There's a Rumble in Berkeley Tonight Part 2

Yesterday, as expected, a riot broke out in Berkeley, mostly due to counter protesters showing up. There were few right wingers or white supremacists or whatever present, but they abandoned the field almost as soon as the opposition arrived. The police were keeping things under control until the black bloc anarchists appeared. The so-called Antifa, trying to cloak themselves with legitimacy, would not know a real fascist if he bit them in the black clad ass. The white supremacists clowns who attend these gatherings are a cartoonish bunch. I just want to laugh when I see them on TV stomping their feet, seig heiling and screaming, “White power!” They are simply fools. The real fascists sit in boardrooms and wear suits. They do not tweet, but they quietly arrange for the senators and representatives they own to pass laws that will slowly bring about the inception of the corporate state, where only the few will have a decent living and the rest live in squalor.

Those who proclaim that hate speech is not free speech step upon the slippery slope. As the corporate state becomes reality and their lives deteriorate, they might want to justifiably protest. However, by that time the corporate state will call their free speech hate speech and the police will gladly squelch any such protest.

The Berkeley Police seem to be giving these violent anarchists a pass. I wish they would actually do something. Maybe arrest a few more and gather intelligence about them like name, address, phone number and social media information and start doing some work. I suspect this is too much to ask.

Berkeley's Mountain Lion

There were reports of a memorial for a mountain lion killed by Berkeley police on August 31. Some in Berkeley objected to the police action and thought that the animal should be tranquilized and then relocated. The Berkeley Police should not be faulted for their actions. They were not equipped with sedative and delivery systems. Even if they were and the lion was darted, these drugs will not take immediate effect and the beast could run off, hide, sleep it off and remain a threat. According to the Spike Network show, Manswers, the deer by far has caused more human deaths in the United States than any other animal. This lion, however, was a predator by nature and could not have been allowed to remain in the neighborhood. These cats have lost the fear of humans which must change.

I do not want the police to have to second guess themselves in a future encounter. I think those who object to the outcome might feel different if a lion is about to scarf their Vegan rear ends. Some say this is only in Berkeley. I say get some common sense.