Armed Anarchy on the Streets of Memphis

We’ve seen what the collapse of the United States into anarchy looks like in Newark. The Auto Wire shows us how it looks in Memphis:

A street takeover in Memphis involving two Dodge Chargers blocking a section of road escalated beyond the typical reckless driving scenario when participants were filmed hanging out of vehicle windows brandishing firearms. …

Memphis has been dealing with elevated levels of violent crime more broadly, and the street takeover incidents are occurring in that context. …

The escalation of street takeovers from dangerous to armed and dangerous should motivate cities that have been treating this as a low-priority nuisance issue to revisit that assessment. The Memphis incident won’t be the last one that involves weapons, and waiting for a shooting before implementing more serious enforcement responses is a predictably bad strategy.

Let me guess the liberal solution: confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens while leaving criminals armed to the teeth, then defund the police.

On a tip from abcanc.

Chaos on the Streets of Mamdani’s New York

The system of government imposed by moonbats like NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is called “anarchotyranny.” Under it, while economically constructive activity is taxed and regulated to the point of paralysis, the streets degenerate into chaos.

The New York Post reports from a formerly staid neighborhood in Maspeth, Queens:

Shocking video shows reckless drivers whipping around the intersection at 69th Street and Eliot Avenue in Maspeth overnight Friday.

More than 100 vehicles are said to have been involved.

The chaos had a political aspect:

A man appeared to wave a Palestinian flag as he burned rubber, just narrowly missing those standing around the car while it made donuts.

More than ever since the horrific 10/7 Hamas terror atrocities, the Palestinian flag stands not so much for Palestinians as for hostility toward Western Civilization.

According to Councilman Phil Wong…

…three people jumped on top of the responding police car and shattered its windshield – but the culprits got away.

However, police say that at least one person received a citation for reckless driving, so civilization endures even in New York for now.

The video:

On a tip from Wiggins.

Spain Cracks Down on Free Speech as Migrants Run Riot

Countries that are hostile to the USA tend also to be hostile free speech. Spain as it succumbs to leftism is a case in point.

Via Modernity:

Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld prison sentences for seven individuals over Facebook comments criticizing unaccompanied foreign minors in the border enclave of Melilla, marking a chilling escalation in the far-left government’s war on free speech amid skyrocketing migrant-related crime.

Sentences for supposedly promoting hostility toward mostly North African colonists range from 8 months to 1 year 10 months.

This fits with socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s campaign to undo the Reconquista so that Spain can be reabsorbed into the Muslim world in the name of moonbattery.

Just months ago, Alex Soros heaped praise on Sánchez for granting amnesty to up to 500,000 illegal migrants via royal decree, bypassing parliament entirely. …

Meanwhile, the regime has threatened to “limit and likely ban” X entirely, joining the EU’s broader crackdown on platforms that allow unfiltered discourse.

Also meanwhile,

A new study shows foreigners commit five times more rapes and four times more murders per capita than Spaniards, with penetrative rape cases exploding 143% in five years to over 5,200 in 2024.

Consider a colonist from Senegal who raped a 14-year-old girl.

He received a two-year suspended sentence, 60 days of community service, and a €7,500 fine—far lighter than the prison terms handed to these Facebook commenters for mere words.

It’s not as if there is no freedom left in Spain. In addition to the liberty of migrants to rape the native population with virtual impunity, the regime offers freedom to have sex with animals. Catholics may be forbidden to pray the rosary in public, but pedophiles are allowed to hold parades featuring children in adult erotic clothing.

On a tip from abcanc.

Anarchotyranny Applied to Pro-Life Movement

Normalizing abortion and making it more prevalent is a primary objective of the Democratic Party, consistent with its fundamental hostility to the humankind. The party’s governing principle is anarchotyranny, which facilitates a two-pronged attack on those who defend innocent human life.

On the tyranny side, Democrats sic FBI SWAT teams on pro-life activists and throw them in prison.

On the anarchy side:

A 28-year-old man who was caught on video attacking two pro-life activists outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Baltimore was sentenced this week to a year of home detention and three years of probation.

Considering the crime, this doesn’t rise to the level of a wrist slap.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant rebuffed prosecutors’ calls for a 10-year sentence against Patrick Brice, 28, after he was found guilty of two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment in relation to the May 2023 incident…

Victim Mark Crosby was 73 years old at the time he was beaten by Brice. He sustained permanent damage to his eye. The other victim was knocked unconscious.

Brice said on May 26, 2023, he intended to debate Richard Schaefer – the other victim, who was 84 – about the concept of sin outside the Planned Parenthood facility, but then lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark, The Baltimore Banner reported. Surveillance video showed Brice shoving Schaefer into a flowerpot and then assaulting Crosby when he rushed to his aid.

Evidently, perceiving “racial remarks” provides carte blanche to commit violence even for those who are not persons of politically preferred pigmentation themselves. No doubt it helps if the judge is this moonbat:

Why would she punish a fellow member of Team Liberal? At least she refrained from giving the defendant a high-five in the courtroom.

Tom Brejcha of the Thomas More Society sums up the crime:

“It was a vicious, targeted assault on two senior citizens whose only ‘offense’ was praying for expectant mothers and offering life-affirming alternatives to abortion.”

For that they were punished by a foot soldier of the liberal establishment.

Effectively legal behavior in Baltimore.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Covid Tyranny Carries On in Canada

If you thought Covid tyranny was bad in the USA, be glad you aren’t north of the border:

In Canada … pandemic restrictions were tighter and lasted longer than in the United States. That prompted public pushback culminating in the protest known as the Freedom Convoy and draconian retaliation against demonstrators by the Canadian government.

The tyranny continues:

While the government’s actions have since been ruled unconstitutional, two of the Freedom Convoy’s leaders have been convicted for their efforts and potentially face prison sentences longer than those handed out to killers and rapists.

Note that this comes not from North Korea but from an allegedly free country:

“The Crown says it’s seeking an extraordinary sentence for an unprecedented crime, as court began hearing sentencing submissions Wednesday in the mischief case of Ottawa truck convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber,” the CBC’s Arthur White-Crummey reported last week. “Crown prosecutor Siobhain Wetscher asked Justice Heather Perkins-McVey to impose a prison sentence of seven years for Lich and eight years for Barber.”

They were acquitted of more serious charges resulting from their objection to Justin Trudeau’s over-the-top tyranny. This included not only suffocating lockdowns and vaccine mandates but freezing the bank accounts of those who objected.

Actual criminals are treated more gently than Barber and Lich:

“It’s certainly the case that you can do an awful lot of heinous things in Canada before a prosecutor would ever think of asking for seven years,” Tristin Hopper wrote for the National Post. He pointed out that in March, prosecutors sought no more than six years for a British Columbia man who sexually assaulted a baby. In 2022, an Edmonton man received a five-year sentence for killing two people while driving drunk; that was the same sentence given in 2019 to a Newfoundland man who was drunk when he killed a couple and seriously injured two other people. Five years was also the sentence sought for a Vancouver man who fatally stabbed a good Samaritan who intervened in a heated public argument.

The system of government imposed by moonbats like Trudeau and Mark Carney is known as anarchotyranny.

On a tip from StephaneDumas.

Arrested for Carrying Home Gardening Tools

Anarchotyranny means the police allow approved identity groups to run riot while seizing on absurd pretexts to crack down on peaceful citizens. Moonbat-ruled Britain shows how it’s done:

A Manchester man named Samuel Rowe, a technical manager at a theatre, was arrested by armed police after being spotted with gardening tools upon returning from his garden plot. Rowe, 35, had a bag of vegetables and tools strapped to his belt, including a Japanese garden sickle he planned to use to trim his hedge. When police arrived, they ordered Rowe to drop the “knife” and arrested him on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon.

The incident is now on Rowe’s permanent record, potentially limiting employment opportunities. Paul Joseph Watson puts it in context:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Gentlest of Wrist Slaps for Vehicular Homicide in UK

Regarding vehicular homicide, maybe the license to murder enjoyed by illegal aliens in the USA has been extended to Islamocolonizers in the UK:

A bus driver who failed to brake and killed a 77-year-old woman has avoided jail…

Almena Amica was using a pedestrian crossing to cross the road in the centre of Manchester when the bus accelerated and collided into her.

A further 11 people – a mixture of pedestrians and passengers – escaped with minor injuries as the single decker bus smashed into a café in Piccadilly Gardens on October 16, 2023.

After Khalid Mahmood pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving, he…

…received a two year suspended sentence and has been disqualified from driving for five years.

For killing someone.

Just don’t post anything Islamophobic online. That could get you 3 years in prison. Authorities might even try to extradite you from the USA.

On a tip from Steve T.

Official Obstruction of Law Enforcement in Nashville

Even as Trump’s enforcement of immigration law radically reduces the murder rate in Denver, we read this from Nashville:

The Nashville Community Review Board is urging residents to submit a formal complaint against any Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officers seen cooperating with immigration enforcement efforts.

The obstruction of law enforcement — which itself is a crime — is so brazen as to be almost unbelievable. But see for yourself:

Here’s why Nashville moonbats are keen to hamstring ICE:

The request for residents to file complaints against MNPD officers cooperating with immigration enforcement efforts comes after an operation conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in conjunction with the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) in Nashville last week resulted in the arrests of 196 criminal illegal aliens, as previously reported by The Tennessee Star.

Democrats want foreigners like this running amok on our streets:

Among the aliens arrested during the operation were a 60-year old convicted rapist from Iraq, a 33-year old MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, drug traffickers from El Salvador and Haiti, and a 39-year old from Guatemala convicted of aggravated assault.

Of the 196 arrests seen during the operation, 95 were of aliens who had prior criminal convictions and pending criminal charges, and 31 were of aliens who reentered the U.S. illegally after previously being deported.

That gives an idea of what Democrats have been systematically replacing the American population with, via open borders combined with generous entitlement incentives, and why they are so certain the new population won’t vote Republican.

Don’t expect public safety from Chief of Police John Drake; he was appointed by previous Nashville Mayor John Cooper, a Democrat.

“Hear me when I say this, immigration status is irrelevant to what we do as a police department,” Drake said.

To wit, whether people break the law is irrelevant to what they do as a police department.

Speaking of lawbreakers,

In Tennessee, local governments are prohibited from adopting sanctuary policies as of a 2018 law. Earlier this year, Governor Bill Lee signed a bill strengthening the 2018 law by making it a Class E felony for local officials to vote in favor of or adopt sanctuary policies or practices.

As noted earlier,

No wonder Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell — another Democrat — demands advance knowledge of federal immigration enforcement operations. Astroturf mobs don’t just magically appear when an illegal alien criminal is arrested; they have to be deployed.

More than once, these mobs have featured Democrat officeholders assaulting ICE agents.

The USA will become increasingly ungovernable until both illegal immigration and obstruction of law enforcement are treated as serious crimes.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.