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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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UCLA professor fired 'for not being lenient with Black students grades' because they were 'traumatized by Floyd killing'

Graham Dockery
RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:05 UTC
Protest BLM
© Reuters/Patrick T. Fallon
A demonstrator holds a placard depicting George Floyd during a protest in Los Angeles, California, June 3, 2020.
A UCLA professor has been placed on leave after refusing to give black students preferential grades in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing. The college said his Martin Luther King-inspired attitude to race was "troubling."

Floyd's death in Minneapolis and the two weeks of civil unrest that followed have given American activists a fresh platform to air all manner of ethnic grievances, from demanding that whites renounce their supposed "privilege," to calling for multi-trillion dollar reparation payments for slavery.

For one group of students at the University of California Los Angeles' Anderson School of Management, it was an opportunity to dodge an end-of-year examination. Last week, a group of minority students emailed Professor Gordon Klein, asking him to let black students sit out this week's exams in light of recent events.

Comment: It seems anyone with common sense and values, that predate the current fixated mindset, is in potential jeopardy. The 'wokers' have no idea where this will lead, the destruction they cause, nor the consequences of living in constant reaction. Stuck in this rut, what else is going on around them that remains unnoticed?

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

Philip Weiss, James North
Mondoweiss
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
RosnerAl-NajjarCotton
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Shmuel Rosner • Razan Al-Najjar • Senator Tom Cotton
As all media-watchers know today, The New York Times has been shaken up by an Op-Ed it ran that it later apologized for following a firestorm of criticism.

In that Op-Ed, Sen. Tom Cotton called for using soldiers against demonstrators. Headlined "Send In the Troops. The nation must restore order. The military stands ready," the article asserted that the supposed protesters are rioters, who are carrying out an "orgy of violence in the spirit of radical chic." Cotton dismissed the political ends of the demonstrations as violent extremist, saying, "nihilist criminals are simply out for loot and the thrill of destruction, with cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa infiltrating protest marches. . ."

The response to the Op-Ed was overwhelming and soon caused resignation and reshuffling at the NYT. Many Times staffers, including several in the Opinion department, tweeted, "Running this puts all black people in danger, including @nytimes staff members." Columnist Michelle Goldberg called Cotton's argument "fascist."

Comment: See also:
Liberals ditch New York Times for publishing Senator Cotton's 'Send in the troops' op-ed

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Dem senators kneel during tribute for George Floyd

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Kneeling senators
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US Senators down on their knees
Five Democrat senators knelt during a moment of silence for George Floyd — a black man who recently died in police custody in Minneapolis — on Capitol Hill Friday afternoon.

Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Michael Bennet (D-CO) knelt during the tribute, which lasted for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the length of time that video showed fired Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee on Floyd's neck before he died. Chauvin faces a second-degree murder charge over the incident.

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History shows abolishing the police is a terrible idea, but an obvious solution no longer fits the narrative

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:20 UTC
BLM woman
© Reuters/Hannah McKay
Black Lives Matter protest in London, June 7, 2020.
Activists protesting across the US are increasingly demanding abolishing police departments altogether. Ironically, one of the alternatives they offer sounds just like the modern police, whose origin they wrongly insist is racist.

The city council of Minneapolis, Minnesota has just secured a veto-proof majority in favor of the proposal to disband its police department. It was Minneapolis PD officer Derek Chauvin whose actions sparked the protests last month, when he was filmed kneeling on the neck of George Floyd until the African-American man died.

While the campaign for abolishing or de-funding police is intensely emotionally satisfying for the activists, there are few practical proposals as to how to go about it. Even the Minneapolis councilors didn't say when they might get rid of their police, or what they wish to replace it with. More education and social workers are being mentioned as possible alternatives, but at the end of the day someone still needs to put the 'force' into law enforcement.
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Ryanair's O'Leary says Brits know quarantine rules are rubbish

Mark Sweeney
The Guardian
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 04:53 UTC
Ryanair planes
© Jason Cairnduff/Reuters
Ryanair planes at Dublin airport
The Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has said he will not cancel flights despite the government's new quarantine rules for travellers arriving in the UK, because "British people are ignoring this quarantine. They know it's rubbish."

O'Leary's comments come after Ryanair, easyJet and IAG, the owner of British Airways, started legal action against the government in an attempt to overturn rules requiring all passengers arriving in the UK to self-isolate for 14 days, which came into effect on Monday.

Breaking the rules, which are designed to help prevent a second wave of the coronavirus, is punishable with a £1,000 fine. The policy is to be reviewed every three weeks and the idea of "air bridges" to popular destinations for holidaymakers such as Portugal has been discussed.

However, O'Leary said thousands of Britons were still booking holidays with Ryanair, which intends to operate almost 1,000 flights a day from 1 July. He added that he had no intention of cancelling flights in the peak months of July and August if the rules were still in place then.

Comment: Unlike the planes, plans for resuming travel are up in the air.
United Kingdom introduced a 14-day quarantine period for international arrivals on Monday despite warnings from its biggest airlines that the move would decimate domestic tourism and damage exports. Under the new rules, UK nationals and international passengers traveling into the country (via airplane, ferry or train) will have to complete a form prior to their arrival, detailing an address where they will self-isolate for the next 14 days. The measure was designed "to prevent a second wave" of coronavirus, according to Home Secretary Priti Patel. Those who do not provide accurate information will be fined up to £1,000 ($1,270).


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German police arrest far-right suspect threatening to attack Muslims


Aljazeera
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Muslims
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Muslim mourners from Christchurch, New Zealand massacre
Police in Germany has arrested a man on suspicion of planning to kill Muslims in an attack inspired by the 2019 massacre in two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques, according to prosecutors.

The 21-year-old from the northern city of Hildesheim had announced his attack plans "in an anonymous internet chat", the state prosecutor's office in the town of Celle said on Monday.

Initial investigations show the suspect "has for some time been considering the idea of committing an attack in which he wanted to kill numerous people in order to attract worldwide media attention", prosecutors said.

The suspect referenced the Christchurch attacker, who killed 51 people in two mosques in March 2019, and said he wanted to carry out a similar attack. "His aim was to kill Muslims," prosecutors said.

Weapons found

Police found weapons in the suspect's home, as well as electronic files containing far-right content.
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