Mayor Lori Lightfoot Calls on the People of Chicago to Snitch on Federal Agents Ordered to Her City to Drive Down Violent Crime

Earlier today President Donald Trump announced he was immediately sending federal agents to Chicago to help drive down violent crime.

President Trump: The DOJ will “immediately surge federal law enforcement to the city of Chicago. The FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals Service and Homeland Security will together be sending hundreds of skilled law enforcement officers to Chicago to help drive down violent crime.”

Chicago is on pace to have its deadliest year in two decades this year. The Windy City has 411 homicides already this year.

Following President Trump’s announcement today Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the people of Chicago to snitch on the FBI, ATF, DEA and US Marshals Service who are coming to Chicago to drive down crime.

Lightfoot has failed.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/mayor-lori-lightfoot-calls-people-chicago-snitch-dhs-border-patrol-etc-ordered-city-drive-violent-crime/

Johnstone: The Only Obstacle To A Healthy World Is Government Secrecy And Propaganda

If people in power were no longer able to hide secrets and spin lies about what’s going on in the world, all of our major problems would come to an end. Because secretive and manipulative power structures are the source of all of our major problems.

If the public could see what’s actually happening in their world, they would immediately begin using the power of their numbers to overhaul our current system. This is why our current system pours so much energy into preventing the public from seeing what’s actually happening in their world.

If it weren’t for the constant campaign of obfuscation and manipulation of public perception via veils of government secrecy and propaganda, humanity would naturally find its way out of the power-driven tribulations it now faces, as surely as you’ll avoid obstacles and hazards in your path when you are walking with your eyes open. The only problem in this case is that our eyes have not been permitted to open.

It isn’t actually necessary to hold a bunch of hard, rigid ideas about exactly what kind of society we should have, what kind of political system we should have, what kind of economic system we should have. There’s nothing wrong with promoting ideas and having preferences of course, but really if you just gave humanity the ability to navigate through its own troubles by removing the blindfolds of propaganda and power opacity, it would organically create a healthy society, and realistically such a society probably won’t look a whole lot like our mental models.

You do have the option, then, of simply promoting the end of government/political/corporate/financial opacity and the end of establishment perception management. Wanting humanity to see with clear eyes so that it can make its own informed decisions about where to take itself is a complete political position, in and of itself. You don’t have to hold any other political preferences of any kind if you don’t want to.

The desire for an end to the obfuscations and manipulations of the powerful so that humanity can find its own way is the most anti-authoritarian position you can possibly take, because it also protects the world from your own authoritarian impulses.

I personally am very leftwardly inclined and believe that if humanity had its perception management blindfolds removed it would naturally create a world where we’re all truly equal and everyone is taken care of by the collective each according to their need, but what the hell do I know? Maybe if the blindfold is removed I’d be proven wrong. I respect human sovereignty enough to want to find out, free from my own political preferences. I should not be the one making such societal decisions, society as a whole should. I just want human perception to be freed up enough to make that call.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/johnstonethe-only-obstacle-healthy-world-government-secrecy-and-propaganda

John Cleese: Society Is Now Controlled By The Most Touchy, Emotionally Unstable, & Fragile People

Former Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star John Cleese has had enough of political correctness and the cancel culture, and as for the state of the "dysfunctional world we live in," warning that "it's completely hopeless…"

As for the sense of hopelessness he feels, Cleese blames the “power seekers.”

“I believe there’s something wrong with these people. The reason they want to be powerful is that they want to control people, so that they don’t get lathered into situations that they can’t control emotionally. The one thing they fear is losing power, so they’ll do almost anything to hold on to it.

If they don’t know what they’re doing or what they’re talking about, there’s no way (the world) will ever get well.”

The 80 year old comedian is as politically savvy as he is humorous as he brings his one-man-show "Why There Is No Hope" to live-stream after blasting the BBC last month as "cowardly and gutless" for temporarily taking down an episode of Fawlty Towers that made fun of Germans and World War II and also featured a character using a racial slur.

Cancel culture "misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun", Cleese told Reuters, referring to the trend in which people are ostracised because of behaviour or remarks seen as objectionable.

"Everything humorous is critical. If you have someone who is perfectly kind and intelligent and flexible and who always behaves appropriately, they're not funny. Funniness is about people who don't do that, like Trump."

Summing the current state of the world up perfectly, Cleese says, the problem with political correctness, he added, is that comedians "have to set the bar according to what we are told by the most touchy, most emotionally unstable and fragile and least stoic people in the country".

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/john-cleese-society-now-controlled-most-touchy-emotionally-unstable-fragile-people

Chinese Embassy in Washington Calls on US to Calm Tensions

The Chinese Embassy in Washington issued a statement calling on the United States to de-escalate tensions between the two countries.

"If the China-US relationship is a vehicle, the US is taking it onto a wrong path, and worse still, it is hitting the accelerator", the Chinese Embassy said in the statement on Wednesday night. "It's time to step on the brakes and return to the right direction".

On Tuesday, the US State Department ordered Beijing to close down its consulate in Houston, Texas, in 72 hours over accusations that it has engaged for years in massive illegal spying and influence operations in the United States.

China has denied the accusations and criticized the United States for various violations of international law. China has also said that the United States has been inciting hatred toward Chinese nationals, resulting in multiple threats made to the embassy in Washington.

The Chinese Embassy said in an earlier statement that it strongly condemned the closure of China's consulate in Houston and warned that Beijing would respond to what it considers to be a "political provocation".

https://sputniknews.com/us/202007231079959531-chinese-embassy-in-washington-calls-on-us-to-calm-tensions/

Philly SWAT Officer Charged For Pepper Spraying Protesters

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has charged a SWAT officer with misdemeanor assault for pepper-spraying protesters during a June 1 highway demonstration.

Officer Richard Paul Nicoletti, 35, was charged with several misdemeanor charges on Wednesday, including “three counts each of simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and official oppression, as well as one count of possession of an instrument of crime,” NBC Philadelphia reported.

“The complaint alleges that Officer Nicoletti broke the laws he was sworn to uphold and that his actions interfered with Philadelphians’ and Americans’ peaceful exercise of their sacred constitutional rights of free speech and assembly,” Krasner said in a statement, according to NBC Philadelphia. “The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office will not make excuses for crimes committed by law enforcement that demean the democratic freedoms so many Americans have fought and died to preserve.”

The DA’s statement went on to contend that people “are the source” of police and governmental power.

“Let’s be clear on who built these highways and streets,” the statement continued. “These streets come from and belong to the people. In the words of generations of peaceful protesters, committed to improving our country, which is what patriots do: ‘Whose streets!? Our streets!!'”

Nicoletti “was suspended for 30 days with intent to dismiss” last month, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Krasner contends that the SWAT officer sprayed two protesters who were already kneeling, then pulled one female protester’s googles down and sprayed her again, then “violently” threw another protester down and sprayed him, NBC Philadelphia reported.

The prosecutor said the officer’s actions caused “physical harm, panic, and confusion.”

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/22/richard-paul-nicoletti-swat-officer-larry-krasner-pepper-spray-demonstrators/

De Blasio Finally Broke Up the Month-Long BLM 'Occupation' in NYC. Is Trump Responsible?

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the New York Police Department (NYPD) finally cleared out the “Occupy City Hall” encampment, an occupation that sprang up two weeks after the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) Occupied Protest (CHOP) in Seattle. While the occupation started as a protest to demand New York City slice the NYPD budget by $1 billion, it continued after City Hall met that demand, reportedly devolving into little more than a homeless encampment. Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) defended the occupation on Tuesday, but it seems President Donald Trump’s threats to send federal law enforcement to New York may have forced de Blasio’s hand.

NYPD swept through the occupation around 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning, telling occupiers and homeless people to disperse and arresting at least seven people, The Wall Street Journal reported. Most of the 40-50 people left the encampment peacefully, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a press conference later on Wednesday.

Occupy City Hall, later unofficially renamed Abolition Park, stretched about a block long. After the horrific police killing of George Floyd inspired protests across the country and some protests devolved into riots in New York, protesters erected a series of tents and tables on June 21. The occupiers of Occupy City Hall vowed to hold the property until the city defunded the NYPD.

New York caved nine days later. The city approved a budget on June 30, shifting nearly $1 billion away from the NYPD and toward youth and social services. Many of the protesters left then, and the occupation became less a protest and more a homeless encampment. The encampment is now closed to the public. Sanitation workers cleaned up the site on Wednesday, scrubbing graffiti from the street.

In a press conference on Wednesday, de Blasio said the NYPD had decided to break up Occupy City Hall on Tuesday night.

Trump Finally Reveals His Role in Putting Down the ‘CHOP’ Antifa Occupation in Seattle

“What we saw change over the last few weeks was the gathering there got smaller and smaller and was less and less about protests and more and more became an area where homeless folks were gathering,” the mayor said.

This action marked an abrupt change from Tuesday, when de Blasio defended his inaction regarding the occupation.

Exactly one month after the occupation began, de Blasio refused to take a position on the future of the camp Tuesday, NY1 reported. He had not yet ordered its removal, citing people’s right to protest.

“There is a balance we always strike between the right to protest and especially public safety, and I always put public safety first while respecting constitutional rights,” de Blasio said Tuesday. “That decision will be made by the NYPD as things emerge. We’re looking at the situation every day.”

The organizers who first set up the occupation acknowledged that the camp’s protest activity had ebbed, but they insisted that the encampment demonstrated the endemic problem of homelessness in the Big Apple.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/22/did-trump-pressure-de-blasio-into-finally-busting-chop-lite-occupy-city-hall-sure-looks-that-way-n672020