"Item (http://<a"):  It is just thirty years since the late Samuel Francis coined the very useful term"anarcho-tyranny." He defined it thus, quote (https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/anarcho-tyranny-u-s-a/):
   The combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection or public safety.   
End quote.
   
Anarcho-tyranny has found its true home in the Mother Country. July 29th this year three little girls aged six, seven, and nine were stabbed to death by a lunatic in Southport, northwest England. Initial rumors said the killer was one of the illegal aliens who've been flooding into Britain the past few years.
   
It turned out this wasn't so. The killer was born in Britain (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6p2yrg3pvpo) to immigrant parents from Rwanda. The utter failure of the British authorities to curb mass illegal immigration has generated much anger, though.
   
Forty-one-year-old Lucy Connolly, hearing the rumors, blasted out angrily on X, calling for mass deportations and saying that the hotels being used to house illegal aliens should be set on fire. She quickly regretted the tweet and deleted it, but not before it had been reported to law enforcement.
   
Arrested and jailed on remand, this week she was sentenced to 31 months in jail (https://ministryofinjustice.co.uk/his-honour-judge-melbourne-inman-kc/).  Ms Connolly had no previous convictions. She has two children; her husband serves on a local County Council.
   
Meanwhile, the percentage of crimes solved in England and Wales fell from 16 percent nine years ago to less than six percent (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1402586/crimes-solved-england-and-wales) last year. Friends and relatives over there tell me it's a waste of time to call the police if your car is stolen or your house is burgled. Frequently heard, quote: "You're lucky if they pick up the phone."
   
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"Item (http://<a"):  In the matter of anarcho-tyranny the U.S.A. is pretty far along that same road the Brits are travelling.
   
My New York Post this morning, October 18th,rana story on drugstores closing (https://nypost.com/2024/10/17/us-news/another-duane-reade-set-to-close-on-ues-as-nyc-pharmacies-grapple-with-crime-and-surviving-drug-store-is-robbed-about-once-an-hour/) because of rampant shoplifting. One on Manhattan's Upper East Side — quite a tony area — told the local civic group they get robbed about once an hour. An employee there toldanother news outlet (https://eastsidefeed.com/shopping/duane-reade-on-79th-and-second-avenue-is-closing/) that criminalsare, quote, "stealing more than we're selling," end quote.
   
The Post reports that the drugstore chain CVS will be closing ten percent of its U.S. locations by the end of the year.  Walgreen's is planning to close 1,200 stores; Rite Aid, 500 stores.
   
"Crime has definitely picked up" in the last five years, one of the Post's informants told them. Further quote: "Obviously it's a revolving door of justice, nobody spends any real time … and I think the criminals have figured this out." Endquote.
   
While New York City cops are relaxing at the donut shop, though, federal law enforcement is leaving no criminal stone unturned. October 9th in Floyd, Va., 36-year-old John Paul Bordeaux was arrested and has been charged. So, that same day, were 52-year-old Rebecca Marshburn and 31-year-old Kelsie Marie Watkins, both in Wilmington, N.C. So, the previous day, October 8th, was 49-year-old Michael T. Fagundes in Costa Mesa, Ca.
   

What have these federal lawbreakers been charged with? Why withbeing at the U.S. Capitol (https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories) on January 6th 2021. Off with their heads!

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And yet you are fine with Donnie killing over 1 million Americans with COVID.

Or the cold-blooded assassination of the Iranian General.