{"id":100730,"date":"2020-06-09T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100730"},"modified":"2020-06-09T09:26:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:26:44","slug":"the-times-they-are-a-changin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100730","title":{"rendered":"The Times, They Are A-Changin’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black helicopters everywhere?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Regarding defunding the police, not everyone in every city is on board with that idea. And there are few specifics re: what Minneapolis plans to do and what is meant by \u201cdefunding\u201d the police.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/top-dems-punt-on-defund-the-police-question<\/a><\/p>\n

Can’t have it both ways!<\/p>\n

Even Biden\u2019s campaign issued a statement on his behalf saying \u2018not a good idea\u2019:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/06\/08\/biden-campaign-rejects-defund-police-307401<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article: A national movement to defund police is gathering steam \u2014 but former Vice President Joe Biden is not on board.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2018t support defunding the police,” Biden said in a CBS interview excerpt aired Monday evening. \u201cI support conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness and, in fact, are able to demonstrate they can protect the community and everybody in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden supports the urgent need for reform \u2014 including funding for public schools, summer programs, and mental health and substance abuse treatment separate from funding for policing \u2014 so that officers can focus on the job of policing,\u201d\u00a0<\/b>Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

While Biden supports increased funding for some programs that activists support, the former vice president’s platform also calls for increasing investment in law enforcement, a stance that runs counter to what many protesters have called for.\u00a0\u00a0–\u00a0 article<\/p>\n

Not defending Biden or anything like that, but it’s going around all over the place now, which is likely why he spoke up.\u00a0 It’s something that does bear open discussion without the interference of the media mavens and their insidious attempts to stir up trouble, even when there was none. If there are going to be discussions, they should be open and above board, not held in secrecy behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

The gross exaggerations and panic attacks over CV19, while ignoring the effects of the flu season, only means that the media in general are trying to control the narrative instead of relaying the real news to their audience. That part is controlled by the heads of publications and heads of TV\/radio stations.<\/p>\n

It’s a lot like Orson Welles’ 1938 broadcast of “War of the Worlds” over radio with no commercial interruptions, causing a large number of people to phone local police to find out what was going on. The reported panic attacks were mostly generated stories by the newspapers, to sell copies at newsstands.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180\/<\/a><\/p>\n

If there was any panic at all, it was low-key and mostly on the East Coast, involving people who had tuned into the show after the warning announcement had been broadcast, and had no idea what was going on.\u00a0Welles, in fact, had no idea that he had caused a near-panic in the population and had to hold a live press conference the next day to let the media know that, because it was Hallowe’en, it was done in the spirit of that spooky night: scare people!!!<\/p>\n

While Welles’ intent was meant in the spirit of Spook Night Hallowe’en and nothing else, the media got the bit in their collective teeth over it and ran with it. If it sells, it prints!<\/p>\n

That appears more and more to be what has been going on with CV19. Now that the riots and looting and pillaging are over with, we’re back to putting CV19 reports on the head of the list of ‘things to review today’, even though the numbers are dropping daily and Ferguson’s sloppy software, as with all of his forecasts<\/em>, produced a grossly invalid forecast for the USofA.<\/p>\n

No, the disease should not be ignored, but the destruction of a global economy at the drop of a hat does need closer examination.<\/p>\n

Likewise, the term “defunding the police” implies doing away with law enforcement with no alternative to replace it. If this were the Middle Ages, the King’s Yeomen did that kind of work and they were a lot nastier than cops are today. British Bobbies never used to carry weapons. Now they do. So let’s do have a closer look at what that means and ask for real solutions, not fantasyland nonsense.<\/p>\n

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