In which Allahpundit gets all huffy about a tweaker banging her head into the concrete after being tased while trying to escape arrest. (For the second time since she was apprehended).
They cuffed her in front instead of in back, making her a threat to swipe at a cop’s gun if she got within arm’s distance, and they didn’t cuff her to the chair when they were processing her.
Both mistakes, AP, agreed. But it doesn’t logically follow that therefore it was the cops’ fault that she decided to escape arrest. Now then, on to the tasing:
Then watch the dashboard video of what happened in the second clip below. To my eye it looks like the cop is literally within about a foot of her as they enter the frame, but he’s already got his taser out and appears to be slowing up, having presumably decided to just zap her and be done with it.
There’s a different expression for “slowing down after having drawn your weapon with the intention of discharging it”, Allahpundit, and we like to call it “taking aim.” You see, unlike the soap operas that you draw your firearms experience from, real life people who know what they’re doing do not discharge their weapons while running along full tilt. This is mainly because their real weapons don’t have magical Hollywood homing guidance systems built into their projectiles. And, as those of us whom you can trust with a weapon say, “don’t fire it unless you’re sure what you’ll be hitting.”
Otherwise you’ll end up being blog-fodder for Monday Morning Quarterbacks like yourself howling about “irresponsible use of weapons injuring innocents!!!1!111!!!!” Oh, and more importantly, you’ll actually end up hurting innocents people or kitties.
But it’s wonderful that you can cast one expert eye on the situation and conclude that he’s just decided “the hell with it, the bitch is going DOWN!”
I’m not convinced he couldn’t have caught her if he had been running at full speed;
And you know, of course, what the officer in question’s “full speed” is, right? It’s amazing what you can learn about a complete stranger from watching him run for 2 tenths of a second, really it is! You absolutely have to teach me that technique one day, Allahpundit! But OK, given that he could, per your expert testimony, easily have caught a sprightly little thing high on coke running from the law, he would have intercepted her in the parking lot most likely. Going “full speed” and all that. Now, can you tell me with absolute certainty that, had the rather big officer in question tackled her full on, she wouldn’t have smacked her head in the concrete?
Waiting… No, you can’t? OK. Then what’s your point?
on the contrary, it looks like he decided he didn’t need to run because he had the stun gun on his hip to slow her down.
Well, we’re certainly glad that you can say that with such certainty but, then again, there’s that whole “slowing down to take aim” thing. However, since you’ve obviously watched every single episode of Miami Vice, we won’t call your expertise into question. Lazy cop decided he didn’t want to run and deliberately shot the bint down with his taser in order to make her face kiss the concrete.
Next case?
Listen: It’s clearly tragic that the woman ended up in a vegetative state because of an accidental cranial impact with the concrete. She didn’t deserve that. His Imperial Majesty has just had it to his back teeth with the Monday Morning Quarterbacks who simply can’t resist an opportunity to show off their Mad Judgment Skills every time an opportunity arises. The cop was trying, for the second time that day, to keep her from evading arrest, she was running toward a highway and she accidentally hit her head on the concrete when she went down as a result of him trying to stop her.
That’s it. That’s all there is.
What if he hadn’t stopped her and she’d run into the road and got run over, causing a traffic pile up in the process? Would there have been an endless supply of Allahpundits screeching and tearing their hair, complaining about how “easily” the “lazy and incompetent cop” could have stopped her, thus avoiding the mayhem?
Sorry about the lack of posting, but His Imperial Majesty has been laid low for quite a bit with some strange, infernal Etruscan plague that has kept him from being of much use to anybody, other than the Imperial Executioner who, thanks to His Majesty’s sour mood, has been quite busy.
Some liberal egghead ponders why those damn “disenfranchised yoots” won’t get up and have a good old fashioned car-b-que or maybe some blowing up and murdering of law enforcement personnel.
We could be wrong here, but it looks like the good perfesser is yearning for the wasted days of his misguided youth but too fat and cowardly to do something about it, thus leading him to longing for somebody else to go out there and do it for him. Then again, His Imperial Majesty could be entirely wrong, even though he hardly ever is.
Athens is on fire again. London combusted last summer, right around the same time violent protesters assembled in the streets of manufacturing cities in southern China. And then there was Paris in 2005. In many ways, it’s curious this hasn’t happened more recently in U.S. cities (or with the Occupy movement for that matter).
“Alienation, youth unemployment, distrust of police,” says University of Pennsylvania historian Michael Katz, “these things are surely as prevalent in the U.S. as they were in France.”
So why won’t those damn Occutards go out there and kill them some po-pos, burn down some properties and maybe throw in some rapes as well (wait, they already did, minus the killing of the po-po, though it wasn’t for lack of trying) so a poor perfesser can get some fodder to write theses about? Never mind, we’ll just write one about why they don’t create sufficient mayhem. For Social Justice and the Childerrrrn™, of course.If anything, the conditions that fuel urban violence – income inequality, poverty, joblessness – are as disheartening in America as ever, in the wake of a deep recession.
“So why,” Katz asks, “had collective violence more or less disappeared from the streets of American cities?”
He tackles this question in a new book, Why Don’t American Cities Burn?, which he discussed Friday in Washington at a forum hosted by the New America Foundation. What’s so striking about his answer is that many of the trends implicated in our quiet streets are not necessarily good ones. It’s true, American cities aren’t burning. But we shouldn’t pat ourselves on the back just yet.
Some of Katz’ explanations are good news: Previously marginalized groups that once felt they had no other outlet now have more voices in the political process. White flight ceded whole cities – and their governments – to African Americans in the U.S. And this left neighborhood boundaries less contentious, Katz argues, eliminating one of the causes of urban friction.
Ghettoization, forming the spawning ground for “community organizers” is Good News?™
“I have a dream!” sure doesn’t seem to mean what it used to mean but, in leftist parlance, “as long as it keeps the darkies to themselves on the plantation, it’s all good.”
In the 1960s, by contrast, large numbers of African Americans were moving into the city at a time when whites had not yet left.
Minorities are also more incorporated into high-end jobs, universities and neighborhoods today. Katz adds, though, that this selective incorporation (which has benefited black women much more than men) has fractured minority communities, and eroded their potential for collective action.
And there it is again: “Fracturing minority communities” (ProgNazi Speak for “integration into society on an equal footing”) is a BAAAAAD thing (and quite possibly raaaaacist too!), whereas keeping the “colored folks” isolated in dismal ghettos where they’re easily identified, categorized, tagged and controlled is a GOOOOOD thing. Double-plus-super-good, as a matter of fact.
You know, you have to give the ProgNazis credit where credit is due. Seriously. Since His Imperial Majesty clings bitterly to the now archaic notion that all men are created equal and that the inherent qualities and potentials of individuals are in no way linked to the colour of their skin (yes, raaaaacist, we know!), and since the explanation therefore can’t be that “minorities” are innately retarded, it’s nothing short of fascinating to us how the ProgNazis have somehow managed to make themselves into the banner-bearers for “racial equality” while, at the same time, declaring that anything, anything that might allow said minorities to just mingle with the rest of society is a Bad Thing™ that is to blame for all of our ills.
Even the old time racist Democrats of the Confederate South weren’t that that shameless a bunch of liars.
Some of his other explanations are decidedly more troubling. Populations that once rioted have now joined the “consumer republic,” in which more people are able to buy material symbols of the good life, if not the good life itself.
The HORROR! People being allowed and, gasp, capable of buying stuff they like and enjoying life? It must be STOPPED, right NOW!
Of course, the logic is sound from a ProgNazi point of view. Anybody who has even the slightest familiarity with mass movements, True Believers and Cloward-Piven knows full well that you can’t truly start fucking things up as long as somebody, somewhere might possibly be enjoying themselves. You need a huge mass of malcontents yearning for meaning in their otherwise hopelessly drab and pointless lives in order to truly get the Proletariat moving. Just ask that great ProgNazi guru, Adolf Hitler.
If you are beginning to wonder why every single policy of the NSDWP seems to increase the number of people who are just about ready for anything, as long as it pulls them out of the misery they currently inhabit (and preferably involves snappy uniforms with nice boots and shirts and armbands) congratulations! You’re actually paying attention.
President Food Stamp is President Food Stamp for a reason.
Authorities have ramped up their surveillance and control tactics – along with the country’s prison population – which puts a damper on organizing in the first place.
Oh sure. The prisons are positively overflowing with Occutards. Pull the other one, mate.
And Katz points in particular to a general de-politicization in American life that undercuts communities’ likelihood for civil action. It’s not that our urban problems have gone away (while they remain in Athens, London and Paris). But some of the capacity to fight them has.
Which is exactly the point that the egghead moron in his ivory tower completely missed, as alluded to in our headline: It’s not that the capacity to fight has “gone away.” That capacity is very much alive and well and has actually increased quite a bit since Chocolate Jesus was crowned by an adoring media, it’s that it’s in the hands of people who are very much averse to violent rampages, civil disorder, murder, rape and the destruction of property. We cordially invite Herr Katz to come take a look at our personal “capacity to fight”. We’ll even supply a free change of pants from Wal*Mart, which he’ll surely need before he even gets to The Good Stuff™.
The Occutards don’t get that, except for the bit about them being outgunned. They know that quite well, which is why we don’t have that much trouble with them in states that are still free.
You can’t counter that commitment to law and order and property rights with papier mache dolls and sub-retarded chants.
“A people united” only makes for a much more target rich environment. Shooting fish in a barrel, we like to call it.
And that’s the real reason the ProgNazi goon squads haven’t had much success in this country. They know full well that any attempt of theirs to truly “get jiggy with it” will only result in a massive rise in the stock value of whatever company produces body bags.
That’s what’s truly pathetic about Comrade Ogabe and his ProgNazi Movement’s attempt to “fundamentally transform” America. If that room temperature IQ Chicago ward heel had ever bothered to open an actual history book as opposed to taking it up his adolescent sphincter from his kiddy-diddling Marxist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, while snorting coke he would know that the first thing you need to do to subjugate a population is to take away their means of defending themselves. It’s not an afterthought, it is the very first step you need to take.
Because if you don’t, you’re just tomorrow’s worm food.
Much has been written here about just why exactly Willard McRomneyCare Mittens is nothing even resembling a conservative, no matter how much the Establishment Cocktail Party tries to convince us that he is, really, deep down, just give him a chance, any day now, got to elect him president so we can see what’s in him…
Blech.
However, DrewM sums up perfectly why Mittens is a disastrous candidate and, in His Imperial Majesty’s opinion, would never win a general election if he, heaven forbid, were to end up the nominee:
Every candidate gets messaging advice but as we learned with the whole “I don’t worry about the poor” fiasco, Romney’s instincts simply aren’t conservative. He really doesn’t have a default ideology that he can fall back on when new things come up. He simply tries to run through his mental lists of “messages” and tries to pick the right one. Sometimes he’s right but often…not so much. [Emphasis added]
And his instincts aren’t conservative because he is not a conservative. Never has been. And that will doom him in a general election campaign even worse than it’s giving him trouble in the primaries.
Nobody can possibly think up every question that could ever be thrown at them and, therefore, nobody can ever collect a complete set of flash cards with the correct answer to every conceivable question. It simply can’t be done.
But if you’re a conservative (or whatever other ideology you’re running for, assuming that you really are what you claim to be), that doesn’t matter. Because you have your core principles to fall back on, and those core principles, even if you’ve never heard the question before, will guide you to the right answer, “the right answer” being the answer that matches with your ideology.
It’s like math, really and yes, somebody may have told you there would be no math on the Rott, so we’ll keep it simple: You don’t have to memorize every single bloody mathematical formula ever written to be a great mathematician, we’re not even sure that that’s possible, you just have to have a firm grasp of the basics. Armed with that, you can deduce, logically, all of the rest. It all follows.
It’s the same with core principles. If you have them, finding the answer that fits them is no big problem and you will always come up with an answer that, although maybe not always popular, will always be consistent with your principles and what you’re marketing yourself as. And that’s important if you want to convince people to take you seriously enough to vote for you. If you’re obviously faking it on a bunch of questions (and yes, the average human being has a very good bullshit detector even though they may not be aware of it), how can anybody believe that you aren’t on the other questions that mattered to them where you came up with an acceptable answer?
Personally, I’d much sooner vote for a consistent candidate who agreed with me most of the time even though he managed to piss me off a couple of times too than I’d ever vote for somebody where I couldn’t even be halfway sure that he meant it when he said what I wanted to hear because of his other inconsistencies.
The best an obvious fake like Mittens can hope for is that his inconsistency and untrustworthiness doesn’t piss off potential voters enough that they’ll vote against him, and it’s a pretty pathetic candidate whose best case scenario is voters refusing to vote at all.
In case you missed the link in the comments, I’ve decided to put a link to LC & IB Blackiswhite’s most excellent post on the whole HHS mandate issue and how it goes far beyond religion. No, not going to excerpt it. It’s some of the best that I’ve ever seen Blackiswhite write, and that’s
Or something like that because, oy VEY, is that hacktastic, asinine ape, Nick Kristof, ever bereft of a Clue™! Perhaps we should provide him with one. We have one taped right here to this nice tool that we like to refer to as the Imperial ClueBat™. I MAY not be as theologically sophisticated as American
Yes, we know it’s hardly going to come as a surprise to any sentient human being that tax-exempt “media watchdog” and absolutely NON-partisan Media Matters is nothing but a fraudulent front for one of the more vicious and well-funded parts of Ogabe’s propaganda machine, but The Daily Caller’s new investigative series, with the help of
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