Simon Black posts daily some reliably reasonable considerations that affect investors. He sells a service, and obviously uses his blog to sell that service, but despite this commercial focus his blog remains reasonable consideration of factual information.
Here is an excerpt from a recent post.
"June 4, 2020
Bahia Beach, Puerto Rico"
"So it turns out that Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was filmed murdering George Floyd last week, had 17 different complaints of serious misconduct during his career."
"That puts him among the 10% worst offenders in the Minneapolis police department."
"The complaints vary from being named in a brutality lawsuit, to using demeaning, unprofessional language in public, to aiming his weapon at children."
"But Chauvin never got into any serious trouble."
"On Monday I wrote that civilians have filed 2,600 misconduct complaints against Minneapolis police officers over the past several years. Only 12 of them (0.46%) resulted in any discipline against the officer, with the most severe punishment being a 1-week suspension."
"It’s not just Minneapolis. Around the country, the percentage of civilian complaints that result in disciplinary action is astonishingly low."
"And the rate at which offending officers are severely disciplined, fired, or charged with a crime, is effectively zero."
"A 2019 academic paper studied 50,000 civilian complaints against Chicago police to see if those complaints could be an indicator of who is/isn’t a bad apple."
"The results were obvious: officers with the most complaints have the highest likelihood of being involved in a major civil rights issue. But they’re seldom removed."
"The Chicago police officer who shot an unarmed 17-year old boy in 2014, for example, was among the department’s worst 3% in terms of civilian complaints, with half of the complaints alleging excessive force."
"So it turns out you can spot a bad apple. You just can’t remove them… and give the boot to people like Chauvin who pose obvious risks."
"There are plenty of good, duty-minded cops who would love to kick out the bad ones. But the system fails everyone miserably."
"One key reason is a legal doctrine known as “qualified immunity”."
"This goes back to a 1967 Supreme Court case which ruled that government officials should be shielded from personal liability while carrying out their duties."
"This applies to police officers as well."
"So in other words, you can’t sue the cops if they assault you during arrest, or invade of your home, because they’re technically performing their official duties."
"The Supreme Court did make allowances, i.e. police and government agents would not be protected by qualified immunity if their actions violate “clearly established law or constitutional rights.”
"But this is very difficult to prove."
"Over the years as civilian victims have attempted to sue police officers for misconduct, courts have routinely sided with the cops. The argument is that whatever laws the police officers violated were not ‘clearly established,’ and hence the cops are protected by qualified immunity."
"Here’s one absurd example:"
"In 2013, Fresno police officers raided a home that was suspected to be involved in a gambling operation. They seized $275,000, but only booked $50,000 as evidence."
"The other $225,000 mysteriously disappeared."
"The suspects sued, and amazingly, the court ruled that “there was no clearly established law holding that officers violate [the Constitution] when they steal property seized pursuant to a warrant. . .” and therefore the officers were protected by qualified immunity."
Clearly, governments employing police are intent on preventing civilian oversight of their armed thugs and the income they bring corrupt jurisdictions.
The proposal to defund police falls short of defunding corruption because it leaves those criminal jurisdictions in power who employ violent thugs because they are profitable to corrupt overlords.
Defund government. Stop paying taxes. Defund overlords and banksters. Stop using banks.
Fund freedom. Get means of production most convenient to you and your present circumstances, and expand your independence of means as you are able. Independent means is the definition of wealth, and it has nothing to do with money.
Freedom and prosperity are utterly joined at the hip. If you do not gain independent means you will remain subject to the covert overlords that possess governmental power because they have corrupted it, and who demonstrably have prevented criminal thugs from being removed from police forces across America.
It is not the fault of the criminal thugs that local, regional, and state governments do this. They are just the resource those jurisdictions deploy against free society. It is the overlords that corrupt those jurisdictions, the media, and institutions of every stripe and kind to gain power over you - power you can possess yourself by gaining independent means rather than being dependent on institutions.
Freedom and prosperity is yours for the taking. If that is the legacy you want your children and the society you live in going forward to receive from you, take it into your own hands.
You alone have the power to do so.
Make the world you want your kids to live in.
Senior, does the US government hire US police? In Korea, the police are a kind of noble.
The most powerful power groups in Korea are the military and the police. The Korean military is a means of obtaining US aid. Korean police control and censor the media.
The Korean police are a group that censors and controls information and news you dislike.
It is true that South Korea is now more democratized than China and North Korea, but it still controls and censors information.
In particular, it is presumed that the current Moon Jae-in regime is receiving Chinese capital.
It is presumed that political parties opposing the Moon Jae-in regime are receiving Japanese funding.
Senior, The corruption and incompetence of the American police, as you claim, has become a reality, but it is incomparable to the black connections of the overlords of Korea, China and Japan.
The overlords of East Asia are shouting to their people to imitate the great Bill Gates.
I want to write more, but I'm not good at English so I will write it next time. Good night!
Certainly everywhere there are police, individuals apply for the position, are hired, trained, and paid to perform the duties thereof. The sons of police officers don't simply join the police force upon their 18th birthday, or the death of their father. They may be thereafter seen as a form of nobility, but they are servants of overlords and not born to their positions as are the overlords.
Bill Gates became an overlord by virtue of his pathological parasitic power. How many overlords can be supported by a society? All the civilians in Korea cannot be overlords. Most Koreans must be subjects in order for any overlords to exist, because overlords are parasites that can only survive on what they extract from many subjects.
Government, including police, is the blood funnel by which they extract the wealth of the production of subjects. This is why government in Korea is praising Bill Gates and police are seen as ruling by divine right.
This reveals the truth of Korean government.
Civilians are told Japan is opposed by China, and take sides against one or the other. The truth is both China and Japan support the same overlords the Korean government supports. Keeping the people divided and opposing each other prevents them from all opposing their vampiric overlords and ending the flow of their wealth to those parasites.
Good night!
Honorable senior, your claim is correct. However, Koreans know that, but pretend they don't. Korea's economy is already dominated by China and Japan.
Since the United States now protects Korea's independence, Koreans pretend they don't know the black deals of the overlords of Korea, China, and Japan.
I think Koreans are cowardly.
Since the United States protects Korea, Koreans pretend they don't know even if China and Japan trade secretly with Korean overlords.
China and Japan are insisting on Koreans that US hegemony will soon collapse.
If the US collapses, they claim that Korea will again be ruled by China or Japan.
They argue that American democracy, republicanism, capitalism, and Christianity are never in harmony with East Asian civilization.
Koreans are weary of Chinese and Japanese conciliation and intimidation.
So, Koreans currently only want to make money. Currently, Koreans are fleeing reality.
I am sad to hear your assessment. I hope Korea grasps soon that money is not wealth, before banksters collapse the value of fiat across the world, and try to make of us all property they can dispose of as they see fit.
Real wealth is independent means, and I strongly recommend investing mere money in ways to produce goods and services that provide the blessings of civilization independent of overlords and their fraudulent schemes.
Your claim is correct. However, the Moon Jae-in regime receives Chinese capital and has an anti-Japanese policy. Parties opposing the Moon Jae-in regime are receiving Japanese capital.
Korean civilians do not know who to support in this situation. What can Korean civilians do when South Korea's ruling powers receive foreign capital?
Only Jesus can liberate Koreans.
13 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. 14 They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not? 15 Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”
But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” 16 They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
“Caesar’s,” they replied.
17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”
And they were amazed at him.
Personally, given the corrupt nature of states, I strongly advise not supporting them at all. That's actually the point of what I do recommend, which is attaining independent means.
Regarding financial circumstances today, I think this verse applicable:
John 11:35 Jesus wept.
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