Responding to this article:
The second night of protests followed Thursday’s fatal shooting of 32-year-old Winston Boogie Smith Jr., who was wanted on a weapons violation and fired a gun before two deputies shot him.
The top comment was:
And I’m not even going to touch on the irony of the victim’s name.
Two articles have surfaced, and I believe they should be read one after the other.
The first is by Victor Davis Hanson, and of course is therefore worth reading all by itself:
[U]ntil recently there were still a few institutions we considered sacrosanct, incorruptible, and invincible amid faith-based assertions, toxic woke fads, civil dissension, and hatred of the past. One certainly was the military. Another was “science,” or rather the scientists, researchers, and investigators who devoted themselves to disinterested empiricism. And, a third, was the sacred idea of the “law,” or the idea that Americans respect our statutes because they were crafted by ourselves and applicable to all, equally, and without exception.
All three have lost their luster. Americans do not trust them, at least not in the old way. Perhaps it was the 2020 perfect storm of plague, quarantine, recession, riot, a contentious election, and red/blue antipathies that ripped off the scab and exposed beneath something far different than what the public had assumed.
Read it all, then follow up with this one:
It isn’t just BLM against bikers, or school systems against parents, or black against white, or Hispanic against Asian, or young against old, or left against right, or gay against straight, or vaxers against anti-vaxers, or mask wearers against mask refusers; it is the intent of government officials to inflame these conflicts to the point of violence that is the concern. His response was a slow shake of the head, a shrug of the shoulders saying what he preferred not to say.
The fact is, there is no D-Day, but rather the slow accumulation of grievances until the load can no longer be carried. His words came back to me over the whole conversation. “We’re not that stupid.” The trouble with combat veterans, like my father (Korea), is they tend to be non-confrontational in such situations, because they can smell an ambush, not because they fear engagement, but half measures won’t suffice and until they are ready to go full-on, all other responses seem tepid, but the rage builds.
This climate is being manufactured. Those who are sure they will win are goading on the conflict. Those who are not sure they will win, refuse to fight at half measure, harming only their families and friends, enraging a brutal enemy without the resolve to complete the mission. What the enemies of the people should be afraid of, if they had any sense, is a fighting force having put it off until there was nothing left to lose, but coming out dedicated to the eradication of their enemies as the only possible solution.
Caught in the middle of this brewing conflict is law enforcement. This is something they should recognize, but they have not thus far. They seem willing to be the fodder; the useful idiots of the tyrannical regimes. If they could only look into the face of what confronts them, they might choose differently, but I doubt they would. Most of them agree to impose tyranny as a means of securing their pensions, as if they can suspend their duty as American citizens while in uniform and pick it back up when they shed it. Consciously or sub-consciously they are making a decision to violate their oaths in order to receive their shekels from tyrants.
This situation, by the way, seldom turns out well for the camp followers. At best, they’re treated as collaborators and shunned, or else they lose everything — rank, prestige and respect — and at worst they’re killed, either by the resistance in situ or by the regime that follows. “Just obeying orders” has held no water ever since 1945.
Both the above are bleak theses; but these are bleak times we live in.
Saw this over at Kenny’s place, and it resonated with me:
While marooned in Siberia a hotel room over the past four months, I watched probably more “regular” TV shows than I’ve watched in more than twenty years past. And over time, I suddenly realized that the above meme is quite correct: there aren’t any.
I mean, yes there are a few White people around, but you have to really look out for them. And if not solo acts, they’re as often as not part of a mixed-race couple, or a figure of fun and ridicule.
“Oh Kim,” I hear the progressive wokists gloat, “now you know how the POC [persons of color — I know] felt all these years, when ad agencies never cast Black or Brown people in ads except as part of a stereotype-filler.”
And if these oh-so smart, hip creative types (mostly, it should be said, based in New York, L.A. and Chicago) want to redress a long-ago grievance, that’s fine. But it cuts several ways.
Do you think a Chinese consumer is going to respond well to a commercial featuring Black actors? Or an Indian consumer to an ad featuring a mixed-race couple and their coffee-colored babies? Or, for that matter, a White consumer — oh wait; that’s because all Whites are raaaaaayyyciss and POCs can’t be.
Uh huh.
Having been in this game myself, I also know that the reason behind casting Whites was that that particular demographic group was where the market (i.e. the money) was. And if I can be honest: in time, I (and many, many others of my ilk) may come to treat advertising precisely the same way that Blacks and such used to treat all-White TV commercials: as something to be ignored.
Ignore that message at your peril, Madison Avenue.
Yesterday, I expressed my consternation at this little event — which took place not a mile from where I am right now, and where I drive through all the time:
In the incident, which occurred last week, BLM marchers illegally blocked a public street, trapping motorists. Such situations have happened across the nation over the past year, often resulting in violence. In the Plano video, one man emerges from his car and yells at the BLM protesters to clear the street. They not only do not clear the street, one of them also brandishes a weapon of some sort at the man. A Plano police officer looks on, does nothing to clear the street, and instead seems to side against the motorist — who is legally in the right.
Looks as though the Plano Police Chief has landed himself in the doodoo with TXAG Paxton: After reviewing the incident, our First Lawyer had this to say:
Reckon it’s time someone got fired — and I’m not talking about Paxton.
Frankly, I don’t care if you think you have to “negotiate with these people” when in fact they are breaking the fucking law. If I’d parked my car across the intersection and refused to move it, how long do you think it would have taken for the Plano PD to have me in cuffs? Or, if there were four of us White boys blocking the road with our cars protesting (say) the stolen election of 2020, the fuzz would have descended on us like Genghis Khan, only with better weaponry. And if one of us had pointed something that looked like a gun — I don’t care whether it was a pepper gun, taser or toy pistol — the cops would have shot his ass dead.
And all of Plano would probably have applauded.
Let me get this straight. While Plano is more conservative than Dallas, it’s not as conservative as the rest of Texas (thanks to the huge influx of New Yorkers, Californians, Chinese, Indians and Pakistanis into the area as we’ve become some kind of Mecca [sic] for the Big Business flight away from, duh, California and the Northeast). We have a Black mayor, a Black police chief, several Blacks, Chinese and Indians on the city council and school district board, and all the rest of the stuff that has allowed the hallowed “diversity” to flourish, only without any fanfare or box-ticking.
Nevertheless, Plano is still reliably conservative, and up until now, the Police Department has been too, with a strong law-and-order attitude which we citizens of Plano have supported to the hilt.
And now? A police chief who bleats about “having to negotiate” with violent criminals? I don’t care if the police are “caught in the middle”; that’s their fucking job. They are supposed to be the “thin blue line” between law-abiding citizens and criminal bandits.
Like I said, someone needs to be fired, or else the shit is really going to hit the fan. Next time, the guy who jumps out of his car and, all by himself, shouts at protesters to clear the street, may well be carrying a handgun, or more. (There’s a very good reason that our local gun store shelves are empty of both guns and ammunition.) And if the cop on the scene — or his boss — aligns himself with the criminals, don’t be surprised if he’s treated like one of them, because it’s no less than he deserves.
And if the city cops are unable or unwilling to do their job, Paxton has only to unleash the state police and, gawd help us, the Texas Rangers. We’re cool with that, I think.
This bullshit has to stop, nipped in the bud right now. Let’s hope that Paxton gets it done, or there’s going to be a serious shit show. Plano is not fucking Los Angeles or Chicago or New York; we’re not even fucking Austin. And without serious action, the powers that be are going to find that out, big time.
Several people have sent me accounts (like this one) of the latest BLM “protest” which happened in Plano (!!!) last week.
Several thoughts come to mind, especially as I’ve had some dealings with the Plano PD over the past couple weeks, as every fule kno, and I came away very impressed with their attitude.
What I also learned, in chatting with our local guy while CIS was dusting for prints etc. was that the attitude of people all over (not just in Plano, but all over north Texas) has been changing for the worse, in that people getting involved with the police are being a lot more aggressive — and not just with the police, either.
Back in June last year, there was a traffic accident at a corner not three hundred yards from my old house. I know the corner well (Legacy and Independence), and as it happened, when the accident occurred there was a Plano uniformed cop filling up at the gas station on that very corner. So the cop walked over — no need to drive, it’s twenty yards away — only to see that the female driver of the one car was leaning into the other driver’s window, and punching her out. So he grabbed her to restrain her, whereupon he made the unfortunate discovery that she wasn’t punching the other woman, but stabbing her. And when he tried to restrain this bitch, she stabbed him four times. Luckily, three of the blows were deflected by his vest, but the fourth got him a good one in the upper left arm, and he started to bleed like a stuck pig.
The situation did not end there.
The stabbist then ran around the front of the car and wrenched the passenger-side door open, so as to continue with the stabbing.
Fortunately, the officer was not massively incapacitated from his stab wound — apparently, he would faint a little later from blood loss while waiting for the paramedics — but he was still able to pull his gun and shoot the bitch four times, whereupon she lost all interest in the proceedings, assumed the proper position on the ground, and very shortly thereafter achieved room temperature.
[pause to let the cheering and hollering die down]
Just in passing, both the cop and the stabbee survived the fun and games. He was a twenty-five-year veteran of the Plano PD and was something like six months from retirement. (Here’s the official report of the incident. There’s a telling detail that I didn’t mention; see if you can spot it.)
The cop who told me this story said that this change in attitude began during the Obama administration, and had only got worse and worse since. (I note too that the Plano PD Chief has been spotted marching in an earlier BLM protest, and that is an issue to be addressed on another day.)
After Election Day 2020 I took the AK out of the car, figuring that now that the nation’s scum had got their wish and had Communists, wokists and BLM supporters in positions of power, they’d simmer down. Clearly, this is not the case.
So tomorrow I’ll be off to Doc Russia’s to pick up the AK and return it to its proper position in the car. I should have done it after dinner with him last week, but that was a couple days before the BLM incident on Plano’s east side, and who knew? But times change, and I guess we have to change with them.
Let me say right now that I will not start anything should I personally encounter a situation like last Friday’s. I won’t even get out of my car. Unless things get really out of control — the video of the event shows that at least one BLM supporter had a handgun out and pointed at the “counter-protester” — in which case things might get a little more interesting. I certainly don’t take kindly to people pointing guns at me, no matter how much they believe they are “justified” in so doing; and any attempt to bring violence on me will meet with some resistance.
And that’s a promise.
Good grief. If shit like this can happen in Plano, it can happen anywhere in the United States. Be on your guard and stay safe. Or at least get a good group.
From some crowd calling themselves “Eventbrite”, who usually send me stuff about classical concert dates and such:
So I took action: 
Ordinarily I’d consider going just to cause trouble, but I need to clip my nails and wash my hair.