Thursday, July 27, 2023
Protest over police treatment of Black mother handcuffed and wrongly accused of dodging bus fare
The London police do seem to have a problem. But it has an explanation. Blacks commonly exhibit hostility to the police and actively resist attempts to arrest them. This does tend to develop a belief among police that they have to go in hard from the beginning to get control of black offenders. It is a vicious circe
But it doesn't have to be that way. In my 80 years on this earth I have had various interactions with police -- even with the California Highway partrol -- which have never resulted in anything more than a polite conversation -- even when I was at fault. Because I am white? Perhaps in part. But mainly because I always spoke to the police officer in a polite way -- addressing them as "Officer", for instance. And I NEVER raise my voice in speaking to them.
The result? I would often be let off any penalty and the officer would shake my hand as we parted.
Does that sound like an ideal world? It IS an ideal world. But we do live in it. We largely create the world we live in. And how to create a good world is no mystery. It's all in Matthew 7:12.
I will never forget the relief evident in the face and bearing of the CHP officer when he got a polite response after approaching me. Police are people too
Anti-racism protesters gathered in Croydon on Tuesday night in response to the wrongful arrest of a Black mother for bus fare evasion in front of her tearful young son.
Video footage of the woman shouting as two male Metropolitan Police officers hold her arms and handcuffed her in the south London town on 21 July has sparked fierce criticism and prompted an investigation by the police watchdog the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
The woman was arrested after being accused of failing to pay a bus fare but was later de-arrested when it was confirmed she had paid.
Around 100 people joined a demonstration outside the town’s police station to call out her treatment, organised by Stand Up To Racism (SUTR), Black Lives Matter Croydon, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and RMT Black & Ethnic Minority Members on Tuesday night.
Speakers addressed the crowd to voice concerns about how the woman was treated amid a national discussion about the lack of trust in policing among Black communities.
Benjamin Clement, 53, who filmed the woman’s arrest told The Independent: “I saw just another Black person being abused by the police.”
“I just couldn’t believe the way they were handling the woman. They were trying to get her onto the floor at one point – she was so distressed and it just seemed like no one cared. Everyone was just standing around watching. So, I felt like I had to start filming.”
While Mr Clement said he was “blown away” by the public response to the video and solidarity with the woman, he said he expects similar incidents to happen in the future while a crisis in policing prevails.
“I’ve been stopped and searched; it’s happened to my kids who are in their early twenties. Nothing’s really going to change. But as a father of six, with four daughters, I had to do something.”
Following the protest, Glen Hart, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Croydon, told The Independent: “We feel that the way this woman was treated was a total abuse of authority, an act of race discrimination with impunity – and the officers tend to get away with this all the time.
“It doesn’t make sense that they would handcuff her in front of her crying child – she wasn’t a threat.
Marc Wadsworth, founder of The Liberation Movement, said: “As a Black parent in Croydon, I’m appalled at what has happened with a Black mother at a bus stop with a valid ticket to travel in front of a young child.
“But this will keep happening sadly, because there’s something rotten at the heart of the Metropolitan Police as the Louise Casey report uncovered saying that it is institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic.”
Mr Wadsworth, who founded the Anti-Racist Alliance in 1991 which went on to become Europe’s largest Black-led movement, continued: “There will be many more cases like this: the George Floyd’s, Chris Kaba, Mark Duggan, Roger Sylvester until we clear up the s**t house which is the Met police.”
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed on Tuesday that it would investigate the response of the officers involved after it received a complaint accusing police of racially profiling the woman.
Footage posted online of the arrest shows the woman shouting “What the hell?” and “What the f*** is going on?” while handcuffed, as two male officers hold her arms.
She repeatedly asks one of the officers to let go and says “I haven’t done anything wrong”, while a member of the public filmed what is happening and asked why she is being arrested.
On Monday, Met Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said: “It is clear from the video that has been shared online that this incident was distressing for the woman involved and particularly for her child.
“We understand why it has prompted significant public concern and we want to be transparent about our position and the role of our officers.”
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Israel’s judicial reform of its courts’ unchecked power is not as radical as activists would have you believe
Israel has been roiled by protests, boycotts, airport and road closures, wildcat strikes and refusals to perform army service, in scenes reminiscent of France, for half a year. The cause is judicial reform.
The government announced plans to revitalize Israel’s parliamentary democracy by restoring separation of powers and curbing judicial overreach.
Protesters demand the government shelve the reform, arguing Israel cannot be a democracy unless the country’s Supreme Court enjoys unchecked powers, unbounded by law.
This week saw the passage of the first of the planned reform bills, a so-called “reasonableness amendment” that tackles one of the most egregious forms of judicial self-aggrandizement.
The amendment addresses an issue of administrative law. Israel, like every modern democratic state, has a vast unelected bureaucracy that governs many of the most important aspects of citizens’ lives.
Administrative law is the set of legal tools courts use to ensure bureaucrats exercise only the powers they have according to law.
Controversially, in 1980, Israel’s Supreme Court created a new administrative-law rule called the “reasonableness doctrine,” under which the court second-guesses the wisdom of bureaucrats’ otherwise-legal policies.
Even more controversially, in the 1990s the court expanded the reasonableness doctrine to grant itself power to second-guess the wisdom of the most senior elected officials including the prime minister and members of the Knesset (the parliament).
There is no parallel to either of these developments anywhere in the democratic world.
From the beginning, reasonableness review was controversial. Then-chief justice Moshe Landau derided it as superfluous and improper. He said interference with the “reasonableness” of officials’ policy decisions was unwarranted and courts had enough tools to review administrative action without the new doctrine.
Controversy only grew as the court inflated “reasonableness” to relegate all elected officeholders to the status of junior clerks.
Over the years, the court, and later the attorney general, used reasonableness to force the firing of senior officials including cabinet members, block and delay military operations, raise and lower taxes and welfare benefits and bar major foreign-policy initiatives.
Elsewhere in the West, such judicial actions would be considered plainly illegitimate.
With the US Supreme Court embroiled in controversy over its rightward tilt in recent years, both right and left agree that, as Justice Elena Kagan said in her recent dissent in Biden v. Nebraska, the court “is supposed to stick to its business . . . to stay away from making this Nation’s policy. . . . The policy judgments, under our separation of powers, are supposed to come from Congress and the President. . . . [If] the Court becomes the arbiter — indeed, the maker — of national policy,” it exceeds its proper role. “And it is a danger to a democratic order.”
The new legislation is extremely modest. It leaves reasonableness review intact except where used to second-guess the decision-making of elected officials.
Israel’s high court remains the most powerful administrative-law court in the Western world.
The importance of the reasonableness amendment right now is largely political.
It will prove significant only if Israel’s parliament adopts the remainder of the reform without excessive delay.
The new law brings the center of the debate over judicial reform from the streets back to where it ought to be — the chambers and hallways of the elected legislature.
The prime minister has asked opposition leaders to join him in hammering out a compromise version of judicial reform that can enjoy broader public support.
One can only hope opposition leaders rise to the occasion.
The fear now is that Israel’s Supreme Court will declare it can ignore the legislation and continue to exercise “reasonableness” review, enacted law be damned.
Israel, of course, has no constitution, and there is no legal precedent for such an action by the court.
It’s hard too to ignore the questions of legitimacy raised by a court declaring itself above the law to aggrandize its already-excessive authority.
Unfortunately, Israeli Supreme Court decisions, particularly in recent years, have exhibited neither moderation nor restraint.
The political chaos that will follow the court’s overreach could be devastating.
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Andrew Tate as a product of feminism
Feminists have gone way too far in their demonization of men and that has produced an equal and opposite reaction
Among the many norms of society that the Left has sought to destroy over the last several years, men's inherent drive to be protectors, providers, and defenders has become a target for belittlement and minimization.
I'm old enough to remember when allowing boys to play with dinosaurs and cars wasn't a sign of wanting to further some kind of oppressive patriarchy. A man in a dress generally caused a natural response within most people that something unnatural was happening within that individual.
Yet, in a single generation, a major switch has been flipped. The consistent and daily message is that men are the cause of all problems in society and that the patriarchy (both within each individual man and across society as a whole) needs to be dismantled.
Leftists have been relentless in attempting to accomplish this. It manifests in the feminization of men — replacing strong, masculine, honorable role models with men who prefer makeup over muscle and heels over hard work.
It's no wonder that men's mental health has plummeted and male suicide rates have surged. When men are no longer respected and expected to fulfill the roles that their biology, minds, and hearts have driven them to pursue in the past, they suffer from a deep lack of purpose and direction. Many of their natural counterparts (women) seem to have little to no use for them anymore.
So, what's the solution?
Or, should we say ... who's the solution?
A man by the name of Andrew Tate has been all too ready and willing to capitalize on a market of directionless men who are looking for the antidote to the pandemic of male feminization. He's drawing them in with his brand of "masculine excellence."
Tate, a former professional kickboxer and reality TV personality, has become a popular figure amongst young men over the last several years. His message resonates, particularly as the effort to reduce men's physical, mental, and emotional strength has been kicked into high gear. He has attempted to set an example of what hard work can achieve while selling his advice and "wisdom" to like-minded men through podcasts and social media.
His Twitter feed sets the stage for positive advice and male empowerment. Reading much like a fortune cookie on steroids, he repeats lines like, "Do not fail your bloodline" and "life on expert mode." His declarations are frequently accompanied by numerous pictures of himself — often shirtless and/or showing off his many expensive possessions. He tells men to accept that life is challenging, but to get to work and avoid the temptation to be lazy.
During a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Tate criticized many leftist ideas. He rebuked the idea that raising taxes will affect the weather, and he challenged the racist tenets of CRT — that your skin color determines your abilities and your destiny.
He seems to be skilled at articulating conservative ideas, which adds to his appeal and fuels his popularity amongst men who are trying to act as defenders of moral communities.
However, Tate has a past that cannot be ignored, and even some of his current ideas should give men reason to pause when choosing him as their role model.
Tate is famous for running a "webcam business" and proudly boasting about how he coerced women into becoming employees of his — meaning subjects of online pornography. He has publicly shared tactics, which he calls the "loverboy method," that involved pretending to want a meaningful connection with a woman, using her trust to take things to physical intimacy, and then springing the idea of nude camera work for money on the unsuspecting, now-vulnerable female.
It appears as though these activities have been left in his past, and Tate even recently converted to Islam.
The question remains: Does this make him a suitable mentor for men, particularly those who have a desire to promote both masculinity and morality?
Tate has come under fire from numerous right-wing influencers, including Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, and Liz Wheeler, who warn young men that Tate's messages contain more sin than sense.
Naturally, Tate argues that the only reason conservatives would attack him is because he's "too rich to buy." That idea alone seems to demonstrate a lack of humility and self-reflection that conservative, Christian men should aspire to have.
Tate is also not shy about his love of material possessions and pursuit of wealth. "A real man," he says, "is ultra rich and provides his woman with the most expensive things money can buy."
It's almost impossible to take seriously his promotion of being a high-value man who looks for a high-value woman when his past record of abusing and belittling women is public knowledge. He has yet to acknowledge this as egregious and contrary to everything he promotes today.
What Tate offers lost men is the opposite end of the spectrum from the men in skirts praised by the Left as exhibiting expressions of true self. Unfortunately, it is masculinity at the cost of women and, in turn, at the cost of moral male leaders.
Tate believes himself to be a sign from the universe for positivity and strength.
Yet while he tries to paint his image as a male messiah of sorts, he has far more in common with a golden calf.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/99145-andrew-tates-toxic-masculinity-2023-07-26 ?
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Food Service Giant Sued Over ‘White-Men-Need-Not-Apply’ Program
Courtney Rogers worked for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Compass Group USA Inc. from her home office in San Diego, California.
The company had more than 280,000 employees and $20.1 billion in revenue in 2019, according to its LinkedIn profile. One of the world’s largest employers, the company has thousands of employees in California and counts among its clients Dodger Stadium, San Francisco International Airport, Uber, Snapchat, Netflix, Disney Studios, and NBC Universal.
The company has won recognition for promoting so-called diversity, including appearing on the Forbes list of Best Employers for Diversity from 2018 through 2022.
Its corporate parent, U.K.-based Compass Group PLC, had $32.2 billion in revenue in 2019.
Ms. Rogers was hired in August 2021 and given the job title of “Recruiter, Internal Mobility Team.”
Her responsibilities included the processing of internal promotions, which encompassed posting job listings, reviewing applications, conducting interviews, writing and sending offer letters, carrying out background checks, ordering drug tests, initiating and reviewing onboarding, and ensuring that personnel updates were reflected in the system.
Compass created a program it called “Operation Equity” in March 2022, a purported diversity program that offered qualified employees special training and mentorship and the promise of a promotion upon graduation, according to the legal complaint that was filed in Rogers v. Compass Group USA Inc.
The lawsuit was filed on July 24 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California under the auspices of the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm headquartered in Chicago that organized the legal action.
But participation in the program was restricted to “women and people of color.” White men were not allowed to participate and receive the associated benefits of training, mentorship, and guaranteed promotion.
By calling it “Operation Equity,” the company “used a euphemistic and false title to hide the program’s true nature.” The program would more accurately be called the “White-Men-Need-Not-Apply” program because it is an example of “‘outright racial balancing,’ which is patently unlawful,” and is the kind of program “promoted by people … who harbor racial animus against white men,” according to the legal complaint.
Ms. Rogers claims she informed management that high-level employees said of the program, “This is the direction the world is going, jump on the train or get run over,” and “We are not here to appease the old white man.”
Ms. Rogers claims she also informed management that the program was illegal and requested that she be allowed an accommodation because the program “violated her ethical beliefs.” Management assured her she would be exempted from participating in it and that she would not be retaliated against for sharing her concerns with management.
Ms. Rogers claims she was fired in November 2022 after she refused to participate in the program that discriminated on the basis of race and sex, even though she received positive performance feedback from supervisors and colleagues. The stated reason for termination was “failure to perform job duties,” the legal complaint stated.
In the lawsuit, Ms. Rogers is seeking relief for religious discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, as well as wrongful termination.
An attorney for Ms. Rogers, Robert Weisenburger of LiMandri and Jonna in Rancho Santa Fe, California, told The Epoch Times in an interview that his client’s personal, religious beliefs as a Christian prevented her from being part of “Operation Equity.”
She believes that “everyone is created equal,” and she, therefore, “could not in good faith be a part of implementing a program that would discriminate against people on the basis of race and color,” said Mr. Weisenburger, who is also a special counsel at the Thomas More Society.
She also believes that the program violates “federal and state laws that prohibit race and sex discrimination,” which provide “no exclusion for white males,” he said.
The company fired her “for objecting to discrimination,” the lawyer said.
“Not only was she trying to do the right thing by standing up to this, but she was also trying to protect Compass Group because Compass Group was doing something illegal. And so she was standing up to this injustice, and as a result, she was fired.”
Ms. Rogers is seeking financial compensatory damages for discrimination and retaliation. She is also asking for a court order requiring the company’s senior management in human resources to participate in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Fair Treatment training, classes, and oversight to make sure that the company does not discriminate and retaliate against other employees the way it did with Ms. Rogers.
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