I’ve already documented the destruction of American icons such as the teardown of Silent Sam and the renaming of George Washington University’s Colonials to “Hippos”. (As of today, Breitbart announced it’s official that the Colonials and mascot George are officially about to be removed. Officially speaking. Ah, bureaucracy, not even the Socialists can overcome you.)

But all is not well in Commie-Land. They’ve succeeded so easily and quickly in killing our history that they’ve run out of targets. Time to eat their own!

San Francisco to paint over historic George Washington mural

https://apnews.com/9f3037c7ec9d48a286059ac8f9975afe

By Samantha Maldonado, 4 July 2019

San Francisco will spend up to $600,000 to paint over historical artwork at a public school depicting the life of George Washington, a mural once seen as educational and innovative but now criticized as racist and degrading for its depiction of black and Native American people.

Double Derp in the first sentence! Part one, $600k to repaint a couple walls?

Most of the $600,000 earmarked for the project will go toward a required environmental review and to cover expected legal challenges.

Oh, right. $1k to paint the walls and $599k for bribes and lawsuits. Greed much?

Part two, “a mural once seen as educational and innovative but now criticized as racist and degrading for its depiction of black and Native American people”? Not hardly.

In addition to depicting Washington as a soldier, surveyor and statesman, the 13-panel, 1,600-sqaure foot mural at George Washington High School contains images of white pioneers standing over the body of a Native American and slaves working at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.

That’s right, folks, these murals were painted by card-carrying Soviet Russian Communist Victor Arnautoff who used the opportunity (and New Deal taxpayer money) to depict George Washington as an evil Native American-murdering slaver. And that’s patriarchy, yo! We can’t be saying nice things like that about old George.

That’s not woke enough? Seriously?

STILL not woke enough?

Depicting white men making purchases at a slave market is STILL, STILL not woke enough?

It’s legit artwork but not pro-American. Y’know what, they can paint over this one. I’m okay with the loss of this totalitarian Marxist contribution to ‘Murica but only so long as they cover it up with

*drum roll*

White paint.

The “Life of Washington” was painted by Victor Arnautoff, one of the foremost muralists in the San Francisco area during the Depression. The San Francisco School Board’s decision to paint over the 83-year-old mural is prompting some to worry that other artwork from the so-called New Deal era could face a similar fate because of changing sensitivities.

The board’s decision last week comes at a time when the legacies of Washington and other historical figures who owned slaves are being re-examined. Some cities have changed the names of streets and buildings named after slave owners.

Either the race to the bottom of victimhood is nearing the ticker tape or some high-name eco-Nazi is retiring and wants his golden parachute.

Richard Walker, a professor emeritus of geography at the University of California, Berkeley and director of the history project, Living New Deal, said the Washington mural is meant to show the “uncomfortable facts” about America’s first president. For that, it was among many New Deal works of art considered radical when created.

.We on the left ought to welcome the honest portrayal,. Walker said, adding that destroying a piece of art “is the worst way we can deal with historic malfeasance, historic evils..

That’s right, Berkeley Boy! You can’t erase the memory of us existing without erasing the memory of why you hate us. Who will be the target of your Two Minute Hates if not us?

…You. #MGTOW

Mark Sanchez, vice president of the school board and a third-grade teacher, said students who must walk past the mural during the school day don’t have a choice about seeing the harmful images. .Painting it over represents not only a symbolic fresh start, but a real fresh start,. he said.

That should have worried you about the time “Heather Has Two Mommies” became required reading. Now is a bit late.

Walker suggested rather than destroying the Washington mural, school officials should simply cover it and require freshmen to take a course on slavery and California’s role in subjugating Native Americans.

Father God, do You see how much they hate us? What was our crime? Someone else’s ancestor 250 years ago buying a slave? The blacks still enslave each other TODAY.

To Sanchez, that’s not enough.

.I understand the importance of art, and it should be the last thing we do, to attempt to cover any kind of art up,. he said. .The starting point has to be from those who feel they are harmed and how that is unacceptable, especially given the history of this country. When we don’t listen, we don’t learn..

Go home, Sanchez. You are not an American and never were. You hate my country, you leave my country. GTFO.

George Washington High School has about 2,000 students. Nearly all are people of color and many come from low-income families.

Which means they’re very nearly as Special Snowflake as a cocaine-trafficking Public Defender. I doubt any additional indoctrination would make a difference.

Arnautoff, a Russian-born communist and social critic, was hired with Federal Art Project funds as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, a series of government programs meant to help lift the country out of the Great Depression of the 1930s.

He was one of a group of artists to paint murals at San Francisco’s Coit Tower that prompted anti-communists to delay the tower’s opening.

Good times, good times. Times when anti-communists existed and had a spine. It’s really not that long ago that California was staunchly conservative. *sigh*

Arnautoff.s piece, called “City Life,. shows urban workers crowding around a newsstand of socialist newspapers and magazines. The piece faced criticism for failing to include the conservative-leaning San Francisco Chronicle.

Burn it with fire. It’s the only way to be sure. But I’m willing to settle for his work being plastered over and never seen again.

First we came for the Russians, and they cried as we crushed them.
Because we were Socialists.

Then we came for the Chinese, and they cried as we crushed them.
Because we were Socialists.

Then we came for the Americans, and they cried as we crushed them.
Because we were Socialists.

Then we came for me.and I cried as we crushed me.
Because we are Socialists.

Shop class is dead because the Ivory Tower only wants to sell books.

UC Berkeley Students Create Their Own “Adulting” Course

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/08/28/uc-berkeley-students-create-their-own-adulting-course/

By Alana Mastrangelo, 28 Aug 2019

It’s a good first step, making a class that teaches them what they want to learn. The second step will be asking why they pay tuition for the privilege of teaching themselves.

Students at UC Berkeley have taken responsibility into their own hands by creating a course focused on being a grown-up. The course, entitled, .Adulting,. will focus on improving practical life skills, such as resume building, and completing tax returns.
A new course at UC Berkeley called “Adulting” . a millennial term referring to when someone behaves like an adult by performing mundane, yet necessary tasks . will help improve students. life skills, by teaching them how to accomplish the tasks that they will likely encounter after they graduate college and are on their own.

Students are teaching themselves because professors don’t possess those skills. They’ve never written a resume–just stayed in college until granted tenure–and taxpaying is only for bourgeois capitalist pigs. But to their credit, they can totally teach you how to beg for money.

.The school system does not require a class for students to learn how to live in the real world and function as an adult,. reads the course description. .We often enter college unprepared to take care of ourselves..

That’s right, folks, liberals are full of shit only because nobody taught them to change a diaper.

.Many life skills, including how to develop good habits, manage stress, pay taxes, budget our spending/income, and to live a healthy lifestyle, are necessary, especially when college is the bridge to adulthood,. continues the description. .This course will explore the many dimensions of how to successfully adult..

It’s actually called Adult School and it’s been around for a long time. Really cheap, too, since it’s all REMEDIAL stuff. But now U of California students, ostensibly the state’s most promising young adults, are showing up without knowing how to…

budget… their… spending. Oh, that student debt bubble is totally coming into focus now. The Adulting Class graduation exercise must be demanding a refund from the bursar. “I paid you money and you abandoned me to teach myself, you frauds!”

The description reads as if it was written by students . because it was. The “Adulting” course is student-run, and will be taught by 20-year-old integrated biology student Belle Lau, and her friend Jenny Zhou, according to a report by SF Gate.

Let me guess: she’s running the class because she, personally, doesn’t know how to Adult. This predicts she’ll be relying on established, private-sector men to come in and teach her the alphabet, gratis, because forrrr the chilllldren!

.We realized the things we don’t learn in school are topics like taxes and just how to take care of yourself,. said Lau, who added that since she herself is not an expert in these topics, the course will rely on inviting outside professionals to come in and speak to the class.

BINGO! *victory lap*

.We don’t really know that much, so we’re all learning together,. said Lau. .We’re the middlemen trying to get professionals to talk about these topics to students..

Good morning, class. I am a licensed, private-sector professional named Gunner Q. I was brought here to teach you how to be functional adults because your regular professors cannot and are not. That means you already wasted one semester of tuition but you wasting your life is not my problem. Not anybody’s problem except yours. That should be your primary motivation in life, to do what’s best for you rather than suffering uselessly for some Elitist’s utopian vision. I am only here because my ultra-right-wing-super-racist-Christo-supremacist blog needs material, and because laughter is healthy. My co-teacher from Lyft is only here because several of you will need a ride home after class.

All women, stand up. Thank you. What you need to do is get thin, learn to cook, marry the men in this room and trust them to teach you everything you need to know forevermore. No back-talk. No man will ever love you for having a dissenting opinion. Now leave. We gots man-business to discuss and you are not men.

All non-binaries, stand up. Thank you and go to Hell. You don’t want to be functional members of society so you have no business being here, and because I’m not paid with your tuition money you literally have no business being here. Now leave. We gots man-business to discuss and you are not men.

Young men of California. Did you see what security did just now? They told the bitches No and made it stick. You do the same. That’s the wife-management module. Let’s move on to automotive maintenance… question?… that’s a stupid question. You need something to put on a resume before you worry about making a resume.

The report added that one guest speaker included a recruiter from the ride-sharing company Lyft, who came in to discuss resume building.

Another speaker was an economics professor, who advised students on how they can save 50 percent of the money they earn.

Switching to Geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance!

.The number one thing that everyone struggles with is taxes,. said Lau, who invited her mother to speak on the topic, as she is an accountant.

Mommy accountant is a parental failure. Probably a wifey failure, too.

Lau had also hoped to include a session on changing the oil in one’s own car, but the university’s administration reportedly said there wouldn’t be enough academic reading on the subject, which would make the topic more appropriate for a social club on campus, instead.

The Grease Monkey Club? Sounds like a civil rights lawsuit waiting to happen. Society for Polluting Devices? Can’t get funding. People for the Ethical Treatment of Internal Combustion Engines? Winner!

Nonetheless, students appear to be taking an interest in the concept of the course, as its debut spring semester has reportedly received 100 applicants, despite only having just 30 available seats.

I’m not forgetting Jeffrey Epstein. No wonder he’s been surrounded by conspiracy theories for years! Enough blog material for eternity, so “Epstein Files” will hopefully become a semiregular feature as I process the released material (hello, Lolita Express flight logs!) and find related stories.

Epstein’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz is a anti-American Jew if there ever was one. One of his early success stories was Harry Reems, an early porn actor in an infamous Supreme Court case on obscenity.

Very large irises denote a personality that loves to take in information, from books to pure novelty to extreme sports.

A post-recovery picture. Notice that vertical “determination” lines appeared between his eyebrows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reems

Reems was born Herbert John Streicher into a Jewish family. He attended the University of Pittsburgh for a year before briefly serving in the United States Marine Corps, from which he received an honorable discharge following hardship leave. He then elected to pursue an acting career, principally in off-Broadway theater for La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York Theater Ensemble and National Shakespeare Company. …

Looking for ways to support himself, Streicher appeared in dozens of short silent stag films, often referred to as “loops,” during the early 1970s. He eventually went on to appear in approximately 140 feature-length sexploitation and hardcore films between 1971 and 1989, with Deep Throat (1972) and The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) being the best known, as well as grindhouse roughies like Forced Entry (1973) and Sex Wish (1976); in the former he plays a sadistic Vietnam veteran hellbent on rape and murder – later described by Streicher as the one film he regretted appearing in – while in the latter he plays a husband-turned-vigilante seeking revenge over the rape and murder of his wife.

Not a man I would ordinarily give a single thought to.

Reems’ appearance in Deep Throat led to his arrest by FBI agents in New York City in July 1974 and his indictment in Memphis, Tennessee, in June 1975 on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute obscenity across state lines. Reems called it forum shopping. He was convicted in April 1976 with 11 other individuals and four corporations.

His conviction was overturned on appeal in April 1977 because his activities in making the film occurred before a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on obscenity in 1973 (Miller v. California), and Reems was granted a new trial. The charges against Reems were dropped in August.

Per Wikipedia, Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court where the court redefined its definition of obscenity from that of “utterly without socially redeeming value” to that which lacks “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”.

Legislating from the bench is a criminal act and porn should have qualified by either definition anyway. Meanwhile, it’s still in living memory that California was a land of decency and good conduct.

The defense argued he was the first American actor to ever be prosecuted by the federal government merely for appearing in a film… His successful appeal was handled by Alan Dershowitz.

Himself an outspoken proponent of legalizing porn and other immoral media.

In 1982, after an 8-year hiatus from porn, Reems returned in the porn film Society Affairs, and reportedly received a six-figure salary for doing the film. He retired from performing in porn in 1985.

And to nobody’s surprise, became a coke-sniffing homeless loser wino bum.

After years of drug abuse, Reems began his recovery in 1989. He married and converted from Judaism to Christianity. “Being the low-bottom drunk that I was, I started going around to churches,” said Reems. “I called myself a church gypsy.” Reems credited his conversion to Reverend Mark Heiss, a former pastor with Park City Community Church in Park City, Utah.

NOW I’m interested.

Born-Again Porn Star

https://people.com/archive/born-again-porn-star-vol-35-no-18/

By Steve Dougherty, 13 May 1991

THE RENTED TRACT HOME IS LIKE many others in Park City, Utah. There are funny little magnets on the fridge, simple landscapes on the walls, a Jeep parked in the driveway outside. The gray-haired fellow parked in the living room seems unremarkable as well. Married for the first time last November, he is a trustee for his Methodist church and works locally selling houses. Just look at his business card: HARRY REEMS, REALTOR.

Despite the title, this is the only mention of Christianity in the entire article.

At 43, the former star of Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones and countless grunt-and-grind porno films of the .70s has slipped off the big screen and into this little Utah town of 2,823. “As far as I’m concerned, Harry has become a pillar of the community,. says Park City police sergeant Bruce Bennion, who just two years ago threw Reems in the pokey for public drunkenness. For Reems, such praise is no small achievement after his long spiral from Deep Throat to deep, deep bottom.

Unable to make a transition into straight films, Reems sank from $30,000-a-week paychecks in his heyday into alcoholism and cocaine addiction. By 1985 he was sleeping behind a grocery-store Dumpster in Malibu, where he would “wake up in the morning and start drinking because I didn’t want to face the failure I felt I had become.” With his two-quart-a-day vodka habit spawning drunken brawls and blackouts, .I remember being in New York one day, and the next thing I knew, I was in jail in South Carolina,. he says. .I had no idea how I got there..

Chased by tax problems, bad debts and outstanding arrest warrants, Reems bounced in and out of detox centers, mental institutions and jails between 1983 and 1988. Looking for work, he moved to the ski-resort town of Park City that year, but his drinking continued, as did bouts of alcoholic hepatitis, pancreatitis and delirium tremens. .He was about as far down as anyone I’ve ever seen,. says Dr. Patrick Griffin, who treated him in New York City.

Finally, in 1989, after five days in an L.A. jail and another arrest in Park City, Reems sought help in a 12-step recovery program. .I knew that if I didn’t stop, I would die,. he says.

No, the 12-Step program did NOT save him. Double shame on People Magazine for click-bait and treacherous reporting! But fortunately, I was about to find an article written by the very pastor who saved a wretch like Reems.

Harry Reems. legacy far more than porn films, says UM pastor who saw him change

http://unitedmethodistreporter.com/2013/03/23/harry-reems-legacy-more-than-porn-films-says-um-pastor-who-saw-him-change/

By Mark Heiss, Special Contributor, 23 March 2013

Reems died of pancreatic cancer on 13 March 2013. This article is his eulogy, written by the pastor who introduced Reems to Christ Jesus.

Most people over 50 probably recall the name Harry Reems, the movie he starred in, .Deep Throat,. and the numerous moral and legal battles surrounding issues of pornography and free speech in the early 1970s. Harry died the other day. From fame and celebrity, and $30,000-a-week paychecks making porn movies, Harry’s life took a steady nose dive over the years into alcohol addiction, cocaine abuse, blackouts and the destruction of his health. Legal battles, jail time, mental institutions, and major debt owed to the IRS, plagued his life and helped sustain thoughts of suicide.

In 1989, Harry was arrested for public drunkenness in Park City, Utah. His arresting officer gave him the opportunity to attend an AA meeting, and he took it. It changed him. Unable to manage his life, he gave it over to a .higher power..

I’ve never liked that phrase. If it’s Jesus then say so. If it isn’t then who are you giving your soul to?

AA met in our church basement and one day Harry said, .I knew what was going on downstairs. I decided to see what was going on upstairs.. He came to worship one Sunday morning. An excited usher came to me asking me, .Do you know who that is? Do you know who that is?. I said, .No.. He said, .It’s Harry Reems, the porn star.. I jokingly asked the usher how he recognized him.

Hah!

That week Harry and I met and he told me his story. We talked about the power of God to change our lives. We talked about the “higher power” and the one called Jesus.

THANK YOU! Finally, a priest does the work of God.

Although raised an atheistic Jew, he wanted to learn more about this person called Jesus and the God he proclaimed. I gave him a Bible and pointed out some verses and sections he could read. We met several times after that over coffee. We discussed what it meant to be a Christian. One day, he called me on the phone and said he wanted to be baptized. And soon he was, in the creek behind the church.

Atheist Jews are, IMO, complete scum, mostly totalitarian Communists and generally infected with much blacker evil than is the human norm. Balancing that, however, are some very positive stories and personal experiences concerning Messianic Jews. Not least of which is harsh ostracism from their atheist/Orthodox brothers.

I can suspend my racial prejudices for any man that the devil spits on in disgust.

Harry joined our little United Methodist Church, was very active, and at one point was even a trustee. Some trivialized him and his experience as one more “born again” celebrity looking for personal redemption.

A healthy suspicion. How far the Church has fallen!

But Harry’s faith wasn’t that simplistic “me and Jesus” kind of experience. Harry’s new birth was more profound and his God more complex. He considered himself more spiritual than religious. God had changed his life, but it was not an end in itself. Harry’s changed life, sobriety, renewed health and new relationship with God could not be contained. He realized that God’s love had come to him on its way to others.

All positive developments that can confirm genuine repentance.

His new mission in life became helping other addicts and alcoholics. Much of his time, money and energy went toward those whose lives were being strangled by the addictions Harry was so familiar with. When Harry showed up in Park City in 1989, there were three recovery groups in town (including the one in the church basement). Today there are over 40. Harry started or was involved in starting every one of them! His ministry in helping others to find sobriety through .letting go and letting God,. has touched the lives of hundreds of people.

Eh, that’s also not a phrase I like. But he did change and much for the better.

No doubt history will remember him for his role in “Deep Throat.. I think his greater legacy is his faith and outreach to fellow addicts and alcoholics. His life was his message: .If God can change someone like me, what can he do with your life?.

The Rev. Mark Heiss was pastor of Park City Community (UMC) Church in Utah, and currently is pastor of United Methodist churches in Platteville and Meade, Co.

Bravo, Reverend Heiss! I can’t say that often these days.

And some confirmation that Reems left porn behind:

https://www.deseret.com/2006/12/24/19992441/from-porn-to-pillar-of-society

The one thing Harry Reems hasn’t changed from his seedy past is his stage name.

Most people who meet the white-haired Reems probably don’t know he starred in the controversial X-rated movie “Deep Throat” nearly 35 years ago. They don’t know he made hundreds of adult films spanning three decades. They don’t know he nearly drank himself to death.

And that’s fine with him. He’s not that way anymore.

“The only thing I had to change about myself was everything,” says Reems, 59.

Getting sober, finding God and marrying a good woman are the highlights of his transformation from a hard-living porn star to a mild-mannered real estate agent.

“Living the public life I had lived was my downfall,” he said. “I’m a private person now.”

In his heyday, Reems had black hair, a black mustache and tight abs. He hobnobbed with movie stars and partied in the Caribbean. That has given way to white hair, a clean-shaven face, the hint of a belly and quiet nights at home with his wife.

The marriage beat the odds. I found no mention of a divorce.

Reems was the first actor ever prosecuted for his work, due to his appearance in “Deep Throat,” which co-starred Linda Lovelace. The federal government in 1976 indicted him on charges of conspiracy to distribute obscenity across state lines. He was convicted, but the conviction was overturned on appeal a year later. During that time, alcohol became his escape.

Lovelace went on to become an anti-porn activist.

Reems made it clear during an interview in his Park City home, with its Currier & Ives view of a red barn in a snow-covered field, that he didn’t want to talk about his days in what he calls a “nefarious industry.” The only reason he said he agreed to an interview was to let alcoholics know that they can change.

“I literally should be dead. I know a lot of people who drank a lot less than me, and they are dead,” he said. “God has left me on this Earth for a reason, and I think it’s to save lives.” …

He [recalls] being a public menace over the next two years, urinating in the streets, fighting and breaking into houses. He also entered a 12-step alcohol recovery program. The police picked him up on the way to a meeting one day. While driving him to the Summit County Jail, a police sergeant told Reems he had no idea how useful he could be, that he could save lives if he gave up drinking and drugs.

“That was the first time anyone had ever said I have value,” Reems said.

Well done, sergeant. Well done.

Along with sobriety, Reems found God. An atheist who thought of religion as a crutch, he soon became a trustee in the local Methodist church. “I put God in first position, not me, because anything I had ever done almost killed me.”

Dershowitz can go to Hell for pushing smut and snuff upon the American people… and God only knows what else he pushed during his work as Epstein’s lawyer. But this one flew the devil’s coop.

For a postscript, here’s Dershowitz revealing his motivations for legalizing obscenity:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081207023649/http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/14328-saluting-the-enemy/

When it was my turn to speak [in a debate against feminist Andrea Dworkin], I tried to explain . over the booing and hissing . that what I support is freedom of choice about pornography. I informed the audience that a recent law in Iran prohibiting pornography also required all women to keep their faces covered.

They passed two different laws at the same time and Iranian standards of decency are not Christian standards. Or should I say, Moral Majority standards?

I reminded them that efforts by the Moral Majority to “clean up” television included feminist programs within the definition of pornography. I told them that the same district attorney who had attempted to ban Deep Throat had succeeded in censoring a beautiful film about lesbianism, by invoking the same anti-pornography statute. I quoted Gloria Steinem to the effect that “the long history of anti-obscenity laws makes it clear that such laws are most often invoked against political and lifestyle dissidents..

That’s what the feminists wanted to do, weaponize anti-obscenity laws against their enemies. But Dershowitz wanted obscenity legalized so Christians wouldn’t be able to use it against him. Unfortunately for him, he failed to legalize it to the point of raping children before justice caught up to Jeffrey Epstein, his close associate.

I cautioned that if any group of Americans could succeed in taking the law into its own hands it would be the Moral Majority, who far outnumber the radical feminists. They would destroy the presses that publish books they deem offensive: books advocating birth control, abortion, and sex outside of marriage. “Among the first books they would want to ban,. I warned, “are the writings of Andrea Dworkin.. Dworkin scoffed, and then gave me the finger in an obscene gesture.

Au contraire! We Christians don’t want to cover up the psychotic insanities of feminists. We want to expose them to the light of day. We want their lies remembered so they can be revealed as liars. Andrea Dworkin will be studied forever, that future generations might recognize evil when they encounter it. Or until future generations go blind:

History has proved both Dworkin and Diamant wrong: there is now more porn than ever . much of it watched by women . and less rape than ever in the US.

That’s a lie. Child rape has skyrocketed as fathers have been hunted to extinction. We even have mothers sexually mutilating their kids’ bodies with drugs and surgery, at taxpayer expense even! Nobody is left to protect the innocent from… from Alan Dershowitz’s most recent client.

Sigma Frame made an interesting post on the late, popular American commentator Paul Harvey. I didn’t have anything to offer directly but this linked account of Paul Harvey’s father piqued my fascination with true crime:

https://sigmaframe.wordpress.com/2019/08/24/paul-harvey-if-i-were-the-devil/

http://www.odmp.org/officer/1347-officer-harry-h-aurandt

HARRY H. AURANDT
Officer Harry Aurandt died of wounds he sustained when he was shot while off duty as he was taking police action.

Officer Aurandt and a detective were rabbit hunting in a rural area of Tulsa on Federal Road. At about 9:00 pm the officers had returned to their car when they were approached by three armed men who exited a Buick touring car with the intent of robbing them. The detective attempted to fire his shotgun at them but it misfired. The three men started shooting at he officers while they were sitting in their car. Officer Aurandt, despite serious wounds in one lung, leg, and liver, drove one mile to a farmhouse where he collapsed.

That was not a robbery. Robbers do not ambush men wielding shotguns while hunting. And three (unrelated by family) robbers doing a drive-by? Were they hitting the payroll stagecoach? What wealth did they expect a pair of hunters to carry besides dead varmints and loaded firearms?

This was a failed assassination. And down the rabbit hole we go!

Officer Aurandt died from his wounds two days later. The detective was paralyzed for life from leg wounds just above the knees.

The three suspects were later apprehended. Two were convicted of murder and sentenced to life. One escaped from the Oklahoma Penitentiary in 1923. On May 17, 1931, he was captured in Los Angeles, California, following a spectacular gun battle with Los Angeles police officers.

Yep. This account doesn’t believe its own claim of a robbery.

Officer Aurandt was survived by his wife, daughter and two-year-old son. His son, Paul Harvey Aurandt , later known as just Paul Harvey became a famous commentator, author, and columnist. Officer Aurandt was buried at Rose Hill Memorial Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A 98-year old murder mystery! Let’s see if this Information Age lives up to its hype.

Only in Oklahoma: Paul Harvey’s father shot by bandits

https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/only-in-oklahoma-paul-harvey-s-father-shot-by-bandits/article_cfb58278-8402-551c-ae7d-3775080364c9.html

By Gene Curtis, 25 September 2007

Two off-duty Tulsa police officers who had been hunting rabbits east of Tulsa were shot — one fatally — by four hijackers who may have committed two other robberies a short time earlier.

The injured officers were Harry H. Aurandt, father of radio commentator Paul Harvey, and Detective Ike Wilkerson. Aurandt, 48, secretary to Police Commissioner J.H. Adkinson, died the next day, Dec. 20, 1921.

That could definitely be a motive for assassination. We’ll see.

The officers said they were shooting rabbits a mile east of the city on Federal Drive (now Admiral Place) when a car containing four gunmen wearing masks drove up and the gunmen ordered them to raise their hands. Wilkerson said his shotgun jammed when he tried to shoot at the gunmen but was able to fire at them as they drove away. The bandits shot Aurandt in the chest and leg and Wilkerson in both legs. Although mortally wounded, Aurandt drove himself and Wilkerson a mile to the nearest farm house, where an occupant called police and an ambulance.

Paul Harvey’s dad was hardcore! They don’t make cops like that anymore.

A manhunt was organized immediately by police, sheriff’s deputies and 400 deputized citizens.

Four hundred deputized citizens. We’ll see that number again.

The dragnet resulted in the wounding of two young couples who had been robbed earlier and were speeding toward Tulsa. Posse members at a roadblock shot into the car, injuring a young man and young woman, after it failed to stop when officers shined flashlights at them and held their badges up.

The number one cause of police shootings has always been “failure to comply”.

While the two couples were being questioned, a car containing the bandits sped past. Alvis Fears and Tom Cook were among four suspects who were arrested the next day after Wilkerson said he knew both men and could identify them in spite of the masks they wore. He said he could not identify the others.

Failed assassination confirmed. A third suspect’s name was Joe Creason but I couldn’t find more than that.

The suspects were moved outside the county by Sheriff W.M. McCullough to protect them from a mob of 1,000 men that congregated that night at the courthouse and was threatening to lynch them. “These are my prisoners, and I intend to protect them,” the sheriff told the mob. “They will not be taken from the jail by a mob without a fight.”

We’ll come back to this scene, too. McCullough was also hardcore.

Members of the mob didn’t believe the suspects had been moved until a committee searched the jail to ensure they were not there. One of the committee members was the Rev. C.W. Kerr, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, where Aurandt was a member. Wilkerson identified Cook as the man who fired one shot and Fears as the man who had fired five shots at the officers. Fears and Cook were convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison by a jury that deliberated for 50 hours in a trial in Pawnee County where the case was moved because of newspaper reports in Tulsa. After a surgeon at Tulsa Hospital told Aurandt that his wounds were critical, the officer said “the dirty sons of guns shot me with both hands in the air.” He told the doctor that he knew who the shooters were but did not identify them because he was interrupted by someone else.

Hella suspicious. If both victims were ranking cops and knew their attackers well enough to recognize them even wearing masks then it’s reasonable to assume they recognized the victims, too.

Cook’s conviction was reversed on appeal because hearsay testimony had been allowed in the trial. Before the appellate court ruled, Fears was given a leave from prison by Gov. Jack Walton, but didn’t return to prison at the end of his leave. No information could be found on whether he eventually was captured and whether Cook was tried again.

It’s not an accident that they went unpunished by Governor Jack Walton, an early Socialist. Read this link for a very entertaining biography:

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WA014

…but here’s the highlights. Stop me if any sound familiar:

Walton accused his opponents of wanting martial law, then next year declared martial law over the entire State of Oklahoma; he offered State-backed monopolies to farming collectives and tried to nationalize the ownership of food-processing factories; swore to end and disobey the death penalty; created many new government jobs for no reason than to hire his cronies; attempted to seize control of the State’s education system via extensive firings and appointment of cronies; then threw said cronies under the bus when they objected to his newly acquired habit of accepting favors from wealthy businessmen; employed Red Flag legislation martial law to deny Bill of Rights protections to KKK members, often accusing them of terrorism; when state legislators began impeachment proceedings for wanton abuses of executive power, he declared martial law upon the state government; when the public finally voted by a margin of 3-1 to impeach him, Walton tried to nullify the vote by calling for a “special legislative session”;

“By October 16, 1923, the Oklahoma House of Representatives had passed twenty-two articles of impeachment, including accusations of improper pardons and paroles, failure to use the death penalty, the hiring of unnecessary employees, and putting Tulsa and Okmulgee under martial law. Walton claimed in the press that he would bring in witnesses to attest to Ku Klux Klan terrorism. The prosecution sidestepped this by focusing on Walton’s corruption in office and eventually dismissing the six articles that dealt with Klan activity. On November 19, the senate convicted Walton on eleven of the remaining articles and rejected five. The lawmakers then voted forty-one to zero to remove Walton.”

Oklahoma, you little minx! I had no idea you were such a party girl in your youth.

End segue.

Aurandt’s survivors included his wife, a daughter, 13, and a son, Paul Harvey Aurandt, 3, now known as Paul Harvey. Twelve members of the Ku Klux Klan added a mystery to Aurandt’s funeral. The Klansmen, wearing their white robes, showed up at the cemetery although there was no indication that Aurandt had been a Klansman. The casket had just been lowered into the grave and the minister had finished his prayer when the Klansmen walked past the open grave, each dropping a red rose onto the casket. They didn’t speak during their mysterious ceremony and disappeared immediately as others stared in surprise. No one had heard of such a ceremony previously.

Whoa! Now the KKK is involved in Aurandt’s death! I did a little Google-Fu to see what they had been doing in 1921 Oklahoma and discovered…

The Tulsa Race Riot!

How had I never heard of the second worst butchering of peaceful blacks in America by KKK-led whites before? Because it wasn’t that simple.

https://www.tulsaworld.com/app/race-riot/timeline.html

One of the worst race riots in the nation’s history occurred in Tulsa over a 14-hour period on May 31- June 1, 1921. Dozens of people were killed, hundreds were injured and thousands were left homeless. Most of the segregated black district, known as Greenwood, was destroyed. Although the riot itself lasted only a few hours, its repercussions are still felt today.

That was NOT a tornado.

The Tulsa of 1921 was a humming, bustling place that reveled in the title “Oil Capital of the World.. It had earned the name by making itself into the financial, manufacturing and transportation hub of the great Mid-Continent oilfields surrounding it. From barely 1,000 inhabitants in 1898, it had grown to more than 72,000.

Most Tulsans were native-born and white. A surprisingly small number . fewer than 1,000 . identified themselves as American Indians. About 9,000 were black, with most of them living in the community centered on Greenwood Avenue northeast of downtown Tulsa. Most black Tulsans worked as laborers and domestics, but a substantial number were teachers, lawyers, doctors and other professionals.

With World War I came a great surge in demand for petroleum products. As much as 20 percent of the oil powering the Allied armies passed through Tulsa’s pipeline terminals, refineries and rail yards. Some $36 million in building permits were issued from 1917 to 1921, with such lasting landmarks as Central High School, the Exchange National Bank, First National Bank, Cosden, City Hall, Mayo, McFarlin, Sinclair, U.S. Post Office and Atlas Life buildings completed or started.

Tulsa politics could be bumptious. The electorate was more or less evenly divided between Republican and Democrat, and with city elections held every two years, changes in administration were frequent. In 1920, real estate attorney and former municipal judge T.D. Evans, a Republican, was elected mayor on a single-plank platform: to push through a bond issue to pay for a reservoir on Spavinaw Creek, 90 miles away, and the pipeline to bring fresh water to Tulsa.

Drinking water FTW.

Three of the four city commissioners elected that year were also Republicans, as was City Auditor Mary Seaman, the first woman to hold municipal office in Tulsa. The recently hired police chief, John Gustafson, was a former railroad detective and private investigator whose appointment had been opposed by Tulsa County Sheriff Willard McCullough. A former cowboy with an elegant handlebar moustache, McCullough had served as Tulsa County sheriff off and on since statehood and had been returned to office in 1920 after the incumbent, Jim Woolley, failed to prevent the lynching of a suspected murderer.

That’s the same Sheriff McCullough that protected Arendt’s murderers from a vigilante mob. Turns out, he got the Sheriff job because his predecessor had failed to prevent exactly such a lynching.

Crime and law enforcement were important issues in Tulsa. Less than two weeks before the riot, Oklahoma Assistant Attorney General Katherine VanLeuven led an investigation of the Tulsa Police Department that revealed a poorly trained and sometimes corrupt force so ill-equipped it did not have a single reliable automobile. When officers need transportation to crime scenes, they were taken in private cars driven by volunteer citizens.

Which made them reliant on deputizing civilians for major events, which in turn is a great way to mismanage a race riot.

Knowing what we do today, it’s a bad sign that the men of Tulsa were willing, so early on, to be ruled by women. Which makes the igniting incident very easily understandable:

On Monday, May 30, 1921, a young black man named Dick Rowland got onto an elevator on the third floor of the Drexel Building at 319 S. Main St. For some reason, he came into contact with Sarah Page, the white elevator operator, and Page cried out. Her cry was heard by a store clerk, who called police.

The Drexel Building, at 319 S. Main St., was four stories tall. Renberg’s Department Store occupied the first two floors, with offices and small businesses upstairs.

The building was probably quiet that morning. It was Memorial Day and most downtown stores, including Renberg.s, were closed. Rain dampened the holiday activities, including a parade.

Definitely a factor. The men were off work with a lot of cancelled plans.

Although Dick Rowland seems to have been fairly well known, his true identity is a bit of a mystery. He is generally identified as the son of Dave and Alice “Ollie” Rowland, who operated a boarding house in the Piro Building on East Archer Street. Some sources, though, say his name was actually John or Johnny Rowland, and that he was the adopted son or even grandson of Dave Rowland. Damie Rowland, Dave and Alice’s daughter, said in a 1972 interview that she had taken in young Johnny while living in Vinita and that he had been born in Arkansas. The 1920 Census listing for the Rowland household includes an adopted son named John who had been born in Texas.

Other accounts describe Rowland as a shoe shiner.

Adding to the uncertainty is a slight age discrepancy. The Census recorded John Rowland’s age as 16 in 1920. Dick Rowland’s age, when he was arrested a year later, was given as 19.

Almost nothing is known of Sarah Page. Originally described as a 17-year-old orphan working her way through business college, it later developed that she may have been as young as 15 and had come to Tulsa from Kansas City while waiting for a divorce to be finalized.

Some, including Damie Rowland, have fostered the notion that Page and Rowland were romantically involved. Though possibly true, the story cannot be verified through contemporary accounts.

People who knew Rowland said the elevator did not stop level with the third-floor threshold, causing him to trip as he entered the car and fall against Page. Police later said that whatever happened, it was almost certainly not intentional. In any case, Page’s cry caught the attention of a Renberg’s employee, who apparently summoned police. Rowland fled, but Page and the clerk, if not actually naming the man she said attacked her, supplied enough of a description that authorities had no difficulty locating him.

Knowing what we do today about barely-sexually-mature daughters of divorce, the fact that Sarah knew Rowland is excellent circumstantial evidence. Either Rowland had knocked her up then refused to claim paternity or this was a Potiphar’s Wife situation. No way to be certain, sadly, but we can assume she didn’t scream rape for literally no reason.

Rowland.s arrest the next morning was reported in a front-page story in that afternoon’s Tulsa Tribune. Headlined “Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator,. the somewhat sensational account reported, accurately if perhaps imprudently, that Rowland was to be charged with attempted assault. It said Rowland scratched Page and tore her clothes.

This, in the parlance of the day, was tantamount to an accusation of attempted rape. The mere suggestion of attempted assault, when it involved a white woman, had in the past triggered gruesome lynchings from Duluth, Minn., to the Florida swamps.

“We shall defend muh’Lady’s virtuous honor! Because women never lie about sex!”

Page, who seems to have fled the city on June 1, subsequently wrote to the county attorney, asking that the charges against Rowland be dropped. The case was dismissed at the end of September.

They were ABSOLUTELY having consensual sex.

At 4 p.m., an anonymous caller told Police Commissioner J.M. Adkison, .We are going to lynch that negro, that black devil who assaulted that girl.” Adkison and Police Chief John Gustafson arranged to move Rowland from the city jail to the more secure county lockup on the top floor of the courthouse at Sixth Street and Boulder Avenue.

Recall that Aurandt was Adkison’s secretary.

Whites, attracted by the rumors, began gathering at the courthouse until they numbered an estimated 2,000.

Adkison and Gustafson wanted Sheriff Willard McCullough to take Rowland out of town, but McCullough refused. He reasoned that Rowland was safer in the jail than in a car on an open road somewhere. In this, McCullough was no doubt correct, but there is some indication that Adkison and Gustafson thought spiriting Rowland out of town would disperse the crowd. This was, in fact, a tactic that had worked elsewhere.

McCullough, though, was not about to make the same mistake his friend and rival Jim Woolley had the previous year, when Woolley had allowed a mob to take murder suspect Roy Belton from the jail. The lynching that ensued essentially ended Woolley’s career in elective office and led to McCullough’s election as sheriff in November 1920.

Rather than risk trying to sneak Rowland out of town, McCullough put him in a cell, ordered the only elevator to the jail disabled and had six of his deputies barricade themselves inside with the prisoner. McCullough, Deputy Barney Cleaver and County Commissioner Ira Short remained behind, with McCullough and Cleaver, a black man with a long career in Tulsa law enforcement, trying to disperse the crowd outside.

Interestingly, no police seem to have been in evidence at the courthouse. Some sources say bad relations between the sheriff’s and police departments contributed to the failure to control the situation before it got out of hand.

I’m inclined to doubt this. We’ve already seen McCullough protect both accused cop-killers and now an accused black rapist in the face of considerable opposition, which is not the act of a petty politician. There is little doubt that McCullough needed all of his available men to handle the 2,000-strong mob.

Responding to the growing crowd at the courthouse and fears, fanned by phone calls from unidentified sources, for Rowland’s safety, a group of black men assembled at the offices of A.J. Smitherman’s newspaper, the Tulsa Star, on North Greenwood Avenue. After arming themselves, they marched and drove to the courthouse.

Those sources are likely a black supremacist organization called the African Blood Brotherhood. Coming up.

Sheriff McCullough said Barney Cleaver, one of his black deputies, was the first to inform him of the threats on Rowland’s life. Cleaver, the sheriff said, had telephoned to tell him of a call, apparently similar to the one to Adkison, received at a north side motion picture theater.

This call was taken very seriously. Although Tulsa did not have a history of racial violence . the 1920 lynching victim, Roy Belton, was white . it did have more than its share of vigilantism. During World War I, citizens had been harassed and beaten in the name of patriotism, often under color of the local Council of Defense or the Home Guard, a local militia organized to replace National Guard units called into active duty.

Mary Jones Parrish, a young black woman who would record her recollections and those of others in a little book called “Events of the Tulsa Disaster,. said she went outside on the night of May 31 to find “that some of our group were going to give added protection to (Rowland)..

A professional journalist at the time, not a random bystander. A quick, telling excerpt from her book: “[Dick Rowland] was known as Diamond Dick because of his flamboyant behavior, flashy clothes and jewels”. And a feral white girl cried rape at him? Ah, the Red Pill continues to explain so much about human behavior.

At least two earlier contingents of concerned blacks had already visited the courthouse. McCullough and Cleaver assured them that Rowland was in good hands and persuaded them to return to Greenwood.

The intent of the white crowd is difficult to gauge. Not surprisingly, officials later described the white crowd, at least initially, as more curious than hostile. Without radio, much less television, the only way to see what was happening was to go in person.

Which explains why there were lots of little riots back in the day. People were desperate for entertainment. God only knows how many innocent lives have been saved by “Pong”.

But the crowd was not completely docile, either. McCullough was hooted down, the World reported, when he tried to disperse the whites. Shortly before the shooting started, a band of irate whites presented themselves at the National Guard Armory, about a mile east of the courthouse, demanding weapons and threatening to break in when they were denied.

In any event, McCullough said the only effort to get at Rowland occurred at 8:20 p.m., when three unidentified white men entered the courthouse.

.I . told them there had been some talk of a lynching and that they might as well get out for no one was going to get the negro,. McCullough said. .They went out and got into an auto on Boulder street and talked loudly and gesticulated and soon a crowd gathered..

It was at that point, McCullough said, that he ordered his men to run the building’s lone elevator to the top floor, disable it and barricade themselves inside the jail.

Over the next hour and a half, McCullough received several telephone calls from concerned black leaders as well as from Maj. James A. Bell of the local Oklahoma National Guard. McCullough assured all of them the situation was under control.

Gustafson was more concerned. But, instead of trying to break up the crowd at the courthouse, he focused his attention on the armed blacks. Eventually, he asked Bell for help “to clear the streets of negroes,. but Bell told him only the governor could call the local guardsmen into service.

Meanwhile, Maj. Bell secured the local NG armory, which proved a wise precaution.

At about 10 p.m., a former county investigator named E.S. MacQueen confronted a black man, sometimes identified as Johnny Cole, in front of the courthouse. As MacQueen and Cole wrestled over the latter’s gun, it discharged. As more than one person observed, “All hell broke loose..

The crowd scattered. McCullough, who had been trying to talk to the crowd, ran for cover in a nearby hotel. Walter Daggs, an oil company manager who lived near the courthouse was shot and killed, apparently by a stray bullet. Sixteen-year-old Homer Cline was killed as he left the bank where he worked. A.B. Stick, gunned down outside the Hotel Tulsa, was reported certain to die but somehow survived.

Some sources say a black man was killed at the courthouse, others say not. The World said an unidentified black man was chased down in an alley and killed . then said no black fatalities had been reported. News of fatalities and injuries was often fragmentary, second-hand and contradictory. Cleo Shumate, a white tool dresser, was reported to have been shot about 8 p.m., well before the riot began.

Denied weapons at the National Guard armory, whites . including some police . broke into Bardon’s Sporting Goods at 510 S. Main St., across the street from the courthouse, and began taking guns, ammunition and just about everything else in sight. Police involvement may be partially explained by the fact that Bardon’s seems to have sold ammunition to the department on a regular basis.

Looting, all of it by rampaging whites, was reported throughout downtown, as shots whizzed haphazardly. Gustafson called in his entire force . around 65 men . and Adkison began commissioning “special deputies. . perhaps as many as 400 of them.

That number again, 400. Flimsy evidence but it’s likely that Adkison called upon the KKK for deputies. Militant blacks were being as much of a problem as the whites (it was not an accident that armed groups of blacks were showing up at the courthouse before the riot broke out) (one such black refusing to disarm being the final trigger) and the military needed orders before deploying against civilians. Where else was he going to find 400 reliable, temporary deputies on a couple hours’ notice? The local bar?

I’ll finish this story and then cover the ABB.

According to the [newspaper] World, shooting continued for two hours “over the city and centered in the north part of the business district,. until the last of the blacks had retreated into Greenwood.

Restoring order along the Frisco tracks was not the only concern of the authorities. Rumors persisted throughout the night that hundreds of blacks were descending on Tulsa, reinforcing the notion of a “Negro uprising” and causing Rooney to stretch his men even thinner. Squads were sent to guard the city power plant and water works, while the police, ex-servicemen and the special deputies roamed the city in “auto patrols,. rounding up blacks living in servant quarters outside Greenwood and looking for the supposed invaders.

Rooney and about 30 men and officers established themselves along Detroit Avenue, on a rise called Standpipe Hill, where gunfire had been exchanged between adjoining white and black neighborhoods. The Guardsmen came under fire from both sides and an ex-serviceman named Wheeler, who had volunteered to join the Guard unit, was seriously wounded by a white gunman.

At dawn, a force of .citizens, police and members of the national guard,. numbering perhaps 1,500, moved into Greenwood from the south and west, under orders to take into protective custody unarmed blacks and to subdue any who resisted. To people in Greenwood, it looked more like an invading army.

Most Greenwood residents surrendered peacefully or fled northward. Many were hidden by employers or other acquaintances and sometimes even total strangers. The few who stayed behind to fight were overwhelmed.

You need an army to fight an army.

The National Guard reported engaging in several short skirmishes as it moved down from Standpipe Hill . the hill just west of the present Oklahoma State University-Tulsa campus . and one longer battle in which about 50 blacks “fought like tigers.” The last organized resistance came from gunmen in the Mount Zion Baptist Church tower. When they refused to come out, the new church, valued at $80,000, was set on fire.

So, what happened? Did bloodthirsty whites from multiple police and military jurisdictions decide to go on a killing spree for no reason? I believe this was basically a gang war between the KKK and ABB. Time to discuss the latter.

Begin segue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Blood_Brotherhood

The African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption (ABB) was a radical U.S. black liberation organization established in 1919 in New York City by journalist Cyril Briggs. The group was established as a propaganda organization built on the model of the secret society. The group’s socialist orientation caught the attention of the fledgling American communist movement and the ABB soon evolved into a propaganda arm of the Communist Party of America. The group was terminated in the early 1920s.

Which was when CPUSA switch its goal from race segregation to international unification.

The summer of 1919 in America was a time of racial rioting and violence, remembered retrospectively by historians as the “Red Summer.” Returning soldiers from European battlefields, including blacks with heightened expectations of freedom and equality and whites seeking a return to civilian employment and the status quo ante bellum, and new immigrant black workers from the rural South formed a volatile mixture which erupted in mob violence in Chicago, Omaha, and cities throughout the Midwest and South.

In response to these attacks, The Crusader [a pan-African nationalist newspaper] advocated armed self-defense. Politically, Briggs drew comparisons between government attacks on white and black radicals. He identified capitalism as the underlying cause of oppression of poor people of all races. While endorsing a Marxist analysis, The Crusader advocated a separate organization of African-Americans to defend against racist attacks in the United States, and likened this to Africans’ combating colonialism abroad.

In September 1919, The Crusader announced the formation of a new organization called the African Blood Brotherhood (ABB), to serve as a self-defense organization for blacks threatened by race riots and lynchings. This was accompanied by the re-publishing of Claude McKay’s poem If We Must Die.

Not long afterwards, Briggs began to forge connections with pioneer black American Communists such as the Surinam-born Otto Huiswoud and Jamaican poet and writer Claude McKay. These in turn connected Briggs and his publication with native-born white Communists including Robert Minor and Rose Pastor Stokes, who took a strong interest in the so-called “Negro Question.” Briggs would join the Communist Party himself in 1921.

The ABB enjoyed a period of notoriety following the Tulsa Riot of 1921. Tulsa had an ABB chapter and news reports credited the organization with inspiring resistance to racist attacks.

As the Communist Party developed, it regularized its structure along the lines called for by the Communist International (Comintern). Semi-independent organizations such as the African Blood Brotherhood with its divergent Afro-Marxist political theories were anathema to the Comintern and its Soviet leaders, who believed all communist and Marxist.Leninist organizations should be unified in a single communist party and platform in each nation under Moscow’s overall direction and control. In the early 1920s the African Blood Brotherhood was dissolved, with its members merged into the Workers Party of America and later into the American Negro Labor Congress. Many early ABB members, however, went on to be key CP cadres for decades.

The ABB had a total membership of fewer than 3,000 members at its peak.

End segue. With that small an organization, headquartered in NYC, its prominence in the Tulsa Riot strongly suggests instigation.

A grand jury convened the second week of June said the armed blacks at the courthouse were the direct cause of the riot, but said indirect causes were more to blame. Among the indirect causes cited were agitation for social equality and lax law enforcement. Eighty-eight indictments were issued, mostly for black men, but few seem to have been served. A few people arrested during and after the riot were convicted of or pleaded guilty to minor crimes such as possession of stolen property.

There were claims that the blacks who went to the courthouse wanted a fight. According to later testimony and notes found in the papers of Gov. J.B.A. Robertson, hotel owner John Stradford had exhorted the men at the Tulsa Star [a black-run newspaper] office with the promise to “send and get the Muskogee crowd. . that is, reinforcements from the nearby city of Muskogee. The African Blood Brotherhood, an arm of the Communist Party based in New York, claimed to have had a chapter in Tulsa organizing armed resistance to racial oppression.

Stradford and Smitherman [also of the Tulsa Star] were arrested after the riot, posted bail, and [jumped bail]. Stradford settled in Chicago, where his family became prominent. Smitherman opened a newspaper in Buffalo, N.Y.

Notoriously Socialist areas.

In July, a jury found Police Chief John Gustafson guilty of dereliction of duty and removed him from office. He resumed his career as a private investigator.

In September, a large Ku Klux Klan rally was held at Convention Hall. It was the Klan’s first public appearance in Tulsa, although many people believed it had a hand in the riot.

Quite possible but more importantly, Klan membership exploded in the aftermath of the riot. Seems the locals were very unhappy with the conduct of the blacks after the fact. State authorities were very unhappy with local loyalties.

In December, Atkison’s secretary was murdered along with a detective. I can find no mention of Adkison himself post-riot, sad to say.

In April 1922, more than 1,700 Klan members marched through downtown Tulsa while an airplane carrying an electrically lighted cross flew overhead. In that spring’s city elections, Klan candidates swept every office, and did the same when county elections came around in the fall. In August 1923, Gov. J.C. Walton declared martial law in Tulsa County because of Klan activity.

Those wanting a literal play-by-play can follow this link:

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~Marc-Carlson/riot/tulsatime.html

Suffice to say that many blacks were full participants in the riot. You’ll find accounts of carloads of blacks looking for trouble and a couple accounts of black snipers shooting unarmed whites.

With armed gangs of ABB militants looking for trouble as much as any of the whites, the Tulsa Race Riot was as much a battle against Communism as it was a race incident, which no doubt is why you didn’t hear about it. Very comparable to modern Antifa/Proud Boys demonstrations, albeit with more firepower.

Adkison was likely a KKK member given his ability to find hundreds of deputizable men at a moment’s notice. If Aurandt was killed in suspicion of being KKK by association then that explains the “honor guard” of a dozen Klansmen showing up unexpectedly at his funeral. They were apologizing for his being caught in the middle of a race war between the KKK and the African Blood Brotherhood.

I occasionally read the Z-Man, who recently posted on Intelligent Design. Fun! I advocated ID a lot in college and even had the pleasure of meeting Michael Behe while he was promoting the foundational ID book, Darwin’s Black Box. His objections two decades ago have never been answered by evolutionists. Or have they? Let’s find out!

The Problems Of Design

The Problems Of Design

21 August 2019

Whenever the subject of Intelligent Design turns up, it is always in the context of believers in ID attacking evolutionary biology. The ID.ers have a list of claims about “Darwinism” that they insist make evolution impossible. A popular one now, for example, is that there is not enough time for natural selection to produce enough gene mutations to explain the fossil record. A fair description of ID is that it is a list of arguments and assertions about evolution wrapped around a set of central claims.

ID is a disproof by counterexample of evolution by natural selection. Nothing more. (Sometimes referred to as the irreducible complexity argument.) It does not disprove, for example, the “hopeful monster” hypothesis of a lizard egg hatching a bird, and it doesn’t care about elapsed time.

Example, blood clotting in humans. There is no “one step simpler” blood clotting mechanism. If you take out or modify any part of the process, blood doesn’t clot at all, or doesn’t stop clotting, or clots in the wrong place, etc. You don’t get a simpler clotting system. You get a dead organism.

ID’s demand here is that TENS scientists provide a possible step-by-step chain by which blood clotting could have come into existence. Because if there is no incrementally beneficial path then we know that MULTIPLE, SIMULTANEOUS and INHERITABLE mutations WORKING TOGETHER needs to have happened… which is so unlikely that the original answer to ID was the unproveable idea that we live in the one best of an infinite number of realities.

Another example is vision. Not only is it an incredibly complicated system, and similarly useless below a certain level of complexity, but there’s no possible stimulus that would direct an organism to create it. If a blind organism needs to see in order to reproduce then it’s dead.

And so on. There’s a variant ID argument called specified complexity which goes into whether DNA is so complicated that it couldn’t have been written piecemeal. But I’ll skip that to focus on the irreducible complexity, since that’s what I’m most familiar with.

One of those claims is that creation, as we observe it, must be the result of design and therefore a designer. They never describe the designer, as most people just assume they mean God, but the designer could be space aliens, in theory. A certain type of self-described Christian finds this appealing. They assume the designer is God, as they have an understanding of God that is much more personal. They believe God is highly involved in the granular details of human existence.

Not just God. A God who claims to be our Creator. ID would disprove the Greek, Hindu and Shinto deities as effectively as atheism. We duck the “who is the Creator” issue to focus on evolution being falsified. Yes, we have an ulterior motive. No, that doesn’t change the legitimacy of the counterexamples.

Now, it should be pointed out that this understanding of God is outside Christian tradition and perhaps even anti-Christian. Early Christians, like the Jews of the period, were highly influenced by the Greek understanding of the world. For them, the universe was an orderly place operating by fixed rules. You can’t have a covenant with God, after all, if the universe is a lawless place controlled by a fickle creator. That would make God’s covenant with man just another trick played by him on mankind.

Speak of the pantheon. Greek deities were anything but orderly and law-abiding. Nothing in Christianity is comparable to Platonic forms unless one counts human beings made in God’s image, which is not a topic here; we’re discussing the natural world and Christianity has relatively little to say about it.

Intelligent Design is occasionalism. While the natural world seems to operate along a set of knowable rules, God often intervenes to change results. He is always in that space between cause and effect, ready to alter the relationship according to his design. God created the platypus for reasons only known to God. If he chooses, he can make the Nile flow south or the sky turn pink. The proof of this, according to Intelligent Design, is the variety of species alive today, as well those no longer in existence.

Again, ID is a disproof by counterexample, not any kind of -ism. It’s not even a scientific theory; it’s an argument.

I looked up occasionalism because I’m not familiar with it despite counting myself a theologian.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/occasionalism

The doctrine that God is the sole causal actor and that all events are merely occasions on which God brings about what are normally thought of as their effects.

That is not something Christianity teaches. In fact, it’s the exact opposite of the Fall of Eden, which clearly showed the first humans acting against God’s stated command.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/occasionalism

A doctrine held by the Cartesian philosophers Geulincx and Malebranche that mind and matter are inherently incapable of affecting each other and that their apparent reciprocal action must therefore be due to the intervention of God who on the occasion of a change in one produces a corresponding change in the other.

Who? *checks* Geulincx was a disciple of Descartes who worked on the mind-body problem, which AFAIK is “how do souls interact with the physical world”? Descartes wrote Cogito ergo sum, “I think, therefore I am” while Geulincx wrote Ita est, ergo ita sit, “it exists, therefore it is so”. Not quite as catchy as Rene’s witticism.

We’re not talking philosophy here. We’re talking scientific method. A disproof of a theory is simply not philosophy.

In fairness to the ID.ers, occasionalism did creep into Christian theology in the Middle Ages, as the Christian West came into contact with Islam. Nicholas of Autrecourt was a 14th century French theologian, who was a critic of the orderly view of the natural world and a proto-occasionalist. David Hume dabbled in the ideas, but stopped short of claiming a creator or designer. Modern ID.ers can therefore claim they are not way outside Christian tradition, but they would have to defend against it.

Christianity is the same today as in the first century AD. Any sincere investigation will confirm that.

Let me say in passing that Christianity is not an agricultural religion, which is a claim I’ve seen repeatedly on Z-Man’s blog. Christianity does not resemble the pagan (translatable here as “heartland”) religions of the time. It doesn’t even have a fertility or water deity. And please note that Christianity came into existence in the context of the Roman Empire, as urban and cosmopolitan a society as history had yet seen.

It is a religion relevant to modern, urban life.

Another central claim of Intelligent Design is that the natural world is either the result of chance or design. This is the keystone of their theory, as Intelligent Design is not an affirmative argument in favor of a designer. Instead, they frame the debate as between two competing theories. Therefore, if one is shown to be invalid, by default the other must be true. It is a bit of rhetorical sleight of hand to avoid the central problems of Intelligent Design, which of course is that it can never be proven.

That’s an axiom, not an ID claim, that [fill-in-the-blank] happened either randomly or not-randomly. Although I can guess where he’s going.

This aspect of Intelligent Design relies on a characterization of natural selection as random chance, like rolling of dice. It’s the claim that a football game is either the result of random chance or the game is fixed by the officials, either in advance or as the game proceeds to its conclusion. Obviously, this is ridiculous. The result of a sports match is not random and it is not predetermined or fixed. The result of a sportsball game, is the result of the players acting and reacting to one another, within a known set of rules.

That.s the case with evolutionary biology. Random mutations in the genome are one aspect of the evolutionary process. Environment obviously plays a role here. Sexual selection is another. Human intervention is another. After all, people have killed off whole species. People have killed off whole groups of people. Like the sportsball game, there are multiple actors, acting and reacting, within a set of rules that science does not fully understand. Evolution is not an argument in favor of chance.

As expected. He’s conflating the randomness (uncertain outcome) of a sports game with the randomness (undirected outcome) of mutation and natural selection. The former exists because we have imperfect knowledge but the latter exists as a “no deliberate intervention” situation. Specifically, nothing to tamper with the TENS process.

The point here is Intelligent Design is built, in part, on a false dichotomy. Natural selection is not random chance, at least not how most people understand what random chance means. Further, even if natural selection is unable to explain everything, there are other forces, like sexual selection, that come into play.

ID does not care about sexual selection, mutation rates or other forces. The claim it makes is that there is no POSSIBLE path by which various existing biological systems could have incrementally come into existence. Take all the time you want, it’s never going to happen.

If an evolutionist could, via selective breeding and random mutation only, give functional and usable eyes to a species of earthworm, then ID would be a failed argument.

Even if everything about evolutionary biology is wrong, it does not make Intelligent Design true. It simply means we have no good answer understanding the natural world.

The only reason you atheists have to believe in evolution is that it gives you an excuse to deny God’s existence. You will, as you just stated, believe in Ignorance before you believe in a transcendent Creator. That’s what this debate is really about.

This again comes back to the question as to whether Intelligent Design is at odds with Christian theology. The Sphynx cat exists and we know why. The ID.ers would argue that it is an example of design, but that presupposes the breeders were either directed by God or compelled by God to create the breed. That means man has no agency and that sin cannot truly exist. This argument for Intelligent Design comes dangerously close to the argument that man has no free will, which is heretical on its face.

ID makes no such claim. A bulldog, dachshund and Husky are all dogs. To disprove ID, one would have to breed a dog into a horse, or at least show how it might be done in a stepwise fashion. Nobody cares if you can breed a dog into a dog.

This is why ID.er focus all of their energy on the negative argument, making various claims about evolutionary science. That way, the discussion is always on the science, rather than the theology.

Again, there’s no reason to turn ID, a scientific argument, into an -ism.

This rhetorical sleight of hand is also dishonest, which raises another theological problem for ID.ers. How can something be in line with Biblical teaching if it is based on a falsehood? Maybe the ID.er have a way to explain this, but it is not something they choose to address in their books and articles.

You’re welcome.

The most serious issue with Intelligent Design is what it implies about God. A designer that is endlessly tinkering with his creation is not a designer with foresight. Alternatively, it is a designer that is a fickle trickster, tinkering with his creation for his own amusement, without regard for his creation. It is a designer that purposely makes flawed creations that harm his other creations. This is a designer burning army men with a magnifying glass and blowing up the model train trestle. That’s not God. That’s the Devil.

You aren’t describing God. He famously claimed to have built the natural world in as little as five days. (Humans taking a sixth day and being a special Creation.) Since then, no tinkering worth noting.

No Christian claims that creating a new breed of dog, cat, horse or whatever is a divine act of Creation.

From a mainstream Christian perspective, Intelligent Design has some serious theological problems, with occasionalism being the main one. The one way to solve the theological problems is to move the designer back to the beginning, where the Bible writers preferred to place him. The classic watchmaker model, where God sets the universe in motion, according to a fixed set of rules, with evolution possibly being one of them. That leaves room to debate evolution, but does not make God a villain.

The Christian God never used evolution. Churchians (false Christians whose real deity is Be Nice, not Jesus) wanted to believe He futzed around with trial and error because they wanted common ground with their atheist neighbors. It was a lie then and is a lie now, and I can only apologize if false Christians gave you the idea that God claimed to have evolved life instead of creating it. The two are not the same thing.

Meanwhile, the only new argument against ID presented here is that animals randomly having sex should be counted as Intelligent Design. Evolution is such a fatally flawed theory that it must be annually updated to account for new information coming in, yet none of those updates is capable of answering twenty year-old objections to the basic theory.

My 500th post! For something special, there’s a police lieutenant in Portland who is not only doing his thankless job of policing protests, he’s sicced the police union on the mayor and his castrati Narrative chorus for slandering him for doing his job well. Give ’em Hell, Jeff!

Here’s an archive of the texts for the interested.

Texts Between Portland Police and Patriot Prayer Ringleader Joey Gibson Show Warm Exchange

https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2019/02/14/texts-between-portland-police-and-patriot-prayer-ringleader-joey-gibson-show-warm-exchange/

By Katie Shepherd, 14 February 2019

The texts show that Lt. Jeff Niiya had a friendly rapport with far-right organizer Joey Gibson.

This subtitle warns us right away that this is a hard-left newsrag. Not that Portland has a hard-right newsrag to offer, and not that hard-lefties aren’t incredibly entertaining once you put The Glasses on.

Hundreds of texts between Portland police and right-wing organizer Joey Gibson reveal the extent to which law enforcement officers talked to and even coordinated with right-wing activists in order to police protests in 2017 and 2018.

The texts, obtained by WW through a public records request, show that Portland Police Lt. Jeff Niiya had a friendly rapport with Gibson, frequently discussing Gibson’s plans to demonstrate in Portland and even joking at times.

Gibson’s events, occurring regularly in the Pacific Northwest since President Donald Trump’s election…

Trump Derangement Syndrome. Maybe it really is in the groundwater.

…have alarmed and enraged Portlanders.even prompting the mayor to propose new rules restricting protests. That’s because the rallies have attracted white supremacists and other extremists, and are often thinly veiled pretexts for Gibson’s group, the Vancouver-Wash-based Patriot Prayer, to wage violent street fights with masked antifascists.

These rallies attract white supremacists, white nationalists, white extremists, white race-baiters, white fascists, white men, white gourmet chefs and white spaces. If you sense a trend then you’re RAYYCISS! Unless you don’t like whites, of course.

I’m undecided whether Patriot Prayer is a legit organization, controlled opposition or Joey’s Fan Club. My normal standard, check if my enemies hate them, has been mooted by the fact that my enemies are no longer tethered to reality. I increasingly sense they’re trying to silence us only as a proxy for silencing the voices in their echoing skulls.

Niiya is the commanding officer for the Portland Police Bureau rapid response team that patrols protests. That makes him one of the primary officers collecting intelligence about protest groups in Portland.

He’s the top riot cop for Portland! A thankless job if there ever was one.

Niiya and the Portland Police Bureau have good reason to collect intelligence from right-wing organizers. Yet some of Niiya’s texts raise questions about whether Portland Police help Patriot Prayer supporters to evade arrest during events.

Several texts involve Gibson’s longtime adjunct, Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, who often brawls with antifascist protesters, has allegedly assaulted people who were not protesting, and has been arrested multiple times in Portland.

I’m not sure about the”multiple times”. Arrested isn’t charged, you see. Per

htt ps://heavy.com/news/2018/08/tusitala-tiny-toese/

…the only filed charge I know of is fourth degree assault against Portland native Tim Ledwith, who “was not protesting” yet cursed Tiny while the latter was cheering while driving past… affiliated at the time with Proud Boys not Patriot Prayer. His fellow passenger, Donovon Flippo, already pled guilty to 4th assault and got eight days, adequate punishment methinks. A brief segue on accuser Mr. Ledwith is worth our time:

https://www.wweek.com/special/2017/11/21/funniest-five-tim-ledwiths-idea-of-sex-was-formed-by-a-windows-95-screen-saver/

Every now and then, Tim Ledwith gets what he calls “the skitch.”

“It’s like a sketchy itch,” says the 34-year-old comic. “I would go down 82nd, I’d pick up some crack, or let somebody get into my car.”

Even dressed in a simple sweatshirt and jeans, the Boston-area native is the kind of guy strangers on the street are convinced they recognize from prison.

Stereotypes exist for a reason.

He seems to wear chaos like an undershirt. Though he’s physically small.a stocky 5-foot-6 Irish Italian with soft features and innocent eyes.Ledwith’s presence onstage is near-intimidating in its unpredictability.

After jostling against the bar stool on the stage at a recent Helium open mic, Ledwith touched it gently. “I’m not going to fuck this stool!” he yelled suddenly, scaring a woman into moving her seat away from the stage. He then confessed to the audience that his idea of sex was formed by the 3D Pipes screen saver on Windows 95. He moved his arm, snakelike, to demonstrate.

Ledwith moved to Portland in 2009, happy to escape the violence of his hometown. “No one in Portland ever stabbed me for having eyes,” he says. “That’s how Boston is. You’re scared people are out to harm you. You don’t look in their eyes.”

He came to humor, he says, almost as a reflex.forced to come to grips far too early with the darkness in the world as a survivor of childhood sexual trauma.

“I make people laugh in jail. I make people laugh in shitty jobs, in drug deals.but that’s a necessity,” he says, not only as a means of warding off violence but of dealing with trauma. “I was trying to make sense of it all by the time I was 10.”

Ledwith describes the life that followed his abuse as “criminal,” saying he did so many drugs they “damaged my brain.” He was sent to juvenile hall at the age of 13 for the premeditated attempted murder of a bully.

“I was having problems with this kid. He was like 6 feet tall, I was tiny,” he says. “Yeah, I brought a ratchet to school and split his head open. I guess it was premeditated, but I wasn’t trying to kill him.”

Lack of remorse.

In juvie, he was constantly terrified, carrying a tattered Howard Zinn book around as a totem.and when he returned to the outside world, he fell into a life as a teenage sex worker. Once, he says, he unsuccessfully tried to extort money from a Plymouth city official who’d found him in an AOL chatroom.

“The town I grew up in is so fucked,” he says. “They probably had the same number of child molesters as any town. But they all happened to be in the leadership of the town.“

Laughter was a survival mechanism, enough of a constant that his friends pushed him toward comedy for years before he finally took the stage six years ago in Portland. In the beginning, his material dove headlong into the darkest parts of his past.

Ledwith is neither emotionally stable nor a nonparticipant in Leftoid politics. He is also a textbook example of why child molesters must be put to death swiftly, violently and publicly.

Like I mentioned above, his lashing out at “Tiny” Toese sound more like an attack on his personal demons than self-defense against a provoked aggressor. Too bad for Tiny that he was the recipient of that projection. Too bad for Ledwith that Tiny has the typical physique of an American Samoan.

End segue.

On Dec. 8, 2017, Niiya asks Gibson if Toese had “his court stuff taken care of,” referring to an active warrant for Toese’s arrest. Niiya goes on to say officers ignored the warrant at a past protest and tells Gibson that he doesn’t see a need to arrest Toese even if he has a warrant, unless Toese commits a new crime.

Oh noes! “Bring your violent friend, we promise we won’t arrest him.” That’s serious misconduct coming from a cop!

“Just make sure he doesn’t do anything which may draw our attention,” Niiya texted on Dec. 9. “If he still has the warrant in the system (I don’t run you guys so I don’t personally know) the officers could arrest him. I don’t see a need to arrest on the warrant unless there is a reason.”

Wait, that’s not at all the same thing. “If we find him and he’s wanted, then we can arrest him… if we aren’t too busy suppressing a riot.”

A spokeswoman for the Police Bureau says it is not unusual for officers to suggest people turn themselves in to avoid being arrested on a warrant.

“It is not uncommon for officers to provide guidance for someone to turn themselves in on a warrant if the subject is not present,” says Lt. Tina Jones. “In crowd management situations, it may not be safe or prudent to arrest a person right at that time, so the arrest may be delayed or followed up on later. There is no way of knowing how often this happens, as it is not something we track.”

WW asked Gibson for comment on his relationship with Niiya and the texts. His response was brief: “Sweet,” he texted.

He did not apologize. Sweet! I still don’t know if Joey’s on my team but I like his style.

The texts also show that Niiya at times told Gibson where leftist protests were taking place, including unrelated protests as well as antifascist marches with people in black bloc intent on protesting Patriot Prayer. At least once, Niiya told Gibson that Portland police were not monitoring a protest hosted by the Queer Liberation Front in an attempt to dissuade Gibson’s right-wing group from showing up.

Which possibility is more likely?

1. “We can’t guarantee your safety if you go to this because we won’t have any officers there. Maybe you should stay away.”

2. “Psst, if you really wanna jack up some fags then be at the intersection of Main and Elm Street on Saturday for the secret QLF pride protest that they’ve been advertising.”

SJWs always project. If they’re this paranoid about the police colluding with anti-anti-fascists then it’s because of jealousy. “Our turf is assholes in uniforms and assholes in bath houses. Stay off our turf!”

Portland police officers attempt to reach out to all groups the bureau knows plan to demonstrate in Portland.

It.s unclear whether Niiya and PPB were also communicating with antifascist organizers, though Portland Police officials have said the bureau struggles to get information from some leftist protest groups. A story by WW in 2017 showed Niiya had texted extensively with at least one antifa protester.

Antifa doesn’t volunteer information to authority figures?

Portland Police have taken criticism from left-leaning activists for appearing to favor right-wing protesters in the past. Drafts of an Independent Police Review analysis of police actions at a June 4, 2017 protest noted that at least one officer viewed the right-wing protesters affiliated with Gibson’s Vancouver, Wash. group, Patriot Prayer, as “much more mainstream” than left-wing antifascist groups.

Thus proving that in Commieland, the only crime is truth.

Gibson and Niiya discussed those Antifa activists in their written exchanges.

In one exchange, it appears that Niiya and Gibson were discussing reporting by The Oregonian. They both mention organizer Luis Enrique Marquez, who has been a target of the far-right activists and has been arrested several times in Portland at protests.

“Wow, when will others realize Luis is [.] involved in so much,” Niiya texted on Jan. 2, 2018, in response to Gibson complaining about the activist.

“I am going to screen shot our conversations and send it to Oregonian now,” Gibson replies.

Niiya texts back: “Wonder if they will pick it up. They didn’t even mention Luis in the story about June (Gia) and I even though he again was the one putting it out on FB.”

“He’s a bad dude,” Gibson texts. “He threw Gia under the bus while at the same time claiming PPD is taking advantage of minorities. Every single problem we run into it goes back to him.”

(June Davies, who has also gone by the names Gia and Tan, is a former antifascist protester and street medic who was run out of leftist organizing groups after their texts with Niiya became public. Both The Oregonian and WW covered the fallout from the leaked messages.)

“Covered the fallout?” More like “pointed and shrieked”. In my next post!

Gibson also told Niiya over text that he was planning to run for U.S. Congress in January 2018, before he formally announced his campaign. He said he would intentionally “use” protesters in Portland and Seattle to promote his run for office. From the outset, Gibson doubted his chances to win the election.

“The hate against me will multiply because I am running for office, so when I come into Portland and Seattle the energy will be high,” Gibson wrote. “I know it’s a pain in the ass for you guys, but I will do the best I can to work with you.”

Niiya responded: “Your [sic] running for office?!! Good for you. County level?”

“Running for US senate,” Gibson said. “Will take a miracle for me to win but people are backing me so we will see what happens. I will be using Portland and Seattle protesters as a part of the campaign so it will impact you guys unfortunately, so I appologize [sic] now ahead of time.”

If this is Joey’s idea of an election campaign then I approve. I’m sick of the current crop of Made-In-China plastic politicians that melt or break whenever they’re exposed to a little heat & pressure. Perhaps my dead grandfather will vote for him. Repeatedly.

So, a cop is outed for doing his job. What’s the big deal?

Wheeler calls for investigation into texts between Portland police and Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/wheeler-calls-for-investigation-into-texts-between-portland-police-and-patriot-prayer-leader-joey-gibson/283-cdb11e6e-ee34-415e-ab89-8d9494223127

By KGW Staff, AP, 14 February 2019

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said a Willamette Week report detailing friendly text messages between the commander of the police rapid response team and Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson is “disturbing.”

Wheeler said he has directed Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw to conduct a thorough investigation.

What the hell? Is that her porn name?

Awesome! The most visually unfit police chief EVER! An entitled black woman-turned-trannie with a nonregulation Skrillex-bun crossover hairdo and her radio stuffed into her cleavage, with a name tag proudly reading “Outlaw”. You go, girl! You go keep Portland weird.

This was Police Chief Outlaw–snicker, her name tag reads D. Outlaw–back in her Oakland, CA PD days. Why is that not a surprise? No wonder Lt. Niiya would rather pull riot duty than share an office building with her.

Willamette Week obtained the text messages between Lt. Jeff Niiya and Gibson, whose right-wing group has been involved in several violent clashes in Portland with left-wing anti-fascists since President Donald Trump was elected. The texts show Niiya had a friendly rapport with Gibson, frequently discussing Gibson’s plans to demonstrate.

.It is imperative for law enforcement to remain objective and professional, and in my opinion, these text messages appear to cross several boundaries,. Wheeler said in a statement on Thursday.

.Moreover, the texts appear to unnecessarily encourage Joey Gibson, the leader of a group that perpetrates hate speech and violence,. Wheeler said.

I interrupt for one quick quote of the released texts.

From: 9718063043 <Jeffrey.Niiya@portlandoregon.gov>
Sent: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 18:39:49 +0000
To: 3606353081 <3606353081@verizon>
Subject: ExA Message|Thread ID 2796558233
Message
<9718063043@Verizon>
Joey it’s Jeff Niiya from PPB. I was just told by Brian from Oath Keepers you
are not going to march. Is this correct? If so, man I we really appreciate
it.
June 01, 2017 06:39 PM (UTC)

Boldface mine. Such encouragement of hate speech and violence!

Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty said Willamette Week’s reporting confirms some Portland police work in collusion with right-wing extremists. Hardesty asked for an independent investigation led by an investigator chosen by community groups.

Why do only Marxist Leftoids get to have witch hunts? We’re the ones who have actual witches to hunt!

Jo Ann is also black. I thought Portland was a white city? How is it that its leaders no longer resemble its people? Are the people that stupid… or the voting that rigged?

FWIW, she’s ex-Navy.

Portland police were accused at a protest last August of being heavy-handed against people, injuring some, who were protesting a rally of extreme-right demonstrators organized by Gibson.

“Community members have long expressed concerns about police bias during demonstrations. Incidents like this contribute to the distrust that so many people have about the Portland Police Bureau,” Wheeler said of the text messages.

I twitch at any mention of community organizers. Every last one is a disciple of Saul Alinsky.

Late Thursday night, Portland police released the following statement:

“The Portland Police Bureau has strong organizational values that encompass integrity and accountability. We have also pledged transparency to our community,” said Chief Danielle Outlaw. “I have directed an internal investigation to review the context of these communications and determine if any Bureau directives were violated. If anything is identified that is deemed outside of our values and directives, it will be addressed.”

Cuck-mayor and his tame quislings want to ruin Niiya for coordinating between opposing protestors in order to maintain law & order. Fortunately, Niiya did not apologize and has allies of his own.

Portland Commanding Officers Union Files Complaint Against Mayor, Commissioners

https://www.opb.org/news/article/police-union-complaint-niiya-wheeler-hardesty-eudaly/

The union representing commanding officers at the Portland Police Bureau has filed a complaint with the city’s human resources officer against city commissioners following public comments they.d made about Portland Police Bureau Lt. Jeff Niiya.

The Portland Police Commanding Officers Association (PPCOA) alleges Mayor Ted Wheeler, Commissioners Jo Ann Hardesty and Chloe Eudaly made public statements that violate a city administrative rule prohibiting workplace harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

YES! YES! Swing for the fence, brother! Hoist the wicked upon their own petards! Although I’m worried that this didn’t turn into an actual lawsuit. He totally has a case.

I expected Chloe to be a third negress but found a Trigglypuff instead. A full-size chain around her neck? Chloe must be kinky off duty. Goth, if I was a betting man. Nothing hides the fatness like wearing black in a dark room at 2am on a moonless night.

In an email to Serilda Summers-McGee, Lt. Craig Morgan with PPCOA said the union believes all three commissioners. comments “were derogatory and hostile and damaged Lieutenant Niiya’s professional work environment..

My faith in public service unions just went up a notch! That hasn’t happened since Charles Starks in Little Rock.

Last week, Willamette Week and the Portland Mercury broke news of text messages between Niiya and Joey Gibson, the leader of the group Patriot Prayer. The text messages added to an existing sense among some Portland activists that Portland police are more sympathetic to far-right groups such as Patriot Prayer than left-wing groups like Antifa.

Maybe the cops would like you more if you didn’t hate, fear and lie about them?

Gibson is the organizer of rallies that have brought white supremacists to Portland. Those rallies often end in violence between opposing groups.

Wheeler, Eudaly and Hardesty have all called for an independent investigation into the messages. Wheeler has said he is disturbed by the text messages which appear to “unnecessarily encourage. Gibson. The three have also said the bureau should implement training on identifying white supremacy.

.Mayor Ted Wheeler’s statement about our communications with Patriot Prayer organizers is either disingenuous or shows willful ignorance of the situation,. Lt. Craig Morgan said in a release about the filed complaint. .Either way it shows that during his two years as Portland Police Commissioner he has failed to develop an understanding of even basic police work..

In a press conference, Wheeler defended his statements about Niiya as appropriate, given the content of the text messages published last week.

.On the whole, I’ve had . I believe . a very positive and a professional relationship with not only the leadership in the police bureau but the rank and file,. Wheeler said. “Are we going to disagree from time to time? Sure we are. This is obviously one of those times..

Fucker, you didn’t DISAGREE with Niiya. You DEMANDED AN INVESTIGATION into Niiya in response to an SJW point-and-shriek. No way is your reputation among the rank and file as “very positive” as you believe.

PPCOA is also preparing to file a grievance against the city for allegedly violating the city’s labor agreement with the union, which says that if the city has reason to reprimand or discipline a commanding officer, .it shall be done in a manner that is least likely to embarrass the commanding officer before other employees or the public..

Getting that in the union contract was a stroke of farsighted genius. No wonder Mayor “Wheeler” is already living up to his name.

The union previously said it was disappointed in what it called Wheeler and Hardesty’s rush to judgment against Niiya. PPCOA has said Niiya was acting under direction from his managers, who told him to establish relationships with people who regularly plan demonstrations in Portland.

The union said Niiya’s communications with Gibson were within the bureau’s policy.

A note on the timing. Portland’s current city commissioners were sworn in in January 2019. Wheeler’s call for persecution of Jeff Niiya was reported on 14 February 2019. Additionally, on 13 February 2019 Portland ended its participation in the Joint FBI Terrorism Task Force on grounds that Portland radicals were being unfairly represented in the anti-terrorist investigations:

https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-joint-terrorism-task-force-withdraw-vote/

And on 8 February 2019,

https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-city-council-passes-resolution-denouncing-white-supremacists-groups/

The Portland City Council passed a resolution Thursday that condemns white supremacists and alt-right hate groups.

The hearing started with testimony from a senior policy advisor to Mayor Ted Wheeler.

Nicole Grant spoke about how the resolution came to be and her own experiences with prejudice and hate as a black woman in Portland.

“Being pro-white is evil because I’m proud to be black and feel I have no place in this predominately white yet black-led city,” said the senior policy advisor to the mayor.

Grant said the resolution speaks to the need for a cultural shift in Portland so white supremacists will no longer view the city as their playground and hurl threats at its residents and mayor.

A declaration of war.

Bobbin Singh, director of the Oregon Justice Resource Center, presented a list of actions for the city to take. The most significant action was trainings on white supremacy for city employees, elected officials, law enforcement and mayors from across the Pacific Northwest.

Following the passage of the resolution, CAIR Oregon, Western States Center and Oregon Justice Resource held a press conference at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, affirming their commitment to work with the city to implement change.

The blacks, Muslims, Communists and Jews celebrated their declaration against white Americans. Could the optics possibly have been worse?

Commissioner Chole Eudaly addressed the elephant in the room, a controversial item commissioners passed the day before . against Hardesty’s objection . to approve a settlement with a police officer who made a racist remark about killing black people.

.I want to take a moment to talk about white silence,. Eudaly said. .I want to give a lot of white people the benefit of the doubt. They don’t want to misspeak, they don’t want to speak on behalf of community members they do not represent . But silence isn’t neutral. Silence makes us complicit,. Eudaly said before acknowledging the controversial settlement agreement.

The racist remarks made by the police officer were brought forth by four fellow white officers. Eudaly celebrated them for not staying silent about what she called “unforgivable racist remarks..

The deplorable quote: “[During a morning briefing,] an Officer mentioned he had read an Oregonian article about the Andrew Hearst shooting. The Officer stated he had read the comments section of the article and was dismayed because a citizen had written, .PPB kills black people, but only injures white people.” Officers began talking amongst themselves about this statement and then I heard Sergeant Lewis state, .well, let’s just go out and kill all the black people..”

An expression of frustration at endless false accusations, now turned into an attack on a police officer’s career. Lewis stuck to his guns–it’s reportedly very hard to fire Portland cops, which explains the existence of so many good apples still among them–to the extent that the City Commissioners were debating whether to offer him $100k to quietly go away.

Lewis punked them, then they turned around and declared war on law enforcement the moment elections were out of the way. Jeff Niiya was the first target of their anti-white pogrom. This is speculation on my part, but I think the reason they’re targeting Jeff first is because as the top riot cop, he’s ideally situated to impose martial law upon Portland.

Since February, there’s only one article from OregonLive dated 20 June 2019 that mentions the investigation is ongoing, so no closure. But I wanted to get this said because Jeff deserves respect.

While I recognize that the plural of “story” is not “data”, this settler’s account I randomly came by confirms a couple suspicions I’ve held about the Han Chinese colonization of Africa, a popular topic in alt-Right circles. By way of Oscar posting at Dalrock’s.

Why 1 million Chinese migrants are building a new empire in Africa

https://qz.com/217597/how-a-million-chinese-migrants-are-building-a-new-empire-in-africa/

By Howard French, 10 June 2014

So, a bit dated but still relevant. And the title should start “How”, methinks.

After days of coordinating with me over patchy cell phone connections, Hao Shengli arrived in Mozambique’s capital city of Maputo. He’d come to load up on supplies and to collect me for the long ride back to the farmland he owned in a remote southern part of the country.

When his white Toyota pickup stopped in front of my hotel, Hao was barking into his phone. He was in a hurry, and he was angry. There was a brisk handshake, followed by a lot more shouting in salty Chinese as he struggled to make himself understood by a country man from whom, I could grasp, he wanted to buy goods.

He didn’t put the phone down before closing a sale? Hao might be a real-deal entrepreneur.

.China is a big fucking mess with all of its “fucking dialects,.. Hao said to me in English after hanging up.

.You, cabe?a n?o bom, motherfucker,. he said. The final curse came in Chinese: he’d employed three languages in one short and brutal sentence.

Fuckin’ A, G! You fuck those fucking dialects! That’s the other reason so many people in the world speak English. Fuck is the only verb and shit, the only noun. I went though junior high in Los Angeles with everybody talking like that.

To avoid remembering my junior high days, I shall now censor all profanity for the remainder of this post.

Having overheard me speaking Spanish to the driver and assumed it to be Portuguese, he pleaded with me to help him translate. .Could you please explain to this [person] where we need to go? We’ve got to get out of here. We need to be on the road..

For more than a decade, the Chinese government has invested hugely in Africa. The foundation for this partnership was laid in 1996, when President Jiang Zemin proposed the creation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in a speech at the Organization of African Unity headquarters in Addis Ababa. Four years later, FOCAC convened triumphantly for the first time, gathering leaders from forty-four African countries in Beijing. China pledged, among other things, to double assistant to the continent, create a $5 billion African development fund, cancel outstanding debt, build new facilities to house the OAU (later replaced by the AfricanUnion), create “trade and economic zones” around the continent, build 30 hospitals and 100 rural schools, and train 15,000 African professionals. Fitch Ratings estimated that China’s Export-Import Bank extended $67.2 billion in loans to sub-Saharan African countries between 2001 and 2010.$12.5 billion more than the World Bank.

Out of the goodness of their hearts, of course. *snicker* No, it’s the old game of intentionally making loans the recipients won’t be able to repay so you can lawfully seize the collateral for cents on the dollar. A full-scale invasion would be more honest.

Even so, my money is on Africa winning.

Although there are no official figures, evidence suggests that at least a million private Chinese citizens have arrived on African soil since 2001, many entirely of their own initiative, not by way of any state plan. This “human factor” has done as much as any government action to shape China’s image in Africa and condition its tics to the continent. By the timeI met Hao, in early 2011, merchants in Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, and Tanzania were protesting the influx of Chinese traders. In the gold-producing regions of southern Ghana, government officials were expelling Chinese wildcat miners. And in Zambia, where recent Chinese arrivals had established themselves in almost every lucrative sector of the economy, their presence had become a contentious issue in national elections.

Considering the Chicomms’ desperation for stability… which is not entirely ethnic, them being the only 20th Century Commie nation that hasn’t yet self-destructed in debt and stupidity… the independent-minded Chinaman probably doesn’t need much in the way of (additional) State pressure to seek his fortunes elsewhere.

As we left the capital, we passed the new national stadium, nearing completion by Chinese work crews at the edge of town. Built to support the country’s bid to host the 2013 continent-wide Africa Cup of Nations, it was a showcase gift from the Chinese government, intended as a statement of generosity and solidarity. China has become an avid practitioner of this kind of prestige-project diplomacy.

Sounds like money laundering.

I asked Hao whether a $65 million stadium was the best sort of gift for Mozambique, one of the ten poorest countries in the world.

.Chinese government projects in Mozambique have all failed,. he said. .That’s because the Chinese ganbu [bureaucrats] don’t know how to communicate on the same level with the blacks.” He shook his head and wagged a stubby index finger excitedly.

Yeah, money laundering. Lots of Chinese are eager to stick their personal wealth where the Party doesn’t shine. That says most of what I need to know about the stability of the Chinese economy: that if their allies the American Elites hadn’t betrayed their own country for free, the PRC would have imploded shortly after the Soviet Union.

I asked him about his early days in the country. A prior attempt to do business overseas, in Dubai, had gone bad.

Expensive market. Very cutthroat.

Chinese agricultural experts there who had been on African aid missions planted a very powerful idea in his mind: Go to Africa, where you can acquire good land cheaply. He had flown to Maputo alone, and no one had greeted him at the airport. .I didn’t understand a fucking word that was being said to me.” On his own, he made his way into town and found a flophouse. Making little headway.he spoke neither Portuguese nor English.he soon gave in to the temptation to call up some fellow Chinese he had found online while still in China.

.I thought if I met a few people I could distract myself a bit, learn about the situation from them, and then figure out how to get some land. But I quickly discovered that not all Chinese people are your friends. The Chinese folks here, or at least a portion of them, a big portion of them, are really bad characters. They are looking for a way to get hold of your money. Yeah, they.ll do anything for you, but they won’t do anything for free. It’s all about money..

See, this is why you can’t derive a nation exclusively from race-based citizenship. Racial homogenity is always a stabilizing force but greed and treachery are eternal. Social trust is what’s needed and homogenity is only one of several sources… rarely sufficient.

A brief digression, I’m coming around to the idea that fascism (national socialism) is a natural, Godless response to (International) Communism. It’s a way for people to hold onto their identities without abandoning the Commie principles of greed, envy and zero-sum beliefs. This explains why globalists are so obsessed with ARE-Y’AN NOT-SEES!!!!. Having unleashed the people from the chains of religion and morality, they’re afraid that they still won’t abandon the bonds of family and tradition. People have as much trouble being Pure Evil as they do being Pure Good. Beyond a point, it takes serious effort.

Hao had naively loaned money to various Chinese people he met who seemed to have fallen on hard times and offered to help guide him. A few months later, having been burned by several such encounters, he left for the countryside, following the very route we were taking northward.

When he reached the southern part of Inhambane province, he said, he contacted the provincial government about acquiring land, and they directed him to local officials. He found some who were receptive, and he set about ingratiating himself by helping on road and bridge-repair projects.

.I took charge of the work all by myself,. he said proudly. .In the end, I was able to secure a piece of land..

Hao had scored big, but before long there were other things to worry about. He hadn’t thought much about the people who lived on the land or controlled it before he came along, or even who his neighbors were. After a period of warm enough hospitality, people from nearby villages began to ask him how he had gotten the land and to demand compensation, with some of them, claiming the area was an ancestral holding.

.The local people are really not friendly. They arc peasants, and they resent the idea that the government took their land and gave it to us. They have no land for themselves. They’re not comfortable. They are working for us, and they are not comfortable with it. In fact, the Mozambique government has given us land, but it’s not forever.

One of government’s most important duties is guaranteeing land ownership. Counter-claims like this are incredibly destructive to the formation of infrastructure of any kind. I bet Hao will live in a shack until he can clear title to his land, even if it be by direct violence. Why build a fortress if he might lose ownership of it tomorrow?

After a few years, once we’ve put the land to good use, perhaps they will take another tack and try to reclaim it from us. But we’ve got our own ideas. We’re also making plans..

The first-person plural had been creeping into his banter, but only now did its significance become clear.

.I have been bringing my children here,. he said. .My older son, my younger son, eventually my daughter. I’m taking them out of school in China and bringing them all here.

He’s not just bringing his children over. He’s specifically taking them out of school in China. Sounds very familiar to this American.

Within the next ten or so years we need to raise enough money, and then if my son has a lot of offspring with local girls.my two sons, in fact, if they’ve had lots of children.well, what do the children become! Are they Chinese or Mozambicans?.

Dude, no. Race mixing is asking for trouble. Your grandkids shouldn’t be tools to secure your personal future. Although I understand that’s a very Asian way of looking at matters.

Doesn’t history have enough examples of this kind of thing yet?

Hao told me his older son already had a live-in African girlfriend. Then he proceeded to answer his own question. .The mothers are Mozambicans, but the land will be within our family. Do you get it! This means that because the children will be Mozambicans they can’t treat us as foreigners. If need be we can even put the property in their name, protectively, but it will remain ours. It will be in my clan..

Your grandkids are more likely to be treated by both the locals and the Chinese as foreigners. Brazil’s experiences seems relevant here. Mulatto, yes?

Hao said that his older son had been with him on his newly acquired land for about half a year now. His younger son, who was 14, had joined them a few weeks earlier. .The older boy is doing fine already,. he said, with evident pride. .He’s doing a lot of training..

.Training?.

.I.m guiding him,. he said. .It’s not hard physical labor. I have to encourage him, have him fool around a bit, catch some fish, shoot a gun, hunt some birds. Boom, boom! That way he.ll be happy. He already shoots well..

Race-bending aside, he’s being raised right. A necessity in Africa, of course.

I told him that his son’s experience seemed to mirror the way youth were treated in the Cultural Revolution, when schools were closed and young people were “sent down” by the millions to work alongside peasants in the countryside.

Learning to hunt & fish is NOTHING like surviving a Communist uprising. I recall the colleges were closed because the non-Commie intellectuals were murdered wholesale by their students… a lesson completely lost on modern academia. If I was a modern dean of the Math Department, there’d be bars on the windows yesterday… and no ground-level entrance that wasn’t a sally port.

Seriously, any academic types reading this should think about making a “Student Uprising” SHTF plan.

.That.s how I was raised. Young people in China today no longer learn bow to chi ku,.he said. The expression means to “eat bitterness,. to endure great hardship. .I want my son to become a real man, a worthy person..

“When I was your age, kid, 100 million of us were murdered and starved by the government because we weren’t victims. I survived by eating bugs and literally playing dumb.”

“Okay, Grandpa, okay.” Kid goes out to fish some dinner.

After a couple hours. on the road, we dropped John off at the main square of Maxixe, a snoozy little drive-through town that nonetheless enjoys the status of economic capital of Inhambane. John, who was from Maxixe, spoke happily about being able to sleep at home with his family after several days away. His main employers, a group of road builders from Hao’s home province of Henan, shared a house just off the narrow main road. When Hao invited me into their home, he introduced them as lao xiang, people from his hometown or region, a connection that resonates deeply for many overseas Chinese. Hao’s friends lived in a modern, one-story villa with a large living room and a kitchen in the back, from which emanated the very distinctive aromas of a home-cooked Chinese dinner. In the living room, which had the feel of a frat house, two men and a woman were hunched in nearly identical poses over laptops, each at a separate cheap desk, connecting with friends in China.

Better housing than I predicted, although not by much.

I secretly hoped that we would be asked to stay for dinner. The traditionally generous hospitality I was accustomed to from traveling in China seemed to make this a safe bet, but no invitation came, Hao talked business with one of the Henan road men in an adjacent bedroom and then we were on our way, with Hao at the wheel. His banter picked up again as he spoke of the utility of having friends, especially laoxiang like this, living nearby.

Very low social trust on all sides.

.I.ve only gotten sick once since I’ve been here, but it was malaria, and it was a very bad case,. he told me. .I.m lucky that they came looking for me. I was laid out flat on my back at my farm, all alone, sweating and shivering there in my own vomit, They took me right away to the hospital, and I’m told that this saved my life..

Africa! Come for the diversity, stay for the medical quarantine.

San Francisco! Come for the diversity….

The full moon had risen high in the sky, and we had begun slicing through little townships every few minutes as the population density of the area increased. There were glimpses of prayer vigils in clapboard churches; smoky, ramshackle saloons filled with garrulous drinkers; women sitting by the roadside wrapped in printed shawls, hunched, half asleep over storm lanterns as they awaited night time buyers. All this activity signaled a city was nearby. Hao announced with relief that we were about to enter Massinga, the city nearest to his farm. I asked him how he had come to settle in Mozambique.

.I went to an African trade fair in Fujian province and there were lots of Chinese business people there,. he said. .I got excited by all the talk of business opportunities in Africa. Later I figured my English is no good, though, so I got the idea that if I went to an English-speaking country, English being a popular language, Chinese people would be everywhere..

.I.ll be damned if I understood Portuguese, but damn it, I figured, neither do most Chinese people in general, so [why not]? There must be great undiscovered opportunities there, and I won’t have to be constantly looking over my shoulder for other Chinese coming to compete with me, cheat me out of my money, or steal my ideas..

I always suspected the Han weren’t lockstep racially loyal. It’s one thing for an authoritarian government to decree a genocide, another for the people to voluntarily engage in such behavior.

As we pulled into Massinga, Hao announced, almost sheepishly, a major change of plans, He had decided to have me sleep at a cheap hotel rather than host me himself. He had been unable to reach his son, he said, to make sure there was dinner waiting for us, and this way I’d be sure to have an evening meal.

Maybe I wasn’t wrong about Hao living in a shack after all.

In the courtyard of the roadside hotel, we sat at a plastic table with an exposed bulb above us and ordered a late dinner. While we waited for the food, Hao asked me for the third time that day about my itinerary. I told him I’d just been in Ethiopia and that the next country on my itinerary was Namibia.

.What is Namibia?. he asked.

I drew him a crude map in my spiral note; book. .Ethiopia is up here,. I said, pointing to the continent’s northeastern shoulder. .Mozambique is here. And Namibia is over here. It’s on the Atlantic coast.” Hao wanted to know how far away that placed Namibia from where we were. Several hundred miles, I said.

I started to fill in the map to show him some of the other countries I planned to visit.

When I sketched Senegal’s position, at the continent’s westernmost point, I added Europe, tracing its downward slope toward Africa.

.Here is Portugal,. I said, which produced a look of confusion. He asked me what Portugal was exactly. It was the colonial power that once controlled Mozambique, I told him. As he nodded, still looking uncertain, I added that it was the place where the Portuguese language came from.

And they say we Americans are ignorant of the outside world.

He knew that Mozambique had been a European colony, a zhimindi, but he had not known it had been Portugal’s colony. .I thought Portuguese came from Brazil,. he explained.

I drew South America on the map for him and told him that Brazil, too, had been a Portuguese colony. Hao began making some connections, thinking of Macau, the tiny formerly Portuguese enclave near Hong Kong.

.[That’s amazing!],. he exclaimed. .You [have to] wonder how … little countries like Portugal controlled so many big, faraway countries.

The Maxim gun. Next question, why did we bother.

It’s just like the way the Europeans carved up China, I suppose.” After a pause, he asked: .Where is America?.

Dude… East. Of China. And you’re killing me.

I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map. Hao had always assumed that it was part of Europe.

Hao.s geographic curiosity waned and the conversation shifted back to his African ambitions, which apparently went far beyond his farm. .I’ve got lots of other plans, lots of projects,. he said. .I want to open a beverage factory. I want to produce tea for sale and for export that will be grown on our own land.” There was talk about building a charcoal-processing factory, for which he had already broken ground, 120 miles to the north. It would produce honeycombed braziers for cooking. At first, he said, these would be sold only in Mozambique. but later the export potential back to China, and perhaps around the world, would be very great.

Meh, education is overrated anyway. Hao has vision and the [stubborn tenacity] to make his dreams happen. But it doesn’t sound like much of a colonization effort, particularly with the intentional miscegenation. What’s China going to do, come back in a century and grant involuntary citizenship to all the Halfrican half-Hans?

As we drove northward out of Massinga the next morning, Hao became reticent, and he offered only clipped, almost grudging answers to my questions. After we were waved through a roadblock at the edge of town, he pulled over suddenly. He said he didn’t enjoy driving, and asked if I would take over. With me at the wheel, we proceeded in a vaguely eastward direction down a graded trunk road, which soon led us past a tiny settlement where a cluster of people by the roadside gave us a halfhearted wave. Beyond this dusty outpost lay dense, tangled bush punctuated now and then by a neatly swept clearing with a solitary aluminum shack.

The road had narrowed considerably and the smoothness of its first leg had given way to an obstacle course of divots and tree stumps and the occasional peasant balancing huge loads of scavenged wood atop his head. Hao instructed me to stop up ahead, where I could see the road cresting beneath a stand of oil palms in the distance. When I reached that point, we came upon a group of men sitting and standing in conversation at the edge of a cleared field. Hao stuck his head out the window and began calling out in his unique and polyglot pidgin: .Ganma, ganma, zheli, trabalho, ganma? Wei shenme? What are you doing? What are you doing? Here, work. What are you doing? Why?.

The local men gestured off into the distance and answered that someone else was paying better now. This was a showdown over wages, a walkout. .Why should you pay us differently?. one of the Mozambican men asked.

Hao grew excited and started to curse. He was saying, mostly in Chinese, that he was not going to raise their pay. The two sides went back and forth like this for a few minutes. Hao was sweating profusely, wiping his brow with a hand towel. .Forget it. I don’t need you,. he said. .I.ll find other workers.” With that, the men picked up their belongings and trudged off in the direction we had just come from.

Hao laughed even as he continued to swear. “Africans like nothing better than to get together and complain,. he said. .My son told me we don’t need these people any longer, though. Why should we pay them more?.

Within a few minutes, Hao’s homestead appeared around a bend. There were two shacks thrown together roughly with poles, canvas, straw mats, and whatever other cheap materials were at hand. We climbed out of the vehicle into the heat and light.

HAH! I was right! Uncertain land ownership made him unwilling to improve his land. For some things, reliable local government is critical.

Hao was eager to show me the place. Beyond the huts lay his experimental garden, a handful of acres where he was already growing stevia, tea, and a variety of Chinese vegetables.

He plucked some of the stevia leaves and crumpled them in his hand, urging: me to taste them, which I did; they produced an instant and overpowering sweetness.

We circled back around the huts and wandered into a large, open plain. The dark, pliant soil was crisscrossed with irrigation canals. Hao pointed out the concrete blocks here and there, sunk in the muck of the channels. He explained that they were the remnants of a system of locks that had been built by the Portuguese.

.They built all of this and then they left it,. he said, evidently bewildered. .When we first arrived, even our tractors had trouble passing here. I had to employ a lot of blacks to dear the fields, and I had to clear them three times before the bush would finally yield.” He fixed me with a fierce expression and offered his best measure of himself. .Some of the Chinese who have come to work the land in this country under sun this strong have failed,. he said. .Others before them have failed, too. But for me, there is no such thing as failure. I am no ordinary man..

I give him that.

So, Chinese colonization of Africa is doomed to fail because of the usual suspects: miscegenation, no social trust and unworkable local government. They would have to perform wholesale, preemptive population replacement just to give it as good a go as the South Africans did. I bet even the high-collateral loans being offered to China this week won’t be honored by next week’s new regime. “Yellow man, this our land because we’re sitting on it right now. You could send your military to sit on it, I guess, between monsoon season and malaria season, but you are weak like white man. Always antibiotics this and indoor plumbing that.”

Africa always wins.

Zondervan, the publisher that though the world needed a gender-neutral Jesus, has joined with the American Psychological Association to push for Christian acceptance of the “celibate gay Christian”. As opposed to “repentant Christian”.

Though we often hear about the “gay problem” today, there is an even deeper problem in the church today–one that we often overlook. The call to follow Christ is a call to costly obedience for all, not just for gay Christians. Far too often, the church has elevated homosexuality above other sins and required a costly obedience from gays that it is unwilling to demand of others. And yet, the answer is not to weaken the demands of obedience. Instead, gay Christians who make the difficult choice to align their lives with the biblical view of sexuality are a gift to the church, reminding all of us that spiritual growth and maturity is costly. There is a price to pay in following Christ and devoting our lives to the call of the gospel, and it is one that we all must pay–gay and straight Christians alike.

Through the stories and struggles of gay Christians who are reorienting their lives around the costly obedience required to follow Christ, Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets call the church to reorient as well, leaving behind the casual morality that is widespread today to pursue the path of radical discipleship. Unlike any other book on homosexuality and the church, this is a call to examine your life and consider what God is asking you to lay down to take up your cross and follow him.

That sounds harmless. Just one nagging question: if these Christians are trying to get past their homosexuality then why do they still identify as gay? “I’m a bestial Christian. Please don’t persecute me, I’m normal like you! Let me help with the flock! I promise to not bugger the sheep even though I tell the world I want to and know you’ll forgive me if I accidentally do!”

Tell me that’s not a big step towards acceptance of sodomy.

Dr Mark Yarhouse

Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D., is the Hughes Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychology at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he is a core faculty member in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Yarhouse has spent several years promoting dialogue between people who view the topic of sexual identity differently. Fifteen years ago he chaired a groundbreaking symposium at the American Psychological Association’s annual convention that brought together gay psychologists and Christian psychologists to discuss common ground in treatment options for those who experience sexual and religious identity conflicts. He chaired similar dialogues at the APA on the many meanings of marriage (among different religions and among various groups within the gay community), services for adolescents experiencing sexual identity concerns, and an approach to services referred to as the sexual identity therapy framework.

Dr. Yarhouse is the past recipient of the Gary R. Collins Award for Excellence in Christian Counseling (American Association of Christian Counselors) and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence at Regent University. He was a past participant with the Ethics and Public Policy Center think tank in Washington, DC, and he was named Senior Fellow with the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities to conduct a study of students navigating sexual identity concerns at Christian colleges and universities. He has been a consultant to the National Institute of Corrections under the Department of Justice to address issues facing sexual minorities in corrections…

The best argument I’ve heard in a long time to not bother paying taxes.

…and he was part of a consensus panel from the American Psychological Association on sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts that convened to provide input to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in Washington, DC. Dr. Yarhouse is currently the Chair of the task force on LGBT issues for Division 36 (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) of the American Psychological Association. He was recently invited to write the featured white paper on sexual identity for the Christ on Campus Initiative edited by Don A. Carson for The Gospel Coalition.

Mark Yarhouse is a great find, linking the converged APA directly to the converged Gospel Coalition. He’s one of the Cathedral’s queen termites. You can trust that any book written by the Chairman of the LGBT taskforce for the American Psychological Association is not going to condemn sodomy as an unnatural act.

Similarly, you can trust that anybody who talks about sexual perversion as an identity does not regard it as a perversion.

Frankly, if the APA hasn’t run this high-profile member out on a rail yet then that’s sufficient cause to dump him in the Treachery bin. “I host dialogues with the devil!” said no Christian ever.

Mister Yarhouse, let’s NOT have a dialogue about the many meanings of marriage. Let’s have enforcement of God’s meaning of marriage, seeing as you identify as a Christian.

And Zondervan is publishing this book, the company that tried to queer the New International Version of the Bible. That’s a red flag by itself.

For confirmation, let’s go to this review I found.

Celibate Gay Christians: Neither Shockingly Conservative nor Worryingly Liberal

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/july-august/costly-obedience-mark-yarhouse-celibate-gay-christians.html

By Ed Shaw, 21 June 2019

Being a celibate gay Christian means being an object of suspicion. The wider LGBTQ community sees you as shockingly conservative (.You think gay sex is wrong?.), while the wider evangelical community sees you as worryingly liberal (.You call yourself gay?.).

That sounds right. The queers hate any suggestion that their depravities are evil, while Christians wonder how somebody who rejects sodomy still accepts it as their core identity as a human being. It’s hypocrisy.

There are no gay Christians. Only Christians. When believers have trouble with Internet porn, do they call themselves Porn Christian?

One day, someone will be expressing disgust toward your “fundamentalist” beliefs. On the next, someone else is targeting your “perverted” sexual orientation. Disparate groups see you as an existential threat, and their attacks can be fierce, as recent online responses to conferences like Revoice and ministries like Spiritual Friendship and Living Out would attest.

Why would this person be hanging out with both unrepentant homosexuals and Christians? Pick a team, kid. Christ and Satan ain’t gonna share the trophy.

Researchers Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets step bravely (foolishly?) into this battleground with their comprehensive study of people like me: Costly Obedience: What We Can Learn from the Celibate Gay Christian Community. It’s an important book with an academic feel that grows more pastoral as you read on. Yarhouse has written multiple volumes on LGBTQ experience based on careful research from the Institute for the Study of Sexual Identity at Regent University in Virginia, where both of the authors teach. I wouldn’t agree with everything he’s ever written, but I thank God for the gracious tenor of his contributions.

I notice he didn’t get fired by the LGBTQs for what he’s written and refuse to bother reading his work for myself. No need to purchase this book.

If you’re curious, Olya is a Ukranian diversity hire. She isn’t worth these two sentences.

This newest book is essentially a listening exercise, based on an in-depth survey of celibate gay Christians. You hear their stories of milestone events and experiences in church life and ministry.as well as research that maps their mental health outcomes and relational challenges. But they are not the only voices recorded: There’s also input from friends, along with some fascinating insights into the perspectives of some evangelical pastors. The authors helpfully add their own measured reflections.

Fostering sympathy for gay Christians is definitely a step towards gay acceptance. They’re preying on the Niceness of Churchians, getting them to lower their guard.

Certain conversation topics could prove controversial. We hear differing thoughts, for instance, on such questions as the origins of same-sex attraction, the correct labels to use (is it .gay,. .same-sex attracted,. or something else?)…

EVIL! Call it what it is!

…the possibility of same-sex desires that aren’t wholly sinful…

There it is. Their goal.

and the prospect of changing one’s sexual orientation.

That’s like saying thievery is an economic orientation. There are two genders, male and female, and they are not interchangeable. But in the interests of hilarious dialogue, a third gender, mutant, will be made available to those with a doctor’s note explaining how their DNA is busted.

But one of the authors. strongest points is the need to discuss these issues more carefully. They write, .Some church leaders and some celibate gay Christians seem to us, at times, to be describing two different things, rather than disagreeing on precisely the same thing..

This appeal for a better conversation within evangelicalism couldn’t be timelier. The danger today is that some celibate gay Christians who appear to be drifting away from orthodoxy will make a clean break, precisely because of the lack of understanding (at best) and hatred (at worse) coming from more conservative voices. The book provides stories and statistics that help evangelicals appreciate where celibate gay Christians are coming from. Too much miscommunication is happening via angry tweets and polemical blog posts, and the careful research presented here could help set things right.

The carrot of more butts in seats. Never mind the failures of previous seeker-friendy fads. But yes, Mister Shaw, by all means, direct their attention to our angry tweets and polemical blog posts. A little adversity will help them to shit or get off the pot.

The standout chapters of Costly Obedience come toward the end. Chapter 5 contains excellent advice on how churches can better care for celibate gay Christians, including a moving and persuasive plea to “drop the language war” around sexual identity labels.

This is not a language war. A turd by any other name would stink as much.

As a pastor, I heartily second the authors. request to “maintain a consistent standard” when it comes to challenging any sexual sin: It is amazing how blind we can be to our double standards.

There is only ever one standard, God’s. Neither is all sexual sin equal. Flogging the bishop because marriage is not an option is much different than deceiving one’s way into a church so he can sodomize children.

I most appreciated chapter 7, .How Celibate Gay Christians Could Strengthen the Church,. which offers a wonderful counter-narrative to the fear that gay people only ever pose a threat. I wanted to cheer out loud when I read passages like this:

“What we are suggesting is that the costly obedience of celibate gay Christians should impact the full church by being a model of what we are all called to live into: a life of sacrifice in which the hardships we face are given meaning and significance in relation to the passion of Christ. And the church needs to consider what it means to share in that cost.”

They’re trying to guilt us into giving special status to unrepentant homosexuals. Secret kings can’t wait!

In God’s providence, I ended up reading this book during Holy Week and writing this review the morning of Good Friday itself. Costly Obedience has encouraged me to continue taking up my cross and following Jesus. And it has given me a renewed hope that my lived experience will benefit not just myself but the wider church that Christ has bought through his own, infinitely costlier obedience.

Ed Shaw is the pastor of Emmanuel City Centre in Bristol (UK) and author of Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life (InterVarsity Press).

Review ends.

https://www.livingout.org/stories/ed

Ed Shaw is Associate Pastor at Emmanuel Bristol. He talks about the reasons people come up with to explain his same-sex attraction, and the good that God has brought into his life and friendships because of his openness about his sexuality.

Yeah, see, that doesn’t compute. He openly declares himself homosexual and in the next breath, claims to follow a religion whose God hates homosexuality. What are we supposed to believe, that he’s honest?

Serving two masters like that can’t last and is a good example of how Cult of Nice serves as the Trojan horse of Social Justice. I hope that Ed soon realizes that ‘homosexual’ is simply not who he is in Christ and puts even the existence of his personal evil to death.

And instead of complaining about suspicion, I hope he realizes that the people who look like him, talk like him and define their human identity in the same perverted way, are legendary for treachery and deceit… and thus, our suspicions of such people are fully justified.

This book, written by the APA’s corruption-agent-in-place and published by the pushers of the Feminist Bible, is exactly such treachery and deceit. And the most charitable we can be towards Ed is that he didn’t notice.

“I hope my brothers will reconsider their strategy for communicating our deeply held Southern Baptist conviction that the Bible is our sole foundation and authority for all of life and faith” says Danny Akin, president of the [Converged] Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina.

Start by watching the trailer. Sorry I can’t embed it but I’ll add some choice quotes. This be YUUUGE, mon:

By What Standard? A Founders Cinedoc

“I see Godless ideologies that have spread over Western Civilization over the last several decades with a vengeance… to tell us what we are supposed to be seeing.”

“Many of these ideologies have been snuggled into the Church in the Trojan Horse of Social Justice.”

“So, if we can take a clear passage of Scripture, that says ‘I do not permit a woman to teach or exercise authority’, when we’re finished with it, it now says ‘I do permit a woman in some cases’… then there’s no stopping, nowhere you can’t go.”

“This insidious stuff, inside our church… uses our guilt and shame against us, to get us to do self-destructive things.”

“It’s at this point that I think we’re being played.” -Tom Ascol

YES! OMIGAWD, YES! Coming from the mouths of elders, babe.

And now:

About that Trailer

About that Trailer

By Tom Ascol, 29 July 2019

On Tuesday, July 23, 2019, we released a trailer to a film we are working on called, By What Standard? God’s World.God.s Rules. It appears that more than a few people watched it, or at least heard about it enough to comment on it. The trailer is 4 minutes long and is designed to encourage people to see the film when it is released. Some people appreciated the trailer. Some were intrigued, and some were.to put it mildly.not pleased. The uproar about the trailer further confirms how important this project is.

I.ve received many texts, messages & phone calls from people wanting to engage me about or inform me of responses to the trailer. I have not seen all of them, much less been able to respond to all of them, but I was grateful to have a few, brotherly exchanges with several, including some who were concerned by the trailer. Two of those conversations were with Danny Akin, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Al Mohler, President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, both of whom have been interviewed for the film. I greatly appreciate their willingness to talk to me directly.

Dr. Akin texted his disappointment with the trailer, asking that his interview not be used in the full cinedoc. I called him and we had a cordial, pointed conversation. I offered to interview him again, giving him opportunity to pushback, criticize or say anything he wanted. He appreciated the offer but later texted to say he still wanted to disassociate from the project.

Dr. Mohler called me to express his concern. I was surprised since his previous response to the trailer (when I sent it to him 8 days earlier) had been a simple expression of looking forward to seeing the whole film. He told me that he would be issuing a statement about it later that day.

In Mohler’s defense, 15 July appears to have been his marriage’s 30th anniversary.

[Mohler on his Twitter, 23 July]: “Yes, folks, I have now seen the @FoundersMin video trailer and I am alarmed at how some respected SBC leaders are represented. Southern Baptists expect and deserve a respectful and honest exchange of ideas. I am convinced we are all capable of this.”

The first that I heard concern expressed by Dr. Jason Allen, President of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was in a tweet [calling it clickbait]. The same is true for Dr. Adam Greenway, the new President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary:

“Re: the @FoundersMin trailer.@tomascol asked me to join other seminary leaders I respect like @albertmohler @DannyAkin in being interviewed on the SBC Conservative Resurgence’s legacy. I will not, however, be part of any agenda seeking to divide Southern Baptists unnecessarily.”

Greenway thought he was spiking the football on Patterson’s corpse, instead he discovered there remain Bible-Thumpers in the SBC!

Some other men have also asked that their interviews not be used, including Mark Dever

and Jonathan Leeman.

I’ll come back to these two.

Others have been pressured to withdraw. We will, of course, honor these requests.

Sigh. You don’t expose evil by allowing evil to cover up once it realizes it’s about to be exposed. Please start playing to win.

In fact, out of fairness to them, we are willing to release complete, unedited footage of their interviews apart from the cinedoc. That will allow them (and others) to consider their words with the assurance that they have not been edited in ways in which they do not approve.

Oh! Maybe I spoke too soon. Maybe.

Some have accused us of misrepresenting the words spoken by certain people who appear in the trailer. We do not believe we misrepresented anyone’s words. I have two encouragements to anyone concerned that we have misrepresented them or taken them out of context: 1) Go listen to the full, unedited, interviews that are available online here, here and here; 2) Remember that this is merely a trailer.there is not time for presentation of the full context to every clip. We love our brothers and sisters in the SBC and rejoice that we can discuss and debate critical matters of Christian doctrine and practice.

Some expressed concerns about a 1-2 second clip of Rachael Denhollander, accusing us of presenting her as demonic. Certainly, no one at Founders Ministries believes that and we did not foresee people taking it that way. That was not our intention and, admittedly, not our wisest editing moment. We regret the pain and confusion we caused by this unwise alignment of image and idea. We have removed the clip and have reached out to her and to her husband, Jacob. We are grateful for so many of Mrs. Denhollander’s efforts to serve victims of abuse.

Tom is making a dangerous mistake: allowing Denhollander authority for no reason than to show sympathy. That is not merit and it doesn’t change the problem of a woman in senior leadership.

Her rapist, Larry Nassar, will be eligible for parole twenty years after the Sun burns out so the matter is closed. Today, Rachel can either live a sheltered life under her husband’s protection or she can be expected to take as much criticism and hostility as a man. Not both. No more “I get to be leader because I’m a victim”. That is Social Justice thinking.

I suppose at this point I should reiterate the concerns that have given rise to this project. Founders Ministries has always been about contending for the gospel and working for healthy churches. Foundational to that work is a full commitment to the authority and sufficiency of the written Word of God. We fear that such commitment is wavering among some evangelical and, more particularly, Southern Baptist, churches and entities.

The one thing that can make a Cuck Christian find his spine: you aren’t using the Bible correctly!

If you have never watched The Battle for the Minds, a 1997 PBS documentary, made available online by “Baptizing Feminism” earlier this year, please do so post haste. Consider carefully this posted description of that film:

The documentary focuses on the early days of the Southern Baptist Convention’s conservative resurgence where women suddenly could no longer be preachers, and emphases was placed [sic] on women’s need to submit to their husbands..

Battle for the Minds profiles key leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, most still leaders in SBC today.

That explains why all these big-name anti-Pattersons were initially willing to be interviewed, if Tom likened this new documentary to a favorable old one.

In part, our in-progress documentary, Baptizing Feminism, explores Christian feminist activists on the front lines challenging some of the same leaders featured in Battle for the Minds, and the male-headship theologies they believe contribute to the culture of abuse, sexism and abuse cover-ups in SBC churches and related networks.

The postmodern, deconstructionist worldview (which Josh Harris recently invoked as an explanation for why he walked away from biblical Christianity) has given rise to godless ideologies like radical feminism, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality. These ideologies are being smuggled into conservative Christian churches and entities (see Resolution 9 from SBC19) often by well-meaning but misguided teachers.

NO! NO! NO! FUCK, NO! THEY ARE NOT WELL-MEANING! THEY ARE NOT MISGUIDED! THEY HATE GOD AND LOVE TO SPREAD LIES IN HIS NAME! If female clergy aren’t proof enough then look at recent attempts to decriminalize sodomy in the Church. God put the death penalty on sodomy yet these people claim one can praise Jesus while packing the fudge, a TOTAL and BLATANT violation of God making us male and female.

If they are not identified and repudiated, they will have disastrous consequences for the spread of the gospel and the faith of millions of people.

You ain’t wrong there. Tom, you’re going in the right direction, but you don’t truly understand what’s going on, which is why you were unprepared for the shock of early criticism.

These ideologies are not merely opposed but are actually antithetical to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Where the gospel unites people of all races, sexes and nationalities in gratitude for grace, these alien frameworks intentionally divide, rejecting mercy in favor of endless recrimination and resentment.

Some have claimed that the trailer shows a disregard for those who have suffered sexual abuse. That is not what we wished to communicate at all. We grieve the very real oppression, and abuse that occurs far too often in our day. We are thankful that this evil is being exposed. It needs to be faithfully and biblically confronted and addressed by pastors. Indeed, most of our board members have extensive experience in counseling individuals and churches that have been devastated by sexual abuse. We don’t just tweet about it. We also try to help churches serve survivors of abuse.

We know that many people.including some friends.find our present stand divisive, and we are genuinely sorrowful for that.

That was not what Christ did. When He saw people choosing to abandon Him because they didn’t like His teachings, He shrugged and asked the Twelve if they wanted to go, too.

Pragmatically, it is not possible to find unity even with fellow believers, let alone with people who push subversive dogmas and false teachings.

But we have taken this stand to avoid, not to encourage, a far greater division that will surely be the inevitable result of the spread of what can only be called a false gospel.

Someone suggested, tongue-in-cheek, that the trailer created such a stir that there is no need to release the film. If “creating a stir” were our goal, then I would agree. But the purpose of this project is not simply to make noise. It is to educate believers and alert them to serious threats coming into Christian churches today.threats that, if left unaddressed, will undermine commitment to the authority and sufficiency of God’s Word.

We have enough education. Education is not the problem. Unpunished rebellion is the problem.

It is obvious that faithful brothers and sisters can and do disagree on the issues involved. Some who agree on the issues disagree on the strategies for addressing them. I have friends in both categories who disagree with me. But I must respectfully disagree with those who say we are “stirring up division” by addressing these issues. Southern Baptists are already discussing these issues, and have been for some time. We do them a great disservice by pretending they are not, or that they do not deserve this discussion.

Props to Tom, he’s learning to Never Apologize.

Finally, my hope and prayer are that this film will bring desperately needed attention to teachings and practices that need to be reevaluated in the light of God’s Word. He has spoken. We live under the authority of His Word. It is imperative that we take Him at His Word and trust Him to guide us in His ways as we joyfully and confidently submit ourselves to it.

Tom, the Bible has no authority. Zero. It’s just a book. Scratches on parchment. A collection of ideas. It is an incredibly valuable book but it is not our leader. It does not cast out the false shepherd. It does not discipline us. It does not regulate our behavior.

Let me show you what I mean.

Those two guys I pictured above? Dever and Leeman? They run a heavily monetized ministry called 9Marks, which promotes “Biblical” methodologies in organized Church operations. These are the 9Marks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dever

1. Expositional preaching
2. Biblical theology
3. Biblical understanding of the Gospel
4. Biblical understanding of conversion
5. Biblical understanding of evangelism
6. Biblical understanding of membership
7. Biblical church discipline
8. Promotion of Christian discipleship and growth
9. Biblical understanding of church leadership

Sounds very Biblical, yes? But there’s no mention of God in that. The Wikipedia entry continues:

Dever has written about the adjective “biblical”: “I try to use ‘biblical’ as an adjective. And I do so not to say less than ‘Reformed’ to my Arminian friend, but to say more. I do so to get in what they perceive to be their territory. If I say that our position is ‘Reformed,’ Arminian or Wesleyan friends can simply dismiss me, thinking that I’m on the other side in an ancient battle, and am about to do no more than rehearse old disagreements. But if I call freshly on that which claims the allegiance of all evangelical parties.the Bible.and I work from there, I require their attention. [From his book “9 Marks of a Healthy Church”]

To Mark Dever, “Biblical” does not mean “pertaining to God’s Word”. “Biblical” means “I tricked you into taking me seriously”. “MY theology, MY understanding of the Gospel, but first, I want to make you uncertain about your own beliefs.”

These are the people who are abandoning your project, Tom. The children of the Devil Himself, who is real and not merely the villain of a really good book. Do not consider them peers. Do not seek unity with them. Do not assume they are disagreeing with you in good faith. Praise God, thump the Bible and denounce the Social Justice that has overtaken the SBC!

People will buy tickets to a show like that.

All betting is closed, we have a winner for Best Loser among the recent mass shooters. Sweden’s Philip Manshaus tried to shoot up a mosque but his kill count was stopped at zero by a wedgie from a grandfather.

Not counting his pre-murdered teenage stepsister. Which is all the family background you really need.

This is the sexiest pic of him that I can find. I’m glad he was stopped but regardless, a moment of silence for the lost manhood of Sweden.

htt ps://heavy.com/news/2019/08/philip-manshaus/

Philip Manshaus [age 21] has been identified as the suspect in a terror attack on a mosque in Baerum, Norway, near Oslo, that wounded one person, Nettavisen reports. Manshaus was taken down by members of the mosque before anyone else was shot, according to police.

Manshaus is also suspected in the murder of his 17-year-old stepsister, Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen, prior to the Baerum mosque shooting, police said.

There were only three elder members of the Al-Noor Islamic Center in Baerum inside the building when the attack occurred. The victim wounded in the shooting was 65. He is expected to survive. The three men inside the mosque were preparing for Sunday’s Eid-al-Adha celebration. About a dozen people had been praying inside the mosque about 10 minutes before Manshaus arrived, but most had left before the attack began, according to CNN International.

Oopsie #1. He was too late to kill anybody but the cleaning staff, so to speak.

According to Norway’s TV2, Manshaus was armed with two shotgun-like weapons and a pistol when he entered the mosque. Police said that multiple weapons were found inside the mosque, and that they all belonged to the shooter, but did not specify what type of guns were used.

[Manshaus] was wearing body armor and a helmet when he stormed the Al-Noor Islamic Center mosque in the Oslo suburb of Baerum, Norway, NBC News reports. Manshaus shot through the locked glass door of the mosque, where three men were inside, according to police.

He walked though an empty parking lot to unload on the locked door instead of checking back the next day or something? Oopsie #2.

Manshaus was stopped by the three men inside, including 65-year-old Mohamed Rafiq, who overpowered Manshaus and suffered a minor injury, a mosque representative said.

Rafiq held Manshaus in a chokehold until police arrived.

.Mohamed acted immediately when the shooter entered the room. He toppled the shooter and pinned him to the floor, (and) sat on top of him,. a mosque spokesman told reporters, according to CNN International.

Wedgie! And #3.

Manshaus posted on Endchan, an anonymous image posting message board similar to 4chan and 8chan, before the shooting. In the post, Manshaus referenced three other attacks carried out by far-right gunmen. The post referenced the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shooting that left 51 people dead on March 15, 2019. It also referenced the April 27, 2019, mosque shooting in Poway, California, that left one dead and three injured, and the August 3, 2019, El Paso, Texas, Walmart shooting that left 22 people dead. All three have been investigated as terror attacks. … The Christchurch gunman streamed his attack live on Facebook. He and the El Paso shooters both posted about their shootings online before carrying out their attacks.

Thusly inspired:

[Patrick] tried to post a Facebook Live video stream, but it did not work.

Oopsie #4. You’re pathetic, Mister Manshrink. You wanted to run with the big boys but now that there’s neither footage nor victims, the cops have to take your word for it that you’re a terrorist.

According to The Guardian, someone reported Manshaus to the Norwegian police service, the PST, in 2018, but they did not investigate further. .There was nothing in that tipoff that suggested there was danger of an act of terrorism or that planning of an attack was under way,. Hans Sverre Sj?vold said, according to The Guardian.

Police in 2018: He’s not a threat to general society.

Police in 2019: We told you so.

Manshaus is facing attempted murder charges in the mosque shooting, which is being investigated as a terror attack. He is also under investigation for murder in the death of his 17-year-old stepsister, according to police.

Manshaus smirked to the cameras during his first court appearance.

My take on this: Manshaus murdered his sister for ‘family’ reasons then quickly tried to murder a bunch of Muslims so he’d have enough street cred to survive in prison. He’s going to be in for life anyway, see, and “badass international Muzzie butcher” is a better fate than “reusable condom for the actually violent inmates”.

But I don’t think he’s gonna clear that burden of proof:

He already looks like a “battered prison wife” if you get my drift. The inmates aren’t waiting to see how much cred he returns from trial with. They might have already decided from his… as I reconstruct the events… messing with his goPro until the mosque closed, then unleashing his firepower on the glass door, then getting tackled by the 65yo Muzzie while reloading, then being trapped under the weight of Grandpa and his own body armor until the police arrived, arrested him and put a band-aid on Grandpa’s booboo.

Sometimes I take my own advice and get fresh air in the great outdoors. Which means I keep up with events & related media. Which is how I found this note from the editor of Adventure Sports Journal outlining his plot to thwart cis-Christians from having fun.

Editor.s Note: American Jedi Bodhisattvas

Editor’s Note: American Jedi Bodhisattvas

By Matt Niswonger, Issue #110 Aug./Sept. 2019

An important conversation is happening within the outdoor industry right now, and this conversation revolves around outdoor inclusion.

How can you get more inclusive than walking out the door? Is this going to be a fat acceptance screed? “My door frame doesn’t accept me!”

Simply put, outdoor inclusion means opening the benefits of the outdoor lifestyle to everyone. For decades the outdoor industry has been recognized as a leader in the area of environmental sustainability, but when it comes to diversity there is much less to get excited about.

In my mind, the first step towards inclusion is stepping back to see exactly who gets to participate in the outdoor lifestyle. When I paddle out to my favorite surf break in Santa Cruz, who do I see? When I go to the climbing gym, who do I see? When I stand in line for a lift ticket at a ski resort, who do I see? When I go mountain biking, who do I see? Mostly I see other white people just like myself, and that’s a problem. In order for the outdoor industry to thrive and reach its potential in the coming decades, this needs to change. We need to make other groups feel welcome.

You God-damned ungrateful treacherous passive-aggressive SJW cockroach. If the existence of people like you is a problem then eat a gun already. Better men than you do it all the time these days. I bet you’re proud of our suicide rate.

In the last issue I talked about my yearning for an updated version of Jesus, a “Green Jesus” who comes to save nature and tells humans to spend more time playing outside. This version of Jesus is all religions, all races, all genders and all body types and s/he is pissed off right now because all we do is hang around indoors and make each other wrong on social media. Instead we need to challenge ourselves in the great outdoors and climb, bike, ski, and surf until we reawaken our natural sense of awe. Only then will we be in a position to save nature; when it comes from the heart. If only white people feel comfortable playing outside, then everyone else is cut off from the simple joy of reconnecting with nature.

Your version of Jesus is the government-issue Jesus. Not much else to say, except you don’t know how right you are about how pissed off HE is these days.

The message of Green Jesus is that outdoor adventure is a basic human need, and the current dysfunctional state of humanity can be traced back to the fact that so many humans have been cut off from their truest selves. Through Green Jesus we see that inclusion and environmental sustainability are two sides of the same coin. In other words, in order to save nature we also need to save humans.

Reading this is like watching Satan at work. In his windowless cubicle at Buzzfeed.

Inclusion is the right way to approach this problem, and that presents the outdoor industry with an important responsibility. That said, we can’t just give lip service to this issue and pat ourselves on the back. We need to start asking tough questions and we need to start having some difficult conversations. For example, why aren’t more white CEOs of large outdoor companies stepping aside to allow more diversity in leadership positions?

I dunno, Matt. Why aren’t you stepping aside as founding editor of ASJ so a Section 8 Somali can take your place? I bet it’s the same reason.

Why are all the outdoor clothing catalogues filled with skinny people and no plus-sized athletes?

I could just say “spandex” but it’d be more fun to show you why.

What kind of corporation buys advertising on the manboobs of an “athlete” like that? *checks* Fondital manufactures aluminum radiators. Okay, I bet he sweats early and often so that’s a lot heat ‘radiated’. Lampre produces plastic-coated steel, which makes a weighty kind of sense.

…I can’t finish my lunch.

Hey Baby, that’s a nice… line of sportswear you’ve got. Makes me wanna shop at Wal-Mart, too!

Put down the high fructose corn syrup. Step away from the high fructose corn syrup.

Buy our shoes for diabetic marathon bikers!

Right now, sincere efforts are being made to invite women, persons of color, the LGTBQ+ community, plus-sized individuals, and non Judeo-Christian faiths into the great outdoors. That said, we are only at the beginning of this process and it’s already difficult. Not everyone agrees that inclusion is the right way forward. Some people say that public lands are already too crowded and all the conversations about racism and white privilege are just making things awkward.

This is the first time I’ve seen JUDEO-Christianity punked. J-Xianism is supposed to be this great, faith-based NGO while Christianianty is toxic masculinity like you wouldn’t believe. Methinks it’s getting to be a bad time to be a Jew in North America.

In Buddhism, bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who postpone their own salvation in order to help others achieve enlightenment. Here at Adventure Sports Journal we are American Jedi bodhisattvas designing a life that revolves around outdoor adventure. We were lucky enough to discover the adventure medicine at a young age, but we are not content to live a life of joy and freedom while others wallow in misery. We seek inclusion because one of the hallmarks of authentic happiness is also wanting happiness for others.

In Lovecraftian mythology, cultists are enlightened beings who postpone their own consumption by feeding the innocent to the unspeakable abominations. Which one is Matt? Let’s just say, it doesn’t take a lot of “enlightenment” to follow a colored deity that you admit you just invented a couple issues ago.

We seek inclusion because nobody wins until everybody wins.

Cthulhu will eat me last! Everybody wins! Everybody I care about.

Do you believe the outdoor industry should work for inclusion or do you believe opening the outdoors to everyone is unrealistic, utopian, and possibly dangerous?

Ahhh, the sun setting over the mountains as I warm myself by the campfire, surrounded by the sounds and scents of God’s Creation, far away from the miseries of daily life… do you know what would make this moment perfect? A transsexual Jedi calling me a Nazi.

If you have an opinion either way, please drop me a line at matt@adventuresportsjournal.com. We value your input and try to include as many letters as possible in every issue.

No, he doesn’t. Hey Christians, do you think it would be a good idea if we got rid of half of you for the sake of getting rid of half of you? I’m just asking because it’s what my own, personal, Green Jesus thinks will create a utopia.

Soros eyelids on Matt, even allowing the the lack of detail. No surprise there and his wife has a better jaw than a certain James Bond villain. And… and I might be wrong, but I think they posed for this pic in a studio. The lighting difference between the people and background is stark.

He’s not even an outdoorsman! Not anymore, anyway. Too busy being a “journalist”, I suspect.

Which is why we have little to fear from his anti-Christian agenda. These people are passive-aggressive parasites. That’s why they aren’t outdoors in the first place, because freedom, self-reliance and planning for the future are to them what sunlight is to a vampire. Come to think of it, sunlight itself is probably a shared allergy. I didn’t see any tan lines on Miss Ass above.

So, why is Matt trying to converge us? Knowing that the last thing a fugly trannie atheist wants to do is follow the healthy into a remote location in order to hate on them where the police would never find their body and is probably uphill to reach, anyway?

Because he hates watching us have fun. Remember the reason he gave for wanting us torn apart and infiltrated: “We seek inclusion because one of the hallmarks of authentic happiness is also wanting happiness for others.” Yeah, that was SUCH a lie. But he’s not wrong about our happiness being his problem.

We’re happy when we unplug from their cultural zeitgeist for a few days of peace and sanity, and appreciate the works of God while getting fresh air and exercise.

Living well is the best revenge. Every moment you are happy, healthy and at peace with Father God is a moment the Matt Niswongers of this fallen world grind their teeth in frustration. And that’s more fun than shoving whiny Communists off a cliff.

Feminism has not yet begun to peak! *Gunner Q goes to jail for hating on widow’s peaks.*

Gov. Newsom Signs Law Making California 1st State to Ban Discrimination Against Natural Hair

Gov. Newsom Signs Law Making California 1st State to Ban Discrimination Against Natural Hair

By Associated Press, 3 July 2019

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Wednesday a bill making California the first state to ban workplace and school discrimination against black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids, twists and locks.

The law by Democratic Sen. Holly Mitchell of Los Angeles, a black woman who wears her hair in locks, makes California the first state to explicitly say that those hairstyles are associated with race and therefore protected against discrimination in the workplace and in schools.

You know what’s coming:

Holly’s hair looks like earthworms fried into spaghetti. I gotta say it while I can. On the bright side, mocking Trump’s hairdo will be illegal just in time for his reelection. If Cuckservatives can ever be bothered to do a thing.

They must be so proud of themselves, that America has been reduced to this.

.We are changing the course of history, hopefully, across this country by acknowledging that what has been defined as professional hair styles and attire in the work place has historically been based on a Euro-centric model . based on straight hair,. Mitchell said.

Stephanie Hunter-Ray, who works at a makeup counter, says she typically wears her hair braided or in an afro, but one day she showed up to work with it straightened and styled in a bob. Her manager told Hunter-Ray her hair had never looked so normal.

.It bothered me,. Hunter-Ray said in an interview at the hair salon she owns in Sacramento that specializes in natural hair styles. .What do you mean by .normal?. Your normal is not my normal. My normal is my “fro or my braids..

Alikah Hatchett-Fall, who runs Sacred Crowns Salon in Sacramento, said she’s had black men come into her salon asking to have their hair cut off because they can’t find jobs.

Employers don’t like applicants who resemble gangsters or worse, rap artists? I’m shocked.

The law, she said, .means that psychologically and mentally people can be at ease and be able to get the jobs they want, keep the jobs they want, and get promoted at the jobs they want..

Barbie thinks jobs are fruit trees that grow money and status. “Daddy, let’s get apricots and Army Rangers!”

California.s new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, is significant because federal courts have historically held that hair is a characteristic that can be changed, meaning there’s no basis for discrimination complaints based on hairstyle. The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to hear the case of an Alabama woman who said she didn’t get a job because she refused to change her hair.

They… they tried this once already? And it went to SCOTUS?

This is a perfect picture of our leaders’ disrespect for law. It’s already been ruled against and for good reason but they don’t care, they’ll just keep trying (with other peoples’ money) until they get their selfish way.

The issue burst into public view last December, when a black high school wrestler in New Jersey was told by a referee that he had to cut off his dreadlocks if he wanted to compete. California’s Democratic governor said the video was a clear example of the discrimination black Americans face.

You think that’s discrimination? Try being white with dreadlocks. Hell, try being white.

.His decision whether or not to lose an athletic competition or lose his identity came into, I think, stark terms for millions of Americans,. Newsom said before signing the bill alongside Mitchell and half a dozen advocates. .That is played out in workplaces, it’s played out in schools . not just athletic competitions and settings . every single day all across America in ways subtle and overt..

No, his decision was whether to participate. Spare us the hysterics.

Though California is the first state with such a law, New York City earlier this year issued legal guidance banning discrimination against someone based on their hairstyle. The beauty company Dove is part of a coalition pushing for more hairstyle protections, and Mitchell said she hopes other states follow California.

Opposition funded by Rogaine.

Mitchell.s bill adds language to the state’s discrimination laws to say that “race” also includes “traits historically associated with race,. including hair texture and protective hairstyles. It further defines protective hairstyles as braids, twists and locks.

But not baldness? *checks* Nope, the bill is worded such that this new “civil right” only benefits blacks. Poofy blacks.

The term locks, or .locs,. is the preferred term to dreadlocks, which has a derogatory connotation.

Yah, dey be called dreads, mon.

At Hunter-Ray.s studio, Exquisite U, on Wednesday, her stylists and customers reflected on the new law.

Shereen Africa, who was having her hair re-braided by Elicia Drayton, said she used to work at a television station in Mississippi where a black anchor quit after facing resistance to wearing her hair in locks.

Gawddamned fucking vibrant pissant crybaby, it wasn’t even her that quit. Here, Gavin, you can have my guns. I don’t need them. I just insult your hair and you faint on the spot.

All those Trump hair jokes are reeeallly coming into focus.

Africa said she did not wear her hair in braids at the job, even though she wasn’t on air, because the environment wasn’t supportive of it.

.If I’m in a professional setting, I won’t wear my hair in certain ways,. she said.

AND THIS WAS A PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED WITH THE GOV’T BANHAMMER?!?

An anchor at a different Mississippi TV station made national news when she said she was fired after she stopped straightening her hair.

.You want to go to work and feel free,. Drayton said. .You don’t want to have to feel like you have to put on a wig or you have to have your hair straight to please someone else..

You haven’t reached peak feminism until the following qualifies as a typical, State-level legislative session. And it’s probably still not as bad as things can get.

No, no, that montage was serious. From Senator Mitchell’s social media:

The “Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair” Act. AKA the Hate Whitey Act.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB188

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) The history of our nation is riddled with laws and societal norms that equated .blackness,. and the associated physical traits, for example, dark skin, kinky and curly hair to a badge of inferiority, sometimes subject to separate and unequal treatment.

(b) This idea also permeated societal understanding of professionalism. Professionalism was, and still is, closely linked to European features and mannerisms, which entails that those who do not naturally fall into Eurocentric norms must alter their appearances, sometimes drastically and permanently, in order to be deemed professional.

(c) Despite the great strides American society and laws have made to reverse the racist ideology that Black traits are inferior, hair remains a rampant source of racial discrimination with serious economic and health consequences, especially for Black individuals.

(d) Workplace dress code and grooming policies that prohibit natural hair, including afros, braids, twists, and locks, have a disparate impact on Black individuals as these policies are more likely to deter Black applicants and burden or punish Black employees than any other group.

Bitch, that’s OSHA you’re bitching about. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Long hair while operating machinery, yah? Even that wrestler mentioned above, it’s not good for him to provide convenient handles for his opponent nor for his opponent to risk impalement on God only knows what pins and ties he stuck in those hoses.

(e) Federal courts accept that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, and therefore protects against discrimination against afros. However, the courts do not understand that afros are not the only natural presentation of Black hair. Black hair can also be naturally presented in braids, twists, and locks.

Afros are the only unique presentation of black hair. *double take* Afros were ALREADY a civil rights issue? The things I don’t notice as a balding Scotsman.

(f) In a society in which hair has historically been one of many determining factors of a person’s race, and whether they were a second class citizen, hair today remains a proxy for race. Therefore, hair discrimination targeting hairstyles associated with race is racial discrimination.

That’s what females call logic. Aristotle just rose from his grave as a misogynistic liche.

(g) Acting in accordance with the constitutional values of fairness, equity, and opportunity for all, the Legislature recognizes that continuing to enforce a Eurocentric image of professionalism through purportedly race-neutral grooming policies that disparately impact Black individuals and exclude them from some workplaces is in direct opposition to equity and opportunity for all.

In the name of fairness and equality, whites are ordered under penalty of hate crime prosecution to accept any hair style worn by blacks, because blacks are tired of white people being seen as the successful, cooperative ethnicity. The next time you get your earthworms done, Mitchell, read a dictionary for the definition of “irony”.

Let’s meme the curls out of this one! Because sometimes, all you can do is laugh.

With a link to the PDF of his thankfully brief manifesto. I first thought that two shootings back-to-back shortly after the Gilroy shooting was some Deep State MK-ULTRA Clinton/FBI conspiracy but the truth was even more disturbing: his stepfather was a hallucinogen-addicted occultist who marketed the voices in his head.

Right off the bat, cutting eyelids and triangular jaw/chin with feeble facial hair. Left side is more guarded, always a bad combo with any mental issues. Middle third is dominant so status/ambition oriented. Low, level eyebrows for rational thought. Small mouth, not much of a talker. The cupid’s bow of his full-lipped mouth, combined with carefully curly hair, make me suspect he’s got passion underneath the car hood, however. Hair is orderly which confirms rational, orderly thoughts.

He’s disciplined at what he does yet doesn’t care for other people beyond their value to his feelings. Physically weak and is concerned about it but doesn’t care enough to hit the gym. Possible drug use/psychopathy/broken home. I would expect he enjoys either manual arts or low-level tech work, but neither with enthusiasm.

htt ps://heavy.com/news/2019/08/patrick-crusius/

Patrick Crusius was identified as the suspect in the El Paso, Texas, Walmart shooting that left 22 dead on August 3. Crusius, 21, is in jail facing capital murder charges. Officials said during a press conference there were 20 people dead and 26 injured.

Crusius was “very much a loner,. Leigh Ann Locascio, his former neighbor, told the Los Angeles Times.

There’s two ways I reach “loner” in face-reading. One is indicators of an active mind/self-absorption, and the other is indicators of emotional walling off. The former is not threatening; their brain is simply so active that they get preoccupied with it. Which is why so many computer experts have social skills that wouldn’t impress a robot.

Eyebrows that are not only thick but have a lot of trailing hairs on either end are the best sign of an active mind (which is not always high-IQ; think RPMs compared to actual horsepower in a car). If someone has a thin line of hairs connecting both eyebrows, making a unibrow, their mind is so active that insomnia is predicted.

Here, Crusius has a small mouth & ears so he isn’t verbal. But there’s only the eyebrows to indicate intelligence while low-testosterone, those eyelids and left-side-guarded are good indicators for emotional issues.

The shopping area, near Cielo Vista Mall, is close to the United States border with Mexico. It is a popular location to shop for people on both sides of the border. License plates from both the United States and Mexico appear in the parking lots, NBC reported.

A Wal-Mart holding a back-to-school sale. Although I strongly oppose immigration, this isn’t the kind of situation that made our border into an existential crisis. Mexicans want a day trip to buy from our stores, why not?

Why don’t these knuckleheads ever shoot up a welfare office or Section 8 housing? Where the parasites hang out, y’know? Maybe a white-hating local official? But no, they always target little kids and working-class people.

El Paso Police Chief Gregory K. Allen said during an evening press conference, .he surrendered to approaching officers..

Consistent with his idol, Brenton Tarrant. Patrick even wrote a manifesto, mainly, I think, to emulate Tarrant.

In general, I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto. This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion.

Boldface is classic psychopath refusal to take responsibility for his actions.

Any other ethnic group and he might have had a point but dude, they were here first. It’s our land now, of course, but Latinos and specifically Mexicans are the ethnic groups most easily assimilated into USA. Part of why I stay in California is that coexisting with Mexicans is easier than nearly all of the alternatives.

My motives for this attack are not at all personal.

Bullshit.

In short, America is rotting from the inside out, and peaceful means to stop this seem to be nearly impossible. The inconvenient truth is that our leaders, both Democrat AND Republican, have been failing us for decades. They are either complacent or involved in one of the biggest betrayals of the American public in our history.

The takeover of the United States government by unchecked corporations. I could write a ten page essay on all the damage these corporations have caused, but here is what is important.

What’s important is “when I had the chance to kill the people responsible, I decided to kill little kids at a back-to-school sale instead.”

Even if other non-immigrant targets would have a greater impact, I can’t bring myself to kill my fellow Americans. Even the Americans that seem hell-bent on destroying our country. Even if they are shameless race mixers, massive polluters, haters of our collective values, etc. One day they will see error of their ways. Either when American patriots fail to reform our country and it collapses or when we save it. But they will see the error of their ways. I promise y.all that.

You intentionally spared those most responsible while butchering children who never had a choice and the Mexicans lawfully and peacefully visiting? Even Hell is too good for you but Hell is what you’ll get.

Fuck his manifesto. *toss* So, how did he end up like this? We know because Daddy already wrote the book! Well done, Daily Mail.

EXCLUSIVE: El Paso Walmart mass shooter Patrick Crusius’ father admits to nearly 40 years of drug addiction which tore apart his family and claims he has spoken directly to Jesus

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7319821/El-Paso-Walmart-shooter-Patrick-Crusius-father-penned-book-life-drug-addiction.html

By Ryan West and Josh Boswell, 4 August 2019

The father of the 21-year-old man arrested for the El Paso shooting massacre was a drug addict for almost 40 years and is now an energy healer who claims to have had visions of Jesus Christ and his dead grandmother, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Patrick Crusius allegedly killed at least 20 people and injured 26 on a gun rampage which began in a Walmart parking lot in El Paso, Texas on Saturday morning before he was arrested by police.

His father, Bryan Crusius, 63, revealed in a 2014 memoir details of the broken home his son grew up in, confessing to decades of drug and alcohol abuse that led to the breakup of both his first marriage and his 18-year relationship with the alleged shooter’s mother.

A child from a broken family. I would’ve won that bet had anybody been dumb enough to take it. Although technically, his parents never divorced while he personally was alive.

The book offers some insight into the mass shooter’s upbringing – but not what turned him into an apparently white supremacist-inspired multiple murderer who was cold-blooded enough to make sure he was taken alive.

Au contraire! A shank-ho Momma shacking up with a divorced man hearing the voices of that’s-not-Jesus in his brain while sharing peyote with his Commie-public-school-educated son explains everything.

Cause above, effect below.

*GQ looks at previous post of Patrick* Huh, I hadn’t noticed the lopsidedness of the ears. I’ve never seen that before. Using the tools I have, he’s conformist in general society but screwball in his personal life. His lips changed significantly, too. A possible link to spiritual corruption?

His father’s book at least suggest that lengthy and rambling postings are in the family.

Dayumn, the kid might actually have a legit insanity plea if this was Daddy’s “how to raise kids” manual.

Crusius Sr, who now works as a licensed therapist and “energy and sound medicine practitioner” in Allen, Texas, claims in the rambling memoir to have had a conversation with Jesus in a vision and had a spiritual encounter with his dead grandmother, Mabel.

The book, entitled Life Enthusiasm: A Path to Purpose Beyond Recovery, reveals how Crusius Sr struggled with mental health problems that impacted his four children – the son from his first marriage, Austin, who he left in California with his ex-wife Kathleen, and his three children from his second marriage to Lori – Patrick; his twin sister Emily; and their older brother Blake.

A teaser on the back of the $12.95 book’s cover says that before writing his memoir he had “descended into a profound and unsustainable apathy in which life no longer seemed purposeful or worthwhile” after .thirty years of dependence on mind-altering chemicals..

The therapist, who says he has now kicked drugs and drink, through .a unique synthesis of traditional talk therapy with multiple energy modalities. which he says “infuses spiritual principles, sound healing, guided meditation, life force energy, and other eclectic methods with traditional talk therapy..

Case closed.