Is Arson a "property crime"?

There are five "Heinous Crimes against the Person", crimes that satisfy one of the requirements laid down by the Supreme Court in Tennessee vs Garner.  These Heinous Crimes are:

1. Murder
2. Attempted Murder
3. Violent Sexual Assault
4. Stranger Kidnapping
5. Arson of an occupied building

When a rioter commits one of these, including the last, he or she has started down the path for extraordinary treatment under the law.

Setting fire to a building at a time when one or more people are within is not a property crime.

"Experts" and "Science"

Since when is any Government "expert" or alleged "Scientist" (see DD Eisenhower's farewell speech regarding the eclipsing of scientific curiosity by the intellectually dishonest quest for funding) competent to make sweeping recommendations, let alone edicts, that abrogate the liberty of a nation of Free People?

The leftists would have it that some bozo with a job-for-life as a specialized government employee should be slavishly obeyed by all of us, and the Hell with the consequences.  "If it saves one life..." and similar asinine nonsense.  Benthamite nonsense, the notion that the "best and the brightest" will gravitate toward mind numbing bureaucratic jobs where they will somehow do "the greatest good for the greatest number".  Jeremy Bentham is proven wrong daily by the stupid actions of people with a lot of arrogance and very little actual intellect or humility.

I would doubt the competence of Solomon himself to order me around and to interfere with my livelihood and my carrying out other responsibilities for my family and household.  Solomon was reputed to be incredibly wise, but at the bottom of the matter he was also King, and of course kings have the power to enforce their edicts regardless of whether they may be Solomon or Alfred E. Neuman.

The people of the United States fought a war against the greatest power on Earth at the time, the British Empire, for the right to live without a King.  Now, with typical hypocrisy and Projection, the fascist leftists who would love to be Kings label the people in our country who actually care about liberty, personal freedom and dignity as "fascists" and our President as a "king".

So tiresome, so predictable, and so absolutely disgusting.

Delivery System

So, as expected, Joe Biden's role in the final couple of months of the endless, and recently costume, drama inflicted upon all of us for the past four years will be to serve as the delivery system for an otherwise un-electable, arrogant, obnoxious leftist career politician.  The obvious intention is to get her into the Presidency just as soon as Joe can be declared unable to go the bathroom unaided.  Despite corrupt polls that hope to manipulate those with herd mentalities into voting for the "winning side", I think we have all had  more than enough of the democrat party's nonsense and I'll be delighted to see their arrogance rewarded by a total loss of power.  I will enjoy seeing people like Mr Comey march off to prison where he may worship his "higher power" than the Constitution he swore to uphold.

If, of course, these crooks do prevail, our country is basically screwed.  It will be interesting to learn what dirty tricks these oh-so-virtuous people have in mind for the next three months, in hopes of enslaving us all.

Chinese Curses

Many of the leftists among us are begging for more of the fascist edicts propounded by corrupt government employees, telling them what to do and how to live during the past five months.

It is tempting to wish a Chinese Curse upon those who long to have the government order them around.  "May all your wishes be fulfilled" ... but before that curse comes home to roost, at least read the history of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and find out what V. I. Lenin did to the "useful idiots" who had longed for him to order them around.  If walking into a mass grave is to be one's last act as a living Human, it's at least good to do so with eyes wide open and understanding the precedents of that action.

About Racists

Let us see.  Nancy Pelosi has demanded, and obtained, the removal of portraits of certain Speakers of the US House of Representatives, on the grounds of their alleged racism:

1. Robert Hunter, of Virginia.  Democrat.
2. Howell Cobb, of Georgia.  Democrat.
3. James Lawrence Orr, of South Carolina.  Democrat.
4. Charles Frederick Crisp, of Georgia.  Democrat.

Good going, Nancy.  You claimed you did not know that these men had served in the Confederacy.  Apparently you did not, also, know that the Confederacy was at that time composed mainly of men from your racist party.  Oops.

Abundance of Caution???

Received today:

Dear Applicant,

We understand the challenges your business is facing due to the massive disruption caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. You are receiving this message as a notification that your Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) application is currently being processed in the order it was received. You will receive an email notification when there is a change to your application status.

Without question, COVID-19 has caused an extraordinary impact on our nation's small businesses, and the demand for emergency working capital provided by the EIDL program is at historic levels. The SBA is processing applications from small businesses and private non-profit organizations across the country as quickly as possible. We thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to assist as many applicants as possible.

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This is in reply to an EIDL application filed electronically on 31 March 2020.  The 10k emergency grant offered at the beginning of the program, with which to pay rent and keep people working, quickly turned into 1k per employee, an amount that covers neither.  At least that amount was delivered on 21 April, a mere three weeks' processing time.  Now, over a month later, our application is "being processed".

This situation calls for three observations.

Firstly, COVID-19 did not *cause* any impact on our nation's small businesses.  What *caused* that was state governments' outrageous usurpations of power and wholesale negation of civil rights and liberties, including the forced closings of innumerable enterprises and the placing of the majority of the citizens of our country under unlalwful house arrest.  The direct result of those negations has been tens of millions of unemployed people, at least hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurial businesses dead or dying, and an unbelievable destruction of wealth that will screw most of us for the rest of our lives.  Supposedly this was done out of an "Abundance of Caution."  That is doublespeak if there ever was; it displayed instead an Abundance of Recklessness.  I would say stupidity, but the statist/leftist agenda in this entire situation is so transparently obvious that only an imbecile would fail to see it.

Secondly, we may expect to see more of the same next Fall, but having seen what they can get away with this time around, I expect far more outrageous fascist abuses the second time.

Thirdly, this glacial rate of progress by the SBA strongly argues that its entire staff should be fired, either for incompetence or for intentional obstruction of a mandate from Congress.  If this is actually an emergency ... and it is (while the medical "emergency" is contrived to justify the fascist actions taken during the past two months, the economic emergency resulting directly from those reckless actions is painfully obvious to us all), it is clearly *not* an emergency to the people who work for us in the SBA, with their guaranteed jobs, basic unfirability, and astoundingly generous retirements, all at our expense.

George Orwell and Ayn Rand would no doubt find all of this very interesting.  If he were alive, I wonder what they would be writing now.

Motivations for Endorsement

Almost all of the democrat candidates for US President this year have terminated their candidacies and have endorsed Joe Biden.  Why?  Is it to conserve their war chests of campaign contributions for future use?  Why are they allowed to keep contributions in the first place after the campaign for which the contributions were made is over?  Is it because they actually do not support Bernie Sanders' agenda?  Why then were they parroting most of it throughout the past six months?  Is it because they do not think Bernie Sanders is "electable"?  Why did they imagine that they themselves would be, running as they were trying to outdo each other in speaking like a potential VP for him?  Is it because they don't think Joe Biden will last four years in office, let alone eight, and they'd like to be his VP so they can eventually have the office?  Bingo.  Bless the opportunists' pea-pickin' hearts.

What are Opinion Polls good for?

In the US, we are fed nearly daily "results" that interpret the findings of "opinion polls".  The apparent purpose of these polls is to influence public opinion, not to measure it.  When people who value finding themselves "on the winning side", or who otherwise display herd mentality, are fed propaganda suggesting that they are in the minority, some people are presumed to be sufficiently lacking in principle that their opinions will be swayed, not by argument, but by the numbers shown to them as though they were a concrete measure of reality.

Opinion polls, particularly those inquiring about issues such as liberty versus serfdom, are inherently biased from the get go by the extremely low response rate of those who love liberty to such polls.  For example, I refuse to participate in a poll designed to function as a surrogate for the actual ballot, because I believe this to be a perversion of the concept of democracy in voting and because my opinion is, simply, my business and becomes public only as I cast my actual vote.

Additionally, most such polls are conducted, and then interpreted, by agencies that have demonstrated very clearly that they are themselves biased ... such as "news" media and American academe.  When the sample is selected by someone with a dog in the race, the poll is conducted by such, and the results are then interpreted by more people with dogs in the race, it seems obvious to me that these polls are mostly propaganda tools and not legitimate measuring devices.

The only measuring device that matters is at the real polls, and that is bad enough ... the leftists have historically manipulated elections through buying of votes (see walking-around money not to mention the welfare state), putting their own impediments in the way of voting without extortion (see "Antifa"), and demanding a recount whenever they closely lose an election (the re-counts often being done by leftist bureaucrats.)  In 2020, how many million illegal aliens will be encouraged to cast votes?  We know that the democrat party was encouraging voter registration in California on the second Clinton election, just as we also know that communist China was making democrat contributions.

Remember, when a leftist in the US accuses someone of scurrilous, corrupt, fraudulent practices, this is generally Projection in action.  That is to say, the leftists are master practitioners of most of the things they accuse liberty-loving people of.