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Seattle residents don bulletproof vests as police yield precinct to control of Antifa & BLM

Esmy Jimenez & Isolde Raftery
kuow.org
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:46 UTC
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The Seattle Police Department announced Monday afternoon that the barricade near the East Precinct -- where officers have used pepper spray, tear gas and flash bang grenades on demonstrators for eight days -- would be removed.

During a press briefing, Police Chief Carmen Best said Seattle Police would try something new.

"We're not going to evacuate or abandon the East Precinct," she said. "We will be hardening the East Precinct facility by boarding up the exterior windows, and applying fire retardant to the building exterior and installing fencing."


Comment: They've abandoned the East Precinct.


Best said demonstrators should be able to walk freely around Capitol Hill.

"This is an exercise in trust and de-escalation," she said.

Comment: That's the media narrative of what's going down in Seattle.

Here's a more accurate version:



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White residents wash black priests' feet during George Floyd vigil in Cary, NC


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:30 UTC
white people wash feet black pastor
© Twitter / Ian Miles Cheong; @stillgray
Several white locals washed the feet of black pastors during a prayer for George Floyd in North Carolina, invoking a religious rite that sparked a flurry of divisive comments online.

The ritual, which was organized by pastors Faith and Soboma Wokoma in Cary, North Carolina, was part of a prayer walk for black Minnesota man George Floyd, who died in police custody in late May.

Protesters, which included Black Lives Matter activists, first observed eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence to mark the length of time that a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd's neck before he died.

In addition to the silent commemoration, widely shared photos show what appears to be a group of white police officers and other white attendees kneeling before a number of priests, washing their feet in buckets.

Comment: These are the types of acts that are contributing to the death of the liberal ideal.

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Bullseye

Liberalism won when it promised that no free man has to bow down to another. Cops prostrating for #BLM mobs are killing it

Guy Birchall
RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:02 UTC
I can't breathe, George Floyd protests
© Getty Images / Samuel Corum
Forget liberty and the sanctity of the individual. Police chiefs prostrating themselves before mobs seeking absolution for the sins of their race doesn't heal divisions; it further fans the destructive flames of identity politics.

Liberalism, the philosophy that has ruled much of the world since the Age of Enlightenment, appears to be in its death throes, much to the delight of the anarchists and left-wingers burning down properties and toppling statues from Bristol to Minneapolis, and London to New York.

Some political ideologies are harder to pin down than others, with perhaps those of the "middle ground" the most ephemeral of all. "Liberalism" is an extraordinarily broad term used to cover a variety of political and economic policies spanning the right-left spectrum.

In the West, it can be used as a compliment or a pejorative depending on the context and there seems to be no clearly demarcated overarching philosophy it applies to. However, there always seemed to be one factor that was, for the most part, agreed upon when it came to liberalism: that every person was an individual and should be treated as such.
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Virtue signaling or necessary intervention? UK MP calls on govt to 'speed up' removal of all slave-trader statues


RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:50 UTC
Layla Moran
© REUTERS / Mohiudin Malik / parliament.co.uk
(L) Protesters tear down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol (R) Lib Dem MP Layla Moran
An MP has urged the UK government to help local communities "speed up" the process of removing statues of slave merchants across the nation, prompting praise, anger and cynicism by turns online, given the timing of her request.

On Monday, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran published on Twitter the letter she sent to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Oliver Dowden, in which she asked that the UK government allow local councils to involve their communities in assessing and removing the controversial memorials to slave traders.
Statues of slave merchants shouldn't still be standing - end of story.
The issue around the suitability of monuments commemorating individuals involved in the slave trade reached a tipping point on Monday. Anti-racism activists protesting the death of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis had torn down and jubilantly jumped on the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol the previous day. The monument had subsequently been rolled down the road by protesters and into the River Avon.

The intervention by Moran - who is running to be the next leader of her party - drew wide-ranging heated responses on social media. One commentator who praised the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon said that "we need reminding where the UK's wealth came from," and suggested the best place for such statues was in a "memorial admitting our shame at the treatment of slaves."


Comment: Some people would rather forget than remember, rather destroy than create. When you destroy history and ban books, you may think you are ensuring ideological purity for the emergence of a new and better society, but all you are really doing is creating simple minds who will create a nightmare for other people. Don't mistake these kinds of people with those who actually care about things like truth, history, and justice. They are revolutionaries - whether serious or not - with no interest in actual justice. They just want power under the cloak of some empty ideology.

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Ex-Miss Hitler entrant among four 'diehards' jailed for belonging to banned far-right group


Sky News
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:47 UTC
Alice Cutter

Alice Cutter denied being an NA member, despite attending the group's rallies
A former Miss Hitler beauty pageant entrant and her ex-partner have been jailed for a total of more than eight years for belonging to banned far-right group National Action (NA).

Alice Cutter was sentenced to three years and Mark Jones to five-and-a-half-years at Birmingham Crown Court for being members of the terrorist organisation.

The pair, from Sowerby Bridge in Yorkshire, were convicted in March alongside two other neo-Nazi "diehards", Garry Jack and Connor Scothern.
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NPC

Kentucky Gov. Beshear says state will put resources into making sure all black residents have health insurance


WAVE 3 News
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:29 UTC
Gov. Andy Beshear
© Gov. Andy Beshear - Youtube
Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday announced the state will begin working toward correcting inequalities in health care coverage across the state.
Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday announced the state will begin working toward correcting racial inequalities in health care coverage, among other areas, across the state.

During his daily updates in Frankfort the last three months, Beshear has been providing a breakdown of the racial makeup of the state's COVID-19 cases. Throughout the crisis, cases involving black patients have outpaced the state's black population.

"We are gonna begin an effort to cover 100 percent of our individuals in our black and African-American communities," the governor said. "We're gonna be putting dollars behind it."

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USA

Lives don't matter against the privileged and armed government worker

Eric Peters
Eric Peters Auto
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:14 UTC
Armed Government Workers
© Eric Peters Auto
George Floyd didn't get a knee because his killer was a racist. He got it because his killer is an armed government worker (AGW).

An authoritarian.

The distinction is important.

Daniel Shaver wasn't black - and the AGW (Philip Brailsford) who got away with killing this unarmed white man who was crawling on the floor begging for his life wasn't motivated by racism, either.


He was motivated by something far worse than racism - because authoritarianism is policy.

AGWs - the term is used not in a derogatory but in a literal sense - are not in the business of protecting rights. They are in the business of enforcing laws (they use exactly this term to describe themselves). To the nth degree, submission to the law being the fundamental thing.

Including, implicitly, submission to them.

Think carefully about that - about what it means. As opposed to what it used to mean to be a peace officer, whose business was protecting people's rights.
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NPC

Leading Green party politicians call for 'race' to be removed from German constitution


Deutsche Welle
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:26 UTC
child reads basic German Basic Law
© picture-alliance/U. Baumgarten
The term "race" should be removed from the German constitution, two leading Green politicians said Monday. In recent weeks, Germany has seen widespread anti-racism protests and dialogue around systemic racism in a German context following the police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd in the US.

"We have to unlearn racism," Green co-chair Robert Habeck and party vice-president for the state of Schleswig-Holstein Aminata Touré wrote in the German daily Taz. "Racism is also a German phenomenon. As a black woman and a white man we are affected differently by this, but it affects us all."

"The word race should be removed from the Basic Law," they added. "There is no such things as race, there are only people."

Germany's Basic Law is the country's constitution, penned in the immediate aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, and so goes to great lengths to forbid the Nazi regime's worst crimes.

"No person shall be favored or disfavored because of sex, parentage, race, language, homeland and origin, faith or religious or political opinions. No person shall be disfavored because of disability," section 3 of Article 3 says.

Habeck and Touré argue that the term race implies the existence of different categories of people, claiming it undermines another key clause of the Basic Law: "All people are equal before the law."


Comment: These politicians are focusing only on 'race' because that is what is politically expedient for them. However, their argument justifying the removal of 'race' also applies to the rest of the section, because to claim the existence of different sexes also implies the existence of different categories of people. Therefore, if they make this argument for one they must make it for all if they wish to be logically consistent.

The thing of it is, the differences listed in section 3 Article 3 were included to remove ambiguity and ensure that every individual, no matter their physical characteristics or otherwise, is treated equally under the law. So not only are they being inconsistent by only focusing on 'race' they're also calling for the removal of protections against legal discrimination.

All to appease and pander to the 'woke' populace who've completely lost touch with reality.


The politicians did not suggest a replacement word or an exact alteration.
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Liberals ditch New York Times for publishing Senator Cotton's 'Send in the troops' op-ed


RT
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:55 UTC
Tom Cotton
© AP
US Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Opinion editors at the New York Times are facing calls to resign over publishing an op-ed by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton making a case for deploying the military to quell the riots that have broken out across the US.

Published on Wednesday and titled "Send in the troops," Cotton's op-ed argued that the police and even the National Guard couldn't quite provide an "overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers" and that the US military should be used for the purpose.

Times subscribers - current and former - condemned the op-ed and swore to boycott the paper going forward.

Comment: One man's opinion is another man's newspaper cancellation.

See also:
'Kill...'demonstrators'': NYT contributor Schmuel Rosner pulled a 'Tom Cotton' without repercussions two years ago

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Israel reneges promise, demolishes 65 Palestinian homes

Hagar Shezaf
Israel-Palestine News
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Bedouin homes destroyed
© Unknown
Bedouin boys sit near the rubble of a tent in the Deir Hajle Bedouin community, east of the Palestinian city of Jericho, June 3, 2020.
The Israeli military on Wednesday tore down the homes of 65 Palestinians in the West Bank, marking the largest number of housing demolitions in one day since the coronavirus crisis began.

Israel's Civil Administration, the branch of the military with authority over civilian matters in the West Bank, said in early April it would stop confiscating or demolishing inhabited structures deemed illegal until the end of the crisis.

Abu Dahuk said he and his young children were asleep when the army and the Civil Administration came to destroy the houses.
"Imagine what it's like when a little boy is asleep and the army suddenly barges in. My little boy immediately panicked and asked what they were doing here. This is not a normal life for young children."
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