Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Crime and Punishment

  • Black Lives Maga!

    The South Bronx comes out for the Orange Man.  The video is about eight minutes long and puts me in mind of the old "Joe and Eddy" tune from the early '60s, There's a Meeting Here Tonight.  Black support for Trump makes perfect sense. These black citizens understand that an endless influx of illegal aliens…

  • Leftists Love Criminals

    You will never understand the Left until you understand that they reliably take the side of  criminals, who comprise their clientele and path to power, over the law-abiding.   And with lefties it is always about power and control, first, foremost,  and forever. Here we read about a 78-year-old Englishman who, in defending himself against a screwdriver-wielding…

  • The Trial of the Century?

    With O. J. back in the news you know what my latest Substack upload is about. It's going on 30 years since that circus began with a delightful cast of characters including America's most famous houseguest, Kato Kaelin, Johnny "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" Cochran, and others I am too lazy to list. …

  • Sam Francis on Anarcho-Tyranny

    From a 1994 Chronicles article: This condition, which in some of my columns I have called “anarcho-tyranny,” is essentially a kind of Hegelian synthesis of what appear to be dialectical opposites: the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that…

  • Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Gun-Related Deaths

    Top o' the Stack. Clear thinking provided; vicious abstraction opposed. Once again, I take on Howlin' Wolff, the Stoned Philosopher.  (In all fairness, his little book on anarchism is excellent, and he is a good Kant scholar.)  Memo to self: write a separate post on vicious abstraction, an informal fallacy, undiscussed as far as I…

  • Fire the Bastards!

    Here: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said that federal employees who take part in a planned walkout in protest of the Biden administration’s Israel policy should be fired. Well of course. But don't expect the Biden admin to do so since their talk of the rule of law is just talk. If the Biden bums took the rule of…

  • Masculinity

    Substack latest.

  • Christianity Civilizes

    Does Islam? To the same extent? Top o' the Stack.

  • Cuellar Carjacked

    Poetic justice. Henry Cuellar is a Democrat. Democrats are leftists. Leftists have an exceedingly casual attitude toward criminal behavior. It's really no big deal to them. Cuellar's main complaint? "They stole my sushi." If, for whatever reason, you like crime, then I advise you to vote Democrat early and often. Related: Leftist activist and do-gooder…

  • New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve

    They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-controlled craphole. Of course, some cannot leave for various reasons. I feel sorry for them. But they should have done more to prevent their city from being taken over by leftist scum,…

  • New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve

    They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-controlled craphole. Of course, some cannot leave for various reasons. I feel sorry for them. But they should have done more to prevent their city from being taken over by leftist scum,…

  • Which Side Are You On?

    A video to help you decide. So a group of climate protesters decided to block a two-lane road in Nevada, but got a different response than usual from law enforcement. The best part of this X-File from “Climate Defiance” is the number of words that follow “words fail,” not to mention the irony of people…

  • Why Won’t Leftists Enforce Existing Laws?

    A reason, perhaps the main reason, may be gleaned from the following graphic: The above stats are clearly in the ball park according to every study I have read. Heather Mac Donald has done outstanding work on this topic. I refer you to her. One reason why leftists won't enforce existing laws is because (1)…

  • Are There Aptronymic Initials?

    I should think so. Bernie Sanders' initials are 'B. S.' The man is a destructive fool, though not as destructive or as foolish as Joey B.  Proof here. It's a funny world. In the private sector it is often the very best who rise to the top; in politics, the very worst.  Is there anyone…

  • Why Do We Tolerate Crime?

    WE don't tolerate it; our political enemies do.  Check this out. The miscreant is black, no? If yes, then he enjoys carte blanche to be just as baaad a badass dude as he wants to be. The incident also begs raises the secondary question: why are there so many Somalis in the Twin Cities? Might…