Land Of The Terrorized, Home Of The Insane
Why are they being given opportunities to continue living their lives, at the cost of everyone else?
I’ve been fixing to publish this essay for a while now, but personal obligations and the election delayed this by weeks. After considering scrapping it, I realize I’d put too much work into it and the events discussed are too important from a prepper’s standpoint just to toss it into the wastebasket.
Remember: the election of Donald Trump doesn’t reverse our fortunes, not overnight, if at all. Our problems are all still here and will continue to worsen in the short term. More important, the issues we discuss in this essay are of far greater relevance than anything going on in Washington. So as I said following the election, stay vigilant. Don’t forget that the war has yet begun.
Let’s roll.
A Government For The Insane, By The Insane
Remember the killing of Andreas Probst? He was run over two joy-riding teens while biking in Las Vegas. A year later, this case has reached a resolution and it’s not a good one.
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
A 19-year-old accused of killing a retired police chief in a hit-and-run last year has been found incompetent to face the charges.
Jesus Ayala and his co-defendant, 17-year-old Jzamir Keys, have been in custody since August 2023 in connection with the fatal crash, in which they were accused of intentionally hitting 66-year-old Andreas Probst as he rode his bicycle in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
District Judge Christy Craig found Ayala not competent to face the charges out of an “abundance of caution,” said Chief Deputy Public Defender David Westbrook after a court hearing Wednesday.
The judge ordered Ayala to be sent to a state psychiatric hospital for treatment to restore his competency, Westbrook said.
Westbrook has previously said that Ayala has “pretty severe brain damage from several sources.”
It’s not clear where the brain damage comes from, but he’s a criminal, and taking hits is part of the job. Not sure that means he can’t be held accountable for his actions.
As you’d hope (I’ll explain my word choice later), Probst’s widow wasn’t having it.
Crystal Probst provided a list of reasons she believes Ayala is competent.
“He has the competency to waive the conflict of interest with his public defender. He has the competency to steal numerous vehicles while committing his crimes. He has the competency to state when arrested he will be out of jail in 30 days,” Crystal Probst said. “He has the competency to not speak to investigators and not waive his Miranda rights. He has the competency to send me vile sign language and continues attempts to try to intimidate me while in court proceedings.”
I’ll add he’s also apparently competent enough to laugh and share jokes with his public defender, to in addition to the hateful gestures he made towards the victim's family.
My understanding of the outcome is that it doesn’t mean Ayala gets away with it. This constitutes a delay of a trial, not a dropping of charges. He could still be found competent on a later date and finally forced to face the music. However, as I explained several weeks ago, there’s likely to be a limit to how long the state can take before they find him competent, and if I were Ayala, I wouldn’t want to be found competent, due to the stakes involved. Coupled with the statute of limitations, the possibility of getting away with the crime is high. The delay in bringing him to trial buys time for Ayala, while serving as a form of punishment for the victim’s family.
His accomplice, Jzamir Keys, hasn’t been found incompetent yet, and currently appears as though he’ll stand trial whenever it takes place; as co-defendant, Keys cannot be tried until the Ayala situation is resolved, multiplying the agony of the situation. How long does it take for even one of the perpetrators to be held responsible for murder?
Back to the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
This year, a grand jury handed down a superseding indictment that also charged Ayala with battery, attempted murder and attempted robbery in connection with a stabbing that happened in June 2023.
The victim in the stabbing told police that he was drinking outside his home when a teenager walked by him, and he accused the teen of stealing something from him. He then followed the teenager and was attacked by a group of five other people, according to an arrest report.
After Ayala was arrested in the hit-and-run, the man attacked in June identified Ayala in a photo lineup, the report said. The arrest report also identified Ayala as a member of the “Night Crawlers criminal gang.” Ayala has denied being a member of a gang or being involved in a stabbing, the report said.
He’s a fine, upstanding citizen, isn’t he? Remember that our entire government, our entire society, revolves around enabling people like Ayala and Keys, and people like Kamala Harris represent that order. Anyway, it’s amazing the amount of damage these people inflict before they’re ever held to account in a so-called civilized country.
Most concerning is what appears to be an increasing trend of criminals being found mentally incompetent to stand trial. Remember this story?
Here’s another:
I covered this incident in a prior essay:
Here’s a more recent incident:
The examples are myriad:
What do you notice about these cases? Aside from the sheer brutality of the crimes committed, I notice that the perpetrators are non-White, usually Black, and their victims White. Anyone who thinks there’s something wrong with noticing race should consider that race would absolutely be at the forefront of the discussion had roles been reversed. The insanity plea is used by criminals of all races, but it’s worth asking ourselves whether there truly exists a pattern here and if so, why.
Remember Probst’s own daughter all but defending the two bloodthirsty savages who murdered her father? She attempted to take race entirely out of the discussion, as though that’d help matters, as though that were important to the punishing the murderers. Well, justice for her father isn’t forthcoming, a year later. I wonder what she thinks now? It’s easy to take the “high road” when you believe justice will be rendered.
It’s tiring to have to point that out, but race matters; we don’t live in a color-blind society. It’s not because America’s full of racists, but instead because we’re led by people who’ve created a social hierarchy based on, among other things, skin color. It’s not something comfortable to admit - I’m still not - but there’s no denying it at this point. Had Kamala Harris become the next president, it would’ve become impossible to deny over the next four years.
It’s difficult not to notice a pattern. There’s an awful lot of people being found too insane to be held responsible for their actions, which calls into question why they had any freedom to begin with. Citizenship comes with the assumption that a person can be held responsible for their actions, but this is apparently not the case with so many people. So why are so many of them out and about, living among the rest of us? Why are they being given opportunities to continue living their lives, at the cost of everyone else? And most important, how long must this continue?
It’s Time To Get Mean
On Halloween, a mass shooting occurred in Orlando, killing two and injuring eight. One of the victims was 19-year-old Tim Schmidt Jr.
His father, Tim Schimidt Sr., wasn’t interested in making nice, as we often see the families of victims do in these situations, especially when a racial disparity is involved [WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]:
Subsequent images of the suspect released by police suggest the individual seen above isn’t him. However, it doesn’t impact the sentiment expressed by Tim Schmidt. Unlike the daughter of Andreas Probst, he isn’t going out of his way to call for peace, unity, and to tell everyone not to be racist. It’s not because he wants people to be racist, it’s because, well, it’s just not that important.
If I’m ever a victim of such a crime, I wouldn’t want my family to suffer in anguish or hatred. But I’d also want them to seek retribution in any way available to them. I absolutely wouldn’t want them telling anyone they shouldn’t be angry or racist. It takes away from the crime and the fact my life was taken from me. My life isn’t to be sacrificed on the altar of anti-racism.
Shifting away from the trend of effectively apologizing and reaffirming one’s anti-racism is going to be a generational undertaking. But it has to start somewhere. Maybe it starts with a pissed-off father who decided to get mean instead of nice. Maybe we all need to be a little meaner.
Is It Time For A New #MeToo Movement?
Ana Kasparian, co-host of the progressive talk show The Young Turks, shared a traumatic incident involving a vagrant that influenced her to leave the Democratic Party:
Some of the reactions to her story constituted righteous indignation, but I think if people are willing to change their minds based on personal experience, we shouldn’t shut them up or out. I’ve never agreed with anything Ana Kasparian said, but she always seemed to be one of the more good-faith voices on the Left. For example, she changed her view on the Kyle Rittenhouse case because she learned details about the incident the media withheld from the public. She isn’t using her traumatic experience to bash men, as so many feminists find reason to do.
What she describes here is something a lot of young women today are uncomfortable admitting, due to political and social pressure, mostly. There’s just too strong an incentive to not come off as bigoted, “punching down,” stereotyping poor people, etc. The reaction Kasparian received is the very one young women seek to avoid because it damages their status in society, especially as concern about crime has become low-class-coded, or associated with Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
The empowerment of women has also made it a matter of wounded pride for them to admit that they’re still at the mercy of dangerous people, no matter how progressive society has become. I think it’s commendable Kasparian came forward and told her story, because if she doesn’t do it, who will? Nor did she blame men as you so often hear from other women who share such stories. The fact is, women need to speak up for themselves. It’s the only chance these stories will ever be taken seriously.
It makes me wonder: how many women, especially young women living in urban areas, have had similar experiences, but are too afraid to speak up? Is it time for a new #MeToo movement, this time centered around the dangerous reality of our urban areas?
In a more recent tweet, Kasparian says:
I warned about this TWO years ago. Turns out gaslighting people and telling them to calm down because “crime isn't as bad as the 90s” doesn't work. If your policies make lives worse, the backlash will come.
Since the election, a number of leftists have been coming forward, saying that the Left’s attitude towards crime and disorder is in fact a huge liability for them.
Here’s Noah Smith expressing a remarkable, if belated, change of heart:
But fixing blue cities is going to require more than just waves of voter anger or a laundry list of good policies. It’s going to require a mindset change — a shift in people’s understanding of what a city should be and how it should be run.
The most important thing blue cities need to understand and internalize is that anarchy is not a form of welfare.
Many progressives believe that any actions to curb urban disorder — restrictions on sidewalk tents, making people pay for public transit, arresting people for nonviolent crime, and so on — represent the exclusion of marginalized people from public life. In the absence of a full-service cradle-to-grave welfare state, progressives think they can redistribute urban utility from the rich to the poor by basically letting anyone do anything they want.
But in fact, permissiveness toward the behaviors that create urban disorder destroy more value than they redistribute. When you don’t make people pay for public transit, you scare people off the train, thus causing the train to go bankrupt. Pretty soon neither the rich nor the poor have a train, and everyone is screwed. This is the tragedy of the commons.
Measures to curb disorder therefore represent defense of the commons. When Bay Area trains put in new stronger gates to prevent people from riding the train without paying, crime on the train fell and rider satisfaction increased. Similarly, measures to curb shoplifting — including punishing shoplifters and letting security guards and business owners defend their stores with violence — allow local businesses to keep operating, which means that poor and working-class urban residents have places to shop for their daily needs. And so on.
Amazing how losing an election changes perspective. If only day-to-day reality accomplished the same. We’d be much better off.
Bodycams Killed BLM
Few visuals encapsulate what America is in 2024 quite the way this here does [WARNING: GRAPHIC]:
What happened here? From NBC4 Washington:
Disturbing police body camera video shows a Virginia woman charging a Fairfax County police officer with a knife moments before he shot and killed her.
Just after 10 a.m. Sept. 16, a 14-year veteran knocked on 33-year-old Sydney Wilson’s apartment door to perform a welfare check in Reston.
As the officer identified himself, Wilson slammed the door shut, video shows. The officer knocked again, and two minutes later, Wilson opened the door and attacked him with a knife.
Wilson allegedly slashed the officer on the face a few times before the officer pulled his weapon and retreated down the hallway. The officer fired three times before radioing shots were fired and he needed help.
Activists and the Black community were chomping at the bit to make Wilson the next victim of police brutality and systemic racism. Georgetown University, where she played college basketball, “mourned” her death without any explanation of the circumstances. Thankfully, the heart-stopping bodycam footage from the officer who was attacked by her shut it all down.
If anyone is still on the fence, this image of the officer forced to shoot Wilson ought to clear up the indecision [WARNING: GRAPHIC]:
Thankfully, he lived.
I’ve said this before, but I think one reason even truly problematic cases of police use of force don’t generate the same level of outrage they once did is because of the prevalence of bodycam footage. Incidents like the one resulting in the death of Wilson far outweigh those where police misconduct might’ve occurred. At some point, reality becomes impossible to ignore. It wasn’t that long ago that elements sympathetic to criminals were complaining that bodycams were actually helping police instead of revealing the truth about the racial terror Black Americans suffer at the hands of police.
The same way video killed the radio star, police bodycam footage may very well have killed the Black Lives Matter movement.
Snap Back To Reality
This was a pretty dark and dreary post, I know. But I think it’s important for everyone to understand the world hasn’t totally changed just because of the events of the last week. We’re still very much the same country we were two weeks ago, even if things feel different. Maybe change is coming, maybe better times are on the way, but we still have many tough days to endure before they do.
What are your thoughts on any of the cases discussed here? What is the solution, if any? How much longer do you think the status quo can endure? Will the election of Donald Trump bring about any changes?
Let’s talk about it in the comments section.
Max Remington writes about armed conflict and prepping. Follow him on Twitter at @AgentMax90.
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There are several things I want to say. First, the police bodycam may be the superweapon which chokes off the Left's cri de couer about police brutality. Thank God for its invention. Second, the woman who stabbed the child may be demon possessed. If not, then she certainly is among the 1% of criminally insane, and like the mentally retarded neighbor of mine who beat his mother and caregiver to death twenty years ago, should be in a state hospital for the rest of her life.
I've seen the video of the monsters who hit the bicyclist. If I were King, I'd have them shot without a qualm.
What grates on me is any invocation ever of traumatic brain injury as a mitigating factor in a criminal case. I'm a childhood moderate to severe TBI survivor, so trust me that one of the two or three close to universal effects of TBI is what doctors call "inability to initiate." Essentially, this means that it's too much trouble for us to do much of anything. I've thrown out skillets rather than clean them because it was just too damned much trouble that day for me to clean them. TBI survivors are unlikely to be anyone's assailant.
I watched some videos yesterday about how clean and safe Japan is. Their success is due in large part to the zero-nonsense policy of the justice system. Of course, the liberal journalists/narrators were appalled at how strictly Japanese laws were enforced. Exhibit #10999 of how liberals don't understand cause and effect or how the world works.