There's A Riot Going On!

It was 50 yrs. ago today ...

The 1967 Detroit Riots were among the most violent and destructive riots in U.S. history. By the time the bloodshed, burning and looting ended after five days, 43 people were dead, 342 injured, nearly 1,400 buildings had been burned and some 7,000 National Guard and U.S. Army troops had been called into service.

N.P.R. talks to former Sen. Fred Harris, last surviving member of the Kerner Commission L.B.J. established to ... to ... uh, well, not really to get at any truth, anyway.

HARRIS: Well, the president got bad information. Somebody from inside the commission leaked a copy of the report in advance. And a member of the Congress who was his real close friend read it, called the president and said to him, this report is just going to ruin you. It encourages and condones riots, and it doesn't have a good word to say about anything you've done on civil rights and against poverty. That was all wrong, but the president believed it. And so he canceled the formal meeting we'd set up to deliver the report and he rejected it.

SIEGEL: He disowned the report of the very commission that he had established is what you're saying.

Just fuck Lyndon ("I'd look like a pin-dick if I pulled outta 'Nam") Johnson, y'know?

D (For Dillinger) Day

History blows again & again:

Crime

1923

Dillinger joins the Navy in an attempt to avoid prosecution

John Herbert Dillinger joins the Navy in order to avoid charges of auto theft in Indiana, marking the beginning of America’s most notorious criminal’s downfall. Years later, Dillinger’s reputation was forged in a single 12-month period, during which he robbed more banks than Jesse James did in 15 years and became the most wanted fugitive in the nation.

Dillinger didn’t last in the Navy very long. Within months he had gone AWOL several times–the last time in December 1923. Making his way back to Indiana, he was arrested for armed robbery the following summer. Dillinger pled guilty, thinking that he would receive a light sentence, but instead got 10 to 20 years. His first words to the warden at the prison were, “I won’t cause you any trouble except to escape.” A man of his word, Dillinger had attempted to escape three times by the end of the year.

Between escape attempts, Dillinger became friendly with some of the more professional thieves in the prison. After he was finally paroled in May 1933, Dillinger hooked up with his new friends and began robbing banks throughout the Midwest. He also began planning to break his friends out of prison. In September, he smuggled guns to Harry Pierpont, who led a 10-man break from the Michigan City prison.

General Interest

1934

Dillinger gunned down

Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, notorious criminal John Dillinger–America’s “Public Enemy No. 1″–is killed in a hail of bullets fired by federal agents. In a fiery bank-robbing career that lasted just over a year, Dillinger and his associates robbed 11 banks for more than $300,000, broke jail and narrowly escaped capture multiple times, and killed seven police officers and three federal agents.

John Dillinger was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1903. A juvenile delinquent, he was arrested in 1924 after a botched mugging. He pleaded guilty, hoping for clemency, but was sentenced to 10 to 20 years at Pendleton Reformatory. While in prison, he made several failed escapes and was adopted by a group of professional bank robbers led by Harry Pierpont, who taught him the ways of their trade. When his friends were transferred to Indiana’s tough Michigan City Prison, he requested to be transferred there too.

In May 1933, Dillinger was paroled, and he met up with accomplices of Pierpont. Dillinger’s plan was to raise enough funds to finance a prison break by Pierpont and the others, who then would take him on as a member of their elite robbery gang. In four months, Dillinger and his gang robbed four Indiana and Ohio banks, two grocery stores, and a drug store for a total of more than $40,000. He gained notoriety as a sharply dressed and athletic gunman who at one bank leapt over the high teller railing into the vault.

As B/4,
M.B.

Hope From History: Sic Semper Tyrannis!

On this date:

Romanov family executed

Late on the night of July 16, Nicholas, Alexandra, their five children and four servants were ordered to dress quickly and go down to the cellar of the house in which they were being held. There, the family and servants were arranged in two rows for a photograph they were told was being taken to quell rumors that they had escaped. Suddenly, a dozen armed men burst into the room and gunned down the imperial family in a hail of gunfire. Those who were still breathing when the smoked cleared were stabbed to death.

Also on this date: First atomic bomb blowed up, 1945; Pedophilia gains foothold in California: First Catholic mission in California dedicated, 1769; Catcher in the Rye is published, 1951 (Fuck every one of you goddamn phonies!!); & in 1999 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. died in his plane, along w/ his wife & sister-in-law. 18 yrs. already?

Unlucky 13th For S-16

MON 13 JUL 1942
Pacific
Submarine S-16 (SS-121) is accidentally damaged by USAAF plane off coast of Panama.

Submarine Seadragon (SS-194) sinks Japanese auxiliary vessel Shinyo Maru 10 miles northeast of Cape Varella, French Indochina, 13°05'N, 109°29'E.

PBYs (VP 71) attempt daylight bombing of Japanese base at Tulagi-Gavutu, but bad weather forces a second straight cancellation of the mission.

Japanese transport No.3 Mikage Maru is sunk in collision three miles south of Tsuru Jima, Japan, 33°00'N, 133°00'E.

Japanese Combined Fleet is reorganized in the wake of the disastrous defeat suffered at Midway.

Atlantic
Naval Air Facility, Grand Cayman, British West Indies, is established.

German submarine U-153 damaged by submarine chaser PC-458 and USAAF plane off coast of Panama, is sunk by destroyer Lansdowne (DD-486), 09°56'N, 81°29'W.

Unarmed U.S. freighter Oneida, straggling from convoy NG 359, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-166 approximately two miles north of Cape Maysi, Cuba, at 20°17'N, 74°06'W. Six crewmen perish; the 23 survivors reach the Cuban coast in two life rafts.

Survivors from U.S. freighter Andrew Jackson, sunk by German submarine U-84 the day before, reach Vavendero, Cuba, by life boat.

Gulf of Mexico
U.S. tanker R.W. Gallagher is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-67 approximately 80 miles from Southwest Pass, Louisiana, 28°32'N, 90°59'W, and abandoned. Eight of the ship's 40-man merchant complement die in the attack, as do two of the 12-man Armed Guard. Coast Guard cutter Boutwell (WPC-130) rescues survivors; two men later die of their injuries.

North Russia
Survivors of U.S. freighter Carlton (sunk by U-88 on 5 July) receive rations dropped by a British plane (see 14 and 24 July).

Clusterfuck Continues

MON 6 JUL 1942
Arctic
Ordeal of dispersed USSR-bound convoy PQ 17 to German submarines and planes continues: U.S. freighter John Witherspoon, having emerged unscathed from the German aerial attacks the previous several days, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-255 approximately 20 miles off Novaya Zemlya, 72°05'N, 48°30'E, and abandoned with the loss of one merchant seaman. Survivors (38 merchant seamen and 11 Armed Guard sailors) gather in three lifeboats and a raft; U-255 surfaces and conducts a brief interrogation of some of the survivors before clearing the area (see 8 and 9 July 1942). Freighter Pan Atlantic, hastily painted white to camouflage her against the ice floes through which she is fleeing to Archangel, is bombed and sunk with the loss of 18 (of 37) merchant seamen and 7 (of 11) Armed Guard sailors. German submarines U-88 and U-703 salvage provisions from the freighter's flotsam; one of the enemy submarines conducts brief interrogation of survivors before departing. British corvette HMS Lotus rescues Pan Atlantic's surviving merchant and naval complement and transports them to Archangel (see 22 September).

After-Action Reports

Yes, it is like a war zone, or to be more accurate, a firefight conducted by green troops w/ no fire discipline whatsoever, shooting wildly at anything that moves, friendly or otherwise, for hrs. on end. What a town!

The Eastsider:

The hours-long barrage of fireworks left a cloak of smoke in the air as social media was filled with reports of burning trees and complaints about not being able to report illegal fireworks through the city’s jammed emergency call-in center. “It sounded like a war zone,” was a common refrain.

laist:Other fine videos at both links; we merely embedded the easily embedded YouTube ones.

Immigrants ...

... whose W.M.D.s were all imported/smuggled from Mexico.

Bombs Bursting In Air (Over The Netherlands)

SAT 4 JUL 1942
Pacific
Submarine Triton (SS-201) torpedoes Japanese destroyer Nenohi off Cape Sabak, off southeast tip of Agattu, Aleutians, 52°15'N, 173°51'E.

Arctic
North Russia-bound convoy PQ 17 is ordered to scatter as fears of German surface ship sortie from Norwegian waters prompts the detachment of major escort vessels to deal with the threat that does not materialize. German torpedo-carrying HE 111s attack PQ 17, 200 miles northeast of Bear Island: U.S. freighter William Hooper is torpedoed (75°57'N, 27°14'E) and abandoned; three crewmen lose their lives. The survivors (36 merchant seamen and the 15-man Armed Guard) are picked up by British rescue ships Rathlin and Zamalek. Attempted scuttling by British escort vessel fails; German submarine U-334 torpedoes and sinks William Hooper later the same day. As the convoy disperses, freighter Christopher Newport is torpedoed by HE 115 (75°49'N, 22°15'E); three crewmen are killed. Christopher Newport is abandoned, with the 36 merchant seamen and 11-man Armed Guard picked up by rescue ship Zamalek. British escort vessel's attempt to scuttle the damaged freighter fails (see 5 July). Freighter Washington is damaged by near-misses, but there are no casualties among her crew or Armed Guard.

Atlantic
Destroyer Corry (DD-463) rescues four survivors of U.S. freighter Ruth, sunk by German submarine U-153 on 28 June.

Twenty-nine survivors from U.S. freighter Thomas McKean, sunk by German submarine U-505 on 29 June, reach St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (see 12 and 14 July ).

Fourteen survivors from U.S. freighter Norlandia, sunk by German submarine U-575 the previous day, reaches Samana, Dominican Republic (see 5 July).

Europe
First USAAF raid on Western Europe: USAAF aircrew flying American-built Bostons participate in low-level RAF raid on German airfields in the Netherlands.

(Cause Unknown)

THU 2 JUL 1942
Pacific
Submarine Plunger (SS-179), attacking Japanese convoy off the mouth of the Yangtze, sinks army cargo ship No.3 Unyo Maru, 30°44'N, 123°09'E.

Japanese guardboats No.1 Kaiyo Maru and No.2 Kaiyo Maru are wrecked (cause unknown) off Guadalcanal.

Events Off California

TUE 30 JUN 1942
Naval vessels on hand (all types of ships and craft)--5,612. Personnel: Navy--640,570; Marine Corps--143,528; Coast Guard--58,998. Total personnel--843,096.

Pacific
XPBS-1* transporting Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet, and his staff to San Francisco crashes upon landing off Alameda, California. Nimitz suffers scratches and abrasions in the mishap but remains topside on the wreckage to direct rescue operations, refusing to leave that post until the wrecked flying boat has been searched for survivors.

Coastal minesweeper Hornbill (AMc-13) is sunk in collision with U.S. lumber schooner Esther Johnson in San Francisco Bay, California.

District patrol craft YP-270 sinks after running aground at Boca Santo Domingo, while en route from San Diego, California, to the Panama Canal Zone, 25°30'N, 112°06'W.

District patrol craft YP-128 sinks after running aground in heavy weather three miles northeast of Monterey, California.

Submarine Plunger (SS-179) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship No.5 Unkai Maru off the China coast near approaches to Shanghai, 30°04'N, 122°54'E.

Indian Ocean
U.S. freighter Express, en route from Bombay, India, to Cape Town, South Africa, is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-10 at 23°30'S, 37°30'E; one lifeboat is swamped when the ship is abandoned, and two Armed Guard sailors and 11 merchant seamen are lost (see 6 July).

Atlantic
PBM (VP 74) sinks German submarine U-158 in western Atlantic, 32°50'N, 67°28'W.

U.S. steamship City of Birmingham, en route to Bermuda, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-202 about 250 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 35°04'N, 61°01'W; six of the 113-man crew and two of 263 passengers are lost in the sinking. Escorting high speed minesweeper Stansbury (DMS-8), after depth-charging U-202, rescues 107 merchant seamen (one of whom dies of his injuries), 261 passengers and the 5-man Armed Guard.

Coastal minesweeper Courier (AMc-72) rescues 30 merchant seamen (four wounded men have perished in the lifeboats) and the nine-man Armed Guard from U.S. freighter Sam Houston, sunk by German submarine U-203 on 28 June. One crewman dies of wounds subsequently. Courier transports the survivors to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

Gunboat Surprise (PG-63) rescues survivors from U.S. freighter Sea Thrush, sunk by German submarine U-505 on 28 June. A second group of survivors reaches St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on 3 July.

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*There was only one XPBS-1. This is it, in 1938:

And now, the rest of the story:

On 17 December 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered Chester William Nimitz to duty as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet (CinCPac) with the rank of Admiral, effective 31 December 1941. Nimitz directed the Pacific Fleet in the critical spring of 1942 that culminated in the victories at Coral Sea (7-8 May) and Midway (4-6 June). Nimitz nearly perished less than a month after Midway when the Sikorsky XPBS-1 (BuNo 9995) carrying the admiral hit a submerged log when landing at Naval Air Station, Alameda, CA, on 30 June 1942. The impact threw the men around inside the big flying boat like dice in a box, inflicting injuries on all on board, and they soon began struggling to escape as the aircraft filled with water. Nimitz, who suffered scratches and abrasions in the mishap, immediately showed concern for those who had been hurt in the crash (one of the flight crew, Lieutenant Thomas M. Roscoe, died in the mishap) and remained topside on the wreckage to direct rescue operations, refusing to move until searchers finished their grim task of investigating the wrecked flying boat for survivors.

U-505 Again

MON 29 JUN 1942
Atlantic
U.S. freighter Thomas McKean, en route to Cape Town, South Africa, is torpedoed, shelled and sunk by German submarine U-505 at 22°00'N, 60°00'W. Three Armed Guard sailors are killed in the attack. U-505 provides medical attention to the wounded in the lifeboats before departing (see 4, 12 and 14 July).

Free Kraut Cigarettes Again

SAT 27 JUN 1942
Pacific
Submarine Nautilus (SS-168) torpedoes and sinks Japanese auxiliary minesweeper Musashi Maru east of Nojimazaki, Japan, 34°38'N, 140°08'E.

Atlantic
Unarmed U.S. freighter Polybius is torpedoed by German submarine U-128 at 11°00'N, 57°30'W; ten crewmen perish. U-128's's officers briefly question the survivors before the submarine departs. The 34 survivors are rescued over the next three days: by Dutch steamship Dracos on 28 June; an unidentified Allied ship on the 29th, and British steamship Clarona on the 30th.

U.S. freighter Potlatch is torpedoed by German submarine U-153 at 19°20'N, 53°18'W; six crewmen perish. Of the 39-man crew, 33 survive, as do the 16 Armed Guard sailors. U-153 briefly questions the survivors and provides them with cigarettes before departing (see 29 July).

"There are no survivors ..."

MON 22 JUN 1942
Caribbean
Unarmed U.S. tanker E.J. Sadler is shelled by German submarine U-159 about 175 miles south of the Windward Passage, 15°36'N, 67°52'W, and abandoned. After the 36 survivors take to their lifeboats, a boarding party from U-159 sinks the tanker with demolition charges (see 23 June).

Gulf of Mexico
Unarmed U.S. tanker Rawleigh Warner is torpedoed by German submarine U-67 approximately 40 miles south of South Pass, Louisiana, 28°53'N, 89°15'W; ignition of the ship's cargo of 38,909 barrels of gasoline incinerates the ship and her crew. There are no survivors from the 33 merchant seamen who comprise her complement.

A Day In The Life

Seems nice.

A man who was caught urinating at a Metro Gold Line station in Pasadena Wednesday was found to be carrying a loaded high-powered weapon and an array of ammunition, sheriff’s officials said.

According to the sheriff’s department, the man was spotted Wednesday afternoon urinating in public at the Sierra Madre station. When he was contacted by sheriff’s Transit Policing Division deputies, they discovered he was carrying a “loaded, high-powered firearm,” the use of which is restricted to law enforcement personnel, sheriff’s officials said.

Sheriff Jim McDonnell was expected to release details of the arrest later.

The man’s name was not immediately released.

In addition to the firearm, the man was also carrying “two loaded high-capacity magazines, a suppressor and other dangerous items,” sheriff’s officials said.

–City News Service

Hah, that literally reminded me of events mere hrs. ago:

In the parking lot of the Ralphs market at Third St. & La Brea Ave. Security at Ralphs wouldn't let anyone out the western door, where the action was. I noted one of the uniformed oinkers was holding an M-16, 'though not pointing it at anyone. As the sole suspect/victim was already in custody, I can only assume the heat is now scared of empty cars, as well as everything else that makes them nervous. All over by the time I left via the eastern door, ahead of the other security person who'd been sent to be sure no one got out through that door. The M-16 holder was putting it back in his trunk, & I decided it was safe to shoot. Pictures, that is. Ha ha.

Seeing the bottle-blond prisoner, & her new Jeep through which the undercover oinks are going, one must wonder W.T.F. Considering the size of the response, five or six police cars, & the threads the undercovers are sporting, I wonder if this was some sort of sting operation, w/ the coppers playing tourist. Third & La Brea is mere blocks (& La Brea is the next arterial east) from the tourist traps of the Farmer's Market & The Grove. Or the cops are just slobs. [PRO-TIP: When maintaining situational awareness of narcotics agents & like vermin, an untucked shirt, concealing badge & death-dealing weapon, is often a tell.]

Anyway, once I'd snapped the two pics of the ossifers looting the poor woman's/vicious criminal's wheels, the big bearded oaf started looking at me, so I said "Too bad you couldn't kill anyone in cold blood today" to him & went my merry way.

Today In Words

The phrase these assholes are looking for is "self-defense", not "assault" or "terrorism".

Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller: 
FBI Claims Attempted GOP Assassinations Are ‘Assault’ — NOT Terrorism

Discussion:

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton / John Hawkins' Right …:   FBI Treating Congressional Shooting as an Assault... Not Terrorism

Vancouver Island Shelled By Submarine!

SAT 20 JUN 1942
Pacific
Japanese submarine I-26 shells Estevan Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Submarine S-27 (SS-132) crew reach deserted village at Constantine Harbor and inhabit it until rescue comes (see 23 June).

Atlantic
U.S. freighter West Ira is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-128 about 120 miles southeast of Barbados, 12°04'N, 57°35'W; one man of West Ira's merchant complement of 48 is killed, there are no casualties among the 10-man Armed Guard. Survivors are for the most part rescued between three and five days later; the last survivor comes ashore on 1 July at Barbados.

Ghormley In Charge!

FRI 19 JUN 1942
Pacific
Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley assumes command of South Pacific Area and South Pacific Force with headquarters at Auckland, New Zealand. [This lasted exactly four months. — M.B.]

Submarine S-27 (SS-132) runs aground off St. Makarius Point, Amchitka, Aleutians; all hands reach safety ashore. Crew, provisions, clothing, guns, medical supplies are ferried ashore by rubber boat (see 20 June).

Japanese water carrier Wayo Maru is damaged by aircraft (nationality unspecified), Rabaul.

Seaplane tender (destroyer) Ballard (AVD-10), directed to the scene by a PBY (VP 11), rescues 35 survivors (one of whom dies shortly after rescue) from Japanese carrier Hiryu that had been scuttled by destroyers Kazegumo and Yugumo on 5 June. They had been members of the engineering department, left below for dead in the abandonment of the ship.

Atlantic
District patrol craft YP-389 is sunk by German submarine U-701 five to six miles northeast of Buoy No.4, Cape Hatteras mine area, North Carolina.

Caribbean
U.S. schooner Cheerio is shelled by German submarine U-161 approximately eight miles southeast of Mona Island, Puerto Rico, 18°02'N, 67°40'W; patrol plane interrupts U-161's attack but not in time to prevent the U-boat from inflicting irreparable damage. All hands (nine men) survive the attack; Coast Guard cutter CG-459 rescues them with the help of a second patrol plane that arrives on the scene.

Tug Crusader Kingston rescues the last three survivors from a raft from U.S. freighter Norlantic, sunk by German submarine U-69 on 13 May.

Another Adventure In Comparing & Contrasting

Douglas Murray / Wall Street Journal:
Europe's Elites Seem Determined to Commit Suicide by ‘Diversity’

No idea what idiocy the above is, but here in these United Snakes we are committing actual suicide at a headlong pace. Don't let me stop any of you!

 Emily Weaver / myrtlebeachonline:
Three shootings in 8 hours. Eight wounded. Some tourists say they won't be back.

Discussion:

Amy B Wang / Washington Post:   ‘Multiple gun shots, all caught on video’: 7 injured after Myrtle Beach shooting

Breanna Edwards / The Root:   Myrtle Beach, SC, Shooting Caught on Facebook Live From Tourist on Balcony: ‘Multiple People Down!’

Eric Lieberman / The Daily Caller:   ‘Officer Down!’: 7 People Injured In Shootout Broadcast On Facebook Live [VIDEO]

AOL:   Myrtle Beach tourist streams shooting on Facebook Live from a balcony

 New York Daily News:
Man stabbed to death after threesome turns fatal in Brooklyn apartment building

Discussion:

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton / John Hawkins' Right …:   NYC Man Has Threesome... Ends Up Dead

 CBS Chicago:
Dispute Over Wrong Drink At Starbucks Ends In Wrestling Match, Stabbing

Discussion:

James Barrett / Daily Wire:   More Insane Starbucks News: Dispute Over Wrong Drink Gets WAY Out Of Hand

Speaking of nat'l. suicide, three little words: Opioid Overdose Epidemic! Keep on keepin' on, fly-over trash!!

Sensitive Sissy Snowflake Scared, Seeks Secession

All it takes is one gun nut who's taken up left-wing ideology (instead of the usual move of the deranged to fascist/racist ideology) to make these sissies want to run & hide.

Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Let's Consider Secession

Discussion:

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   How many Americans truly hate the other political party? About 78 million.

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:   Erick Erickson Dubs The Left ‘American ISIS’, Calls For Secession

David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement:   Fox News Contributor: ‘The Political Left Is Becoming the American ISIS’

Today In The Zeitgeist

This guy (kind of our mascot) seems to embody what it be like, world-wide. Rats in a cage, every last one of you.

Remember, all you need is a motor vehicle. Axes & the like are strictly optional.