Conspiracy of Jobholders

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The travesty of reality and justice which is the 50 SHOTS case is proceeding at full steam ahead with the predictable, nonsensical buncombe from both sides, with neither side willing to address what is really at issue, and with both sides advancing remedies which will make the situation worse and worse and worse for the future.

On the one side, we have the law enforcement community (in this case the NYPD) using increasingly militarized guerilla tactics and covert ops to pursue innocent people, because they may commit a crime some time in the future, in order to satisfy the statist political establishment in the present. And on the other side we have left wing political Black activists led by The Rev. Al Sharpton, and New York City Councilman and former Black Panther, Charles Barron who want to re-live the glorious days of the riots of the late 1960's. These sides are so steeped in their ideological lunacy that they fail to see that it was their own agendas which caused the climate that produced this case.

On Wed. Jan. 24, 2007 NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, in a city council hearing examining the police tactics in this case, defended the officers from charges of racism by Councilman Barron, citing the fact that several of the officers were Black. Afterward, speaking to reporters, Barron said,"(Kelly is) clueless about racism. It doesn't matter whether you're Latino, Black, White; when you join the force, you turn Blue. And what the Blue Culture says: you police the Black Community this way – and you police the White Community this way. So it doesn't matter that the shoot-ER was Black, (because) the shoot-EE is ALWAYS Black."

Councilman Barron didn't know it, but he summed up the whole fallacy on both sides with that one statement. One side sees things in terms of Blue, and the other in terms of Black.

One of the reasons cops are so militarized is because they are looking for Drugs & Guns, as were the undercover cops in this case. The theory is that Drugs & Guns, which are both inanimate objects, cause crime. It is NEVER individuals of free volition who commit crimes. And it is NEVER the State which creates the conditions which foster crime.

Yet it was the Federal Government–sponsored Reconstruction which led to the destabilization and destruction of the South….which led to southern "blowback in the form of democratically endorsed, state sponsored Jim Crow Laws targeting Blacks….Which led to the mass exodus of Blacks northward to form urban ghettos. But even then, there was not the sort of violent crime in Black neighbourhoods that we see today. That started in the sixties.

Most of the racial violence was orchestrated by far left groups, some of which were funded by the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War in the late sixties. One such group was Mr. Barron's Black Panthers, a group whose ideology consisted of an institutionally racist hodgepodge of Fascism, Socialism and Maoist Marxism; a group which morally justified the use of violence. And so Newark N.J. and the South Bronx burned like Nero's Rome.

Then the politicos entered the picture. And whom did they blame? Not the instigators such as Mr. Barron who were leftists "fighting for the oppressed," and who had a political following of voters. No, the politicos needed to find scapegoats. There were the old bromidic scapegoats like poverty and oppression etc. But you could also blame inanimate objects like Drugs & Guns. Gun owners (legal ones, that is, not under NY City's Sullivan Law) live upstate, or out of state in the sticks and don't vote on city issues. And dopers are too stoned to vote. And so there is a consensus by the elected politicians on whom to blame. Go after those who are not a political threat. Shift the blame from people to objects.

We now live with the outcome. Cops infiltrating the underworld like CIA operatives in South America, armed with semi-automatic weapons and body armor, trying to entrap some poor slob for simple possession of narcotics or a piece of steel like a revolver. They created a very lucrative black market in Drugs & Guns. Then they bust the poor slob after he makes a poor vocational choice trying to traffic in these black markets – especially when the legal market is so over regulated and over taxed. Then when the poor slob gets clever in trying to avoid detection, the cops go "Shock & Awe" and there is "collateral damage" like last month.

So here is this cast of characters with a new reason to advance their pet causes. Barron, an elected jobholder who long ago traded his Afro for the more sedate cardigan sweater and tweed coat, is blaming Ray Kelly for institutional racism. Kelly, an appointed jobholder, is trying to enforce the unenforceable, while on the very same day his boss Mayor Mike Bloomberg is in Washington D.C. leading a coalition of mayors to sue small outdoor outfitters in VA who sold guns to professional agents provocateurs on the payroll of Bloomie's posse of mayors.

For the professional mountebanks who need fiascos to keep themselves employed, this case is better than a home run, it's a grand slam.

January 31, 2007