This shit is enraging. Everyone sees what's going on. Everyone sees that when blacks kill whites and Asians, they can babble openly about BLM and racial hatred, and somehow it's never a racially motivated hate crime. Look at the New York subway shooter, just a couple months ago. And everyone sees that every time the races are reversed, it's suddenly a national emergency.
To white libs, it's only a problem when something bad happens to their pets. That includes their pets being punished for misbehavior. Their pets savaging innocent people? Well they had it coming, how dare you be angry.
Funny how they do everything they can to avoid living close to their pets, though. Almost like they know.
On the death penalty: it's also more merciful. When a dog bites a child you don't throw it in the basement and beat it for the rest of its life. That would be senselessly cruel. You put it down, and that's the end of it.
exactly...and then hang him if it is beyond a reasonable doubt...but cops lie and they do nothing to help the problems we are facing...the real story is why does the media constantly push divide wherever they can? because we are weaker divided...people are brainwashed and have been sooooo dumbed down, truth no longer matters.
Karl, Sorry to say I would have blown off Seth's mom's tweets because of the "Gun Control Now!!" Terrible story, heartbreaking. The Berkeley Chancellor is grotesque. That POS human debris murderer shares a name with my dog, makes me want to rethink it. He does, in fact, deserve to die in prison. And they said he'd never accomplish anything.
The fact she used her own son's dead body as a podium from which to incessantly promote legislation that makes people more vulnerable to random violence (and that would not have protected her child from an attacker determined to kill a white person) tells me that she is part of the problem. Likely a liberal who has voted for the very same people who set the stage for her son's murder, and still completely blind to her own complicity. I would bet that if her background was investigated, you'd find a history of liberal activism (incl. gun control). Typically, she's unable to identify the actual problems and their causes that led to her son's death, helping to assure (by the misdirection of political attention) future tragedies.
I wouldn't have found this article if it weren't for Real Clear Politics, but I'm glad I did.
I'm a liberal, and as a liberal, I don't understand the concept of a hate crime to begin with. (All crime includes some element of hate.) But if you're going to have hate crime laws and augmentations, then you apply them in a colorblind manner (yes, I'm that kind of liberal). And, yes, the media is complicit in this. But Mr. Walker should not have been walking the streets.
As someone else mentioned, and I paraphrase, while I don't blame the mother for blaming guns, this asshole would have stabbed the kid if he hadn't had the gun. This is a problem of people, not weapon choice. Violent people will find any reason to commit violence and they will just choose a different weapon.
The whole thing with George Floyd is sickening. The man is no kind of hero. He left a trail of damage in his wake. And while I don't think Chauvin was an angel either and deserved to lose his job or spend some time in jail, turning George Floyd into a saint actually hurts the black community's cause. If George is the best you've got for a martyr, you're in a sad state. And Obama always has been a race arsonist. I voted for him (twice), but he was bad enough in office, and now that he's becoming a bit obsolete, he's worse. That tweet showed his true colors. A dead bunch of little kids of a range of ethnicities to him is not nearly as useful as one dead imperfect black man. Why? Because of who killed that black man and who didn't kill those kids.
This is true. A lifelong peace and freedom loving libertarian-left labor party guy. I voted for Dems since 1972. The Democrats are no longer a labor party. They are a globalist, corporatist, regime change imperialist cabal. Embracing woke ideology to divide and conquer the working and middle classes, and to project a façade of some kind of woke moral justification or superiority. We have trans-gender generals. We are inclusive. Is the rainbow the new insignia of a bellicose global imperial military regime-change superpower? Many on the left seem to consider the "Bill of Rights" as problematic. "Hate speech is not free speech" they parrot in unison. "Hate speech" has a wide and ever fluid definition to these people. They are authoritarian. This chills my bones. The rainbow is claimed and flown by the military industrial media complex, allegedly to liberate us from our racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, whateverphobic condition, a result of our original sin; Western culture, where all sin and social ills originated, and were then afflicted on innocent, harmonious and uncorrupted non-Western peoples. Including colonialism, slavery, imperialism, cultural appropriation and cis-heteronormativity. Only reactionaries would disagree. Out loud, anyway. Antifa breaks it down like this: On the left, R-L, "socialists, communists, anarchists." On the right, L-R "liberals (fascists), conservatives (fascists) rightists (fascists)." Liberals are largely not fully aware or well informed, or have investigated the spectrum of perspectives and political opinions out there. We are unwitting and hapless dupes to back these corrupt people. I was a #walkaway ex-Dem in 2020. As people say, "the left left me".
At least Smith’s mother is getting some kind of justice for her son.Emmett Till’s mother went to her grave without any justice for her son and after 60 years still no justice.
Please consider that what transpired in Waukesha was precisely 6x as bad as what happened to Emmett Till. We’re it up to Darrell Brooks, he would have killed many more than just the six. The sub-human animal that did this complained about being “dehumanized” and “demonized” after his murder rampage. The year is 2022. I’m trying to figure out how much longer white people are going to keep apologizing to a group of folks - many of whom have absolutely zero interest in functioning in society in any way.
Are Charleston and Buffallo proof that white people can't function in society?
The Seth Rich situation is terrible, but thousands of murders go uncommented on weekly. If you think his sentencing was too lenient your problem is with the prosecutors and sentencing guidelines of the State of California.
Your (and the OPs) use of this strategy to attack black people is straightforwardly racist. I would ask you to do better but you are likely incapable. Bigotry of low expectations indeed.
“Rooster” can’t help himself. His brain has been mentally conquered by leftism. 60 years from now, black people will be doing precisely what they are now. Except at a worse rate - and he will still be demanding zero accountability from them. Just like Seth Smiths mom…
Scroll through the mother's twitter feed. She lives in CA and is experiencing the consequences of her votes. She's getting what she wanted. Her timeline is a caricature of even a half-baked leftist, complete with voteblue22 hashtags.
It's a damned shame the young man was murdered; may he rest in peace.
And she still doesn't see it. She can DIAF and rot.
Honestly, if losing her own son and having his university and the media respond in such a way didn’t work, it doesn’t matter how many blue pills she takes: she’s never going to wake up.
my family (teachers) are the same way...my cousin is sick (vaccinated) but won't even entertain the idea of taking Ivermectin, which in her case could possibly help (ocular rosacea) she is convinced that Ivermectin is toxic, poison meant for horses...i gave her a boat load of evidence telling her the wonders of Ivermectin and she still would not listen...even though there is a risk she could go blind...delusional mass psychosis is rather amazing, people literally stop using their brain.
I got a healthy case of COVID at the end of April. Sever head ache, 102 F, cough, congestion, chills but negative antigen test. Go figure. Contacted FLCCCC clinic, got Ivermectin/Z-pack and all symptoms gone, back to normal in 24 hours.
With all due respect she may just be too dumb to live. Even Wikipedia will tell you that ivm is a Nobel prize winning drug, an anti parasitic drug developed to prevent river blindness in HUMANS!!!
Seth Smith's murder is disturbingly close to my brother's murder which occurred in 1969 in Washington DC. He was white, 22 years old, and due to graduate with a Masters degree in physics in two days from the Catholic University of America. He was the victim of an armed robbery. He attempted to leave and was shot in the back of the head, dying on the spot. The murderer and his accomplices were all teenagers and black.
Two of the accomplices were sentenced as juveniles so the records were hidden and their sentences were consequently set aside as is often done for juveniles.
One accomplice and the murderer would be sentenced as adults by judge Aubrey E Robinson Jr. The judge was also black (he can be found in Wikipedia). The adult the accomplice was sentenced to 10 years in jail. The murderer was sentenced to time served (it took nearly four years before his sentencing). He was free to leave through the front door the courthouse if he wished.
Both the adult accomplice and of the murderer were sentenced with a now repealed Youth Corrections Act. Upon completion of parole their sentences would be automatically set aside, which was the functional equivalent of expungement provided they committed no new felonies. They could even state under oath that they had not been convicted for my brother's murder.
So far as I know, not a single conviction exists today. My brother's murder was treated as a learning experience for young people rather than a capital offense.
There are many details too involved for a comment section.
Racial injustice against whites is not new. When it happens silence from the media is to be expected. Black lives matter.
I had quite [radical? progressive? liberal?] beliefs in my long-agos. Then I started traveling, and I ended up in a very poor very conservative country where I lived closely with people who were, actually, poor. Nothing like life itself to educate you. I knew people who had no realistic hope that educating their children would lead to much success, in a society brutally stacked against them where merit is crushed under the advantages received by bribery and influence. And yet some of them would sacrifice everything to enable their children to go to a crappy little school to get some basic literacy and numeracy.
I learned that if you live in a solid weatherproof structure; have hot and cold running water and reliable electricity and a fridge and a stove, you are not, in fact, poor. If you get a free government-provided education, regardless of how crappy it is, you are not deprived.
There's no durable cure for lousy parenting. Everything starts pre-conception; by birth, unfortunately, many children are already doomed to not be competent at life. The ones born with a fighting chance are often destroyed before they make it to kindergarten. And universal pre-k won't fix it. Freedom is very costly; it's worth it, but the innocent and helpless often pay the most.
May 29, 2022·edited May 30, 2022Liked by Christopher Brunet
I'm a resident of West Berkeley. Seth was murdered just up the street (Dwight Way) from me. A 5-10 minute walk, during the George Floyd riots. At the exact same time, two "nooses" (looped ropes) were reported hanging from a tree at nearby Lake Merritt, in Oakland. This was a major news story that was reported on daily, for a week. Solid evidence of white supremacists (unicorns) residing here. The mayor of Oakland appointed a special committee to investigate white supremacist terrorists here, over this shocking discovery. Seth's brutal racist murder was glossed over in the local news. A UCB student was found murdered on the street. No details. When Walker was arrested, the media reported his name and age. Nothing about race or motive, with the notable exception of the Berkeleyside news outlet, much to their credit. They followed this disturbing story in detail, including Walker's obscene racist statements regarding Seth. A week after the shocking discovery of looped ropes hanging from a tree branch, a black gentleman who lived near Lake Merritt came forward to report that the "nooses" were his. They were loops that he used to do pull-ups when he exercised at the park. They had been there for a year. The message of the sick and perverted media is that Seth's racist assassination is not worthy of attention. Forget Seth Smith. We should be mourning the white supremacist attack on Jussie Smollett.
new here. Found you via Instapundit. Looking forward to being a paying member after reading some of your stuff, especially economics related.
At the risk of sounding crass, I wonder if Seth's mom is a big lib. Her "Gun Control Now!!" thing sets off the Spidey-senses. And while I am very sympathetic to the loss of her son, if she voted leftie, I hate to say it, but what the hell did she expect??? And now she wants ME to give up MY guns???
Unfortunately it is NOT so called gun violence. It is newsom and his party that have opened the prisons, run narratives about whites being racist and promoting racism with their agenda. The Brits have severe gun control and it has resulted in murders using knives to the point that knives have surpassed killings in NY with guns. It's not the firearm.. Stop it. Your wonderful son was killed by a hated filled racist black who got it from listening to the racists in BLM. Disarmament is being pushed by the Crats for pure power.
top to bottom, this is what media and politics is now -- the promotion of narratives to create legally enforceable American class distinctions
why do you think Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden are still merrily grifting after committing hundreds of well-established felonies, while perfectly innocent Jan 6 protesters languish in prison, careers destroyed?
do you suppose it would be national news if children of press or prominent Democrats got the Seth Smith treatment?
our national institutions are already thoroughly corrupted, secession from this madness is the only rational answer remaining, to preserve our lives and liberty and children
leave them to their cop-free paradise of government-funded baby organ harvesting, public school grooming, double-digit inflation and 90% tax rates, where the only crimes are wrongthink or owning a gun
May 30, 2022·edited May 30, 2022Liked by Christopher Brunet
RIP Seth.
He was visiting and not an American, but the recent death of David Giride of Columbia University (phd program) is similar at least in violence and randomness
Compassion, instead of anger, is what is called for—always. We can't condone murder, we can't support or cheer for it, and we should not be forced to participate in it by the State—if we are to develop into an ethical, moral society.
Capital punishment goes against the very idea of ethics and humanity.
We have to act above our base instincts. We have to rise above anger. Think of the millions of dollars used to house dangerous prisoners as a way to protect the innocent, by keeping the anti-social away from the rest of society.
And let go of the anger. It steals away your time, your life. Instead, commit yourself to caring for those around you, those you love. Spending time with your loved ones is all that matters.
Thank you for informing us about the dangers that exist in our society.
And thank you most of all for taking the time to remember Seth Smith.
But what you do in anger, the actions you take in anger, could haunt you for the rest of your life and, more importantly, cause more harm and more anger to propagate in the world.
This shit is enraging. Everyone sees what's going on. Everyone sees that when blacks kill whites and Asians, they can babble openly about BLM and racial hatred, and somehow it's never a racially motivated hate crime. Look at the New York subway shooter, just a couple months ago. And everyone sees that every time the races are reversed, it's suddenly a national emergency.
To white libs, it's only a problem when something bad happens to their pets. That includes their pets being punished for misbehavior. Their pets savaging innocent people? Well they had it coming, how dare you be angry.
Funny how they do everything they can to avoid living close to their pets, though. Almost like they know.
On the death penalty: it's also more merciful. When a dog bites a child you don't throw it in the basement and beat it for the rest of its life. That would be senselessly cruel. You put it down, and that's the end of it.
The problem is there should be no 'Hate Crimes".
Why is killing someone for his shoes better than killing someone because they are Black?
Why is killing your wife for insurance better than killing someone because they are Jewish?
Why is killing someone in a rage better than killing someone because they are homosexual?
Punish crime, not motive.
'Hate Crimes' require 'Thought Police'
Attach a mandatory death penalty to any first-degree murder and I don’t give a shit what the motive or explanation are!
It wouldn't matter. They let him plead down to manslaughter.
exactly...and then hang him if it is beyond a reasonable doubt...but cops lie and they do nothing to help the problems we are facing...the real story is why does the media constantly push divide wherever they can? because we are weaker divided...people are brainwashed and have been sooooo dumbed down, truth no longer matters.
No. Hanging is instructive, and illustrates what happens when you take another life. Why do you think villains were hanged publicly years ago ?
There are consequences to a very interesting group of people that own almost all the media companies, also possess an overtly anti-white disposition.
To even notice this… to even raise an eyebrow at such hostility and they will send the ADL attack dogs after you.
Just state your hatred for Jews. At least have the honesty to be an open anti-semite. Puke.
good try Linden. but that gaslighting rhetoric won’t work on me.
Please consider the words of Barbara Lerner Spectre. Or David Wise. Or Jennifer Rubin. Or David Cole.
It’s too late bud. When someone tells you what they really think, best thing is to believe them the first time. Take them at their word.
Karl, Sorry to say I would have blown off Seth's mom's tweets because of the "Gun Control Now!!" Terrible story, heartbreaking. The Berkeley Chancellor is grotesque. That POS human debris murderer shares a name with my dog, makes me want to rethink it. He does, in fact, deserve to die in prison. And they said he'd never accomplish anything.
The fact she used her own son's dead body as a podium from which to incessantly promote legislation that makes people more vulnerable to random violence (and that would not have protected her child from an attacker determined to kill a white person) tells me that she is part of the problem. Likely a liberal who has voted for the very same people who set the stage for her son's murder, and still completely blind to her own complicity. I would bet that if her background was investigated, you'd find a history of liberal activism (incl. gun control). Typically, she's unable to identify the actual problems and their causes that led to her son's death, helping to assure (by the misdirection of political attention) future tragedies.
She has my sympathy and my everlasting enmity.
I'm not on Twitter and never will be but would love to have seen her previous tweets before her son was murdered. Big lib?
ooops. apparent the very next comment answered that for us.
Ah, but there is a God to whom you can pray. I pray you’ll discover Him, and come to know life eternal.
For Bezerkely, you want the Hayward Fault
We used to call it "Berserkley", from back in the 80s on.
Actually, that nick-name harkens back to the ‘60’s…
I wouldn't have found this article if it weren't for Real Clear Politics, but I'm glad I did.
I'm a liberal, and as a liberal, I don't understand the concept of a hate crime to begin with. (All crime includes some element of hate.) But if you're going to have hate crime laws and augmentations, then you apply them in a colorblind manner (yes, I'm that kind of liberal). And, yes, the media is complicit in this. But Mr. Walker should not have been walking the streets.
As someone else mentioned, and I paraphrase, while I don't blame the mother for blaming guns, this asshole would have stabbed the kid if he hadn't had the gun. This is a problem of people, not weapon choice. Violent people will find any reason to commit violence and they will just choose a different weapon.
The whole thing with George Floyd is sickening. The man is no kind of hero. He left a trail of damage in his wake. And while I don't think Chauvin was an angel either and deserved to lose his job or spend some time in jail, turning George Floyd into a saint actually hurts the black community's cause. If George is the best you've got for a martyr, you're in a sad state. And Obama always has been a race arsonist. I voted for him (twice), but he was bad enough in office, and now that he's becoming a bit obsolete, he's worse. That tweet showed his true colors. A dead bunch of little kids of a range of ethnicities to him is not nearly as useful as one dead imperfect black man. Why? Because of who killed that black man and who didn't kill those kids.
Hate to have to tell you this, but you aren’t a liberal any more. The definition has changed out from under you.
This is true. A lifelong peace and freedom loving libertarian-left labor party guy. I voted for Dems since 1972. The Democrats are no longer a labor party. They are a globalist, corporatist, regime change imperialist cabal. Embracing woke ideology to divide and conquer the working and middle classes, and to project a façade of some kind of woke moral justification or superiority. We have trans-gender generals. We are inclusive. Is the rainbow the new insignia of a bellicose global imperial military regime-change superpower? Many on the left seem to consider the "Bill of Rights" as problematic. "Hate speech is not free speech" they parrot in unison. "Hate speech" has a wide and ever fluid definition to these people. They are authoritarian. This chills my bones. The rainbow is claimed and flown by the military industrial media complex, allegedly to liberate us from our racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, whateverphobic condition, a result of our original sin; Western culture, where all sin and social ills originated, and were then afflicted on innocent, harmonious and uncorrupted non-Western peoples. Including colonialism, slavery, imperialism, cultural appropriation and cis-heteronormativity. Only reactionaries would disagree. Out loud, anyway. Antifa breaks it down like this: On the left, R-L, "socialists, communists, anarchists." On the right, L-R "liberals (fascists), conservatives (fascists) rightists (fascists)." Liberals are largely not fully aware or well informed, or have investigated the spectrum of perspectives and political opinions out there. We are unwitting and hapless dupes to back these corrupt people. I was a #walkaway ex-Dem in 2020. As people say, "the left left me".
Bravo, sir.
I understand what you're saying, but I refuse to let them hijack the term for me.
There's a difference these days between a "liberal", and a "leftist". You ARE a liberal in the truest, classical sense. But you're not a leftist.
Big difference. Your whole philosophy got hijacked by Communists/Fascists.
Become a Populist. Start listening to Steve Bannon, for just a few weeks. He's not nuts. Even Tim Pool loves him.
As long as you caucus with the sane, I’m happy for you to call yourself what you wish.
But I will point out that the left hijacked it from the Enlightenment a hundred years ago, and we eventually came to terms with it. :-)
At least Smith’s mother is getting some kind of justice for her son.Emmett Till’s mother went to her grave without any justice for her son and after 60 years still no justice.
Please consider that what transpired in Waukesha was precisely 6x as bad as what happened to Emmett Till. We’re it up to Darrell Brooks, he would have killed many more than just the six. The sub-human animal that did this complained about being “dehumanized” and “demonized” after his murder rampage. The year is 2022. I’m trying to figure out how much longer white people are going to keep apologizing to a group of folks - many of whom have absolutely zero interest in functioning in society in any way.
Are Charleston and Buffallo proof that white people can't function in society?
The Seth Rich situation is terrible, but thousands of murders go uncommented on weekly. If you think his sentencing was too lenient your problem is with the prosecutors and sentencing guidelines of the State of California.
Your (and the OPs) use of this strategy to attack black people is straightforwardly racist. I would ask you to do better but you are likely incapable. Bigotry of low expectations indeed.
Dude. Nobody is attacking blacks here. Chill. Emmett Till was in 1955. If that’s the best you can do just gtfo.
Please explain what connection a decades' old murder has to this discussion?
Why would you ruin your son's brilliant young mind.... by sending him to Berkeley??
The real lesson from 2020 is we are NOT all in this together and anyone who says otherwise can take a hike.
You just realized that ? Heck,Black people have known that for over 400 years.
“Black people” eh?
New immigrants from Africa too?
Need to change your definition if you wanna appeal beyond NOI
“Rooster” can’t help himself. His brain has been mentally conquered by leftism. 60 years from now, black people will be doing precisely what they are now. Except at a worse rate - and he will still be demanding zero accountability from them. Just like Seth Smiths mom…
Scroll through the mother's twitter feed. She lives in CA and is experiencing the consequences of her votes. She's getting what she wanted. Her timeline is a caricature of even a half-baked leftist, complete with voteblue22 hashtags.
It's a damned shame the young man was murdered; may he rest in peace.
And she still doesn't see it. She can DIAF and rot.
Man, that's just brutal. Well, play stupid games win stupid prizes. It's that simple.
Coulda been any of our kids and she wouldn't have batted an eye. Probably say we deserved it because we own guns.
Why does she say, voteblue22? because she supports murder (abortion?) How devastating that she didn't learn even after her own son was killed.
Speaking of blue, I wonder how many more blue pills she can swallow before she wakes up.
Honestly, if losing her own son and having his university and the media respond in such a way didn’t work, it doesn’t matter how many blue pills she takes: she’s never going to wake up.
my family (teachers) are the same way...my cousin is sick (vaccinated) but won't even entertain the idea of taking Ivermectin, which in her case could possibly help (ocular rosacea) she is convinced that Ivermectin is toxic, poison meant for horses...i gave her a boat load of evidence telling her the wonders of Ivermectin and she still would not listen...even though there is a risk she could go blind...delusional mass psychosis is rather amazing, people literally stop using their brain.
Ocular rosacea? Brutal.
I got a healthy case of COVID at the end of April. Sever head ache, 102 F, cough, congestion, chills but negative antigen test. Go figure. Contacted FLCCCC clinic, got Ivermectin/Z-pack and all symptoms gone, back to normal in 24 hours.
With all due respect she may just be too dumb to live. Even Wikipedia will tell you that ivm is a Nobel prize winning drug, an anti parasitic drug developed to prevent river blindness in HUMANS!!!
exactly...truth no longer matters...the indoctrinated cannot see it.
Seth Smith's murder is disturbingly close to my brother's murder which occurred in 1969 in Washington DC. He was white, 22 years old, and due to graduate with a Masters degree in physics in two days from the Catholic University of America. He was the victim of an armed robbery. He attempted to leave and was shot in the back of the head, dying on the spot. The murderer and his accomplices were all teenagers and black.
Two of the accomplices were sentenced as juveniles so the records were hidden and their sentences were consequently set aside as is often done for juveniles.
One accomplice and the murderer would be sentenced as adults by judge Aubrey E Robinson Jr. The judge was also black (he can be found in Wikipedia). The adult the accomplice was sentenced to 10 years in jail. The murderer was sentenced to time served (it took nearly four years before his sentencing). He was free to leave through the front door the courthouse if he wished.
Both the adult accomplice and of the murderer were sentenced with a now repealed Youth Corrections Act. Upon completion of parole their sentences would be automatically set aside, which was the functional equivalent of expungement provided they committed no new felonies. They could even state under oath that they had not been convicted for my brother's murder.
So far as I know, not a single conviction exists today. My brother's murder was treated as a learning experience for young people rather than a capital offense.
There are many details too involved for a comment section.
Racial injustice against whites is not new. When it happens silence from the media is to be expected. Black lives matter.
I am sorry to hear that.
You have got to be shitting me?!?! What an abomination!!
Read Without Remorse-Clancy
Juvie law should be changed for murder & violent crime. If you do adult crime, you should do adult time, with an adult record.
I had quite [radical? progressive? liberal?] beliefs in my long-agos. Then I started traveling, and I ended up in a very poor very conservative country where I lived closely with people who were, actually, poor. Nothing like life itself to educate you. I knew people who had no realistic hope that educating their children would lead to much success, in a society brutally stacked against them where merit is crushed under the advantages received by bribery and influence. And yet some of them would sacrifice everything to enable their children to go to a crappy little school to get some basic literacy and numeracy.
I learned that if you live in a solid weatherproof structure; have hot and cold running water and reliable electricity and a fridge and a stove, you are not, in fact, poor. If you get a free government-provided education, regardless of how crappy it is, you are not deprived.
There's no durable cure for lousy parenting. Everything starts pre-conception; by birth, unfortunately, many children are already doomed to not be competent at life. The ones born with a fighting chance are often destroyed before they make it to kindergarten. And universal pre-k won't fix it. Freedom is very costly; it's worth it, but the innocent and helpless often pay the most.
I'm a resident of West Berkeley. Seth was murdered just up the street (Dwight Way) from me. A 5-10 minute walk, during the George Floyd riots. At the exact same time, two "nooses" (looped ropes) were reported hanging from a tree at nearby Lake Merritt, in Oakland. This was a major news story that was reported on daily, for a week. Solid evidence of white supremacists (unicorns) residing here. The mayor of Oakland appointed a special committee to investigate white supremacist terrorists here, over this shocking discovery. Seth's brutal racist murder was glossed over in the local news. A UCB student was found murdered on the street. No details. When Walker was arrested, the media reported his name and age. Nothing about race or motive, with the notable exception of the Berkeleyside news outlet, much to their credit. They followed this disturbing story in detail, including Walker's obscene racist statements regarding Seth. A week after the shocking discovery of looped ropes hanging from a tree branch, a black gentleman who lived near Lake Merritt came forward to report that the "nooses" were his. They were loops that he used to do pull-ups when he exercised at the park. They had been there for a year. The message of the sick and perverted media is that Seth's racist assassination is not worthy of attention. Forget Seth Smith. We should be mourning the white supremacist attack on Jussie Smollett.
new here. Found you via Instapundit. Looking forward to being a paying member after reading some of your stuff, especially economics related.
At the risk of sounding crass, I wonder if Seth's mom is a big lib. Her "Gun Control Now!!" thing sets off the Spidey-senses. And while I am very sympathetic to the loss of her son, if she voted leftie, I hate to say it, but what the hell did she expect??? And now she wants ME to give up MY guns???
Sorry toots. Ain't gonna happen
It's not crass; it's reality. She's absolutely a big lib, and she's getting exactly what she voted for, good and hard.
Unfortunately it is NOT so called gun violence. It is newsom and his party that have opened the prisons, run narratives about whites being racist and promoting racism with their agenda. The Brits have severe gun control and it has resulted in murders using knives to the point that knives have surpassed killings in NY with guns. It's not the firearm.. Stop it. Your wonderful son was killed by a hated filled racist black who got it from listening to the racists in BLM. Disarmament is being pushed by the Crats for pure power.
And also to make sure they don't get their asses shot. 2nd Amendment was written for exactly these people.
top to bottom, this is what media and politics is now -- the promotion of narratives to create legally enforceable American class distinctions
why do you think Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden are still merrily grifting after committing hundreds of well-established felonies, while perfectly innocent Jan 6 protesters languish in prison, careers destroyed?
do you suppose it would be national news if children of press or prominent Democrats got the Seth Smith treatment?
our national institutions are already thoroughly corrupted, secession from this madness is the only rational answer remaining, to preserve our lives and liberty and children
leave them to their cop-free paradise of government-funded baby organ harvesting, public school grooming, double-digit inflation and 90% tax rates, where the only crimes are wrongthink or owning a gun
and lock the doors behind us
RIP Seth.
He was visiting and not an American, but the recent death of David Giride of Columbia University (phd program) is similar at least in violence and randomness
Remembering Seth Smith and Yiran Fan this weekend. Such loss.
Incredible article. Thank you so much for bringing this reprehensible tragedy to the world's attention.
Berkeley is a shithole.
If you think about it, isn’t anger the most pointless of the emotions?
Above all, don’t ever take out your anger on the innocent who had nothing to do with what caused your anger—that’s the height of injustice.
From:
A Vow To Never Get Angry Again
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/a-vow-to-never-get-angry-again
Compassion, instead of anger, is what is called for—always. We can't condone murder, we can't support or cheer for it, and we should not be forced to participate in it by the State—if we are to develop into an ethical, moral society.
Capital punishment goes against the very idea of ethics and humanity.
We have to act above our base instincts. We have to rise above anger. Think of the millions of dollars used to house dangerous prisoners as a way to protect the innocent, by keeping the anti-social away from the rest of society.
And let go of the anger. It steals away your time, your life. Instead, commit yourself to caring for those around you, those you love. Spending time with your loved ones is all that matters.
Thank you for informing us about the dangers that exist in our society.
And thank you most of all for taking the time to remember Seth Smith.
What a steaming pile of leftist bullshit/drivel!! 😡🖕🏻😡
"If you think about it, isn’t anger the most pointless of the emotions?"
That depends on what you do with it.
But what you do in anger, the actions you take in anger, could haunt you for the rest of your life and, more importantly, cause more harm and more anger to propagate in the world.
That's one possibility. Especially if the actions taken in anger are reactive and with no thought.
I'm not trying to argue just for the sport of arguing.
The other possibility is to use your anger as motivation for constructive action.