It’s Wednesday, March 20th, 2019, the first day of spring and the vernal equinox…but before we begin, here’s a rather intriguing forward from George Lawlor we thought deserving of analysis and comment:
“The sometimes-violent deaths of a half-dozen men linked to the 2014 protests that rocked Ferguson, Mo., including two found in burning cars and three who allegedly committed suicide, have sparked fears that something sinister is afoot, The Associated Press reported in an extensive investigation.
Police say the deaths, which also included a man who collapsed on a bus due to an overdose, have nothing to do with the protests that rocked the small city near St. Louis following the police-involved shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. But others involved in the protests say the strange events are piling up.
The Rev. Darryl Gray told the Associated Press he found a suspicious box inside his car and when authorities came to inspect they found a 6-foot python inside.
“Everybody is on pins and needles,” Gray said.
No arrests have been made in the two homicides as St. Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire told the Associated Press witnesses have just refused to answer questions, leaving the investigation with no leads.
“We don’t believe either one was connected to each other,” McGuire said, adding “It’s tough to come up with a motive without a suspect.”
In the years since the protest of the police-involved shooting, activists said they’ve been targeted in dangerous ways. “Something is happening,” Cori Bush, a leader of the Ferguson protests, told The Associated Press. “I’ve been vocal about the things that I’ve experienced and still experience — the harassment, the intimidation, the death threats, the death attempts.”
Bush told The Associated Press her car has been run off the road, her home vandalized and someone fired a bullet into her home in 2014 – narrowly missing her 13-year-old daughter. She suspected she’s been targeted by white supremacists or police sympathizers.
…One of the first activists to die was Deandre Joshua, according to the Associated Press. Joshua, 20, was shot in the head before his car was torched. Darren Seals, who was shown on video during the night of the protests comforting Brown’s mother, was shot multiple times with his body torched in a vehicle as well in September 2016.
Four others had also died, three of them ruled suicides.
MarShawn McCarrell, an Ohio man who was an activist in Ferguson, shot himself outside the Ohio Statehouse in February 2016, police said.
Edward Crawford Jr., 27, shot himself in May 2017 after telling his friends he was upset over personal issues, police said. Crawford was seen in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch photo firing a canister back at Ferguson police during the protests.
Danye Jones, 24, was found hanging from a tree in a yard north of his home in October. His mother claimed that he had been lynched but the death was ruled a suicide, according to the Associated Press.
Bassem Masri, 31, was found unresponsive on a bus and toxicology results showed he had died as a result of a fentanyl overdose. The Palestinian American had livestreamed Ferguson demonstrations.
Many activists still feel a sense of hopelessness after the protests. But it’s unclear if the suicides had been related to the effects of the Ferguson aftermath.
“This has to have a big impact on their mental health,” Washington University sociologist Odis Johnson told the Associated Press. “For many, law enforcement is not a recourse. Many times law enforcement is not on their side.”…”
Effects: what effects?!? From the “Reverend” Gray “finding” a six-foot python in a “suspicious box” in his car (don’t all racists employ death by six-foot python?!?) to Cori Bush “suspecting” white supremacists and police sympathizers were behind “crimes” only she detected, this entire article isn’t reporting; it’s simply the “reporter” repeating unprovable assertions.
Let’s ignore the highly dubious, self-serving claims of the “Reverend” Gray and Ms. Bush and focus on the six irrefutable facts: two of the homies were shot…big friggin’ surprise given the culture in which they lived. Three committed suicide; again, big friggin’ surprise! And the sixth…and this is a real shocker…OD’d! Stop the presses!
Once again we witness Progressivism’s predisposed triumph of feelings over fact…while the purveyors of the propaganda remain immune to the impact on other’s lives.
And just in case you hadn’t seen this one…
…WTF?!?
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Owing to a couple of long days with little sleep, we’re adopting a slightly different format for this edition, going only with stories which are well worth reading in their entirety through the links contained in the headlines. And we DO mean WELL WORTH READING!!!
We lead off with a couple of compelling commentaries from Victor Davis Hanson and American Greatness: first, Hanson records how The Left is…
Since we’re on the subject of the dead, Hanson next looks back at…
“Here’s why I did not vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Ronald Reagan—despite their records…”
In a follow-up to an earlier item on the Connecticut Supreme Court’s attempt to rewrite federal law, NRO‘s David French concludes…
“…Note that nothing — absolutely nothing — about those ads describes or urges illegal conduct. The claim is that the Sandy Hook shooter was “especially susceptible to militaristic marketing.” Yet the Sandy Hook shooter didn’t purchase his weapon. He murdered his mother and stole her weapon. Moreover, by no stretch of the imagination does “militaristic” use equate with “illegal” use. It takes willful misreading to claim that there is anything at all “unscrupulous” about stating that SEALs use similar (though hardly identical) weapons…”
Sorta like the tortured legal logic behind Roe v. Wade!!! As this item at Newsbusters.org details, disinformation disseminated to the ignorant remains the most potent weapon in the Progressives’ repository.
Next, in a hilarious bit of satire also courtesy of NRO, Kyle Smith offers an accurate assessment of…
Speaking of weirdos, courtesy of Best of the Web, Jim Freeman records why…
Though, despite his excessive executive compensation, the CEO of JP Morgan manages to make even less sense than Fauxcahontas:
Dimon’s solution? A $350 million program to “boost job prospects for people in under-served communities”.
Wow!!! Considering JP Morgan’s NET income for 2018 was $30.709 BILLION, a 36.08% increase from 2017, Dimon’s dedicating some 1.14% of Morgan’s NET income to his new pet project: NONE of which is coming out of HIS pocket!
He’s a helluva guy in a lot of ways…not to mention the prototypical Limousine Liberal!
We should note Dimon, who got his undergrad at Tufts and his MBA at Harvard, also observed:
“It’s not about a college degree. Having gone I know just how worthless a college degree is sometimes.”
Dimon called the education system “broken” and said his bank stopped giving philanthropic dollars to colleges years ago. Instead, the company is focusing on community colleges and training programs.
“Harvard and Princeton are not a philanthropy,” Dimon said. “Helping these kids is.”
Stop it, Jamie; we can’t see for the crocodile tears!
Which brings us to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this instant classic from our youngest son Travis:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with another sordid story straight from The Crime Blotter, mixed with more than a titch of News of the Bizarre:
“…Sarah Wilson and her boyfriend were arrested during a stop in Chesapeake in July 2018 after cops allegedly found drugs in the 1996 Lexus the couple were driving. Police said they handcuffed Wilson and, while attempting to apprehend her boyfriend, 27-year-old Holden Medlin, he became combative and ran away from the scene.
Cops then reportedly left Wilson handcuffed with her hands behind her back as they ran to catch Medlin. While unattended, police say, she was able to grab a weapon out of the Lexus, “contorted” her body and shot herself through the mouth. An internal investigation was launched after her death, which has since been concluded, though police have declined to comment on its outcome.
A medical examiner confirmed on Thursday that Wilson died of a suicide — but friends and family continue to doubt the official story.
“In all of her life I have never known of her to shoot a gun, own a gun, or even hold a gun,” Wilson’s mother, Dawn, told ABC 13 last year. She told the station she spoke to witnesses who told her the police were responsible for her daughter’s death. “There is a few different stories, but they all end the same: that the police shot her,” she said. “Things are not matching up. Somewhere, somehow, there is a discrepancy.”
Body cam footage that may have been able to answer any questions about the incident is unavailable. A police spokesperson said in August that a bodycam on one of the officers during the stop was knocked off the officer’s uniform “during the struggle,” WAVY reported.
Chesapeake Police have not yet responded to a request for a comment by Fox News…”
No SH*T! Here’s the juice: sure, mothers are always the LAST to know. But this story has our believometer…
…pegged!
Magoo
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