 So America fucking exploded, and has continued to burn for nearly a week now. I've been hesitant to talk about it too deep so far, because while I tend to be more invested and involved with American politics and current affairs rather than British, right now I really don't have any idea of what's going on outside of second hand experience from people on Twitter or Americans that I personally talk to. This is a good way to get a feel of public opinion, but not at all a good way to quickly discern, you know, the facts. So here are the facts that I know. George Floyd was murdered by a prick wearing a badge, which if he wasn't wearing, then the video we would have seen would be him kneeling on a man's neck than a crowd of people beating seven colours of shit out of him. But he had a flimsy piece of cheap metal on his chest, so instead his buddies and the whole crowd just watched as he choked a defenceless man on the floor for nine minutes as he cried out for help. George's crime, allegedly handing a fake $20 check into a grocery store. The enforcers of the state killed a man for using fake money. The enforcers of the state giving death sentences for counterfeiting. Are you fucking kidding me? Never again will there be sufficient grounds to argue against the phrases, there is no law so trivial that the state won't be willing to kill you for it, and the state calls his own violence law and that of the individual crime. That piece of metal gives an individual the license to kill another unjustly at their own discretion with minimal oversight, minimal punishment, and for doing the exact same things as their own employer does thousands of times worse. It's almost an oxymoron to call it police brutality because brutality is the only possible method the state has at its disposal if you displease or resist its violence and destructive commands. In 2019 the American police killed over 1,000 people. That is even more staggering when you consider that this doesn't include people paralysed, entrapped, assaulted, sexually abused, and so on by the police and how many people were arrested for non-violent crimes. People whose lives were ruined apparently for their own safety, what a joke. For decades now the police in America have become the standing army that the founding fathers tirelessly warned about and they are acting exactly as they would have expected. Reigning tyranny over the country with an iron fist draped in a flag. The police are the enforcers of the state and the enemy of the people and it is far past the time for the people to realise it. As always the supposed good cops either watched murder happen or assisted in it. Isn't it funny how an institution which is inherently violent and can only ever be is only poorly represented by a few bad apples? Not only is that a bare faced lie it's also completely unacceptable. You can't have bad apples when you give out licenses to kill. You can't be surprised when six months of training for that position unleashes a swarm of incompetent twats onto the population. The redcoats have been replaced by the thin blue line and they are much worse. They are an organisation of attack dogs trained to always obey their master no matter what they say and when they do something wrong try to defer the blame to the master who they followed so enthusiastically right up until the moment that something went bad. That shit doesn't fly, we figured that out at the Nuremberg trials. Every individual is responsible for their actions and the police have had to find this out the hard way. And they did. It is a great sight to see the Minneapolis police department burning. I feel no remorse for every photo of a police car tipped upside down, windows smashed and set on fire. Libertarians have been on the scene rightfully protesting the police armed and kitted which is always so great to see. And for any left wingers watching right now who a few months ago were calling the protesting gun rights advocates racist white supremacists or any of that bullshit we're on your side. We want civilians owning guns instead of cops. The people you were lambasting for standing up for their rights are doing it again in the same style and I hope to Christ that now you understand why. Who do you call when the police are murderers? You call your friends and grab the biggest guns you can hold. Now do you understand? I pray to all that is holy that you do because if you still can't see it then you're fucking blind. But we've even got Koreans back on the rooftops boys we've got dudes stealing police horses and we've got black communities arming themselves to defend their property. Real talk a lot of this is looking like snippets of what we all mean about with the boogaloo but it's actually happening. It's hard not to smile ear to ear when you see some of this. But and yes there is a but. If you follow me on twitter you probably know what's coming. In fact I just said it. Black people arming themselves to protect their businesses. Now these people are not armed to protect themselves from the police. They're armed to protect themselves from looters who are looting in the name of justice apparently. What's happening is full on riots. Disorganized blind opportunist and abhorrent people are using this to their own selfish advantage by stealing from innocents and burning down their property. In Minneapolis the target supermarket and auto zone were on fire before the police department was. How fucking stupid do you have to be to witness the state yet again murder an innocent person and then go and destroy a private business. This wouldn't have pissed me off as much as it did if I hadn't seen libertarians on social media actually justifying and defending this behaviour. Their argument goes that because their big chain businesses it doesn't matter and because those businesses are government lobbyists they in fact deserve it. Well you might be right if it was the target headquarters that were being burned down but let me give you a quick lesson on some high school level business practices. Chain stores are franchises which means in almost all cases the premises and property are owned by local individual entrepreneurs. They employ local people, provide food to the local community, fund local charities and entice further investment into the local community. So congratulations you fucking idiots you didn't even dent the company's bottom line but you did create disastrous unemployment for the already suffering community and have taken away their ability for so many of them to feed themselves. Pillocks. And I've seen socialists justify it by saying it's exactly the same as the Boston Tea Party. You're completely wrong and here is why. The tea in that case was owned by the British East India Company, a company that was owned by the state. So it was literally an extension of the government that the Sons of Liberty were rebelling against, making the tea more akin to public property than private, public property of course being an oxymoron. They didn't burn down the ship, one padlock was reportedly broken which was privately owned by one of the sailors so the Sons of Liberty replaced it and they even swept up after themselves. Only one member took some tea for themselves and were reprimanded for it. What they did not do was then head into Boston, destroy businesses, rob people, steal a load of shoes and derail the good cause of the revolution because you know, that's just stupid. I've been completely on board with Eric D. July throughout this fiasco. His posts on Twitter and YouTube about it have been brilliant and without a doubt speaking the most sense out of every single person I've heard so far. You can hold two positions simultaneously. Fuck the police and fuck the looters. Nothing contradictory about that. I also found out through Eric's videos that in Minneapolis a man shot somebody looting his business and immediately got taken to jail on the grounds of murder. He was arrested before the cop that killed George was. That's a fucking joke. There's a riot going on in your city heading straight for you and you're meant to just let your livelihood be overrun and destroyed. Not a fucking chance. This whole event has been one big shit show so far and this has to be the most ridiculous thing that's happened seconds to George being murdered. Oh yeah and apparently Trump declared Antifa to be a terrorist organization. You cannot celebrate this as a libertarian because now what is stopping him from doing it to the Boogaloo community? I'm sure some of you among them saw it as an inevitability but this can't be accepted. Don't get me wrong. I'm not a fan of them at all. They're communists after all. But I'm not going to act like this is a good thing or just doesn't matter because it seriously does. You could be next. So I think that is all I have to say about the matter so far. It's far from over but except I want to know how funny it is that everybody just seemed to forget about the COVID laws and social distancing. So many blue checks supporting the rioters were on Twitter just a week ago telling people that if they went outside they're murderers who want to kill the poor and elderly for a haircut. Anyway that's enough for now. We need to see how this plays out, what the motivation is going forward. If there continues to be protests rather than looting things can take a turn much for the better. But for now take it easy.