When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Connecticut’s finances are considerably worse than even the ugly scenario Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration painted in early May, if the analysts behind a new private study are correct. The coronavirus-induced recession could erode more than $6.5 billion in state revenues next fiscal year — two-and-a-half times the gap administration officials predicted — if researchers from Arizona State and Old Dominion universities are correct. The last time Connecticut faced a deficit close to $4 billion, in 2011, then-Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the legislature responded with tax increases worth more than $1.8 billion.
Simultaneously with five shooting incidents within a few hours in Bridgeport last week, two of them fatal, one of the wounded being a 13-year-old girl, the City Council agreed to consider the demand of local "social justice" protesters to defund the city's police department. Three days later four more people were shot in Bridgeport. One was killed.
How amazing it is that, by invoking longstanding state law empowering him to declare an emergency and rule Connecticut by decree, Governor Lamont can close businesses, eliminate the jobs and incomes of hundreds of thousands of people, impoverish them and their families, devastate the economy for years to come, commandeer the hospitals and nursing homes, and impose regulations on anyone seeking to go out in public, but he can't cancel or postpone the $350 million in 5½-percent raises scheduled for state government employees July 1.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
This is where we are in the course of public debate - there is none. There is only rage. There is violence against personal property and invective for those who disagree. Take a can of spray paint to a building or a statue and pump a clenched fist in the air – while clicking a selfie. Draw an obscenity on a police car or paint a phallus on a storefront with an all inclusive obscenity. Dare the owners or officials to clean it up and come back again. When that is over, make demands to overrule convention by undemocratic means or more magic will appear in the streets.
The basic premise of Black Lives Matter—that racist cops are killing unarmed black people—is false.
There was a time when I believed it. Two things changed my mind: stories and data.
First, the stories. Each story in this paragraph involves a police officer killing an unarmed white person -- all of them from a single year, 2015, chosen at random. [Timothy Smith, William Lemmon, Ryan Bolinger, Derek Cruice, Daniel Elrod, Ralph Willis, David Cassick, six-year-old Jeremy Mardis, Autumn Steele] ... the list could go on.
For every black person killed by the police, there is at least one white person (usually many) killed in a similar way. The day before cops in Louisville barged into Breanna Taylor’s home and killed her, cops barged into the home of a white man named Duncan Lemp, killed him, and wounded his girlfriend (who was sleeping beside him). Even George Floyd, whose death was particularly brutal, has a white counterpart: Tony Timpa.
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COEUR d’ALENE, June 1, 2020 — Reports and rumors that groups bent on rioting and violence in Coeur d’Alene brought out men and women with guns on Monday determined to stop them if they arrive
Coeur d'Alene, June 6, 2020 — A Friday afternoon letter signed by Mayor Steve Widmyer and the Coeur d'Alene City Council expressed support for the rights of armed citizens who have been patrolling downtown since Monday.
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Read in Coeur d'Alene Press, June 1, 2020
The Spectattor
The riotous Capitol Hill residential neighborhood where free spirits roam with their feral dogs and semi-automatic weapons. A 30-year-old dreadlocked hip-hop artist named Solomon Simone, who goes by the moniker Raz, has emerged as a spokesman for the six-block enclave.
You also have to hand it to the inhabitants of CHAZ for their ambition. ‘This is no simple request to end police brutality.’ the organizers tweeted at the head of a 30-point list of demands. These range from specific criminal-justice reforms up to what might be called the socio-economic realm. They want the ‘de-gentrification’ of Seattle, for example, increased funding for ‘arts and culture’, and a segregated local healthcare system. (Yes, that’s right: ‘Only black doctors and nurses should be employed specifically to care for black patients,’ it says here.)
Meanwhile, the gloriously feckless Washington governor Jay Inslee was asked at a press conference to weigh in on the no-go zone that had by then been up and running for the last 36 hours. ‘Well, that’s news to me, so I’ll reserve any comment,’ Inslee said. Could this be the same man who for the past three months has issued a near-daily series of executive orders and fiats that control every aspect of his citizens’ lives?
USA Today
In Seattle, a group of peaceful protesters have cornered off several city blocks and established the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone – a sort of protest haven where artists paint murals, speakers discuss topics of racial equity, snacks are handed out for free and virtually no police are in sight.
It's a group of people gathering lawfully and exercising their First Amendment right of free speech, said Mayor Jenny Durkan. "It is patriotism," Durkan added.
The group gathered after Seattle police abandoned a precinct in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on Monday and effectively handed the area over to the protesters they had clashed with for days.
Fox News
Activists and police have clashing views regarding the activities going on inside the so-called “CHAZ,” a six-block area of Seattle that has been taken over by protesters — and authorities are still scratching their heads as to who is actually running the rabble.
Photos of demonstrations inside the zone, which includes a now-shuttered police precinct, seem to paint a rosy picture: outdoor movies, music performances, sidewalk artwork and more.“There’s that stuff, but then there’s the darker side of things too,” one law enforcement official told Fox News
A volunteer works security at an entrance to the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (Getty)
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Minneapolis’ soy boy of a mayor, Jacob Frey, proves that no matter how much you abase yourself to the mob, you can never be woke enough.
In a scene reminiscent of a Maoist struggle session, he stood before two black protest organizers Saturday and confessed through a mask into a microphone that he was “coming to grips with my own brokenness.”
But the organizers, standing on a platform above him, weren’t interested in providing therapy for this 38-year-old man-child.
“Yes or no?” asked a woman with a microphone. “Will you commit to defunding the Minneapolis Police Department … We don’t want no more police.”
Poor Frey couldn’t bring himself to say yes, so his fate was sealed.
“Get the f–k out of here!” she snarled, and he was forced into a ritual walk of shame through the jeering crowd as they chanted, “Go home, Jacob!”
Just as homeowners must disclose to buyers any known problems with their properties, just as pharma companies must disclose any known adverse side effects with their drugs, and just as IPO issuers must disclose in their prospectuses all the things they can think of that may go wrong, the State of Connecticut should disclose to new residents and businesses the known risks they will face.
Here is the warning label every new resident should receive upon entering CT:
