Fascist Show Of Force

Chauvin was convicted today, and 30 seconds later there was a pile of cop cars cruising the streets here in Salt Lake City.  Why?  Because fear is these fucks' main weapon.  They NEED you to be afraid, and they want to remind you that, no matter what that jury did, you'd better STAY afraid.  DON'T GIVE IN!

When Fascism Comes to Murica...

...it will be brought by white, suburban, "thoughts-and-prayers" liberals.  Like Mayor Maggothaul.  More on that fucktard below (Keep reading.  It's a doozy and worth your time.)

Thanks to Herroner, we now have an overnight curfew through next Monday.  Because of the "riot."  GODDAMNIT PEOPLE, THERE WAS NO FUCKING RIOT!  A cop car got burned, and another car got trashed.  Boo fucking hoo.  One of the cardinal rules of riots is, "Fuck the rules."  But here were hundreds of people waiting for the traffic lights to change before they crossed the street.  OH, THE HUMANITY!  A number of cops claim they "felt threatened."  BULLSHIT, you motherfucking thugs!  You're more heavily armed and armored than the average Marine in Kandahar.  Threatened?  Fuck that.  That was a Sunday School picnic next to the real thing, you wienie, lying sacks of shit.  I was sucked into worse when I was 9.  I was actively involved in worse when I was 11.  And you big, brave heroes were afraid?  Suck it.  You weren't afraid when almost as big a crowd, armed to the teeth with semi-auto weapons, surrounded City Hall because their favorite bar was closed and they couldn't get a haircut.  But oh wait, those inbred Trumptards were political allies of yours, weren't they?  And memo to Maggothaul: Remind me again what curfew you imposed then?  Oh that's right, there wasn't one.  But there weren't any cops telling you to get your kneepads out and start servicing them that time, were there?  You are such a piece of...work.

You apologists out there are going, "Well yeah, but the anti-lockdown demonstrators weren't causing any damage."  First, morons, these were suburban whites who have a voice in what happens.  They like to whine about being ignored, but they aren't.  Second, the lockdown did not put them at risk for their lives, it just inconvenienced their lifestyles.  They aren't being murdered in their homes or on routine traffic stops.  Finally, if you and your gang are walking around packing Armalites and threatening violence up to and including civil war, THAT is damage.  You're damaging everyone else's security just because you're an overgrown brat throwing a temper tantrum.  Just like your Fearless Leader Der Drumpfenfuehrer.

One of the schmucks who torched the cop car has been charged .  Federally.  They went that way because the federal criminal justice system is criminal.  He's facing a mandatory five years and up to 20.  Because his arson "interfered with interstate commerce."  Again, bullshit.  This isn't about enforcing the law.  This is about intimidating.  This is about terrorizing.  And OBTW, fuck the Feddies for going along with this.  ATF are whores.  DAs are whores.  SEC, FTC, FBI, CBP, etc., etc., etc.  They don't give a SHIT about that guy.  They want an example.  They want to beat all the rest of us into line.  So watch out, guy with "Black Lives Matter" painted on your car.  You're on a road, you're "interfering with interstate commerce."  And the sign on the I-215 crossing saying "Black Lives Matter"?  Definitely "interfering with interstate commerce."  You see where this is going?  They want to CRUSH your ability to speak out.

Now on to Mayor Maggothaul.  My intel network has given me some intel.  I have been unable to determine whether it's gold dust or chicken feed, but I'm going to throw it out there at least as a heads up.  We knew in the mayor's race that Escamilla was the progressive candidate and Maggothaul was the DNC/DLC corporate whore.  I have learned that certain shit may have gone down in that race.  Namely that DNC/DLC corporate operatives engaged in a covert get-out-the-vote campaign with East Bench Rethuglican whites that basically said, "You'd better get out and vote because you don't want a brown West Sider as mayor, do you?"  Now, there is no way to verify that anyone received such a  pitch because no one will admit they received such a pitch, much less acted on it, so that is pretty much a dead end.  But such behavior is consistent with the thoroughly assholish behavior I saw from the DNC/DLC tools as Hilbots in 2016 and Anybody-But-Bernie-Bots in 2020.  "Erin is white/cute/white/pliant/white" (not necessarily in that order).  So while it would not surprise me if this happened, for obvious reasons, I can not tell you with certainty it happened.  But I can tell you that, even if they didn't, they wanted to, and that sentiment is what they're acting on now.

But hey, law and order, right?  Earlier this week some fascist asshat was pontificating down at the former protest site about how we need "law and order".  Let me tell you about the history of "law and order" in this country.  Farmers in western Massachusetts want more of a say in the government?  We need "law and order".  Natives want to keep their land?  We need "law and order".  Abolitionists want to end slavery?  We need "law and order".  Miners and railway workers want decent working conditions?  We need "law and order".  Women want to vote?  We need "law and order".  Veterans want their benefits?  We need "law and order".  Blacks want to vote?  We need "law and order".  People want to stop the draft and the invasion of Southeast Asia?  We need "law and order".  Hispanic farm workers try to organize?  We need "law and order".  Anyone advocating "law and order" is in fact advocating mob rule supporting the powers that be and needs his head turned into a canoe.

Maggothaul needs gone.  Even if this racist crap from the election isn't the case, she needs gone.  She, along with her DNC/DLC enablers, need removed.  Otherwise, we are headed for full on fascism.  And don't believe the narrative trying to demonize the protesters.  They aren't the problem, and it's pretty damned obvious exactly who actually is.  And fuck you if you insist on believing otherwise.

The Desert of the Real World

As I've been pounding home for some time (See here, here, here, and here.), we are under siege.  So I have to say we haven't really learned anything in the last couple of days, but we sure have had our noses rubbed in it.  In case you can't see it, let me lay a few things out.

1. We have yet another fraudulent autopsy.  Apparently the cops were in no way to blame for George Floyd's death.  At least that's what yet another cop-sucking fraud...er, excuse me..."coroner" says.  Now we'll see our "justice" system in all its glory.  The DA filed criminal charges.  True, they were slap-on-the-wrist level charges designed to placate the masses, not punish the offenders, but now we'll see what the DA actually intended.  If he actually intended to press those charges, and this wasn't just a sugar-off that was going to get slid out the back door from the start, he'll grab that body yesterday and get an independent examination.  Is anyone out there holding their breath?
2. We now have a curfew in Salt Lake City.  Because of the riot.  And I call big-league bullshit.  There was no riot.  I know, I was down there.  I was maintaining significant social distance, but I had a decent view.  I know riots because I've been around a few, and that was no riot.  Two cars burned and a few idiots roughed up is not a riot.  Rioters do not wait for crosswalk signals to change.  This curfew is just an excuse to oppress political activity.  Contrary to what Herroner Erin Mendenhall says, the people of SLC have nothing to be embarrassed about.  She, on the other hand, has plenty to be embarrassed about, and it isn't the phony "riot".  It's about allowing Guvnuh Available to chivvy her into turning SLC into an overt police state.  Is she embarrassed about that?  Are you kidding?  Mendenhall is exactly what we've known she was ever since the party hacks made sure she'd win out over Luz Escamilla:  a DNC whorebucket.  She is another sign the Democratic Party will never deliver anything resembling a progressive agenda.  She's another brick in the wall.
3. Speaking of the protests, we know there are a bunch of reich-wing counterprotesters showing up.  We also know the cops are planting "under cover" officers in the protests ("Nice cop shoes, asshole.  And I like that body armor I can see through your shirt.").  And we know the reich-wing groups are planting their own operatives to stir shit.  Now here are a few riddles for you.  How much of the violence was provoked if not outright committed by the plants?  That's exactly what the reich-wing operatives would be planted for.  As for the cops, well they wouldn't do anything like that, would they?  I mean the FBI hasn't been doing exactly that since J. Smeghead Pooper first took the reins, has it?  And do you think that question will actually get looked at?  Or will it just be swept under the rug as part of the narrative of demonizing the Left pushed by our oh-so-liberal media?
4. And so we have once again reached THAT point in our political cycle.  The various minorities in this country are in no way surprised by what is happening; this is just another day in paradise.  They aren't just pissed off that the cops murdered George Floyd; they're pissed off that this keeps happening and nothing ever changes.  What's different now is that us white people are being targeted.  Which is what has happened every time we have joined the fight against oppression.  The Ueberklass loves "white activists" who support them (You think armed, white thugs getting away with everything is new?  Check the Hard Hat Riots, the pro-Nixon construction worker counterprotests organized by Peter J. Brennan, whom Nixon richly rewarded for this effort by making him Secretary of Labor [and when will workers ever figure out they aren't doing themselves any favors by backing the power].  Check corporate use of the National Guard and private Pinkerton armies.  Hell, what do you think the KKK has always been?), but will crush whites who cross the aisle.  Whiskey and Shay's Rebellions.  Abolition and John Brown.  Draft Riots and Pullman Strikes.  Ludlow and Matewan.  Women's Suffrage and Bonus Army.  Civil Rights and Vietnam.  The response has always been the same, and it's coming again.

The last big targeting of white activists was 1967-72.  Ever hear of Kent State, kiddies?  Of course you have (Side note: How many of you noticed 4 May was the 50th Anniversary?  Yeah, I thought so.  It's all being erased from the collective memory.).  Now here are a few things you probably haven't heard about.  Nixon and his minions had been actively demonizing antiwar protesters for two years, calling them "bums" and "pawns of foreign communists" (Years later John Ehrlichman admitted the "War on Drugs" was created to demonize and criminalize civil rights and antiwar activists.), and they kept right on doing it afterward.  The FBI had illegal infil operations going on against the SDS, the Panthers, and just about everyone else who wasn't a card-carrying member of the US Chamber of Commerce.  And right after Kent State, Nixon's White House started a disinformation campaign that there were ballistic tests that showed the bullets that killed the students hadn't come from National Guard rifles (this was a big, fucking lie disseminated through the usual channels, i.e. John Birch Society, Phyllis Schlafly's network, etc.).  And perhaps worst of all was that Kent State wasn't even an isolated incident.  Yeah, you read that right.  Four days after Kent State, 8 May 1970, the New Mexico National Guard bayonetted 11 people in a protest at the University of New Mexico, but they all lived so it's all good.  On 14 May 1970 police opened fire on students at Jackson State University and killed two of them, along with wounding another dozen, but hey it was Jackson State, so those were all "colored folk" so it doesn't really matter, right?

It's coming again, people.  The cops don't even need the National Guard; they've been thoroughly militarized courtesy the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror".  Heavily armed private armies are a thing again.  The Ueberklass owns every institution from the federal government down through your local school, bank, and what's left of the newspaper.  Welcome to 1877.  It took us 60 years to half-way/half-ass sort things out that time.  We don't have that kind of luxury now.

Be Careful Out There

And I'm not talking about avoiding SARS-CoV-2.  I made the mistake of going downtown today without a tie and a briefcase.  Tieless and with a backpack.  And I got shaken down by two of the county's finest brownshirts.  Fortunately I was able to prove fairly readily that I actually have a home I live in and such things, so they gave up their thoroughly illegal harassment and let me go on my way.  But FFS, I'm an older white male and reasonably clean.  I can guess what these cheesedicks are doing to people without those advantages.

As if cops weren't already bad enough, they're using the virus to get worse.  And as always it's because they "feel threatened."  By what?  No one is restricting their movement.  No one is threatening their nice salaries, health benefits, and pensions.  And it isn't like they aren't equipped with better PPEs than most healthcare workers, let alone the poor cashier at you grocery store.  No, they're just engaging in one of the favorite cop pastimes,  whining to make everyone feel sorry for them and let them get away with even more murder.

Am I going to report it?  Are you shitting me?  Those two asswipes would just make up a lie about it, because lying is what cops do, and I don't need that trouble.  Just remember that the only people cops "protect and serve" are the Ueberklass and themselves.

Trax Report

Speaking of shitheads, UTA yellowjackets are all over the Red Line.  In a just world, we could gun them down, but this world is a long way from just, so just have to avoid them.

Ferguson

Gotta get down to it.  Cops are cutting us down.

And not a damned thing is being done about it.  I listened to that shitbag prosecutor announce the grand jury result last night, and all I could hear was another pile of privilege and power sprinkling sugar on a turd and telling us it was a brownie.  He let that murdering thug cop, ostensibly the defendant in the case, give a narrative account of his version of the incident, including how the victim was supposedly pummeling him, and offered no contrary evidence, such as the hospital pictures showing that Officer Thug had no injuries and hadn't been hit with anything more substantial than a feather.  Yet another stacked deck protecting the 1%'s enforcers.

Now the protests have started.  The cops went straight for the tear gas, but the protesters were ready and ran the cops out of town.  Now one of two things will happen.  Either the forces of injustice will sit back and wait for the protesters to burn themselves out, or they'll send in the troops.  If the former, the protesters have to be ready to escalate this and move it to richer targets, i.e. banks, office towers, gated communities.  Take the war to them.  If the latter, they'd better be ready to gun up because the National Guard will come in with armor and heavy fire with authorization to turn Ferguson into a free-fire zone.  The protesters need to be ready to give them Mogadishu.  Either way, either we go to war or this blows away, and nothing is gained.

BTW, all you Norsefire rednecks with your heads in your Fox, if you think cops are just doing this to "uppity niggers", think again.  If you don't get on your knees and get get your nose up the 1%'s ass when ordered, they'll leave you in a ditch no matter your color.

FUCK

Fuck Utah.  Fuck UTA.  Fuck cops in general.  Over 50 years gone by, and I have yet to receive any service from cops.  I've been serviced by plenty, including another pair today.  Cops can do anything they want and treat people any way they want.  And they work for the Ueberklass and inflict themselves on the rest of us.  It's a wonder more of them don't end up dead.