Zimmerman, Wilson, Chauvin and The Rise of Jacobin Justice
Earlier this week, I attended the theatrical debut of Dinesh D’Souza’s compelling new documentary Police State. As much as I liked the movie, there was one subject left unexplored: the ironic fact that, today, among those most vulnerable to the “police state” are local police. Searching for a more inclusive metaphor than “police state” to describe our current state of peril, I reached into the past and came up with “Jacobin Justice.” In the way of background, the left-wing Jacobins were the most powerful political faction to emerge during the French Revolution.
The power of this bourgeois elite derived from their ability to manage the Parisian mobs. To satisfy the mob’s bloodlust, the Jacobins imposed a state of revolutionary justice untethered to any traditional sense of Judeo-Christian morality. The result was a reign of terror that saw more than 10,000 people tried and executed.
Who Are the ‘Apes’ in Obama’s Poem ‘Underground’?
When he was a 19-year-old sophomore at Occidental College, two of Barack Obama’s poems — “Underground” and “Pop” —
found their way into the spring 1981 edition of the college’s literary magazine, Feast. The poem that interested me most was “Pop,” a poem that I correctly deduced was about Obama’s mentor, the communist pornographer Frank Marshall Davis. I overlooked the poem “Underground,” however, and may have misjudged it.
UNDERGROUND
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.
Missouri governor can stymie Dems’ war on cops
Eric and Sarah DeValkenaere
“Murder and involuntary manslaughter arising from criminal negligence are two different things,” said Missouri Circuit Court Judge J. Dale Youngs in handing Kansas City police officer Eric Devalkenaere a six-year prison sentence.
“They are different legal concepts. They are different things.
is not Derek Chauvin who murdered George Floyd.” As it turns out Derek Chauvin is not the Derek Chauvin who murdered George Floyd for the simple reason that George Floyd wasn’t murdered. Thanks to the release of depositions in an ongoing sexual harassment lawsuit, we now know that the case against Chauvin was rigged to satisfy the lynch mobs howling for his head.
Chauvin Did Not Murder George Floyd—And prosecutors knew it.
Thanks to the release of depositions in a sexual harassment law suit, we now know just how thoroughly corrupt was the prosecution of former Minneapolis police offer Derek Chauvin and his three colleagues in the May 2020 death of George Floyd.
The depositions were taken this summer in response to a lawsuit filed by Amy Sweasy, a former Hennepin County prosecutor, against her then boss, former County Attorney Mike Freeman. Sweasy alleges that Freeman engaged in sex discrimination and professional retaliation. Whatever Freeman did or did not do to Sweasy, however, pales in comparison to what both of them and their colleagues did to the cops they prosecuted and the justice system they undermined. (READ MORE from Jack Cashill: What Isaacson Doesn’t Get About Elon Musk)
KC cop found guilty of policing while white
Those who think justice should be colorblind do not work in America’s newsrooms. Consider the headlines that followed a ruling this week by a Missouri appeals court. “Missouri appeals court upholds conviction of white KC cop in killing of Black man,” Kansas City Star.
“Former Kansas City Police officer arrested after court upholds conviction for killing Black man,” KCUR, the Kansas City NPR station. Former Missouri officer who fatally shot a Black man turns himself in after losing appeal,” Associated Press.
Not Everything That Looks Like a Conspiracy Is a Conspiracy
The first sentence of my Wikipedia page reads as follows: “ Jack Cashill …is an American author, blogger and conspiracy
theorist.” If I try to amend that description, some left-wing troll will flip it right back.
As it happens, the Left takes Wikipedia seriously. Some of those who conspired to “disinvite” me from a scheduled library appearance in Fredonia, New York, this summer cited my Wikipedia page as the reason.
Wrote one of the conspirators to the local paper, “This guy is a hack-fraud, couldn’t make a living off of TWA 800 conspiracy theories so he became a shill for every right wing dog whistle. The right loves their con men and to be grifted.”
Well traveled as I am in the world of conspiracies, I write this column as a caution to my fellow citizen journalists: before you put words on a page, before you invest too much emotional equity in a given conspiracy, think your theory all the way through.
What Isaacson Doesn’t Get About Elon Musk
To give credit where due, I cannot imagine another journalist writing a biography of Elon Musk as smart, thorough, and forthright as Walter Isaacson’s recently released Elon Musk. To document Musk’s career so competently took an effort worthy of a Robert Caro and an intellect nearly comparable to Musk’s own.
Given his talent, it is all the more unfortunate that Isaacson cannot follow Musk to the end of his journey. As Isaacson acknowledges, Musk took a “red pill” along the way, and Isaacson, a creature of the liberal establishment, is addicted to the blue. (READ MORE from Jack Cashill: Banned Books Week in the Age of Biden)
As Isaacson explains to those many readers unaware of the concept, the red pill is a plot device in the 1999 movie The Matrix. A hacker, Neo, learns from his mentor Morpheus that he has been living in a virtual, computer-generated world designed, says Morpheus, “to blind you from the truth.”
It’s time for a Jewish History Month – or is it?
Any statement that begins, “We, the undersigned student organizations hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all
unfolding violence,” can go nowhere good.
From this unpromising start, the “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in in Palestine” swirls quickly down a vortex of disinformation. The statement concludes by calling on the “Harvard community” to take some unspecified action “to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.” Only the brevity of the statement limits its impressive display of historical ignorance.
