We’re heading in a very ugly direction

French Revolution

“Silence = murder.”

I saw a sign with that slogan in my town. I’ve seen many more pictures with similar slogans.

So you must speak!!

But “incorrect” speech will get you banned, shunned, fired, and you’ll probably get death threats.

This adds up to a simple paradigm: you must agree with the fashionable interpretation of the facts, or your life is over.

I don’t know enough about the French Revolution to say if the tweet is correct, but it certainly resonates. I can easily see how we’d get to such a point.

You know more of the Bible than you think you do

The boys drink and review Grubby Thicket Brown Ale from 7 Locks Brewing, then discuss sayings from the Bible.

Most of us know lots of phrases from the Bible without even knowing it. [The general public, that is. Not the well-educated readers of the Crowhill blog.]

Writing on the wall, turn the other cheek, a fly in the ointment, skin of your teeth, the scape goat, a leopard can’t change his spots, bite the dust, letter of the law, salt of the earth, and many many more.

P&C discuss how our culture is steeped in the Bible, and how it provides a common frame of reference.

While the nation burns

Injustice, then protests, then riots, with incompetence all around.

After George Floyd was apparently murdered by a cop, large crowds protested the abuse and lack of justice. Good.

But then the troublemakers showed up — burning, looting, throwing stones.

It seemed to take too long to charge the offending officers, but now they have been arrested. What else do the protesters want? What is the “justice” that the crowds want now?

P&C say that everyone involved in this mess has done it wrong. The four officers were clearly wrong. The media has been atrociously wrong, as usual. Politicians have shown themselves to be an impotent clown show. And the protesters themselves have not done well.

Two weeks ago, anyone who went to a park to play catch with their daughter, or who wanted to open their business, or to go to church, was labeled by the media as a threat to society. They wanted to kill grandma and bring pestilence and plague on all of society. Suddenly, the rules have changed, and the protesters aren’t subject to Karen’s wrath. Why?

One of the worst aspects of this story is the immediate assumption of racism. It was a white cop killing a black man. Therefore, to some, it must be racism. Why is that the automatic assumption? What if it was a black cop killing a white man, or a white cop killing a white man? What’s the justification for immediately assuming that the cop was motivated by racism?

Now that the cops have been arrested, the protests have turned away from a message P&C can support, and have started going into the fantasy land of “cops are hunting us” and other demonstrably false nonsense from the black lives matter crowd.

The Police State

Dennis Prager recently said that the COVID-inspired lockdowns and such are a dress rehearsal for a police state.

Pigweed and Crowhill drink and review DuClaw’s Citra Snuggy, a single hop double IPA, and then discuss Prager’s claim, and related issues.

Why does every little town in America have military style vehicles and SWAT teams? Why are our police forces being militarized?

Why are there so many no-knock warrants?

Why do so many federal departments have paramilitary departments?

Why are so many Americans shot dead by police?