The Morning Report 7/8/22

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and, mangling Elton John’s lyrics, I guess that’s why they call it the news, as about the last thing I expected to report is that former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was assassinated yesterday while making a campaign speech. From what I can glean, the assassin is in custody, though nothing about possible motives is known, or has yet to be released.

Out of the blue as this is, there are some connections to things we are dealing with at home as well as on the international scene. For starters, Japan is one of the most peaceful societies on the planet. Murder is extremely rare, mostly owing to the complete homogeneity of the population and culture, and — take note 2-A abolitionists — private ownership of firearms is virtually 100% illegal. The weapon used to kill Abe is supposedly some sort of homemade shotgun. But there are other things that might raise an eyebrow:

Abe was the first world leader to meet with President Trump after his 2016 election and the two had a warm relationship. Trump posted on Truth Social early Friday morning: 

“Absolutely devastating news that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, a truly great man and leader, has been shot, and is in very serious condition. He was a true friend of mine and, much more importantly,
America. This is a tremendous blow to the wonderful people of Japan, who loved and admired him so much. We are all praying for Shinzo and his beautiful family!”
 . . .

. . . [So-called quote-unquote “president”] Biden has apparently not yet been roused from his slumber to comment on the situation. No doubt his staff is scrambling to figure out a way to blame Trump for the shooting. . . 

. . . The former PM has been a critic of China in recent years and has angered the government there. In November he declared that the U.S. and Japan should defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression: “A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-U.S. alliance. People in Beijing, President Xi Jinping in particular, should never have a misunderstanding in recognising this,” he said. In an April op-ed, he blasted [so-called quote-unquote “president”] Joe Biden for his ambiguous policy toward Taiwan, criticizing “America’s unwillingness to say explicitly that it will ‘defend Taiwan’ should it be attacked.”

Unequivocal friend of Trump and America, openly adversarial to Xi. Make of that what you will. Of course, it could have been just a lone psycho addicted to eyeball-licking and tentacle porn (Kurt Eichenwald evidently has an alibi). In any case, the real America has lost a friend and staunch ally at a time when we can ill afford to lose one.

このたびはご愁傷さまでございます — “On this sad occasion we grieve with you.”

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Closer to home, a lot closer in my case, this story that Ace covered yesterday is about as Orwellian a nightmare that you can find. Except in this case, it’s all too real.

Under our law, a person may use deadly physical force upon another individual when, and to the extent that, “he/she reasonably believes it to be necessary to defend himself/herself [or someone else] from what he/she reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of ­[unlawful] deadly physical force by such individual.”

Are the actions of Mr. Alba reasonable? Of course they are. Mr. Alba was attacked; he was not the aggressor. The attacker came behind the counter to attack him. The attacker was bigger, younger and stronger. A reasonable person would have believed he was in imminent threat from an attacker who kept coming. To those who disagree, I ask: what should have Mr. Alba have done? There is no time to call the police and no assistance was coming from anywhere. . . 

. . . It is truly shocking that the DA has decided to prosecute Mr. Alba for defending himself in a clear-cut case of self-defense Fortunately, we will have a jury that will make things right.

In the current environment, bodegas and retail stores have become open targets for shoplifters and those seeking to hurt store employees. There is no fear of any consequences because the police have made these cases a low priority. And this is the result of a misguided policy. Mr. Alba and others like him have had to step into the breach and protect themselves. The right to defend ourselves is a long-established right that goes back to the earliest codification of criminal law.

When the police will not act, when the DA’s Office has taken the side of the attackers, what is one to do?

Given the fact that NYC is a microcosm of the Junta that controls our government, what the ordinary citizen— and in reality, serf — is supposed to do is lie back and take it. “To preserve our liberal world order,” of course. Unaffordable gas, groceries and medicine? Letting street thugs rob you at knife- or gunpoint, or DC thugs rob you on April 15th? You better believe it. And you better sing their praises lest you find yourself in the Garland Archipelago, or in the case of Jose Alba, Rikers Island. 

To effectively defend yourself against an attacker is to negate the argument that only the government and its sanctioned agents in law enforcement can do that, or are qualified to do that. Guns are far too dangerous to allow ordinary citizens to own one, or so goes the rationale. Hello, Uvalde? Marjorie Stoneman-Douglass? Bueller? “Fuck you, Sefton. The guy didn’t even have a gun!” BINGO! As I said, it’s not that you shouldn’t be allowed to defend yourself with a gun. You should not be allowed to defend yourself, period.

This junta and its Nazi collaborator Soros puppets masquerading as DAs, and in this case the putrid, Marxist scumbag racialist Alvin Bragg, are all in on “social justice.” Translation: retribution for slavery and Jim Crow that have not been a real thing for 60-160 years and the imaginary sin of existing while white. White being normal American of any color. NB, Jose Alba is Indian (dot, not feathers).

There has been an update to this story as I am writing:

The Manhattan bodega worker charged with murder after fighting off a violent ex-con in his store over the weekend was finally home Thursday night after he was released on bail in the highly publicized case.

Jose Alba, 61, arrived at his Hamilton Heights apartment around 8:30 p.m. wearing an electronic monitor hours after a Manhattan judge agreed to lower his sky-high bail from $250,000 to $50,000. . . 

. . .Before his release, Alba had been locked up at Rikers Island on a murder rap for his fatal encounter with Austin Simon, 35, on Friday night inside the Hamilton Heights bodega where he works.

Relatives and Alba’s boss posted $5,000 needed to spring him on a bail bond.

As part of his release agreement, Alba is also barred from leaving New York City and he had to surrender his passport, ensuring he will not be going to the Dominican Republic on a previously planned trip.

What a fucking travesty. But what do you expect when we have a criminal justice system that lets rioters run wild in the streets for weeks at a time, B-urning L-ooting M-urdering and laying waste to scores of American cities and hailed as mostly peaceful legitimate protestors while actual peaceful protesters are locked up for a year-and-a-half on an entrapment sting and slimed as traitors and insurrectionists. On top of that, those that stole a national election and committed actual treason sit in judgement in kangaroo courts over the real victims, Trump and his allies, while rigged courts and juries in DC let the Klinesmiths, McCabes, Strzoks, Sussmans off scot free with apologies, book deals and CNN gigs as parting gifts. 

To continue with the theme of positivity from yesterday, this Chesa Boudin psycho was recalled from San Francisco, a city whose citizenry in the main are not known for being conservative and his replacement was just named, Brooke Jenkins, who quit Boudin’s office in 2021 to volunteer for the recall. Again this is San Francisco, after all, so we’ll see how she does, although the problem there is systemic and structural. Laws will have to be changed and that’s on London Breed, the city council and ultimately the brilliantine pretty boy governor. 

Ditto for this George Gascon freak a few hundred miles to the south in LA, where he too will now face a recall. Again, it’s California. And yet Californians seemingly have had enough of what they themselves voted for. But, they did vote for it which begs the question, do they now have the self-awareness to understand that and to actually change their mindset? That is the question and it is applicable to our society as a whole as we hurtle headlong into an abyss with a drooling, gibbering, demented vegetable being manipulated out of Kalorama.* * * * * 

Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I’ll be leaving New York. Until then, I’ll be knee deep in bubble wrap, boxes and tape, but I’ll be back on Tuesday the 19th if all goes to plan.

Have a great weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

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CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG “RIOT” & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION 

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DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  • “The Fed’s past complacency undermines its present effort to fight inflation.” Self-Inflicted Wounds
  • “In much the same way that the 2008 bankruptcy of one of our banks spelled trouble for the rest of the world economy, so too could a debt crisis in Europe or in the emerging-market economies damage our already-troubled economy.” How a Looming Economic Crash Abroad Could Smack US Shores

ABORTION

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

  • “In October 2021, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) mandated that all eligible students be vaccinated for [Chinese] COVID-19 by Jan. 10, 2022, or be required to go back to virtual learning. The mandate was promptly challenged and has now been struck down by a Los Angeles County judge who ruled on July 5 that the district lacks the authority to impose the mandate.” Another Chinese COVID Vax Mandate Bites the Dust

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY 

POLITICS

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER

  • “The measure comes after Afghanistan has been back under the control of the Taliban for nearly 11 months since the Biden [junta] completed its withdrawal last August. The American-backed regime collapsed within two weeks as the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital of Kabul after nearly two decades of military and economic support. Thousands of Americans and billions of dollars worth of military equipment were left.”Biden Moves to Rescind Afghanistan’s Status as a Major Non-NATO Ally

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY 

  • “The asteroid does not fit NASA’s criteria for ‘potentially hazardous asteroid,’ and the object is small enough that it would almost certainly burn up in the atmosphere if it entered Earth’s gravity well” Unexpected Asteroid Passing Really Close By Earth

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

HITHER & YON 

  • David Harsanyi: “I know, I’m very late to this, but I need to rant . . .” No Time To Die is Garbage
  • “Caan, who died Thursday at age 82, always screamed New York. Having grown up here, he lived and breathed NYC throughout his life, and the five boroughs fed his legendary performances like the Hudson feeds the Atlantic.” James Caan Was the Ultimate New Yorker

NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

2 comments to “The Morning Report 7/8/22”
  1. Good luck on the move JJ. I am sure there are mixed feelings about having to leave a place you have strong emotional ties to. As always, the efforts that you and CBD put into this are greatly appreciated. Your pursuit of excellence is admirable.

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