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09:28 – Lies, damned lies, and statistics. I just read an article that claims that the fact that young black men are 21 times more likely than young white men to be killed by police as evidence that the justice system discriminates against blacks. I could as easily say that the fact that young white men are much more likely than elderly black women to be killed by police as evidence that the justice system discriminates against whites. In fact, I could make a good argument that the fact that young black men are only 21 times more likely than young white men to be killed by police is evidence that the justice system discriminates against whites. Because the fact that can never, never be mentioned is that young black men are much more than 21 times more likely than young white men to be violent felons.

The simple facts are that young men of whatever race are much, much more likely to commit violent crimes than any other group, and that young black men are much, much more likely to commit violent crimes than are young white men. There’s no debate about this. The figures are indisputable. As is the fact that whites are much, much more likely to be the victims of violent black criminals than the converse. So, if someone argues that our justice system is racially biased, I agree with him. Statistically, violent black criminals are much less likely to be shot by police than are violent white criminals. And I think this needs to be looked into.

09:20 – More rioting, looting, and burning last night in Ferguson, and some other other cities as well, with more expected tonight. It would seem that enforcing the laws against rioting, looting, and arson is now considered to be “racist”. We cannot allow these low-life scum to define the rules. The rule should be, as it’s always been, “You Loot, We Shoot.”

This kind of crap is happening more often nowadays, and it’s going to become routine if we continue to handcuff our police departments to make their responses to such outrages less and less effective. Treating rioting, looting, and burning as political speech protected by the First Amendment is ridiculous on the face of it, but that’s what we’re doing. These people are not exercising their First Amendment rights; they are violent criminals, and should be treated as such.

This phenomenon is the main reason I want to relocate to a small town, away from population concentrations. The underclass is a serious and increasing threat to decent citizens and their property, and the best solution I can see is to move far away from any underclass concentrations. Small towns in rural North Carolina are usually relatively poor, but most have little underclass presence and what few there are can be dealt with if necessary.

08:45 – I watched the DA announce the grand jury verdict last night. Silly me. The announcement was scheduled for 9:00 p.m. ET, and I expected it to be over by 9:01 ET. I mean, how much was there to say? But instead of simply announcing that the grand jury had returned no true bill, the DA stood there talking for 40+ minutes before he announced the verdict.

So, he finally announced that the cop wouldn’t be prosecuted and, as expected, the rioting, shooting, looting, and burning began soon after. If I had been running things, I would have taken the opportunity to read the Riot Act and issue riot shotguns with #00 buckshot to all of the police officers, along with orders to shoot on sight any rioters/shooters/looters/burners they encountered.

I have nothing but contempt for those racist assholes who tried to make this situation all about race. It had nothing to do with race. It was merely a cop doing his duty, protecting himself and civilians by shooting a violent criminal thug who was in the process of attacking that cop. That cop did all of us a favor. The world is better off without Michael Brown in it, and would be even better off if the cops killed every other violent criminal thug.

I also have nothing but contempt for the mainstream media, who also tried to to make this situation all about race. Listening to them, one would think that every black person in the country thought that the cop should be hanged for murdering an innocent black man, while every white person in the country thought it was just fine for cops to murder innocent black men. The real truth is that the divide was not racial, but between those–black and white–who support colorblind enforcement of law and order versus those–black and white–who believe that Brown’s skin color should have given him a free pass to behave lawlessly.

Consider this. Had the situation been reversed–had Darren Wilson been a black cop and Michael Brown a white thug–those who support law and order, regardless of their own race, would have supported the black cop who defended himself by shooting the white thug. But those who are currently out there protesting, shooting, looting, and burning wouldn’t be doing those things had Wilson been black and Brown white. So who are the real racists?

07:57 – Once again, someone who was known to have been heavily exposed to Ebola has been allowed to enter the US and wander around freely, potentially infecting others. This time, it’s a doctor who’d been working with Ebola patients in West Africa and was then allowed to fly home to New York City and go about his business for several days, riding the subway several times, going bowling, going out to dinner, and so on. NYC health authorities have said frankly that there’s no way to trace all of his contacts because there are so many of them. Just great. And, of course, the doctor has now been diagnosed with Ebola. At least he isolated himself once he noticed symptoms. Let’s hope that’s enough.