Category: 2020 Riots
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The Phantom Boogeyman
Salem had “witches”. The far right and far left in Europe from the middle ages through the 1940s (and beyond) had “Jews”. Jordan, Minnesota had “satanists“. And Governor Klink and Mayor McDreamy had “white supremacists”. It seems like such a long time ago that Big Left started predicting an imminent wave of “right wing white…
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Bombshell
On May 31, prosecutors learned Floyd died of an overdose. On August 25, they admitted it in court. Charges against the officers still have not been dismissed. One remains in jail, in super-max prison, in Oak Park Heights. I seem to recall someone in the comments lecturing me on the ethical duties of a prosecutor as explanation…
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Statement Against Interest
“Prog” columnist looks at the statute and the evidence, concludes Kyle Rittenhouse will likely be acquitted. I don’t disagree – and find that there’s ample grounds for caution for all the rest of us that take the Second Amendment seriously. I homed in on these two passages: When [the first “victim”, Joseph] Rosenbaum, who was…
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I’m Joe Biden, And I Approve This Bit Of Gaslighting
My jaw dropped to the floor when I saw the latest Biden ad, about the violence in our cities. It’s not what’s in the ad, per se. It’s what’s missing. Go ahead. What do you not see in this ad? I’ll wait. No identifiable “Anti”-Fa or BLM. The only identifiable people in this ad are…
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Cop Out
The Defund the Police movement hitches it’s wagons into the western suburbs. In the apparently halcyon days of April 2018, students and school officials of the Hopkins School District gathered together in what was called “National Walkout Day” in memory of the horrific tragedy of the Columbine school shootings 19 years earlier. Students spoke of…
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“Nice Country You Got. It’d Be A Shame If It…Broke…”
Why, it’s almost as if Biden knows something: No, Mr. Vice President, I firmly believe that if you lose that part of this country will consider it a casus belli. That’s what your party has wrought.
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For Posterity’s Sake
Stipulated in advance – we don’t know yet how the Rittenhouse case in Racine is going to end up. Acknowledging up front that Berg’s 18th Law is in effect, it would appear that Rittenhouse’s first shooting might just be problematic, and that the second two appeared to be textbook legitimate self-defense. Of course, earlier we…
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This Is Today’s News Media
This may be the greatest lower-third super (aka “Chyron”, aaka the graphic at the bottom of the shot)) in the history of propaganda: When life gives you rotten fruit, ferment it down until you can make a flaming sambuca:
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He’s Baaaaack
Ryan Winkler, Minnesota’s House Majority Leader – let that thought rattle around in your head a bit – replies to Senate Majority Leader Gazelka yesterday: “Trump’s America is deadly!” But the Tim Walz and Peggy Flanagan’s Minnesota is the part that is rioting, burning, looting, shedding businesses and jobs, boarding up, moving to the burbs…
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Rittenhouse
I get it. If you’re a businessperson, a law-abiding citizen, a resident of a place like Minneapolis or Saint Paul or Kenosha, you might be getting a little tired of being siultaneousy treated like a villain, a sucker and a pop-sociology punching bag. And seeing the entitled, upper-middle-cass, over-schooled, undereducated “progressive” thugs and the depredations…
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Remember
If you run a business in the Twin Cities, this is what you are up against: Lotus has been a tradition in the Twin Cities as long as I’ve been here, and considerably longer. Even as Vietnamese restaurants got taken over by Thai joints (Unjustifiably, in my book), the Lotus has carried on. But will…
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Open Letter To Governor Walz: Therapy
To: Governor WalzFrom: Mitch Berg – Former Rock and/or Cow, current DeplorableRe: “Healing” Governor, Last night, as yet another round of looting began over a false rumor of another police shooting, you tweeted: Heal? You don’t “heal” from cancer while your tumors are still metastatizing. Minneapolis’s disease is the long-standing tolerance of lawlessness toward political…
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Nice Business You Got There. It’d Be A Shame If It…Broke, Or Something
Minneapolis businesses destroyed when the City failed – no, abnegated, competely – at its responsibility to deliver the public safety and order that taxpayers expect… …have to pay in advance on their taxes to clear the rubble of the businesses that the City didn’t even bother protecting with last year’s taxes: Light leaving “moral” today…
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Until Proven Guilty
This is the kind of analysis the jury is likely to hear in the Floyd case, which is why I’ve been saying all along that it’s going to be a tough case to win. Not saying this guy is correct, or that the jury will find his analysis persuasive, but this column shows why serving on…
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Peaceable Assembly
First Amendment of the Constitution protects the fundamental right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances.60 days of rioting, burning down buildings, destroying property, is not what the Framers contemplated. Those are not peaceful protests so they’re not covered by the First Amendment. They are Insurrection, which must be put down…
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“Terribly Sad”
Can you imagine the tone if the two “idealistic young lawyers” in this story had worn MAGA hats? I’m sure those young lawyers will do just fine pleading “moment of madness’ in court. Mr. Spoor (a prog lawyer who has the most wonderfully occoponymous name, if you speak any Dutch at all) says that young…
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This Is A Job For The Counselor Squad
Shot: Vandals of sorts “attack” Lisa Bender’s house: Chaser: And in response Bender filed a… …well, let’s look at the Channel 5 story: The Minneapolis Police Department told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS there is an incident report filed concerning an act of vandalism that occurred at the home of Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender last week.…
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Shot In The Dark: Today’s News, Months Ago
Someone in the press leaked the body cam video of the George Floyd arrest. Taking nothing away from the tragedy or the anger that went along with it – “knee on the throat” isn’t a good look – but seeing this, I’m thinking Keith Ellison would need Vasily Ulrikh on the bench to get a…
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Course Of Events: A “Berg’s 21st Law” Story
Found on Twitter. Verdict: Absolutely true – but it doesn’t go far enough. 30 Days from Now: “Expecting protests to be ‘peaceful’ is a sign of white privilege.” 60 Days from Now: “Any ‘violence’ inflicted on you at a peaceful protest is deserved – expecting not to have violence committed on you at a protest…
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Seattle: Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em
Seattle cops, barred the use of tear gas and other non-lethal force, are telling businesses “sorry – you’re on your own”. Given that “keeping order” – making a city a safe place for law-abiding taxpayers to be – is one of local government’s most unambiguously legitimate missions, this should really wake all but the most…
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In Much The Same Way As OJ Is Looking For “The Real Killers” (Part II)…
…Big Left is scouring the world for that wave of “white terror” that, we have been assured since 2009, is imminent. But again, Big Left has met its enemy, and they are it:
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In Much The Same Was As OJ Is Looking For “The Real Killers”…
…Big Left is looking for the real racists. But they have met the enemy, and it is them.
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Soft Targets
Lara Logan – one of the precious few actual reporters in national journalism today – on the nature of the “Anti”-Fa attacks on federal property: One other thing: just like the 9/11 terrorists, they use the “weaknesses” of an open society – free speech and assembly, relative transparency and accountability – against it, to cover…
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The Unmarked Van Of Remorseless Logic
I’ve had a couple people ask what I thought about Federal law enforcement, driving rental vans and wearing generic mil-cop camouflage, grabbing individual “protesters” off the streets of Portland. To be honest, I’m not of two minds about it. Maybe three or four. Bear with me, here. I was a Libertarian with a capital L.…