Posted on 06/01/2020 5:26:07 AM PDT by gattaca
As he says “let my building burn” I am going to wonder if his insurance will even cover this. He seems content with the situation.
>> Work boots are also safe from being looted.
Jogging boots?
>>there’s another well-known bookstore that could be a target...Powell’s Books in Portland, OR.
I’ve never been to Powell’s and it’s been years since I’ve made a purchase but I did but quite a bit from them online and they seemed to have a lot of new copies of out of print books.
Destructive rioting never makes sense, but race agitators like Gayle King and the Dems just love it.
The whole article puts to rest a lot of myths from the Left about the Black Panthers. Bobby Seale may have represented a non-racist and non-violent faction of the Panthers but he is upfront about what the other key members said and did.
They weren’t victimized by the police. Even when he tries to make excuses for Huey Newton, he says that Huey went for the officer’s gun. That will get you shot.
Afrofuturism has existed in occasional works for a long time—but in modern science fiction it has turned into a ridiculous mantra.
I think we all have a pretty good idea what the future of Africa looks like—and it will not be pretty.
btw I am currently reading one of the classics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men
The book is available online here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Last_and_First_Men.pdf
It is interesting that the Wikipedia editors have not chosen to attack it and Amazon has not tried to ban it—at some point some leftist professor will make a career out of calling it racist/sexist etc....
We are watching the death of American cities. I doubt many businesses will return. There will be an exodus from cities. People who can afford to leave will leave. They have already been doing it because of high taxes. For those that have not left, what did those taxes buy? We see the abject failure of city cops to protect businesses. The cops are being ordered to let things burn. The cops are being ordered to harass businesses because of a hoax flu. Cities are a failed police state where the good guys are persecuted and the bad guys are ignored. To hell with them.
The owner of Cadillac Pawn on Lake Street did that on Thursday night, he’s now facing murder charges. Minnesota is NOT a stand your ground state.
Isn’t that what Nazis do? Burn books.
I better to tried by 12 then carried out by 6
This will hasten the downfall of a wide variety of brick and mortar businesses.
If the police and the business owners are not allowed to protect property, the insurance companies will refuse to insure the property at affordable rates.
I’ve only read a little of Arthur C. Clarke (some background/alternate materials on 2001 and Childhood’s End for school).
In Childhood’s End as I recall, the aliens who come to Earth put white people in charge of some African government because they are the minority there. But by the end of the novel nothing really exists anyhow, I seem to recall the planet transmorphing into some kind of 2001-ish star child (or star children). I think that the aliens also could show a window to the past to people and it was used to “expose” the life of Christ as “false”.
Then again I don’t know who could hold up Arthur C. Clarke as a paragon of virtue since he’s been accused of being a globetrotting sex tourist/pederast.
>>We are watching the death of American cities. I doubt many businesses will return. There will be an exodus from cities. People who can afford to leave will leave. They have already been doing it because of high taxes. For those that have not left, what did those taxes buy?
I saw book collector stores move out of town decades ago as their owners migrated to the rural areas of the state. There was a network of book searches that bookstores would do so their clients could still buy books from them, they were able to avoid skyrocketing rents/taxes and live a relaxed bucolic life.
Minneapolis Rioters Burned One Of America’s Most Beloved Independent Bookstores To The Ground
I can see that. They probably didn’t understand that books contain knowledge.
These ignorants don’t read or value anything of beauty.
The business owners will try. But if all police departments have become as politically correct as the ones in very Republican Scottsdale, AZ Saturday night, where officers directly told downtown business owners they were not obligated to defend property and then let the mob loot millions in inventory from the largest mall in the Southwest - when a few well-placed rounds of pepper spray could have knocked them down like gnats - then insurers will simply walk away.
It's hard to conclude anything other than that collectivist political operatives have taken control of this police department - and many others around the country.
Obama did this to the military, marriage and the Boy Scouts all at once. Look for statues, historical homes of meaning, libraries and other cherished buildings to go up in flames. Anything to do with decency and American history.
The assault on American traditions includes renaming of airports. I was surprised to learn that recently Lindbergh Field, San Diego's airport, was quietly renamed San Diego International Airport and they replaced the mural honoring Charles Lindbergh, who took off from this airport in 1927 on his historic flight that would end up in Paris.
Up in Los Angeles, the Bob Hope Airport has reverted to its old name, the Burbank Airport. And there's a movement to rename the John Wayne Airport in Orange County and McCarran Field, named for Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Nev.), the bane of Soviet spies, in Las Vegas.
You know, when you pay protection money to the Mob, I'm pretty sure you do get protection. Petty crooks aren't going to harass your business because they don't want bigger crooks messing them up.
But it's different when you pay protection money (taxes) to the government. They don't care what happens to you.
There’s a video somewhere on youtube that shows a news reporter driving through the outskirts of Downtown Minneapolis on Saturday night showing many businesses being guarded by armed owners, friends and family.
Thank single mommies and pubic school teachers for this.
They’ve been the proggie, first-line indoctrinators of American children for decades.
Now, we taste the very bitter fruits of their ways.
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