Leftist Politician Lies about Rape

Shocking, I know.  A German politician who works with refugees was ambushed and sexually assaulted by three men.  She reported the rape but lied about the ethnicity of her attackers.  She claimed they were "German speakers".

Why would she do this?  She feared "backlash" against refugees.

This is much like what happened after the Orlando shooting here in the States.  God forbid the issue should be laid at the feet of the political religion that motivated it.  It is quite acceptable to condemn gunowners, to create a backlash against NRA members and "homophobic" Christians.

I can't imagine why the countries from which these invaders supposedly flee are such hellholes.  Could it be because they don't believe in the rule of law, free markets, free will, Christian values of human life and decency?

If you are oppressed by a sick culture/religion/political system, the way to be delivered from that oppression is to renounce it and divest yourself of it.  Your sick culture needs to be replaced by a healthy one.  This is called assimilation and is what it used to be required to become an American citizen.

What doesn't work is carrying the virus of Islamic fundamentalism, tribalism, or third-world criminality onto fresh dirt.    

What We Owe the Government

Nothing.

Kurt Schlichter explains it pretty well:

It is high time to declare our personal independence from any remnant of obligation to those who have spit upon the rule of law. We owe them nothing - not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.

He then explains, much as I did yesterday, why:

The idea of the rule of law today is a lie. There is no law. There is no justice. There are only lies. ... Only power matters ... 

Schlichter is angry and speaking the truth in the article at Townhall.  By all means, read it.

The trouble is that I am afraid Schlichter and those like him will change their tune if they were to get their kind of elitist elected.  Then everything would be hunky-dory, and we should be obedient little peons because the rule of law matters to "conservatives".

I could be wrong about Schlichter.  I certainly used to think that there were at least a few Republicans who were different.  I was wrong about that.

I will not encourage anyone to rebel or try to overthrow the federal government.  I will also not encourage anyone to break state or local laws.

Further, I will not encourage anyone to vote for any candidate for any federal office.

I will personally always obey all federal laws whenever I might get caught.

I do have a decal on my truck window that says, "I aim to misbehave",  and I am in the habit of doing as I please.   

Law and Outlaw

Unsurprisingly, the head of the FBI decided not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton and her operatives to the Department of Injustice.  Lynch had already said she would accept the FBI recommendation – because, despite Comey’s denials – she knew what was coming and told Bill Clinton during their 30-minute meeting in his airplane last week.  To announce this decision on the day after our patriotic “Independence Day” celebrations is just one more slap in the face to people who believe in liberty. 

If you or I failed to do our best to protect classified documents, we would go to jail.

When the laws that apply to the citizens do not apply to their ruling class, we have a pretty good definition of tyranny.

 When the police operate under a different set of laws than the peasants, you have a police state. 

When laws can be selectively enforced by the whim of those in power, being a law-abiding citizen loses its meaning.

 

Or, perhaps, it changes its meaning.  To be law-abiding now means to be a subject, a slave to those who make the laws.  Everything the colonists objected to was a law.  Slavery was law.  Jim Crow was law.  Prohibition was law. 

Laws do not make things right.

Eminent domain is a law.  Seizure of property and freezing of assets without due process is the law.  Restrictions on ownership of firearms are laws.  Forcing people to buy insurance is the law.  The income tax is law.

Then sometimes we citizens make laws by petition and referendum in the states only to have them overturned by unelected judges in the federal courts.  The courts’ decisions then become law.

The problem the rulers face is always the same.  What happens when everyone is an outlaw?  

Polls

Quinnipac's new poll shows Trump trailing within the survey's margin of error -- a statistical tie.

Right now, polls are pretty unreliable.  After the 4th, things may solidify a little.  The stupid conventions will see-saw the lead.  Clinton may pick Warren, which will help her.  The Benghazi non-report lets her off the hook.  The emails are still out there.

I expect Clinton to be the next president.  It is the most probable outcome.

I expect disruptions at both conventions.

I expect lower than normal turn-out for a presidential election.  The level of enthusiasm is not high.

I would prefer the Senate and House remain under Republican control -- despite the fact the GOP has done nothing positive with their majorities.  I know the Senate is at risk, but I expect them to hold on to a bare majority, with the loss of three seats.

Clinton is a horrible candidate.  Sure, there are a few idiots, union bosses, and bureaucrats that are excited to vote for her, but she needs a potent V-P pick to break 50%.

Trump is going to bobble. He is going to have to start raising and spending money to be competitive.  I'm not sure he can do it.  When he is on, he is right on, but he is off a lot and the media is now his sworn enemy.  They are going to play up every fumbled statement, every glitch, and anything that might be perceived as a mistake.

Trump runs on being inevitable.  The leftist media -- a lot of so-called conservatives are playing up his weakness against Clinton.  The Beltway Cabal would rather have Clinton regardless of the letter that follows their name.  I just doubt that, with the weight of the establishment against him, Trump has the energy to pull it off.   

Free Speech Nazis

As you have probably heard a group of "white nationalists" called the Traditionalist Workers Party scheduled a rally in Sacramento, CA on Sunday.  The rally had been planned for a number of weeks, and a "counter protest" was also planned by anti-nationalists (I suppose).

In the America I grew up in, I considered the American Civil Liberties Union as an enemy.  But I respected them because the ACLU, back in the old days, would defend KKK members as well as Black Panthers when it came to free speech, the right assembly, and the right of association.

That's the American way.  You can say whatever you want.  I may disagree with you.  I may detest everything you stand for, but I will stand beside you and be your shield while you speak your piece.  The First Amendment isn't needed to protect inoffensive speech.  Everybody should have the right to call people names, to state their belief in Bigfoot, the Tooth Fairy, Communism, Keynesian economics and other myths.

I will even defend a Muslim's right to preach hate for America, but, in return, I demand the right to call Islam a violent, uncivilized religion desperately in need of a reformation.  A Muslim can call me an Islamophobe.  I can call him a rag-headed goat raper.  A gay man can call me a homophobe, and I can call him a rump ranger.

This is part of what makes America great.

If those hipsters and anti-nationalists up there in Sacramento had surrounded the 25 or so nationalists and called them bigots or shouted that they hate California Nazis, that would be perfectly acceptable.  But they tried to shut the nationalists down.  Not just shout them down but physically attack them and drive them off the grounds.

I don't think this bodes well.  The HKB in the White House has not eased racial tensions.  He has made things worse.  Now everybody is a racist, a homophobe, or an islamophobe if you dare to disagree with anything the Democrats say.

If we can't have a conversation and a rational discussion of issues, whether it's immigration, gun control, deficit spending, crime, race relations, education, privacy, or anything else then, as I have said before, the contentiousness is going to get worse.  The confrontations and conflicts are going to get more violent.  Eventually there is going to be serious bloodshed.

For the left, compromise means that we give in to their demands and surrender more and more of our freedoms, traditions, values, and beliefs.  Nothing except complete control will satisfy them.  Look how the collectivists are reacting to the Brexit vote to see how they want to change the rules so they can't ever lose.

Some of us are getting tired of giving in to petulant, supremely ignorant and arrogant (because they are so ignorant) adult children who throw temper tantrums to get their way.  They don't think we will get angry because we have always been the adults.

Daddy's home.

Meanwhile in an alternate universe ...

... this might make perfect sense.

If you haven't heard already, the US Attorney General, Loretta "Out To" Lynch, says the government is redacting certain statements made during his call to 911 by the crazed, ISIS-motivated Afghan Muslim who shot up an Orlando nightclub.  He clearly pledged allegiance to ISIS, and ISIS has already taken some credit for the attack.

The people in Washington, D.C., are brain damaged in some way I cannot understand.  This was a terrorist attack growing out of the murderer's relationship to Islam and to militant elements such as ISIS within the religion.

Everybody is talking about his motivation.  His mother was arrested for domestic violence when she attacked his father a few years back.  Maybe that had something to do with it.  But in the 911 call, the punk didn't say anything about growing up in a dysfunctional family.  He said he was doing it to get America to stop bombing "his country".

Lynch and Obama, though, know more about the murderer's motivations than he did.  No external direction was involved.

People deserve the truth, or at least full disclosure of what is known -- not what the government thinks we can handle.   We can draw our own conclusions.

When, just a year ago, a similarly deranged and violent individual murdered several innocent people at a Christian church service, the authorities did not redact the picture of that murderer with a Confederate flag.  Not at all.  That guy was a white supremacist.  You still can't buy a rebel flag on Amazon because of its "association with violence".  Why can we still buy korans?

Douglas Murray Links

A couple of days ago, in conjunction with talking about Milo, Brendan mentioned Douglas Murray, of whom I had not heard.

I just ran across Milo and Douglas Murray together.

Bonus link:  Today, Brendan connects us to Mark Steyn discussing Murray.