The point of urging lawlessness

Seattle police call it quits. What's next? Vigilantism

Something will fill the vacuum left by police, and it seems doubtful the left will like the results.

Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best

 Seattle police cannot use any crowd-control devices and must, effectively, let the violent, lawless rioters run free. 

Seattle’s police chief alerted residents that they are on their own now.

Here is Chief Best's letter to the city council:

University of Tennessee law Prof. Glenn Reynolds wrote in June about the absence of police:

We’ll see a lot of vigilante justice. And what are people gonna do about it? Call the cops? Remember, in the end the police aren’t there to protect the public from criminals, they’re there to protect criminals from the public. Communities dealt with crime long before police were invented, usually in rather harsh and low-due-process ways. The bargain was, let the police handle it instead. No police, no bargain.

Get ready, folks. Major parts of the country are about to descend to the level of the Wild Wild West.

Update: A federal judge has ruled to overturn the Seattle city council's prohibition of non-lethal riot-control measures.

A good friend of mine for 25 years lives in Seattle; he texted me yesterday,

Last night got tense with somebody trying to burn down the court house but Feds kept their distance. They torched the new juvenile detention center that's being built also this weekend.

And the link to this: At Least 45 Arrested After Seattle Police Declare Riot

Reading list for June 17

Trayvon Martin's mother says we need more police. 

Racial equality is so 1960s, say AP and major American newspapers.

The New York Times Recoils at the Predictable Consequences of the Mandatory COVID-19 Precautions It Supports

The American Press Is Destroying Itself, by Matt Taibbi, a bona fide progressive/liberal journalist. 

Suddenly confiscating guns isn’t a Democrat priority when Democrats like the people carrying the guns.

Could be the Bee, but it's real: Tim Kaine Claims America Invented Slavery; Roman Empire and Egyptian Pharaohs Demand Apology

More to be added as I find them and have the time.

Antifa Is Not Fighting For Freedom, But For Communist Revolution
https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/01/antifa-not-fighting-freedom-communist-revolution/

'They Have to Reinvent Her': Margaret Sanger's Fans Work to Clean Up Her Racist Past
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/may/they-have-to-reinvent-her-margaret-sangers-fans-work-to-clean-up-her-racist-past

This Leftist Tantrum Is an Information Operation and Trump Is Winning It
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/06/18/this-leftist-tantrum-is-an-information-operation-and-trump-is-winning-it-n2570782

The problem isn't the bad apples. It's the orchard.

Why the policing problem isn’t about “a few bad apples”
“The system was designed this way”: A former prosecutor on the fundamental problem with law enforcement.

Protest Also Against Police Unions and Qualified Immunity

A letter to the American public: Why you must decide what you want from cops
If you recruit well, conduct thorough background checks and train constantly, you can have a human with a kind heart and good ethics – but you can't have perfection

Links will be added as the day goes on.

It’s Past Time to Examine How Police Unions Protect Bad Cops

A short reading list

Left-Libertarian Alliance Introduces House Bill to End Qualified Immunity for Police Officers

Police Union Privileges Revisited

New Undercover Video Blows Lid Off Antifa Domestic Terrorists

THE TRUTH BEHIND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN FATAL POLICE SHOOTINGS

The Myth of Systemic Police Racism
Hold officers accountable who use excessive force. But there’s no evidence of widespread racial bias.

Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings

Civil rights veteran Bob Woodson rejects claims of 'systemic racism,' says black struggles issue of class

“The White Man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism”

The 1619 Riots

I Must Object - A rebuttal to Brown University’s letter on racism in the United States

Violent Protest and the Intelligentsia

Shop owners reveal financial and emotional struggles of being looted -- because of course the best way to bring down racism is to loot and burn the businesses owned by racial and ethnic minorities.

And speaking of stupid people: