[Psychology professor Anna] Lau recalled a situation during which a foreign student asked “what if the reason black males are incarcerated more than whites is because they commit more crimes?” She said there was a total silence in the room. She then stated she wished she knew how to answer, because hard questions should be asked. Shortly after, Assistant Professor Safiya Noble stated “we cannot let unsophisticated comments stand.” She said that as a faculty in residence for the “Afrikan Disapora” dorm floor, she has learned that “those questions outside the norm make black students feel not just microaggressed, but actually aggressed.”…’
via David Thompson

‘Facebook Censorship and the War on Free Speech
‘..To this, Murray adds the disturbing September incident in which German chancellor Angela Merkel was caught on an open mike, asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg if he would help suppress “anti-immigration” postings… and he replied that he was already working on it.
…What Murray describes at Facebook is but one example of a new mindset taking shape across the Western world – a view of free expression as a liability, a toxic agent of chaos to be contained.  Countless stories from the last few years show us that free speech is now negotiable, and the negotiations take place along Marxist class-consciousness lines.  Designated victims must be protected from ideas that would hurt their feelings.  The cost in liberty to “privileged” oppressors is a small price to pay.
Citizens must learn to weigh their words very carefully.  That’s a way of teaching them to weigh their very thoughts carefully, internally policing themselves, lest external social-justice police have to be called in.  We are told to accept this new, constrained view of free expression because only “bad” thoughts will be suppressed, but as Murray demonstrates, the definition of bad-thought becomes elastic very quickly, and the ability to write those definitions is a source of incredible power…’

 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster

‘Experts’ Warn ‘Global Warming’ Making Pet Dogs Depressed’

Anyone for crab chowder?

By Seneca III
And it’s a beauty, over at Gates of Vienna.

‘France Confirms PEGIDA Ban
The prefecture of Calais has taken steps to prevent the local branch of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) marching through the French port town on Saturday, citing possible clashes with far left groups. Movement leaders in the area have vowed to march regardless, citing their right to free expression.
…Last week Breitbart London relayed shocking images of one family being attacked in their own front garden by migrants hurling tyres and other debris, egged on by Western far left activists. The attack took place as more than 2,000 European communists, socialists and other hard left groups gathered to show their solidarity with the migrants and call for an end to national borders….’
It’s time for civil war. And there’s every indication that it’s coming.

First this: ‘BORDER AGENTS ORDERED TO STAND DOWN
‘MIGHT AS WELL ABOLISH IMMIGRATION LAWS’…’
Then this:
‘U.S. eyes ways to toughen fight against domestic extremists’
Soon anybody who objects to the country being flooded with potential Dem-voting third-world cheap labor will be a “domestic extremist”.

‘AOS cop acquitted over accidental shooting

A former Hawke’s Bay armed offenders squad member who was charged with accidentally shooting a man while he was arrested and lying face-down on the ground has today been acquitted.
The man who has name suppression had been on trial for three and a half days at the Napier District Court before Judge David Ongley facing one charge of carelessly using a firearm.
The jury returned the not guilty verdict after two hours deliberation.
The court heard on August 16, 2013 the man was unintentionally shot when the AOS member’s M4 Bushmaster rifle went off as he leant forward to help lift the man from the ground.
…The constable’s lawyer, Jonathan Krebs, told the court his client had not received the training he needed to adequately equip him for the front line…’
So, if I forget to check the safety on my firearm and somebody gets shot as a result, that’s a sure conviction for carelessly using a firearm, and would result in a conviction, loss of licence and possible jail time.
A cop, however, is magically immune..