One man is restrained for 9 minutes. The other for 13 minutes. One incident causes a summer of deadly rioting and results in a murder conviction against police officer Derek Chauvin. The other is largely ignored by the national media.

One man was black. The other man was white.

Our legal system is based on equal justice for all.

Equal justice under law is a phrase engraved on the West Pediment, above the front entrance of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. Photo: The author on June 21, 2020. (Photo by Julie Sullivan for WBDaily)

Was equal justice applied in these two cases? You can decide. We watched several videos, searching for the best one to describe the situation with the George Floyd arrest and death in Minneapolis.  This one was posted by the New York Times.

George Floyd repeated: “I can’t breathe.”

The Dallas Morning News posted a narrative with video of the Tony Timpa arrest and death.

Tony Timpa repeated: “You’re gonna kill me.”

Please watch and compare. Make your decision based on these and other questions.

1. Did Derek Chavin actually murder George Floyd?
2. Was Floyd already in distress when police arrested him?
3. Did George Floyd overdose on drugs?
4. Was Chauvin guilty of manslaughter rather than murder?
5. Assess the actions of the Dallas police.
6. Did they murder Tony Timpa?
7. Did Tony Timpa overdose on drugs?
8. Why did the George Floyd case create a national sensation?
9. Who profited from the George Floyd case?
10. Was justice done in the Tony Timpa case?
11. Why didn’t the Timpa case create a national sensation?
12. What part did race play in the outcome of each case?

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Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter. Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us. Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site. Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

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In today’s column, a few questions to make you think.

 ISSUE ONE: Justice for George. 

Derek Chauvin mugshot – Minnesota Department of Corrections

Following the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, in which the ex-cop was convicted on all three counts, I was taken by the fact that even on FOX News, there seemed to be a consensus that justice was done.

I’m not so sure.

I’ve never been able to get past the facts of this case – that George Floyd was caught passing a counterfeit $20 bill, that he resisted arrest, and that he was high on drugs – three times enough fentanyl to be fatal. How then can Chauvin be convicted of murder at any level?

Floyd was Dead Man Walking and he might have died at any time. Surely Chauvin speeded up that death with the nine-minute knee-to-the-neck. But that’s like saying COVID killed someone who was at the end stages of lung cancer. There’s something “off” about this verdict. Chauvin deserved perhaps a manslaughter conviction, but no more.

ISSUE TWO: Changing the definition of murder.

The Derek Chauvin case set a lot of new precedents.

One is that a sitting congresswoman from out-of-state, namely Maxine Waters, can go to the city of a high-profile trial and demand a certain verdict and if she doesn’t get her way, demand more violence. A sitting President can announce what “the right verdict” should be before the jury decides.

But the worst precedent may be the changing of the meaning of murder. In all past history, murder is the unlawful, purposeful killing of a human being without justification, usually premeditated. That is not what happened in the George Floyd case.

Officer Chauvin was negligent in the way he restrained Floyd. There was no apparent attempt to murder anybody. Now, “negligence” has been established as the equivalent of “murder.” And all to appease a violent mob.

ISSUE THREE: Reasonable Doubt.

 In the United States of America, a defendant must be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In the Derek Chauvin trial, that standard was abandoned.

Is there a doubt that Chauvin wanted to kill George Floyd? Was Floyd resisting arrest? Maybe he wasn’t, but is there a doubt? And what killed Floyd? Is there any doubt at all that he suffered from severe heart disease brought on by massive drug use? Is there no doubt that he was severely drugged-up at the time of the arrest? Could that have killed him?

Did the autopsy results have any meaning to the jury at all?

Video:  Tucker Carlson reacts to the politicization of the Chauvin trial.

And what about the mob? Tucker Carlson says the verdict really was “please don’t hurt us.” Using the reasonable doubt standard, and with an intimidating mob waiting to pounce, you have to wonder if the quick jury decision was itself reasonable.

Was justice really done?

Stay tuned for more Random Samplings of a Logical Mind. I’m Lynn Woolley.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter. Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us. Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site. Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

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This has led to the rise of domestic terrorism from groups such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter. When combined with anti-American agitation from football player Colin Kaepernick and the pro-China stance of the National Basketball Association and players like LeBron James who seem more concerned with money than national security, the United Sates of America is in tatters.

Left-wing politicians like Kamala Harris openly support the freeing of drug dealers, gang members, and other hardened criminals from our prisons. Cities like Seattle and Austin are defunding police, which will lead to skyrocketing crime. Skin color has become the defining issue of our time – an immutable trait we are given at birth from God – just like gender. The Left is in denial, and see all things as race-based, and gender as a fluid construct.

This tells me that there has been a simmering hatred of America just under the surface that needed a spark to rise to the top. The killing of George Floyd provided that provided that Archduke Ferdinand moment. 

America cannot survive under such conditions.

We cannot survive with a false strength called “diversity” instead of the factual strength of unity. Yet, schools teach diversity, and cities like Austin take “pride” in the denial of gender. How can we turn this situation around and become a colorblind society that does not deny sexual realities? Will we continue along the path of becoming a nation of tribes based on our color and gender identification, or will we reunite as Americans?

Perhaps the moment to decide is now upon us.

This column was written on March 5, 2018.

It’s a good question. What binds Americans together? The answer is tougher.

We’re split on just about every issue imaginable, and if we don’t get together – somehow – we may be about to mess up the Great Experiment in self-government. The Founding Fathers got us off to good start with a common cause – freedom. Early, we chose English as a common language. Our morals and values were set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We became, as John Adams once said, a nation of laws, not of men.

We believed in immigration. We brought people into the country and assimilated them. Our schools and colleges taught American exceptionalism. It was true. But something has happened.   We need to make some decisions. Either we find a way to unite this country, or we’re going to fall apart.

Ronald Reagan in 1981. (Public Domain)

Ronald Reagan posed this question more than fifty years ago.

Reagan was an amazing patriot who operated with logic and common sense. On behalf of the Barry Goldwater campaign, Reagan made a speech for the ages, asking questions about the state of the nation and the path it seemed to be on:

“This is the issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”

Isn’t that the question for our time as well?

The problem is that many Americans are happy for government to run our lives.

Technology has many of us in a smartphone stupor.

Others say that their voice doesn’t matter. Some, mostly on the Left, say American’s best days are behind her.   We hear about “the new normal” of declining quality of life and disappearing jobs. We are flooded with illegal aliens that don’t speak English, and we cater to them with free health care and education in their language.

Schools are left-wing. So are Hollywood movies, pop music, rap, network television, two out of three cable news networks, network news, and those who control social media. Our big universities are safe zones for snowflake students who have been indoctrinated by left professors that hate America, and who loved Russia until they got the idea that Russia could be used to oust President Trump.

We argue over everything:

• Press one for Spanish
• The border wall
• Bilingual education
• Obamacare
• Second Amendment rights
• The Electoral College
• Activist judges
• Confederate statues
• Safe zones
• Separation of church & state
• Military power
• The Nuclear Arsenal
• Gay marriage
• Transgenders
• The Tax Code
• Whether Trump should resign or be impeached

The things we all agree on are harder to name. (I’ll get back to you on that.) The good news is that we have prototypes for what will happen to America if we go down this path.

California has experimented with liberal governance. The results are in.

The Golden State is in trouble.

It now ranks dead last among states in quality of life. Indiana is 48^th. New Jersey is 49^th. California is 50^th. Los Angeles has 55,000 homeless people. The mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, is being reviewed by the Department of Justice for alerting residents in her city that an immigration raid was coming (so much for “a nation of laws…”). The far left governor of California, Jerry Brown, would like to be president to bring this misery to the rest of the nation.

Federal judges from Seattle to Hawaii to Texas routinely usurp the constitutional powers assigned to the Congress (to make laws) and to the President (to enforce laws).   The constitutional principle of Separation of Powers is no longer applied.

We’ve seen Europe make big mistakes with immigration and acceptance of too many refugees that do not share Western values. We see – and yet we do not heed the warnings.

Video: Once to Every Man  and Nation – Fountainview Academy

The constant media pounding of Donald Trump is changing America for the worse.

The media no longer simply reports. It tries to move this country leftward.

CNN now seems to be to be to the left of MSNBC. Trump hatred is the order of the day on CNN – even though Trump has brought the country out of the stagnation we had under Obama.

So, as in Reagan’s day, every man, every woman, and our nation has reached a moment of decision.

What kind of country do we want?

We seem to heading for a future where we worry more about mythical climate change than the culture rot that has taken over our big universities. We worry more about Trump’s latest tweet than the hatred being spread on CNN every night by a 100 percent liberal management and on-air staff that hate him – and want us all to be like California.

We speak many languages – even in schools where it costs taxpayers a lot of money to teach the way the courts have decided we should. Our new national motto has become “our strength is our diversity,” and the Left worships at the diversity altar.

https://youtu.be/CV9DMgVF-Nk

Video:  Even the Lovin’ Spoonful can see that we have to make up our minds.

What do you believe God is?

To Christians, God is the force that created and holds sway over the universe. He is the source of morals and values. He is our Compass. Liberals such as President Obama believe He is a joke and they have succeeded through the courts in removing Him from schools.

Schools and universities have become left-wing, atheistic institutions dedicated to causes like diversity and climate change. If even there is no God, the presence of a belief in God keeps us from degenerating into primitive savages, or into a technological dystopia.

Can we bring back unity?

It’s never too late. But if we – the Vast Right Wing – want to preserve our amazing experiment in self-government, we’ve got to work harder than the Left does. We have to stand up for the values embedded in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and (yes) the Bible.

We have to understand that science is real.

We cannot change the weather, and neither can we change a person’s gender. We MUST coalesce around a common language. We have to decide on how many immigrants we need – and who they are. We cannot allow immigrants to control us. We’ve got to change our schools and universities. We must drain the swamp.

As JFK once said, we must choose to do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard.     I choose to take a stand. To fight. To point out idiotic government and policies whenever I see them.   To vote for patriots who want to serve rather than get rich in office. To demand more of our elected officials. To stand for justice for ALL under the law – even the Clintons. To demand that the left-wing media shape up and report the news instead of their own political biases. To demand that diversity in schools and colleges includes some conservative professors that openly love the United States of America.

Whatever we are going to be as a country in the 21^st Century – it’s time to decide.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter. Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us. Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site. Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

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As a writer and a thinker, you have to consider before writing a column like this one.   Truth – not MY truth or HER truth, but ACTUAL truth – is not in vogue right now. If I write this, I will be pilloried. Facebook and Google are likely to censor it. If they do, you’ll know I was right.

I’m white. I was born that way, to a poor opposite sex couple, both of whom loved me and provided the basics. By that I mean food, clothing and helping me with my homework. The car in the driveway of the modest house we rented was always more than a decade old. I fought for every dime I earned, every job I got and I worked to help pay for a college education.

SoHo New York June 2. Photo by Julie Sullivan for WBDaily.

After college was over, I worked to find a job, found one, and clawed my way as high up the ladder as I could. I helped my folks when I could. I never had a life of privilege.

I never hated black people, and always made sure to address them as Mr. and Mrs. If they were older and wiser than I. I did this as a sign of respect without being overt about it. I treated them as I would anyone else.

I always recognized that white bigots exist and was determined never to become one.

I took pleasure in seeing black people rise to the top as they have in sports, entertainment, and business. Talented blacks like Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis, Jr. were so gifted that they succeeded in racially troubled times. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked for a country that catered to character rather than color. I wish these men had lived to see the amazing progress that has been made, and to witness the unbelievable opportunities that have been afforded to People of Color.

Black culture is dominant in America and has been for some time. Who would have thought that off-sounding poetry set to a beat would become the musical choice for a generation of young people – including whites? Who would have thought that the NFL, MLB, and the NBA would create a large community of black men who are multi-millionaires and whose voices are heard and respected?

Who would have thought that a black man could be elected president of the United States, and then re-elected? Only in America. It couldn’t happen anywhere else.

Temple rally. Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.

Then, what of the current situation in America?

The concept of “white privilege” has been used as a cudgel to attack a group of people on the basis of the color of their skin. This is wrong. Some people say we are now in a race war. That’s close, but not quite right.

If we split Americans into two sides, we could say black and white – but it’s more than that.   Consider this way to define the two sides:

Group One has a stake in society. A member of this group worked for decent marks in grade school, went on to finish college, worked for a living, bought a house, and perhaps owned a business of his own. This person believes in America and wants to preserve our freedoms and what he has built for his family.

Group Two has no stake in society. This person hated school, dropped out, worked at a few jobs, never went to college or a trade school, developed no skills, got on welfare and became stuck there, believes society is unfair, and would like to tear it down.

When you add skin color to this mix, it becomes very toxic. College educated whites and blacks are taught in liberal universities to sympathize with Group Two. That’s why the protests have grown so large and become so destructive. There’s too much energy in expressing grievances and not enough in taking advantage of the American Way.

Video: Dr. Cornel West and Leo Terrell fight the culture war on “Hannity” 6/9/20.

The Rise of Black Privilege.

This term would be more correct as “Liberal Black Privilege” because there are millions of black people who have a stake in society. They are in Group One and they think it’s terrible to see America burn.

Whatever you call it, here’s what it is:

Black Privilege is that unsaid but unassailable rule that no person, institution, or corporation may disagree with the current orthodoxy on black life in America.

This is an amazing advantage to subversive organizations such as Black Lives Matter. Because of this rule, they can say all manner of incredibly divisive things and few people dare to disagree. This has resulted in:

• Certain cities agreeing to dismantle their police departments in some form or fashion.
• Many politicians agreeing that prisons should be emptied, freeing felons that are imprisoned there.
• Democratic Party politicians that want to be reelected know to agree with the current orthodoxy – or else. (This puts heat on Joe Biden as he runs to defeat Trump.)
• This means that CNN, MSNBC and the Associated Press MUST define the protests as “peaceful” even while they show video of destruction, looting, and burned-out cars.
• It means that all good liberals MUST blame this on President Trump – even to the point of pillorying him for walking to a church with a Bible in hand.
• In means that nothing President Trump says can ever be true – and must always carry the disclaimer “without evidence.”
• It means that any business or corporation MUST support Black Lives Matter and the ridiculous things this group stands for or they will be attacked physically or through boycotts.
• It means that businesses that want to stay out of it entirely are GUILTY because “Silence Is Violence.”
• It means that police are now cowed and timid and cannot maintains peace due to what is known as the Ferguson Effect.
• It means that any black man unfairly killed by a bad cop MUST be fitted with a halo, even if he has committed crimes such as armed robbery and home invasion as George Floyd had done.
• It means that when a white man such as Tony Timpa is killed by a bad cop in the same manner as Mr. Floyd – who cares?

Here’s an example of a pandering email from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas:

The Harry Ransom Center community mourns the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Michael Ramos, and the countless other victims of police violence and institutional racism. We condemn in the strongest terms the police brutality and racial injustice directed toward people of color, and affirm that Black Lives Matter.

This letter is only a pull-quote, but it is disingenuous. Does the Ransom Center not care about Chicago’s weekly bloodbath? Baltimore’s? Millions of black children that are aborted? Why do only some black lives matter?

Here is another letter – this one from Uber, that like CNN and the AP refers to obvious violence and looting as “peaceful protesters.”

Let me start by saying I wish I never had to send this email.

 I wish that the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others weren’t so violently cut short. I wish that institutional racism, and the police violence it gives rise to, didn’t cause their deaths. I wish that all members of our Black community felt safe enough to move around their cities without fear. I wish that I didn’t have to try to find the words to explain all of this to my two young sons.

 But I’ve been given hope this week by hundreds of thousands of peaceful protestors demanding change. I am committed to being part of that change.

 As a company, we believe that everyone has the right to move freely, no matter where they live or the color of their skin. We’re proud of how Uber has helped improve transportation equity over the last decade. But the reality remains that Black Americans often don’t feel safe to move freely in many places around our country. And they still face enormous barriers that others do not.

This is a reality we should not perpetuate or accept. We must do better.

 We know there is no easy solution to the problems we have faced for centuries. We also know that we need to devote our time, energy and resources toward making a difference. That’s why we’re making a number of commitments that we will uphold not just this week, but for years to come:

 We are committed to driving lasting change through criminal justice reform. On Sunday, we announced a $1 million donation to the Equal Justice Initiative and Center for Policing Equity to support their important work in making racial justice in America more than just a promise.

We are committed to creating a community that treats everyone equally and with dignity. We do not tolerate discrimination, harrassment [sic] or racism on our platform, as outlined in our Community Guidelines. We will hold everyone who uses Uber accountable to these standards of basic respect and human decency. I respectfully ask anyone not willing to abide by these rules to delete Uber.

 We are committed to supporting the Black community. As a starting point, we will use Uber Eats to promote Black-owned restaurants while making it easier for you to support them, with no delivery fees for the remainder of the year. And in the coming weeks, we will offer discounted rides to Black-owned small businesses, who have been hit hard by COVID-19, to help in their recovery.

We are committed to making Uber a diverse and inclusive place for people of color to work and thrive. While we have more work to do, we have tied our senior executives’ pay to measurable progress on our diversity goals, and will continue to publish data on our workforce so the public can hold us accountable. We’re also committed to expanding opportunities for drivers and delivery people, including through education opportunities and skills training.

 We know this isn’t enough. It won’t be enough until we see true racial justice. But we plan to work day in and day out to improve, learn, and grow as a company.

 Lastly, let me speak clearly and unequivocally: Black Lives Matter.

 Dara Khosrowshahi
CEO

Statements from institutions and companies such as these are not helpful. The Ransom Center excerpt is college campus boilerplate and the Uber letter is offensive in its zeal to make all cops and the entire country seem racist.   Khosrowshahi mentions only instances that fit the liberal narrative. Perhaps he never heard of Tony Timpa. He ought to educate himself.

There is a kind of privilege that is unprecedented since the Civil war was fought to end slavery.

Yet, nobody may speak of it.

America, today, is a cesspool of political correctness that dictates what people who are not on the Left are allowed to think. This is evident on college campuses where opposing opinions are greeted with violence and protests.   It extends to the editorial page of the New York Times where the employees erupt in anger if an opposing opinion finds its way into print.

Many companies that came out on the side of Black Lives Matter discovered that their stores and their products did not matter. BLM’s peaceful protesters broke their windows and stole their property anyway – apparently as punishment for being in Group One – the group that wants to preserve its stake in America.

Does Group Two have any responsibility? 

Austin, Texas May 30. Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.

President John F. Kennedy believed that black people should be able to obtain good jobs, and largely because of him, we created Affirmative Action. Many people took advantage of that program and became successful members of society regardless of color.

The United States has codified equal opportunity with Civil Rights legislation – meaning there is no systemic racism. In America, no one can be denied a seat at a restaurant, or a job solely on the basis of color.

Colleges and Universities all have Departments of Diversity and Inclusion – one hundred percent headed up by non-white people, who are intentionally left out. The feeling is that to be totally inclusive, one race must be excluded.

From abolition to civil rights laws to Affirmative Action to the current diversity craze, people of color have opportunities that abound. Those opportunities are ubiquitous – there for the taking.

And yet, we see a weekly weekend bloodbath of black-on-black crime in Chicago. We hear stories of young black students who don’t study because making good grades would be “acting white.” We see the NFL and famed quarterback Drew Brees turning their backs on the flag of the United States that has sacrificed so much to preserve our freedom.  That’s right – people died so that Black Lives Matter and Uber could have freedom to speak as they wish.

President Johnson’s Great Society has seemingly provided an enabling mechanism to hold so many people in poverty. Chicago and Baltimore are two tragic cities that are mired in the aftermath of what LBJ did. If black lives matter – and they do – then black women must be mothers – not baby-mommas. Black men must step up and be fathers. Young blacks have to keep their grades up in school, avoid drugs and illegal guns, and break the cycle.

Trust me on this – white people want black people to succeed.

This country wants them to succeed. We’ve passed every law we can think of, put in remedial policies to help with jobs – and conservatives have even tried to stop the plague of welfare that has mired black people in single-mother hell. But once on welfare, no one wants to give it up. If acting right takes away the government check, who wants to do that?

Video:  Tucker Carlson on the mob and trying to rebuild America.  June 9, 2020.

Here’s a message to Group Two.

Just give it a shot, okay? Try getting good grades, getting off welfare, and stop getting pregnant out of wedlock. Stop aborting your own children. Embrace the idea of a traditional family with a mother and a father to raise your children. Teach them that America is a land of opportunity – for them and for everybody else.

If you show up at any university with an A or B average in your grades, they will want you. They will compete for you. Decide what makes you happy in life, and create a career. Buy a home and raise your kids right. That’s not acting white or black – that’s the American Way.

You don’t need to be angry with America or burn down her cities. All you need is to take advantage of the cornucopia of opportunities you have before you. What you need is a stake in America.

Patrick Quay is a U.S.-based freelance writer and political thinker.

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In my hometown, Temple, Texas, a Friday evening protest was organized around the December 2, 2019 killing of Michael Dean during a traffic stop. Temple officer Carmen DeCruz was arrested and charged after a lengthy time during which the police, the city, and the Texas Rangers wrapped a tight blanket of secrecy around the incident.

I did a live Facebook video from the protest.

Temple, Texas: signs at the rally for Michael Dean. Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.

Authorities in my town never seem to put out information unless their backs are to the wall.

I sympathized with the family and recorded three episodes of Planet Logic demanding information and justice – two with Benny Walsh of the NAACP and one with Mayor Tim Davis. Those programs can be heard at PlanetLogic.us.

Temple rally. Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.

The Friday night protest in Temple was peaceful, though many of the signs were too extreme for my taste. “No justice, no peace” is a call to violence. Another sign read “Pigs – Filthy Animals” – obviously aimed at police. We all know that there are bad cops, and that we need to do something about it – but not all cops are pigs and filthy animals.

Temple rally. Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.

The Temple event also featured a lot of “Black Lives Matter” signs, many carried by young whites.

My guess is that these people have very little knowledge of the organization they are promoting — that it seeks to defund police and abolish prisons. If we followed through on that agenda, we could have riots and looting in our cities 365 days a year. But we could not have a peaceful, productive society. Black Lives Matter is an exploitation group that uses a serious grievance to promote a dangerous agenda.

People should know that – but far too many never take the time to research.

Temple rally. Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.

While the Temple protest was underway, cities across they country were still in turmoil over the senseless death of George Floyd. I learned on Friday (from the Temple Daily Telegram) that I had seen Mr. Floyd play football in person. He was a member of the Houston Yates football team that played Temple High School for the state title in 1992 at Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin. What a small world.

Temple rally. Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.

The tragic thing about the deaths of so many black people at the hands of bad cops is that there never was a reason to kill them.

Consider the cases of Michael Dean (Temple), little Tamir Rice (Cleveland), George Floyd (Minneapolis), and Eric Garner (New York.) In Temple, it was a struggle over car keys; the Rice killing was murder most foul; Floyd and Garner were both subdued and no threat to police. This is bad.

Temple rally. Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.

But what about Tony Timpa? Why are there no protests for him?

Mr. Timpa died at the Hands of Dallas police in a similar fashion to the death of George Floyd. In this story from the Dallas Morning News, two other things struck me. First, that the Dallas Police, like the Temple Police, refused to release information. Second, there is no mention in the story that Timpa was white. (You can clearly see that from his photo.)

You can watch the video and hear Tony Timpa – who was drugged-up – screaming, “you’re gonna kill me” over and over. They killed him. White people did not march in the streets of Dallas to demand justice for Tony Timpa. More disturbing, black people didn’t either.

You’d think if “justice” is the goal, Tony Timpa’s life would matter.   But people who say All Lives Matter are branded as racists.   This is life in America today.

No one ever marched for Jenny Garcia or Amber Rice.

Thousands of people in America have been killed or murdered by illegal aliens in America, but no one marches. Only the families and conservative talk show hosts demand justice.

We write all the time about these two cases.

Jenny Garcia was a beautiful young woman who worked at an Austin restaurant with David Diaz Morales who happened to be a once-deported illegal immigrant. He went over to her house and brutally raped her and stabbed her to death. No marches for justice.

Amber Rice was run over and killed by a pickup full of illegal Mexican nationals who abandoned the truck and ran into a field of corn. Amber got no calls for justice. The illegal driver was eventually sent home to Mexico.

When illegals kill Americans, the Left tells us that they kill no more frequently than in the general population. Hundreds of American families that have been touched by illegal alien crimes would disagree. Note that there was no justice for Kate Steinle in San Francisco – nobody marched.

Marc Thiessen asks important questions in his new column.

First Question: Why are people more outraged with President Trump’s tough talk about the rioters than with the rioters?

Second Question: Why the outrage over Trump’s threat to use the Insurrection Act since a dozen American presidents have used it?

Third Question: What about Trump’s threat to declare Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, since it is precisely that?

Fourth Question: What’s with the strange outrage over Trump’ s “photo-op” at a church that “peaceful protesters” had set on fire?

Far too much of this is about hatred for Donald Trump – a president who has been a virtual savior for black people. No other modern president has done as much for them, but networks like CNN and newspapers like the New York Times twist the facts.

Black Lives Matter is the opposite of Rule of Law.

Yes, black lives do matter. Even if left-wing protesters disagree, Tony Timpa’s life matters too. Kate Steinle’s life matters.   Racism will never totally be over until all lives are considered sacred. The problem with the Left is that they pick and choose which lives matter.

They don’t give a damn about people murdered by illegal immigrants because illegal immigrants are politically correct. The people they kill do not matter.

They don’t give a damn about unborn children. Abortion is a sacrament to the Left. For political expediency, they take away the entire life of a child and they don’t care. The life of an unborn child does not matter.

They don’t care about cop-on-white violence either. It just doesn’t fit the liberal narrative. That’s why there was no justice for Kate or Jennifer or Amber — and there will be no marches for Tony Timpa.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.

Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.
Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site.
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Editor’s note:  Julie Sullivan is a traveling Respiratory Therapist who has spent the past eight weeks working with COVID-19 patients and others in a major Brooklyn hospital.  These photos were taken on June 2, 2020. 

I went into  Manhattan yesterday afternoon and took some photos of the destruction that’s been occurring. It’s  gut wrenching to see all the destruction, but also the pain that triggered this.  I understand the need to protest the horrible murder of George Floyd and many others.

I’ve talked to some of the owners of small businesses in Brooklyn whom I’ve come to know during my time here. They’re very fearful.  Most of them are considering closing their businesses out of concern for their safety.  They’ve barely been making it.

Others who were going to open on Monday may not out of fear or due to the destruction of their properties.  

They’ve all barely been sustaining and this may end up being the thing that finishes them off. So many people in these neighborhoods will no longer have jobs. They closed down the Target where I shopped; in fact all the Target stores are shutting down in New York.  If the little local grocery closes or is looted, where will people go to buy food and supplies? They were already so hard to come by here   Where will those workers now go to work to be able to support their families?

I never thought coming to NY to fight alongside many people from all walks of life, that the people here would be fighting each other on the streets.

I am praying for our country and for the end of ignorance, racism and social injustices.  

I pray for a time when we no longer see color or race, we see humanity.  I know from caring for humans, we all are the same colors under our skin.  Empathy, is empathy for human beings too much to ask?

All photos by Julie Sullivan for WBDaily.

About SoHo from Wikipedia:

SoHo, sometimes written Soho, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, which in recent history came to the public’s attention for being the location of many artists’ lofts and art galleries, but is now better known for its variety of shops ranging from trendy upscale boutiques to national and international chain store outlets.

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Rush Limbaugh, stricken with lung cancer, made an unprecedented attempt at understanding and healing in the wake of a murder-by policeman in Minneapolis and the anarchy that has followed.

“Cuomo Prime Time” 6-1-20 on CNN promoting “peaceful protestors.” Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.

CNN, in its primetime reporting on what it typically refers to as “peaceful demonstrators,” left no stone unturned in its continuing crusade to smear Donald Trump in any way possible.

On CNN, it began with Anderson Cooper and Jim Acosta and continued in to Chris Cuomo’s show — three CNNers that understand their CEO, Jeff Zucker and know which side of their bread is buttered.

Tucker Carlson on FOX News preached a sermon. It was long, but meaty. It is worth seeing several times.  He said:

This is how nations collapse.

He went on to show clip after clip of CNN’s “peaceful protesters” destroying property, beating people with boards and rocks and taking great delight in looting and stealing other people’s property. And all this was in the name of George Floyd – whose brother pleaded for them to stop.

There is no easy key to understanding.

Listening to just a clip of the Rush Limbaugh interview with the “Breakfast Club,” a morning drive syndicated radio show that’s popular with black audiences, you can see that the two sides have a chasm. The rivers between them are deep.

As Rush is trying to explain how America is a land of opportunity, “Charlemagne the god” is telling him that it’s only so for white people. It was sad to listen to this – because opinions were cemented in.

Rush, from the bottom of his heart, was trying to build a bridge. The hosts of the Breakfast Club remained committed to their narrative. I’m glad Rush tried, but it came to nothing.

CNN is a sick network 24 hours a day.

It’s hard to describe CNN. If the anarchists are known as Antifa, CNN is Antidon.

The network has an open and unbridled hatred for the man in the White House. If the Breakfast Club sees white police officers as the devil, then CNN is seeing the Prince of Evil in the President of the United States.

CNN used graphics to demean Trump for a “photo-op” at a church while praising the protesters as peaceful. This constituted much of their Monday night primetime.

There was nothing Trump did or could have done to please them. The network is suffering from a sickness comprised of left-wing political views tainted with pure hatred for one man.

Its goal is not truth as Jeff Zucker maintains, but the complete destruction of a presidency.

Tucker Carlson is not afraid of the truth.

At the exact same time that CNN was slandering Trump in every conceivable manner, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” presented the best monologue about the current situation that you’ll see. He pulled no punches about the dirty cops. He explained how our leaders are failing us – even to a rational and reasonable critique of Trump. He showed the violence that CNN will not show. He provided logical answers and solutions.

Early in his monologue, he made the statement about how nations collapse. That stuck with he through the night and into this morning. How absolutely correct he is.

This really isn’t all that complicated.

We have bad cops in America – apparently a great deal of them, and we must fix it and fix it now! But when constitutional protests turn into a mob and sweep the nation with anarchy, they must be stopped in place. Those who pillage, loot, set fires, and assault or kill others must be arrested and brought to justice.

I think President Trump should name a commission to come up with the best ways to reform rogue police departments such as what we saw in Minneapolis.   It can’t be all talk. We have to do it – make it so.

CNN 6-1-20. Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.

The urban community should listen to what Rush Limbaugh was trying to say.  

America has showered them with opportunity. We’ve provided Affirmative Action, college educations, departments of Inclusion and Diversity – and for what?  Stop watching CNN and MSNBC; those networks are working hard to split us into two nations.

CNN would do anything, report anything, and lie all night long if it would harm Trump. CNN has used the Russian Collusion hoax, the Ukrainian phone call, coronavirus, and now this terrible situation in Minneapolis to directly attack one man.

The more violence we see in streets, the better the left-wing media likes it. They want us to hate each other over race – and they’re getting their way. This is how nations collapse.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.

Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.
Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site.
Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

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As my grandson Tyler and I looked on, the crowed swelled from hundreds to what could have been as many as 5,000, according to one trooper.

At first, the protesters chanted and held signs saying “Black Lives Matter” and “No Peace No Justice,” and chanted – as is their right under the First Amendment.

Police were everywhere and area buildings had their security guards on duty to try to prevent vandalism. Tyler and I visited with one guard who advised us to stay away from the protest.

Around mid-afternoon, a march worked its way from downtown to the protest site next to Austin Police Headquarters. We did a live Facebook video from the scene as the crowed gathered and was multiplied by the march. Police were everywhere – in riot gear, on motorcycles and on horseback.

With the march came many signs that crossed the line from protest into anarchy.

Some showed policemen as dead pigs with ex-ed out eyes. Some showed President Trump as an orange-colored pig. Some used the F-word to disparage police.

President Trump, however, had already come down on the side of the protesters in Minneapolis, condemning the actions of the policeman who killed George Floyd with a knee to Floyd’s neck as he cried out, “I can’t breathe.” The President also ordered expedited FBI and DOJ investigations. That didn’t matter in Austin. These protesters are far left liberals and they hate Trump because they just do.

The Austin protest was partly about George Floyd, and partly about the death of Michael Ramos in Austin. A group called the “Mike Ramos Brigade” told KVUE-TV that the event was to how solidarity with those across the country who are demanding justice for Floyd.

In Minneapolis, protesters turned into a riot mob and burned a local police station after it had been ransacked.

In Austin, the protest wasn’t that violent, but it wasn’t totally peaceful either.

According to KVUE-TV, one protester was sprayed and non-lethal rubber bullets were used. Interstate 35, which runs past the APD headquarters was shut down for miles. Protesters shut down Congress Avenue and 11th Street. A fire broke out on Eight Street near San Jacinto, but other protesters apparently stomped it out. A KVUE-TV camera operator reported a group of people attacked a DPS trooper and he saw a rock thrown through a patrol car.

More protests are planned for Sunday.

Protesting is protected. Rioting is not.

The Constitution gives all Americans the right to peacefully protest. Even the depicting of the President of the United States as a pig is protected. Throwing rocks at patrol cars and starting fires is not.

Austin didn’t see what Minneapolis did – at least so far, but when and if it gets violent, the people have right to know that our law enforcement agencies will stop the destruction of private property.

The mayor of Minneapolis and the governor there allowed protests to veer into total anarchy. As we’ve seen, when large groups turn into mobs, emptions run high and property is at risk. So are lives. One problem is a class of people in America (comprised of all colors and races) that has an agenda apart from justice. These people come to protests to wreak havoc, ransack buildings, and destroy property because they do not like our system.

They must be arrested, charged, convicted and imprisoned. We should come down on them hard! Austin wasn’t too bad today, but if we want a safe, civil America, we have to send a message that peaceful protests are a right in America. Mob-driven riots are not.

All Austin photos by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.com.  All rights reserved.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.

Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.
Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site.
Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

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Let’s start with another black man, dead at the hands of a white policeman.

In the wake of the Minneapolis killing by the police, two things have to change.

Here we go again. We’ve seen this before, and now the racial three-step is playing out in Minneapolis. Step 1: a minority male, usually black, is suspected of committing a crime and usually resists arrest. Step 2: the police take him into custody using unnecessary force and the suspect dies. Step 3: demanding justice, area residents riot and burn buildings while stealing and/or destroying property.

We’ve seen this happen before with the Eric Garner case in New York. Garner told the cop. “I can’t breathe,” but the cop was unmoved and Garner, who couldn’t breathe, died.   It’s eerily the same story in Minnesota where 46-year-old George Floyd, suspected of passing a counterfeit bill, told his arresting office he couldn’t breathe. The cop, Derek Chauvin, paid no attention and kept Floyd pinned with a knee on his neck.   Chauvin, and three other police officers — Thomas Lane, Tou Thao, and J. Alexander Kueng, were fired on Tuesday.

President Trump has ordered the DOJ and the FBI to investigate. He’s right to do that. Of the two things that we must do in this country, weeding out bad cops is at the head of the list.

Most cops are not bad.

Most are a welcome sight when you’re in trouble and you need help. Never mind smart-alecky cops that stop you for speeding and ask you if you knew how fast you were going – an irrelevant question since they’re about to ticket you anyway. I could write a column about traffic tickets – but that’s for later.

I’m talking about cops that enjoy the fact they have authority and get to carry a gun and it makes them feel special. I’m talking about the cops that killed Garner and Floyd, and the officer in Cleveland. This is from Wikipedia:

On 22 November 2014 Tamir Rice, a 12-year old African-American, was shot in Cleveland, Ohio by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old police officer. Rice was carrying a replica toy Airsoft gun; Loehmann shot him almost immediately after arriving on the scene.

I’m also talking about cops like Carmen DeCruz in my hometown of Temple, Texas who wrestled with 28-year-old Michael Lorenzo Dean over his car keys, and seemingly inadvertently shot Dean dead. This was during a routine traffic stop, and there is no apparent reason that Dean had to die. The City of Temple was lucky. The minority community was not happy, but marches were all peaceful.

Now to the other thing that must be done.   When an incident such as this occurs, even when the police acted responsibly, we often see riots in the streets. In places like Ferguson, Baltimore, and now Minneapolis, rioters break store windows, steal items like TV sets, overturn cars, threaten people and police, and even set buildings on fire.

In America, we have a right to assemble, but we do not have a right to steal or destroy property that belongs to other people. This is all exacerbated by live TV – especially as covered by CNN — a network that calls rioters protesters.

Breaking store windows is not protesting. It’s vandalism. The problem is that the rioters seem to get away with it. It’s time that, in cases like this, we do what it takes to protect property and arrest and convict those who destroy it.

We need justice for people like George Floyd, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Michael Lorenzo Dean. But an innocent person whose property is destroyed or stolen deserves justice too.

Adventures in Amazon!

I’m primarily a writer, and so while I’ve been sheltering in place, I’ve done some freelance work for The Epoch Times, and for Tractor Creative. I’ve also written four new short stories – one of them a 13,000-word vampire tale. That makes 35 stories I’ve written with just six of them ever published.

I’ve been using my spare time to keystroke the older stories, and bring them up to date, and to collect them into volumes. The old way to publish a book is stone cold dead, killed by the internet, unless you’re a name author like Stephen King. So I’m publishing the new-fashioned way. I’m doing it myself.

I spent the morning on Amazon.com building my “author’s page.” I learned that authors can create their own page on the site and put in a bio and book information and eight photos. So I wrote a bio of myself that mostly covers my writing career, and popped in eight photos of me in various locations at the mansion, in Oklahoma City, San Antonio, and New York. Also, you’ll find some new book titles and more information on my fiction.

You can access the page HERE.

I’ll have a new book of stories up on Amazon soon. So watch for it. I’ll also see what kind of outside promotions I can do now that Texas is opening back up. I’m hoping to do a few speeches and signings. It all depends on what the lovely coronavirus does to us over the next few weeks.

The solution to my FACEBOOK riddle.

I put this up on Facebook a few days ago:

Miss Juniper, Miss Tomkins and Miss Eccles got together and discovered something in common.

The answer this riddle lies in sixties pop music. All these ladies are named “Jennifer.” Donovan had a song called “Jennifer Juniper.” The Street People did “Jennifer Tomkins,” and the Hollies did “Jennifer Eccles.”

https://youtu.be/4ipieE7RTT4

Of these, the most interesting song is “Jennifer Tomkins.” It’s a production piece intended for a young audience, but the chorus is as infectious as coronavirus – and the entire song is clever. Rupert Holmes was one of the writers –the same guy who later hit it big with “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” and produced the cable TV series “Remember WENN.” Here’s how the song came to be, according to Wikipedia:

In his 20s, Holmes was a session musician (producing sessions, writing and arranging songs, singing and playing a few instruments). In 1969, Holmes and Ron Dante (the Cuff Links, the Archies) recorded “Jennifer Tomkins” for release on their second album, The Cuff Links. During the recording of that album, Dante was prohibited by the studio that produced the Archies from any involvement in new recording ventures and was forced to drop out of The Cuff Links. Holmes finished the project and released “Jennifer Tomkins” separately under a different studio name, Street People (not related to the mid-1970s band of the same name). The song was on the Billboard Hot 100 for 15 weeks, beginning January 3, 1970, reaching a peak of 36.

I have the 45 RPM single, and enjoy running a needle thorough it occasionally. By the way, “Jennifer Eccles” had a backstory, too. Graham Nash sang backup vocals on this record and he had been married to a woman named Rose Eccles.

Who was the best guitar player in the Beatles?

You’d have to say George Harrison. He was the official lead player and was an accomplished guitarist. He wasn’t as prolific a songwriter as John and Paul, but he wrote three Beatles classics – all with awesome guitar solos.   I’m speaking of “Something,” “Here Comes the Sun,” and “White My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Note that Eric Clapton played lead guitar on “Weeps.”

I’d put Paul McCartney after George. McCartney played bass, but he is an amazing left-handed guitar payer as well. Paul wrote the folk-style song “Blackbird” which has become a standard for finger-style guitar. The fact that he can play it is a tribute to his guitar talent.

John Lennon could play lead guitar as well, even though he downplayed his guitar prowess. John played lead on “Revolution,” and on Paul’s song “Get Back,” while Paul played lead guitar on John’s “Ticket To Ride.”

The bottom line is that they all three pretty darn good on guitar.

And that’s what’s on my mind right now. Check for more Random Samplings soon!

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.

Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.
Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site.
Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

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