Shot in the Dark

What’s Swedish For Omertá?

When people can’t trust the “Justice” system, they create their own.

From Irish cops to legends of The Godfather and Goodfellas and The Sopranos to the various warlords and cartels of Central America (and what is a cartel but a warlord with a product people want to buy?), the long legacy of people, even in a place that’s prided itself on this justice system, who find themselves needing to turn to their own communities (read: the elements of their communities with the fewest scruples about applying force to gain power) to get, if not “justice”, at least a order they as a group can live with, albeit at a cost.

The trick? Get the locals to fear you, and the erstwhile authorities at least to give you some room out of mutual convenience, if not outright getting on your payroll. And/or both.

So – can we, the people, trust our institutions?

  • Our “elite” media is a joke. They are nothing but propaganda shills, and they only pay lip service to the contrary to gull the gullible.
  • The FBI and the Justice Department are thoroughly politicized.
  • So are academia and education and the bureaucracy.
  • While lefist groups get the run of major cities without even the formality of a slap on the wrist, those perceived as “right of center” come in for, let’s not mince words, oppression.

And when the Normals color inside the lines, as we did during the Tea Party, we get both sides sliming us; when they learn the lesson and elect a candidate who doesn’t play by the K Street rules, they get slandered as a group. Oh, yeah – and told they’re defectives who are wired to hate from birth, and are just waiting to blow up.

It seems like Big Left is a bully kicking sand in the Normals’ faces, trying to provoke a fight.

Am I the only one who can’t possibly think it’s a coincidence?

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7 responses to “What’s Swedish For Omertá?”

  1. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    They’re not trying to provoke a fight. They’re acting as they do because they know from past history that their opponents will only grumble, mutter, use bad words, sigh, create a new think tank, write a paper, try to understand that other perspective, and basically roll over and surrender.

  2. Maximum Overlord Avatar
    Maximum Overlord

    You mean “bullying,” the wokish, corrupt version of bullying.
    Bullying is when a person harrases a person who is too weak or too unpopular to fight back.
    “Bullying” is when a member of an officially approved group is offended by someone not in that group.
    So if you wear a Christian-themed t-shirt to school, a gay student may call down the hell fire of school administration to get you thrown out or made to change your clothing.
    “Buulying” says that the gay student is the victim. Bullying (& common sense) says that Christian student is the victim.

  3. kinlaw Avatar
    kinlaw

    It’s clear what the enemies of America (Dhimmicraps) have in mind: push people into fighting back, at which point they think (wrongly) that they will arrest or kill all of the troublemakers, so the left will have all the power. No more Republican party, see?

    Yes, they are trying to provoke a fight.

  4. Maximum Overlord Avatar
    Maximum Overlord

    Trying to call ‘cancel culture’ ‘accountibility culture’ is non-starter. It is the kind of intellectually lazy PR-in-lieu-of-ideas the Left engages in these days.
    It means, of course, ‘you will be accountable to me, I shall not be accountable to you,’ which means that you can be canceled and they cannot.
    This morning I watched a Twin Cities news program (KSTP). They did a major piece on reaction to the Chauvin verdict in the #BLM community. The reporter talked to many of Floyd’s relatives — siblings, cousins, etc. They expressed a desire for ‘accountibility’ for George Floyd’s death.
    Setting aside Floyd’s death, his detainment by Minneapolis cops was precisely done to hold Floyd accountable for his actions, namely the passing of a counterfeit bill. FYI, the clerk (not a black person) that took the bill was going to be docked the $20. He was going be held acountable for Floyd’s actions.
    And, of course, all of the relatives of Floyd were completly unwilling to be held account for Floyd’s criminal actions. As far as I could tell, no one in Floyd’s family or the black community (where he spent his life and where he performed his many, many criminal acts) volunteered to be held accountable for Floyd’s actions.

  5. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    MO: This is par for the course. In all of the big “evil cop killed black person” instances since Michael Brown and Fergustown, no one has ever brought up that the decedent was doing SOMETHING which caused the police to be summoned in the first place. No one ever allows the decedent any opportunity to be held responsible for starting the series of actions that caused the eventual fatal outcome.

    I was in a short Twitter thread where one person derided the MPD for 200 officers taking leave for PTSD after “abandoning the city” for the first couple nights of the riots last summer. Someone quoted “Can’t you at least consider the MPD partly responsible for what happened last summer?” My response: “A domestic abuser’s favorite phrase: Now see what you made me do?”

    It’s almost like people want criminals to be able to commit crime and not receive the slightest punishment.

  6. John Kraephammer Avatar
    John Kraephammer

    Philando Castile wasn’t doing anything to cause the police to be summoned. It was complete bullshit, DWB.

  7. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    *In almost all the big “evil cop killed black person”…

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