Deaths in custody would be less of an issue if there were fewer folk in custody! There'd be fewer if it were not considered a rite of passage?

Imagine how many folks would not have had the police on their case? If they could've kept their habitual obscenities out of their conversation? And yes, the white supremacists, would have had less opportunity to engage in their favourite pastime?

Some folk would be unable to make a complete sentence if you removed the obscenities.

One can express oneself far more forcibly with language than endlessly repeated verbal vomit!

Most of the black crime starts in the shops, were shoplifting is rife in some communities because they are hungry! Been hungry enough to have to survive by raiding garbage bins, so understand what hunger can inspire!

Another cause is the theft of other folks motor vehicles!

And a major cause of "kids" in custody! Be better served by getting into healthy sport and competition/getting all the subverted rage taken out on a genuine punching bag. Rather than the wives and kids

Mindless violence serves nobody and nothing, just begets more of the same and can become part of some cultures, where it can be seen as entertainment for goodness sake!

This rubbish serves nobody and contributes to custodial sentencing?
If you really want fewer deaths in custody? Then what you need is less offending for whatever is the root cause, social justice, hunger and neglect.

Time the problem of substance was addressed, with exile replacing custodial sentences, for incorrigible drunks/the perpetrators of violence.

Housing could be addressed with trucked demountables that are usually found in executive housing in some mining communities. And as ready to use trucked in demountables would probably be a lot less expensive than those million-dollar hovels that we see as part of the problem where the elites control the government money and allocations?

And I know you know exactly who and what I mean? Are the chief stirrers as well as the law bosses?
Alan B.

One of the pre-requisites for democracy is a
tolerance of dissent. A tolerance of criticism and
of dissenting opinions is fundamental to democracy.

Governing parties must resist the temptation to
equate their own policies with the national good,
or they will tend to regard opposition as disloyal
or even treasonable.

Yes, protests should be peaceful. The damage of
property is wrong. As is theft, looting, et cetera.
But life happens as they say.

Do we really want to go down the track of totalitarian
regimes and ban all demonstrations? I think not.

Protests have achieved a great deal in the past and
hopefully will continue to do so in the future.

After all through protesting about their grievances
people realise that they're not alone. By protesting they
may alter the agenda and start a debate.

In an electoral democracy protests provide an essential
voice for minority groups. And sometimes they even win.

Sometimes they win in ways they had not intended or
planned and of course sometimes change doesn't happen
over night. It takes a generation or more.

Think of the huge turnaround in attitudes towards gay
people over a couple of generations.

Black lives Matter - and the message needs to be put out there.
Even in this country whose record of deaths in custody is
not a good one. Read it for yourself:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/06/aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-434-have-died-since-1991-new-data-shows

The whole upheaval has nothing to do with black deaths in custody or
any other of the slogans being shouted out loud.
It is an example of crowd manipulation.
The idea is pick something that happens on any day and you can pump
it up into an international frantic hysteria.
They key is to get the late teenage to mid twenties girls involved to
get the hysteria cranked up and the around 20s boys involved,
but you need a sprinkling of 30s + men to provide the muscle and
leadership for the younger boys.
It has worked a few times now and is being pefected by the antifa
groups and is now manipulating governments.
This time they have over ruled the covir 19 laws and arranged for the
government to change the NSW & Vic laws to suit themselves.

It is to be hoped that ASIO etc is examining the communication routes
used by these groups as they might well be driven by other powers.

>defies hyperbole in the sheer scale, ferocity and irrationality

What ? No it doesn't its been building since the 60'. maybe you don't understand the word catalyst ?

For example, Minneapolis is going to completely disband their police force and start again it's gotten that bad.

I say good on 'em for finally having a go :) You have to have a go to get a go :) Eventually Australia's police brutality will blow up similarly as we approach bullying and violence under the cover of law and order similarly.

I am sure you would be writing the same thing when George Washington was violently protesting the then law and order autocracy over the same continent ?

That aside, like here, the entire thing is a symptom on inequality and deliberate choices made my the true banality of evil, the average voter (paraphrasing Martin Luther King and co-opting Hannah Ardent)

Aidan

Well, it's a case of " be careful what you wish for".

All hose white faces demonstrating for the black cause, should reflect.

Firstly, and for sure, those black faces will never ever reciprocate a demonstration in favour of a white cause.
Evidence South Africa.

There is a country that has gone down hill with the wind behind it, following the same stupid.

I think Trump is correct, when he itches to quell the lawless crowds. If he doesn't, it will be a bigger loss; especially to whites!

Dan

Thank you David Pellow on writing such a well researched and informative article. Racism is not and never has been the problem. The problem is a growing number of dysfunctional minorities within the USA and other western nations who seem to be mindlessly violent, as well as crime prone and welfare depejndent.

Multiculturalism means social self suicide for the west.

The US murder rate is five times that of Australia. Mexico's murder rate is three times higher than the USA.

It has been noted that as more Hispanic people cross the border into the USA, they begin to form Hispanic only towns through "white flight". These towns then become Hispanic only towns with all of the problems, including official corruption, bankruptcy, suburbs ruled by criminal gangs, and very high homicide rates, as in Mexico itself. All Hispanic immigration is doing is moving Mexico, with all of it's social problems, North into the USA.

The western world is probably doomed, we have "toleranced" ourselves to death. Our so called "intellectual" caste, in their compulsive need to think that they are better than everyone else in society, sold out their own people and their own superior culture, just so that they could strut and preen.

They remind me of the young Russians who cheered on Lenin's Red Army, and then found themselves facing the firing squads and the gulags. Or the Cambodian university caste who cheered on Pol Pot and found themselves in the killing fields. It is hard to understand how people we expect to be intelligent can be so stupid. And all to pander to their own ego's.

It may be 100 years before the university class suddenly realise what a boner they have inflicted upon their own people, and they then will once more rebel against authority to try and undo what their stupid great grandparents did to the greatest, fairest, most inventive, and most prosperous civilisation in history. That is if their own race has not been genetically eradicated by the crazy minorities they now champion who, as in Africa, can only bankrupt their own countries.