uber danger 2

When the only thing the police will say about the victim's death is:
"This was a bad scene"

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/chief-ride-share-mistake-led-to-death-of-college-student-04-01-2019

The man accused of killing a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride had activated the child locks in his backseat so the doors could only be opened from the outside, police in South Carolina say.

Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook also said investigators found the victim's blood in Nathaniel David Rowland's vehicle. Rowland, 24, was arrested and charged in the death of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson, a University of South Carolina student from Robbinsville, New Jersey.

Investigators would not say what they think Rowland did to Josephson from the time she got into his black Chevrolet Impala in Columbia's Five Points entertainment district around 1:30 a.m. Friday until her body was dumped in woods off a dirt road in Clarendon County about 65 miles (105 kilometers) away.

Josephson had numerous wounds to her head, neck, face, upper body, leg and foot, according to arrest warrants released Sunday by the State Law Enforcement Division. The documents didn't say what was used to attack her.

Josephson's blood was found in the trunk and inside Rowland's car along with her cellphone, bleach, window cleaner and cleaning wipes, Holbrook said.

"This was a bad scene," the police chief said at a news conference late Saturday.

uber danger 1

The girlfriend will not be prosecuted.

https://www.wtae.com/article/uber-driver-killed-monroeville-man-charged-penn-hills/39127804

Calvin Crew, 22, has been charged with homicide in the death of 38-year-old Christina Spicuzza of Turtle Creek.

21:33:45: Crew produces a firearm from his right side and leans forward toward Spicuzza

21:33:47: Crew places his left hand on Spicuzza's left shoulder

21:33:49: Crew states, "Keep driving"; Crew then places the firearm at the back of Spicuzza's head, with the firearm being in his right hand

21:33:51: Spicuzza reaches up with her right hand and touches the gun. Spicuzza then says, "You've got to be joking"

21:33:55: Crew states, "It's a gun"

21:33:57: Spicuzza states "Come on, I have a family"

21:33:58: Crew states, "I got a family, too, now drive"

Crew's girlfriend told detectives that she was in Swissvale on Feb. 10 when she got a call from Crew asking her to order an Uber for him. She said Crew gave her an address to enter into the ride request.

In another interview with Crew's girlfriend, police said she told them she purchased a 9mm gun at a store in McKeesport and it went missing. She said she never reported the gun missing/stolen.

The criminal complaint also said she told investigators that she had a feeling that Crew had her gun because he was the only person around her. When police went to retrieve the gun box and paperwork from her home, both were missing.

Jonathan Pentland

 https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/jonathan-pentland-trial-begins/101-f1d4a608-3658-44b9-9d6f-11eaf285c887

On April 12 of this year a cell phone video showed Pentland having a confrontation with another man who was supposedly walking through the Summit neighborhood where Pentland lives.

Pentland is currently suspended from Fort Jackson.

Friday's hearing began with a pre-trial session, where the defense called six witnesses to the stand including the alleged victim, two neighbors who were there at the time of the incident, as well as Pentland and his wife, Cassie Pentland.

One of the neighbors, Kimberly Hernandez, and Cassie Pentland provided their version of the events that led up to the incident. Hernandez claimed the victim acted aggressively toward her and said when things continued to escalate, she ran to the Pentland home to ask Jonathan to help her.

Cassie Pentland said her husband was just trying to protect his family.

Jonathan Pentland said he'd just gotten home from work and sat down to relax when Hernandez knocked on his door. Pentland said he never would have hurt the man and that he was trying to take control of the situation to de-escalate it.

MLK and violence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/01/dont-criticize-black-lives-matter-for-provoking-violence-the-civil-rights-movement-did-too/

The clergymen urged black Americans to reject King’s leadership and adopt peaceful means to achieve racial equality. King’s “nonviolent” movement, they said, was anything but.

King’s response, written while he was detained in Alabama, was the famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” He wrote that, in fighting racial injustice, the goal of his demonstrations was “so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.” In other words, violence was not something that simply happened to activists; they invited it. Violence was critical to the success of the 1960s civil rights movement, as it has been to every step of racial progress in U.S. history.

the civil rights movement wasn’t seen as nonviolent in its day — and for good reason. The most jarring evidence of this came just a month after King’s Birmingham jail letter. In May 1963, movement organizers assembled black children , some still in pigtails, to march through the streets of Birmingham and confront Bull Connor’s violent police force. It was a controversial tactic within the movement, but organizers must have known that images of jailed, beaten and cowering children would affect hearts, force a response from officials and move the movement toward its goals.

“They couldn’t have been ignorant of the terrible response,” says King biographer and New York University historian David Levering Lewis. “King and his inner circle appreciated the probable certainty of violence on the part of the establishment to trigger responses that they wanted, in terms of legislation and policies.” The children called it “D-Day.”

Connor didn’t disappoint. He attacked the marchers with German shepherds and baton-wielding policemen. Connor’s army funneled hundreds of children and teenagers into overcrowded jail cells. Still, the kids returned to the streets the next day. And the day after that. Malcolm X, whom history treats as the movement’s violent alter ego, criticized King for the event, saying that “real men don’t put their children on the firing line.” King, on the other hand, called it “one of the wisest moves we made.”

The Children’s Crusade changed the way the movement was covered by the press. Where the crushing effects of segregated schools hadn’t won hearts, where brutal, state-sanctioned beatings of hymn-singing black men and women hadn’t gained sympathy, the nation couldn’t ignore the images of children recoiling from the raised batons of sneering police officers. Only the most distressing type of violence worked.

This was King’s strategy. “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed,” he said — an aggressive and confrontational stance that Americans rejected at the time and have forgotten today.

colonizers

 https://mises.org/wire/inca-empire-indigenous-leviathan-state

One of the realities that nullifies persistent interpretations of the European colonization of the Americas as a cataclysm of subjugation is the existence of state exploitation in the precontact New World. As I have recently shown, many common Indians lived in banal slavery to a political class—the same servitude that every “citizen” of a state lives under, compelled to labor for the benefit of others, albeit with its own unique packaging and set of justifications. What this means is that there were also many politicians in the precontact world, with the same base lust for power that drives so many contemporary rulers.

When the agents of European states dropped anchor off the American littoral and proceeded to survey the interior, many were welcomed by various political leaders. These politicians were not naïvely offering hospitality. Indeed, the lack of women and children on these expeditions was often a conspicuous red flag to tread lightly.1 Rather chiefs often had expansionist ambitions and knew that the strangers’ military support and trade goods could turn the local geopolitical tables in their favor.

So they strategically courted the newcomers, seeking alliances.2 Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of expeditions are peppered with reports of Indian leaders trying to extract political commitments from the leaders of the missions or otherwise trying to draw them into their military network.

porn in Flagler School District libraries

 https://www.theepochtimes.com/tempers-flare-at-florida-school-board-meetings-over-sexually-graphic-book-found-in-school-library_4114782.html

Another Flagler resident attempted to read excerpts from another book—also full of vulgar language—which she discovered is available to children in one of the Flagler County high school libraries. However, FCSB Chair Tucker forbade her to do so. The irony of his reasoning—because “there were children in the room” and might be watching the livestream—was not lost on many seated in the room.

California Democrats

 Who's in power in California?

Attorney General of California Rob Bonta Democratic

Secretary of State Shirley Weber Democratic

California Treasurer Fiona Ma Democratic

Governor of California Gavin Newsom Democratic

Lieutenant Governor of California Eleni Kounalakis Democratic

The state senate is 31 Democrats, 9 Republicans.

The California State Assembly is 

  Democratic (59)

  Republican (19)

  Independent (1).

Senators are 

Dianne Feinstein (D)

Alex Padilla (D)

California House of Representatives

42 Democrats

11 Republicans