The Descent into Anarcho-Tyranny By Charles Taylor (Florida)

The US is showing the direction that the deadly brew of diversity, multiculturalism, multiracialism and woke, as applied to law enforcement, is producing. The term describing this is “anarcho-tyranny,” state oppression from above, but social chaos and violence from below. The same things can be seen in Europe, perhaps to a different degree, but few places can match the sheer cultural collapse of American cities, or at least the diverse ones. New York, San Francisco, Baltimore and Chicago, to name a few have become cesspools of crime; New York saw major crime up 22 percent in 2022; Baltimore had a homicide rate of 58.27 per 100,000, while St Louis, Missouri, beat that at 64.54 per 100,000. Democrat DAs go easy on diverse crime, so shoplifting has gone through roof, and the roof would be taken to, if it as not nailed down! Hence shops lock up even mundane products such as Spam, or simply close down shop as is occurring in Baltimore.

The recent example of Jordan Neely, shows where things have gone. Neely was reportedly threatening people on a New York City subway. He reportedly said, “I’m not taking no for an answer,” “I’m ready to go back to jail,” and “I’ll hurt anyone on this train.” He was tackled to the ground and put in a headlock, not a choke, by a white guy. Later, as with George Floyd, while in police custody, Neely died. Now, said white guy is facing charges for possibly murder. In a sane society this would be regarded as a clear act of self-defence, but not so in New York. It shows the world, just how bad things can go, and the tremendous mistake America has made.

https://www.amren.com/commentary/2023/05/anarcho-tyranny-and-the-tragedy-of-the-subways/

“New York City is in serious decline. Major crimes were up 22 percent last year, and that’s after the already major increases in crime following the Summer of George Floyd.

Crime and squalor on New York City subways are a national punchline. The subway cars are filled with trash and food. Mentally disturbed vagrants wander through the cars disturbing people, and videos of people being harassed or even attacked are commonplace. The city has been putting more police on the subways, but it’s still a long way from the days of Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The New York Post reported in March that even after a recent drop in crime, the per-capita violent-crime rate is still nearly twice that of 2019.

We all know the routine on a New York City subway. When people start screaming, or dancing, or begging, look at the ground, don’t make eye contact, hope you aren’t the one they seize on today. Essentially this means that ordinary people must give up their sense of honor and decorum. Take for example this video from 2022.

You can probably think of other cases in New York and in other cities. Many people will say, “Why doesn’t someone do something?” In a serious country, you could. But why would you do that “something” in New York City? After all, the man acting out in this case was black. Who wants press outlets screaming for police action because you “attacked” a black man? Who wants to trust a New York City jury if you go to trial?

Am I being too extreme? Consider the case of Jordan Neely. Mr. Neely was reportedly threatening people on a New York City subway. He reportedly said, “I’m not taking no for an answer,” “I’m ready to go back to jail,” and “I’ll hurt anyone on this train.”

In response, it appears a group of people on the train tried successfully to restrain him. A white man — an ex-Marine — put Mr. Neely, a black man, in a choke hold. He died. Police initially did not file charges, presumably because it was considered self-defense.

The passengers had good reason to feel threatened. Mr. Neely was not kidding about his experience in jail. Neely died at just age 30, but had the rather impressive record of 42 prior arrests, including four for alleged assault, transit fraud, and criminal trespass.

The New York Post reported: “By 2018, police were seeing Neely frequently — four times in February and twice in March, sources said. Sometimes they brought him to a hospital or a shelter. Sometimes he refused to go.” In July of that year, police took him to the hospital after he threatened the conductor on a train and scared passengers. CBS reported that he had an active warrant out for a felony assault charge — apparently police were too busy to enforce that.

Nonetheless, Neely apparently still felt free to go on the subway and yell at people. People on Reddit claimed that he harassed them in the past.

He was so raucous and threatening this time that several people felt it necessary to restrain him. As you’ll see, it wasn’t just a white man restraining him.

Obviously, no one wanted to kill him. But what were they supposed to do? The police were nowhere to be found. If police can’t enforce loitering laws to physically remove bums and derelicts, apparently passengers must tolerate this.

The men restraining him released him a few seconds after he stopped struggling. According to a journalist who took the video, who said he had mixed feelings about the encounter: “This would never have happened if the police had shown up within five minutes. Then we’d be talking about a real hero.”

There’s precedent for this. In Los Angeles a few years ago, a man began screaming on a subway car. He didn’t directly attack anyone. Nonetheless, another man subdued him with a chokehold. Local media called him a hero.

In the case of Mr. Neely, politicians and activist groups are calling the actions murder — not manslaughter, which might be arguable, but murder. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bluntly declared he was murdered and “crying for food.” …

The worship of suffering, squalor, and victmhood is not “like a religion.” It is a religion.”